People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Winter is now approaching and wo would like for our country correspondents to wake up and send us the news from their respective localities. If you need stationary please call or drop us a postal card and we will forward you a supply. W. L. Fleener, one of Jasper county’s young men, now a resident of Kiowa county, Kan., has been honored by being elected clerk of that bounty. He is a most excellentyoung man, and has shown to the people, by his honesty and uprightness, that he is well worthy of the courtesy and kindness shown him. The teachers’ association had a very successful meeting lust * Friday and Saturday. The lee--ture of Prof. Win. M. Giftin, of the Cook county Normal School. Englewood, Friday night, was very interesting and instructive. 108 teachers out of the 114 in the county attended the associa tion—a very good showing. Manager Eger could increase the popularity of his place of amusement by placing the seats further apart. As they are now the audience is forced to sit the whole evening in a cramped and uncomfortable position. The “000 plush opera chairs” are un comfortable enough without being forced to sit in a cramped position. The president of the Jasper County Farmers’ Institute has appointed S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, and Wm. O. Roadifer, trustee of Carpenter township, as delegates to attend the Congress at Indianapolis next Tuesday. The president also requests each township trustee in the country to he present. Victor and Madam Lee's Nov olty Company were at the Ojiera House three nights last week. Thursday night they gave a first class entertainment, but of the other two nights the less said the better. While/ here they gave away two watches and a number of other present!-, mostly groceries and glassware. Miss Daisy Warner and Tom Sayler got the “valuable” watches. The Hamilton-Marvin Comedy Company is playing to crowded • houses at the Opera House this week. They are a first class... troupe—in fact the best troupe that has been seen in Rensselaer for some time. Their plays are all modern and are giving general satisfaction. To-night they play “The Two Orphans” and to-morrow night that rollicking “farce comedy.” “Natural Gas." It will pay you to see them. The Plummer murder trial is going on at Fowder this week and but little interest- is being manifested in the same. The defense will attempt to prove insanity and will probably be successful. Plummer is undoubt edly not of a sound mind at the persent time, no matter wind the condition of his mind was at the time of the murder. He takes no interest in the examina tion of witnesses and sits with immovable features all day long. Brown and Darroch are prose cuting the case and Hammond and Saunderson are defending it. Owing to the large number* £ witnesses being examined th • case will not be apt to go to th • jury before the last of the week-. The evidence brought forth the trial Wednesday was near 1 the same as has already bc< i published in this paper. The bid let and revolver which did th ■ killing was introduced as ev den ce and the billy with whir -’ Dorn beat Plummer over t.’.c head. Plummers confession, i > made to the editor of this pape was also introduced in evidence and will probably have considc able bearing bn the case.