People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SURREY. Not seeing any items in your columns from our vicinity since the election, I thought it necessary to let the people of the surrounding country know that we are not dead nor dying. Hay pressing and corn husking are the rage now. H. T. Thornton has rented his farm to Thos. Gilmore, of Union township, who has taken possession of the same, Mrs. Miles Moffit and daughter, Miss Edith, of Fair Oaks, visited at S. B. Thornton’s last week. • Miss Stella Gilmore spent Sunday with her parents, but left yesterday for Chicago Heights. “Jode” Thornton, who is attending school at “Valpo" came home Friday evening and went back again Sunday. He likes the school splendidly. Rob Hopkins, who is teaching in Barkley, spent Saturday and Sunday in this neighborhood. Rev. Newton Shaft and family, from near Saginaw; Mich., are among us, but as soon as their goods arrive vrill move into the property of Mr. Helenhouse. Bro. Shaft is pastor of the Vaughn church for the ensuing year. We feel that he is the right man in the right place. The marriage of Mr. Chas. Rowen and Miss Barbara Chupp took place last Thursday morning in Rensselaer at the residence of Wm. Powers, Rev. B. F. Ferguson officiating. But it is sad to say that the reverened gentleman did not partake of the feast which was prepared and in readiness at the residence of the parents of the groom hear Surrey. It was a bountiful feast, consisting of many delicacies, among which might be found “spring chicken,” which is the favorite dish of Bro. Ferguson. Too bad he did not come out. Many useful presents were given-. There seemed to be happiness all around and all wished the young people a long and prosperous life. I No. ZARD. * Miss Essa Gwin -was the guest of Miss Rose Detrick last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Elvin Overton and best girl, of Surrey, attended the dance at this place last Saturday night. There will be an oyster supper and “cinch” party at the residence of Mr. Fred Zard next Saturday night. The Hanging Grove Literary Society meets at the Osborne school house to-night. Mr. Chas. Yates has charge of the creamery at this place. Several of the school children of Marlboro are sick this week with bad colds. Clyde Randle is attending school at Marlboro. Miss Eva Kenton visited the Marlboro school last Thursday. All the schools of Hanging Grove were - closed last Friday on account of the Teacher’s Association at Rensselaer. Mrs. Elmer S. Renton is visiting her parents'Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson. Pat McGuire -was in Marlboro last Monday. Miss Anna B. Robinson is home from Morocco. Miss Ella Hanley and Miss Maggie Peregrine -were the guests of Mrs. J. R. Phillips last Sunday. Dido. Postmaster General Wanamaker says he is not going to open a big retail store in Washington. Ex-President Barrillas has been ordered by the courts of Guatemala to pay his barber’s bill.

Recent gifts to the building fund of thq New York Press club are from W. C. Whitney, SI,OOO, and J. G. Bennett, SI,OOO. The value of the honey and wax produced in the United States during the past year has been estimated at $20,000,000, An Indian on the Grand Ron de ije'servationjn Oregon,is claimed to be the only Indian in that state that draws a pension. General R.E. Lee’s signature is worth $lO in the autograph market. General McClellan’s, $3 and General Sherman’s, $3. The battle-ax was originally a Celtic werapon. The ancient Irish carried axes as the men of other nations carried swords. Bishop Foster, of the Methodist church, says he is one of only eleven in all the world who have preached the gospel for fifty-five years consecutively and without rest,