People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ux*! Market Report. Hay, [email protected]. Cara, 35te. POULTRY. Spring Chickens, 6c. Hens, sc. Ducks, 6c. Turkeys, B@9ic. Eggs. 20c. • Butter, 20c. Creamery butter, 82c.

An old women went into the }X>ultry business, thinking she could make a fortune by selling eggs, but gave it up in disgust,because, as she said, “the hens’ll never lay when eggs are dear but aflus begins as soon’s they're cheap. ,v Dr. J. If. Honan, the veterinary surgeon, of Delphi, will be in Rensselaer next Wednesday, December 14th. If your horses or cattle need treatment you can find him at Hemphill & Honan’s store. Bidgling castration a speciality. Remington Press: “Jack the Ripper” who furnishes Goodland items for the People’s Pilot, is a trifle hard on the fellows who attended the Democratic ratification there a short time ago. We understand “Jack” is a candidate for postoffice honors at Goodland, too. A stock company with 000 capital has been formed at Chicago for the manufacture of a device invented by Conductor Claybourne, of the Monon, for operating locomotives with crude oil or gas for fuel instead of coal. It makes no cinders, hO dust, no smoke. The Tippecanoe Canning Co. at the close of the canning season put up several hundred cans of pumpkins, which for pie making cannot ' be excelled even

in a New England kitchen. If the company should add canned pumpkins to their regular product, there would be no question about finding a market for 'f them,—Monticello Herald. Francesville is never happy unless she is discovering something. First it was then oil. This time it is salt.- A sample obtained from boiling down, water from a well recently drilled shows up fine, pure and white. The wellisonly24 feet deep and 13 feet of it is through solid rock. The attention of the State geologist has been called to it.—Monticello Herald.

The county commissioners met in session last Monday. John Martindale, commissioner elect, qualified and took his seat. A saloon license was granted to Henry Hildebrand, of Rensselaer, and at this writing Thursday morning, the commissioners are hearing the hotly contested application of Henry Granger, of DeMotto. This case has occupied over two days. The re•inonstrants are citizens of DeMotte. There is a new swindling scheme abroad in the land, and it may be well to be on your guard. An agent calls at a house and asks permission to set up a piano. When the piano is up he will agre e to make you agent for their sale, with the condition that you sell three instruments the one at your house is to be yours as commission. So far, good. But ,you are required to sign a receipt and if you do so, the receipt afterwuids turns up as a bankable note. Hendricks county reports a hermit citirea named John Moon, now 75 years of age, who has never yet been on a railroad ' car. nor word a pair of shoes. He lives in his original cabin, which - stands in the center of a patch of undergrowth and concealed from public gaze. He cultivalts garden truck, raises poultry and shoots small game, digs sassafras and exchange s it for tobacco. Every year he makes a pilgrimage on foot to Indianapolis, accompanied by his faithful dog, to see the