People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

QOOODLAND. Corn and oats firm. The Sunday school convention held at this* place last Friday and Saturday was not so weft attended as conventions of this kind should be. . Mrs. H. Currens is visiting in Francesville this week. Some fifteen or twenty Italian women struck this town at one time last week. They were engaged in peddling notions of all kinds. At some places here they were very impudent. Look out for them. We can’t understand what great wrong this community has ever committed against the Herald’s Jasper county correspondent, that he proposes to inflict upon us that awful punishment by telling us in his next letter who ought to be “postmaster at this place” for the next four years. Please don’t. Thos. Butler, Wm. Mills, Jr., F. -Harrington and G. Paxton left this place last Monday morning for Valparaiso to take a commercial course at that place. Goodland now has three barber shops.

A child two years old, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Nole, died Saturday and was buried Sunday at the Catholic cemetery, six miles west of town. The train men of the La Cross train are all about a total wreck. Mode Cox was off a few days be-, cause he did not feel well, while Conductor Thomas carries his hand in a sling from the effects of having a bundle of wagon spokes thrown against his hand by the drayman at Mt. Ayr, who was in the car helping to unload way frieght. It is thought that one finger will have to be amputated by not receiving the proper care at that time. While Ben Hines was on the retired list for a few days from an ulcerated tooth. If any of the balance of the crew (which only consist of the engineer and fireman) become disabled before this issue of the Pilot we will telegraph the editor. Mr. J. Gilmore, a former resident of this place, is on a short visit here from Dakota.

Dr. J. A. Lovett made a flying trip to Indianapolis one day last week. Mr. Stout has erected a new building north of the C. &. I. C. depot to be used for the manufacturing of brooms. Dr. Pratt has been selling off his household furniture for a week past and will soon go to boarding. He believes it to be the cheapest. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, of South Bend, visited with their two sons at this place a few days ago. A fellow living at Morocco who was lately snowed under by an avalanche of five or six hundred majority by John Brown, for prosecutor of this district, assumes to speak through the columns of his shoe-peg organ for the respectable classes (?) who attended the jolification here a few weeks ago from Morocco. He also takes Editor Kitt and ourself to task and intimates that Mr. Kitt and ourself had told more lies than truths*about the Morocco crowd. If this editor

,had accompanied the crowd from his place he would have been far more competent to have judged of their conduct here that night, if he had not been in the same condition as most of his townsmen were. He says some of the most respectable citizens of Morocco attended the blow out. If there are one hundred sheep in a flock and fifteen of that one hundred are black it does not prove that the other eighty-five will be black because they are caught in company with the other fifteen. So if there were but fifteen or twenty here from his town and five out of the number had filled themselves with rot gut whisky till they knew not their own brother, does the .pencil pusher of the Courier suppose the others of the crowd would have been drunk, too? We did not, in our item, leave the impression that all who came from the north part of the county were filled with fighting whisky. But evidently there were enough well soaked with good fighting stuff to make the very angels in heaven weep if they could have stood still long enough for the angels to have taken a good look at them? And it was this same fighting stuff that precipitated the .“free for all” fight. As we have said before, it came from Morocco, and we only clinch the argument by saying again that# did, This