People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

fellow puts up a mighty defense •‘for our band.” He .ays “he has heard that band every night j for four months.” If this statement is true his friends in other parts of the district need not be surprised at his defeat. Tin; ' band consisted of two snare .drums and one bass, all resem- • bling those carried “in days that •tried men’s soles.” The outfit j could not have sounded worse had they been hog hide stretched over a five wire fence with the defeated candidate’s bald head for a drum stick. Mr. Kitt or ourself were not in the employ of j any campaign committee during the last political struggle or a> candidate for any office. So we leave the reader to judge who would be the most competent to give an unbiased account of the proceedings that disastrous night, for Morocco. Mrs. Sawyer and Mrs. Arrick are spending a few days at and in the vicinity of Monticello this week. We believe Goodland has one of the most industrious business men that any town in the country has. When he is not busy selling goods he occupies the time by knitting. It is no uncommon thing for him to lay down his knitting, sell you 5 cigar and then pick it up again before you have Struck a match to light your cigar. Jack the Ripper.

Catholic Note*. The new furnace is now in operation in the Catholic church. It is a great improvement and renders ” church going more pleasant. “No excuse for missing services now,” says E. P. Honan and H. Eigelsbach. More pews are being made and will soon be placed into the church. Call on Mr. H. Eiglesbach or Mr. Ed. Honan and they will seat you comfortably. The young men of St. Augustine’s congregation are at present engaged in organizing' a dramatic society. They will undoubtedly succeed in their undertaking and most agreeably surprise their friends by an entertainment in the near future. Next Sunday service will begin at 10 a. m. Sermon will be preached ‘ ‘On the Great Benefit of Divine Vocation.” In the afternoon at 2:30 there will be explantions on scriptures. There are on an average sixty children attending these catechetical instructions. The number of deaths in the entire world in a century is estimated to be 4,500,000,000. v Beer was the universal drink of the English until, the introduction of tea and coffee about 1650.

Public Sale. The undersigned willoffer at public sale at his farm 3 miles north of Rensselaer, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., on Thursday, December 22, 1892, the following, property: 7 head of work horses, 3 gieldings, 4 mares bred, 1 threcyear old colt. 3 good 2-year old mare colts. 3 good yearling colts. 2 spring colts. 40 head of cattle consisting of 10 head of cows with calves, by thoroughbred Galaway bull; 17 head of half-blood Galaway heifers—l or sos them with calf; 14 head of Scotch Galaway thoroughbred cattle; 4 cows with calves; 4 yearling heifers. 1 3-year old bull; 4 bull calves, wagon. check row corn planter, 2 cultivators, horse rake, hay pitcher. 2 gatherers and other farming implements. corn and hay. , TERMS OF SALE: One years credit without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due notes to draw 8 per cent, interest from date. Five dollars and under cash. Wm. P. Baker. Simon Phillips. Auctioneer. SEWING, MACHINES PbPULAR? BECAUSE LADIES BUY them LIKE them AND TELL friends. Many ladies have used our machines twenty to thirty years in their family work, and are still using the Original machines we furnished them a .generation ago. Many of our machines have run more than twenty years without repairs, other than needles. With proper care they never wear out, and seldom need repair. We have built sevving machines for more than forty years and have constantly improved them. We build our machines on honor, and they are recognized everywhere as the most accurately fitted and finely finished sewing machines in the world. Our latest, the “No. 9,” is the result of our loiw experience.' In competition with the leading machines of the world, it received the Grand Prize at the Paris Exposition of 1889, as the best, other machines receiving only complimentary medals of gold, silver and bronze. The Grand Prize was what all sought for. and our machine was awarded it. • Send for our illustrated catalogue. We want dealers in all unoccupied territory; WHEELER & WILSON MEG. CO. 1M < 187 WABASH AVK., CHIOA9OF j