People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND.

Turkeys, 7c. Oats, 28030 c. Corn, old, 34035. Corn, new, 320,33 c. Henry Getting is home from Thayer, because he is on the sick list. While residents of neighboring towns have been waddling through mud knee deep we have been gliding over our graveled streets like an excursion boat over Lake Michigan on a calm day. The Baptist church at this place began a winter’s protracted meeting last week. We have been informed that a petition containing nearly 600 names, asking congress to repeal the laws enacted at its last session, closing the World’s Fair on Sunday, was sent in a few days ago from this place and vicjftty. Mr. Ru. Hough, for many years city drayman at this place, has sold out his business and will move to the southern part of the state this week. Thomas Murphy has sold his place in Goodland to C. Curreps and rented a farm near Beaver. City and will move on the same about February Ist. We were mistaken last week. Ernest Paxton did not go to Valparaiso as intended, but will wait for the spring term. Tommy Butler and Forse Harrington that we mentioned last week as starting to school at Valparaiso, returned home, Saturday last, being just six 'days even after their departure. Tom says there is nothing like 1 going through college in short order. It is a saving of time and money, he thinks. He will, from this time on, content himself slicing down the choicest stakes and grinding sausage. An unusual display of holiday goods are to be seen in Goodland just now. We notice a number of old toys, books, etc., that have been displayed regularly for at least ten years past. A man that would buy a drug store in Goodland and did not get from six to eight wagon loads of tin toys would be no man at all, A Jenkins and wife, Ed Monigal and wife, George Jinkins and wife and Mr. B. Wilson were all taking ip the sights of Chicago the latter part of last week. There is one fellow coming to the World’s Fair we would like to see. and that’s that fellow from Johore. Our hands are up, Mr. Kitt, the $10,000,000 worth of diamonds don’t bother us, but where the fellow is coming from is what rattles us. Mr. Bruce Foresman, of Montano, has been telegraphed for, and before this reaches the readers of the Pilot, he will have arrived and taken charge of the Brook schools, a position he was asked to take by the trustee of that township. Jack the Ripper.