People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Frank Davis, of thfe Morocco Courier, was in town Saturday. He reports Morocco booming. The fair ground has been laid out in town lots, which are being sold at good prices. New grounds will be purchased and fitted up in time for the next fair# The Monon had put on record in the recorder’s office last week a contract with the Haskell & Barker Car Co., of Michigan City, for 200 coal and 50 stock cars. The coal cars are to cost *4OO and the stock cars *455 each, the total cost being *102,750. For the Christmas and New Years holidays the Monon will sell excursion tickets to all points on its line at one and onethird fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale Dec. 24th, 25th, 26th and 31st, and Jan. Ist and 2nd, good going only on date of sale, and good returning until January 3, 1893.

Columbian souvenir spoons at Clarke’s. •s.ajimio oc‘Bl* joj awajajiiqo pun uiSia qiiM. asuo pio# pqog

Bob Phillips is doing a big business in the laundry line. His is considered a No. 1 company. Also the barber w r ork and patronage is first class. He solicits a share of your patronage. He will run three chairs the first of the year. Come, you won’t have to wait long for a shave.

We have the largest and finest lot of dinner sets, chamber sets, tea sets, salad dishes, qelery trays, olive dishes, after dinner coffee china cups and saucers and in fact the most complete line of chinaware and Christmas goods ever brought to Rensselaer. Call and see them. Laßue Bros. The Piper fire north of town is still burning on Mrs. Clark’s farm. This fire has been burning since the middle of August. It was set out by Mr. Piper to destroy Canada thistles; catching in the muck it has extended over many acres of valuable land. Its progress now, of course, is slow, but it is still burning as any one can plainly see any day.

Fine assortment of dress goods, in all fabrics and shades, with trimmings to match, at the Columbus, at marvelously low prices for Leopold is bound to do the business.

We publish a poem this week which appears in the Christmas number of the Century # from the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley. It is of local interest as it is written about our own town of Rensselaer, and is entitled “Little Cousin Jasper.” Our readers will wish to preserve it in their scrap books. Extra copies of this week’s issue can be had at the Pilot office. You'd scarce expect one of my age in merchandizing to engage, and hope to get a paying trade, without the local paper’s aid. And yet I did that very thing, I opened up a store last spring—this month the sheriff took my |Stock ■ and sold it from the auction block. Don’t view me with scornful eye, but simply say as I pass by, there goes a man who seems to think he has no use for printer’s ink. There is a truth as broad as earth, and business men should know its worth; ’tis simply this: The public buys its goods from those who advertise.