People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Business is good. Our town is badly in need of a bank. The only question of importance now is who will get the post office. Daniel Lintner is very sick with som& sort of a kidney trouble. Mrs. Frank Austin is also on the sick list. Jasper Page and wife are visiting friends in DeMotte. Horace Marble, of Crown Point, was in our town last Friday. Frank Glasscock was checked in as station agent at Shelby last week. Will Helmick now has charge of the depot at Dunn’s station. John Graves is building a nobby ’ little building on Byron street, which will be used for the Wheatfield court house. Samuel Turner has purchased property and will build a fine dwelling house in our town as soon as the weather will permit. M. J. Ahlgrim expects to move his saw mill to Water Valley in the near future. Our ice houses are all well filled with 12 and 14 inch ice. Adrift. From Another Correspondent. Preacher Davis is holding a series of meetings at Hogan this week. Trustee S. D. Clark, wife and son are visiting relatives and friends in Chicago. A demand is now being made for arctic overshoes, especially from our Dunnville friends. Lew Meyers apd wife, of Kankakee, Hl., are visiting rela-

tives and friends in this vicinity. The attendance of our schools are not so good on account of cold weather and the deep snow. Rev. Veach begins protracted meetings next week in Wheatfield school house. A grand revival is expected and all interested in the cause should attend. Teacher’s institute will be held at Wheatfield school house next Saturday. Max Ahlgrim has traded his larger engine for a smaller one and will soon be ready for all sawing. Frank Scott has resigned his position on the railroad and is now one of our leading draymen. Robert Mannan, who is now teaching in Gillam township, but formerly of Dunnville, was seen on our streets last Saturday. Wheatfield is still booming. Messrs. Meyers, Turner and Bentley, respectively, have bought lots and intend building soon. Nathan Keen & Co. are pressing a large amount of hay, regardless of the cold and stormy weather. Cow Boy.