People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ducks. 7c. Turkeys, 9010 c. Chickens, *c. Eggs. 22. “Wheat, 55058 c. Gate. 27029 c. Rye, 87c. Ray, *4.500*6.50. Cern, 85c. Eggs. 20c. Butter, 20c. Creamery butter. 82c. Hides 2f@3i.

There are no new developments in the cannery business this week. No new proposition has been received from Mr. Vergerus. There will be a meeting at Sandridge school house, in Barkley township, Tuesday evening, January 24th. Prof. A. McCoy and Wasson will address the meeting on the subject of dairying. Everybody invited. Indiana will have no state fair this year. The board of agriculture believes that everybody who can afford to go away from home the coming summer will ge to the world’s fair, and that the fair would be run at a loss. We hope that if any of our merchants have met with reverses during the year, or if their business has not shown a steady increase, they will begin the new year right by adopting a systematic method of advertising in their home papers. Jay Williams carries the largest and most complete stock of carpets in town. Call and see samples.

Simon Phillips’ black mare died Tuesday morning of old age. She was raiseed by Mr. Phillips from a colt and at the lime of death lacked but a few months of being thirty-one years old. For the past five years she has done no werk. Calvin Grimma. who took out a license a couple of weeks ago to marry his divorced wife, Suda L., concluded, before the marriage ceremony was performed, that he would let well enough alone, and skipped out for parts unknown. Suda is now’

m mourning. The Momence Press has adopted a novel method for collecting delinquent subscriptions. It advertises for sale all accounts, with names of individuals, of two years or more standing, where the parties refuse to respond to repeated re quests to remit.

An official of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago states that there has been a remarkable increase in business on the branch between Monon and Michigan City the last year, which in years previous had been difficult to make pay operating expenses. Porter & Wishard moved into their new room in E. L. Hollingsworth's new building Tuesday. Mrs. L. M. Imes will occupy part of the front with her millinery store and moved in the same day. Harry Brown, the dentist, is occupying the upper story as an office and residence. Frank Weathers, an old Rens selaer boy, after an absence of eight years in the west, dropped off the train Tuesday morning for a short visit with his mother here. He is now located at Divide, Colo., and is engaged in the general merchandise business, is married and has one ■child. A Jury in the Jasper circuit court awarded Miss Anna Renicher, of Barkley township, 1700 damages against the Monon railroad for injuries received while alighting f/un a train near Surrey. She got on the train at Delphi bound £or Rensselaer, but the train to stop here she was induced UJ alight from the train north of Surrey. The train men neglected to sup. port .her .while jumping, off, and as a result-she was b&dly foirt in the ankle, knee and baqk.