People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Page 8

Market Report.

Ducks. 7c. Turkeys, 9@loc. Chickens, 7c. Eggs, 22. Wheat, 55@58c. Oats, 27@29c. Rye, 37c. Hay, [email protected]. Cera, 35c. Eggs, 20c. Butter, 20c. Creamery butter, 32c. Hides 2i@3|.

Bargains, and nothing but bargains, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Fresh corn meal always on hand at Dexter & Cox’s. The Mascot Comedy Co. will be at the Opera House next Monday and Tuesday evenings, Jan. 30th and 31st. Beautiful music. Relined specialties. John J. Van Buskirk, of Nebraska, and Miss Bertha W. Paris, of Gillam township, were married last Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. G. Campbell officiating.

Miss Stella Moore, daughter of Sam Moore, of Pleasant Ridge, died Wednesday night of of eresypelas, the result of an abcess in the ear. Her age was 22 years. The wife of Eli Miller, of Valley City, Harrison county, gave birth to four children last Sunday. They were fully developed, but did not live. About a year ago Mrs. Miller gave birth to triplets. A man who is terribb. patriotic and brave, who is continually lighting the war over and over, when asked what regiment he fought in, said: "Well I was not in the war, but I called ore of my sons, ‘Grant’.” Representative Barnes has introduced a bill in the house prohibiting horse racing in this state during the months of December, January, February and March of each year. The bill is aimed at the Roby track. Manager Eger has been so fortunate as to secure another comedy company to play in our town. They will be at the Opera House Monday and Tuesday evenings. Costumes correct in every detail. Warner & Shead have just opened a new grocery in their now building on Van Rensselaer street. They will carry a complete line and solicit a share of your patronage. They will also carry a line of hardware.

Williams has a full line of goods at his store and can please you all in prices and styles.

A son of Postmaster Keiser, who was shot at Clinton. Mo., a fews weeks ago, has been visiting friends at Logansport and states that this father is recovering from his wound and expects soon to be as good as new.— Monticello Herald. The wolf hunt last Friday was a grand failure, not a wolf being seen. The hunters failed to turn put, as expected, and the circle was not complete. The officers arrived home early in the afternoon and were subjected to a great deal of guying.

Jay Williams carries the largest and most complete stock of carpets in town. Call and see samples. D j Nicholas, of Delphi, who was arrested at Goff’s restaurant on the charge of highway robbery some time since, has been sent to the state’s prison for three years. His trial took place at Delphi. He is now where he evidently belongs. Porter & Wishard are now in their new quarters in the Hollingsworth building and will be pleased to have all their old customers call. They will carry a much larger stock than formerly and in addition will carry a full line of clothing,

Our druggists are somewhat stirred up over a bill recently introduced in congress requiring them to take out a'saloon license the same as the saloonists are now required to do. A vigorous fight will be made against its passage. No action has yet been taken in the way of raising a donation for the foundry which is wanting to locate here, subscriptions for the building of the mill having proceeded this matter. This should not be allowed to drop, and doubtless will not be. as the amount asked is so small.

Students of character are again permitted to observe the comparative magnanimity of their neighbors by noting the place where each householder stops shoveling away the snow in the generous fear that he may be shoveling some of the snow rightfully belonging to his neighbor.Programe at the Tabernacle next Sunday: Bible School, 9:30. ‘ ‘The Christ of Prophecy, ” 10:45. Meeting for Men Only at 3p. m. "Our Bodies,” Dr. I. B. Washburn. Sermon. "Remedy,” B. E. Utz. Special programe on Endeavor Day at 6 p. m. by the Y. P. S. C. E. "The Splendid Ideal” 7 p. m.

There is a deficit of $05,000 in the accounts of Augustus Cronkhit e, treasurer of Warren conuty. Cronkhite’s downfall is clearly traceable to his plunges on the Chicago board of trade. The steal is a blow that will cripple Warren county and will force several of Cronkhite’s bondsmen into bankruptcy. It is said the Roby race track has done more to enhance the value of property in its immediate vicinity than has anything else. Where a few short weeks ago there was a weary waste of land quite a village has sprung into life, and the property interests that before were as dead as Julius Caesar are now booming. Mrs. Lucinda Miller, sister of Win. Baker, of Rensselaer, and an inmate of the insane asylum at Indianapolis for the last five years, died last Saturday evening. She was brought to Rens-, selaer Sunday and her funeral held at the M. E. church Monday, services being conducted by Rev. Campbell. Interment in Weston’s cemetery.

The entertainment given Friday evening, by Edwin L. Barker, was declared another success for this promising humorist and reciter. Mr. Barker was greeted with continual applause and was compelled to respond to several encores. "With Edwin Maro Combination at Opera House next Friday evening.

Widow Antrim, mother of James Antrim, is laid up with one badly sprained and one broken ankle, the result of being throwm from a sled Wednesday evening. She had been in the country visiting and was returning home in a sled, in which was hersel. and Wash Scott and wife. When near Robinson's iron bridge the horses became frightened and threw the occupants out. Mrs. Antrim was the only one hurt. Though suffering a good deal of pain she is getting along nicely. Uncle Billy Beck, for many years the popular sexton of the Weston cemetery, had a narrow escape from death last Friday. He was “swapping - ’ yarns in Judge Healy’s shoe shop, and while in the middle of an interesting anecdote the shelving fell down and missed Billy’s head by but an inch. In its fall it knocked over the stove pipe and the room was filled with smoke. Mr. Beck made a bee line for the back door and has not been seen in that vicinity since. He accuses the judge of trying to kill him and in the future intends to do his leafing at Ralph Fendig’s, where he will be allowed to tell his stories without interference.

The latest scheme of counterfeiters is to manufacture silver dollars that are exact sac simile lof those made by Uncle Sam, j containing the same amount of silver and precisely the right weight. The actual cost of a silver dollar is about 69 cents, making a profit of 31 cents on a dollar. The extent to which they are made is not known, but is said to be alarming, and no expert, no matter how skillful he may be, can detect them.

The Louisana state lottery has been granted a charter by the Republic of Honduras and will remove its business to that country on January 1, 1894. It is given many privileges and is under no restrictions of law. In turn the republic is to receive §1,000,000 a year, three per cent, on face value of tickets sold and to have free use of a cable which the lottery company is to construct to the United States. The government is to superintend all drawings. From a commercial point of view, there can be no doubt of the advantages of these roads. Millions of dollars are appropriated every year for river and harbor that bring practically no commercial advantage except to the immediate district in which tee work is done; but if this money, or a part of it, were devoted to the construction of suitable highways, the expenditure w mid appeal to the interest < f nearly every class in the country, and bring a splendid return for the outlay.—Brigadier General W. Merritt.

We suggest to Bro. McEwen, that if unsuccessful in receiving the appointment of post master at Rensselaer, that he transport his printing office, building and all, to the World’s Fair and exhibit it as a curiosity. By charging a small admission he could make more during the five months of the fair than the post office would pay in four years. He should not forget to take along his rubber bo#ts, fur cap and overcoat, and two or three of his Jersey cows to make the show complete. But * joking aside, Bro. McEwen will probably be our next post master, and his years of hard work for his party will at last be rewarded.

Nearly all of the many creameries that w’ere built throughout this section of the country a couple of years ago are either closed or about to close. The one at Rensselaer is the only one we know of that has held out. The reason given in every case is that the farmers failed to patronize them. Fowler, Remington, Chalmers, Delphi, Buffalo, Lafayette and several others we do not call to mind just now’, are shut down and the property offered for sale. It seems strange that at the price butter has been selling at during this time that they should go to the wall. They were all built to benefit the farmers, and then the farmers failed to support them.—Remington Press. Four characters, two males and two females, formerly of Rensselaer, are reported to have had an exciting experience at Hammond during an extremely cold night recently. The four persons had taken up their residence in that city and renting a house in the front of which was a store room opened a cigar store in the front and in the rear made their residence, ■which was much frequented by the hard characters of that town. The night mentioned the house was filled with drunken toughs, who became angry, and threw the inmates and goods into the street. The four former Rensselaei’ people were badly hurt and one of the women was reported to have been nearly killed. The toughs were arrested, but we have not learned the outcome of the affair.

Bro. Marshall Feels Slighted.

Republican: By the way, it would be interesting to learn by what process these Roby gamblers secured the good will and advocacy of so many papers in this section of the state.

You and your friends are kindr ly invited to send in to this office, or bring it in yourself, any item of news of which you may happen to know. If you want us to mention the fact that your guest has arrived, let us know when he or she came. If you are going away on a visit, or have just returned from one, and want us to publish t&f fact, notify us by note or in person. Don’t be bashful about this matter.

Prof. Andrew F. Seymour, i of Rockford, 111., a mind reader, i has begun preparations for a | feat he proposes to accomplish | next summer. He will, June 21, throw himself into a state of insensibility and will be buried. The grave is to be watched by a committee day and night while a crop of barley is sowed, ripened and is harvested over it. Mr. Seymour will then be disinterred and will return to life. It is a feat which, it is claimed, has been performed by the fakirs of India under conditions that prevented imposition and Mr. Seymour says he has such control over his mind and nervous system that he is confident he can perform the act.

Our citizens have donated ♦ 1,500 to Thos. J. Sayler, John T. Sayler and D. E. Hollister towards the erection of a new mill to replace the one burned last week. Work will begin as soon as the weather will permit and be rushed rapidly towards completion. The firm will go to Indianapolis next week and purchase machinery. It will all be the latest improved and will be new throughout. The building will be of frame, covered with fire proof siding and will be three stories high. The cost will be about SB,OOO. It will occupy the same site as the old one and have a capacity of 75 barrels per day. The new mill will be a vast improvement over the old one and they will be able to make a much better grade of flour.

HANGING GROVE.

The Hanging Grove literary society meets at Marlboro tonight. A good session is anticipated. Everybody welcomed. Miss Lery Wilson spent lasi Sunday with her parents at Rensselaer. Last Saturday was the occasion of a fine exhibition at the Osborne school house. The programme consisted of two very well rendered farces and several comical negro songs. The participants gave good evidence of dramatic ability. The Kenton and Banta orchestra furnished music for the occasion. A small admittance fee was charged, the proceeds amounting to about nine dollars.

Messrs. Norman Warner, Wm. Bedford and wives, of Rensselaer, visited Mr. Fleming Phillips last Sunday. Miss Eva Kenton visited friends in Marlboro last Sunday. A big sled load of young people from Marlboro attended the exhibition at the Osborne school house last Saturday. Osbornite.

IROQUOIS TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY.

The farmers were shelling corn most of last week. That made the school small, so many of the scholars had to help shell. The residence of Mr. John Hudson, of Carpenter township, burned’ . last Tuesday night. The origin of the fire is unknown. Spelling school at Percy ; school house next Friday night. I R« H. Putts, of Grant township, has gone to Tennsesee where he will make his future home. Mrs. Wampshire, of Jordan township, will remove near i Page station in the spring. Mr. Jasper Clinger will occupy the : house vacated by Mrs. Wamp- | shire. Rumor says he is going !to take a wife. That’s right, Jasper, get the cage before the bird. Mr. John Toyne, of Carpenter township, has moved to Hammond, Ind. Mr. Gotlieb Sylverburger, a former resident of this place but now of Illinois, is visiting friends and relatives with a new wife. Cowboy.

WHEATFIELD.

Mrs. Charley Clark is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Arch Pullins visited their son James and family of this place over Sunday. John Query has been sick for the past week, but is getting better at present. Sunday school is in a flourishing condition, the house being crowded every Sabbath and an active interest is taken by young and old. Mr. Perry Des Elms and family, of Gillam township, visited friends and relatives here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Fisher has sold his barber shop to Ward Hamilton, who will take possession in a few days. We also understand that Mrs. Hamilton intends starting a dress making establishment.

Church begins with a good attendance and a good time is anticipated. \ John Collins, Jr., was in Valparaiso Saturday and Sunday. Sleighing is fine and Mr. Whittaker, our liveryman, finds his business good, only in some cases when his sleighs are brought in with the single trees broken and tied up with hitch straps.

The measles are now in the township, especially in the vicinity of Center school. The institute last Saturday was well attended. The teachers were all present except Miss Clara Haste, who w T as unable to attend. The subjects were well disposed of and adjourned to meet the third Saturday in February. A dance was given at the hall last Saturday night, which was largely attended, in fact it proved such a success that a grand ball will be given on the 22nd of next month. All are invited to attend.

BLACKFORD.

Sleigh riding is the order of the day. Prof. A. McCoy was out on Nubbin Ridge Tuesday evening talking creamery. John Pullins has returned with improved health. Mr. Elmer Arnold was in our town Sunday and Monday. He prefers the atmosphere around Blackford to that of Fair Oaks. Mr. Isaac Miller is operating a large grist and saw mill one mile north of Blackford. Mr. Newton Price has moved from our vicinity down close to Rensselaer. Mr. John McCurtain and wife went with them. Mr. Charles Campbell is still clerking in the new Chicago store. He is doing a very successful business. Miss Emma Schroer was at her home on a visit Sunday. Mr. Jim McColly was in our town Tuesday. He is buying and shipping cattle and horses to Chicago. Mr. B. J. Gifford’s dredges, No. 1 and 2, have ceased working on account of cold weather. A Christian Endeavor society was organized at Burn’s school house last Thurday night. We wish them success. Protracted meeting is still in progress at the Rose Bud church. Butterfly.

EGYPT.

Miss Grace Fox, of Fowler, is visiting her uncle, Will Pruet. She arrived last Sunday. Joseph Lakey and Albert Brand are getting ready to participate in a wolf hunt in the near future. Mrs. Clara Plake resigned her place as teacher of the Kissinger school. She left on Monday for Tipton to join her husband, who preceded her last Saturday. Dr. Brand left on Monday for a professional tour in Benton and Newton counties. Barnes & Co. are pressing hay for John Zimmer this week. Andy Frazier is wintering two car load of cattle. Wash Timmons and family, of Wolcott, visited friends in this vicinity last week. John Tharp and Frank Ellis, of Remington, were here hunting, but they froze out before they bagged any game. Schuyler Irwin, Joe Timmons and Ed Green were appointed at the creamery meeting, as a committe, to ascertain the number of cows to be milked and the place to locate the separator. Will Hoover, the young cattle King of South Marion, was in Chicago last week. Bill Tayler returned last Monday from South Bend, where he visited his parents and other relatives, JOBDANITK.

GOODLAND.

Corn off—2B cents. Sleighing never better. Dr. Pratt was home from Chicago a few days ago. The entertainment given by the Brook boys was a creditable one. Mr. Mitchell, ex-landlord of the Centra! Hotel, will sell some personal property at public sale the 28th. Mr. William Perry and wife, of Kentland, visited his brother John at this place Sunday. Mr. V. B. Jenks, coal and feed dealer, slipped and fell, sustaining injuries that confined him to the house for a day or two. The gentle reader will pardon us for devoting so much of the valuable space of the Pilot this week to so small an institution as the traveling W. C. T. s.

Mrs. C. Davis, wife of Prof. Davis, is visiting at Kentland this week. A protracted meeting by the Holiness people at Locheal. seven miles south of here, is being attended by a number of our young people, perhaps more for pleasure than for religious intent.

“One of Them” W. C. T. U’s. in the Goodland Herald gets on a tantrum and accuses us of everything that is contemptable but the crucifixion of Christ. We would have been accused of this no boubt, if we had been on earth at that time and there had not been enough W. C. T. U’s. to have accomplished the job. provided Christ differed from them in belief. This “One of Them” that takes the responsibility upon herself to speak for the women of Goodland knows that this conglomoration of nothing never had more than fifteen or twenty followers in this place at one time. So the readers of the PiLOt can see how far their influence extends. True, a year or two ago they got up a flurry anti a few women who had been attending to their own household affairs before were duped by the cunning hand of these spoil getters out of a few dollars m order that one or more of the select fifteen or twenty might have her car fare and board paid to attend a district, state or national so-called convention. But as soon as these duped women saw one or two moves they dropped out. An unsuspecting public have suffered likewise by patronizing quite a number of their sappers, etc. They too soon see the point and we have not seen their cunning dodge in the supper line for six months. We suppose that this “One of Them” is a part of an outfit that hired some teams here a yeai* or two ago to take their “huckster” stand over to Morocco during one of the fairs of that place. But up to date we blieve they have never paid the teamsters for their trips. Their place of business at that fair was under the amphatheater where they dished up hot meals and cold ones for twenty-five cents a meal. What did you say! “Where did they sleep?” Why, right where they served hot coffee—under the leaky roof of the old amphatheater. They carried their own knapsacks, haversacks and all drank from the same canteen. Will this “One of Them” tell us one single moral good they have accomplished from the money wrongfully obtained from an innocent public? One single soul they have saved at large, while there wash such a vast field of reform open within their own households? One honest dollar they have earned and spent for the good of fallen man or women. Show us one example you have set that ap intelligent community would follow and we will rise and call you great. There is not one. Your works are the works of fraud and your deeds have passed down the dark ages of time never again to be resurrected. * ‘Consistency, thou art a jewel.” Jack the Ripper. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: You can always judge a town and its people by the newspaper. Never buy town lots or lands where a poor, half-starved newspaper is published. Newspapers these days are a necessity, not a luxury. They are so cheap that the poorest man can have them—unless he is running a bill at the saloon. It matters not how many city papers a man may take, he should give an honest support to his home paper.