People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago earned in tile third week of January $43,064, an increase over the corresponding week of 1892 of $582. B. S. Fendig has moved into the room on Washington street recently occupied by the People’s Meat Market. Bring in your hides, game, eggs, etc. The snow Wednesday and Wednesday night was the largest of the season, and owing to the drifts traveling has been rendered difficult. January’s list of illustrious dead includes Hayes, Butler, Lamar, Brooks and Blaine. This record never has been equaled in the history of this country. We will furnish the Nonconformist and the PILOT whole year for $1.85. Subscribe now and get the Nonconformist’s criticisms of the present legislature. The foundry men have been circulating a petition for donations this week and between $400 and $500 has already been subscribed. They ask $700 and the land. Mrs. S. E. Yeoman fell on the ice at the Makeever House Monday and injured her back so badly that she has been confined to her bed since and has suffered great pain. The bill to abolish capital punishment which comes up at every session of the legislature was introduced Tuesday, but will probably meet the same fate as former bills. Two sled loads of young peopeople drove out to Louis Bull’s, in Barkley township, last Wednesday evening, where an oyster supper and sled party was given. Marriage licenses: Frank J. O’Connor, Mary Meehan; David F. Leatherman, Mary Fulks; Caleb Waymire, Stella May Caster; Edward R. Griggs, Susan Smith. Protracted meeting still continues at the M. E. church. About thirty accessions to the church has been the result so far. Meeting also began at the Christian church Monday evening. John Bartin, a young man living near Mt. Ayr, died last Friday of typhoid fever. This is the second death in two weeks in that family, of that disease, and other members of the family are down with it. The bill introduced in the legislature putting the saloons and drug stores on the same footing as regards the license fee, was killed in the House Tuesday. The bill was engineered by the State Liquor League. Friends, help us to increase the circulation of the Pilot. We want to double our subscription list this year. By your help we can do it. The paper is furnished as cheap as the publishers can afford to print it. By each subscriber getting one new name our list will be doubled. You can do this easily. Try it. The more readers we have the faster will come the day when the masses and not the classes will rule this country. A bill reported to the state senate yesterday, if enacted into law, will transfer the counties of Jasper and Newton to the Fortieth Circuit, and will have White county added. Judge Reynolds, Democrat, of Monticello, would be presiding Judge for the next two years. Benton and Tippecanoe counties would be joined, and Judge Wiley would succeed to the Judgeship of chose two counties.—Kentland Enterprise.