People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

VOL. II.

MONON TIME TABLE SOUTH BOUND.. No. 5—Mail and Express, daily......10:55 A.M. No. 37 — Milk Accom., daily ...... 6:17 P.M. No. 31 —Vestibule......12:55 A.M. No. 3— Night Express, daily ..... 10:47 P.M. No. 45—Local Freight 2:47 P.M NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail and Express, daily......5:38 A.M. No. 36—Milk Acccom.....daily 7:35 A.M No. 32—Vestibule, daily......2:47 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight......9:20 A.M. No. 6-Mail.....3:47 P.M.

Next Tuesday is St. Valentine’s day. Six new subscribers was the Pilot’s record last Saturday. Go to Dexter & Cox’s for your coal. For a change we had another snow storm yesterday. Dexter & Cox will sell you pure buckwheat flour. A daughter at Conrad Hildebrand’s Monday morning. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Wile Duvall lost a horse by death last Monday. Fresh corn meal always on hand at Dexter & Cox’s. Ben Hur at the Opera House Friday evening of next week. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. Marriage licenses: Samuel Parker, Jr., Cora B. Maxwell. All bakers recommend Butterfly flour. Sold only by Laßue Bros. B. A. Linville has moved with his family to Ohio, where he will engage in farming. Lovers of good bread should try Butterfly flour. For sale by LaRue Bros. Eggs at Crawfordsville are 40 cents a dozen, and chickens 11 cents a pound. A noby line of overcoats which are going at prices very low. R. Fendig. Miss Belle Hughey has been laid up for several days, the result of a sprained ankle. Dexter & Cox, at the feed store, will buy your buckwheat. Bring it in. C. E. Mills has moved his law office in the front room over the Citizens’ Bank. Blankets, yarns, flannels, in fact all winter goods in abundance. R. Fendig. Wm. Smith is building a carpenter shop near his residence in Leopold’s addition. A full line of sample carpets at J. W. Williams’ furniture store very cheap. Wm. Lamson, of Elm Creek, Neb., visited relatives here last week W. J. Imes is now helping his brother, Frank, in his drug store at Grand Crossing, Ill. There are twenty-one candidates for the New Castle post office. George Healey is now working in Sedalia, Mo., on the Gazette. B. F. Forsythe has joined his wife at New Philadelphia, Ohio, for a visit. Mrs. D. E. Hollister is cashier in the Chicago Bargain Store this week. Boarding by the meal, day or week at the World’s Fair restaurant, C. H. Vick, proprietor. Born, to John Kohler and wife, living on John Makeever’s farm, last Sunday, a daughter. Procure your reserved seats early for Ben Hur at the Opera House Friday evening of next week. Anyone thinking of buying a new sewing machine can save several dollars by calling at this office. W. R. Nowels will soon begin tearing up things at the elevator preparatory to the building of his new flouring mill.

ONLY $1.00 PER YEAR

BUTTERFLY FLOUR AT LARUE BROS. is the Best in the world.

John and Tom Sayler and D. E. Hollister went to Indianapolis Monday to purchase machinery for the new mill. John Irwin, who recently moved here from Mt. Ayr, is preparing to build himself a residence near the railroad. John King opened a grocery store Monday in the room near the depot just vacated by Chas. Simpson. Eggs are retailing in Rensselaer, when they are to be had, at 30 cents per dozen. Butter retails at 25 cents per pound. Why do you sell your poultry to outside parties when N. S. Bates will pay you more? Poultry is up this week. See market report. George Spitler was circulating among old acquaintances yesterday, after an absence of a few years. George is now located in Michigan. Sylvester O’Meara will move to town in a week or two and move into his recently purchased property, which has been occupied by Mr. Linville. Advertised letter: Mr. Grant Joyce, W. I. Jones, Miss Nora Lewis, Mr. John Mitchell, Miss Emma Tipler, Mr. John W. Webb. The railroad companies will now be compelled to pay their taxes, the supreme court having decided the tax law constitutional. La Rue Bros, sold 10 barrels of their celebrated Butterfly flour to the Rensselaer bakery this week. All bakers recommend and use it exclusively. The new Columbian postage stamp is so large that in order to make it serviceable it must be given almost as big a lick as the G. O. P. got last November. The Iroquois Club has sent for a dancing carpet to cover the floors of their rooms and dances will be given quite often in the future. A load of capons were marketed in Kokomo the other day which sold for more than $500. They sold for 10 cents per pound, live weight. The health officials believe that the extreme cold weather has knocked the grippe out this year, and that it will not be epidemic. The State Board of Agriculture has held another meeting and decided to hold the State Fair this year as usual. The date will be Sept. 18 to 23. We beg of our correspondents to get their communications to this office as early in the week as possible. If necessary send in a second communication. Joseph Salrin, of Milroy township, will have a public sale of stock and farm implements next Monday, February 13th. Mr. Salrin intends to move to Ohio shortly. Edward Maro and company delighted a fair sized audience at the Opera House last Friday evening. Every member of the company is an artist in his special line. We will furnish the Nonconformist and the Pilot one whole year for $1.85. Subscribe now and get the Nonconformist’s criticisms of the present legislature. Guss Phillips stopped off ni Rensselaer Sunday for a few hours. He is now advance agent for Ed Anderson’s dramatic company and was bound for the Northwest. Warren and Ira Washburn have secured positions as World’s Fair guides, and will be on duty during the continuation of the fair. Persons of good address only are used for this work.

RENSSELAER. IND.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1893.

The Epworth League will give a library social at the home of J. M. Kean this eveniug. Refreshments and music will be the order of the evening. Everybody invited. Admission 10 cents. LaRue Bros, are selling the second car load of Butterfly flour in two weeks. The Butterfly is made in Stillwater, Minn., and is the best flour in the world. Go to LaRue Bros, and try a sack. G. B. Parkinson, of Pleasant Ridge, while loading a car of cattle at that place last Thursday evening, was jammed against the side of the car by an unruly steer and his left collar bone broken.

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

Extensive improvements will be made in our electric light plant next month. A new engine and boiler is to be added in Addition to the old ones and a new incandescent dynamo of larger power is to be added. Warner & Shead have just opened a new grocery in their new 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. The days are growing longer, and they will lengthen something more than a minute per day until the end of the month; lengthen faster then until the latter part of June. On March 17 the day and night will be of equal length. Mr. Samuel Parker and Miss Cora B. Maxwell were married at the residence of Granville Moody, in Barkley township, Wednesday evening of last week, Rev. Ferguson officiating. A number of friends were present.

Jay Williams carries the largest and most complete stock of carpets in town. Call and see samples.

Burial at sea is to be abolished for those who have money to pay for the transportation of their remains in case of death on board ship. Air-tight steel caskets for the transportation of bodies are now part of the equipment of all the best steamers. 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.

After an inventory the assets of the firm of Leopold & Mossier, of Remington, which failed, are found to be $11,935.95. The goods will be sold at private sale until March 15th, after which the goods will be disposed of at public auction. Last Sunday the river was covered with young and old people. The order of the day was skating, bicycle and horse racing. This is probably the first time in its history that the ice on the Iroquois has been used for a race track. Thoroughbred trotting horses hitched to sleighs were used. We have for sale a number of standard bred stallions, including one full blood English draft, one Percheron Norman and one Clydesdale, all fine horses. They will be sold for part cash, the balance on time, or we will trade for other live stock. LaRue Bros.

The Stock of merchandise of Mr. Phaion, of Blackford, was taken possession of by the sheriff last Monday for the benefit of creditors. Mr. Phaion has disappeared, and it is said that some of his creditors would like very much to find him. All the county officers who have headquarters in the court house went to Indianapolis Sunday night to be on hand Monday to look after their interests in the legislature. The various county offices were in charge of deputies during their absence. Clarence A. Lecklider carries a full line of installment goods which will be sold on payments of 25 cents to $1 weekly. Rugs, portiers, lace curtains, table scarfs and covers, Perfection sweepers and a full line of ladies’ and gents’ gold watches. Frank Hanley and Mr. Gleason, the horse buyer, had a runaway Monday morning in the country. They were both thrown from the sleigh and Mr. Gleason’s hand was hurt severely. The horses disappeared from view and were not recovered until quite a while afterwards.

A lecture on Ben Hur under the auspices of the Ladies’ Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church will be given at the Opera Honse Friday evening of next week. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon. Admission 35, 25 and 15 cents. Good roads will increase the value of a farm, shorten the distance to market; save time, wagons, harness, horses, enlarge the territory which contributes to the home market, quicken social communication, and add to the wealth of the individual and the state.—Stonington (Ct.) Mirror.

Meeting for women only at the Tabernacle next Sunday at 3 p. m. Program: ‘‘Honor Lies in Well Doing,” Mrs. Ella Reubelt; “Wife and Mother,” Mrs. Agnes Coen: “Influence of Home, ” Mrs. W. O. Clark; “Home and Church,” Mrs. Lettie Leatherman; Sermon, Mrs. B. E. Utz. Friends, when you hitch your team and go into the house to warm yourself don’t forget to blanket your horse. The horse gets cold, although he cannot tell the misery he endures. Be kind and human to that noble. animal—the horse—at all seasons of the year. It is money in your pocket to do so.

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago has received the last of 250 coal cars and fifty stock cars, which the car-works at Michigan City have been building for the company, and manager McDoel has contracted for one thousand flat cars to use in the company’s extensive stone traffic from the Bedford, Ind., quarries. A gentleman from Kankakee, Ill., was in town the first of the week looking over the situation of opening a large general store. We understand that he has decided to locate here and will open up about the first of March. He will probably occupy the old Leopold store room.—Remington Press. There is no interest in the United States that has suffered so much as that of roads. The roads of this country have not kept pace with the other improvements and anything that will encourage and stimulate our people to the necessity of not only better paving in the large cities, but also more substantial country roads, will contribute a great deal to the earning power of our people.—Hon. James Kerr, Clerk House of Representatives.

A correspondent writes: “Catch several rats without injuring them and put them in a tight cage. Do not feed them anything and they will eat each other until all but one are eaten, and he may be let loose. He has now such a love for cannibal diet that he will soon eat every rat on the place.” The farmers who take the papers for the news are hereby notified to be on the lookout for two smooth tongued sharps who are going through the country appointing agents for a patent wire fence. The men are frauds and their scheme is to secure the signature of the agent to a contract which turns out to be a bank note. It is said that farmers in LaPorte county are being worked on a telegram racket. A party drives up to the residence and delivers a telegram on which $3 or $4 is due. The telegram afterward proves to be false and the victim is out of the money paid for the telegram and traveling expenses to a relative which it falsely told him was ill. The house of representatives passed the Barnes bill Monday, prohibiting racing in Indiana during the winter months, and forbidding that there shall bo racing on any track in the state for a period of more than sixty consecutive days. The bill will have to pass the senate before becoming a law. It is aimed at the Roby track. In 1892 the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago added 1,360 cars to its equipment, six new passenger coaches and three passenger locomotives. This year it will add 1,550 cars to its freight equipment, three complete vestibule trains and four, heavy passenger locomotives. The road is well provided with freight locomotives.

Not much progress has been made by the foundry men in receiving donations since our last report, owing to the sickness of the solicitor. Our citizens do not seem to be responding as liberally to this proposed enterprise as they should. But we think we are safe in saying that it will be located in Rensselaer. The Williams ballot bill to so amend the election law as to eliminate the requirement of publishing sample ballots in two newspapers in each county passed the house Monday and now stands a good chance of becoming a law. In their greediness last fall the newspapers, by overcharging for their work, are now about to be deprived of a valuable perquisite. The dining cars which the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago ran between Cincinnati and Chicago five months in the year in 1892 earned more than the expenses, three months came out about even, and four months the companies were obliged to put up $100 or more to equalize matters.

An exchange publishes the following of what a boy can do: “From birth a boy can own property; at seven he is, if intelligent, answerable for a crime; at fourteen, if necessary, he could choose a guardian, and could contract marriage; at fourteen he is punishable for a misdemeanor; at eighteen he is qualified for military service; at twenty-one he may declare himself independent of his father, and is old enough to vote; at twenty-five he is eligible to congress; at thirty to the United States senate; at forty to the presidency; at forty-five he is exempt from military duty. Smoke the Mendoza cigar.

Mary, wife of Peter Minikus, died last Friday morning at their residence in Rensselaer at tho age of 68 years, after a sickness of eight years, of catarrh of the lungs. She leaves a husband and six children, two girls and four boys. Her funeral was held at the Catholic church Saturday, February 4, at 10 o’clock a. m. Interment took place at the Catholic cemetery. A big change has been made in the management and ownership of the Nonconformist. Tho paper has been purchased by Leroy Templeton, Thomas S. East, L. A. Stockwell and Wilson Corey, all prominent leaders of the People’s party. The editors of the paper will be Henry Vincent, Chas. X. Matthews and L. A. Stockwell. The abovo names are a guarantee that tho paper in the future, as well as in the past, will be a hummer. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth gave an elaborate reception on Wednesday evening. A pleasant feature of the evening was music by Eddie Brandecamp, the blind pianist, from Crawfordsville. Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth were assisted in receiving by Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Ensminger, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin. Refreshments were served in the dining room from a table decorated from the chandeliers to the four corners with smilax and a center piece of ferns, white hyacinths and white coronations. The ferns were white and green, the predominant color of the dining room. Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Louie Hollingsworth presided at the table. About 100 invitations were issued.

Wm. Edgar Nye Fendig is quite a joker and could not resist the temptation to have some fun with one of his innocent German friends, so he invited him to attend a fashionable party given by one of his aristocratic friends Wednesday evening, and to bring his pipe and make himself at home. Promptly on time the German appeared and upon being questioned at the door said that he had received an invitation from Mr. Fendig and passed on into the house, and installing himself in the smoking room took out his pipe and proceeded to make himself at home. As the house began to fill with guests and the embarrassment of the host and hostess increased, the innocent German was invited out of the house by one of the male guests, who explained the situation and the German

disappeared. Mr. Fendig finding that the German had accepted the invitation, was the worst beat person in the house and was made the subject of all the innocent jokes of the company the rest of the evening. The printing of the sample ballots in the papers of the state at the late election cost the tax-payers over $100,000. If the work had been let, as all public printing should be, to the lowest bidder, it would have been done for about $10,000. The people should insist on their representatives —who are supposed to be their servants, not masters —letting this work be done where the best bargains can be had. Many papers received as much for printing these ballots in two issues as their whole outfit of presses, type and printing material was worth. They would gladly have given their home merchant the same space for from $25 to $40, but take from $325 to $350 out of the county for the work.—Remington Press. Smoke the Mendoza cigar. For sale everywhere.

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