People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

GOODLAND. Oats, 28@30. Corn, (prime yellow) 34@35. Mrs. George Blessing, onehalf mile south of town, has been quite sick for two or three weeks. Miss Phoebe Monta spent Sunday with her brother in Benton county. The “gas” meeting Friday evening was the most satisfactory. one of any. The explanation by Rev. Bomer, of Connersville, where it is now in use, was good. Prof. Fagin’s little boy has been having a light attack of lung fevexx Mr. Budreau and Mr. King, of St. Mary, were in town Saturday on business. It is said Prof. Fagin will soon move the Mt. Ayr hotel to Goodland to be used as a residence for his family. Mr. Evans, our jeweler, has moved to Danville, Ind. Mr. Bruner, of DeMotte, was at Goodland Monday on business. The little misunderstanding between the town board and Marshal Hough over a part of a month’s pay resulted in the marshal choking Mr. John Sapp, a member of the board, Monday afternoon. The proper thing for the board to do now is to cut the gentleman’s salary so low r that he will resign, and that at once. Another wreck on the C. & I. C. the latter part of last w T eek, neat Sugar Creek, is the last one heard of. The electric light now used on the engine of our fast passenger train presents a handsome appearance and looks like business. The declaration that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country don’t hold good in the case of the braying.ass in the Morocco Courier coming to the rescue of the W. C. T. U’s. of this place. This is the same fellow that did the braying for the Democrats of this district, but it did not come of his being elected by five or six hundred majority.

In the case of Marshal Hough vs. the town of Goodland, for balance of $lO as salary for the month of January, called before Justice Potter, a change of venue was asked by Hough’s council and the same was granted and sent to Iroquois township before! Esq. Knoff. This is a case in which the town board cut down the marshal’s salary $lO in the month of January. The board claim they have a right to raise or lower the wages of the marshal any time dufing the year without publishing a notice of their intent, while Mr. Hough claims they have no such power. If they have the power to pay a clerk S4O or SSO for extra work they must have the power to cut his salary. It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways. The life of Abraham Lincoln was in itself a sermon. If congress had passed a Sun day closing law for the sweat shops of Chicago instead of the World’s Pair it would have been in better business. Joe Boland, a former resident of this place, came near being drowned at the river near Brook one day last week. It appears he had gone to that place on business and imbibing too much “over-be-joyful” started home and having less sense than his horse jerked him off the grade near the bridge south of town into water and ice eight or ten feet deep. It is a miracle to those who saw where rider and horse went off how they ever escaped death. Joe left for Illinois that night for good. The following expense account is taken from a book picked up on the street a few days ago. Gloves $2,25; marshmallows 80 cents; dressmaker sl2; charity 1 cent; pair of shoes $4; hair-oil 5 cents; chewing gum 211 cents. The initials W. # C. T. U. was on the book. It is said that the only woman in America that don’t get mad and kick up a fuss with her husband is the Goddess of Liberty on the dome of the National Capitol at Wash ington. Her and Uncle Sam appear to get along well together.

Its a mighty poor silver dollar that don’t make you want more. Many a man has ruined his business by trying to tell people what they want to buy. Ten or twelve inch sewers for some of the private crossings along Main street would not be a bad thing even if the town did have to furnish them. The nine lives of a cat are as nothing compared to the vitality of some people’s imagination. People who cast their bread on the water nowadays can go over on the ice in a little while after and gather it up. “Justice to order” can be had in Goodland if you’ve only got the price. Our public schools all shut down Monday except Mr. Fagin’s room. This appears to meet with universal approval by most of our people, as Mr. Fagin’s room seems to be the onlv'one that is making any progress. Too much novel reading, story telling and other unnecessary exercises seems to be all the teachers in the lower grades are thinking of. The item of fuel is immense, it is true, when it is known that there has been nearly seventy ton of coal consumed this winter. Jack the Ripper.