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

EGYPT.

Where is Charley Morris' monkey wrench. Will Iliff has turned cattle king and is off buying cattle. Hines Swarts, who was supposed to have strayed away, has returned. A goodly number of the young folks met at Charley Harris’ last Saturday evening and had a social dance. The literary at the Blake school house Tuesday night w r as a grand success. The following industries are in operation here: John L. Bicknell and Enos M. Timmons, blacksmith and repair shop; D. V. Garrison, harness maker. Nearly every able-bodied man in this vicinity was out looking for the robber last week, but were unsuccessful. Ed Phegley, while visiting in the southern part of the state purchased a large dog before returning home, which he will be glad to show to his friends. The most remarkable man in Jordan is a bachelor over one hundred years old and as spry as a young man of forty-five. The man, Wilson, who robbed E. M. Timmons, was employed as a farm hand by E. W. Morris for awhile, who being something of a monied man and also a student of character, knew the moment he saw Wilson that he could not be trusted. Mr. Morris told him never to enter his sitting room night or day without first speaking to him or he would be a dead man. Mr. Morris had a hundred and fifty dollars that he bad not deposited in the bank; money he car-