People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Amanda J. Wolfe has brought suit against her husband, John Wolfe for divorce. The plaintiff alleges cruel and inhuman treatment and asks for the custody of eight out of their nine children, S2OO each for their maintainance, and $2,500 alimony. The children’s ages range from 2to 16 years. The oldest one, a boy, is to go to the father. They were married in 1875 and have lived together until the present year. Their home is in Milroy township. Our ministers are warned that a man and woman are going over the state working an old swindling scheme. They strike a town, secure a preacher who is requested to perform the ceremony. After the minister has performed his duty, the stranger hands him a S2O bill, telling him to take his pay out of it. The newly married man gets his change and skips out, after which the preacher learns that he has changed a counterfeit S2O bill. During the campaign, a New York newspaper offered $5 a week for life to the person guessing the nearest to the popular vote that Grover Cleveland would receive in that State. Miss Emma Walker, ofElizabeth, N. J., age 14. guessed 554,907, just one short of the actual vote, and has been awarded the prize. If she lives fifty years longer, which is not unlikely, she will have received $13,000. She claims that the figures were suggested to her in a dream. When the editof makes a mistake in his paper all the world sees it and calls him a liar. When a private citizen makes a mistake nobody knows it except a few friends, and they come around and ask the editor to keep it out of the paper. When the private citizen dies, the editor is asked to write of all his good qualities and leave out the bad. When the editor dies the private citizen says: “Now that liar will get his deserts.” The other day a citizen said: “You ought not to print accounts of horse races on the streets, etc., here. It is not conducive to “good morals.” He seemed to labor under the delusion tliat the newspapers are the custodians of the public morals. We take the news as we find it, and present pictures without veneer of life in New Castle and elsewhere in Henry county. The authorities are supposed to attend to the morals. And,-then, there are the preachers:—New Castle Democrat. /

Somebody has set everybody to laughing over a discovery in relation to the new Columbian stamps. On the one cent issue Columbus is portrayed as looking out upon the new world he has discovered. His face is represented to be as clean as if he had just emerged from the barber’s chair. In the two cent stamps Christopher is in the act of taking possession of the land in the name of the king of Spain and, although the length of one day is supposed to have elapsed, his face is covered with a luxuriant growth of beard. The Valentine and Box Social ; held at the. Guest school house, j in Jordan township, was in evI cry way a success. The audience was entertained throughout | the evening by the best of music, both vocal and instrumental. The valentines were disposed of by keeping post office. These were sold the first thing in the evening, and then deposited in the mail box. after which the boxes were sold at 25 cents apiece. After supper was served the valentines were distributed, no one in the house being forgotten. The total amount cleared was about $9.50, which will be invested in library books. The success of this social is owing to the kind aid given the teacher by the patrons and pupils of the district.