People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lm*l Market Report. Turkeys, 9@loc. Chickens, Bc. Eggs, 14. Wheat. 55c. Oats. 27@29c. Rye, 37c. Hay, ss@s7. Osrn, 35c. Butter, 20c. Creamery butter, 28c. Hides 24@3£.

H. L. Robertson, three miles east of here, moved to town Friday and the same evening his wife presented him with a 11pound daughter. This may be an inducement for some more of our farmer friends to move to Rensselaer. For big bargains in town lots call at A. Leopold’s. He will sell you lots in his addition which are larger and better situated to the school house than any other you could select. Call soon and find out terms and prices.

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 largei- stock than formerly and in addition will carry a full line of clothing. The bill abolishing the printing of sample election ballots in newspapers has become a law and thousands of dollars will annually be saved to the tax payers of the state. By their exhorbitant charges last fall the newspapers have cut off a valuable persequite for themselves. It is said that the girls of Decatur are so modest that they actually blush at the sight of the “lower limbs” of the trees along the street, and South Bend has a girl so homely that when she appears on the street everything runs except the town clock. We publish this week two sides to the Goodland school controversy, as it is but just that each side should have their say. Hereafter controversies of this nature will be excluded from our columns, so please do not send them Nothing but hard feelings can result from their publi-

cation. I A cit mens’ association has benn formed at Goodland for the purpose of prosecuting investigations in relation to enterprises calculated to benefit the community if established. Seventy citizens have joined and contributed money for expenses. Why wouldn't a like association be a good thing for Rensselaer? Rensselaer has a man who buys cat hides. We wish Hammond had some one who would purchase dog hides. —Hammond News. For the information of the News we will say that the same party buys dog hides, also. If you have a surplus ship them down here. They sell for about fifty cents each.

The latest and most amusing money-making scheme for church socials is to regulate the price of the suppers by the number of pounds the lady- weighs, with whom you desire to eat. Drive her onto the scales and * pay a half cent a pound for her. That is, if she weighs an hundred pounds the supper costs you fifty-cents—and so on. Unless more working members 'join the Remington Fair association 710 more fairs will be held. This decision was arrived at at a meeting of association recently. The stuck is now held by a very few persons and -the work responsibility fall upon one or iwo members of tire associnjon, who will no longer shoulder all ilue work. A. McCoy had a narrow escape .from a watery grave at the river Tuesday. Himself, with a number of others, were watching the ice gorge, and in attempting to push a large cake of ice Mr. fell iu the water and but lor the assistance of friends wouid have went under the ice gorge. Friends pulled him out in a soaked condition, and another narrow escape was added to his