People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — GILLAM. [ARTICLE]

GILLAM.

Gillam is prospering. Gillam is still alive and booming. Chas. Odom has completed his store and has brought on a fine stock of goods. Supt. J. F. Warren visited our schools last week. Twenty-one applicants for graduation took the examination Saturday. We hope to have some graduates in Gillam this year. Mr. D. B. Coppess, of Tipton, Ind., is visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity. Miss Lizzie Faris is teaching the DeMotte school, Mr. Bruce having resigned. Mrs. N. Harris was called to the bedside of her daughter, who is very sick at her home in Chicago.

Jas. Overton, of Hanging Grove, is moving on James Cooper’s place this week, in the nothern part of the township. Mr. Alf McJimsey has rented his farm to Warren Swisher and will move to Medaryville soon. There will be six months of school in Gillam this year. Mr. Robert Manan, Miss Mollie Faris and Miss Florence Robinson will attend school at Valparaiso as soon as their schools close. Rev. Street, the Christian minister, from Ohio, occupies the house vacated by Mr. Hutchings. Mr. John Mason and family, from Greencastle, have moved back to their farm in Gillam. Mr. Nathan Harris will move to Medaryville soon, where he will be engaged in the hardware business. A rushing business is being done at Georgetown, the new town in the northern part of Gillam. RUGGINS.