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

IROQUOIS DITCH.

Call in at Warner & Shead's and buy your groceries. All their goods are new and clean and show off to advantage in their well lighted room. Goods delivered free to any residence in town. The law allows postmasters to prohibit smoking in the post office lobby, but the postmasters who are anxious to serve the dear people, do not mention it. At Elkhart however, the postmaster draws the line on cigarette smoking, and the dudes are fired bodily. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of symrna rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you. R. FENDIG. It is not often the occasion is presented where an administrator is called for, but we wish to inform our patrons that in such

instances it is necessary to have notices of such published in a newspaper in Jasper county, and a great favor can be done us by having your attorney give the same to us. Have you seen that beautiful line of children’s suits, handsome jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. FENDIG. We have a large surplus of evergreens, maple, ash, catalpas, apple, pear, peach and a full line of small fruits. We will close out cheap. Parties wanting to set out anything in the above line will do well to give my agent a call. F. A. WOODIN, Nurseryman, Goodland, Ind. John Schanlaub, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind.

In speaking of the new dog law the LaFayette Courier says: "There will be a howl among owners of valuable canines when the full force of the new dog law becomes known." It makes it a misdemeanor, punishable with a $25 fine, to fail to register your dog with the assessor, paying for one male dog $1 and $3 for each additional male dog; and $3 for one female dog, and $10 for each additional female dog, and anybody is authorized to kill an unregistered dog at sight.

The Uniform Rank K. of P. had a public installation of officers at their hall Monday evening, Col. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville doing the installing. He also inspected the rankwhile here. During the evening the Pythian Sisters presented the order with a silk banner. The following are the officers installed: Erastus Peacock, captain; Chas. Hanley, 1st lieutenant; Joe Hammond, 2nd lieutenant; Harry Murray, recorder; N. W. Reeve, treasurer; O. A. Yeoman, sentinel; C. H. Vick, guard. Austin & CO., composed of W. B. Austin, A. H. Hopkins, and Geo. K. Hollingsworth will loan you money on personal, mortgage, or chattel security for long or short time at local bank rates. These loans can be paid back at any time, and are more desirable than bank loans because interest is rebated. We have unlimited capital and can accommodate everybody. 39-6t. The Longansport Chronicle contains the following, which applies to Valparaiso and Porter county admirably: We want a word to say to our Longansport societies. When you adopt resolutions of sympathy for friends bereaved, etc., after the “Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the village paper,'’ add, “And the treasurer is orded to pay the publisher one dollar to cover necessary expenses.” As a rule, publishers have no interest in obituary resolutions, but they are generally made to “foot the bill” for putting them in type and don’t even get thanked.— Valparaiso Sun. D. W. Shields pays his respects to Bro. Marshall in the last issue of the Democratic Sentinel in the following vigorous manner: “In several late issues of the Republican, Editor Marshall attacks me because of my personal appearance. I have no objection to his attacking my ability or my past record, which is public property, but when he ridicules my personal appearance he has reached the point where forbearance ceases to be a virtue. I am not responsible for my personal appearance, and owe no one an apology because my Creator did not form me asafter Editor Marshall’s ideal. No one not devoid of every instinct of a gentleman will hold up the personal appearance of any man to ridicule. Such a man is not fit to mingle in decent society, and deserves to be publicly cowhided for in no other way can the sensibilities of such parasites be reached.

Do your clothes need dying and cleaning? If so, take them to Ed Parcells, agent of Miller’s Steam Dye House, at Lafayette, and they will be returned to you as good as new.

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 larger stock than formerly and in addition will carry a full line of clothing.

Comrad Charles Platt is now engaged in taking contracts for house foundations and seems to be getting nearly all the work. His son Robert, who took his first lessons as a mason on the new school house, and one of the Norman boys, does the work. Rob went to work on the school house as assistant to the masons, but they soon saw that he was a natural mason and took pains to give him instructions and before the job was finished they let him take a hand at the most difficult work and upon the completion of the job pronounced him an expert mason and competent to handle any job. Before leaving they presented him with a set of tools and made him promise to follow that trade hereafter. An inspection of any of his work will show him to be an expert.

We have received a copy of an Aurora, Neb., paper, in which a notice of the death of Francis L. Lakin, son of Wm. M. Lakin, formerly of Jasper county, is announced. He died on March 2nd, at the age of 31 years, 1 month and 10 days. The deceased had taken a white swelling at the age of six years and had used crutches for twentyfive years; he was a great sufferer all the time. In his last hours he suffered all the pains that any mind could conceive or express. A few hours before he departed this life he said to his parents that he felt like singing; the mother told him to sing, and these are the words he sang: “There will be no sorrow there; in heaven above, where all is love, there will be no sorrow there.” The second song was "Home, Sweet Home.” He then said he would soon be at rest. Deceased was born in this county January 20, 1862.

Already our town is beginning to assume the metropolitan airs of a modern city. Recently the first free Sunday excursion of the Columbia Improvement Company was embraced by a party of the members of the Cimmarron Club. C. E. Mills had charge of the excursion. All the members of the club were ready to start at an early hour with the exception of J. E. Spitler, chairman of the committee on early rising. He had not yet arisen and was left behind. To say that the party was surprised at the wonderful transformation wrought through the benificent influence of this latest

enterprise is expressing it mildly. Alfreddie Phillips could easily remember when he had herded cows, right there on that beautiful spot, and Wm. Edgar Nye Fendig remembered the time when the only music that broke the solitude of a summer’s night was the melodious tra-la of the festive frog. Charlie Warner and Jim Chapman agreed that it was simply remarkable that Cymoreans could actually traverse the boulevards of this pretty suberb without the need of rubbers, and Bert Hopkins and Russ Parker were sure that the Cymoreans would make no mistake in securing a tract in this eden land for the erection of a club house (contemplated) some time in the mystic future. All agreed that Elm Street Boulevard when graded, paved and planted with trees, will be, by all odds, the finest long drive in the city. After listening to a few witty remarks by Peter Pindar Cox, the excursion was voted a brilliant success, and each member of the party promised himself to join in the very next pilgrimage that is made, especially on the days when barbecues are

given. Do yon own a horse? If so, is he healthy, does his feed do him the proper amount of good? Does his teeth need attention? Is he lame, sick or sore? If so it will pay you to call on a practical man. Examination free, charges reasonable, work guaranteed. T. H. GEER, D. V. S. FOR SALE OR TRADE—The celebrated stallion, Hoosier Joe. $125 in cash or good notes will buy him. Inquire of D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind. We will furnish the Nonconformist and the PILOT one whole year for $1.85. Subscribe now and get the Nonconformist’s criticisms of the present legislature. For a good smoke try the Safety cigar.

As attorney for the petitioners, I desire, before filing the report of the viewers locating the ditch, to give notice to all land owners that the main line and many of the laterals thereto are reported and that the matter of hearing the full report under the provisions of section 3, R. S. 1891, page 456, is set for hearing on Monday, April 10, 1893. Although the statute prescribes no notice as to the matter of fixing on the lines for the proposed improvement yet, by the kindness of the PILOT, I now state that the main line was reported on December 6, 1892, and twenty-eight laterals were reported March 7, 1893, subject to correction and that the completed report will be filed on or about April 3, 1893. Each petitioner and land owner interested in the improvement should do what he can to help secure a practical line for the improvement. That the matter may be fairly and publicly discussed I suggest that a public meeting of all interested be held on April 1, 1893, at 1 p. m. at the court house to consider the question. It is a public improvement and the land owners are respectfully invited to meet and discuss the question of location in a spirit of fairness, and do all that can

be done to help the viewers to reach a just conclusion on all material disputed points connected with the report to be presented to the commissioners on Monday, April 10, 1893. The county has already paid $742.17 in furtherance of the project, hence the matter is of no small moment to the petitioners and land owners, who will have to refund the same. FRANK FOLTZ, Counsel for Petitioners.