People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

Upon :he arrival of the Pilot there -a as an unsuccessful search for Duniiville items. I see that if Duunviile is “in it” I must do the writing. Dud; shooting is good, it being no unusual thing toseeseven or eight men coming in with one miserable poor little duck. Tommy Jones got a duck the other day he did not shoot at. He shot out of his boat and what he hit was the bottom of the Kankakee river. He did not stay any longer than he could help. He says the water is very w r et for this time of the year, but it w T asn’t very funny, for Tommy came near drowning. Frank Ketchmark is the proud father of a 15-pound boy. Frank is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances.

The Free Methodists and the M. E.’s held a union quarterly meeting last Saturday and Sunday at the Dunnville church. The singing was splendid. The Rev. George Veach is holding a protracted meeting here. He will no doubt reap an abundant harvest for there are a few sinners around here yet. The Pumpkin Rollers society met last Tuesday evening. The program was very entertaining. The question was, “Resolved, that more corn grows in crooked rows than in straight ones.” Firnn as usual was inthe negative. It was also amusing to see the man with a club trying to keep the members from spitting tobacco on the floor.

Our station agent, Monk Anderson, is taking a visit. Sam Gillespie is doing the work while he is gone. The people of this vicinity are very proud of the new school house and the progress the children are making in their studies. The farmers are getting ready to plow for oats. The spring birds are all here, but the summer birds had better bring their overcoats. The roads are getting good again, and if it don’t rain it will soon be good wheeling again. Our friend Hans Nelson is in the height of his glory now. He is making from $5 to $lO per day handling frog legs. He shipped 500 dozen the other morning. I. D. Dunn is running his saw mill in full force now cutting from 10,000 to 18,000 feet per day. He has the reputation of cutting the nicest lumber ever cut in the country. Whoopee.