People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Three divorces in two days is thp, record in the Jasper circuit court this week: Philip Balsam from his wife, Margaret; Robert Swaim from his wife, Maria, and Cyrus Ball from his wife, Anna V.

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.

W. D. Owen has resigned as immigrant commissioner and returned to Logansport. He has bought the right to manufacture a new artificial gas, and holds the territories of lowa and Nebraska.

We venture the assertion that no newspaper in the district is having as rapid an increase in its subscription list as has the PILOT. New names are coming in daily. Six new names went on our list last Saturday. A company is being formed to purchase a number of acres of land north of the Columbia addition, just across the railroad. It will be laid off in town lots and will be a continuation of the Columbia addition. Katharine Davis Mc Carter is the name of a 6-pound daughter, born to Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Wm. Carter, at Topeka, Kansas. March 16th. Mrs. Carter was formerly Miss Margaret Hill, principal of the Rensselaer high school.

Geo. Strickfaden is at the West Baden springs taking treatment and is improving in health rapidly. The following parties are expecting to go to the springs next week: R. P. Phillips, G. E. Murray, John Callow, Mr. Brown and C. C. Sigler and wife. The first run of the new foundry was made Tuesday afternoon. About one and one-half tons of castings of various sizes were made. A large number of citizens were present and saw the first molten iron ever run off in Rensselaer, and for many of the spectators this was their first sight of a foundry. The foundry is larger than the subscribers were led to expect, and will be of much benefit to the town and surrounding country.