People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — MONON TIME TABLE. [ARTICLE]

MONON TIME TABLE.

J. G. Reynolds has returned to Rensselaer. styles of carpets at Williams’. See those handsome set rings at Clarke’s. Leroy Sayers lost his old gray mare by death last Sunday. Eight foot pillar tables for $6 at Williams’. Call on Clarke when you want anything in the jewelry line. Geo. V. Moss, of Hebron, spent Sunday with his mother. Carpets sewed at Williams’ for 3 cents per yarjl. Subsciptions taken for any- paper or magazine at this office. Call in and have your name enrolled on our roll of honor. See that line of hats for 25 cents at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Go to Hemphill’s blacksmith shop for your work. 41-4 t. Miss Belle Hughey is very sick with the eresipelas. Sale days for rugs during opening at Mrs. Lecklider’s Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Advertised letters: Mr. Edward Davis, Mr. Albert Ross. An elegant line of wraps. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. J. W. Nelson, of Hammond, is visiting in Rensselaer. Frank Minikus is building a residence in Leopold’s addition. m Sale days are interesting days at the Chicago Bargain Store. Jim Hemphill will leave tomorrow for Wisconsin. The only place for genuine bargains in carpets. Chicago Bargain Store.

A daughter at Barney Comers, in Union township, last Friday. A daughter was born to A. W. Cole and wife Wednesday evening. Sexton Platt is doing some good work in cleaning up Weston cemetery. You should try some of Busbey’s sugar cured ham or corned beef. It is excellent. Mrs. Geo. Gauthier has returned from several days visit at Kentland. Rensselaer needs a thorough cleaning this spring, and now is the time to begin. Don’t forget that Clarke has moved into Eiglesbach’s old stand. A son made his appearance at the home of John Hodshire and wife Sunday. Earl Reynolds and Walter Willey were down from Chicago Sunday. The machinery at each of the new mills is being placed in position this week.

Rev. Utz will hold services at the Tabernacle next Sunday, moiming and evening. An Esquimau baby died at the World’s Fair grounds of the measles Tuesday. Elder Connor will hold services at the Church of God next Sunday, morning and evening. Mrs. Frank Foltz has gone to Honey Grove, Texas, called there by the sickness of an aunt. You cannot afford to buy carpets from sample tvhen you can buy from bolt at the Chicago Bargain Store. A. Leopold has opened out Cedar and Pine streets, in his addition, east to the, Bedford road. You can save 25 per cent, on shoes commencing next Monday morning, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store. A few shares of the Rensselaer building and loan stock for sale cheap. Inquire of Geo. K. Hollingsworth. Wm. N. Jones and son, Henry, will leave Monday for Englewood, to take charge of their lodging rooms. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. We always have what we advertise and if we fooled you once you would not come again. - Chicago Bargain Store. Geo. Gephart, a blacksmith of Monticello, was in Rensselaer this week. He will probably start a shop here. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash.

Unheard of bargains in shoes beginning next Monday, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store. Where can I find a house to rent? is a question often asked now-a-days. This is proof that we need more houses. Millinery opening at Mrs. Lecklider’s, May 3,4, 5 and 6. All the latest summer styles. Call and ’see goods. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. Notice M. L. Hemphill’s, the blacksmith, new ad in this issue. He guarantees satisfaction in all work. 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.

Frank O’Mera went to Chicago Monday to resume his position as engineer on the steamer. Wm. Rollar. Every piece of 70 dozen muslin underwear at cost, sale day only, Wednesday, April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store. The heavy wind Wednesday night blew the wheel of the wind pump to pieces at the court house. Hemphill & Honan are selling out as fast as possible, going to quit business. Now is the time to secure bargains for cash. The machinery for Frank Osborne’s planing mill has begun to arrive and the plant will be in running order in a few days. Tom Geer and wife again occupy rooms at the Makeever House. The house vacated by them is now occupied by Andy Minikus. The undersigned will sell all her household and kitchen furniture at. private sale cheap for cash. Mrs. Peter Giver. We bougnt an immense lot of muslin and underwear cheap. Your choice at what we paid for them, Wednesday, April 26th.

Chicago Bargain Store. Keep your eye on this newspaper, and see which of the merchants want your custom and are sufficiently courteous to invite you to call. Women and children’s skirts, drawersi, chemises, night dresses and corsets covers at cost, Wednesday, April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store. Warner & Shead have added a delivery wagon to their grocery and will deliver goods to any place in town free. Give them a call. One item worthy of mention is the thorough cleaning up of the court hoase yard by Sheriff Hanley’s corps of assistants this week. Low prices is the reason loads of carpets, boots, shoes, clothing, dry goods, etc., are carried away every day from the Chicago Bargain Store. Why is it that people always move in the spring? asks a subscriber. The .only explanation handy is that even the trees leave then.

An elegant line of Ludlow’s fine patent leather and Dongola kid shoes for ladies and misses just received at the Chicago Bargain Store. A Kansas postmaster wants his daughter to sell stamps at the World’s Fair. One qualification he mentions is that she weighs 300 pounds. An opportunity you may never have again to buy muslin and underwear so cheap sale day, .Wednesday, April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store. Marriage licenses: Wm. J. Piatt, Laura Price; Albert Dunn, Jennie Nearhoff; Daniel E. Jones, Amanda E. Green; Wiley N. Carmack, Agnes M. Lindsey. Notice we lead, others follow. Who will be the first competitor to copy after the sale days every Wednesday. CmcAGt) Bargain Store. The original drafts of the constitution and declaration of independence will not be taken to the World’s Fair. Secretary Gresham thinks the risk too great. The lots in the Columbia addition are being sold rapidly. Thirteen lots were sold last Saturday and three on Monday. Tuesday the company received 235 fine maple trees, which have already been set out. They will add much to the appearance of the addition.

Tree-lined streets beautify a town nothing else can and are the cheapest and most permanent adornment that can be procured. We should lino every street with trees. 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. The salaries paid to persons in the civil service of the United States amount to $90,000,000 annually. This amount pays the wages of 180,000 persons. The average is $500 a year. $2,600 worth of shoes received this week. All of Miller’s factory samples at wholesale prices, commencing next Monday morning, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store. N. F. Arnold, of Barkley township, concluded lie could not do without the news any longer, so. he dropped in last Saturday and left a dollar for a year’s subscription to the Pilot. Clean up! The warm weather is coming upon us with a rush and will be upon us in a very short time. Backyards, alleys, areas and out-houses ought to be thoroughly overhauled at once. A boys’ brigade has been formed with twenty-eight members in Rensselaer, under the auspices of the Christian church. Besides church work, the members meet once a week for military drill. 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 marriage of Salen M. Long and Malinda T. Maddox, of Gillam township, took place at the residence of G. E. Hershman, in Rensselaer, Wednesday afternoon of last week, Rev. Utz officiating. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the undersigned are requested to call on or before May Ist and settle. After that date accounts will be left with a collector. 2t A. Simpson & Son.

All newspaper men are familiar with the man who “gets more papers than he can read now,” therefore has no use for his local paper and wants to stop it. No weight is given to his assertion. Dr. I. B. Washburn, the optician, handles the celebrated Trolley’s Kohinoor eye glasses, the best made. Attention is called to the ad, “See Again as in Youth,” in another place in this paper. Do you w r ant to see Rensselaer grow? Do you want to have the value of your property increased?* Do you want to promote the happiness of yourself and friends? If you do, then talk improvement.

Williams has a full line of goods at his store and can please you all in prices and styles.

Semie Fendig went to Chicago Wednesday. He will either accept a position which has been offered him in a pharmacy there, or make arrangements to go into the laundry business at Rensselaer. Here is a pertinent question which has been asked by an exchange: “Does the Lord love a man who spends • at a church festival the money he owes to his wash woman —or who owes a year’s subscription?”

Jasper county’s Republican commissioners decided the People’s Pilot is not a “newspaper” in the acceptance of the legal term. It is not Republican, you know, and that accounts for the decision.—Hammond News. 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. Jack the Hugger” in Remington Press: We see that “Jack the Ripper” still rips’ through the Rensselaer Pilot. There is unquestionably some truth in Jack’s assertions, but then the truth should not be told at all times. Wm. N. Jones and five sons had a sort of family re-union last Friday, by taking dinner together at the Nowels House. The party consisted of himself and sons Bert, of Belwood, Neb.', Henry, John and Ralph and step son, Charley Chamberlain. The remains of the first wife of George Wilcox, which were buried in the Prichard grave yard, near Alter’s mill seven or eight years ago, were taken up Tuesday, and re-interred by the side of his second wife in the Westomcemetery at Rensselaer. ,The anniversary of the Odd Fellows occurs next Sunday. Rev. W. A. Hennegar, of Francesville, will hold services in commemoration of the anniversary at the M. E. church at 2:30 next Sunday. The Odd Fellows and Sisters of Rebecca will attend in a body.

The Indiana supreme court has decided that railroad companies may require passengers to buy tickets before taking' passage upon trains in case facilities for so purchasing tickets are provided, and may require those not .purchasing tickets to pay extra fare upon the train. It is said that Mr. W. A. Mossier and family will shortly move to Thorn town, lud., where Mr. Mossler’s father, is conducting a large merehantile business. The store here will be run in the of A. Leopold, and will probably bo conducted by Simon and Louie Leopold.—Remington Press.

The Pilot, Rensselaer, is f ully up. to the requirements and demands of a live local paper. It has enforced recognition by the court, and held up the county commissioners in very bad light before the community. Know ing they were right they enlivened matters accordingly.— American Nonconformist. A. Leopold is thinking strongly of building a blacksmith shop and a steam laundry building on his lots on the southeast corner of Harrison and Van Rensselaer streets. If his plans are consummated the laundry will be run by his son Louie and Semie Fendig and the blacksmith shop by a man from Monticello. A Winamac woman, well known locally for her church and charitable work, rushed into the telegraph office the other day, and after explaining that her husband had hurried off to Cincinnati, forgetting to take with him a memorandum for new Sunday school motto, the buying of which was a part of his errand in the city, wrote for transmission to him the following dispatch: “John R., Palace Hotel, Cincinnati; Unto us a child is born, four feet long and three feet wide. Mary.”— Starke County Democrat.

Newspaper editing is funny sometimes. If you give a man a puff he never sees it; but if one liue against him appears he sees it before the edition is off the press; and while he would not have time to stop on the street and say “thank you” he has time to run all over town to denounce the editor who seeks to print nows. A temporary lecture organzation was effected at the meeting at the M. E. church last Friday evening. Prof. Bohannon was elected temporary chairman and Prof. Wise temporary secretary. A mass meeting will be held at the court house this evening to effect a permanent organization. S. P. Thompson and others will address the meeting. All citizens are invited to be present. F. A. Woodin, the Goodland nurseryman, made a large delivery of nursery stock in Rensselaer Tuesday. The stock was all in tine condition and was sold at a much lower price than at tho majority of nurseries. They furnished tho 235 maples for the Columbia addition. Tho£e of our readers who are not supplied with trees should give his agent, John Schanlaub, an order for fall delivery. The Fowler Leader, John P. Carr’s new paper, made its apdearance last week. It is an eight column folio, all homo print, and typographically and otherwise, is a great improvement over the other Fowler papers. It is Republican in politics. John takes his “Girl About Town,” which was a feature of the Oxford Tribune undor his editorship, with him. We wish the new paper success. An exchange says: “In Denmark all drunken men are sent home in carriages at the expense of the man who sold tho tippler his last drink. This tends to make the liquor sellers more careful not to sell to men who already have all they can stand up under, and it generally serves the purpose better than to put the inebriate in the lockup, and perhaps take all his money to pay his fine, while the family suffers.” A Savannah drummer says a drummer who had had a great many dealings with tho Macon lawyers wont out recently to Rosehill cemetery and amused himself reading the inscriptions on the tombstones. He finally came across one that read, “Heye lies a lawyer and an honest man.” Turning to his friend, he said: “Bill, what made them bury those two fellows in the same grave?—Atlanta Journal.

A. McCoy & Co.’s bank is prepared to make five year loans on farms at rates positively as low, and on as favorable terms as can be obtained in town* giving the privilege of partial payments at any time, and stopping the interest on the amount paid. We are also prepared to make loans on personal security on shorter time at reasonable rates. If you are in need of a loan, give us a call. 43-4 t A Terre Haute jury has rendered a verdict for *2,000 damages against a liquor dealer in a case that will attract general attention throaghout the state. Mrs. Catherine Kendall, of Sullivan county, sued Edward Wall’s bondsmen for damages, because her husband had met his death after leaving Wall’s saloon in an intoxicated condition. He was killed by his horses running away. The widow asked for *2,000. The case was venued from Sullivan county to Vigo county, and occupied several days in trial.