People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

I think we are having too much silence in the northeast corner. The traveling men call this the bull grass region, but they say the wheat and oats look better than any within a hundred miles of here. Everybody returned to work to-day after last week’s snow. The Pumpkin Rollers met the other night and gave what they called a farewell entertainment, but it was moldy with old stale chesnuts which were old enough to wear whiskers, and surely were of a great age when Noah went into the ark, but some of the Pumpkin Rollers say it was splendid. A. few weeks ago we had a protracted meeting here, but the people did not take much inter-

est in it. They seemed to think they had a sure thing of heaven, any how. Last Tuesday evening a man called O’Conner gave us a temperance lecture. If he had been a reformed howler from Bitter Creek and given us some actual facts from actual experience instead of his sentimental theories, he would not have made the audience quite so tired. The people in this locality are strictly temperate and never think of drinking until they hear some one lecture on temperance. The most interesting feature of our Pumpkin Rolling entertainment the other night was the banner which an outsider undertook to carry on a stick. They said it did not look enough like a pumpkin but it was recognized and proved to make some of them angry because an outsider had it in his possession. Whoopee.