People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J. W. Horton’s new house is well under way. The north and south bound passenger trains Sunday failed to pass through Rensselaer, owing to a freight wreck at Cedar Lake. The last Linen sale it rained all day and many customers have requested us to have it over, so come next Wednesday, May 24. Chicago Bargain Store. The town marshal has now been given the power of arresting disorderly persons, a power which should have been conferred on that officer long ago. Are you going to the World’s Fair? If so, you should procure one of our nobby spring suits. The latest styles and colors. R. Fendig. Michael Snyder and wife, of Columbus, Ohio, stopped off in Rensselaer this week to look after their property interests. They were on their way to the World’s Fair.

W. A. Huff: “Well. I was never so surprised in my life. A ten pound boy arrived at our house last Thursday—nearly as big as its daddy., A boy, remember, and the others are all girls. Fact is, you can’t tell what a day will bring forth. I am getting along nicely, however.” “Girl About Town” in Fowier Leader: “Rensselaer, I see by the People’s Pilot, is about to get a bicycle factory. I presume the pneumatic tire will be made extra large so that the natives can use them in the pursuit of “musk rats,” on both land and sea. If this is done the factory will fill a long felt want.” County Superintendent Warren has just received 100 copies of township maps of the county. They are right up to date and were made on a special order for Mr. Warren. J. H. S. Ellis drew the original copy from which the plates were made. Burford, of Indianapolis, did the printing and engraving. Anyone wishing a copy will be furnished, while they last, at one dollar each. We still have a few more delinquent's on our Fist that we would like to have call and pay what they owe us. We need our money badly and arfe not trying to run the paper just for the fun of the thing. We believe we are now giving the people the best local paper in the county, and hope that they will try and help us by sending in the small price we ask for the paper.

A suit which, if it comes to trial, will till the front rows full of bald heads, has just begun in the Circuit Court. Margaret Gray, of Jordan township, has brought suit against John W. Sage, of the same township, for 810,000 for alleged utterances made by the latter asrainst the plaintiff. The alleged utterances which can not be published in a family newspaper like the Pilot, were made March 15,1893, and accused Miss Gray of unchastity toward Huffman Keen, a married man of that vicinity. The case will probably be compromised before coming to trial. Recently a little group of farmers were chatting on the subject of their local papers. One expressed the opinion that it had too many advertisements in it. Another said: “In my ©pinion the advertisements are far from being the least part of it. I look them over carefully every week and save at least five times the cost of my paper every year through the business advantages that I get from them.” Another said: “I know they pay me well, and don’t think it good policy to find fault with the amount of space taken by advertisers. ” Frank O’Brien, better known as “Gumption Cute„” was found back of Huff’s jewelry store Tuesday evening. He had just awakened from a drunken sleep, and when discovered his face was painted with shoe blacking in imitation of a Zulu from the wilds of Africa. He was the occasion of considerable mirth and had a procession of school child-

The best of workmanship and fabrics combined with style and make up has been our aim in selecting a spring and summer line of clothing. Call in and inspect. R. Fendig. Mrs. J. F. Warren, of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Frank Wolfe, of Remington, attended, as delegates. the convention of the Daughters of Rebecca at Indianapolis this week. 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. Mrs. Healey and daughter Maude left Monday for a visit in White and Carroll counties. After a short visit there they will leave for their future home in Sedalia, Mo. A conductor on an Ohio railroad took in a ticket 37 years old the other day. It was bought by*a man in 1856, and hadn’t had occasion to go over the same road again until now.

Lottie Mair, of Berwick, Pa., is a victim of the lie that by collecting 1,000.000 cancelled stamps one ean get <SOO. She gathered the required number in about three years’ time, after having made herself a nuisance to every body about her. When she failed to find the purchaser with the 8500 she grew melancholy and it is feared that she will lose her mind.—Columbus Dispatch. It seems that Mr. John L. Sullivan has been distinguishing himself again just as he has done so many times before. His victim this time was a one-armed man whom he attacked with great fearlessness and valorously overcame. It is feared Mr. Sullivan has wholly forgotten the little lesson he received at New Orleans a few months ago. He was arrested and placed in jail for his assault. A Valparaiso visitor to the World’s Fair, in discussing the extortionate prices of the restaurants there, told an amusing incident. Next him at the table sat an Englishman rather roughly dressed, who was charged 81.65 for a meal that would have been dear at half a dollar. He eyed the cashier who gave him the check, for a moment, and then ejaculated, “Guess again, ye bloomin’ robber. I’ve got more than that.”—Valparaiso Star.

ren following him down the street. Finally the town marshall discovered him and attempted to take him to jail. “Gumption” resisted and declared he would not go, but when nearing the jail, he began begging and promised to go home if released. Consequently he was led across the river and started cn his way to the country, but his best friend, the whiskey bottle, had been lost in the scuffle, and great was his grief thereof. “Gumption” is an inoffensive fellow, but whiskey gets the best of him whenever he comes to town. Those guilty of selling him liquor should be prosecuted, and the ones who painted him should be treated to a dose of the same kind of medicine. John Sunblad, a German living in the north part of the county, was in town last Saturday and related a curious experience which his son Jim had with a snake. Jim was out in the field when he discovered an enormous snake, fully six feet long, which in the west is called a red racer. It is similar to the blue racer, of this part of the country, except that it is a deep red in color. It is harmless, so far as man is concerned, and has no poison in its fangs. Jim had no use for snakes and quickly dispatched this one with a large club. Resting from his exertions, Jim observed some peculiarities in the reptile. It was big in places, and even though the snake seemed to be dead the big places continued to move and agitate. Bound to discover the cause Jim picked up a hoe which was laying near and cut the snake in two. Then Jim was astonished, for from the racer’s body there crawled a live and active rattlesnake, about two feet long. The rattler was then killed and the buttons, which numbered three, were cut from its tail, and Mr. Sunblad exhibited them when in town as evidence that he was telling the truth. Authorities on snakes explain that the red racer, like the blue racer is of the boa constrictor variety. Its habit is to strangle its prey within its powerful folds and then swallow it. In this manner the racer destroys rattlesnakes, and for this reason is very useful. Mr. Sunblad gave instructions to every one on the place to abstain from killing any more of the snakes as they would come in useful in ridding the farm of that dangerous reptile, of which many are to be found in that vicinity. We were inclined to believe that son Jim had been indulging in some of Grover Smith’s whiskey, as he lives in Grover’s vicinity, until the old gentleman assured us that strong drink is never used in his family. Try the Pilot a year for 11.

The auditor of state has issued a letter to county treasurers stating that those who are operating under the new fee and salary law have no right to charge a fee for collecting current or delinquent tax. We are not joking this time. The firemen have swept out their engine house and cleaned up their fire apparatus until it shines. Bully for the boys. Keep it this way and the citizens will not have a word of censure for you. The annual district convention of the Christian Endeavor Society will be held in Rensselaer Tuesday and Wednesday June 6th and 7th. -Delegates will be present from Porter, Lake, Newton, Jasper and Starke counties.

A little item in a newspaper may sometimes make a man an enemy for life, but it won’t stop him from reading it. It merely changes him from a subscriber to a borrower. Every publisher can recall the names of citizens who come under this head. A society to inform the wives of traveling men who flirt and associate with girls when away from home has been organized by the young ladies of Danville, Ind. There is a good opening for a similar organization in Rensselaer. Sheriff Hanley and Mrs. Frank Hanley visited the World’s Fair this week. They started Sunday, but were compelled to lay at Cedar Lake all day and were brought back to Rensselaer on the milk train. They took another start Monday. Jim Blake recently lost a pair of No. 8 shoes and three pairs of socks between Rensselaer and Alter’s mill. He says as it is not warm enough yet to go barefooted, he will be under everlasting obligations if the finder will leave the articles at the Pilot office. Chas. Kleist, the Monon agent at Reynolds, is taking the place of Agent Gwin at the Rensselaer depot this week. Mr. Gwin has sickness in his family at Monticello and has gone home. Later: Since writing the above the “sickness in his family” has resulted in an eight pound boy.

Alfred Thompson has also been appointed a member of the Advisory Council of the World’s Congress Auxiliary on farm culture and cerial industry and also a member of the World’s Agriculture Congress, which will convene in Chicago the week commencing Monday, October 16th. Any farmer from Jasper county wishing to attend said Congress can have a letter of introduction to the .Hon. Samuel Allerton, chairman, by calling upon Mr. Thompson or any of the other members in Jasper county. Three young fellows from Atlanta, Ga., stopped in town a short time Monday afternoon, en route for Chicago, via the bicycle route. One of them represented the Keating Wheel Company, while the other two were newspaper men, reporters of * the Atlanta Constitution and Atlanta Journal (Hoke Smith’s paper). They had been informed that they would find a desert in Jasper county that resembled the great Sahara, and wanted to know how they could avoid it. Some one had given them the idea that Northern Indiana was nothing but a howling wilderness. They left here for Fowler, where they will take the C. &I. C. track north to Crete and expect to -arrive in the World’s Fair city Tuesday evening.— Oxford Tribune.

Hemphill Si Honan at? selling out*? quit business, Now is the time to get bargains for cash.