People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

GOODLAND. Eggs 12|c. Corn 35@36c. Oats 27@30c. Butter 18@20c. Fred Gilman was in Chicago Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ot Clark, of Rensselaer, were the guests of Dr. Lovett and wife Sunday. Ben Hines is now master of the mush stick and dish cloth because Mrs. H. and Dolly are visiting at Attica for a week past. Ben says he can ride a freight car lots better than he can make his own mush.

Mr. W. A. Harrington, who has been dangerously ill, w T as in town two or three days last week shaking hands with his many friends. The town board could confer a great favor on at least a few people in the south part of town by putting in another lamp or two. Will they do it? We would like to call the attention of the town board and also the school board to the fact that they have no right to contract for any job of work, bid off any contract for another or be connected, directly or indirectly, in any work for pay or reward. We refer to the letting of the contract for the janitor work at the school house for the next year. It is far better the town board and school board both go a little slow in this matter. Miss Haskell, of Fowler, visited the Misses Harper over Sunday. Mr. Jas. Cones, a former resident of this place, but now of Indianapolis, was the guest of his brother-in-law, Wm. Banes, Saturday and Sunday.

Some twelve or fifteen of our bicycle sports made a flying trip to Remington, Fowler and back to Goodland. We are unable to say just what time they made it in but we know that Tom Hartley and his new SIBO wheel came out ahead. Attorney Ira Yeoman and boys, of Remington, drove over to Goodlaud Sunday and shook the hands of many old friends. We are sorry to announce that Mr. A. Williams, whom we mentioned some time ago as having accidentally shot himself, has gone to Indianapolis for an operation. Drs. Lovett and Collnar made a thorough examination last Sunday and decided that to be the only alternative.

The 5:45 a. m. train over the C. & I. C., and making close connection with the vestibule at Momence for Chicago has been taken off. For meanness the C. & I. C. and C. & E. I. are equal to any road in the state. Now it only behooves the people of this section to make it a point to take some other road to Chicago. The Pan Handle and Monon afford good accommodations and their trains arrive at Chicago two or three hours earlier. Let us all go over the Pan Handle and Monon. Mr. George Sapp had a shoulder badly fractured while in the bicycle race last Sunday from Goodland to Fowler via Remington.

The residence of V. B. Jenks has received a new coat of paint. Some of Goodland’s best business men are talking of forming a joint stock company and building a line ground floor opera house. There seems to be but little trouble for church going people to patronize a musical entertainment in this place if the proceeds are all to be dumped into the church treasury, but if it is to pay for an organ or piano or some other charitable . institution, the church members as a mass stay away. Davis, the fad failure, has gone to Marion, Ind., and has engaged in the real estate business. The last heavy rains stopped our farmers frora planting corn until the fore part of this week. The pension .examining board at Fowler, has been reorganized, and Dr. W. H. Gray, of Wadena, has been appointed as the Republican member. Jack the Ripper.