People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — SURREY. [ARTICLE]

SURREY.

Corn planting in full blast. Majority will be through this week, if good weather continues. A few fair patches of wheat. Oats fine. Meadows promising. A drove of 700 sheep belonging to A. McCoy and Porter passed through Surrey Saturday, for Fair Oaks to graze on daisies and Johnny-jump-ups on the sand knobs. Jas. Kenton, while oiling his wind-pump, had two fingers crushed in the machinery. Mrs. Newton Shaft and household goods left for Michigan Wednesday. Mr. Shaft will follow soon. Joseph Rowen and C. A. Hopkins have lately purchased very fine organs. The Sorghum Valley Prohibition Club will give an entertainment at Rose Bud school house on Saturday evening, June 3rd. Free and everybody cordially invited. • There seems to be some objection to giving Grover Smith of Wheatfield a license *to sell liquor. By all means give him license, as the saloon business tends to elevate society, and bring happiness to the family, and to promote the general welfare. Give him license and if he goes contrary to law, fine him two cents and costs. The revenue we get out of it will make it all right, don’t you see?

For big bargains in town lots call at A. Leopold’s. He will sell yeu 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.