People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

QOODLAND. Good land won’t celebrate this year. Mr. Nichols, of Mt. Ayr, was in town Saturday. Rev. Jenkins took in the sights at the World’s Fair Sunday. Judge Wiley was in town Decoration day. Mr. Haskell, of Mt. Ayr, has been in town for a number of days. W. A. Bringham was at Lafayette the latter part of the week. - Elmer Burgess is in the white city this week. Ben Hines, now conductor on the C. & I. C., LaCrosse division, for Mr. Thomas, is taking a few days’ rest. James Pittigan and Ed. Stumbaugh were at Monon a few days ago. Mr. Chas. Weeks, of Brazil buried a little girl about two years old at this place last week.

Commissioners’ court convened at Kentland last Monday. It is said they have some very important business to transact. Imported strawberries that nestle in the fraudulent box at twenty cents a quart have about disappeared. If reports are true Prosecutor Brown will about have his hands full at the next meeting of the grand jury in September. A Mr. Bottenburry, of Wadena, and Miss Emma Mitten, of this place, were married a few evenings ago at the bride’s residence by Rev. Matthews. Kentland will celebrate this year in fine shape, so they say, and of course most of our people will attend. Burdette, of the Burlington Hawkeye, will lecture at the Baptist church about June 15th. As usual the admission fee is about as much again as it should be for an entertainment of this kind.

The cost in the gravel street improvement cases in the circuit court has reached about SSOO. This is just right. If it could only be made $5,000 it would be better. Miss Stout, who has been staying with relatives at Lafayette for the past three months, returned home one day last week. Mr. Arich made a flying visit to Wolcott Friday. Mr. Farley, the traveling photographer, expects to leave Goodland some time the present week. A number of our business men are having their freight shipped around by Logansport over the Pan Handle. More should follow suit. Miss Etta Griffin, who has been down at Ambia working at the millinery trade, returned home the latter part of the week.

C. L. Jacobs, formerly agent for the Pan Handle, is now in the employ of the Wabash company at Delphi. Mr. Miller, formerly day operator on the C. &I. C. at this place, was in town Saturday. Did Peter Brook try to play sneak in order not to be present at the town board meeting last Monday night so as to throw the responsibility of the appointing a new member of the school board on some one else’s shoulders? It is in order now, Mr. Brook, for you to arise and explain. An unusual number of people attended the Decoration day exercises at this place. ■ Mr. John Sapp, a member of the town board, was appointed by the school board janitor for the ensuing year. Thirty 'dollars a month is the price paid during the nine months of school and $lO for taking care of the school property during the summer.

Thirteen hundred and some odd dollars it cost for coal and sundries at the school house at this place last year. How sundries do cost in Goodland. The tax payers of Goodland who have the burden of improving streets resting on them don’t care to pay another gravel road tax to improve some of the northeast and east end properties. A gentleman whose name we did not learn living at Wadena met with rather a singular ac-

cident last Saturday while engaged in a little amusement. It appears that he and a frienc were trying to see which could throw asledge hammer thefurthest with .one hand. In some way one of the men got in the way just as his friend threw the sledge. It struck him on the head with the full force of the blow. A piece of his skull five inches square was broke in, causing him to remain unconscious until Sunday evening. One of the brakemen on the C. & I. C.J has a novelty in the way of a dog brakeman. The dog is about six months old and displays remarkable ability in jumping from one car to another after his master while he is breaking. The dog will help tighten the brakes and the brakeman thinks he will have him on the pay roll by the time he is a year old. It is said the road won’t need any more brakemen in a little while. Jack the Ripper.