People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

WHEATFIELD. largest rain of the season felll here last Saturday. The sheriff was seen on our streets last Monday. Saturday was Children's Day here and there was a nice crowd and everything went well until the ■tom drove them all to shelter and they had to finish the program in the school house. The ladies went to a great deal of trouble to fix their little ones for the occasion, Everything would have been enjoyed but for a drunken fellow who Went to the stand and demanded to be treated, and they told him to go away and attend to his business and he knocked one of them dowh. He Was arrested and fined £25 and costs and he found one man fool enough to go his bail and he then pulled stakes and left town. There are three more indictments against him waiting his return. His name is Jake Melssr and the quicker the country is rid of such men the bettor. Albert Keen ahd Wife visited in this country last Sabbath. Mr. P. E. Davis Was circulating a petition to change the present postmaster W. H. Smiley-, and put himself in his place, but we think all are suited with the present postmaster. Mr. Chas. SmilOy, recently of Brazil, has come back to make Wheatfield his future home. Our night Operator has been visiting his parents at Reynolds for about a week. James Rogers filled his vacancy, Don’t forget to come to Wheatfield to spend the Fourth. We will have a big time and let us make it a day to be long remembered. NoRtH Star. GILLAM. Children’s Day exercises at West Vernon Was very good and largely attended. Arch Long, of visited friends at Gillam last week. Those attending the World’s Fair from this vicinity this week are as follows: C. W, Faris and wife, T, H. Robinson and wife, Miss Lizzie and Emma Faris. There will be a quarterly meeting and basket dinner in the grove near the Gillam school house, June 25th. Presiding Elder Wilson will be present. Everybody cordially invited to attend. B. C. Long and wife went to Hammond last week to attend the funeral of their grand-daugh-ter, Winnona Knotts, Vesta. SOftGHUM VALLEY. Miss Stella Gilmore is reported on the sick list. Miss Emma Kenton returned home last week. Ola Dodd, of Monon, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in the Valley. Jasper Kenton and family visited the Fair last week. Caleb Hopkins’ folks have the mumps but are getting along nicely. Randle Overton received a somewhat painful, though probably not serious bruise, last Saturday evening, He fell across a buggy wheel while climbing over some machinery in a buggy shed. t Owing to trouble with the church. Rev. Shaft will discontinue his services at the Chapel. It seems that some of us, instead of having a friendly feeling for all and hatred toward none, have got a little cranky and have got the cart before the quadruped. Perhaps we need a “Jack the Ripper.” g School Boy. BLACKFORD. On account of the wet weather some have had to re-plant their corn. Miss Rosa Woods is on the sick list. 1 Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hulce and their daughter Jessie have gone to cook on dredge No. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Arnold and John Lesh and wife visited at E. Yost’s, of Pleasant Ridge, Sunday. Some of our farmers are uneasy for fear the weeds will take their corn fields, as they can’t get to their fields until the bridges are replaced across the Gifford

Wm. Piatt and wife were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John McCurtain Sunday. Miss Nancy Price has returned from Wheatfield. Misses Ella and Lizzie Reed, Mary Jenkins and Mr. McCurtain attended the Christian Endeavor Convention at Rensselaer last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, of Walker township, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mq,Elfresh Sunday. Five men of dredge No. 2 visited Rensselaer Monday. Butterfly. From Ari Other Correspondent. Sunday school’ every Sunday at Independence every Sunday and church every two weeks. Miss Stella Ott and her brother, from Chicago Heights, are visiting friends and relatives near Blackford. Children's day at Independence next Sunday. A gentleman from Rensselaer was at Independence to the Christian endeavor Wednesday night and the girls all told him no. Mr. Marion Cooper and Miss Jennie Knight were married the 28th of May. FIRMAN. Carpenters have commenced work on the new store- at Firi man. John Carlin - took in the World’s Fair this week. A. H. Alter has improved his place by putting up a wind pump. Mrs. Joe Salrin is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan. R. Stephenson Son put down a new well at Firman last week 106 feet deep. A 10 pound boy at S. A. Brusnahan’s since last Wednesday. Alert. All that honesty, experience and skill can do to produce a perfect pill, has been employed in making DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. The result is a specific for sick headache, biliousness and constipation. A. F. Long & Co,