People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

VOL. 111.

Hear Our Competitors Howl. OF COURSE THEY SAY IT IS A FAILURE! What? Our Celebrated Deering Jointed Steel Binder. Saves Time. Saves Labor. Does away with the Binder Truck Nuisance. By means of this invention, one man can, in a few minutes’ time; reduce the width of the Binder so that it will go through a 9-foot gate, or over any carriage road. He does not need to unhitch his team to make the change. Call or send for interesting circulars describing this wonderful invention. Deering Mowers surpass all others in Light Draft, Long Life, Perfect Work. Deering Binder Twine is longest, strongest and best. Do not fail to see this wonderful machine before purchasing. HAMMOND BROS., Agents. Rensselaer, Ind.

MONON TIME TABLE. SOUTU BOUND. No. 31—Mail and Express, dally 10:49 A M. No. s—Mail and Express, dai1y....11:33 A. M. No. 39—<Milk Accom.. daily 6:21 P. M. No. 3—Night Express, daily 10:37 P.M. No. 45—Local Freight 2:50 P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 38-Mail .’ 5:40 A.M. No. 40—Milk Accom., daily .-7:37 A.M. No. K—Mail 7:55 P.M. No. 30Mail 2:57 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight. 9:25 A.M.

Next Tuesday is the Fourth of July. Price those laces at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Cheap. Baby carriages at Williams’. All styles. Half fare rates on the Monon July 3rd and 4th. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at office. Miss Mary Leatherman is visiting in South Dakota. Corn for sale at C. S. Baker’s, 3 miles south of Mt. Ayr. 2-5 t Albert Fendig left for Brunswick, Ga., Monday. For a good smoke tyy the Safety cigar. A trial trip of eight weeks for ten cents.

Fourth of July supplies at Vick’s restaurant and bakery. The McCormick binders and mowers at Isaac Glazebrook’s. Extras for Deering mowers and binders at Hammond Bros’. Mel Laßue and wife were in attendance at the Fair last Sunday. McCormick binder and mower extras for sale by Isaac Glazebrook. H. R. W. Smith and wife, of Chicago, spent Sunday with relatives. The only place in town to get the Henderson shoe is at Porter & Wishard’s.

S. P. Thompson will deliver the oration at Kentland on the Fourth. Go to M. & A. Meyer for your stylish millinery and dress-mak-ing. J. W. Duvall is the guest of his brother, S. O. Duvall, in Chicago. Closing out sale of summer stock of millinery at Mrs. Lecklider’s from now on. Mrs. Dunning, of Buffalo, N. Y., is the guest of T. J. McCoy and wife. « Mrs. Levanda Huff, of Crawfordsville, is visiting her son, W. A. Huff. Mrs. E. M. Rinehart, of Delphi, is the guest of Mrs. Mattie Rinehart.

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Regular services will be held at the M. E. church next Sunday morning. Mrs. Nellie Morgan, of Kingman, Kans., is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. Last Sunday a daughter was born to Geo. Cooper and wife, of Barkley township. Children’s Day will be celebrated at the M. E. church next Sunday in the evening. Rev. Rhodes' will preach at the Watson school house next Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Rev. Campbell is attending the Epworth League convention at Cleveland, Ohio. Lewis M. Fletcher and wife, of St. Anne, 111., visited at P. F. Clarke’s last week.

The auditor’s office was papered this week and now shows a vast improvement. Mrs. A. M. Stockton and Mamie Williams are spending the week at the World’s Fair. The recent improvements on E. D. Rhoades’ home adds greatly to the beauty of Front street. Mrs. F. B. Learning, of Goshen, is visiting her parents, M. L. Spitler and wife. Jas. F. Antrim has returned from his Kansas trip. Mrs. Antrim will remain for some time. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash.

Miss Williams, who has been the guest of Mrs. Tom Geer, has returned to her home in Englewood. Isaac Glazebrook still handles the celebrated McCormick binders and mowers. Give him a call. Hemphill & Honan are selling out as fast as possible, going to quit business. Now is the time to socure bargains for cash. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. Geo. Goff has placed his new soda fountain in position and can now furnish the most delicious and refreshing drinks in town. , Notwithstanding our wonderful carpet and umbrella trade we still have a very nice assortment to select from. Porter & Wishard. “How to Build Up the Church” will be the subject at the F. W. Baptist church next Sunday morning. Services will also be held in the evening.

Hemphill & Hoqau §re falling out to quit busing, How is the time to get bargains for cash.

RENSSELAER IND„ FRIDAY. JUNE3CHB93.

Misses Maggie Robinson and Edith Bushnell, of Monticello, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Vick will sell you spectacles and eye glasses, equal to the best, at half usual prices. C. B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, has been elected a member of the board of trustees of Wabash College. Miss Nellie Coen will teach school in Colorado, having accepted a position in that state. She will leave next week. Will Hamlin, Henry Leon, Cal Obenchain and Stella Smith, of Monticello, made a Hying trip to Rensselaer last Friday. Marriage licenses: John Stack, Maggie E. Higgins; Scott Harrington, Amanda W. D. McCord, Laura C. Crockett. The project of boycotting the World’s Fair by the Methodists on account qf Sunday opening has been given up. A sensible action.

$lO buys a nobby spring suit in goods that will surprise you. Call in early, as such rare bargains as we are offering go fast. R. Fendig. The Pilot can be found on file at the Indiana State bqilding at the World’s Fair. It/' will reach there every Friday during the Fair. Farmers cannot make a better investment than to buy a few lots in the Columbia addition. Values will double within the next year. If Cleveland and the Democratic congress do not send us mid-summer drouths or early frosts Jasper county will have an abundant crop this year. Squire Burnham united in marriage Wednesday morning Scott Harrington and Miss Amanda Fry, of Fair Oaks, in the treasurer’s office.

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. M. Y. Slaughter and daughter Belle are visiting friends and relatives in Indianapolis this week. Miss Belle will also visit in Lafayette before returning. The lots in the Columbia addition being thoroughly drained, purchasers are assured of no taxation in the future for drainage purposes Chas. Chamberlain, together with his mother, brother Ralph, Misses Blanche and Bertha Alter, spent one week at the Fair, returning last Friday. The Pilot should be in every home and to accomplish this we will send it to any new address eight weeks, postage paid, for ten cents.

The Saxon Sisters’ Concert Co. gave a right pleasing musical entertainment Tuesday evening. The troupe consisted of five children and one woman. The Pilot will be sent as a trial to any new reader eight weeks for ten cents. This barely covers the cost of the blank paper. A new incandescent dynamo will soon be placed in position at the electric light plant. The company will then be able to supply all who may want lights. Double breasted summer suits in summer weights are very popular this year. We are showing a beautiful line of which you should avail yourselves. R. Fendig.

Messrs. Hollingsworth, Sigler and Nichols brand the assertion in last week’s Republican that they favored the plaintiff in the slander case throughout the trial as a lie. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of symrna rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you- R. Fendig. Subjects at the Tabernacle next Lord’s Day. Morning, “The Lord’s Supper.” Evening, “The Rise and Fall of Nations.” All Christians and patriots are cordially invited to be present. The best of workmanship and fabrics combined with style and make lip has been our aim in selecting a spring and summer line of clothing. Call in and inspect. R. Fendig.

Mel Makeever and trainer, of Denver, Colo., arrived in Rensj selaer Tuesday eveuing. It is j understood that he will train here for a big race in Chicago. Have you seen that beautiful , line of children’s suits, hand- ! some jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. The ladies of theM. E. church will give a box social and art exhibition at the court house, on Tuesday evening, July 11, 1893. Everybody invited to be present. The Daughters of Rebecca elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Tirzah P. Vanatta, N. G.; Sadie Parcels, V. G.; Ida Benjamin, secretary; Mary McColly, treasurer. Attorney General Smith says a county surveyor’s resignation can be accepted by no one but the governor. One Indiana surveyor wanted to resign but could find no one who would accept his resignation. Call in at Warner, & Shead’s and buy your groceries. All their goods are new and clean and show off to advantage in their well lighted room. Goods delivered free to any residence in town. There will be a grand platform dance on the farm of Peter Chide, in Jordan township, July Fourth, day and evening. Good music and refreshments of all kinds on the ground. Everybody come. Some will say B. F. Ferguson can’t make you a loan, but call and see him. He has unlimited resources and capital from which to make loans. 6 per cent interest at the end of the year.

The lots in the Columbia addition are situated more conveniently than any other lots in town, are high and well drained and surrounded by shade trees. Prices are lower than other lots and payments easy. A genuine Indian tomahawk was plowed up last week on James Donnelly’s farm, just north of town, in as perfect a state as it was when “the rank thistle nodded in the wind and the wild fox dug his hole unscared. ” Postmaster-General Bissell has expressed the belief that it would be a great advantage if some plan could be designed that would result in practically placing the power of selecting fourth-class postmasters in the hands of the people of the various localities.

For the Fourth of July the Monon will sell excursion tickets between all stations at ohe fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale July 3rd and 4th and limited to return July sth. On the Fourth of July all trains, including the through trains, will stop at all stations. T. M. Jones, of Chicago, was shaking hands and renewing old acquaintances on our streets Saturday. Mr. Jones lived for many years in the northern part of the county. Time seems to be using him well, for he looks no older or “none the worse for wear” these last ten years. The cowboy race from Chaldron, Neb., to Chicago, ended Tuesday morning at the gate of Buffalo Bill’s show, John Berry being the winner. The other riders arrived shortly after. The time it took Berry to make the 1,040 miles was 13 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes, an average of 77 miles daily. A. K. Sills has four tame deer in his park in the north end of town. During the week there was an addition to his flock in the shape of a fawn, which is about the size of a rabbit. Anyone who has not seen a baby deer will be well repaid for the time taken to walk up and see it.—Monticello Democrat. The report of the county superintendent to the superintendent of public instruction shows that the total number of school licenses issued during the year ending May, 1893, to be 91. Of this number 33 were issued to males and 58 to females. The total number of teachers now holding license in the county is 119.

Bruce Pumphrcy, son of Geo. Pumphrey, of Newton county, has received an appointment under the civil service rules as .railway mail agent. He has about concluded not to accept the position. Dr. I. B. Washburn, the op- . tician, handles the celebrated Trolley’s Kohinoor eye glasses, the best made. Attention is called to the ad, “See Again as in Youth,” in another place in this paper. The records of the 135th, 150th and 154th Indiana regiments were totally destroyed in the recent Ford theatre disaster at Washington. The majority of the records of Illinois regiments were also destroyed. A petition has been sent to Washington for the establishment of a post office at Firman. Dave Alter is an applicant for the position of post master. If established it will be called Par. A trip through the country shows the corn to be in fine condition and very clean, but rather small for the time of year. Oats and grass are Poking fine, but the wheat and rye will be a slim crop. The Supreme Court adjourned without rendering a decision in the court house case, and Cleveland went fishing without signing any commission for post master at Monticello. And the dog days are before us.—Monticello Herald. Christie Vick leaves to-day for Chicago, where he has accepted the position of assistant shipping clerk in ths office furniture house of the Merle & Heaney Manufacturing Co. His restaurant in Rensselaer will be left in charge of his father.

The Prohibitionists anticipate quite a crowd at their celebration the Fourth. The exercises will be held in the public square, beginning at 10:30 a. ra. A basket picnic dinner will be given at the noon hour. Everybody is cordially invited to attend the celebration. Tippecanoe county is wrangling with its coroner. The county levied upon certain fees to enforce collection of back taxes, but the coroner has brought mandamus proceedings, and claims that the county has no right to enforce such payments by withholding from allowances due. Derby day in Rensselaer last Saturday was not as much of a success as derby day in Chicago the same day, but will do for a beginner. The ladies race did not come off, owing to the indisposition of one of the ladies, but the scrub pony race took place. First money was taken by Jim Floyd’s horse, of Kentland. The rider was thrown in the other race, which caused it to be declared off.

A family reunion was held at the residence of Geo. 11. Brown last Saturday. About forty persons were present, which included their eight daughters, one son, five sons-in-law, twentyone grand-children, one daugh-ter-in-law and one great-grand-child. Two sons in-law were not present. Mr. Brown’s age is 77 and that of his estimable wife is 69. A splendid dinner was enjoyed by all present. A red fox stole five fat hens from Climpson Kelley, of Franklin county, and the farmer lay in wait for the despoiler, thinking perhaps the rascal would return for the remaining rooster. Sure enough the animal reported but he kept just out of range and led the farmer a chase of a mile or more and then suddenly disappeared. When Kelley returned to his poultry yard he found that Reynard had beaten him back and killed the rooster. The Columbian Athletic Club gave its second exhibition of pugilism at Roby Monday night, with two prize tights, both to a finish. Sheriff Fredericks and his men from Crown Point occupied seats in a box, but did not interfere with the fights and no arrests were made. It is probable that these sluggers will be allowed to carry on their exhibitions without any interference in the future, as they were cunning enough to get a bill through the last legislature which allows prize fighting.

The Mohawk Indians will not allow so much as a blade of grass to grow upon the graves of their companions. The citizens of Firman and vicinity begin right and celebrate the first Fourth of July of their town’s existance. A regular old fashioned basket picnic will be given in addition to music, speeches, songs, dances, games, sports, etc. That eloquent young orator, Frank Foltz, will deliver an oration at 11 a. m. A cordial invitation is given to everybody to attend. Frank Walters, of Gillam township, was bound over to the circuit court in the sum of SIOO, by Squire Morgan, Monday. He was charged with stealing a set of harness from the farm of Jackson Freeland, in Newton township. He was arrested Sunday by the sheriff and the harness found in his possession. He claims to have found the harness hanging on a fence on his way home from Freeland’s, where he had been with a horse.

The most serious menace to church-going in England is said to be cycling. A few churches have tried to induce the wheelmen to come in for morning service, but the bicycles of a few who have done so havo been stolen by local church members, and the wheelmen now say that they will not go to church unless tho church insures their machines; many of the clergy have become enthusiastic wheelmen, and it is said that one country parson who was recently called on to officiate at a funeral wanted to rido to the cemetery on a wheel, wearing his surplice. The following extract is from general order issued by James T. Johnson, department commander of Indiana, G. A, R: “The department commander learns, with much regret, that, a number of old soldiers throughout this department, who aro pensioners, are in the habit of becoming intoxicated whenever they get money with which to purchase -drinks, and thus deprive their families of the com inon necessities of life. It is fhereto re earnestly urged that where such cases exist that tho post commander apply to tho courts and have guardians appointed tor such old soldiers to the end that the money paid them by a beneticient government may be saved tor their families.”

The last divorce suit to bo filed in the Jasper circuit court is that of Armi Id a Stone against her husband John F. Stone. They live in Remington. They were married September li, 1872, and lived together until. June 20. 1893. During their married life, the plaintiff alleges that defendant had been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, and that he had repeatedly cursed, beat, abused and threatened to shoot and kill her. For the past two years he has refused to make any provision for herself and five children, Mrs. Stone supporting herself and children by her own labor. The children range in age from 9 to 19 years. She asks for their custody and a divorce. S. E. Sparling left Wednesday morning for a year’s study in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany. He sails from New York July Ist on the steamer “City of Rome,” landing at Glasgow, Scotland, visiting on the Scotland and that part of England from Liverpool to London. From London the trip will be made to Rotterdam and thence up the Rhine, by slow boat, to Frankfort-on-Main. From this plafce the party will go across Germany to Jena and remain for the opening of tho University year in the study of the German language. The purpose of the trip is to specialize in statistics and administration and to make a comparative study of road administration in Germany and this country, the German University presenting advantages which we do not possess here. There will be three in the party. We hate been promised some interesting letters from Mr. Sparling, which will appear in the Pilot. As a matter of course the Pilot will visit him weekly across the waters.

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