People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.