People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

GOODLAND. Mr. John Thomas will soon take a position on the Monon. Quite a number of Brook people were in town Saturday. J.-W. Oswalt is building ah addition to his»-residence. Bringham Brothers have decorated the front of their brick with some very fine lettering. Mr. William Mills, of S. Dakota, arrived in Goodland Tuesday. Charley Caise has put a fine glass front in his saloon. The Holiness people did not get up their tent at this place until last Saturday. But they have been making Rome howl since that time.

But for the timely appearance last Friday of some of the boys returning from the race tracks the old Foster ware house would have been in ashes. A spark from the smoke stack had lodged on some fine chaff and husks and was getting under full head-way when the boys saw it from a distance, while a number of working men inside did not know anything of it until informed by the outsiders. Hunt up your oldshoes, ladies, if you are going to the World’s Fair. They have increased in price amazingly in the last thirty days. A man by the name of Leins, recently released from the insane asylum at Logansport on a few days trial, was taken back to that institution last Friday by our city marshal, Apger. We may be a little in error as to the exact amount of the school expenses Trustee Jenkins pays, but it is very evident he does not pay his share. As we said last week he should either pay his share or take his children from school when he quits paying or the school board should compel them to pay a tuition after. Which will they do?

If some of Goodland’s lady cyclists had to tread a sewing machine as hard as they do a bicycle they would want some one to stand over them with a palm leaf fan. “Consistency, thou art a jewel.” The Catholics have made some improvements on the inside of their church. Mr. Moriarty contemplates building a fine residence in the south part of town soon. Mr. J. A.rich was at Remington, Wolcott and Monticello the latter part of the week in search of a girl. A fellow by the name of H. Kiser was arrested Saturday for being drunk on the streets and lodged in jail until .he sobered up, when he was arraigned before Esq. Potter and fined one dollar and costs, making a total amount of nine dollars and fifty cents.

Ben Hines, so long a breakman on the C. & I. C., LaCrosse division, has been transferred to Brazil and will soon be a full fledged conductor. The people along the line regret the change, for Ben is a good fellow. For the benefit of some who can not understand a newspaper item without the writer taking a half column to tell it in, we will say our item had no reference to Mr. George McCarn trading off his fine Jasper county farm or selling it either. He and Mr. Clark went to Fowler on a land trade. Mr. Clark is a real estate agent at this place and is continually trading and selling land in this and adjoining counties and Mr, McCarn only accompanied him on some other business of a private character. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, father and mother of Charley Perkins, arrived in Goodland Monday for a few days visit with their children.

About fifteen or twenty old soldiers from various townships in the county met at the G. A. R. hall in this place last Saturday to fix a time for holding the annual reunion of tfris county. August 23rd and -24th were the days and Brook the place chosen. It will be seen that two days have been chosen this year instead of one as was the case last year at this place. The boys at Brook promise a very interesting program. Bushels of huckleberries now make their appearance in our place every evening on the ar-

rival of the LaCrosse train. Most of them are shipped from Kniman. It seems that Mr. James Linch. living in the eastern part of town, has a pet crow and ;every b6dy knows a pet crow thinks he is monarch of all he survejsf,*3&t ' home or abfoaid. So our'crOw lordship concluded a- few days ago to take in the sights in his immediate neighborhood and see if there was anything he could make use of in his own household, and spying the upper windows of the residence of Dr. Climer open he thought he would peep in and see if there was anything he could use,. He spied Miss Climer’s gold watch lying on the stand and having a great desire to be up with any ordinary Goodland dude he slipped out, watch, chain and all and leisurely retired to his own residence. Diljgent search was made for the watch, but no trace of it could be found for four or five when some one happened to be in Mr. Linch’s garden and found it neatly tucked away in a bunch of horse-radish, it is needless to say that Miss Climer was greatly pleased when her watch was returned to her and is willing to vote a medal to Mr. Crow for pure cussedness. Jack the Ripper.