People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

goodland. New potatoes £1 per bushel. The north side of Wm. Bains' | store has been decorated with a new sign. A number of teams from this place have been hauling crushed stone on the streets of Kentland the past few days. Mr. Lingley, recently of Wheatfield, has established a new harness shop at this place. Mr. Eckman, of Canton, 111.. Mr. Charley Fagin, of Seattle, Wash., and Miss Kenderick, of the same place, three of Goodland's old school teachers, have been shaking hands with old friends in Goodland this week. > Mr. George Smith, auditor of Benton county, was shaking hands with old acquaintances at this place Saturday. The people of this vicinity seem to hold the train men in no way responsible for the killing of Miss Gowland, but upon the other hand think the company and the men in charge of the depot at the time are the responsible ones. The former for the contemptible little narrow platform. and the latter for allowing so much freight to lay on the platform on occasions like the Fourth, when so many people are getting on and off trains. It is thought that if Mr. Butler, the agent, had been here, and not so many “kids” running the office, things would have been different and perhaps a promising life been saved. Things were cleared from the platform in a hurry after the accident.

By whose expense are those two lamps, within one hundred and fifty feet of each other, and one directly in front of the town clerk’s office, supported, while seven or-eight hundred feet in the south part of town is left without any?' S. P. Thompson stayed in Goodland the night of July 3rd, instead of going to Kentland, where he orated July 4th. Mrs. Stanton formerly Miss Downing, of Rensselaer, is the guest of her brother Post Master Downing. The general opinion prevails here that if Will Collins had had his wheel back from Chicago he would have won the race at Kentland July 4th. A new time card went into effect on the C. & I. C. last Monday. Mr. Myers, of Kniman, was in town Monday. Mr. Hart, of Remington was in town Monday afternoon. Mr. Noble, of Kentland, came oyer on his wheel Monday to see after his property. Farmers over in Benton county are cutting oats and the crop is reported very good.

Trustee Jenkins says in reply to ou< item, “why he did not pay Ins share of our school expenses,”. that the law prohibits him from paying more for one school than another. This being the case we are at a loss to know why he just let this be known. For two or three years he has not paid within one and one-half to two .months as much for schooling the children outside the corporation as the school board has. A closer watch will be kept of this matter in the future, and when ytm stop paying your scholars will be requested to leave school or pay tuition. The Kentland fair association cleared about five hundred dollars July 4th. Goodland citizens dumped about two hundred of this into their coffers. And then one of the newspapers of that place accuse then? of trying to fire the town. How do you like that, neighbors? We can’t see why it is-more necessary for our restaurants to be kept open on Sunday other-than business houses. We are not in favor of Sunday closing of all business, but think one has just as much right as another in this respect. A “merry-go-round” has been doing our town this week. Our raspberry crop is a poor one on account of the dry weather. Jack the Ripper.