People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND.

Eggs 11c. Butter 12|c. Oats 23@26c. Corn 32@33c. The ML E. church people gave a supper Wednesday evening for the benefit of the church. Up to date the Pan Handle people have done nothing toward fixing the old death trap at the depot. Move back your depot and let there be more than three feet between the building and track. It seems that one of the “kids” spoken of by us as being at the depot the day Miss Gowland was gkilled, has got a little hot about what we said. We would simply advise one and all of those fellows that the less they say about this matter the better off they will be. You can’t intimidate us. Because you sling lightning is no sign you have brains enough to run a water saw-mill.

The hum of the sickle is heard in the ]an<|. A. M. Culver, of Sheldon, 111./ was in town Saturday. The old well in front of Bringham Bros.’ brick block, and for many years abandoned as a public well, has been remodeled, and with a good hose now furnishes plenty of water. John Thomas, formerly conductor on the C. &I. C., LaCrosse division, has purchased a restaurant at Fowler and has sold his fine residence here to W. A. McCurry. The town board has been doing some needed improvement on our streets, by putting on about one hundred loads of gravel. , Ben Hines, formerly of thfe LaCrosse run as forward breakman, is now running a work train on the C. & I. C.

A few days ago while Mr. John Dudgeon was trimming hedge he had the misfortune to cut an artery in his left wrist. Taking a horse and buggy he drove to town at full speed and when he arrived at the doctor’s office the loss of blood had been so great that he could scarcely stand. Careful attention by Dr. Pratt soon put John on terra finna again. A committee of two appointed at the mothers’ meeting one day last -week, called on two of our restaurant men and asked them to close their places of business on the Sabbath. Little or no satisfaction was given them by the proprietors. Women like those pver-do the thing. Why did they notask that restaurants be closed a part of the day only! Did you call upon the livery stables and meat markets! or

are you a little prejudiced against this one branch of business. The Big Four has slashed railroad rates to the World’s Fair to one fare for the round trip. This will make the fare from Sheldon to Chicago a little less than two dollars. Now is the time for our people to even up with the C. & I. C. for their cussedness.

A peculiar circumstance connected with the excessive hot weather occurred at this place a few days ago. Wm. Townsend, living in the northwest part of town, is a grower of vegetables, berries, etc. He keeps a horse and wagon with which he delivers the products of his farm to the people of this vicinity every two or three days. During the raspberry season he was busy most of the time. But the crop of berries was light, so he was only pushed for a few days, and driving his- wagon to its usual place in the barn lot he had given other piroducts his attention for three or four days, when he happened to be at work near and discovered the wagon to be on fire. A little straw had been left in the bottom of the box at the time of driving it to its usual place and it was this straw that had been ignited by the rays of the sun. No children with matches were near, and we have no anarchists here to throw a bomb. Who can solve the mystery?

JACK THE RIPPER.