People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

(3OODLAND.

Butter 20c. Oats (new) 22c.,. Corn (yellow) 3sc. James McKenney, living five miles south of this place, is said to be the boss oats grower of Benton county. He recently threshed out a few acres that averaged a little over 96 bushels to the acre. Will our school board please tell us what they have contracted the winter’s coal for the school house at? Can they beat the Remington contract, do they think? Most of the potato crop is being harvested tor fear of me dry rot. Jacob Oach was arrested by Marshal Apger last Monday for drunkenness. Mr. John Nimo started out Tuesday morning with a brand new §2,000 threshing outfit. Mr. A. Cabus is building an addition to his residence. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Warne, of near Rensselaer, visited with friends in Goodland Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Bockomo had a new wagon smashed Monday by a runaway team. The ga ■■ at the railroad crossing wa.-> ke m.<ed skyward a few mornings ugo by a La Crosse engine. Hartley Bros! are repairing the Foster elevator for the new crop of oats. Miss Ruby Babcock has resigned her position in the Kentland schools and will teach at Attica. It is said that Goodland now has a poetess that promises to out-do Pinkamink. We believe this is the only curiosity of this kind we ever had and it is strange it should be fattened on public

sap. The Merrit sisters returned from the World’s Fair Saturday. Grandpa Fagin visited with his daughter near Morocco, returning home Saturday. Hon. W. W. Gilman had about twenty shocks of oats burned by tire from a C. & I. C. engine. A Goodland nine beat a Kentland club in a game of base ball last Friday by a score of 17 to 7. 11 we couldn’t burn Kentland on the Fourth we can beat her at base ball. Henry Butler, who lives on •‘Col” Spoar’s place, east of Goodland,had six hundred and twenty shocks of oats burned last Friday by a Pan Handel engine. The loss was estimated at 400 bushels. Albert Tedford, of the New York store, is visiting at Huntington this week. The fine iron fence in front of J. W. Sapp’s residence has received a new coat of paint. Reed’s great railroad and wagon show humbugged our people one day last week. The railroad part of it consists in having part of their stuff hauled in a horse car, ■while the rest is propelled in the band wagon. Mr. Monty was at the World’s Fair last week. It is said the school board will advertise for bids for the janitorship of the school house for the coming winter. This, if true, is much better than to appoint a member of the town board to fill the position when they were violating the law when tney did it. “Jack the Hugger” reads them the law in the last issue of the Remington Press. The Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches have each appointed one gentleman to act as a committee for the purpose of prosecuting Sunday violations. Just what this committee considers violating the Sabbath we do not know 7 , but can only say that if it consists in closing restaurants, meat markets, etc., it will be much easier to threaten than to Ho, for your committee will have to take it through the courts if it arrests a single man. Money is already being subscribed to carry out this part of the program. We would advise the committee to look over the records of the past ten shears, and study the constitution of the United States. Have you forgotten the decision of the judges on Sunday closing of the World’s Fair. We want no Connecticut Blue Laws revived in this country. The “I ams”

had better spend more time reading their bibles and let other people alone. We assure them they will be more respected in Gobdland. Jack the Ripper.