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

MOROCCO.

Richard McKinstry is in town again. A. Paxton went to Chicago Monday. R. P. Benjamin was on our streets last Friday. Mel Laßuewas in town one day last week. V. P. Hope was in Brook this week putting up a wind-mill. Wesley Burnton is completing a fine barn on his farm in Washington township. Harry O. Perry and wife, of Kentland, were in town Sunday. The ampitheater has be’eh moved to the new fair ground. Lawerence P. Sullivan will take charge of the saloon about Aug. Ist. C. M. Hanger has sold a threshing machine outfit to Nelson Huff. It is reported that Ed Schanlaub will be the next post-mas-ter. Frank Cox and Charley McClatchey will take their running horses to Chalmers next week. The horses are Emma C. and Frank Goodrich, Jr. J. D. Robertson went to Chicago Wednesday. Joe Zoborosky shipped a carload of cattle to Chicago Tuesday. Geo. H. Bell has made some improvements in his barber shop. W. H. Sweet, of Kentland, has moved his feather washer to Morocco.

Mrs. Jessamine Harrison, of Denver, Colorado, is visiting.her aunt, Mrs. Emma Kessler, at this place. A bicyclist passed through here Sunday on his way to Chicago. He was from Ohio. Mrs. J. D. Roberts and daughter are visiting relatives in Momence this week. The basket festival given by the young people of the M. E. church last Saturday night was a success in every way. The proceeds amounted to §9.20.* . C. E. Triplett, Walter Pulver. Will Triplett and another man whose name we did not learn, went fishing to the Kankakee Monday. About thirty couple were present at the celebration of the sth anniversary of Mrs. A. E. Chizum. It was reported by those present that they had a very enjoyable time. Harry Miller, a boy of this place, killed a rattle snake that had seven rattles and a button. It was killed on D. W. Martin’s farm, who now possesses the same. Mr. Ritchie, who lived at this place many years ago, was here shaking hands with his old friends last week and this. D. M. Pulver and faiv.ily, who have been living in Chicago, returned to Morocco and for the present occupies the Mrs. Hoover property. We noticed in the last week’s Goodland Herald that Kentland had quite a big fire, burning up fifty stalls at the fair ground. The contest held by the W. C. T. U. at this place last week was a grand success in every way. The music was furfiished by the Decker choir and the contestants. The ir subjects -were as follows: May Rolls, “Moral Suasion;” Ross Dearduff, “National Tree;” Lillie Nichols, “Courage to Act;” Ida Seward, “Arrest Alcohol and Liberate Man;” Fanie McClain, “A Glorious Monument;” Harry Irwin, “Who is to Blame;” Bessie Rolls “The Martyred Mother.” The prize were awarded to Bessie Rolls first, the medal to Fannie McClain second, a book, and LilNichols third, another book, Rev. Honn, Miss Jennie Hogan and William A. Lyons were the judges. Come Again.