People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A GREAT CHANCE! A. LEOPOLD is now in it. In order to save 50 cents on every dollar’s worth of goods you should buy of him. It will pay you to call at his store, price the goods and convince yourselves. The goods must all be sold in order to make an important change in his business. Don’t he led astray by his competitors, but come right along, purchase and save your hard earned dollars. Yours Truly, A. LEOPOLD.

The 12-year old son of John O’Malley, of Remington, was kicked to death by a horse Tuesday of last week. Governor Matthews has issued a proclamation designating Tuesday. August 22, as Indiana day at the World’s Fair. If those owing the Pilot will call and settle they will confer a great favor. Money is needed badly these hard times. See Dr. Horton for first class dental work. Fillings inserted that will not leak and soon come out. Office over Laßue’s. You will make no mistake if you see Clark’s stock and get his prices before buying anything in the jewelry line. J. B. Tindle and family returned to their home at Richmond, Ind., yesterday, after a shoi*t visit with N. S. Bates and family. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Presbyterian church will give a lawn social Wednesday evening, August 16th, at Geo. Murray’s. All invited. To-day and to-morrow are the last days on which you can get the Pilot eight weeks on trial for ten cents. You should improve the opportunity. Hettie Luckey, Mur tie Tharp, Della Yeoman, Gertrude Green, Nellie Traugli and Lulu Hawn, of Remington, are among the attendants at the normal.

One of our compositors, in setting the recorder’s statistical report last week, made the amount of the mortgages recorded as ♦1,487,132.83, when it should have been one million dollars less than that amount.

Grain dealers estimate the Indiana wheat crop for this year at 45,000,000 bushels. Last year the crop was 50,000.000 bushels. Dealers say that the crop in Indiana is good in spots this year. Reports frpm all over The state are to the effect that a tirge proportion of farmers are holding their wheat for higher prices.

All persons that have purchased tickets for photos and wish me to make them for them, will please call before Aug. 20, as I will do no work after that date. Respectfully. J. C. Williams. Many of our trial subscriptions expire with this and succeeding issues. All such are respectfully invited to renew. The Pilot will be furnished as before at the low price of SI.OO per year, or less than two cents per week. The poultry journals are favoring the idea of selling eggs by the pound instead of by the dozen. inasmuch as some eggs are fifty per cent larger than others. In justice to the hens that lay the big eggs, this certainly should be done.

Kate Watson and Oris Ober, two clever dancers, and Harry Farrell, the comedy musical artist, are the leading specialty artists that appear in Ed Anderson’s production, ‘-The Lightning Express.” Their specialties are new and novel and add greatly to the evening’s performance. You should see them at the Opera House this evening. Did you know there was one side of the chicken business, and one of the most profitable, that you have entirely. Take our advice and make capons of all your cockerals, that is, the large growing ones, not big now, but those that will make large ones. The larger the better. If you can’t do this work get some one wffio can. It will pay you.

The Monon is having a 6-inch well drilled near the depot. The .water tank will be removed from the river to this well. The well at the river is dry and no water can be had at that point. Work on the new well is being pushed night and day.

We call special attention to an advertisement in this paper by Mrs. Rachel V. .Thomas, of Cowarts. Ala., of a cure for hog and chicken cholera, which from what we can learn is a sure cure. Mrs. Thomas is a reliable lady, the daughter of one of the leadingffarmers of her county and thelwife of one of the leading business men of her town. Give this reftiedy a trial.

J. E. Meyers, of the firm of Meyers’ Bros., of Kniman, was in town Saturday. He reports the farmers all busy in that section putting up wild hay. The hay is being baled and shipped out rapidly. Hands are scarce and wages good.

The poultry market is very low this week. Dealers are paying 8.4 cents for spring chickens. 64c for hens, 6c for ducks and 10 cents per dozen for eggs. The report of the viewers on the proposed gravel road Avas made to the commissioners this week, and an election was ordered for September 9th. Aaron Holman died of consumption at his home in Hanging Grove township last Sunday. The remains were buried in the Osborne grave yard Monday. Advertised letters: Sam T. Arthur, Jabob Andrews, Miss Mary Delaney, Mr. Samuel H. Hopkins, Mrs. Mary Linder, Mrs Jane Pratt, Mr. E. C. Watson.

A Starke county farm feiice is decorated with a sign which reads: “If any man or woman’s cow or oxen gets into these oats his or her tail will be cut off as the case may be. lam a Christian and pay my taxes but d—n a man who lets his critters run loose.”

The valuation of taxable property in the town of Rensselaer and Marion township that will’ be liable for assessment for the construction of gravel road is as follows: Assessment for 1893 in Marion township, $637,830; Town of Rensselaer, $923,325. Railroad assessment for 1892: Marion township, $177,315; Town of Rensselaer, $14,420. Total valuation, $1,752,890. An event of importance will occur in Rensselaer to-night in the production of Ed. Anderson’s great sensational play, “The Lightning Express.” Among the vivid realisms are the illuminated city of Brooklyn, three railroad trains, two working waterfalls and a moon that gradually sinks behind the mountains. Several new and novel specialties are introduced into the performance.

Owing to the severe drouth in Kansas the people are beginning to economize in a novel manner. At Ashlaud all the seven denominations of churches have agleed to meet and worship together and to have but one minister, who was choseu from among the seven by popular vote. Other drouth-stiicken communities will adopt the same plan, thus turning out a large nuuber of preachers to swell the ranks of the unemployed. At a special meeting of the town board last Friday evening arrangements were made to receive bids for the building of a 300 barrel brick and cement fire cistern. It is to be located at the corner of the public square near the well and to be filled with water from the latter. A contract was made to have the three cisterns which are now empty to be filled. 192 barrels will be emptied into them at a cost of 30cents per load of eight barrels. Did you notice that the days of the month and week are always the same in March and November, in April and July, and in September and December? That is, if March comes in on Monday, Movember will do likewise, the same rule applying to the other months named above. In leap year January is with March and November. The last day of July always occurs on the same day of the week; the same is true of May-day and Christmas. The questions as to who is the biggest boy in town was decided permanently by the arrival of No. 1 of engineer Hemphill’s prospective Hock, Saturday morning. The event for a time almost paralyzed Hemphill's organs of speech, and for once in his life he was in a position where he could not utter a satisfactory sound. He has since regained his normal faculties, and says that baby’s a model for future generations.—Two Harbors (Minn.)‘lron News. An auction sale of standard bred trotting stock will take place on the Remington fair grounds Thursday and Friday, August 24th and 25th. Every animal will be sold without reserve or by-bid. The sale will be conducted by Col. W. F. Downing, of Lexington, Ky. A credit of 15 months will be given to purchasers. There will be some great bargains at this sale, and we advise all who are interested to attend. A/"'catalogue of the stock will be mailed to those interested by addressing D. H. Patton or W. T. Tribby, proprietors, Remington, Ind.

The G. A. R. Post is preparing to attend the national encampment at Indianapolis in a body. Between*6o and 70 members will attend. The post is growing and at the present time consists of 86 members in good standing. Five new members were mustered in last week.

Will Schanlaub had the fingers of his right hand badly mashed in the job press of the Republican last week. It may be necessary to amputate, some of the fingers. Pensioners are now compelled to pay SI.OO on the hundred dollars exchange on their checks. This is a result of the fight between New York and Chicago on the money question. A Chesterton man is in deep trouble. He bet SSO that he could find six widows who would marry him and now that he has succeeded he can not make them break the engagements. Christie Vick and wife have returned from Chicago. The house in which Mr. Vick was employed is shut down for a month and he w 7 ill remain here for that length of time. If you wish to secure some fine standard bred trotting stock at a bargain you should attend the auction sale at the Remington fair grounds Thursday and Friday, August 24th and 25th. An old people’s meeting will be held at the Brushwood church in Union township, on Sunday, August 27th. Everyone is invited to come and bring full baskets. Meeting will last all day.

The Monon is making arrangements to boom Cedar Lake as a resting place for its patrons attending the World’s Fair. Visitors to the Fair can leave Chicago in the evening, get to the lake and be back to the Fair grounds by eight o’clock the next morning. Special rates will be given.

Mr. O. P. Beam, of Reynolds, who disappeared so mysteriously a few weeks ago, has been found at Omaha, Neb., by the police of that city and his locacation reported to his family. He is said to be sound in mind and body but shows no disposition to return home at present. He started out to prospect for the purchase of a mill, ly he has not found one to suit him yet.

Wedding anniversaries are as follows: First, cotton; second paper; third, leather; fifth, woodden; seventh, woolen; tenth, tin; twelfth, silk and fine linen; fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twenty-fifth, silver; thirtieth, pearl; fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden; seventy-fifth, diamond wedding.

The Pilot has quite frequently been asked lately what position it intends to take on the gravel road question. To these inquirers and others we will say that it intends taking no side in the discussion of the proposed road. Its columns, however, will be open to both sides and communications either for or against the road, if not too long, will be admitted to its columns.

One of the carpenters at the college fell the distance of eight feet Wednesday, and striking on his elbow the bone was driven out of the socket at the shoulder blade. It was a very painful injury and one that he will probably feel the effects of all his life. Dr. Loughridge is treating him at the Makeever House.

A crank was frightening ladies lasi" Saturday by calling at houses and insisting on them buying a tract on “prevention of cruelty to animals,” or what he claimed to be such. He was given the choice by the officers of working on the stone pile *r getting out of town in a certain length of time. He chose the latter.

Dr. Man-o-wa, the herb speccialist. treats all curable chronic diseases with wonderful success. He does not charge one man $5 per month for treatment and his neighbor $75 for the same kind of treatment, but has a regular price of from $3 to $8 per month, according to the ' case. This month he will treat all who may come at one half the regular price. See him at the Makeever House on Wednesday. Aug. 23. The rain making experiment p,t Kentland last week did not prove to be true, as the following clipping from the Enterprise shows: “Last week a telegram was sent from this place to the Secretary of Agriculture asking that the government rain maker be sent to this county to try his experiments. Major Dyenforth replied that he had gone out of the business, but agreed to ship the apparatus here and let local talent fool with the elements as much as desired. The offer was declined, and the drouth continues.”

The Misses Comer have leased the Nowels House and have already taken possession. They have been successful as boarding house keepers and we bespeak for them success in their new undertaking. We are positive that all goods at Leopold’s must go at a great deal less than cost, as Mr. Leopold wishes to make an important change in his business. Call on him and secure, not small, but great big bargains. Frank and John Osborne, Mrs. E. L. Clark, Mrs. J. F. Warren, Mrs. Chas. Spriggs and Mrs. A. W. Cole attended the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Hattie Onstott-, at Rochester Tuesday. Other relatives present from Rensselaer were J. F. Warren, A. W. Cole, Mrs. Gertie Robinson and Carrie Clark.

EPILEPSY CAN BE CURED. New Brunswick, Ind., Mch. 1, ’92 Dr. Man-O-Wa, Frankfort, Ind.: Dear Friend: —I have been a sufferer from that dreadful disease epilepsy for fifteen years. I was treated by eminent physicians at home and abroad. Used many domestic and specific cures with little or no benefit, but am now happy to say that after using your Indian Herb Specific for two weeks my attacks left me and I have had none for over a year. I would adyise all who suffer as I did to call or write and consult with you. Your Friend, Elias Graham.

Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash,