People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

QOODLAND. Eggsllc. Oats 20@25. Corn 32@33. Butter 20(525. E. Bringham is in the city. Fred Gilman and -wife are at the White City. Miss Myrtle Oram is visiting at Rensselaer. Miss Shaffer,, of the Herald, is in Pennsylvania. Mr. “Pet” Clark, of Morocco, was in town Monday. Born, August Ist, to Mr. and Daniel Mead, a girl. Jas. Banes and wife, of Chicago, are the guests of his brother William. Jas. Pittigen and wife drove over to Lafayette last Sunday and returned Monday. Miss Watson. ofGoodland, has been employed as teacher to succeed Miss Bell.

Mrs. Climer, formerly Mrs. Dora Wilson, iv home for a few weeks visit with her mother. Master Dumont Peck is able to be about again after a long and lingering illness. The residence of Got Mead’s, just south of town, is receiving a new coat of paint by Father Cook. Mr. Barcus, Rensselaer’s gentlemanly traveling agent for the Rensselaer marble w 7 orks, w-as in town last week. County Treasurer Jenkins and Rev. Matthews were at the Kankakee last Friday, and came home with some very fine fish. Miss Ruba Babcock will not go to Attica now as was stated by us last w-eek, because the school board of Kentland concluded to pay her more than she w-as offered at Attica. What amount of paint does a good painter suppose it will take to paint each school house in Grant township and count each man’s residence in the bill. Al, can you tell? The bridge over the “Potomac” has been completed after so long a time. Fifty dollars more, the masons inform us, would have arched it, while it took nearly twenty-five to plank it.

Editor Kitt has so completely tamed the editor of the Enterprise, at Kentland, that the fellow [hasn’t cheped since. And Pat Keif has had to keep one or two county officers soaking his head in cakes of ice ever since, for fear he would have some original idea on the removal of the county seat. We were not exactly in error as to A. Murphy’s pension being dropped but gave it as it was first told to us. He has had an order to be re-examined, is all, so he tells us, with perhaps, a motive to cut him down a little or dropping him if he does not appear for re-examiuationj is what he thinks.

Mr. James, our livery man, traded horses some time ago with some fellow near Brook. Things ran along smoothly until last Friday, when a man from Illinois came into his barn and laid claim to the horse. Nothing was left for Mr. James to do but turn over said horse and this he did Saturday morning and then turned his attention to looking after the fellow he had got the horse of. Search in and about Brook developed no clue to his whereabouts and Mr. James is left to hold the sack.

“Jack the Hugger'’ in the Remington Press asks why it is our school board has never made a report as to the cost of our school house, etc. This, Jack, is an impossibility, so one of the school board informs us. Because he says there are certain books that belonged to that board that has never came into the possession of the present one. What this board ought to do, if they have got any sand, is to go into the courts and compell them to produce all the books they used at the time. They are no more the property of those men than the school house is.

Town boards are supposed to be elected by the souvereign will of the people and are therefore the natural servants of the people and not their rulers. But it sometimes occurs that if the people, (we mean those that have a job) don’t stand in with

one or more of the members they may as well move out of town. This seems to have been the case whereby the tow-n wind-mill job has been dealt out. We don’t know as to the exact extent of the improvement to be made or as to the cost, but as rumor has it, it will be immense? We, like a number of others, can’t see where the good common sense is in putting up. a wind-mill on a mill in town that does not belong to the town nor never did. The proper way for the town board to have done in this matter was to have advertised for bids and awarded the' contract to the lowest responsible bidder. It would have satisfied the minds of the people better, at least. Jack the Ripper.