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

GILLAM.

Ed. Mason returned from Chicago last Friday. Ella Sprague, of Medaryviile, is visiting Sylvia Robinson. There is rumor of another wedding in Gillam soon. Mr. E. O. Rathfon and son are visiting at D. A. Rathfon's this week. Mrs. David Rathfon will leave for Chicago this week to visit her son and daughter. Chas. Sebring, of Medaryviile, visited over Sunday with A. P. Rockwell’s family. There will be a quarterly meeting and basket dinner at Independence Chapel, Sunday Aug. 27a McKendree Faris, and Letitia and RillaOsbor ne have gone to Valparaiso to attend commencement. Seventy three persons attended an ice cream supper at F. H. Robinson’s last Saturday night. The Epworth League will render an interesting program one week from next Sunday, at 4 p. m. Everybody invited. Vesta.

A straw hat, plaited entirely by Queen Victoria, has been sent to Chicago for exhibition. A pretty story is told of the widow of the great Schumann. Whenever she is going to play any of her husband’s music in public she reads over some of the old love letters that he wrote her during the days of their courtship, so that, as she says, she “inay be better able to do justice to her interpretations of the spirit of his work.” “Fern doylies” are made of lace bark, a diaphanous, lacelike material found under the bark of certain Jamaica trees. This is bordered with a set pattern cut out of the brown cabbage plant. The dowlies are not only unique and beautiful, but also serve as “promoters” of conversation by leading the talk to foreign lands and quaint fancies.