People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 8

The public schools will open September, 4th. Will Grant, is once more a resident of Rensselaer, having moved back from Hammond. t . A traveling dentist extracted 200 teeth in one day at Monticello this week, by the painless method. John Hodshire's infant son is very low with summer complaint and its life is liable to pass away at any time. Rev. Jasper Howard, of Wichita, Kans., well known as a blacksmith here some If) or 20 years ago, is visiting friends here. Q Byron Sayler was fined ancl costed *l7 for assault upon the person of Joe Gains, and the latter contributed $14.45 for provoke upon the former, one day last week. Ail the talk in the world will not convince you so quickly as one trial of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for scalds, burns, bruises, skin affections and piles. A. F. Long & Co. Jay Williams carries the largest and most complete stock of| carpets in town. Call and see samples. Suits have been instituted against the Mon on at this place for neglect of the blackboard law, and if the prosecutions stick the fines will aggregate $2,000, one-fourth of which go to the informers. Night watchmen and draymen are said to be reaping a rich harvest by this law.— Montieello Herald. * Mr. J. C. Boswell, one of the best known and most respected ci:: sso us of Brown-wood, Texas, suffered with diarrhoea for a long time and tried many different remedies without benefit, until Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used; that relieved him at once. For sale by F. B. Moyer, the druggist.

Mrs. O. P. Beam of Reynolds was in town Monday. She informs ns (hat the only inform si. tion the family has hsul of Mr. Beam is from a policeman at Nebraska City who thinks he saw him going toward Omaha. His supposition has ntt been verified toiler kntwkdge, and I or husband's absence is still a mystery to her.—rMontioello Herald. The hearing of the Wr.ukarusa ditch case at Rensselaer was postponed on account of insufficient notice to non-residents. It is almost an impossibility to secure proper notice under the Timmons ditch law. Simon Peter Thompson, fearing that the auditors of Jasper and White could not give the notices properly. wrote them himself and he, although the author of the bill, failed to connect. —Monticello Democrat. The Wabash Plain Dealer tolls of a grain buyer in that place who is paying one dollar per bushel for wheat. He was asked how he could possibly pay that price when wheat was worth only fifty-seven cents at Toledo. “Easy enough,'* he replied. “I give the farmer fifty cents cash and give an order on the chairman of the Democratic central committe who promised if Cleveland was elected wheat would bring a dollar per bushel, for the balance.*’ We are aulhoritively informed that the State Board of Educavk> i has revised the first, second and third readers, but that the change wid not be made during too present school year. It takes effect next year, at which time the new books will have to be purchased, consequently it will be economy to try. and get along this term with the old readers if possible. If new readers are purchased now,, they will have to be thrown aside after one year’s use.—Remington Press. At last the Monon has come to time and has made a rate to Chicago which will enable all to attend the Fair. A round trip rate of 5*2.50 has been made. Tickets good for live days from d-.ue of sale. The regular round trip rate has been $3.1)5. Jim Chapman, the ex-agent of the company, should have the credit of causing the company to give icdneed rates. He has been selling tickets to Chicago and other points at. much lower rates than the company, and the latter. to protect itself, has placed the tickets on sale. If the company expects to stop the scalping business at this point they wiLl have to make reduced rates pi »U points pn the Monon.

One of the most curious forms of advertising of reoent date is that put forth by the Rock Island railroad, which has installed an officer oh its executive staff known as Rain-Maker inChief. This man claims to be able to produce rain at a few hours notice, and the company has hired him to keep the towns and cities along its road thoroughly supplied with shdwers. So far his efforts have been very successful, and the railroad is enjoying a boom that is turning rival companies green with envy.

Notwithstanding the hard season on garden truck Alf Donnelly says he will have ensugh potatoes to supply, his family with ’tater soup. He planted 18 or 20 acres, but will raise only about one-third of a crop, which will amount to 1,000 or 1,200 bushels. At the present price, one-third of a crop is much better than a whoie one at 25 cents per bushel. What crop will pay better than potatoes? Mr. Donnelly will realize about SSO per acre off of his land this year. The potatoes are large and of a tine quality.

Sidney Schanlaub, of Newton county, has purchased the Morocco Courier, and will take possession to-morrow. This is Mr. Schanlaub’s first attempt at running a newspaper, but his interesting writings under the name of “Captain Jack” show that he has the ability to make a first class newspaper of the Courier. We look fora much better paper hereafter and predict that he will make a financial success of the venture, which can not be said of tin* paper under its former proprietors. An exchange says,: “As a result of the money stringency a very peculiar coincidence is transpiring. All the ouo-dollar bills have been started in circulation again. A year ago or even six months ago, nearly all the one dollar bills were withdrawn from circulation by relic hunters, but since money has grown tighter these have been resurrected and now one may run across them every day. Every nook and corner is being scraped and the one and twodollar bills have been brought from their places of seclusion ‘and put into the great stream of circulating medium.

The financial panic recalls the story of how the cashier of a bank in an iron mill town stopped a run. He sent the janitor with a bushel of silver dollars in a rear room where there was a stove, with instructions to “heat those silver dollars red hot.'* They were heated, and in this condition he handed them out in a coin scoop. The depositors first grabbed the coin, then kicked. “But you’ll have to take them that way,” said the cashier. “We are turning them out as fast as we can melt and mold them, and if you won’t wait till they cool, you’ll have to take them hot. That settled it. The run was stopped.—Ex. It is predicted that ten years from now the familiar ice wagon will be a novelty upon the streets of a city, so general will have been the adoption of artificial refrigerators. For a long time brewers, pork packers and storage men have been independent of the ice crop, and the introduction of the cold-air pipe lines has supplanted the use of ice in hotels, restaurants and bar rooms, except wherein it is desired to make a % display of the crystal commodity. In time the distribution of the cold air will be as general in cities as is gas or water, and the system will be perfected whereby the refrigerating gas necessary for attachment to a family refrigerator will be delivered in a tank just like carbonated water is to soda fountains, once a month, or as required.

The Cook & Whitby English circus and menagerie which exhibited here yesterday was a revelation to our people, of the possibilities of a genuine Old World circus, and makes our well known and hackneyed shows seem very shabby and poor indeed by comparison. High class equestrian aud athletic exhibitions in .the three rings and the two elevated stages, new and never dreamed of by our American showmen, followed each other in bewildering succession, amazing and confounding the immense audience, while the numerous clown acts interspersed, would throw them into convulsions of laughter and merriment. We cannot praise Cook & Whitby too highly; their paiade, nearly a mile in length, was a succession of open dens, band wagons and blooded horses, all blazing in gold, silver and

silk, their menagerie the most extensive one ever viewed, thoir circus and hippodrome performance immeasurably superior to any we know, or have ever witnessed. The balloon ascensions were successfully accomplished, while the various free exhibitions during the day would more than equal the entire stock in trade of ninety-nine per cent, of the shows that have ever visited Cleveland. We heartily wish them success in their American tour, they so highly merit, and j are glad to have made the acquaintance of the managers, in that, we have never met more courteous and obliging gentlemen.—Cleveland Journal.

The Gravel Road.

Some of the voters of Marion township seem to be laboring under the impression that if the majority of the voters on September 9th declare in favor of all oT any part of the gravel roads petitioned for, that the board of county commissioners can postpone the building of the same until the present stringency of the money market has abated, but section 3rd of the law which may be found on page 1898 of the acts of 1893 reads as follows: “It shall be the duty of the commissioners as soon as such returns have been made by the election officers in favor of such road or roads, to advertise in at least one newspaper of general circulation published* in the county, if there be such, and one newspaper at the city of Indianapolis of general circulation throughout the state and by posting notices at the principal towns or cities in the townships of the county, asking for bids for the construction of such road or roads, such bids to be received at a session, either regular or called, of said board of commissioners, and said board shall let the same to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, but no contract shall be let for a bid higher than the estimates of the viewers.” v The law is so plain that no one need be misled. If you are in favor of building the gravel roads immediately or any part of them vote for all or any part of them. If you are opposed to a part or all of them indicate the same by your ballot. Lex.

Notice— As I am intending to leave Rensselaer on Sept. Ist, 1 wish all owing me to call and to settle by that date. All having bills against me are also requested to call. W. J. Miller. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. Owing to the possibility of the appearance of small-pox, from the supposed case that left Rensselaer last Monday, I have concluded to postpone the Teachers' Institute, set for next week, until further notice. J. F. Warren, Co, Supt.

I)ta*oliiiion of Partnership. The firm heretofore known as Dwiggins Bros. & Co. has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The firm hereafter will be known as F. J. Sears & Co., successors in the Real Estate, Loan and Abstract business. Rensselaer, Ind., May 1, 1893. MOW IS YOUR CHANCE. To Attend the World's Fair at. Reduced Hates. The Monon has discontinsed the sale of commutation tickets and in their stead has placed on sale excursion tickets good for five days from date of sale, Rensselaer to Chicago and return at the rate of $2.50. W. H.'Beam. Agt.

l or Sale Cheup. A complete outfit of household furniture consisting of beds, bedding, carpets, tables, chairs etc. These goods will be on sale at the L. Hopkins corner store near the bridge. Louis P. Hopkins, owner. CallonAlfW. Hopkins, agent, upstairs in Leopold Block. Smoke the Mendoza cigar For sale everywhere. S>noke the Mendoza cigar. If you desire to keep yourself well posted, read the advertisements upon each page of this Issue. Some important information may be gained thereby. Don’t fail to scan every page. VISRiCOGELE IND STRIGTIP " WitUall bud consequences, stranquery, 100 of ■■ energy, nervous fx items:.!, nervous debility, unnatusal discherges. lost menhood, despondency, unfit■res to msrry, wasting ew»y of the organs, certainly and rapidly cured by safe and easy method*. Cons positively guaranteed. Queetton Blink and Book free. Call or writ*. % DR. WARD INSTITUTE. ' - IZO H. Ninth St., tT. IOUJStfMf.

SMALLPOX SCARE.

A Rtnstieln.tr Case Taken to Her Home In Huncle. A dispatch from Munice, Ind., has the following in regard to a case of small pox, which is of local interest: “Mrs. Henry Moles and little daughter arrived home this morning from a visit to Rensselaer. The child was badly broken out with the smallpox when she arrived home, and the family is now quarantined. The girl took sick at Rensselaer and while the physicians were making a diagnosis of her case Mrs. Moles had heard from home of the dread smallpox and she slipped away from Rensselaer on the next train. When she arrived here the child was in a sad condition. Its face was covered with a veil while traveling. Dr. Leach pronounces the case of the Moles girl's the worst he ever saw. Dr. Metcalf is here greatly censuring the Rensselaer doctor who permitted Mrs. Moles to escape them, She traveled via the Monon railroad to Indianapolis and then by the Big Four to Munice.”

Mrs Moles and child were visiting at Dr. Horton’s, Mrs. Moles being an aunt of Mrs. Horton. Last Friday the child broke out and Dr. Washburn was called in. The mother of the child said that there were a number of cases of chicken pox in Muncie and that she was satisfied that this was what ailed her child. The doctor 'treated her for this disease, but as the symptoms developed his suspicions were aroused and when dispatches from Muncie spoke of the breaking out of the smallpox there, the physician prepared to diagnose the case, but while doing so the mother boarded the train Monday night and left for Muncie. The child was under the doctor's care here four days. But few persons were exposed to the disease and the physician thinks there is no cause to be specially alarmed as all precautions have been taken to prevent a spread of the disease. It would be a good plan, howeverj for all those not already vaccinated, to have it done as a precaution. The state board of health requires this to be done in emergencies like the present. “The disease is fatal in but few cases,” said Dr. Washburn, “and need not be in any.if properly treated. Ten cases of diptheria and Scarlet fever prove fatal to where one of smallpox does. After exposure a case should be manifest in from ten to fourteen days.” Dr. Alter, the county health officer, says he can do noth ing in the way of restricting Hi’S ‘ liberty of those who have been exposed to the disease until at least one case breaks out. He advises vaccination and urges upon all to attend to the matter at once, although he does not apprehend any special danger from t\Y5 Moles’ case.

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue: RENEWALS. ('has. Tlolle. Wheatfield SI 00 Eli Dowell. Mt. Ayr i 00 M>e Warren, Surrey l oo C. B. Holley, BeavenOitv 2 00 James Brusnahan. Anaconda, Mon 2 00 Wm. Washburn. Rensselaer J 00 J. B. Ravenseroft, Remington 1 60 Harry Adamson. Rensselaer ] 00 J.C. I'orter. Rensselaer 50 J. R. Cox. Cheneyville. 11l * 2 00 NEW SUBSCRIBERS. Nathaniel Campbell, Remington k 1 od Mattie farts. Brace ville. 11l 75 (ieo. IV. Jenkins. Blackford 1 00 S. B. Yeoman. Elwood, Neb 25 Uevi Mi Her, (lerro Gordo, 111 no J. B. Flora, Oerro Gordo, 11l no G. M. Wilcox, Surrey 1 on *S*“No name will appear in the above list when otherwise requested by the subscriber. One word describes it—“perfection.” We refer to DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, cures obstinate sores, burns, skin diseases and is a well known cure ifor piles. A. F. Long & Co.

MONITOR ROLLER MILK Every body should try our White Lilly Flour. For sale at nearly every store in the country. W. R. Nowels & Son.

CORRESPONDENCE.

GOODLAND. Cora 33^34. Oats 21024. Press Roberts was in town Monday with a load of melons. Dr. Pratt’s office is undergoing some much needed repairs. Charley Weeks, of the C. & -I. C., is visiting with his father. Mr. and Mrs. Goff are attending the World’s Fair this week. Mr. Frank Oswald and wife, of Kentland, were in town Sunday. ,Mr.,George Griffin and wife, of Remington, visited Sunday with Mr. Griffin’s brother. Miller- Cassel, son of Prof. Cassel, of Rossville, is visiting friends in town this week. Ernest Oram carries a finger in a sling, the result of a game of base ball here last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Warren, of Newton totvnship, Jasper county. visited friends in Goodland Sunday. Mr. J. H. Robertson, of Morocco, and Patton Bros., poultry buyers at that place, were, in town Monday. The Holiness people have quietly folded their tent and gone to other fields where the harvest promises to be more abundant. A few stragglers attended the reunion at Brook from this place. The greater part of our people attended the Remington fair. A Mr. Kerns, of Wadena, had the end of his fore finger on his right hand taken off one day last week while drilling a well at H. Griggs’ place in town. Aldredge and Witham, of Rensselaer, brought two loads of feed and one of flour from the Nowels mill to Frank Babcock’s flour and feed store at this place last Monday. Mr. Rowe and Mr. Rowley, of Benton county, took in the land excursion to the west last Tuesday. A number of other parties went from this place, Brook and Morocco, whose names we did not learn.

Only one game of base ball was played here last week. That was between the Brook nine and the nine here, the score standing 13 to 26 in favor of Goodland. The Sheldon nine did not put in an appearance. If the managers of the soldiers' reunion had tried they could not have made a worse blunder than placing- • fcfrpiyme for holding the reunion onPthe same days as the i B&r* jngton fair, jrhdy f,rc?Mly stand in with Kentland. Mr. Morgan, formerly teacher in our schools, but recently of Watseka, 111., is being initiated into the manner of keeping books at the New York store, a position he will fill after the expiration of Mr. Fagin’s time at the beginning of the school year.

For the first time in history, the town board of Goodland has advertised for-fifty-eight perch of stone and six loads of sand to be delivered at the corner of Mill and James street, the contract to be let to the lowest bidder. Now after the contract is let will the board please publish all the bids. A. J. Kitt has been appointed on the town board vs. John W. Sapp, resigned. Some forty-six or forty-seven years ago we heard Kitt say that nothing could induce him to accept a position on a town board. But how things have changed since then. At any rate we may expect the board to go according to law, let come what may. W. A. McCurry lost two valuable horses Monday. One was driven over to Chalmers and was started back, when, in the vicinity of Gilbo church, the party left him and came back to this place on foot, arriving about four o’clock Monday morning, when McCurry started to locate the sick horse, but was unsuccessful and kept going until they had over-driven their own horse. The' new candidate for the postoffice is receiving hearty approval <Jn every hand. ’ Mr. Bartley O’Mera is as good a man as the Democratic party has in this county, is an Irishman by birth, and has resided in this vicinity twelve or fifteen years. Has worked and voted

for the success of Democracy all I his life and when Congressman, i Hammond renegates him to the j rear and appoints some one of j the thugs, bums and gamblers j that are now applicants for the j position he will do so at his own 1 peril. j . Jack the Ripper, m

MOROCCO.

Frank Peck is visiting in this! vicinity. J E. Bridgeman’s new residence I is nearly completed. 1 The date of the fair is from! the 12th to the 15th of Septem-J her. - 1 Will Williams was kicked by al horse last Friday just above the I eye. * | The restaurant men of this I place are having a bis: fruit! trade. 1 Dan Stoner and family, ofl Rensselaer, spent Saturday and a Sunday here. Lev. N. F. Jenkins lectured to® a large crowd at the K. of M.® hall on last Tuesday night. i The hearts of Mr. and Mrs.® J- C. Bartholomew were made! glad by the arrival of a new girl® Sunday. I Dr. C. Darroch, oh Texas, an® old resident of this place, waal here shaking hands with his old® friends this week. I Elder E. W. Horn, pastor ol® the Christian church at this® place, preached his farewell® sermon on last Sunday. ® Allen Robertson, of School® House Stritchen, AberdeenshirJ® Scotland, made his brother J.® D. Hobertson a visit this week, m Several of the fast horses were taken to Remingtbn this week. Among them was Prepay, King, Rolin and Westfall, trotters, and Frank Goodrich, Jr., Ben Harrison and Emma C., runners. It 5 will be the result of very fast ‘ going if they do not bring a good| deal of the money back "with them.

A large number of sports attended the amusements at this place Saturday. The horse race in the afternoon was very good, the contestants being Emma C.p Frank Goodrich, Jr., and Ben Harrison. A purse of S2O, j divided and given to the first and, second, Emma C. getting Ist and Frank Goodrich 2nd. The wrestling match came off at Bp. m. It was decided in three rounds. In the first round the champion laid down and Abe and Charlie Bell could not do a thing with him. He laid there and laughed while they tried to turn him on his" back. In the first round there wasn’t any bets. They would have got him down in the second if time hadn’t so soon. 1 In the last round which lasted about two minutes they twisted the champion’s neck in a great I many different ways. In the \ second and third rounds bets j were on the Bell boys. There were about 175 people in attendance. Come Again. 1

GILLAM.

Mrs. Etta Osborne is very ill. 1 Mattie Faris has returned to Braceville, 111., where she ex-1 pects to teach again. There will be an ice cream supper at Mr. John Comer’s next Saturday night. J. D. Hunt has rented his farm and has gone to Medary ville to live. Dr. Thomas Mason and family have returned to their home i» •Little Rock, Ark. There will be a quarterly meeting and basket dinner a Independence Chapel next Sun day. Mr. Dykman, of LaCrosse; Ind., was the guest of Miss Lizzie Gwin last Sunday. D. B. Coppess, of Tipton, Ind. has been visiting his relatives and many friend? in Gillam anc Medaryville. The “Pie and Penny” soeii at J. F. Faris’ last Saturda night contained many nov< features which proved to b quite entertaining.

Williams has a full line of goods at his] store and can pleasJ you all in prices anl styles.