People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

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