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

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