People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.