People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Mass Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Mass Meeting.

A cordial invitation is extended to everybody to attend the People’s party mass meeting and basket picnic to be held in Swan’s grove, near Wadena, Benton county, on Wednesday, September 13, 1883. Some, excellent speakers have been secured, among whom are Hon. Paul Vandervoort, an ex-com-mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and commander of the Industrial League, and is considered one of the most forcible and eloquent speakers of today; also, Hon. A. G. Burkhart, of Tipton, who has attained quite a reputation as a public speaker, and a number of others have also been invited to be present on this occasion. There will also be some excellent music, both vocal and instrumental. Democrats, Republicans, Prohibitionists, Populists, and all, are invited to come out and hear a fair and square discussion of the topics of the day and profit by it. Don't forget the date.

Try ourMtterfly flour. La Rue Bros., crnsn grocers. Subscriptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. Fred Cole, of Lafayette, was visiting relatives here Friday. Highest price paid for produce at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery. Go to M. & A. Meyer for your stylish millinery and dress-mak-ing. Next Saturday, Sept. 9th, is G. A. R. day at the World’s Fair. Come and see what bargains you can get at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery.

If you want to make sure your advice will be taken have it engraved on your umbrella handle. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. The worth of your money is what you want, and that is what you get at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery. The editorial warning against the deadly microbes which lurk in the old greenback has been called in. Miss Myrtle Oram, of Goodland, who has been visitng friends here for some time, returned home Monday. We have a fine new combination book case and writing desk which will be sold at a bargain. Call at the Pilot office.

At the prices A. Leopold is selling his boots and shoes, they are going fast and will continue to do so. Call and help yourself The sheriffs of northern Indiana certainly have a “snap,” for they get “comps” to all of Roby’s athletic entertainments. The lesson of the times is that we need more money in our business.—Syracuse Herald. Same here; now is the time to subscribe. What is one man’s misery is another man’s joy. An empty array of boxes makes a theatre manager mad, but it makes LaRue Bros’, happy. The fruit crop in this county is a complete failure in everything excepting grapes and there seems to be an average crop of that luscious fruit.

Ladies should grasp the op portunity of securing a fine dress and trimmings at Leopold’s clearance sale. Prices cannot be equalled elsewhere. J. S. Buck, general agent, and J. J. Cox, state agent, for the Deering machine works, have been here for several days in interest of that concern. Everybody knows goods can be sold for less money for cash than on time. No favorites, no bad debts. Come and see us. Laßue Bros’, cash grocery. Wilson Rickets, of Medaryville, Mo., a resident of this county twenty-six years ago, was in Rensselaer Saturday, shaking hands with old friends. We would again be pleased to hear from all of our old correspondents over the county. We appreciate it and want it. The busy season is about over for farmers and you can gather up the news of your community and send them in. Don’t forget this.

Try B. F. Fendig for school supplies. Price those laces at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Cheap. Miss Hettie King, of Chicago, is here visiting friends. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. The Morocco fair occurs on September 12,13, 14 and 15, 1893. Miss Rose Shriver, of Harper, Kansas, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Leslie Clark. Wanted—To rent, a four or five room dwelling house. Call at this office at once. Orders for job work or advertising in Wheatfield may be left at Fendig’s drug store. The Northwestern Indiana Conference of the M. E. church met at Laporte this week. School bags, pencil-sharp-eners, pencils, pens and penholders at B. F. Fendig’s. Kokomo is to have a $50,000 stamping works for the manufacture of pressed tinware. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. A Mr. Roselle, of lowa, is at present visiting with his sister, Mrs. Margaret Hoover, south of Rensselaer. Childrens’ school suits, best you ever saw, from SI.OO to $3.00 per suit, at the old reliable Chicago Bargain Store. On last Monday B. F. Ferguson sold near 200 accident policies to persons going to Indianapolis and Chicago. Time and money the two great elements in commercial life, are saved by dealing at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery. When you come to the show drop in and see our immense new stock of clothing. Chicago Bargain Store.

Quite a number of the schools over the county commenced last Monday. The city schools here commence next Monday, September 11th. Chas. G. Hammond returned from Kansas last Friday night, where he has been for the past four weeks, looking after his farm interest there. Guernsey cattle and grades for sale. One cow, 2 heifers, 4 graded heifers, 2 young cows, 2 bulls and 40 head of young sheep.—D. L. Turner, 4 miles north of Remington. 9-4 t Harry Wade, wife, and son, George, of Hammond, who have been visiting friends and relatives here for the past two weeks, have returned home. The demand for currency has drained the sub-treasury at San Francisco of that class of funds for the first time. Some of the currency has been in the vaults ten years. Mrs. B. F. Ferguson returned from a visit to friends in White and Tippecanoe counties, last Saturday. Mrs. F., whose health has been very poor, is improving somewhat.

Cook & Whitby have brought their entire circus and menagerie to this country, and reproduce their performance as in the Palace Garden, London. At Rensselaer, Friday, Sept. 15th. There will be a social at the residence of Cale Hopkins, on next Saturday evening, September 9th, for the benefit of Vaughn church. Ice cream and cake will be served. All are cordially invited. Dr. I. B. Washburn, the optician, handles the celebrated Trolley’s Kohinoor eye glasses, the best made. Attention * is called to the ad, “See Again as in Youth,” in another place in this paper. A greater portion of the corn crop in this locality has been frost bitten and presents a very dead appearance. Some few farmers are already cutting up their crop in order to save it from further nipping. San Pierre has a resident who has never been outside the county since settling in that place at an early day. He went to Knox recently, and, because he could not get home the same day, walked the streets all night rather than go to a hotel.

Smoke the Mendoza cigar. High school books, a full line at B. F. Fendig’s. Great value at a small cost at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R. Nowels & Son. The state association of wool growers has been in session this week at Indianapolis. John T. Haley, of Kentland, was a pleasant caller at this office yesterday. Closing out sale of summer stock of millinery at Mrs. Lecklider’s from now on. Ladies’ waists and slippers at about one-half price to close out. Chicago Bargain Store. Taxes are still levied on a silver basis, but when you go to pay them you do so on a gold basis. When short of cash remember Laßue Bros’. They make a small amount of money go a long ways. You can trade at Laßue Bros’, cash grocery and go home feeling that the money is well invested. Monday, the 4th, was Labor Day, and was justly observed in the larger towns and cities throughout the country. Hemphill & Honan are selling out as fast as possible, going to quit business. .Now is the time to secure bargains for cash.

Shoes and clothing for the thousands at the old reliable one price cash store. Chicago Bargain Store. There will be a Sunday school basket dinner at the new barn of John B. Sayler, five miles west of Rensselaer, on the Bunkum road, on next Sunday, Sept. 9th. Indiana will have a day at the fair, fix-President Harrison, Senator Vorhoss, J. Whitcomb Riley and others will participate in the exercises. The date will be between Sept. 14 and 20. Recent advices from Washington sound like the departments, in making out their pay rolls, had given silver the Keeley treatment. In other words they paid the employes in gold. Peter J. Clark, of Lafayette, convicted and sentenced to prison for complicity in the Lafayette riots and who fled from the city, was back one night last week and settled with his bondsmen. George Strickfadden has been granted a liquor license to do business in the store room of C. C. Roberts, which has been, for the past three yeats, used by Hammond Bros, as an implement house. At the regular services at the F. W. Baptist church, last Sunday evening, Rev. A. M. Simonton tendered his resignation as pastor of that church. He has not decided just where he will locate.

The question of when is it going to rain (?) seems to bean important one. The drought seems to be general throughout this section, while other localities have been blessed with that cooling potion. A portion of the brick work on the cistern at the southwest corner of the court house yard, had to be torn out, on account of its being so near the surface of the ground that it had to be lowerered several Inches. Misses Kate and Ella Robertson have recently opened dressmaking parlors in Mrs. Matie Hopkins’ rooms on the corner of Front and Washington streets. Ladies will find it to - their interest to give them a trial. Itp Please bear in mind that if you want to read an interesting, breezy newspaper, you must contribute what few news items you happen to be acquainted with, to that periodical. Should you know something interesting let us have it and we promise you*a better paper. Sam Ford, of Monon, was arrested the other day for violating a town ordinance prohibiting the selling of wares on Sunday. The squire decided the law unconstitutional and discharged the defendant.—Monticello Democrat.