People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

New millinery goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Leslie Clark and wife spent Sunday w r ith friends at Goodland. ' Advertised letters: Mr. J. A. Conder, Oliver Stiffler, J. Q. Walters. Mrs. W. J. Oram, who has been visiting friends here for several days, returned to her home in Goodland, last Sunday. A special excursion by the Cincinnati Post, one of the best newspapers in the west, passed through here Monday bound for the World’s Fair. The docket, of cases for the coming circuit court, at the present time, is rather slim, there being but few and most of whose of minor importance. Mrs. Lecklider has just returned from Chicago, and no doubt has the largest and best line of fall and winter millinery goods were shown in this market Und her prices are remarkably low. You • should see her before buying elsewhere.

One of the most pleasing events of the past week was the surprise pound party given in honor of Rev. Simon ton and family, of the F. W. Baptist church, on last Monday night. There were about thirty-five persons present and a royal good time was had by all present.

John W. Darner, living about ten miles west of Medaryville, was a pleasant caller at this office one day last week and left that which alw r ays delights the printer. Mr. Darner was a loser by the recent fire in that section to the amount of over one hundred dollars. He says great damage w r as done by the fire.

What is the reason that Rensselaer cannot have a good lecture course for the coming winter. There is no better way of securing good, legitimate entertainments than in this manner, and another thing, it shows the advancement of the citizens toward a higher point in that line. Entertainments under the guidance of a lecture course are always of a high order and are also greatly beneficial.