People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

VOL. 1 11. OILY 81.00 PER TEAR.

i t - LEOPOLD’S I rCUT PRICE SALE CONTINUED!*/ _ -V* Having purchased at the Bankrupt Sale of James H. / j~ Walker & Co., of Chicago, • Ba at - .uni /Blankets and Coni-/; B (forts, Ladies, Grents’S B jand Children’s Un-S zz IMMENSE I jderware, and the/ B /finest stock of 2 % dress goods! B Ever Brought to This Market! S ... -'V We are enabled to cut prices below former |**s WHOLESALE! VALUES t*>| thus insuring our cus- JkJ PQ f tomers a saving of over IPU'S ® VI UUllai^ P. S.—Our Mr. Leopold is in the city, by invitation, his clothing for CASH ONLY, of the Bankrupts of Charles P. Kellog, which goods will be in by this paper is issued. ££. ° • ° • • • • • s

MONON TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Mail and Express, daily 10:4!) A M. No. s—Mail and Express, daily.... 11:33 A. M. No. 30—Milk Accom., daily 0:21 P. M. No. 3—Night Express, daily 10:37 P.M. No. 45 —Local Freight 2:50 P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 36-Mail 5:40 A M. No. 40—Milk Accom., daily 7:37 A.M. No. 8-Mail • ....7:55 P.M. No. 30 Mail ~3:27 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight 9:25 A.M.

Smoke the Mendoza cigar. New millinery goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Overcoats were in good demand last Monday morning. Late fall and winter styles in millinery at Mrs. Leckliders’. The Monon sold 130 tickets to Chicago last Monday morning. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R. Nowels & Son. James Yeoman is in Chicago this week, attending the World’s Fair.

Mrs. Nora Garner, of Putnamville, Ind., is visiting her sister Mrs. I. A. Glazebrook. Geo. Murray, of Ellis & Murray, was in Chicago the first of the week on business. Orders for job work or advertising in Wheatfield may be left at Fendig’s drug store. Miss Maud Purcell is visiting Miss Hattie Phegley and other relatives in this township. The county Farmers’ Alliance has issued a call for a special meeting. See notice in another column. Buy your goods on the installment plan in payments of from 25 cents to $1 per week, of Clarence Lecldider.

J. A. McFarland and family, of Jordan township, are spending the week in sightseeing at the World’s Fair. Rev. James T. Abbott, a former resident of this place, but now of Oregon, is here among his many friends. Ike Glazebrook, the black--smith, will give $1 for the best ten ears of corn raised in the county. Bring it in.

Goodland has a cyclone club. What next? Smoke the Mendoza cigar. For sale everywhere. Miss Carrie Norris is visiting relatives near Morocco. The Pulaski county fair at Winamac w T ill be held October 10, 11, 12 and 13. John Brenner is preparing to build a new residence in Benjamin & McGee’s addition. Between a stubborn congress and a crying baby, Cleveland evidently has his hands full. The circuit court of Newton county convened last Monday and is grinding out legal grist. Chas. Yeoman has moved back to Rensselaer from Hammond. He will reside in town for the present. Advertised letters: Mr. H. B. Clark, Mrs. Nannie Mitchell, Mr. Howard Poling, Mr. James L. Smith. Rev. H. C. Keeley’s celebrated lecture next Sabbath evening in the Presbyterian church on “Atheism, or the Fool’s Creed.” Mrs. E. C. Bassick and Miss Minnie Walters, of Bridgeport, Conn., were the guests,of Mrs. Ludd Hopkins a few days last week. The defunct Otterbein Farmers’ Bank will pay fifty cents on the dollar. Those interested say they are satisfied to get thati amount. Charley Hammond shipped his household effects to Pratt, Kansas, last Saturday. He and his family left for that place Wednesday. This office has had a change of base and is now occupying the room south of where we were in the same building over A Leopold’s store.

A. Leopold will have the room recently occupied by the Pilot fitted up for an additional store room. His increased stock of goods demand more room. A thief entered the depot at Wadena one day last week while the agent was at dinner, broke open the money drawer and secured ?97. No clues.

RENSSELAER. IND., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.1893. "

For a good smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. Mrs. B. F. Ferguson has been ailing again, but is slightly convalescing at present. If you want to be satisfied with your bargains, always patronize the home merchant. The county commissioners spent two days this week in viewing the Gifford drainage district. Rev. H. C. Keeley will deliver a second lecture to men next Sabbath evening in the Presbyterian church on the subject, “Atheism, or the Fool’s Creed.” At the Makeever House, last Saturday evening, Rev. Ferguson united in marriage, Nelson Anderson, of Wolcott, and Miss Martha Beaver, of Milroy township. The five months old child of John Hodshire was buried at Weston cemetary last Tuesday afternoon. The funeral service was conducted at the house by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Send in your orders for job work to the Pilot. We have new type of all kinds and carry a first class stock of stationary and can do your work in a satisfactory manner at lowest prices. The acreage of wheat in this county for next year will no doubt fall short of that of previous years. The recent rains ,came too late to increase the amount sown to any extent.

Reports from different parts of the country say that the strawberry vines have all been killed by the recent drouth, which will certainly result in a failure of that crop next year. “Baz” Timmons, a former resident of Remington, was killed in a railroad accident last week near Wheeling, W. Va., and the body was received at Remingtoji for burial last Friday. He was twenty-two years old. 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 and her prices are remarkably low. You should see her before buying elsewhere.

Fire! Smoke! Water! ""■"~ Since the fire of the Halloran Block, we have discovered many DRESS GOODS and white BLANKETS slightly damaged by Dripping Water and Smoke. ,- *** <, * ,>l '* , » l * < * ■ » ■■■ nu 1 m M> ,,' IBengaline Dress Goods marked if 1.00, now 50 cents. \ V Tine All Wool, 40 inch Henrietta, formerly 08 cents, now 34 cents. I a dm } “ “ “ 48 “ “ 24 “ f iP/ '' Blankets, 10 per cent, off of the presnt marked price. Jjßt \y Fi ve dozen 10 and 12 qt. Tin Pails that retailed from 15 to fif > I ’ 25 cents, now selling at 10 and 12 cents apiece. 1 I A few Trunks damaged by water and plastering \ jf| I Will be sold at cost in this great slaughter sale of goods. I SPECIAL PRICES^ On all of the immense new Fall Stock of Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Cloaks, Underwear, Gloves, etc. Come early , as this is no falte, but'a genuine resale, at the reliable one price cash hou.se**%iP SDa ~~' CHSCACO BARGAIN STORE.

For Men.

A lecture on “Atheism, or the Fool’s Creed/’ at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath evening by Evangelist Keeley. Miss Mary Meyer is in Chicago this week studying styles, and will bring home a full line of fall and Avinter millinery. If you can afford to be annoyed by sick headache and constipation, don’t use DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for the«e little pill® will cure them. A. F. Long & Co. Dr. I. B. Washburn, the optician, handles tfre 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.

Those who saw the Odd Fellows’ parade in Chicago last Monday, say’ that Rensselaer had the best showing of memberk of any other lodge in the state. This certainly speaks well for the Iroquois. While ditching wide water on the Gaff ranch recently. Thomas Boll.y unearthed the skeleton of what evidently must have been a buffalo, as the skull shows the characteristics peculiar to that animal.—Morocco Courier. On the 10th inst. the barn of Guy Barnard, living near Fowler, was entered, and a fine Hambletonian mare, a buggy and two sets of harness were stolen. $75 reward has been offered for their return.—Kentland Democrat.

A great many persons who went to Chicago last Monday secured an accident policy in the Travelers’ Insurance Company, which is the best in the world. You can buy a ticket any day at Ferguson’s insurance office for only 25 cents.

Lewis Hamilton and Miss Mary Robinson, daughter of Geo. R. Robinson, of Hanging Grove township, were married at the bride’s home, on last Sunday evening, at eight o’clock. Rev. B. F. Ferguson, of this place, officiated.

On Thursday night of last w T eek fire broke out in the di’y grass that covered “Sunnyside,” and for a while quite a serious conflagration was apparent, and it attracted a large crowd of people to the scene. No damage was done except that of burning the grass. Sparks from a passing locomotive caused the fire. It has been often said, that what a boy can’t think of and attempt to do, there is no use for anyone else to try it. Ever since the circus was here almost every stable loft in town has been converted into a mimic arena. Last Saturday afternoon witnessed the parades of two rival companies upon our streets.

Rush -| Continues. % a The first week a grand $ success. Everybody is (« ? taking advantage of the S. J Fendig Assignee Sale - {You Can't Afford tof : # Miss It. m | • Every article in the housed J a leader. People from®< • adjoining counties havej • heard of it and are coming.*! ®Our force of CLEBKSjj • lias been increased % \ to TEN. g » *: Ibverybody waited upon promptly. ®< 9 Winter is upon us and the need of Overcoats, BlanKets and Woolens is (? 9 strongly impressed upon us. Whyl#: ® will you pay the profit when you can 9 buy them at cost or less. Everything % mariced out in plain figures. J | ® That were sl7, - now $11.50. 9 “ “ 12, - now 8.75. 9 “ “ 8, - now 4.95. l VESTS worth from 75c to $3, • now 25c to SI.OO. (« i Underwear that was sl, now 55c. % © —e" ® Remember the time is limited. RALPH FENDICTS © old stand. B. F. FEWDSC, Assignee. miMMHiIMMMMMMU

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