People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.