People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

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—«- 11 InCUTl n CUT PRICE SALE CONTINUED! 1 1 St- Having purchased at the Bankrupt Sale of James H. Walker & Co., of Chicago, a i\r - • I Blankets and H forts, Ladies, 'and Children’s Uii-ls |S IMMENSE jderware, and the|j BE /finest stock of 3 | GDDDSIf Ever Brought to This Market! J*~: We are enabled to cut prices below former H’4 WHOLESALE ■ VALUES M| ft~And thus insuring our cus- ftfH Rgr nnntp3 tomers a saving of over vv3 lul P. S.—Our Mr. Leopold is in the city, by invitation, pur<~J his clothing for CASH ONLY, of the of Charles P. Kellog, which goods will be in by thettjS B~dime this paper is issued.

MONON TIME TABLE. > SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Mail and Express, daily.... .10:40 AM. No. 5 Mail and Express, da11y....11:33 A. M. Nb. 39-Milk Accoiu., daily, 6:21 P. M. No. 3—Night Express, dally 10:37 P.M. No. 43—Local Freight 2:50 P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 36—Maf1..... 5:40 A M. No. 40—Milk Accotn., daily 7:37 A.M. No. B—Mail 7:55 P.M. No. BOMail ..... ..3:27 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight. 0:25 A.M.

this space will be occupied by ellis * murray for thirty*six issues of this paper. EF*Watch for next week’s ad.

A teachers’ examination was held last Saturday. Buy your coal oil and gasoline of Charley Simpson. Late fall and winter styles in millinery at Mrs. Leckliders’. John Hudson, of Goodland, spent Sunday here with friends. A traveling dentist held forth at the Makeever House last week. Clarence Lecklider has a fine line of installment goods. Easy payments. ‘ ‘Crown Fountain Pens. ” Pens of all kinds repaired. Crown Pen Co., Chicago, IIK Orders for job work or advertising in Wheatfield may be left at Fendig’s drug store. Philip Blue has moved his family into the house formerly occupied by Rev. J. G. Campbell.

01TLT SI.OO PER YEAR.

New millinery goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Only five more weeks of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Charlie Simpson furnishes the best of coal oil at your door for lowest prices. J. P. Hammond commenced teaching the Fair Oaks school last Monday morning. Mrs. J. W. Braddock and little daughter, of Remington, visited friends here last week. The enemies and traitors of this nation are shrewd enough to operate according to law. A hogshead of fluid, the kind used in the city’s chemical fire engine, was received this week. Bert Marion was at Remington last week acting in capacity of cashier of the Citizens’ Bank there. □The rich are wealthy, but their money goes no further at Laßue Bros’, than the poor man’s money. J. H. Green, of Remington, was in town last Saturday on business and madb this office a pleasant call. Buy your goods on the installment plan in payments of from 25 cents to $1 per week, of Clarence Lecklider. C. H. Erganbright, the veterinary surgeon, who has been a resident of this place, has removed to Delphi. October 9th is “Chicago day” at the World’s Fair, and the windy city is making elaborate preparations for a big time. C. Vanatta has moved here from Momence, 111., and has established a Singer sewing machine agency for this county. A new paper, styled “Now and Then,” is soon to be published at Medaryville, with A. R. Bradbury, of Chicago, as editor. Scarlet fever has been raging in the yicinity of Medaryville for the past three weeks, but at present the spread of the disease has been checked to a considerable extent.

RENSSELAER. IND., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1893.

The building which C. W. RobI erts is preparing for Geo. Strickfaden to befused as a saloon, will soon be ready for occupancy. For a good smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. The World’s Fair traffic on the Monon still continues on the increase. Trains filled to overflowing pass over the road every day. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. The Porter county circuit court convened last Monday. The docket contains over 850 cases this term, the largest for several years. Call at Laßue Bros’, and get prices before buying. Charley Simpson has embarked in the coal x>il and gasoline business and is running a wagon to supply his customers. Give him a call. Smoke the Mendoza cigar. For sale everywhere. The recent rain during the past week has caused the earth to take on a mantle of green like unto spring time. This will make good fall pasture for the cattle. Our trust is in the people at Laßue Bros’, and yet our trade is cash. Misses Florence Hawkins, Fannie Jones and May Custer, and Daniel Biddle, of Remington, are students at the State University at Bloomington, this year. We buy low, and as we buy so we sell. Come and see. Laßue Bros’. In another column please notice and read the offer we make to the readers of this paper. Two papers one year for the price of one. A partial release of mortgage was filed this week with the county recorder for $13,625,000 by the P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad Co. to the Union Trust Company. We notice our hunters and sportsmencoming in with quite a number of squirrels, which shows that the drought did not affect that crop to any considerable extent.

Fire! Smoke! Water! - o<>> . w „ ~, , , Since the fire of the Halloran Block, we have discovered many DRESS GOODS and white BLANKETS slightly damaged by Dripping Water and Smoke. ?* /Bengaline Dress Goods marked SI.OO, now 50 cents. j I Fine All Wool, 40 inch Henrietta, formerly 68 cents, now 34 cents I ) j “ “ “ “ “ “48 “ “24 “ ' A I Blankets, 10 per cent, off of the presnt marked price. ( \ Five dozen 10 and 12 qt. Tin Pails that retailed from 15 to ’ / 1 25 cents, noxy selling at 10 and 12 cents apiece. ’ damaged by water and plasteying \ W| | Will be sold at cost in this great slaughter sale of goods. I SPECIAL On all of the immense new Fall Stock of Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Cloaks, Underwear, Gloves, etc. Come early, as this is no fake, but a genuine resale, at the reliable one price cash CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

Owing to the great increase in the passenger traffic on the Monon, the trains have invariably been late every day for the past few weeks. Quarterly meeting at the Free Will Baptist church next Saturday and Sunday. Opening ser mon Friday evening by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Humphrey’s Specifics cure without drugging, purging or reducing the system, and are in fact and deed the soverign remedies of the world. There > >ome consolation in knowing that times are not so black as they are painted. Why, goods were never as cheap as they are at Laßue Bros’. Sam Sparling, whose interesting letters have appeared in the columns of this paper is now at Halle A. S., Germany, where he will remain for some time. The Monon will make a rate of one cent per mile from stations on its line to Chicago on account of Chicago day at the World’s Fair, next Monday, October 9 th. The town of Muncie has at last been fully quarantined owing to the large number of cases of small pox, wnich has been prevalent there for the past ten weeks. 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 “Farmer’s Daughter” will be played at the Opera House on the 22th. The company comes highly recommended and as the play is one of the best, we may expect a good show. ‘'•Rensselaer Wilkes” is at the Chillicothe (Ohio) races this week. Reports from the races at the state fair last week, show that that horse made some good records which the stock farm is proud of. 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 Monticello woman recently lost her husband, his life being insured for t 2,000. The brokenhearted woman at once telegraphed her relatives in Ohio: “Jim died this week; loss fully covered by insurance.” Kentland has a man who has never deviated from voting anything but the straight Republicanticket, no matter what the dose was, he swallowed without a gag; also he never in his whole life accepted a complimentary ticket to an entertainment or show of any kind. Some queer things happen around that town.

iA Grand I People are learning the X profits made on merchan- •) dise. Thty are taKing 5 ’ advantage of JP ASSIGNS Mt£ I jHavEYou B ee p Th( ete! I it YeL? t£ I (• Don’t tarry too long, The goods •) (• are moving lively. Every day is a big 2 g day. Ten Clerks, and all Kept (• (• Busy. This weeK we are making 2 £• a Big Drive on •) | | L As the Stock is Still Large. 5 |We save you from 2 |2oto 50 per- cent | S on a Suit of Clothes. 2 ft SEE OUR —">• ~ 2 •) Line of Pants - - at $1.19 S L Single Coats that actually cost $4 2 (• to $5, for 2.50 to $3.50. Z (• The people that biiy the goods get (• (• the profit. Don’t forget that the Ralph 2 (• Fendig Stock is in the hands of an •) (• assignee and must be sold. 2

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