People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Smoke the Mendoza cigar. For sale everywhere. Don’t forget Miss Mary Meyer’s grand millinery opening next week. Our trust is in the people at Laßue Bros’, and yet our trade is cash.* • The first township teachers’ nstitute this year was held here ast Saturday. One day last week we noticed twenty-three diggers in Alf Donnelly’s potato patch. C. W. Coen has been repainting his residence, which gives it additional attractions. The pile driver is at work on the Monon between this place and Fair Oaks this vjeek. The public schools dismissed last Monday and Tuesday on account of the World’s Fair. We buy low, and as we buy so we sell. Come and see. Laßue Bros’. Several much needed sidewalks and street crossings have been put down ia the last few days. The holes often observed to appear in marble which has remained for a period in sea water are caused by an insect. County Superintendent Warren has moved his office from over the Citizens’ bank to the room above Bushey’s meat market.

The Cook & Whitby circus which exhibited here some time ago, closed the season at Waterloo, DeKalb county, last Saturday. Charley Simpson has embarked in the coal oil and gasoline business and is running a wagon to supply his customers. Give him a call. William Kepner, of Laclede, Illinois, is visiting his uncle. Henry Kepner, of this place. The former has been attending the World’s Fair. Almost every day we hear of some of the many large factories and shops which, owing to the past financial stringency, were compelled to shut down, have resumed. This is pleasant for the laboring man to hear.