People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — The County News. [ARTICLE]

The County News.

GOODLAND. Oats 24@27c. Corn 33@34c. Butter 27@30c. Butterine 25c. Farmers are husking corn. Mrs. J. W. Oswald visited at Wabash last week. Mr. and Mrs. Butler are at the White City this week. The Central House is receiving a new coat of paint. Mrs. Bockotno was quite sick the latter part of last week. A social club has been organized in Goodland. Who is the patentee?

Au interesting concert was given at McCurry's Hall on Wednesday evening. Elmer- Bringham has gone to the Cherokee country to look alter some land interests. The C. & I. C. announces one cent a mile to Chicago October 20th. That’s nothing. The Monon and Big Four beats this <every day the sun rises. When Prosecutor Brown gets a.httleXartlwr into the case of Condon v, Goodland he may learn that Poland’s cow was hot tied in the corporation limits of Goodland at all. A new corn husking machine, is gladdening the hearts of the j farmers over in Benton bounty. It’s tor husking shook corn and is at work on Thos. Gratner’s place southeast of town. Mrs Lumsdon, of Chicago, 'was in town a few hours one'day last week, the guest of Mr. D. M;ihoney. Mrs. L. has been a property owner of GoodVand for about twenty years, but never seen her possessions until a few ■days ago.

'our school enumeration last summr showed more than four ‘hundred school children within the corporation limits, while thje Hirst month of school thh ’clYroll•ment shows but -27-1. This shows that there -are about 130 or 140 ’ChiMren who do not go to school. The gauib of base ball between Yhe business (?) men of Kentland l tiwd Goodland, played at this place last Friday, resulted in a glorious victory Tor the home club. Two things are very evident. One is that Kerivkwd don’t know how to treat A base ball club when they 'go there to play ball. And Another is they can play ball better after the son sinks behind the western lx?r xoh, Score 15 to 23. A couple of boys over in Benton county tried the experiment of shooting at an old can alongside of the road conta’nyUg dynamite that had been used in blasting rock. The result was very satisfactory so far as the shot was concerned, for it hit the can plump, but was very disastrous to the boys. Both were severely, but not fatally hurt by pieces of old scraper that lay near and pieces of the can. It is a question in the minds of the boys whether all the scraper has come down yet or not. Dr. Lovett was called to attend the injured boys and reports them ■doing well.

The Midway Plaisance people Save our town another entertainment one day last week. This time the row and arrest was precipitated by a couple of the inhabitants of the strange village. A Mrs. Tubarty had one Mrs. James Currens arrested for calling her bad names, and that she was afraid Mrs. C. would at some future time take her life. Mrs. C. was arraigned before Esq. Hamlin, whereupon Mrs. Tnberty swore she could whip a whole . regiment of Curtens. After five or six hours of deliberation by twelve tried and true •men, they acquitted the defendant, while the jury lingered near •break of day with only a glass of cold water and one sack of pop corn to stay their stomachs. A braying ass at Brook that has got an idea that he is employed to do the wind work for ••all the ex soldiers of this county, •assisted by the editor of the Kentland Enterprise, takes us to task for saying, a few weeks ago, that the badges worn at the reunion bore a lie upon their face. This blathering romancer at Brook, who is as ignorant of human nature as he is of human history, knows that in the mind of the American patriot no S. of V. organization will ever take the place of those who bore the blunt of battle and made this republic the grandest the sun ever shown on. Only in the minds of such men as the coffee cooler at Brook do such ideas e .er have a place. And only by i consistences as he and the En 4P»rprise man ® wires are the ex

soldiers made to take a back seat and give to those that are only sons of veterans places of honor in a county reunion. We can only repeat what we said before, that those badges worn upon that occasion bore upon their face an infamous lie, called so by all honest men* who wore the

blue.

JACk THE RIPPER.