People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Have you got your taxes paid? Buy your coal oil and gasoline of Charley Simpson. Dr. Peregrime, of lowa, is here visiting friends and relatives. We buy low, and as we buy so we sell. Come and see. Laßue Bros’. For Sale—A breech loading, double barrel shotgun. Apply at Pilot Office. G. G. Garrison, P. L. Turner and J. A. Lamb, of Remington, spent Sunday here. Lee Randle, of Winamac, was here the latter part of last week, visiting friends and relatives. G. W. Wilcox, one of Surrey’s enterprising, business men, was a caller at this office last Monday. Electricity and the trolley cars have combined to cut down the market quotations for mules in Missouri. John Reynolds is at Nashville, and his horse “Somerset,” received second place in the sixth race there Tuesday.

The state health officer was called to Dunkirk the first of the week to investigate a report that smallpox had broken out at that place.

There was a basket social at Vaughn Chapel, last Saturday night, which was well attended by a number of Rensselaer young people. We have something nice and neat in the way of calling cards for the ladies, which we will print at very low prices. Call see them.

Charley Simpson has embarked in the coal oil and gasoline business and is running a wagon to supply his customers Give him a call.

Benton county is right “in it” on the gravel road question. Reports say that there are 120 miles of good gravel roads within its boundary lines. Corn gathering is now in full blast and farmers about here say that Nubbin Ridge has extended its southern boundry to the Marion and Jordan lines. There is some 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’. A family named Thornton, from Rensselaer, have moved here and occupy W. C. Kirk’s house, north of the Durand block.—Remington Press. Have you ordered all the reading matter you want for the winter? If not call at this office and we will take your name for any paper or magazine published. Back at my old stand, Long’s drug store, and prepared to .do all kinds of veterinary and dental surgery. Call and see me. T. H. Geer, D. V. S.

Cranks are making their appearance all over the country since the murder of Mayor Carter Harrison. They should have a dose of Indiana White Caps. We have another great offer to make our readers. If you will send us $2 we will send the Pt lot one year and fifty-two ten and tw’enty cent standard novels. Rev. Father Sorin, the founder of the University of Notre Dame, is seriously ill at South Bend. His health has been failing for some time and his recovery is doubtful.

When you are in need of a loan on your farm or town property, do not fail to call at A. McCoy & Co.’s bank. They are prepared to make loans at low rates on favorably terms. 20-4 t. We could not improve the quality if paid double the price. De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the best salve that experience can produce, or that money can buy. A. F. Long gc (Jo. A freight wreck near Gosport, at crossing of the Monon and I? & V. roads, caused the delay of travel on the Monon last Saturday. No great damage was done more than the derailing a number of cars. 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.