People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Page 8

The County News.

GOODLAND.

No rain in this section yet. Farmers are finishing gathering corn. . Charley Duntel’s residence has received a new coat of paint. Mr. John Sapp was on the sick list a few days ago. Mrs. Pei ter was quite sick the latter part of last week. Mr. James Wilson, an old exsoldier. is lying dangerously ill with dropsy. ••J. 11. Arrick, cigar maker" is the sign that decorates the front of Cougar's restaurant. Rev. N. F. Jenkins came over to Good land, Monday, to shake hands with his many friends. Mrs. R. T. Moody returned from an extended trip with friends in Wisconsin. Ben llices has taken his old position as brakeman on the LaCross division of the C. & I. C. Mrs. Jesse Lovett, of Chicago, daughter of Senator Gilman is spending a few days at home. Mrs. Buckman, living in tile south partoftown. has sold her horn .• property to Mrs. Plumer, living five miles south of town. 'The town board met in regular session Monday night but transacted no busiues of general interest. Mrs. W. A. Hopkins and daughter, of Garden City, Kans., is visiting friends at Goodland, this week. Mrs. B. C. Kent, died at the home of her parents in Star, Ohio, Nov. Ist, of quick cunsum})! ion.

There is some talk of another spelling school being inflicted on this community soon. Who has lost the prize they won last winter? M rs. Wrat ten. the old lady murdered near Washington this state has a nephew living in Washington township this county. Ono residence over on Midway came near .going up in Hames and smoke, last Sunday. It was tin residence of Robert Duker ami caught from a defective line. We notice the practice of al lowing boys to jump on and o of through coal trains, and evm by some of the passenger trait conductors, is allowed at both the C. & I. C. and Pan Handle depots in this place. The law now makes it compulsary on all train men, to see that this is no.i done at depots along their lines as well as making it a fineable offence by the boys. Will Prosecutor Brown please call the next grand jury’s mind to these facts?

Any set of young men oryoung ladies, who will follow that old tradition of Halloween games are not deserving of« any great amount of credit, the old merry making time that was first observed m the fourth century in Germany by gathering toga.her all ilk* old cabbage and til ng them up after the good he; ds had been quietly stored away has nothing in it arid should n eet wall no approval by well bred A.merican--. wmug or old. J ack the Ripper.

FAIR OAKS.

Leander u s.er is our new postmastr r. Joseph Burns is building a i. ew barn. Levi Hodge, of Fair Oaks, has been visiting Geo. Markin, near Aix. Alf Reed and son are plastering Thus. Mallet's new stow room. 11. D. Spurgeon, of Goodland made Fair Oaks a Hying iri} last Mond ly. Frank Cooper has bought th. Wesley Wilson property and will move there in the near fu ture. James and Samuel Cliftoi have leased the H. D. Spurgeoi property and intends moving a soon as possible. John Blomburg had his show der dislocated last week by hay press. Dr. Wellsis the a tending physician. It is reported that Wm. Resell, of Firman, has succeedec in getting a divorce from Li wife who resides in Chicago. Wm. Hurley has been nog. Gating for the Henry Thorn t property. If successful he w> o'/, upy it the coming winter. Jr Abigail Johnson La I ‘ the Martin Snov. uroo , ■! Wm. Deuton and Jonn Mast rson has begun to mak.' in.pro ■ .meats. j>a • 1 W insiaw, c f V<- • nrcburg, Alii •!. .rt.y ,i, ■

\ Blomburg will i ;ve into his new I house. John Casey has bought the Claus Greeve property in Fair I Oaks. True blue.

GILLAM.

1 Mu. Gifford has added to his list of farms in Gillam, that of Jas. Lewis and Mr. Leobuld. Rev. Hoover, of the WheatI field circuit, preached at West ; Vernon school house last Sun- ' day night. I Miss Esther Sebring, of Medaryville. was the guest of her i cousin Miss Grace Rockwell last i week. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Rathfon. who have been visiting their son and daughter in Chicago, also attending the World's Fair, have returned home. Mr. Thomas Evans and Paris Fre.shour, of Kansas, are seen in our midst, greeting old friends they have not seen for fifteen years. Rev. Frank Campbell preached at Independence Chapel last Sunday afternoon and is visiting friends and relatives in Gillam but will soon return to his home in Nebraska, where he is laboring in the ministry. About sixty relatives and friends partook of a bounteous dinner at Chas. Querry’s last Saturday. They intend movfng to Hildreth, 111., next week, where they will make their future home. Misses Millie Robinson. Florence Robinson. Rilla Osborne, Ella Freshour, Lou Robinson and Eva Hess, who have been teaching ‘in other townships, spent Saturday and Sunday at their respective homes. Teachers' second institute will be held at Independence school house one week from next Saturday. Visitors are welcome. Vesta.

BLACKFORD.

The infant child of Geo. Markins was buried last Friday. Ike McCurtain spent Sunday with the old folks at home. Blackford is on the boom. It has two stores and a blacksmith shop. Mr. Gifford is out looking if ter his ditching interests for a few days. Hurley, the Blackford merchant. made a Hying tri}) to Chicago last week. He is a hustler. Geo. Snow had a child severely burnt last week. Mrs. Snow was also badly burnt trying to rescue the child. Mrs. Wallace Nichols is visiting relatives and friends in Brookston. Miss Hattie accompanied her remaining over Sunday the guest of Miss Grace French. Charley Reed, one of Blackford's promising young men has jpened a store in the first house east of the post office. He has a nice stock of fresh goods. He will handle all kinds of farm produce, will also buy game and fur. Give him a share of your patronage and he will try to please you. Aunt Minerva.

STOUTSBERG.

Arthur Williams has lately moved to the berg. Mr. and Mrs. Tabler are rejoicing over a “big” young son. Mrs. L. P. Shirer is again convalescent after a serious spell of sickness. Mrs. Hancock, of Chicago, has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. J. Heil. Mrs. Tanner, of Englewood, 111., has been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. S. D. Clark. The Methodist revival is meeting with success as there have been two or three joiners up to this writing. The people are waiting with “not a little patience,” for the new merchant that was to come here. Mrs. Laura Clark, the present >ost mistress, is soon to move > Wheatfield. Miss Bertha frubbe will be the new post mistress. Joseph Maloney, Robert Manmn. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Maloney ■ f Tefft, and Isaac Fisher and Ella Draste visited friends in the >ery last Sunday. The remains of the little daugher of Mr. and Mi's. Crowell, of Chicago, was brought here for interment in the Meyer's cemetery. The parents have the sympathy of their friends in their sad bereavement. Berg.

FIRMAN.

Ollie Greenfield, of Kansas, is /isiting here. A ' 1 d! J L . L'-m )r

Jessie Nowels and James Cox visited in Firman Sunday. Chas. Rowen has bought a farm near Firman. A ten pound girl at Gideon Miller’s. James McClanahan will move into his new residence this week. Literary at Rosebud next Monday evening. It meets every two weeks. The dredge will complete the main ditch to the river this week. There are about four miles yet to be completed. John Kimble is building a residence on the land recently purchased of Jasper Kenton. He will move here from Barkley township in a few weeks. A McCoy addressed a small audience at Firman last Friday evening on the subject of dairying. The audience would have been larger had the appointment been sufficiently advertised. We have every reason to believe that a post office will soon be established at Firman. * # *

They're After Him.

From the Brook correspondence in last week’s Kentland Enturjuise, we take the following, which we hope will be a full explanation for the articles written by our Goodland corres>ondent. We believe that the latter is a little too bitter in denouncing all the various secret and charitable organizations and we hope in the future that his criticisms may not be so harsh. “Jack the Ripper, of Goodand, who is writing the principal items of Newton county, for the People's Pilot, evidently is trying to make the people beeive, he is a friend to the soldier and an enemy to the Sons of Veterans. Now, as 'far as we find out, he who is an enemy to one is no friend of the other. In an article of a few weeks ago he says that “a few stragglers from Goodland attended the reunion at Brook, but the better class of citizens attended the Remington fair; now, the old soldiers of Good land were the “stragglers” that came from that place. Jack the Ripper and his “pals” we suppose took in the fair. He still persists in saying that the badges worn by the Sons of Veterans at Brook, bore a lie. Prominent G. A. R. men tell us that the Sons of Veterans were asked to take part in the reunion at Kentland, Oct. Ist, and 2nd. 1889. They took part and volunteered to do guard duty at different parts of the grounds and compel such men as Jack the Ripper to go through the gates. This was the first reunion. The next year at Morocco the same invitation was given the Sons of Veterans of the county, which was accepted, and the boys stood guard again allthough the night. We would like to ask Mr. J. T. Ripper if he commanded, or was in, that famous brigade that stole the camion used by the old soldiers at Morocco, and wheeled it into the pit southeast of the grounds. This was the second reunion. The next year at Kentland the invitation was again given the 8. of V. to meet with the old soldiers and again they took part. This was the third reunion. The next year the old soldiers asked the S. of V. to meet wita them in Goodland, again they met which was the fourth time. At the reunion held at Brook. Aug. 23 and 24th. 1893, the S. of V. took a very prominent part. The G. A. R. asked the S; of V. to secure a speaker for the day. They secured the Hon. Chas. B. Landis, of Delphi. Every one knows that Mr. Wickersham, of Goodland, whQ was chairman of the G. A. R. committee on speaker, had the name of Chas. Landis, placed on the program as speaker for the first day. This was the fifth reunion of the S. of V. in Newton county, and if Jack the Ripper writes again that those badges bore a lie, we say” that he himself is a liar, and is held as such by all G. A. R. men of the county. As to the “braying ass” which he says resides at Brook, all we have to say about that, is, his mind is not capable of judging anything about the aforesaid animal, therefore he writes of it. When a man gets so low as to be continually accusing the wives and daughters of old soldiers of wearing a badge containing a lie, that man does not deserve the respect of civilized people. When he stoops so low as to abuse the W. 0. T. U., or any kindred organization, he had better not speak again until the echo of his voice dies out for fear that he will think it is a braying ass from a neighboring village” James W. Douthit tvas in Chi- • I I '■ ” on 1 ’ '□ • ’

WHO IS IT? Same Strange Documents Found In a Hay Stack. j .Vo fine Yet Heeu Found .tn to The 'leaning of Them. On last Tuesday afternoon, I while the men who are running :E. A. Aldrich’s hay press at James Creviston’s. on the old i Burgman farm, about one mile i east of town, in pitching hay off 'of a stack to the press, discov- ■ cred an agent’s canvassing book | imbedded in the hay. It was a sample copy of the “World’s Columbian History,” and on the subscription pages in the back part of the book were found some queer inscriptions. Among them was the following, which is certainly a mystery, as no clue has been found that shows where anything has occurred according to the story told by the inscription. It reads as follows: Notice. Notice. To whoever finds this book: If you will look 100 feet south and about 50 feet east, you will lind the dead body of a man 5 feet, 11 inches high, dark hair, smooth face, weight about 180. Has on brown suit of clothes and is from Chester, 111. Write description to newspapers at Chester and let them know that he died with his boots on. For any further information, inquire of the secret band in all large cities. Hold post mortem and decide whether he died of love, heart disease, or bullets. P. H. Dore. To say that the men who found the above were surprised would be telling it lightly. An immediate search revealed nothing that woutd give any possible clue as to the writer of this strange message, or why the book had been placed where it was found. The finding of the book called to the mind of Mr. Creviston that he had seen a strange man in the vicinity of the hay stack some two weeks ago, but thought nothing of it at the time. Near the point indicated in the message as where the body would be found, is a large clump of grass and it was thought that probably there might be something there, but upon a thorough investigation not even the faintest impression of anyone having died there with his boots on, either of love, heart disease, bullets or anything else could be found. Letters have been written to Chester, asking about such a person as is described above, and it is hoped that something may be found that will clear up the mystery which is surrounding the case. This calls to memory • the circumstances attached to a little happening that occurred in that part of the country several years ago. The body of a dead infant was found in a rudely made coffin, and the finder hurried to town to tell of his ghastly discovery to the coroner. The coroner went out the next morning, but every trace of the mysterious death had been removed and not even the faintest clue was left to tell what had become of the child.

Serious Accident.

Joseph Groom, living about three and one-half miles northeast of this place, near the iron bridge, met with a sad misfortune last Saturday afternoon. W bile driving home from town the horses scared at something and started to run, when to his dismay the lines broke, giving the horses full sway. Then 'a single-tree broke, and that caused the tongue to drop to the ground, which overturned the buggy, throwing Mr. Groom out and breaking both bones of his right leg, between the ankle and knee. Dr. Alter was called and set the injured bones and at present the patient is doing nicely.

According to Prof. Hicks, we will have the following kinds of weather for November: “About the 2d and 3d, look for higher temperature and secondary storm movements. The 7th to 11th is a marked storm period during and about which, suffering and loss on land and sea will result, where foresight and care are not exercised. Snow and sleet to the north. A severe cold wave will spread over the country, lasting up to reactionary days, on and touching 14th and 15th. The 19th to 23d is the next regular storm period. It is near the center of a Venus period, and may be counted on for violent storms of wind, rain and snow. Thunder and lightning south. See if you do not hear of disasters on the seas—ships wrecked and lives lost. A very cold wave up to the 25th and 26th. Month ’."’th winter wind

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AFTER TWO YEARS

Mrs. Henry Wood, of Rensselaer, Regains her Voice. There is nothing that brings so much joy as a pleasant surprise. This is certainly the Feelings of Mrs. Henry Wood, of this place, who, for the past two years had not spoken aloud, losing the entire control over the vocal organs, not being able to speak above a whisper, and who now can talk as well as any one. She has been a sufferer from different diseases for a long time,and to this is attributed the cause of the disappearance of her voice. Some time since she went to Chicago to take treatment for her ailments and seemed pleased with the work of the physicians, and since her return home has repeatedly felt a kind of a loosening up of the cords of the throat. On last Monday afternoon, while reading a chapter from the bible •to herself, she felt the loosening sensation again. A thought came to her to try and read the chapter aloud. To her surprise her voice had fully returned and she could speak out with ease. "When the family came home and she spoke to them, they could not beleive their ears, so much was their surprise. Her voice is rather rough, at present, but she has as perfect control over it as she ever had. This is certainly a welcome thing for the lady and we are glad she has been so fortunate.

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue: Zach Stanley, Rensselaer $ 1 06 F. J. Gant, \ irgie 50 Thos. F..Maloney. Tefft 1 00 John Humes, Blackford 50 John Swartz. Remington 25 Geo. Stalbaum. Medaryville . 1 00 W. H. Meyers, Blackford 2 00 NEW SUBSCRIBERS. John E. Sayers, Remington 1 00 Elmer Pullens, Medaryville 1 00 l3ff“No name will appear in the above list wheb otherwise requested by the subscriber Bill Nye says: “Go where you will in this country to-day and you wfill undoubtedly find men talking about the tariff and tax on raw material who haven’t had a mouthful of raw material or any other kind in the house for weeks, except as their wives earned it and brought it home to them. This country is full of men who have thought so hard for the common weal that the seats of their trousers shine like the dome of the Massachusetts state house.”

We learn that our brass band is rather on the decline. What’s the matter, boys'? There is nothing like a good band of music. Everybody enjoys it and more interest should be taken in its organization and then we can have a first class band. Other towns have good bands that during the summer season, give out dooi’ concerts for the enjoyment of the public. c ’ ?'; "; r. P People’s P'JPT fd'Jv Q ‘PII ~

Wonderful Success Obtained by Using Herb Remedies in Treating Chronic Disease. Bask ' MAN-O-WA. WHO IS HE? He Is the Great Mian Doctor He Is the benefactor of humanity. He is tlie well known Herb Doctor who has cured so many suffering people around Rensselaer , during the past two years. How can ne, cure people expected to die? How can he cure those terrible Chronic diseases with which so many are afflicted? By i using a new system of medicine—new to the white race, but well known and hundreds of years old to the Indians. His medicines. over’JJW in number, are not poisonous drugs but the natural sweetness of the earth. Sick people are doctored even by self styled specialists on poisonous mineral drugs. If healthy people tried to live on them they , would certainly die. How then, can the sick expect to live on them? The best foods ftp’ man or beast are vegetable, therefore they ought to be and are the best medicines for the sick. Dr. MAN-O-WA only uses vegetable medicines, composed of roots, barks, gums and herbs which prepared into a tea. will nourish the body and make the blood pure and healthy, by drawing all poison from the system and restoring health, strength and vitality. The doctor has strong indorsements from his many friends in Jasper county and in fact from all over the state. U. C. Titus, ex-sheriff of Boone county, Inti.,: Our physicians could neither give us any encouragement nor the boy relief. Dr. Man-o-Wa. m ade a thorough examination and prepared treatment for him, and through iiis constant and scientific treatment outbaity boy has been saved to us. Mrs. Jennie Ashley. Frankfort. Ind.:l was a great sufferer with dyspepsia, neuralgia, catarrh of throat and eves, nervous debility, ami after taking two months’ treatment I was completely cured. Mrs. E. H. Spivey. Cyclone, Ind.,: I had been a miserable sufferer for years. I had severe catarrh of throat, with complete loss of voice; could only speak in a whisper; was having chills and fever; was also a constant sufferer from diseases peculiar to my sex. After taking four mouths’ tieatment I was completely cured. Mary Hopkins. Frankfort. Ind.: My life was miserable. I was only too anxious to die and get relief. I could only get ease when under the influence of laudanum. After five months’ treatment I have been cured of opium habit and am enjoying life as I have not done before for years Joseph Culler, Harmony. Ind.: After beginning yonr treatment 1 improved wonderfully, as I had been told my ease was incurable. After three months’ treatment I find that I can do as much work as the average man of my age. MAN-O-WA, THE INDIAN HERB DOCTOR has successfully treated many ethers in this section wlio were afflicted with Catarrh, Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bladder Disease Heart Trouble. Epilepsy. Rheumatism, Syplilis, Spermatorrhea. Night Emissions. Nervous Debility. Female Weakness, Bronchitis, Wasting and Chronic Diseases, which only a skillful specialist'can pure. Are you discouraged? Have you thought you could not get well? The Doctor knows better than you whether you can or not. Call and see him. He can tell your disease, at once. If he can do this he knows how to doctor you. If he can cure or relieve your suffering let him do so. His examinations are tree. He will plainly tell you just what can be done for you. MAN-O-WA will be at the Mukeever House in Rensselaer on Wednesday, Nov. 15,1893 one day only and return every four weeks. Terms including medicine $3 to #8 per month. Address, MAN-O-WA INDIAN MED. Co. 96'/4 South Illinois st. Indianapolis.

Jas. Norris and wife, are both on the sick list. The former is section boss on the Monon at this