People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — Than Ksgiving Serviee. [ARTICLE]

Than Ksgiving Serviee.

There will be union Thanksgiving service held at the Presbyterian Church in Rensselaer on Thursday. Nov. 30, at 10:30 a. m. Rev. R. D. Utter of the Methodist Church, will preach the Thanksgiving sermon assisted by Elder J. L. Brady of the Christian Church. Let the public observe this day and attend these services in compliance with the request of our cheif executives— the president and governor.

Mrs. William Stockton died at Wolcott, Sunday, Nov. 12th of typhoid fever. The deceased was born in Laguyra, South America, Jan. 1852. The same year her parents moved to Phildelphia, Pa.; in 1854 they came to Indiana and settled midway between Remington and Rensselaer. Her mother died soon after and she was taken to Grandma Welsh’s where she was reared-do womanhood, She was married to William Stockton in 1872. She was a member of M. E. Ch.urch of Wolcott, and leaves a hnsband,two daughters, two sons and many friends to mourn her loss. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. A few weeks ago a petition was circulated in Remington asking the county commissioners to assist in improving the roadway through the marsh at the north end of the gravel road between this place and Rensselar. Tuesday the commissioners agreed to pay for the building of one hundred rods of the worst part of the road, the balance of of the improvement to be made by Jordan tp. Bids will be received for the work and the job let next Tuesday. This road has beqn nearly impassable at times, and its improvement will meet with general approbation. —Remington Pres. Subscribe for the People’s Pilot, only One Dollar a year. Hon. M« M. Kilgore, president of the Miami County Farmers’ Institute, is in receipt of a letter from the secretary of the United States Sugar Syndicate, of New York. The sugar syndicate has in contemplation < beet-sugar refinery somewhere in Indiana, and is desirous of interesting the farmers of Indiana in the cultivation of the sugar beet, to the growth of which our soil and climate are very favorable.— Converse Journal.

Bayard Clark, of Lafayette, spent Sunday here with his parents. 1 Sharp says if he is lame it is no sign he is a tenderfoot. Thirty years behind the camera and still up with the times. Persons desiring anything out of the ordinary in the picture line, such as moving objects, several different positions and expressions of the same child or person on the same card, pictures taken at night of parties or families at their own home, etc., it might be well to consult him. W. E. McCord, of Martinsville, was here the first of the week on business. Harriet Field Walker, wife of Pierce Walker, of this place, died Friday morning of last week. The cause of her death was the bursting of a blood vessel in the stomach. She has been afflicted for some with lung trouble. The remains were interred at the Weston cemetery last Saturday afternoon. Funeral services were held at the residence by Rev. R. D. Utter. The grand lodge I. O. O. F. is in session at Indianapolis this week.

W. W. Warnes says that when he closes out his crop of celery he will have made about S9OO off of two acres and a half of low muck land. It is well mjmured and cultivated, and a crop of onions is taken off before the late celery goes in.—Plymouth Republican. The North-west Indiana Association of the Son of Veterans, met at Westville last week. Sam Price, of Nubbin Ridge, whose insanity case we menmentioned last week, was taken to the Lbngcliff asylum at Logansport last Tuesday. He was brought here the day before,