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

SURREY.

BY BILLY, THE UNKNOWN. Farmers are about done gathering corn. We understand they are building a, hay barn at Firman. 'Lyman Zea and his gang of hay pressers passed through here on their way to the Thompson ranch, Tuesday. Win. Floyd. Frank Hopkins. ’Genevieve Huffman, Mattie Robinson and others were the guests of the Lang family, Sunday. Geo. W. Peters, a prominent business man of Kniman, was in town Monday looking after his hay interests on Dr. Loughridge's farm. Mrs. S. V. Lang was at DeMotte, last Sunday, visiting her daughter who. is teaching the primary department of the schools there. Rumors, suppressed only by Ihe victim, are circulated that Surrey’s only merchant is to be engaged in a sort of matrimonial affair soon. Wonder if it is so. Geo. Jenkins, of Good land, received three car loads of fine sheep from Chicago, last Monday, which he took to his farm three miles east of Mt. Ayr, to be fattened. Markets steady for all kinds of produce. Prices as followsEggs 18c., butter 20c., chickens, young or old, 6c., ducks 7c., 1 urkeys not quoted on our markets but will bring about Bc.