People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FENOIfi'S FAIR. £ t We are offering a nice line of Dress Goods, Under- 4 wear, Blankets, Etc., at prices far below customary ML. figures. Having bought late we got full benefit >< of an over-stocked market. I his accounts for big cut on prices. That is the reason why we an sell you 44-inch Cloth, ah wool regular price, 70 cents; we cut to 47c. Dress Flannel “ . •* << «ja ~ ~!C English Cashmere J .. .< 33 ~ 1( (t '.J “ “ extra grade * *• “ 40 “ .. .. 7>,jJ' In Our Furnishing Department, (•) Cm) Gents; heavy white and gray Underwear regular priceioc; we cut to 30c ° Ladies'white Merino Underwear << *• inn. .. ~ on C ‘ Heavy Woolen Socks AT. JoHeavy Jersey Gvershirts .. .. J l4 r ’ ~'l Silk Embroidered ..V.*.*;;;;;; «, .. JU ’ .. .. ’ >J( '' bu All other goods correspondingly cheap, marked in plain figures and sold for cash at FBNDIG'S BAIR.

The second edition of the December World’s Fair Cosmopolitan brings the total up to the extraordinary figure of 400,000 copies, an unprecedented result in the history of magazines. Four hundred thousand copies—--200 tons—ninety-four million pages—enough to fill 200 wagons with 2000 pounds each—in a single line, in close order, this would be a file of wagons more than a mile and a half long. This means not less than 2,000,000 readers, scattered throughout every town and village in the United States. The course of The Cosmopolitan for the past twelve months may be compared to that of a rolling snowball; more subscribers mean more money spent in buying the best articles and best illustrations in the world; better illustrations and better articles mean more subscribers, and so the two things arc acting and re-acting upon each other until it seems probable that the day is not fardistant when the magazine publisher will be able to give so excellent an article that it will claim the attention of every intelligent reader in the country. Last Saturday brought a great many people to town from the country. That liberal old gent— Santa Claus—needs to have his yearly stock replenished for the little ones, and of course the merchants look forward to the time of this coming as well. There was not the money to spend this year as in the past. Hard times makes a poor Santa Clause, but yet the merchants report fair sales this year, notwithstanding the closeness of the money question at the present time.

Mrs. A, G. Hardy, wife of the superintendent of the county poor farm, died very suddenly last Monday from hemorrage of the abdominal cavity? She became ill about ten o’clock in the morning, and her demise occurred about 2 p. m. An autopsy by was held on Tuesday by Drs. Washburn, J. H. Loughridge and Alter, and their examination proved as stated above. The remains were taken to Remington for buria* on Wednesday. Dee, the young son of B. F. Ferguson, met with what might have been a very serious accident, last Monday. Ho was throwing hay down from a stable loft, and after ffnisning the work threw the fork to the lower floor and started to climb down. Before reaching the floor, he jumped and struck the pitchfork, which entered his right thigh, making a very dangerous wound. He is slowly improving at this writing.

The Christmas entertainment at the Presbyterian church, last Monday evening was excellent. One of the features of the evening was the orchestral music, which was highly appreciated. Presents were liberally distributed and everybody went home satisfied. Prairie Lodge, No. 125, A. F. & A. M. have elected the following officers: B. F. Fendig. W. M.; V. E. Loughridge, S. W.; C. G. Spitler, J. Wo, Ralph Fendig, Treas.; Alf.-Hopkins, Sec’y.