People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — Buggy for Sale. [ARTICLE]

Buggy for Sale.

An #BO top buggy, in first-class condition. Only used a few times, will be sold at a sacrifice. Call on Mrs. Sarah Timmons, one mile north of Pleasant Ridge.

Oxford now boasts of one of the finest and best organized military companies in the state. It is composed of nearly fifty young men between the age of 18 and 25 years, who makes as fine an appearance as one would wish to see any where. The boys will, in connection with the company, organize a reading room and put in gymnasium apparatus about the first of next month. Any young man of good moral character is invited to join the company and citizens are asked to come and watch the drill. Regular drill nights Tuesday and Friday of each week. — Tribune.

James Whitcomb Riley, -the “Hoosier” poet, and Hamlin Garland, another portrayer of western farm life, will provide a “real conversation” for the February number of McClure’s Magazine. Mr. Garland is the recorder of the conversation, and it is said to be one of the most notable in that series of genuine talks of which McClure’s Magazine has made an important feature. Portraits of Mr. Riley and Mr. Garland, and pictures of Mr. Riley’s boyhood home and the scenes of his more familiar poems will accompany the articles.

One thing about the Chicago Express that newspaper readers enjoy, it deals out its opinions with absolute fearlessness, and whether at first you agree with it or not, the directness with which questions are handled in its columns gives courage to the struggling populist, where nothing else will. Come in and order it. we have a club rate that will save you money.-

The latest fad is the “time party.” Each lady present is presented with a card and pencil, and the holder thereof is required to converse with a gentleman present for five minutes, and the one having the most gentleman’s names on the card is awarded the prize. The Kendallville Sun says that a writing teacher could secure a large class in that city now and not get outside of the list of post office applicants. Farmers Institute,