People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — LEE. [ARTICLE]

LEE.

BY GUESS.

Scarcity of money does not interfere with making change in this community. It is said that a gentleman near this place recently purchased a horse and in exchange paid one yearling colt, one two-year-old heifer, 1 yearling steer, one hog and three young chickens. The Sunday-school at the Lee school house has been having a very small attendance for a few Sundays, but efforts are being made to organize a class for singing as an attraction. Everybody is invited to attend and and assist the young folks in their efforts.

Game is becoming plentiful, but the hunters do not deem it worth their while to kill any on account of the prices. S. L. Johnson, formerly a section hand on section 69, has received an appointment as section foreman at Lowell.

Sebe Pride and James Kenton, of Rensselaer, and Scott Robinson, of Zard, were in our midst last Sunday.

Otis Jacks has moved into the the property which he recently purchased in the northeast part of town.

Several of our citizens -were called to Rensselaer last Monday on the Denton and Culp ditch business. Rev. Reeder could not fill his appointment at this place last Sunday on account of sickness. John Leach, of Francesville, visited his daughter, Mrs. L. E. Noland, the first of the week. Several of the g. o. p.’s went to Monon last Saturday to attend the primary convention. A. B. Lewis will start a meat market here in the near future.

The school house will undergo some repairs soon. Work will begin this week. A. R. Rishling was visiting relatives in Hammond last Sunday.

A. B. Lewis and Sam Jacks went to DeMotte last Saturday. Al Robinson, of Monon, was in town last Monday on business. Lou Shigley went to Rensselaer last Monday on business. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hoover last Friday, a boy. A severe rheumatic pain in the shoulber had troubled Mr. J. H. Loper, a well known druggist of Des Moines, lowa, for over six months. At times the pain was so severe that he could not lift anything. With all he could do he could not get rid of it until he applied Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. “I only made three