People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — SEE THE WORLD’S FAIR FOR FIFTEEN CENTS. [ARTICLE]

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Upon receipt of your address and fifteen cents in postage stamps, we will mail you prepaid our Souvenir Portfolio of the World’s Columbian exposition, the regular price is fifty cents, but as we want you to have one, we make the price nominal. You will find it a work of art and a thing to be prized. It contains, full page views of the great buildings, with descriptions of same, and is executed in highest style of art. If not satisfied with it, after you get it, we will refund the stamps and let you keep the book. Address H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, 111.

Squire Castor was taken to the Keeley Institute, at Dwight, 111., the first of the week, to take the gold cure for the whisky habit. We hope this will be h satisfactory cure, as Squire is the best workman in his line ip. Rensselaer, and is a smart, well read man, but his great fault is the love for the intoxicant.

A very refreshing rain fell last Wednesday afternoon. It made the buds on the trees swell to bursting, and the grass to push upward with vigor. The rain is a boon to gardens that have just been planted, and if a cold snap does not overtake them, we will have some early gardens.

The Rensselaer Symphony Club is making rapid progress under the able direction of Prof. Beck, who is a most competent and thorough teacher. He now has a class of twenty-one scholars. He will shortly move bis family here from Middletown, Ohio.

The Monon will sell excursion tickets to Indianapolis and return, on account of the People’ Party Convention, for $3.30. Tickets will be placed on sale May 22nd and 23rd, and aregood returning until and including May 25th. W. H. Beam. Agent.

The ladies of the Free Will Baptist church will give a sup-, per to-morrow (Saturday) evening, in the Nowels Block. They are making extensive preparations and are deserving of your patronage. Supper, 25 cents. Everybody invited. Rev, Jackson and wife, evan* gelists, arrived here from Minnesota, last Saturday, and begun a series of meetings at the Free Will Baptist church, on Sunday evening. The meetings will continue for some time.

Mr. Soucie, of the firm of Chaugnon & Soucie, was here this week, looking after his business interests. Their stock of goods will probably be moved to St. Anne, 111., shortly.

T. W. Haus and wife attended the funeral of the latter’s father, James Ray, at Westville, in LaPorte county, the first of the week.

Elder J. L Brady will preach at the James school house 8f miles South of Rensselaer, on Sunday April 22, at 3 p. m. The foundry made a successful run the first of the week. The town was full of tax pay. ers last Saturday.