People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Book-keeping, Shorthand and Penmanship. [ARTICLE]

Book-keeping, Shorthand and Penmanship.

We have recently prepared books on the above especially adapted to “Home Study.” Sent on 60 days trial. Hundreds have been benefited hundreds of dollars by ordering our publications. Why not you? Should you later decide to enter our College, you would receive credit for the amount paid. Four weeks by our method of teaching book-keeping is equal to 12 weeks by the old plan. Positions guaranteed under certain conditions. Send, for our free illustrated 96 page catalogue and “state your wants.” Address—J. F. Draughon, Pres’t. —Draughon’s Practical Business College and School of Shorthand | and Telegraphy Nashville, Tenn. 11 Teachers, 600 Students the past year. No vacation. Enter any time. Cheap Board. N. B. We pay $5.00 cash for all vacancies as book-keepers, stenographers, teachers, clerks, etc., reported to us, provided we fill same. Simon Fendig was down from Wheatfield last Sunday.

A lady at Tooleys, La., was very sick with bilious colic when M. C. Tisler, a prominent merchant of the town gave her a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic. Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes after taking the first dose. For sale by F. B. Meyer, druggist. Chas. Ferris, the insane “inventor of the Champion and Deering machines” who has for a time been detained at the poor farm until his admittance to the asylum could be secured, was taken to Long Cliff, last Friday. —Kentland Democrat. It cures blood and skin disorders. It does this quickly and permanently. Is there any good ! reason why you should not use I DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla? It recommends itself. A. F. Long & Co., Druggists. The Remington lodge, ’. O. O. F., was well represented here last Sunday at the funeral of Willis McColly. P. W. Clarke, the jeweler, was in Chicago, last week, on business.

B. F. FERGUSON is now prepared to make farm loans at G! per cent. Interest per annum, commission as low as any one else. He does his own abstracting and can save, you money there. Be sure and call. We can make your loans quickly. We make it a specialty. John Healy has opened a shoo shop in Uncle Charley Rhoades’ harness shop, and is now prepared to do all kinds of custom work. His terms are cash to all. If you need repairing done in first class style, give him a call and he will give you satisfaction. . 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 aie good returning until and including Muy 25th. W. H. Beam. Agent. A Lafayette man, anxious to get a catoutof his neighborhood, chloroformed it and telephoned to the police that there was a dead cat in his alley. The patrol wagon carted the feline away, but “the cat came back.”

Mrs. Lucy Clark has been granted a pension with about $-100 back pay. It was through Senator Voorhees that the pension was secured for her. We are pleased to hear of her good fortune. There has been a few acres of corn planted in this vicinity, and had it not been for the recent rains, there would have been a great deal more planted than there is. We wish to call the attention of our readers to the new display ads of the Chicago Bargain Store and Jay Williams, the old reliable furniture dealer. Trade among our business men, at present, is pretty dull. The hard times are having their effect on business of every kind. Between the gravel roads and Iroquois ditch questions the board of commissioners . have had their hands full this week. Gus. Andrews the shoemaker,,, has returned here again, and you will notice his card in another column.