People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT. Celebrate the 4th at Rensselafer. Hot, hotter, hottest, hottentot. Ike Tuteur is here from Chicago. Binder twine at Sam Yeoman’s near the depot. Henry Grow visited relatives in Logansport last week. Fred Kroeger, of near Knimap, was in town last Monday. Come in and see samples of "America Photographed.” The Pilot is now on sale at Charley Simpson’s news stand. Mrs. Joe Pollock, who has been ill for some time, is convalescent. The Kentland Democrat has been sold to Chas. Wigmore, of Monticello. Collins & Randle are agents for the world renowned Buckeye binders and mowers. The Monon earnings the second week in May were ten thousand dollars lighter than a year ago. John Shields and his sister, Mrs. Frank Iliff, visited friends in Newton county, the first of the week.

The Monon now has 108 en gines, ninety being of modern type and all in the best condition for service. C. W. Coen is making some improvements on his warehouse in the north part of town. He will put in a horse power elevator. If you want to listen to something grand and elevating, you should hear "Switzerland” at the Christian church, next Monday evening. Judge McConnell, of Lafayette, is acting as special judge in the circuit court this week, while Judge Wiley is acting in the former’s place at Lafayette. Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osborne’s novel, "The Ebb Tide,” which has been publishing in McClure’s Magazine, will be concluded in the July number, If you will look into the show window of Charley Simpson’s news stand you can see samples of "America Photographed.” We can furnish you these for 10 cents and one coupon a part.

The contract has been let for the building of the Monticello court house, to the Barnett & Record Co., of Minneapolis, Minn. The building is to be constructed of No. 1 blue Bedford stone and the contract price is $62,300. This does not include furnishings. The divorce suit of Spencer vs. Spencer which we mentioned in last week’s court items, was finally settled last Saturday, and with very little trouble. Suffic-. ient evidence was presented by the plaintiff that a divorce was granted her, together with alimony amounting to $7,000 and the custody of her child. The defendent pays all costs of this suit and all former ones together with her attorney’s fees.