People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Social. [ARTICLE]

Social.

Ice-cream! Ice-cream! Como one! Come all! Come great and small*} At Bowling Green school house, Aug. 4th, for the benefit of the sunday-sehool. A newly-elected justice of the peace in Kentucky thus charged the jury in the first case: “If you believe what the counsel for the plaintiff has told you, your verdict will be for the plaintiff, but, if, on the other hand, you believe what the defendant’s counsel has told you, you will return a verdict for the defendant. But if you are like me and don’t believe what either of them said, I don’t know what you will do.” The jury disagreed.

It is called a body blow for woman’s sufferage because the new ballot law in Kansas provides that “the lower limbs of the voter, as high up as the I knees, shall be visible from the j outside while the voter is in the j booth preparing his ticket, the | lower part of the booth havirg been left open for that purpose.”

We see the name of our fellow townsman Captain M. F. Chilcote, among the list of possible candidates for the republican nomination for congress in this district. M. F. Chilcote is a deserving republican and his nomination would be satisfactory to a great many republicans in this neck of the woods.

The republicans of this congressional district will hold a convention, at Logansport, Aug. 20, to nominate a candidate to take the place of Charles B. Landis, resigned. Thomas Sayers has been appointed post master at Kniman,