People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

, Cloaks and fur capes at the opening Saturday, Sept. 15th. Chicago Bargain Stoke. Mrs. Lucy Clark, Wm. Baker and James Donnelly will move, back to their farms in the spring. Town has no charms for them. Green Thornton and family arrived here Saturday nigh: from Coats, Kansas. Th /w? . forty days on the road. Mr. Thornton has come to make this his future home.

The government crop report for August, shows Indiana two points ahead of all other States on corn, and one point on wheat. Don’t go west young man, but stay in Indiana. Rev. R. D. Utter has been returned to Rensselaer by the Northwest Indiana Methodist conference. This will meet with the hearty approval of his congregation here. The Republicans of Union township have named as their standard bearers in the coming township campaign, James Babcock for trustee and John McColly for assessor. In another column will be found “A Silver Lunatic.” In this, both the intrinsic value and the c ctrines are presented. The article is a little long, but it pay > it. Rev. E. G. Pelley was acquitted by the M. E. conference last week, of the charges prefered against him some time ago. He was assigned to Jefferson in the Lsfayette district.

Oscar Phegley brought a very bad foot to town the other day, the result of his jumping off of an old chicken house on to a large upturned rusty nail. Too much attention can net be given to that foot Oscar. Bishop Randemacher, of Fort Wayne held confirmation services at Remington last Sunday. Several from here including two or three priests from the college attended, and report an interesting time and a large crowd. • The newly elected board of directors of the Pilot Pub. Co. organized Saturday by electing David H. Yeoman, President, Wm. Washburn, Vice President, Lee E. Glazebrook, Sec’y and J. A. McFarland, Treasurer.

We thought it was understood that there would be no attempt to build an iron bridge on the Pleasant Ridge road till the county had sufficent funds on hands for that purpose. Why this change is it for fear the next commissioners will not be bridge builders? We insert to-day a new ad. for The Chicago Times, which sets forth pretty clearly the princi pies of that paper in their relations to the questions of the day It is a matter of history that the position of The Times during the recent strike has been vastly to its advantage. Squire O. Caster and Owen Hurley, two 16 year old hopefuls of Barkley township, charged w r ith stealing beer from Rosenbaum’s saloon were bound over to court by Justice Morgan Saturday night. Failing to secure bail they were sent to board with Sheriff Hanley.

The Jasper tile works, just north of town, are building another very large drying shed which they intend to have filled by the time cold weather compells them to shut down, then they can burn the tile on hands; thus continuing work far into to the winter. There is no danger of having too much tile [ made and used in this county.