People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Fresh bread every day at Lakey & Sayler's. Charles R. Peregrine bar bought out Dunn & Co’s general store at Dunnville. Call on C. D Nowels in the Nowels block, for everything in the dry goods line. W. E. Overton always furnishes nobby vehicles and safe horses to his patronfe when they want to drive. < R. L. Kennie, of Indianapolis, is in town this week, buying up some of Jasper county’s good horses. Prices paid are from S6O to SBO. W. J. Miller, the painter, received a letter from Battle Creek, Mich., Wednesday, stating that his daughter was very ill with typhoid fever. Horace Henkle. of Lockett, Col., came stepping in among his friends Saturday. After spending a few days here, he will return and resume work in his chosen profession, teaching.

McClure’s Magazine for October will be a notable number in short stories. It will contain illustrated stories by Bret Harte, Conan Doyle, Robert Barr and Cy. Warman. W. W. Reeve has left with us samples of the “Mammoth Sweet Corn” he raised on the Philip McElfresh farm this year. This corn is as large as the largest common field corn. Wm. Washburn combined business with pleasure while on his recent visit, and went over from lowa into Nebraska and bought 263 hogs which he brought home with him.

In McClure’s Magazine for October Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, will consider the “Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the Moon’s Surface,” and accompanying the article will be reproductions of the latest photographs of different parts of the moon. Charles Magee, a young man visiting relatives living on the Haley farm south of town, died very suddenly last Saturday evening. It appears as though the young man had been sick, but was thought to be improving nicely, when suddenly, without any warning whatever, he fell over dead.