People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Clerk Coover is off to Indianapolis for the state'ballots. Isaac Thompson, of Hancock county, Ohio, is visiting his brothers, Alfred,Tommy,Simon, and David. It is seldom that five brothers of the age of these gentlemen live to meet and mingle together as these five do. B. S. Fendig is again after veal, games, hides, furs and eggs. Thanking you for past favors wishes you to call again.

We hear of a few farmers who have been hasty in cribbing their corn, these few warm, damp days are not setting very well with it. There is plenty of time to gather in the corn after* the Ist. of November. Secure accident tickets in the U. S. Accident Association while on your trips, for SSOOO at only 25 cents per day, short time. Accident insurance written on long or short periods, at lowest possible rates. Alf. W. Hopkins, Agt. The law gives every man time and opportunity to vote just as he pleases, so voters select your choice of candidates; you can vote for men on each and every ticket if you wish. Mrs. Henry Catwood and Mrs. Frank Warren were in Crown PoinL over Sunday attending a Missionary convention. They also spent a short time in Chicago. Any person in Marion township who has changed his residence from one side of any of our gravel roads to the other within the thirty days proceeding the 6th day of November has lost his vote. If you do not intend to vote a straight ticket, do not stamp in the large square surrounding any of the party emblems but stamp plump in the middle of the square before the name of every candidate you wish to vote for. The following subjects will be discoursed upon in the Presbyterian church next Sunday: Morning, “Pastoral Relation;” evening, “Politics.” Being on the eve of important elections, men are especially invited to the evening services. Walter Piper, a mile north of town, is just completing a large and convenient new barn. Mr. Piper, the two years he has occupied this place, has added much to its appearance value by the rearing of new buildings, tiling, etc.

The game law has been so amended as to make it unlawful to kill or pursue with intent to kill quails between the Ist day of January and the 10th day of November. Sports and game dealers will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. A traveling photographer made a daguerreotype of a comparatively obscure man in Illinois in 1851. The man was Abraham Lincoln, and the picture was the earliest likeness of him in existence. and is published for the first time in McClure’s Magazine for November. The Renicker Bros, threshed, this year, 46,983 bushels of oats; 15,736 bushels of wheat; 1,501 bushels of rye; 60| bushels of timothy, and 27 bushels of millet; making in all 64,307| bushels of grain. Walter Piper, of this township, gave them the largest.job of oats, threshing 3, 120| bushels, and David Long, of Barkley tawnship, on one of Charley Pullin’s farms, gave them the largest job of wheat threshing, 1,222.