People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Should a republican desire to vote for; say M. Y. Slaughter, G. G. Thompson, Walter Harrington or any other candidate on the people’s ticket, he should not stamp the eagle on his ticket, but just stamp the square in front of the names of the men he wishes to vote for. Should a democrat, or populist wish to vote for; say T. P. Wright, John Alter, Dexter Jones or any other candidate on the republican ticket, all he has to do is to just let the rooster or the plow and hammer go, and stamp the square opposite the names of the men for whom he wishes to vote. There should be no rush about voting, the law gives every man time to prepare his ballot. In the secret, quiet booth the voter is a free man, he can make his ®wn selection, party conventions and party bosses can not control him there. The Rensselaer brass band met last Monday evening for the purpose of reorganizing, and the following officers were elected: B. K. Zimmerman, president; H. Weaver, secretary and business manager; John Healy, treasurer and musical director. A committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by laws, and every member is required to sign them, and is expected to abide by them. They expect to add several new members in a short time. There is no reason why Rensselaer should not have just as good a band as any town in the state if the people will only encourage them a little.

A “Rea] Conversation” between Conan Doyle and Robert Barr, giving glimpses of Dr. Doyle’s home life and his methods of work, and reporting his opinions on the state of the novelist’s art in England and America at the present time, will appear in McClure’s Magazine for November. Several portraits of Doctor Doyle and Mr. Barr and views of interiorbin Doctor Doyle’s home, will accompany the article. Also a photograph of Mrs. Conan Doyle and a portrait of Sherlock Holmes. McClure’s Magazine for November will contain a review, with a profusion of illustrations, of the present state of the geographical knowledge of the world, by Hugh Robert Mills, one of the highest authorities on geographical subjects,—a review dealing especially with what remains to be explored. A report reached here Tuesday morning from South Bend, stating the marriage of Mrs. Ella Duvall to Will Wood. Mrs. Duvall, a few weeks ago secured a divorce in the St. Joseph circuit court from her former husband, “Buck” Duvall. All the parties are well known here. Later we learn that the marriage has not yet taken place, but is expected. In a letter from Sharp, he says that by a vote taken at the Keeley Institute, we find four Republicans to one Democrat. He says the democrats are either too" poor to come or have no better sense than to stay away. The typhoid fever epidemic in Jordan township seems to be subsiding; no new cases are reported and all the old ones are said to be on the mend. There will be three tickets at the coming election, the state ticket which is of a pink tint; the county ticket which is white, and the township ticket which is yellow. J. W. Renicker, of Goodland, made the Pilot office a call yesterday.