People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — MILROY. [ARTICLE]

MILROY.

BY WILD YANKEE.

Health good. Roads muddy. Minnie Smith has gone to Ohio on a visit. The. Widow Clark is very sick with old age and a complication of diseases. Rev. Peter Foulks preaches at Center next Sabbath at 10.30 a. in. John Haris was badly hurt at Coats’ feed mill. A chain broke and the lever struck him in the breast. Joseph Glosser has hired to Coats to feed cattle and hogs. E. Parks is erecting a new house on his farm. Peter Hinds has begun the erection of a new house for his son Mahlon, on his farm. Link Parks will move back to his Milroy farm, near Remington, next spring. Link is tired of the prairie and savs he wants to get back to where a man can raise something to feed. | . Two interesting sermons last Saturday and Sunday night by Rjvs. Farmer and Hinds. I The hay pressers have arrived in Milroy. They are at A. L. Smith’s. It seems that they never come to Milroy until the roads get bad. I Mr. Chilcote has moved on his new farm in Milroy and is ditching and preparing for a corn crop. | Robert Brin ton’s father has cometolive with him this wintar. He is quite old and lame. j Joseph Glosser passel the fiftieth mile stone last Sunday and he says he is old now and he furnished a keg of beer for the occasion. * Mr. Yeoman’s hogs that are being fed with Mr. Coats’ cattle are dying with the cholera.

The banks own congress, congress owns the railroads and the I railroads own the government. Whoop-tra-la what a prosperous good time. The past election don’t discourage the populists of Milroy. They learned long ago not to despise the day of small things. Our Savior was once a helpless infant lying in a manger and his fame has tilled the whole world and made many h ippy.