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

Advertised Letters: Mr. John Scherlrow, Miss Violet Watson, Bromslow Doeigwillo. Miss Mabel Doty, of Chicago, is spending the holidays with the Misses Chilcote. Our Goodland letter came too late this week for publication. Will appear next week. There are 21,000 bushels of corn stored away already in the new cribs that have lately been built near the depot. Christmas entertainments were held at the different churches Monday night and the town was full of happy children. J. E. Lakey has opened up his bake shop in the new room recently prepared for Jean Spitler. Everything is new, fresh and clean call and see him. See the card of Martin Shanabarger, the new liveryman, in another column. Mr. Shanabarger is well prepared to accomodate his customers. Give your best girl a New Year's treat. You will find it at the opera house, beginning next Tuesday night, in the TildenSteele Comedy Co. Good specialty, lots of fun. A dispatch from Indianapolis to Goodland states that John L. Carr was dangerously ill at his home in that city, recovery thought to be very doubtful.

We call the attention of our readers to Ephriam Sayers’ notice of sale in another column. This will be a big sale, everything in the way of stock and farming implements will be sold. The Tilden-Steele Cornedjr Co. at the opera house beginning Tuesday, Jan. 1, in a repretoire of choice plays, specialties introduced every night. Ladies’ tickets will be issued first night only.

From January Ist ’95 to May Ist, ’95, the Rensselaer post office will be closed at 7 p. m. of this, patrons of the office can take notice and govern themselves in accordance with the same. It is said that a woman living not a thousand miles from here has named her twin daughters Gasolene and Kerosene. Of course the mother is of the opinion that two finer girls has never “benzine.” —Ex. There was a Christmas tree'at the Catholic Foresters’ hall Tuesday afternoon. A tine time is reported, a full house, plenty of presents and good music by Healy’s orchestra.

Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Genevieve Huffman to Mr. Frank Davison both parties reside in Greencastle. The bride is well known in Rensselaer having spent great deal of her time here.

Jake Wagner, our Jake of drayman fame, carried off the gold headed cane at the Catholic fair at Remington, and Mrs. Wolfe, whom all our Rensselaer readers know, won the $25 silver set, beating her opponent, Mrs. Dr. Traugh, eight votes. No matter how brutally the horse is punished, how excruciating the pain inflicted upon him, he suffers it all mutely. He does not cry out like a dog, but by reason of his fine organization he suffers even more acutely. This characteristic of the horse should be remembered, and his unvoiced protest against abuse should be to his keeper the most pathetic appeal for kind treatment and humane consideration,—Bath (Me.) Enterprise.