People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

MILROY.

BY WILD YANKEE.

Mrs. Enoch Clark no better. Mat Yeager is building a barn. Church at Center next Saturday night, Sunday morning at 10:150 and Sunday night. Mr. Summers who resides with Fred Saltwell is very poorly from hard work in past years and old age. George Foulks has traded his big grey team to William Hinclirran for a horse and buggy. R. W. Coats shipped two carloads of cattle last week. Robert Brinton and William Allen are still cutting and putting up bay which will be pressed for packing. The venerable Samuel Boyd has recovered from his sickness.

George Foulks says he is about to engage with some parties in Kentucky for a prize fighter. George is a knocker from way back. Our hay pressers work from before day till after dark. The Rev. Peter Foulks delivered a fine sermon last Sabbath bn the habitation and wonderfulness of God. Our young people attend church and are very orderly but some of our old professors must have grown very cold, as they never come to church nor contribute anything to the cause. Charles Summers- has suffered great pain for several -weeks from a bone felon on the thumb of his right hand. Several splinters of the bone have come out. The common people weighed the democratic party and found ir wanting, so they dumped it out, and the Republican party is now getting into the scales and they will be weighed on the same scales of equity and justice and from appearances they will be dumped if they fail to administer the laws to the good of the , largest number of oui citizens and legislate to the interest of a special few this is why the last t vo elections have gone so over'wbelmingly democratic and then bat;k republican. So great a majority it was to give each party one great last chance to redeem itself. Now, gentlemen, be cautious. Why are so mauy of our best farmers, who ought to be the most prosperous men in our county, selling their farms? It is because the price of our products are below the cost of production and farmers are falling behind financially, with no possible show of evux

paying out.- The way congress favors the money sharks of Wall street and allows them to limit the amount of money we are to have to do the business of our commerce. This is the only reason we can give for so many of our people parting with the old homestead. If we are wrong please tell us better.