People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Correspondence

GOOOL.ANO.

BY SPECTATOR.

Our public schools began last Wednesday. Thos. Murphy, living on the W. A. Williams farm three and one-half miles south of here, has rented a farm three miles northeast of Francesville, and will move on the same sometime during the coming month. Ice on the pond near the tile mill is about live inches thick. Our dealers expect to begin ii’ling their houses sometime this week. Not one widow or family deserving it, went without a turkey and a sack of flour on Christmas day at this place. Dr. Lovett made a flying visit to Kokomo, Tuesday. It was rather amusing, last week, to see the editorial staff getting out the Herald, in the absence of Editor Kitt. The staff consisted of three merchants, four doctors, two lawyers, four printers, one foreman and one devil. They got out, but about twelve houis late.

Bob Cochran, living three miles south of this place, was held up and robbed of six or eight dollars, all he had, a little ways east of McCurry’s livery bara, last Saturday night, between eleven and twelve o’clock, by a road agent. Miss Lester, daughter of Stanton Lester, of Chicago, is visiting her uncle H. H. Donning. It bae been impossible for us to note all the fathers, mother.*, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, neices, and lo\ ers that has been visiting in Good land for the past week. We have only done the best we could. Can you write it? 1895. Mr. James Warren, of Rensselaer, spent three or four days at this place, during the holidays with his sister, Mrs. Dr. Oram. Mr. Albert Keen, trustee elect, of Wheattield township, J asper oounty, was in Goodland, Saturday. A horse of Benj. Constable, became fi-eightened Saturday evening at the cars, while Mr. Constable was sitting in the tttiggy in front of H. Burgess’ drug store, waiting for goods and turning suddenly around threw him out of the buggy but did not get away or hurt Mr. Portable. “Peeping Ed,”' instead of “peeping, ” the contemptible

villian that has made life miserable for a number of lone women, for two or three months, in this glace, by going to their windows at late hours of the night and raping on the panes begs to be let in, was privately run out of town, last Saturday night. This is very thoughtful on the part of himself and the villians that helped him out. For by the stern decree of some of our best cltiiens the young villian would have been wearing a fine new suit of clothes composed principally of tar coated with a neat finish of geese feathers. The resolve will be put in- 1 to execution if the villian everj appears in this place again. We would like to day for the benefit of the Kentfotad Fair Association, that Prosecuting Attorneys sot the 30th Judicial District, don’t indite aiiy one. He only writes the affidavit and the jury returns the indictments. This is not the first time Fair Associations in Indiana have been indicted. Let the good work proceed Bro. Annibal, the better part of society are backing you, A Prosecuting Attorney that passes by gueh con-j temptaWe things as infest ouri country lairs don’t deserve the 1 name of Prosecutor.

The Remington Press a week or two -ago, took occasion to spit out its vermin at the Town Board for heaping upon the people such a debt as the one contracted for our electric light plant. And what au immense' expense it entailed and would never pay out, Ac., Ac. In the first place the editor of the' Press don’t live here, never paid a dollar of tax in our town or county and it won’t matter to| him if we do run twelve thous-l and dollars behind every year.! His taxes would not diminish 1 or increase one cent. In figur-! ing our expenses to operate the! plant he figured ©ill* marshal’s! salary. Why, you old goose haven’t we always had a marshal at a salary from S4O to $55 a month. Deduct $b or from your figures and see if you haven’t lied more thfcn you aimed to. All honor to our town board. We feel like taking off our hats to them as we pass them in the busy hum of life.