People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — The Eastern Star. [ARTICLE]

The Eastern Star.

The Monticello Democrat has the following notice of the Evening Star Chapter’s visit to that -ity, the guests having ouly lavish praise for the hospitable manner in which they were entertained:

“Crystal Chapter, Order Eastern Star, was organized last <\ipsd«.v niohj by Cljas. G. Spitler, pf Rensselaer, assisted by s>iar Chapter of • that place. Crystal Chapter starts out with a good healthy membership, and flattering prospects iqr the future. May her luster never grow dim. About 11 o’clock the members and guests repaiied- to Pettit’s restaurant for refreshments, after which they returned to the edge room and pleasantly whiled away the hours until • rain time, most of the visitors Returning home on the morning train.

The following members of Evening Star Chapter No. 46 were present and -assisted in the work: Mrs. Lizzie Long, Mrs. Mary Spitler, Mrs. Agnes O. Kelley, Alfred W. Hopkins, Mildred B. Spitler, Mrs. Ada Joover, Maud E. Spitler. Mrs. Alice Meyer, Ray Mossier, Dora Hardeman, Miss French, Mrs. [sador Morris of Remington, Albert R. Hopkins, B. F. Fendig and Nellie Moss. A more generous, sociable and warm-hearted crowd of people never visited our town. May the friendly and fraternal relations so pleasantly begun never be broken off.”

Dire necessity forced the administration to adopt a “small tax upon incomes derived from certain corporate investments,” to meet the revenue deficiency. The income tax is right. It should be graduated and extend to all classes, the larger the income the greater the per centage of taxation. However the people will be thankful for small favors, as the beginning of the* practice of taxing a few incomes will be a precedent for other and more efficient acts. It remains to be seen whether the law will be nullified by failure to appropriate funds for its enforcement.

Henry Hintz, Brooklyn’s great cotton merchant and reformer, voices the sentiment of his Wall Street associates in declaring for $500,00.0,000 of bonds, $400,000,000 to be used as a basis for national bank money that can be issued to the full face of the bonds, and in emergency to 25 per cent more. The government is to swap bonds at 3 per cent interest for greenbacks, silver certificates, treasury notes, etc., which bear no interest, and then loan back to the banks other paper money at iper cent a year, the loan not to exceed $1.25 for each SI.OO of bonds deposited with the government. That is an improvement on the plan of the Jew who formulated the English system in the 16th century, a system of drawing interest on what you owe.

The Nowels Milling Co. will pay highest market price for all kinds of grain and hay. Take your grain to them at the Will near depot.