People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — $100 for An Afflicted Neighbor. [ARTICLE]

$100 for An Afflicted Neighbor.

Brook. Jan. 17.—Mr. White returned from Chicago Saturday evening, and Sunday morning found him father of a big boy. A crowd of young folks from Kentland spent Monday evening at Mr. Newell’s home. 1 They were out for a sleigh ride. You can now see the fine horses dashing through the street in such a manner as to remind one of the anchient chariot races. Sleighing is tine. Mr. Blankenbaker drives 'the finest team.

The Tilden Steel comedy company have the town billed for a week commencing Jan. 21st. They came well recommended and hope will meet with success. , Of all the men and families who need the help and sympathy of the people it is John McCabe, living one mile north of town. He has buried wife and daughter, and has four children sick in bed in one room and one of them not expected to live. Four months of continual sick loss has exhausted him and his neighbors, and now the ladies have organized so two of them can be at the house all the time, and the K. of P’s have a man at the house every night. A subscription paper was started Monday morning, Ben Lyons heading it with #lO. and in a few hours a hundred dollars was placed in the bank at the disposal of Mr. McCabe. The same day a score of neighbors hauled and cut about twenty cords of wood. Mr. McCabe is a worthy man and he will appreciate their kindness.