People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ira W. Yeoman, the Remington attorney, has been attending court this week. Miss Ollie Fredrick of Medarysville is visiting her sister Mrs. C. E. Hershman. Go and see Uncle Hiram on uext Monday, Jan. 21st, Eger’s opera house. Bert Goff returned home last Friday from Englewood, where he visited with relatives last week. Clarence Sigler of the Lafayette Business College spent Sunday with his parents in Rensselaer. The fine blood hound of August Rosenbaum was poisend a few days since by some hostile individual. Miss Bertha Alter returned from Chicago where she has been having a surgical operation performed on her eyes. Mr. Carson of Monticello was in Rensselaer Saturday negotiating a real estate deal the particulars of which were not obtained. Hon. S. N. Ginnis, postmaster at De Motte, was a guest last Tuesday of E. P. Honan, Rensselaer’s popular postal official. Dr. I. B. Washburn treats rupture by the injection method. The originator of the method claims that any rupture that a truss will hold up can be cured. Lost.—A pocket cdse of embalming tools on Washington street, between Front and Van Rensselaer, on Friday, Jan. 11th; return to T. P. Wright and receive reward.

Winamac has just become an international money order postal station. Rensselaer has beentlius favored for years, and wonders why its sister has been so long in growing to the proper dimensions. Mrs. Julia Healey received the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian church Wednesday afternoon. The calling committee report having made sixty calls in December, forty-eight being upon the sick. Rev. H. V. Weaver has beer confined to his home for several days with a severe cold. He is director of the cornet band and during his illness the leader. John Haley has conducted the practice meetings. Miss Etta Yeoman who has been in Chicago for a week under treatment of the celebrated t'aith healer, Dr. Dowie, is reported better. Several others from this place are said to acknowledge relief through the same source. • The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Alf. Collins, Saturday lan. 19, at 2 p. m. promptly. The Loyal Temperance Legion will meet at the same place on the same day at 3 o’clock. All members of both societies arc requested to be present.

The Christian church people of Union township are meeting with an encouraging response to their subscription paper for a new church to be erected near Brushwood school house. It is intended to have the material all on the ground by the first of May. Mrs. Martha Sires who died Thursday morning, the 10th, was buried from the Christian church the following day at 2 p ra. She was living with her son. was 69 years old and was a comparative stranger here having come from Illinois about one year ago.

The German Baptists or Dunkards, will hold - services ar, the C’«urch of God in Rensselaer at 11 a. m. next Sunday, the 20th. Rev. J. W. Clear is to officiate. A cordial invitation is extended to all, especially those who aiv not familiar w\th their form of worship, to come and understand their teachings. Feb. Ist and 2d is the date of the farmer’s institute at Goodland for Newton county. Efforr, should be made to have all thus** institutes prove successful, and to do so the farmer’s have bu‘. to make individual efforts. Such promises to be the case in Jasper county at the institute soon to be held in Rensselaer. The box supper on Pri lay evening the 11th at the O’Meara ; school house, south of town was I attended by about 15 or 20 young people from Rensselaer. The entertainment was given by Miss Blanche Hoyes. the talented Vacher. Miss Kittie Scott won the coveted prize' for being the prettiest »girl present. The receipts amounted to about sl4, which will be used to procure Reading Circle Books for that progressive school,