People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Odd Fellows’ Opera House. [ARTICLE]

Odd Fellows’ Opera House.

It is rumored that the new three story block to be erected by the Odd Fellows next spring, will contain upon its second floor a thoroughly excellent theatre, with upholstered seats and a commodious modern stage. The greatest care is to be taken in designing to obtain for the hall the most perfect acoustic properties, and make it desirable for music as well as all entertainments of the higher order. It will be a public benefaction that will be greatly appreciated and which will be hearlded abroad as an evidence of enterprise and culture.

Take your laundry to The Model. The highest price is paid for corn at the Nowels elevators. Cheap wheat, cheap flour and cheap bread. J. E. Lakey. Special muslin underwear sale, Saturday Feb. 2d. Chicago Bargain Store. “Cheap and good at Lakey’s bake shop. Seven loaves of bread for 25 cents. Turkey body feathers for sale at the poultry house. 3 cents per pound, make good beds. Frank Alter of Clinton county is visiting his brother Harry and other relatives in this vicinity. The half price sale on cloaks and clothing will continue a few more days. Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Angela Hammond of Lafayette is a guest this -week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin. James P. Overton arrived home last week after a two month's visit with relatives in Rush county. Mrs. S. J. Austin of Chicago is visiting this week at the homes of Geo. K. Hollingsworth and W. B. Austin.

Muslin underware cheap as you can buy the muslin. Sale day, Saturday. Feb. 2d. Chicago Bargain Store. Will Mossier of the Model made the Garden City a business visit Sunday night, returning Tuesday morningThe ice crop secured this year is the best in sevei’al years, some of it being ten inches thick, and all clear and clean. Miss Bertha Alter returned to Chicago Monday morning, where she is receiving treatment for her eyes by a specialist. Law giver M. L. Spitler returned to his legislative duties in Indianapolis Sunday night, after spending the day at home. An Emergency sale of all winter goods at any price is necessary to make room for a new spring stock. Chicago Bargain Store. Herman Diener and Miss Tillie Hildebrand, of Chicago, were visiting relatives and friends in Rensselaer the first of this week. J. A. King, the Nevada, lowa, capitalist, closed quite a large land deal in Walker township last week. C. P. Wright manipulated- the trade.

It is a nine pound boy that blesses the home of R. P. Benjamin the popular organ agent. 'Phe- glad surprise occurred Thursday last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fendig have arrived safely at Brunswick-. Georgia, where they went the latter part of last week to spehd ‘ the winter with their daughter’, Mrs. Tillie Borchardt. Omer Ritchey, an old resident of this county, now of Anderson, has been spending a few days here with his relatives. Mr. Ritchey is successfully engaged in the furniture business at Anderson. Oscar Phegley is now a citizen of Newton county, having moved hist week on the old Ponsler homestead in Jackson township. The people of that vicinity will find Mr. and Mrs. Phegley and their daughter Miss Cora very agreeable neighbors. Mr. D. V. Yoder, living over north of Mt. Ayr, had a run-a-way Tuesday while coming to Morocco, but luckily neither he nor his team were injured. It appears that Mr. Yoder had started to bring a cow to this place and with a view to saving unnecessary trouble had loaded the animal into a sled. He was joging along ata comfortable pace when old ‘Spot’ chanced to lurch violently to lar-board anti fall out, striking directly on her spinal column in the virgin snow. At sight of the poor beast lying by the roadside with her heels up and kicking great long rents in the atmosphere, the horses became frightened and rah for a distance of about two miles before they were stopped. Mr. Yoder who was thrown from Ihe sled at the same time’ that the cow went over-board escaped, as we above stated, without injury.—Morocco Courier.