People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — DeMotte Saloon Closed. [ARTICLE]

DeMotte Saloon Closed.

southern Jasper, Feb. 26. —Spring is coining again, and »'e n>'P not sorry, as all are vierd of cold weather. Miss Dora Gleason was seen in our little town yesterday. It is the first time she has been out for several weeks. Morning star school is running nicely again. Miss Anna Erwin commenced teaching it, but had to give it up on account of sickiess. Mr. E. Warren has taken ler place. Nellie Groet has gone bask to Chicago. Thomas and John Spitler seems to have a lot of business to transact over in Jasper this veelc. John Sigler, a merchant of DeMotte, was seen in this vicinitg Tuesday. Miss Clara Spitler was the guest of Dora Gleason Sunday.

What is the trouble with Mr. King. He has not been seen lately with his leather pants aud coat. W. N. Pence, manager of Nelson Morris’ ranch, is having quite a lot of grinding done at the ware house easi of town. David Gleason seems to be dealing in poultry here of late. Tne saloon keeper of DeMotte has locked up and is not to be seen around town. The Holland people will soon commence gardening. The I. I. & I. road seems to be Icing considerably more business lately, They are running two passenger trains over the road. Quite a goo 1 deal of s’okness in this neighborhood.

JASPERITE.

Tom Watson's paper and the Pilot, both one year, for $1.50.

Mrs. Casper Eiglesbaugh is very sick with lung fever. Mrs. Mary Perkins is still very sick of pneumonia. Muslin work of all kinds and plain sewing done by Mrs. Lottie George. Mrs. Lyons, daughter of Mrs. Julia Healy, is sick at the latter’s home, where she came to visit a few weeks ago. Fred Zard of Hanging Grove township has moved into his property near the cemetry. Mr. Z. is the jolly namesake of the important postoffice of that name, near which he has resided for many years. C. S. MaGee has moved to Benton county, near Oxford, having rented his fine farm just west of Rensselaer to Wm. Daugherty for a term of years. Dr. J. H. Loughridge is slowly but surely recovering from the recent surgical operations, and hopes to be out again in two or three weeks. Caleb Pierson, wife and daughter Bertha, left Wednesday morning for a visit at DeMotte, with the family Thomas Irwin, who are to move to Tennessee shortly. Remember the “exchange.’ run every Saturday by the Christian church ladies in C. D. Nowel’s store; they have all kinds of pastries, baking, and other edibles, also needle and fancy work.

An institution needed in Rensselaer is a steam laundry. It would receive a paying patronage. P. W. Clark the jeweler, was in Chicago, the first days of this week selecting stock for the spring trade. Win. P. Baker, who has been living near the depot, has moved to his farm 34 mile? north on the gravel l’oad. From his farm of 475 acres his tenant raised last year 9500 bushels of corn and oats.

It is not altogether a sign of certain prosperity that so many families are coming into this county as renters. Though all good people are welcomed to live among us, is there a prospect that they will even become home owners, and if not, will they not always be kept down by the ones who own the homes they rent and live from the labor of the renter, a tax on industry. Thomas Saylor, whose wife and child are in Colorado, received word Saturday morning last that the child was very sick. He at once started for the west, but upon arriving in Chicago a telegram announced the little one better, and he returned. The cornet band concert will be held the last Wednesday of this month. The boys hold rehearsals every few evenings, and will certainly delightfully surprise those who attend. And the concert will be free. Frank Hardy, of Remington, the talented vocalist, will favor the band boys with a solo at their coming concert. He is already a favorite with the people of Rensselaer.

Dr. C. R. Kuderling. the dentist, will be at the Makeever House again on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 12 th and 13th. Don’t fail to call upon him. He extracts your teeth free, and makes you a guaranteed set of teeth for $6.00. Gold fillingsl.oo. Silver fillings, soc.

Rensselaer Merchants are actually doing themselves proud in ordering fine lines of new goods this spring. No town in Indiana can make a better showing of enterprise.

Sampson Irwin and family and Thomas Irwin, his son, and family, will leave for their new land in Coffee county, Tennessee, about the lfkth of this month.

Last week Friday night eleven wagons and fifty-seven people, settlers from Illinois, together with their stock, household goods, etc., were quartered in Biff's livery barn. They are but a small contingent of the immigrants who are buying and renting farms in Jasper county.

E. P. Honan has two dozen hens which have been laying from fifteen to twenty eggs a day all winter, a result attributed to the feeding of raw meat scraps and bones.

Dr. C. R. Kuderling. the dentist, will be at the Makeever House again on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 12th and 13th. Don’t fail to call upon him. He extracts your teeth free, and makes you a guaranteed set for $6.00. Gold filling SI.OO. Silver fillings, 50c,.

Wiley W. Israel, who was injured by a horse falling on him last September, and who has ever since been dangerously sick at his mother’s home, four miles north of town, is so far recovered as to be able to come to Rensselaer for further medical treatment. In falling he struck his hip on the railroad track, causing an abcess to form, which at one time was nearly six inches deep. His sufferings were intense and at present the wound is healing. Mr. Israel is now stopping with C. D. Norman. Harper’s Magazine and the People’s Pilot will both be sent one year for *4.00, which is but the regular price of the Magazine alone.

Melvin Kenton of Surrey was in the city Wednesday. M. O. Gant was down from Surrey Wednesday. C. D. Norman went to Lafayette Wednesday on a business trip to remain a couple of days. Louis Hollingsworth is tearing away the old building recently occupied by Chas. Rhoades’ harness shop on Van Rensselaer street preparatory to building a new brick block. John Healy has built a new shoe shop on Van Rensselaer street next to the town hall.