People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Graduating exercises will be held in the opera house,Thursday, May 30. There will be eleven graduates this year. The neat, pretty programmes have arrived and all are very much pleased with them See those portiers at C. A. Lecklider and Co’s, at the Emporium from $2.50 per pair up. A. H. Purdue, the esteemed teacher of the high school, will not be with us next year. He has been elected to a fellowship in the Chicago University, where he will continue his study of technical geology. His absence will be regretted and the best wishes ofall will follow him. Consult Judson H. Perkins about binding twine. He will save you money and give a superior article. Make a note of that. W. L. Wishard spent Sunday in Mt. Ayr. Dr. Taylor of Chicago visited friends in Rensselaer, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth left yesterday, for a few weeks visit in lowa.

Albert Overton went to Chicago Monday to purchase another wheel. Our furnishing department is replete with bargains in negligee shirts, sateens, percales, cambrics, outing flannels etc. Gent’s underwear 25c and upward; ladies vests 5c and upwards. Fendig’s Fair. Albert Hopkins, Albert Brenner and Lou Wilcox went to Lafayette on their wheels last Sunday, making the trip of 50 miles in five hours. They returned by rail. J

The largest and most varied stock of farm implements carried in Jasper county is that of Warner & Son. The customer from a distance will not be disappointed in finding what he wants and at lower prices than other dealers are able to sell. A cycling party of fifteen will make a run to Chicago next Sunday, returning by train that night. B. S. Fendig will pay you the highest cash price for eggs. Call and see him.' Isaac Glazebrook is equipping the Makeever House with fire escapes. Strictly Pure White Leads and Heath & Milligan’s house paints, at Meyers’ Old Reliable. T. J. McCoy was in the Garden City Tuesday. A car load of new and stylish top buggies just in at Robert Randles’,

C. H. Hershinan was called to the sick bed of his mother in Barkley township Tuesday. Mrs. Hershman is 70 years old and not expected to survive this illness. P. W Clark was in Chicago yesterday. Special sale during Mrs. Lecklider’s opening at Emporium of cheniele goods, rugs and linens. Isaac Tueter was in Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. William Steel, who was recently adjudged insane, was taken to Logansport yesterday morning to the state hospital. Mrs. C. E. Hershman, who opened a millinery department in her husband’s store near the depot a few weeks ago, has had phenomenal success, having sold not less than 15 trimmed hats on any Saturday since opening. She buys all her hats trimmed and they are the latest modes of fashion. Her prices probably had much to do with the phenomenal sales made.

Isaac Glazebrook is to add a ♦2,000 machine shop to his blacksmithing plant, an institute badly needed in Rensselaer. About half of the machinery will be secured at once, the balance later on. An improved turning lathe (iron), steam drill, steam hammer, emery wheel, and other tools for making and repairing old kinds of machinery will be purchased, Later on a plainer and jointer will be added. For spring toqth cultivators, visit the implement house of Warner & Son. If Miss Msy Haas will oall at the post office she will find a couple of advertised letters. There is also one for Mr. F. Koffman, Agency for Pratt’s Poultry Food, and Stock powder. Frank B. Meyer’s “Old Reliable.”

See the new, line of cheap trimmed hats at Mrs. Lecklidef’s from 50c to sl, at Emporium. G. W. Gillogly punctured a tire while riding his wheel a few miles north of town last Sunday, necessitating a walk hpme. When you can buy a good top buggy for S4O it is false economy to have an old one repaired. Warner & Son handle just such a buggy, as Well as a full line of better carriages of all kinds, and at correspondingly low prices. Cash paid in advance to a manufacturer who needed money to keep from shutting down, secured an unequaled bargain which is more than divided with customers. Mr. Fred L. Chilcote, our former townsman, has again been re-elected clerk of the town of Albany, Delaware county, lud. Austin, Hollingsworth & Co., are now. the proprietors of the only complete set of Abstract Books in Jasper County, and are prepared to furnish Abstracts of Title on short notice and on reasonable terms. '

Nine converts to tne M. E. Church were baptised in the river last Sunday afternoon. A competent dressmaker will go out by the day. Call at Mr. Barrie Parris’ on Cullen street. Decoration Day occurs on Thursday this year, two weeks from to-day. In quantity, quality and prices, Frank B. Meyer’s display of wall paper, was never before equalled. Call and see.

■ We will reduce the • 5 price ol our $5.00, • • made to measure ■ 2 pants, for a short time J ■ only, to the very low • 5 price of $3.88. Com- • 5 meneing May, 18. ’95. 2 2 Porter & Yeoman. ■