People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

Attorney William Darroch went to Rensselaer Wednesday on another big land deal.—Kentland Enterprise. The Wolcott Enterprise has taken a census of Wolcott and reports its population at 637, more than double the figures of the census of 1890. The Pulaski county treasury is short of funds, and county orders are being protested. The payment of ss.tXh) of old bonds has caused the stringency.— Monticello Herald. The Goodland boys went over to ‘‘the best town in Newton county” Monday and took the babbling Brooksters in on base ball to the tune of 13 to 3. They ain’t even “Up to Date” over north.—Goodland Herald. Our citizens will do well to note the result of the water works election in Fowler. Out of nearly three hundred votes, but six or eight were cast against the proposition to build water works. The citizens of Fowler do not propose to be without means to fight fire any longer. —Kentland Enterprise. One day this week a petition was circulated among the property holders fortheir signatures, the purport of same being a request to the City Council praying that they pass an ordinance prohibiting the erection of anything but brick or iron buildings on Main street. This is step one in the proper channel, and the next should be a chemical fire engine.—Brook Up to Date. The bicycling fever bids fair to accomplish several useful results. It breeds a love for healthy exercise in’the open air; it is reforming woman's dress faster than all the clubs in the country could: it creates a demand for better pads, and it is educating young jjaople to know the country in which they live. There is scarcely a picturesque nook in the county which our bicyclers have not found out. — Delphi Citizen. The Remington school board has reorganized oy electing Robt. Parker, president. Wm. Townsend, secretary, W. L. Gumm, treasurer. All the old teachers have been employed for another year, but Mr. Vannatta having secured the position of superintendent of the Monroeville, Ind., schools, has tendered his resignation as principal of the schools here. At this writing no one has been engaged to take Mr. Vannatta's place. Remington Press.