People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

CAMPING ON THE KANKAKEE. Fair Oaks, July 2.—Charley Standish, who moved to Goodland about a month ago. returned with his effects last Saturday, and is living in one of Geo. Lambert’s houses. Isaac Kight, who is the trustee of Colfax township, Newton county, was in Kentland Monday and Tuesday on official business. Postmaster Kesler returned Monday from Reynolds where he had been since Friday visiting his new niece. A. D. Washburn, foreman of lhe Kent ranch, reports the straying of a horse a few days since. J. J. Malatt is successfully operating his ditching machine, grading the highway about four miles east of town. It requires four men and twelve horses to run the outfit, but it is a transparent fact that the proprietor is neither one of lhe men or horses. The crop prospect is fair on the average. Rye was injured by the frost in places; oats are nearly an average crop; little wheat was sown; corn is in excellent condition; hay’ is very short, less than a half crop; potatoes are about a half crop. Mrs Joseph L. Burns has been missing from her home since Saturday, and it is not known where she has gone. She took their eldest son with her. and it is thought thfey may have gone to Momence, where her daughter resides. It is generally known that domestic differences have existed between the husband and wife for some lime.

School closed last Friday. It has been taught by Miss Emma Goetz, and closed so late in the season because of the fire that destroyed the school house last winter, the term not beginning until the new one was completed. Most of the people in this vicinity will attend celebration at Kniman on the 4th. The coal road will run an excursion train. John Casey was in Rensselaer Monday and Tuesday preparing his booth for selling stickum and Buzzard Oil. Fair Oaks has no church, and it is a matter that should be given consideration, the nearest place of worship being at Rose Bud, seven miles east. Everybody is in the midst of harvest. Wm. B. Hurley and family, Francis Hurley and family and Charley Snow spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday fishing and camping at Thayer’s landing, on the Kankakee. They caught about 100 pounds of fish and had a splendid time. Mr. Hurley i contemplates taking another party there this w’eek.

The People’s Pilot has now entered its fifth year and under the most encouraging prospects for its continued prosperity. The four .years now completed carry the paper over the period of journalistic infancy and past the experimental point in its life; it has not only become one of the fixtures of county enterprise, but has extended its influence, social as well as political. far beyond the limits of this, into adjoining counties and states. The policy of its editorship in excluding, absolutely, from its columns morbid sensationalism, has given it a welcome in the most refined and guarded homes in the community. In a political way it advocates principles dear beyond price to the heart of its editor, and those principles will be pressed with all the energy of earnest conviction.

Ladies' 75 cent slippers 50 cents a pair. Saturday, Model. Harry Wright, one of the finest horseshoers in Indiana, an expert who has held the best positions in the leading shops of Lafayette, has taken a place at a forge in Gazebrook’s shop.