People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Additional Looml Hear. Will bo Found on the Seventh and Other Faye*. Corn is in the silk. T4i reshing coal for sale by Coen. D. B. Nowels was in Chicago Monday on business. Have you tried the ice cream soda at the Gem restaurant. The recent rains have soaked the ground to a depth of several inches. Miss Emma Sayler is entertaining her. 4 friend Miss Dott Robinson. W. W. Taylor of South Dakota is a guest at his sister's, Mrs. T. J. McCoy. Lee Glazebrook is suffering from an aggrivating poisoning from mowing weeds.

Elijah Wood and wife of Monon were guests at C. D. Nowel’s Monday and Tuesday. The largest corn crop ever produced in Jasper county is now practically assured. Henry Taylor of Lafayette, brother of Mrs. T. J. McCoy, was in town Tuesday and Wednesday.

C. A. Robertson has vacated his little office next the express office and it is now occupied by a new barber shop. Grandma Gooding of Ann Arbor, Mich., is visiting hei daughter, Mrs. G. W. Andrus, four miles north of town. Merry G. Oround will be with her friends another week. She is indeed a very popular entertainer but rather giddy. No. 10 is a girl, born at the home of- Mr. Hayes, nine miles north of Rensselaer, yesterday morning. Dr. Berkley attending.

Albert Alter, who has been visiting relatives and others in this vicinity for a fortnight, has returned to Russiaville, Howard county, Ind.

Warburton, the temperance lecturer, could not hold his own against “Merry,” and decided to come again at a more opportune time. Wash Scott was kicked on the hip by a horse that he was doctoring Monday and finds a crutch necessary for even moderate locomotion.

George Colvert, who was injured last Saturday by falling from a furniture wagon, is able to be about again, though unable yet to go to work. Little Paul Glazebrook was quite sick the other night. He acknowledged to eating the juice of two green apples but, of course, this had nothing to do with the pains afterward.

Fletcher Mounet is tearing down the old Presbyterian church and hauling the lumber away. The building could not be moved without cutting down a couple of nice shade trees.

The baseball contest between Remington and Fowler, which was to occur here to-day, has been declared off because of Fowler’s prior engagement to play the Watseka club to-mor-row.

As Company A of the Eighty Seventh Indiana volunteers was mostly or wholly recruited in ihis vicinity, veterans of that company should read the article headed “Attention Eighty Seventh Indiana!” It will be found in another column.

T. J. McCoy was in Joliet yesterday in attendance at the race in which his horse Rensselaer Wilkes was a contestant. This trotter is a superb animal and Mr. McCoy has great faith in his powers. He has won one race this year, the only one he has started in.

Chas. Woods, living north of Pleasant Grove, while hunting last Sunday morning, was accidentally shot in the heel by his little son, who had taken up the gun which the father had laid down. The wound was a dangerous one as the shot remained in it unattended until late that evening. Dr. Brown ofFrancisville was called, but from the dangerousness of the case he asked to to have Dr. A. L. Berkley of Rensselaer perform the surgical work. It is believed that Mr. Woods will come out with a fairly good foot, much better than a cork substitute, as on Wednesday he was feeling well and the wound was in a healthy condition

A son born to Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Ramey, July 17, 1895. Don’t forget the cornet band concert in the park to-night. Short order hot lunch at all hours at the Gem restaurant. John James of Winamac was in town Monday and Tuesday. Ferguson & Wilson, will practice in all the courts of the state. Jesse Bond was over from Goodland to attend the ball game Thursday. Careful attention given to all kinds of legal business. Ferguson & Wilson. Miss Nellie Harris left Sunday for lowa to spend a few weeks with friendsand relatives.

Mr. Marshall and family, and the Misses Minnie and Jessie Bartoo, spent Monday In Chicago.

Mr. Louis Spaulding of Foresman was in the city Tuesday and made the Pilot a pleasant call.

Mrs. Henderson of Monticello is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe Adams, who resides west of town.

Elder Wilson gave a practical talk on the bicycle question Sunday morning at the M. E. church. The house of Hunter Smith will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Babcock. Mr. B. is in the grain business here. Miss Nellie Kelly will soon be a member of Rensselaer bicycle club, having received a new wheel Tuesday. There has been some preliminary steps taken toward securing a lecture course for Rensselaer next winter. Miss Orpha Timmons, one of the teachers in the Remington school, has been visiting the family of N. S. Bates the last week. • Especial attention given to the settlement of decedents estates, by Ferguson & Wilson, office three doors south of McCoy’s Bank.

Joseph Whitehead an old resident of Barkley township died at the home of Mrs. Isabel Price last Tuesday morning at the age of eighty-six years.

Mr. Geo. Chappie. Mrs. Bloom and Miss Hattie Chappie of Remington and Mr. Shearer of Chicago were in the city on business last week.

Mr. t Will Collins and Miss Minnie Williams were married last Tuesday evening at the home of the bride’s parents, in the east part of town. Dr. Washburn spent Friday Saturday and Sunday with his father in Pulaski county. The old gentlemen is very low with chronic disease of the bowels. His death may occur at any time.

Miss Maud Bouman, Mrs. Frank Wolf and son, Frank Hardy, Misses Mable and Katherine Parker, were among the large number of Remington people who came over with the base ball players Thursday. A. M. Wood living near Pleasant Grove in Barkley township was out hunting last Sunday. He laid his gun down and his little son took hold of it and discharged it, hitting Mr. Wood in the heel and mangling his foot very badly. Dr. Berkley was called to assist Dr. Brown of Francesville to dress it.

Miss Hattie Dowles had a very narrow escape from death Thursday afternoon. She was knocked down and tramped on by a vicious horse. The rider was arrested but after Miss Hattie returned to conciousness he was released at her request, as the accident was unavoidable.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Y. Slaughter were thoughtful of the needs of the Pilot printers and brought them a basket of luscious wild goose plumbs yesterday morning. It was a present greatly appreciated, the first native fruit of the kind to reach their table, and thanks are extended to the generous doners. W. S. Sanders, who has been here with a feather renovator for the past few weeks, left this week for Rensselaer, where he will engage in the same business. Sanders is one of the kind of fellows that when he comes among you, you want to keep him. His work has been first-class, and we believe he could always secure a patronage here if there was any to do. He will return again, and has made a reputation that will secure him a welcome and business. It pays to deal with the people as Sanders does, so that they are always glad to see you come back.-Veedersburg News.

The Gem restaurant is the best place in town to get a good meal. Ferguson & Wilson will give you careful and honest legal advice. Master Howard Payne of Indianapolis is visiting the Leathermans. There will be considerable wild hay put up ip the north end of Jasper county. The Monon had a dollar excursion Wednesday from Monon to Michigan City. Mrs. Ashby find three children and Miss Maud Johnson of Ladoga are the guests of Mrs W. H. Coover this week. Miss Jennie Huff of Chicago returned to her home last Friday after a week's visit with Miss Maggie and Lena Zehrden. There has been placed four new bright and shining faucets in the water tank at the corner of court house square. Now when one goes for a cup full of water he does not get a tub full. D. B. Nowels, wife and son Auburn, expect soon to take an excursion on one of the lake steamers to Green Bay. The trip will consume about a week and should be a very enjoyable outing.

The foundation for Jesse Green’s house in Leopold's addition is completed. The house will be ready for occupancy when the new treasurer enters upon his official duties. It will be frequently demonstrated next winter when the street crossings are covered with i ae that some one has made a mistake in having the new cement walks so greatly crowned that it will be dangerous to life and limb. If the mistake is not rectified the town will have plenty of damage suits to defend.