People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

WEST JORDAN. Egypt, Aug. 15.-Mr. and Mrs. Ansil Snodgrass were visiting friends and relatives in this neighborhood last week. Sebe Pride, who has been in this neighborhood for quite a while, left Monday. Miss Bertha Bicknell is the owner of a new pony. George Babcock had a pitchfork run through his hand while he and some other boys were playing on a straw stack while threshing at Osa Ritchey’s. Robt. Hopkins and Edßrinley had better not let their horses get scared any more while riding through town after night, for the town Marshal may not let them off so easy next time. Blanch Kenton is staying with her- sister, who lives at Marlborough. Mrs. Mary Reed and children, and the Misses Susan, Julia and Mabie Kissinger went to Brook Thursday. We had a nice shower Sunday. Cora and Echo Frazure and Ethel and Besaie Lister were the guests of Hannah Welsh Sunday. Several of our boys seem to think that it makes them very popular to get their horses and run races during Sunday School.

If they wish to run races we ■would thank them not to run them past the school house during Sunday School. Miss Nettie Reed went to Chicago Saturday. Nellie Welsh was the guest of Grace Iliff Sunday. Mot Ritchey spent Sunday with his daughter Edna. Miss Eva Kenton spent Saturday and Sunday at home. An Egyptian School Girl FIRE AT GOODLAND. Goodland, Aug. 12.—Quite a destructive fire visited Goodland last Saturday, the 10th inst.— The fire originated in a stable in the rear of the brick building on East Main Street, and pursued a northeasterly course until it burned itself out, winding up with the new Baptist Church, which was just being completed at the cost of about ss,ooo—This is a very savere loss to the Congregation, as it is not very strong, either numerically or financially. There were six buildings in all consumed in this conflagration, among them being two dwellings, one large storage room and two barns. There was also considerable personal property, lost in this fire. There was no insurance on the church that we can learn of, so that it is a complete loss.— Nemo.