People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The following are sumrnari?s of Friday's races: I 2:30 class. Trot. Purse S2OO. Little Gift 4 4 ds Bryley Boy. 3 1 1 1 Prepay, 2 2 2 2 1 Aleric 1 3 3 3 Time. 2:41. 2:3B>j, 2:40, 2:41 I .>. Half mile. Running race. Purse SIOO. Frank Goodrich 1 ] 4 2 i Busli Mclluff 3 2 I 1 Maud G 2 4 3dr ■ Madaline Pollard ...4 3 2dr . Royal George 5 - I( ] r Time. 53. 55. 55'i. 53. Three year olds. Trot or pace. Purse $l5O. Lucy Wattles 2 1 1 1 i Lucy G 3 3 3 2 Mark Reed. I 2 2 3 Time. 2:47m 2:45' 2 . 2:40, 2:4ti‘ 2 . The races Saturday were as follows: 2:35 Trot. Best 3in 5. Purse $175. Wllkesbarre 2 3 2 Harry 3 2 2 Kennelworth ...4 4 4 Prepay 1 1 1 Time. 2:34b. 2:33, 2:30. 2:45 Trot. Best 3in 5. Purse $l5O. Topsy 3 3 4 Harry Kelley 4 4 3 George B ' 2 2' 2 Dwiggins 1 1 1 Flora Woodburn. Distance. Time. 2:43m 2:27. 2:37> 4 . 2:25. Pacing race. 3in 5. Purse S2OO. Rockaway 1 1 1 Patrick Henry 3 4 3 Relle Crawford. 7 4 3 2 Coon Hollow Jack 2 2 4 Barrioss 5 5 5 Time. 2:2.3m 2:23m 2:3m 2:25 Trot. Best 3in 5. Purse S2OO. Coynac, 1 1 1 I Bristol 2 2 2 Ethan Allen 3 3 3 Time. 2:32m 2:3D.,. 2:31. The Monticello Knights of I Pythias band furnished music j for the fair association, and also for the Marvin Tilden Steele Comedy Company at Durand Hall on several evenings. This band is probably as good as any lin the State of Indiana. It is i simply immense. The fair association lacks about SSOO of the necessary amount to pay all the debts contracted this year, including improvements and premiums. There was probably sl.1 000 expended on the new ampitheaterand other substantial im-

provements which are valuable and lasting and are a credit to the management of the association. Notwithstanding the shortage of SSOO all premiums will be paid with a 100 cents on the dollar. The association having adopted a resolution to that effect, while not bound so to do by the rules of the society. We think their plan to pay in full is a wise one. as it will keep their standing good in the estimation of the patron>. Miss Hattie and Mr. David Yeoman. Jr., and D. F. Grant and family of near Rensselaer visited with the family of Ira W. Yeoman on Friday and Saturday. They took in the fail' Friday and the theater Friday night and returned to their homes on Saturday. Many Rensselaer people were on the fair grounds on Friday, and all seemed to enjoy themselves properly. Thursday s rain having settled the dust and cooled t’ne atmosphere so that life was no longer a burden. The attendance was also good from Newton. Benton and Wh ; te counties. One of the incidents of the fair was the arrest of three of the gamblers who invariably infest all country fairs, the warrants being sworn out by men of the same class. The tight grew out of the fact that one Greenup and his gang had secured the exclusive privileges of the grounds, and the fellows failing to get any .concessions from Greenup they commenced their legal war on him and his palls Thursday by 1 having three of them orought