People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — THE WEEK AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK AT HOME.

Abundant rains last week. The weather. Sunday was superb. J/rs. Harry Wiltshire is on the sick list. Mystic bicycles for Tent at the Pilot office. Timothy seed is selling at $2.75 per bushel now. Corn fodder will be carefully husbanded this fall. Fear of frost was happily disappointing thus far. Mrs. Jane Shaw has been quite sick for the last week. Mr. Jacob Clouse and wife are visiting relatives in Illinois. Worth Kalb of Oxford is in Rensselaer this week on business. Keystone Corn Busker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle. Allie Paxton of Arcadia, Ind., is the guest of her brother John Paxton. Miss Nellie Moss is visiting her brother, Will Moss, in north Chicago. Bert Smith and W. O. Shanlaub of Morocco, spent Sunday in Rensselaer.

Careful attention given to all kinds of legal business. Ferguson & Wilson. Mrs. H. W. Porter gave a very pleasant tea party to a few of her friends last week. The Misses Blanche Alter and Mary Murray have gone to Chicago to do cravon work. Mrs. Pulver of Lowell is visiting her daughter. Mrs. P. W. Clark, in the west part of town. Special drives in boys’ school suits. We can and will save you •money. Give us a call. Fendig’s> Fair. Rev. J. L. Brady attended the district convention of the Christian church at Crown Point this week. v / In Indiana last year 30,724 sheep were killed by dogs and this loss had to be paid out of the county funds. Miss Anna and Grace White returned to Crawfordsville last week after a three weeks’ visit in Rensselaer. Miss Edith J/iller returned to Chicago last Monday after several weeks’ stay with her unde, M. F. Chilcote.

Our motto is: “Honest Values at the Lowest Possible Cash Price." Remember every item in stock a leader at prices asked. Fendig’s Fair. Miss Nellie Coen has returned from Vermillion, Ohio, where she has been visiting her brother and will take her place in the Rensselaer school. John Eger has torn out the old building next to Starr’s grocery and begun the foundation for the large one story brick block which is to take its place. J. F. Sears and wife, Mrs. Vai Seib and daughter Ona, returned from Colorado, where they have been visiting and sight-seeing the last two months. Rev. Barnett of Indianapolis preached to a large audience at the Christian church Sunday night. Mr. Barnett is visiting the family of John Paxton. S. B. Jenkins brings in an eleven foot stock of corn bearing three good ears raised on muck land that ten years ago was worth but $3.50 per acre, now worth S3O per acre.

The Loyal Temperance legion will meet at the residence of Mrs. Jennie L. Wishard, Saturday, Sept. 7 at 4 o’clock. All members please take notice and attend. Everybody invited. Over Twelve Hundred sets of window shades in colors, qualities and prices never before equalled. You can’t help buying after seeing them. At Frank B. Meyer’s “Old Reliable” drug store. The annual meeting of the Pilot Publishing company will be held at the Nowels house Saturday, Sept. 7, at 1:30 p. m. There having been a change made in the management of the paper since the last stockholders meeting, and still further changes desired, it is hoped that every shareholder will be present and take part in the meeting. D. H. Yeoman, president; Lee E. Glazebrook, secretary.

See notice of Pilot stockholders meeting in another column. Charles Perkins and daughter. Miss Inez, of Goodland were visiting at the home of Ansel Perkins Sunday. Terre Haute is shipping large quanities of water by rail to several places in Illinois and also in Indiana. John Kimble, near Parr, has returned from eastern Indiana, where he has been successfully treated for cancer. Minnie Tinkham of Wheatfield is stopping with A. Hamilton and taking advantage of Rensselaer's superior schools. James Whitcomb Riley has accepted an invitation to read a poem at the G. A. R. national encampment at Louisville. Mrs. Imes will visit Chicago next week to purchase another invoice of fall millinery, consisting of the choicest imported stock.

Rev. C. E. Voliva takes up his residence in Rensselaer this week and will hold services m the Missionary Baptist church every other Sunday. The Rensselaer school opened Monday and the attendance so far exceeded the calculations that more seats have been ordered. The rooms will all be greatly crowded. The state tax commissioners have made a total increase of $15,000,000 in assessments of real and personal property throughout the state. The total valuation in the state is $1,290,539,850. James Sharp, the photographer w’as called upon this week to make five dozen pictures from a negative of the three Culp brothers, who are visiting here, all of whom are above 60 years, and old-time residents of jasper county. Mr. E. M. Parcels brought in a twig from an apple tree that w’as broken off by the weight of the fruit it bore. The twig was about four feet long and had on it sixty-four half-grown apples. It w’as from a volunteer tree in H. W. Porter’s orchard, four miles north.

Edward Culp and w’ife of Benton Co., lowa, are visiting relatives at this place. Mrs. Maggie Payne of Indianapolis is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Leatherman. Rev. John Sebring and w’ife of Medaryville, are guests at Mr. William Washburn’s this week. Married last week at the residence of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris, William J. Ladd and Rosa Paris. Mr. Ladd is a resident of Oxford. Rev. Conner officiated. The Newton County Agricultural association is preparing to have tw’o days’ racing at their beautiful grounds east of Morocco October 1. Further particulars will be given later. E. M. Parcels has moved into his new barber shop on Van Rensselaer street. It w’as put up expressly for him by A. Leopold and is one of the neatest tonsorial parlors in this part, of the state. M. Y. Slaughter is nowdeputy organizer of the Farmers Alliance for Indiana, and is prepared to till appointments. Call your meeting and he will be on hand to get you righly started in the work. Marriage licenses issued the last two weeks to: Edward L. Hickman and Ellen R. Snyder; Will J. Ladd and Rose L. Paris; George R. Taylor and Ida E. Rockwell; Charles W. Beaver and Dora M. Benson. Frank Maloy had a marvelous escape from serious injury in a runaway Saturday morning, being thrown forward on the horse and falling to the ground between the horse and thill. The frightened animal kicked viciously at every jump, but in some way he missed connecting with Frank, who cooly picked himself up and took an order for groceries before hunting up his outfit which had sailed around several squares and was making for home when caught.