People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Additional Loea! Xetm Hill be found on the Nerenth and Other fit fi cm Ruling prices at Rensselaer Sept. 5: Wheat, 50c 'P bu; corn, 29@30c bu; oats, 14(rrl6c bu; rye. 35c per bu. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kessinger a son Sept. 1. The Odd Fellows are putting in a cement sidewalk in front of their building. Miss Ella Snider of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting Miss Maggie Healy and frieuds. Neal Goff returned home Tuesday evening from a short visit with relatives in Shelby. Marion Cooper was taken suddenly ill with asthma Tuesday evening, but soon recovered. J. H. Glass and Louis Hall of •Tipton have been in this vicinity for a week looking for land. Harry Kessinger has purchasedW. A. Miller's dairy outfit and will sell the people clean and pure milk. Conrad Kellner is building new sidewalks around his tine new residence on the corner of Scott and Cedai’ streets

Mr. Taxis and Mr. Giser of Joliet, 111., land buyers, were guests of Judson H. Perkins Tuesday and,Wednesday. Ira Rinehart, the contractor for cement walks, would locate permanently in Rensselaer if a suitable residence could be had. Dr. I. B. Washburn and Geo. W. Clinger attended the reunion of the Forty-Sixth regiment at Camden. Carroll county. Sept. 4 and 5. Flannels from 19c per yard up. Half-wools from 16c per yd up. Factory yarn. 50c per pound. Cotton flannels 5c per yd up. All other gooes proportion lately low at Fendig's Fair. Despite the fact that upward of fifty, possibly more, new houses have been erected in Rensselaer this year, there is practically more that could be rented now. and the demand would certainly warrant some capitalist in putting up a terrace block or a dozen nice cottages.

Perry Hamilton spent Sunday in Chicago. Miss Tillie Fendig will go to Chicago next week for a short visit with friends. Joe Rothchilds of Chicago was in the city a few days since, the guest of Ralph Fendig's family. With its Celestial laundry and a second dose of merry-go-round Rensselaer asks condolence from her sisters. Charlie Cox is at home on a visit. He will return to Lafayette, where lie works in a dry goods store, in a few days. Corn shows considerable damage from the recent hail storm, and from the preceding drowth. Many ears are not filling at the end. J. W. Shead : s building a $2,000 dwelling on his fine farm, two miles east of town. He rected a mammoth stock barn there last spring. Austin, Hollingsworth & Co. are now the proprietors of the only complete set of Abstract Books in Jasper Cour, ty, and are prepared to furnish Abstracts of Title on short notice and on reasonable terms.

Alfred Donnelly has two acres of the finest onions on his farm just north of town that have ever been seen in Jasper county. Some samples at this office are indeed beauties. The crop is upon new muck land, and has been grown from the seed. He also has twenty acres of good potatoes. The decision of the supreme court in the election law case operates to allow the present super intendentsof schools to hold over for two years. In some counties the present incumbents have resigned to allow the new board to appoint. It is probable that inasmuch as Mr. Warren would un | doubtedly have been re-elected I had the old bqard acted upon the matter, he will feel entitled to retain the office for another period. The county commissioners, who have been in session all the week, have granted saloon licenses to James Ellis of Remington and Michael Bernicken of Wheatfield. As the Pilot goes to press the application of Geo. Strickfaden of this place has not been decided upon, there being a contest over a petition signed by a majority of the votes of the township asking that he be denied a license.