People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Additional Loeal Xeir» Bill be Found on the Seventh anti Other Fugen Ruling prices at Rensselaer Sept. 5: Wheat, 50c $ bu; corn. 29(7/30c bu; oats, 14frtl6c <jp bu; rye. 35c per bu. Exodus xxii:2s. Mrs. Mattie Rinehart is visiting her parents. Mrs. Yeates returned from her visit last week. Morland attended the Lafayette fair last Friday. Arilla Cotton and J/rs. Cora Nowels are visiting in Chicago. Fred Coen commenced his school at the James school house Monday. A marriage license was issued last week to Edward Handle and Laura Yeoman.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren expect to take the excursion to Chattanooga. Tenn. Clarence Sigler, night operator at the telephone office, spent Sunday in Remington. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sigler returned Saturday from their visit to Hebron and vicinity. Quite a number of town people attended camp meeting near Lamson's bridge Sunday. Indiana is a very rich state, its property of all kinds reaching a total of $727,815,131. Mrs. C. B. Steward returned last Friday night from a three weeks' visit in Utica, N. Y. Mrs Eva Foltz went to Oxford last week to visit her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Kalb, of that place. Joe Briggs of Telora visited the city Saturday. There seems to be some special attraction here. Professor Bohanon. former superintendent of the Rensselaer schools has been in town the past week. Mrs. Boor of Newcastle. Ind., state president of the C. W. B. M. work, will lecture in the Christian church Friday Sept. 13. Mrs. Boor is a very fine speaker and all will be richly paid who go to hear her.

The mother of treasurer Gwinn, who lives at Pleasant Ridge is on the sick list. The little daughter of George Murray fell and broke her collar bone Saturday evening. There was a reunion of the Bartoo family recently at Remington, eleven families being present. Mrs. Pulver of Lowell who has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. P. W. Clark, returned home yesterday. Editor John P. Honeycutt and Charles Sebring were over from JZedaryville Jfonday and made the Pilot a pleasant call. The Ladies’ Literary society will meet with Mrs. C. W. Coen Friday afternoon Sept. 13. Quotations from Sir Walter Scott. Mrs. John Yeoman and daughter and Mrs. Orph Halstead and little son started Tuesday for a visit to Minnesota to visit rela tives.

Mrs. Mattie Benjamin is going to build a tenant house on her lot opposite Dr. Washburn’s residence. It will be occupied by Prof. Saunders. A very pleasant social was given last Friday evening at the home of Stella Parkinson for a number of young people who are going away to school. Mrs. Fred Chilcote and children returned to their home in Albany, Ind., last week after a protracted visit with Mrs. Chilcote’s mother, Mrs. Jennie Kinney. Flannels from 19c per yard up. Half wools from 16c peryd up. Factory yarn. 50c per pound. Cotton flannels 5c per yd up. All other gooes proportionately low at Fendig’s Fair. Lake county is to have another race track to be situated on the Forsyth estate, half a mile east of the Roby course, and it is expected that it will be in readiness in four weeks. I Ira Washburn went to Lafayette Friday of last week to finish his course in Purdue university. Will Parkinson and Ernest Wishard went to the same school, where they enter as freshmen. Margaret Custer Calhoun, a daughter of General Custer, has been invited to read a paper on •‘Blue and Gray Day” at the Cotton States and International exposition by the board of women managers.

Clyde Reeves and George McCarty are at Crown Point this week running a hack during the fair. Miss Effie Clark and her sister, Mrs. Geo. Smith, went to Remington to spend the week with their sister. Mrs. Thomas Grant. Among other metropolitan airs that Rensselaer is acquiring is a down-town telegraph office, with the proverbially Mercury-footed messenger in connection. The firemen at their meeting Wednesday evening decided to ask the town board to build a tower fifty feet high, and will circulate a petition among citizens to back up their request. G. H. Brown Sr. and David Nowels started on a bee hunting expedition Wednesday. They went early in the week so they can get home before Sunday, even if they do forget the dpv of the week.

Austin, Hollingsworth & Co. are now the proprietors of the only complete set of Abstract Books in Jasper County, and are prepared to furnish Abstracts of Title on short notice and on reasonable terms.

The Monon has recently contracted for six new six-wheel locomotives that are to be delivered before January first. They have air brakes and all other late attachments, and can be used for either freight or passenger trains. “Old Bill" Barnum and Man Friday from the ’49 Camp were here last Saturday on their way to Atlanta, Ga.. where they will work in the mining camp at the Cotton States exposition. They will walk the entire distance. “working their way." as it were.. Man Friday has with him an old-fashioned wheelbarrow. which he claims to have trundled across the plains fortyfive years ago. The vehicle is nearly eight feet long and is equipped with a full camping outfit. It has a history. Away back in 1850 Friday contracted the gold fever. He joined a party of prospectors near Council Bluffs, but just before reaching that city the leader absconded with the outfit, leaving Friday to continue the '2,000 mile journey through a wilderness. At the expiration of 125 days he reached Hangtown with one ounce of bacon, four ounces of clothing, and 1,000 pounds of energy.

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