People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

that played last spring and whose acting was spoken of in high terms by all who witnessed their play at that time. An Ovster supper by the ladies of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Christian church will follow the play. Everybody is invited to turn out and encourage the young people of the troupe, and the ladies in their laudable enterprises. Hon. Anson Wolcott of Wolcott spends a great deal of his time in Remington overseeing repairs that he is making on his elevator in the western part of town. Austin B. Coleman, our enterprising rail road agent, is preparing to build a SIOOO cottage on the lots he purchased of W. C. Kirk last week in Bartoo’s addition. We also understand that Chas. Balcom, north east of Remington, is preparing to build a good residence on Ohio street, north of Mr. Parks. Let the good work proceed. It all helps to make a towa. Our Remington boys are reorganizing their brass band, this is as it should be. We have a nice little town and in it the material for a first class band and a good band will be a credit to the place. The railway mail agent who was so seriously injured two or three weeks since, over in Illinois on the L. P, & W. Ry., in an accident, has so far recovered as to be taken to his home in Logansport. It is said however that he has lost his reason.

The failure of our hay and oats crop has caused the times here to be very much depressed. We have a fairly good corn crop but the prices are not what our people would wish to have them, owing perhaps to the enormous crop grown this year throughout the United States. We believe however that business is looking up a little, and hope to see matters moving along briskly through the balance of the fall and winter.