People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Anna Keeler all this week. [ARTICLE]

Anna Keeler all this week.

Flour and meal at J. H. Cox's. The stove merchants are busy these days. The Monon pay day occurred last Friday. Scratch pads one cent up at Meyer's drug store. It will soon be time to begin business in that base burner. Meyer Sisters have just received a full line of fall millinery. Drop in and see the latest fancies in fall millinery at Meyer Sisters. Keystone Corn Huskor and cjx»edder. Sold by Robt. Randle. Miss Grace Bacon of Lowell was vi-driog friends here last week. The telephone wires were being strwv.g on the poles at Wol-! colt last week. New laud buyers are in town everyday and good farms are i fast changing hands. Mrs. Edward Taylor and daughter. Miss Hazel, of Wolcott were visiting here last week. Miss Mary Clark has two letters at the Rensselaer postoffice, and Mis.-i Edith Claget nas one.

Harrison Baker and wife of Anarga, 111., were visiting their numerous friends, in Rensselaer last week leaving for their home Friday. Real good talent is the verdict of all who have seen tho Keeler Dramatic company now playing at the Ellis opera house. They are here for all this week.

The beautiful in nature is manifested now in the glorious leaves of Autumn, the varied hues being more brilliant in America than in any other country in the w r orld. Sheldon Smith of Morocco, one of the true blue in the reform movement, called at the Pilot office Saturday and made a financial expression of this compliments to the editor. One encouraging feature of the land transactions in this county is that the buyers are generally men of more or less means who will run the farms themselves. Any community is more prosperous where tenant farming is not the rule. A great deal of corn has been cut in this county and the fodder thus saved will be of the greatest value to help out the shortage in the hay crop. Where the corn is to remain in the field until winter it is usually put into large stooks, abouttwenty rows square.

The genial editor of the Lowell Tribune, Elmer E. Ragon, made the Pilot office a pleasant call last Wednesday, being one of the many visiting Odd Fellows at the dedication ceremonies. And by the way biother Ragon prints one of our brightest exchanges. It is safe to say that the prices paid for Jasper county land this year is far below what it will be in the future. Its close proximity to Chicago and other good trade centers is bound to gradually force values up to the best prices prevailing in Illinois equally distant from market. It is sometimes a little burdensome to have a large amount of even productive property, a notable example the recent ordering of cement walks on Washington street by the city fathers, which caught A. Leopold for no inconsiderable amount as he has a very large frontage