People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 8

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OH ICAGO BARGAIN STORE GRAND nil! MH! FRI DAY, NOV. 8. > A mammoth stock brought here for one day onlv > by the agent for Joseph Beifeld & Co., Chicago, 111, the * largest Cloak and Fur manufacturer in the west. * 5| Special low prices because of the lateness in the ’ season. A golden opportunity for seeing everything in * the latest city novelties in fur, cloth and plush jackets J and capes. * The biggest bargains in clothing you ever saw at ' the One Price Cash House. > J CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. :

Coin’d Financial School (price 25c) is free to every new trial subscriber of' The People's Pilot. Twenty-five cents for three months.

CITY AND COUNTY.

'J* - ' : Xddttf&Mrf JLoeaf Aem Will be Fotouf <m the Seventh and Other Fajrea. P. T. Clark went to Lowell Sunday. Mrs. Belle Kerr is in Chicago this week. Call on J. H. Cox for hay, grain, lime and hair. Mrs. Sarah Keifer went to Monticello last week, returning Monday.

Milton Chipman has a place on the night force at the electric light plant Miss Myrtle Chipman who was sick with throat trouble last week is much better. A hot box caused a considerable annoyance to users of electric lights Saturday night. Grandma Weathers is very s’ck with pleurisy at her home near the Missionary Baptist church. Randle Overton wheeled it over to La Fayette Sunday returning by train on account of the wind. Miss Mollie Hoyes left last week for three weeks with friends in Clinton and Howard counties. Mrs. Minerva Strickle of Hamilton, Mo., who has been visiting the family of G. H. Brown returned to her home to-day. A 2-year-old son of Frank Randle, postmaster at Pleasant Grove, died Saturday morning of membraneous croup and was buried in Osborne cemetery Sunday. There was vacation Monday and Tuesday in all the rooms in the old school building. The teachers going away to visit o*her schools, as is the rule, was the occasion thereof. Gifford’s marsh on the west side of Gillam township caught fire Saturday and by Monday morning had destroyed 200 tons of hay and still burning. Great damage will undoubtedly result as it is very dry.

James Welsh is building the foundation for a new house, on his farm just south of town, which he will erect this fall. Grandma Gooding of Ann Arbor, Mich., will return home this week after a two month’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Andrus, near Surrey.

Mrs. D. E. Hollister received word Monday of the death of her only brother, Geo. E. Banning, at Cleveland, Ohio. He visited her here about two years ago, and is well known in Rensselaer. Mr. Jessup has sold his farm in Gillam township to Frank Iliff, whose son Fred will take possession in a short time. Mr. Jessup will build a fine residence in Rensselaer this fall, and become a citizen of the county seat. At the . box social givetv. by Miss Ora Clark, teacher at the Lampson school, last Friday night, sixteen boxes were sold at an average price 0?* 50 cents. Miss Bertha Hammond’s box sold for the highest figure. $1.70 purchased by Albert Goff.

H. P. Baker who has been visiting at L. Strong’s and with other relatives here for a few weeks, returned to Anarga, 111., Saturday. Mrs. Baker who came with him, returned the previous week. They were former citizens of Jasper county. Randle Overton made the run awheel from Rensselaer to Lafayette Sunday in four hours and forty-five minutes. This is not bad time for au amateur of seventeen, on a second hand Victor wheel. It is probable that with a high geared Mystic he could lower the mark materially. Class No. 8, Mrs. Weaver teacher, of the M. E. Sunday school, will give a masquerade party at Mrs. Weaver’s home tonight, Halloeen, and it is expected that fifteen couple will take part. Pumpkin jack-lanterns similar decorations will be a part of the unique features of the occasion.

Advertised Letters.

Now unclaimed at the Rensselaer postoffice the following letters. Mr. John H. Vanßuren, Mrs. Mary Nuss, Mrs. Elizabeth Burns, Mrs. Charles Standirk, Mr. Claude Wall. Mr. R. B. Lythe.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. OCT. 81, 1895.

Excited Over Prospects for Gas.

The we man of the Monon News has the following personally qualified article on a test well that is being put down near that town. “We” hope it will prove a successful venture, for what booms that neck o’ woods will be good for “us.” “The well being put down by the Standard Oil company on Mr. Rund’s farm, four miles west of Monon and about nine miles southwest of Francesville, is now 700 feet deep and going down rapidly. The machinery used for drilling is of the heaviest and the intention is to go down 2,500 feet if necessary. • They are now within a short distance of trenton rock and before many days we will know whether or not natuial gas is to be found. It is but a few miles from the Francesville natural gas wells and the prospects are good for finding gas. The fact that gas has been found in tolerably fair duantities has been tested by the gas wells only three and a half miles south-

west of Francesville and in our opinion gas in abundant quantities would be of more benefit than oil. But we shall be happy if either should be found and we are inclined to the belief that both exist in large quantities in the vicinity of the premises where the drilling is now going on. Mr. James Murdock, president of the Merchants National Bank at LaFayette, is at the head of the business here and it is believed that he is operating for the Standard Oil company. But he is also the president of the company that piped gas to the city of LaFayette and now holds about a half million dollars stock in natural gas enterprises, and this well may be in the interest of natural gas, more than oil. Natural gas sufficient for manufacturing purposes would start a boom here that would over run all Northern Indiana with a speculative flood of population. The time is near when we will be either jubilant or despondent. The drill is each day nearing the point where great wealth may be found. J. M. Winkley is managing the work of drilling and is giving very good satisfaction to alb concerned.” ■ Keystone Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle.

Mere About Divine Healing

The following is from R. H. Bowen, whose visit to Rensselaer was spoken of recently in these columns. Mr. Bowen lives at Putnamville, Ind., and is a relative of L. E. and I. A. Glaze - brook of this place. To The Editor of People's Pilot. Before we left home we promised friends to give them our opinion of Dr. Dowie’s method of Divine Healing; but we find, after attending quite a number of the doctor’s meetings, that he has no method of healing, but rather teaches people to go to God for healing. He teaches that disease is not God; that God does not afflict his children with sickness; that the body of the Christian is the temple of God's spirit, and God wants that temple healthy, clean and pure; that before the individual can receive any benefit from Divine Healing, he must first give up his sins and become a Christian, and take his body in faith to God for hpaling. He emphasizes very pointedly his assertion that tippling and the use of tobacco are injurious to the body, and hence is a sin against God, and that persons seeking Divine healing must give up those habits; that those who tattle to injure their neighbor, must first set matters right; that you must pay your debts; in short you must repent of sin, and give proof of repentance by forsaking sin, living a holy life. Give up medicine and trust God for the healing, through earnest prayer and faith in God. The doctor prays for the sick, laying on hands, but says “It is God that heals thee.” As a result of his teachings, hundreds of peeple have come to him and God has healed them, at least theevidence shows it. The walls of Zion Tabernacle, where the doctor holds his public meetings, are lined with implements which have been discarded by persons who came there for healing. Some are healed instantaneously, others by “inches.” The blind receive sight, the deaf hear, the lame walk. Persons who have been paralized for years are restored to perfect health. All manner of diseases, after the physicians and surgeons have pronounced them incurable have been healed. The doctor has established homes to accomodate guests, where about 70 can be accom modated. He has established a publishing house in connection with his work, and from this he sends out a paper styled “Leaves of Healing.” By this means persons ate reached in every state in the union and foreign lands who come here for healing. We conversed with a gentleman from Canada, whose wife had been divinely healed of a malignant cancer, after she had been given up by the physicians to die. And scores of others told us hew they had been healed, details of which it would take you a month to publish. No charges whatever are made except for board for guests at the home. The doctor depends entirely on public and private donations to carry on his work. His present quarters are near Jackson Park, and his tabernacle holds near two thousand persons. He is now negotiating for an uptown auditorium in which to hold his Sabbath-afternoon meetings, where he can speak to ten thousand at once. This will require an outlay of $15,000 annually. The doctor has been wonderfully persecuted by the city authorities, charging him with maintaining a hospital without license, but he has thus tar been victorious, and the persecutions only serve to advertise him. Last Sabbath we saw fifteen hundred people in the audience stand up and announce that they had given up their sins and taken God not only for spiritual healing, but for temporal bodily healing, as well. R. H. B.

A Kinderyarten for Rensselaer.

Miss Adelaide Demmon, of the Chicago Kindergarten Institute, has begun kindergarten classes in the rooms over Starr’s grocery. Parents are invited to visit the school during the hours from 9 to 12 a. m. A limited number of children between three and seven years of age will be taken. The rooms are well heated and parents may be sure their children will be well cared for. Among the patrons of the kindergarten are Mrs. F. A. Ross, Mrs. A. F. Long, Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth, Mrs. W. H. Sanders, Mrs. A. S. Laßue, and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Wanted to rent, a house for small family, in Rensselaer. Inquire at this office.

Like Unto His Political Future

The future opens before Judge Wiley like rosy-fingered morn. It is a sure thing. He is destined to be Governor or President of the—-of the Cuban Republic. While attending the State fair he was entrapped in one of those hotel maelstroms, a folding bed, and the death-trap shut down on him like the jaws of an alligator, bag and baggage. By the aid of a bootjack and a fire escape the boys rescued him and the Judge is alive and well to-day.-Leader.

Provide for Municipal Ownership.

At the meeting of the Town Board and Fowler Water Company Saturday every detail of the water works question was arranged to the entire satisfaction of everybody. The town will receive all water rentals from every source, and will pay a hydrant rental of *4O per Hydrant which applies to a purchase fund ultimately to be used in the payment of the water works. A large force of men has been engaged all this week in the water works trenches and much work has been done. The pipes have an average depth of five feet insuring from freezing. The work appears to be done in a thorough manner. The standpipe wili be in place in a few days. The pumps have been placed and tested, and by the time cold weather is here the water plant will be ready for service. Systematic work makes a big undertaking a short job. —Fowler Leader.

Goodland’s Telephone. Exchange.

Rensselaer will soon have phone connection with a large number of adjoining towns. The following from the Herald tells the story for Goodland. “Goodland will soon have a telephone exchange and connections with all the neigoboring towns and the Long Distance Telephone Co. The scheme is being engineered by C. A. Perkins and A. E. Hartley, of this place, and parties in Kentland, Remington and Brook. This is something we need and as Goodland is the natural center of Newton and adjoining counties this will make it an important transfer station. This service can be had for about $2 per month, and no business house can afford to be without it. The material has been purchased and will arrive shortly and the work, rushed through. The system will be ready before cold weather sets in.”

| WARM GOODS! I These crisp, chilly mornings serve as a gen- £ tie reminder that it is high time to don > * heavier, warmer wears, and right in these £ “i heavier goods we excel. £ J We can save you money. £ Will you let us? S WE HAVE— ~ J Heavy lined ducking coats 11 00 £ Heavy lined ducking coats (corduroy collar) 1 35 g Extra heavy blanket lined ducking coats. 185 £ g Heavy Jersey shirts, reduced from 75 to 50c & 5 Heavy wool Jersey shirts, reduced fromsl.2s to.. 80c X X Fine cashmere shirts $ 1.00 to $ 1.25 2 Woolen socks 15c, 20c and 25c £ j Ladies’ and children’s saxony wool miitens 15c 5 j Factory flannel skirt pattern 75c, 85c and *1.15 J £ Factory flannels 19 C , 25c and 30c £ Factory yarns 50c per lb 5 Breakfast shawls ? 65c £ £ Heavy beaver shawls, reduced from $4.00 to $2.50 § £ Heavy beaver shawls, reduced from $6.00 t 0...... $4.25 g Fine double shawls from $3.50 upward £ | We offer no baits, but sell all goods J at reduced prices that makes B | W ARTICLE IN STOCK A MR." | WE INVITE INSPECTION. S | FENDIC’S FAIR I I

Recipt for Hog Cholera.

The Lecture given at the court house last Saturday, ■ the 26th, by Professor Bitting of Purdue University, on the subject of hog cnoiera and swine plague, was certainly very interesting as well as profitable and those who failed to hear him were the loosers. While he says there is no certain cure for either of these diseases, he gave a receipt for a preventive. This medicine no doubt is perfectly safe whether given to healthy or unhealthy hogs, and as a preventative is the best that has been discovered. The following is the roceipt: • Pulverized wood charcoal ..1 lb Sodium chloride, 2 “ Sodium bicarbonate, 2 “ Sodium hyposulphide, 2 Sulphur, i “ Sodium sulphate,, 1 “ Black antimony,.. 1 “ Mix give one tablespoonful once a day in slop or feed. This preparation can be obtained at Meyer’s drug store, Rensselaer, as he has put up a large quantity from the freshest and the purest drugs.

Notice To Tax Payers!

The second insatllment of taxes for the yeai' 1894 are due and must be paid on or before the first Monday in November or the same will thereby become delinquent and a penalty of ten per cent must be added. Books will be returned to the auditor at 5 o’clock p. m., Monday, Nov, 5, 1895. Persons owing delinquent taxes should pay at once and save costs. Respectfully, J. C. Gwin, Treasurer.

Texas Land For Sale or Trade.

I have 1920 acres of bottom land in the Pan Handle district which will sell at a bargain or trade for property nearer this locality. For information address Anson Stewart, Rensselaer.

Lost-A Bunch of Keys.

About six weeks ago. They may be known by a spring shell extractor attached to ring, also a small key numbered 26. Return to T. P. Wright and be rewarded.

House For Sale or Trade. A new five room house, large lot, in Weston, s addition, Rensselaer. Inquire at this office. For Sale—Lumber. All kinds of Oak lumber at mill. Pierce farm 2y miles south of Rensselaer. J. W. Pierce. Flour and meal at J. H. Cox’s.