People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

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.