People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

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

Jordan township has cribbed about all its.corn. It is a fine 4-year-old colt that Add Robinson is breaking. Several of the boys have invitations to a ball at Chalmers on the 14th. Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth returned Sunday night from a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. Morton, at Watseka, DI. Mrs. Martha Ann Timmons of Remington is visiting her neice, Mrs. J. H. Fishel, and other relatives in Rensselaer this week. Heat that bed room with one of our S 5 hard coal burners that will keep fire all night with a hat full of coal. N. Warner & Son. The last of the game laws are now out and B. S. Fendig is at the old stand prepared to buy quail, rabbits and all other kinds of game, at the highest cash prices. Charles Blue gave a box social at his school at Pleasant Ridge Saturday night. A good attendance was had. The proceeds are to be used for the purchase of books. A good many people came to town Saturday regardless of the drizzling rain. Perhaps the enterprise of those merchants who advertised sales was the cause of it. Emerald Aldrich’s team took a run yesterday morning, down Washington street leaving a wagon in chunks along the route. No person was injured and the team escaped being hurt. The marsh fires along the Kankakee have been effectually put out by the late rains. The loss has reached quite SIOO,OOO. The Nelson Morris tract of 50,000 acres suffered severely from burning of hay. Considerable rain fell Friday and Saturday, soaking the ground -well and being very beneficial. It was quite cool Sunday morning, and the sun shone part of the day. The air was full of falling snow Saturday morning.

The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. H. O. Harris, Friday, Nov. 15, at 2:30 p. m. Something out of the ordinary business will take place, and all members of the society and those interested in temperance work are requested to attend. Moore’s Air Tight Heater is one of the new marvels. It takes the place of the baseburner at a much less cost. Burns less coal, is more easily handled, responds quickly to attention and is equally as handsome as the high priced stoves. N. Warner & Son.

Married, Nov. 12, 1895, by Rev. R. D. Utter, at the home of the officiating minister, in Rensselaer, Miss Cora Brown, of Jasper county near Mt. Ayr, to Mr. Wilson Herron, of Morocco, Newton county, Indiana. These excellent young people have the good wishes of many friends. No tone, but many, of Jasper county's farmers, are actually puzzled to know what to do with their corn crop. Their old cribs are full, and their new ones will contain no more. It is a serious question whether to build still other cribs or accept the present market price for the surplus, B. C. Kent has opened his fine new hotel at Goodland. About one hundred guests were present at the opening banquet, which was conspicuous in the ab 1 - sence of wine. Goodland may well be proud of its new hostlery and capable landlord, for a well regulated public house is of vital importance to the reputation of the town, and adds vastly to the general prosperity.

A number of persons in this vicinity were in Rensselaer last Monday and Tuesday to see the celebrated Indian doctor, Dr. Mendenhall. They report that he treated upward of 100 patients in the two days that he was there. Several persons who went to him on his previous visits were free to say that they had been greatly benefited of long standing complaints that other physicians had pronounced incurable. When he comes again in two weeks a number of others in this vicinity intend to try his skill, The doctor may not be better than the local doctors but he has inspired the confidence of many suffering ones.

Dr. M. B. Alter went to Chicago Tuesday. Dr. Washburn was at Rose Lawn Monday. Wile Duval was out again th is week recovered from his recent accident. Prosecuting Attorney Douthit is away this week on legal business. Mrs. Fulton of Chicago is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Andy Saylor, west of town. Superintendent Craig and Secretary Man are said to be good and instructive speakers. On account of the sickness of Miss Nellie Coen there was no school last week in her room. Eight of Marion township teachers went to Goodland last week to attend the teachers’ institute. Grace Scott of Monticello attended the funeral of her friend Miss Rose Makeever, last Sunday. Sanford Makeever was down from Chicago to attend the funeral of his favorite sister Rose last Sunday. Miss Jennie Miller and the Misses Mills and Kennedy went to Chicago last week to visit the schools there. Still improvments go on. Mr. Parks is now building a neat and commodious house across the river, adjoining J. Porter. Mrs. Foltz, mother of Frank Foltz, returned from her trip to Illinois last Saturday evening, after an absence of two months. The Newel’s House opened for business last Saturday under the management of W. D. Sanders, after having been closed several weeks for repairs. Have you lost a boy? If so go to the county Sunday school convention and you may hear something about him. Go to the Christian church Saturday afternoon. Mrs. W. H. Coover and son Clyde went to Remington last week, remaining over Sunday. Mrs. Coover’s mother was ill but we are glad to know she is improving.

The daughters of Rebecca of Rensselaer will receive thirteen candidates Friday night. The Remington lodge will furnish the team. Both the Odd Fellows and Rebeccas are increasing in membership very rapidly. At a recent called meeting of the Rensselaer pastors it was unanimously resolved to announce all evening services to begin at 7 o’clock until further notice; also, 10:45 was endorsed as the hour for the Sunday morning services.

Miss Rose Belle Makeever died at hpr home, at Mr. Wm. Coen’s, in Rensselaer last Saturday morning. She has been a constant suffered all her life and death was not unexpected by her friends. The funeral was held at the Trinity M. E. church, Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2:30 p. m., Rev. Paradis conducting the services. Interment was made in Weston cemetery. Albert Overton and Charley Cox, “the two handsomest young men in Rensselaer,” made cf relay livery trip to Fowler Sunday, changing teams at Goodland, and Raub, covering close to 10Q miles including a few side shoots with a couple of Fowler’s blooming blondes. The day was certainly well put in for the home rig did not show up at the starting point until about daylight Monday morning.