People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — THE WEEK AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK AT HOME.

A white Thanksgiving, a green Christmas and a fat grave yard. Old Farmer Hopkins at the opera house Dec. 13. Mr. J. A. Hopkins is at home again after an absence of about six weeks. Keystone Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle. Frank B. Meyer has the sale of township and town school books and keeps the finest line of school supplies in Rensselaer. There are two splendid football teams at the college, and they are about evenly matched. The Sunday games are spirited affairs.

Ask your neighbor about our laundry work and they will tell you it is the best they ever had done. Spitler & Kight. Mrs. William Green, Miss Lucy Green, Miss Jessie Ross, Mr. G. W. Pfleeger, Mr. Henry Weigerintand Ira J. Baker have advertised letters at the post office.

The big ball by the .big boys at the opera house to-night will be attended by guests from Chi ergo, Remington, Monticello, Delphi, Lafayette and other places. Providence is certainly entitled to thanks for the bountiful productions of Mother Earth this year; but what of the thousands, the millions, who are unable to obtain sufficient of it to keep starvation from their homes?

The Jasper County Teachers’ Association will be in session at the court house Friday and Saturday of this week. Good speakers will be in attendance to talk on tne line of higher civilization by education. George H. Healey, an old Rensselaer boy, who has been working for several years for the Sedalia, Mo., Gazette, and his business partner, C. Ernest Graham, are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. Julia A. Healey. H. W. Porter is the local agent for the “old reliable” Continental Insurance Company, which insures against fire, lightning and tornadoes, and pays all its losses promptly. Call on Mr. Porter when want a policy written. He will treat you right. The Texas Current Voice gets after delinquent subscribers like this: The wind bloweth, and it snoweth, the subscriber oweth, and the Lord knoweth that we are in want of our dues; so come a-runnin’, this thing of dunnin’ gives us the blues.

Warren Washburn, who is working at electrical work in Chicago, was in Rensselaer’ a short time Monday, having come from Lafayette, where he had visited Saturday and Sunday with his brother Ira, who is attending school at Purdue University. Ira Washburn, captain of the Purdue University second eleven foot-ball players, will spend the latter part of this week with his father. Dr. I. B. Washburn and family, bringing with him two college friends.

Word was received here Tuesday that Stephen Protsman and wife, of Hammond, have lost their two youngest children with black diphtheria. They have many relatives in this county. The mother was nearly crazed by the loss of a little one some time ago. and this double bereavement will undoubtedly fall heavily upon her. George Kellner, who was employed by the Rensselaer Creamery Company as butter-maker, when the creamery first began business, is reported to have recently been killed while working in a creamery in Illinois. The cream separator, which revolves at the rate of several hundred revolutions per minute, flew out and killed him, badly lacerating and disfiguring him. The particulars were not learned.

The ten-year-old son of E. L. Gay came very near meeting death in a runaway Monday morning. He was driving a horse to a buggy and leading another; when near Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop the horses became frightened by the quarreling of some dogs and became unmanageable, running down Front street to Simon P. Thompson’s iron fence, which the horse jumped, freeing itself from the buggy which stopped at the fence. The horse and buggy escaped serious injury and, aside from some bruises from being thrown violently against the dashboard, the boy also came out of the wreck whole.

Al Rishling of Lee was in Rensselaer over Sunday. Miss Crampton of Delphi is a guest of Miss Nellie Hopkins. Drop in and see the latest fancies in fall millinery at Meyer Sisters. Wall paper at Meyer’s at less than half price; the largest and finest stock in town. J. F. Warren was in Indi.*i* apolis last week in attendance at the grand lodge of the Odd Fellows. Miss Nellie Coen who has been sick for two or three weeks at her brother’s, C. W. Coen, is reported not so well. The bicycle will have to be carried up stairs into the “plunder room” for the winter, if this sort of weather don’t let up. Mrs. I. N. Hemphill and Mrs. Dave Alters left yesterday for Streator, 111., to visit their sister, Miss Lillie Troxwell and another sister. Mr. Gleason, the horse buyer will be at Iliff’s livery barn Friday and Saturday of this week, to obtain a load of horses, must be in good flesh. Thena Meyer left for Engle wood yesterday to spend Thanksgiving with Miss Seigler, a friend of the family who was visiting in Rensselaer a few weeks ago. Hon. John K. Gowdy, chair.man republican state central comm ittee, stopped over one train and had a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Pumphrey and otfoer friends in Rensselaer. Correspondents of the People’s Pilot will please send in their letters so as to reach this office by Wednesday noon, and earlier if possible, as the paper goes to press early Thursday morning. Brother Marshall of the Republican will receive a fine new press for printing the paper in a few days. As Rensselaer grows and improves so should its papers that no one will be ashamed to compare the printing plants or the papers with those of other cities of like pretentions. The steam laundry is now prepared to take a limited number of small family washings at the following prices: Rough dry, 20c per doz. Washing and ironing, 50c per doz. These prices d'oes not include starched articles which requires a high gloss polish. Spitler & Kight. Ora Yeoman has retired trom the management of the Makeever House and moved into the F. B. Learning residence. He will still continue the grain market room the same as before.

The steam laundry is now prepared to take a limited number of small family washings at the following prices: Rough dry, 2Uc per doz. Washing and ironing, 50c per doz. These prices does not include starched articles which requires a high gloss polish. Spitler & Kight.

Geo. Cox of Marion, Ind., who was seriously injured a few days ago will be brought home this week. His life was saved only by the most skillful of surgical operations. It is thought he will speedily recover. His brother Anson returned Monday from attendance at his bedside.

Lawson Meyer has become the owner of an outfit of the art preservative and is emulating the great life work of Benjamin Franklin. There really is no more fascinating diversion than tnat of amateur printing, and it is also highly beneficial in an educational way. William Hoover shipped a car of as fine hogs as seldom leave this station Tuesday night, and the highest price paid to any one was three cents. Is there any good reason why even the Chinaman should live on rats or Americans go without meat?

Mrs. F. 3. Meyer, who has been sick for several weeks, is now able to sit up about half of the time. During the summer she became quite strong from riding her wheel, and she now thinks she will have to wait until spring before any great change will come in her condition. Mrs. Minnie Sever of Wash ington (state) arrived Tuesday evening to spend a few weeks at the home of Andrew La Rue. Her husband, J. W. Sever, brother of Mrs. La Rue. is expected in a few days.

“Uncle Marsh.” the senior member of the firm of Warner & Collins, was detained at home all day Tuesday by + he unexpected arrival from abroad of a relative of Uncle Marsh and his estimable wife, a young man in whom they are exceedingly interested. It has leaked out that the youth was absolutely penniless and practically destitute of clothes. The kind-hearted people have taken him in. however, and propose to share their home with him, doing all possible to merit his accepting them as father and mother. All friends will find free cigars and chewing gum at the store.

Edward Burdhby, contractor for the brick work on the Presbyterian church, spent Sunday with his family in Lia Fayette.. Mrs. S. E. Yeoman is having the Makeever house office newly papered and otherwise brightened up to greet the holliday' traveling custom. Miss Mable F. Doty of Chicago will give instruction in physical culture and elocution at the rooms, formerly known as the Iroquois club rooms; hours from 2t05 p. m.; Saturday 9to 12 a. m. and 2tosp. m. For further information please call.

MABLE F. DOTY.