People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Firemen’s Masquerade ball Dec. 31st. Charley Cox spent Sunday in Goodland. Mrs. J. Lampsou of Jordan is seriously ill. Walter Lee and wife returned Monday from a few days visit at Lee. William Essen of Foresman will move to Rensselaer in the near future. Rev. Finley preached in the Christian church Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Frank Hoover is at home from school at Bloomington to help carve the turkey to-day. Ray Thompson is spending the week at home taking a vacation from his studies at Bloomington. F. L Florence of Hanging Grove is rejoicing over the advent of a son last Sunday morning. Heat that bed room with one of our *5 hard coal burners that will keep fire all night with a hat full of coal. N. Warner & Son.

Buy your Thanksgiving turkey ready dressed, with accompanying edibles at the ladies’ bazaar, in Nowels’ store, Wednesday the 27th. Don’t forget the ladies of the Christian church when preparing that Thanksgiving dinner. They will open their bazaar in C. D. Nowels’ store on Wednesday, the 27th.

Miss Gusta King is expected to return to Rensselaer in a short time, an unexpected change in her condition making it necessary for her to leave lowa for her home here. StewardHammond,one of Rensselaer’s old and well known citi zens, was seriously ir jured Sat urday forenoon by falling off from a load of corn fodder. He struck on his bead and hurt his spine. The injury is thought to be serious.

.-.Among urm'w. cate that the loss of life among the herds will be great. From Ohio comes the story that the village of Cygnet has been blown away and that thousands of oil derricks had been leveled entailing a loss upon the petroleum In terests amounting to hundreds o thousands of dollars. At Louisville and along the Ohio rive scores of coal-laden barges were tor: from their moorings by the combine' wind and current and carried dow stream to certain destruction and con sequent loss to the owners of vessel and cargo. At Franklin. Ind., the cit; hall was blown down. At Montpeliei Ind., scores of oil derricks were razet and many houses were unroofed, leav ing their occupants at the chilling mer cies of the storm. Train service throughout Wiseonsi has been badly crippled, as it has bee in Michigan and in fact throughout tb, entire storm belt.