People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

We are the only steam laundry in town. Spitler & Kight. Rev. P. L. Austin is holding revival meetings at the Church of God. A wolf hunt is being talked up at Moi’occo, to take place this month. Keystone Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle. Ott Clark has moved with his family to Goodland to run the Central hotel. Perry Hamilton spent Tnanksgiving with Rev. John Sebring at Medaryville. Lyman Zea received word last week of the death of a brother at Trinidad. Colo. Mrs. H. J. Dexter entertained her sister, Mrs. Hornaday of Plainfield, last week. Mrs. Fred Long returned to her home in Medaryville after a week with friends here.

The bridge over the Kankakee at Dunn’s crossing, has been closed while the new bridge is being put up. Allen Daugherty from the valley of the Yellowstone, Mantana, is visiting at his father’s, George Daugherty. There came near being a coal famine in Rensselaer last week. In fact orders for coal were cut down to actual necessities. It is said that goats will prevent hogs from having the cholera. Establish that fact and a goat farm will pay in this county. Heat that bed room with one of our *5 hard coal burners that will keep fire all night with a hat full of coal. X. Warner & Son.

W. B. Austin made a score of families remember Thankrgiving day and his kindness by the gift of twenty two sacks of Hour. Alfred Hopkins surprised his good mother by coining home from Chicago to get his share of the cranberry dressed bird last Thursday. He was at the ball you may be sure. Geo. K. Hollingsworth and family arrived home from Atlanta arid other southern points Thanksgiving day. Mr. H. re ports a very enjoyable trip and much pleased with the “sunny south.”

The ladies of the Presbyterian church will open their bazaar on Wednesday December 18th and will keep it open until Saturday evening the 21st. The location and catalogue of articles will be given next week.

Tne entertainment given at the opera house Wednesday evening of last week, to aid the Christian Endeavor Society in raising funds to meet their subscription to the new Presbyterian church, was well attended, and a very pleasant affair. Miss Love Crampton of Delphi was at the Thanksgiving ball and remained the guest of her friend, Miss Nellie Hopkins, for a few days. She left for Chicago Monday to visit friends and will return to day to remain over Sunday with her host of intimates here. Geo. Cox, recently injured at at Marion, came home for Thanksgiving, and, for the first time in seven years, the family circle met without a missing link. The accident to George is the first serious accident, injury or death, that has occurred in the Cox family, in forty years.

John Daugherty of Rensselaer •was an agreeable caller at this office Thursday morning. Mr. D. informs us that the prospect for a large new court house at his town is quite good. The recent earthquake having, it is thought, damaged the old one considerably—Morocco Courier. . Speaking of the Winamac canning factory the Republican says, “starting with peas in the spring, then corn, tomatoes and beans and later pumpkins, hominy and sauer kraut, the Great vWestern Canning Company will be able to have some kind of work going on every week in the year in their canning department.” Rensselaer is admirably adapted for supplying a canning factory with the finest quality of such vegetables as there is no better gardening soil in Indiana than in this locality- T*"" .

B. S. Fendig spent Sunday in Wheatfield. Mr. Joiner has had a touch of the rheumatism the past week. Meyer Sisters have just received a full line of fall millinery. Keystone Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle. An occasional ’possum finds its way to the market in Rensselaer. Invitations will be issued this week to the Firemens’ ball for New Year’s eve. Miss Myrtle Chipman began work in The Pilot office as a compositor this week. W. M. Jones started for Atlanta, Georgia, Friday night to remain until spring. Brook is agitating the question of a town pump. Next will be a move for the county seat.

The married folks will celebrate Christmas night with a ball at the opera house. Rabbit hunters are busy, and successful if one is to judge from the number marketed each week. Mr. Gleason took another string of good horses out of Rensselaer the first of the week.

Warren Robinson's little son, Edwin, has been near death with a throat trouble but is better now. Thena Meyer spent Thursday and the week at Englewood with friends, returning for school Sunday. The past two w T eeks have been hard on the photographers who are trying to print up their large holiday orders.

Friday and Saturday was profitably spent by the teachers pf Jasper county at their meeting at the court house. A. C. Anderson has plenty of good pasturage on the Wall Robinson farm 2£ miles northeast of Rensselaer. Terms reasonable. Geo. Strickfaden is having some improvements made on the interior of his saloon, in con formity with the requirements of his new license. No lovelier days could be desired than was last Thursday. The weather man seemed to have done a good job to make Thanks giving day so strongly in con trast with the previous and following days. 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 does not include starched articles which requires a high gloss polish. Spitler & Kight. Mr, Littlefield, of the firm of Gray & Littlefield, Remington, was in town Friday and made The Pilot a very pleasant call. This firm is pushing Jasper county values right up to its proper notch and bringing success to themselves and their clients.

There are now 1,070 iocandesant lights attached to the dynamo. Its capacity is 1,200 and at this rate it will soon be taxed to the limit to carry the lights. Of this number 520 are commerial lights. This speaks well for a plant that has been in existence only a little over a year.—Goodland Herald.

Squire Burnham tied a neat nuptial knot last Thursday, the united parties being Thomas Brewer, a leading citizen of Medaryville, and Miss Louisa Mitchel. daughter of Samuel M. Mitchelof Gillarn township. The young people have a host of friends who wish them well. Being married on Thanksgiving it will be easy to remember when the paper, wooden, tin and silver weddings roll round.

The Pilot favors the acquisition of the electric lighting plaut by the town, if it can be equitably obtained. It is no longer an experiment, and if it can be run by a private concern it certainly can be by the town. The plant should be improved, and there should be three times as many street lamps. The private consumption is not near *all that would be if enlarged. The time to make it a municipal plant is now while the town is small; after it reaches a population of 5,000 or more it will not be so easy, get a private concern to give up the business. Municipal ownership and no franchises should be the motto of the town in all public utilities, waterworks, street railways, gas or electricity.

Keystone Corn Hus«er and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randle. Blank books, writing material and school incidentals, the finest assortment at Meyer’s drug store. Ira Washburn returned to Lafayette Monday night, where he is a student at Purdue University. Miss Bell Marshall, teacher, will give an oyster supper for the benefit of reading circle books, at the Watson school tomorrow night, Friday, Dec. 6. Don’t forget now when sending those Christmas gifts to place your name and address on the outside. It may save some of them from going to the dead letter and lost to you. An appreciated Christmas gift to that distant relative would be a year's subscription to Pilot. It costs but a dollar, two cents a week, just the price of postage stamp.

Rev. J. L. Brady is to leave the pastorate of the Christian church at the close of this year’s engagement some time this month. Where he will go from here and who will fill his place is not yet known. “A miss is as good as a mile” is what Geo. Healey remarked the other evening when a vicious horse, hitched to the park fence, locked a lead pencil out of his vest pocket without interfering with his person. Married.—At 12 m., Nov. 28, 1895, at the home of the bride’s parents, by Rev. R. D. Utter, of Trinity M. E. church, Rensselaer, Miss Emma J., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kenton, of Surrey, Ind.. to Mr. Niles S. Berray, of Silver City, New Mexico.

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 2 to 5 p. m.; Saturday 9 to 12 a. ra. and 2tosp. m. For further information please call. Mable F. Doty.

Frank Meyer left Saturday evening for Lafayette with his son James, to have a surgical specialist operate on the latter’s nose, which was injured in the railroad accident while returning from Lafayette foot ball game Thursday night, mention of which is made elsewhere. Frank went on to Indianapolis to purchase a line of holiday goods. The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor at the Christian church was lead last Sunday evening by George H. Healey, and a very forceful paper, entitled, “Dangerous amusements” was read by C. Ernest Graham. The meeting was well attended and was very interesting. Miss Emma M. Burget of Illinois Female College, of Jacksonville, 111., will give instruction in voiceculture and instrumental music at the rooms, formerly known as the Iroquois club rooms hours from 2t05 p. m. For further information please call. Enma M. Burget.

F. B. Meyer, druggist, has prepared a large quanity of the hog cholera preventative, recommended by the state lecturer, who spoke at the farmers meeting in the court house last Saturday, the formula of which is given elsewhere in this paper. Call and get a package before your hogs become sick. Some of our leading capitalists will visit lowa and other states west of the Mississippi soon, with a view of placing investments while land and property of all kinds there are at the present low valuations. In parts of those states the lands will largely have to change hands on account of the immense depreciation in value and the impossibility to pay the mortgage indebtedness.

The following is taken from the Foresman correspondence of the Brook Reporter: “Fores-man-Lowe wedding wras.solemnized at the home of the bride, Mr. D. Lowe, Wednesday evening, was a very pleasant affair. The bride looked very nice in a brown suit, and the groom looked well as all men do in black. These young people have many warm friends here, who wish them a long and happy useful life. Mr. M. Foresman and wife and brother Harvey, from Goodland, Mr. John Lowe, wife and son from Kentland and Mrs. Mary Gaultney of Staplehurst, Neb., were guests from faraway, besides many home friends. Mr. and Mrs. Foresman were the recipients of many lovely presents, which we feel were given as expressions of love and best wishes.”

E. A. McFarland and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randle on Thanksgiving. Louie Leopold .of Wolcott was at the family home on Thanksgiving day. Hog cholera preventative from state formula for sale at Meyer’s drug store.

The Delphi foot ball team failed to come up for the Thanksgiving day match and the spec tators had to be content with watching a very tame case improviso. The field was very muddy. H. W. Porter is the local agent for the “old reliable” Continental Insurance Company, which insures against fire, lightning and tornadoes, anti pays all its losses promptly. Call on Mr. Porter when want a policy written. He will treat you right.