People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — MT. AYR. [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR.

Correspondence of People’s Pilot. Winter is here. N. C. Pumphrey spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Grace Caldwell returned from Rensselaer, and was on the sick list. Rev. Clark is holding a series of meetings in our city, which he expects to extend over Xmas. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rush are the happy possessors of a ten pound boy. Mt. Ayr will have a Xmas tree on Christmas Eve. All are invited. The Jolly Klan met at Mr. Park’s last Tuesday evening and spent a very pleasant evening. They adjourned to meet Saturday evening, December 13, at Mr. Coovert’s. John Crisler was seen hustling about town Saturday morning securing men, to assist in putting the roof on his new ice house. Roy Flanders made a flying trip to Indianapolis last week When asked the cause his an swer was, “I went to see my cousin.” “See?” The young people of Mt. Ayr are receiving a treat in the form skating. Two of our city clerks were on a pond twenty feet square, and reported a pleasant time. Several young men in Mt. Ary are thinking of starting in school. Success to them, but they should be sure that learning is what they are going for. Handy Amdy. Musical instruments of all kinds. Also violin and guitar strings, violin bows, etc. A. F, Long, the druggist. Christmas shoppers! Don't miss Fendig’s Drug Store in your rounds. Biggest assortment in in town. Mr. Frank Maloy as “Tony, the convict,” will wear the prison garb of a life-termer, obtained from the state’s prison for this occasion. “Tony, the convict.”