People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1896 — Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Wanted.

C. W. Coen wants 25,000 bushels of corn within the next 30 days and will pay the highest market price for the sa me. The well recently sunk by the Standard Oil company, west of Monon, is believed to contain oil in paying quantities. It has been “plugged" and will be used when needed.—Deljihi Journal. Messrs. Geo. W. Allman and Albert Murphy, who recently moved from here to Scottsburg. Val, have purchased 350 acres or land near Gordonsvi lie, Orange county. Va., about 100 miles from Scottsburg. and will move onto same at-once. Remington Press. ('ounnissioner Jones is still confined to his house but is thought to he gaining a little. Ilis colleagues are still “building a court house," and send the sheriff over occasionally to let Mr. Jones know that they are going to have a meeting, understanding full well that he is unable to meet with them. —Remington Press. Harvey Livers, a farmer living near Chalmers, soaked his horse with coal oil to kill chicken lice and thoughtlessly ignited the oil while trying to singe the hair off the fetlocks. His wife saved the animals life by dashing on a couple of buckets of boiling hot water.

One of the Monon’s new engines has beaten the record on that road for fast time. One night last week it hauled a passenger train from Delphi to Frankfort. twenty-five miles, in twenty one minutes. This is the highest speed ever made by a regular train on the road.— Delphi Journal. With the approach of March comes the rattling wheels of the trancient home. On all our main traveled roads for the past week half the teams seen are movers. tenants locating for’the season. Can it he that indolence, prodigality and improvidence has made so many of our people homeless? What is the matter? This homeless class has been fast increasing for twenty years. Who can tell what it is going to end in?

Commissioners Faris and Martindale appear to have decided to go right ahead with their new court house despite the opposition of ninety-five per cent of the tax payers of the county. They have selected a 11. W ayne architect the same one employed to condemn the present structure and we suppose they will begin business at once. Those commissioners should be brought to an abrupt halt i 1. this court house business. The people who will have the building to pay for certainly ought to have some little voice in the matter, and if they can he brought to a realization of the fact in no other way it might not be out of place to introduce some Crawford county persuasion. Remington Press.