People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Mrs. William Washburn is very sick. Will Clark of Goodland was in town all of last week. ErnestJWishard was home from Purdue Sunday. Rhy Wood spentJTuesday and Wednesday in Chicago. Miss Marybell Purcupile is to remain in Chicago for some time. Miss Sadie Leopold is able to be out again after a protracted illness. Miss Jessie Adams was at her home in Monon Saturday and Sunday. Miss Bertha Pierson south-east of town is visiting atJHenry Wood’s. Miss Stella Parkison of Chicago was home Saturday and Sunday last. J. H. Cox has received a fresh car load of lime. He also has hair and coal. MissesJLillie Seward and Lora Roberts dined at George Pumphrey’s Sunday. For fresh lime, hair and coal call on J. H. Cox. Charlie Cox and Jerome Massey were at home over Sunday. Wanted—A girl to do general house work. Enquire at this office. Miss Bessie Sayler has accepted a position as saleslady in a store at Brook. Rev. Muckley of Kansas City preached at the Christian church Sunday morning. The Iroquois Dancing Club gave their sixth ball at the opera house Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Washington Scott are spending a few days with their daughter at Hammond. Reuben Perkins of Mishawaka is expected to arrive this week to visit his brother, J. H. Perkins. Misß Lyonsjof Brook was in town Sunday the guest of Misses Bertha Nowels and Glenn Porter. Ira Washburn is considering a proposition to play with the Purdue baseball team this season.

Miss Pearl Hollister left for lowa Tuesday morning. She is to be companion to her widowed aunt. Paris Daugherty has moved in from Judson Porter’s farm and now occupies James PaßSon’s house. 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. Teachers examination took place at the high school building Saturday. It iB reported that a number of applicants gave up because the questions were unilsually difficult. It not only is so, it must be so, On* Minute Cough Cure acts quickly, and that’s what makes it go. A. F. Long, Druggist. James P. Bullis of Jordan, who lost the better part of his right hand in a corn sheller about two months ago, reports the hand about healed up. Soothing, healing, cleansing, De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the enemy to sores, wounds and piles, which it never fails to cure. Stops itching and burning. Cures chapped lips and cold-sores in two or three hours. A. F. Long, Druggist. Don’t fail to inquire for prices and terms for lots in Leopold’s addition; best mtuated, wider and larger than the lots in any other addition to Rensselaer.

There is a good deal of sickness in Milroy township. Wheat and rye is reported looking well in Milroy township. Valentine Wysong of Milroy township is able to be out after a couple of weeks sickness. William Posted has taken (Charlie Gray’s place on Wile Duval’s dray. Mrs. Emma Mont Mcßae, opera house March 13; reserved seats at Lctag’s; 15c, 25c, 35c. In another place in this paper is published a most flattering comment made by the Monticello Herald on the lecture of Mrs. Emma Mont Mcßae. J. L. Foster has the contract of the erection of a residence property and out buildings on Division street for Mr, Makeever. A nice new girl baby made its advent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Ropp Thursday last, February 27th. The little one promises well, und its mother is doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Craig of the Pilot accepted an invitation to spend last Sunday with the family of August Stimson at Stoutsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps of Wheatfield were also guests and a very enjoyable day was spent with these most hospitable people. Rev. Voliva will preach at the First Baptist church next Sunday. The subject of the morning service will be “Exageration as a figure of speech and its use in The Gospels;” evening subject, “The model of ideal Christian.” Dry hickory wood for sale at farmers’ prices in 14 or 16 inch lengths. Two blocks east of court house. Anson Stewart.

Mrs. Emma Mont. Mcßae, Professor of English Literature in Purdue University, will lecture in the opera house March 13th, Friday night, for the benefit of the school library. Subject, “The Land of Evangeline.” Mrs. Mcßae has traveled extensively in Arcadia and her theme will be thoroughly well treated and interesting. Miss Lizzie Southard, aged about twelve years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Southard of Milroy township, died at her father’s home Tuesday, March 3, of scarletina and infiamatory rheumatism. The funeral will take place from the house to-day at ten a. m.; the remains will be taken to Gilboa Mound for interment.

The final entertainment of the Rensselaer Lecture Club was given Monday night, consisting of a very excellent program rendered by the impersonator, J. Arthur Loining. The promoters of the series, George E. Marshall, J. J. Hunt, B. F. Fendig and J. F. Warren, are said to have realized a n'ce little surplus after paying all expenses, though insufficient for an extra entertainment as was at first proposed. Simon Fendig 'fled from his drug store in Wheatfield to see that his friends had fair play at Monday’s round up. Editor Knotts champion of the north end attended fthe excitment Monday in the interest of Mr. Scott. There are some awfully raw spots as the result of Monday’s Republican nominations. There are people so ungenerous as to say the Republican convention last Monday was a local Lousiana lottery. ■