People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Spring begins to-day. Good Friday. April 3d. To-day the sun rises at sis o'clock and sets at six. Easter Sunday, two weeks from next Sunday. President Cleveland was 59 years old yesterbay, J. H. Cox has received a fresh car load of lime. He also has hair and coal. Miss Mary Utter was at Lafayette Sunday, For fresh lime, hair and coal call on J. H. Cox. A new card of Hollingsworth & Hopkins appears in thiß issue of the Pilot. Miss True Yeoman returned Saturday from school at Greencastle. Frank Meyer took the hospital train for Lafayette Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Douthitt is again very sick. Dr. Horton is doing dental work at Wheatfield to-day. J. M. Spriggs of Medaryville was a caller at the Pilot office Saturday. The town presented a lively appear anee again last Saturday, the roads being in quite passable condition. Geo. W. Goff contemplates the erection of a dwelling house this spring for renting purposes. The Brook Reporter has been sold by J. D. Rich to F. H. Robertson, an employee of the office.

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. Mrs. Isaac French has quite recovered from her recent injuries and nervous prostration resulting from the runaway accident. It not only is so, it must be so, One Minute Cough Cure acts quickly, and that's what makes it go. A. F. Long, Druggist. Work will be resumed on Forsythe's block April first. The structural iron is now on the ground, as is the brick for the large building. Don’t fail to inquire for prices and terms for lots in Leopold's addition; best situated,wider and larger than the lots in any other addition to Rensselaer. Guss Phillips is still at home, awaiting the recovery of Mrs. Hamilton, wife of his partner, and it is uncertain whether the troupe will be called together again this season or not. 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. Miss Mary Meyer has not yet returned from Chicago, where she has been studying the new designs in millinery. She will forward a very full line of the very latest patterns for the Easier season. Marion Adams has caught onto the milk business right, having got together a bunch of the very best cows obtainable, and no one could ask for richer milk than he is delivering to his customers.

Court opened Monday. Aaron Wood is out again. Palm Sunday. March 29th. Full moon. Sunday. March 29. Children's photos a specialty at the Pavillion. Miss Kittie Scott is cousining in the country this week. W. E. Overton visited in Monon Sunday. Fred Phillips’ $4 pants, made to order, are the ones you want. George W. Goff has been suffering with influenza for several days. A couple of inches of snow again Saturday. also come on Monday. Wolcott's vote on electric lights was 93 to 42 in favor of the improvement. A farmers institute will be held at Chalmers next Saturday, March 21st. The Monon will issue a new time card next week. Carpenters began Monday to put the finishing touches on the Presbyterian church. The physicians are kept very active now, there being more sickness than usual at this season. The government has finally dismissed its case against Debs and other members of the American Railway Union.

The annual summer session of the Battle Ground Campmeeting Association will be held July 17-27. Tuesday was the Seventeenth of March and numerous were wearers of the green. Mrs. K. Rosenbaum of Helena, Montana, is visiting her son, Aegust Rosenbaum. The Japanese social at the home of M. F. Chilcote Friday night was a very pleasant affair. By the closing of the Hildebrand (Crosscup) saloon Rensselaer has but two resorts of the kind remaining. The Epworth League will give a social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren on Friday evening, March 27. The Monon News last week was the newsiest of our exchanges, neatly printed and a credit to the makers. Mrs. Nathan Fletcher of Frankfort is visiting the fatailies of A. Leopold and W. A. Mossier. Brook has a ten-drop telephone exchange and is connected with Goodland and neighboring towns. It will soon be in current with Morocco. The republican congressional conven tion at Lafayette to-day is being attended by a good many high privates as well as delegates from Jasper county.

R. W. Nowels, having sold his farm and milling property, will engage in the real estate business, with office over the Model store in room recently occupied by the Pilot printing office. The Kannal estate will plat a tract on the west side this spring. It is as sightly a residence section as there is in Rensselaer and will ,be eagerly sought after. Some of the owners of windmills in town are careless about having them properly lubricated, and as a result 5 the night is made hideous with their weird wailings.

D. H. Yeoman and Barney Comer purchased a fine bunch of yearlings and two-year-olds in Carroll county last week. These gentlemen would like a little more pasturage this season. William Washburn will take a bunch of yearlings to the northern part of the county for pasturage this season. The rates are 30c per mouth there as against 60c here. Fred Phillips has 250 samples, full IJ4 yard patterns, from which to select that new spring suit; made to order as cheap as ready-made clothing; a perfect fit , guaranteed: garments fitted before finishing. Rev. C. E. Voliva preached in Wolcott Sunday, and there were no services at the First Baptist church here. Mr. Voliva preaches alternate Sundays in each place, and his appointment will be filled here next Sunday at tl}e usual hours.

C. W. Israel left for Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week to bring home his brother Wiley, who has been in that territory for some time in the hope of regaining his health by the change of climate. It is thought he may not be able to undertake the journey home, as he is failing rapidly.

The officers to be elected on the state ticket next November are: Governor Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Superintendent of Public Instructions, Attorney General, Reporter of Supreme Court, five Appellate Judges and State Statistican. There are no Supreme Judges to elect. Goodland has a disappearance mystery that puzzles the best of them. Roy Sherrow, a boy fourteen years old, was sent on an errand and has not been heard of since, though it was broad daylight when he left home. It is thought that he has run away, but if so he has eluded all efforts to trace him for over two weeks. I-

Robt. Dowler has the contract to erect two houses for A. Leopold on Front street.

W. A. Mossier was called by telephone to Thorntown Tuesday morning because of the serious illness of his mother. I. E. French in the interest of the Mas sachucetts Life is spending a few days in Peoria, 111. Joseph Austin of Wheatfield was in town Monday. Mr. Austin is one of the solid citizens of the north end. Henry Sparling and wife of DeMotte were in town Monday, transacting busi ness and visiting their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Scott.

The Iliff livery business will change hands during the first part of April. The new proprietor is Walter M. White, of Wilmington, 111. Monticello has a new daily paper, the Morning Journal, published by Reynolds & Bott. It is printed from the Democrat office.

Frank Osborne, who recently sold his planing mill here has bought a lumber yard in Fraricesville and will move his family to that place in a week or two. D. E. Hollister, recently engineer at the Sayler & Collins mill, and Homer Hopkins, miller at the same place, have leased the Nowel’s mill at depot and are already in business up to their eyes. W. T. S. Ireland of Fort Recovery, Ohio, is now an employee of the Pilot and will soon bring his wife here toreside. They will occupy rooms in the Nowel's House block.

Don’t forget the conundrum supper to be given by the ladies of theßelief Corps at the G. A. R. hall, March 24th. Supper from six to eight. Proceeds to be used for relief.

Although court has been in session but one week it has disposed of some important business. J. Albert Overton will be taken to Michigan City (by the cars) next Sunday. Mrs. Bayard Clark and baby came up from Indianapolis, Sunday and joined Mr. Clark in their new home in the Misses Williams’ house on Front street.

“Give me a liver regulator and I can regulate the world,” said a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle of Witt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. A. F. Long. Druggist. Everybody is cordially invited to come and dine on conundrums, and help the Woman Relief Corps in their worthy cause, March24th, in the G. A. R. hall, Odd Fellows Temple, at Bix o’clock. Supper tickets sold at the door.

George O. Pumphrey will put out a three acre patch of small fruits this spring, on his nice home place in the north-west part of town. There is nothing that will pay as handsomely when rightly handled as raspberries, strawberries and kindred fruits.

All trains on the Monon will stop in Rensselaer until further notice. This is the result of eight months effort by the city council, and by this action of the railroad company the city withdraws its demand for a flagman at the depot crossing.

Bruce W Pumphrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pumphrey of Rensselaer, is announced to wed Miss Grace Sharp of Kentland in the near future. Bruce will run his father's farm north of Foresman this year, and teach the Foresman school next fall and winter.

The Chicago Ladies’ Military Concert Band gave a very creditable entertainment at the opera house Saturday evening, but the patronage was very meager. A special matinee was given Sunday afternoon to a larger and more appreciative audience. Had the performance been better billed and understood by the usual theatre patrons the attendance would have been good.

One of the benefits suggested as a result of incorporation under a municipal charter would be control of the rate of speed at which trains would pass through the town. It is only a question of time when a frightful accident will occur at some of our crossings, and it is doubtful whether the town as at present organized could compel the enforcement of their ordinances in such matters.

Mark Foresman has satisfied his ambition in the editorial field and is no longer at the helm of the Goodland Herald. Alexander Lardner, the publisher, has turned the paper back to the veteran, A. J. Kitt, who will conduct it as of yore. Just what Mr. Kitt has made out of the sale and repurchase of the property is not stated. It has been understood that Mr. Kitt had a .string on the new Tribune and it is quite probable he will pull it sufficiently to shut off competition. It is safe to predict that Goodland will have to be content with one paper and that issued but once a week.

A disastrous fire occurred ,in Goodland Friday night, completely destroying the big mercantile establishment of Banes & Sapp, entailing a loss of about 820,000, insured for SII,OOO. Other buildings were only saved by the greatest exertions and good captaincy. Bingham Brothers had their stock of goods damaged greatly by carrying into the street though their block was saved. Hiimston’s drug stock was also injured in like manner, Watson, the tailor, lost his all, a small stock and working outfit. Banes & Sapp will at once begin business with a new stock. The cause of the fire is unknown.

Mrs. Henry Wood has been very sick since Friday last. Rev. Utter is holding protracted meetings at the Methodist church all this week. Will Rolls visited in Monon again Sunday, returning home Monday morning. A reception for the new members of theMethodißt church was held Tuesday eyening at the house of Miss Ora Duval. W. E. Overton returned Monday morning from his regular Sunday outing at Monon. Neil Brusnahan is at home from Helena, Montana, having been called here by the sickness and death of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brusnahan, of Parr. A high liver with a torpid liver will not be a long liver. Correct the liver with De Witt’s Little Early Risers, little pills that cure dyspepsia and constipation. A. F. Long, Druggist. Mrs. E. M. Parcels and Mrs. C. B. Steward were at Monon Monday night in attendance upon a meeting of the Daughters of Rebecca. The Monticello team was present to instruct the local lodge in lodge work. They initiated seven candidates. The work was excellent there is not a finer staff or set of better looking ladies in the state.

Frank Lakin, the well-known farmer living north of town near Fair Oaks, was was seriously injured by an engine Saturday afternoon. His foot was crushed by the wheel passing over it, and it was at first thought it would have to be amputated. The attending surgeon is DrBerkly, who thinks the patient will get along all right though it will be a long time before he can use the injured member again. Mrs. George Goff feels greatly encouraged over the condition of her eyes. She has been under treatment by specialists for over a year, and uutil recently her eyes have gradually become worse. It is believed that her present physician understands the case and will succeed in restoring the priceless organs to health. It will, however, require many more pilgrimages to Chicago for treatment. Mrs. Goff’s many anxious friends join in the prayer for her recovery.