People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Jordan Township. [ARTICLE]

Jordan Township.

William Walker, north of town, lost a very fine mare a few days since by being caught in a wire fence. Isaac Glazebrook has a fine new 8% horse power gasolene engine running in his blacksmith shop. It is a very perfect machine and was put in by the General Supply Co., of Rensselaer. Ira E. Rinehart is at work with a large force of men putting in cement walks again after the season of enforced idleness. The weather is perfect now for doing good work and we predict for him a busy year. He says there is no further danger from frost, and that the work in prospect will keep adouble forye of men constantly at work until fall. A little girl about twelve years old, living with a Mr. Wagner on the Monnett farm just north of Rensselaer, was badly injured in a steel harrow last Thursday. It appears that she was driving the team around the field while the man in charge was talking to a neighbor and in turning a corner the harrow in some manner caught the incautious young driver, a tooth being driven into her body about two inches. The Presbytery of Logansport met at Winimac last week. It is now composed of thirty-eight ministers and forty-three congregations. The attendance was large, and nearly all the congregations were represented by elders. The weather was all that could be desired, and the hospitality and kindness of the people were boundless, which contributed largely to make the meeting pleasant as well as profitable. The. Presbyterian congregation of Rensselaer was represented by Rev, M. R. Paradis and Elder D. E. Hollister, and was honored for the first time, it is said, by having its pastor elected as moderator for six months. Rev. Paradis presided at Winamac and is expected to preside at all the meetings to be held during the six months, and to deliver the discourse at the opening of the fall meeting which is to be held in Monticello in September. Much progress was reported from different fields, and the delegates manifested the right spirit to continue aggressive work during the year they now enter upon. - £ Effort is being made to have Robert G. Ingersoll lecture in Rensselaer. Rensselaer is pre-eminently a church town, but her people are of that broad minded class that are not afraid to hear their convictions criticised.

House cleaning and garden making are the main occupations this week. Farmers are busy plowing for corn. Oats are looking well. The Nafziger boys have just finished a few days shelling for Will Keen. Henry Barger of this vicinity, who has been a suffer with rheumatism for the past three years, is no better. He can not walk with out the aid of two canes. The meeting at Union Sunday evening was largely attended. Miss Lizzie Winger has returned from her home in Wisconsin and will work for Mrs. Will Keen this summer. Commodore Snow, residing near Blackford, was in this vicinity last week on his way home from Goodland, where he had been to see Dr. Pratt, who has been treating him for an abscess on the neck, on which he operated eight or ten weeks ago, taking out severel pieces of bone. To the patient’s surprise upon examination the Dr. discharged him, telling him he was getting along nicely. We are glad to know he is getting along so well as it was thought it would be the cause of hisdeath