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

FORESMAN.

The Iron bridge at the Sapp crossing is completed and we hope to see the grade finished in the near future.^ Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Foresman of Goodland spent Sunday with Mrs. C. E. Sunderland. Will Evans is running the engine for W. D. Foresman. J. O. Sunderland is about over the effects of being shot. Miss Lizzie Dennis is attending school at Valparaiso. We had quite a frost Tuesday night. Ralph Johnson is buying poultry and eggs for Patton Bros, at Goodland. Ed Denniston ane Lolo Lowe each report a new bike. William Essen and wife of Brook, ware visiting in town last Sunday. Mai Powell and family of Beaver City came down to see his mother Sunday. W. D. Foresman was in Chi cago last Monday, The total number of votes cast for mayor at the republican convention Monday night was 349; McCoy 211, Wasson 100, Burnham 27, Leopold 8, scattering 3. To be candid that is a pretty fair showing for a town that can show less than 500 qualified voters, probably not over 460, of whom there are a few who do not flock with republicans. And it is not claimed that even all of the republicans were participants in the convention.

Miss Blanche McKeever is quite ill wit! the mumps, Mrs. Imes certainly has a most beautiful millinery display. Fred Reeves, the Remington tailor, was in the city Tuesday. Another penetrating rain has “set in” as the Pilot goes to press this Thursday morning. Mrs. Hershman has added a nice line of dry goods, ladies furnishings and notions to her millinery stock. Rensselaer ladies are fortunate in having so tasteful a milliner as Mrs. L. M. Imes. It is a pleasure even for the novice to inspect the pretty hats and trimmings, so stylish at Mrs. Imes. Nelson Morris will have planted on his little farm in Wheatfield township 1,000 acres of corn this spring. J.H.S. Ellis wasin Monticello Mon day visiting his father, who lives near that place. Misses May and Maud Hemphill, and Messrs. Fred Burger and Fred Bowman of Remington, spent Sunday with friends in Rensselaer.