People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — CITY AND COUNTY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK.

“The heated term” is here. Mueh sickness prevails. Felix French is much improved from his recent sick spell. Children's photos a specialty at the Pavillion. Monday was the greatest ice day of the of the season. Buggies and carriages sold cheaper by C. A. Roberts than elsewhere. Mrs. lines was in Chicago Wednesday to Friday of last week. A. L. Willis can do your bicycle repairing. Shop in Nowels block. Miss Marie Hansen of Hatnuiond is visiting her Rensselaer friends. For first-class windmills and water tanks call on Judson H. Perkins. James H. Chapman has plenty of money to loan on personal security, Call and sec him, James H. Chapman loans B. & L. money. Number of payments limited. Rev.* R. S. Morgan, pastor of the Christian church in B i. - kley ; jt(>wnship and at Fair Oaks, was in town Monday. Positively, going to quit the clothing business. All goods are going at cost at The Model. Mis iSt .'lkvFjrki.ig is talcing a three weeks vacation from her duties in the Model store. Positively, going to quit ti e clotliii g business. All goods are going at cost at The Model.

The frame of Wtu. Coprer's eight-rot in house on Weston street, is up and ready for covcri lg. Lots in the L -opold audition adjacent to the court house are the choicest of any in the citi. The foundation of a six or eight room, two story residence for Charles Porter tsbei ig 1 ii.l on Weston street. A thousand or two out of date newspapers are for sale at this office at 10 cents a hundred. See Rl.iei.art about your cement walks at once. Now is the best time in the year to build. D. E. Hollister has one of those machines for cleaning cisterns; with a good man to run it. Telephone sor IG3: will receive prompt attention. An excellent ecu eni walk has been made in front of the new and elegant Forsythe building, by Rin hart the come ut specialist. “Wake up little Jacob, day is break, ing!” so said DoWitt's Little Early F isers to the man who had taken them to arouse his sluggish liver. A. F. Long. The u idersign »d will buy grain and hay at Julian. The highest cash prices paid. Call and 89c me before selling y >ur grain I. E. French. Mr, and Mrs. George Wilcox of Surrey, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Parcels last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Craig were invited t > join 11 e party at dinner, the hospitable h< stess doing herself honor in the excellent ent< Cainuient prepared.

Onetn nt noticeable feature about the Great Wallace Shove was the high tone as every thing, and above all the extreme gentility of all its people and their uni form and universal courtesy to all patrons —Salem [Ore.] Post, 1895. Hollister & Hopkins have leased the Monitor Roller Mills for aeother year, refitted the same with seme new machinery and are j repared to do all kinds of milling. They thank the t üblic for its liberal | ntronage in the j ast and trust to merit a continuance of the same. It wonld be hard to convince a man goffering from bilious enbe that hi 6 agony id due to a mi* obj with an unproni *4 rija ne. Hut ne I m of )e Witt’s Colic * Cholera Cure will con' vince bvu of ita power to afford instant mlief. It kills pain. A. F. Long.

George Wolfe of Forest. Ind., spent Sunday at Harry Alter's, north of town. The People's Pilot until Nov. 10 th and a copy of Coins Financial School for 25 cents. Uncle Ward Anderson of Moroco came over Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Xancey Smith. C. E. Hershman, the grocer at the depot, lias adopted the' cash system; see his advertisement. Warren & Irwin have for sale sixteen choice lots iu Yeoman’s subdivision at low prices and or easy terms. The Hoyt Comedy Company is bided for a show at the Opera House, on the night of the 15th inst. Hoyts best play, "A Texas Steer,” will be rendered. ' The retaining walls for the east ap proacb to the Milroy street bridgo are in place; and the street is being nicely graded. Beauty, durability, price, the trinity of merit in C. A. Roberts buggies and carriages, opposite Makeever house. E.M. Parcels guarantees satisfaction on all laundry; new neck bands and repairs free. Sends every Wednesday. The promptness and efficiency of the fire department, a few days ago, prevented what, otherwise would have been a very destructive fire at the creamery. The stone for the court house basement is being put in place, and shelters for workmen have been constructed during the past ten days. Lots in the Leopold addition in promoxity to the court house are very much fought for at present by local real estate buyers. Everybody needs an Aermoter, the best windmill made. Sold by Judson 11. Perkins. Call on him at office in McDonald’s poultry market. The work of laying the court house drain is progressing as rapidly as the nature of the case will admit, the ground being perfectly saturated with water makes the work much more difficult than ;l otherwise would be. Pass the good word along the line. Piles can be quickly cured without an operation by simply applying DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A F. Long Do you want to buy a lot? Warren & Irwin have on their list of bargains some of the finest lots in the city. Location unexcelled and prices satisfactory.

The recent moist atmospheric condi tions have been favorable to the comfort ui verai na.* fever sufferers here, and Mime of them hope to escape the affliction this year. .Married, —At the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Peacock, August 9, 1890, by Rev. li. D. Utter, yf Trinity M. E. church, Miss Dora M. Peacock and Mr. Oscar C. McClure, all o; Rensseiaer. The republicans of Jasper county will •pen their state compaign August 22, in ! A.j C. Harris will address them at oiens-'iHer. t)n tuat day there will be republican speaking in every county seat in the state. I have an abie work team that I will trade for young stock or a good wagon; .ufeo some good milch cows to sell or . mde for young cattle. South east Marion township. A. G. W. Farmer. The ladies of the M. E. church have arranged to serve the public with meals the day of the new court house cornerstone laying. Their plans for that interesting occasion are of the most generous character. A. Woodworth has started an oil wagon and will deliver both kerosene and gasoline to all parts of the town and nearby country. Prices as low as lowest and quality the best. Persons who have a coughing spel every night on account of a tickling sensation in the throat, may overcome it at onee by a dose of One Minute Cough Cure. A. F. Long. What promises to be a very nice brick veneered frame eleven-room house is being built ou Division street for A. J. Lewis, also, on aij mining lot, a building for a cigar factory which will be occupied next Saturday. We are anxious lo do a little good in this world and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventer of pneumonia, consumption and other serious lung • troubles that follow neglected colds. A. F. Long. Newspapers are paid for advertising shows, but now that the Great Wallace Shows have gone and we have no further favors to ask, we are pleased to bear witness to the fact and be sustained by thousands of our citizens that a better show never exhibited in our city and we have had all the other big ones. The Wallace Shew parade was the best ever seen in Des Moines—Register.

Hat 5 cents at Mrs. Imes. A house for D. R. Thornton is being built on Vine Street. A discount of 29 per cent on all trimmed hats at Mrs. Imes. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Oglesby of Medary ville have been visitfng the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Haas. Gq to the Rensselaer planing mili for water tanks or cisterns. Prices the lowest. Allen Catt has just finished and is moving into his nice eight-room house on Van Rensselaer street. A. L. Padgett has just finished a fine two story seven-room house on Grace street. Material is being laid down for a veranda and o her additions to Henrv Harris' fine residence on Division street. A. R. Rishling is finishing quite an ex tensive addition to his recent purchase on Scott street. Mr. Holland is just finishing a neat one and a half story cottage on Vine Street. Four or five car loads of stone, meas uring about 1 by 4 by 8 or 10 feet, are on the track at the depot, ready to be hauled for nse on the court house. A nice six-room one story cottage is being built on Front sireet. by contractor J. Russ. The basement walls, for a large house for Addison Parkinson, on Van Rensselaer street, are ready for the super structure. New fall millinery will soon be here, and in order to dispose of all my present stock I offer hats as low as 5 cents; hats that were 81 for 25 cents; hats that were 81. 50 and 82. for 50c; they are bargains. Mrs. L. M. Imes. The Citizens Cornet band has been employed by the Morocco fair associ. cation to play at the fair Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. G. V . Andrews is finishing a very fine fourteen-room house for the widow of Henry Bartley. The work udcl material is all first-class and elaborate; there wil] be one room each finished in oak, ash sycamore, light and dark hack'oerry. Mr. Andrews will begin the construction in a few days of a similar house for Mr. Addison Parkinson.

Bayard Clark is arranging to go to Monon about September 15th to engage in the gents’ furnishing business. Fie will probably occupy a room in the Ackerman building Bayard was an employe of the Monon railroad for several years and has a large acquaintance at Monon. and the Pilot prophesies for him a success in business. The Great Wallace Show is strictly up-to-date in all its details and the performance moves with a rush that unfolds new features at every turn. Every artist is a star in his or her particular line. In the live performances thus far given at Central Park, over 58,000 people have been present; last evening it was absolutely necessary to close the doors and refuse further admission, as even standing room could not be secured. -San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 9, 1895.