People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. John Jesson is making slow but sure progress on the court house sewer job some 40 feet during the past week. Come to the Ideal and see what I can do for you, even if you are not prepared to buy today. No trouble to show goods. Louis Wildberg Manager. Miss Nellie Coen returned Tuesday from traveling quite extensively for the past eleven weeks. She teaches in the city schools this year. Mr. Paradis writes that he will be home from his trip to Manitoba in time to preach in the Presbyterian pulpit next Sunday at the usual hours. Mrs. G. H. Brown is having an imposing monument erected this week for her late husband. Its weight is over five tons and is one of the finest in Weston cemetery. Cleo, the little four year old daughter of J. W. Mellender, fell and dislocated her arm at the elbow joint Wednesday of last week. Dr. English reduced the dislocation. Master Delos Coen and Miss Carrie Randle are spending the week with their aunt and uncle, Mr. aud Mrs. George Brown, at Knox. They went alone last Monday but will be at home for the circus. Mrs. Simpson, living in the east part of town, broke both bones of one leg Tuesday. She was standing in a wheelborrow picking peaches when that historic contrivance of torture upset. She is doing nicely. In our article last week on the court house bonds an error occured in stating that, the loss to the county by the failure to sell the bonds to the highest bidder was 85000. In fact the loss was something less than 81200. The problem is a nice one upon which the several experts who have figured upon it disagree, the figures ranging down to about SBOO. Married —Sunday, Aug. 30, by Rev. R. D. Utter, of Trinity M. E. Church Miss Alice Irwin and Mr. Newton Warren, all of Rensselaer. The happy event took place at tho home of the bride’s parents Mr, & Mrs, J. Irwin, at 9 o’clock a. m., in the presence of a company of friends, and relatives of the contracting parties. The bride and groom are well known in Rensselaer society, and universally esteemed. The Pilot wishes them bon voyage. The Lake County Fair will be held at Crown Point, Ind., next week, Sept. 8,9, 10, and 11.