People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — CITY AND COUNTY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.

HAPPENINGS 0F A WEEK.

Will King is seriously sick. Mrs. J. H. Kinney is seriously sick. The Silver Daily, 25 cts. for campaign. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sellers, a girl. Mrs. Amsy Laßue is suffering with an abscess on her chin. Miss Elsie Lyons of Brook visited friends here over Sunday. Mr. Cleveland is putting new water heaters in hie green-house. The Silver Daily, (published at Pilot office) 25 cents for campaign. E. P. Hammond and daughter of LaFayette were in town Sunday. The Meyer millinery opening next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Miss Lucy Trussel has had to stop going to school on account of her eyes. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Murray were on the sick-list the first part of the,week.

Attend The Model grand cloak opening Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9, and 10. Millinery opening of M. & A. Meyer next week Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mrs. J. L. Brady of Fowler is visiting her many relatives in Rensselaer this week. Joseph L. Green of Valparaiso is moving back to his farm near Pleasant Ridge. The Aid Society of the Christian church met with Mrs. Hester Hoyes yesterday. Frank Hemphill left Monday for St. Joseph, Mo., where he is 'studying medicine. John Potts has just finished an addition to his house in the northwest part, of town. One night last week some one tried to break into Osa Ritchey's house north of the railroad.

Positively, going to quit the clothing business. All goods are going at cost at The Model. Mrs. Allman of Remington spent last Saturday and Sunday with her daughter Mrs. W. H. Coover. Forty dolors will buy an absolutely new SIOO bicycle if taken at once. Particulars at this office. Leroy Noland of Lee, Ind., has returned from Tennessee where he moved about a year ago. Mrs. John Sehanlaub is improving rapidly and her son Will has returned to his work in Morocco. Beauty, durability, price, the trinity of merit in C. A. Roberts buggies and carriages, opposite Makeever house. Mrs. Berry of Silver City, New Mexico, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kenton, near Surrey. John Gwin, after spending a month with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z J. C. Gwin, returned to Marshfield, Wis., last • Saturday.

-Mrs. F. B. Meyers and Miss Lillie Jaunta of New Orleans went to Chicago last Saturday. Miss Jaunta left yesterday for her home. Rev. R. D. Utter preached a splendid sermon to a full, house at Slaughter school-house last Sunday. Services again Sunday, Oct. 11. Everybody needs an Aermoter, the. Dest windmill made. Sold by Judson H. Perkins. Call on him at office in MoDcuald’s poultry market. General Van Rensselaer Chapter D. A. R. will neet next Thursday at 3 p. m. with Mrs. C. E. Mills. Papers will be presented by Mrs. F. B. Meyer and Mrs. L. A. Bostwick. A “Blue Jay” social will be given by the Christian Endeavor in the Presbyterian Church parlors Friday evening, Oct. 2. It will be unique and entertain- , ing. Everybody pome. Admission 10 cents. M. & A. Meyer will have their fall opening of millinery Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. They have taken great pains to be able to please their customers.

Earl Durall is on the sick list. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Thulius are visiting in Illinois. The- Wood Brothers have procured a new wood sawing outfit. Mont. M. Hathaway, of Pulaski County, was in town yesterday. Mr. Michael Sayler left here Tuesday I to visit relatives in Illinois. The Silver Daily, (published at Pilot office / 25 cts. for camprign. Phineas Thompson of North Dakota is visiting relatives in the city. The plastering is being done in W. H. Covers'mew house on Cullen Street. Mrs. Sarah Harrington of lowa City, left here Tuesday to visit relations in Illinois. Louis Wildberg will move this week into the property lately occupied by C. C. Sigler. The frame and storm sheeting is completed on the body of Charles Porter’s new residence. W. B. Sinclair, of Knox, democratic Candidate for Superintendent Public Instruction, was in town Wednesday. A seven foot cement side-walk is being laid on Washington street, north side, between the Makever house and Western street. The delegates to the last democratic county convention will meet with their county committee at this place next Saturday. A fishing outfit, with everything in apple pie and fish-frey order, passed through town Tuesday, bound for the Kankakee river. The exterior of Addison Parkison’s fine residence on Forrest street is about complete. It is a very tasty two-story 12-room house. John McGuire of Kankakee township, called upon the Pilot Wednesday and reports a silver lining to all the clouds in that section. Hemphill Bros, have completed their new’ livery stable and are adding a roomy feed yard, well protected from inclement weather. Frank Sunderland is not expected to live. He has been sick with typhoid fever for six weeks at his home four miles south of town. T£e design for the corner stone of the court house has been received and placed in the hands of the stone-cutters. It is said to be a very tasty design. W. A. Stiller was a native of New Jersey and Lizzie J. Irvine a native ofl ndi- ' ana. Long may they in peace and happinessis the wish of all who know them.

The old gentleman who is daily holding forth on the corner of Washington and Rensselaer Streets injects a good deal of every-day religion into his spiritual discourses. Hon. M. V. Gannon of Illinois will ad dress the people the silver question at the opera house on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the evening. Mr. Gannon was formerly of Colorado. 9 The latest from Dr. Mills, physician to D .English,’is thathe is deciledlybet ter. He is c mlcious, and anxious to get back to Rensselaer. The card was .written Wednesday. A new feature will be introduced in the evening service of the Presbyterian Church next Sunday—the Brookfield Services, so popular in the east—will be used. All are invited.* William A. Stiller and Lizzie J. Irvine of Hanging Grove were joined together in the holy bonds of matrimony on the 23rd day of Sept. 1896 at Monon, by>T. D. Jones, justice of the peace. Del Thornton, late fireman at the electric plant, is missing. The place that knew him when the shadows of evening were falling knew him not again in the mqrning, as he left between two days.

The fine veneered brick house that is being built for A. Lewis, at the junction of Division and Enislie Streets, is nearing completion and promises to be one of the prettiest residences in the city. Coen & Braday’s new elevator has become quite a feature of the landscape on the north side; it is 76 feet high, has a capacity of 40,000 bushel, and will be run by a twenty horse power gasoline engine. Tetter, eczema and all similar skin troubles are cured by the use of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It soothes at once, and restores the tissues to their natural condition, and never to cure piles. A. F. Long. Daniel E. Kelly of Valparaiso, democratic elector from the 10th district has resigned his place because of his views on silver. It is probable that James Pierce of Rensselaer, the populist elector, will be elected to fill the vacancy. Miss May Smith resigned her position in W. B. Austin’s office and returned’ with her parents to their former home at Danville, 111. Miss Gertrude Stfiall, recently with the firm of Austin & Hollingsworth, now has charge of the office work.

Married.— At the home rs the officiating minister, Oct. 1.1896, by Rev. R. D. Utter, of Trinity M. E. Church, Rensselaer, Miss Anna Frohreich and Mr. George S. Stillman, all of Jasper county, Ind. Chas. Coen has a Bryan picture displayed in the front gable of his 76-foot elevator. It w’as placed there at great hazard by an employe, who is a patriotic Bryan admirer, last Fri lay, while Mr. Coen was giving faithful attention to Farmer Mount's speech. The picture of the great Nebraskan is liable to remain there until the weather removes it.