People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

How about one of those nice perfume atomizers for Christmas, at B. F. Fendig’s. The recent addition of a young folks’ department to Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly makes that periodical more than ever the great family magazine. B. F. Bendig will be right in front this year with the biggest line of holiday goods in town. Don’t forget him—at City Drug Store. R. 8. Morgan, pastor of the Christian Church in Valma, who has been visiting with friends and relatives at Decatur for the last 3 weeks, will return home in time to fill his pulpit, Sunday, Dec. 20th. B. J. Gifford was attending commissioner’s court Monday in ths attitude of an opponent to' an important drainage project. He seems to feel that he is a privileged character to enjoy favors that he would deny to others. , Absolutely pure, perfectly harmless, and invariable reliable are the qualities of One Minute Cough Cure. It never fi ils in cold, croup and lung troubles. Children like it because it is pleasant to take and it helps them, A. F. Long. Elder Woodward, and Mrs. Woodward of Michigan, evangelists, have arrived and taken charge of the meeting at the Church of God. Meetings were held all of last week by Rev. Austin and the work is being continued this week and probably next week. The interest manifested is encouraging. The entertainment, “An Evening With Eugene Field,” the child poet, which was postponed, will now be given at the Presbyterian church, next Monday nigh I, Mrs. Annie Ward Foster being assisted by local talent. Mrs. Foster is a lady of wide reputation and her readings and impersonations will be well worth witnessing. Price of admission 25c and 15c. The Regina will play over 1000 tunes, each tune is on a steel disk. We have the laie popular airs and will add more to the list in a few days. Chicago Bargain Store. In commissioner’s court Tuesday the application for saloon license by Conrad Kellner was denied, the court holding that a legal remonstrance of a majority of the voters of the second ward of the city of Rensselaer had been filed against it. The remonstrance was signed by 87 voters, six more than a majority. Mr. Kellner was asking for license to sell liquors in the place now occupied by Geo. Strickfaden. It is now understood that the place will be rented to Mr. Kellner for a billiard and pool room, and that the rear room will be run as a “quart shop.” Mr. Strickfaden will open a regular saloon in one of Leopold’s rooms opposite the south-west cornor of the public square.

String Social. There will be an entertainment, fish-ing-pond and string social at Banner school house in Milroy township, Saturday evening, Dec. 19. All ladies bring boxes well filled and the gentlemen their cash. Exercises begin at 7:30 p. m. Everybody invited. R. A. Hopkins, Teacher. Hanley <Xs HuntThat is the way the sign reads on rooms 5 and G of Forsythe’s block, and of course it means that a partnership has been formed between the retiring sheriff and recorder, for the purpose of practicing law with the accompanying features of real estate, loans, insurance and abstracts. Both of these young meu have proven very efficient officials and in their new field of work will become powerful competitors with the older established firms. Gentlemen Hanley and Hunt have many warm friends and we predict succe s to issue from their business venture. The old lady was right wheu she said, the child might die if they waited for the doctor. £>lie saved the little one’s life with’ a few doses of One Minute Cough Cure. She had used it for croup before. Sold by A. F. Long. ' W. E. Overton went back to Chicago Monday morning to spend a few days more in a school of instruction for funeral directors, in the practice of embalming and otherwise caring for the dead, in which he had already spent several weeks of hard study and instructive practical experience. He will also, before his return, purchase a fine hew hearse, and a full line of funeral and undertaking goods generally. He has secured the vacant room in the Nowels Block and expects to open his place for business In his line on Dec. 21st. The old way of delivering messages by postboys compared with the modern tele phone, illustrates the old tedious methods of “breaking” colds compared with their almost instantaneous cure by One Minute Cough Cure, Sold by A. F. Long.