People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 8

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CITY AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OP A WEEK.

THE WALLACE ' Machine and Foundry Co. I LAFAYETTE. I ENGINE INDIANA. I AND •• I BOILER SECOND AND I REPAIRING f SPECIALTY / MANUFACTURERS OF Structural Iron Work, Engines, Boilers, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and Brass and Iron Castings of Every Description

piomSLt EsP“Beef. Pork. Veal, Mutton. Sausage, Baloena. etc., sold in quantities to suit purchasers at the Lowest Prices. None but the best stock slaughtered. Everybody is invited to call. The Highest Price paid for GOOD CATTLE. J. J. EIGLESBACH, Proprietor.

Rye 30c. Chickens 4c. Turkeys B%c. Best Hay $5.00. Oats, 11 and 13c. Corn 15 and 16c. Coen & Brady want 50,000 bushels of corn by Jan. 15. A. F. Long is very sick. Cocoanuts at Tom Zraik’B. We will accept wood on subscription. Nice level driveway at the new elevator. Fresh home made candy at Tom Zraik’s, Christmas one week from to-morrow. Wood sawed by the Wood Brothers. J. G. Reynolds has two more fine colts. Jakie Wildberg is sick with a soar throat Bob Adams of Monon was in town last Sunday. John King is selling goods in Tuteur’B grocery. Mrs. Jerome Homer is sick with throat trouble. Studebaker wagons for sale by (J. A. Roberts. Mr. Lang’s 8 year old daughter is sick in Surrey. Happy Clarke of Brook was in town last week. Key Stone Corn Sheller for sale by Robert Randle. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Goff were in Chicago this week. All kinds of rubbers at Haley’s exclusive shoe store. Ora Yeoman’s little girl has been sick for several days. Miss Katherine Haxton spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Nellie Smith. Lae Catt has resumed work after a few days of sickness. Key Stone Corn Sheller for sale by Robert Randle. Several corn shelling outfits are in busy operation. Before buying a tailor made suit see my line. S. Leopold. Santa and Uncle Sam at the opera house Christmas eve. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin spent Sunday in Lafayette. Mr. Bucosky, the Wheatfield butcher, wsb in town last week. There is lots of Christmas poultry coming in and going oiit. 1 1 "I'/ 'V This is a real good time to renew you subscription to the Pilot. School will be dismissed for holiday vacation a week from to-day. Harry Wil tshire’s Ifttle girl is sick

Haley’s, the only exclusive shoe store, has the finest line gents patent leather footwear; suitable for Christmas gifts. Call on E. J. Hughes for your Christmas candy and nuts. Mr. Remley’s 8 year old daughter is sick in Barkly township. Coen & Brady dump every load of grain at their new elevator. White county had seventeen cases for gambling on trial last week. Fred Phillips was in Chicago last week buying holiday goods.

One of the large windows in Forsythe’s new building has been broken. There will be an entertainment Xmas eve at the Presbyterian church. Rensselaer Lady Minstrels in “Smoked Pearls,” Monday night, Dec, 21. Parties wanting corn huskers and shreaders call on C. A. Roberts. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth gave a calling reception Wednesday, Dec. 16. . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zoll of Hammond, Ind., are here for a few weeks visit. Dray work done by Geo. F. Feezer. Leave your order at Cotton House. Jack Montgomery was at work on the telephone lines the first of the week. E. J. Hughes says he handles the finest line of cigars and tobacco in the city. Miss Anna Virden died last week at her home in Monticello of diphtheria. Go to Tom Zraik’s for the finest California fruits, fresh candies and nuts. A. L. Willis can do your bicycle repairing. Shop opposite Nowels block. See our line of 15c cloth bound books. B. F. Fendig. A fine line of novelties, games, books, dolls etc. Fendig’s City Drug Stor.e Jake Troxell is finishing up his house in the north part of town, near the depot. The Church of God congregation will have a Christmas tree on Christmas eve. Three bushel barrels of choice winter apples at 81.25 per barrel, at John Eger’s. Take your grain to Coen & Brady’s new elevator, level driveway and dumps.

Mrs. Graham of Wolcott, sister of Mrs. W. Powers, will be here for a few days. Daniel Michaels is still very low. His trouble is Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Three bushel barrels of choice winter apples at $1.25 per barrel, at John Eger’s. Mr. Gridley and wife of Jackson township, Newton county, were in town Monday. Very successful meetings of the Farmer’s Institute were held at Flora last week. Wildberg of the Ideal Clothing House says that he is too busy to write an “ad” week. Nicholas will tell you about “Those Caramels” Christmas eve at the opera house. Mrs. W. Powers, who has been sick for about four months, is reported some better.

A full line of buggies and surries carried by Robert Rantle, “no cheap jobs handled.”

Mr. Camp moved out of the “New Hotel” just south of the courthouse Monday. Harry Adamson, living IJ4 miles north of town, has a very sick 8 year old daughter. Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Burns of Flora, Ind., are visiting their daughter, Mrs. C. D. Nowels. Several of the young people in town are taking dancing lessons of Miss|Maggie Healy. Ed. Jakes has bought a lot in the north-east part of town and intends to build soon. A new barn is being put in the jail yard for the accommodation of the sheriff’s horses. Corn is being shelled as low as 55c per hundred bushel. The usual price however is 75c. J. H. Cox will sell you good wood for $3.00 per cord. Yard and office, north of post-office.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896.

B. F. Fendig will be right in front this year with the biggest line of holiday goods in town. Don’t forget him—at City Drug Store. On account of lack of funds the schools of Union township will be closed in seven weeks. The Fairies and Brownies will make their annual visit at the opera house Christmas eve. Dr. Horton bought the Charles Roberts property across the street from the Makeever house. The Undertaking business of T. P. Wright has been transferred to his Bon Jennings Wright. Aaron Wood, who is attending dental college in Chicago, will be home to spend the holidays. You can buy a buggy of C. A. Roberts, or any artical in the carrage line. No cheap jobs handled. Thomas Florence of Fair Oaks was in town Saturday making leases on hay lands for next season. Buy Haley’s German sock with rubbers. Better than felt boots; warmer lighter and cheaper. Rev. Rodgers of Fair Oaks was in town Saturday, having returned from a short vacation abroad. Another carload of those Northern Michigan winter apples at $1.25 per barrel, at John Eger’s. Indiana expended $6,634,814 for school last year. Out of 798,917 children but 529,917 attended school. Another carload of those Northern Michigan winter apples at $1.25 per barrel, at John Eger’s. Corporations must pay a penalty of 50 per cent on delinquent taxes; individuals pay but 10 per cent. The town pump has again been changed, taking the old tank out and putting in an iron pump. The bazaar which wjll be held by the ladies of the presbyterian church will open Wednesday, Dec. 16.

The wheat crop is suffering severely through the present mild weather, and much of it is already ruined. “Christian Citizenship” will be the subject discussed at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening. The railroad company will give cut rates from Dec. 24th to Jan. 4th. Rates will be one and one third fare. Juvenile books, bibles and a great variety of other books to numerous to mention at Meyer’s Drug Store. Bessie Wilson of Chicago, who was visiting Myrtle Haus the past three weeks, returned home Monday. Cancer positively and permanently cured. No cure —no pay. Address Dr. A. W. Armocost, Brookston, Ind. There is some talk of a new opera house being built next spring across the street from the Makeever house.

How about one of those nice perfume atomizers for Christmas, at B. F. Fendig’s. Last Sunday there were several people out riding on their wheels. It was more of a spring day than one in December. Mammy and the Pickaninnies will be present at the opera house Christmas eve with their songs and amusements. The Regina musical novelty can be heard every afternoon and evening. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. George Pumphrey left Monday for Rushville to visit her aged father. She will be gone until after the holidays. The fruit and candy store of Tom Zraik is the place to buy your Christmas supplies, all stock fresh, and the nicest. James Yeoman sold his property in the east part of town to Mr. Davison; the latter intends to build on same soon.

Cigars and tobaccos, at Tom Zraik’s, the exclusive fruit and candy merchant. The best smokers sold in Rensselaer. Benj, J. Ware, one of Brooks most prominent citizens, waß in town Monday transacting business with the county auditor. “Excuse me” observed the man in spectacles “but 1 am a surgeon, and that is not where the liver is.” “Never you mind where his liver is,” retorted the other. “If it was in his big toe or his left ear DeWitt’s Little Early Risers would reach it and shake it for him. On that you can bet your gig-lamps.” A.F.Long.

The length of life may be increased by lessening its dangers. The majority of people die irom lung troubles. These may be averted by promptly using One Minute Cough Cure. Sold by A. F. Long. C. F. Wood, H. Flynn, V. Nowels, W. Rowles and O. Finney, all clerks of the Chicago Bargain store, spent last Sunday in Chicago. H. A. Harlow of Darlington has purchased the McCuaig House at Monticello. David McCuaig has run the hotel for thirty years. “Smoked Pearls” is to be given in so meritorious a cause that every one is solicited to lend their influence to make it a grand success. The Pilot and Farm, Field and Fireside, both one year, including 20 packets of flower and vegetable seeds, for $1.70. See advertisement.

Don’t send away for a teacher’s bible; we have beautiful teachers’ bibfes from SI.OO to $6.00 each at one-half former price. Frank B. Meyer. A. E. Sever, practical optician, graduate of Chicago Opthalmic College, is now in Rensselaer. Eyes tested free; office at Huff’s jewelry store. A move is on foot here to petition Congressman-elect Crumpacker to have the postmastership for Rensselaer decided by a party election. Don’t send away for any book, Try at Meyer’s Drug Store first. He has 1,000 good books, 25 cents to 35 cents each. Will get you any book you want. The most beautiful music by the new invention, called the Regina, every afternoon and evening. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. L. M. Imes is now displaying a fine line of millinery novelities, consisting of pattern hats, baby bonnets, trimmings of feathers and birds in profusion.

Elder and Mrs. Woodward are continuing their meetings in the Church of God this week. The house is crowded nightly and great interest is manifested. Absolutely pure, perfectly harmless, and invariable reliable are the qualities of One Minute Cough Cure. It never ft ils in cold, croup and lung troubles. Children like it because it is pleasant to take and it helps them, A, F. Long.

“.r CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE “.r HOLIDAY OPENING CARNIVAL Tens of thousands of presents for the old, the young and middle aged. Prices never so low in the history of our country. Space for only a few sample prices.

Fancy Glassware. 8 inches high, 8 inches wide— Stem Dish the 25 cent kind, only lOcts. 10 inches high—Water Pitchers, the 25 cent kind, only 10 cents. 12 inches high—lmitation Cut Glass Water Bottles, $1 kind, only 85 cents. Fancy Water Pitchers, set, the $1.50 kind, only SI.OO. Fancy Chinaware. Fancy Shaving Mugs, Cups and Saucers, Plates, Bowls, Match Safes, Vases, Jardineers, etc., etc. x Toy Dressers, Side Boards, Rockers, Dogs, , Horses, Birds, Jack in the Box, Drums, Wagons, etc. Celluloid NoveLty Goods. Boxes for Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Watches, Match Safes, etc. A complete line of Celluloid and Plush Albums, Work Boxes, Toilet Cases, Cuff and Collar Boxes, etc. Leather Goods, Japanese Boxes, etc. Damask Linens. A complete line of Linen Towels, Turkish Towels, Table Linens, etc. 54-incb fast red Table Linen, 25c kind, now 15 c 54 i Blea “ “ 40c “ “ 25c Extra fine Blea Linen 48c to 95c yard, the 75c and $1.25 kind.

Come and bring your family and lister to the music every afternoon and evening—the new instrument that plays over 1000 popular airs. Headquarters for everything at the.... Big New Department Store

The Regina will play over 1000 tunes, each tune is on a steel disk. We have the late popular airs and will rdd more to the list in a few days. Chicago Bargain Store. The nicest present for a lady to make a gentleman is something nice in footwear. Judge Haley has an especially fine line suitable for that purpose. Sirs. Hershman will dispose of her whole line of new millinery at greatly reduced prices. Some beautiful pattern hate. Everything fresh and seasonable The fine weather up to the present time seems to have been continued for the especial accommodation of the many fanners who were late with their husking.

William Washburn is feeding seventeen three-year-old bulls, which he has just picked up at about 2% cents. The bunch are at his farm in Jordan township, Mrs. C. E. Hershman has received her fall stock of millinery, consisting of walking hats, sailors, and Tam o’ Shanters. Her prices are always below all competitors. Soothing, and not irritating, strengthening, and not weakening, small but effective such are the qualities of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little {fills. Sold by A. F. Long. J. H. Cox is now ready to furnish all citizens of Rensselaer with wood, feed> lime and hair. Prompt delivery to all parts of the city. Office and wood yard on Cornelia street, rear of post-office. The old lady was right when she said, the child might die if they waited for the doctor. She saved the little one’s life with a few doses of One Minute Cough Cure. She hud used it for croup before. Sold by A. F. Long. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Madara were assisted by a large number of friends Tuesday evening in celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of their wedding.— Delphi Citizen. The bimetallists of Logansport have organized a Bryan bimetallic club, with comfortable headquarters, and the club room will be open day and evening until Bryan is eleQted.

, Lost one $lO bill apd 1 one $2 bill, somewhere in town. Finder will be rewarded by returning same to Thomas Parker, Rensselaer, Ind. ivj •

Come and bring the children to hear the late popular airs on the new Regina musical instrument. Chicago Bargain Store. Those persons who petitioned to be released from costs in the Iroquois ditch, will hold a meeting in the court room in the Odd Fellows’ building next Saturday, Dec. 19th, 1896, at 2 o’clock p. m. To cure all pld sores, to heal an indolent ulcer, or to speedily cure piles, you need simply apply DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve according to directions. Its magic like action will surprise you. A. F. Long. Jasper county’s farmer’s institute will be held Monday and Tuesday, January 18 and 19,1897. The instructors are to be T. B. Terry of Hudson. .Ohio, and A. O. Lockridge, of Greencastle. Indiana. R. S. 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. The ball given by the K. O. T. M., Friday night, Dec. 11, was attended by a number of town people and a few others. The music was furnished by the Healy orchestra. Fountain county has sold a block of $25,000 bonds, payable in five yearly payments, with interest at 5% per cent, payable semi-annually, at a premium of , $590. This is a net interest rate of 4,8% per cent. Within the last six months there hav4 been two excellent gravel pits discovered and opened near Mt. Ayr. The gravel is of first quality and sufficient in quantity to build all the roads in the townships where located. The following new popular airs are added to the list this week and can be heard on the Regina at the Chicago Bargain Store: “Rastus on Parade,” march. “The Bells of Cornville,” waltz. “Serenade,” Franz Schubert. “Nordica,” waltz. “Ben Hur Chariot Race.” “High School Cadets.” “Russian National Hymn. “Narcissus Song.” While out hunting quail Thursday afternoon Dr. J. J. Shultz was accidentally shot in the right eye and cheek. His friends are somewhat alarmed for fear the sight will be impaired.—Delphi Citizen.

The Most Complete Line of Neckwear. % Men’s Christmas Ties, the very latest, in individual boxes, for a present. •; A fine line of Suspenders* Gloves, etc. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm svmMmwmmrnmummiM \ Over 150 doz. Handkerchiefs and Mufflers, lc th $2.00 each. A good, all silk Handkerchief, 25c kind, now 10c. , Ladies’ or gent’s initial Handkerchief, 50c kind, now 25c. 60 doz., a great variety, 10c value, now sc. t See the 5, 10 and 25c counter of Glass and Chinaware. See the Museum of 5 and 10c counters of Notions, Toys, Novelty Goods, Tinware, etc. Dolls lc to $2.75 each. A full line of Fur Muffs, Feather Boas, Fur Trimmings, etc, J Cloaks and Capes at £ Price. , > MinmMwmi i A fine line Dresser Mats, in sets and single \ doilies, Sofa Pillows, Silk Throws, etc. nmmwwmm* m mmmmmmjmm 1 See our Christmas Slippers. Boys Overcoats marked down one-half. — 1 -mn-in nrrrw— A great reduction throughout the entire stock of Dry Goods, Blankets, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Carpet, Rugs, Clothing, Boots, Shoe 6, Slippers, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Gloves, Trunks, Valises.