People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY. [ARTICLE]

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Rev. Paradis preached to a good congregation in South Meadow School House last Sunday afternoon and will preach again on the 27th. One hundred people at Waveland have sent Congressman Landis a petition that he call an election for choice of postmaster. We have it by authority that he will refuse the request.—Crawfordsville Star.

The old way of delivering messages by postboys compared with the modern tele phone, illustrates the old tedioup methods of “breaking” colds compared with their almost instantaneous cure by One Minute Cough Cure, Sold by A. P. Long. The children of the Christian church are to render the cantata Uncle Sam and Santa Claus at the opera house the evening before Christmas. Mesdames Moore, and Leatherman, and Miss Bartoo are training the children. After the entertainment a Christmas tree will bo picked. A wild man from the moon will assist Santa Claus. He will be kept chained and great care will be taken to prevent his getting loose. Dr. H. B. Waterman of Oak Park, 111., will present an entertainment at the P. W. Baptist church tomorrow night. Twenty young people in costume will appear in “A Double Japanese Wedding.” There will be 150 beautifully painted magic lantern pictures, described by the man who made the photographs, In all the entertainment is to be very interesting and useful. Half of the proceeds go to the church. Admission 25c; children 10c. A The bill in the Alabama legislature to prohibit the wearing of bloomers in that state was referred to the committee on temperance. The Alabama lawmakers evidently think that bloomers have a tendency to drive people to drink.— Delphi Citizen. We plead for the bloomer, and insist that Alabama lawmakers understand perfectly well that it is a temperance measure. Since their introduction in this city nearly thirty men have gone to Dwight for the gold cure, one saloon has gone out of business and bankruptcy and the Nicholson law threaten the rest of them.