People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — NEW UNDERTAKING. [ARTICLE]

NEW UNDERTAKING.

r. B. OTcrton wishes to announce that he has opened a new Undertaking estab- | ( lishment in the Nowels house Block. A NEW HEARSE H i and first class funeral furnishinge have been provided, ' x \ and special pains will be i« «/ taken to merit a share of j| f the public’s favors. gfjlr. OVERTON has carefully, | | fitted himself for this work, | 1 having been for some time I Under the instruction of one / of the best practitioners in m Chicago. f L-1-- . . I Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped 1 hands and lips, cuts and bruises, scalds> burns are quickly cured by DeWitt’s U Witch Hazel Salve, It ia at present the I article most used for piles, and it always I cures them. Sold by A. F. Loita. L

The secretary of the treasury has sent congress the following statement of the Pacific railroad debts : Union and Kansas Pacific, advances and interest, $92,846,000; due July Ist, ’97, $52,289,593. Balance due on* Central Pacific, $60,318,877. Those beautiful McKinley pictures and prosperity banners that have so long adorned our republican friends front windows are now, in some places being removed and in their stead are hung the lilies: Of all the sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these, what was to have been. According to the New York bankers the war scare has caused a shrinkage in values of SIOO,000,000. This is more damage than has been inflicted on the island of Cuba, so we are fain to believe that Wall street “scares” come high, or that it is another case of “the.little boy lied.” The Red .Cross League, although solicited to do so, can not go to the aid of the Cuban sufferers. Miss Barton, president of tfye League has been appealed to, but it is claimed by those in authority that a position of the strictest neutrality must be maintained. This would hardly seem to be in accord with the aid given the Armenian sufferers. A rather amusing story has just been sent out in regard to a large number of gold bug democrats, in Ohio, who were beguiled into parting with various sums of money to a self-consti-tuted nommitlfee that represented itself as authorized to prepare a list of postmasters to succeed the present incumbents, who were to be deposed for “pernicious activity.” “None of the promised appointments materialized, which led to inquiiy and so the story got but. j ■ V.i'. . r « A man from on of 'the townships being “guyed” on the streets yesterday for wearing a gold hat said, “these hats cost jis nothin j, and with many of us, it is either werr then or go bareheaded. Ido wish to the Lord we could get some campaign shirts and breeches at the same price; it matters not what the color: might be, just so we could get the duds. Fifteen cent corn. 11 cent oats, 4 cent chickens, $2.30 hogs, and every thing else we have to sell, going at the same rate, is making linen mighty scarce in our neck of woods; but they say, ‘be patient, prosperity is coming when McKinley touches the button again. ’ ”