People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — De Motte [?]ems. [ARTICLE]

De Motte [?]ems.

Wm. B. Austin and Sheriff Robinson were in town Tuesday on legal business. Jake Troxall and wife were united once more ami are living happily together at tlie hotel. It was a t ime for some of the people inclined to lake part in a “homing.” Jake set up the cigars to the boys and the candy to the ladies. Mrs. M. M. Tyler is recovering from her late sickness, J. A. Sigler is selling out his stock of goods cheap for cash. Clothing at cost. J. D. Moates and son are preparing to remove to Dayton, Ohio, in the near future. The Modern Woodmen of America have rented the hall from the K. of P. and are prepared to initiate candidates. Crayon portrait work taught by mail by Mrs. L. ii. Cornwall, correspondence solicited; terms reasonable. We learn the lumber for the new “3 1” depot is here and the depot is to be built east of the wagon road, With Hanna in the senate and Sherman arid Gage in the cabinet confidence is now restored, but how about prosperity. Mr. Patterson of Chicago was in town last week talking up the straightening of the Kankakee River Improvement Association. They pledge themselves, if the work goes on. to employ 3,000 to 5,000 men, persons living in the Kankakee valley to have the preference. Jacob Haenni has opened a blacksmith and wagon shop at the old Irwin stand. He wants a good horse shoer to assist him. Alex Tyler is sick with the mumps. A series of meetings are being held at the Tyler school house this week, conducted by Rev. Vandecarr of Danville. A number of men from here have been at work for Nelson Morris, building dams across ditches, so that the dredge that had a leak could be pumped out to be fitted so as to begin ditching. The party that removed a pair of gold rimmed glasses from the show case in E. Sayers’ store some time ago had better, if they wish to avoid trouble for themselves, return them to the owner as the guilty party is known and will be prosecuted if not returned. M. M. Tyler has a line of Osborne Implements on hand for sale; they are the best on the market. Hustler. A note of the Bank of England, twisted into a kind of a rope, can suspend as much as 329 pounds upon one end of it and not be injured. That’s nothing. In Jasper County we have ten dollar notes that will suspend a team of horses, harness, wagon, plow, harrow and harvesting machinery for six months and then lift the crop from eighty acres of geound and the family over the fence into the road.