People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — ADDITIONAL LOCAL. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

This is the week of spring vacations. Miss Yirgie was visiting in Lafayette last week. W. A. Mossier was in Chicago on business Monday. James Creviston made a trip to Monticello Friday. Mrs. Joseph Callow was 86 years old last Friday. Wm. B. Austin is erecting in his addition a new dwelling. Frank Osborne of Francesville spent Sunday in Rensselaer. M. L. Spitler, Jr., is at home from Crawfordsville this week. D. M. Yeoman is spending all this week hunting near Fair Oaks. E. D. Rhoades was severely done up with the grippe last week. T. P. Wright and family now occupy the residence of Ezra Clark. y Hunting is said to be excellent 'all over the north part of the county. A wet, cold spring is prophesied by some of our observant people. George K. Hollingsworth made a business trip to Chicago Monday. A. S. Hemphill is building a new house in the Austin & Paxton addition. Work on the land began this week, and some fields of oats have already been sown. Miss Frances Mills, teacher in the Rensselaer schools, is spending this week in Chicago. Moses Leopold, who was at home'last week, returned Monday to Bloomington college. C. C. Starr and daughter Flossie spent the first of the week with friends near Lafayette. Mrs. John Alter of Union township was reported very sick the latter part of last week. Miss Flora Harris returned Monday to hex s>rt studies at Chicago after a week at hdififh Sidney HendersoQ has a fievtf (dwelling in process of erection ijjiAustiu & Paxton’s addition. 'Ray Thdnipsoh weat back to school at Bloomington Sunday having been at home a few days. Miss Pearl Wasson, of Terre Haute Normal, spent last week at home, it being vacation Week. Jesse F. Smith of Carroll county was in town last week .looking after property interests. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth and little folks returned last week from avisit with Chicago friends. C. A. Perkins and Ed Perkins were over from Goodland Sunday visiting their relatives here. Miss Edith Marshall returned Monday to her school work at Bloomington after a week’s vacation. Mrs. Emma Wells, of Chicago, was in Rensselaer the first of the w T eek, visiting numerous friends. Miss Emma Eger was at home last week enjoying her spring vacation from the Terre Haute Normal. A local union of the Y. P. S. C. E. societies was formed at tUce Presbyterian Church Monday night. Mrs. Eveline Randle, widow of the late John Randle, has been appointed administratrix of the estate. Delos Thompson is having the floors of several rooms in his house laid in mosaic wood by a Chicago firm. F. G. Perkins of Coldwater, Mich., was the guest of Judson Perkins and other relatives the first of the week. W. B. Austin recently sold a tract of 280 acres in Keener i township to John Jardine, of | Illinois, for $7,000. I Rev. A. B. Cooper, of Columbus Junction, lowa, is to preach I in the Presbyterian Church next ' Sunday at the usual hour. Edward F. Gibson, recently of Waynetown, has purchased of •W. B. Austin a residence property in the A. & P. addition. Grant Warner is taking treatment at Indiana Springs, having left for that place last Sunday to remain about three weeks. Thos. J. McCoy, David Thomp* tedm and F. B. Meyer, members off the Lafayette Commandery, helped institute a Commandery of Knight Templars at Delphi Monday night.

Most of the schools in Marion tp. will close this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Fisher, who were recently married, have returned to Morocco, their future home. The school board of Rensselaer has decided in favor of a nine month’s school instead of eight and ahalf. Get your cement walks built by Ira E. Rinehart. He will charge no more than any other responsible person. D. H. Yeoman is increasing the capacity and adding to the appearance of his property in the north part of town. I. W. Hemphill has purchased the dray business of Judson L. Adams. David Alter is driving the dray for Mr. Hemphill. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wemple of Rockford, 111., arrived last week to visit their son Harry and daughter, Mrs. Montgomery. W. T. Perkins is rapidly recovering from his recent encounter with a gasoline stove, though he was at one time in a dangerous condition. Professors Holland and McCoy will attend the meeting of the N. I. T. A. at Elkhart today and tomorrow. They have been in Chicago since Sunday. A. W. Hopkins received the Ancient Scottish Writ Degree of Masonry at Indianapolis last week, along with the very large class that it was conferred upon. Addison Parkison is having the new building for Long’s drug store rapidly completed and another week will probably see it ready for stock. The entrance floor is to be laid in mosaic tile.

Mrs. F. B. Meyer fortunately arrived home from New Orleans with her little daughter last Sunday, just in time to hasten to her mother’s bedside at Indianapolis befoi’e she passed away. Farmers are interested in the passage of the new tariff bill, for it places a duty on eggs, thus projecting the enterprising hens of ludiana from competition of the pauper hens of Canada. Let our hens take courage and p; % 7 - V V Work; Miss Ritchie, who has been in charge of the telephone exchange since its organization, has been given an assistant, as the business has grown beyond her ability to handle alone, Miss ChiprMn is serving as her apprentice.

Mrs. Eva Hays lost by death her little daughter Golda, aged 2 years. 1 month and 26 days, last Friday night of spinal meningitis. The funeral was held from the Christian church last Sunday, Rev. W. Q, Moore conducting the services. Charles T. Cox, well known here where he has many friends, now located at Hoopeston. 111., was married to Miss Estella La Verne Davidson of Goodland, March 20th. May their journey through life’s devious ways be a long and pleasant one. The Pilot’s press was occupied all last week getting out a large edition of The Archer. Owing to all of our type being tied up in that work, and a delay in arrival of stock, crippled our service for getting out the Pilot, making it impossible in fact. An interesting lecture was delivered at the M. E. Church Monday night by Rev. Frank Takasugi, a Japanese scholar and traveler, on the customs and history of his native land. He appeared in his native costume and quite charmed his hearers.

Dr, C., H. Peters, the LaFayette specialist, who comes to Rensselaer regularly every Tues day, as a matter of convenience to his numerous patients, has treated as many as seventy five on a single visit here. He has reason for the high estimate he places on the people of Rensselaer. One of the topics for considertion at the Sunday school convention Saturday afternoon will be: What is needful for success in Sunday School work? This will be conducted as a conference. All Sunday school workers are asked to consider this question and to come prepared to answer. W. O. Moore. Thos. Ulyat, of Brook, was in town Monday to pay his taxes to Jasper county. Mr. U. has been very unfortunate, his wife and a daughter dying two years ago, leaving him with two young daughters, and now he has just buried, Mar. 5, the youngest of these. He has broken up housekeeping. and will live with a brother in the future.