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

Remington Items.

Last weeks letter. Miss Lizzie Green, who has been so ill for the past live or six weeks, is now convalescing nicely, and it is thought she will soon be able to get around again. James Green, who has been, quite unwell all the past winter is improving very slowly. tie made a sale of his personal property last Thursday, and will not attempt to farm any this yeah fee will still reside in his farm residence however, he has leased his farming lands for the year to his neighbors. Property at his sale brought very good prices we are informed. Two brothers Jiving in Remington engaged in a list fight last Saturday evening with each other. ft was a disgraceful affair and both should be punished. Owing to an error in the notice calling for our waterworks election last April, the construction of the works will probably be postponed until June or July of t his year. It will be necessary to hold another election which will probably be held on the same day as our regular spring election in order to avoid the ex pense of a special election for the waterworks only. There will perhaps be more opposition developed than there was last year when the election carried by 96 majority, but the election this year will be easily carried in favor of the waterworks sys tern, although perhaps not by quite so large a majority. The town has already spent over SIOOO on the waterworks proposition and it will not do to drop the matter, and lose what has been already paid out, besides we need the works as badly this year as we did the previous year. Mrs. Jennie Williams nee

Hawn has been visiting her parents here Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hawn for the past two weeks. She will return to her home in Illinois in a few days. Mrs. William Greene left here last week to join her husband in Ohio, where they go to engage in farming, they having recently inherited a good farming property. Their daughter M iss Pearl will remain here until our school closes, when she too will join her parents in Ohio. We are loth to part with such estimable people and good neighbors as the Greene’s, but we wish them success and happiness in their new home. Mark Yeoman north of Rensselaer visited with the family of his cousin Ira W. Yeoman over last Sunday night. He had business in Benton county on Monday. Remington is talking of celebrating the fourth day of July again this year. We believe it a good plan for by that means, we will be enabled to have a good time here, besides vee will keep our money at home, if we are so fortunate as to have any to keep. And speaking about this money business, reminds us that the immediate prosperty so faithfully promised and loudly proclaimed just before election last fall, if McKinley was elected has not materialized here yet. Why is this? Is it possible that, the republicans lied to us willfully, purposely or did t hey honestly fool themselves along with the other fellows? You will remember that it was reported that McKinley was elected. We can’t see that confidence is any more abundant here now than it was before the election. How is it at Rensselaer?

It is surprising what a “woo bit of a thing” can accomplish. Sick headache, constipation, dyspepsia, sour stomach, dizziness, are quickly banished by DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. Small pill. Safe pill. Best pill. - A. F. Long. .

A boy that seemed to know a thing or two went into tho largest drug store in an Indiana county seat to procure a dime’s worth of medicine. He gave tho clerk a silver dollar in payment for it, The clerk looked in the cash drawer, and not finding any change, sallied forth to get the change at his neighbor’s. Not finding it there ho went to the next, then to the next, and so on till he traversed one side of tho street then crossed over and tried all the stores on the other side, and after canvassing Imlf tho toivn.at last found the change at a cheap restaurant. When he returned the hoy mischievously asked, “what would you have done if it had been a ten dollar gold piece, gone to Chicago?” What better sign can we have of hard times than to see change so scarce?

Great, Britain has enacted 53. different laws to compel employers to pay their laborers in cash. • How many mines have been compelled to close, and turn their miners out upon the streets to “hunt another job” from this cause. How few have ever stopped to think that laws compelling the employer to pay wages every week in cash, means making a market for the money lender’s cash? How few have ever stopped to think that if employers are com; died to borrow money to pay them as wages, all that the employers pay as interest is taken from their wages and given to the money lender? Listen to Old Shylock's soliloquy and see if you can learn a lesson worth your while to know. This is what he says: “Let these trades unions meet and shut their cars to' Reason, and their doors to the world, and strike for higher wages, or for shorter hours, or both, so long as money must be had from me with which these wages must be paid, that long I’ll set the price, bo it one hour or ten.”