People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — CITY AND COUNTY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.

Rye 25c. Corn 18c. Chickens 6c. Turkeys Bc—9c. Wheat 70c—75c. Best Hay $5.00—86.00. Oats, 12c for mixed, 13c —14c for white. Easter Sunday has passed. We will accept wood on subscription. Don’t forget Mrs. lines fire sale of millinery. Nate Reed was at DeMotte Monday. This weather is cold for the oat crop. Do not fail to see the pretty hats at the Meyer Sisters. Sunday was a windy one for the Easter hat. AH kinds of rubbers at Haley’s exclusive shoe store. Attorney Chilcote went to Winamac Monday. Walter Tharp was up from Monticello Sunday. A cold drizzle occurred again yesterday morning. Mrs. William Moore is suffering from erysipelas. Chas. Fraser of Benton county was in town Monday. Mark Hemphill has been very sick for several days.

The feather renovater man is working the Jasperite. Stimson’s cheese, the finest full cream, mild and new, at John Eger’s. Miss Bertha Alter is recovering from a slight illness. D. B. Nowels was in Havana, 111., the first of the week. Boys bicycles, $24.50 to $35. Chicago Bargain Store. Dray work done by Geo. P. Feezor Leave your order at Cotton House. The vernal equinoxial period has been the coldest in years. All lovers of mild, now cheese, buy Stimson’s full cream, at John Eger s. B. K. Zimmerman, the popular tailor, was in Lowell Saturday. James Maloy was in attendance at the Roby races Saturday. A full line of buggies and surries carried by Robert Rancle, “no cheap jobs handled.” Mrs. M. I. Adams was taken very sick with the mumps last Friday.

J. 11. Cox will sell you pood wood for §.1.00 per cord. Yard and office, north of post-office. I have the Studebaker wagon for sale in all styles, C. A. Roberts. Mrs. Henry Robinson of Monon was visiting in town the first of this week. Mrs. Glen Tharp of Monticello is visiting friends in town this week. The Misses Hammond of Lafayette were guests of the Austins Sunday. Simon Fendig and wife of Wlieatfield were in town Sunday and Monday. The Rival bicycle, $29.50; warranted for one year. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. W. A. Thompson of Marion was a guest at Austin H. Hopkins this week. Mrs. George B. Parkison is sick of heart trouble at her home north-east of the city. Carpenters are busy and prospects are good for a fair amount of building this year. Miss Mary Comer was given a surprise Saturday evening by a party of W. R. C. ladies. Fred Darling left for Chicago Monday morning to get surgical aid for his young son.

Juvenile books, bibles and a great variety of other books to numerous to mention at Meyer's Drug Store. The measles have* got Prof. McCoy, compelling him to leave the school room Monday. Cancer positively and permanently cured. No cure—no pay. Address Dr. A.JW. Armocost, Brookston, Ind. Father Maximillion of St. Joseph’s College conducted the Easter services at Whiting. Harry Kurrie returned Tuesday from a few days visit with home friends at Louisville.

Miss Nellie Coen was unable to teach the first of the week, and her room was dismissed. Unconditional surrender, is the only terms those famous little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers will make with constipation, sick headache and stomach troubles. A. F. Long’s.

See the Aetna bicycle at $45; one of the best made. Chicago Bargain Store. Haley’s, the only exclusive shoe store, has the finest line gents patent leather footwear; suitable for Christmas gifts. Rev. Moore has had a quantity of pure Vermont maple syrup sent to him for a club of his friends. M. &A. Meyer are preparing for a grand Millinery Easter Opening the prettiest hats ever shown. April 14, 15, 16 and 17. in another place will be found the obituary notice of Robert Phillips, who died last Monday morning. Rensselaer’s hustling plumber, A. T. Perkins and his mother went to Goodland Monday on business. Dr. Smith, Chicago’s great specialist, Rensselaer, at the Makeever House, on Tuesday, April 27th. Mrs. L. M. Imes has secured Miss Rumble again this season, as trimmer, and can gurrantee satistaction.

T. P. Wright and daughter, relatives, attended the funeral of Eli Paris in Gillam township last Sunday. E. M. Parcels will occupy R. Fendig’s room for a Tonsorial parlor April 22nd. All are invited to call. Oren Parker departed again Monday morning for the Wisconsin University after a pleasant home visit. Boys, you that want a nice buggy for your best girl, call and see C. A. Roberts. ‘ ‘Those jobs are butes.” Easter services were conducted by the Sunday school at the Christian church, and were very interesting. L. W. Hubbell of Francesville was in Rensselaer last Saturday and purchased a fine Jersey calf of Marion Adams.

E. L. Penn is making a good job of the street sprinkling business this season and is giving the best of satisfaction. For a first class buggy or carriage give C. A. Roberts your order. All work warranted and prices to suit the times. Miss Myrtle Woodworth, of Rensselaer, was the guest of Mrs. Ott Clark the first of the week.—Goodland Herald. Pete Brenner is once more cherrily humming the contented song of a drug clerk as he hustles the new goods into place. Everything new, neat and nice at Wade’s barber shop. Next door east of Goff’s restaurant. Customers completely satisfied.

Mrs. Minnie Kerr attended the funeral of her relative, Uncle Eli Faris, at Independence Chapel, Gillam, last Sunday morniug. Mrs. L. M. Imes, the milliner, will not have an Easter opening this season, but will meet her competitors in prices and styles.

The Halladay is the finest racer in the market. Chicago Bargain store. The services at the Catholic church Sunday morning were fully as impressive as on previous Easter occasions, and the church was crowded at all the services. Miss Fannie McCarthy’s school at Fair Oaks closed last week, a dinner being served in the school house in comemoration of the closing of a very pleasant term. A ten mile bicycle race was to have taken place here last Friday but the weather preventing it was postponed, and will probably occur to-morrow. It is for riders under 20 years. Lewis L. Daugherty of Ham mond was visiting relatives here the last of the week. He came to attend the funeral of his brother, Daniel Daugherty, who died at the poor farm last Wednesday. Abe Long’s new drug store is a framed picture, and he is get ting his shelf ware in shining shape as fast as possible. The whole of the shelving, drawers, counters and show cases are of fine quarter sawed oak. A few new bicycles are seen this spring but not as many as heretofore. The little sons’ of Wallace Robinson and G, F. Henzman are proudly riding the smallest wheels in town, each being but 20 inches in diameter. Not only acute lung troubles, which may prove fatal in a few days, but old chronic coughs and throat troubles may receive immediate relief and be permanently cured by One Minute Cough Cure. A. F. Long, druggist.

Saturday was supposed by many, who had not seen the governor’s proclamation, to be the last day in which to pay taxes. Happily for those who could not make the “riffle” it is now extended to the first Monday in May. When a cold is contracted, cure it at once. One Minute Cough Cure will set you on the road to recovery in a minute. It will cure pneumonia, bronchitis, croup and all forms of lung and throat troubles. A F. Long, druggist.

The Raub postoffice was robbed Saturday night and the Chalmers bloodhounds were sent for and put on the trail. They followed the scent to a house on the Sumner land and parties there have beenarrested.—Goodland Herald.