Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1911 — REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON

Fred Berger waa a Chicago vtaltor last week. Rumors of a new bank are current on our streets. , \ Miss Bertha Primmer was seriously jill Sunday and Monday. A Fortnightly club picnic was held Wednesday at Fountain Park. Mrs. Wilcox is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ella Parks, in Lafayette. Supt Wesley and family are visiting home people in Barbervllle, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Grant and Miss Ida Beal visited in Chalmers Sunday. The K. O. K. A. club is planning a camping trip for the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Fisher and children are visiting relatives and friends. A very enjoyable band concert was given Tuesday, evening on our streets. Miss Claire Broadie returned home Friday after an extended visit in Chicago. Mrs. Dan Biddle is hostess to the Presbyterian Missionary society this week. A Presbyterian Sunday school picnic is dated at Fountain Park, Friday, July 14. The N. S. S. club enjoyed a picnic Wednesday at the Fourneir home in the country. Miss Orpha Timmons, of Tacoma, Wash., is spending her vacation ■ with her mother. - - -

Miss Harris, of Des Moines, lowa, is spending her vacation with her sister, Mrs. Barnes. Chatauqua Recognition day occurs the first Wednesday afternoon o r Fountain Park assembly. Mrs. Nichols, of Milford, 111., accompanied Miss Rachel Smalley home for a visit over the Fourth. Mrs. Dobbins returned last week from Kansas City and will make an extended visit with relatives.

Mrs. Claude Kruger and baby daughter are visiting her mother in Warrensburg, 111., since Saturday. Miss Sarah Roadifer, of Chicago, is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Roadifer. Miss Wilda Green is home after a visit in the neighborhood of her past year’s school, north of Rensselaer. < Mr. and Mrs. Kelly and son Ralph arrived home Wednesday evening from a visit over the Fourth in Frankfort. Mrs. Wm. Beal entertained Mr. and Mrs. Fourneier at tea Saturday evening to meet her mother, Mrs. Markham. Misses Margaret Johnston, Gertrude Besse, Daisy Ott and Mr. J. Ott returned Monday evening from their eastern trip. v Chas. Beal and family took dinner Thursday with Mr. and Mirs. Grant on their way home from St. Anne, 111., to Crawfordsville.

Mrs. Bert Houser arrived Saturday evening from Indianapolis for a few weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hemphill. Mrs. W. S. Davisson and daughter, Miss Ellen, of Hopkinsville, Ky., came Tuesday evening for a week’s visit with Rev. Bull and wife. Mrs. Bert Bartoo and daughter Berea arrived from Washington state, last Monday for a visit with Miss Minnie Bartoo and her mother. Mrs. Franklin Grant, of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Ed Warren, of Oklahoma, were dinner guests Wednesday of Mrs. Yeoman and daughters. There are several cases of whooping cough in town. Scarlet fever has had its run—no more new cases developing since the quarantine. The Sew and Sew club will hold its quarterly business meeting in the town park on Saturday, instead of Friday, on account of the Sunday school picnic. Bert Spencer is in charge of a camping party on the Tippecanoe this week. His daughter Dorothy, Irene Howard, Marie Fourneir, Fleta Gray and Myrtle Sharkey comprise the party. Mrs. Markham ended her visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Beal Sunday morning, going to Wolcott to spend the day; Monday to Monticello, and leaving Wednesday for her home at Belmore. The first of a series of Sabbath evening union services in the town park was held last Sunday, Rev. Crowder addressing the assembly, and pulpit and- pew enjoying the open air freedom. Miss Francis Yeoman returned Tuesday from a six weeks’ trip through the West, having visited friends and relatives in Kingman, Kansas, Lawton and Oklahoma City, Okla., and Council Bluffs, lowa. Miss Sharpe, a former high school assistant, made a week end visit with Mrs. Frank Howard, returning to her home in Englewood Monday, via Goodland. She has been connected with the State Normal, Milledgeville, Ga., the past year.

The union Sunday school picnic held last Thursday at Fountain Park was a source of pleasure to the children, even if the grownups did find It rather warm. Lemonade from a barrel was very popular and the dinner was al! that could be desired. Various games and contests amused the crowd which was not as large as on other years, owing to harvest time. The ball game, preachers and teachers versus the boys, attracted much attention, the score being 13 to 14 in fovor of the

preachers. A balloon race attracted much attention. Mrs. Millman, a pioneer /esident of this community, was overcome by the heat last week and did not recover consciousness before death came. The funeral service was held in the M. E. church Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Crowder.