Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Marion Coover is improving. • The Villlnski sale was postponed to Saturday, July 27. The Rebekah lodge is planning a picnic for the near future.

Mrs. Barnes is hostess to the Sew and Sew Club Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ira Grant returned Sunday evening from a week’s stay in St. Elmo, m. The Presbyterian Industrial Society met Thursday with Miss Belle Green. . Mr. and Mrs, B. F. Spencer visitsd Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bond in Oxford last Thursday. ' Miss Catherine Carmody returned Thursday evening from a two weeks’ visit in Illinois. j .J. -<•_. * .. At the congregational meeting in the Presbyterian church Sunday Mr. John Wilson was elected trustee. Autos are speeding all over this part of the state advertising Fountain Park Assembly, which openes August 10. A band concert was held Wednesday evening. These concerts are well attended, the streets being crowded with autos. Miss Margaret Johnston and niece, Francis, left Saturday for a two weeks’ visit in Kokomo and Newcastle. Miss Laura Peck and brother, Fred, went to Rensselaer Wednesday evening for a two days’ visit with the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman. Miss Dorotliy Spencer and her cousin, Max Hargreaves, left Sunday via Rensselaer for a visit with relatives in Lake Forest, Chicago and Clifton, 111.

Miss Vesta Thompson, of Wabash, is a guest of her sister, Mrs. Howard Jones. Miss Alice Jones gave a supper party in her honor Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kelley spent Tuesday in Lafayette, Mrs. Kelley proceeding to Frankfort where her husband and son Ralph will join her later in the week. Miss Lucile Babb, who has been the guest of her grandmother the past few weeks, left for Peoria, 111., Monday to spend the remainder of her vacation with her parents, and will then return to Memphis, Tenn. The union Sunday school pi mic celebrated last Thursday at Fountain Park, while not so well attended as in other years, owing to the busy season, it was a success in every element that contributes to a day spent in the woods. Fountain Park is very clean and attractive this year, the swimming being excellent and a better spot is hard to find.

Trustee Chas. V. May, of Carpenter township, was in town today for the purpose of filing his statistical report with County Superintendent Lamson. Charley reports that he has completed tihe harvesting of his hay and has all of his oats cut. He has a thrashing outfit of his own, but does not expect to begin thrashing until Monday, Aug. sth. Last year he began on August 4th and completed the run in 12% days.

“Uncle” Charley Wells was in town from Barkley township Friday. He was recognized by a few of his friends, although most of them had to study him for some time before they were certain who it was. He is just recovering from a very close shave, the first one he has had in 45 years. None of his children had ever seen him without whiskers and he just shaved them off one day to prove what a foxy looking critter the old man was. It’s back to the whiskers for him, however. He don’t want to encounter any winter breezes on the bare skin and before the first frosts he expects to have a fine covering that beats any muffler ever invented.

Mrs. M. A. Sharp will leave Monday for Yelberton, Ohio, where her aged father, John W. Stively, has recently been very poorly. Mr. Stively was 89 years of age on May 14th and on the 26tfh of that month he started for his old Ohio honjp. He was then in quite excellent health for one of his advanced years but he has failed rapidly during the summer and recently he was found in this bed one morning in an unconscious condition. He has improved since then, however, and Mrs. Sharp, who will spend abou£ three weeks with him at Yelberton, hopes to be able to bring him back here with her when she returns. —4

After a long and weary siege, Court Reporter Charles R. McFarland left today for a month or six weeks’ vacation. Up to yesterday the court had been in session for nine weeks, during which time Charles R. took down the testimony of 102 separate witnesses. The heavy strain was telling on the lad. In honor of the occasion and to drive dull care away, he gave a little stag party for a few of his friends last night He will spend the greater part of his well-deserved vacation with his brother, Dr. J. D. McFarland, at Springfield, 111., and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McFarland, and old hbine town friends at Portland, Ohio. He will return for the fall term of court, which convenes the second Monday In September.