Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Mrs. Fanny Parks and Mrs. James Gilbert went to Covington last Friday to attend commencement exercises and accompany home Miss Irene Balcom, instructor in musie. Mrs. Chas. Brand and children are in Oxford this week. Chas. Beal and daughter, Ruth, are* 1 visiting since Saturday. Mrs. O. P. Tabor left Tuesday to join her husband at Wabash, where they will begin housekeeping again. They lost considerable household property during the recent floods. Mrs. Tabor has been at the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Wm. Townsend, who is improving rapidly after a severe illness. Mrs. Wm. Morris and children went Saturday to Wolcott to spend a week with Mr, and Mrs. Frank Hart. ' Mrs. Chas. May surprised her husband last Sunday evening, it being his birthday, serving a stag dinner to a score or more of his friends. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blue and Mrs. Chapman, of Rensselaer, were combining pleasure and business here, last Wednesday morning, Mr. Blue having been a one time instructor in our high school. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dye were in town a short time last Wednesday with a party of friends and relatives. They returned a week ago from spending the winter in Texas. Mrs. Wm. Smalley went to Milford Tuesday evening to visit her mother, Mrs. Nichols. Miss Stella Locke, of Chicago, is spending a two weeks’ vacation here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dick and daughter, of Watseka, have been visiting the Beal families and other relatives.

Mrs. Geo. B. Clarke was most happily surprised last week when eight of her near friends came in on her with dinner baskets and proceeded to make merry in celebration of her 80th birthday. Children’s day was celebrated in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and in the Methodist Sunday evening, the exercises in each being very beautifully presented by the little people, whose singing was especially pleasing. The Presbyterian missionary reception was dated for Thursday of this week with Mrs. James Gilbert. On next Monday night the grand matron will be present at O. E. S. chapter. Master Russell Hamilton left last Tuesday evening to spend a week with Ralph Kelly in Lafayette. Mrs. Rainier visited in Lafayette last Thursday.

The ladies of Fountain Park Improvement Association were planting flowers in the -park last Thursday. Mrs. Thos. Babb is visiting her mother, Mrs. Belle Greene. They will spend next week in Chicago with Mrs. Wellington Morris and Mrs. Babb will then proceed to Memphis, Tenn., where they have resided for years, and where they are now moving to make their home. Max Hargraves returned Wednesday evening from spending a week with relatives in Chicago. Miss Dorothy Spencer is visiting in Lake Forest, 111. Mrs. Wade Green and baby, of New York city, are guests of Mr. Dexter Jones and daughter, Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan, of Daytona, Fla., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Hand. They are expecting Mrs. Milligan, Jr., this week and in the near future Mrs. Pierre Branning, both of Florida. Miss O’Dell is attending commencement at DePauw this week.