Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1913 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Miss Lina Lucky spent part of last week in East Chicago with Rev. and Mrs. Crowder. Frea Hicks went to Chicago Monday evening! Mrs. Hicks is recovering from her recent operation at the Presbyterian hospital and expects to be from home only two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gumm and daughter, Lillian, went Thursday to Joliet, Hl., to spend a week wi|h Mother Gumm. Rev. Bull was prostrated with the heat last Sunday and was unable to conclude the morning service He has recovered. Mrs. James Greene has been very sick for a week. Her daughters, Ethel and Wilda, are caring for her. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Lucas are the parents of another daughter, born last Thursday. Kleth Spencer and Frank Goss spent Wednesday in Chicago.' Mrs. Carl Sommers spent cherry season at Otterbein with her mother. The Presbyterian Missionary Society will be held at the manse on July 10 instead of at Mrs.. Greene’s. Comrades Henry Walker and Jacob May started last Friday to attend the Gettysburg encampment. George Besse, who was in the battle, did not undertake the trip. Mrs. Terry, of Chicago, a former resident of this place, was brought here Tuesday for burial beside her husband, who was at one time a member of this G. A. R. post. Rev. Bull conducted the commitment service.

The Christian Missionary Society will be held next week at the home of Mrs. Chas. Farrabee. The Presbyterian ladies will hold a market on Saturday, July 12th. The Sunday school convention was well attended and a live interesting program given, although the thermometer was at a high point; Harmount’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin showed in our town Saturday evening to a large crowd. A cremona has just been installed in Bowman’s case, so there is music all the time. Irma Jean Bowman entertained her little friends Monday afternoon in the town park. Fountain Park program is completed and will soon be issued. The Misses Sharkey accompanied their cousin, Mr. Klink, to Brook last week for a short visit. Mrs. George Thompson, of Ft. is visiting her children, Mrs. Howard Jones and Earl Thompson. Remington is planning a quiet Fourth, though many citizens will spend the day in the nearby towns. Messrs. James and Maurice Peck are spending a two weeks’ vacation in Middlesboro, Ky., with their sister, Mrs. Max Price. Improvements are under way at Fountain Park, which opens August 16th.

Clubs. The North Bide Sew Club has issued invitations for an at home on July 9th at the home of Mrs. W. G. Beal. a The Sew and Sew Club will be received in the town park July 11th by Mrs. George Woods and Miss Cora Tyler, joint hostesses for the afternoon. A short business session will be conducted in connection with this open air meeting. The N. S. Sew Club held a business session Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Rainier. The sentiment of the following clipping in endorsed by the local Club Federation:

A. Picture Postal. Wellesley, Mass., has an active set of citizens working for town improvement all the while. They are anxious to keep the streets free from litter, and provide receptacles for waste paper, etc., at various street corners. But sometimes strangers spoil all this effort. For example, one day last year, a woman passenger on a car passing through Wellesley Hills Square threw from the car a picture postal addressed to her, which she had read, and then torn into small pieces. A citizen of Wellesley, pledged to the town improvement idea, saw the scattered bits of paper, and picked them up: Fitting them together revealed the name and address of the careless traveler, and the following letter went to her that day, duly signed: Dear Madam—The Inclosed bits of torn paper were picked up by the writer in the streets of Wellesley, where they had been thrown from a passing car, doubtless by you. I believe It was the result of thought lessness, and that had you-known how much time and energy is given in the effort to keep our streets clean and attractive, you would certainly have co-operated with us in this work to the extent of refraining from throwing the litter from the car. Trusting that this reminder of you offense, this time, may help you to help us and other communities to keep clean, I am, Very sincerely yours,

The letter did its work, and its courtesy and civic thoughtfulness were so much appreciated that it was given to the Wellesley ’Townsman" and published. It has since been republished in the "American City,” as a sample of the details that good citizens ought to take up in earnest—and usually do not There is a growing body of people in America today—a body to which all intelligent young men and women ought to belong, by the

way—who are thoughtful about the Interests of their communities and of any other communities where they may find themselves. The real Fourth of July spirit is found as truly in looking after the cleanliness and sanitation of the town streets as by marching in a procession and waving a flag. This story of a postal card holds a sizable example, and the oftener it reprinted, the better.