Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Mr. and (Mrs. Wm. Broadie, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ott, made up a party of New York landseekers, leaving here' Saturday evening. Mr. Broadie has already purchased a farm there, but desires to secure a larger tract. Mrs. Carl Somers has been quite ill with tonsilitis this week. Mr. Zimmerman, the nightwatch, is convalescing from a serious illness.

Next number of the M. E. lecture course is Friday, Dec. 11. Miss Lina Lucky went to Lafayette to spend Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs. Puckett. Miss Florence Hawkins came Tuesday evening to 1 attend the Fortnightly home-coming and was a guest of Miss Claire Broadie. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Bartee and daughter, of Lafayette, are spending a week with her sister, Mjss Claire Broadie. The schools were closed for the Thanksgiving vacation. A district convention of I. O. O. F.’s and Rebekahs is dated for Friday in the local 'hall. (Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Tyler are the parents of a boy, born Tuesday, Nov. 24th. M'rs. Tyler (has been very ill with a complication? of troubles, calling for the services of a trained nurse. She is now improving. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hicks are in Chicago this week. j

~ The merchants of Remington are closing their stores each evening but Satuiday during the revival services now being held in the Christian church. Frank Howard has recently added a large auto hearse to—his undertaking establishment. Tiho parent-teacher association meets Dec. 10 in the high school. A good program has been announced. Mis. Opal Thomas Dowell, who had been in poor health for several months, died Nov. 27th at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Thomas, on South Ohio street. She was a bride of a few short years', and her husband, Lon Dowell, and parents are grief stricken. Mrs. Dowell graduated from our high school, attended the Terre Haute Normal, and then remained with her parents. Being an only child, her parents did not allow her marriage to separate them, and Mr. and Mrs. Dowell have resided continuously with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, the entire household as her tal malady progressed doing all that love and money could to ease her sufferings. Mrs. Dowell was a member of the Christian church, an active worker in the Rebekah chapter, also the order of Eastern Star, filling the highest chair in the latter at the time of her death. A happy disposition, she counted her friends by scores, who, With a vast assemblage of sympathizing neighbors and fraternal sisters and brothers, gathered about her bier in the Christian dhurch Monday afternoon as Rev. Konkle, assisted by Rev. Bull, conducted the final services. Interment was made in Remington. Relatives present from but of town were many