Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1917 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

From the Press.) “ Miss Nettie Price, of Rensselaer, was a guest of Miss Orpha Timmons Wednesday. Mrs. Whitehead is very seriously sick this week. Several of her children from out of town are at her side. 'Mrs. Dora Kellogg and little son, Kermit, of Cincinnati, are spending the week with her brother, Wm. R. Geier and family. Mr. pnd Mrs. C. B. Brown, of Beech Grove, Ind., were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. N, Boicourt. Perry Griffith is spending the week with Claude Lambert in Chicago. Linus Williams went Tuesday to Forest, 111., to spend a week or ten days with his children. Mrs. Ida Coover went to Petosky, Mich., Wednesday for the benefit of her health.

Dr. C. Roy Johnston and family, of Decatur, Hl., will be among the residents of the park this season. Harold Bartee went to Monticello Monday to join his company there. Harold is now Corporal Bartee. Prof. G. C. Powers has been chosen as superintendent of the Wheatfield schools for the coming school yeqr. He will move his family there in the near future. -Rev. H. A. Gobin, who served the Methodist church as pastor 47 years ago, was in town Thursday and delivered a fine discourse. Rev. Gobin is one of the most talented preachers the Methodist church has ever produced. —■ ~ Miss Dena Hansen, of Wisconsin, formerly a teacher in the Jasper county schools, has just completed a drive to the Pacific coast in a Ford car. It took just a month to make the trip, including the necessary layovers caused by incessant rains and deep snow in the passes. They went by the Red and White Trail from St. Paul to Seattle. . Homer Lambert has resigned his position in the Townsend drug store and will resume work with Mr. Howard the first of September. He will, however, remain in the store a few days longer. t , Mr. and Mrs. John Leader and daughter, Miss Odra, and Mrs. Kennedy, of Chicago, accompanied by Mr. Jasper Barntet, of St. Joe, Mo., were guests on Monday evening of William Barnett and family. Mrs. Guy Padgitt, of Bucklin, Kansas, who has been visiting friend? for the past two weeks, went to Rensselaer Wednesday and from there will go to Chicago, where site will visit her step-brother, Will Middlesworth, and thence home, with a stopover at DeKalb. , _ „ The many friends of Mrs. Horace Hoover, of Lafayette, will regret to learn that she has had to go to a hospital again. She was operated upon last Thursday for appendicitis and other troubles. At last reports she was doing nicely. During her stay in the hospital her little son, Lowell, will visit his aunt, Mrs. Howard Brooks, of south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Cy Rice and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hamilton, of Delphi, spent Sunday in "Remington, the guests or their mother, Mrs. Meehan. Mrs. Hamilton remained for a time with friends here and at Goodland. Rev. W. B. Warriner, who has spent part of two weeks at Battle Ground Epworth League Institute and Camp Meeting, went to Fort Wayne to visit with fnends and is spending a week among - the lakes of Steuben county near his old home. Following thfs he will Spend some days in Chicago and leave August 21st for an extended trip to the northwest.