Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON

[Press.! Miss Lola Elmore went to Frankfort Tuesday for a visit with f riends. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnston are attending the big Shriner doings at Indianapolis this week. Mrs. Sam Thompson and brother, James Rawlings, of Monticello, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Griffin, also of Monticello, were visiting Remington friends Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Greenwood are spending a few days this week at Indianapolis. Mrs. J. A. Hatch, of Kentland, was the guest of Mrs. W. L .Gumm one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Elmore, of Mon, ticello, were Sunday visitors at the Morin home. John and Philip Och, of Indianapolis, came Sunday to spend a couple of days with fheir parents. Mrs. Jno. Ochs did not come, having gone for a visit with her people at Bloomington. Curtis Belcher and family, of Star City, Ind., spent Sunday with his brother, Walter Belcher, and sister, Mrs. Melrose. Mrs. Graham Thomson, of Andrews, Ind., who came Tuesday last to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Barnett, returned to her home Sunday. John Tharp informs us that his son-in-law, Finn Johanneson, has arranged to sail about the third of July for that far country, Norway, his old home, and where his parents and brothers still reside. He will make his future home there, and his wife, formerly Miss Alice Tharp, and four children, will follow him in about a month. John is pretty well broken up over the event, as the country of Norway is such a long distance away and so far north that the sun only shines four months in the year, the balance being a kind of misty haze. He is afraid that he won’t be able to go visiting there very often. It is also a pretty cold proposition there. One of our business men remarked to us Monday that “This is getting to be one of the d’d’st Saturday night towns in Indiana, if anyone should ask you.” And it’s a fact, too. We know of no town anywhere within a radius of twenty-five miles, where so many people get together on Saturday nights as at Remington. And it has always 'been so, even before the advent of the gas buggy, when the people had to spend from thirty minutes to two hours each way on the road. And more so now than ever, that the trip can be made in from ten to thirty minutes on the road. The only difference is that they don’t seem to know when to go home, and come mighty near staying all night. It’s not so hard on them, but it’s quite a jolt on the merchants and the clerks who have to await iheir pleasure, as many of them put off buying and getting their goods unr.il , they are nearly ready to go home, which, of course, .makes a great rusn at’ the stores. A little forethought on the part of the purchasers in getting their goods out of the stores early jn the evening would make it a great deal easier for the clerks. Last Saturday night must have been a record breaker, from the number of automobiles parked in every conceivable place in orderly rows upon rows, all about town, completely filling several streets to a point where getting through was practically impossible.

Mesdames Warriner, Chappell, Jordan and Cornwell attended a Home Missionary convention at Monticello Tuesday and Wednesday. C. A. Bringle moved Saturday into his recently purchased home, the former Headlee property, which he has repaired to a considerable extent. Mr. and Mrs. Bur Lucas, of Marion, Ohio, stopped off here Saturday and spent Sunday with his brother, James P. Lucas. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas were on their way to MissdurK where they are moving. A small blaze in the home of Clifford Farabee, in the north part of town, called out the fire company on Monday evening, but there was very little to do. The house belongs to George Neirengarten, and it is not known how the fire originated. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Forbes and daughters, Lucille and Virginia, of Oxford, were guests of their relatives here Sunday. Miss Edith Fenwick, from the country, is spending some time with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Fenwick, in the north part of town. Mrs. William Hollingsworth and daughter, Evelyn, of Atchinson, Kas., came on Friday last to spend a couple of months with her father, Guthrie Morris, and family. Miss Hazel Wellman, of Michigan City, is the guest of Miss Irene Howard this week. On Tuesday afternoon Miss Howard entertained a few of her intimate friends out at .Fountain Park with a picnic luncheon in honor of her guest. It was a very jolly affair. A. newly-wedded and very happy pair from Kentland took the train here Tuesday evening for a honeymoon trip. They were Edward Cahill and Frances Weist, and they were married the same day.. They Y e ,T e accompanied by two car loads of jolly young people who made merry while they awaited the arrival of the train. Mrs. John B. Latimore is arranging to go to Mayo 'Brothers’ hospital next week for examination and probably an operation. Miss Mildred Merritt, who has been visiting in Oxford and other joints the past week, returned home Saturday mornipg. 3. —>