Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

—Mrs. Ed Maxwell is on the sick list. —Mr. Frank Rich wns seen on our streets Monday. —Mala Garrison wms doing business in Remington Monday. —W. S. Parks of Rensselaer, was a Remington caller Monday. —Fountain Park assembly is in full blast, with a good attendance. —Miss Boyce Lally of Michigan City, was in town Friday of last week. —Mrs. Hattie Thomas and daughter Hazel, are visiting 'in town this week. —Charles Shew, Tabor & Co’s, engineer, is quite sick with what is called “bloody flux.” —We are informed that F. R. Curtis purchased a farm down in Jennings county last week. —Quite a number of G. A. R’s. from here attended the funeral of a comrade at Wolcott Monday. —The moving picture show at Fountain Park Monday night, was highly spoken of by those present. —Ed Anderson is here with a troupe of nine people, rehearsing and organizing for their opening fair week. —Rensselaer and Remington “kids” crossed bats at the fair grounds Tuesday afternoon. Score 10 to 14 in favor of Rensselaer. —C. G. Beal, cashier of Bank of Remington, is holding his head higher than any man in town since Sunday, the 14th. “Yet its only a girl.” —Abe Hardy, sxperintendent of the county farm, was here Wednesday in company with a Cincinnati horse buyer, looking for good horse flesh. —Mrs. J. F. Major and son Wilferd, returned Tuesday from a couple of weeks’ visit with her parents and friends at Warsaw, Ind., accompanied by her sister. —Misses Maggie and Ella Leavel, two of Remington’s best young ladies, returned last week from an extended visit with friends in and near their old home in Garrod county, Ky. —Who gets the proceeds from that crop, of “gypsum” grown in the court house yard?” Couldn’t Mr. Halleck mix it with some of his marsh hay and ship it to market? j Too late, now, tne stuff was spoiled in curing.—Ed.] —A. B. Coleman was in Logansport between trains Tuesday, where he met Mrs. Coleman and daughters who have been on a visit of two months with Mrs. Coleman’s parents at Kouts, Indiana, and accompanied them home. * A fakir was on the street here Tuesday evening, exhibiting a human freak in the shape of a man

without fingers or toes, with double breast bone and two rows of teeth; the hands resembling the foot of a dog, the feet those of a bear, and whose manner of locomotion is like an animal on all fours. —Messrs. Strong and Hershman, democratic candidates for commissioner, were in town one day last week and left a very favorable impression among our people. Remington and the Third district will be heard from next November in a way that will sound the death knell to reckless extravagance in the management of county affairs in old Jasper.