Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

remington (From the Press)

Lester Rich of Indianapolis was a Remington visitor Wednesday. Miss Laura Ponton, of Goodland visited friends in Remington Sunday. Ernest Rawlings is still confined to his bed, but is improving, we understand. Louis Pepin of Harvey, 111., came Tuesday evening for a short visit with friends. ■scorn, March 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Eller of seven miles sopth of town, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Camblin of Morocco spent the week-end as guests at the editor’s home. George Morin has sold his store building on the north side of the railroad to George Worden. Miss Lorena McClure of Hammond is spending a couple of weeks with her aunt, Mrs. H. J. Bartoo. Mr and Mrs. Leo Reeve and Mr. and Mrs. Eger of Rensselaer were Sunday visitors in Remington. Miss Florence Cain, who has been having trouble, with her eyes for several weeks, is yet unable to return to school. Samuel Bowman spent from Friday evefiin.g until Monday evening in Monticello, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Griffin.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gwin of Rensselaer and Frank Haskell of near Winamac were Sunday visitors at the Bartoo home. Mrs. Ida Williams received word Wednesday morning that her son Louis had landed in America and was at Camp Merritt, N. J. Mrs. R. H. Robinson went to Chicago,, last week to consult a specialist in regard to her health, which has not been at all good lately. Mrs. H. W. Gossett of Logansport spent Sunday with Miss Edna Bridenbaugh at the home of Mrs. G. I. Thomas, returning home Monday evening. ' Nicholas Stowe, who had been spending a number of weeks with his adopted son, J. S. Zimmerman, returned to his home at Kentland Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Griff Dyer went to Cleveland, Ohio, the latter part of the week to make their future home. Mrs. Dyer was formerly Miss Margaret McGraw. Mrs. Henry Yeagers and little son went to Louisville, Ky., this Thursday morning to meet her husband, who is soon to be discharged from’ Camp Taylor. Mrs. W. L. Gumm went to Greencastle last week and spent the weekend with Miss Lillian Gumm, and while there she got a bad fall which strained her ankle severely. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Forbes and daughters, Lucile and Virginia, and Ml«. Canine of Oxford were guests of the Merritts Sunday. Walter likes his work at that place and is getting along fine. Miss Marie Cochran of Chicago, who had been the guest of Miss Grace Cain, left last Thursday, accompanied by the latter, for Wisconsin for an extended visit ,with friends and relatives. The interior of the new bank room formerly the Worden harness shop,’ is being torn out this week •nd fitted for the bank use. It is • dandy, nice location and as good a room for the purpose as could probably be found in <the town;. Wise Hazel B. Gray is substituting for Mias Venice Finley in the Gilboa primary school. This is. the third week that Miss Finley has been outof school owing to flu and after •CT"'”’ .

effects. High school girls took charge of the work last week and the week before. Jones Bros, report the sale of the Barnett 80 acres of land northwest of town to Geo. W. Jones, consideration $l7O 'per acre; also the Mrs. A L. Harris 80 acres north of Nopoleon Marcott’s to Bernhard Alberts and Henry Stltz, consideration $l9O per acre. Mrs. Melville Julien and' daughter Oressa returned Friday from Rochester, Minn., where they went for treatment of Miss Juliens throat. She had her tonsils removed and it is thought this will relieve her ailment to a large degree. -Mr. Atwood, who went there the same time, is recovering nicely from his operaticn and will likely return home next week.

Miss Helen O'Dell, who has been instructor in music in the public schools, has been called to the bedside of her father and sister at Greencastle, who are said to be very sick. It is understood that Miss O’Dell will not return here again this term. Miss O’Dell had been a very capable and faithful instructor, and her place will be hard to fill. We doubt if any attempt is nniade to fill it this year, but for the present Miss Kolb is taking care of that department. The work of wrecking the old Geier blacksmith shop has been going on this week. The old building is now a thing of the past, and the lot will be cleaned up and seeded down,, which will add a great deal to that corner. The building was one of the very oldest in the town, having been there so long that it is likely no one here now knows when it was built. .At one time it was one of Remington s most up-to-date and comfortable residences. Since that time It has been used for a barber shop for many years and for other innumerable purposes. Now it has passed the way *ll things in this world go and in a short time no one will remember that it ever stood there.

Last Sunday was a big day in the history of the Presbyterian churches all over this beautiful land, and one that will long be remembered by the Presbyterian Church of Remington. The goal was set for $40,000,000 to be raised through the New Era movement for the work of reconstruction in the church the world over, and the apportionment for the Remington church was $4,000, which was gloriously raised in a few hours by the consecrated work of several committees. After a quiet Sunday dinner in tbe basement of the church, and with final directions and prayer by the pastor, they set about their enormous task with a will and determination that could but mean success, and when the last report showed that the apportionment had been raised and $lO 1 more, there was great applause. I The meeting closed with the sing--1 ing of the Doxology, and all went I home rejoicing that they had gone “over the top.”