Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS

MOT INTEJSSI

' REMINGTON (From the Press)

Mrs. Max Broadie of Lafayette is visiting home folks this week. Mrs. Charles Weir and Mrs. Fern Lough spent Wednesday in Lafayette. (Mrs. Treivor Eger of Rensselaer spent the week-end with her parents here. Mrs. A. A. Fell, who had not been so well the past month, is slightly better this week. Mrs. Ica Taber returned this week from: a prolonged visit with friends in Wabash and Huntington. Mts. W. C. Smalley is in Rochester, Minn., this week. S'he and her daughter, Miss Ethel, are ex* (peeted home Saturda'y. Rev. J. G. Rhind went to Chicago Monday on business preparatory to moving here and taking up the work of the coming year. Mt. and Mrs. C. B. Johnston are visiting relatives in Bloomington this week and, incidentally, looking after some business interests. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kipp of Leland, 111., spent Tuesday night with C. A. Bonner on their return by auto from Florida, where they spent the winter. From a private letter we learn that Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson of Reynolds, but formerly of Remington, are rejoicing over the birth of their first son'. Mrs. Chauncey Dexter and daughter Mildred returned to their home in Chicago Wednesday after a visit of a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Green. Miss Ethel Harris left Thursday

last for Elkhart, Kan., to spend some time with her sister, Mrs. Lex Fisher, and if She likes a position she has accepted, irnay decide to remain and make it her home. Messrs. Porter and Shelmon have completed the enumeration of the voters of the town and township, which is'as follows: In town, 302 voters; in township, 259 voters. A gain in> town and township of 4 1 voters. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bates of Louisville, Ky., are rejoicing over the advent of a son, Jack McClellan. Mrs. Bates was formerly Miss Marguerite Cummons, and the name McClellan is for its grandpa Cummons. Mrs. V. ,M. Beal returned home on Sunday afternoon from her winter’s visit with her children, Mrs. W. J. Dick at Watseka, Ill.; Mrs. L. M. Raymond at Monticello, 111., and C. G. Beal and family at Crawfordsville, having been away about five months. Lewis S. Alter, one of our oldest residents, recalls to mind the cold weather of 68 years ago, of 1851, when, he says, water froze hard enough on May 2 to support a person’s weight. Forty-eight years ago, 1871, in May, there was four inches of snow.

Arvel Bringle, the mail route man, has sold his lots in the east part of town to Grant Fardner, and has purchased the Sophia Headlee property in the south part of town, to which he will remove in a few weeks, or as soon as he can make the necessary repairs. Aggressive work on the part of the Remington Business Men’s association has resulted in a definite promise for a re-coating of the county roads within the corporate limit of our city. This, with stone that the village is purchasing, will place our streets in first-class condition. A petition has been circulated, signed and filed with the county commissioners of Benton county for the paving of the range line road south of town. The petition calls for a paving 16 feet wide, from the Benton county line south for five miles and then west to connect with the Fowler road, a total distance of about 14 miles. This petition is filed under the new county unit law, and has good prospects of being built. If there is any one place within a radius of 15 miles of Remington that needs road repair it is from the college to Rensselaer first, and next from the county line south, and all will be glad to see the road constructed.