Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1875 — Remington Record Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Record Items.

Business appears to be pretty lively. Tribby & Patton have a new clerk from the East. Geo. Sweet has sold his bakery to a gentlemen by the name of Joseph Lacrost. An j steady young man, desirous of learning the printing trade, ean be accommodated by applying at this office. The Second Quarterly meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Remington, on the 27th and 28th of March. John L. Smith, Prodding Elder. The dance at Beltonien Hall, Wednesday evening, was a very nice and properly conducted affair. Some played euoher, while

others tripped the I ght fantastic. A trteksnitJDaaje Up in town last Tuesday, wfifeh t|Hblaratg|| lni sued for potatoes. He Bonlly agreed to and after paying bls lawyer’s fees found himself sCts ahead. Church wore a path from the store to the depot the other morning, while waiting for the accommodation freight train. If that morning freight train » called accommodating, what in ail creation do they call the

regular passenger? A gentleman who is noted for bis cautiousness, sold a $220 uote the other day, under the impression that it Calfod for $l2O, for SIOO. . Whe»‘he discovered hiS m’-stake it is said that he ‘‘squealiSt* pretty fondly, and treated a crowd to the dysters, to get back his note. ’ . The entertainment Wednesday evening didn’t set very well on the stomachs’ of some of the young men who attended. A young clerk was taken sick Thursday morning, but after “throwing up” four days rations he was able to take his the counter again.

It is reported that J. E. Clark, of Remington, has come in possession of about $200,000, realized from n portion of Chicago.— Brookston Reporter. Can’t see it that way Mr. Reporter. The above item you found in the Rochester correspondence of the Record. J. E. Clark is a sour, crusty and pigeon-toel Rochesterite. The ladies are circulating a remonstrance to the sale of intoxicating liquors, by one Thomas Irvine, who contemplates starting in the building east of Downing's hay barn. An excellent place to start a ranch of that kind, but we think Irvine’s hqpes and aspirations will be nipped in the, bud. The bdiee say he shall not sell whiskey in this place, and who ever knew a w»man 'to back on her word ?