Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1875 — REMINGTON CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON CHIPS.

BY HUNKS.

Anglemire is building i Chicken coop at the rear of his bfick. J. S. Irwin now drita a spanking team ofsofreto; Church drives a pair of blacks. The excavation for the new Brick Block on the site of the old Nevada House is being pushed through ata rapid rate. Messrs. Mclntire 4 Shaw have concluded to put a hall in the upper story 40 &60 feet. €?oed *or them. Doctor Riegle's new house is nearly finished. Ben Butler still rides the Abdallah. $7000.00 is the price set on the animal.— Burger says he must bring that in order to pay for the lumber and shingles on which Ben diets him. No body died, Carried, or eloped in Remington /of sometime; but Ben Eller got beautifully licked last Saturday while be was so tired from exertion in endeavoring to hide a quart of whiskey, that he was unable to play his own part. Poor Ben; the devil has got a good hold of him. Business of all kinds lively, especially the Good Templars every Tuesday night.— The man who lives fieftr their lodge room saysVhat between them and Hood’s jackass he is broken of his rest se much on that night, that when Wednesday morning comes, he don’t know whether he to <m foot or horseback. Well so be ft. Some Of the ladies, arid the most zealous ones in attendance trio, used to be down on the Masons and Odd Fellows because the men staid out so late. Lriris, how wonderful! Tit for tat, you kfloW. Sauce for the gander sauce far the biddy. Beocher don't belong to Remington Lodge of Good Templars.

Lightning rod men are as thick as Kansas grasshoppers and folly as much of a nuisance. Next come ihricloth men who sell you about thirty dollars worth of dress goods for one hundred and fifty dollars on eight months time and take notes for the same which they discount at the bank. Oh no! not much of a swindle in thiri. Certainly not. When will formers learn to patronize their own merchants in preference to the galoots who travel for some wild cat establishment, and sell the meanest- kind of prickcrbrush shoddy. Farmers, if you need goods for your own use buy * them of your own townsmen, those upon whomjrou can rely and Who intend to do on honest business. ‘ ' c Woe I Woe I! Woe! 11 Woe unto Remington 1 We have suffered otir respected and lamented saloon keeper to take his driggory from our midst (that to the rtfnsteg gekr) to transplant it in Wolcott. Why are thete things thusly. Couldn’t the poor thirsty souls in and about Remington contribute a sufficiency of their own wives and childrens* food And clothing to keep one poor forlorn ous#,’ dealing out damnation over the bar from 6 A.- m. until 9 p. m.T Rouse ye! whiskey drinkers and rum-suckers of Remington; gri forth in your manliness and declare that such a state of things shall exist no longer. Send forth the decree, that come what will though children starve, and wives wither and die on account there-' of, though men forget their manhood and shame the brutes, whiskey must and shall be dealt out by the drink in Rerifington— Certainly; by all means ; yes.