People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

will move into it yet this fall. These three residences are first class structures, and add greatly to the appearance of our town. Remington has made a good, steady, healthy and permanent growth, and we are well satisfied with our town, and the country around about it, believing that it can hardly be beaten anywhere. and the improvments of the farms are valuable and permanent. It is hard to find a farm any where near Remington which has not good buildings, and is extensively tiled.

The Rensselaer Republican in its report of the number of subordinate members of our lodge of the I. O. O. F. in at; tendance at Rensselaer on the occasion of the dedication of the hall there, gave the number from this lodge as 30. That is wrong. The number was about 55 subordinate lodge members, and 25 ladies who are members of the Rebecca Degree, making at least 80 members from Schuyler Lodge in attendance there. We would not say anything about this matter were it not for the fact that we desire all the credit that is due us, and do not care to have an erroneous statement go out which tends to show that we are either a very weak lodge, or that we are not interested in the good work of Odd Fellowship. We believe that Brother Mars! all should correct his report.

Corn is not yielding so large a crop as was anticipated by our farmers before they commenced husking. The quality however is very tine. The average yield will probably be about forty bushels per acre. , The mother of Fred Rose and Mrs, August Walters, who we reported sick about two weeks ago, died last week, and was buried in the Remington cemetery. The relatives of the deceased have the sympathy of this community, Uncle Henson Owens of Gilboa, Benton county, will move to Tennessee in the course of a week or two to spend the winter with his son, William Owens, who bought a farm about two years ago near McMinnville.