People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

To the Editor of the People’s Pilot. REMINGTON. in which place The Peoples Pilot has an extensive circulation, is a very i pretty village of over 1.000 population, situated in the extreme southern part of Jasper county on the st. I. & (’.railway 125 tulles from Chicago. Largest hay shipping point in Indiana; tine horses, cattle and hogs; rich agricultural lands worth up to ?75 per acre' and higher; 'our warehouses; county fair; excellent. high schools; line churches; wellgraded gravel roads in all directions; two batiks. Ammon Beasley, who had been visiting friends and attend ing to some business at Decatur, Illinois, returned last Thursday morning. He reported an enjoyable time. Mr. Alpheus, and W. 1. Elmore, formerly of Gilboa township, Benton county, Ind., are now residents of Remington. They are both excellent gentlemen, and such citizens are always welcomed to our city. The teachers of the Remingtonschools all went to Indianapolis on a tour cf inspection of the city schools last Thursday morning with the exception of Miss Derschell, who is sick and unable to be about. Those who went report a profitable visit and they w’ere all in their respective school rooms Monday morning, attending to their several duties. William Rich and wife of Frankfort, Indiana, formerly of Remington, spent last week here visiting old time friends,, and in Brook, Newton county, visiting with their sons, Frank and Jacob. J. G. Morris, just at the south side of Remington, last his tool house and contents lost week by tire. The loss amounting to about $250, with no insurance. Esquire George B. Chappell and daughter, Miss Hattie, returned from their visit to the former's old home and birthplace i'r New York, last Thursday. The ‘-Squire” is looking fine and we think the trip did him good. Frank E. Babcock, the publisher of the Remington Press, has disposed ot his Goodland residence property, and will soon move has family to Remington, so that he will be convenient to his business. Jacob S. Barnes, who recently retired from the grain firm of J. S. Barnes & Co., is engaged in the grain and hay business at this place for himself alone, buying delivering in cars on track, and shipping to his many customers in the east and south. Gray & Littlefield closed a land deal last Friday, composing 400 acres, which was in the way of a trade. The exchange being 320 acres known as the Paxton farm in Newton township, Jasper county, owned by James Schaeffer and S. C. Jones of Newton county, for an 80 acre tract in White county, Ind.,

owned by Mr. James Higgins. The consideration for the 320 acres $39 per acre, and for the 80 acres $55 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson, who have been visiting near Dayton, Ohio, fpr the past month have returned home. Mrs. Jqseph L. Peely has been visiting friends and relatives in Remington for the past week. Joe, who came over with her, returned to their home in Fowler last Monday. Will A. Mossier, of the Model store in Rensselaer, was in Remington the past week flitting around among his many friends. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Remington held a special meeting last Thursday evening, at which they condemned and ordered rebuilt and repaired about one hundred different side walks in the town. They also accepted a proposition made by the P. C. and St. L. Railway Co. to dedicate 30 feet on the north side and 20 feet on the south side of their right of way, from the corporation line on the east to the east of Ohio street, provided the company be forever released and relieved from the payment of any tax, assessment charge or cost for any improvements or repairs on said dedicated property. We trust the property owners along the dedicated territory will now improve said streets, by grading and placing a liberal supply of good gravel thereon. William E. Seymour, who is at present engaged in one of the tin plate mills at Elwood, Ind., returned home last Wednesday evening for a short stay with his family and to look after some business affairs. He is afflicted with a felon on one of his hands. He returned to Elwood on the 11:30 p. m. train Sunday night. There is a goodly amount of new corn being delivered at the Remington market and also quite an amount of old corn. The prices still remain very low, and are somewhat discouraging to our farmers who have this cereal for sale. Some will hold their corn for higher prices and we trust they will get them. Rev. James D. Carson of the Christian church has now so far recovered from his recent illness with tyhoid fever as to be able to attend morning and evening services last Sunday. Our old friends, James F. Irwin, and William Washburn, of Rensselaer, visited in Remington last week, presumably on business. We are always pleased to meet them. The Young People’s Christain Endeavor Society of Remington will give one of their

monthly social meetings, next Friday evening, in the Christian church. Each person will represent some historical character, and they anticipate a very enjoyable time. All of the society should attend this meeting. Spencer Peck of Goodland, who has been at work in the Press office for the past two or three weeks, will not work in the office here any more for the present at least, as the rush of business is now practically over. The editor of the Wolcott Enterprise, E. Walker, paid Remington, and his father’s family a visit during the past week. Some one asks what is matter with the elections this fall. We will give it as our opinion that it was too much Grover Cleveland and Hoke Smith in the matter of pensions. Too much Grover Cleveland as a “sound money” or gold standard exponent. Too much Grover Cleveland as a do nothing Democratic party wrecker, and not enough of him as an American citizen, as witness his conduct in relation to the “Hawaiian,’ “Venezuelan” and “Cuban” affairs. If all those short comings are not sufficient to demoralize and wreck the greatest party the world has ever known, in the name of common sense what would it take. Cleveland’s first term as president was admirable. His second term was a failure from the start, and is likely to finish as it started. He has it in his mind that he is the partv. Were he again to again become a candidate his support in Indiana, and all the other states for that matter, would not amount to a “Corporals Guards. ”