People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Correspondence of People’s Pilot. The ladies of the Presbyterian will give a church bazaar on the 17, 18. 19, of March. It it, expected that these will be enjoyable occasions. Patton Brothers of Gooiiland have bought the old ice house on North street in Remington of Hon. Robert Parker, and they are now engaged in building an addition to it, and otherwise repairing it. Our genial hay merchant recently bought and shipped from Wisconsin, one hundred and fifty car loads of hay. He will shortly visit that locality in person. Guy Little and family of Gilboa township, Benton county, who recently bought the John Baer farm, three miles north of Goodland, have moved to their Goodland farm. The case of George Sehring vs. August Walters, lately tried in Esquire Chappell’s court before a jury, resulted in favor of the defendant. The suit was to recover SIOO, an alleged balance due on the purchase of a mill. Walter L. Gumm and W. E. Peck were appointed by otir town board as a committee to visit eastern Illinois cities and other places to investigate the various water works systems, and report upon ther return. The committee started on their mission Monday and are expected to be gone three or four days. At our regular town board meeting last Friday evening a petition was presented by our hundred free holders and taxpapers of Remington asking the board to ordet an election on the question of water works. The board found that the petition was legal and ordered an elec tion to be held at our usual voting place on Wednesday the first day of April. 1896. The case of Mrs. George Shipman against Schuyler Lodge, No. 284. I. O. O. F. which was set for hearing last Tuesdry before Esq. George F. Brook, was taken on a change of venue from this township and transferred to the court of Capt. James A. Burnham of Rensselaer and will be heard at o'clock on Tuesday, March 17. This is a case when the plaintiff claims #4O more than the officers of the lodge agreed to pay her for caring for one J. I. Mitt, a member of the lodge, who was sick at the house of the plaintiff. Charles P. Hopkins, formerly of Rensselaer, more recently of this place, but now located at Waverly, Tenn., is still in the newspaper business. He is now publishing a semi-weekly.