People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Correspondence of People's Pilot.. N John W. Phelps”, our local horse dealer, has been engaged in buying and shipping horses from this point for several months past. His last shipment was two car loads on This shipment was made up of some first class horses, and he expects to realize handsome proits from the sale of the same. He reports the prices of horses of the various grades as slowly improving, so that good horses are no longer a drug on the market.

Fred Burger, who has been dangerously sick for time past, is now convalescing nicely. He is reported to be able to sit up and be about the house most of the time One of Photographer Beasley's little girls has been very dangerously ill with typhoid fever for some time past. At this time she is some what improved, and it is to be hoped that she may speedily recover. She is a bright little girl.

The committee to view and investigate the various water work systems in Illinois returned home last Friday evening, and will submit their report so that an outline of the same will probably appear in the “Remington Press” next Saturday. The committee is very favorably impressed with some of the plants they investigated. It is thought a plant can be put in suitable for the needs of our town for about $7500. We vote on the proposition as to whether or not we will bond the town for this purpose April Ist next. Our former fellow townsman, Ezra Bowman, who moved to Anderson, Indiana, last fall, will return to Remington as soon as he can get possession of his house here, which is at present occupied by Mr. Tedford. Nine times outof ten people who leave Remington for other localities in the hope of improving their financial condition, are sadly disappointed, and are eager to return. Remington is probably as good an all round town as can be found anywhere. Rev. A. P. DeLong, formerly pastor of the M. E. church here, and at present stationed at Goodland, conducted the quarterly meeting ere last Saturday and Sunday, assisted by the home pastor. Rev. W. R. Nickels The meetings were well attended.

Mrs. P: N. Lally who had come down from Michigan City last week to spend a few weeks with her daughter. Miss Maud, received a dispatch that her little son Wilbur was dangerously sick with diptheria. She returned home at once. J. D. Rich of Brook, Ind., has ceased to edit the Brook Reporter and leased the paper to his former foreman. We presume “Jake” will devote his entire attention to other business affairs, viz., hardware, law, and real estate. The Presbyterian church bazar held in Durand Hall, Wednesday and Thursday last, the 18th and 19th, was in point of numbers in attendance, a great cess, and the money received

would also indicate that the affair proved a financial success. This is as it should be. Many of the citizens of Remington have been in Rensselaer the present week, the occasion being the necessity for some of our sporting fraternity to attend Circuit Court, and answer to several indictments found against them at the last term of court. •'Winter still lingers in the lap of Spring,” Vet we hope soon to hear the wood-pecker sing; To see the buds budding, and the green grass growing. To hear the lambs bleating, and the wild grousecrowing. The above is supposed to be poetry