People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — correspodence Department. [ARTICLE]

correspodence Department.

Neighborhood Notes and Gossip.

Remington Mote*. ■

Frank Wolfe of Michigan City, formerly in the lumber business here and in Rensselaer, was in Remington last week looking after his business interests and also paying a short vis it t(j his many friends here. F. E. Babcock and his son George spent a. day or two in Chicago the early part of last week. Mrs. Babcock accompanied them to Chicago and went on further to visit friends in Illinois. She returned the latter part of the week. George Fisher is now located in Goodland. having purchased a one-half interest in the telephone system at that place. The Pan Handle railway company have been filling in around their depot here with good gravel taken from the Kenneth quarries. It is a great improvement and one that has been greatly needed for years past. A new school house is to be built at the Boway corners in the north west corner of Carpenter township. It is badly needed. Cummins Bros, will build it. ♦ Miss Floy Beal has returned home again. She has been type writing for Attorney James W. Oswald of Goodland three or four months past. The Christian Endeavor society of the Christian church gave an ice cream supper in the store room of John. F. Major. The social was well attended. The gross proceeds were about thirty dollars. It had been the intention to hold the meeting at Fountain Park, but the weather was so threatening that the place was changed. Gray & Powell will reconstruct the old creamery building and convert it into a large ice house. They will also rebuild the dam in Carpenter’s creek near the ice house, so that they may have plenty of water to freeze when cold weather comes in order that they may have an abundance and a good quality of ice to harvest and store away for the use of the town in the summer seasons.

The Benton Review came out last week with an excellent editorial on the financial question. Hitherto he had been silent on the subject. He now takes a decided stand , for the immediate restoration of silver to its position before it was demonetized in 1873. Bro. Eastburn, you are now k-rect. Oajs are badly down in this locality, owing to the recent heavy rains and winds. The crop being’so very heavy, they will hardly rise again, and much damage will result. Ira W. Yeoman and Ammon Beasley, of Remington, attended the democratic convention at Indianapolis last week. They report the largest convention ever held in the city of Indianapolis by any party. A test vote between the gold and silver men on their respective candidates for governor, resulted for the gold candidate Cooper 110; for the silver candidate Shively 1637. Thus you see the 16 to 1 men were a little more than 16 to 1 in that convention in numerical strength. M. A. Gray, one of our real estate men. reports a fine, new girl at his house.

A boy has quite recently put in an appearance at the home of M. B. Graham and Benny says it is a 16 to 1 silver democrat. Charley Beasley who has been so long sick with typhoid fever is now getting along very nicely. If he does not have another setback he will soon be with us again. He has had one relapse and he should now be very careful.

Ira W. Yeoman talks of attending the Chicago democratic convention. He will probably go via. Rensselaer. r Remington will celebrate the glorious 4th this year in great shape, with games and races at the fair grounds, in the day time and an extraordinary display of fire works in the evening in the town, of Remington. Everybody is invited and expected to be present.