People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Correspondence Department. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence Department.

Neighborhood Notes and Gossip.

Remington Motes.

James M. McEwan of the Rensselaer Sentinel, spent the glorious fourth in and about Remington celebrating in proper style. Gus, Lucy, and their mother, Mrs. John Yeoman, visited with the family of Ira W. Yeoman the 4th and sth. They reside in Newton township, Jasper tyMrs. Rachel Coen of Newton, Fountain county, Ind., visited the fore part of the week with the family of her niece, Mrs. Ira W. Yeoman. She is now visiting Rensselaer friends and relatives. We notice that road agents are getting to be numerous in the vicinity of Rensselaer. Many men in that locality should remove to Remington where they will be free from molestation by that class of gentry, and where such offenders would be promptly apprehended and punished according to the statutes in such cases made and provided. The board of town trustees have adopted the plans and specifications for our system of water works furnished by the Challenge Wind Mill and Feed Mill company of Batavaia, 111. They are on file in the office of Ira W. Yeoman, the town clerk, where they may be seen by any one desiring to bid on the construction of said system of water works. Hay harvest is now under full swing in the vicinity of Remington. The crop is being put up in good condition, but it is not as heavy as some anticipated it would be earlier in the season. Some meadows will probably make nearly two tons per acre, but the average will not perhaps be more than one ton per acre. The quality, however, is excellent and thus far it has been mostly harvested without rain.

The 4th of July celebration at Remington this year was a grand affair. The program at the fair grounds was carried out nearly to the fbtter. There was an immense concourse of pfeople in attendance there, and the racing was very creditable, as were all the other exercises which had been advertised. The fireworks exhibition in the town in the evening was a fine affair indeed, and it was witnessed by a great crowd of people, Ohio and -railroad streets being packed full. The Christian Endeavor societies of the Christian and Presbyterian churches,, and the Epworth League of the M. E. church, of Remington, held a union meeting at Fountain Park last Sunday evening which was largely attended by friends of the three different churches. The object of the meeting was to hear the reports of the delegates to the Valparaiso and Anderson conventions. Misses Stella Beal and Dell Yeoman made the report for the Presbyterian, and Miss Lilly Brown for the Christian branches of the Christian Endeavor at Valparaiso, and Mrs. William Morsis made the ' report for the Epworth League of the meeting at Anderson. All the reports were fully prepared and delivered in excellent style. The audience expressed themselVes highly pleased, and profitably entertained at this meetihg.