Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Dear Republican: —The mud blockade was rai&ed last Saturday and farmers came pouring into town. Our merchants report the largest sales they have had in months—we had almost said years. We suppose that in most families active preparations are being made for the happy Christmas time. It does seem unjust that our unhappy experience of a few years ago should fore.ver keep from our children the pleasurable excitement of a Christmas tree and festival. Cards are out for the wedding of Mr. Gumm and Miss Bose Hart, next Wednesday evening. They have the congratulations and best wishes of a host of friends. An effort was made last Thursday night to reorganize the Blue Bibbon Club. We do wish you would tell us through The Bepublican how you manage to keep up the interest in your meetings, and above all, how you meet the ques. tion of finances. Almost the entire evening was spent in discussing the question as' to the best means o 1 raising money to defray the expenses.

Oar young friend, Abe Hart (who, by the way, made somp excellent remarks at the meeting Thursday night), will return from Gilman, 111., on Thursday accompanied by Mrs. Abe. We, with many others, wish them long life and happiness. The tin wedding at Dr. Traugh’s on Monday night, was a most enjoyable affair. The party met at the residence of I. S. Ijrwin, and proceeded “as on® man” to the pleasant home of the Dr. and his amiable wife. The presents were numerous, useful and appropriate, and all went “merry as a marriage bell,” rung ten years after, and neither “jangled nor out of tune.” May they live to celebrate their diamond wedding. t Mrs. Wells is expected- h,ome on Wednesday, from her lengthy visit in Chicago. A new addition to the census at Dr. Landon’s. If he lives to make as good a man as his father, he will vote the Republican ticket in twen-

ty-one years.

T.-T.-N.

We would like to mention the fact to a few professional cynics and chronic grumblers who may possibly live in Rensselaer, that in the role of reformers their long ears appear away above all else. If these worthies see a man sinking in the mire of drunkenness, they will push him down by their denunciations, stand aloof from him instead of going to the poor fellow and giving their assistance ; if they in any manner get hold of a rumor that a man occassionally visits a gambling den they raise their hands in holy horror at the sight of the “villain,” “thief,” “blackleg,” “murderer,” or whatever pet epi thets they are pleased to apply to him, thereby encouraging him in his “downward course ; ” if they can get hold of an inkling of scandal, whether there is the least foundation to the report or not, they appear to take especial delight in publishing the obscene stuff to the world. This is a poor way to make the condition of mankind better. Any student of human nature knows that the only successful method of reforming transgressors of the moral code is to use kindness and mercy, and by example strive to lead them to a higher *nrl better condition in life. It is to be hoped that our “reformers” will see the, error of their ways, and use different tactics in bringing about the end to which they profess to be worßlg for. A Full Line of Ladies Dress Goods, m. the very latest styles at Fendifs.