Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Drab Republican:—When we read in last week’s paper an account ol the “chimney,” “Jacob’s ladder,” and other Christmas entertainments to be given in church and opera house, we felt like saying, with poor Joe in Bleak House, “Good times and me not in ’em.” Figuratively speaking, the Yule logs on our altars are as dead as ashes and until they are rekindled the little.ones of the flock must always lack something of the warmth and glow which should come, with the blessed Christmas time. We acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of a long letter from M. W. Babcock, treasurer of the Blue Ribbon Society of Rensselaer, giving valuable suggestions as to the working up of a better temperance feeling among Us, which letter was remailed and sent to our President, Mr. Parker. H. K. Payne, our old friend and co-worker in the temperance cause, returned lost week from Nebraska, and is visiting friends in Remington. Madam Rumor 1 has it that when Henry goes west again, he will not go alone. D. M. Nelson, principal of the public schools at North Salem, arrived last Saturday, to spend the holidays with relatives and friends in this place. We hope that when his school closes he may conclude to “locate” .among us. The young folks of the M. E. Sunday-school purpose giving a festival on Friday night of this week for the purpose of procuring new singing books for the school. We wish them abundant success but at the same time we must say that if the proceeds of this and several other festivals could be spent in buying and applying paint to the outside waHs of the M. E. temple, it would give more general satisfaction. The building is something like sin—“a reproach to any people” —especially so to our brethren of that faith. <lt looks as though the great body of Methodism were L dead and the church a great unsightly moss-grown tombstone erected over its remains. There are

many beautiful, unfamiliar hymns in the old books which might be brought out under skillful leadership and we know the children will aing gladly for the sake of having the church brightened up, for how can we sing the Lord’s songs cheerfully in a gloomy house ? N You may infer from the tone of our letter that there was no public demonstration among us on Christmas eve, but we hasten to say that there was. Two or three gentlemen from the rural districts filled themselves with fusil oil, tannin, strychnine, and whatever ejse enters into the make-up of modern whiskey, and made matters lively for the Marshal and others. After a fierce struggle they were captured and taken before His Honor Justice Hascall. After a reprimand and peremptory request .to contribute to the school fund (amount not known), they were allowed to deport. We neglected to notice among other arrivals, that of Miss lizzie Phelps, from Terre Haute. She is at home spending her vacation with parents and friends. T.-T.-N. Sleep to be most refreshing should be dreamless. Use Brown’s Iron Bitters and you will enjoy healthful, dreamless slumber. It strengthens every part of the body, and is very soothing in its effect on the brain and nervous syst» m. It is the best medicine in the world, and assists nature in removing all symptoms of ill health. Public Notice— ls hereby given that all debts due me must be settled before the first day of J an--1882, either by caah or note, or the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney for collection. . . \ , Ralph Fendio. The Ladies’ Working Society of the Presbyterian church, will meet with Mrs. W. E. Templeton at 2. F* it., Friday, Dec., 80th.