Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — REMINGTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON ITEMS.

Dear Republican:— We have been a little remiss iii onr duty irt> eot respondent of late but it whs unavoidable. With ihig brief apology we will proceed! with the few items of news we have boon able to gather. A good soaking rain last Sunday and , Monday revived thn di'nojiing spirits of the;’ farmers over this way, and gave them, brighter hopes for growing crops. All may yet be well. Let us hope so. Memorial services wore held in Exchange Halt last Suuday, for Mr.H. D. Morgan, who died in Huron, DakotA, some weeks ago. Mr. Morgan was a gentleman of sterling* worth, well known and universally rvspaeterl, and tne services at the Hail were largely attended, Flora Etta, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. <i. W. llascall, died last Hatnrduy evening. She was a beautiful child and their home will seem very desolate without her. We liave'been shown some specimens of, flax, oiiis, timothy, wheat, bailey and a blade of corn sent by Mrs. W. 13. Price, of St. Lawrence, Dakota, to her father in this place. We think it would ptwh’our Jasper county grangers to make us good u showing. One stalk of the oats measured thirty-nine inches in height and had one hundred and forty-nine grains. One stalk of the timothy was fifty-one inches high, including the head, which was fcix and a half inches long; flax thirty-seven inches, with forty-five seed vessels. The blade of corn was fifty-six inches in length. It was impossible to count the grains of wheat and hurley with- . out breaking them from the stalk, and as the stalks were broken cannot give the height. These were all grown oft ground that had never boh re been cultivated, unless in sotiio past and forgotten ago. The steam threshing machine of Mowrer and Griffith,got in its first work on Mr. G.. 11. Chappell's crop of whe#t. Every thing worked satisfactorily, and we hope Messrs. M. and U. may make lot* of money. The M. E. church is rapidly losing its weather-beaten appearance and becoming it “thing of beauty.” To some poor souls the memory of many happy hours spent in that enurch will bo “a. joy forever. ’’ Mrs Win. Htiaw, Mrs. Draper and Miss Holies spent last week with friends and relatives iu Lafayette. Miss Clara Major started to Wcssington,, Dakota, last Monday morning. Mr. Melvin Sturm, of Waterman, Ind.,/ spent a f«w duys of Inst week with a IrienH . in this vicinity, leaving on Tuesday morn- • ing for his former home ia Wheeling, W. ¥a. Mrs. Palmer, of Watseka, 111,,, is visitiug her sister, Mrs. Shawl. % Some of our best citizens are being insulted bv unonyinouK letters. Suspicion points strongly to a certain youth in this village as the author of r.t least a iu»r,t ojf them, and if the suspicion can be proven a certainty the young man will not .be so ready hereafter to resort to that last refuge of the-ooward,—anonymous letter-writing. Reminutoman. * —•— I"Mrs. Louise Fletcher and Mrs.. Sallie Boohe, mother and sister of Mrs. R. F. Friest are visiting her ■ this week. The ladies live in love-. ly Lexington down in the Blue Grass state..