Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

GILLAM ITEMS. The Gillam items of last weak looked and read strange to “us. "J Harvest is now here, and there are several good fields of wheat to be reaped. Nearly ah.of the Gillam youths spent their Fourth at Francesville, and report h. very good time. / Miss Lilly Long, of Winamac, Ind; hks been visiting her uncle-and family, for two weeks. Mr. B, C. Long is visiting friends in Ohio. Mr. Odem is still alive, but very low, with consumption. Misses Ella and Rosa Culp, and Miss Millie Wade, oi Barkley township, spent Saturday eve and Sunday with their friend. Miss Emma Robinson. Mr. J. E. low and family, of Medaryville, were the guests of D. Rathfon’s family, last Sunday.

. REMIN GTONITEMS ’Samuel Martin Peffley, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Peffley, died on Sunday last, after three weeks of intense suffering. The funeral took place at the residence of the family, on Monday, and was attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors. The services were conducted by Rev. J. F. Spitzer, of Landis, Ind., assisted by Rev. Thomas Dobbins, both of the Danker church, tc which the family of Mr. Peffley belongs. Martin was 29 years old, lacking a few days, at the time of his death, and as the greater part of his short life had been- fall of suffering, owing to an accident in early childhood, the hour of his death was to him the hour of sweet release. The solemn rite (of baptism, by immersion, wil be administered next Sunday by Rev. Mr. Nebeker, of the M. E. church. The river Jordan will be represented by Carpenter Creek, at a point not far from the iron bridge. The Htual of baptism will be read and the responses made at the church before proceeding to the water. Remington is fast assuming metropolitan airs. Two big figbts and three or four arrests in one week. A valuable cow belonging to Mrs. Brown was badly hurt last Monday, by coming in contact with a barbed wire fence. County Clerk Irwin was in town last Saturday. His many friends are always glad to see him. Leslie Potts, a rising young business man of Chicago, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends and relatives in Remington. . Moses Solomon having become disgusted with the Hoosier fishes that stubbornly refused to be caught with his double jointed, back action, compound, adjustable fishing tackle packed his little green box of fish pole and started for the north last Monday morning. It is to be hoped that the members of the finny tribe in lake Gogebec will be less wary than thosfi of the Irpquois or Cedar Lake else will he return a gloomy and disappointed man. REMINGTONTAN. r