Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — From Remington. [ARTICLE]

From Remington.

Mr. Treat Durand and Miss Mamie B. Turpin were married last Thursday afternoon at the residence of the brides’ brother near town. John Harftion is adding two dr three rooms and a handsome portico to his dwelling on Ohio street. Mrs. John Phelps and son returned from a protracted and pleasant visit with friends in Wisconsin, lowa and Nebraska, last Thursday. Will H. Peters, of Peoria, 111., will begin work on the interior of the M. E. church, next week. Rev. F. Cones attended the camp-meeting at Battle Ground a part of last week. Mrs. Lockwood is seriously ill at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. D. W. Peck. It always gives us pleasure to record the success of a youngman, especially so if he happens to belong to Jasper county. TheWitchita Daily Eagle gives a highly eulogistic account of the re-nom-ination by acclamation of Hon. F. C. Price as judge of that judicial district, saying among other things that “the speech of acceptance made by the handsome young man was one of the best ever heard in that city.” We predict a brilliant future for our young friend and statesman, Clark Price. Edward Randle and Misses Mary Chilcote and Nellie Moss spent Sunday last, in Remington the guests of Miss Mabel Hopkins.

Mrs. W. B. Price and her sons F. G., and Titus E. and Mrs. A. Upson, her sister, of Maishalltown, lowa, left on the noon train last Monday, for h visit with friends in Hartford City, Ind., and Cleveland, Ohio. • Rkmingtonian. From Union. ' 1 Huckleberries are plentiful The corn prospect has faded somewhat, since the last writing. Myers Bros, have started out threshing. Oats ware not down as badly as at first supposed. ' Chut Soon has just returned

I tom a two years’ stay to Mtoaeteacher in Illinois, is attending the Jasper county Normal and is expecting to teach in this township the coming winter. Dudley Pierson and Mrs. Clark Pierson took the train last week for Minnesota, where Clark Pierson awaits them. Bill Fuzzy. FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. The oil men have struck slate. Good weather prevails after the many rains. The oom fields look spotted,, wheat light, bat oats and rye are good. Tame meadows “turned off” well.

The large rainfall gave us an unusually large crop of blackberries. Lightning killed a calf for David Mitchell and struck John Stibbs’ house, demolishing the chimney and doing some other damage. The hum of the thresher is heard in the land. The new Wild Lily is almost completed. The Trustee has engaged the teachers for the winter schools. Moses Wilson has just received a pension of nearly eighteen hundred dollars. Sabbath School every Sabbath at Rose Bud church. Preaching the fourth Sabbath in each month by Rev. L. Shortridge and each alternate Sabbath by Rev. W. Moles. A grand surprise dinner and ice cream fete was given Mrs. David Alter at her home, near Rose Bud, last Sunday, in honor of her birthday. Many presents were bestowed. Three large tables groaned under the weight of eatables from every clime. Ninety relatives and friends were present and all went merry as a marriage bell.

BILL BAT.