Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

From Surrey. About all the fanners are through harvesting and ready for threshing. We have preaching by Bro. Fritz Saturday, Sunday and Sunday night, The ice-cream festival for the benefit of the church was a very pleasant affair indeed. There were about 125 persons present. We cleared $10.17. We have a very interesting and largely attended Young People's meeting every Sunday Eve, and a good prayer meel ing every Thursday night. Robert Hopkins and Blanche Hoyes are very well satisfied with the Summer Normal, Charles Postill is to teach Sorghum Valley school this coming winter. The farmers came home rejoicing from the Alliance Picnic last Tuesday. They are somewhat discouraged about there com crops, since is it so dry. If they don’t rain before long, all hopes are abandoned for over a half a crop of com. SuRREYITE

From Remington. Little Bernice Hollet entertained a company Of her little friends one day last week in a manner that they will long remember. Their memories of the event will be strengthened by a beautiful picture of the happy group as they surrounded the table on the lawn, Mr. Beasly photographing them as they “sat at meat”. Rev. James Foster was taken suddenly and alarmingly ill last Wednesday evening. His condition is still precarious although the symptoms are now much improved. Mr. Foster’s brother, living in Chicago, has been summoned by telegram and will probably be with them before this article is in print. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Foster and his family. A side track for the accommodation of the gravel train has been put down, and large amounts of gravel are being brought into town for our new road. The work is progressing as rapidly as possible, the only drawback being the want of gravel, which probably will not occur again. At this date (Monday evening), one half mile of the south end of the road is completed, and possibly as much on the north end. Rev. J. C. Bartmess occupied the pulpit of the Methodist Church last Sunday morning, preaching an eloquent and convincing ' sermon. The same pulpit was occupied iD the evening by Rev. W. David, a young theological student from DePauw University who has been for several days past the guest of Rev. J. L. Greenway and wife. The young man will make an able and successful minister judging from his sermon of last Sunday evening. Mr. Turner Merritt carries one of his arms in a sling since Saturday last, the result of a runaway accident. Luke Ford was also somewhat disabled the same day by a simila: accident. The young friends of Bert Stiller gave him a pleasant surprise last Thursday evening, the occasion being his seventeenth birthday. As it was not a surprise to the other members of the family elegant refreshments had been prepared-whieh added not a little to the enjoyment of the evening. Many friends who were not present will join in wishing for the young man, a long, useful and happy life. WiHiam Holland. an young man of this place, is dangerously sick with typhoid fever at his home in this place. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hollingsworth went to Pleasant Groye last Sunday, called there by the serious sickness of one of their grand-children, little Frank Randle. Mrs. John Harmon has been on the sick list for the past two weeks, but is now getting better. We regret to state that work at the sand pit has ceased and will probably never be resumed. The expense of crushing the sand and getting it to Kokomo exceeded the profits. Mr. Elliot, the foreman, has gone to work for the same company at N. Vernon, Ind. Miss Carrie Courtright, accompanied bylittle Emeroy Stiller left on Saturday last for a visit with friends in Valparaiso. Miss Anna Draper is spending part of a short vacation with ftiends in Hartford City. Remingtonian.