Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — LEMINGTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LEMINGTON ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs. J. E. tloHett ipft On Tuesday’ last for tbeir long delayed wedding u.ur. They will visit DenvtT. l*peblp, Sait Lake Cify-fSiid Hy Souiheru before they VVMI< lie • & - - Miss Myra Price, a prominent* successful teacher in the University in Ala., arrived on Mon-; clay, to spend a short vacation with parents and friends. Miss Anna Drajier is visiting with relatiros and frienfis in Lafayette. The new Tabor & Parker building is an ornament to the town. The work is being pushed as rapidly as possible. When finished it will be occupied by our enterprising merchants, Leopold & Mossier. Mr. AmbroseMudge, whose sickness has been so often mentioned in these items, died last F r iday,night at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. B. Shaw, with whom he has made his home for many years. He lacked but a few days of having attained his seventy fourth year, having been born in New York, a faithful soldier during the war of the rebellion, having been in the memorable march to the sea under Gen. Sherman, and he*was buried with military honors by the G. A. R. Post in this place, of which hjte was amem - ber.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover, of Rensselaer, is dangerously sick with inflamation of the bowels at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allman. In the absence of Dr. Landon, the family physician, Dr. Ramsey of this place and Dr. Lovett, of Goodland, are doing all that medical skill can suggest for the relief of the little'hufferer. Hon. Robert Parker and wife left pn Monday For New York City where they will attend the convention of the Society of Christian Endeavor. They expect to be Abseat'Skont two weeks, visiting in that time Niagara Falls and other points of interest in the ’last. 1 Dr. and Mrs. H. Landon went to Toledo last Saturday to spend the Fourth with their son Chauncey-, who by the way is one of Remington's rising young men. He is a telegrapher by profession and has recently had ah offer of a position in Baltimore at a much higher salary. Remington was marked by more than a sabbath stillness last Monday. Several of our citizens went to Woleott, more to Goodland but the greater number repaired to the beautiful grounds surrounding the spacious residence of Mr. Jerome Biddle and family a few miles from town where a grand, good time was enjoyed under the auspiees of the G. A. R. Post in this plaee. Last Sunday was a day of far more than ordinary interest in the M. E. church in this place, being the regular quarterly meeting connected with the reception of more than seventy probationers into full membership. A number of others who would have been received were unavoidably absent owing to the bad condition of the roads from the rain of the previous day and night. Sev. Jenkins assisted the pastor, A. H. DeLong in the morning and Rev. J. L. Greenway, a former pastor conducted the evening service, preaching to a very large congregation.

Some of the Remington boys in Chicago, namely Ed. and Luce Bond, Lew and Jesse Walker, Ellery Bloom and George Allman came home for Sunday ail returning to fChicago on Monday excepting George Alman who remained on account of the serious condition of his nephew the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Coover. The old biHiard hall has been transformed into a store room aud has been rented by Leopold & Mossier) as a place for their surplus stock of groceries. »s . . f ; : . , ——— A number of ladies from this place who attended a meeting of the Rebecca lodge in Rensselaer last Friday arc enthusiastic in theirupraises both of the work of the order and of the j handsome manner in which they were! entertained. "Mr. John Burger’s team ran away Tuesday morning resulting in a badly ?pruned arm for Mr. Burger, said by the attending physician to be! worse than though it fare broken. , RionxOTOjnAX. I