Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — Remington Items [ARTICLE]

Remington Items

Min Alice Patton entertained the Young Ladies Club last Friday in a novel and enjoyable manner. It took the form of an old fashioned quilting party and the young ladies came dressed in the styles of thirty or forty years ago. Very sweet and demure they looked, and the elderly ladies present probably recalled the times when they too were young and light-hearted drened in the style* in

which these young damsels ware. Ava/nl LzvowitaldA YTinnSlOJl JLu€ SpadOUS aDQ HvoplWbUiV mauoivu was illuminated with innumerable candles. Old fashioned snuffers and trays, and candle sticks of almost every shape and design, gave the young people an idea of “the light of other days.” Old feshioned candy kisses, striped stick candy built into fantastic log cabins, rail fences and other designs, doughnuts and pop-corn, formed the first course of refresbmentsafter which icecream and various kinds of cake of a more modem kind were introduced. O'd fashioned games such as “stage coach” “hunt the slipper” and others were the order of the evening, winding up with the Virginia Reel, danced with a will by nearly every one- present. To say that the young ladies (and the older ones present) had a delightful time hardly expresses it. The fair young hostess was ably assisted by her mother and Mrs. O. M. Vickery, in planning and carrying out the evening pleasure. Among the costumes were seven or eight wedding dresses, among which may be mentioned Mrs. G. B. Chappe Il’s, Mrs. S. V. McKee’s, Mrs. 'P. H. Lally’s, Mrs. H. C. Goldsberry’s, Mrs. M. G. Traugh’s, and others whose names escaped your correspondent. Special mention might be made of a few of the toilets, but space forbids.

Pedestrianism was both difficult and dangerous in this place on Sunday and Monday. The haughty and the humble were alike brought low by the extremely icy condition of the streets and sidewalks. We have not heard that any serious results fol lowed the numerous falls. We understand that Mr. Snell and his nephew, Bernie Graham, have bought the mill and feed store, coal and wood yard, and the residence of Mrs. J. G. L Knight, all on R R. street. Mr. Allison, the telegraph operator, has moved to this place from Goo lland, occupying the Ben Leopold property on Illinois street. His Honor, Justice Chappell, officiated at the wedding of Miss Mary Meehan and Frank O'Conner which took place at the home of the bride’s parents on Monday evening of last week, m the presence of the immediate relations of the contracting The happy couple left on Wednesday for their future home in Green Bay, Wis. __JEd.win Bond of Chicago is visiting relative s and friends in this place. Mr. T. J. Turpin is getting better of a serious attack of nervous prostration. His condition was so critical last Thursday that his children at a distance were "summoned home? Mrs. Greenway arrived on Thursday evening from Greencastle, and T. J. Turpin wife and child from Peoria, 111., on Friday.

Township institute convened last Saturday. Teachers all present except Miss Plummer who is sick with measles. The condition of Mrs. Dr. Landon has not improved since our last letter, neither has that of Mrs. Landon, Sr. Both of these excellent ladies are dangerously sick. Charles Lambert died at his home in this place on Monday evening after a very brief illness, as he bad walked up to the town on the Saturday previous to his death. Mr. Lambert had been injured by falling from a building on which he was working some years ago. The injury then sustained was doubtless the cause of his death. His neighbors and those who knew him best speak of him as a good man. Short funeral services will be held from the residence tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 9 o’clock, after which the remains will be taken to Gilboa for interment Remikgtonian.