Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

FROM WHEATFIRLD . Everybody comes in town with a smiling face thihking spring has come. Church at the school house last Saturday evening and Sunday by Rev. Teach. Mr. Hoeha will be ready to open his meat market about the first of next week. Mr. Pullins’ baby who has been seriously sick with measels is mueh better at this wntiDg. Lan Wallace is arranging his business to move away from town where he will be closer to his work. Mr. Scott, Charley Adams and Johnny Tilton took in the World’s fair last Monday. A very large turnout at Sunday school last Sunday. I Am.

REMIXGTON ITEMS. Your readers will please remember that the district convention of the Epworth League meets in this place May 23 and 24 A splendid program will be carried out and visitors will be entertained. All who feel an interest in such matters arc cordially invited to come. Bert Shepherd left for Chicago, last Monday. Among those who attended commencement from other places were Supt. Warren, Miss Ida Chilcote and others from Rensselaer, Miss Fannie Sheet/ of Lafayette, Miss Maggie Howell, of Fowler and Bert Taylor, of Chalmers. Miss Daisy Brusliwiller who was called home last W ednesday by the sickness of her father, returned on .Saturday evening. Sire is an evangelist of mere than ordinary power for one so young, being only nineteen years old. Miss Ilettie Luckey had a thrilling and unpleasant experience last Friday evening. She was driving a spirited animal which became badly frightened at some object in the road and gstarled off at full speed. In turning a corner the carriage was upset throwing Miss Ilettie underneath. Tier face and shoulders were badly bruised and scratched but fortunately n o bones were broken and no serious injury sustained. The poor, frightened horse dashed madly down the street with the remains of the carriage and when within a lew feet of the owner’s home, it collided with a tree with such force as to break its skull and knock one eye out. It was so terribly injured it had to be killed. The horse belonged to J. I). Myers.

The commencement exercises of the Remington High Sehoefe took place last Friday evening/and it is safe to say that a better looking class of young ladies would be hard to find. The costumes were not all the regulation white, as is common among graduates, but were of delicate and contrasting colors, recalling Tennyson's simile of the “rosebud garden of girls. ” Tire essays were well written, well and carefully prepared, and unusually well delivered; in fact Remington has a right to be proud of her young ladies and her excellent schools. Flowers and books and■ other handsome presents were showered on the you»g ladies, one of the number, Miss Grace Guy, receiving a lovely gold watch from her parents. The music was especially tine. Our own well known singers Miss Daisy Reed and Mr. Frank Hardy gave a duet that was simply grand, and the opening selection, a quartet by Messrs W. R. Murphy, J. D. Allman, H. Dalzell and. P. E. Carson, with Mis. Clias. Peck at the piano was in every way worthy of the time and place, which is giving it high praise. Miss Nellie Stephens, of Logansport and our own gifted violinist, Bert Shepherd gave an instrumental duet that was encored so enthusiastically that they had to re-appear and give another selection. Miss Stephens also gave a piano solo that was loudly applauded and Frank Hardy 9ang “Thy Sentinel am I, ’’. with his niece, little Stella Snyder, playing the accompaniment was one of the gems of the evening. i*rof. Belden in a few well chosen and touching words took leave of his pupils and the pubg lie generally and presented the diplomas to the nine young ladies. Taken altogether it was one of the most successful and beautiful ocea-

sions of the kind ever held in Remington. Miss Uaj; Curtis having made the highest grades received the scholarship from DePauw University.

REMINGTONIAN.