Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — REMINGTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON ITEMS.

Thomas Wilcox is dangerously ill at his home four miles south of town. A little child of Mr. Burns was buried from the Catholic church Sunday at 1 p. m. Mrs. Thomas Babb, of Burlington, lowa, came Saturday for a visit to Mrs. Babb’s parents, Mr. Mrs. J. Green.

Mrs. Fannie Tedford is very sick at the home of her father J. O. B. McDougle. A physician from Goodlard has been called in consultation with the attending physician. Samuel Babb received a dispatch Thursday that his brother Joseph, of Cuyahoga Falls, Summit Co., Ohio, was dead. Mr. Joseph Babb was ten years younger than Mr. Samuel Babb of this place.

The “Remington Primaries” are preparing an entertainment and supper to be given at the close of the school. The proceeds to be devoted to the “library.” There is certainly a great need of books suitable for the lower grades and it is to be hoped, and we have no doubt it will be a success both socially and financially. A sixteen year old son of Mrs. Stevens, southwest of lieie, in Benton Co., accidentally shot himself while oiling his revolver. The charge entered the lower part of the abdomen and proceeding obliquely upward entered the throat. He only lived twenty four hours after the accident. His death occurred Thursday morning. The Inter Ocean or N. Y. Tribune a yesr and The Republican six months, all for One Dollar. For the Campaign.