Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — REMINGTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON ITEMS.

F. Foltz, of Rensselaer, was in town Thursday. 7 T---? 7? J. TiTßractyr sis©" of Rensselaer, gave our burgh a call Munday. Little Carrie Walker, who has been veryisick for nearly four weeks with intermitting fever, is slowly improving. Frank Hardy took his best girl and some other fellows best girls to the “poor house” last Sunday week. Op Vickery, of Keokuk, lowa, is -visiting at Dr. Patton ’s»——— Mr. H. H. Walker, Mrs. Chas. Denham and Miss Dollie Porter were at Indianapolis Monday, as delegates from the I. O. O. F., and Daughters of Rebekah. “Marriage was a failure” and so was the show. Only an audience of about seventy-five greeting the company.

Remington is now rising in the scale, as she has a full fledged street sprinkler. W. B. Price is now able to sit up a little after a long illness. Miss Lizzie Hardy was visiting in Re nsselaer last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Marshall, of Rensselaer, visited friends here Thursday. A little son of B. F. Richcreek, died last Thursday. He had been h aving the whooping cough, and taking cold his cough settled into pneumonia, which proved too much for hi m. He was six years and eleven months old.

A terrific thunder storm struck this place Tuesday evening. During the” storm lightning struck the windmill at Mr. Parker’s house, but fortunately did not do any special damage, beyond stunning some of the neighbors. Mrs. Wm. Barnes whose illness has been frequently mentioned, died Monday, May 14th, Rafter a long and painful sickness. She had been confined to her bed for fifteen weeks. She was only twenty old. She leaves a husband and two small children to mourn her loss.