Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — REMINGSTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGSTON ITEMS.

Miss Minnie Aiken returned to her home in Chicago, Monday. Mrs. Robt Parker, Miss Twonnett and Master Lowell, Mrs. John Wilson and Miss Ada, and Mrs. Flo and 011 a Hendricks start for Denver, Col., Friday for a two months trip. Miss Olla will attend the National Teachers Association during her absence. Misses May and Minnie Hemphill go to Marion Wednesday to visit friends there. • Charlie Peck is building a fine veranda, which greatly improves the appearance of his home. The Remington Base Ball Nine are establishing quite a reputation having not yet been defeated this sesson. They played the Fowler Nine a return game last Friday, and succeeded in doing them up in fine shape. They play the Goodland Club On the Fourth for a S6O purse.

Mrs. Anna Staehal and Nora Morris went to Wolcott over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meyers, Miss McGowan and Mr. Bert Hopkins “wheeled” over here and then wheeled on to Lafayette. Mr. Coover also tried to “wheel” over Sunday, but, owing to an entangle* ment with ° horse was obliged to “foot it” jiart of the way over. C.G. Austin who went south to see the old soldiers settlement site reports it a cypress swamp. Bert Shepherd is home for the summer vacation. Miss Luella Road if or, who has been teaching in Wyoming for a number of years, is spending the summer with her parents. Miss Ethel Bowman visited Goodland friends last week. Mrs. 0. P. Tabor and Miss Renette will celebrate “the glorious Fourth” in Goodland, the guests of Mrs. E. E. Rock wood. Oscar Bowsher and Harry Reedy, of Chicago, visited their friend M. Costello over Sunday. Misses Hattie and Myra Bartoo spent Sunday in Brook with their sister, Mre. Saunderson. Misses Grace Gee and Effie Clark, of Rensselaer, were the guests of Mrs. Grant last week.

About' twenty-five of our people took in the Y. P. S. C. E. convention at Goodland Wednesday and Thursday. Thomas Wilcox one of Benton County’s most prominent men, died last Thursday, June 27, at his home four miles south of town after a long and most painful illness. The remains followed by an immense number of friends were brought to the M. E. church at this place, where the funeral services were conducted bo Rev. Handley, under the auspices of the G. A. R. Mr. Wilcox was born in 1827; married in July 1865 to Miss Lois Hastings who with|their two daughters, Mrs. Geo. Parks and Mrs. Bert Kyle survive him. He served throughout the war of the Rebellion, eight months of which time was spent as a prisoner at Andersonvilie. Three times he was elected Co- Commissioner of Benton county, an office which he held at the time of bis death. He was also one of the prominent members of the Remington Fair Association. The County Officers of Benton Go., also the Board of Directors, of the Fair Association, testified their respect for the deceased by attending the services in a body. Many relatives and friends from a distance were present. The sorrowing family have the sympathy of this entire community in which Mr. Wilcox was so well and favorably known, as an honest, upright, conscientious man whose loss will be felt by many out side of his immediate family.