Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1872 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Compiled from the Journal. -r~ _ Coal famine beginning to prevail. New butcher shop recently started, A new livery stable has recently been started here. A billiard hall is about to be opened in Remington. Two or three new buildings were commenced this week. Beautiful flowers are grown in the Remington nursery. The sidewalk in front of Babb’s hotel has been repaired. I Church & Hartley’s new elevators are now in operation. Hathaway & Bro. will soon have a set of corn burs in operation. Remington,aspi.res to the title of “Queen City of Grand Prairie.” The Remington band contemplate. purcliasing nevr silver instruments. The millinery firm of McL&an & Beal has dissolved, Miss Beal retiring. TIT —' The firm of Ireland & Clore has -dissolved, the latter gentleman retiring. — "V" A new school house is among the improvements contemplated at an early day. „ Two hundred wagons in town last Saturday and the town was full of people. A first class hellery has recently been opened “chug-up” againso the millinery shop, and the ladies are indignant thereat.

Those Remingtqnians who attended Barnum’s show at Logansport do not appear to have appreciated the exhibition. The fine brick school house is not being rushed along very rapidly. “Guess they have not commenced burning the brick yet.” Remington business is clamoring for another railroad or more cais on the Pan Handle, so that grain can find a ready shipment. “To a close observe? it would seem” that the Pan Handle railroad company “intend to bankrupt the whole country by not sending ; us cars to ship our grain to market.” I

Mr. O. M. Butlerrecently wheeled Mr. J. S. Irwin about the streets of Remington in a wheelbarrow. Irwm waved a Greeley and Brown flag above his head and the unique procession was headed by the brass band playing a lively quickstep. Election bet? Somebody threatens to give the editor of the Journal a “decent dressing,” which 'that individual courteously declines on the ground that he hag just been -made the the proprietor of a suit pf new clothes. 1