Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1873 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Compiled Journal. Butter 20 cents a pound. Cprn 27 conts a bushel. Wm. Ford, the whiskey retailer, left for parts unknown last Saturday week ago. A marble shop and tombstone mill is in process of erection near the depot. F. 1 1. Donnelly, Tho tttas Hanley, and Wesley Hinds were billed for Texas on last Tuesday. The Journal understands that Judge Turpio is to be retained as ,’ogal counsel by Wm. 11. Shaw and others opposeefto thecollection oftherailroad ; tax in c,ounty. B. 13. JeVries, fG. -ft. (ihapppli and* Dr. D. 11. Bgit-

ton were elected schodT'tnistees by I the town council. Sons of respectable parents will see their names in public print if they do not desist playing ball on Sundays. Haifa Mozen Remington boys are “going through a ,systematic drill for the penitentiary.” A recent public meeting of the “law-abiding citizens and temperance men of Remington” endorsed the course taken by the Journal upon questions of temperance and morality, and pledged it their cordial (verbal) support; they also had brass music and singing at the meeting and resolved not to “screen nor palliate the dllenses of drunkenness and gambling in violation of law because of the wealth or social relations of the parties, no matter how great or delicate.” At this meeting $39 was subscribed and sl7 collected to carry these resolutions into operation.