Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Compiled from the Journal. Town Marshal Pat. Lally is making street grading a success. Four more numbers will complete the first volume of the Journal. The Remington people have decided to celebrate the Fourth of July in an appropriate manner. On the 12tli instant Justice Spencer officiated at the .wedding of Mr. E. 11. Lang and Miss Minnie Griffith. The main dwelling on the Gordon farm, five miles northeast of Remington, was destroyed by fire week ago last Saturday. Charley 11. Price recently presented the Journal office with a dictionary, and the editor promises now to improve his spelling. Clias. E. Harlegan, harness maker, attended one of Justice Spencer’s matinees, last week, aud donated So for a plain drunk. Constable Wiley 11. Pierce was recently admitted to practice law in the courts of this circuit, and is the "parieiit” 0f amrewriuTgesized boy. thin. Coleman owed George Hanley §1 50 and was capiased, taken before Justice Jeffries, and compelled to pay the same, much to his disgust. It is reported that a couple of Remington sports got relieved of 8116 at Rensselaer last week, in a little game of euchre, old sledge, or something else. Squeal, eh? A child of William Ilenkle’s, living about lour miles from Remington on the Goodland road, was, it is supposed, fatally scalded on Tuesday of last week, by falling into a kettle of .hot water. The ladies’ Methodist Episcopal strawberry festival, held Wednesday evening of last week, was a complete success. The gross receipts amounted to §ll7, of which it is supposed that SBO is net profit. Rumor says that a Remington business man recently got on his first spree, and was enticed into a gambling hell of that place, where lie was kept locked in all day. It is further stated that lie had considerable money about him when he weut in, but when he came out he was without enough to buy a square meal., The Journal suggests a trial of the proprietor of that saloon before Judge Lynch in case he can not be reached under the law.