Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — Remington Journal Jottings. [ARTICLE]

Remington Journal Jottings.

Mrs. Irwin is collecting material for a new residence. Mrs. Filitia Watson, wife of IS. 11. Watson, died on the 10th instant. Marshal Lucky and liis squad of men arc doing good—work on .the streets. Handsome Dr. Traugh will be Marshal of the Day at Remington on the 4th of July, 1874. The citizens of Remington have determined to celebrate the Fourth of July appropriately with music, speech and song. Two youthful ltemingtonians recently presented a young mother with a baby cab for the inestimable privilege oi naming her infant. At a recent strawberry festival given by_ the ladies of the M. E. Church in Downing’s hay—barn, they scooped in $l3O of “irredeemable currency.” The ladies of the Christian Church will furnish strawberries, ice cream and all the luxunea of the season to those who dc6irc to participate on the 24th instant, in Downing’s barn. Three more numbers will complete the present volume of the Remington Journal, when it will enter upon its third year with renewed promises of its proprietor to increase its value to patrons and editor. Long may it float and prosper. A new game called “drink or smell” is becoming popular in Remington, and its devotees chase dull oare away through the weary watches of the night until the weo, Bmall hours appear, and Phoebus hangs her gaudy trappings on the eastern sky. When Dan. B. Miller has business ont of town the average Remington gossip wonders what there is in Rensselaer so attractive to him.— Dan. occasionally domes over to this rural retreat for a drink of artesian water, and rest from the arduous dnties of his profession. A pocketfiook was recently fonnd in the road between West Poipt and Chalmers in White pounty, which, from certain papers contained in it, is supposed to belong to Peter Vandervolgen, of Carpenter township, Jasper county. The owner eaa obtain it of Jacob Fisher, soar miles west of ChUlmers, White county, Indiaua.