Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1874 — Bemington Journal Jottings. [ARTICLE]

Bemington Journal Jottings.

Base ball playing is in full blast. A new coat of paint lias been put on the Christian chapel, improving its appearance. Methodist quarterly meeting commences Saturday. Elder Graham is expected to preside. Mrs. C-C. Johnson, wife of Mahlon Johnson, formerly a resident of Remington, was buried on tholOth instant in Jennings county. Tho Journal claims to have scooped in about one hundred subscription renewals recently; which is much more agreeable than stubbing one’s sore toes.. At a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the town of Remington, held on the 3d instant, they made the following levy of taxes for 1874: For town expenses, 40 cents oil each SIOO and 25 cents poll; for schools, 25 oentsoh each SIOO anil 50 cents poll; total amount, 85 cents oil each SIOO and 75 cents poll. This is an aggregate reduction of-10 per cent on the levy of lastyear. The Board will tind the pepple.grateful fur small fyvore.