Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — Locals from the Remington Record. [ARTICLE]

Locals from the Remington Record.

Carpenters scarce. John C. Miller is champion whistler. Corn brings 50 cents a bushel, and oats 44 cents. Barney Patton cannot be beaten by any living man, in the livery business. ! O. B. Mclntire & Co. have sold upwards of SBO,OOO worth of land since August. Nothing of a political nature will be admitted into the columns of the Remington Record. Messrs. Tribby & Patton (the Doej tor) are successors to Mr. B. M. Butler I in the drug business, j A crowd of fellows attempted to • raise a fight on Railroad street, last ! Friday, but concluded to swear it off. It is not unusual to see from ten to twenty wagons of corn waiting to be weighed and unloadedat the elevators in Remington. W. L. Hood, Esq., of Kentucky, recently brought a car-load of blooded cattle with which to stock a farm near Remington. An immense amount of hay and considerable corn has been destroyed j by the fires, which raged east and | north of Remington. Remington Lodge No. 834, Independent Order of Good Templars, ; boasts a membership of forty, and is j in flourishing condition, j The officers of the Franklin Liter- | ary Society for the present term are: U. L. Black, President; Lillie Jones, [ Vice President; John. Conwell, Seerei tary; W. 11. Coover, Critic; I. .7. Me Cullough, .Attorney; Eliza Kirk, | Treasurer; James Patton" anil Adie Babcock, Reviewers; Watson Kirk, j Marshal.

Mr. F. S. Drake will make a public sale at his farm four miles southwest qf Francesville, and one-half mile north of Nauvoo School House, in Pulaski county, Wednesday, November 4th, 1874, commencing at 10:30 a. m., at which he will offer twenty head of cattle, consisting of' milch cows, two-year olds, yearlings, and calves, seven head of sheep, haj. corn in shock, etc. Twelve months’, credit will be given on sums of five dollars and over.