Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — Remington. [ARTICLE]

Remington.

short-ramble oyer this city will demonstrate the fact that Remington possesses more attractions than any town of like size in the State. But to view the perfect paradise of country surrounding-it only increases one’sadntiration, audeauses the involuntary exclamation, What a beautiful country ! People are finding it out, too. and not a day passes but that them are from sou r to six land * pii rehare rs from a within sight of our thriving town.— The country is rapidly tiHi ng up, receiving additions daily. A few years more and this will be the finest agr icu Ifiurali rcgiou i n India na. Twelve years ago there was not two dozen houses within a radius of six miles, and fifteen years, xgas The cunning ibx dug his hole unseared, And the wild deer roamed at will. • Remington containsßl)o inhabitants, has six dry-goods stores, t-ivohard-, ware stores, six grocery Storck, “two drug-stores, two shoe shops, two blacksmith shops, three carpenter shops, two wagon shops,-, one book store, two large grain elevators with capacity for storing 25,000 LusbCls of grain each, two lumber yards, two harness shops, two barber shops, two meat mar kets, one marble shop, two hay presses, one livery .stable, Iwo dealers in agri-, cultural implements, <>j*e jewelry store, one photograph gallery, lw<>, first-class hotels, or e bank in llourish-; ing condition, and two laird agencies, —Remington Record.