Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — From the Remington Record. [ARTICLE]

From the Remington Record.

There is an old saying that every county has its drawbacks. Allow us to except Jasper. Mr. William Howard four miles south of Remington, had a leg broken week&go last Monday by being thrown from a sleigh. Dan Miller figures as a jig-dancer, notary public and attorney at law. That Benton county lion (?) crossed the prairie north of Remington, near the Goodland road, last Wednesday. Mr. H. H. Cherry was within twentyfive steps of it, and took a good, square, leisurely look at the beast. He describes it as about the size of a lion, dark brown color, with a large bushy tail. Its tracks measure four by six inches across. Several gentlemen mounted their horses and went in pursuit of it, and drove it into Milroy township, several miles northeast, but were unable to overtake it. During the month ending November 27th, there was an enrollment of 198 pupils in the Remington schools, and an average daily attendance of 152.