Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — From the Remington Record. [ARTICLE]

From the Remington Record.

A lodge of the Order of Knights of Pythias was organized in Remington Thursday evening If rumor is correct three or four brick business houses will be put up in this place next spring... .The time for meeting of the Good Teniplars lodge has been changed from Thursday to Tuesday evening...." An effort is to he made to secure Major J. W. Powell, the explorer, for a series of lectures in the spring ....Mr. Tnbby has a short horn bull, recently brought from Kentucky, that weighs 3,000 pounds ... .Prof. Pickett has been giving our people a treat in the way of a series of phrenological lectures .... Meeting is still continued at the Christian and Methodist churches, and at Angle mi lie’s ball. Rev. Hendry x is now delivering a course of lectures, which are both instructive and interesting... .The members of the Union Agricultural Society_tnet at S. M. Black’s office on the 12th instant, but we learn that i\o business of great importance was performed. The committee on land-were authorized to purchase as soon as they could, that the work of fencing and building of track might he commenced as early in the spring as possible. They have live men at the head of the Association, who will push the work through, and leave nothing undone to make it a success... .Mr. Anglemire has christened it Beltonian Ha 11.... Corn 50 cents a bushel; oats 45 cents; onions $1; potatoes $1.50; apples $1.50; tame hay $lO a ton; wild hay $5; flour 84 per cwt.; butter 25 cents a pound; eggs 20 cents a dozen.