Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — Remington Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Remington Gossip.

Spring plowing was commenced in this county last week. Jesse Goff sell beef as cheap as the cheapest. Try some. Go to Fendig’s stone store for spring dry goods and clothing. Warner is selling a large amount of farm implements this season. Splendid honey in the comb is offered at retail for 25 cents a pound. Mr. Leopold is receiving the largest stock of groceries that was ever brought to this place. Billy Phillips is having a splendid run of custdm. Everybody seem to want his harness work. Stockraisers are informed that Mr. Berry Paris, two miles northeast of town, has a thoroughbred bull to sell. Rev. H. B. Miller will have for sale this season a stock of tomato, cabbage, pepper and sweet potato plants. Give him an encouraging patronage. Weather as warm as June, a little too windy perhaps for outdoor enjoyment, rather too dry for vegetation to grow rapidly, but everything is in splendid condition for spring work. That rickety old building between Myers & Haley's shoe shop and Warner’s elegant, new, rustic-front machinery •warehouse, is being raised, repaired and fitted up for a butcher’s stall. Rev. S. E. Rogers performed the marriage ceremony which united Mr. Edward Johnson, of Benton county to Miss Viola Corey, of Jordan township. The deed was committed in the parlor of the Austin Hotel, March 31st, 1875. During the past week the clerk of this county has issued marriage licensesto Joseph Mason and Nancy D. Whittaker, Wm. Potts and Mary M. Nichols, Andrew Boston and Nancy J. Comer, David E. Smith and Alary E. Brasket, and Henry J. Gratner and Nancy J. Pruett. The attention of the honorable board of commissioners of Jasper county is respectfully called to.the condition of the bridge over the Iroquois river at Rensselaer. Unless repairs are promptly made the structure threatens soon to fall into the river.

The Sunday school at the Church of God will be reorganized next Sunday, April 11th, ~at~9 o’clock a. in. General invitation is given to all, both young and old, that may desire to attend, to be,present. Elder D. T. Halstead will address the congregat ion at the close of the Sunday school. Preaching; at. 10:30. M. F. Chilcote and Harvey W. Wood were captains of the spelling match last Friday evening. Mr. Alfred Thompson umpired game, and Mr. Ira W. Yeoman was word pitcher. Mrs. Thos. Thompson of Mr. Wood’s side was last in the field. To-morrow evening Dr. Loughridge and Justice Jackson will be captains. Grangers are referred to the advertisement ot the Jasper County Council Patrons of Husbandry Purchasing Agency. Goods are furnished members of the Order for one per cent, above their cost delivered at the agency. This per centage goes to meet the expensed of the Council, the agent receiving nothing for his services. Mr. George McCoy, of Hanging Grove township, has sold out and will move to Gr»t county. Saturday, 10th instant, he will make a public sale at which will be offered two work horses, three two years old colts, five cows, three yearlings, seven hogs, two farm wagons, spring wagon, two bob sleds, mowing machine, hay rake, wind mill, farm machinery, household —and kitchen furniture. Nine months credit will be given on sums over ■five dollars.

See the soldier in our advertising columns. He stands erect, proud of the beauty of his scoopshovel fatigue cap, the elegant fit of his deep dark blue dress coat, and the gleaming polish ot his useless bayonet. The buttons on his coat, the buckle on bis belt and the ornaments upon his cartridge box, are all of brass, all have been washed with vinegar and burnished with pumice stone until they shine like the countenance of a friend through the gloom of adversity, and saucily reflect back the rays of the sun into the eyes of old Sol causing him to blink and shelter them behind the cloudy tapestry of the west. That soldier stands in the position of attention, with his musket at order. He is evidently listening while bis commanding officer yeada aloud for his benefit the welcome information contained in the advertisement over which he has-been detailed to guard. Find the soldier and read the adveatisement, and you will know as much about its purport as anybody else does. It is profitable to read all £he advertisements in this paper.

Among the legal advertisements in this paper may be found the new liquor law of Rensselaer, and the terms upon which men may be sent to hell from this station. Jacob Clouse, Henry Sparling, James Culp, William Lakin, Frank C. Moore, O. B. Rockwell, Wm. P. Baker, Ben. R. Faris, Frank M. Goff, Jonathan Rank, B. W. Harrington and Wm. Jordan are drawn as petit jurors for the term of court in which the libel case of Jasper Packard vs. Horace E. James and Joshua Healey is set for trial. Messrs. David H. Yeoman, Brunson Harrington, M.„P. Comer and Thomas Boroughs have given notice that an election will be held at School House No. 5, in Union township, Jasper county, (known by the local name of Rose Bud School House,) Thursday, the 29th day of April, 1875, at 1 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of choosing five directors for the Jasper County Ditching Association. They invite all persons who are interested in the proposed work to be present.

Preparations are being made to commence work on the fair ground ....Mrs. Chappell, Mrs. Black and Mrs. Draper were appointed by a recent temperance meeting to present pledges to the druggists and physicians Air. Frasier intends to build a brick blacksmith shop this coming summer.... .Aloney plenty, work plenty, and no complaint of hard times in Remington .... The market is flooded with wild geese, ducks, brants and cranes. Geese are worth 50 cents and brants 40 cents.—A firm wants 200 cords of wood delivered at their brick yard in Remington, for which they will pay cash.... New dwelling houses are springing up like mushrooms, all about town. Several frames have been erected within a couple of weeks.... One day week before last Messrs. Jouvenat & Miller issued policies of insurance to the amount of §14,000. The premium on the policies was §260.30... ..The Good Templars vary the monotony of life at Remington with spelling matches A son of Jonathan Rank, 16 years old, living four miles west of town, while recently hunting wild geese had a thumb blown to pieces by the bursting of a cheap shot gun. — Compiled from the Remington Record.