Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Brass band fiends are organizing ... .Miss Mary Blood’s school will open next Monday, April 19th.... A §l,lOO soda sizzler will be among the summer institutions of the Garden Village.. . .The old Nevada rookery tramped through the streets last week to a vacant lot, where it Will be rectified into a comfortable dwelling.... S. P. Thompson is a jolly good fellow when once you get acquainted with him. Come to think about-i-t several good fe 11 ows make their home atßensselaer Thomas Donnelly has constructed an agricultural machinery warehouse on Ohio street 20x40 feet in dimension.... Croquet parties are becoming pepular as warm weather approaches.... Remington youngsters are learning the black art of pencil drawing... .Eightnew buildings are in process of construction at the present time... .Ungodly dances are becoming quite frequent in Remington, much to the scandal of those who have experienced a change of heart and care not for the follies and frivolities of life.... The Record does not oppose dancing as long as it is conducted in a contrite and religious spirit....A change has recently been made in the railroad time table, so that now the eastern mail arrives at 9:45 a. m., and the western mail at 3:10 p. m., making the latter five hours earlier.. ..A stranger who has traveled over a good part of Uncle Sam’s farm, recently told the Record man confidentially that he had never been in a town the size of Remington that had as much life and business about it. He was probably a brewer’s drummer.... To-morrow evening, April 16th, the ladies of the M. E. congregation will make a tea party for the benefit of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society.... A gentleman living on the Crowden farm, about two and one-half miles south of town had his barn and cornerib, in which there was several hundred bushels of grain, burnt down on Wednesday of last week. He set fire to some rubbish near by and it rfcn along the dry prairie grass and communicated with the buildings... .Business lias been lively for the week past. Mechanics, tradesmen, attorneys and the printers had a rush ....The Record says there is no way to punish drunken galoots who race horses through the streets of Remington. What is the good of that joint stock company with §IO,OOO capital and two and onehalf per cent, annual assessments, if such conduct can neither be prohibited or punished?.;. .The Good Templars of Remington are as sensitive as a nest of hornets when told that they are not taking interest enough in the cause to do any g00d... . Mrs. Draper,,is one or the champion spellers of Remington, and won a booK of poems at a recent spelling match. Dr. D. 11. Patton (than \fchom there is not a more gentlemanly person in Jasper cfbunty) is owner of a fine trotting stallion of the famous Abdallah breed, recently brought from Kentucky where he was bred. The horse will be four years old in July, is over sixteen hands high, and of a bright bay c010r... .At the corporation' election in May the citizens ot Remington will vote as to whether they favor the building of a §5,000 or §6,000 school house.— Compiled from the Record.