Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — Remington Locals. [ARTICLE]

Remington Locals.

The foundation is being laid for the new brick block on Ohio street ... .The Good Templars held a festival Tuesday evening.... O. W. Church owns a match team of black carriage horses.... Cherry tree fruit is Killed. . . .The White Stocking base ball club was recently organized for business and bruises... .Too much rain for crops.... Eight Kentuckians at Remington imported a barrel of Blue Lick water for home consumption. It is pale blue in color, tastes as rotten eggs smell, and is a purgative. It is probably not as palatable as old Bourbon... .Mother Stewart recently lectured in Remington upon the subject of temperance. She advised the organization of children's temperance societies, with picnic excursions, etc.... The Methodist Episcopal Sunday school is ably conducted and largely attended... .One agent for Traugh’s nursery sold $650 worth of fruit trees in less than two weeks, between Remington and Kentland... .The treasurer of the Remington school board, Dr. D. H. Patton, reports the amount paid to teachers since last annual report $l,lOO, amount paid for desks, fuel, etc., $405.67; amount of tuition fund on hand, 5854.52; special fund, $477.78; total amount of school revenue on hand, $1,352.30. ... Arthur Watts, a former resident of Remington and a tinner by trade, recently tell from the top of a building at Indianapolis, to the ground, a distance of fifty feet, mashing his thigh and leg to jelly, but escaped with his life and without breaking any boues. He is a tough one... .Luly Gay, 13 years old, died week ago Saturday night, of congestion of the stomach... .A German, name not learned, living a few miles east of town, recently broke one of his legs below the knee while rolling a stone into a pit in his field .Lojvry & Co., proprietors of the brick yard, have planted twenty-eight soft maple trees this season.... Several thousand brick have been destroyed this season at the Remington yards by rain. If weather is favorable a kiln of 160,000 will be fired this week... .Corn and oats are quoted at 55 cents a bushel, flour S 3 to $4 per cwt., butter 15 cents a pound, wool 25 to 40 oents a pound, eggs 10 cents a dozen and potatoes $1.50 per bushel.— Compiled from Record.