Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

(Ffom Record of 15th Instant.) Green apples are worth |2 per bushel ip this market. Next issue will be volume 2, number 1, of the Record, A number of entries have been made for the races next week, among them a horse that has trotted his mile in 2:26. The postmaster wants 500 school children to call at the postoffice at morning, recess, noon and night and inquire for letters. Pat Lally, Tom Donnelly and several other fine-haired Remingtonians are attending the soldiers’ reunion at Indianapolis this week. Some people attend shows an-d laugh only when some one else feels tickled. It ain’t funny, they think, if “our crowd don’t laugh.” Oh, no. About 175 scholars are in attendance at our school. The intermediate departments are full, but there is room for students in the higher, or grammar department. The postmaster says that a letter passed through the office this week directed in poetry, and that he was obliged to read the entire “poem” to find out to whom the letter belonged. Lock and Cook took fourteen premiums on stock at the Remington, Rensselaer and Francesville fairs, which plainly shows that they keep the best stock of any men in this county. John Oldson, aged 19, a native of Sweden, who was kicked by a hoise two weeks ago, died Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Irwin. His brother, the only relative in this country, arrived from Chicago the evening before, and quite a number of our citizens attended his interment on Wednesday. \ v

The National Protective Commercial and Collecting Bureau has organized a branch office in Remington, with Chas. Jouvenat as its attorney. The special feature of this collecting bureau is that it publishes a monthly list of delinquent debtors who won’t pay or try to pay their honest debts. This list goes into the hands of nearly every merchant in the Northwest, and will follow a fellow up whvr ever be goes. So look out when you get those printed duns. _. A boy about fifteen years old was coming to town on the road leading from Denton’s grove, Wednesday, and when he arrived at the bridge across Carpenter creek, just out of town, was stopped by two young fellows about his own age, ‘ and his pocket book containing SI.BO taken from him. The boy was in town, in company with Mr. David Hart, looking for the thieves in the evening, but they had takep the hint and vamoosed. This was a] daring piece of business, and the young chaps who performed it deserve a position in the house of correction until they learn that highway robbery will not be allowed in a civilized *country. On Tuesday evening a couple ol young men called at the restaurant of Mr. G. W. Swett and engaged meals until Wednesday evening. Mr. Jones, from Wolcott, appeared at the restaurant, ordered some oysters, and while he was eating them the two above mentioned young men stepped in for their suppt s Y, and were immediately arrested by Mr. Jones as horse thieves. It seems that they had hired a te .m at a livery stable in Selina county, Ohio, and failed to return them. Discovering that two men from that place were on their track, they turned the horses loose out Uy Hardy’s, and came to town. They are now at Wolcott, under We are under obligations to Mr. George Hi ley for the above information.