Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Remington Matters. [ARTICLE]

Remington Matters.

From the Record of 21st:- Corn, 31 cents per bushel, shelled 33; oats 25 cents; potatoes 40 cents; eggs 15 cents per dozen; batter 20 cents a pound; lard 15 cents. Public .balls are past events. One Myers recently jumped the town owing §7OO. Last Thursday one firm bought 57 loads of grain. Messrs. Charles Jouvenat and Wiley H. Pierce have formed a law and collection agency partnership. “The whole amount of corn delivered at the two elevators in three days, reached the enormous numbers of 1,000 wagon loads, or 333 wagon loads per day.” At a recent public meeting it was decided that “a second-hand fire engine, now at Richmond, should be purchased for the protection of property in place.”