Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1909 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Mrs. Ella Parks and Misses Blanche Parks and Edith Henring shopped in Logansport Saturday. The Carpenter township schools are all out now and the teachers report prosperous year. There will be an examination for country school graduates on Saturday, Apiil 17. The saloon at Wolcott did not seem to seriously affect business here Saturday, as all the stores were full of customers and there was as much work as the stores could well take care of without increasing the force of clerks. Hartley Church is now located at Berkeley, Cal., but does not expect to stay there permanently. Our hunters are busy shooting, or at least hunting plover. Not many have been killed yet.

If two reports can be taken to indicate the general condition, eggs are not hatching very well this year. One man reports 8 chicks from 200 eggs and another 6 from 100 eggs. The high wind here Monday did considerable damage in the country to windmills, cribs and outbuildings. Old settlers say they have never seen the wind blow so hard for so long a time before. One of the mail carriers was obliged to return for fear of being upset. Arthur Lucas, one of the well known teachers of Gilboa township, has bought a part interest in his brother’s laundry at Fowler and is spending the summer at that place. A great many of our teachers in the country are attending normals this spring. Valparaiso and Marion are the most popular, it would seem. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins of the east part of town were quite sick last week, but are somewhat better at last report. The Christian Sunday school had an egg collection Sunday morning at which nearly a bushel of eggs were given. In the evening the children gave an entertainment and a collection of $25 was taken for the Orphans' Home work. Miss Florence vv emock, one of Carpenter township’s teachers, went to Logan, lowa, to finish a spring term of school and will visit friends there and in North Dakota before returning. There was quite a cyclone a few miles northeast of town, which did considerable damage to some of the farmers. Barns were unroofed, cribs turned over and doors blown down. So far as learned no stock was destroyed, but it will take several hundred dollars to replace buildings. A. Dunn, who now lives at Mt Vernon, Ohio, had the body of a little child brought here for burial Monday. Funeral services were conducted in the Catholic church and burial made in their cemetery west of town. He already has two children buried here. Omer Burgess and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at their old home in Crawfordsville.