Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Mrs. Belcher has been quite sick for some time. Thos. Parks came Friday for a few days’ visit. They are painting the bank building this week. • j* - Emrey Stiller is visiting Mrs. Ed Lucas at Fowler. We hope all will join us in out celebration the sth. Marion O’Connor- spent Thursday evening in Kentland. Miss Ethel Smalley left for a summer term at Winona. Orie Hensler is working for Will Hallihan this week. John Porter and his daughter came from Chicago Wednesday. James Irwin left Wednesday for South Dakota to visit his son, James, Jr. J* J. J. Hunt and wife took the train here for Sheldon on Wednesday evening. Three auto loads went to the Sunday school convention at Lafayette Wednesday. W. F. Smith was in town Thursday in the interests of his gravel road work. Charles Reeves left the meat market and accepted a place in C. H. Peck’s store.

The high school principal will occupy the Griffin property just vacated by F. L. Griffin. Mrs. William Greenfield is here visiting her sisters, Mesdames Rawlings and Banes. Father Horstman helped in confirmation exercises at Earl Park the first of the week. Francis Julien, of Sheldon, is here visiting his cousins, Vernon and Oressa Julien. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reeve spent Sunday with the former’s brother, Clyde, and family. Mrs. James Sheets and son, Roy. are visiting relatives and friends around Odessa. Quite a number of our people were called to Fowler Friday as witnesses in the divorce proceedings. W. C. Smalley’s brother was here helping him with a job of plumbing and visiting at the same time. Ed Sutherland and James Sheets took some horses, they had been buying here, to Lafayette Wednesday. The Epworth League gave a splenddid social at the home of John Ott Monday evening. All report a fine time.

Mrs. Hartley has been visiting with relatives south of town, and she and Mrs. Gardner visited George Gardner’s family at Kentland Thursday. The show left us Saturday night for its next week’s stand at Wolcott. Those that attended pronounced it a fairly good show, but hardly enough for the money. The directors of Fountain Park held a meeting Friday and selected Chas. Peck to fill the vacancy made "bjFthe resignatldn~of hVBr Griffin. Frank Foltz was here Thursday night and went to Fowler in the interests of Mrs. Brooks in her divorce case. Alta Burling returned from Valparaiso Thursday, where she had been visiting her school friend, Nina Conover. Cherries are very plentiful and have been offered as low as a dollar a bushel picked or only 50 cents on the tree. Remington people will largely spend the third of July at Monticello. although the band will be at Fowler. Too hard to get to Fowler. The Sons of Veterans, after an existence of little more than a year, were forced to disband. A lack of interest on the part of the members who were so prominent in the organization was the cause.

Miss Dale Watson returned Friday from Marion, where she has been taking a summer course preparing to teach the coming winter. Dale was the only pupil to take the fourth year course at Gilboa Center this year and as this was, the first term for a four year’s course, he is the first regular graduate of the school. Guy Julian and his hired man come close to death Friday. They were standing in the north end of their barn during the Bevere storm of that afternoon, when the hired man remarked that the lightning was getting pretty close and they had better move. They started to the other end of the barn, which is a large one, some sixty feet long, and had reached the middle of it, when a bolt struck the north end almost exactly where they had been standing. The barn was torn up some but not fired and the men escaped with a slight shock. They were so badly frightened, however, that they stood out in all the rest of the rain, never even going to the house.