Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1909 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

Wm. Corah was in, Logansport last week. W. E. Peck left on a fishing excursion. T. B. Elmore was in Chicago several days last week. Mrs. Hugh Trainor was a caller in Rensselaer Monday. j Dr. Rainier is doing some postgraduate work this fall. Jasper Guy made a business trip to the county seat Tuesday. x Wm. Broadie shipped a car load of hogs and sheep last Thursday. Wm. Ott and family left last Thursday for a short stay in Chicago. Mrs. Bert Sheetz went to Rensselaer Saturday to visit her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reeve visited the former’s brother and family Tuesday. Frances Shand left last Sunday a week for Brook, where she is teaching. Miss Lillian Sharkey went to Chicago Wednesday to buy millinery stock. i Mrs. John Ritenover went Friday to Attica for a Week’s visit with relatives. C. H. and N. B. Peck made a business trip to Chicago Thursday and Friday. The inspection car of the Panhandle railroad passed through here the last of the week. John Bowman worked at Peck’s drug store last week while Frank Peck was away. Mrs. Farabel and Miss Delia Nale are guests of John Farabee and Chas. Weir this week. Frank Peck and family were in Indianapolis last week to buy goods and take in the -fair. Mrs. Bert Spencer, who has been quite sick for some time, is reported slowly improving. • Bessie Guy returned last week from fier sister’s, where she has been spending the summer. Mrs. Myra Freed and two children, of Wolcott, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bartoo. Miss Laura Warnock gave up her school in Carpenter township to teach in the Goodland schools. The total attendance at the school on its first day was 204, with a freshman class numbering 14. Mr. and Mrs. John Walton, of Thorold, Canada, and Mrs. A. Vapor, of Nebraska, are visiting Mrs. Goss. Frank McKee came back Thursday from Illinois, where he went to visit and to rent a farm for the ensuing year.

Earl Burling spent the last of last week in Illinois, wh'ere he visited relatives and attended the fair at Kankakee. D. S. Geigley and daughter, Julian, left Thursday for their home in Chicago, after a short visit at the home of Win.. Johnson, who is tenant on the former's farm. The old coal sheds back of Mrs. Trainor’a milinery store, are being torn down and hauled over to a farm near Wolcott, where the lumber will be used for sheds. The ladies and C. E. society of the Christian church will serve a chicken fry supper in the church basement on Thursday evening. Supper, including ice cream, only 25 cents. A. J. Brooks and wife, who were called to lowa last week by the serious illness of his brother, returned the first of the week and had hardly got here till he learned of his death. Jacob Ochs had a little bad luck with his motor cycle Wednesday. In jumping on he got his foot caught in one of the pedals and it tore his foot severely. He laid off for the remainder of the week, Ed O’Connor carrying the mail for him. % The Odd Fellows are making a big improvement on their hall. They are throwing their former hall and that occupied by the G. A. R.’s into one room. Repairs will cost around SBOO, and will make one of the finest lodge rooms in this part of the state. Ch&rles Buckles, who has been working for Robt. Hackley this summer, while practicing with a revolver, accidentally shot himself through the hand. A physician dressed the wound and he seemed to be getting along all right. However, Thursday at noon he complained of his neck hurting him and laughingly said he guessed he must be getting the lockjaw. -He hauled a load of grain to town that afternoon and visited his doctor, only to find that what he had laughed about was really true. They took him back to town in a buggy Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, accompanied by two of his boy friends took the six o’clock train for home. The doctor said he could not much more than live to get home If he dft 1 that.