Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM PICTURES. “A Trap for Santa Clans.” “Bad Bargain.” “Marvelous Garlands.” - - ‘ « •" - ' •" 80NG. “Poor Old Girl.”

Attorney Frank Foltz made a business trip to Hammond today. , - Mrs. D. E. Lesh was taken quite sick this morning, but it is thought her illness will be only temporary and delay their intended removal to Wisconsin. Miss True George is doing as well, according to her physician, as could be expected. Her improvement is not very marked, however, and the outcome of her sickness is uncertain. Up, up, goes the price of hogs. That animal has been taken for years as the synonym of selfishness and greed, and now looks like the public is accepting his own opinion of himself. Fancies brought $9.60 yesterday in Indianapolis. According to the reports received at the office of the state board of health during December there were 14 births in Jasper county. Only four counties in the state reported less, Ohio county having but 5. In Marion county there were 419 births.The Fred Bachman tripletts, Fred Allen Bachman, George Emil Bachman and Chester Webster Bachman, passed their seventh birthdays on February 3d. All are students of Fred Tyler at the Belle Center school house and all are in the very best of health.

J. B. Clemens was down from Shelby today. He is in his 72d year and has not had occasion to call a doctor for a half a century. This is a record that very few can equal, and is with Mr. Clemens doubtless the result of the most careful living. Mr. Clemens never took a tablespoonfuj of liquor in his entire life. Can it be that some of these Monticello and Union township men who were so absolutely sure that the interurban would be built even if the subsidy did not carry, were mistaken? To those who have been on the inside from the beginning ,it begins to look that way. The road may cross the county west of us and Monticello will be placed in the embarrassing position of having lost a lot of trade.—Monticello Journal.

Simon Phillips went to Fowler today to be present Monday and Tuesday at the big Hereford sale which his son-in-law will hold on those days.. His son, Col. Fred Phillips, is to be one of the auctioneers and “Untie” Simon Is such a lover of fine stock that it won’t be surprising if he gets into the auction harness again long enough to sell one of the beauties that has helped to make the name Vanatta famous in the Hereford world. It is reported that there are now in this country twelve million telephones, or one for every two houses in the country. This does not mean that one-half of the residences in the country contain an instrument, since many' business houses have a large number, but the figures are instructive and illuminating: Practically everybody who is anybody in all the cities or towns and villages has a telephone, While those in the country districts are legion. The astonishing tpct is that each of these phoneß is used on an average of six times a day. The total number of calls in a year runs up Into the billions and is not appreciable by the human m'nd