Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AT THE Princess tonight —•— PICTURES. “Mazeppa,” or. The Wild Hoffe of Tartory. SONG. Bed Clover, by \ Roscoe Wilson.

Grape Juice, the great health drink, 10c or 3 bottles for 25c. JOHN EGER. The population of Michigan state is 2,810,173, an increase of 389,101, or 16.1 per cent as compared with 2,420,982 in 1900. George A. Williams went to Carthage, 111., today to join his wife, who has been with her parents there. They will return home the first of the week. Four pounds fancy seedless or 3 Crown loose Muscatels, or 3 lbs. California evaporated peaches for 25c. I JOHN EGER. Miss Mary Stoll, of Philadelphia, has ascended Mount Winklerturm in the Tyrol at Paris. She is the first woman to ascend this high and dangerous peak. The Grand Trunk railroad began its official probe into the wreck at Durand, Mich., Saturday. Guards were stationed at the doors gnd all spectators were excluded. The Kokomo water works company has received assurance from the state board of health of the purity of Kokomo’s water supply. Samples were forwarded for chemical analysis. ■ ( Major J. B. Kenner, a lawyer, veteran of two wars and, in his prime a factor in district and state politics, is dead at his home in Huntington, after an illness of two months. Charlie Baker, better known as “Knockemstlff,” has returned to Rensselaer and set up a bootblacking establishment in the Wood & Kresler barber shop. Charlie is an expert in this line. We are the only firm in Rensselaer that sells pure cider vinegar of as high a grade as 45 grains. Six gallons of our vinegar is equal to 7 gallons of that sold by others, but we sell it at the same price as the lower grade. j. a. McFarland. '

Mrs. George Fate and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Pullins, who have been visiting in Indianapolis since Sunday, returied home last evening. Mrs. Fate’s brother, who lives in Indianapolis, is having an attack of rheumatism, but is thinking of buying 400 acres of land in the northern pari; of Jasper county and engaging in stock raising. Mrs. E. S. Tillman, who has been librarian of the public library for several years, will complete her work here today and tomorrow will leave for her future home in Lebanon. Prof. Tillman is now in Lebanon attending the institute and next week will begin his work in the schools there. Mrs. Tillman will be succeeded here by Miss Myra Price, who w«h elected librarian some time ago and. has been preparing herself for the work since the election. I have again secured the agency for the Booth Guaranteed Oysters, for this season. The first shipment will arrive Thursday morning, Sept.'lst This year will be the best oyster year ever, the U. S. Government having condemned all the Impure oyster beds, and the Booth Fisheries Co. having secured, through its eastern agencies, almost all of the best beds, therefore we will be able to serve .those highly flavored fries, stews and raw oysters that made me so rich and corpulent last winter. Don’t forget the date for Booth Oysters, Sept. Ist, 1910. GEO. FATE, The Fat Dinner Man.

Estimating the cost of the experiment at about >IOO,OOO the war department officials declined requests to order a bombardment of the skies by all its guns on Puget Sound and at the mouth of the Columbia river in an effort to bring on rain in the burning forest district of the northwest. In addition to»the objection of cost, the army officers regarded the proposition as certain .to prove futile.