Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — Presbyterian Church Services. [ARTICLE]

Presbyterian Church Services.

The subject of the morning sermon I for next Sabbath will be “The Sentinel," and in the evening the pastor I will speak on “The Measure of a I Man.” Everybody welcome. , I Here is something for the school children to think over, and maybe it I will set some older heads to guessing. I Who will give the correct solution I first? Multiply $5 by $5 and the result is $25. Now multiply 500 cents, pure and simple, not as a fractional part of We do and are surprised to see the figure" climb up to I 260,000, wtich is $2,500. As $5 and 600 cents are equivalent, the result is] puzzeling. It cannot be urged that] decimal marks should be used. A cent,] as such, is as distinct a unit as a dollar, and as the result is to be announced in cents, the decimal can not be pleaded in extenuation of the rather surprising result. But there is clearly something wrong. J Leaving a note at her home that she intended to commit suicide, Elizabeth Murdock, 16-year-old daughter of H. D. Murdock, of Seymour, manager of the Indianapolis ft Louisville Traction company, to the house of an acquaintance at Farmington and killed herself by drinking carbolic acid late Thursday afternoon. Her brother, who had found her note, reached her just -before she died. Her motive Is not known.