Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. . f' Hugh Leavel’s bakery is making its own candies now. Try them. V. J. Crisler made a business trip to Chicago today. < Sweet apple cider, something nice and pure, at Starr's. Born, Sunday, Nov. 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Ritchie, a Son. Four cans of hominy; pumpkin or sauerkraut for 25 cents at John Eger’s. A. L. Fraizer, from southeast 0/ town, went to Chicago today to attend the fat stock show. We do grinding and sell all kinds of feed. Maines & Hamilton, phone 273. Mrs. C. G. Spitler went to Edgewater, Chicago, today for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Delos Coen. Telephone Hugh Leavel and leave your order for a fruit cake for Christmas. Do it now and have a fine cake. c Miss Mollie McElfresh has resigned her position at the telephone office and Miss Chloe Wesson? has been employed in her place. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Zink left this morning for their home in Wapakoneta, Ohio, after a visit of three weeks here with their daughters, Mrs. Joe Borntrager and Mrs. John Borntrager. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tryon left yesterday for Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., where they will remain during the winter. Their home on Weston street will remain closed until their return here in the spring. Local hunters are said to be getting a number of rabbits now and they are also said to be of a very fine quality. They are extremely fat and many families are eating them. The price for nicely cleaned rabbits is from 15 to 25 cents each. J. F. Irwin made a business trip to Wolcott today. He reports that they have had a very fine year in the tiie business, having run continuously since the first of last March, without a breakdown of any sort. They disposed of something like $17,000 worth of tile this year. When your feet are wet and cold, and your body chilled through and through from exposure, take a big dose of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed, and you are almost certain to ward off a severe cold. For sale by'all dealers. c

Two corn huskers near Boswell held a match one day last week. One husked 121 bushels and 15 pounds; the other 119 bushels and 10 pounds. The winner was Pete Roaster» the loser Harve Fix. The contest was on a wager and was conducted under the supervision of weighers and referees. „ ——' Will Lowman returned to Muncie today after a few days’ visit with relatives in and near Rensselaer. He has been working as a motorman for some time for the Indiana Union Traction Co., in the city of Muncie, and has been promised an interurban run, which he considers much more satisfactory. Rev. Fred S. Allman, of Abilene, Kans., was in Rensselaer over night, visiting his cousin, J. D. Allman, and this morning both went to Remington to visit other relatives. Rev. Allman was a native of Ohio anti has been in Kansas for some time. He las been paying a visit to his old home and has been east for about four months. This was his first visit to Jasper county. The local physicians who attended little Jack Larsh held a telephone communication with the hospital this morning and was assured that Jack is getting on splendidly. The doctor went to Chicago on the 10:05 train. He says that it will not be necessary, it is believed, to resort to much of an operation to set the broken jaw bone but that this can be pressed into place without even giving an anaesthetic. If a business man has good bargains to offer the public he must let the pub lie know that fact or the goods will remain on his shelves until doomsday. Many are the ways he may use to tell people, but the most successful, as the experience of every wise business man shows, is persistent, generous and attractive advertising in the pageo of the paper that reaches and is read extensively by the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county. John Brown & Son had 400 acres of land this season which always had the reputation of being a home for wild ducks, and was as low as any on the marsh, and fhis year they let a man plow all he wanted to and put it into corn. Seventy acres was broken and now he is husking 75 bushels to the acre from the duck pond, which has yielded its first crop to benefit anyone but the duck hunters and trappers.—Crown Point Star. “ George Barcus and A. B. Rowley, of Wabash, have just reorganized the Barcus horse stocks and foundry company under the name of the Wabash foundry Co. It has a capital stock of $200,000, and four new stockholders have been taken into the company, being influential business men of Wabash, who will add prestige to the business. It is understood that the company ■will engage in business much more extensively than in the past and largely increase the working force and product of the foundry. A Classified Adv. will sell IL