Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — Now They Don’t Speak. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Now They Don’t Speak.

**What’s the best way to keep a distasteful suitor from proposing?’* “Just drop a hint or two that you would accept any man who proposed."

Half a million dollars annually will be saved to the postofilce department, it Is believed, as a result of an order issued by Postmaster General Hitchcock discontinuing the practice of reinclosing registered mall in special envelopes before sending it from the office of origin. The ordSt Will be effective December 1. It changes a policy of fifty years’ standing in the handling of registered mail in this country.

After taking her husband from a poker game at- Columbus, Ind., Saturday night, Mrs. Frank Habig assaulted him on the street. The affray attracted the police, who raided the poker game and arrested four participants.

The village board of West Hauk ; mond, 111., has decided byjtvote of ; three to two, to hold a special elec- ■ tion on Tuesday, December 27, for the purpose of deciding whether or ' not the village shall -become a city. The place has a population of about nine thousand, and is the largest , village in Cook county.