Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —-♦ PICTURE. A Fight for Millions. 7-1 i SONG You Are the Ideal of My Dreams. By J. F. Frederick.

Mrs. Moses Chupp went to Chalmers todiiy for a short visit. 5 per cent of the cash receipts of the Home Grocery goes to the Monnett Orphan’s Home this week. Mrs. Warren Robinson went to LaGro, Wabash county, today, for a visit of several days With relatives. Call No. 4 for the best coal for ranges, heating stoves or base burners. Roy Williams, who has been living in the cement block house across from the Simon Phillips residence, will move next week to Wheatfield, where he is employed. Mrs. Firman Thompson went to Lafayette today to meet Miss Georgia Metcalf, of Girard, 111., who accompanied her here this afternoon and will be her guest for several days. The price of coffee is the highest it has ever been. The 1909 crop was approximately 19,000,000 bags, but the 1910 crop consisted only of 8,500,000 bags. The annual consumption of coffee is about fourteen million bags. In the last year low grade coffee has rizen from five to eight cents a pound and high .grade coffee has gone up from three to four cents a pound. We are now in the midst of the grip and the best remedy is hot lemonade, and to put the price in reach of all we will this week sell them at lc each, or 12c a dozen. JOHN EGER. Attorney Loring, of Valparaiso, was a Rensselaer visitor yesterday. He was looking after the interests of a number of Porter county land owners who are fighting their assessments on the Marble ditch. Attorney Loring says he does not think any of his clients want to attack the building of the ditch as a general project, but they do think their assessments are not equitable. » Veteran Joe Corbett of the 87th Indiana volunteers relates a good army yarn on discipline. His colonel commanding was siezed with a sudden ardor about hygiene. He ordered that all the men change shirts at once. The order was duly carried out except in the case of Co. 8., where the privates’ wardrobes had been pitifully depleted. The captain of this company was informed that none of his men could change their shirts since they had but one apiece. When ho reported this fact the colonel hesitated a moment, then said firmly: “Orders must be obeyed. Let the men change their shirts with one another.” —Winamac Democrat. We have all sizes of hard coal, as well as the most popular soft coals, for both ranges and heating stoves. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO, Phone No. 4.