Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1911 — Page 4

HALF OF RAILROAD FARE PAID BY US TO WITHIN A RADIUS OF FIFTY * IitLES BUYING OYER TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS AND SHOWING US THEIR RETURN TICKET.

Mwtwk ha ■■■■■§ ■■■ b ■ h B B JB fl B fl w BHfjBI ■ ■■ 2HbH AAAiK To Satisfy Demands of Our Creditors. $25,000 WORTH OF UP-TO-DATE MERCHANDISE TO BE SOLD REGARDLESS OP COST, in the next 30 days. Our entire stock, including fixtures, and everything must go, as we have decided to quit business, and to do so there will be no restrictions on anything. A chance of a lifetime to get up-to-date merchandise at your own price. Come everybody to the greatest sale ever put on in Jasper County.

A few prices on some of tlie staple articles will show you what we are doing. Hundreds and thousands of other article* too numerous so mention will be priced accordingly. 10 cent Buggy Whips, each 7c 25 cent Buggy Whips, each.... 18c 50 cent Buggy Whips, each 37c 75 cent Buggy Whips, each 50c SI,OO Buggy Whips, each .75c Unhandled Axes, each 50c Handled Axes, each.... 69c Horse Shoers Rasps, each. 45c Cobbler’s Outfits, each 39c Cobbler’s Outfits, worth $1.25, each.. .75c Tablespoons, per set 10c and up Knives and Forks, per set.... 35c and up Self-Wringing Mops, each 50c Iron Handles, each 4c Iron handles, 10c kind, each .7c Henry Disston Saws, each only $1.50 Salt Boxes, each 6c Vises from 10c up Files at half price. Wrenches 8c up Screw Drivers 5c up Meat Saws 19c up to 75c Axe Handles 8c up Mop Sticks, each 7c Tin Cups, !*i pint 4 for 5c Hinges, per pair, from 3c up Coat Hangers, each 3c Hammer Handles, each 5c Harness Supplies at less than cost. Curtain Rods, 5c kind, only Sc Teaspoons, per set 5c and up Plano, Osborne and Milwaukee Mower Sections eagh 4c Mrs. Potts’ Sad Irons, per set 69c Wire Rat Traps, largest size, each... .39c Stove Lifters, each.; ,2c Stove Shovels, 15c kind, each 10c Lunch Boxes 5c up Sewing Awls, each <u 3c Cobbler Nails, 2 papers for. . 5c Potato Mashers, wood, each 3c Tin Mouse Traps, 5 hole, each 5c A good Lantern 39c Gallon Oil Cans, galvanized... 15c Butter Moulds, round, 1 lb., each 10c Cedar Faucets, each, only ...3c Carpet Tacks 5c doz. papers Wringers, from. ~...., $1.50 up Curtain Poles, white, 8c each, 2 for 15c 25 cent Whisk Broom. 10c 50 cent House Brooms *. 35c 35 cent House Brooms 25c

Our location can be found by the Large Red Sign covering both fronts, right north of the Courthouse. Sale positively starts March 23, and lasts until everything is disposed of as advertised. Come everybody, you surely will find something you can use at about one-half what you will have to pay elsewhere. ; Rensselaer, I diana RANSFORD’S DEPARTMENT STORE.

RANSFORDS DEPARTMENT STORE

Glassware at prices to move them. Glass Bowl, regular 25c bowl, at 8c Cut glass at half price. Mirrors at half price. All our China at less than half former price. Now is your chance to get your fine China at prices impossible to ever again duplicate. Lamps at less than cost of manufacture. Jardinieres at half former prices. Tumblers, worth $1.20 per dozen anywhere, you can buy for 5c each while they last. 1 lot Wool Bed Blankets to be sold at half former prices. 1 lot Quilts, high grade, at less than cost of material. All our Jewelry can be bought at a secrifiee Combs, barrettes and hair rolls, hair pins and everything at prices that will astonish you. Hair nets, worth 10c each, now 5c Ladies’ hand bags at less than first cost. Ribbons —a big lot at away below cost, lots you pay from 50c per yard up, at less than half that price. Belts, a fine line at 50c on the dollar. Notions at less than first cost. Thread, both cotton and silk, 5p001....4c Gloves and Mittens, the greatest variety in the city, all go at 50c on the dollar. Umbrellas at cost. All our Toys at half former price. Pictures and frames at half price. Rings, 14k gold-filled, at half former prices • Enameled ware must share the same fate as balance of goods. Hollow ware, such as skillets, waffle irons, griddles—all have to go at big reductions to move them.

Our 5c counters only ,4c Our 10c counters only 7c Our 25c counters only. 19c Laces and Embroidery at cost or less. A few ladies waists at half former prices. Lot of children’s dresses at half former prices. 1 lot embroidery, worth 10c, yard 4c 1 lot embroidery, worth 15c and 25c yard, per yard . .10c 1 lot 19c, 25c and 35c embroidery to be sold at .. .15c and 19c yard All our sweaters in ladies’, men’s and children’s at half price to close., All our Men’s Wool Flannel Shirts, worth $1.25, each 69c Overalls at all prices from 19c pair up. Suspenders, per pair, from ..5c up A fine lot of men’s ties at way below cost. From 15c each up. Men’s work shirts, each 25c Men’s work shirts, each 37c Hosiery for men, 10c kind, per pair 5c Men’s Hose, per pair 4c Men’s 25c Hose 15c Men’s 15c Hose, 2 pair for 15c Hosiery for ladies, 15c kind, 2 pair... .15c Hosiery for ladies, 10c kind, 3 pairs... 20c Hosiery for children from 5c pair up, according to quality. 1 new lot of men’s clothes, 2 or 3-piece suits some worth as high as $lB, go while they last at from $8 to $lO p,er suit, all new styles for spring. 1 new lot of men’s pants for spring business, go from 90c pair up to $2, worth double.

? . » c. ■; OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9:00 O’CLOCK;-SATURDAY EVENING, 11 O’CLOCK. UOOKFOR RED FRONT WITH HEADING AS PER OUR HAND BILLS. '•i # v

Bargains in Shoes. The greatest bargain in shoes ever put on in Jasper county. They must sell. They are all new, besides they are up-to-date, not an old number in the whole lot—sß,ooo stock to be sold at prices that will make them go. Children’s shoes, per pair, from... .17c up Misses’ shoes from 50c up Ladies’ shoes, per pair, from. 75c up Men’s shoes, per pair, from. $1 up All our slippers at less than cost. Fleece-lined shoes and nullifiers at 50c on the dollar. All our Oxfords are new and the latest patterns. Our spring goods in this line are in and any lady or miss can get a pair at what it cost the manufacturer to make, laying aside all middlemen’s profit. All our broken lines in shoes and Oxfords go i at less than 50c on the dollar. One Jot of ironstone china at prices that you never will get again -, in plain ware suitable for hotels and restaurants. Come in and clean it up at your own prices. Postal albums at Jess than cost. All our postals, 2 for. lc A lot of waste baskets at half price. 1 lot white skirts at half price. Gold Tip matches, 4 boxes for only.. .10c Whitmore’s shoe polish, the best on earth, all*colors, per box or bottle, only.. .7c Toilet preparations at half former prices. Soaps at less than cost. Hundreds of articles which we can not mention here, go at 30c on the dollar. The greatest bona fide sale ever put 'on in the city of Rensselaer. A sale that will be conducted on honest principles. We want and must have the money to pay our creditors or we will have to take our medicine, which means bankruptcy. It is hard to realize the fact after 10 years of hard work, but such is the tjase. I guess we have been too good to the public, now the public should be good to us by helping us save our reputation, if nothing more. That is all we ask; we are willing to sacrifice our stock to square ourselves. What more can we do? 1 lot of Horse Blankets away below cost. 1 lot of Men’s Work Coats from 75c up, worth double. A few Cotton Blankets at half what they ' cost. All our <Caps at half of first cost. Bargains in Underwear, winter and summer, in all lines at less than cost. Men’s, Youth’s and Children’s Pants at unheard of prices.