Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Marriage Licenses. June 28.—Charles F. Stafford, born at Bluffton, Ind., June 7, 1879, present residence Bluffton, occupation grain dealer, and Bessie Pearl Davis, born Wolcott, Sept. 18, 1884, present residence Rensselaer, occupation music teacher. First marriage for each. June 28—James Emanuel Hopkins, born Jasper county, Ind., March 21, 1891„present residence Parr, Ind., occupation farmer. and Gertrude Rardin, born Boone county, Ind., July 9, 1895, present residence Parr, occupation housekeeping. Fathers gave consent to issue of license. Women’s hats are to be smaller in size next summer, but there is nothing to indicate that they will be less in price. One. of the nicest breakfast foods on the market today is the new cooked oats. Ready to serve—loc a package at the Home Grocery Alex. McClellan, of Delphi, was fined SSO and costs this week for conducting a blind tiger. Judge Wason was on the bench. Mr. Hayner, piano tuner and repairer from Chicago, is in the city. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. Railroads operating eastward from Chicago are said to have planned a united campaign against the validity of the 2-cent fare laws in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Zern Wright returned this morning from a three days’ viiit in Chicago. They did not go to Milwaukee as planned, but will visit relatives of Mrs. Wright in . Indiana the balance of the week. There are said to be some fine onions this year in Jasper county. John L. Nichols has a fine patch. Ed Oliver has 16% acres of the finest onions ever grown in the Gifford country. Ed planted corn on the ground where the onions burned out when he had the big fire and this is now knee high. Prosperity seems quite general in the Gifford country this year.

At a special meeting of the city council last evening the contract for the H. R. Kurrie, et al., sewer was let to B. J. Moore and George Scott at 44% cents per foot. Sam Stevens, who bid 33 cents, could not be awarded the contract because be failed to file a certilled check with his bid. It was an oversight on his part which cost him the contract Babcock & Hopkins are now using a portable dump for shelled corn and oats. They will shortly begin the construction of their elevator. It will occupy the old foundation and be the same size as the old elevator except that it will not be so high, but the walls will be strong enough to support the additional height when they get ready to ljjilld it. They will again engage in the transfer business and will ship grain here for cleaning, bleaching, drying, etc. They will not rebuild the Parr elevator this year. It also was destroyed by fire. My homeless friend, with a chromatic nose, while you are. stirring up the sugar in that 10 cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash it down with. You say you have longed for the free, independent life of a farmer, but have never been able to get enough money together to buy a farm. But this is just where you are mistaken. For several years you have been drinking a good improved farm at the rate of 100 feet a gulp. *lf you doubt this statement, figure it out yourself. An acre of land contains 43,500 square feet Estimating, for convenience sake, the land at $43.50 per acre, you will see that brings the land to Just 1 mill per square foot; 1 cent for ten square feet Now pour the fiery dose and Imagine you are swallowing a strawberry patch. Call in five of your friends and have them help gujp that 500-foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day, and see how long a time it requires to swallow a pasture large enough to teed a cow. Put down that glass of gin, there’s dirt in it—--100 square feet of good, rich dirt worth $43.56 per acre,—Walksrton Independent