Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM ■' —♦ — PICTURES. STABILITY vi. NOBILITY. SEMIRAMIS.

In The G. E. Murray Co. July sale we have not bought up a lot of. cheap goods,, hut will offer you our regular lines of dependable merchandise. J. J. Weast, the fertilizer man, has bought George McCarthy’s pool room fixtures and will reopen the business in the room formerly occupied by Mr. McCarthy. Mr. Weast will place some one in charge of the business and will / continue to devote his attention to the fertilizer business. At the first city election held at Crown Point, Harold H. Wheeler, former county clerk and a republican, was elected mayor without opposition. Howell V. Parry and H. J. Lehman were elected clerk and treasurer, respectively, without opposition. Four ward councilmep-at-large were also elected. Elliott R. Hooton, chief of the new state bureau of inspection, is wondering how he can publish the new inspection law in a county seat which has no newspaper. The law requires the publication of the notices in each county seat in the state, but Mr. HoOton has discovered that Vernon, county seat of Jennings county,'is without a newspaper. Moore & Scott, the contractors on the Kurrie sewer, are having considerable trouble with the work. A few days ago they struck a stretch of rock that had to be removed for about twenty feet and today they struck another ledge that will have to be drilled out for a distance of ten feet to the depth of two inches. Owing to the dry weather the dirt is very hard, making progress very slow. They will be lucky if they come out even on the work. The sewer runs from Makemself sewer south in the alley to a point in the rear of the Methodist parsonage.

Work on the interurban Line south of town is going right along. Yesterday the laborers were working at the site of the bridge over tha Howe ditch. They have done some grading ‘on each side of the ditch and the right-of-way in that vicinity is getting to look like a railroad bed. Work will necessarily be delayed until the balance of the right-of-way is secured, and if it is necessary to condemn the land, this cannot be done until the September term of the circuit court. The gang of Roumanians working on the road make their home in a shanty constructed for them along the right-of-way. They seem a happy lot They do their own housekeeping and rarely come to town. ‘ Itching piles provoke proffanity, bnt profanity won’t cure- theta. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bdeedtag or protruding plies after years; of suffering. At any drug store, _