Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The United States navy will soon be augmented by the sister dreadnoughts, Florida‘and Utah. The former will be placed in commission Sept 15 and the latter , probably a few days before. Mrs. A. P. Burton and Mrs. H. W. Jackson at the home of thp former, north of town, entertained about sixty ladies Thursday afternoon. The guests had been invited to visit “The Garden of Allan,” and hardly knew what to expect. They ' were greatly entertained and considerably surprised when Mrs. Luella M. Wilson, president of the Stevan School for Girls, of Chicago, described to them her visit to the Garden of Allah, Saharra desert, Africa. Mrs. Wilson has traveled extensively and is a woman of pleasing address and held,the closest attention of the ; guests. Miss Bel Laßue played delightfully on the piano. R-.dreshments were served. The new. depot construction is progressing very nicely. Six new brickmasons came in from Chicago last night and went to work this morning, making seven in all. They will rush the work as rapidly as possible and should have it ready for roofing within ten days or two weeks, if favorable weather ensues. Not all bricklayers will stall on coming to a dry town. Another mechanic, who claims that he knows, states that the trouble at the depot was that the contractor did not want to pay the scale and searched for his masons in the saloons where a lot of boozers in all trades do their loafing. The scale is $7 per day and as soon as that wage was paid, good mechanics responded, and they don’t give a rap whether beer is sold in Rensselaer or not

Occasionally expert accountant) make mistakes. Two. of them weri over the books of Trustee Folger, of Barkley township, and gave him credit with running his office conservatively and found ail his accounts correct in every particular. They filed their report, making a charge of |8.34 each for the examination. The report returned by Chief Dehorlty to the advisory board showed the charge to be $8.34 each, or 116.68 jointly. But they collected through the office of the auditor and treasurer $10.34 each, on the basis of the old law. As Mr. Folgpr will have this to pay, he would like to know how he is going to come out in the deal. Peculiarly, Dehorlty certified both the report showing that $8.34 each was allowed, and the claim for $10.34 each. If a trustee would make a blunder like that he would have a lot of trouble on his hands. John stack was in town a short time today.' Work on the C. C. Randle ditch has been suspended for some time on account of there being no water to float the dredge. Work can not be resumed until there is water, which may mean a delay of several months. Mr. Hack’s son'Will, who is a partner with him in the dredge business, is in charge of the work on the Jungles ditch and good progress is being made. There is a tendency to cave in the sand where they are now working, but it is expected to back over the ditch when completed and clean It up, and Mr. Hack says bb has no doubt that it will retain itself after a second going over. At the highest ground, the banks will be leveled with a grader and a large, hole dug alongside for the earth that is taken from the channel. This, Mr.' Hack thinks, will not only lighten the work of con? struction, but overcome a great deal of the difficulty frdm caving where there la a good deal of sand.