Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“The Story of Berkey & Gay” By WILBUR D. NESBIT Appear* in the September Numbers of MUNSEY’S and THE SCRAP BOOK It is an informative account of an institution which is a part of American history. It tells also how Grand Rapids won its reputation as the Furniture City of American and how it has held it. It’s worth reading.

8. E. Nicholson, formerly of Kokomo, and author of the Indiana Nicholson statute, has been appointed by President Taft a delegate to the Thirteenth International Congress Against Alcohol ism to be held at The Hague next month. Mrs. Nicholson will accompany him and they will make an extended European tour. An exploration of the route of the proposed canal from Toledo by way of Fort Wayne to Lake Michigan has been decided upon by the National Waterways commission. Hearings will be conducted at Fort Wayne. The commission will start on the expedition from Toledo Nov. 1. It will travel by river to Defiance, Ohio, and thence by autos to Fort Wpyne and Lake Michigan. The state pure food law, so far as it relates to butter fat in milk, was declared unconstitutional Tuesday by Squire Luther C. Abbott, of Richmond. The case In which the ruling was made was brought by Deputy State Drug and Food Inspector Bert W. Cohn agaidst Harry Hodgin, a milk dealer, the affidavit alleging that Hodgin sold milk which contained less than 3.25 per cent of butter fat. A Classified Adv. will sell II