Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Many of the younger school children at Kansas City, Missouri, were dismissed by their teachers Wednesday on account of the excessive heat. A temperature of 95 degrees was registered Wednesday afternoon. Stokes Jackson, sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, and Mrs. Jackson, returned Wednesday to their home at Greenfield. They will remain at home a month and will visit relatives in Michigan before returning to Washington. Football will be abolished in the South Bend high school, according to announcement made Wednesday. The faculty, headed by Principal Frederick L. Sims, is opposed. Steps will be taken immediately to prevent the organization of a team this year. Prof. Francis P. Leavenworth, head of the department of astronomy of the State University of Minnesota, has sighted the Brooks comet. He says it is now visible to the naked eye In the early evening near the pole star, and never will be visible again. J. R. Robinson, living near the home of Speaker Champ Clark in Pike bounty, Mo., has a hog weighing 1,100 pounds. The hog Is years old, measures 9 feet from tip to tip and 7 feet 4 inches around the* girth. It is said to be the largest in the world. The hog is valued at 91,000. “Suffered day and night .the torment of itching piles. Nothing helped me until I used Doan’s Ointment. It cured me permanently.”—Hon. John R. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.