Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AUDITION.4L TODAY'S LOCALS. - | Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows returned this morning from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Murphy,, at Berwyn. W. W. Seekman and son Charles, of Chicago, were over night guests at the Makeever house. They are driving a Chalmera-Detrolt auto to Cincl? nati, for a short visit - B. R. Miekelburg and J. E. Hanson, of Bloomington, 111., were here this morning with Ex-Sheriff John O’Connor, of Kniman. All went to Kniman by auto this afternoon. The postoffice department has raised the ban on Santa Claus mail after al*. Rescinding a recent decision. Post master General Hitchcock today directed that any letters directed to “Santa Claus” be delivered to charitable organisations or benevolent persons that ask for them Instead of being returned to the senders or destroyed. The expense of running the Monticello horse show was $396.11. It cost Rensselaer about S9OO. In Monticello all the money was spent on premiums on horses, and for the exhibits in the agricultural and domestic science departments, for advertising, etc. They had the show but tWo days. Rensselaer gave a four days’ show and the carnival attraction was quite expensive. But Rensselaer never gave a show with as little money as Montlcello used. The Fort Wayne News says: “By the way, we are not hearing the Payne - Aldrich tariff law cursed so much at present as the cause of the high cost of living as we did a few months ago. The truth Is that investigation has developed that fact that this thing of high prices is world-wide in its application and that it Is as bad in free trade countries as In countries with tariff laws. Indeed, conditions ar3 really worse there, for the working classes have no protection from foreign competition and must sell their labor at a pitiful Agure. The people of the United States today are better off materially than are those of any other nation on earth and the}' will continue unless mischievious legislation promoted by political demagogues upsets industrial conditions. /

The girls of a western town have an anti-slang society. A certain miss was elected president, and when asked if she would accept the position she replied: “Sure Mike; by ‘gosh’ girls, I &nt so rattled in my cupola that 1 am really short on gab. We’re certainly bitting the high places and I never tumbled to such a posish before, but when 1 give you the highball I expe >t you to get there Eli and whoop’er up for all that's out I think I’m stuff enough so that the Ales won’t light on me while I’m doing the president stunt of this society act, but I won’t stand for any monkey doodle business from you girls while I’m running the ranch. We girls ought to extend an invite to the married ladies to get in out of the wet and help us shoot this slang business—it’s getting Aerce.”

“The Journal of the American Medical Association” tells of a Kansas “medical” swindler who pretends to cure almost any known disease with a “secret” preparation of his own compounding. His “remedy" is an “eye water.” Analyzed by the chemists of the American Medical Association, it was found to consist essentially of a mixture of equal parts of salt aud sugar and hydrant water. His price for the mixture is $25 an ounce. “The Journal” says that it does not take an expert to prove consumption, blindness, paralysis, Bright's disease or any of the hundred other ailments that the quack professes to treat “Expert knowledge Is not required to de- # clare the treatment a fraud and the ‘professor’ a swindler.” “The Journal” adds: “It is a conservative statement to say that a man who will take money from • consumptive, an epileptic or * ■•‘ctim of the morphine habit under the pretense of curing his disease wlln a mixture of sugar, salt and water Is an unconscionable scoundrel.”

S. D. Brewer, of South Bend, the victim of a serious automobile accident two months ago, has been stricken as a result of injuries in the mishap, and physicians say he has little chance for recovery. Brewer was unconscious for . days following the accident and now;he has lost his memory and reason. -~t' ; « ■ Fourteen cases of smallpox have been reported from Peru to the state board of health. A dispute has arisen among the Peru doctors about the diagnosis of the case. Dr. L O. Malsbury, after a careful investigation, told Dr. Hurty that the disease was smallpox. Other physicians assert It Is chickenpox, “Wabash scratches” and an eruption due te eating grease. Dr. Hurty insists that where there is a question about the nature of a diseases the statute require the caser quarantined. A specific for pain—Dr. Thomas* Eclectic Oil, strongest, cheapest liniment ever devised. A household reu%edy in America for SB years.