Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1912 — LOCAL MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MARKETS.

Wheat—9o. Corn—s 7. Oats—4B. Chickens—lo. Turkeys—l 2-18. Ducks —10, Roosters—s. Geese —9. Rabbits—Out of season. Veals—7-10. Eggs—2s.

Eggs are off two cents today and the uncertainty of the intention of the queens of the barnyard makes it unceriaiii what the pride be within a few days. If the sun should shine brightly for a week, every hen in the country would start In to flood the market and they would just about do it, but if the groundhog should get another grouch on and cold weather ensue, we imagine that biddie'would quit picking straws and wait for more propltuous period to begin her activities. But the chanticleer of the poultry yard is stepping on his toes and putting on a few more airs than he has since the moulting season of last fall and it is plain to be observed by his clucking activities that he is trying to induce his harem of hens to get busy nesting, so that the 1912 crop of offsprings shall not run behind the record of previous years. George Pumphrey and wife and son Newton and family and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Pumphrey and family, will move to Columbia City. Newton will live on his father’s farm near that place. Mr. Pumphrey and wife and Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and children will occupy a double house, which they rented last week. Mrs. Pumphery will not engage in the boarding house business for a time at least, but may eventually do so. Newt will go through with the household goods of the three families which will be loaded in two cars. He will also send a team and wagon overland, a distance of about 95 miles. Ed Stone, a printer who was emjdoyed for some time on the Jasper County Democrat, has resigned his position and gone to Valparaiso to work on a paper in that cityl His wife is still here and will remain until he decides whether he likes the Valpo job. He has another position awaiting him at his old home in Ohio. His place at the Democrat office is to be filled by a printer named Curzon, who has been working on the Remington Press. 4

The Knights of Pythias banquet will take place Tuesday evening at the armory. The supper, which will be at 6 o’clock, will be served by the Pythian Sisters. It is expected that there will be fully a hundred at the banquet. The regular weekly lodge meeting will follow the banquet.