Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Samuel Winterton, of Keyport, N. J., holds the world’s record for perfect attendance at Sunday school. Next month he will complete fifty consecutive years of perfect attendance at the First Baptist Sunday school in Newark? r Albert Flanagan, president of the A Flanagan Book PublisHing company, Chicago, died suddenly from Jieart failure Friday night, before medical aid could be given him, while pn a Pennsylvania train standing inside the yards at Ft Wayne. While Frank Bair, turnkey, dozed in his chair in the White county jail, Ray Mosher, a trusty, obtained the keys and released Ray Holmes, a prisoner held on the charge of forgery. The two escaped. Sheriff Schumaker knew nothing of the jail delivery until he returned late at night from a party. The sheriffs of southern Michigan counties have been notified to watch out for the fugitives. S. F. Wood, better known here by the name “Dick” Wood, is 'paying us a visit. He is the president and general manager of the Detroit Artificial Limb Co., of Detroit, Mich., and has a prosperous business. In addition to artificial limbs, bis company also manufactures elastic stockings and abdominal supporters. It is proposed to take up a subscription here to provide for the purchase of a limb for Henry Nevill, who had the misfortune to lose his right foot recently. Mr. Nevill is without means and several have signified their willingness, it is understood, to contribute to this end. Mrs. W. S. Coen has received another letter from her son, Emerson, who is in the naval hospital at Brooklyn, N. ¥. The surgeon in charge of his case has definitely decided that there is no trouble with the bones of the neck and that the muscles are not twisted but were badly strained and had been neglected and that the nerves have become affected. He will not have to submit to an operation as had seemed probable but will continue hospital treatment. He has been informed that the muscles can be put all right again but that there may be doubt of the nerves being righted He is much more cheerful, to judge by the tone of his letter, than he was when the surgeon had expressed the possibility of a bone in the neck being broken. “Uncle” James Overton don’t claim to be a checker player, but does claim to know when he sees him and he also knows tb'e entire population of the town of Lee. He 1$ thus acquainted with Roy Noland, the young blacksmith, whose reputation as a checker player has put all the Rensselaer partisans of the game in a cold sweat He says that Noland is a mighty nice young fellow but he doesn’t consider him any great stunts as a checker player and he thinks his reputation has been greatly enlarged upon. He also says that Noland spent only one year and not five in the Klondike region and that he don’t think he will sacrifice his blacksmithing business for a checker game. Noland did not put in an appearance thia morning and there were no batches held today. Tie your bonnets on. As Abe Martin says, “Medicine Hat is still in the ring.” The weatherman has a grouch on and this morning looked over the calendar of weather torments and picked out all the mean things he could lay his hands on and then comes out with a forecast so doleful as to frighten about all the beauty out ot today’s sunny sky. If the weatherman is able to pull off all that he has in his threat, we will have a big lot doing between now and tomorrow night. To begin with, he says rain or snow tonight and in the case of northwestern Indiana, he probably means both. Then he has it clear up and get colder, much colder and to make it strong, he announces that it is a real cold wave. For some reason he forgot to put strong winds in the forecast, but he probably considered this unnecessary in the month of March. _ The winds will probably take care of themselves. We don’t want to scare our readers a bit, but we are pessimistic enough to have observed that whenever the weatherman forecasts something bad, he always fulfills his forecast, and when he promises something good, he disappoints us more than half the time. We might write this for an hour or two and take up so much of your time that you would not have time to order another ton of coal before it gets dark. It might be safe to admonish you not to pawn your heavy overcoat or put on sleeveless underwear until you learn what jokers tjje weatherman has up his sleeve. Prepare for the worst and if if don’t get that bad consider yourself lucky. * CASTOR IA Fpr SMA yhildrwWi Tk(KMYNlmAhnptacM Bean the