Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The fourth class postoffice at Kramer, Ind., has been advanced to the presidential class/and the salary of the postmaster was fixed at >l,loo'a year. _________ Enough potash to supply the United States probably for thirty years has been discovered by government scientists in the bed of what was Searles’ lake, San Bernardino county, California.

Representative David J. Foster, republican, of Vermont is dead after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Foster was first stricken with grip, which developed into pneumonia and terminated fatally in a Jew . hours.. All the demands of the 200,000 mln ers in the bituminous coal fields of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for a 10 per cent increase in pay and shorter working hours were voted down by the operators at Cleveland Thursday. In a special recommendation to con gress Postmaster General Hitchcock urges immediate extension to rural letter carriers who may be injured in the line of duty, the same priveleges and compensation as now provided by law for injured railway mail clerks. The political policy of the democrats with respect to the tariff was revealed Thursday when Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee reported a bill for the revision of the wool schedule. The bill is that which was passed by the house last summer. The United States government has sent John H. Armington, the local forecaster of the Chicago district of the weather bureau to the University of Notre Dame to install new instruments for recording and reporting weather conditions for northern far diana. Ezra Fix is another good man gone wrong. He has moved out to the farm and is preparing for a hard summer’s work. Of course, Mrs. Fix will have nothing to do only the little housework, milking, tending to the garden, and looking after the chickens. —Boswell Enterprise. Ben Lewis, aged 35, business manager of the Quincy, 111., Journal, committed suicide Thursday afternoon. He turned on the gas in the bathroom at his home while the members of the family were away, and was found some time afterwards by his wife. The reason for his act is a mystery.

A novel shower for a newly wedded couple was given to Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Keats, living near Greenfield. Itwas called a “chicken shower” and each of the eighty guests presented the couple with a live chicken. They received eighty hens and two cockerels, enough to stock their farm. Mrs. Minerva A. Saunders, who had the distinction of having read more than 6,000 novels during her thirtyfour years’ service as librarian of the public library at Pawtucket, R. 1., is dead. She was 74 years old. She read every novel that came to the library before allowing it to go on the shelf. Twelve hundred dollars, a record price for Wisconsin cows, was paid by Charles D. Ettinger, of Tinley Park. HL, to M. H. Tichener for Thelma Glenwood, a national dairy show champion, at the second sale of the West Moreland Guernsey farm, near Oconomowoc, which was attended by 150 buyers from the north central states. Thelma Glenwood has a record of 750 pounds of butter for one year. R. E. VanGundy, who recently purchased a large farm east of Enos, moved this week from Rensselaer to the Geo. Graves house In the east part of town. Like any up-to-date man who comes into a new community, he at once made his way to the Courier office the day he arrived and subscribed for the local paper. He and his wife are splendid young people and we should make them feel that they have come to a town of friendly people—which they have.. They are active workers fa the Christian church.—Morocco CourA healthy man is a king in hte own right; an unhealthy man an unhappy slave. For Impure blood and sluggish liver, use Burdock Blood Bitters. On foe market 35 years. |LW a bottle." -