Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1912 — BUSINESS IS BRISK [ARTICLE]

BUSINESS IS BRISK

Local Merchants In the Towns Find Receipts Increasing Each Month.

Under the heading, “Business Is Brisk this Fall," the Freeport, 111., Journal says that local merchants are optimistic and that “autumn displays in local windows Include great variety of high class goods that will sell well.” The Journal then says: “Recent reports from shippers in almost every section of the country give one the Idea that the only famine we will have is one of freight cars rather than of produce. The conditions in the harvest fields of our great grain sections this year have demanded more labor than they could get, and that condition has not existed for several seasons. Wages are at the top notch and there is plenty of work. Factories are working full force and many of them over-time. And the farmer still buys automobiles. “Among local merchants business has been good this summer and each month has shown an Improvement over the corresponding month one year ago.”