Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Yesterday was the A 12tli day of the 12th month of the 12th year of the 20th century. Abbreviated as a dating for letters it is read 12/ 12, ’l2. A similar combination will not occur until Jan. 1, 2001, when you may write the date 1,1, ’l. Visit the handkerchief and linen booth at Lee’s. You can get-the little things you want. Word received yesterday from Bucklin, Kans., is to the effect that J. V. Parkison continues to decline. The swelling which started in his feet has continued to climb until it has reached the stomach. It is thought probable that he can not last many days. He is the father of Mrs. W. V. Porter and Mrs. Alfred Collins. Leon Lewis, son of County Assessor John Q. Lewis, who has been an invalid for some time with spinal trouble, and who was compelled to give up a good position as a stenographer in the Carson, Pierie, Scott & Co. store on account of his health, has gone to St. Louis, where he will enter a sanitarium in the hope that his health will be improved. - Our dollar window next Monday-wWI be a revelation to yon. Many articles formerly $8 and $3 values, at one dollar on that day. See oar window. JESSEN THE JEWELER. One of the many vaudeville features introduced by the Holden Bros. Comedy Co., which will fill an engagement of three night's at the opera house beginning Monday, Dec. 16th, is Vocalion, the “man with the travelling voice,” a novelty act seldom seen with a repertoire organization. All the vaudeville acts are above the, average, and in conjunction with the high class plays given, round out an excellent entertainment. Big reduction on our entire stock of ladies’, misses’ and children’s coats, and by far the largest line in town to select from, at the G. E. Murray Co. Tom Manley and wife and George Kepner, of Keokuk, lowa, are not be at home as long as was stated 'in The Republican a few days ago, but expect to start for Keokuk the first of the week. Tom is one of the main bosses in the construction of the big water power plant at Keokuk, which will generate 250,000 horsepower when completed. It is the largest plant of its kind ever built. '•One hundred thousand horsepower is to be usedin the city of St. Louis. The plant will cost $26,000,000 and it is expected to dedicate it next July 3rd, when President Wilson is to deliver the chief address. Get a ’ bottle of Ferndell boiled cider for your mincemeat. MCFARLAND’S.