Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

For maple syrup, pancake flour and buckwheat, go to McFarland’s. The year-old baby of Mr. a.nd Mrs. Hoy Rishling got hold of the coal oil can Friday and drank some of the contents and for a time was in quite a serious condition, being unconscious. The family doctor was called and succeeded in bringing the little one around all right. Half a million dollars to Harvard university for the advancement of physics and chemistry and $250,000 to memorial home for convalescents in New York, are the chief charitable bequests in the will of Professor Morris Loeb, of Columbia university. -t; Twelve of the wealthiest and most prominent women of Independence, Kus., ~were summoned Thursday to serve’ on a jury in the-case of James Blue, charged with firing a shot through the window of an interurban car near that city, endangering the lives of the passengers. Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri, republican, Thursday introduced a joint resolution to provide for a constitutional amendment to restrict presidential tenure to two terms of four years each, “or approximately 'two terms,’’ with ineligibility for re-election thereafter, Delphi has arranged for a summer Chautauqua and 592 tickets have been sold as a guarantee that it will pay out. The Businessmen’s Association is behind the plan. A committee has been appointed pn grounds. It is expected to hold the ehautapqua about the middle of August. Plans have ]jeen made for final disposition of the famous Gevonimo band of Apache Indians held as military prisoners at Fort Sill, Okla. Eighty-six of them were elected to stay at Fort Sill. The remainder of the 200 will be in permanent homes in New Mexico. Punishment, consisting of twenty demerits each and restriction to their rooms for six days, was assigned to 400 Annapolis midshipmen found to have violated Superintendent Gibbons’ order forbidding betting on the recent interservice football game at Philadelphia.

Benjamin Franklin McKinley, 80 years old fc uncle of the late president McKinley, died at tyjs home at San Francisco Thursday after a brief illness with pneumonia. B.enjamin McKinley w r ent to California in 1859. He leaves a widow, a daughter and a son, Benjamin L., formerly assistant attorney general. The federal employers’ liability act was tested in New york’ for the first time Thursday, when a jury In the supreme court decided that under its provisions Terrence Burtnett was entitled to SIO,OOO from the Erie railroad because he lost a foot while serving as brakeman in the interstate service of this line. More than 2,000,000 eggs were retailed at 24 cents a dozen by the Housekeepers’ League in Philadelphia Thursday in its campaign to reduce the price of living. Six thousand crates of thirty dozen each were distributed to settlement ht uses, stores and private dwellings, and were all eagerly purchased. A. C. Prevo, furniture dealer at Medaryville, has moved his store into a new store room he has just completed. Frank Rowe purchased the building vacated by Mr. Prevo and will move it to the rear of his hardware store. The ground it oCt cupied has been purchased' by Charles Guild, who will make it a part of his lawn, greatly improving his residence premises. Practically all the corn in Jasper county has been husked. There has never been a more favorable season for harvesting this crop in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. October, November and so far in December have been ideal. No snow and but few rains to keep the industrious husker out of the field. The corn ft mighty good, too, much better than during several previous years.

For the finest line of Cut Glass and at the right prices, be sure and see Clarke’s line. Company M met defeat in its basketball game at Goodland Friday night, the score being 31 to 20 in favor of the Carlton Club of that place. The game was played in the basement of the Goodland school house on a very small court with very low ceilings and the locals could not get things going right. Jt is probable that the Carltons will come here for a game on the night of Jan. Ist. 4 Brother Reno Isherwood, who has been printing a weekly newspaper at Lafayette for some years, is to merge it with the Sunday Times and hereafter run a daily. Charles and Sam Murdock, the traction magnates, are-behind the new paper, which will be democratic in politics, thus giving Lafayette the first democratic daily it has had in a number of years. It will be an afternoon paper. Of course,, everybody knows that the place to buy watches, silverware and jewelry, that is dependable, is at a jewelry store. Clarke has a fine new line and at the righ pride, quality considered. x s