Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

'Look over our stock of Christmas candies, nuts and fresh fruits before buying. JOHN EGER. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rich and two children, of Goodland, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hartley. Miss Ruth Harper, who has been attending * college at Hillesdale, Mich., has arrived home with a case of mumps. I i John Worland is now working at Linn Grove, lowa, to which point he has ordered The Evening Republican sent to him. . , a.-.,-,.. - Miss Oka Pancoast has returned home from Woodstock, Vermont after a long visit with her sister, Mrs. Everet Halstead, at that place >Now is the time to lay in your supply of potatoes for winter. We have a car of extra choice ones and can save you money. ROWLES & PARKER. John King and family have completed their removal to the house they recently purchased south of the W. H. Beam property on Forest street. They are having a basement made for their flower business. John Kepner is doing the work. Word received this morning by the family of Walter V. Porter is to the effect that J. V. Parkison continues to grow weaker at bis home in Bucklin, Kans., and that the doctor holds, out no hope of improvement and thinks he can last but a few days longer. The nickel with an artistic Indian head on the face will be in circulation, according to the expectations of the treasury department, by Feb. L Secretary Mac Veagh has definitely accepted the. design. Within a few days an order will he given the mints to begin making the new coin. Three miles of giant freighters, their hulls filled with millions of bushels of grain, are at anchor inside the breakwater of Buffalo’s outer harbor, forming one of the heaviest blockades of grain in the history of the port. Fifty-three vessels carry cargoes aggregating 15,000,000 bushels of export grain. - 4 Ransom Sawin, 17 years of age, had a bone in his left foot fractured Saturday, evening. He was hauling a large load of wood to town and tried to climb down from the load while the horses were in motion. In some maimer his heel eaught in a wheel and gave his foot such a severe wrench as to break the large bone. Ransom Is a junior in the Rensselaer school and don’t want to lose any time and pluckily is attending sehool today.