Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We will save you money on your Christmas orders. JOHN EGER. Miss Imogene Connor; teacher of a school in Barkley township, closed the school Friday for tho holiday vacation and left today for, her home at Wabash. We are the only merchant that has shipped ip. apples in car lots, and are able to give you better fruit and save you from 25 to 50 cents a barrel on same. JOHN EGER. Look over our stock of Christmas candies, nuts and fresh fruits before buying. JOHN EGER. This is the last night of the poultry show. If you have not visited it you had better do so. Cleve Eger got the turkey and Jesse Snyder the chickens last night. Another turkey and two good chickens will be given away tonight. We have just unloaded our third car of apples. This is a car of fancy New York fruit. Belflowers, Spies, Greenings, Baldwins, Johnathans Kings, Russets and Talmon Sweets. JOHN EGER. Miss Grace Norris, who is teaching in the North Vernon high school, will not be home for the Christmas vacation, as she will spend it at Omaha, Neb., with a young lady who was her college chum at DePauw. A pair of hand-knit woolen mittens which arrived in Thursday’s mail at the White House greatly pleased President Taft. They were the old-fashioned Christmas gift of Mrs. Lewis Soft, a woman who in April will be 94 years old and who lives near Grand Rapids, Mich. H. E. Hartley and wife received a box of holly by mail a few days ago from Tacoma, Wash., where they formerly lived. It was cut from a holly bush in the yard of the property where they formerly lived and which Mr. Hartley still owns. •

The sale of Red Cross Christmas seals throughout the United States this season will bring between $400,000 and $500,000 to aid in Jhf fi ght against tuberculosis, according to reports received in New York City by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. CUE. Kersey was down from Keener township today. He reports that he has completed the two miles of stone road that he had contracted to build. Tunis Snip, who is building one mile, has it about threefourths done and C. D. Shook, who contracted to build 3 3-4 miles, has just begun on his contract. The first measure to provide arrangements for the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson was a joint resolution introduced by Representative Johnson, to appropriate $23,000 for the expenses of special protection of life and’ property &4maintenance of order for two weeks beginning February 25th. Will Eldridge, of 'near Pleasant Ridge, Who was a member of the petit jury at the November term of the circuit court, has been ill for the past month and for two weeks confined to his bed with a severe cold and threatened pneumonia. He now seems to be on the road to recovery. The State Trust & Savings Bank of Goodland will open to the pub-’ lie next Monday. It is located the first door north of the postoffice. John T. Hameton is president, Thos. T. Snell, vice-president; C. O. Holmes, secretary and treasurer; Rudolph L. Weil, teller. W. W. Washburn, formerly of Rensselaer, is one of the directors. Judge John F. Neal, candidate on the progressive ticket for congress in the ninth district during the last campaign, drank carbolic acid by mistake Thursday afternoon and the result of his condition is in doubt. The bottle was taken for another medicine and he took two large swallows before he realized his mistake. His throat, mouth and stomach are badly burned. Mrs. W. L. Myer and two children will accompany her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bell, of Frankfort, to Port Orange, on the east coast of Florida, in about ten days and will remain there until about April Ist or a little later, depending upon the weather. Dr. Myer will accompany his family to Frankfort next Tuesday and together they will visit her relatives at Frankfort and his at Flora. He will remain there until' the following Monday.

Cox, has dismissed the appeal of Almira M. Stockton, et al, vs. Reuben C. Yeoman, et al, which went up from the Jasper circuit court. The appellants remonstrated against stone road petitions in Newton township, one by Yeoman and another by Everet Halstead. Both cases were appealed and the Halstead case will probably be decided in the same manner. Jay W. Stockton, who is opposed to the roads, says that he does not Intend to acknowledge defeat, however, and that he expects to take the cases up in a new action, making a vigorous opposition to the roads. The appellate court, opinion by

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