Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A bill to increase the size of the supreme court of the United States from nine to eleven justices was introduced Tuesday in the senate by Mr. Gore. A clean bill of health was given the Marion branch of the National home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in the annual report of Major W. H. Gordon. Glenn H. Gordon won the McKinley corn growing prize for Champaign county, 111., with a yield of 10714 bushels an acre of water free corn, tested by university experts under Ulinois corn growers’ rules. Have you noticed the new electric lighting system of the R-C-H car sold by John Knapp? The cars are equipped with 12-ineh Bullet r elec : trie head lights and double parabolic lens, and 6-inch Bullet electric side lights with parabolic lens. United States Senator William Alden Smith will represent Michigan in the upper house of congress for another term of six years. He was re-elected Wednesday afternoon by the legislature, having eight votes to spare on the ballots taken in the two houses. J. S. of Rhode Island, won the quadrennial race to Washington with the electoral vote of his state Wednesday. At 9 o’clock Wednesday morning when the office of the vice-president at the capitol opened Mr. McCabe was waiting to deliver the vote of his state. Chicago gained $61,000,000 from convention visitors during 1912, according to figures compiled by the Chicago Association of Commerce. The estimate was presented Wednesday by Howard Elting, newly elected president of the organization, in his inaugural 7 address at Hotel LaSalle. Plans for a “blue and gray” monument at Fitzgerald, Ga., believed to be the first in the United States, have been accepted by the commission in charge of construction. Tine monument will be of bronze and cost $15,000. At the base statues of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis will stand together and Grant and Lee will be represented as clasping hands.

Basket Ball At The Armory Saturday January 18 HAMMOND HUBBARDS vs* Co. M Gen. Admis. 25c. Ladles 15c, Game called at 8:30 p.m. ♦ ' '+ -;:y :