Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Blackford county farmers have organized a club for educational and commercial purposes. The convention of the Marshall County Sunday School association, just closed at Plymouth, was the largest ever held in the county. The contract has been let for a new centennial building at New Harmony, which is to be an auditorium, theatre and clubhouse. It will cost $27,000. Mrs. Elvessa McGinnis, 70 years old, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed her home at Covington, this She was alone in the house and too feeble to escape. Secretary Knox Tuesday issued a formal announcement to the public that the income tax amendment is now a part of the constitution, having been ratified by more than three-fourths of the states. Pleading guilty to the theft of two chickens, John Ayres, of Dar lington, Montgomery county, was sentenced to serve from one to eight years in the penitentiary and was disfranchised for three years. The grand jury of Vigo county is investigating a charge of bribery made by Henry Raeber, whb says he gave Mayor Gerhardt, of Terre Haute, a check for SSO to obtain appointment at plumbing inspector. , ‘

In view of the remarkable results achieved from the use of typhoid vaccination in the army, navy and civilian institutions, the war department is to urge and encourage the general use of the vaccine in all military organizations. As a result of a series of conferences between representatives of the Illinois Central and officers of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, more, than 1,000 telegraphers in the employ of the road have obtained a new contract with the company providing an increase in pay. The United States government took officii recognition of the claim of Dr. Frederick F. Friedmann to the discovery of a cure for tuberculosis, when by order of the sur-geon-general a physician of the United States marine hospital servlet Dr, Milton H, Foster, was sent to meet the young German physician on his arrival in New York city Tuesday aboard the steamship Kronprinzessfn Cecelfe. I have just received a car of pure bran and middlings at the mill, Phone 456. Ralph Sprague.