Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Measles and Whooping Oongh .Notice. All cases of measles and whooi> ing eough in Rensselaer must be reported to the city health officer.. If no physidn is in attendance notify health officer direct. All houses wherein there are measles must-be carded. Whooping cough cases must be kept from school and public meetings. M. D. GWIN, M. D., City Health Officer.

Regular Army Instructor To Be With Militia Tonight. Sergeant Cook, of the U. S. army, will be with Company M tonight and it is hoped that every member will be on hand to get the benefit of his instruction. Free Soup Saturday. A demonstrator will be at McFarland’s grocery store Saturday for the Snider line of soubs, pork and beans, chili sauce, oyster cocktails, salad dressing, etc. Everybody invited.

Professional Notice. During my absence in New York and Baltimore my practice will be left in the care of Dr. C. E. Johnson, and all calls will receive the same attention I would have given them personally. DR. I. M. WASHBURN. Good Work Horses. We have shipped in a carload of good work horses from lowa. Any person in need of good horses should see H. F. Kink or John M. Knapp. The horses are at s£napp’s livery barn.

Ghurch of God /Services. Elder S. J. Lindsay, of Oregan, 111., will preach at the Church of God next Sunday at 10:45 a. m., and 7 p. m. Everybody cordially invited. Police killed thirty dogs in one day at Sullivan by order of the health department to kill at sight all unmuzzled dogs found running at large. Mrs. Sylvia J. Ricketts, of Lpwrenceburg, has been notified by the war department that her son, William E. Mermoud, an army private, killed his wife and committed suicide. He was stationed at Fort Mead, S. Dak.

Mrs. Benjamin Havens, of Mothersville, 111., has been asleep thirtyseven days, and shows no indications of awakening. , While a resident of Wyoming, 111., several years ago, Mrs. Havens slept 102 days. The present one is her third sleep. Doctors are at a loss to account for the series. She is given liquid food through a tube. When President Taft retired from public life he took with him a record for travel that will probably stand for some years. It is estimated that during the four years he was president he traveled about 125,000 miles, or the distance around the world at the equator. The, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western established an unusual record for train movement several days ago when It moved from Slateboro Junction to Port Morris, Pa.-, a coal train more than a mile long. The distance between the two points over the new cut-off , line Is about thirty miles. The train consisted of IX2 cars of coal, with three engines at the head and two at the rear. It is said that the average freight speed, but it is admitted that the immense pull of the engines at the front caused several couplings to break.