Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Are You Constipated? If so, get a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills, take them regularly and your trouble will quickly disappear. They will stimulate the liver, improve your digestion and get rid of all the poisons from your system. They will surely get you well again. 25c at A. F. Lofig «. • Richard B. Olney, of Boston, sent a letter to President Wilson Saturday formally declining the ambassadorship to England. Dispatches from Washington, D. C., state that naval enlistments at recruiting stations last month exceeded those for March of last year by 171, and the total enlistments since the first of the year have pleased navy department officials. Discovery of smallpox in the Lane Technical high school at Chicago has caused the health department to put forth evfery effort to prevent a possible epidemic. Louis Knutson, 19 years old, was taken ill while at work in the /vocational department. Meatrice Montgomery, of Jeffersonville, who sued the Louisville & Southern Traction company for $5,000 five years ago, has just been awarded $1 and directed to pay the costs of the litigation; She was 8 years old when hurt by a traction car.

The Baltimore and Ohio railway announced recently that it will expend $27,000,000 within the next year in improving its Pittsburg division. The work will include the construction of additional tracks, new bridges, and improvements in terminal facilities.

Unless provision is made at the extra session of congress for the perpetuation of a law passed in 1906, and which will expire next July, the number of youths who can be appointed thereafter to the naval academy at Annapolis, will be reduced one-half.

President Wilson has offered the post of ambassador to Great Britain to Richard Olney, of Massachu-. setts, who was secretary of state in Cleveland’s second administration. There is some doubt whether Olney will be able to accept because of his health and advanced age.

A bill requiring all railroads doing business in Missouri to incorporate under the laws of that state was passed by the Missouri house of representatives Tuesday. The purpose of the proposed law is to make it possible for persons to sue the railroads in the state court.

Raymond Vick, a telegraph operator on the B. & O. S. W. at Fleming, was found guilty in the Jacks ju county court, on the charge of mutilating an American flag. It was alleged Vick shot six holes through a flag floating over a school house. He was fined $25 and costs.

An instrument that would improve the New York public schools, say Prof. Frank M. McMurry, of the Columbia Teachers’ college, is the rod. Prof. McMurry urged the readoption of corporal punishment, which is now forbidden, in his report to the committee that has been making a searching investigation of the school system.

The medical inspection of children In the Huntington schools, after a year's trial, is pronounced a great success. One thousand and fifty pupils were examined by Dra. Scudder and Galbraith, and of these a large number were found who needed treatment of some sort, and ninety of the childrim’s parents acted upon the advice of the physl clans. In some cases adenoids or tonsils were removed, glasses were fitted, or teeth repaired. ;

What has become of the old-fash-ioned boy who believed that his father could whip any man in town?