Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOW is-a good time to inspect our great line of Spring Suits on display at our store. TRAUB & SELIG. The navy department is in a quandary over what to do with $50,000 worth of silverware, gifts of states and cities to ships bearing their names, which have gone out of commission. All persons buying 50c or more worth of merchandise on Saturday will get a large mixing crock free, at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Dr. Kendrick C. Babcock, specialist in higher education in the U. S. Bureau of Education for the last three years; has been chosen dean of the collegiate department of the University of Illinois. We carry a-eomplete line of bulk garden seeds. Be sure and buy of us—they are new seeds. Rowen & Kiser, Phone 202. George M. Bowers, federal commissioner of fisheries, sent his resignation to President Wilson Wednesday to become effective April 10. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commissioner, is slated to succeed him. Start spring right by having the piano tuned. Prof. Otto Braun will do the work right. Orders may be left with any members of the boys' band. Since 1907 6,000,000 acres o>f swamp land in Minnesota reclaimed at a cost of $1.50 an acre, according to the report of the Mim nesota drainage commission. The report says reclaimed land is now worth from sls to S6O an acre. The Tennessee senate Wednesday concurred in a house resolution ratifying the federal constitutional amendment providing for the‘election of United States senators by popular vote. Thirty-four states have ratified the amendment. The necessary number is thirty-six. A rarity in congressional procedure will be the open caucus which will be held on Friday by the progressive members of the house of representatives. The doors will be flung wide open to the z press and any other persons who may care to see the beginning of a new party in congress.

Former Governor John Burke, of North Dakota Wednesday took the oath of office as treasurer of the United States, succeeding Carmi A. Thompson* who turned over $1,426,422,051.48 2-3 to the custody of the new democratic official. The 2-3 cent is part of a Tennessee estate bond held in the assets of the government. Under-graduate Yale welcomed former President Taft back to his alma mater Wednesday in a manner no Itss hearty and enthusiastic than was the godspeed given Woodrow Wilson by the Princeton, students when he left Princeton a month ago to take up the duties at Washington that Mr. Taft was about to lay down. Special arrangements have been made by United States Commissioner of Education Claxton with the Red Cross society whereby all funds raised by the schools of the country, in response to the commissioner’s appeal of March 27th, will be set apart from the general contributions and applied to the immediate task of helping children in the flooded districts to return to school. All schools in Terre Haute have been closed by health authorities, who feared an epidemic of smallpox, scarlet fever and measles. The impossibility of observing quarantine rules during the flood caused the action of the health authorities. Smallpox had been so prevalent before the flood that the health board has ordered compulsory vaccination of every • resident of Terre Haute. vj / The ROH cars are equipped with demountable rims and an extra rim is furnished without extra charge with each car. This makes it possible for » lady to take a tour slone with pleasure, as she does not have to worry Oyer the prospect of a blown out tire. What have you to sell? Why don’t, you sell it? A Republican classified ad will bring you a buyer willing to pay what It is worth.