Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. I Visit the.s and 10 Cent Store. r I’ There is many a microbe twixt the cup and the lip. Fancy China Pie\J4ates for 10c at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Anson Cox is here from Chicago on a short business trip. - - See our complete line of buggies. HAMILTON & KELLNER. Many a girl accepts a fellow to keep some other girl guessing. Remember the entertainment at the M. E. church Monday evening. A new assortment of postal cards, 6 for 5e at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. The chronic boYe ought to take a day off ant,L get acquainted with himself. Poultry feed; chop bran and middlings, for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. ' The truth is mighty, but some •men would hate to have it told about them. The J. I. Case sulkies,, gangs and corn planters for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. • Beauty is more than skin deep in a sausage. But who" wants to be a sausage? v Don’t fail to see our seed potatoes •and get prices on thftn. JOHN EGER. When a woman tries to make up for lost time she wastes an hour painting and powdering. 2 J / 2 -quart granite coffee'pot for 10c by buying 25c worth of merchandise on Saturday at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Many cases of typhoid have been reported by physicians at Anderson. It is supposed the us 6 of impure water since the flood is the cause. Mrs. H. C. Hbshaw is making arrangements to move to Eureka, 11/., her former home. She expects to leave next week. George F, Meyers, who has been sojourning in Florida, writes to have his address changed to Richmond, Va„ from which we judge he is on his way home. The boys’ and girls’ dancing club gave a very pleasant dance Friday evening at the armory. The club membership has recently been enlarged to thirty-one, and it is proposed to "'limit the attendance to club members and 1 out-of-town guests. « -■■■ - Robert Reeve entertained quite a number of boys and girls Thursday evening at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reeve, on West Clark street. The. party was a very delightful affair for the young folks whose entertainment was well looked after by \ the hostess, his mother, and — Dode George, the commercial traveler, is here to spend Sunday. He reports business in his territory very poor. He attributes this con-, dition to the late spring, floods and the proposed tariff legislation, merchants not caring to lay in a supply of goods until the tariff matter is settled one way or the other. Chester Koons, son of Elias Koons, who lives on the Henry Harris place in Newton county, while trimming hedge yesterday, cut his foot badly when the axe slipped. The axe struck angling across his foot, cutting into the leaders. It required three stitches to close the wound. Koons is nineteen years old and married. He will be laid up for some time. Charles Arnold, who moved from Barkley township last year to a 160-acre farm which he purchased near Flint, Mich., writes very \enthusiastically of that city and country and encloses a clipping from a Flint newspaper showing the wonderful growth of that city. Only one other city, Los Angeles, in the United States, excels Flint in growth, the population having increased from 13,103 in 1900 to 38,550, in 1910, or 194.2 per cent. Today the population is upwards of 40,000. The increase is mainly due to the automobile industry, Flint being in the very center of it.

Baseball opening In the big leagues met considerable opposition from the weatherman and the “wet grounds” sign has been hung up since Thursday In several parks. The Cubs were unable to play the St.-Louis Cardinals either Thursday or Friday and Johnny Evers’ big boquet Is apt to be badly faded or frost-bitten before the initial game comes off. There was some big surprises opening day wherever the garpcs were played. McGraw’s Giants were held to on two hit shut out by the Boston Nationals with Perdue limiting the supposed sluggers to two blngles. ' Last year’s lowly Browns also defeated Detroit and Joo Wood of the 1912 world’s cnamps was bumped from the box and his team defeated In a crosstag contest by the C. M. Athletics. The sOaSon starts off with disappointments and surprises arid may end up with magnified conditions of the same kind. There’s many' a slip between April 10 and a baseball pennant.