Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Plenty of nice fresh strawberries, all week, at 12y 2 c a quart. JOHN EGER. With the unusual demand of a longer workday, more than 100 foreign laborers employed in construction work at the United States Steel plant in Gary went on strike last Thursday. The men were being paid 19% cents an hour for ten hours a day. They demanded they be permitted to work twelve hours a day. \ Vice President Thomas R. Marshall disposed of all his remaining real estate in Columbia City Saturday, trading it for a fine 102 acre farm two miles from Middlebury, Elkhart county. The farm cost s9,3oo.—Columbia City Mail. Mrs. L. A. Bostwick is selling the Spirella corset. Phone 549. Satisfaction guaranteed. The state convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will be held in South Bend, October 10-14. Announcement to this effect has been made by the St Joseph county W. C. T. U. officials. A glass syrup pitcher will be given away free with every 50c or more purchase at the new 5 and 10 Cent Store, opposite court house.