Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dunlap and Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Lee returned Sunday from a delightful two weeks’ sojourn spent at Green Bay and Benderville, Wis., and including a pleasant and successful trout fishing side trip to Pembine, about ninety miles above Green Bay Mr. and Mrs. Lee are from Dallas, Tex., and will depart for their home shortly. Friday was the hottest August 28 in St. Louis since 1836—the official temperature reaching 101 degrees at 3 o’clock. The humidity was low and this prevented much suffering. Warnings against a counterfeit S2O gold certificate discovered in circulation was issued by the treasury department Friday. The ©heck letter is “C” and the number 132. - Secretary Bryan has appointed John H. James, a lawyer and newspaper man of Urbana, 0., chief of the division ©J information of the state department, to succeed Sevellon Brown, resigned. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sells has appointed Peru Farver, a full-blood Choctaw, as superintendent of the Armstrong Male Orphan academy, a government school at Academy, Okla. For some time Farver has been the chief teacher there. Fruit, fresh, eggs and other farm products are being forwarded by mail in ever increasing quantities from the suburban producer to the urban breakfast table, according to Postmaster General Burleson. The parcel post system is used. Lucius E. Pinkham, of Hawaii, who was nominated July 29 for governor of Hawaii by President Wilson, has been notified that a protest against his confirmation has been filed. A hearing on the protest will be held at Washington Sept. 2. An insurgent movement among democratic senators that threatened to break party lines on the income tax was headed off by the leaders Thursday by an agreement to revise the tariff bill so as to levy a heavier tax on the incomes from large fortunes. Representative Britten, of Illinois, has introduced a bill to appropriate $7,000,000 for a government armor plate plant. His idea is to break the “trust now controlling armor plate.” Representative Gregg introduced a resolution to have a committee investigate the “armor plate trust.”

It is believed a man murdered in Giainesville, Ga., in July, 1911, was Howard Webb, a cattleman oi Ft. Wayne. A brother of Webb has sent the Gainesville chief of police a description of the missing cattleman and this tallies with that of the murder victim. H. P. Witte is accused of the murder. Frank Canfield, of Goldsmith, age 35, was crushed to death late Tuesday in a gravel pit ten miles west of Latfayettet There were several other workmen near at the time, and when they saw a huge bank of gravel fall on Canfield and bury him, they worked heroically to rescue the unfortunate man. He was dead when taken out. An experiment station publication tells of a White Leghorn hen Jn New England weighing 3.2 pounds, which laid in one year 257 eggs weighing on an average 1.8 ounces each. The eggs sold for $7.43, and the hen ate 110 pounds of feed costing $1.66, or a return over the oost of feed of $5.77. The same hen laid two hundred eggs in her second year. John L. Peetz, state superintendent of the Children’s Home society of Indiana, Wednesday tendered his resignation to the board of directors. Mr. Peetz resigns to go to Oregon in hope of benefiting his health. Mr. Peetz was state statistician from 1908 to 1910, and was renominated in 1910, but went down in defeat with the rest pf the republican ticket. Ralph DePalma, shooting hos big Mercer around the track at an average of 66.3 miles an hour, won the race for the Chicago Automobile club trophy on the opening day of the fourth annual road race over the Elgin, lU., course Friday before a crowd of 12,000 persons. DePalma’s victoi*y brings him $1,750 in cash and possession of the trophy for one year.