Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

- Now comes science with the only guaranteed method of determining whether a man is drunk. It is the “taximeter.” It is an invention of a German, Dr. Schwensheimer. With the new motor a scientist can tel not only whether one is drunk, but the degree of intoxication. Detailed reports to the navy department show that since January the department has succeeded in getting 2,200 recruits, 500 of which were obtained within the last months. Officials say these figures break all records and are attributed to the interest the department is takipg in the sailor class of the navy, the belief that there will be a great navy and the expectation of better wages. John Stively, the oldest man; now living .in Rensselaer, brought to The Republican office Saturday three large pears on a single sprig. The three weighed 31 and we were planning to display them when some one uninvited helped themselves to the largest. Mr. Stively did not know the variety of the pear, but they are a very fine kind, vastly superior to the Kiefer and jnuch larger, also. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Nay, of Mt. Ayr, who were returning from a trip to southern Indiana and Ohio, were in Rensselaer a short time this morning. They attended the Primitive Baptist Association meeting in Lawrence county the last of August and have been visiting relatives since that time. Mr. Nay says that the drouth has ruined the corn crop in the south part of the state and he saw many hundred acres no taller than two feet. In some parts of Ohio he visited the corn was very good until suffering from late drouth. J. DeLong, who located here several months ago in the cigar making business, has about decided to give it up as a bad job. He haff been unable to establish a local market for his product, although smokers have all said that his cigars are first class. Lately Mr. DeLong has been in rather poor health and a trip to the springs did him little good. 1 He now expects to • leave Rensselaer the last of this week and may return to his former home near Philadelphia. He is a pleas-, ant gentleman and his business relations with people here have been in every way pleasant and it is regrettable that he could not have secured sufficient business to have continued here.

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