Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Western Canada was invaded by 140,000 settlers from the United States during the season ended Sept. 30, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Bruce Walker, commissioner of immigration at Winnipeg. This immigration was a slight increase over last year. A collection of old books and documents, owned by Walter Clark, of Greenfield, this state, and exhibited at a Greenfield store, includes a book, “Travels and Adventures in Canada from 1760 to 1774,” by Anderson Henry, published in 1809, that is of historical value.

NOTICE TO CONTBACTOBS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Inch, will on the 13th day’ of October, 1913, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., receive sealed bids for the construction of two cement sidewalks according to plans for same along the west side of Lot No. 8, in Block 38, on Webster Street, in Weston’s Add., and also along the south side of Lot No. 13, in Block *3B, on the north side of Cherry Street, Weston’s Add. Bidders must accompany their bids with certified check in sum of f 10.00, as evidence of good faith and. the successful bidder will be required to give bond in sum of SIOO.OO for the performance of contract. Done by order of Common Council of said City. Witness my hand and seal of said City this 25th day of September, 1913. CHAS. MORLAN, Clerk. Captain A. B. Davis, for twenty years a captain of revenue cutters on the great lakes, died at the home of his son in Chicago Wednesday morning. Captain Davis served thirteen years beyond the regular retiring age by special appointment from President Roosevelt. New York was deluged Wednesday by the heaviest rainfall in its history. Transportation lines, including the subway, were tied up for hours; hotel cellars and the power plants of lofty buildings were flooded, causing a cessation of business, and two men were killed by electric shocks for which the downpour was directly responsible;