Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

When baby suffers with croup, apply and give Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil at once. Safe for children. A little goes a long way. 25c and 50c. At all drug stores. Miss Ruth Bibbony, age 17, the daughter of John Gibbony, of Elwood, awoke Friday and found she was totally blind. She retired on Thursday evening in good health, after studying her lessons for Friday. The physicians are of the opinion that a clot of blood has lodged against the optic nerv^. Impure blood runs you downmakes you an easy victim for disease. For pure blood and sound digestion—Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drug stores. Price SI.OO. John M. Wells, manager of the Loader store at Bedford, found an envelope containing $1.20, with a note from an unknown woman, who said she had taken a collar from the store some time)ago, and that the theft had troubled her conscience. The money inclosed was to pay for the collar. James D. Fort, of Jonesboro, will be a centenarian if he lives until March 18, 1914. Hale and hearty at 99, he has peace and health possessed by few men at 80 years old. Mr. Fort might be mistaken for a man only 70 yoars old. He says that drinking buttermilk has "kept him young.

Frank Anderson, who lives east of Rochester, last $1,500 worth of hogs during the pa.st three months in a very peculiar manner. The animals died as the ’result of eating toothpicks contained in garbage. Mr. Anderson was not aware of the cause of thefr death until recently when after cutting one of the hogs open, he found three toothpicks lodged in the stomach in such a manher that death was caused by internal bleeding.