Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1913 — Try our new range coal. Grant-Warner Lumber Co., Phone 458. [ARTICLE]

Try our new range coal. GrantWarner Lumber Co., Phone 458.

Albert Swartzell has started the erection of a house just north of the new residence George Mustard is building on College avenue near the depot. He expects to erect one or two other houses in the spring. Mr. Swartzell purchased several lots of Mrs. A. Parkison and sold one of them to Mr. Mustard.

Roast turkey and oyster dressing at Fate’s College Inn Christmas day.

Try our oysters put up in sanitary pint,quart or gallon cans. Ehipped direct from Maltimore. Nowels’ Restaurant

A Morocco bank had ordered calendars for distribution as a means of advertising but the calendars did not arrive owing to a misunderstanding and the bank decided to divide the SIOO that the calendars were to have cost equally among the four aid societies of that town. That was a good way to spend the money and it met the approval, doubtless, of the aid society members.

Roast turkey and oyster dressing at Fate’s College Inn Christmas day. By am oversight The Republican left the name of Eli Gerber out of the last of delegates selected at the democratic mass convention last Saturday. The Democrat asks: “Was this an oversight or has The Republican again soured on Gerber, who it so unmercifully abused when he was on the city council?” Presumably The Republican is expected to reply to this very courteous question and we take pleasure in doing so. It was an oversight. The Republican has not soured on Mr. Gerber “again”, as The Democrat puts it. During the more than eight yeans that the writer has .been connected with The Republican he has been on terms of near-friendship with Mr. Gerber, whom The Democrat denominates a “peanutter,” and The Republican never “unmercifully abused” him either. Mr, Gerber has been very staunch in his democracy and has given The •Republican but scant patronage, taking The Evening Republican, we believe, for about two weeks on one occasion and stopping it at the first appearance of an article opposing democratic doctrine. But Mr. Gerber paid- for what he received, as is his custom, and we have been just as friendly toward him as though he was a regular patron. Our friendships are not measured by the amount of .business some one does with us. Within the past lew months Mr. Gerber expressed himself as favoring N. Littlefield instead of Editor Babcock for the postoffice. Babcock at once cut Mr. Gerber from his list of friends and has since then taken little digs at him through the columns of- his faction-making newspaper. Just at this cheerful Christmas period The Republican wishes to express itself at peace with the world and not being on a single person. If our eelf-esteeemed brother down the street could cultivate this happy frame of mind, what a difference it would make in clearing up the grouch that has burdened him for so many years and which has seemed to intensify so greatly ever since he was tempted and fell because of his ambition to be the postmaster.