Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1914 — Page 2

The Ladies’ Aid. The old church bell had long been cracked; / • Its call was but a groan; It seemed to sound a funeral knell With every broken tone. • / “We need a bell,” the brethren cried, “But taxes must be paid; We have no money we can spare— Juert ask the Ladies’ Aid.” M The shingles on the roof were old; The rain came down tn rills; The brethren slowly shook their heads And spoke of “monthly bills.” The chairman of the board arose. And said,' *1 am afraid That we shall have’ to lay the case Before the Ladies’ Aid.The carpet had been* patched and patched Till quite beyond repair; And through the aisles and on the steps The boards tshowed, hard and bare • . - r —, . ■ “It is too bad” the brethren said; “An effort must be made To raise an interest on the part Of members of the Aid.” The preacher’s stipend was behind; The poor man blushed to meet The grocer and the butcher as Theypassed him on the street. Bui'nobly spoke the brethren then, C Pastor, you shall be paid! We’H call upon the treasurer • I' Of our good Ladies’ Aid.” “Ah!” said the men, “the way to heaven ' Is long and hard and steep; With slopes of ease on either side, The path ’tis hard to keep. We cannot climb the heights alone; Our hearts are sore dismayed; We ne’er shall get to heaven at all Without the Ladies’ Aid.” —Selected.

LEE.

Mr. and Mrs. Aca Holman, Mrs. Kate Holman, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Culp and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gilmore and children, all spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holman and family at Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. True Woodworth and son, of Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Tyner, of Monon, Miss Irene Bailey, Mr. N. Gratner and Misses Marie and Edna Tyner, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Jacks* of Lee, and Ward Tyner, of-Monon, spent Christmas with Wm Jacks at Monticello. •Buy Snow Loaf flour of O. A. Jacks, Lee, Ind, and get the best. James Blankenship went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Mellender went to West Pullman Tuesday for a week’s visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Elmre Hoover are helping the boys in the absence of their parents. Start the New Year right by trading with O. A. Jacks, Lee, Ind. George Foulks went to Rensselaer Tuesday. Elmer Gilmore is. on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Thorsten Otterberg, of Rensselaer* Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler, of Lafayette, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks, at Lee. Mrs. Woolseiver, of Lafayette, visited Mrs. Alt Jacks last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lewis, of Remington, visited Mrs. Ann Rishling and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lewis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Jacks visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holman and family Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton and family visited Mr and Mrs. Wm. Stiers Sunday. Home made sorghum, 60c, at O. A. Jacks’. Miss Agnes Stiers and Harry Noland have the mump.' Jamies Anderson is still quite poorly. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lewis spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jacks and family. / Mr. and Mrs. Harold LaMar spent Christmas with his parents at Francesville. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jacks and family spent Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clark.

RESULTS THAT REMAIN

Are Appreciated by Rensselaer . , J People. Thousands who suffer from backache and kidney complaint have tried one remedy after another, finding only temporary benefit. This is discouraging, but there is one kidney medicine that has earned a reputation for lasting esuits and there is plenty of proof of its merit right here in Rensselaer. Here is the testimony of one who used Doan’s Kidney Pills years ago, and now makes his testimony even stronger. Jacob R. Wilcox, Dayton Street, Rensselaer, Ind., saye: “The statement I gave for publication a few yearn ago in praise of Doan’s Kidney Pills still holds good. The cure they made has been permanent I had pains throug hmy loins and was in misery day and night. I always felt tired and worn-out and was annoyed by a distressing kidney weakness. Nothing relieved me until I began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills. They were of such great benefit that I consider them worthy of the highest endorsement.’* Nor eale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Noster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.

ROCK PHOSPHATE RESULTS Work of County Agent in Building Up Soils.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] Wherever I have found phosphate rock applied under suitable conditions, the returns have been very profitable. Last week W. H. B. McCormick, of Hopedale, showed me a field of hilly land on which he had applied phosphate rock five years ago to young cloves. The next crop of clover showed a very marked increase in growth and the corn crop following was over sixty bushels per acre, which was the best that season in the neighborhood on that character of land. The effect of the phosphate has been evident every year and now after five years the clover is much, heavier in that part of the field where.phosphate rock had been applied. He applied some to a field which is now in oatc and the oats look considerable heavier on that part of the field. H. S. Griesemer, of Hopedale, showed me a field, where he applied ground phosphate rock five years and six years ago to the north twenty acres of one forty. This year the corn on that half of the field looks considerably taller and darker in color arid promises to make a much heavier crop. This is more noteworthy considering that the results from phosphate show pririciply in the grain. Ralph Alien’s big yield or wheat, forty bushels to the acre on forty acres, is the talk of the southern part of the county and that was on a field where phosphate rock had been applied in 1910. So great a yield into dry a season is certainly sufficient evidence of the benefit secured from this .material. W. H. Baldwin, of Delavan, has greatly increased the crop production of his farm in the last ten years by rotating of crops, clover and live stock. Much of the land in Tazewell county needs only clover and the cheapest kind of phosphate rock, to make it yield as much as the richest land in the world. It has everything else that is required. When we raise clover and put phosphate rock on the land we make the conditions ideal. lhe fact that the benefits shown for years after the application is sufficient evidence of the wisdom of this method of increasing the crops.— E. T. Robbins, Agent, Tazewell County, I 1L —- ' -

A BUG CLUB

Fanners Must Co-Operate in Eradicating Dangerous Insects.

By S. M. Jordan.

If, in a community where the Heesian fly is giving trouble, all the farmers would co-operate they could practically eradicate it in from one to three years. The key to the situation is that this insect goes into what is known as the flaxseed stage as the wheat ripens. It remains on the stubble usually from two to four weeks, depending on weather conditions. If the weather after harvest for that length of time is especially dry, not much damage need be expected the following year from the fly. If there is reasonable moisture much damage may be expected, as the moisture assists the larvae in breaking its shell or covering, also causing the volunteer grain to begin to grow, on which the young larvae feed. If plowed and disced down well the larvae are buried and cannot escape. A second best way is to destroy all volunteer grain and sow the wheat in the fall late as it will possibly do. Sometimes the method of trapping is resorted to, and this is done by sowing a narrow strip very early around the sowngrain, then just about the time for sowing the wheat crop this crop should be very completely plowed under, the ground well disced and rolled if possible.

WHEAT, 1c; CORN AND OATS, I/2C.

“Grain as it is now being handled by the Grain Exchanges is being handled at less cost than any other commodity in the world.”—Co-operative Farmer and Manager ■ ■ - ~."7

THE CO-OPERATIVE GOAT.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] For some unknown reason, it seems to be generally the case that whenever there is a movement for cooperative selling there is present some impracticable, unsuccessful man, who is the prime mover in the agitation, and who wants himself appointed president or general manager.—Lloyd S. Tenny.

OATS SMUT ABUNDANT

[National Crop Improvement Service.) There is very much smut in th* oats this year. During the last two weeks I have examined many fields and have found in many instances from 5 to 10 per cent of the plants affected by smut. In one instance the percentage of smut was as high as 15 per cent. Every plant affected by smut produces no grain but it requires just as much plant food from the soil as a healthy plant. The plants affected by smut are not usually so tall as the others and so are not conspicuous. Farmers have told me they had never noticed any smut in their oats even though the count showed as much as 5 per cent of the Clants affected. On the basis of a M ushel yield of oats 5 per cent of smut would mean a decrease of 2% bushels per acre and 10 per cent of smut would mean a loss of 5 bushel* per acre while the worst field I found having 15 per cent of smut will have a loss of over 7 bushels per acr* from that cause. The loss from oats smut can be easily prevented. Treating seed oats with formaldehyde every three year* is sufficient. The formaldehyde treatment will cost about three cents an acre for the year that it is applied, or an average of one cent per acre per year for the materials. There is little work connected with the treatment When oats can be treated so cheaply there is no reason for any one sustaining a loss of from five to seven bushels per acre.—E. T. Robbins.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND

REMINGTON.

The Rebekahs conducted a Xmae exchange Tuesday eve, Dec. 23, and it proved a very happy event, the hall being prettily decorated. Mr.-Apd Mrs. I. D. Lucky spent Christinas week in Windfall with Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Graham. Miss Irene Balcom spent Xmae week here with relatives. ’ 7 / Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bellows, of Rensselaer, were with their son, Edward and family Xmas day. The young ladies’ telrcle of the Christian church held a New Years exchange at the home of Mrs. Waiter Gillam. - Mrs. Yeoman is numbered among the sick this week. The Presbyterian shower will be in the new church basement late in January. The M. E.i Missionary society met Tuesday with the president- Mrs. Ed Peck, leader, Mr.s James Washburn. Invitations were extended to the other societies Mr an address in the M. E. church Jan. 11, by a returned missionary from India. The class of T 3 and a few friends enjoyed a-reunion Saturday evening at tiie Geier home, the hostesses being Miss Helen Geier and Miss Rachel Smalley. Adrian Foster came home Xmas eve from Lafayette and spent the vacation in the enjoyment of La Grippe, missing the Xmas sports. Max Broadie was home for Xmas and a few days. Miss Rosella Burton has resigned her position in Hicks store, Miss Claire Broadie taking her place. Mr. Flint and family, of Rensselaer, made a holiday visit here with relatives. (Miss Efhel Smalley returned to her school at Ambia Sunday evening. Dr. and Mrs. Rowe Robinson spent Xmas day in Good!and with • Mrs. Shelland and other relatives. Mother Cornwall is visiting her two sons. Miss Ruth Tribby is spending the week in Wolcott with Miss Eva Sullivan. The Rebekah lodge celebrated the December birthdays Tuesday eve in happy fashion. Prof. Large is visiting friends here for a few days. Edgar Tribby left Monday and will have charge of the imported horses owned by Mr. Wellingt n> which are to be exhibited shortly in Bloomington. Mr. and Mirs. Earl Sullivan are the parents of a daughter, second child, born Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bowman and child spent Xmas with their parents.

Maurice Eck was home for Xmas. Miss Avis Crowder, of. East Chicago, is spending the holiday vacation with her numerous friends here. Miss Garnet McNary spent the latter part of Xmas week in Watsoka I Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cote, of Ambia, returned home Friday after a holiday visit with Mr. and Mrs. D. O’Connor. Ray Tyler and family, of Pierrepont, S. Dak., have been visiting their relatives here the past few weeks. Bernard Hargreaves, of . Chicagospent Xmas and the week end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Boicourt returned the first of the week to their home in Indianapolis. Irene and Harry Howard spent Xmas with Grandma Howard in Chicago. Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Bull kept open house at the Presbyterian manse Wednesday afternoon and Xmas eve, assisted by Mrs. Wm. Geier, the Misses Bessie Hitchcock, Bessie Grey and Irene Mann, and the teachers of the classes, the primary grades in the afternoon and adults Xmas eve, An electrically lighted Xmas tree proved a great attraction, supplemented by candy and ice cream and dainty sweets. The church . members appreciated the efforts put forth by their minister and his wife to give the Sunday School its Xmas enjoyment.'The other churches held enjoyable Xmas programs for their members and everywhere good fellowship was seen. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bonner and daughter went-to Sandwich, 111., for the Xmas season. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Turley made a Xmas visit to his parents in Illinois. Olubs. Mrs. Wm. Broadie is hostess to the Fortnightly Club Wednesday, Jan. 14. Miss Alice Jones receives the Sew and Sew Club, Jan. 9th. Miss Claire Broadie receives the Dorcas Club Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, this being the annual business session. The Jolly Club will meet with Mrs. Chas. Brand Jan. 10th. The Dorcas Club Xmas session proved a very happy affair, Mrs. Chas. Bowman being hostess in her beautiful new bungalow. The minutes read: “On Tuesday eve there’s going to be A grand good time and a Xmas tree; And all the little girls you know Will be at Bowman’s bungalow. No’uns been asked who’s over eight, So come on, Kid, now don’t be late.” So the “kids’* were all there, Santa Claus too, and a tree and Sacks of candy- wherein were found tickets directing the holder to a hidden Xmas parcel. Beautiful pieces of needlework and fine art rewarded the searchers.

RESOLUTION SALE C. EARL DUVALL > BEGINNING JANUARY IST AND LASTING 30 DAYS We will sell our Men’s and Boys’ Suits and Overcoats at the wholesale prices. Overcoats and Suits all the latest styles

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CAPS $5.00 Seal Skin Caps - 4.00 4.d0 Fur Caps - - 3.00 3.50 Fur Caps - - 2.50 3.00 Fur Caps ------ - 2.00 2.50 Fur Caps - - 1.75 2.00 Fur Caps - - 1.50 1.50 Fur Caps - - 1.00 ■ * ... - ■ _ - J I , - ■ - GOATS Men’s $6.00 Sheep Coats - $4.50 Men’s 5.00 Sheep Coats - 3.50 Men’s 4.00 Sheep Coats - 3.00 Men’s 6.50 Leather Coats - , 5.00

It will pay every person in the country and surrounding counties to attend this sale, we must sell these Suits and Overcoats to get ready for our spring lines '7' " - •»-» - . i . C. Earl Duvall Rensselaer, Indiana

MILROY.

Perfect Spencer and family and Henry -Goble ate dinner Tuesday with Mrs. George Foulks. F„ E. Johnson returned Tuesday Jrom a visit with his father, the first visit for twenty years. Mrs. Howard and Wm. Stewart and daughters took dinner Saturday with Mrs. G. L. Parks and family. Howard and William Stewart and families ate oysters and enjoyed Christmas evening with G. L. Parks. G. L. Parks transacted business in Rensselaer Tuesday. '~ Glen McKinley spent Monday night with Earl Foulks. A ntfmber Of friends and neighbors met at John Southard’s Wednesday evening.

OVERCOATS Men’s Fur Overcoats $32. co Russian calf $28.00 “ “ “ 30.00 “ “ 25.00 “ “ “ 30.00 horsehide 25.00 “ “ “ 30.00 Gilloway 25.00 “ 28.00 “ 22.50 “ “ 25.00 horsehide 20.00 “ “ “ 22.50 horsehide 17.50 Men’s Overcoats 25,00 chinchilla 18.00 “ 20.00 “ 14.00 “ “ 22.50, gray cloth - 17.00 “ 25.00 black kersey 18.00 “ “ 20.00 “ “14.00 20.00 gray, brown 14.00 18.00 “ “ 13.00 “ “ 16.50 “ “ 12.00 “ “ 15.00 “ “. ■ .11.00 “ “ 12.00 “ “ 8.00 Youth’s Overcoats 12.00 grade 8.00 “ ’ 10.00 “ 7.00 “ “ 7.00 “ 5.00 Children’s Overcoats 5.00 ‘ f . ~ 3.50 “ “ 3-50 “ 2.50 Same Prices on all Men’s, Youth’s and Boys’ Suits. Any Style—Suits or Overcoats

Martha Clark visited Cecil Jordan’s school Tuesday. Mr. Chambers moved this week and Jack Weaver moved tb the house vacated by Mr. Chambers. Wm. Stewart and family, of Mississippi, who came for a short visit with his brother, Howard Stewart and family, returned home Sunday. Lud Clark spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Fred May, who has been sick with gall stones, the physician thinking it possible for her to undergo an operation. Rev. Sutton preached Sunday to a goodly number and in the evening Glen McKinly also preached an uplifting sermon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell and Mrs. G. Foulks and Earl and Martha Clark ate dinner Sunday with Ed McKinly*s.

BIG SALE OF BOYS’ NORFOLK KNICKERBOCKER SUITS SIO.OO grade for - - 7.00 8.50 grade for - - 6.00 7.50 grade for - - 5.00 6.50 grade for - - 4.50 5.00 grade for k - - 3.50 3 =50 grade for -X- -y 2. 50 Watch Our Windows - .. t-7- 7 ■ ' • X—X ! . ' •

The Rebekah installation will take place Friday night of this week, Jan. 2nd. A full attendance is desired.—Noble Grand. Typewriter paper at Republican.

Mrs. E. Marchand has been sick but is now improving. Rev. Sutton will be here Sunday, January 11, at 3 p. m. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Sunday morning. AU come. If you have any unredeemed certificates from the California Perfume Co. which you are willing to turn to the credit of the Monnett School please call Phone 447, so the tickets may be called for and sent in at once.

Rebekah Installation.