Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Marriage Licenses. May 4—Ernest H. L. Haas, born Lake county, Ind., Feb. 6, 1890, residence Fair Oaks, occupation farmer, and Little Myrtle Cooper, born Jasper county, April 30, 1896, residence Kniman; first marriage for each. ————■ —'■ - '' *■ '• May 4—Jolhn Bower, born Lake county, Ind., Dec. 25,1883, residence Lake county, occupation farmer, and Wanda V. Haas, born Lake county, Nov. 22, 1880, residence Fair Oaks, first marriage. Mrs. Gilbert Lewis is quite sick with rheumatism at her home north of town. W. R. Lee, who has been suffering from the rheumatism for some time, is now confined in bed with the disease. Attorney Halleck and County Clerk Perkins were in Valparaiso Saturday, where the records of this county in the Marble ditch were used in evidence submitted in a dyge case that is being tried in the Porter circuit court.

According to J. H. McGillivray, deputy state forestry warden, there are 48,000 deed in\Michigan—44,ooo in the upper peninsula and 4,000 in the northern part of the area south of the Straits of Machinac. The new Hamburg-American liner Vaterland, largest steamship in the world, has had its trials in Norwegian waters. It made 25.4 knots an hour against the wind and 26 knots with it. The machinery developed an average of 90,000 horse power. Administration leaders won the second round of the fight to repeal the tolls exemption provision of the Panama Canal act when the senate canals committee, -by a vote of 8 to 6, ordered the house bill carrying the repeal reported to the senate. Constant increase in the meat production of the country is predicted by experts of the federal! forest service in announcing ah increase in the number of live stock for which grazing permits have been authorized on the 160 national forests for 1914, as compared with last year.

In recognition of his services to science and assistance in supplying France with anti-meningitis serum during the epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis in 1909, President Poincare has conferred upon Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for’Medical Research, in New York city, the cross of chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Treaties with most of tjhe nations of Europe, designed to put an embargo on obscene post cards and writings, were ordered favorably reported- to the senate Wednesday by the foreign relations committee. Practicably every nation in Europe and Brazil in South America has negotiated such a treaty with the United States. ,*.••• , s Use our Classified Column. A Classified ad. will sdl It