Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. C. Miliron Sells Restaurant to Postill. W. C. Miliron, who has for several years conducted a restaurant in the room ad joining the State Bank, has sold the business to Will ,H. Postill, the carpenter, who took charge Tuesday noon. Mr. MilMron has not been feeling very well and expects to rest up for a time before entering business and will visit his father at Denver, Ind., and his son, Robert Milliron, in Michigan. Mr. Postill has had considerable experience in the restaurant business and will doubtless make a success Of It. ' :

The 13th annual state convention of the Elks of Indiana will be held at Evansville on Wednesday and Thursday and it is expected that fully 1,500 Elks will attend. Fifteen thousand additional hands will be needed in Oklahoma to harvest the 1914 wheat crop, according to State Labor Commissioner Daugherty. The commissioner estimates the crop at 40,000,000 bushels, the largest the state has ever produced. Abraham Zimmerman, of Gary, and Wolf Mareovieh, of Indiana Harbor, both saloon keepers, have been arersted on indictments returned by the federal grand jury, charging violation of the internal revenue laws. They are charged with refilling whisky bottles. Chicago’s three caravels, familiar to thousands sipce the world’s fair, when they were presented to the city by the Spanish government, are safe at Erie, Pa, and have been given a thorough overhauling, according to word received Monday by J. E. Foster, superintendent of the south parks, Chicago.

Robert Cowan, 18-year-old aeronaut, was drowned in the Mississippi river at Alton, 111,, Saturday, through the falling of his balloon at a carnival given by the Loyal Order of Moose. The large crowd of men and women standing on the bluffs of Alton to watch the balloon ascension and flight were powerless to save the aeronaut as the hot-air bag, plunged into the water. Vice is said to have secured a foothold in Lafayette again and the ministers of the city drafted a communication and forwarded it to Mayor Bauer asking that places of vice be closed and that the mayor enforce the flaws and pledging the support of the ministers in doing so. The mayor has taken action according to The Journal and all brothels are to be closed.

.Russell Hatton, a young man who came from Royal Center, is employed at Fred Hemphill's blacksmith shop. He is a ball player, having played part of last year for Goodland. He will be given a tryout with the Athletics and in all probability will play with them next Sunday against the colored team from Chicago. • The Hammond Times, which was a few weeks ago declaring that there were no idle men in the Calumet region, now says: “With the large number of unemployed and an unusually large number of gen issude a warning to the residents in Hammond this morning to be more careful about leaving windows open and doors unlocked when leaving the house, giving sneak thieves an opportunity to ViTAiilr In?*