Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Charley Parker, the oil man, was ove? from Remington Saturday and reports that -hie son, Russell, who is- almost 19 years of age, is a victim of tuberculosis and Is rapidly failing in health and for some time now has been unable to leave the house. Mr. Parker’s sister, Mrs G. V. Moss, who had bean-visiting at the Parker home for the past week, came here Saturday and went to her home at Frankfort on the 2:01 train. Sugar keeps on advancing and was advanced 50 Cents a hundred since we purchased out last two .oars. We have not yet advanced our price and will sell you H. and E. fine granulated sugar in 100 lb! bags at $4.75; ,25 lb. bag at $1.25. JOHN EGER.

Will Knox was down from Chicago Saturday for a short visit with •his father, Thos. A. Knox and other relatives. Will disposed of his drugstore in Chicago last spring and has not re-entered business for himself. He says that conditions in Chicago are bad and have been growing worse and he fixes the blame on the democratic tariff measure. He says he does not care to invest his money in business again until there is a change.

Leslie Shigley received a message Sunday that his mother, Mm Albert Shigley, was very near death in 'Seattle, Wash, and he left for that city. Mrs. Shigley formerly lived in Rensselaer but has been in the west for some time. She is 49 yearn of age and for the past two months has been in the tuberculosis sanitarium at Richmond Hill, Wash. She is a sister of Mrs. W. S. Richards, who planned a trip to see her at just about the time she entered the sanitarium. Mrs. Richards deferred going now, giving assistance to her nephew, so that he could make the trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Wells left Sunday for Cincinnati, where he will be employed by the Independent Agricultural Association, jwhdch specializes in fertilizer. He expects to make a study of the manufacture of fertilizer wfith a view to learning the business from every angle. Sim has for some time been employed by W. R. Lee and had expected to run the Lee store at Mt. Ayr, but he has hod the Cincinnati job under consideration for several months and it held out such excellent promise for the fu ture that he decided to accept it and his many friends will wiish for him abundant success.

Warner T. Elmore was over from Remington today. He says that chicken thieves have been raising havoc there and Saturday night a new variety of thieves visited this home. They ate a watermelon, apparently having taken their time to do iso, sitting in the dining room and throwing the rinds out of a. wndOw. They also took SO cents worth of meat, 50 cents worth of coffee and all of the bread’ and cookies on hand. Warner does not suspicion any of the promoter® of the Indiana Northwestern' Traction Ca, however, a® there are none of them stopping at Remington right now.

Mrs. Alice Irwin Thompson, who will be remembered by many as a school teacher before her marriage, was a Sunday guest of her cousin, Fred Phillips and family, and also of Mrs, F. W. Vanatta, of Fowler, who also spent thtf day here. Mrs. Thompson’s husband was an instructor jfor some years in the state normal school, but has resided at Columbus for several years past and is a teacher in the schools there Their only daughter is engaged in library work in Illinois. This was the first visit Mm Thompson had made here for about 22 years. Three Bkxnhington druggists will be tried before the state board of pharmacy Aug. 7, charged with selling liquor without license.