Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — RUSSIAN REFUGEE RETURNED TO CHICACO [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN REFUGEE RETURNED TO CHICACO

Woman Who Advocated SodalhLO in Russia Has Been in Jasper County Several Months. Stella PetrovHz, a Russian woman 32 years of age, who has for several months made her home' with Mrs. Sarah L. Jordan, of Bark* ley township, went to Chicago today, where she will meet her brother, who recently came from Russia. Miss Petro vitz is a remarkable woman, a' graduate of the St. Petersburg hospital and a cultured woman in every respect. She claims that a price had been placed on her head and that- she found it necessary some fifteen months ago to flee from Petrograd. The discovery of Polish socialist literature in her room caused her to be in danger. After arriving here she wks taken ill and for several months was a patient in’*the hospital of which Miss Nettie Jordan is the superintendent in Dlinois. Miss Jordan found so much to be admired about her that she arranged for her to come to the Jordan home to remain while regaining her health. In the seven months she has been here she has endeared herself to the Jordan family and they pronounce her one of the grandest characters they have ever known. Her plans for the future after meeting tier brother were not fully established. She claims to have been of a wealthy family in Russia and that thousands of acres of land belonging to the estate of her people is now being sold and that she will receive copsiderable money from there before long. Miss Petrovitz has not kept Informed about the war in which Russia is engaged, but expressed the hope that it would result in a changed map of Europe.

We have not raised our prices on flour and still’have plenty of old wheat flour in stock. We guarantee every sack to please you In every detail or we cheerfully refund your money.

ROWLES & PARKER.