Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The election is four weeks from today. Lon Kaiser went to Lafayette last evening and will return today. The Republican wants to print the news. Please inform us when you have visitors at your homes. The Lafayette jahr markt will probably attact a good many Rensselaer people this week and to all appearances it will be quite a show. In the fall as in the spring time An important duty lies; It is to get a swatter And proceed to swat the flies. Now’s the time to sell the things you don’t need. A Republican classified ad will turn the trick. Call us as Phone 18. Ed Duvall, son of John, left this morning for Omaha, Neb., where he expects to get a job as an electrician. Mr. and Mrs. John Mecklenberg went to Lafayette today to visit their son, Charley and to attend the jahr markt. Mrs. J. M. Clifton suffered a slight relapse at the home of Mrs. Powell Sunday* and this again interrupted the plan to remove her to her home in Fair Oaks. Call Rhoads’ Grocery for cabbage for sauer kraut. Can spme one furnish The Republican with a copy of the poem beginning: “Let me dwell in a house by the side of the road and be a friend of man”? Mrs. J. A. Grant went to Chicago today to remain until Thursday, when she will meet Mrs. Hale Grant, who is coming from Spokane, Wash., to see her invalid father, S. R. Nichols. ,

True D. Woodworth has been selling onions on the road for George D. Zea and last week had good success at Battle Ground. Today he went to Lafayette to continue the sale. The drouth has played havoc with fall pasture and is causing wheat a great amount of injury now. There was a large acreage of wheat put out in Jasper county this fall. Mrs. Isaac Kight and Mrs. Walter Hess returned to their homes, the former in Fair Oaks and the latter in Momence, yesterday;■'after a short visit with their niece, Mrs. A. G. Catt. Mrs. Jeff Smith and son-in-lav-Charles Grant, left this morning for Burke, S, Dak., to visit Everel Smith and family. Charley will be gone only about ten days but Mrs. Smith will remain for about six weeks. Tunis Snip was down from Keener township today. He reports that a tourist automobile from Indianapolis went into the ditch near his home last Sunday and a lady suffered a fractured arm. He did not learn the names of the parties. The Lafayette Red Sox closed the season there Sunday by defeating the Riverside team 9 to 2. The Riversides won the Lafayette city championship and the Red Sox, the strong independent team, then gave them a good cleaning.

Don’t let another day pass without putting that advertisement in The Republican. You will find our classified column a great help, a splendid agent at a reasonable price, and once you become a user of it you will always keep it up. It’s money in your pocket. Twelve prisoners in the county jail at Columbus went on strike Wednesday when the prosecuting attorney ruled they could not be given credit for two days for every day they worked at repairing asphalt pavements, as Mayor Volland proposed.

Coonie Kellner, Ray Wood and one or two others spent a day fishing on the Kankakee, north of DeMotte, and caught 10 salmon with a total weight of 42 pounds. One of them weighed 9% pounds. Salmon are regarded the best fish to be caught in that stream and many are going to the river each day. The water is low now and the salmon are found in deep holes and go after the bait greedily. Frank Nicewander, the man who was so severely injured while working on .the Sternberg dredge last Tuesday, returned here today from Monticello, where he had been taken after the accident. He states that he remained unconscious until Saturday. He is getting along well now, but still stands a chance of losing his right eye. He was at the home of his brother, Isaac Nico wander in Monticello. Typewriter ribbons for all makes of machines for sale at The Republican office.