Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Palms and Ferns. [ARTICLE]

Palms and Ferns.

I have some fine indoor palms and ferns. Better pick them out Look over our Classified column, right away.—J. H. Holden.

James Craig was down from Thayer today, i t The chairmen and secretaries of the 'township conventions who have not yet filed the nominations with the county clerk should do so by next Monday, a® after thiat date the names cannot be placed on the ballot®. Candidates who have not yet filed their expense' accounts must do so by Monday or be liable to prosecution. These blanks xptus't be filled out by candidates” even though they have spent no money in securing the nominations. Officers of the steamship Vauban, which arrived at New York Monday, reported all British merchantmen plying between ports in North and {South America were being convoyed by British or French warships on account of fear of German cruisers. - Thirty hungry sailors, nearly starved, reached New York Monday aboard the schooner Alice Lord, long overdue from St. Martens in the Danish West Indies. The little vessel had been driven by a hurricane nearly 1,000 miles from her course. John Lind, special diplomatic representative assigned to Mexico by President Wilson, arrived at the sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., ■Monday for a period of treatment. He is not seriously sick, but will be under the care of physicians while resting there.' Amendments to the constitution were proposed Monday by Representative Vaughn, of Texas, under which all federal judges serving on the district benches, the district attorneys and the postmasters will become elective officers with terms of four years each.