Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. R, B. Minton and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Hamitlon, of Star City, autoed to Rensselaer Saturday afternoon and remained until Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bott. Mr. Minton is the president of the Star City bank. If some food tastes good, but works badly, ferments into a stubborn lump, causing sourness, gas and indigestion, do not worry, simply take Mi-o-na. It surely gives quick and effective relief—money refunded if it fails. B. F. Fendlg.M James and Morris Peek, of Remington, attended the football game here Sunday. There were a number of visitors here from nearby towns, including C. P. Curtin, of DeMotte, and two or three auto loads from Morocco. Charley Lowman reports that his brother, Frank, who is in a hospital at Lafayette, where he underwent an operation for his injured knee, is suffering considerable pain and is not getting along very wdl. Charley was at the hospital to see him Saturday. L ■ ' , County Agent John S. Bordner, of St. Joseph county, asserts that the hoof and mouth disease of cattle will bankrupt every farmer in that county if the state does not take immediate steps to enforce the quarantine. A report from New Carlisle states that 1,096 cattle are infected in that district. Rollin and Herbert Eib returned Saturday from Caledonie, N. Dak., where their sister, Miss Jennie, teaches school and where they have been employed during the harvest season, They brought home with them a sample of North Dakota potatoes, of which they purchased a car. load which Rowen & Kiser are selling for them. There is a possibility that Germany may make an effort to land troops in Canada to invade that country. The United States would they be compelled to decide wheth er or not this w r as a violation of the Monroe doctrine. Canaria has furnished troops to help the allies. Count von Bernsdorf declares that this paves the way for an invasion of Canada.

Mrs. George Bond returned from Chicago Sunday, where she had gone with Mrs. Fred Markin Saturday. Mr. Markin was operated upon at the Wesley hospital Saturday for intestinal abscess and appendicitis. His condition had been very ciritical but he now seems to have a fighting chance to get well. His father, George W. Markin, went to the hospital this morning to see him.

When you pay your taxes this week you can figure how much you are paying to maintain a democratic state administration if you will multiply each hundred dollars of your assessment by 8% cents, the amount the state levy was increased. This does not catch it aid, of course, for there is quite a little of the county levy chargeable to the accounting board, etc., and then there is the auto license and horsepower tax. This is a fine week to consider the tax question. Phone your coal orders to Hamilton & Kellner, Phone No. 273. Indiana bee-keepers have just completed gathering the 1914 honey. crop. According to the bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture, the yield per colony of bees was 14 pounds. In 1913 the production per hive was 60 pounds. The decrease is said to be due to the shortage of the wild flower crop this season. The latest census figures of the bee and honey industry’ of this state relate to 1910. That year there were 19,487 farms in Indiana that kept bees and had the total number of colonies was 80,938.

A congregation that filled the Methodist auditorium were present; Sunday morning to hear the official announcement of the gift of a pipe -organ. J. J. Hunt and Dr. Paul C. Ournick spoke in reference to the generous gift of $3,000 given by Mr. George E. Hosmer to the Methodist church for a pipe organ. Mr. Hunt explained thaFiFt would take several months to install the organ, as it would have to be made to order. Dr. Curnick announced a meeting of the official board for Monday night, when the first steps will be taken looking toward the carrying out of the object of the gift. The Methodist people are more than delighted with the beautiful a.nd generous gift and only expressions of appreciation were heard on every side.

A dastardly crime was undertaken at Lafayette Saturday night. As Miss Lena Fogelman was passing an alley near Fifteenth street she was grabbed by a man, pulled into the alley and he choked her and tried to commit a purpose. She screamed hut his hand at her throat caused her to stop. She fought with desperation, praying that she might be freed. Suddenly her assailant relaxed his hold and ran down the alley. She .was badly hurt about the face and throat and her clothing was torn. The police were notified and placed Frank Nace, a married man, under arrest. He proclaimed his innocence but two boys identified him as a man they had seen lurking at the alley. He claimed he had not been away from home during the evening. He is said to be an ex-eonviCt

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