Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — STORES CLOSE THANKSGIVING DAY. [ARTICLE]

STORES CLOSE THANKSGIVING DAY.

To our patrons: Will you please do your grocery trading Wednesday, Nov. 25, as our stores will be closed the entire day Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, and -no goods will be delivered that day. We, the undersigned, agree to close our places of business all day Thursday, November 26, 1914: Rowles & Parker. • John Ramp. S. Fendig. C. Earl Duvall. The G. E. Murray Co. ' Warner Bros. , Bert Jarrette. C. W. Eger. A. Leopold. 8. Koffman. William Traub. Geo. E. Collins. - Rowen & Kiser. F. D. Burchard. J. A. McFarland. E. D. Rhoades & Son. - ----- John Healy.

Senator Kern says that the steel trust and the Standard Oil Co. defeated Congressman Peterson for re-election. The senator and Editor Babcock hold different views. Republicans know that he was defeated because of republican victory in every county in the. district and because Will R; Wood, who opposed him, stood flruily on the republican platform for a protective tariff and republican control. At the election two years later several other democratic congressmen will run against the same proposition, including Senator Kern him self, whose ready excuse for defeat was offered six years ago when Senator Shively defeated him for the democratic election. At that time he said liquor interests had accomplished his defeat by buying eight members of the general assembly and he said he could name them, but he later refused to do so when promised the election two years later. By the way, we wonder if any person ever heard of John Kern doing anything against the liquor interests that would cause*-said interests to fear him in the national senate. We have always liked Senator Kern very well, but if he ever opposed the distilleries, the breweries or the saloons or if they ever opposed him we have never learned of it. But his excuse for his own defeat was just as correct as his excuses for the defeat of Congressman Peterson. No democrat could have been elected in the tenth district this year. Even the disappointed seekers for postoffices had very little effect in the result So, both Senator Kern and Editor Bafbcock have another guess coming as to the cause of John B. Peterson’s defeat .