Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1914 — Attention Pocahontas. [ARTICLE]

Attention Pocahontas.

There will be a Christmas exchange box at the hall Thursday evening, Dec. 17, at 7:30. All members are requested to bring a present. • Monticello has several cases of scarlet fever, but the schools are not closed, and Superintendent Leffgl says that he thinks the disease is unde? control. All the cases of fever except one w ere from the same school grade. The rooips were thoroughly fumigated last Saturday. • ' X '. Our Christmas candy is'in; it’s Darmody’s Bust.—Corner Case. Lafayette is sendnig a car load of flour to the Belgians. Special sacks are required. The Wabash railroad will transport the flour free to seaboard. After Jan. Ist, however, railroads will not carry any freight free of .charge, the regular tariffs maintaining. The shipment from Lafayette consists of 229 barrels or 916 sacks. The money value is $1,259.50. 5 The flour was all made from Tippecanoe county flour by home labor. The Republican some time ago advocated that Rensselaer organize to aid the Belgians, but there seems now to have been such a great amount of it that we doubt the' wisdom of doing anything until another call is made, at least