Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE 07 STORES CLOSING. ■ We, the undersigned merhanis, agree to close our places of .business at 6 o’clock each evening except Saturday, beginning Monday, January 4th, and continuing until further notice: BOWLES & PARKER. SAMUEL FENDIG. C. EARL DUVALL B. J. JARRETTE. JOHN H. RAMP. / BOWEN A KISER. . j. a. McFarland. WM. TRAUB. E. VAN ARSDEL & CO. BENHART N. FENDIO. G. E. MURRAY 00. G. JESSEN. WARNER BROS. W. j: WRIGHT. C. W. EGER. < MODEL CLOTHING 00. F. D. BUBCHARD. MRS. H. PURCUPILE. D. M. WORLAND. GEO. E. COLLINS. E. D. RHOADES & SON. MRS. MARY HEALY. P. W. CLARKE. t , - !> I ■» ■■■■■» f ' , Taft on Ford Efficiency. Ex-President of the United States Willidm H. Taft, made a tour of 'he huge plant of the Ford Motor Company on the occasiop of his visit to Detroit, December 3rd last In his address to the Bankers’"Club of Detroit delivered the same evening, Mr. Taft pointed out what might b 6 accomplished in efficiency and economy for the people of the United States if Ford principles could be applied to government business organization in Washington. < I Mr. Taft, after Ihis inspection with Mr. Henry Ford, said: "The Ford factory is a revelation to me. It’s wonderful—but no more wonderful than Mr. Ford himself. I was amazed at the magnitude of the establishment, # can almost hear the wheels buzz and the machinesy hum now. W|iat a splendid organization is that has been developed in a decade!” , • /V " * < Popular-elections for postmasters as a means of avoiding bitter patronage scraps, was proposed in a bitt introduced Wednesday after(toon by Senator Bristow.