Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — Page 4

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Classified Column ■»y fO* Olddumu ASB. Three lines or less, per week of si*, ssues of The Evenln* Republican and two of The Semi-Weekly Republican, It cents Additional space pro rata. for sale. FOR SALE —Will sell young chickens from incubator*, good strong ones at 7c each, of 5c if purchaser furnishes eggs. Order early. Phone 907-E, Parr Route I.—Mrs. Wm. Wilcox. _________ FOR SALE—SO,OOO acres in Grant and Jefferson counties, central Arkansas. No rocks, no hills, no residence required. Special inducements to actual settlers. Agents wanted. No experience necessary. We want a live wire in Rensselaer. Big money.—Wm. C. Uphoff & Co., 4th floor, Times Bldg. St Louis, Mo. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A clothing and furnishing goods store 35 miles from Rensselaer in one of the best factory districts in Indiana. Stock invoices about $7,000. Will trade for income property or farm of equal value. Business established 25 years. Owner’s reason for selling, ill health.—Address H. A. E., Care Rensselaer Republican. FOR SALE—A few gallons of first run maple syrup. Inquire of W. C. Milliron. FOR SALE—My lot in the Phillips addition. House on each side. Virgil Dennis ton, Rensselaer, Ind. FOR SALE—A lady broke driving mare, sound, and a splendid driver. Also some hedge posts, 15 and 20 cents each. Inquire of J. B. Thompson, Phone 929-H. FOR SALE—A good cheap farm horse. Cecil Lee, Mt Ayr, Ind. FOR SALE—Four good brood sows. —T. W. Grant FOR SALE—Ito San and Early Brown soy beans and Hungarian seed. —J. M. Yeoman, Phone 915-D. FOR SALE —A few bushels of good recleaned clover seed. Also some Plymouth Rock eggs for hatching.— Henry Paulus, Phone 938-G. FOR SALE OR RENT—Good seven room house with city water and cistern in house, electric lights, good hen house and fruit trees. 1& blocks from Main street Phone 471. —Mrs. Mark Hemphill. FOR SALE—2 steers, 2 shotes, 1 sow, 1 mare. Also 1 young driving mare to trade mr draft —C. H. Golden. , FOR SALE—Cut flowers, potted plants, flower seed, garden seed, onion sets, seed potatoes. Onion sets, 7c quart, 3 quarts for 20 cents at Osborne's Flower Store. Phone 439. FOR SALE OR RENT—7-room house at McCoysburg, cellar, bam, good well in house, 1 acre ground.— C. F. Lowman, Pleasant Ridge or Phone 948-A. FOR SALE —2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, chicken house and park, good well and cistern, all kinds of fruit Cheap for quick sale. Inquire at Hemphill Bros.’ Blacksmith Shop. FOR SALE —2,000 white oak posts, 8 cents each. Randolph Wright, R. D. 3, Rensselaer. Phone Mt Ayr 54-C. " FOR SALE —At~Rosebud Farm. Not grown on muck. Timothy hay, potatoes, clover seed and Duroc Jersey gilts, all high quality.—Amos H. Alter & Son. FOR SALE-s-lO head of sheep, some with lambs. — Lyman Peters, R. D. 4, Phone 943-F. FOR SALE —Seven year old mare in foal, and some soy beans. —George Reed, Phone 606. FOR SALE—pA few bushels of beardless barley. Phone 37 or 939-A, Rensselaer. —F. Thompson. I FOB SALE — Concrete material, plaster sand, brick sand, delivered -*n the city. Inquire of Marion L Adams, Phone 933-L. $498. BUYS 20 acres fertile soil near Irondale, Mo. Gash $9. Monthly $3.90. Free to buyer 28 hens, incubator, 50 fruit trees, 40 grape vines, 900 strawberry plants. Mottaz, 705 Olive St, St Louis. FOB fiAT.it— 220 acres improved Newton county land, four miles bom market, 160 acres under cultivation and best tiled quarter in western Indiana, balance meadow and timber pasture. Fair improvements. Fries $75 per aero for quick •ala. Seasonable terms to right party. If interested write or wire! /. A. Wells, Aledo, m.

FOR SALE—A few nice 50 pound pigs. Phone 938-A, Russell Van Hook. ~FOR SALE—The Com Belt Seed Company, of Kentlami, Ind., has Reid’s Yellow Dent and Improved Learning seed com that tests 95 to 98 per cent germination. You should see this com before buying elsewhere. WANTED. WANTED —A small house or three rooms suitable for housekeeping. Call at J. P. Green’s repair shop. Phone 551. WANTED—To do your painting and decorating. We will guarantee all work. Tintings a specialty. Phone 378. Lock box 737—Smith & Hisman, painters and decorators. WANTED—Pasture for 4 colts.— Marion L Adams, Phone 933-L. WANTED—GirI for general housework. Phone 77, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. 7—WANTED—Two loads of com. Will pay 2 cents above market price. —Billy Frye. WANTED—Carpenter work by contract or day.—S. C. Brockus, Phone 532. WANTED —Painting of any kind in city or country. Prices reasonable. —Landy Magee. WANTED—Fat hogs for market. Phone 400.—A. W., Sawin. WANTED —2 furnished rooms, also a small house for several months. Address “89”, Republican office. WANTED—Mare, 3 or 7 years old, weight 1600 or over. Must be absolutely sound and good worker, black preferred. —Francis T. Hilton, Gifford, Ind. WANTED —Painting in town or country. Have my own means of getting to country.—C. M. Blue, Lock Box 304, Rensselaer, Ind. WANTED—To do your paperhanging and painting. We are now ready. Phone W. S. Richards, 331, or Lee Richards, 567. WANTED—To buy junk of all kinds, iron, rags, metal, rubber and magazines. If you have any to sell drop card to Sam Karnowsky. Rensselaer, Ind. WANTED—BO acres; must be good soil, and buildings. State lowest cash price. Write C. W. Tyler, Elgin. 111. FOR RENT.

FOR RENT—FIat over McKay’s laundry. Inquire of Geo. H. Healey. MISCELLANEOUS. For house painting, decorating, paperhanging, cleaning and signs call Phone 364, H. 0. Johnson. Painting and Decorating. C. J. Hamilton, Painter and Decorator. Estimates cheerfully furnished. Telephone No. 251-B. “BODI-TONE” Tablets by mail, 75c per box, 3 boxes for $2,00; 8 boxes $5.00; 18 boxes SIO.OO. —Blue Front Drug Store, Francesville, Ind. POULTRY AND EGGS. FOR SALE —Buff Orpington eggs, 50c for setting of 15. —Phone 215, John Sebring. FOR SALE—Dark Cornish eggs for setting. 50 cents per 15.—J. H. Hoover, Phone 462. FOR SALE—Eggs from fine Barred Rocks, 50 cents for setting of 15. — Lem Huston, Phone 81. FOR SALE—Eggs for hatching purposes from Buff Rocks or White Orpingtpns, 75c per 15. —Malinda Long, MedaryVille, Ind. FOR SALE—Pure blood single comb White Orpington eggs for setting purposes; $1 for 15,—C. W. Postill, Phone 499-B. FOR” SALE—A few White Holland tom turkfys.—H. J. GowlanJ, Route 1. Phone 902-G. FOR [for setting from first prize single comb Buff Orpingtons, $1 per setting.—Dr. A G. Catt. Phone 232. FOR SALE —A pigeon house, will make a desirable chicken house with little remodeling. Good sized. Harry Eger.. , *

iMLiiLiiiijJLiUP CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLE RY. Chicago to WortawWt, ‘ Indian*poll* Cincinnati, ana tbe South, alarm* and V ranch Uok Sprint*. snrMW.*iw tux tabxjl f In effect Oct. 25, 1914. NORTHBOUND. 1 No. 36 .......4:48 am No. 4 ..;..;5:01 *m No. 40 7:30 am No. 32 ......................10:46 am No. 38 8:15 pm No. 6 8:44 pm No. 30 '.v£rr.T. ...7:06 pm SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 12:15 am No. 31 ........7:41 pm No. 37 .......11:20 am No. 5 11:G5 am No. 33 2:01 pm No. 39 ......fcl2 pm No. 3 ~ ..,* ,11:10 pm Nos. 37 and 38 stop on flat a* Farr on Saturday.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

See the fine Easter flowers at Holden’s, No obligation to buy. Mrs. Alda Parkison went to Chicago this morning to spend several days. Call and see the beautiful Easter flowers. You don’t have to buy.—J. H. Holden. Mrs. John Nowels is spending today at Parr. Mr. Nowels went up yesterday. Order a flower for some sick friend. Nothing so fine as a blooming plant. —J. H. Holden. ' Van Grant’s baby is improving from an attack of bronchial pneumonia. Don’t fail to call at Holden’s greenhouse and see the ’ beautiful blooming plants. Wanda and Genevieve Mead, of Hammond, are visiting Mrs. E. L. Clark. Poultry feed of all kinds. Try our starter and scratch feeds. Ask your grocer or phone the Mill, 456, C. W. Eger is reported some better this morning and it is believed he will continue to improve. If you want a first class high grade farm implement you can get it of Hamilton & Kellner. Arthur Tuteur is somewhat improved and the outlook for continued improvement is encouraging. You get fresh ground meal when you buy Sprague’s. Have no other. Your grocer or the Mill, Phone 456. Mrs. Fred Bartels, of Newland, has been suffering ‘rom gallstones and is to be taken to a hospital for operation. Ray Laßue, Ed Robinson and Joe Reeves, who are attending the Gregg school in Chicago, came down last night to spend Sunday with their parents. Mrs. Clint Brown has been ill since Wednesday with a recurrence of the trouble which came almost costing her life several months ago. She is slightly improved today and it is believed will continue to improve. Swift’s cattle buyer - from New York was here yesterday and bought eighteen car loads of cattle, mostly from B. Lyons, of near Foresman. The price paid was around $8.30 per hundred. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind Yon Han Always BongM

RENSSELAER MARKETS. Wheat—sl.4s. Corn —65c. Oats—6s c. Rye—9oc. Eggs—l6c. Butterfat —28c. Chickens —13c. Ducks—9c. A PROBLEM IN WATCH-WINDING. Thlt Will Interest the Man With a Mathematical Mind. Every night at 12 p. m. I wind up my watch, giving 12 turns. Should I forget to wind, the watch will run down at 6 o’clock the following morning. It occurs to me that I may be overwinding my watch, and I determine to give only 10 turns each night, and beginning to do so on a Monday night. Will the watch run down, and if so, when? Note: Turns in winding are all of equal value. The following is the answer generally given, though it is incorrect: As 12 turns carries the watch for 24 hours and till 6 o’clock—that Is to say, for 30 hours —10 turns would caTry it 25 hours, and therefore the watch would never run down. The correct solution Is aB follows: The watch, of course, always has six hours in hand. The problem starts*: "Every night I wind my watch, giving 12 turns.” If every night 12 turns are required, each' turn carries two hours, and therefore 10 turns on Monday night carries It for 20 hours, to 8 o’clock Tuesday evening and six hours in hand—2 o’clock on Wednesday morning. Ten winds on''Tuesday night oarrles to 8 o’clock Wednesday evening and two hours in hand —10 o’clock on Wednesday evening, when , the watch runs down. —Strand Magazine. - -- - 1 The Best Silo Roof Made. I havfe secured the agency for the Hoosieif Silo Extension Roof, a roof that is not in the way when filling the silo; a roof that will ‘fit any silo and work satisfactorily. A roof th t is not only right in theory-but guaranteed practical in results. Phone 955-L for full particulars. CHAS. C. PARKS. ' NOTICE. ' I would like to do your painting and paper hanging. Will guarantee my work to satisfy. My prices are yours. Wall paper sold at low as 2Vx cents a roll. JPhone 567. ' F LEE RICHARDS. Have you setting eggs for sale Republican readers will buy them if you will advertise.

What a Girl Can Do With a Small Garden

Fine Profit Results From Tillage of Soil, and Work Need Not Become Too Burdensome at That Good Mother Nature knows how a girl feels, and she has made a way by which every country girl may answer the call. She says to you to go out and work in the soft, crumbly earth and make a garden. Plant seeds and see how it feels to be a partner with the sun and wind and rain and with the great Creator of all things. Farmers’ Bulletin 521, from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, gives the record of Miss Katie Gunter, of Samaria, S. C., in the Girls’ Tomato Club work. It reads: Cost of yield and canning $36.33 Canned products, 770 cans: Net cost per can $ .04 Cost of home canner 6.25 Sold fresh tomatoes Net profit for season 78.87 At this rate an acre would produce a net profit of $783.70. That would be enough to pay a good, part of a girl’s way through college. A garden can be made to pay all right. Of course it takes work and sense, but it takes this and gumption too to make afiy work succeed. Of course a girl can not care for a very large piece of ground without the work being too, heavy for her physically. Perhaps a tenth of an acre is all a girl should attempt, and in order to make money it might be well to specialize on a few crops and build up a reputation for handling the best in your line. This will help you in your marketing. * It would pay you to have a permanet bed of strawberries, rhubarb or asparagus. But in this article I am going to tell you especially some of the things I have learned in my garden about the one-year crops. The land should be plowed deep and fertilized in the fall, because the loosening of the earth gives the frost a chance to kill the insects’ eggs and allows the fertilizer to be diffused by the rain and the snow. But if this has not been done for the ground you are to garden just have it plowed deep and have the harrow run over it every few days until planting time. This done, draw carefully to scale a plan of your garden, with crops apportioned, and get your seeds. The rows for radishes, beans, lettuce, beets, carrots, peas, beans and early turnips may stand as close as 18 inches, but jump to three feet for potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers. There are certain kinds of seed that are best. If you do not know about this ask someone who does. This United States Bulletin says that for tomatoes to can the Acme Beauty and Stone are the best because of their shape, their firmness and their bright red color. The market demands a red tomato. A friend of mine who knows all about growing potatoes advises me to use northern-grown early Ohio seed potatoes, non-irrigated and free from disease. So whatever are the crops you decide to raise you should find out the best kind of seed. Directions as to planting and care always accompany seed. You will do well to follow these directions. Perhaps you have already been getting some early plants started in the kitchen. You can use medium-sized old pans for this. Find unfrozen soil on the south side of the house. Mix this with one-third sand, fill your pans and water them well. Set them in a warm place in the kitchen, plant your seeds, water lightly and keep damp, but not soaked, until they are up. After that slow down withh the water to make them sturdy. When the plants have four leaves transplant them, into boxes, and as the days grow warmer keep them out on the porch all you can. Your celery will need to be transplanted several times, as it is not put into the garden before midsummer. , When the men are planting the corn you can plan to set our your plants. The important thing now is to have the seedbed, in splendid condition — mellow, but well firmed, so that the seeds may absorb as much moisture possible. There should be alight dust mulch over the top to prevent evaporation. The tomato plants shoud be staked from the very first, for if not trained up it is almost impossible to get good results. Late in June dig a deep trench and plant your celery plants six inches apart Towards fall tie the tops together and fill the dirt in to bleach it. Before the killing frosta-come lift the plants and bury them in the trench deep enough to be safe from freezing. It is lots of fun to grow celery. I know a country school in Ohio where they grow it on the school ground very successfully. It is not hard to grow as some people imagine it is. I know any bright country girl could succeed with it. Now as to marketing. Early in the season it usually pays best to sell your fresh vegetables or fruit.'' Later the canned product yields the greatest profit. Good canning outfits for use on the farm or in* the school can be obtained for from five to fifteen dollars. Every well regulated country home Bhould have a home canner of some kind. It is as useful as a cream separator or washing machine. Since there has ben so much agitation about pure food, there is a greater market for good, fresh vegetables, and people are willing to pay better prices for them. The best things are never to be found on the bargain counter, so do not be afraid to put a good price on your products. Have confidence in yourself and offer only the best, and you Will surely finda a market. ■go you can make money and be happy because you have had a garden. f nfnmn will find you healthier and

.browner and saner. It was by no mere chance that the first people in the world, the people who were perfectly good and happy, were in a garden. And I believe that just in the same measure that we love growing things and are interested in our garden and catch its spirit shall we draw closer to the attainment of &e deep, strong character—that we should have. I never yet knew a bad person who could make thinks’ grow.

QUAIL AS A CHINCH BUG INSURANCE POLICY

Until There are More Definite Means of Fighting Grain Pest the Birds Are Needed In combatting the desfuctive chinch bug many practical measures have been tried, and some in a way have temporarily aided in holding in check the propagation of this lfttle bug that costs the farmers of the United States at least $100,000,000 annually. The chinch bug, after he is full grown in the fall, seeks a place of refuge for the winter. This hiding place is usually in grass heaps, under leaves and in stalks along the grain fields. The first brood usually attacks the wheat or rye and at the harvest time leaves these fields for the com fields. The bugs that produce the second brood are found in the early grain fields, and as they multiply very rapidly attempts are made to destroy as many as possible before they leave these fields for the com or the meadows. - • ■ ■ ■ In the present day fight the methods employed are makeshifts for the reason that a whole community or county must act in unison or the results are scarcely noticeable. Oqe plan suggested is to bum in the early spring all the heaps of grass where the bug is supposed to be wintering. Another method that is often used is to place a line of thick oil around the edge of the field in which the bugs are working. Just inside, this line holes are to be dug so that the bugs will fall into these holes as they crawl back and forth along the line, after which they may be killed. Some farmers make a furrow around the field and then drag a brush or a log in the furrow until the dirt has become finely pulverized. By regular dragging-'a number of bugs can be killed at each round made. Quite often a spray is made and placed upon the stalks of corn as the bugs enter the field. Under present conditions it is necessary to combat with crude measures the appearance of the chinch bug, otherwise the losses would be much more extensive than they are now. It is not suggested that less attention be paid to fighting the chinch bug.with the means at hand, but that greater protection be given to the natural destroyers of this insect pest. If the law of the survival of the fittest applies in all cases it is reasonaable to believe that the ultimate cheok to the propagation of the chinch bug will come about by the birds that eat them at all stages of their life history. Among the birds that eat millions of these pests may be mentioned the quail, the meadow lark and the English sparrow. If the chinch bug is to be practically eradicated we must depend upon the efforts of the quail, as his home is in the brooding grounds of the chinch bug. Nowadays things that are done have a certain degree of the idea of permanency about them, hence the first step in the permanent destruction of the chinch bug is a more complete destruction of the quail that assists also in lowering the losses caused by the cotton weevil, the grasshopper and the potato bug. The recent announcement of the discovery of a chinch bug parasite doubtless wtll mean an effective foe against the destructive bug. The parasite is not ready for the big battle, so this spring it will be well to protect, the quail nests.

COLLEGES NOT TURNING YOUNG MEN FROM FARM

Inquiry Among Agricultural Graduates Shows Most of Them Are Tillers That the agricultural colleges are not tending to educate the boys away from the farm is shown by a census recently taken at the Ohio State University. Of 200 men who have gone out from the Ohio Agricultural College in the last six years, 76, or 38 per cent, are actually on the farm. Of the 124 remaining graduates, 89 expect to return to the farm, some day. This leaves but 35 men who do not intend to return to the farm, and in almost every case these men did not intend to do so when they entered the university. The census also shows that there has been sufficient inducement in experiment station, in the United States Department of Agriculture and teaching service, as well as in other fields,for the men not to want to ret\irn to the farm, especially if they do hot have the capital to start fanning. Many of these agricultural graduates receive salaries of SI2OO to 31500 a year from the start. In spite of the relatively fine positions obtained the majority indicate that they would go to the farm rather than take up professional work, ,if they could. However, the verdict of these 200 men shows three substantial reasons why they do not return to the farm. They are:. Lack of capital to begin farming, the indifference of the father toward new and scientific methods, and the lucrative salaries offered to agricultural graduates, due to the fact that during the last five years the demand for men with agricultural training has far exceeded the supply, a state of things that may be looked for to continue.

How the Farmer's Daughter May Earn Pin Money

A lady In Richmond, Va., has made s national reputation putting up and selling “pin money pickles.” She began a few years ago in a very modest way, but now her products are so popular that they can be found nearly everywhere in the United States. Another woman, in Washington, D. G* has built up a business making chowchow for which she gets three dollars a gallon. These are only samples of what hundreds of young women have dona to earn pin money by putting up canned goods at home. People are continually demanding a better quality of canned goods and are willing to pay a better price for them. The farmer's daughter who desires to earn pin money may avail herself of this demand, and with care and perseverance learn to put up canned goods that she may sell at a profit. Those who are interested in such a project may obtain detailed instructions on canning in Farmer’s Bulletin 521 of the United States Department of Agriculture, which will be sent free of charge to the applicant. The bulletin, while encouraging the young woman in her efforts to make a business proposition of putting up fruits and vegetables, cautions against over-enthusiasm. It advises that the beginner experiment with a few cans before going too heavily into the project. If the first cans keep well she may be encouraged to proceed. If she meets with a few failures perhaps she has overlooked some important detail outlined in the department’s bulletin. It is only through failures that one gets good experience, and with a little practice and care in following the directions any farmer’s daughter should be able to put up a satisfactory can of fruit or vegetables. When a young woman has succeeded in putting up a product satisfactory for home use she may well look around for a market outside the home. The girl who starts out with confidence in herselfc will be more likely to find a good marke than one who is diffident. The girl with experience in canning knows the products with which she has the most success, and should endeavor to sell only those in which she excels. It is always best to specialize and work up a reputation for some particualr kind of goods, as did the women already mentioned. One girl may make a feature of catsup, another may find her best product is pickles, while another may put up a specially attractive can of peppers, cauliflower, peaches, apples or tomatoes. People of means are most likdly to want “home canned” products, and these are the ones to see. Many housewives living in the cities who leave home for the country during the summer months will gladly give the farmer’s daughter an order to can enough tomatoes to last them all winter. It is best to take orders ahead as far as possible. 'The young woman who starts out to sell her products will of course dress neatly and take samples of her products put up in an attractive form. Glass jars will show products much better than tins, but if tins are found to be less expensive they may be used for all except the show products. The managers of the best hotels and restaurants in the neighborhood, the stewards of social clubs in the cities, the managers of railroa# dining cars, l and many retail grocers will be glad to use the products of the girl who does her canning at home. These products are likely to show individual care and to be prepared neatly of good materials* and on the shelves of a retail store are likely to attract attention from the best customers. If a young woman knows by experience that her products are first clasß she need not hesitate to put a good price on them. Home canned goods, canned by experienced people, are worth more than ordinary goods, and one need not compete with the other. “Fancy goods” are rarely found upon bargain counters. Even if the first samples of home canning are not such as may be readily sold they may be used at home, and from her experience the farmer’s daughter may do better—the following season. When she actually succeeds in getting something better than the ordinary she should be able to sell it. She may well ask her friends tp recommend her to good trade. The young woman sincerely determined to make a success of canning as a business proposition with perseverance and care in following instructions should be sure of some measure of success.

Good Roads, and Their Importance to the Community

The improvement of market roads results in improved marketing, conditions, which benefit the city. Most cities are essentially dependent upon the surrounding country for their prosperity and development The development of suburban property for residence purposes is also dependent upon highway conditions, and it Is becoming evident yearly that' whatever makes for an increase hr rural population must be encouraged. Since the Introduction of motor traffic country highways are used to an increasing extent by city residents. In fact; the cost of maintaining many country highways has been greatly increased by the presence of city-owned motor vehicles. ‘ The general advance ha facilities for doing country busfesss from town headquarters when reads are improved is no inconsiderable factor in the cogjowdal Ufopl tfci m mm Zi