Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1915 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

| It’s about time to torpedo the straw hat. I All four pages home print today. Be ■ sure and read the inside also. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist church will meet with Mrs. J. H/Perkins Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. • Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reynolds came down from Chicalgo this morning’ to ■ spend the day with his mother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols, _ The paragrapher in the Indiana Times thinks that “distance lends enchantment” was originally written of the onion. Not so in the case of Ne'wland. Mrs. Emma York returned home this morning from Isle Royal, Mich., where she spent several weeks. She also visited her sister at Grand Rapids and spent soe time at other places. Indiana University is to play Washington and Lee college a game of football in Indianapolis Oct. 30th and Senator Kern has extended an invitation to President Wilson to attend the game. Miss Olive Pollard, who has clerked in the New York Store for two years prior to last spring when she was compelled to give up her work and have a serious surgical operation performed, has now sufficiently recovered as to be able to return to Indianapolis today to again enter upon her work.

iFOR SALE —4 tons alfalfa hay in barn; 6 acres corn in field; 1 cow; 1 set double work harness; 1 spring wagon with new shafts; U. S. cream separator, not much used; new hay rake; McCormick mower; two horse wagon; 12 inch stirring plow, 7 shovel; single horse cultivator; spool baib wire.— John Clouse, R. D. 1, Rensselaer. The attendance at the state fair yesterday as recorded by the turnstile was 49,233, which was 231 more than the same day last year. A drenching rain occurred and The capacity of tents, pavilions and barns was tested to care for those who made a hasty rush for shelter. Miss Margaret Swangle, of Charlestown, Ind., who has been spending several weeks in the west, visiting the exposition at San Francisco, the fair at San Diego, and various other places of interest, arrived here today to visit the family of William Florence and other friends in the country near this city. The extent of the loss of British vessels by the submarine attacks of the Germans, will probably not be known until the close of the war. A weekly official dispatch from London tells of the losses for the week. The record for seven days ending Sept. Bth was ten vessels with a total ton- I nage of 37,826; also four fishing ves- ' seis with a tonnage of 94. The Francesville schools will open Monday, Sept. 13th. W. E. Tennel is superintendent, E. C. Sites principal, and the following teachers: Florence Noel, assistant principal; Russell Dunklebarger, 7th and Bth grades; Hazel Parker, domestic science, sth and 6th grades; Edna Stiller, 3rd and 4th grades; Mary Hubbard, Ist and 2nd grades. A course in agriculture has been added to the high school curriculum.

The Washington Post having noted Col. Roosevelt’s utterances on the coast, predicts that the colonel will try to make national preparedness an issue for 1916. It requires no effort to do this. ► Preparedness is already an issue. All parties—except the one which Bryan will organize—will be for preparedness. In fact, all the platform utterances on this subject next year will be of such a nature that the voter who seeks to be guided only by such things will have a hard time to choose among republicans, democrats and the few progressives who will maintain that party’s entity. The real test will come on the question of sincerity, on whether these platform pledges are mere ‘‘molasses to catch flies.”—Waterloo Press.

Van Renssealer Club to Meet. There will be a meeting of the Van Rensselaer Club Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Let 'every member attend at the club’s new quarters, in the rooms over VanArsdel’s store.