Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Yorkshire has 12,000 looms weaving khaki. Probably no better entertainment will be heard in Rensselaer the coming winter than Miss Gay MacLaren’s reading from Peg-’o-My-Heart at the Presbyterian church next Thursday evening, Oct. 14th. D. L. Halstead brought to The Republican office Thursday two small clusters of onions, one of white and the other of red. The onions are of good size and will doubtless find a good market. Some of Mr. Halstead’s onions were 4 feet under water during the high water in June but the land is drained by large ditches and the water ran off in 24 hours. Mr. Halstead is new in the onion business. Last year he had planned to raise some but got his seed late. This year’s success is apt to make him a regular in the business. Walter Forbes, who has been head clerk at Merritt’s store for these many years, has’ resigned his position there and taken another with the E. E. Bogan Co., in the Remington plant. Walter is a mighty good man any where and he will be greatly missed from his old place but will likely sftind a better show for advancement with the Bogan Co.- because of their many and various poultry houses. —Remington Press. The bulk of lime used on the island of Martinique is made of a madreporic stone or reef coral which is taken from the bottom of the sea. Queen Victoria’s reputed invention x)f the safety pin has been exploded by the recent discovery on the island of Crete of one supposed to have been made at least 900 years B. C. This gives it the safety first honors. The completion of the Celilo canal, on the Oregon side of the Columbia river, adds Idaho to the list of states having a seaport. It is now possible for sternwheel river vessels to pass from the Pacific ocean to Lewiston, at the head of navigation on the Snake river, a distance of 480 miles. * A gigantic American farm machinery concern is turning out “dreadnough” steam plows at a great rate under contract with the British government. The use of these implements is said to have increased England’s tillable area 20 per cent. . . The word tawdry is derived from St. Audry. In the early middle ages fairs were held in France and England on St. Audrey’s day, and these annual gatherings became noted for the gaudy and worthless jewelry sold at them. Both King George and Kaiser Wilhelm a year ago promised gold cups for the San Francisco yatch races. Lord Richard Plantagenet Nevill, who is six feet two inches tall, has just delivered King George’s trophy and taken pains to call attention to the absence of Wilhelm’s.