Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1915 — FINE NEW FUNERAL CAR FOR NEW FIRM [ARTICLE]

FINE NEW FUNERAL CAR FOR NEW FIRM

Calkins & Worland Announce Entry Into Field—Start With Equipment Entirely Modern.

O. L. Calkins and Leo Worland under the firm name of Calkins & Worland, have established a partnership in the undertaking and funeral directing business and are starting out with a modern equipment in every particula.r Mr. Calkins has been engaged in the business for a number of years and is licensed as undertaker and embalmer in both Indiana and Illinois. Their parlors are in the Nowels block across from the postoffice, the caskets and all furnishings being in the large room that ' was for many years the office of the Nowels hotel. The entrance has been made into a neat reception room and in every appointment the quarters are entirely appropriate to the business. They have just received their new combination ambulance and funeral car, a large autocar made by the Riddle Coach and Hearse Co., of Ohio. The car is so arranged that it can be converted into either ambulance or hearse. An ambulance room for a cot and chairs are provided. The car cost $2,500 and combines everything that is needed in modern funeral service. A card advertising their business will be carried in The Republican and telephone calls to either Nos. 25 or 307 will secure prompt attention.—Ad.