Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — Anticipating a Demand. [ARTICLE]

Anticipating a Demand.

He was the proprietor of a large draper’s and milliner’s shop, and was also very enterprising, and ever ready to turn anything to account. ‘‘By the way, Miss Williams,” he remarked one morning, addressing one of his charming black-gowned salesladies, “do you happen to know anything about the new minister who’s going to have charge "of the church round the corner?” "Why, yes," was the quick reply. "He is a tall, handsome, fine-looking man, about twenty-eight, I should sagr, and he isn’t married.” "Miss Williams,” said the proprietor briskly, “you may put all the new hats in the. shop window at once."

California’s mining properties last year numbered 658, cf which 277 are gold mines. -