Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Seven and twp-tenths inches of snow fell Monday at Chattanooga, Tenn., a record for many years. Great Britain will permit the §hip ; ment of two carloads of dyestuffs, valued at $5,000,000, from Rotterdam to the United States, Ambassador Page at London has advised the state department. Eggs not 95 per cent good will be barred from interstate commerce hereafter under ar ruling Monday by the department of agriculture. Shippers packing more than 5 per cent bad eggs will (be regarded as violating the food and drug acts by adulteration. “Alcohol is the handmaiden of pneumonia, which produces 10 per cent of the deaths in the United Stated/’ a public health service bulletin said Monday. The liberal and continuous user of alcoholoc drink is peculiarly susceptible to the disease.

A remarkable skin grafting operation, lasting five hours and requiring three square feet of human cuticle, was performed Monday at DesMoines, la. The patient, Roy Adreon, is expected to live. He was conscious throughout the operation. His sister, sistey-ih-law, wife, and three friends contributed the skin. Adreon was terribly burned last Saturday when he threw gaeoline on a fire. The robbery of four valuable registered mail packages, in what appears to h&Ve been an attempt to steal at least $1,000,000 in currency consigned to New York .banks, became known in that city Monday. The robbery occurred Saturday morning when a United States mail automobile truck was entered while it was on a ferry bound from the Central of New Jersey station-at Communipay, N. J., to Liberty street, New York.

B. B. or Puritan Egg for the range. Ky. B. or Carbon splint for the heat>ug stove. —Harrington Bros. Co. Mrs. Tom Hayes, on the B. Forsythe farm northwest of town, has been quite poorly since the birth of a baby ten days ago. Her limbs have been quite numb but it is not a case of paralysis as commonly reported. She is getting along somewhat better now.

Are you having trouble in getting good potatoes? We will have some of fancy Minnesota sand grown potatoes, 30c a peck or $ 1 .20 a bushel. - - i _ JOHN EGER. B. L. Sayler is here from Marion, jDhio, for a visit of a few days and to close up the saje of his farm in Newton township to Henry Wortley. Mrs. Sayler is bedfast and has been very poorly for a long time. Today Mr. Sayler and W. D. Sayler are spending the day with Jeff Smith and family in Newton township.

Rev. D. A. Rodgers and wife, /of Lakeville, are spending a few days .with his sister, Mrs. R. A. Parkison and family. They came Monday to close the deal for the purchase of a part of H. W. Jackson’s faym, which adjoins his own. Tuesday Rev. and Mrs. Rogers were guests for dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pierson, north of town.

Talk to us about your coal; we have something to tell you about our coal. —Harrington Bro». Co. - - assisted’ "Sheriff Whittaker, of Lake county, in taking 6 prisoners to the reformatory at Jeffersonville and 10 to the penal farm near Greencastle. All sixteen were taken down at the same time. At Jeffersonville Sheriff ivicCdlly saw Orville Grimm, the young man sent up for robbing Spate’s store at Newland. We have discovered the ideal range coal. Ask us about it. Phone No. 7. —Harrington Bros. Co.

Confirmation of reports that Gen. Felix Diaz had left, the Un.it^d_States for Mexico to start a new revolution was received Monday at the department of fustiee-from several different quarters. Chief Bielaski of the bu reau of investigation heard from hi? agents in New Orleans and New York that Diaz left this country several days ago. A twenty foot rail, supposed to have been a part of the equipment of the old New Albany and Salem railroad, now known as the Monon, was recently unearthed at New Albany by I. H- Hurie, section foreman, and has been sent to Purdue university as a relic. The rail is expected to arrive here this week and will be placed in a suitable place. The rail has the appearance oi having been buried in the earth for a number of years, and in spite of the dantpness has resisted rust o a remarkable de-gree.—-Lafayette Journal.

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