Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Joseph Pricfc, interstate commerce commission man, and wife are making a short stay in Rensselaer.

- Misses Edith and Elizabeth West went to Montpelier, Ind., today to visit relatives and friends for about a week.

Mrs. M. H. Tanner, of Bolton Landing, N. Y., who has been visiting her niece, Miss Ethel Perkins, went to Chicago today to visit Dr. S. R. Perkins before returning to her home.

Mr. apd Mrs. C. A. Stevenson and children returned yesterday to Chicago Heights, 111., after visiting his mother, Mrs. W. H. Stevenson, and sister, Mrs. Billy Frye, and other relatives here for a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Stevenson returned to their home at BonesteelSouth Dakota, today after visiting her mother, Mrs. H. I. Adams, an<his mother, Mrs.x W. H. Stevenson, and other relatives here for a couple of weeks.

Every grade crossing on the main lines and branches of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad system is being inspected by an official of the company with a view to determining what can be done to promote the safety of travelers on the highways and protect them against the possibility of being accidently struck by trains, in line with inStructipns issued by J. M. Davs, vice president of operations, who is anxious to minimize the likelihood of such catastropres occurring.

Controller Warwick, of the treasury, has ruled that the government may use the unspent part of the $2,700,000 appropriated by the congress at the beginning of the European war to bring' American refugees home, in paying fees in connection with suits against those who have failed to return the money lent by the government for this purpose. Between $300,000 and $400,000 of this money remains unspent. About 70 per cent of those who obtained loans have paid them.

CHAS. W.PLATT CEMENT CONTRACTOR I have purchased a new cement mixing machine and am now prepared to do all kinds of cement work, including blocks. Ask for prices. Phone 366