Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Trade Board Seat Brings $7,550; Record. [ARTICLE]

Trade Board Seat Brings $7,550; Record.

A seat on the Chicago Board of Trade sold at $7,550 Tuesday. Tenfold increases in some, departments of trade and a seat shortage is held responsible. Many believe seats will command still higher prices before another month. Otto Braun, of Lowell, was in Rensselaer today on business. Mrs. M. D. Root and baby, Ella Lee, of Hamilton, 111., arc visiting her mother, Mrs. M. J. Richeson. —Mrs. H. Anderson returned to her home in Chicago after visiting Mrs. E. J. Gamester heer for a w r eek. Miss Jennie Comer, who has been visiting home folks here since Friday, returned to her work as trained nurse in Chicago today. ——■ - . Twenty thousand new workers will this week join the force of 70,000 already employed at the great Krupp gun works at Essen in the gigantic task of' taming out shells and guns to feed the German armies. The American branch of the international congress of farm women which will be held in Indianapolis Oct. 18 to 20, in conjunction with the farmers’ national congress, to bring many interesting women to Ind’anapolis. t L.V.Sayler, ofnoarKminaii.was in Rensselaer today to have some sale bills printed foi| his public sale which is to be held on'Nov. 2. He is offering some mighty fine stock for sale and ‘those in need of cattle or hogs should not Jail to attend this sale. Mr. Saylor is not going to quit farming but finds that he has more stock than he cares to take care of. His sale notice appears in another part of this paper.