Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dana Rishling, of Gifford, was here I today. Get your Christmas fruit cake of O’Riley/ John Webber made a business trip to Monon today. Minerva Fruit Cakes are the best made. Get them of O’Riley. Attorney Emmet Laßue made a business trip to Lafayette today. Phone 613, the Goldeh Loaf Bakery, for Christmas fruit cakes. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brusnahan, of near Francesville, were in Rensselaer today. Your Christmas dipner will not be complete without one of O’Riley’s fruit cakes. Marion Large, John Herr, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johns and Pearl Ross, of MdCoysbung, were here today. Candy at all prices at Rowen’s Grocery. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gangloff started for Houston, Texas, today. They will make that place their future home. Have you seen Rowen’s candy booth’ It certainly has a complete line of candies and nuts ,and prices are right. Phone 202. Joseph Segi, who spent the summer with his brother, Charles Sego, near Remington, returned to his home at Valparaiso today. Don’t buy your Christmas candy and nuts before you see Rowen’s candy booth as you wil surely be disappointed. Phone 202. David Blitstein returned to his home at Chicago today. He owns 200 acres of land in the region to be affected by-the proposed drain to be constructed by the Gifford Drainage Association. TRAVELING BAGS SELECTED FROM A BRAND NEW lot just received, will be a pleasing Xmas gift.—Hilliard & Hamill. Bargains in Pianos. I have decided to do furniture repairing, upholstering and painting automobiles. Will esll my entire stock of pianos at cost price to make room for this work. Pianos will be sold for cash or on easy payments. Open evenings from now until ChristPhone 576. *■ H. R. LANGE.

Washington Highway Official Makes Visit to Mt. Ayr. Mt. Ayr Tribune. Driving into Mt. Ayr with a little span of mules a decrepit wagon, Col. Charles W. Thaitcher, engineer an 1 official representative of the Washington Highway association, arrived in this town Tuesday and stopped at Lee’s general store to warm. He had taken dinner with Geo. Handley, northwest of town. His appearance in town created considerable excitement, and the boys crowded around his odd little old wagon to inspect the curios with which it abounded. Across the top of* the wagon in flaming letters he carried a banner which read “The Last of the G. O. P.” This he was carrying in its conspicuous position to pay an election bet It was truly an odd looking outfit with a comical looking burro er, whose appearance belies his position, is on his way to Evansville and southern points. He will address a number of civic organizations in the larger cities enroute. His first trip was made 13 years ago, and for the last 11 #e£rs he has driven the same mules over the Washington route. He was in Wyoming a few weeks ago and the state legislature, after Colonel Thatcher had addressed a committee* trotting along behind. This the colonel informed us, he had picked up down in New Mexico. Colonel Thatchgranted an appropriation of $33,000 for the improvement of the highway through the state. “I have been traveling over the route for 13 years,” Colonel Thatcher said, “and during that time I „have used an automobile on only one occasion. It was the last time, however, for I can travel in greater comfort and convenience with my mules. . I am endeavoring to obtain appropriations in the states through which the highway is routed , for the improvement of the roads, and thus far I have been highly successful. 1 “We are bringing our route through the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, and the government at that point is paving the highway so that shortly it will be the best and most accessible entrance. I do not believe it will be many years before the highway is paved from New York Colonel Thatcher did not speak in Mt. Ayr, stopping only for a short rest. He has addressed a-number of Rotary clubs along his route and is billed to speak at Terre Haute as soon as he can reach there. His addresses, he informed us, were all made in the larger towns. The Colonel was certainly an interesting character to talk with and evidenced air , understanding of highways far beyond the average individual. He reminded us that the greater Chicago papers have had much to say of him, and in the past eight years the Indianapolis [News had twice used a big 8 -column cut of his outfit together with a full his