Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I College defeated Purdue in basketball Tuesday evening 17-9. ; I The Sew Club will meet with Mrs. Loren Sage Thursday afternoon of this week. T * .Miss Ruth Callahan arrived yesterday from Rantoul, 111., to spend the holidays with her father, Thomas Callahan. Clarence Rowland has been reappointed by Pres. Comiskey, of the White Sox, to pilot his team next year. - *. The Christian Sunday school will hold their Christmas program next .Sunday evening and the children’s treat will be given in the morning. Miss Aileen Allman came yesterday from Northwestern University at Chicago to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman. . . ■ Valuable gum and varnish can be extracted from the desert cacti plant of Arizona; the crude gums are extracted on the field and carried to refineries for manufacture. The Swiss government decided to favor the single phase system for electrifying the railways in preference to the third rail, because it costs 10 per cent less to make the change. The Island U has the shortest name of any place in the world. It is situated off the Quelpart Islands, a little to the east and near the southern coast of Chosen, which was once Korea. The Pythian club will meet Friday at bhe home of Mrs. Charles Rishling, who will be assisted by Mrs. Wasson and Mrs. Grant. The annual Christmas exchange will be held at this time.

‘Miss Corals Moore arrived in Rensselaer from Dakota Tuesday for a visit with relatives. Miss Moore is the daughter of Wm. Moore, who is a son of the late Wim. E. Moore, of this city. Her mother was a daughter of Wm. Kenton lately deceased. Archie Erehart and Walter Hess, Indiana University football players, have been disqualified from further participation in athletics at that school because they played in the Pine Village-Hammond game at Lafayette. , The British horse snip Russian was torpedoed and sank with a loss of 17 American muleteers. If there is anything in a party emblem he news of that disaster may be expected to stir up the Washington administration. 1 Mrs. Mary E. Rockhold writes from Glendaje, Cal., asking that the Republican be sent to her at that place. Mrs. Rockhold states that she likes the country fine, but that the westerners are prone to raise the rates on the easterners, and consequently living out there is much higher for her. She visited her sister, Wilma Scheurich, who lives*at Santa Barbara, which city she describes as being very beautiful and; historical. The writer enclosed a clipping which tells of the vast waste of fish in that city and that the city authorities are investigating the matter in order that the city’s poor may not be deprived.

| Mistletoe I jj given to each purchaser THURSDAY 8 to 19:30 a.m. We Sell Christmas Trees I JARRETTE \ * HAS IT CORNER CAFE’S ; .t Christmas Specials ■ ... . .." .• ~ < Heinon Oysters Bulk 45c quart 25c pint Meals and Hot Lunches Served at all Hours * . «*• 48 V, .. . ■ 9