Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. W. F. Atwood, whose illness has been reported in The Republican, is somewhat -improved today. Miss Ruth Wood has charge of the Christmas Savings Club for the First National Bahk. If she has not already* called upon you phone her at the bank or her home, Phono No. 444. The local postoffice clerks are deluged with Christmas mail and the fact that the trains are almost all late, makes it a great deal harder. All trains are running late on the Monon. This is due parti/ to the weather, the heavy travel, and the large amount of express and mail. Ross Porter is home from New York state. He returned by way of Detroit and his brother, Walter, who had been working there, came home with him. Cope Hanley will arrive Saturday from Nashville, Tenn., where he is attending Vanderbilt University, to spend the holidays with his parents. In 1904 the actual cash road and bridge expenditure in the United States averaged slightly lass than S2B per mile of rural roads. In 1915 the cash road and bridge expenditure had increased to an average of $lO9 per mile of road. Due to the heavy traffic of mail, many extra cle'rks «re being placed on the road by the government this week and some of the Rensselaer clerks went back to work today as extras. A steering wheel has 'been invented which can me tilted out of the driver’s way when entering the car. A spring latch locks the steering wheel in place at other times.

A dish rinser, in the form of .a broad spray attached to the hot water faucet, instantly and thoroughly rinses a large pan of dishes. cThe spray is circular in shape and at its center is attached to the faucet. Although a telegram from headquarters at Washington stated that the Third Indiana might go home for the holidays, no further word has been heard and the Indianapolis papers have made no report of it and the probabilities are that they will not be home. Does it pay to advertise? Hilliard & Hamillj one of Rensselaer’s greatest advertisers, report that they have increased last year’s sales over SSO per day. We were in their place of business today and their large number of clerks were just as busy as they could be. The Gifford Drainage Association is progressing nicely. Mr. Knoezer has found it impossible to serve as a director and John Marlatt has been elected to his place. An executive committee consisting of S. C. Irwin, John Eger and T. M. Callahan, have been appointed. This committee will be empowered to take charge of the proposed improvement at once. C. J. Hobbs and DeVere Yeoman have been appointed engineers and Abe Halleck attorney. John Worland, son of D. M. Worland, assisted by Harve Hemphill, recently manufactured a motorcycle propelled • bobsled, and since there has been quite an amount of snow on the ground have had a great deal of enjoyment. The front wheel of the former’s motorcycle was removed and a 'bobsled built around it. Quite a little speed can be obtained and the gasoline-propelled bobsled is attracting a great deal of attention. The driver of the sled ran into the curbing near the B. Forsythe residence Thursday evening and one of the runners of the sled was broken. Cough Medicine for Children. Mrs. Hugh Cook, Scottsville, N. Y., says: “About five years ago when we were living in Garbutt, N. Y., I doctored two of my children suffering from colds with;Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and found it just as represehted in every way. It promptly checked their coughing and cured their colds quicker than anything I ever used.” For sale by B. F. Fendig. • C * Use our classy classified column. It will do the business. Do you know a successful business man who does not advertise? For the successful merchants of this city consult our advertisers. We carry the largest Classified Ad column of any paper in this part of the state, and the reason is that we get resulUfor all.

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