Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — Important Notice to Telephone Patrons. [ARTICLE]

Important Notice to Telephone Patrons.

Work has started on a new directory, which will be in book form. Any changes in your name, number or location, changes of firm name, parties changing lines, parties contemplating haying phones put in, within .next few months, those wishing io hold or have’the SI.OO service on party' ifiSte, in fact, any changes wanted made must be made at office. Our desire is to get this directory correct. There will be a limited amount of advertising space. No soliciting for advertisements will be made. Call 636 for space. Home patrohs' Wfil be given preference. This information must be in office before March first—Jasper County Telephone Co. zrxZ ■ We have the Hoosier and. Advanct endgate seeders and the best line of discs.-—Kellner & Callahan.

Molded Beast Treasured In Ranch City, la Child of Legend la* Concrete.' Some time in the days when people •till traveled in Europe for pleasure, you may have passed through the little city of Tarascon on your iway north from Marseilles. You remem* ber the wide empty main street with .the little houses set far back in the scanty shade of the plane trees and the row of drowsing carriage drivers drawn up in the center of the roadway, who offered to show you all the rights between trains—"only. forty minutes.’’ No doubt you gave Tarascon a comprehensive glance and decided to stay with the train. By so dolng you mlssed many interesting things; and ft was your own fault, for at the slightest encouraging sign the rnwchpsu would havd reeled off his catalog of attractions —the castle of King Rene, the shrine of SL Martha, the neighboring castle of Beaucaire —you to Beaucaire —and finally, as a grand climax, the lojcai monster, the local pride and distinction, the tarasque. 9he tarasque is a beast of family and genus unknown to biology; he is one of the creatures who have never been on sea or land. He dwells seeuiely locked in a house of his own, and he Is a monster of such unusual and formidable architecture that you will dream about him at night. The tarasque is * child of legend blossomed into concrete form. He is inseparably associated with St. Martha, whose shrine is the other local landmark. Back In the days of fable, when dragons ranged the earth, the tarasque held high rank in the fire breathing fraternity. He ravaged the country around Tarascon in the most approved fashiom,untilSt Martha came along and tamed him and led him by a string. . In the middle ages the people of Tai ascon revived the old legend and constructed a new tarasque, which they led through the streets at carnival* times to show how St Martha had conquered. The custom lived until recently, and this symbolic brute is the one whom you view in his stable today. He is the size of a small locomotive, with a vastly ferocious cast of countenance.