Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Home grown strawberries at Rhoads’jGrocery. W. 0. Nelson, of Wheatfield,was here today. The wise investor t buys a VeA. Rensselaer Garage. Jasper county MUST raise $4,200 for American Red Cross. DO YOUR BIT. • We are doing our best to keep the prices down in our grocery department.—The G. E. Murray Co. Give your bit to the Red Cross,* It’s not charity, it’s your duty. Forest Morlan and Edwin Robinson, of Chicago, visited in Rensselaer over Sunday. Bicycle tires, all new stock. Phone 218. Jim Clark. Do YOUR Bit Give to the Red Cross. Mrs. Eugene Wemple, of Rockford, 111., came Saturday for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Montgomery. If you want dry goods, clothing or shoes, you can save money during our Military Drive sale. —The G. E. Murray Co. Cope Hanley left today for Bloomington, where he will attend Indiana University - duringthe rest of the summer.

The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Men’s and boys’ clothing, muslin and knit underwear, rugs, shoes, women’s and children’s dresses, all kinds of hosiery, dress goods, ginghams, percales, calicoes, etc.—The G. E. Murray Co. Mrs. W. H. Barkley, of Chicago, came down this morning to spend the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Starr. The following went to Chicago on the early morning train: W. C. Babcock, Dr. C. E. Johnson, Ross Dean, Joe Reeve and Samuel Duvall. Merlie Lamborn, who has been a teacher in the Indianapolis school and whose term has just closed, returned to her home near Remington last Friday. Abundance of Money. I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is 5 per cent and my limit is SIOO .-per aC r e . —P. D. Wells, Morocco, Ind. Your Boy Going to France? You can’t go with him but you can help sent the Red Cross to take care of him. It will be your boys greatest ally. THIS WEEK Jasper county has $4,200 to raise. DO YOUR BIT NOW.

Foresters Annihilated At Lowell On Sunday.

The local Forester baseball club was annihilated at the hands of the Lowell club Sunday at the latter place. It was the worst defeat ever suffered by the club. The final score showed that the Lake county boys had made the complete circuit 21 times, while the locals, failed to negotiate the distance a single time. The Foresters had a rather impressive record behind them until Sunday and a close, hard-fought battle was looked for. Feldhouse did the twirling for Rensselaer dnd was showered by basehits, while the rank fielding of his companions aided considerably in the run getting. Shurte twirled for Lowell and although Rensselaer gathered several hits off of his offerings, they could not be sufficiently bunched to do any good. Next Sunday Rensselaer will meet the Monticello club and the management at that time expeets to have some new faces in the lineup and to switch some of the present players about in order to strengthen both the attack and defense.

GERMANY INSISTS THAT MIGHT MAKES RIGHT

The United States insists that the free nations of the earth, under God,, shall have a new birth of freedom. That government of the people and by thepeople and for the people shall not perish from the earth. ' We are sending our boys to France. We can’t go, many of us, but we MUST take care of them after they get there and when they need us most. When your boy and my boy Ire wounded on the battlefield in France having fought your battle and my battle —it’s up to you and I to see that that boy receives medical attention and the care he has earned fighting YOUR battle and MY battle. There is only one way we can do this, viz: hy assisting in the support of the American .Red Cross—its eorps of doctors and nurses. » It takes money to buy medicine, bandages, stretchers, ambulances, hospitals, etc. \ , -—The=£overnment advises that Jasper county MUST raise $4,200 to take care of their boys. Now, it’s up to YOU. Do your bit when the other fellow (your boy and my boy) is doing his. "Give to the American Red Cross what you can, all you can, pay it in instalments if you want to: BUT GIVE. H. L. Moss, of near Indianapolis, came this morning and went up to Walker township, where he will look after some land which will be appraised for a government farm loan. He was met at the Morion station here by Volney Peer, a member of the Walker township farm loan association. Chester C. Norman, of this city, has been enlisted by Recruiting Officer Brykczynski for the navy and will go to Indianapolis to take his exmaination. ' ■_—_L