Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The iron market has dropped and I am now paying 50 cents per 100 pounds delivered. Better bring in your iron now as the market is expected to go still lower.—Sam Karnowsky, Phone 577. Rev. Strecker’s Sunday school class has furnished five young men for the U. S. Navy. Raymond Dixey, Marquis Peek, William Tilton and James Barber are in the service, while Russell Warren has been examined and accepted and is awaiting orders. The Sunday school contributed |35 for the Red Cross last Sunday. * E. H. Peterson, who moved to Mt. Vernon, S. Dak.„ this spring, returned to Jasper county last Wednesday. He will make the return trip to his new home in Dakota in his _ automobile and will take with him his daughters, Pearl and Blanche, who had remained here to complete their year of high school work. Mr. Peterson reports that crop conditions in South Dakota are about the same as here. Gaylord Long, Floyd Hemphill and Frank Garvin, boys who went to Indianapolis Monday to take an examination to enter the navy, failed to meet the requirements. Harvey Phillips barely passed the test, but it is understood that he will have to be re-examined as his physical abili? ty did not impress the examining officers very much and it is feared that he, too, will be unable to pass. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fendig came down from Chicago yesterday and with their daughter Miriam are visiting relatives here. Mr. Fendig spent the winter in the south buying vegetables in carload lots for the Chicago market. Mr. Fendig is very much impressed- with the money making opportunities of the south and as soon as he can dispose of his property here he expects to take up his residence in the southland. Yesterday he closed a contract here for a 40acre farm near Gloster, Miss., in the section where others from here are making investments. By fall it is expected that quite a colony from this vicinity will be moving to that section of Mississippi, as the land is cheap and the climate delightful. The fa l ™ Mr; Fendig secures is located three miles from Gloster and near Woodman Springs, a summer and winter resort. The farm is all cleared excspt five, acres.