Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lawrence .B. Fmzel ol nooveraville, .Pa., is believed to have earned the highest wages daring a month ever paid any coal miner. Finzel re-/ ceived $347.92 for the month. More than 70,000 cities and towns in the United States use 9,161,211 telephones. It is estimated that an average of 8,600,000,000 messages are sent over these lines annually. In order to shorten the school year the Winters school of Ballinger. Tex., with 500 pupils, will hold classes six days a week. The “speed rule is. to release boys for early spring farm work. The British admiralty reports the sinking in the last week of eighteen merchantmen of 1,600 tons or over by mine or submarine, as well as three merchantment under that tonnage. Four fishing vessels also were sunk. , ' Postmaster Selph of St. Louis has ~ recommended to the postmaster general that a special examination be held for women who desire to be mail carriers and that the department advertise for “sturdy women.” Nine men of the American steamer Harry Luckenbach, torpedoed and sunk 6n Jan. 6, are still missing, the navy department announced yesterday, based on a report from Vice Admiral'Sims. The report states that twenty-two members of the crew have been rescued. _ A conference of the Church of the Brethren of the World is being held at Goshen for the purpose of discussing conditions that have risen within the church as a result of the war. An appeal will be made to President Wilson and to Secretary Baker for the purpose of procuring exemptions for church members combative service.

Parcels for American troops* in France, not exceeding seven pounds in weight, may hereafter be addressed directly to the soldier, but they will no longer be received for forwarding by the “commanding general, port of embarkation,” as* previously has been the practice. This announcement was made yesterday by the postoffice department. " Drastic measures for the conservation of fuel and light are provided in an order issued yesterday by James J. Storrow, fuel administrator for New England, applicable through Massachusetts. They include the opening of business houses at 9 a. m. and the closing at 6 p. m. and the closing of theatres, bars, and all places of amusement at 10 p. m. An investigation of the affairs of the supreme council, Royal Arcanum, a fraternal insurance order, the funds of which he declared had been “wasted and mismanaged,” was asked by counsel for Arthur F. Cummings and James E. Upstone of New Hampshire at a hearing yesterday before Federal Judge Hale at Boston, on a motion by the organization for the dismissal of a receivership petition. The. first of the great national reforms in this country that are to . grow out of the war has to do with the ownership of farming land and with devising ways and means of getting that land into the hands of returning soldiers who will work it. Senator Curtis of Kansas has introduced a bill which provides for the creation of a land board and authorizes it to make a survey which will indicate what line of action is advisable.

A bill that will enable government agents to purchase the commercial alcohol to be made from soft corn in Indiana, has been approved by state council of defense and will be submitted in congress by Representative Lincoln Dixen, of the fourth district, at the request of N. E. Squibb. It provides for an appropriation of $20,000,000 with which to purchase this alcohol, which is expected to mean the salvation of much of the fifteen millions of bushels of corn now unfit for other use, in this state. For you that haven’t teeth —-Call 1 phone 647 for your beef. C. H. Leavel. CASTORIA For Infants and Chfldreu In Use For Over 30 Years