Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE. Owing to the fuel shortage in the city and to conserve the limited amount now available, it is necessary to notify all lodges meeting in the I. O. O. F. building thdt no heat will be furnished in any of the lodge rooms until further notice. By Order of the Board of Trustees.

BUY YOUR SEEDS EARLY i ' -- I have a quantity of seed peas and beans. Two varieties of stringless beans. Four leading varieties of peas. On sale at Carmichaels Shoe Shop. J. H. CARSON. Many of our citizens, hearing of the plight of Mrs. Charles Elder and her children, quickly came to* their aid And the family is now well provided for in the way of fuel, furniture and food. / A letter was received here today from John Worland, who is now at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. John is a member of the 2nd Motor Mechanics Regiment. He reports that everything is running along smoothly and that he expects to leave for Europe within a short time. .The most important announcement that has come to farmers and stock growers is that fixing the price of bran at the mill at 38 per cent of the price of wheat. This, Dr. Barnard says, will serve to reduce the price of stock feed’ from SIO.OO to $15.00 a ton. Dairymen, in particular, have been .demanding relief from conditions, which they □ insist have prevented a reasonable margin of profit in their business. Dr. Barnard has requested food administrators, members of county councils of defense and other patriotic, citizens, to report all violators of this order/ With wheat at $2.08 a bushel at the mill, bran will sell under this regula- * tion at $2.26 per hundred. " ■■ \ " -J— <