Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Why spend all these extra hours over your hot stove baking your bread with uncertain results when you can BUY O’RILEY’S GOLDEN LOAF BREAD fresh every day? O’RILEY

N. C. Shafer and Alton Padgitt went to Chicago today. Mrs. Stella Ketchum, Mrs. Alta Parkinson and Mrs. Rice Porter went to Chicago this morning. Miss Lucille Phillips, teacher in our public schools, left for her home in Monticello. George Maines went to Hopkins Park, 111. today to visit his brother, Walter Maines. i J. W. Iliff, of Burlington, Wyoming, who moved to the west fifteen years ago is visiting his mother, Mrs. O. K. Ritchey, and other relatives. American soldiers in France will not be permitted to vote in the coming elections, the war department has definitely decided. Men in training in this country will be allowed to vote if their states wish to collect the ballots. Forty thousand pounds of binder twine is being turned out every 24 hours by the binder twine plant at the Indiana state prison in Michigan City. Warden E. J. Fogarty made this announcement in a statement to the United Press outlining the work of the plant. To meet old friends in various corners of the globe is not so unusual —but to meet an old locomotive “over there” that he used to fire “over here” is the experience of James Gorman, former Northwestern engineer. Gorman writes a Milwaukee friend that he is running “the same old teakettle” behind the, lines in France.

Indiana’s state highway commission law, passed at the last session of the legislature, and which was regarded as one of the most important measures enacted, was held unconstitutional at Noblesville yesterday by Judge Cloe, of the Hamilton county circuit court. The decision will of course be taken to the state supreme court. Mr. and Mrs. Leopold and son, Moses, were in Brook on Saturday evening calling on Mr. and Mrs. Ben Leopold. Mr. Leopold who was one of the pioneer merchants of Rensselaer gave the writer some facts concerning the early days and stated that the first time he was ever in. Brook there was a saw mill and store here, and at that time he was trying to buy the farmers’ wool clip. He lived in Rensselaer when there was no railroad and goods were hauled from Bradford, now called Monon, and that he contrbiuted to the building of the first railroad through Rensselaer which was a narrow guage line. He is 'hale and hearty at the ripe age of 84 and enjoys all the present day conveniences and has no desire to return to the “good old days.”—Brook Reporter. PLANTS. Cabbage, cauliflower, tomato, egg-plant, for your garden. Geranium, begonia, ferns, vines, etc., for bedding and boxes. Cut flowers for all occasions furnished on short notice. Give us your order for Mothers Day and Decoration Day and we will furnish the flowers. . OSBORNE’S GREEN HOUSE. .. Phone 489.

KN IGHTS OF COLUMBUS WAR BENEFIT THESTAR FRIDAY. MAY 10 Be sure and go, you’ll be helping the Boys in the Service