Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1918 — GATHERED FACTS [ARTICLE]

GATHERED FACTS

Of 150,000 Australian trade unionists enlisted, 45,000 have been killed. „ India is making earnest efforts to revive its long-neglected Indigo industry. There is a schoolhouse in Providence, R. 1., which has been in continuous use for 118 years. Il Glornale d’ltalla of Rome, states that the telephone connections between Sardinia and the Italian mainland will be completed this -year-

Burma is one of the very few lands in which fat is not used for lighting or Industrial purposes. During the war of the American revolution the loyalist women of New York raised a large fund for the fitting out of a privateer to be called the “Fair American.” At. the public sale of the personal property of Henry Clay Ferrow of York, Pa., a number of honey-bees wefe disposed of at from $1.70 to $2 eucTi. This was the highest price ever received in that county for bees.