Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

By George Ade

Are you getting ready to answer in hundreds a country that has endowed you with thousands? As you squint your eyes and try to decide upon the sum which will fairly represent your individual quota, are you acting as attorney for the United States of America or have you gone in for technicalities in order to protect special interests? In reasoning with your conscience, are you trying to be generous or trying to play safe? It i£ up to you. / The bucK cannot be passed. It is for each man tp decide whether he is going to be a thoroughbred or a squeezer of 50-cent pieces. For the saKe of _ your own selfrespect, come through to the limit If you live to be a thousand years old you never will have another chance to start your iron dollars upon such a noble mission. ♦ ' Do you wish to deepen the wrinKles upon the brows in Potsdam? . Would you fortify the courage of every soldier in France? Shall we set in such a stacK that the Kaiser can’t see over the top of it? All right! You are appointed a Special Agent Don’t wait for a committee to hunt you up or run you down., Hurry to the banK and breaK through the line and order so many Liberty Bonds • that the man inside will be dazed and all of the neighbors surprised and all of your relatives proud.

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Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davisson and D. S. Makeever left this morning for the Texas border oh a land prospect-, ing trip. They will join the excursion at Kansas' City" and from there the trip will be made in a special Pullman train, chartered by- the land company. Old papars for sala st thia afflcs

W. C. Baker, of Chicago, is spend--ing a few days with relatives in Barkley township. Mrs. E. H. Croxton, of Kankakee, 111., spent today here with her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lesley Miller. f

Trustee C. E. Fairchild, of DeMotte, was in Rensselaer Thursday, Mrs. H. R. Milner and son James went to Chicago Thursday evening. -—■ 1r — ■- - ... - * J. M. Shaffer returned today to his home in Plymouth.

Mrs. J. H. Branson and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Branson returned from Chicago Thursday evening. Edd J. Randle left Thursday for Sayre, Okla., to see his brother, John Randle, who ft very sick with heart trouble. '