Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1918 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

All home print today. Bead the inside pages. By treating them .with certain gases a Frenchman has succeeded in keeping eggs fresh for ten months. A mushroom gathered in Lincolnshire, England, some years ago, measured a yard in circumference. Lloyd Getorge has a salary of $25,000 a year as first lord of the treasury, but is unpaid for services as* prime minister. The battleships of today can in two shots discharge as great a weight of metal as a nentire broadside of Netson’s greatest ship. Water tanks that work successfully are being made in Australia from native days, one of 10,000 gallons capacity having (been constructed. Nearly twenty states tof the Union have what are called bird sanctuaries or laws for the protection of migratory 'birds on their long flights in search of feeding places. • . ■ , - - I When sailors speak of fathoms they do n>ot always mean the same thing. On board a man. of war a fathom means six feet, on board a merchantman 5 % feet, and on board a fishing vessel five feet. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blue have received a letter from their grandson, Corp. Robert Blue, at Fortress Monroe Va. The corporal had checked everything in to the government and expected to be moved to Camp Grant, 81., at once and in a very short time to be mustered out of (the service.

BUCKWHEAT. We pay the highest market >.'ev for good, elean, dry buckwheat Get our price before you sell. Iroquois Roller Mills. Phone 454. The Iroquois Roller Mills has a flour trade of a radius of 30 miles around. They come in autos, wagons, buggies. None have arrived yet in airplanes but possibly may soon. See our flour ad. Iroquois Roller Mills. (