Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SALES MANAGER FOR OIL COMPANY Perry Gwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, left here today for Elkhart, where he will be the sales manager in northern Indiana fob the Sineclair Oil Company. This is a splendid position and one ih Which Mr. Gwin will be enabled to make Xapid advancement. The Sinaclair Oil Co. is one of the new independent oil firms and it is making a phenomenal growth. It is said to have back of it some very large financial interests in this country. A number of people here who have used gasoline handled by the Sin> clair people pronounce it to be one of the very best products on the market. Mr. Gwin has had considerable successful experience in the oil business in Texas and Old Mexico. He was forced to give up a good position in this business when the trouble with that country became so serious.

There will be a total eclipse of the sun May 29, but it will not be yisible in North America. Oregon is noted as a breeding state for goats, pure-bred sires often bringing prices in excess of SSOO. The Sitka widow, when she has to put on mourning, paints the upper part of her face a deep black. Prior to the war there were 206 sugar factorie sin France producing 700,000 to 800,000 tons annually. Of these only about sixty factories making 150,000 to 200,000 tons of sugar are outside the invaded regions. Walter Ponsler, formerly of Mt. Ayr hut now living on his farm near Columbia City, returned to his home there today. He had been here to purchase a car load of this year’s corn, This part of Indiana seems to have a much better crop of corn this year than many other places and the demand for ear corn is very heavy. The peanut growing industry in the Salt river valley Of Arizona has made a long stride in the last year. From the few scattered acres of a few years ago the area planted to peanuts in that district has grown until it now reaches 1,000 acres. The yield to the acre averages 200 pounds. Sergeant C. Ross Ramey arrived here early this morning from Camp. Taylor, where he received an honorable discharge from the army. Sergt, Ramey left here Oct. 1 to entdr the tank service. While, in the service he had an attack of pneumonia following influenza which came very near being fatal. He was in the hospital Seven weeks.

Experts from the federal department of agriculture and from the war department will begin a series df experiments in the south in the'effort to utilize a powerful gas that was used by the American army in the war in Europe. The gas will be used in attempts to destroy the cotton boll weevil, the pink boll worm, caterpillars, potato bugs and other insects that ravage crops. It is said to be,: a byproduct of southern pine. Trustee Burdett Porter, of Carpenter township, was in Rensselaer today and filed his annual report for publication. His daughter, Miss Helen Porter, who teaches at the Neverfail school in Jordan township, is ill with influenza at the home of Mrs. Charles Harris. Trustee W- E. Poole, of Hanging Grove township and retiring Trustee George FouJks, of Milroy, filed their annual‘repafts’'with us today for publication.

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