Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MISCELLANEOUS ■MONEY TO U)AN-£jw cent, farm loans. JOHN A DUNLAP. LOST—SSO reward. Diamond ring, lost between city garage of Rensselaer and the iron bridge at Newland, Ind., Sunday, June 22. Notify the Republican. MONEY TO LOAN—Chas. J. Dean & Son. _ , ■ - --- ESTRAYED —About June 12, a white sow, weight about 200 pounds, from my place, three and one-half miles, west of Mt. Calvary cemetery. C. H. Bowers, ’phone 945-J. TAKEN UP—Hog. Owner can have same by paying charges. Geo. Seible, ’Phone 9SB-H. The last day of June is with us and she’B» been a mighty good old June, too! Frank Bringle, of R. F. D. No. 2, Fair* Oaks, waif in Rensselaer Saturday. Orders now being taken for fall delivery from the Guaranteed Nursery company. Stock failing to live replaced free. Charles Pefley. Word has been received here by friends that Herman Lange has landed and is now at Camp Merritt. He has been in the service for two years and lin France one year. He expects to be mustered out soon. Sunday was a beautiful day and many Rensselaer people took advantage of it to make drives to various points, while many foreign cars passed through the city. The Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Strecker and RgsabeH Daugherty left this Mondaymorni ngfor Columbus, 0., where they will attend the Methodist centenary meeting. The trip was made by auto and the party expects to be gone a week or ten days. Cedar Lake is said to be again luring those who seek week-end diversion. The lake affords clean amusement now tbat prohibition has come and the excellent bathing, fishing and fine dinners are proving to be a great magnet. People should exercise greater precaution in crossing the streets of a Saturday night when the traffic !is heavy. Many accidents have been narrowly averted through careless I citizens stepping in -front -of approaching automobiles. In stepping from the sidewalk in the middle of the block the view of the street is obstructed by the cars lined along the street. The pedestrian should aid the car driver in avoiding accidents.

The Explosion of An Ancient Legend " ... ■_ • ""'" t <' A LETTER received last week from one who signs himself “Constant User” asks why the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) insists that the gravity test for gasoline is a fallacy. Not having his address we are answering the inquiry here When the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) began manufacturing gasoline the surest, safest, most practical method known for determining the quality o£ the product was by testing it with a hydrometer. In those days all of the crude oil used came from a single locality. It was of the same base always and the products refined from it were uniform. As the industry grew and oil wells were found in widely separated localities it was discovered that the crude varied so greatly even when taken from wells in the same locality that the hydrometer no longer could be depended upon to indicate the quality of therefined product with satisfactory exactness. Some other system of measurement had to be used. The chemical engineers employed by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), who were asked to solve the problem, suggested that the boiling points of the several fractions, which go to make gasoline, would give the desired result. They woujd be constant and the usefulness of the product would net vary so long as the range of boiling point fractions remained unchanged. . The practical usefulness of the suggestion was instantly recognized, and the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) immediately adopted it as the basis of their manufacturing practice. By making its product conform to the boiling point standard, it was possible to guarantee uniform results at all times, even though the hydrometer might show variation in gravity. We know uniformity is of the most vital importance to the.ultimate consumer. That is why we insist that gravity is of no value in determining the value of g; soline as a fuel, because it can not indicate the gaps. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is steadfast in its endeavor to render the greatest service possible to the motoring public and it is constantly trying to so improve the fuel and oils it sells as to give to its patrons a greater value for the money they spend with it. Standard Oil Company {lndiana) X 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicaga