Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — WILL THE SKY BE THE LIMIT? [ARTICLE]

WILL THE SKY BE THE LIMIT?

EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE GETTING HIS AND ENJOYING IT. Local shoe dealers tell us that shoes will be $25 next spring. Our clothiers say a suit of clothes will cost about $125 and every other article of wearing apparel seems to have its price hitched to an ascending airplane. Not only wearing apparel, but groceries and other necessary articles are getting higher every day. Will the sky be the limit? A butcher in this city carried an advertisement in this paper until a few days ago quoting the prices of hides at 17 cents. Today the price of beef hides is 35 cents and on calves hides 70 cents per pound. With all of these 'high prices, including higher wages, there seems to be no complaint and all take it as a matter of course. We believe that the merchants of this city are enjoying an unprecedented era of prosperity. A glimpse at the crowded condition of our streets Saturday night would convince anyone that a great amount of business was being transacted by the merchants of the city. Automobiles were parked entirely around the public square, and on Washington street from the river bridge to a considerable distance east of the Makeever ’hotel, and up and down Van Rensselaer street.

Undoubtedly the greatest prosperity has come to the farmer. Farmers on Wall street are reported to have cleaned up from $30,000 to $35,000. ' *The writer talked to a young farmer the other daly who had just sold his eighty acre farm at a very handsome profit. This young man had cleared some $17,000 in the past few years. With local conditions as above, ■why buy oil or mining stock or go elsewhere for investment? There are young farmers in Jas- ■ per county and young business men in Rensselaer that are succeeding I splendidly. They have the ability and the habits of industry, but they could not succeed as they are except for the unusual opportunities offered by this choice js'pot. of God’s creation. / ' . This is the 'harvest time and the fellow who is not picking his cherries and canning a portion of them will find an empty fruit jar as his possession after this era of plhen om in al prosperity has subsided. Here’s hoping that the wage earner may receive a liberal wage, that the merchant may enjoy large sale with good margins, that the farmer may have a bounteous yield of grain and that prices will be such that his prosperity may continue. Every hustler is a booster for a community. The world has a peculiar respect for the man who sueceeds. It is a good did planet on which we live, it is the choice hour of the centuries. If you are not happy and prosperous you are out of place and out of harmony with the time or your newspaper man. . „ - The Germans should cheer up. Even if they don’t get what they want, they should be glad they are not getting what they deserve. —Anaconda Standard. An appropriation of $55,000,000 i for the air service at Washington does not apply to hot air.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.