Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1920 — THE PASSING OF THE POSTS. [ARTICLE]

THE PASSING OF THE POSTS.

You have read of the world’s greatest war. The only war in history m which soil was destroyed. The “only war in which whole forests were blown into atoms, branch, trunk and roots. _ Hundreds of ships are being loaded with lumber and wood at American ports consigned to Europe. Ask your dealer today for the price of hard oak flooring. Where are our forests of fifteen yean ago? • , Where does the timber line end; where does the prairie line begin? Yet in a few days spring is at your door. Get in your auto and take a ride for observation. Start at Rensselaer and go west to the county farm road to Mt. Ayr. As you cross Curtis Creek one and one-half miles east of Mt. Ayr, you will notice the timber ends anc the prairie begins. A prairie tha stretches away to the state line ant across Illinois and up into lowa and Nebraska. Of course you will see ynma iHIU gtreaks of timber along the river here and there. But ’here east-of -Mt. Ayr ends what, was once that great forest region that went eastward across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. If you want oak lumber get it now I If you want the last good crop of fine burr and white oak posts, the kind that will last, remember that 1920 is your last chance. You can get on the stone road two miles east of Mt. Ayr. The best oak posts you ever knew. You cannot get them next ye«r._ Many wise men get theirs. Some of you will sure be like the foolish virgins and I come too late. If you will want I posts at all within the next five ’years, buy them now. The prices law not high now, yet they are 83 l-" 3 per cent higher than one year ago. They will be 25 per cent 1 higher within 90 days. Cut out the ‘dealers’ profit; buy direct. ; From producer to consumer. I Only thirty thousand ports left, 1 and there are more than one thousand men who want one hundred posts each. So many of you will give me the long distance call too