Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1920 — WANT TO START SOMETHING? HIT US [ARTICLE]

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for a trade. We will get your new car. And without “gettin’ ” the old one. You k. w. I mean. Yesterday I heard a man asked if his Franklin started easy in cold weather. “Start easy?” “Say the Franklin car has an engine on it that has a carburetor on it, that has a tester on it.” I missed the rest of it but that reminds me of the dough boy who was asked if he really had any Cooties on him in France. —“Say man, I had cooties on me, ■that had cooties on them, that had cooties on ’em.” J. C. Harris and Claude Harns of Morocco (formerly of Rensselaer) have new Monroes. - If you’r going to the Speedway races watch these three “Greenback” Monroes perform. We will have another Olds six, the world’s greatest value, next week. Bet you can’t get a loan, alone. Some folks think business is going to the devil. They’ll probably get there’s back alright. THOMPSON & KIRK.

Mrs. H: B. Murray went to Lafayette today to consult a specialist. Mrs. Murray . has an infected eye and it has affected her whole system until she is in poor health. Mrs. L. A. Bostwick accompanied Mrs. Murray to Lafayette. Wheeling, W. Va., May 25.—Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia was leading Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood in the Republican presidential preferential vote in today’s statewide primary in West. Virginia on the face of returns received from 415 precincts out of 1,860 in the state. Figures for the 415 precincts as compiled by the Wheeling Intelligencer gave: Sutherland 8,478; Wood, 6,130.