Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — Page 4

To The Late Shopper DON’T WORRY ■ ' I For various reasons many people don’t like to purchase gifts too • far ahead. Our stock oi Christmas Gifts is complete. .• . We buy in such quantities that you can have a good variety of gifts to choose from up to the last minute OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. Jarrette’s variety stores ' . The Busy Stores . RENSSELAER and MONON

PERSONAL MENTION.

There will be a program and a Christmas tree at the Brushwood school Thursday evening. Mrs. Kate Hansscn was in Chicago Sunday to see her son Gravalous, who had suffered an injured back. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nagel, of Marion township, Saturday. * Mrs. Myrtle Spain has been appointed Administratrix of the estate of her husband, the late Floyd H. Spain. Hanley & Hanley are attorneys for the administratrix. Miss Marion Parker came Sunday for a two weeks’ vacation with relatives here. Miss Parker is employed as a high school teacher in Oak Hill, W. Virginia. Tere A. Clark, who has been spending the past few weeks in Rensselaer, returned to his home at Huntington today.

SPECIAL Christmas Sale On All Hats Reduced to Cost Price The Vogue Millinery Store West Side Square j Trust and Savings Bank Building -

HOLIDAY SALES -LOWER PRICES OUR SEASON’S GREETINGS SERVICE CHARGES REDUCED FROM $1 TO 75c PER HOUR We offer more of those 6,000-mile LION TIRES at REDUCED Prices. * • \ GASOLINE 1 i pEITHER Regular Indian ) GALLON Alcohol Genuine Ford Parts Anti-freezing Solution Maxwell Parts Radiator Cover* Overland and Oakland Parts Spotlights Motometers i 4 Havoline Bumpers Polarine Tuthill Replacement Springs Goodyear Tires for any car. Goodrich Tires Permalipe Storage Batteries, New Lexington, Gardner and 20 Mo. guarantee MxWell cars. TAXI SERVICE. WINTER STORAGE—4B.OO PER MONTH * • • \ CALL FOR YOUR CALENDAR ♦ The Main Garage Tl»e Beet in Rensselaer Phone 206, Day or Night

The Eastern Star Chapter will hold their installation of officers Tuesday’ evening. The members are urged to be present and to bring a dish of something to eat. Misses Helen Murray and Hazel Lamson 1 , who are members of the faculty of the Indianapolis public schools, are home for the holiday vacation. The schools of the capitol city give two weeks’ vacation.

SPEND. A MEU at the Ellis Opera House SAT., DEC. 25 when the Gordon Players present “Tess of the Storm Country” By Grace Miler White AFTERNOON AT 2:30 Adults, 39c, Tax Paid Children, 17c, Tax Paid NIGHT AT 8:30 Adults 55c. Children, 28c.

THE EVENING BEPUBLI CAN, RBNBSBLAER, IND.

Mra. Mary Meyer Healy went to Chicago SundayRobert Keirsma of Keener township was in Rensselaer Saturday. S. E. Randolph of Monon was in Rensselaer Saturday.. Dr. F. A. Turfler was in Lowell today. T. M. McAleer of Milroy was in Rensselaer today. Henry Meyers of Walker township was here today. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Rude of Fair Oaks were in Rensselaer Saturday. John Stockwell of near Monon was in Rensselaer today. Ruth McKinzie, who is a student in Indiana University is home for the holidays. John Kanne of Campus, DI., came Saturday for a few days’ visit with relatives. • Elsie Selby of Mt. Ayr and Mra. Robert Phares of Parr were in Rensselaer Saturday. v • Mr. and Mra. K. W. Fisher of Hebron came Saturday for a few davs’ visit with friends. Mr. and Mra. Roy Anderson have gone to Chamberlain, S. D., to spend the holidays w’ith relatives. Trustee John Rush of Newton township and B. F. Fendig went to Chicago this, morning. H. W. Kiplinger, who had visited his family here, returned to Gary this morning. Mrs. L. G. Monnett left Sunday for St. Petersburg, Fla., where she will spend the winter. Mra. William Myers left Sunday for Houston, Tex., to visit her daughter, Mrs. William Donnelly. The Renselaer school will close Wednesday for the holidays and will not re-openr until Monday, January 3. The Rev. M. W. Perrine, who filled the pulpit at the Church of God Sunday, returned today to his home in Dixon, 111. Mra. A. P. Gosnell and daughter left today for Marseilles, 111., where she will join her husband in their new home. > Mr. and Mra. O. A. Jacks of Lee were Sunday guests of their daughter, Mrs. Lowell Morton and family of North Weston street. Clarence Cochran of McCoysburg was in Rensselaer today. He reported that Uncle George Johnson, who has been so very ill for ajUong time, is in a dying condition. ’ 0 There will be a meeting oi the League of Women Voters of Marion township at the library at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Phegley and children went to Hammond Saturday to visit Mr. Phegley’s sister, Mra. Jennie Guswold. Col. Fred A. Phillips of Dane, Wis., was here today' and assisted with the Floyd Amsler sale. Mrs. Phillips and daughter, Grace Augusta, will come to Rensselaer for a visit Wednesday. Mr. and Mra. Homer Rodgers, daughter, Ethel and son, Dorance, of Wolcott, were guests Sunday of Mrs. Rodgers’ mother, Mrs. W. E. Jacks and family of North Weston street. The daughter, Miss Ethel Rodger, is a student in Franklin college and is spending the holidays with her parents. Howard Mills and C. W. Eger were in Chicago Sunday and returned to their homes in this city in the afternoon with their wives, who had undergone operations in Hahnemann hospital. Mrs. Mifis had been in the hospital four weeks and Mrs. Eger three. Both returned greatly improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. May, who live just over the line from Milroy township in White county, were in Rensselaer today, having brought their youngest son, Hollis, to this city to resume his studies in our high school.

NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE WIFE about smoking in the house if the cigars come from here. Indeed they are so fragrant that women often urge their husbands to smoke. Try one of them today and take it from us, all your smoke troubles will be ended. « A full line of pipes for “His” Christmas. wrightlbothebs “The Home of Better Things.”

AUTO LICENSES Apply with OUR NOTARIES any time day or night We attend to all the details, and have a car record of nearly every car in the county. See us at once. The Hain Garage The Best in Rensselaer.

STORE CLERKS ARMED

N. Y. Merchants Meet to Consider r , Crime Wave Action. Fifty Detectives Sent Out in Fast Autos In Drive on Criminals in Gotham. New York, Dec. 20.— A flying squadron of 50 detectives was sent out by Police Commissioner Enright to aid in combating the crime wave which has called forth expressions of alarm from judges, city officials and numeroqg civic and business organizations. The detectives, furnished with high speed automobiles, were ordered to tour the city In day and pight relays, on lookout for gangsters. They also were Instructed to aid in tracing the slender clews in the department’s possession In efforts to solve recent mysterious crimes. Numerous organizations were discussing emergency measures to Insure protection. Hundreds of stores displayed firearms within easy reach of salesmen and in plain view of customers. The Merchants’ association and the Brooklyn chamber of commerce called special meetings to consider the situation. , Added to the growing list of crimes the police were confronted with the solution fOf two more haldups, committed last night. Carl Ttedermann. a veteran of the World war, was reported dying in a hospital from a wound received when he resisted robbers who met him near a subway station. . Two men stopped a taxicab in Central park, in which Mrs. Thomfis W. Edgar, wife of a'physician, was riding, removed her gloves, searched her stockings, took from her fingers two diamond rings, ordered her out of the cab and directed the driver to take them away.

WHEAT CROP 88 PER CENT

Over Forty Million Acres of Grain Sown—Condition Better Than Last Year. Washington, Dec. 20. —The area sown to winter wheat this fall » 40,605,000 acres, which is 2.8 per cent less than the revised area sown last fall. The condition of the crop on December 1 was 87.9 per cent of a normal, compared with 85.2 a year qgo, 98.5 on December 1, 1918, and 88.4, the tenyear average on that date. The acreage and condition of winter wheat in Illinois is 2,470,000 acres and 86 per cent of normal; in Indiana, 1,953,000 and 82; in Nebraska, 3,301,000 and 90; in Oklahoma, 3,100,000 and 86, and in Kansas, 10,343,000 and 88. *

Find Missing Man's Body.

Chicago, Dec. 20. —The body of Alvin Fish, son of S. T. Fish, wgplthy commission merchant of South Water street, who committed suicide two weeks ago, after-his failure to effect a reconciliation with his divorced wife, was taken from the lake at the foot of East Sixty-seventii street. Fish ended his life after announcing in a telephone message that he Intended to do so. Farewell notes to his wife and parents were found on the beach near where the body was recovered.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, D«c. 18. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— Ing. eat est ing. Dec. ..1.69% 1.72 1.68% 1.68% Mar. ..1.66-68 1.66% 1.63 1.68% May . .1.69-6$ ' 1.61% 1-58 1.68% CornDec 79-69% .TO .68% .68% Jan 67% .69 .67% .68% May ....71%-% .78% .71 .72% July ~..72%-% .74% .78% .78% OatsDec 46% .47% .46% .46% May ....48%-% .49% .48% .48% July ....48% .48% .48% .48% Dec y *7.1.58% 158% 1.68% 1.86% May ..1.42 144% 148 148% FLOUR—Hard spring wheat—Bakers patent, $8.6008.76; first clears, [email protected]; second clears, [email protected]; special mill brands, in 98 lb cotton sacks, [email protected]; warehouse delivery, $9.2609.50. Soft winter wheat-Short patent, $9.0009.35. HardP winter wheat—Kansas short patent, SB,OOO 8.25; first clears, $6.7607.00. Rye fiourWhlte patent, $8.2508.60; dark, $7.2607.60. HAY—No. 1 timothy, $28.00029.00; stand ard and No. 1 light clover mixed, $27,000 28.00; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clover, mixed, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, $22,000 24.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 92 score, 61c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, M score. 47c; 88-90 score, 37©44e; seconds, 83-87 score, 33036 c; centralised, 43c; ladles, 28090 c; packing stock, 160Qte. Price to retail trade: Extra tubs, 64c; prints, 66c. » EGGS—Fresh firsts, 68066 c; ordinary firsts, 69064 c; miscellaneous lots, 59065 c; extras, packed in whitewood cases, 790 T9c; checks, 46060 c; dirties, 45065 c; frigerator, 56067%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 88c; fowls, 38c; spring chickens, 28c; roosters, 13c; dudes, 36c; geese. 24c. DRESSED POULTRY Turkeys, 61c; fowls, 36c; spring chickens, 25c; roosters, 13088 c; ducks, 33OMc; geese, 37028 c. POTATOES—Sacked and bulk, IM lbs: Northern round white, 31.3601.C0. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, $12.« 004.00; good to choice Steers, SKLOOOa*-»; tetr to good steen. $7.6004040; yearlings, telr to choice, $8.00014.26; good to prism cows, $6.0009.00; fair to good heifers, $7.51 040.26; fair to good cows. $4.6007.00; canners, $2.7603.25; cutters, $3.4004.60; bologna balls, $5.0006.35: veal calves. SBMOM.OB. HOGS—Choice light butchers, 38.7608J5; medium wt. butchers, $8.8509.25; heavy butchers. 270-360 lbs, $8,000.38; Mte to fancy light, 38J509J6; heavy packing, $8.3508.80; rough packing, $8.0008.40; pigs, $8 0008 M SHEEP Native lambs, 88.00028,35; fed western lambs. $8.60010.50: feeding lambs. $9.50010 25; wethers. $4.0006.00: yaarHnss. 36J00S W ewes. $3.0004 75.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Thomas Elmer Campbell et ux to Mary A. Estep et baron, Aug. 14, It. 13, blck. 3, Rensselaer, Benjamin’s add. $2600.

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OFFICIAL Service Station ’ ; ~ FOR BUICK, CHEVROLET and DOUCE automobiles Also Supplies and Repairs for Same. C. W. RHOADES GARAGE

CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know IM Genuine Castoria Always . , . Boars the /tfNT Signature /if Jr of IJr ln HaK ® SB LK For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TOWN CITY.

NEW TODAY. iFOB SALE—Timothy and Hungarian hay at my farm, two and one-half miles north of Rensselaer. Alfred Donnelly, phone 903-B. WASTED—The Singer sewing machine man is in Rensselaer this week. Phone your wants to 261. Mrs. Gilbert Albin. rOTOD—Found Sunday just west of the county farm a 33x4 Michelin auto tire. Finder can have same by notifying M. F. Brown, on T. W. Grant farm. Mrs. A. R. Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah, is visiting her brother, Russell Van Hook. Mrs. Anderson has lately undergone a severe surgical operation and is recovering from it very satisfactorily. She expects to visit relatives in New York city before she returns to her westI ern home. Her husband, Prof. An- | derlfcn', is a member of the faculty lof Utah University. «