Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

j&l Anhetiser-Busch The wonderful progress of this Association is B^OWll by the following table of sales: 8,000 Barrels sold in 1865* 18,000 Barrels sold in 1870. 131,035 Barrels sold in 1888. 702,075 Barrels sold in 1890. 939,768 Barrels sold in 1900. 1,109,315 Bands sold in 1902. Largest Brewery in the World

Prof. James A. Woodburn, of the department of history in Indiana University, has announced that the subject for the William Jennings Bryan prize next year will be “Political Corruption in Indiana County Politics.” The prize consists of the interest on $250, donated for the purpose by Mr. Bryan in 1898. Some valuable subject matter could be secured by the contestants in this county. The average returns’ on all cultivated lands in Indiana is about $9 per acre, and from cereal crops alone about $lO per acre. There are over two thousand farms in Indiana which show a return of a little over S2O per acre, and many others from sl2 to $lB. Statistical returned from all the States show that the average gross returns from all cultivated lands in this couutry is a little less than $10,50 per acre, and from cereals crops alone only $8.02 per acre. The state board of charities has just completed its figures on the cost of outdoor relief in the state for the year 1902. According to the statistics the amount expended was $266,876.96, which was shared by 48,849 people. This is a large increase over the expenditures of other years and it is claimed that the prevalence of small-pox and other epidemics is the cause of it The number of females aided is larger than the number of males. Based on the census of 1900, one in every fiftyone of the state’s population shared in the relief granted by township trustees. State Statistician B. F. Johnson says that the wheat of the state will be nearly all cut by the last of the week. He estimates that there will be about half a crop this year as compared with that of last year. The cause of the failure of the crop is the fiy and the rust which are the result of the cold, wet weather. The com he also says will be very short unless the weather is favorable from this time until fall. The late planting and the wet weather are responsible for the poor corn prospects. The oats crop will be below the average also onaocountof the ravages of the rust. The Hon. J. Frank Hanley has come out in a letter stating that, “acting upon the advice of many friends and after due deliberation, etc., he has concluded to become a candidate for the republication nomination for govarnor.” The people of Indiana are long suffering, bu ? ve do not believe they will put a man in the governor's chair who par** his a-oie in the middle. Ex-Secretary of State Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, ex-Attorney General Taylor of Indianapolis, Newton W. Gilbert of Angola, present lieutenant governor, George A. H. Shideler of Marion, and Robert A. Brown, present clerk of the supreme court are also candidates for the nomination. Tax-Ferret Workman was in the city a few hours Monday. By the way, what about those several thousand dollars Joe was going to put on the “omitted tax-dupli-