Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — Page 2

Free T "i p Knox Gus Reiss’ Public Sale Of $30,000 Worth of Clothing, Shoes, Furnishings, Hats, etc., at the Mercy of the Public for 9 Days only, Beginning Saturday, July 30,1910. A SALE WITH A REASON. Circumstances have combined to make this sale advisable at this season of the yea r r. I bought very heavily, anticipating a big trade, but disastrous weather conditions have left me heavily overstocked, and I am compelled to sacrifice my big stock in order to sell while merchaadise is in demand. I must sustain an immediate loss or risk a greater loss later, so prefer to face the situation squarely and start this Public Sale now at a time when my friends and patrons can benefit to the fullest by this great bargain treat, right in the heart of the season, just when other merchants are charging you big profits. The loss I sustain in this sale will be fully compensated by the accomplishment of my purpose—turning my surplus stock into cash as quickly as possible. A word to the wise is sufficient. The Store with the reputation. For twenty years this store has been established and doing business in Knox. For twenty years our word has been our bond. 1 will continue to do business on the same honorable fines that have marked my business in Knox for the past many .years. I herein guarantee every price, every statement, and will absolutely and cheerfully refund the money on every garment not satisfactory to the purchaser. You may take it home, keep it five days, and if not entirely satisfactory you can return it and your money will be cheerfully refunded. I will continue to give the people the best and greatest values in clothing, etc. Our i6-store purchasing power, coupled with our wide knowledge of the mercantile business makes us masters of the clothing field in Indiana forever. This sale is bona fide and legitimate and will be for 9 days only. Every man, woman and child in Knox and surrounding country are well aware of the high grade merchandise that I have carried for the past twenty years. Cast Your Eye on This Startling Price List:

SUITS.

Men’s strictly all wool Velour Suits that are unusual $lO values, tailored and designed under our direction; these are the best tailored young men’s garments that SIO.OO ever bought .$3.95 Strictly all wool Velour Suits, unusual under $12.50. Here are surplus fabrics bought under price from j a leading New England Mill, tailored , during dull season at considerable j saving. These suits in fabric, tail-, oring and trimmings, are good *12.50 standard ....... ....... . . .$5.95 " High grade Velour and broken size Worsted Suits, sniart suits of high grade all wool Velours, in tne. wow shades. Broken sizes in pure worsteds in the new stripe stones, tans, grays and olives. These are hand-tailored garments that are excellent value? at $15.00 $7.45 Men’s SIB.OO Suits, all the newest effects in woolens; pretty tans, greene, olives and grays predominate; also plain black and blues. Latest cut coats with the latest points of fashion. Selection large enough to meet men with every taste; half or full lined suits for tall, regular or stout men. . . . $K.95 CHILDREN’S CLOTHING. One lot of Boys’ Suits, worth up to $5.00 ... . . . ■ y■ • • -95 c One lot of worsted and Scotch Plaids, worth $5.00 $2.45 One lot Boys’ Suits, sold at the actual worth $4.00, go at. . . .$4.95 Children’s Overcoats go at. .$2.19 Children’s Knee Pants, special sa& price....... 19c One lot Boys' Suits and Overcoats', worth $6.00 *2.95 One lot Boys’ Suits and Overcoatsl sold at actual worth $7.50 Hats, Caps, Gloves/ Trunks, Umbrellas, Suit Cases, Hand Rags —All go for less than ebst of production. MEN’S PANTS. Men’s Pantk of wearproof Welington material, i»erfect fitting, sale price 89c Men’s worsted Pants in narrow stripes and plain shades for dress wear, regular price $3.00.. . .$1.68 $5.00 Wool Trousers that can’t be equaled! for less 1 . While they last, special ............. .. . . .$2.37

Money Refunded if You Are Nos Entirely Satisfied During This Sate, Railroad Fare Paid to the Purchaser of sls or Over Within a Radius of 25 Miles. GUS REISS THE SQUARE MAN. KNOX, . . . INDIANA.

OVERCOATS.

In light, heavy or medium weights. Men’s black and blue Cheviot Overcoats, as perfect in fit and wearing qualities as the very finest grades, very warm and heavy, regular price SIO.OO, sale price. .$3.65 Melton and Kersey Overcoats, warmly lined, silk velvet collars, new protective all lengths, regular price sl2, sale price. .$4.95 The best Overcoat values in , America. Heavy cloth, genuine Chevoit, fancy and plain, an excellent appointed Overcoat, new protective styles, regular price $15.00, sale price $6.95 Were anyone to tell you that at only $9.88 you can buy a genuine■i St. Andrews Kersey or Pool Beaver Overcoat you might; well doubt it. The wonder of it is that we have hundreds of them in all styles, regt ular $20.00 and $22.00 values.s9.9s SHOES. Men’s Shoes, satin calf, worth • 2.50, now for $1.69 Men’s Vici and Velour Shoes .$2.19 ! Men’s Work Shoes. $2.50 value j for $1.69 Gun Metal Shoes worth $3.00 and j $3.56. now for $2.48 Oxfords worth $2.50 and $3.50, :a t . : 98c 1 Boys’ Box Calf and Vici Shoes worth $2.50,. now for. ..... $1.19 FURNISHING GOODS. Men s Handkerchiefs, hemstitched worth lOe . . . 3c Men’s silk embroidered Suspenders. ©ale price., . ... . .... ... .. . lie 15 dozen Ties, worth 50c, special for this sale, only. ........ , ; .19c Men’s fine lisle Hose, newest colors, worth 25c. ... . ... ... .., .9c 28 dozen Men s Negligee Shirts of latest styles ........ .7 . .37c Men’s Negligee Shirts, $1.50 values, this sale. ... . . ... ~ . ... . 79c I Men’s Hats, the latest Dunlap and : Knox shopes, worth $3.50, none less • than $2.00 . ... . . .95c j. Men’s Cotton Hose, black and tan 15c value . ..... . . . ...........6c Union made Work Shirts, black sateen, blue chambray, black and yvhite drill 35c Light-weight Balbriggan Under- ! wear plain color 19c Good heavy silk web Suspenders, ; leather ends, worth 50c ...19c Balbriggan Underwear, long or short sleeves ... . . ........ .7 .38c

When the Colonel says that he “will do everything in his power” to elect a Republican Governor. does he mean that he w ill .soak Wall street for a quarter of a million on the eve of election, as he did in 1904 ?—Harper’s Weekly.

It’s a big blot on the United and especially to her young men nearly of age. that from five to eight thousand foreigners now landing in the north end of Lake county, can be run into the naturalization bull pen anv time before the November election and their votes, which will be sold to tine highest bidder, determine who shall be our next county officers, and possibly of the entire congressional district, while our young men born and raised and graduated in the public schools must stand back and look on. It’s an infernal political outrage that this alien law her left in force, and the party that has the backbone to wipe it off the blackboard ought to get the everlasting help of all true American citizens. All agree it is a menace to this country, but the leaders dare not meddle with it for fear the opposite party will make a handle of it in the next campaign. That’s why the outrage is continued. —Lake County Star (Rep.)

THE FOOD PROBLEM.

New York has to suffer an increase of a cent on the quart for milk. This means an added annual cost to living in Greater Xew York of 56.000.000. This increase follows an. increase of 2 cents a pound for butter, 3 cents a dozen for eggs and other small increases in the price of bacon and lard. It presents a very real problem, in discussing which the Xew York W orld gives some figures that may have light in them. Food now costs the average family more than rent or clothes. A man may wear old clothes, but he must ‘have fresh food. VVhv in this land of plenty does food cost so much i The assertion here i$ that it comes from tflte added cost between the producer and consumer,- Jt is held as undisputed that the producer gets about 30 cents out of the dollar that food costs the .consumer. Potatoes last winter were selling in Xew York state for 23 cents a bushel: in Xew York city for 40 cents a peck. Apples last fall rotted oil the ground. This spring street peddlers asked 5 cents apiece for them. The Florida orange grower gets less than a cent apiece for his fruit. The result pf this situation is double in its effects. It not merely keeps the price of food up to the consumer, but it act- on tihe producer so a~ :to cause a scarcity of supply and this again drives prices up. The ordinary farmer nets less than a cent a quart on milk. To raise an acre of potatoes costs from S4O to S? 0. To come out even the farmer must get 40 cents a bushel. The farmer gets <ay 8 cents a pound for his hogs. Hut bacon costs anywhere from 20 to 30 cents. Steak at 25 cents a pound conies from cattle that the farmer sold for 7 cents. The World adds:

Everybody gror.- rich from handling food except the man who raises it. The meat packers ■ pay big dividends on an enormous capitalization, One of the milk companies which has just increased prices paid dividends of 22 per cent. last year. The Fifth avenue and Broadway hotels make more profit off the sale of food than do all the farmers of all the counties between New York and Albany. Commission merchants grow rich. The grocery business is now capitalized and its securities floated in Wall street. How many farmers get rich? Of the many rich farmers’ sons, how many of them made their money by raising food?

But when there is a drop in the prices of raw food the consumer does not get the benefit. Fanners are getting one-fiftfn to one-sixth less for cattle and hogs than they got last winter, but the consumer has had no reduction. Milk goes up in price at fihie time of year when it should be cheapest. Eggs present the same condition. The conclusion is that there is so much money in handling food and so kittle in raising it that a skilled, •rich and powerful class of food middlemen has developed. From the big milk and meat companies to the commission men, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers more of the consumers’ money is absorbed than goes to the producers of tihe food. The latter suffer from the depression of prices which the middleman works as to him while the con-

BIG REMOVAL SALE | • i. ■ •> • I rfl HE 99 CENT RACKET STORE 1 I Will move into the Odd Fellows Building on August Ist nnd will oc- •: i @ cupy both rooms of said building. They are being remodeled and I ■I S ' 1 " J finished up in latest style and colorings, giving us a chance w r hich we B fl have not had since in business in Rensselaer, to display our goods properly. * H fl We shall add a few new lines from time to time to suit our trade. We may I !fl branch out into the grocery business later on, but at present we shall not in- . I elude them. Our store will be known as I I Rons ford’s Department Store I » We shall discontinue giving premiums only on special occasions, and anyone I I having any of our tickets out on the 99 Cent Packet Store must bring them I I in before August Ist or they will not be taken at all. I | We will be open for business on July 28th, and Saturday, show day, will I ■ be a hummer. We shall give some extra inducements, and our show windows fl will feature the same for that special occasion. We shall continue to do busi- :j| 8 ness at our old stand up to August 3, 1910, and also open our new store the ■ W last 3 days of this month. Don’t miss calling at both of our Great Bargain fl m Houses the last week of the month, as our Removal Sale is now in full blast and B fl goods are going at cost or less. B ■ Remember the places., The 99 Cent Racket Store, Makeever Bank Build- fl H ing. and Ransford’s Department Store, in Odd Fellow Block. Rensselaer, Ind., fl B both opposite Court House. This is our tenth year in business in Rensselaer, fl H and we thank one and all kindly for your past patronage and we ask a contin- fl if uance of same in future. We shall strive as we always have, to give you more B 'y‘ and better Goods for Less Money, as we always said, the more goods you buy ■ 0. of us the cheaper we can sell them to you. It stands to reason. Thanking fl flj you all once more. Yours Very Respectfully, fl I El. V. RANSFORD, Prop. I I 'Rons ford's Department Store I j Rensselaer, Ind. . B \m

summer suffer from the increase of prices. , which the same influence. The great problem is to devise some way to bring the consumer and the producer into closer relationship.—lndianapolis News.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS Mrs. Anna Yeiter, who recently went to Mitchell. So. Dak., returned to Rensselaer Sunday • t, Be sure and see those nobby fall samples for tailor made suits at the' Quality Shop.— C. Earl Duvall. Mrs. W. F. Shields returned «o her home in Wabash yesterday after a few weeks visit with i-ela-tives here. - The Kentland Enterprise says that Haines, the Milroy tp.. game poacher and alleged bad man. passed through that town a couple of days after his trouble with the game wardens, making . -r Illinois. If he has left this county for good, it is good riddance, if reports of him are true. Xicholas Krull returned last evening from Rome City where he had been for two weeks taking the Kniepp cure tor rheumatism. He improved by the treatment received.—Kentland Democrat. Mr. Krull was formerly engaged in the bakery business in Rensselaer, and is now in the same business at Kentland. G. W. Terhune. a former old time resident of Rensselaer, died at his home in Garden City, Kan., last week, aged 88 years. He leaves one son. Frank W. Teflhune, out of a family of three children. Mr. Terhune left Rensselaer in 1878, going from here to Raton. X. M. f and from there to Garden City, Kan., in 1891, where he has since resided. A brisk hot wind Sunday sent the mercury scooting up the indicator, and in many places it registered about the 100 mark. It is claimed it readbed as high as 110 at Hammond. The hot winds were severe in Oklahoma and Kansas, it is said, and as a result corn jumped 3% cents a bushel Mopday on the board of trade.

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Read The Democrat for .lews All dry goods selling at less than manufacturers’ prices at the Cash Store.— G. B. Porter. Be sure and attend t)he closing out sale at the Cash Store if you want to save money. — G. B. Porter. Miss Martha Ramp went to Kentland yesterday for a visit with the family of >her sister, Mrs. X. Krull. Dr. L. X. Wells of Demotte, accompanied by his son William, was making a hutrry-up call Sunday night in 'his auto to see Mrs. Henry Meyers of near Knrman, when ‘he collided with a horse that was loose in the road, killing the horse and putting t‘he auto out of commission. He had to procure a horse and buggy to continue ibis journey. / Francesville Tribune: John Poole of Rensselaer was in town Tuesday morning. He has disposed of his 560 acre farm in Hanging Grove township, the purchaser being John C. Vanatta the Brookston banker. The price was SIOO per acre. Mr. Poole takes in trade a canning factorv' and some canned goods stocks at Prairie Grove, Ark.

women w u Be. [Under this head notices win be published for, 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, %-cent per vrord for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for ,25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged fer forwarding such replies to th 6 advertiser.] For Rent—Good house, centrally located —MISS NANCY REES. i For Sale —Thoroughbred Hereford Bull, two years old, pedigreed. —C. F. STACKHOUSE, Rensselaer, B-2, ’phone 505-B. Cow Pasture—l have, good bluegrass pasture for one more cow for the next three months; cows also fed sowed corn each day -—F. E. BABCOCK. Lost—Ladies’ new patent leather oxford, between Shelby Comer's and Frank La kin’s. Please leave at Benhart Fendig’s or notify owner, Mrs. Edward Lakin. ’■■■■'

Books For Sale—“Andersonville, a Story of Rebel Military Prisons,” in leather binding, and “Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard.”-—Enquire at The Democrat office. U Farm Loans—Money to loan ox arm property in any sums up to 10,000. E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts Cow for Sale —Good fresh cow for saIe—ALBERT DUGGIXS, Rensselaer, Phone 514-E. „r A Spices and Extracts—Watch for the Confer man, with spices, extracts and proprietary medicines.— B. K. VEIRS, Francesville, Ind. For Sale—An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a short time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office. Fat Stock Wanted—Am in the market at all times for fat cattle, hogs, sheep, veal calves, etc>, and pay the top market price. Write or phone me (No. 70-D, Mt. Ayr exchange) before selling.—J. N. BICKNELL, Mt. Ayr. Ind. For Sale—Handsome brass chandelier, three lamp with colored globes, raises and lowers by pressing a spring, cost S2O; just the thing for a country home parlor or sitting room. Have electric lights and do not need it, will sell at a bargain. Inquire at this office.

Typecases For tiale—Eight or tea Italic Job Cases, fuil size and almost good as new, 50 cents each; i twothirds case, good as n rw, 50c.—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. Money—Some loan companies are refusing to make farm loans at the present time. My company is still loaning at 5 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make application at once, as money is scarce.— JOHN A. DUNLAP, I. O. O. F. Building. Where Trouble Begins. Most people ignore constipation at first. When they are lashed by indigestion’s pangs, yellow jaundice, virulent liver trouble, they desperately wish they had taken Dr. King’s New Health Tea early and ucred themselves. For Liver, Stomach and. Kidneys, it’s supreme. 25c at A. F. Long’s. —, l Foley’s Kidney Remedy wilL cure any case of kidney and bladder trouble not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more.— A. F. Long. Read The Democrat for news.