Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FARM BARGAINS. 60 acres—Near station and school, at heart of dredge ditch, all level productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house, good small barn and good well. Price 145. Terms, S7OO down. 80 afres—-All black land in cultivation, near school and churches, touches large ditch, a fine outlet for drainage and is'all in cultivation. Improvements are a good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only $45. Terras, $4,000 down. 21 acres—Four blocks from the court house. - 1.65 acres—Highly improved, half mile of the corporation of this city. Will sell in small tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices.. 599 acre ranch—Good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy payments. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade rot land or property. Will put in cash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

BIG PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell at public sale at his residence on the H. O. Harris farm 5% miles west of Rensselaer, % mile south and 1 % miles east of Mit. Ayr; IT miles east of Morocco, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1912, 7 Head of Horses— Consisting of 2 black colts coming 3 years old; 1 brown horse 8 years ojd, good one, automobile broke wt. 1000; 1 gray mare 5 years old, wt. 1400; l.gray mare 5 years old, wt. 1200; .1 bay horse* 9„ years old, -wt. 1100, lady broke .9 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 1 Hereford cow 5 years old, fresh in spring; 1 black, calf by side; 3 heifer summer calves, Herefords; 4 steers summer calves, Herefords, good ones. . 28 Head of Hogs— Consisting of 25 shoats, wt. about 80 to 100; 3 brood sows, 2 Poland Chinas and'' 1 Duroc, bred to pure blood Berkshire boars. 10 Head of Sheep— Consisting of 10 ewbs bred to pure bred Hampshire buck. Farm Implements— of 1 Deering binder, 8 loot cut; tongue trucks, good as new; 1 Superior disc drill, 7 .foot practically new; 1 McCormick mower 5 foot cut; 2 corn planters; 1 Oliver gang plow; 1 John Deere potato digger; 1 Case check rower, 80 rods wire and fertilizer attachment; 1 Moline, with 80 rods wire; 1 farm wagon, broad tire trippie box; 3 riding cultivators, good ones; 2 sets farm harness; 1 7-foot Budlow spader, good as new with trucks; and other articles too numerous to mention. This sale is given to reduce stock on account of dividing the

WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT THIS ’

To the People of Jasper County: “THIS TELEPOST MUST BE CRUSHED OUT, REGARDLESS OF THE COST.” In these words a prominent Wall Street financier announced that the ’lnterests” had declared war on us and on you. Why he wished to crush it, —the many attempts to ruin it, —why they failed, —the great benefits of the Telepost to you and to the entire country,—and how, with your co-operation, it can never be crushed,— prompt me to address you. It concerns you. It is your fight as well as ours. The Telepost is an independent telegraph company owning a system of automatic machine telegraphy recognized as the highest development to date in its field. It is in active commercial operation between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities of the Middle West, with the lowest rates and best service ever given in the United States. Its purpose is to extend these advantages to all parts of the country. It gives a flat rate, regardless of distance, of one-quar-ter cent to one cent a word, according to service furnished. It sends 1,000 words a minute on one wire and allows telephone conversation over it at the same time. By all other methods it requires iroir. seventeen to ixty wires to do what the Tercpust does on one. For over thirty-five years there has been no real competition in telegraphy. The Interests behind this utility control it more completely than the Steel, Beef/ Tobacco and Oil Trusts control their respective lines and products. By means of “Gentlemen’s Agreements,” admitted under oath to the New York Legislature, they have stifled competition, extorting, according to former Postmaster-Geperal John Wanamaker, $100,000,000 from the people in exorbitant charges for an indifferent service. The purpose of these “Agreements” is to maintain present high charges, and to block (the introduction of any better system by others. The metho'ds employed to destroy the Telepost have been notoriously unfair, and un-American:—Spies dogging the footsteps of visitors to our offices; men of prominence, associated with us, threatened; employees bribed to betray us; timid shareholders stampeded into sacrificing their shares; our wires mysteriously cut, and our customers urged to leave us; Periodical*, and other publications, in alliance with the money powers behind the telegraph interests, have maliciously attacked us in order to discourage popular support for our enterprise, in much the same manner as they did Alexander Graham Bell when he introduced the telephone. .(. ' | With the low rates of the Telepost, the wires will be used almost as freely as the mails. We plan to build a line from our terminal in Chicago to New York, having secured entrances into both cities and practically all of the right-of-way. This line will pass near your town, with which we shall ultimately connect it. The New York-Chicago line will put the Telepost on such a solid and big dividend-paying basis that exten- , sions to all parts of the country will rapidly follow. The opposition has declared that it will make it impossible for us to build this extension by PREVENTING OUR GETTING THE MONEY NEEDED. In this they do not reckon on your having anything to say, and seemingly forget that the original telegraph lines were built,—not by Wall Street, —but, with profit to themselves, by the merchants, farmers and small investors of the country who were independent of capitalistic •