Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Page 4

PURTELLE AGAIN IN TOILS.

Charged With Operating Confidence Game on Lawyer. Chicago, July 20.—Eugene Purtelle, traction promoter, known by his business adventures in many Indiana counties, is in trouble again. He was arrested here on a charge of operating a confidence game, preferred by E. Leslie Cole, of Park Ridge, an attorney. Cole asserts he cashed checks for $3,500 for Purtelle and afterwards found they were worthless.

Purtelle has a long list of meteoric business adventures, since 1902, when he was Milwaukee manager for Red Letter Sullivan, operator of a string' of bucket shops. At one time he exploited the Northwestern Indiana Traction Company, a $5,000,000 “'paper line.” Last April he was arrested here on a charge of defrauding the Hotel Sherman, but prosecution was dropped when he paid the amount due. June 1 he was arrested on a charge of passing a bogus check here. He was held to the grand jury and indicted. The ease is pending. Last July Purtelle, who had offices here, was promoting an electric interurban line between Richmond, Ind., and Hamilton, Ohio. According to the attorney for Cole, who was Purtelle’s last arrest, the promoter elected himself president of the company and interested Cole in the project. Mr. Cole says Purtelle gave him one share of stock and made him treasurer.

Purtelle then went to Hamilton, 0., and according to Cole, sent back glowing accounts of how he was progressing in the work of obtaining right-of-way grants and indorsements of various chambers of commerce. Then, Cole says, Purtelle wrote back for expense money and sent checks for the amounts sent him. Cole alleges Purtelle gave him in all checks for $3,500 which were returned by the banks when he tried to cash them. Purtelle’s bonds were fixed at $5,000. ■

MOODY ASSEMBLY OPENS TODAY AT CEDAR LAKE

Thousands of Church People of Chicago ami Indiana to Attend— Grounds Christened "RestaAvhile." Cedar Lake, Ind., July 23.—“Restawhile ’ is the official name for this place now. It is to be a second Winona. , The first annual coniereuce of the Moody church assembly on tile spacious grounds of the lake mpenk'Saturday evening, and will continue through Sunday, August with .morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Hundreds will attend, not only from Chicago, bitt the towns and cities of Lake county as well. If the conference grows as the Northfield and Winona assemblies have, it will bring thousands of people to. the lake every summer. Being designed similar to these other conferences and backed by substantial people,

there is no reason why it will not grow to their proportions. The conference is conducted by Paul Rader, pastor of the Moody church, Chicago. Rooms and ideals are obtained on the grounds at moderate prices. There is no charge of admission to the conference. The music will be in the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W, McKee, of Chicago. The speakers include W. Leon Tucker, Los Angeles, Cal.; Melvin E. Trotter, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Harry Monroe, Pacific Garden Mission; w. S. Jacoby, Chicago; R. H. Glover, China; Walter M. Turnbull, New York; E. O. Jago, Palestine; Miss Cora M. Rudy, Dayton, and Miss Mary Hyndman, Aiken institute, Chicago. ■

E. Y. Wooly is associate pastor of the conference. The trustees include A. F. Gaylord, J. B. Bowles and J. S. McGlashan. Emil Burke is superintendent, E. P. James treasurer, and the committee consists of J._ S. McGlashan, C. A. Erickson, C. J. Goodman, G. B. Meeker and C. A. Judhon.

“Restawhile” is dedicated to the Scripture, “Come ye yourselves apart and rest a while.”

Two Kentland Men Injured in Milwaukee Auto Crash.

Kentland, Ind., July 22. —A telegram received here this morning announced the injury in Milwaukee, Wis., of O. H. Keesler, one of the largest land owners in this region and a director in the Kent State Bank, and W ill Rogers, a restaurant man of this city, when Keesler’s automobile in .which they"were making a tour of the lake region, was struck by a train. Both men were alive this evening, - 'but little hope was held for their recovery.

The Dover straits are only twentyone miles wide at Calais, which has been connected with Dover by cable since 1051.

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News Nedjemkden Effendi, Turkish minister of justice, accompanied by Fossun Effendi, are expected at Geneva for the purpose, it is reported, of opening separate peace negotiations with the triple entente. • * • Germany’s heavy guns are bombarding the outer fortifications of Warsaw. The male population of Riga is in flight. Every man in Lublin is following on the heels of the retreating Russian army and the LubllnCholm railway is being demolished by shells, while German infantry is within eight miles of the tracks, says a London dispatch. * * * A systematic bombardment of Soissons by the Germans is again in progress, it is officially announced in a communique issued by the French war office al Paris. • • • The number of married men at present in the British army is approximately 843,000. The aggregate cost of separation allowances paid to wives and children of these men has been $125,000,000, says a London dispatch. ♦ * ♦ Gaining ground through repeated bayonet charges and at a’ great sacrifice of men, the Italian troops seem slowly but surely to be closing in on Gorizia, the Przemysl of the Aus-tro-Italian battle front, according to dispatches from Rome,

* * * Complaints are beginning to be heard that Russia is being made to bear practically the entire brunt of the war, says a Petrograd dispatch. These complaints are not confined to the mass of the people, who are not in a position to judge what is really happening on any front. * ♦ * The Austrian submarine Which sank th 3 Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi last Sunday in the Adriatic sea is an exact duplicate of the United States submarine C l, one of the oldest and slowest of the American navy in Commission, it was learned at Washington. • * *

The Germanic armies, iige a great pincers, are relentlessly closing in on Warsaw. The Germans have broken the Russian line west of the Polish capital, which had kept them at bay for months, and have reached the town of Blonie, just 17 miles west of Warsaw on the railroad to Lowicz and Lodz, says a London cablegram.

Domestic The cattle sanitary board at Albuquerque. N. M.. has rescinded the order requiring the disinfection of cattle cars entering New Mexico. * ♦ ♦ One striker, was killed and nine injured, numerous policemen hurt, and a horse shot under Police Inspector Cady in a battle between 1,500 Standard Oil company strikers. 75 special deputies and 50 policemen outside the company’s plant at Bayonne, N. J„ Tuesday night. Buildings were wrecked by the fighting mob and at least 500 shots were exchanged * * * The Cunarder Orduna sailed from New York Thursday morning for Liverpool with a large cargo of munitio.uajyid 18 cabin passengers, including several Americans. * * • Daniel Belasco, prominent Chicago corporation attorney, was instantly killed and three other persons were injured, two of them women, when a five-passenger touring car, with Belasco at the steering wheel, rolled rapidly down a hill, two and a half miles north of Libertyville, 111., and turned turtle at the bottom. * * * Ready for her trial trip the battleship Oklahoma was seriously damaged by fire of mysterious origin. The newest and most powerful of the dreadnaughts of the United States navy caught fire a few minutes after the workmen had left her decks as she lay at the yards at Camden, N. J. •♦ ♦ ' President Wilson was indorsed for renomination by the Democratic national convention of 1916 by the executive committee of the Democratic party of Cook county at Chicago. • * • Ernest Empey, a wealthy rancher, is being held prisoner under a death threat by a lone bandit for $6,000 ransom, is the word received from Emranch, 33 miles east of Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was captured in the mountains, where he is held prisoner. * * • Two more mysterious fires on United States navy vessels, which were made public at New Y’ork, bringing the to tai of such fires to five within the last few days, have aroused officials of the navy yard to a keen sense of alarm. * • ♦ Six persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a three-story brick tenement house on Beacon street In Chelsea, Mass. The victims were a man, four women and a twelve-year-old girl.

Steel county, Minnesota, voted wet In the option election by a large majority, according to returns completed. The state now has 46 counties dry. One man was killed and SIOO,OOO loss was inflicted by fire which destroyed the. repair shops of the Santa Fe railroad at Kansas City, Kan. According to information reaching the Georgia prison commission at Atlanta. William Creen, who attacked Leo M. Frank, is Insane. Foreign A London dispatch says the British steamer Polish Prince from New York June 17 has been sunk In collision with the Lowther Range. The strike of the 200,000 Welsh coal miners has been practically settled. The terms, which are favorable to the strikers, have been unanimously accepted by the workmen’s council, subject to ratification by the miners. • • • Three bodies, believed to be those of Lusitania victims, were recovered along the Irish coast, one on Kerry coast and two on that of Clare, according to a Queenstown dispatch. A dispatch from Durban, South Africa, says that the new peninsular and Oriental liner Benalla, from English ports to Australia, with 800 settlers on board is on fire at sea some 800 miles east of Durban. England refusing or being unable to grant Sweden the necessary quantity of coal, Germany has permitted the export of 600,000 tons of anthracite, says a Berlin dispatch. • • • Grain crops in Italy and England promise to be greater this year than the last harvest, according to the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. ■• • • The American liner St. Louis arrived safely at Liverpool. Among the passengers were Mrs. and Miss O'Donovan Rossa. en route to Dublin, to arrange for the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa. • • •

Washington The government is facing a strike of the machinists employed at the Washington navy yard. The workmen charge that a “black list” has been prepared that is to include every machinist who resigns to accept private employment, and they demand a restoration of the wage scale in force prior to July 1. • * Attorney General Gregory at Washington is planning to put the 2,000 federal convicts in the Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth penitentiaries at work making munitions for war, 'except explosives, for the United States army. President Wilson’s note rejecting the conditions on which Germany is willing to accord immunity to Americans on the high seas was unanimously approved by the cabinet at Washington. * ' •* ' / The people of the United States spent $750,0'0,000 last year for educational purposes. This was less than one-third the amount they spent for liquors, says a Washington report. * • ♦ Despite the strong note sent by this government insisting that American commerce shall be treated in accordance with international law, the state department at Washington is inclined to be pessimistic regarding the possibility of a satisfactory settlement of the issue between this country and Great Britain. • » • The gunboat Nashville was ordered to Santo Domingo City from San Juan, Porto Rico, to guard American interests in the event of political disturbances in the Dominican republic, says a Washington dispatch. Personal The body of Herbert S. Stone, who was a Lusitania victim, has come ashore at Ballybunnion, a small town at the mouth of the River Shannon on the west coast of Ireland. * • • United States Senator Albert Cummings of lowa said in an interview at Pittsburg, Kan., that he will not be a candidate for president on the Republican ticket in 1916. •.. * • Henry S. Graves, chief of the United States forestry service, was at Seattle, Wash., Wednesday on the w’ay to Alaska to collect data to support the forestry department in opposing the abolishment of any of the Alaskan forest reserves.

• » • Harry K. Thaw is home at Pittsburgh for the firsf time in nine years. A tremendous ovation was tendered him on his arrival at East Liberty as he emerged from the train which brought him from Philadelphia. * • • Prof; Augustine J. S. Bourdeau, a prominent Seven Day Adventist, and Edwin Andrews, fifteen years old, are dead as the result of a lightning stroke at Takoma Park, Md. • • • Mme. Tetrazzini, famous song bird, subscribed SIOO,OOO for the Italian war loan, it was officially announced at Rome. • • • Francesco Fanclulli, former bandmaster of the United States Marine band at Washington, died in a hospital at New York.

REAL ESTATE MEN WILL DEFEND LAW

To Fight Suit to Void Barrett Law Prepayments. MEETING FOR INDIANAPOLIS Indiana State Association Aided in the Enactment of Statute and Proposed to Defend It When Attacked. Indianapolis.— A call has been issued for a special meeting of the officers and the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate association to be held at Indianapolis on July 29, for the purpose of making plans to aid in the defense of the law permitting property owners to prepay their Barrett law assessments, made for public improvements. A suit has been filed in this county for the purpose of knocking out this law, ■which was passed by the legislature last winter. The association worked hard for the enactment of this law, and it proposes now to come to its defense when it is attacked. The following are the officers of the Indiana Real Estate association: President, J. Edward Morris, Indianapolis; vice-presidents, Lee J Ninde, Fort Wayne; Marcus S. Sonntag, Evansville; Charles Emerson, Muncie; Edward P. Wise, Gary, and J. P. Pfister, Terre Haute; secretary-treasurer, Ryland A. Wolcott, Indianapolis; executive secretary, Scott R. Brewer, Indianapolis; board of governors, J. R. Mitchell, Evansville; George W. Lott, Vincennes; Joseph Bruns, New Albany; J. W. White, Greensburg; James A. Downard, Danville; John E. Peltz, Richmond; James S. Cruse, Indianapolis; E. E. Luse. Anderson; Andrew S. Clemons, Crawfordsville; C. P. White, Lafayette; William A. LTsh, Wabash; Louis F. Curdes, Fort Wayne; Joseph S. Kies, Elkhart.

The association takes the position that the law is a good one, because it permits a property owner to pay off his Barrett law assessments at any time, on six months’ notice by payment of the principal in full and interest up to the end of the six months’ term for which the notice is given. This money, under the new law, is paid to the city comptroller, and the law requires him to reinvest this money in other Barrett law bonds at par, the interest on which will pay the interest on the original bonds for the time they have yet to run before the expiration of their term of ten years. Under the old law a property owner was permitted to pay off his Barrett law assessment at any time, but he had to pay not only the principal but the interest for the full ten years. Baptist Assembly of State to Meet. Several hundred Bible students and Sunday school workers are expected to attend the third annual session of the Indiana Baptist Assembly, which will be in session at Franklin August 2 to 7. The assembly is an interdenominational conference, and the week will be devoted to recreation, inspiration and education. By vote of the state convention, at Bedford, last October, the work of the assembly was broadened to take, in all of the activities of the convention, in addition to the Sunday school and Baptist Young People’s Union boards, who were already participating, representatives from the state mission board and from the brotherhood board.

The progress includes classes in Bible study, missions, Sunday school pedagogy, and methods of Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. work. Pupils irom all parts of the state expect to attend. The forenoon of each day will be devoted to study, while the afternoon will be set aside for rest fellowship. The swimming pool, tennis court and library of Franklin college, where the day sessions are to be held, will be at the disposal of the students. The Bible study classes will be in charge of Rev. James M. Stifler of Evanston, 111., pastor of the First ■Baptist church of Evanston, and a teacher in the Lake Geneva conference. Rev. John M. Moore of New lork, a ,minister of national reputation, who is the head of the missionary educational department of the Northern Baptist convention, will discuss several phases of “The Efficient Church.” Mrs. 0. B. Wells of Chicago, who is one of the study course leaders for the interdenominational committee of the central west for missions, will present the two new study books, “Missions in Action," the home book, and “The King’s Highway,” the foreign book. Miss Lena Bruner, the Indiana state secretary of home and foreign missions for young women and children, will conduct special conferences for young women during the week. New Incorporations. Toner Dry Goods company, Martins'ille. $35,000; to operate a general retail store. O. C. Toner, E. S. Kriner, D. C. Baker. Rich & Wolcott, Indianapolis, $300,000; to deal in real estate and securities. R. F. Rich, J. O. Richardson, M. L. Collins. Stone Grocery company, Indianapolis, $5,000; to deal in foodstuffs; A. H. Stone, E. M. Stone, F. E. Stone. Charles C. Carr company of Indianapolis has Increased its capital stock $50,000.

NEW DRIVE ON COLMAR

FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY IMPORTANT HEIGHT OF LA LINGE. Also Gain Foothold in Stone Quarries of Schratzmannele and Woods of Barren Kopf. London, July 23.— A new drive on Colmar, the great German supply base for operations, is heralded by French official reports. Already the French troops, striking the German line suddenly while the Teuton strength is concentrated in the east, have occupied the important height of La Linge, to the north of Munster, and have gained a foothold in the stone quarries of Schratzmannele and the woods of Barren Kopf. Fierce fighting also is proceeding west of Munster on the heights of Uttie Reichacker Kopf, where the French have gained a trench of 150 meters and held it against nine German counterattacks. This fighting is faking place less than ten miles from Colmar, at which the French are striking from the north and northwest This great fortified camp has been under French fire intermittently for months. It Is one of their principal objectives in the drive on the Rhine. On the remainder of the western front the fighting has been confined to artillery duels except to the west of the Argonne, where the Germans claim progress by infantry attacks. There has been some activity among the rival air corps, the Germans bombarding Chalons, in Champagne, with incendiary bombs, without, however, doing any damage. The French flyers dropped 12 bombs on the railway station at Autry, northwest of Binarville. In a duel over the valley of the Thann three German aviators forced an equal number of French to the ground.

ANOTHER PRISONER STABBED

Quarrel Leads to Second Affray at Georgia Prison Farm —Victim Not Badly Hurt.

Milledgeville, Ga., July 23. —Another prisoner was stabbed here by a, fellow convict. Charles Miller, serving a term for burglary, was cut in the stomach by Frank Reid, serving a term for murder: He is not* fatally hurt The men quarreled.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, July 22. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— Ing. est. est. ing. July. Sept. . ...1.04%-05% 1.06 1.04% 1.05% Dec. ..... .1.07%-% 1.08% 1.06% 1.07% CornJuly ..78%, .79% .78 .79% Sept. 73%-% .74% .73% .74% Dec. .63%-% ,63%-64 .63% .63% Oats— July 47%-48 .48% .47% .48% Sept-..37%-% .37% .37% ,37%-9( Dec, .........39-39% ,39% .38% .39

FLOUR—Spring wheat, patents, Minneapolis, -wood or cotton, $7.30 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents, $6.23 776.40; jute, straight. [email protected]; first clears. $5.20415.35; second clears. Jute, [email protected]; low* grade, jute. [email protected]; soft wheat, patents (new), $4.80775.10; rye flour, white, pat<nts (new), $4.65@5,00; dark (new), $4.80@ 5.10.

HAY Market steady; choice timothy, $22.007723 00; Nd. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 and No. 1 mixed. [email protected]; new timothy, sound and sweet. $12.00@17 00; heated and unsound, [email protected]: light clover, $17.50 @18.50; heavy clover, [email protected]; clover, [email protected]; red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; threshed timothy, $ll.OO @14.00; no grade timothy, [email protected]; alfalfa. choice, [email protected]: alfalfa, No. 1, $13.00 @14.00; alfalfa. No. 2, [email protected].

Chicago, July 22. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 25%c; extra firsts, 24%c; firsts, 23@23%c; seconds, 21%@22%c; dairies, extras, 25c; firsts, 22@ 23c; seconds, 20@21c; packing stock, 19@ 19%c; ladles, 21c. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases Included, 14@17%c; cases returned, 13%@17c; ordinary firsts, 16%@16%c; firsts.' 17@17%c; extra. 21%@22%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 11c per lb.; chickens, fowls, 13c; springs, 18@20c; roosters. 10c: ducks, 13c; geese, B@9c; young ducks. 14@15c; spring geese, 12%@14c. —•— New July 22. WHEAT—Weaker. fair demand for new; No. 1 northern, $1.17; No. 2 red, [email protected]; No. ,2 hard. $1.21%; September, $1.12%. CORN—Higher, trade dull; export. 89c; No. 2 yellow, 91c; No. 3 yellow, 90%c. OATS—Steady, moderate Inquiry; No. 2 white, 63c; standard. 62%c; No. 3 white, 62c; No. 4 white, 61%c. Live Stock. » Chicago. July 22. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, $7.45@ 10.35; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; Inferior heifers, [email protected]; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cows, $6.00'37.40; cutters, [email protected]; canners, $3.00 @4.40; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bolognas, [email protected]; good to choice veal calves, $9.75 @10.75: heavy veal calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., $7.55@ 7.75; prime heavy butchers, 270@340 lbs., [email protected]: heavy and mixed packing, $7.10 @7.39; heavy packing. [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected].

East Buffalo, N. Y., July 22. CATTLE —Market dull and steady; prime steers. [email protected]: butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active, 75c higher; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, $6.00@ 8.00; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep. $2.50@ 6.50. HOGS—Market slow and steady; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs. [email protected]; mixed, SB.OO @8110; heavy. $7‘[email protected]; roughs. [email protected]; stags. $5.00@5;50.

Omaha, July 22. HOGS—Market strong; heavy, [email protected]; light, [email protected]; pig 3 , [email protected]; bulk of sales. [email protected]. CATTLE Market strong; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; Western steers, $6,[email protected]; cows and heifers. $0 calves, [email protected]. EP—Market higher; yearlings, $5.60 U 6.10; wethers. [email protected]; lambs, $7.3537.81.

Cjijssi fiea Ad TBepeHmenF* [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first iiisertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save hook-keening cash should be sent with notice- No notice accepted for less than twenty-five 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 for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Fresh Durham milch cow, also an aged family horse, gentle anyone can drive or ride him.—H. PAULUS, Rensselaer, phone 938-G. For Sale—Two grade Shorthorn cows, now giving milk and one with calf by side, and 1 pure bred Shorthorn bull caIf.—GRANT SUTTON, Fair Oaks, Ind. R-2. For Sale—An armload of clean old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Just the thing for putting under carpets, on pantry shelves, etc. ts For Sale—Rich onion land in Wisconsin; yield 400 to 600 bu. per acre. Land cheap now; small payment, long time. Address MEADOW VALLEY FARM, Sprague, Wis. For Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in paature lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. House recently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y. FOR RENT For Rent—My house on River street.—MßS. MARY JANE HOPKINS. WANTED Wanted— soo stock hogs from 40 to 125 lbs. Watch this ad, will pay Sc per lb. until further notice.— A. W. SAWIN, phone 400. ts

M anted—A good solicitor to travel over Jasper county. Previous experience not necessary, but is preferred.—THE DEMOCRAT. Wanted—To borrow 54,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidich brand, also cai - bon papers of the same make, 09 sale at The Democrat office. FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I flnl fhnl Wlthoul Delar ’ nil Illi Without Commission I UVI lllb [Without Charges £or n Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON

Notice to Delinquent Debtors. A large number of small accounts due The Democrat for subscription and job printing and from which we have gotten no replies to the numerous statements sent, will be placed in the hands of a collecting agency on August 1, if not paid prior thereto. Statements will be sent to all these debtors once more before placing them in hands for collection, but if responses are not received to this last request for settlement, the accounts will be turned over for collections as above stated. While the accounts individually are small, in the aggregate they foot up to SI,OOO or more, and mean considerable to us. We hope the number that it will be necessary to enforce the collection of will be very small. Do You Want Lightning Protection? I have been in the lightning rod business for 15 years and during that time have never lost a building by lightning. A five-year guarantee with all rods. If interested call and see me or phone 568.—FRANK A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Ind. ts