Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — Page 3

ANSCO CAMERAS fL SPEEDEX FILM The ?A Folding Ansco illustrated is especially popular because it takes pictures postcard size —31 by 5i inches —excellent proportions for all kinds of subjects. It has an exact radius finder to prevent cutting off any part of the scene, and an automatic adjustable focusing scale to change the focus instantly while locating the image in the finder. You can riise and lower the front and shift it to the side. Combination back for film or plates. This model, and the many other Ansco Cameras from $2 to $55, we will giadly demonstrate to you. Head the large ad in Dec. 4th Saturday Evening Post and other cosmopolitan papers and magazines that week A. F. LOING, Druggist

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Corner Case Thompson & Waymire Meals Short Orders Candies Ipe Cream Fresh Oysters CHICKEN DINNER ON SUNDAY

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J. J. Montgomery The Bunte Store NOTHING DUT THE REST

x Ttof/ter With that uncertain batch of bread during this cold weather, wait those long tedious hours, when you can have a FRESH LOAF of bread every day for dinner delivered to your door by TELEPHONING 616 O'Riley'., Golden Loaf 'BaKery

ENGRAVED CALLING CARDS

Make Very Nice and Acceptable Christmas Presents. Engraved or printed calling cards make very neat and acceptable Christmas gifts ana are very reasonable in price. The Democrat can furnish the latter promptly in cloth finish cards and in various styles of type. On engraved cards, which we have to send to an engraving house for, we will make a special reduction for the holiday trade, but orders should be placed early to insure the work in time for Christmas. On all orders received before Dec. 15, we will furnish engraved copper plate and choice of several styles of script type with 100 printed cards—Miss, Mr. or Mrs. size—for only $1.25, cash with order. The plate, understand, goes with the cards and can be sent in for more cards to be printed therefrom whenever needed, thus saving the expense of buying a new plate. The above price is for one line of engraving only, each additional line costs 50 cents. If you wish, we will select style of script for the engraving on mail orders. Cards and plate sent direct to the party they are for if uesired without additional expense. Other styles of engraving other than script can be furnished but the prices vary so that we cannot quote prices herein. Will be pleased to show samples and quote prices if you will call at The Democrat office.

LOCUSTS AS DELICACIES.

Ancient Greeks and Ethiopians Once Found Insects Edible. While the locust is essentially a plant devourer and famine bringer, there are many well authenticated cases in history showing that populations reduced to the last extremity, have utilized the destructive insect as food. Diodorus Siculas relates that an Ethiopian tribe were known as Aceridophagi (eaters of locusts), while Aristotle writes of a certain part of Greece where the people regarded them as delicious. Lavard, the explorer, found on the engraved monuments pictures of dried and preserved locusts on rods, presumably indicating their use as food. It is not believed that any race today eats them. They are regarded everywhere in the east as an abhor rent calamity, and the presence of vast swarms in Palestine is held to be a forerunner of complete crop failure, both of fruit and cereals.— Christian Herald.

Teachers’ Retirement Fund.

The'teachers of the county are organizing under the provisions of the Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund. A fund has been created to be used and applied in the payment of annuities to persons engaged in teaching. The control and manage*ment of the fund is vested in a board of trustees, the president of which is the state superintendent of public instruction. Teachers coming under the provisions of this act shall be assessed upon his or her salary for the school year, as follows: For the first 15 'years of teaching service, $1 0 per year; for the next 10 years, S2O per year; for the next 10 years of teaching service, $25 per year; for the remaining years of service up to and including the 40 th year of service, S2O per year; no assessment shall be collected from a teacher for the time taught beyond the period of 4 0 years. The schedule of pensions runs from SGOO for 35 years of service, to S7OO for 4 0 years of service. Disability benefits are paid: For 25 years of service, $350 to $575 for 34 years of service. The organization of teachers for th e unit of Pulaski county has been signed by 65 teachers—a majority of the whole number, which is 123. There are several teachers who have taught for 35 years, continuously, among them bding Frank Long of Winamac.—Winamac Dem-ocrat-Journal.

Annual Christmas Bazaar. The ladies of the Presbyteriai. church are busy making prepara-, tions for their annual Christmas bazaar. The ladies have decided to hold their bazaar in the dining parlors of the church, on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 8 and 9. •The ladies have been industriously at work and many fancy and useful articles will be for sale. People will do well to visit the bazaar for their Christmas presents.—Advt.

Attention Redmen.

Lodge will convene next Monday night, Nov. 29, at 7 o’clock, after which a Thanksgiving program will be held. To this exercise Redmen and their families and all Pocahontas are cordially invited to be present. —SACHEM.

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HAS 23,000 HEAD OF SHEEP.

Another Big Feature of the Kelley .j Ranch. Manager B. B. Curtis of the Kelley ranch shipped 1,000 head of sheep to rhe Chicago market the first of the week. But this did not exhaust his supply of these frisky little animals, as there are still 23,000 in his sheep-fold, largely representing a production of the ranch this year. The mammoth structure used for shelter and food is said to be the largest in the world, ho that facilities for taking care of extensive flocks is almost unlimited. Everything done on the Kelley ranch is of broad gauge proportions, and right here in Monon township we have the largest wheat producing farm in the state as well as the largest sheep producing farm, all under one management. Notwithstanding the large production of hay and grain on this ranch, it is a large buyer of foodstuff from outside, and just now large quantities of alfalfa shipped to this point, is being hauled out for consumption. Many acres are devoted to corn, and yet the ranch buys a great deal of this cereal ip order to supply the needs of live stock. The ranch is a good-sized community to itself and represents farm life more extensively in several particulars than any other in In-diana.—-Monon News.

Centennial News Letter.

F. B. Barnes, municipal recreation superintendent of South Bend, has been chosen by chairman F. A. Miller as pageant master for St. Joseph County’s Centtpinial celebration. Together with the State’s Centennial, South Bend will observe its own semi-centennial. ♦ ♦ * The Friends, who has established churches in Indiana before it became a state, appointed committees at their yearly meetings held recently at Plainfield and Richmond, to co-operate with the State Commission in observing the Centennial. Fountain county is planning to gather and place on record data concerning the historical, agricultural and educational phases of the county’s life, to make better known the resources and natural attractions of the county, and to create a greater interest in local matters. Organization has begun in Tippecanoe county under the leadership of Brainard Hooker. A rousing .meeting was held at Lafayette tne other evening when enthusiastic speeches in favor of Centennial celebration were made by President Stone and Professors Coulter, Christie and Moran of Purdue, and bj Senator Reser, Judge Vinton and others.

* * ♦ Chairman J. C. Webb is preparing a small illustrated treatise on the Centenial in Johnson county. ♦ * ♦ Of the religious bodies of the State, the Jews have taken the initiative in anticipation of the Centennial. A committee composed of Max R. Hyman, Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht and Mrs. Isaac Halpern, is at work gathering material for a history of the Jewish contribution to Indiana history along all lines of progress. The history will be issued in book form and will make a valuable contribution to Centennial literature. ♦ ♦ ♦ Wabash College has appointed a strong committee to co-operate with, local organizations of Crawfordsville in preparation for a grand celebration in Montgomery county. A monster pageant is talked of as the crowning feature. ♦ » ♦ Chairman C. V. Haworth of Howard county is planning to have the history of each township, in the county, including Kokomo and other towns, written during the year and published in the local newspapers. Connersville is projecting the erection of a sixty-foot Concrete shaft, electrically lighted, as a part of the Fayette county observance of the centennial. The Connersville News says: “The centennial spirit is in the air. The whole of Hoosierdom, next year, is to be turned to a great celebration ground. Up and down the rich soil of the territory novel and striking means will be taken to show that this, that and the other locality wishes to lay its tribute at the feet of old Indiana. That a tower, surmounted by great blazing electric lights, would do this beautifully, and would, moreover, stand as a permanent signpost at the city’s threshold, strikes the merchants and city patriots, who are encouraging the plan as plain and appealing. They will prosecute their yvork about the city, and it is sure that the material, as well as the sentimental support of the influential people of city and county will be theirs.’’

Do you Kjiotu ' . - r ■ i Of anything on earth that improves a man’s personal appearance as much as nice clean linen? We Do the Cleaning McKjay'* Laundry Call “No. 4” when you want GOOD HARD AND SOFT COAL Rensselaer Lumber Co. - - - - ■ —■ --—— —■ ————— - ' ■ -" - , ■■ »- Morse’s Candies The acme off the Confectioner’s art. None surpasses, none equals. Chamberlain’s ICECREAM FATE’S COLLEGE INN Phone lid mm KMMMBid HHBBMB^MB Wintry Blasts , Have no effect on a home heated by one of the famous Cole Hot Blast stoves Base Burners, Heaters and Ranges in many styles and to suit any purse tZ/arner Hro>r. Special Program at the REX For Week Ending December 4th MONDAY THURSDAY 2 Part Lubin 2 I*®H Lubin A House of Cards When th© LigTrt Came In Geo. Ade’s Comedy, The Scoffer Comedy—The Highwayman FRIDAY TUESDAY Essanay Drama—2 Parts 2 Part Kaleni A Man Afraid The Stranglers’ Cord Comedy—A Flashlight Fliver Comedy—The Fighting Kid SATURDAY' Extra Special WEDNESDAY Confession of Madam Bara~...J. \r \ *. stoff—A 3 Reel Feature A 2 1 art Kaleni Drama An j| OUr o f Freedom Drama In Double Harness Comedy—Wife’s Ma Comes Back Comedy—Cartoons in the Laundry Comedy—The Revolt of Mr. Wiggs At the Theater

Nowels The Ice Cream and Candy Store •✓VW* Fancy Christinas Box Candy a Specialty. V. Nowels, Prop. Rensselaer, Ind.

Fresh Fish and Oysters at all times at OSBORNE'S FISH MARKET