Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — A BIG JOB [ARTICLE]

A BIG JOB

The people of the United States are beginning to realize that there are no short cuts to victory in this war—-which is as it should be. It | is foolish and even harmful to ||sn<vr>i->+f> duration, of the [Employes of the Monon railroau , s [ops at Lafayette have signed np new scale of wages in effect Norn ber 1.

| For the first time in several ■ears a night gang was placed at fork in the Monon railroad shops It Lafayette Monday night. I Christmas packages for the men lerving on American war vessels piust reach New York not later han November 24, the navy department announced Monday. Abe Martin says: “Some folks ire all right ever’ way t ’cept they k’on’t pay anything. ‘We Shall Meet Over There,’ used t’ refer t’ leaven, but it don’t any more.” I George Mann of Otterbein delivfed forty-six hogs for R. E. Cotligham of Pine Village to Grenard fMcClure at the Union stock yards fcterday that average 240 pounds, ley netted $1,890.52. These are Bought to be the two largest loads I dollars and cents ever delivered I the local stock yards.—SaturLy’s Lafayette Journal.

1 Henry Ford, through his repreBntative, C. ,Hf. Wills, has offered ■e government the use of his mammoth 'manufacturing plant to make ■ich war necessities. as tractors' Bnbulances, aircraft engines and Biells. In the event his offer is ftcepted he will cease manufacturBg pleasure cars and trucks for Be duration of the war. ■Secret service agents have disMmred foodstuffs and other propHy valued at more than $73,000.K) stored in warehouses in New S*k city which has never been reKted to the government as re■red under the trading with the ■my act, it was learned recently.