Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

<7.5. — Teutonic War News A Paris dispatch says the American delegates to the peace congress have resolved to advocate the sinking of the surrendered enemy warships and resist any proposition to distribute them on the basis of naval losses. • • * A correspondent with the Americans •cross the Rhine says the Third army now occupies a strip of Germany containing more than 4,500 square miles. It Is supervising the administration of «everal hundred villages and operating hundreds of miles of railroads and street car lines. • ♦ • A dispatch from American army headquarters says men in German military uniforms are not to be allowed within the American area of occupation after December 15, unless they are on duty and are provided with written permission of the American military authorities, according-4o a proclamation issued by Col. J. C. Rhea, chairman of the American bridgehead commission.

♦ ♦ ♦ European War News A Paris dispatch says the Journal de Geneve asserts it has learned from a good source that some of the principal German manufacturers, financiers and pan-German leaders fear a German revolution to such an extent that they ■are secretly negotiating to persuade the allies to occupy the whole of Germany. ■* * * A Paris dispatch says the Berlin central government is powerless to preserve order and deserters from the army terrorize the inhabitants. Robberies and attacks follow one another rapidly and apartments and shops are robbed in midday. Committees of all kinds, It continues, puldish contradictory orders and practice blackmail. ♦ * * Foreign A Stockholm dispatch says Prof. Herjoe Hirn and Dr. Adolph Toerjjgren, selected as Finnish peace delegates, will leave soon for I’aris. * ♦ * A Hamburg dispatch says fifteen interned British merchant ships have been released and sent to England. • * * A London dispatch says the entire Portuguese cabinet has resigned. • * * Unrest in Spain growing out of the separatist tendencies of an element In Catalonia is credited to bolshevik activities fostered by German organizations and funds, according to private •dispatches received at Washington. * * * All Paris is talking of the'call paid President Wilson by Marshal Foch. The great strategist appeared in a much-worn blue uniform, adorned by none of his decorations, and wearing an old forage cap. * * » Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig will become a duke if plans materialize in London. It is apparently an open secret in court circles that a dukedom ■will be conferred upon the Britijdi comraalder in chief at Buckingham Palace. « * * Admiral Canto Y. Castro has been ■elected president of Portugal, In succession to Dr. Sidonio Paes, who was assassinated at Lisbon. * * * An Amsterdam dispatch says a general strike was called in Berlin. Ad■vices from the frontier early in the day said that 350,000 workers had gone out and that only two newspapers were published. • ♦ • The situation in Smyrna is extremely critical, according to newspaper dispatches from Mitylene. Young Turk officials have posted armed bands at various places about the town and these have been bombarded by the allies' fleets. • • • Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, is to be appointed foreign minister in the Ebert government, according to a Berlin message. » • • Several hundred boys and girls paraded through the streets of Berlin on their way to the relchstag building, where the soldiers and workingmen’s congress is being held. They demand■ed, among other things, votes for persons eighteen years of age, the abolition of corporal punishment in schools and the participation by children In the administration of the government •nd schools. • • i» A revolution has broken out in Bulgaria, according to Information received by the Berlin Lokal' Anzeiger 2trom Bulgaria, by way of Hungary. The German moderates have scored overwhelming victories in the elections, according to an Amsterdam dispatch. A Stockholm dispatch ■ says the bolshevik government is evacuating Petrograd. It plans to take refuge in Nljni-Novgorod, 600 miles southeast of Petrograd. _ _ _

President Wilson will spend the Christmas holidays at General Pershing’s headquarters. Official announcement to this effect was made at Paris. • • • Washington By unanimous vote the house ways and means committee at Washington postponed Indefinitely action on the request of former Secretary McAdoo for authority to make peace-time loans of $1,500,000,000 to foreign countries. • • • Legislation authorizing increase of the permanent enlisted Strength of the navy from 131,000 men to 217,000 was recommended to the house naval • affairs committee at Washington by Capt. H. Laning, acting chief of the bureau of navigation. * ♦ » A resolution putting congress on record as favoring trial and punishment of the former kaiser was introduced in the house at Washington by Representatove Darrow of Pennsydvania. • * • A Washington dispatch says the American legation at Bucharest was found to have been entered and robbed when American minister Vopicka returned there from Jassy. Goods valued'at more than SIOO,OOO were stolen. •” ♦ ; • A papal letter was presented to President Wilson at I’aris by Mgr. Cerrettf, the undersecretary of state. It pleaded for assistance on behalf of small oppressed nationalities, especially Armenia and Poland. The pope’s letter also expressed the hope of a just and durable peace being reached through enlightened action. • * • General Pershing notified the war department at Washington that he had designated for early convoy home a number of additional units, including the Twenty-seventh engineers and the Three Hundred and Forty-sixth field artillery; in all about 4,500 officers and men. ♦ ♦ *

A Paris dispatch says President Wilson conferred with Edward N. Hurley, the shipping director, on the problem of obtaining ships for the homeward movement of the troops. ♦ * * Germany should be compelled to pay, so far as possible, the cost of the war to the United States, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, chairman of the finance committee, declared on the floor of the senate at Washington. ♦ » * Responding to a senate resolution, General Manager Piez of the Emergency Fleet corporation advised the senate at Washington that from August, 1917, to November 23, 1918, 280 ships were constructed by that organization, aggregating J,216,367 gross tons. ♦ * ♦ It cost the government twenty-nine and three-quarters millions of dollars to raise seventeen and three-quarters billions of dollars through the four Liberty loans and War Savings stamps. These figures were made public at Washington when the house committee on expenditures in the treasury department gave out the report of Secretary McAdoo. * * * An increase of 6,726,000 acres of winter wheat, or nearly 16 per cent over that sown in the fall of 1917, Is shown in the report of the federal department of agriculture * » * Postmaster General Burleson at Washington announced a reduction in night long-distance telephone rates, and a charge for all long-distance calls ,whether the individual called is reached or not, The new rates are effective January 21. Between 8:30 and 12 p. m. the rate is to be one-half of the day rate, and between 12 p. m. and 4:30 a. m. one-fourth the day rate. Appropriation of $600,000,000 for road construction is proposed in a bill introduced at Washington by Representative Browne of Wisconsin, Republican. Fifty million dollars would be made available for Immediate use and the entire total in six years. «• • • Domestic Alberto J. Pani, minister of industry and labor in tl»e Carranza cabinet left Laredo, Tex., for Washington. It was reported there that Pani is to become Mexican ambasador to France. • • • Villa bands raided the ranch of an American, John B. Hibler, at Galena, in northern Mexico, December 9, according to a report to the state department at Washington. No one was killed. The raiders took most of the corn at the ranch, the entire store of feed end 26 burros, 16 oxen, 4 300 goats and all the cattle, mules. Four more American members of the crew of the United States armored cruiser Brooklyn have died at Yokohama as a result of injuries sustained in the explosion, supposedly of coal dust. • • • An aviator, said to be Carl Smith«of Brockton, Mass., was killed instantly when his machine fell 500 feet at the Standard Aircraft corporation’s field at Elizabeth, N. J. * * * Four men were killed in an airplane collision near West Point, Miss. They are Lieuts. Alvin W. Splane of Oil City, Pa., and Fred Synnestvedt of Pittsburgh, Pa., flying instructors of fayne field, and Private Fred P. James of Litchfield, Hl., and Guy C. Wells of Reynoldsville, HL, of Bowen field. .

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MAN KILLED BY NITRO BLAST ——M Six Hundred Quarts of Explosive and Fifty Pounds of Dynamite Explode on Farm Near Greensburg —Shock Felt in Many Cities. Greensburg, Dec. 20. —Herbert Storms, twenty-three • years old, of Bradner, 0., of the American Glycerin company, was blown to pieces when 600 quarts of glycerin and 50 pounds of dynamite exploded on the farm of Nnqh Deshields, two miles and a half north of here. The blast rocked the country for a radius of 40 miles, shattering windows in homes for a distance of a mile from the scene of the explosion, and was felt in Newcastle, Rushville, Columbus and surrounding cities. The local telephone plant was swamped with calls regarding the explosion. Storms had just arrived at the farm from Ohio with 300 quarts of nitroglycerin which he Intended to put in the magazine. He had brought thF explosive on an automobile truck. It is believed that he dropped some of the nitroglycerin, which caused the explosion. All the houses within a radius of one mile were broken and nearly all the windows were broken. Windows in Greensburg also were broken.

Battery F’s Loss Is Small.

Bloomington, Dec. 20. —That all members of Battery F of this city xtere safe after' the signing of the armistice was the word contained in a letter just received by Mrs. E. B. Cassell of this city from her son; Joseph. The letter, dafed November 28, said that the battery had the smallest casualty record of any of the others of the state. On the dhy before the signing of the armistice Battery F was pouring shells into the German lines. The letter said that one German shell came over and every member of the battery thought it was going to smash up things', but it passed over and wounded many df the members of the Rainbow division in other units. The battery has a total of only two men killed in action since it left Bloomington. Cassell’s letter stated that the boys were just ready to step over the border into Germany at the time the letter was written. Sergt. Lannis Thrasher of Battery F arrived home and will go to a hospital at Camp Taylor, Ky., after a fiye-day furlough here with relatives.

Election Contest in Court.

Columbus, Dec. 20.—Charles D. Glick, Democrat, who is contesting the election of Charles G. Hunter, Republican, elected county clerk at the November election by two votes, has appealed his case to the Bartholomew circuit court. The contest was recently heard before the county commissioners, when Hunter was declared elected by one vote. Each contestant says that he will appeal his case to the state supreme court in the event he loses in the circuit court.

Fire Damages Casket Factory.

Richmond, Dec. 20. —Fire, which started in the engineroom of the casket factory of the F. N. Watt company, did $50,00(1 damage to the building and machinery before it was brought under control. Virtually all the machines of the plant are a mass of wreckage. Three men were caught ih the machine room when the blaze quickly spread from the enginerbom, but succeeded in fighting their way to safety.

Alexander G. Clifford Dies.

Evansville. Dec. 20. —Alexander Grant Clifford, sixty-five, wealthy hardware merchant of this city, broth-er-in-law of the late John W. Foster, diplomat, died at his home here. Clifford, who was a prominent club man, was a native of Kentucky. He is survived by one brother. George S. Clifford of this city, formerly president of the Indiana Audubon society.

Danville S. A. T. C. Quits.

Danville, Dec. 20.—The Central Normal college S. A. T.. C. of 65 members has been paid off and demobilized, the greater part of them returning to their homes, though several remained to complete their studies in the college. Lieut. Paul D. Turner, who has been in charge, will remain here until ordered elsewhere.

Wife and Husband Buried.

Noblesville, Dec. 20. —There was a double funeral at the Wesleyan Methodist church here, the services, being for Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hiatt, both of whom died of pneumonia. Both bodies were placed in the same grave. Their three-year-old daughter is critically ill of the same malady.

McGuire at Rushville.

Rushville, Dec. 20. —Lieut. Will McGuire of the aero squadron, who landed in New York December 10, has been mustered out- of the service and is here. Lieutenant McGuire is well known in Indianapolis. He was in England all the time on construction work.

$80,000 Fire at Glass Works.

Indianapolis, Dec. 20. —Damage estimated at SBO,OOO was caused by fire at No. 1 plant of the Fairmount Glass works here. The fire is believed to have started from oil leaking from a pipe Ignited when workmen lit fires under an furnace.

NEW PLEA TO WILSON

BERLIN APPEALS TO AMERICA FOR FOOD. Communication Sent Through the Swedish Foreign Office Hints at Disaster. Stockholm, Dec. 20.—The Swedish foreign office has handed to American Minister Morris a communication from the German minister in Stock-, holm on behalf of the German govern-i ment, appealing to President Wllsqn for leniency to the German pedple. The communication of the minister declares that unless situation in Germany is improved there is grave danger of “more serious social disturbances.” London, Dec. 20.—An extremely eotifused and doubtful situation has arisen in the Berlin congress of soldiers and workmen’s councils, according to dispatches from Berlin and telegrams from correspondents of the London newspapers. Invasions of the congress by Irresponsible parties of extremists are reported, leading to frequent uproars. These have resulted in a state of high tension with threats of the -Ebert-government to resign. The newspaper Vorwaerts, representing the government, refers to the danger of the whole apparatus of the government falling apart. It takes the most serious view of the situation.

HUN PROPAGANDA STILL ON

Reports That the Allies and U. S. Do Not Agree Are Explained by State Department. Washington, Dec. 20. —German propaganda still is at work in the United States, the state department was informed in a dispatch from The Hague. A Professor Brinckmann, who directed propaganda in this country from The Hague during the war, was said to be in charge of the present operations. - f Officials here assumed that the information was sent from The Hague to explain the spreading of reports that the United States and the allies are not in agreement over certain issues to be dealt with at the peace conference. The report to. the department said Professor Brinckmann is being liberally supplied with money and that a vicious is being circulated by<the Brinckmann bureau. The money to pay the expenses of the propaganda office is being expended through Guinan official channels, according to the department’s statement.

FLU CAUSED 105,297 DEATHS

Census Bureau at Washington Gives Figures for Larger Cities Between Sept. 14 and Dec. 14. Washington, Dec. 20.—Influenzrf caused 6G.534 deaths in the larger cities between September 14 and December 14, while pneumonia killed 38,763 more, according to census figures.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Dec. 19. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— ing. est. est. ing. Decl.4o 1.41% 1.39% 1.41% Jan1.36%-36 1.37% 1.35% > 1.36% Febl.3s-54% 1.35% 1.33% 1.34% March ...1.35%-34% 1.35% 1.33% 1.34% Oats— > Dec7l .71% .70% .71% Jan7l% .71% .70% .71% Feb. ...70% .71% .70% .70% March 71% .71% .70% .71% FLOUR—The United States food administration flour standards are as follows: Per bbl. in jute, 98 lb. sack basis: Barley flour, [email protected]; corn flour, [email protected]; white rye flour, $10.00; dark rye, $8.00; spring wheat, [email protected]; special brands, $11.00; hard winter, [email protected]; soft winter, $10.50. HAY—Timothy, [email protected]; standard, [email protected]; No. 1 light clover mixed, $28.00 @29.00; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 3, [email protected]; sample, [email protected]; clover, [email protected]. BUTTER— Creamery, extra, 92 score, 67%c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, 91 score, 65@66c; 88@90 score, 60@64c; seconds. 82@87 score, 54@58c; standard, 63%c; ladles, 46c; renovated, 50C; packing stock, 38@40c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 63%@64c; ordinary firsts, 59@61c; miscellaneous lots, cases Included. 60@63c; cases returned, 59@62c; extras, 69%@70%c; checks, 35@39c; dirties, 40@43c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 31c; fowls, 26c; roosters, 18%c; spring chickens, 24c; ducks, 28c; geese, 26c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, 39c; fowls, 26c; spring chickens, 26c; (posters, 18@19c; ducks, 30@32c; geese, 25@27c. POTATOES—BuIk, per 100 lbs., $1.55@ 1.65; sacks, [email protected]. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, $18.50 @20.50; good to choice steers, [email protected]; medium to good steers, [email protected]; plain to medium steers, [email protected]; yearlings, fair to choice, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, [email protected]; good to prime cows, [email protected]; fair to prime heifers, $9.00@ 14.75; fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; bologna bulls, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $7.00@ 9.00; veal calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to choice light butchers, [email protected]; choice light butchers, $17.50@ 17.65; medium weight butchers, 226@260 lbs.,’ [email protected]; heavy butchers, 270@350 lbs’ [email protected]; mixed packing, $17.10@ 17.50; heavy packing, [email protected]; rough packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP Western lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, good to choice, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, good to choice, [email protected]; ewes, fair to choice, [email protected]; feeding lambs, [email protected]. Buffalo, N. Y., Deo. 19. CATTLE— Receipts, 350; good steady, light and common easier. CALVES— Receipts. 150; steady, $5.00@ 19.50. HOGS— Receipts, 5,500; slow and 10c lower- hJkvy, mixed and Yorkers, $17.70; few sl7 80; light Yorkers and pigs, $17.00; roughs. [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 3,000: slow; lambs lower; others steady; lambs, [email protected]; a few $16.25;. others unchanged.

ANOTHER GOOD WOMAN CALLED

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their h'ome nearly all of this time. Soon after this event they moved into town in the handsome new bungalow they had just built on Washington street and where they had since resided. Mrs. Hoover leaves three sons, Alfred A., William I. and Frank L. Hoover, all of whom reside here, Frank now occupying the old home place. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Griswold of Washburn, Illinois, and Mrs. Sarah. M. Beal of Macon, Missouri, both of whom had visited her here the present fall; also one brother, Marion I. Adams, of near Rensselaer. The sisters were notified by telegram of her death but it was not expected that either would be able to come to the funeral, Mrs. Griswold especially, being quite feeble. Mrs. iHtoover had been an active member o f the Methodist church for many years.

SUITS AND OVERCOATS' —TO YOUR HEART’S DESIRE FROM AMERICA’S FOREMOST MAKERS: HIRSCH, WICKWIRE & CO., FINEST CLOTHES READY TO WIEAR; KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES, SOCIETY BRAND SUITS AND OVERCOATS, STYLEPLUS CLOTHES, XTRA GOOD BRAND YOUNG MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS. NU STYLE CLOTHES. DON’T LET ANYBODY TELL YOU YOU CAN’T BUY ALL WOOL SUITS AND OVERCOATS FOR $22.50 OR $25. YOU CAN GET HERE ALL THE STYLISH ALL WOOL CLOTHES YOU WANT AT THAT PRICE AND UP TO S4O. —LARGEST STOCK OF UP-TO-DATE SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN TOWN <— THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB. TO TELEPHONE PATRONS On account of influenza and other sickness we are compelled to work six operators short. Five doing all they can to do the work of eleven. We kindly ask that you do not make one call you can possibly do without. We must lessen number of calls or discontinue some classes of service. Knowing you will realize our position, we ask your heIp.—JASPER COUNTY TELEPHONE CO.

Lots of our boys are coming home and they will need new suits, overcoats, hats, socks, underwear, ties and collars, and any of these will please him.—DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. Keep in mind the date of the Annual Jasper County Poultry and Corn Show, which will be held the week of January 7.

FOR SALE I have for sale the J. J. Lawler lands, located in Jasper and Newton counties. Call at my office in Odd Fellows building for prices and terms. 120 acres for sale 1% miles of Jasper county court house at a bargain; 80 acres, improved, 4 miles of Remington, at a bargain. 80 acres southeast of Francesville for sale or trade; flroom house, barn, good chicken house, other outbuildings. A. S. Laßue Rensselaer, Indiana

xML r r jaJft FORSALE

For Sale —-Two-year-old black Holstein. bull. —W. V. VAN NATTA, Rensselaer, R-4. d-25 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Hampshire male hog, wt. about 275. Will sell or trade for fall pigs.—THOS. E. COOPER, Remington, Ind-, phone 8-W. d-28 For Sale—A Webster’s New Inter. national Dictionary, almost new and very little soiled, sheep binding and good paper Publisher*! price |l2; will sell for $8 cash. — For Sale—lo pure-bred Duroc boars and gilts, large enough for service. Some with pedigrees.—GUSS YEOMAN, phone 78-C Mt. Ayr, Rensselaer, R-3. d-25 For Sale—Some White Holland turkey hens and toms and Buff Roock cockerels.—W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 80<J, Mt. Ayr exchange. ts For Sale —Will sell for best cash offer 111-acre farm 3 miles east of Monon. Will show farm and take bids .until Jan. 1, 1919. — JOHN A. DUNLAP. , M For Sale 6 room residence and 8 lots in Remington. Cash or terms or trade for Colorado property.—THOS. MULLEN, 335 16 th St., Denver, Colo. d-28

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, IMS

«Sale by reason of installing furnace, a fine base-burner used only two years; all In splendid condition. May be seen at Democrat office—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—One extra good grade Shorthorn bull one year old, weight 750 lbs.; one good steer weight 050; some good Buff Orpington cockerels.—W. B. HOUGH, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3, telephone 936-D. d-25 For Sale—ln The Democrat’s FS*ey Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die numbering machines, rubber stamp daters, robber stamp pads, typewriter rltbens for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. Typewriters—One No. 5 Oliver, splendid condition, tabulator, etc., tin case, S3O; 2 brand-new later model No. 5 Olivers, backspacer, etc., S4O each; 1 Smith Premier, visible No. 10, tabulator, back-spacer, etc., a dandy machine, S4O; 1 Smith Premier No. 3, good condition, S2O. —The Democrat. For Sale—Registered O. I. O. gilts, bred to a prize winning boar. First come, gets first choice.— FRANK K. FRITZ, 1 mile east and 3 miles north of McCoysburg, 1 mile east and 1 mile south of Moody. d-25 For Sale or Rent—My tenant property on south Weston street, lately vacated by Dan Robinson; flroom house, electric lights, city water, garden patch, 2 % blocks from court housse.—MßS. GEORGE iSTOUDT, Remingh .x, shone 65 Remington exchange. d-28 For Sale—flOO-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice city of 2,000 population. Farm' is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natches and which intersects with the Jacksea highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 246 or 499. II For Sale—Some real bargains in well Improved farms located within three miles of, Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in Improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. ts

One of the Best Located Rest, deuce properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For further particulars-call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. FOR RENT For Rent—My house on Park avenue, electric lights, city water.— MARY JANE HOPKINS. For Rent—Good 9-room house?! Bath, toilet, electric lights, city water and cistern, adjoining my residence.—E. P. HONAN, phone 285 or 334. For Rent—l6o acre farm for rent in Jasper county, good land and buildings. About 22 acres of wheat and rye. Reason for moving is sickr. ness.—See DAVID POPEL, 1 % miles west of Gifford. d-21 WANTED Wanted—Some good Rhode Island Red roosters.—FßANK K. FRITZ, McCoysburg, R-l. d-25 Wanted—Woodchoppers for sawlogs and cordwood.—EßNEST LAMSON, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 936-H. \ d-28 Wanted—We will pay a straight salary of $35.00 per week for man or woman with rig to introduce Eureka Egg Producer. tix months contract.—EUßEKA MFG. CO., East St. Louis, 111. Wanted—More farmers to know about the great land movement in the clover lands of Wisconsin. See me about the next excursion. Office in Wright Bldg., near Washington street bridge. Open evenings. Telephone 418. ELMER GWIN. ts

MISCELLANEOUS Storage—l have two rooms for stor* age of light household er otheq goods in The democrat building Terms^-seasonable. —F. E. BAB COCK. Phone 315 or 811. Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell In patches, any quantity desired.—J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 337. ts Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock In Its fancy stationery department the famous Nedicth make of ribbons for nearly, all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 75c each. Will be sent by mall prepaid to any address on receipt of mice. tl FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHAK J. DEAN • SON, Odd Fellows, Bulldina. Rensselaer. || Mutual Insurance—Fire and Light* nlng. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phons 888-iL. W Farm Loans—Money to loan Mt farm property In any sums an la 810.00 ft.—E. P. HONAN. ■ Farm Loans—l represent one of the largest eastern loan companies. We are loaning on good improved farms at 514 per cent, and the usual commission. Sed| me first and loan will be promptly! made. If loan has been declined by another company, don’t apply —JOHN A. DUNLAP. d-25