Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE PASSING OF FENCE POSTS You have read of the world’s greatest war: the only war in history where soil was destroyed, tho only war where whole forests were blown into atoms —branch, trunk and root.. Hundreds of ships are being loaded with lumber and wood at American ports consigned to Europe. Ask your dealer today for the price of hard oak flooring. Where are our forests of 15 years ago? Where does the timber line end, where does the prairie begin. Yet a few days and spring is at your door. Get into your auto and take a ride for observation. Start at Rensselaer and go west on the county farm road to Mt. Ayr. As you cross Curtis creak 1% miles east of Mt. Ayr you wih notice the timber ends and the prairie begins. A prairie that stretches away to the state line and across Illinois and up into lowa and Nebraska. Of course, you: will see some little streaks of timber along rivers now and then. But here, just east of Mt. Ayr, ends what was once that great forest region that went east warn across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. If you want oak lumber get it now. If you want the last good crop of fine burr and white oak posts, the kind that will last, remember that 1920 is your last good chance to get them on the stone road two miles east of Mt, Ayr. The best oak posts you ever saw. You cannot get them next year. Many wise men got theirs. Some of you will surely be like the foolish virgins and come too late. If you want posts at all within the next five years buy them now. The 'price is not high yet. It is higher than last year. They will be higher yet in 90 days. Cut out the dealer’s profit—buy direct. Only 30,000 posts left, and more than 1,000 <m|en want 100 each. Benton county will get the balance soon. Railroad almost at our door. Some of you will give me a long distance call too late. —EVERETT HALSTEAD. —Advt.