Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — The Markets. [ARTICLE]

The Markets.

POULTRY, ETC. Chickens, spring ' iql c Hens io|c Roosters r c Ducks ...... nc Geese, full feathered 7c Turkeys, young fat...' ir c Egg s ...: i 4 c Butter !j C Hides 5 to 6c GRAIN. Wheat . 60c c° rn 38c .. 40c Oats, mixed 2 &c Oats, white j IC

You will eave many doctor bills by keeping Bailey’s Laxative Tablets on band and taking them freely for constipation, biliousness, liver troubles, fever and indigestion. Very pleasant, effective and natural in action. They invigorate torpid intestines and rouse up the liver. Price 10 and 25c at A. F. Long’s.

The Blackford post office will be discontinued February 13th by order of the post office department. Postmaster Hurley tendered his resignation some time ago, and as no one could be found to take his place, the office was ordered discontinued. This will work no hardship on the people living in that vicinity, as the Aix postoffice is only about a mile west of Blackford and many of the former patrons of the post office receive their mail over rural route number 2.

The Pennsylvania Railway Co. has organized a savings bank system for their employes. It is thought that it will cultivate a desire to economize and to become more thrifty on their parts and will be the means of giving the workmen an opportunity to lay by for old age. They are to be paid 3A per cent for the use of the money. This with the Benefit Association and Pension Department of this road makes it one of the most liberal railway systems in the country in reference to employes. More than 700 men were pensioned by the company last year.

The viewers, Mr. Hershman, Willis Griggs and John Essen, of Newton county, and Michael Delahanty, David Gleason and John Greeve, of Jasper county, in company with Wm. Kent, Angos Washburn and Lewis S. Alter, engineer, have been busily engaged for the past week viewing the land for assessment on the Curtis Creek ditch. The ditch starts 2 miles west of Fair Oaks, runs in a southeasterly direction through Kent’s Ranch, Jas. Yeoman, H. Harris and other farms emptying into the Iroquois river five miles from Rensselaer. The ditch is about sixteen miles in length and passes one mile east of this place.—Mt. Ayr item in Goodland Herald.