Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1899 — BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

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pearly fifty naval vessels are under construction iu American dock yards, including a number for foreign powers. It will not take the untutored Filipino many moons to discover -that the American dollar is for some reason or other worth twice as much as the Spanish dollar which he has been using. The wicked Dingley tariff is working havoc. In the fiscal year just closed all the countries of the T-worid, with the exception of four -which reduced their imports of breadstuffs, largely increased their purchases in the United States. ""The sales of manufactured articles all parts of she world has been boyond all precedent. Democratic leaders have gotten beyond trying to “explain.” Interior expansion is a subject this country may take up some day. Is it generally known that there are 71,000,000 acres of now arid, worthless land in the country which is subject to a state of highest cultivation and fertility through irrigation? The water whioh now annually runs to waste and causes great floods, Government engineers say could be stored and used to reclaim these lands,

Harvest and hay making order of the day, Henry Randle has his new house finished. Mrs. Nathan Eldredge is slowly recovering. Miss Mattie Rusk is visiting relatives and friends in Illinois. Fred Gurtner, or Wabash, is the guest of his uncle, J. N. Sample. Mrs. Jane Shaw is quite sick at the home of Mrs. Jennie English Miss Bessie Kimble, of Giliam, •was the guest of Cora Smith over Sunday. Quite a number of young people from Giliam attended ohurch in Barkley Sunday evening. Boys, boys, that will never do to see all these girls get new buggies and go by themselves they look lonesome as well as you do. • About 175 of neighbors and friends met at the home of Mr. and Mr. Henry Randle last Saturday evening to surprise them as they returned from Rensselaer, where they been spending the day. loe ' cream and cake was served in abundance. Every one had a very pleasant time.