Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — Letter to Geo. Sharp. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Geo. Sharp.

Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: As a painter you probably use lead and oil, and would naturally objeot to Devoe Ready Paint. Let us have a few words on the snbjeot. £ Painters say a good lead and oil job will last three years, and they say a house ought to be painted once in three years. We take them to mean that their work is good for three years, no more and no less, or not muoh more and not muoh less. Do you want your work to last longer? What do you say to six years. You’d have to have twice as muoh work, you know; or you’d be losing money. Consider the oase of your doctor. You oall him in. Is it better for him to get your child_ out of bed* tomorrow, or keep him siok for a month? You prefer a'quiok doctor. So does everyone else in your town, and oounty, and state. We are all jalike; we all want our doctors quiek. A doctor, that gets his patients up quick, is the dootor that gets the patients-gets rioh too, if he isn’t run to death* It’s about the same with a painter isn’t it? Suppose you paint Devoe, and your competitor objects to Devoe; your work lasts six years and his work three. You oost your customers half; he costa double* Who’ll get the business; and who’ll goto Texas? Devoe lasts six years, not exactly, we know of it lasting seventeen and it never wears out in less than three, so far as we know. On a windy sandy seaside house, it last three yean. Lead and oil lasts one year there. Devoe lasts two or three times as long as lead and oil; and its going to paint your town. Do you want to be in it? Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & 00,

and show what a orop Uncle Wallace would have had this year if the frost hadn’t caught him. As it is he only has about three aores of good corn left. A report has been circulated here that Dr Bill Babb had died at the Marion soldiers’ home, to which plaoe he went only very recently. The report is erronious, and Dr. Bill is still on this side of the dark river, and likely to live to cut many a yearly crop of fragrant toe corns, and to harvest many an ancient seed bunion So mote it be. The long delayed car load of heavy joists for the K. of P. building has at last arrived, and work on the building will now be resumed, full swing. The lumber oame from Mississippi, and is for joists for the seoord floor. The timbers are 6 by 12 inches and 20 and 22 feet long. The big I floor beams for Warner’s building have also arrived and were pnt in position, today.

THURSDAY. Mrs. Barah Brown went to Boswell today for a few days. Miss Sue Wilgus of Washington D. C. is here visiting her cousins Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz. Mrs. J. N. Leatherman is home from a two weeks’ visit with friends in Huntington and Andrews, Ind. Mrs. Eva Morgan and daughter Grace came home last evening after a four weeks visit with friends at Lafayette. 0. A. Larsh, of Brook, is visiting his brother, J. A. Larsh, for a few day£, He brings good reports of the situation in Brook, financially as well as politically. * Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Davidson of Goodland came over last .evening and took the train here this morning for Chioago for a few days visit; People and papers are not all alike over in Montioello, any more than they are other plaoes. Thus the Herald there is to be. oredited with making proper mention of the foot ball game here, last Saturday. Ora Oopenhaver, of Indianapolis will be the next man to ornament the gallows in Michigan City prison. He has been sentenced to hang on Feb. 13th. for the brutal and unprovoked murder of his young wife, who held her babe in her arms when she was killed. D, E. Boone, of Hammond, who spoke here last night, did not return home until the belated 9:55 a. m. train arrived, which was three hours late. He took occasion to look the town over, and was more than favorably impressed with its appearanoe. There was quite a brisk rain laef night, with about a sixth Jof an inch of rainfall. is enough to keep the fall pastures and fall grain growing briskly, but not enough to make ever) thing muddy. Fall pastures, by the way, are about the finest now ever seen here. ( There was a ripping good meeting out at Newland, on the Gifford road, last night. A epeoial train started from Kersey and took S/big orowd down from the north, and another brought up another big crowd from MoCoysbnrg, Pleasant Grove and Lewiston. Speeches

were made by Jesse E. Wilson,.M. Leopold and.. A. Halleok. The DeMotteband furnished the music The best of feeling and attention prevailed. The attendance was j </ very large, much greater than could get inside the room where the speaking was.