Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1908 — Page 4

You Can Easily Operate This Typewriter Y ourself Don't worry your •nything by hand that ~ takes him time to . make out—that may leave him in doubt—that he can’t easily _j And don’t fill out legal papers or card ! memos —or make out accounts or hotel menus in your own hand writing. It looks bad, reflects on your standing, snakes people thiuk you can’t afford a stenographer, and is sometimes ambiguous You can write out yaur letters—make out an abstract —fill in an insurance policy-c----enter your card memos —make out your accounts, or a hotel menu—or do any kind of writing you need, on any kind, size or thickness'of paper, and space any way you want to a OLIVET? Typewriter The Standard Visible Writer You can write any of these things yourself if you do not happen to have a stenographer. For you can easily learn, with a little practice, to write just as rapidly, and as perfectly, as an expert operator on the OLIVER. Because the OLIVER is the amplified typewriter. And you can ree every word you write About 80 per cent more datable than ony other typewriter, because it has about 80 per cent less wearing points than most other typewrijers. 80 per cent easier to write with than these Other complicated intricate machines that require ‘‘humoring”—technical knowledge—long practice and special skill to sperate. Than machines which cannot be adjusted to any special space—with which it is impossible to write abstracts, insurance policies, or odd-size documents except pou buy expensive special attachments requiring experts to operate. You can adjust the OLIVER to any reasonable space—you can write on any reasonable size and thickness of paper, right out to the very edge, without the aid of any expensive attachment or special skill, and your work will be neat appearing legible and clear. For the OLIVER is the typewriter for the doctor, the lawyer, the insurance agent, the merchant, the hotel proprietor— or any man who does his own writing. Write us now for our booklet on the simplified features of the OLIVER. The Olfver Typewriter Company Oliver Typewriter Bldg, Chicago, 111. B. S. Fendig is now in the market for all kinds of poultry at the highest market price. You had best sell your young roosters now, as they will soon become staggy and sell lor less money. Clean up all your surplns old hens before the laying s ason begins: Call and see me for prices. B. S. Fendig.

FftRM LOftNS ft SPeeiftbTY Our Company has millions to place on good farm land. If you want a new loan, If you want to renew yovr loan. If you want to extend your loan, If you want to refund your loan, Call and see me. I can give you rates and get the money for you. B. F. FERGUSON, RENSSELAER, IND. MONEY TO LOAN On all kinds of GOOD IHI/llCl IW LUHW SECURITY, including loans on second mortgage real estate, chattel mortgages, and personal security. Loans on city property made for one, two, and three years, repayable in monthly installments if desired. Sale notes purchased. Money on hand for above loans, no delay. Loans on farms negotiated at a low rate of interest, without commission. A complete set of Abstract Books Call personally or write. James H. Chapman, "TCKIT."

■ Or Me Any Repairs JVbout tbe Place? If you are, then remember this: we can save you some money on any amount of any kind of Lumber or Building Material. We have a most complete assortment of the best Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Dooia, Moldings, Interior and Exterior Finish, Porch Columns, in short, everything that your likely to need to build with. r Our stock is dry and well kept, and our prices are—well, an estimate will convince you that we [can savejyou money. J, C. GWIN & CO. : * ~. t i

1 1 ■ *** g=sal iMililiHlHi CHICAGO and the NORTHWEST, INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, jLv HISVILLE, FRENCH LICK SPRINGS and the SOUTH Time table. No. 13, taking effect Jul} 22, 1906. South Bound. . - North Bound. No. 31..4:49 a m No. 4...4:30 a m No. 6. .10.55 a m No. 40..7:31 a m No. 33..2:04 u m No. 32,.9:65 a m No. 39..6:44 p m No. 6...8:31 p m 40. 3..11:05 p m No. 80..*.36 p m No. 46.12:63 p m No. 38..2:67 p m ' i No. 4y- . No. 30 —Dally except Sunday r —No. 38 —Sunday only —f y '■ ; No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer sos passengers for Lafayette and the south No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let aft passengers from points sotfth of Honon. W. H. BEAM, Agent.

MONEY TO LOAN We have money to loan at any time and in any amounts to suit borrower!.. Our specialty is loans on farms and city real estate for one, two, three four or five years, with interest, payable semi-annually, to suit borrower, and with the most liberal terms as to payments on part of principal. We also loan on personal security and chattel mortgage. Don’t fail to see us before borrowing elsewhere. Austin & Hookins

PIONEER Meat - Market J EiselsbaA''h. Prim. Beef. Pork and Veal Mutton, Sausage, Bologna lAtlLowest Prices. The Highest Market Prices Paid for Hides and Tallow. Rensselaer Public Library Lecture Course. The following is the program for the public library lecture course: Feb. 17, 1908, Opie Reed. March 6, 1908, Father Kavanaugh. *

PARAGRAPHS OF UP TO DATE NEWS

Culled From Press Dispatches From All Over the Country. A New Daily Republican Feature. Temperancb people are " trying to put Delphi on the list of dry towns._ 'there are now nine saloons there. Abraham Lincoln Brick has been renominated tor congress by the republicans of the 13th Indiana district. -r . ■ , The 65th annual session of the Methodist ministers of northern Indiana will be held In Anderson the first v/eek in April. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed in Chicago against Heath & Milligan, the large paint manufacturing firm. The Lake Sfyore and Baltimore and Ohio railroqjis are said to have reached an kgreemsnt about the erection of a union depot at Gary. The Illinois Steel Plant at Hammond reinstated 3,000 meployes this morning. It is said the company has a large rush of orders from the east. The jury that tried ex-county treasurer Wm. Clark, at Terre Haute, charged with shortage, has disagreed, and a new trial has been ordered to be held In March.

Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant postmaster- general, Vill retire from office within a few days to take charge of the presidential campaign of secretary of war Wm. H. Taft. Chas. N. Fowler, author of the Fowler currency bill, will address the Indiana Bankers’ Association on Feb. 14th, at Indianapolis, at which time the bankers will be the guests of the board of trade. Horace Hickam, of Spencer, Ind., will graduate from West Point Mili•tary Academy on the 14th of this month, and will be given a 2d Lieutenant’s , commission in the, regular army. A man at Evansville has been given a divorce because his second wife turned the picture of his first wife to the wall and refused to permit it to be turned out so that it could hft seen. • ■ . < It is said that the Indiana delegation to the national convention will split on a second choice, but that Taft will get fully half of the votes. It Is said that nine of the others can be relied upon for Cannon. One really commendable thing is being said about Bryan, and that is that he is no “quitter.” He war hte job of being president and knows that a quitter can’t have it. He’s ceiling wax, all right.

Bert Gillum, aged 30, met death in the Big Four elevator at Crawfordsville, Saturday, his clothing having caught in the shafting as he was adjusting a belt on a pulley. He had just gone to work after being ill, and he leaves a widow and two children. President Roosevelt has very commendably decided to abolish an old rule that required that postoffice clerks be at least 5 feet 4 inches high. His contention is that a man’s Stature should not be a drawback to him if his other qualifications gre all right To protect the troops of the Indiana National Guard from possible contact with disease, Major-General McKee has issued a bulletin ordering that within ten days all clothing worn by officers and men on strike duty at Muncie be disinfected by fumigation.

| An effort is being made to have the j joint army manuevers of the regular and state troops that were planned for Fort Harrison, near Indianapolis, take place at Luddington, Mich., in- | stead, and it is possible the Indiana I National guard may get a trip., to Michigan this summer. k —:— | The democratic state convention will be held in Indianapolis March 25 I and 26, or just one week earlier than the republican state convention. The democrats had originally decided on April 15 and 16, and made the change to conform to the wishes of thedemocratlc editors of the statu who met in Indianapolis last week. Tbfe democrats of Indiana are going to have another of their biggest eveT banquets, at |2 a plate. It will take place at the Claypool Hotel, in Indianapolis,’ and the "peerless one" will be the guest of honuor. John W. Kern will bo toast master. The date is Feb. 17th. It will probably be a more dignified affair than that pulled off by kirkyrlsk at Lafayette. ' \ William Hall, charged with having made a false affidavit In a suit for damages growing out of the Dig four wreck at Fowler on Jan, 18, 1907, has been found guilty of perjury In the criminal court at Indianapolis. It was proven that he was not even a passenger on the wrecked tr%ln. I

will probably serve from two to 14 years jin thp penitentiary. The Kokomo jail is full of religious enthusiasm these days. The county sheriff is a profound Christian and he has succeeded in convert several of the prisoners and they are holding meetings each evening in an effort to convert others. One of the convertsJb a man named Zeek, who is a victim of drink. He has pledged that never again shall liquor pass his' lips. S. E. Nicholson, author of the Nicholson law, and now a representative of the national anti-saloon league, has been endeavoring to have a bill enacted that will prevent the shipment of liquor into a state that has a prohibition law in effect. He was “called down” vigorously Saturday by Chairman Jenkins of the house committee on judiciary, who declared the law he proposed unconstitutional. Congressman Chas. Landis, of Delphi, chairman of the house committee on printing, has just instituted another of his investigations of the government printing office, and the public printer, Stillings, hajs been suspended pending an investigation. It has been found that an, auditing system adopted with a view'to ascertaining the cost of printing, has cost about $120,000 and resulted in no good whatever. There are many leaks in the big printery and they will probably not be corrected until some practical man that Is ready to break up the old established plan of operations is installed as public printer.

Thos. Mills, a well known and wealthy stock dealer of Eminence, Ind., was murdered near Quincy, Ind., Friday, and the greatest mystery surrounds the case. He was driving with a man named Cassell, and Casssell has several wounds, and claims that they were accosted by persons from the rear and that he was knocked senseless and did not know what had happened until he came to some hours later and found Mills dead at his side in the buggy. At first the motive was supposed to be robbery, but it was found that the murdered man had $654 on his person. An effort is being made to fasten the crime on Cassell, but there seems no motive for him to have committed the deed.

PUBLIC SALE -• -tcrrr^l Having decided to move west I will sell at Public Auction at the residence of John Karr, 3 miles north and I mile east of Mt. Ayr, 6 miles northwest of Rensselaer, and 1 mile south and 3 miles west of Parr, beginning at II o’-'ock a. m., on , RSDAY, FEB. 20, 1908, following property: j HORSES —1 bay mare, 10 yrs old, wt 1400; 1 grey mare, 7 yrs old, wt 1400; 1 grey driving mare, wt 1000; 1 bay horse, 12 yrs old, wt 1100; 1 sorrel mare, 8 yrs old, wt 1300. 1 EXTRA GOOD MILCH COW. 25 bush, of SEED CORN. FARM IMPLEMENTS—3 wagons, 1 wide tire; 2 single seat top buggies; 1 Osborne binder, good as new; 1 Champion mower; 1 McCormick hay rake, self dump; 1 hay derrick; 1 broad cast seeder and cart; 1 disc; 2 walking cultivators; 2 walking plows; 2 road scrapers; 2 hay racks; 1 hand sheller; 1 feed grinder; 1000 4 and 5 inch tile; 5000 feet oak lumber; 12 tons of hay in stack and barn; 3 sets of work harness; 2 sets of single harness; 1 Howe sewing many other articles tcto numerous to mention. TERMS—A credit of 10 months will be given on all sums over $5.00 on approved security, without interest if paid when due; if no paid when due 8 per cent interest from date. A discount of 6 per cent will be given on all sums pf over $5.00 for cash. All sums of $5?00 and under cash in hand. No property to be removed until settled for. A. J. KARR. A. J. Hannon, Auct. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch Served.

New Fumiture'Store We Trade New For Old. I wish to announce that by Feb Ist, I will have a complete new and np to-date stock of faroitare. on my floor in connection with my buggy and second hand store. I will trade you anything yon want no matter how good, for anything yon want to exohange in the house hold goods line. Second hand heating and cook stoves for sale or exchange at all times. I also sell the LaForte buggies. You know the rest when 1 say LaPorte. Better get bosy boys and buy your buggy beiore March 15th, and get the voting coupons in the popularity contest and help your lady friend. Don't forget the fact that 1 am the only Furniture or Buggy dealer that gives votes in the popularity contest Gome in and see what we have anyway. Kespt. D. M. WOKLAND.

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\ Lumber SS3BHHB 8 We have never before been so entirely prepared to handle I all departments of the building trade as we are this year. Yhe prospects of increasing building this year has caused us to lay in a larger line than at any previous period, and we have the largest stock in the country. Cement, Clme, Piaster, Brick, Ladders Sewer Pipe, Rubber Roofing Believing that we can sell you your bill for either new or repair work, we confidently ask that you call and get prices. = . Estimates on all Bills, large or small, Cheerfully Furnished. Rensselaer Lumber Go. A Accross from Depot. Telephone No. 4. j

GET IT AT THE LITTLE GEM The majority of people haven’t any idea of the importance of our candy department. It, like the others in our store,.is in charge of an expert, a specialist. Deliciousnes§ is not the,. only appealing feature the “Little Gem’- Candies. Purity is rigidly adhered to in £very stage of their manufacture. That’s why discriminating lovers of sweets prefer them to other kinds. Take our cream chocolates at 30c the pouud. The crisp coating on the outside and the soft mellow and piquant flavor of the inside make a combination that will beckon on the most backward palate. There is a great variety of other candies here also, and we are confident that each grade is superior to any other sold at 20 cts. the pound more. Our fine line of fancy boxes will have to be seenjto be appreciated. We fill them with our fresh hand-made Chocolates while you wait. Little Gem

Our Drug Store in 1908 It is impossible now to tell exactly what it will be liksi but we can say this much, it will be up to date to tt)p very minute. Keeping strictly up to the times has been our policy from the start. All new, worthy Ideas In pbartycy will be employed and our services will be improved wherever we can see a chancy to Improve a service so eminently satisfactory as ours has already proved. We hope we shall have a ohanoe to serve you throughout the entire year and know it will be to your interest to give us the opportunity. A. F. LONG, Druggist