Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1908 — Page 4

10 Per Cent Discount On my Regular Prices Until July 20th ONLY C. A. Peters Optician

A Talk On Fleur Do you ever have trouble making good bread? ▲re the loaves sometimes soggy? Or do they "fall down?” We never hear of such complaints from Ferndell flour. Always light and flaky. It costs no more than other good flours. $1.55 per sack. We have another brand at $1.40 which we guarantee as good as any other at the price. THE RELIABLE GROCERS McFarland & Son

Special Bargains

20 acres on main road, S3OO. 40 acres on main road, S6OO. 65 acres on main road, tree mail, school across the road, three miles of good town, with all kinds of business, bank, churches, high school, etc., has five room house, good barn, chicken house, fruit, good well, fencing good, buildings in good condition. Price $22.50.

86 acres, good buildings, free mail and school on main road, three miles of good town. Price $22.60. 127 acres, 75 cultivated, remainder pasture, fencing good, buildings in good condition, near good town. Price $22.60. 80 acres well located, near dredge ditch and gravel road, free mail, telephone, on main road, 65 acres } black land, in cultivation 15 acres pasture, good four room house, bam for four horses, seven cows, teed way« mow and granary, chicken house, young or* chard, and good well, fencing good. Price $35. We can sell any of the above tracts on easy terms or accept live stock ks part payment Also 5 room house, good barn, well cistern, cement walks on two large corner lots, two blocks from court house, with plenty of fruit and ~ shade. Only $1,250. Also 6 room house, porch, well, cheap barn, 1% lot, cement walks, street improved with curb, two blocks from depot and three blocks from churches. Only S6OO. The above are bargains and a chance for any one with limited means to get a home. Also have mortgage notes secured by good real etsate and cash to offer for small farms or good town property. We will be pleased to have you call at any time and inspect what we have. Q. F. MEYERS, Office in Leopold Block, opposite the State Bank.

Dr. Rose M. Remmek.

REGISTERED OPTICIAN, to making a specialty of tlie fused M-focal lens. This lens combines the reading and distant vision In an Invisible manner and positively never geu air bubbles in the reeding correction. We also supply the Peritorlc and Opiflex lens. Most careful examination of the eyes in every case. Special attention given to muscular imbalance, such as a tendency of the eyes to turn in or out Office at Clarke’s Jewelry store.

Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to Impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitten is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, dear-

Fair Oaks

Isaac Kigh't wens to Dakota oil business last week. Mrs. Dodge is visiting her son and daughter near Streator, 111. Carrie McKay visited friends in Rensselaer Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mildred Gundy visited this week with relatives in Rensselaer. Mrs. Zea, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, is visiting friends here for a few days. Mrs. Cooper has bought and moved into the property formerly occupied by Ben Zellers. Miss Grace Speaks and brother Lester made Fair Oaks a flying visit Sunday evening. Shary Hanley was called to Kentucky last Wednesday on account of the death of his mother. Some of the people of the north end of town enjoyed a dance at Ed Halls last Wednesday night. James Zea, who is visiting at Mrs. Kight’s is being entertained just now with a bad case of the measles. Mrs. N. A. McKay and daughter Mattie, also Mrs. Milton Smith, went to Rensselaer this week on business. Ur dor is Cottingham went to Ross Common, Mich., this week, to look after some land Interests he has there. Rev. Evans preached a very interesting and instructive sermon last Sunday, on ‘‘Church Membership,” and at the end of the service three persons were added to the M. E. membership.

West Barkley

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stowers was in this vicinity visiting last week. Mr. Vilas Price and Ira George were Rensselaer goers Saturday forenoon. Fine weather is still continuing and farmers are commencing to make hay. i i * ' Mrs. Samuel Price -and son Cleveland attended the concert last Thursday night Miss Grace Price of Parr was doing some sewing for Mrs. Chris Morgenegg a few days last week. Clyde Burris and wife and baby of Rensselaer spent Saturday night with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Price. Mr. Newton Jenkins of Iroquois Valley spent Saturday night with his brothers Edward and Lincoln Jenkins of near Foresman. Mr. Edward Honan and Mr. McCormick were in this locality last week representing the Lafayette Life Insurance Company of Lafayette.

Several young men in this locality had their lives insured by McCormick of the Lafayette Co., last week. It is a good investment for young men. The Price brothers and Clyde Burris and brother Orval attended the ball game at the Ridge Sunday afternoon, the teams being the Ridge and Rensselaer's second nine. The result was 2i"to 4 in favor of tbg Ridge. The second nine of West Barkley is ready to make dates with any .young team this year. This being their first organization this year. We have a Chicago Heights pitcher and catcher with us this year. So any team in our neighborhood will do well to get the first challenge. Address Mr. Vilas Price, .Captain, Rensselaer R. R. 1, Box 67.

To the Public.

I have two very valuable inventions, one Is “horse shoeing stocks," with which the public is somewhat familiar, and the other is a wagon coupling. These articles are now being manufactured by me and sold at a good profit It takes money however, to enlarge the business, and I have decided to organize a stock company with a capital of $16,000.00, divided into 160 shares of SIOO.OO each. I will retain 76 shares for my invention, patents and good will of the business, and offer to the citizens of Rensselaer and vicinity the remaining 75 shares, or as many thereof as may be necessary to secure sufficient working capital to manufacture and place the goods on the market. The stock will be sold at par value. I will say, I will guarantee to each stockholders a square deal and my earnest and untiring efforts to make this home enterprise a complete success, and I am confident that it will not only build up our city, but will yield handsome profits to purchasers of the stock. Respectfully,

LUTHER HEMPHILL.

Bargains in Pasture Land.

280 acres level pasture land Has along large ditch, mostly open land. In blue grass, on main road, 1-4 mile to school, 1-2 mile to gravel leading to court house. Will take half In good town property, merchandise, or other land. Prioe S3O. O. F. Meyers, Opposite Court House

PAID IN HUMAN LIFE.

Price of. White Settlement at Old Jamestown in * Virginia. No less an antiquarian than Judge Dennis of Baltimore, who, it is said, knows every -Another’s son of the Eastern Shore”—and, we may add, his sisters, cousins and aunts—expressed in the Sun the other day amazement that there should have been such mortality when “they were surrounded by water full of fish,” and “the land was scarcely less prolific.” Major Venable drops his meditations about matrimony and Aristotelian philosophy long enough to suggest that the trouble is due to a particularly virulent type of malaria which once prevailed in that locality. To those two eminent Baltimoreans, accustomed to stimulate their intellects with Lynnhaven oysters, Norfolk spots, roast Virginia wild turkey, haunch of venison, Smithfleld ham, corn pone and cherry roll, it must indeed seem strange that anybody ever starved or was unhappy in Virginia. But it is sadly true tnat the first settlers from causes which were natural enough' at the time suffered a greater mortality it is probable, than any other pioneer colony in all history. At the outset it may be well to state the figures. According to the recent computation of Dr. Alexander crown of Virginia in his "First Republic in America”—an estimate now accepted as the most accurate obtainable 6,294 of the 7,389 persons who arrived in Virginia in the first 18 years of the colony perished within that time, most of them a few months after their arrival. In the absurd histories taught in many of the schools this fact is ignored, while excessive space is wasted in hysterics about the Boston “massacre,” in which fearful a) slaughter five persons were killed. Baltimore Sun.

STRENGTH OF HUMAN JAW.

Weight Needed to Masticate Beef Said to be Twenty Pounds. The crushing power of the jaw is surprising, varying from 150 to 300 pounds. It is also surprising how much jaw strength is exerted unnecessarily by many persons in eating, often with the result of cracking or breaking the teeth. They crush their food with the ferocity of wild animals. But direct pressure is a poor way of breaking up most foods, a grinding movement gives better results with less expenditure of force. All this has been known for a long time by physiologists, but some experiments recently made by Dr. Joseph Head of Philadelphia furnish exact figures on this subject, which are as valuable as they are interesting. His experiments were conducted by the use of a real skull. After the substance to be crushed had been placed between the teeth weights were placed in a suspended pail until the crushing weight was obtained. These weights are given for a large list of foods and a comparison of the figures should be a valuable guide in selecting the diet of those who are weak for any reason and need to economize their strength, also of those who chew with “store teeth.” The first experiment was made with dry crusts, which broke undei 15 pounds’ pressure. When, however, the combined crust and soft Inside were tried even 60 pounds' pressure would not go through the dense mass. When a little saliva was added a pressure of three pounds was amply sufficient. The deductions with regard to

fresh bread amfr thorough masttcattop are obvious. People are sometimes greatly surprised at having broken a tpoth when they "only bit a soft crust.” Here are a few figures taken from Dr. Head’s tables. Of course, allowance is to be made for the fact that each food, and especially each kind of meat, will vary in reductibility according to quality and other conditions. Consequently these figures should be taken relatively and not absolutely. The weight needed to reduce corned beef, with the help of a little grinding movement, was 20 pounds; ror roast beef. 20 to 35 pounds; tough "round” required 38 to 42 pounds; sirloin. 10 to 43 pounds; pork chops, 25 to 30 po inds. The lowest on the list were boiled beef, three pounds; roast lamb, four pounds; tongue, one-half pound. No mention is made of hash, which would undoubtedly stand at the bottom of the list.

Safety of Gasoline Tanks.

A gasoline tank rarely explodes. It cannot unless it contains gasoline vapor and air in explosive proportions, which latter condition Is almost never present. It does not explode because It coutalnß too little air or too much gasoline. Even if a tank of gasoline were to burst from heat applied to its exterior, the confined heavy gas would not explode If in contact with flame or fire, hut would burn Instead. A tank of gasoline with no vent could do considerable damage were it to burst and throw burning oil and flaming gas about, but 1.000 gallons of gasoline in a vessels bilges would not be so dan gerous from explosion as a hundredth of that amount. The larger quantity would burn rapidly, while the smaller would be sufficient. If mixed with the proper amount of air. to demolish utterly almost any boat.

Smoking a cigar In bed Is always more satisfactory to a man If there to some one around to tell hiih how dangerous It Ib. Lift any little woman’s thumb, and you will find a man under It

itl yjcnrjj Defer Not Until a Future Day to Act Wisely. —♦— THE EVER PRESENT IS THE 1 ONE TIME FOR YOU TO DO THINGS. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD BEGIN TODAY TO ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE QUALITY OF THE BUILDING TIMBER HANDLED BY US. LET US QUOTE YOU ESTIMATES THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR ANY PARTICULAR KIND OF TIMBER. *— Rensselaer Lumber Company

■aiMimiiiii* ,)) 11 j tl vggfla Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect Fab. $6, 1908. SOUTH BOUND ” No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mall . . 10:55 a.m. No. 33—Indianapolis Mail . 2:01 pjn. No. 39 —Milk accommodation 5:40 pjn. No. t—Logfavffla Ev . . 11:05 p.m. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a.m. NORTH BOUND. No. 4 —Mail ...... 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accommodation 7:31 a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail 9:65 a.m. No. C—Mail and Ex. j_ , 3:18 pjn. No. SO*—Cin. to Chi. Mall 6:30 pjn. No. 3***—Oin. to Chicago . 2:57 pan. •Daily except Sunday. ••Sunday only.

♦Wood & Kreslers 5 4 CHAIR Barber Shop « 'The Largest and Finest in' Jasper County. I Go there for a fine smooth shave and fashionable i hair cut Boot Black Stand in Connection. '

- HASKELL’S •• " Conscrial t ” Parlors 1 '• • - - m # * • Van Rensselaer Street • • Opposite Chicago Bargain * * Store ** • • First Class Service * * Lj Your Patronage Solicited * * • • .. 4- * * * * * * * * *- Kodol!SE“&±£ sslpitatian of tbs heart. Digests what you eat

I* The “Lambert” J A High-Grade Roadster at the Price of an I Ordinary Runabout. ■ Can be arranged for 2. 3. or 4 passengers- 18 H-P. ft 95 Inch wheel base. Weight 1,350. Speed Ito 35 miles |f I The Afew “Model K” Lambert fl Gasoline or Alcohol Engines, to 35 H.-P.* I suitable for all purposes where a cheap and ■ reliable power is needed. Get my prices and I investigate these engines before you buy. Send I for catalog. Pulleys, shafting, belting, dyna- ft mos, power pumps, .electric supplies, construction and repairing. ■ B, K. SMITH I and General Contractor, Monticello, IndiaM^|

j Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Etc. We have the largest stock of wall paper in Jasper county, and can show yon patterns of any style and price you may desire. Don’t fail to see it before buying as we are sure to please you. A. F. LONG, DRUGGIST Rensselaer, Indiana

Classified Column. FOUND FOUND —A stick pin, two bowling pins crossed with ball between. Owner inquire at this office. FOUND—Man’s coat. Inquire at Republican office. FOUND —A pair of nose glasses. Call here; prove and pay for this ad. LOST. LOST —A dark blue Bilk child’s coal Return to Duvall & Lundy’s. HELP WANTED WANTED —Agents to sell our pottery goods, write for catalogue. J. L “Weaver “Pottery “(Jo. Dept. A. RosST ville, Ohio. WANTED. WANTED-rGood city residence property to exennge for splendid farm. Must take quick action. Write or see me. B. F. Ferguson. WANTED —To clean your wall paper; look as good as new; ordinary size room, sl. W. A. Davenport, Tel. 437. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Good well drilling outfit Machine in Rensselaer. Inquire of John Rush, Mt. Ayr, Ind. FOR SALE —300 bushels of good sorted corn at 70 cents a bushel. B. B. Miller, 1 mile west and 1 mile east of Mt. Ayr. JlO FOR SALE—One new 7-foot counter, at about half price. July 6 Charles Vick.

AUTOMOBILE—Runbout, one of the best in the country, in fine condition, well finished, splendid top, for sale for less than what it to worth. Call or write me. B. F. Ferguson. FOR SALE OR TRADE—One black work mare; one triple-bed Studebaker wagon, used one year; one good set of team harness. Will take In trade e light driving horse. A. J. Harmon. Fine residence property at sacrifice price, well located both as to schools and churches. In fine condition and a very pleasant home. Call or write me. B. F. Fergußon. FOR SALE—BO,OOO feet of white oak lumber; all sorts of piece stuff; stuff for cribs and crib floors. It can l>e bought to save from $3 to $6 per m. If bought now purchaser ean have a year's time if wanted. O. W. Infield. 1% miles north at Alp.

FOR SALE —10 fresh cows for sal* at my residence four miles south of i Wheatfield. H. C. Meyers. Jel2tf j FOR SALE—Dwelling houses on j the installment plan. Monthly payments, just like rent. Inquire of A. | Leopold, at law office of Moses Leopold. For Sale—l6o acres of good land" ] at a bargain. For particulars enquire i of R. R. Cummings, Agent, Kentland Ind. ju!B FOR SALE —Forty acres of pasture- * land three miles west of Surrey along the gravel road. This is a bargain. I at S3O per acre. Inquire of D. 8. Makeever, Renscelaer, Ind., or Mrs. Mary Gibbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada. VOn RENT. , L. FOR RENT—Small house. Inquire- J of Mrs. Mell Laßue. w6t FOR RENT—6 room cottage house,, good water. Inquire of A. H. Hopkins, or Miss Ellen Sayler, at the premises. ROOMS TO RENT—Two suites of rooms that may be occupied together or singly with water and lights, in Hollingsworth Building on Van Rensselaer street. Inquire of First National Bank. ~ BUSINESS COLLEGE. - ,1. * ■— ■ . ■ OEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, Quincy, 111. 20 teachers, 1,400 students, SIOO,OOO School Building. Shorthand : and Typewriting. Bookkeeping, etc. 68 page Illustrated Catalogue free. D. L. Musselman, Pres’L, Lock Box 68, Quincy, 111. dec.ll J j

Don’t wear any kind and all kind of glasses and do your eyes ham when you can have your eyes tested >y latest methods, by a permanently •ocated »nd reliable Optometrist Careful attention given In all examinations and all work guaranteed, masses from $2.00 up. Office over Lor.g’n drug store. Appotntraentsmad» nv telephone No. 282. OR. A. G. CATT, OPTOMETRIST. Registered and licensed on State Board Examination, also graduate ot aq Optical College. CLOTHES CLEANED. Remember that I do cleaning, dying* pressing and repairing of both ladled and gents* clothes. JOHN WERNER, The Tailor. Over Fendig’s drug store.