Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

throats, but should call a physician at once and learn the true nature of the sickness. The new aerial ladder truck, purchased by the city shortly after ths Avellne fire horror, has been Installed at Fort Wayne. The truck, however, will not be placed In commission nntll the first of the year, when seven more fireman will be employed In the department The Ft. Wayne fire department now has eight engine houses fully equipped. Wade Laßue, of Bloomlngotn University, is one of the delegates to the national convention of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity which meets this week at Pittsburg, Pa. He will go from Bloomington to Indianapolis, which Is a sort of gathering point for delegates from the west and will fro from there to Pittsburg on a special train. It will be a fine trip and the convention covers four days with one day for pleasure trips about Pittsburg In automobile. We almost got the clerk Into trouble by saying that be had copies of the special session laws to give away. The copies that were sent to him were for specific delivery, and the township trustees, county' officials, commissioners, lawyers? newspaper offices and others to whom he was directed to give copies exhausted the supply. Clerk Warner now realizes that advertising pays, however, as he has been busy ex‘plainlng howl It Is impossible for him to give these away ever since the little paragraph appeared In the Republican. Winifred Pullins, president of the Rensselaer Poultry Association, left this morning for the Imperial valley In southern California, where he expects to remain for at least the remainder of the winter and possibly louver. He was there about ten days last spring and likes the country extremely well, and probably some time will make It bis permanent home. Some time next year the government will open a strip of land consisting of about 140,000 acres, redeemed by Irrigation, and this will be divided into farms of 40 acres or less, the government letting the purchasers pay it out in annual payments without interest. This is the Laguna dam district on the Colorado river, and there is supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of water. Winifred may possibly get a part of this land. 1 Ten never realize how brave some men are until you meet their wives. " 7 '