Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Weak Throat—Weak Lungs Cold after cold; cough after cough! Troubled with this takin&cold habit? Better break it up. We have great confidence in Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for this work. No medicine like it for weak throats and weak lungs. Ask your doctor for his opinion. He knows all about it. His approved is valuable. Follow his advice at all times. No alcohol in this cough medicine. JX.Ayer Co.,Lowett,Mass. Always keep a good laxative in thehouse. Takeadosewhenyourcoldfirstcomeson. What is the best laxative for this? Ayer’s Pills. Ask your doctor his opinion. Let him decide.

fOESDAY

Chas. Arnold made a business visit to Hammond today. A. G, W. Farmer and wife have gone to Oklahoma City, Okla., where they will spend the winter. Mrs. L. J. Lane, south of town, is in very feeble haelth and it is feared can not live many morre days. Fred A. Phillips and G. J. Jessen were business visitors in Chicago.today. \ Frank Critser and wife left yesterday at 2:01 o’clock for their visit al Mrs. Critser’s former home In Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows went to Chicago this morning to spend Christmas day with their daughter, Mrs. C. L. Murphy, and husband. Mies Lois Thompson is home from Bradford, Mass., where she is attending Bradford Academy, for the holidays. Lee Kepner arrived home Saturday night He did not like the distributing work he was trying and will look for other employment. Genuine lower vein Brasil block coal, just received at Coen & Brady’s. $4.50 per ton delivered. Also two cars-of Jackson Hill egg Just received.

OASTOHIA. •Bww the Kind You Hava Always Bought

Harrison Warren and wife arrived here yesterday from Peru. He is negotiating for the purchase of the John Brtiner property and if he gets it he will probably return here to live. Jess Grayson arrived home Saturday night from Drake, N. Dak., where he has been for the past year or so. His brother, Roy Grayson, was married there last summe, and will continue -to make that place his home. A fire at Morocco Monday destroyed the Smart & Hope restaurant, Hanger & Brown’s meat market and Miss Celi Myers’ millinery store. The Indianapolis Star correspondent reports the loss total amounting to $15,0.0.

OASTOHIA. 'Bmm the Kind You Haw Always Bought rr

Christy Vick received another letter from his mother Monday, which had been written the day before. At that time bis father had not permitted the doctors to set his broken arm, and he was in great agony and the outcome was very uncertain. W. H. Wilcox, of Union township, -last week killed a hog from which was rendered 22 gallons of lard. A gallon of lard weighs 8 pounds and there was therefore 176 pounds of lard in the hog. There are some hogs in Rensselaer who have about the same amount of lard in them. Dr. Horton is having 11 feet cut -off from the back of the building occupied by Free Wood, the barber, nnd the laundry office, in order to admit of the construction by Roth Bros, of their new meat market, which they will erect the coming year. N. S. Bates will go to Indianapolis on the early train tomorrow and be on hand for a reunion of the Bates family at the home of his brother, Dr. Joseph Bates, on Christmas day. There are four of the brothers and one sister and all expect to spend the day in reunion. Rensselaer poultry raisers and farmers in general should begin to give some thought to the Rensselaer poultry exhibit, which takes plaoe at the armory the week of Jan 18th to 23rd. It will be a fine show and the more that patronize it the better it will be and the enterprise deserves the encouragement of every one. w Mrs. Bowman Switzer returned from Chicago Heights this morning. Her father. Rev. A. C. Abbott, on whose account she went there, is very low, and It is probable that be can not live through today. Other children of Mr. Abbott are Mrs. Korah Daniels, of Barkley township; Mrs. Franklin Ott and Mrs. Ben McCoy, of Chicago Heights, and Rev. Jaa T. Abbott, of Portland, Oreg.

FOUND—A bracelet Call here.