Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Use your neighbor’s phone and call the Home Grocery. President-elect Taft is being mad* a Mason. He is taking the degree work at' his home city, Cincinnati. Dr. H. F. Sharrer and Hugh F. Mlekle, of Hammond, received special invitations to come to Cincinnati and see the work and left tot Cincinnati last night. It is said to be the greatest Masonic event thalf 1 has occurred In the west in the past twenty yesrs. Lowell is planning for another crack baseball team for the coming season, with most of the old favorites in the line-up, including Irwin, the crack Brookston pitcher. Lewis Wood, who has successfully managed the team for several years, is said to be reluctant about undertaking It another year, and Bart Maxwell la talked of as manager. The Republican has a number of nice wall charts, six pages of mapci and information that is valuable to have at hand. One of these charts will be given lo each person that pays up his subscription one year in advance. If the map is to be sent by mail 6 cents will be required to pay postage. See the large descriptive advertisement in the Republican. M. L.. Hemphill, the president of th« Hemphill Horse Stocks Co., went to Hoopston, 111., this morning to see about getting more castings for the fame of the stocks continues to spread and the Increasing orders are very gratifying to the company and to all the people of Rensselaer, because in time the, Hemphill Horse Stocks Co. should grow to be a large institution and be one of the largest employing industries in the city. TO CONVINCE YOU THAT OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. We want yon to exchange our dried fruit and compare it with the goods of others. The fanciest evaporated apricots grown, 10 cents a pound. Extra fancy evaporated peaches, 3 pounds for 25 cents. Extra fancy California Bartlett pears, 3 pounds for 25- cents, California Santa Clara prunes, 6 and 8 cents a pound. JOHN EGER i

Prohibition Speaking Feb. 23d. The Rev. J. H. Hector, the “Black Knight’’, of York, Pa., and Prof. F. W. Lough, of Indianapolis, will speak at the Jasper county Prohibition convention, to be held in Rensselaer, Feb. 23rd, at 10:30 a. m. and 1:30 pt m., and 7:30, in the east court room. The purpose of this county meeting will be to select delegates to a district convention and elect county officers for two years. Prof. Lough, prohibition state chairman, will speak in the morning and Rev. Hector in the afternoon. Mr. Hector is a full-blooded negro, the grandson of a Zulu chief, was a soldier in the Civy War, is an exG. A. R. commander, and for more than twenty years has been on the platform in behalf of the prohibition cause. He comes highly recommended, having the endorsement of the leaders of the temperance re-, form in not only the United States, bat Canada and England as well. The public is cordially Invited he hear this remarkable man. E. S. THORNTON, County Chairman.