Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Made Big Wages By Shortening the Rows of Corn. Fletcher Monnett has a large force of boys and men from town hoeing corn at his farm. Last week he had a larger force but about twenty of the boys went on a strike. They were paid 50 cents a row for their work and were making $4 or $5 per day until their manner of doing the work was discovered and then the trouble commenced. The rows of corn were long and the men found a way to make them shorter. They would start in at one end and after hoeing a short distance they would skip the middle of the row and finish hoeing the other end. When Mr. Monnett discovered the manner in which the Work was being performed he transfered the men to another field where the rows were longer and reduced the pay to 40 cents per row. The men would not stand for that and marched to town in military fashion with their hoes oyer their shoulders. Their places have been filled and the weed annihilation goes merrily on. Mr. Monnett has a large acreage of corn in this year and has had to depend on hired help entirely to take care of the crop. The scarcity of labor and frequent rains have given the weeds a start and he ha 3 had to depend on the hoe brigade as a last resort. It is reported that he has been paying out SIOO per day for labor for several weeks.

Notice. We desire to express our gratitude to the people of Rensselaer for thoughtful attention, and kindness so generously, bestowed during the illness and last rites of our dear wife and sister. May we all, as she did, enjoy that peace which surpasseth understanding. Here follows the message that she leaves: Loving friends; be wise and dry straightway every weeping eye; What you left upon the bier is not worth a single tear; ’Tis a simple sea-shell, one out of which the pearl is gone. The shell was nothing, leave it there; The pearl—the soul—was all, is here. Geo. W. Goff. Mr. and Mrs. T. Sigler.

Mrs. Leo Wolfe, of Hammond, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold, today. Positively no goods sold on moving day, July 19th. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. For any pain, from top to toe, from any cause, apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric oil. Pain can’t stay where it is used. Earnest Ramey, Don Warren, Asa and Orval Shreeves and Frank Alter went to Cedar Lake to spend the day in fishing. Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind piles yield to Doan’s Ointment. Chronic cases soon relieved, finally cured. Druggists all sell it. Doan’s Regulets cure constipation without griping, nausea, nor any weakening efftect. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents per box. The Indiana State Photographers’ Association, with two hundred members attending, is holding its fifteenth annual convention at Winona Lake this Week. Following a long established custom in respect to its employes, the senate voted six months' salary to the widow of its late chaplain, Dr. Edward Everett Hale. A Crown Point man pressed to repent and confess during a recent revival finally got up and said: “Brethren I feel the spirit moving me to talk and tell what a mean man J'vc been, but I can’t do it while the grand Jury is in session.’’ "Talk, brother, the Lord will forgive,” shouted the preacher. "I guess that’s right,” said the penitent, “but he ain’t on the grand Jury.” M. O. McDonald, of Pleasant Ridge, Jasper county, read in the Rensselaer papers his brother Jim hatl sustained a dozen or more compound fractures including a caved-in skull, in the accident mentioned in this paper last week, so he came post haste to help do some mourning. Jim met him at the gate and offered to throw him three times out of five as proof that he is still In the flesh and turned to his home Saturday.—Knox Republican.