Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

John Braddock is visiting in Monticello. Bertha and May Sanderson, of Union Mills, who have been making an extended visit with Mrs. Joseph Hall in Jordan township, returned home today.' : Granville Moody is the latest purchaser of an automobile. It will arrive this afternoon from Chicago. It is a 35-horse power Rambler and cost $2,200. We roast the best Mocha and Java coffee. Old Mandhelling Java and Arabian Mocha blended with the best old Santos Maricoba and Bourbon coffees at C. C. Starr & Co.’s. * ■ About 3,340 acres of Kankakee land belonging to the estate of ex-Senator Holler, of South Bend, is to be sold. It is estimated to be worth about $200,000 and there are several buyers in view. Wanted: Linn, Cottonwood, Qpakingasp, Willow and soft maple bolts, 4-inches in diameter and larger. Buy standing timber or cut and ricked anywhere. Johnson Smith Excelsior Co., Indianapolis. Holden’s team won the fourth game last evening in the seven-up tournament, by a score of 25 to 15. This makes three games out of four won by his team. The score stands to date: Holden’s team 86 games; Leopold’s 74. The last reminder of auto races disappeared Friday when Howard Slocum pulled out the posts that supported the foot viaduct over Clark street near it’s intersection with Commercial avenue. The buns have- been gone for some time. —Lowell Tribune. The Michigan City Dispatch informs the church people down state that the city’s business men do not care about that class of picnicers who come there with a pickle and sandwich in their pockets. That’s about as sarcastic and plain as anyone could express their sentiments. On April 18, 1909, at Los Angeles, Jake Deßosier rode an Indian motocycle one hundred miles at the average speed of sixty-six miles per hour, every mile in less than a minute, breaking the world’s record and giving a convincing demonstration of the speed, endurance and reliability of the great motocycle, The Indian. For sale by M. R. Halstead, Route 3, Rensselaer. W. F. Smith, of Rensselaer, who has some gravel road contracts in this county, unloaded fourteen large wagons at Remington the fore part of the week, to use in hauling road building material. Each wagon has a capacity of four yards of stone and they are of a reversible type, that is, it don’t make any difference which r. end of the wagon you hitch onto. The contractor’s plan is to couple a string of these wagons together and pull them with a traction engine.—Fowler Review.

The farmers of the country seem to be getting the benefit of their share of the inventions of the age. One of the newest ideas which has to do with the care of farm produce is the following process of keeping eggs. The eggs are flrsr put into a mixture of carbon dioxide and a gas, most always nitrogen and hydrogen at a temperature near the freezing point. The latter gas prevents the development of any organism whiph have not been destroyed and the liquefacation of the albumen is prevented. The cost of this treatment is about 38 cents for one thousand eggs and they can be kept ten months.

Children Cry 'FUR FLETCHER’S C A S T-& fe I A Hamlin H. Smith, ofTtfewton township, has returned from Colorado, where he has secured a homestead claim of 320 acres In Cheyenne county. A fine creek runs through the land and there are also three springs on it. Irrigation is not necessary in that section and the land is very productive. The claim only cost him S4O or SSO, but he will have to live on It five years to secure a deed. Or he can live on it 14 months and secure title to it by payirte $3 per acre. There are some other clAlms right near this that can yet be secured on the homestead plan and this Is an excellent opportunity for some of our farmer boys to secure a farm almost free that will be worth several thousand dollars In a few years. Make lemonade this bloomin’ hot weather. Lemons 20c *a dozen this week at the ftome Grocery.