Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MULES DON’T COST NOTHIN. When the question was put to ft native, what does it cost to raise a mule in Mississippi? his answer was “it don’t cost nothin.” It may be his southern hospitality was not taking into account the minute items of a jnules bill of fare. However it is safe to say a mule can not be produced cheaper in any other section of the U. S. The blue grass region of Kentucky, far famed for fine its 250 dollar land, cannot compare with the alfalfa pastures of Mississippi, where land can be bought at S2O to STO per acre as a profit producing country for the mule raising industry. Under favorable conditions oats yield 40 to 60 and corn 50 to 100 bushels per acre. Cotton mules are $125 to $175 and sugar mules are $175 to $250 each. This section is just awakening to its live stock possibilities. CL C. CLAY, Macon, Miss. W. H. PULLIN, Agent. Katherine Smalley and Ona H. Rohde, of Hammond, and Mary E. James, of Hoopeston, 111., were here to attend the funeral of Otis Best yesterday. Mrs. E. N. Loy and son, Robert, returned last evening from Piqua and Tippecanoe, Ohio, where they spent the past month the guests of friends and relatives. Miss Romaine Braden, of Indianapolis, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. Brady, left today for Northern Wisconsin to spend the remainder of the summer. ' • Lon Kiser has resigned his position with the Home Grocery, and yesterday with his father, Sylvester Galbraith, left for South Dakota and other points in the west. Chris Kalberer is here from Lafayette to begin work on his factory building as soon as he can let the contract. The first building will be of cement 60x66 feet. Local contractors will submit bids. Wanted: Linn, Cottonwood, Quakingasp, Willow and soft maple bolts, 4-inches in diameter and larger. Buy standing timber or cut and ricked anywhere. Johnson Smith Excelsior Co., Indianapolis. The Monon railroad did a large excursion business Sunday. It handled threh trains between Chicago and Cedar Lake and carried over three thousand people. It handled two trains to Michigan City, one from Indianapolis and one from Greencastle, and carried about fifteen hundred people. The Battle Ground business from the north on account of camp meeting amounted to about five huhdred fares. These people were handled on regular trains. Hon. I. D. Dunn, of Dunnvffle, was in towm today having a plat of a new pleasure resort recorded. He has laid out a block of 31 lots and has named the addition Dunn's Kankakee Pleasure Resort. The lots all face the Kankakee river, are 50 feet wide and of varying lengths, extending from the highway back to the river. They are all high and dry and beautifully located. Mr. Dunn laid out the addition at the request of a number who wanted to own summer homes at this beautiful point on the Kankakee. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER S CASTORIA James Emanuel Wheeler, 49 years old, was fouiid dying at Jasonville Monday morning. Indications are that he committed suicide. The stomach was sent to Indianapolis for analysis. The City Council of Michigan City has granted the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend railroad company a year’s extension of franchise until September, 1910, in which to complete its branch line to the business center of the city.