Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

pride I am able to say that eleven years ago we drove our first stake and have operated our road or some portion continuously ever since and so far we have neither had an accident or a law suit, yet I am told that we ‘ought to be incorporated into some large system’."

Many automobile houses continue to supply newspapers with columns upon columns of matter which burdens a yawning waste-basket. We don’t notice any automobiles being sent around gratis and any paid advertising coming into the business offices of the newspapers from these peripatetic seekers of something for nothing. And in spite of the fact that all of these auto concerns are, making money hand over fist, there are a number of newspaper men trying to make both ends meet and at the sametime “fall for" the wiles of the auto manufacturer and print column after column of gratltuous advertising for him. What fools ye mortals be, to paraphrase another man who didn’t have any wool over his eyes.

Notice of Change of Firm. I have purchased all the business, books, papers and correspondence of the firm of Ferguson A Ferguson. Parties having business with this firm can conclude the same with me. I have also placed in my office an abstract and farm loan department and am prepared to make abstracts of title and farm loans on sho/t notice. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS. Attorney. Tgfr.ihe classified column.