Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — Page 1

No. 46.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Bom, Tuesday, Feb. 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Nfiwton Pumphrey, a son. Rue Parcells has gone to Indianapolis for a short visit. R. D. Thompson and wife spent yesterday in Chicago. Now is the time for Country Sorghum. 65 cents a gallon. JOHN EGER. Miss Laura Phillips returned this morning from a visit with her grandmother at Monticello. Try a pound of our Mixed Sample Tea, 25 cents a pound. JOHN EGER. Miss Mary Yates is in Chicago today spending the day with friends from Nebraska. Miss Beatrice Yates yesterday gave a dinner party to several young ladies in honor of Miss Hazel Warner. E. B. Smith, Hiram Day, Coney Kelner and Frank Donnelly attended the cement show in Chicago this week. For firßt-class laundry see C. W. Rhoades. Bundles called for and delivered. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Miss Mary Meyer returned yesterday from a visit with her brother Frank and wife at Danville, 111. A little home made Sauer Kraut left, 6 dents the quart. ... HOME GROCERY. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse A. Snyder returned this morning from a short visit with relatives at Mohon. Some excellent Limberger Cheese, 50c the 2 pound brick. HOME GROCERY."" Mrs. Elmer Osman and baby, of Benton Harbor, Mich., is visiting her father Albert Timmons and family and will be here for about two weeks. v Mrs. W. O. McCofd, who is clerking in the Perrigo store at Mt. Ayr, went to Chicago this porning on a shopping trip and for a visit with her husband. "Will Murray, -who recently sold his poultry business to C. E. Prior, will move shortly to the James OvertOn farm In Hanging Grove township where A A. Gorbet has lived for the past year.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM -♦ — PICTURES. The Baehelor and the Maid. , A Puir of Slippers. * SONG. Dreamy Old Moon.

WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Rising temperature Thursday.

Battling Nelson Defeated in a 40 Round Battle by Al Wolgast

A 1 Wolgast , of Cadillac. Mich., whipped Battling Nelson in a fight at Richmond Arena, Cal., Tuesday night. The fight went 40 rounds and the referee called the battle In favor of Wolgast when Nelson was so badly punished that he could scarcely see and could not talk. Nelson has been the lightweight champion of the world for Some years and the chap who has wrested the title from him gave him the soundest whipping he ever had. With the exception of one round, the 22d, Wolgast had the better of the fight all the way through.

Mr. J. V. Hamilton, of Indianapolis, arrived, here this morning for his wedding which is to take place tomorrow noon to Miss Hazel Warner. Misses Flora Harris and Bessie Moody went to Berwyn* a Chicago suburb today, for a visit of several days with Mrs. A. E. Coen and Mrs. Chas. Murphy. ■ The hypnotic show did not attract a very large crowd last night and the professor and his assistants went to Chicago this morning. They will appear in Lafayette next week. The government thermometor at St. Joseph’s college this morning showed 5 degrees below zero. It has kept cold all day but the forecast is for rising temperataure tomorrow.

The Republican was in error in stating that Mrs. William Bull, Sr., was ill. Instead it was Mrs. William R. Bull of Barkley township. She has had considerable trouble for the past two years with her heart and this attack was quite severe. Elmer Gwin and Harry Watson yesterday purchased of White & Hickman their plumbing business, including their tools, and will embark in the business. Both are industrious young men and good, mechanics. John Gifford, 44 years of age, a druggist at Sheridan, Ind., ended his life Tuesday morning by hanging himself. Failing health had made him despondent. His act was premeditated and he had bought a new rope from a hardware store and calmly made a noose for his head. He had beep in business at Sheridan for 15 years.

Joseph J. Phillips, who purchased the Eichelberger, Hanging Grove township, farm, a year ago, has sold the same to E. L. Hollingsworth, and will hold a public sale on Wednesday, March 9th, and a few days latef remove to Illinois. The Republican today printed his sale bills. He has a good lot of stock and a fine lot of farming implements.

Mrs. Grant Warner gave a theatre party at the Rex Monday evening for a number of the friends of her niece, Miss Hazel Warner, whose marriage is to take place Thursday noon of this week. After the performance a luncheon was served at the Nowels’ restaurant and then all went to the Grant Warner home and a very enjoyable evening was spent.

J. F, Kruger, of Francesville, has been in town for a day or two, figuring on starting a dry cleaning establishment in Rensselaer. He was in that kind of business at Fairbury, 111., but was forced on account of ill health to get out of business and he has been trying for several months past to recover his health, which he thinks is good enough now to permit him to re-enter business.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1910

BADER TRIAL BEGINS; INDICTMENT IS QUASHED.

Alleged Fraud in Bridge Construction Case May Take Several Days in Circuity Court.

The case of the State of Indiana vs. Clinton L. Bader; of the Winamac Bridge Co., in Which he is charged with having presented a false claim to the county, came up for trial this Wednesday morning. Prosecutor Fred ::; Lowgw ell appeared for the State and Attorney George A. Williams for the defense. Following the reading of the grand jury indictment, the defense made a motion to quash the indictment on the ground of not setting forth that the defendant intentionally or knowingly presented a false claim. The motion was sustained. Prosecutor Longwell then made an affidavit alleging the same things set forth in the indictment and on this the case was admitted to court. Several of the regular panel of jurymen were excused and finally the following jury was selected to try the case: Emmet Eldridge, Alonzo Daniels, George JVlarr, Walter Harrington, Ed Catt, Wilbur D. Wasson, H. L. Williams, ILW. Kiplihger, Geo. T. Dean, Geo. A. iWntrager and Roscoe Garriott. \ Auditor J. N. Leatherman was the first witness called by the state, and the records, together with the blue print relating to the contract, were admitted to evidence, the court overruling the objections of the defense. Wallace Marshall, of the Lafayette Bridge Co., on whose testimony the indictment was procured, and who is to be the main witness for the state, was on hand. County Surveyor J. Frank Osborne, and Commissioners Pettit, Waymire and Denham were also on hand.

From Winamac, as character wit-* nesses, came Carl Riddick, publisher of the Winamac Republican and the last secretary of the republican state central committee; A. B. Diggs, manager of the Winamac Telephone Co., and S. A. March, cashier of the City National Bank. Mr. Bader is a leading citizen of Winamac, having been the former cashier of the City National Bank, and a member of the state legislature from Pulaski and White counties, some years ago. He bears the highest name for honesty and high cla4s citizenship. The second witness for the state was county Surveyor Osborne.

"TIM" NICHOLS DIES NEAR MITCHELL, S. DAK.

Former Employe of Babcock & Hopkins* Elevator Dies From Unknown Cause on Western Farm. Ed Hopkins received a telegram this Wednesday morning informing him of the death of his sister, Ora’s husband, Truman F. Nichols, known here by the name of Tim Nichols, at their home near Mitchell, S. Dak. The cause of his death was not known and Mr. Hopkins states that they had not even known he was sick. The telegram announcing the death came from Ed’s father, L. A. Hopkins, at Markle, Ind., and stated that he would leave Markle this morning for Mitchell. As to whether or not the remains will be brought here for burial is not known. Mr. Nichols was employed for several years in Babcock & Hopkins’ elevator, and lived north of the railroad. He moved to a farm near Mitchell about two years ago. He leaves a wife and five children.

Scudder Mortgaged His Automobile When Last He Visited Rensselaer.

W. R. Scudder mortgaged his Ford automobile when he visited Rensselaer the last time to E. L. Hollingsworth, getting s2so*on it. The machine was purchased of J. W. Marlatt when Scudder was soliciting last year for subscribers of stock in Itis Hamilton Life Insurance Co. and is a good 4passenger touring car. The car is now at Jamie Willis’ garage, Scudder having done nothing toward redeeming it.

Militia to Play College at Armory Thursday Night, February 24th.

St. Joseph’s College will play basketball with Company M at the armory Thursday evening, Feb. 24tb. General admission will be 15 cents. t

AID FOR MONUMENT FROM VETERAN ASSOCIATION.

Ninth Regiment Association and Old Colonel Endorses Movement Started by Mrs. Mary E. Thompson.

Alex. L. Whitehall, of Chicago, who has for years been the secretary of the 9th Regiment Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry Association, and who was here at the reunion of that regiment held three years ago, has issued under the direction of Col. Isaac C. B. Suman, of Valparaiso, a circular appealing to all members of the association and of the old '9th regiment to contribute toward the erection of a monument to General Milroy and the soldiers of Jasper county. Mr. Whitehead makes an appeal to his old comrades, many of whom are prominent in business and after placing S2O from the association funds to the monument fund, which ip to be equally credited to each of the ten companies, he pays a high tribute to General Milroy, the regiment’s first colonel. He also speaks as follows of the art of Miss Mary Washburn, who is to contribute her skill in the monument:

“Miss Mary Washburn, a very competent artist, at the Art Institute, Chicago, and a daughter of the late Dr. Israel Washburn, surgeon of the 46th Indiana Infantry, who spent most of her school-days in Rensselaer, moved by her admiration for General Milroy and the volunteer soldier, and also desiring to place among the friends of her youth an enduring memento of her art. Since she thus eliminates the chief cost of the sculptor’s art productions, namely, the remuneration for artistic skill, it is believed' that the memoir can be installed at a cost of $1,200. The figure of the General will be of heroic size, 8 feet hbgh mounted on a pedestal of proper proportion, resting on a stone or fine concrete dias or platform formed by three or more courses forming steps on three sides, with a massive seat in the rear, standing upon a mound of suitable elevation. “The figure will be garbed in the uniform of a Major General and in such pose as the artist may deem most appropriate and striking. The writer has examined many of Miss Washburn’s art creations, and particularly her model for the statue of the late Dr. Nicholas Senn, Assistant Surgeon General during the war with Cuba, and can testify to their excellence.” In endorsing the plan Col. Suman wrote to Secretary Whitehead, as follows:

“I received your letter some days ago and have noted the contents carefully. I have been unwell for some weeks, so have not seen Zea and Williams but will say for the old Colonel, you and Braden and Bonta and McConnell do what you think best in this matter. I think that under our Statute that the County Commissioners have the authority to erect a monument to be placed to the memory of their soldier dead, but I am in favor of this fund with any cash that the regimental society has on hand. I will say, as the last living Colonel of the Regiment, that Colonel Milroy was the hero of them all, twice over, and while we live we*should endeavor to perpetuate his heroism as our appreciation of the grand old man by starting this monument to his memory as a soldier. William T. Girard, from Jasper county was killed at Laurel Hill, Va., July 7, 1861, Company'G on the skirmish line the morning that opened the first battle of the great Civil War for the Union. Jasper county’s history will be marked way up on the scroll of history by giving the first life for the Union in that great struggle that followed from ’6l to ’65. A million of the best blood of America was shed that the Nation might live. I endorse Mrs. Mary E. Thompson’s patriotism for Jasper county to do honor to its grandest soldier who sacrificed all but life that the union might be saved. My best wishes are with Mrs. Mary E. Thompson that Jasper county will wake up in honoring this,* her grandest hero. I had marked way up among Patriots in my memory many aets of the boys of Company G who went d<?wn in the whirl frind of battle, that the flag might remain over a free nation. “God blew the grand women of Jasper county. They have not forgotten what their fathers and dear ones

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suffered that this nation might endure the shock and liberty survive. If the young heroes who went down in the whirlwjnd of battle could have lived as we, to have seen for how much he fought. God bless the women. We will never forget their part in the great drama of war. “Write this grand women that the survivors of this old regiment will be with them in honoring this grand leader of men to save the union.” Col Suman also offers to contribute personally to the movement. Thos. Madden, of Indianapolis, has written Mr. Whitehead subscribing $25 toward the movement. The success of the effort so nobly made by Mrs. Thompson is now assured and Rensselaer people should all become subscribers without delay, while former resident's should hasten to send their pledges toward this splendid work to the memory of the soldiers of Jasper county and in honor of its first hero.

Several Mayors Ask Information About Hurty's "No Fly" Plans.

Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, has received letters from several Indiana mayors asking about the crusade he propoHan to make on flies and offering to give it every possible aid. To all of these inquiries Dr. Hurty is sending a copy of an anti-fly ordinance which he has drawn up. The ordinance makes it a misdemeanor for any resident of a city where the ordinance is passed, to permit the existence of fly-breeding conditions. The police, health officers and town marshal are directed to enforce the ordinance. Dr. Hurty believes the common house fly is responsible for the spread of disease. v

Former Vice President Fairbanks Received by German Emperor.

Chas. Warren Fairbanks, former vice president, was received by the Emperor of Germany Tuesday even ing, having been presented by Ambassador Hill. Mr. Fairbanks delivered a patriotic address in Berlin that day at a celebration of Washington’s birthday. That evening he and Mrs. Fairbanks took a train for Paris.

Butter Wrappers for sale at The Republican Office.

Your Last Chance to Buy $5 and $6 Shoes at $3.50. - / March 1 is the last call on this special clearance of fine shoes, including all broken lots and surplus stock, for men only. i has been great; we’re sold out of large sizes, but If'you can wear size 5 to 8, you can pick up some great bargains here in good shoes, such as you’ve never seen before. $4, $5, $6, Shoes at $3.50 All kinds of shoes, Patent Colt, Vici, Tan Russia. All the good leathers, sizes 5 to 8. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store Opera House Block ■ - , V; >." ’ ' Our Spring Oxfords Are Here.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —-♦ PICTURES. The Love Token. A drama Contest for a Handkerchief, A comedy. SONG .If Every Girl was a Girl Like Yon..

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Many Newspaper Men Start for Africa to Meet "Teddy" Roosevelt.

Gilson Gardner, a well known newspaperman of Washington, D. C., has already sailed from New York to meet ex-president Roosevelt when he emerges from the wilds of Africa! Walter Wellman, who Is generally found trying to do something spectacular, has also started for the Nile to see “Teddy” and the whiskers he has grown while inland, and other newspapermen are headed in the same direction. It is thought that before Roosevelt strikes Port Said there will be a whole army of correspondents and politicians after him. I have bought Mrs. lines’ stamping outfit and will be prepared to do all kinds of stamping. I have a line of embroidery floss.

MRS. PURCUPILE.

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