Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1910 — Page 1

No. 96.

CIK Prtocm theatre nun> WIT.MPB, Proprietor. Watch This Spec* Every Day

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. 5»,.. - Aii home print today. ' •m Read pages two and three today. eg ‘ i ■. ■ Dr. W. L. Myer has purchased Chas. Porter’s Ford automobile. J. J. Hunt made a business trip to Lafayette today. Before buying shirts elsewhere,, see our Market Brand shirts at 35c. The Model, S. Leopold, Mgr. Mrs. H. R. -Kurrie oame today for a short visit with her father, S. P. Thompson. 1 gallon can apples or 1 gallon can pie peaches for 25c. JOHN EGER. Victor, the son of W. P. Michael, of Jordan township, is improved from a severe case of pneumonia. W. 0 McCord, of Chicago, met his wife here yesterday and together they went to Mt. Ayr this morning. Let us deliver your gasoline, 15c a gallon. JOHN EGER.

Miss Nora Morgan is here from Kansas City for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs r George Morgan. Kid Churchill is here from Oklahoma City. He will work in this state for some time, being at Emporia. Everybody read this local. It means nioney to you. All Market Brand staple shirts 35c each. Model Clothing Co., S. Leopold,-Mgr. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Austin, of Wheatfleld township, were in Rensselaer today. He is one of the substantial farmers of that section. Any standard 50c shirt, Saturday, April 23rd, 35c. Come in and look them over Model Clothiers, S. Leopold, Mgr. a ■ Harry Grow is building a big cattle barn on his farm north of town. It will be 36 by 60 feet in dimensions and a fine barn. Stewart Hammoffd continues poorly. He was yesterday taken to the borne of his son-in-law, Marion I. Adams southeast of town. Attorney G. A. Williams and Mayor G. F. M/Byers went to today, the former as an attorney and the latter as a witness in a land sale law suit. -

Mrs. J. H. Chapman left on the 10:55 train yesterday for Louisville, Ky., for a visit of about two weeks with Mrs. Helen Kelley Reed and husband. Take advantage of our 10 per cent reduction sale on all clothing, commencing Thursday, April 21st to Saturday evening, April 23rd. Model Clothiers, S. -Leopold, Mgr. A. J. McFarland, the groceryman, has been having a great amount of trouble with rheumatism for some time and is laid up at his home with rheumatism. *]-: , Remember aur goods are all marked in plain figures and we will give you a straight 10 per cent discount from marked price. The Model, S. Leopold, Mgr. E. V. Ransford, proprietor of the 99cent racket store, was operated on in a Chicago hospital Wednesday. He stood the operation very well but it will be some time before he can leave the hospital. • John Duvall came home Wednesday night to remain. He put in the early spring season buying and selling horses for Billy Riebolt, of St. Paul, Minn., and sold the last load at Aberdeen, S. Pak. He did not like the Dakota or Montana country well enough to make it his home. '

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ — PICTURES. A Duel In Mid Air. Bill, the Bill Poster. SONG. Love Light. Billy Me, he’s the best yet.

The Ladies of the G. A. R. are spending today at the home of Mrs. A. J. Biggs, southwest of town, helping her celebrate her birthday, The militia inspection last- night was one of the best the company has ever had. Captain Schoeffel acted both as inspector and instructor and all were well pleased with the result of his visit, Mrs. C. P. Fate, of Indianapolis, is visiting her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Fate. Her husband has just been made yardmaster of a railroad at Lima, Ohio, and has gone on there to make arrangements for the removal. Fate has a new bakerT'h.amed William Johns, of Hendricks county. He is a real Quaker and a Quaker bread maker and he don’t want you to forsaker but continue to take her. Bread now equal to or better than any ever made in Rensselaer. Mrs. Elias Watts, of Indianapolis, came Wednesday to visit her brother, James F- Irwin, and Thursday morning her son, Arthur Watts, and family, of Topeka, Kans., who had been visiting her at Indianapolis, also came for a visit, with his uncle and family.

“Every little bit added to what we’ve got, makes just a little bit more.” The double tracking of the C. I. & S. will add about SIOO,OOO or •better to the taxables of Jefferson, Washington and Beaver townships, and will put into the county treasury between $2,000 and $3,000 annually.— Kentland Enterprise. The new tariff has not closed a single factory or mortgaged a farm. A revision of the law by a Democratic Congress would not only close the factories and mortgage the farms, but would put out of employment tens of thousands of laborers who are today filling the vaults of the savings banks of the country with their savings. The presentation of “Tony, the Convict,” at the Opera House, Tuesday night by the St. Augustine’s Literary Society, of Rensselaer, was well received. The young folks had some mishaps on the way over, and were late in raising the curtain, but they endeavored to repay the audience for the wait by a good entertainment. The play was given under the auspices of the Catholic Order of Foresters.— Kentland Enterprise.

We have unloaded 5 car loads, over 1,000 barrels of flour since Jan. Ist, 1910. More flour than all the other merchants of Rensselaer have handled. We are not giving ourselves credit for salesmanship, but give the credit to the high quality of the flour. Remember every sack guaranteed to be the best flour made or money refunded. Aristos, Gem of the Valley, of Lord’s Best, only $1.50 a sack. JOHN EGER. Peter Demos entered a plea of guilty in Squire Clint Thompson’s court Monday for hunting jacksnipes on Sunday contrary to law, game warden Joe B. Williams being the prosecuting witness. Demos is employed on the Kelley ranch and with gun in hand met Williams, who was riding in a buggy with his eyes open for law violaters. “Hunting plover?” asked Williams. “No,” was the reply, "I’m hunting jacksnipes.” The negative as to game did not relieve Demos from aiTest, though he might have answered differently had he known he was talking to an offlcer. The fine was sl, costs $3.55 and S2O for the State Game and Fish commissioner.— Monon News. „ c Printing that pleases. “We print Anything for anybody.”—The Republican. - ; V ” Correct size and style calling cards at the Republican.

Entered January 1, 18#7, m Moond-cUtt mail matter, at tSe pest-offloe at Beasselaer, Indiana, under the act of March S, 187».

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AFRIL 22, 1910.

SUITS ARE ALL DISMISSED ON MOTION OF PLAINTIFF.

Republican Publishers, Who Were Sued for 120,000 on Libel Charge By F. E. Babcock Are Now Free. During the fall of 1909 through the efforts of Frank E. Babcock a mutual telephone company was organized and locally known as the Home Telephone Co. Its inspiration according to articles published in the Jasper County Democrat was for the purpose of erecting a telephone system that would cheapen telephone rates or at least keep them as low as those now in force by the Jasper County Telephone Co. The Home Telephone Co. was chartered under the laws of the state and came to the city council asking that a franchise be granted. The Republican opposed the franchise from the start on the ground that it would mean that two companies would engage in a telephone warfare with the business men and subscribers paying the freight. Shortly after the franchise was introduced the provisions were changed to some extent by the council and before they were brought up for passage a clause was inserted that made it possible for the company to charge for residence and $2.00 for business phones. Impressed by the inconsistent position the company apd its secretary had assumed in asking that the rates be the same that the Jasper County Co. had wanted and which Babcock had so remorselessly assailed through his paper, and by,the fact that the Company had been formed with the expressed intention of keeping down or even of lowering them, the Republican took an active interest in creating a sentiment against the granting of the franchise. Further than this there, were certain things that impressed the Republican writer that the granting of the franchise might result in the purchase of the Jasper County Telephone Co. by the new company, thereby making the application of the increased rates at once possible and defeating the very purpose for which the Home Company had been organized. In expressing our views and reporting the defeat of the franchise we used some severe language that possibly was not justified and that calm deliberation would doubtless have caused us to amend but so confident were we that Babcock was in the saddle and controlling the affairs of the Home Telephone Co. that the language seemed proper at the time. The Republican did not aim to say anything that might indicate deception of the stockholders or of the public by the directors of the new company except to point out the im consistencies of their organization, and to question the action of the secretary who had changed-base so decidedly. The directors of the company aside from Babcock were Robert J. Yeoman, Harvey Davisson, George Stembel, John O'Connor, Marion I. Adams, Frank Welsh, Grant Davisson and Chas. Lefler. These are all well known men and we believe are also entirely above participation in any scheme to defraud or deceive any person, but they were represented by Babcock, some of whose methods indicated a decided change of Base from that exhibited at the start when his sole claim was for a reduction of the rates established by the operating company. That these men were deceived by Babcock seems certain, for several of them stated that they had no knowledge of the request for the raise of rates and that Babcock was not authorized to make such a change. The Republican used severe language and Babcock brought suits for damage under the libel laws. Ab a retaliatory measure Babcock was made the defendant in suits based on libels he had published about the active Republican publishers, George H. Healey and Leslie Clark. The suits were set for trial for Wednesday, April 20th and after the answers had been filed by the defendants, Babcock’s attorneys moved to withdraw one of the paragraphs and the court adjourned until this Friday morning when Babcock’s -attorneys sought peace and proposed a dismissal of all the civil suits oh both sides. This was agreed to, but the publishers of the Republican refused to agree to the publication of any statement suggested by Babcock. Babcock agreed

Aged Mother of Mrs. Charles Halleck Died at Fair Oaks.

Mrs. Gasper Allen, 76 years, 1 month and H days of age, died Wednesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Halleck, at Fair Oaks. Her husband died about 30 years ago and for the past 5 or 6 years she had resided with her daughter. The funeral arrangements had not been completed but it is probable the funeral will be deferred until Sunday. Foe this week only, 4 cans sour kraut, 4 cans pumpkin, 3 cans fancy sweet potatoes, 3 cans apples, 3 cans Green Gage or Egg plums for 25c. JOHN EGER.

to pay the costs of the suit together with the witness costs incurred by both himself and the defendants and the Republican publishers, Healey & Clark, agreed to pay the costs of the retaliatory suits they had brought. The spectacle of one newspaper suing another is very unusual, and the Republican reluctantly engaged in such puerile methods of settling differences that should have been set-, tied in some good, old fashioned way of ragging it out. But the suits were really productive of a great amount of good and the record of the court in the case, showing the answers filed by the defendants Healey & Clark to substantiate the statement that Babcock was a Jekyl and Hyde might open the eyes of some of those trusting people who have listened to Babcock’s balderdash about) the manner in which he has befriended the taxpayers. It takes a law suit sometimes to expose the duplicity of a man who feeds his confiding patrons on self praise and stuffs them with charges against or with inferences about others’ dishonesty while there exists proof that he has - himself been deceiving the very people he claimed to befriend. These records are public and can be seen at any time at the court house by any taxpayer who is interested. The striking lesson gained is that it pays to look with some doubt at the person who is constantly proclaiming the purity of his .life before the public. Babcock gets no money, the Republican publishers pay no money, the Republican admits the use of some severe language, and the records at the court house show that Babcock was a real grafter, premeditately and covering a period of a number of years.

Furnishers. Hanager. ready FOR wear. Snrfetg 3rant) mm THE MODEL’S SPECIAL MMmm f1 0 Reduction Sale Commencing Thurs., Apr. 21 To Saturday, Apr. 22. You will find our goods all marked in plain figures, and we will give you a straight 10% Discount on all Clothing for the above dates only. Our goods are of a nigh standard in quality, and they are marked in plain figures way below all competition, and this will mean a saving of from $3.00 to $5.00 on any suit you may buy. I want you to come in and let me prove the above statement. Manager Model Clothiers

...THE... REX! The Prettiest Moving Picture Show In the City. DBS warnes, Proprietor.,

WHITE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF ARRESTS CONVICT.

Paroled Man From Prison North Accased of Fraud and Captured East of Rensselaer. Monticello Journal of Thursday. After an all night drive Deputy Sheriff Davisson succeeded in capturing Thomas Ferguson last night, or rather early this morning, about eight miles east of Rensselaer. Sheriff Price and he had been on the lookout for Ferguson for more than two months and had made several unsuccessful trips out around Rahkin but the man always eluded them. This time he was planning to leave, today for lowa. He was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense over in Cass county and will have to be taken back there for trial. His game was to sell hogs which he did not own and secure an advance on the sale. Ferguson is now out on parole from State Prison North and still has four years of an unexpired sentence to serve. A warden of that institution waS down in this and Jasper county last'week trying to find him. He will be taken to Logansport at noon.

Presbyterian Church.

The subject of the sermon at the Presbyterian church Sabbath morning will be “Strength for Work.” Iq the evening, Dr. W. E. Boynton, of Chicago, will deliver an illustrated lecture on tuberculosis. Everyone invited.

Methodist Church.

The subject at Trinity M. E. church Sunday morning will be “Educational Sermon.” In the evening, “The Ideal Life—Pursuing-Holiness.” Quarterly conference and preaching by Dr. A. T. Briggs Monday, April 25.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM PICTURES. Back Among the Old Folks, a drama. SONG Save All Your Kisses For Me.

KILLED QUAIL OUT OF SEASON; SHIPPED THEM TO CHICAGO.

DeMotte Citizen Fined $lO9 for Viola. tion of State Game Laws.. Others Also Charged. Deputy Game Warden E. E. Earle was in Rensselaer Thursday and today. He caused the arrest of James K. Yeagley, of DeMotte, for having shipped quail, wild ducks and 1 snipe to Chicago, in a barrel with 17 rabbits and with having labeled them rabbits. In Chicago they Were inspected by a U. S. marshal who was acting under the agricultural department, and the real contents of the barrel was discovered. The marshal informed Z. T. Sweeny, state game and fish commissioner, who notified his deputy, Mr. Earle with the result of Yeagley’s arrest and conviction. Five other affidavits were sworn out and several others were placed under arrest, all from near DeMotte. Their trial will probably occur tomorrow, before Sqfaire Irwin, who also Bat in the Yeagley case. This is our birthday. Fifty years ago Newton county was put on. the map. At that time it was a wild expanse of prairie land and swamps; today it is one of the richest agricultural counties in the state. .The transformation has been a steady growth without a backward step. Its material wealth has increased with leaps and bounds, and its citizenship has kept pace. Few of those who were in active life at the time of the county’s birth are now living, but to the memory of those departed and to the sturdy patriotism and good name of those living we propose a toast. Their honor, integrity, noble character and good example has been a rich heritage to the present generation.—Kentland Enterprise.

Our Classified Column does the work

VOL. XIV.