Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — Page 1

No. 117.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Don’t forget the band concert Thursday night. Smoke ElVerso 10c cigar—at the quality store—Home Grocery. Miss Ruth Ames is spending this week with relatives at Madison, Ind. “Good things go further.” That’s why knowing house wives like the “Home Grocery kind” df goods. Miss Ida Jacobson returned Sunday to her home in Louisville, Ky., after a visit of six months with her Mrs. W. A. Davenport. There will be preaching, morning and evening, next Sunday, at the First Baptist church, by Rev. Joel P. Green, of Mentone. All are invited. Miss Elizabeth Spitler returned yesterday from Madison, Wis. Mrs. Spitler remained for a longer visi-, and will return home Wednesday. Cures baby's croup. Willie’s daily cuts and bruises, mamma’s sore throat, grandma’s lameness—Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil—the great household remedy. The superintendent of the Janesville, Wis., public schools has arranged a series of grand opera phonographic concerts for the city schools to teach the pupils good music. The Merritt orchestra has been invited to play at Fountain Park on the afternoon and evening of August 25th, which win be old Settlers’ day. It is probable that they will accept. Mrs. Catherine Meemann and Miss Anna Kislner, daughters of Phillip Kistner, of Dunnington, Benton county, and Miss Lena Pettis, of Ambia, are hfere «fb attend the St. Joseph s church dedication. Miss Anna Johnson, of Dallas, Tex., is here for a visit of a month or more with her sister, Mrs. John A. Dunlap. Miss Ebba Hebeen, of Chicago, also spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, being a niece of the latter. O. P. Robinson has served as deputy sheriff for eight of the last ten sheriffs of Jasper county, having served continuously since 1880, with the exception of two terms, part of which time he was away from Jasper county. It is, 1 said that Mrs. A. Rosenbaum recently received SSOO insurance, being half of the face value of a policy carried by her husband, and paid under the total disability clause> It is stated that she has bought a smail” business in Hammond and will move there this week. Chug! Chug! Earl Bruner and Fred King made an overland trip Sunday in the former’s old Knox machine to Val paraiso. The “trip was made without incident or accident, which speaks well for the old Knox. The machine was left at Valpo for John Bruner to use. B. F. Fendig, the druggist, who has been living in the Mrs. J. F. Warren property on Cullen street, has rented the Earle Reynolds property on McCoy Ave., which' is nearing completion. This is the former Tom McCoy residence, which was blown up with dynamite after the bank failure. In its rebuilt state it is among the finest residences in Rensselaer. It is understood that the rental is S4OO per year, or $33 1-3 per mdnth. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, was elected president of the United States pharmacopoeia! convention to serve a term 'of ten years. The first vice-president is Dr. N. 8. Davis, of Chicago. George H. Simmons, of Chicago, is one of the new trustees.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ —- PICTURES. The Larkin Co’s. Factories in -Operation. A Trip to Niagara Falls. A lecture will be given on both pictures. SONG. Somebody Loves You Too.

No Public Meetings Will Be Permitted.

Owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever no public meetings will be permitted until further notice. This includes all gatherings, whether church, theatres or other public meetings. Only one new case has developed since yesterday. There will probably be no epidemic, but several new cases are expected to develope before being finally stamped out. Watch the Evening Republican for daily bulletins.

Schools Will Close At Suggestion of Health Officer.

The school board, at the suggestion of the city health officer, will close the public schools tonight for the term, owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever. CITY SCHOOL BOARD,

B. W. Douglass, state entomologist, is out in the state effecting a working force of bee men to fight the foul brood in the next few weeks, the time accepted by experienced bee men as best suited for warfare against the pest. Mr. Douglass suddenly found his apiary department sadly crippled a day or two ago when Charles Demutn, head of the department, suffered severe al bruises, cuts, bee stings, etc., in a collision with an automobile on the highway near his farm near Peru. Mi. Demuth had prepared an extensive campaign against the foul brood and Mr. Douglass was compelled to abandon his regular look after it.

We again have Frou Frou, that rich sugar wafer—Home Grocery. John Ulyat and wife were over from Brook today and made a call at the Republican office. Rolled oats is the American breakfast. National—the biggest package of the whitest oats on the market, 10c and 25c sizes—Home Grocery. ■- . * Mrs. Jucy B. Sayler and Dr. W. R. Miller, recently convicted of killing J. B. Sayler, of Watseka, 111., have been numbered as convicts 1865 and 1866 at the Joliet prison. Mrs. Sayler is sewing in the woman s ward and Miller is making brooms A bronze tablet appropriately inscribed was unveiled Thursday at Market and Lake streets, Chicago, the site of the old “wigwam” where Abraham Lincoln wa? nominated in 18GC. The memorial is a present from the Chicago chapter, D A. R. Fay Gore, a Southern Indiana railroad conductor, who has been lame for nineteen years, submitted to an operation at Terre Haute and lie will recover the use of his maimed foot. The surgeon removed a wire nail one and a half inches long, which Gore ran into his foot while a barefoot boy. Winfield Fox, former superintendent of schools at Orleans, testified that all the kissing done while he was “steady company” for Miss Eval Close was done by the young woman and that he resisted. When asked if it were not “rather a passive resistance,” he said he did not remember. Miss Close is suing for breach of promise. After many weary weeks of waiting, the people of this city will be pleased to know that the wheels in the Pratt Printing plant turned for the first time Saturday afternoon. Connections with the electric power plant were made about 4:00 o’clock and the presses were run long enough to test out current arid presses. Things will begin to move lively now from this time on. —Monticello Journal. ■

Entaroa z, „ m*H matter, at poMtea at la*r, zwaaa, th. act of March 3,187 S.

M. D. GWIN,

City. Health Officer.

By I. N. WARREN, Supt.

Fighting Foul Bee Brood.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 17, l»10.

GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS LARGELY AGAINST BADER.

While Affidavit of Prosecutor Charges Commissioners and Bridge Man With Altering Record. Sheriff Louis P. Shirer went to Winamac Monday and served seven warrants on Clinton L. Bader, the bridge man. Six of them charge him with having presented a false claim to the county and the seventh charges him and the county commissioners with having defaced and altered a public record. The latter is not in the form of an indictment but is an affidavit of the prosecuting attorney said to be based upon the testimony of Wallace Marshall, of the Lafayette Bridge Co., and by affidavits of other bridge men that when the bids for the bridge over the Howe ditch were opened and read by the commissioners at the February term, 1909, Bader’s bid was $1,240, whereas the bid as now filed reads $1,400. It is. claimed that beneath the $1,400 figures can be distinguished the partially erased figures $1,240. It is understood that the grand jury did not consider the evidence sufficient to indict and that the prosecutor determined to bring the commissioners into the court by means of an affidavit. Mr. Bader gave bond in the sum of S3OO in each case, his bond being signed by himself, F. M. Williams, George Frain, S. A. March, president of the Winamac National Bank, and John Anstis, of Winamac, and by his attorney, George A. Williams, of Rensselaer, the law requiring that one of his bondsmen be a resident of the county where, the action is started. Commissioner John F. Pettit, of the Ist district, signed his own bond, which is also in the sum of S3OO and it was also signed by John W. Cavinder, of Walker township. Judson L. Adams signed with Fred Waymire the latter’s bond. Commissioner Chas. T. Denham, of the third district, was notified by telephone and came over Monday, called at the office of Sheriff Shirer and in the latter’s absence gave bond, signed by himself and William Townsend. In view of the fact that the grand jury did not consider the evidence as produced of any consequence, it seems that Prosecutor Longwell has gone a long ways to endeavor to injure the commissioners of Jasper county, who are all men of recognized honor and who have beyond doubt acted at all times in the best interests of the taxpayers of the county. The Republican feels at liberty to discuss the matter as it relates to them by reason of the fact that certaip papers have endeavored all along for political reasons to indicate that they were guilty of wrong doing. It is not uncommon for a person or a firm in making a bid to make the price and alter it before filing. It is probable that no one ever figured on a contract who has not had occasion to do this, and the appearance of the bid amounts to absolutely nothing. Bidding in the first place is based upon cost of material and construction, with an allowance for waste and incidentals; in the second place it is a matter of guesswork and the bidder tries to get all that he can for the work. This is the case whether the work is public or private. The other evidence is said to be that of Wallace Marshall, who claims that when the bids were opened and read, the price was $1,240. The commissioners and Bader will swear that the price was not altered, but that the bld® was originally $1,400, and Auditor Leatherman will testify that when the bid reached him it was $1,400. ■ There are always some men who delight in an effort to besmirch the reputations of honorable men and who would believe the testimony of any stranger, and a suit of this kind can not be started without causing some people to take stock in it, but we have no doubt that these men, who have conducted the business affairs of Jasper county ably for a long time, will prove to all fairminded people that they are the victims of political intrigue, with a certain democratic editor laughing in his sleeve in the belief that it may bring about the defeat of John F. Pettit. We believe that where county commissioners are guilty of graft it is in a deal with men who get a big, fat price for what they do. It is not with the man whose bid is the lowest, and we believe that, while Mr. Bader did not do right and doubt-

John Schultz Runs Into Bridge With His Ford Auto.

John Schultz had another accident with his Ford touring car and the most serious he has so far encountered. lu company with Max Kepner and Orlie Clouse he drove to Remington Monday evening and had returned as far as the slough bridge when the driver got out of the center of the road and ran into the bridge truss on the west side of the road. Schultz was driving and his companions were riding in the rear seat. They were not thrown out of the machine and were not hurt. The machine suffered probably SIOO damage. It was brought in this morning by Firman Rutherford, who used a log under the front part and dragged it behind a wagon. The left front wheel was broken off, as was also the left lamp. The front spring was broken, the wheel guards bent, the glass broken out of the front and a little other damage. It is probable that the car was not being driven faster than 10 or 12 miles an hour, and the occupants of the,car realize that it is very fortunate that they were going no faster. The car almost went off the grade which would probably have cost a life or two. There are a lot of miraculous escapes from serious Injury and they should serve as a caution to all car owners and drivers.

Memorial Service Will Be Held By the Jasper County Bar.

After the funeral and burial of Judge S. P. Thompson tomorrow afternoon, the Jasper county bar will hold memorial services at the court house. It is expected that Judge E. P. Hammond, of Lafayette, and Judge Darroch, of Kentland, will be present and speak. _ An invitation is extended to the public to be present at the services.

less violated the law in the matter of cheapening the bridges he built, that Jasper county has not lost a cent. That the bridges are not what the specifications called for, but that figured on the basis of a fair profit for his work no more has been made by him than a reasonable profit, and that the commissioners, until they found that the bridges were not being built according to specifications, were doing their absolute duty in letting the contracts to the lowest bidder. Possibly had Bader’s company never entered this field, Jasper county would have had bridges built according to specifications, but it is certain that they would have paid a much higher price for them. Satisfied that they were derelict in not having provided a competent i engineer to measure them and make report, the commissioners have deter- I mined that all bridges in the future shall be so measured and approved, even though it means a greatly increased cost. The commissioners should not be censured by any man until substantial eviderice is produced against them and we believe that there are few men in Jasper county who will not be able to see that back of this movement Jies a hope from democratic sources that the name of John F. Pettit may be sufficiently tarnished to cause his defeat We believe that the effort to injure the commissioners will result in a vindication that will mean increased confidence and the support of the beet men of both parties. The Republican has discussed this matter at a length beyond the prudence of news giving, but the cause is the, effort from democratic sources to do an injury and we feel it our duty to defend men in whom we have implicit confidence. Just what the testimony was against Bader in the other cases we do not know.''-Prof. Smith, of Purdue University, examined several of Bader’s bridges and found that they did not comply with specifications. He also testified before the grand jury and the indictments followed. Sheriff Shirer made the trip to Winamac in an automobile, being accompanied byTrue D. Wood worth, deputy sheriff. Mr. Bader knew that the grand jury was after him and was expecting the sheriff’s visit. It is understood that he will make a strong legal battle when brought to trial and the September term of the court Is certain to be a very busy one.

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Commissioners Will Meet to Discuss Future Bridge Building.

By appointment Prof. Smith, head of the engineering department of Purdue University, will meet the commissioners of Jasper county Wednesday and discuss with him future plans for bridge building. It is probable that Prof. Smith will submit plans that he considers suitwbjfe for bridges of various lengths and that these will be accepted, Instead of having different companies submit their own plans as has been heretofore done. It is probable that the commissioners will arrange with Prof. Smith oh with some engineer recommended by him, to report on all bridges in the future before payment is made, and also to superintend the construction.

Governor Marshall Speaks at St. Joseph’s College Gymnasium.

Governor Thomas R. Marshall arrived here this morning at 10:05 o’clock, and was taken to the college in an automobile accompanied by Attorney Edward P. Honan. During the .pontificial high mass, the governor was escorted to a seat in the front of the church by Father August Seifert, president of the college. At 1:30 o’clock this afternoon he spoke in the college gymnasium, which was decorated and provided with seats for the occasion.

Funeral of Judge Thompson at Late Residence Wednesday.

The funeral of Judge Thompson will be held at the late residence at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. It is not to be private, as seems to have been incorrectly understood. All who desire to attend the funeral may do so. The service will be conducted by Rev. H. L. Kindig. Our Classified Column does the work

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Report of Finance Committee.

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