Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1910 — Page 1

No. 137.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. v „ Band concert tonight Walter O. Lutz returned yesterday from Purdue University. Nice little shower last night and the weatherman says “more.” Miss Oka Pancoast returned this morning from a day’s visit with an aunt in Lowell. Mrs. Ernest Lamson and baby went to Union City this morning to visit her parents. The monthly social by the M. E. Industrial Society will be held Tuesday, June 14th, at Elmer Gwin’s. Everybody invited. Rev. Clarke, of Rensselaer, will preach at the Curtis Creek school house next Sunday at 3 o’clock. Sunday school will be held at 2 o’clock. It is hard to corner a liar, and harder to get him to admit he lied. The liar is a peculiar animal, with no conscience and small responsibility. Accidents will happen, but the bestregulated families keep Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil for such emergencies. It subdues the pain and heals the hurts. Miss Myrtle E. Bernhardt, of Monon, is today the guest of the family of E. M. Thomas, while looking after some property interests she has here. Mr. and Mrs. W. IP. Beam went to Sheridan this morning for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Royster, who formerly lived in Rensselaer. Harold Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark, returned this morning from Indianapolis, where he attended the school for the deaf. For this week only we offer you for 25c, 4 cans of Swift’s Cleanser; 10 bars Daylight soap; 7 bars Santa 'Claus soap or 6 bars of Galvanic soap. JOHN EGER. The Delphi Herald says that Carroll county is to have another republican newspaper, to be run at Flora by B. R. Keys, who was formerly engaged in business in that town. A healthy man is a king in his own right; an unhealthy man is an unhappy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters builds up sound health—keeps you well. The Monticello city marshal has sent the word down the line that automobile scorching must be ceased. That none who violate the law will escape punishment. - Harsh physics react, weaken the bowels, cause chronic constipation. Doan's Regulets operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation. 25c. Ask your druggist for them. Mrs. George Brown- and little son and her mother, Mrs. Olive Seward, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here this morning for Leesburg, Ind.,‘ where the former will visit and where her mother will make her future home. A. S. Keen and wife and two of the children came down from Wheatfleld today to meet their son Willie who returned on the 10:05 train from Indianapolis, where he attended the school for the deaf the past year. * Jesse Gates, the teamster, has known Otto Hemphill, the brakeman, who received injuries here Tuesday night that resulted in his death, for several years, having lived near the Hemphill family at Wolcott. He was shocked at the sad death. L. L. Letter came up from Lafayette yesterday evening for a short visit with old friends and relatives. He is doing nicely in business, His brother-in-law, Vern Jacks, has begun braking on the Monon, paving made two trial trips last week.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ — PICTURES. The Qneen and The Mirror. ~ SONG. Alone. By Miss Myrtle Wright

Fred and Walter Peck, sons respectively of C. H. and Ed Peck, of Remington, are guests of Elvyn Allman. William S. Wasson and wife, of Union City, came yesterday evening to visit their son, Harrison Wasson and family. / J. H. Chapman and Matt Worden are in Chicago today and will probably return this evening with their new Buick automobiles. The entire stock of new 1910 clothing which I have just purchased, will be slaughtered in our June clean-up sale. Model Clothing Co., Simon Leopold, Mgr. The battalion try-out rifle match at Columbia City has been postponed to the 15th, 16th and 17th of June, owing to a delay in making repairs to the range. The local team will leave here next Tuesday, June 14th. Special discounts at the G. E. Murray Co. June sale. Ladies’ tailor-made suits, 25 per cent oft. Ladies and children’s ready-made dresses, 10 per cent off. Dress goods, ginghams, children’s shoes, hosiery, muslin underwear, carpet-sized rugs. Frank E. Cox returned this morning from Chicago, where he had gone to bring his sister, Miss Minnie Cox, back from the hospital to her home in Fair Oaks. It is probable that she will have to return to the hospital in a few weeks’ for another operation. George N. Dunn went to Tefft this morning, having been called there by the serious sickness of his mother, Mrs. I. D. Dunn, who has heart trouble and had suffered a severe attack that it was feared might result fatally. The Ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold & market Saturday, June eleventh in the old postoffice building. All members of the order _are requested to donate something for this market and leave the same at the room early Saturday morning. Everything good in the eatable line.

Miss Belle Laßue Returned last evening from Greencastle, where she had been to attend the commencement events at DePauw. Misses Grace Norris, Harriet Shedd and Georgia Harris, who attended school there and Miss Merle Harris, who visited her sister, also returned home. Mrs. T. M. Haniford, of Gifford, was today taken to Chicago by her husband and Dr. M. M. McCord, of Gifford, and will be operated on for gall stones at the Rodgers hospital. She has been sick for several weeks aqd_has suffered intense pain day and night. She was unable ..to stand and was carried in a cot and placed in the baggage car. Miss Sarah Bowman, superintendent of the Monnett School for Girls, left this morning for Indianapolis, Cincinnati and several points in Ohio, on field work for the school. She will be absent about two weeks. She will also visit her parents at Salem. Miss Bowman reports that many applications are being received for admission to the school the coming year and greatly increased attendance is expected

Pineapples! Pineapples! A good business friend of ours In Chicago made us a present of a large shipment of pineapples and paid the freight. It will pay you to see us before purchasing, as the prices on these will be very reasonable. RHOADS’ GROCERY.

Peter Dart Lear nwvik Plastering Contractor Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1910.

IS THERE OIL AT THAYER IN PAYING QUANTITIES?

Kankakee TaHey OH and Gas Company Are Feeling Confident, Bnt Not Talking Mncb. The writer went to Thayer Tuesday morning to try and find out what there is doing in the oil and gas fields, and to interview R. M. Ball, the secretary and treasurer and active head of the Kankakee Valley Oil and Gas Co., which recently sank a well there, shot it, found both gas and oil and are now trying to ascertain whether or not it is in paying quantities. The well is on the west side of the Monon tracks, and on the north side of the east and west road running Thayer. A large derrick over the hole in the ground, a couple of big wooden oil tanks, an engine and three or four workmen constitute all that is to be seen at the well. The secret lies under ground and it is probable that Mr. Ball, the oil wise and widely experienced gentleman at the head of the concern, does not know just what to expect when the well is all cased and the water pumped off. We found Mr. Ball at his residence in_the east'end of Thayer currying the family nag. Stopping outside the barn door, we asked if this place was the home of Mr. Ball, and he replied, “Yes, this is the boy.” After a self introduction, we explained that we wished to learn something about the prospects of the well recently shot and Mr. Ball stated that he preferred that nothing whatever should be printed In the newspapers, except to say that they were pumping and had been since last Saturday and would keep on pumping and as soon as they found out just what they had, they would tell the public about it. Mr. Ball, however, submitted to an interview, answering about all the questions that we showered upon him. He stated that he had had considerable experience as an oil man; that he had learned that a hole had been sunk near Thayer several years ago, that there was supposed to have been oil found, but that the hole was mysteriously plugged up and nothing more had been done with it. He bought a large tract of land and moved to Thayer, being convinced that there oil there. He organized the Kankakee Valley Oil and Gas Co. J. N. Roush, of North Zion, who is operating In the Mqntpelier oil fields, was made president of the company; Mann Spitler, who has 1,500 acres of land near Thayer, was made vice president, and Mr. Ball the secretary and treasurer.

The well recently shot Is the only one so far drilled. At a depth of about 700 feet gas was struck and the drilling continued to a depth of 906 feet, the last 65 of which was in “pay” sand. The shot was to open the rock crevices and permit a flow of the oil which to all appearances was in good quantities. The shot was a perfect success, and ordinarily by this time It would be known how much oil there was, but difficulty was found in getting the piping coupled and inserted in the hole and in getting the gas piped away. The gas is said to be a very pure and almost odorless kind and to have burned without any objectionable fumes following. The gas has been piped to the engine and furnishes the fuel for the fire that propels the pumping machinery. Mr. Ball undoubtedly believes that there is oil in paying quantities in the well. The company has leased 20,000 acres of land on both sides of the river. If this wel| is a success it is probable £hat propositions that have been submitted by several oil companies will be considered and that future wells will probably be sunk by them. The leases are mostly on the per cent plan, the land owner being given a royalty of one-eighth of the oil. Some of the land owners demanded a clause that provided for a cash annual rental per acre in the event that their land was not worked. If this well is not a success others will be drilled anyway, as Mr. Ball is convinced that there is oil in the neighborhood. Practically all the big oil companies in the country have had men on the scene and whenever a stranger drops off in Thayer he is taken for an oil man. If pay oil is discovered things will be busy in and about Thayer. M. M. Ocker and his Brush runabout are over from Medaryville again today.

CORPORATION LAWYER CHOICE OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

John B. Peterson, of Crown Point, Named for Congress by Democrats In Hammond Wednesday. The following account of the 10th district democratic convention held at Viammend -Wednesday- is taken from the Hammond Times: Hon. John B. Peterson, the Crown Point lawyer-banker, the most noted corporation lawyeFlh this part of the state, was this afternoon nominated by the Tenth District democrats as the opponent of Hon. E. D. Crumpacker, member of congress named by the republicans. Mr. Peterson was named on the first ballot. As the Times predicted there was nothing to it. Col. Mike Duffy, of Fowler, who wants us all to raise a hundred bushels of corn per acre, have hogs worth ten dollars per hundred weight on the hoof and at the same time reduce the price of pork chops to some reasonable price of about four cents per pound was stranded high and dry in the Peterson wave. Attorney Peterson won the nomination in a walkaway, but not until the delegates to the convention had placed themselves high on the anxious seat as to the outcome of the convention. The atmosphere of uncertainty did not clear until the Michigan City end of the Laporte delegation arrived and said that it would be for Peterson. In the meantime Peterson men had been scouting around for stray delegates, and when the final test came, Lake county landed its man with a nicety. The convention never went to the point where any of the three candidates had to show his utmost strength Although E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, had been mentioned at intervals as a candidate, he was really an eleventh hour candidate and Lake county, finding that it had three votes to spare* gave them to him as a compliment. In early stages of the wire pulling it was agreed, however, that in the event the battle should wax warm, that Honan should throw his strength to Lake county. After the vote had been taken on the first ballot, the Benton county delegation moved to make the vote for Peterson unanimous and E. P. Honan seconded the motion, at the same time thanking the delegates for the support that he received. Michael Duffy, the Benton county candidate, was in the convention, but did not address it. John Gavit, of Hammond, informed the convention that law business had called Mr. Peterson to Valparaiso and that it was with regret that he missed the convention today. Mayor Lawrence Becker by vote of the committee on resolutions was made permanent chairman of the convention. E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, having been the temporary chairman. H. L. Simon, of Kentland, was made permanent secretary.

The resolutions adopted stated that the convention renewed Its allegiance to the democratic party and the principles as expounded by Thomas Jefferson, approved of the democratic state platform and the administration of Governor Marshall and the public accounting law, and put the convention on record as being in favor of granting all soldiers of the civil war who hold an honorable discharge, a pension of not less than one dollar a day. The present tariff law was treated in a separate paragraph as follows: "We hold that tariff duties should be levied for the purpose of revenue. Such duties to be so adjusted as to operate equally to all the people and not discriminate between class or section and that tariff taxation should be limited to the needs of government and economically distributed. We denounce as disturbing to business and a menace to the whole country, the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, of which the present representative in congress from the tenth Indiana district is one of the chief apostates, and we demand its repeal for the reason that its tendency is to breed trusts and monopolies and enrich the few at the expense of the many, and increases beyond reason the daily cost of living.” The organization committee had provided in its resolutions that Mayor Becker, the permanent chairman should adress the convention, but he declined, saying that be was neither

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Eliza Ann Gish, of Wolcott, died June Ist, at the age of 62 years and 10 days. She was related to Mrs. Tillman Watson, of Barkley township and Mrs. Watson and daughters, Mildred and Gladys, and Mr. Claud Spencer and little daughter attended the funeral on June 2d, which was conducted by Rev. W. C. Belcher, of Dunkirk. Deceased is survived by her husband, Simon Gish, by her daughter iva, and an adopted daughter, Miss Blanch Dyer. Sam Dyer is a brother. S. E. Sparling has a very attnoyijig encumbrance ’in the way of a carbuncle on the lid of his right eye, which accounts for the bandage he is wearing. This explanation is given so that no one will think he has been engaging in a fistic combat nor been kicked by the *T>rindle” cow. The quotation marks are used because Sam doesn’t raise brindle cows, but his dairy herd is composed of Holsteins with th*e exception of one Jersey. At the Sparling farm they are milking 22 cows now and will be milking 26 within a couple of weeks. They feed ensilage the year round. We accepted an invitation a few days ago to visit the parochial school and view the work done by the pupils in the training branches. The work is very excellent, and includes the kindergarten work of the first year pupils, the pen work of the lower grades, the drawing and painting of the intermediate grades and the sewing of the 7th and Bth grades. One of the sisters who is a teacher in the school has taught the same grades for 17 years and the system there imparted is that taught in the teachers’ training school. The work is indeed very creditable. Miss Nettie Price, who has been the deputy county treasurer for several months, is now taking a rest prior to beginning a study to fit herself for the position of librarian at the Rensselaer public library to which the board elected her several weeks ago. She has been succeeded at the treasurer's office by Kenneth Allman, son of Treasurer Allman, and a member of this year’s high school graduating class. Kenneth will continue as hia father’s deputy throughout the present year, not entering college for another year. He graduated at the age of 16 and his father considers him too young to enter college.

In Bad Fix “I had a mishap at the age of 41, which left me in bad fix, Mrs. Georgia Usher, of Conyers, Ga. “1 was unconscious for three days, and after that I would have fainting spells, dizziness, nervousness, sick headache, heart palpitation and many strange feelings. “I suffered greatly with ailments due to the change of life and had 3 doctors, but they did no good, so I concluded to try Cardui. ‘Since taking Cardui, I am so much better and can do all my housework.” P* CARDUI The Woman’s Tonic Do not allow yourself to get into a bad fix. You might get in so bad you would find it hard to get out Better take Cardui while there is time, while you are still in moderately good health, just to conserve your strength and keep you in tip top condition. * In this way your troubles, whatever .they are, will gradually grow smaller instead of larger—you will be on the up-grade instead of the down—and by and bye you will arrive at the north pole of perfect health. Get a bottle at your druggists’ today. ~

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —« — PICTURES. The Little Old Man of The Woods, A drama. SONG MOON BIRD.

Little Fritz' Zacker, son of Frank Zacker, who was knocked down by a cow and sustained a broken leg and a bad gash on the head, is getting along very nicely and will probably have a straight leg and suffer no permanent injuries. Mrs. Emerald Aldrich entertained some sixteen friends at a turkey dinner today, it being her 52nd birthday. A splendid dinner was served and the guests are high in praise of the entertainment herself and husband afforded them. Milton Payne and wife, of Kingman, Kans., have contributed $1 to the Milroy monument fund to pay for having the name of Forguson Payne, of the 87th regiment, placed on the monument. He was a brother of the late Captain G. W. Payne and died recently in Kansas. Mrs. Jennie Wishard contributed $1 and Frank McGinnis gave sl, to have the name of his father, Joseph McGinnis, placed on the monument. Earle Reynolds arrived yesterday from New York, bringing with him Mr. and Mrs. James E. Donegan, the parents of his wife, who remained in New York. Mr. Donegan is the manager of the famous Dunedin troupe of trick bicyclists, now performing in Cincinnati, and they remained but a part of the day here. Mr. Reynolds will return to New York in a few days and in company with Mrs. Reynolds will sail next Wednesday for their foreign engagement. His house here is nearing completion. His uncle, Levi Reynolds and his cousin, Charles Raub, of Chalmers, also visited him here over last night and today. Several weeks ago George W. Goff entertained Jesse Nichols and wife, S. R. Nichols and wife, W. V. Porter and wife, and B. J. Moore and wife by having a special table with a double bill of fare at a supper given at the Christian church and last evening Jesse Nichols evened up the score by entertaining the same guests at a supper at the county farm. After the repast, which was sumptuous to a high degree, the men folks played seven-up and the women visited. The rain storm came along about 11 o-clock and the guests remained almost past the hour of discretion, the men playing 29 games of seven-up, Jess winning 12, George 9, Jud 7 and Walter finished with the booby string of 3. The G. E. Murray Co. will continue the Blossom Sale during the month of June. This is really the money saving sale of Rensselaer for all those who will take advantage of it.

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