Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1910 — Cherubusco Truth Gives Girl’s Parents Something to Ponder Over. [ARTICLE]

Cherubusco Truth Gives Girl’s Parents Something to Ponder Over.

The mother who allows a 16-year old daughter to float around the township., in a top buggy until 2 a. m. with a counterfeit sport of a weak jaw and weaker morals, merely opens the door to grief and disgrace. IL you don’t know what company your girl keeps or what time of night she turns in, your roar when gossips get busy will sound about as pathetic as the wheeze from a jewsharp. The girl who insists on spooning with everybody in the corporate limits ought to be backed into the woodshed and relieved of her overflow of affection with a No. 11 slipper laid across her hiplets. We had sooner see a girl kiss a blind shoat through a barbed wire fence than to have her change partners six nights a week in the front parlor with the lights turned low. It is harder to marry off a girl who has been pawed over by every yap In the community than it is to fatten sheep on a pineapple ice. You can’t gold-brick a sharp-eyed suitor with second hand goods any more than you can fit a bathrobe on a goat. There are lots of weak-minded parents who are going up against the judgment day with about as much show as a cross-eyed girl at a beauty show, and their child"ren will rise up and call them blessed with the enthusiasm of a one-legged man at a club dance.

, Always remember we have almost everything in footwear and what we do not have we are pleased to get for you. Fendig's Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. The third witness to be locked in jail to be sure he would be present when wanted to testify in the Yarling murder trial, was Earl Miller, a young man employed in an automobile factory at Newcastle. Miller was intoxicated when arested. Contracts will be awarded in a few days for the construction of buildings at Silver Lake, Laporte county, which will cost nearly $1,000,000. They will be the. seat of Interlaken school, now located in Laporte county, into which was recently merged an institution Rear Peoria, 11l -I I lf>, - • • . One of the features of the opening session of the annual convention of the North Carolina Press association, which cqnvened at Wrightsville Beach, N. C., Wednesday, was the launching of a movement to 1 erect a substantial memorial to jthe late Bill Nye, the humorist, whose unmarked grave jn Henderson county is the mecca for mjmy tourists. It was Mr. Nye’s request that his grave be unmarked, so the monument will be erected in Ashvfile pr ijtaleigh. Surgeons who operated on Henry Goers, of Blue Ridge, for appendicitis, found a piece of granite in his appendix. The chip is supposed to hate come from a graniteware drinking cup or cooking utensil, and it Was swallowed while Coers was drinking or eating.

A year ago Wilbur Hipes, a farmer, living one mile south of Fairmouht had the misfortune to injure his left eye with a wire whip cracker, which caused him to lose the sight of that eye. While chopping wood Friday, a chip him in the other eye, bursting the eyeball and all hope of his ever seeing again. Mrs. Willard Walters, 23 years old, of Columbus, Ind., who is suing her husband for divorce, probably holds the marrying record of the state for one of her age. She has been married three times and twice divorced. She has had three husbands during the last two years, two of whom she married within a year. The International Moral and Social commission has been incorporated at Washington, D. C., to conduct a worldwide campaign of moral, social and political reform. Total abstinence, suppression of saloons, crusades against the so-called white slave traffic, race gambling, Sabbath desecra tion and the promotion of arbitration are among its declared objects. Through the action of the St. Joseph county commissioners, Vhich upheld a remonstrance, the villiage.of Osceola will go “dry.” This will wipe out thd last saloon from the,,Ohio line to MishJ awaka. It will also tnake it necessary, for the thirsty in Elkhart and Goshen to journey either to South Bend or Mishawaka. Osceola is just over the line from Elkhart, arid when that county went “dry” the eyes of the drinkers were immediately turned in the direction of Osceola. The village became a scene of night orgies. Drunkenen carousals became the rule.