Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Page 1

-No. 178.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Attorney J. A. Dunlap is in Chicago today. * .*<f Marsh Rhoades has been granted an increase of pension from sl4 to $22 a ■ month. County Recorder Tilton went to Wheatfleld yesterday for a short visit with his father. Mrs. R. h. Ahlgrim and Miss Clara Ahlgrim, of Shelby, were shopping in Rensselaer yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Proudy, of Brook, are visiting her brother, Attorney Dunlap and wife. Miss Camillia Weaver returned to Roselawn yesterday after a short visit here with Miss Ethel Grant. Miss Tillie Malchow returned yesterday from a visit of a few days with relatives in Michigan City. Starr’s home roasted coffee is, the best. Get Starr’s coffee for your thrasher at Starr’s Grocery Mrs. Catharine Orr returned to Chicago yesterday afternoon after a short visit here with the family of Alex. Hurley. Lyman Zea went to Hammond yesterday afternoon for a short visit with his son Herbert, who has a good position there. Leave your order at the Home Grocery for any kind of fruit for canning. They are now getting blackberries, plums, peaches, blueberries and other fruits almost daily. John Zehr has a good threshing run in Gillam township and says that wheat is turning out fine and that he never saw the country look so beautiful as it does this year. Yesterday’s Lafayette Courier, in noting the suffering from the intense heat, states that Robert P. Johnston, the Western Union operator, who is well known here, was overcome by the heat and is very sick at his home. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Fendig, Mrs. Kate R. Watson and Miss Myra Watson will leave next Sunday for a delightful eastern trip, going to Niagara Palls, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Boston, New York, and other points Tom Jensen went to Wheatfleld yesterday afternoon for a short visit. Tommy’s parents reside there, but parental love is not said to be the sole cause of his frequent visits to the north end and his Rensselaer friends are wondering when it will happen. INJr. and Mrs. Ves Richards have leased the Dunn hotel at Sheldon, 111., and have taken charge of it. Mr. Richards is still foreman for W. P. Smith & Co., the stone road contractors. Clarence Hamilton is assisting his mother, Mrs. Richards, at the hotel. M. L. Hemphill continues to ship horse stocks to the four winds of the earth. One order was shipped to California last week, and this morning he received an order from Uncle Sam for a stocks to be shipped to Port Bliss, Texas. There will be bliss in that blacksmith shop when the stocks get there. The fine weather has continued, with a considerable amount of heat and a rain will be needed most any time now and ILreally looks like we were going to have it. As previously stated, the bay, wheat and oats are almost altogether harvested, except where oats were very late. The country looks ,■ rich With Its’’harvest. The new stacks * of hay., the golden shocks of wheat and oats and the healthy corn. A drive into the country will prove refreshing and let you know how Jasper county looks with its bountiful harvest. Probably as nice a trip as one can take la into Barkley township and up the Wall itreet way.

The Evening Republican.

AT THE Princess Conigbt ■ —♦— • PICTURES. A Curious Invention, comedy. Catching Fish with Dynamite In the Solomon Isles, industrial. SONCL When I .Fell In Love with You, by Leonard F. Andrews.

Township Assessors Will Ask Legislature to Increase Pay.

Township assessors and their deputies all over the state are dissatisfied with their compensation and an organization is being held to urge the next legislature to increase the pay of assessors. Lewis Temple, county assessor, last week received the following communication from John Boatman, of Edwards, chairman of the committee: “It has become necessary for an increase in wages in order to employ competent men to do the assessing in the state of Indiana, and it is our purpose to organize the entire state, and present a bill to the next legislature to increase the pay of "the assessors and deputies, therefore, you are requested to organize your county (as every other county will do) and appoint one delegate to meet September 13 and 14, 1910, in the state house at Indianapolis for the purpose of framing a bill to be presented to the legislature next winter, demanding an increase of salary for the assessors and deputies. We have the assurance of the state board and we nave also been informed by good authority that the only reason the assessors and deputies do not get more pay is because they have never asked for it. We are sending copies of the circular to every county assessor in the state, and we respectfully ask that they call a meeting at pnce of the township assessors and deputies for the purpose of organizing. We respectfully ask you to give this matter your earliest possible attention, and report to the secretary.”

Oranges, lemons, bananas, pineapples and peaches at Starr’s. Always the freshest and best In fruits and vegetables at the Home Grocery. Cullen street, north of Washington, is b«jing redressed with stone, which will put the street in first class shape again. Fred Davis, an 18-year-old boy who lives three miles southeast of Mooresville, was struck by lightning Sunday and instantly killed. Miss Beatrice Brown stopped off here today for a visit between trains with relatives while on way home to Chicago from a visit in Lafayette The Oliver plow works has made arrangements to build to the South Bend plant which will cost $200,000. Work will begin at once. The Starr Grocery sells gasoline and coal oil. Send us some of your orders. In a friendly scuffle at the baseball park in Muncie Sunday, Robert Fitzgerald, age 17, suffered the dislocation of his spinal column and died almost instantly. Just received shipment McClanen’s Imperial cheese, very fine. 15c a jar. Home Grocery. John W. Rums, 30 years old, formecity attorney at Rockport, Ind.. who (lissappeared on June 28, was arrested yesterday. He is accused of the forgery of a S6OO check. Miss Cora C. Clarke, of Edinburg, came today for a visit with her brother, Rev. G. H. Clarke. She has been attending the summer term of the Cl\ cago University and will teach latin in the Franklin high school the comiig year. Jußt received another case of new full cream brick cheese. c. C. Starr ft Co. George M. Lints, former ahlef of police of Terre Haute, in a critical condition from a bullet fired Bunday night by a burglar, has identified Albert McGowan, a negro, as the «»»» who shot him. There is talk of mob violenoe and the sheriff is pre pared tqr a possible attaek. —i fca

Mafsea Jaaaasy i, I—7, as seoead-otoes mall mattes, at tea poet-eMo* at ItUNian, Indiana, undlr the act of March a, ISTt.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1910.

Pull the Blinds; the Peeper May be Watching.

The Republican does not want to appear as an alarmist, but several reported occurrences of the past week have caused us to believe that there is occasion at this time to exercise a little precaution for fear of petty thieving, etc. In one section of the city, a man has been seen two evenings lingering in the shadow of .trees and watching adjacent houses. What his purposes was can not be surmised, but once he quietly walked away when a man and his wife walked toward him and another time when two men walked close to him he Jumped across the walk and ran like a deer into the back yard aRd evidently from the noise he made, he stumbled through some cans in the alley, as he was intent on gettpig away. Occasionally some degenerate lingers about trying to peer through unblinded windows and this* may have been one of those animals. It is a safe thing to lower the blinds until the lights are turned out. Any skunk of this kind who is captured should be handled roughly. A traveling man who was here this morning stated that there were a large number of people at Warsaw had their pockets picked last Saturday when the show visited that town. One man lost SIOO. Every person in Rensselaer and vicinity should guard against this. Don’t take any more money with you than you may need and avoid taking up with fresh strangers. Lock the windows and doors. Don’t feed tramps that day, send them to the city marshal. Don’t miss the show, simply deposit your surplus money in the bank and lock the house. Have the right change when you buy tickets and keep the blinds pulled down.

Fifty Suits Filed Against Monon in Montgomery County.

Fifty suits charging the Monon railroad with having violated the transportation rate schedule as fixed by the Railroad Commission of Indiana for hauling coal from New Albany to other Indiana towns, were filed Wednesday in the Montgomery circuit court at the direction of the commission. The suits were brought In the name of the Railroad Commission by C. V. McAdams, of Indianapolis, formerly a member of the Railroad Commission, and who was connected with the case when the order was first made. Each suit involves the collection of a penalty of SI,OOO and docket fees amounting to SSO and costs of the action. The Railroad Commission of Indiana asserts that for many years prior to Dec 17, 1908, the Monon Railroad company had on file with the commission, a tariff naming the rates for transportation on coal of car load lots On that date Edward T. Slider, a New Albany coal dealer, filed a petition charging that the rates were excessive, unreasonable and discriminative, and asked that the commission establish just, reasonable and rates In lieu thereof to be observed in the future. The commission, on Investigation, found the railroad guilty as charged by Mr. Sliderand and ordered the company to cease charging such rates, and by its final order the commission determined reasonable and indiscriminative rates. The case, on petition of the railroad company, was reheard, bu. the original order, with a few minor changes, was held valid. The order became effective Sept. 10, 1909, but it is charged in the suits filed Wednesday that the Monon did not comply with the final order until May 15th last. Until May 15th the old rates for transportation were charged. The fifty cases filed are those in which Edward T. Slider, of Net* Albany, Ind., it is alleged, was charged excessive rates. The cases are the same, excepting that the coal was shipped to different firms in several Indiana towns and cities from New Albany. While on her wedding trip, Mrs. Lester Porter Warford, *Me of the Rev. Mr. Warford, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Cgldo, N. D., died suddenly Wednesday at Stateland, N. Y.. They were married at the home of the bride’s parents north of Warsaw June 21. The body will be brought to Warsaw for Interment. A “Classified Adv.” will rent it

MAUDIE DEAR WAS FILLED WITH FEAR.

Didn’t Want Her Hnsband Hear, Which Made Her Hub Feel Very Queer, And Filled With Pleading. Squire Irwin’s court was the scene of considerable entertainment for the office men and girl clerk in the Odd Fellows building Wednesday afternoon. Maudie Rodman, of Union township, some time ago brought divorce proceedings against her husband, William F. Rodman, who lives at Laura. She has lived seperate from him and don’t want anything to do with him, but accuses him of pestering her and fearing that he may carry out threats alleged to have been made by him to others, she sought to have him placed under a bond to keep the peace. The action was begun in Squire Irwin's office and occupied the court during several hours Wednesday. Rodman wanted to impress his wife and other.that he was entirely harmless. He employed all the entreaty that his vocabulary and wits could assemble to try to induce his wife to withdraw the proceedings and to again take up her abode with him. .He called her “Maudie dear, darling, dovey and noodles” and didn’t seem to care who heard him, for the presence of the girl clerks and an occasional giggle from them did not seem to deter his love making and the dignity of the court received a big jolt with each renewal of his sentimental eloquence. Squire Irwin finally decided to take the case under advisement for a time and the comedy was brought to a close. *

The Home Grocery is introducing a new sealer for Mason fruit jars, known as Keeran’s Vacuum sealer, which docs away with rubbers, seals instantly and is absolutely a, sure keeper. 10c a box. Try them. We-sell the finest butterine that is made; better than any ordinary butter. C. C. Starr & Co.

6REAT HARVEST SALE Commences Monday* July 25 Any Suit or Overcoat in the store FOR 10 DAYS ONLY $13.80 Custom Made. Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed. MEYERS & SECOR Tailors

The PMttlMt Moving Picture Show In the City. - SEX W ASSES, Proprietor.

Two Weddings Within a Few Hours of Each Other.

Squire Irwin officiated at the marriage this Thursday forenoon at 10 t/clock of Elmer Branaman, of Shelbyville, 111., and Ella Jane Martin, daughter of George Martin, of Rensselaer. The ceremony took place at the clerk’s office. Mr. Mrs. Branaman left in the afternoon for their future home at Shelbyville, 111. At two o’clock this Thursday afternoon, Rev. G. H. Clarke united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage, Samuel Bowen and Goldie Bowman, a young couple from Newland.

Marriage Licenses.

July 28.—Elmer Branaman, born Shelbyville, 111., Feb. 17,1887, residence Sbelbyville, 111., occupation farmre and Ella Jane Martin, horn Romney, Ind., Dec 27,1891, occupation waitress, first marriage for each. July 28.—Samuel Bowen, born Switzerland county, Ind., August 11, 1890, residence Newland, occupation farmer, and Goldie Bowman, born Tippecanoe county, Sept. 6, 1891, residence Newland, occupation housekeeper, first marriage for each.

Any skin itching is a temper-tester. The more you scratch the more it itches. Doan’s Ointment cures piles, eczema—any skin itching. At all drug stores.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM --r v. ' ♦— PICTURES. Romeo and Juliet In Our Town, Comedy SONG My Dream of Long Ago. bj J. F. Fredericks.

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled weather with local thunder showers tonight or Friday.

Local Lads Start Off Winners In Boys’ City Ball League.

Rensselaer 9. Winona 3. Thus started off the Boys’ City league Wednesday. Thursday the K. O. K. A boys will play Muncie and Friday they will play Chicago.

To Ticket-Holders.

All parties having sale tickets redeemable at the 99-Cent Racket Store must present same before August 1. No tickets redeemed after date. E. V. RANSFQRD.

My loan company is still making, farm loans at 6 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make application now. as some other companies are already refusing to loan. John A. Dunlap, I. O. O. F. Bldg. Watermelons, gem melons, Arizona c antiloupes, the first of the season, and fresh tomatoes at C. C. Starr & Co’s. “I have been somewhat costive, but Doan’s Regulets gave Just the results desired. They act mildly and regulate the bowels perfectly."—George E. Krause, 306 Walnut'Ave., Altoona. Pa.

YOL.XIY.