Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1910 — Page 1

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County Superintendent Lamson Makes Annual Statistical Report.

Ernest Lamson, county superintendent of public schools, has made his annual statistical report to the state superintendent and it is a model of neatness, being filled in with red and purple typewriter figures. The report shows that the cost of the schools of the county outside of Rensselaer, Remington and Wheatfield, was $55,711.63, as against $54,358.80. The average cost per day per teacher was $2.60 }n the 1910 report, while the year before it was only 1 cent per day less. There were 102 graduates from the common schools in 1910,'which was 33 more than there were in 1909. The following shows the number of school pupils enumerated in each township, in 1909 and 1910, also the gain or loss:

Loss or 1909 1910 gain Barkley ............... 312 315 3 Carpenter 203 172 *3l Glllam 162 156 *6 Hanging Grove H 3 106 *7 Jordan - 143 140 *3 Kankakee, gg §5 « 3 Keener 157 169 12 Marioa 164 190 26 Milroy—,,* 57 62 5 Newton 104 88 *l6 Unloa 3 g 3 3 7(j »i 3 Walker 244 217 *27 Wheatfield 117 jog *9 Rensselaer 632 584 *46 Remington 242 219 *23 Wheatfield (town) .... 162 152 *lO "Loss.

Maines & Hamilton do custom grinding and sell all kinds of feed.

Just Three Days’ FLOUR SALE This week we will unload another car of our now famous A. & K. Best Flour And will give our usual Unloading Sale on ThiKsday, Friday, and Saturday, August 18, 19, 20. Sale begins Thursday morning, Aug. 18, at 7 o’clock and ends Saturday evening, Aug. 20, at 7. o’clock. $5.52 a Barrel To you who are paying at the rate of $6 to $7 per barrel for your Flour, this will be a welcome and we ask that you remember that this is our J ned and Trusted Brand—the one that we have handled so long. You run no risk; we stand squarely behind it and guarantee every sack to give you satisfaction Don’t miss this sale—Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week. ■ • . . * ■- ■/ i Home Grocery Phones 41 and 81 CROWING BETTER EVERY DAY.

The Evening Repubbican.

AT THE Princess Conigbt —♦-— PICTURES. A Texas Joke.' SONG. Under the Orange Blossom Tree, by Mr. Roscoe Wilson.

More About Dakota Excursions.

Vern J. Crisler, the North Dakota land man, has just received word from his associate at Jamestown that arrangements have been made for his excursion party to spend a day tft Spirit Wood Lake, while on the trip to Jamestown. Mr. Crisler’s associate reports that he has provided for accommodations for the party that they may enjoy a day’s flshirig and boating at the lake. Spirit Wood Lake is a beautiful summer resort and the’day’s visit yill be a rare treat to those who enjoy this sort of recreation. The trip will be made from Jamestown in automobiles to the lake. Automobiles will also be used in showing the land, thus enabling the party to see a great deal of the country surrounding Jamestown.

This excursion ia to be made by special car, provided with berths, and will start September 6th. The tickets will be good for twenty-one days. Parties wishing to stay longer than the car stays may return on any regular train. Anyone wishing to make this trip who has not already arranged for tickets should call at the office of John A. Dunlap, in the I. O» O. F. building, at once, and leave their order for transportation,- as this is necessary in order to get the reduced rate and accommodations. We want every man and woman in Jasper county to inspect our various lines of footwear before making their purchases of fall and winter shoes. Our new ones are here. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,1910.

INOFFENSIVE ITEM IRATES CREAM MAN MORRISON.

Fighting Cream Buyer Enraged at Paragraph About One Fight and Tries to Lick the Editor. The following paragraph, which looks inoffensive enough, so infuriated W. H. Morrison, the cream man, that he looked up the writer, George H. Healey, called him a liar and waded into him like a wild bull. The outcome was not serious to either party, but the scrappy cream buyer is probably coming to a point of knowledge that he has no right to assail with his fists and a foul mouth, every person that does not do things just as he thinks they should be done. Wednesday morning Morrison and William Dixey, who is about 70 years of age, had some trouble which Will be discussed later. The Republican, without interviewing either party, published the following paragraph in the Evening Republican of that day: “W. H. Morrison, the cream man, and William Dixey, as agent for A. Leopold, had a little mix-up this morning, which may possibly get into the justice’s court. Mr. Dixey is quite an old man.”

It has never been the policy of the Republican to give the details of personal troubles, and the scrap between Morrison, who is a small man and crippled in one leg, and Mr. Dixey, who is an old man and highly respected in Rensselaer, wis no exception and the above little paragraph was all that was printed. Mr. Morrison took umbrage to it, probably believing that there was an implication that he had assaulted an “old man.”

Morrison started out to find the editor and made a visit to the Republican office shortly before 6 o’clock but found the office closed. He then went to Haskell’s barbershop and while there saw the writer walking r-cross the courthouse yard with Dr. ashburn, in whose automobile the writer was going to tide home. While the doctor was cranking up the machine Morrison cut across the street to the northeast corner of the courthouse and as soon as he was within hearing distance he waved a copy of the Republican in his hand and said excitedly: “Is this some of your work?” It was plain that he was very angry, and when reply was made that the writer was responsible for it, Morrison asked why he had not been seen to get the particulars of the affair. He was told that the particulars were not wanted, that we did not aggravate personal scraps by relating them in the paper. He said, “Well; you say Dixey is an old man—” He was evidently going to say something more, but we interrupted by suggesting that it certainly was indisputable that Mr. Dixey was an old man. Morrison, who was standing very close, said: “You’re a damned liar,” and struck at the same time. He did not land, but the writer with his open hand struck him a sharp blow on the cheek. At the same moment Morrison grabbed his opponent about the waist with a football tackle and in a second had him on his back, off the walk and on a brick street. The writer struck him on the head several times as he was going down and pushed his head down to prevent him from biting, which he was trying to do. While binding his antagonist firmly with his left arm and watching for an opportunity to roll him over, Constable Oliver Robinson, who was close at hand, waded in to separate the combatants. Robinson showed all his old time vigor and had the editor’s left arm pinioned beneath bls knees, while he was tugging at Morrison with his hands. As Morrison was being pulled up, it looked as though he had a good opening to smash the writer in the face, and the yrriter beat him to it by smashing him.

The editor was not injured in the least, and Morrison was not, aside from a few bruises about the head and a slightly discolored eye. The affair was unpleasant but from the writer’s standpoint entirely unavoidable. Morrison came to Rensselaer about two years ago as a cream agent for W. A. McPherson, of Monon. They soon had trouble and McPherson made charges to several against Morrison, claiming that he had not been dealt

with fairly. The papers refrained from comment about this, however, and Morrison engaged in business for himself and has built up an extensive cream buying business, paying a high price and being regarded as a good thing for the business interests of Rensselaer. He has been extremely jealous of competition, however, and when C. E. Prior started in against him about a year ago, he went to Mr. Prior’s place of business and called him all the foul names he could lay tongue to. Mr. Prior, gentleman that he is, passed up the remarks.

When the Parr creamery was being started Morrison engaged in a mixup with one of the solicitors, who was an old man also, and knocked him down several times. The Republican was more than fair to Morrison on that occasion and rather gave him the best of it, according to many. The Republican has repeatedly heard of scrap talk eminating from Morrison and he has been regarded by those who have seen much of him as a “hot head” and inclined’ to make trouble. When the little paragraph was written at which he took so great offense, no thought occurred of doing him an injury and we have so far failed to find any one who considered it offensive or harmful.

Since the trouble we have inquired about the mix-up he had with William Dixey. Mr. Dixey works for A. Leopold. Mr. Morrison lived in one of Mr. Leopold’s houses. He had rented a house of Frank Foltz and it was not ready for occupancy the first of August and Mr. Leopold demanded a full month’s rent, saying that if he rented the house after Morrison moved out and before the month was up, he would reimburse Morrison for the part of a month so rented. Mr. Leopold’s terms may have been more severe than are usually meted out by landlords in small towns, but any way, Morrison determined to hold the premises after his removal and until

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DON’T miss THIS CHANCE I MEYERS & SECOR’S 6reat Harvest Sale Will Continue During This Week. YOUR CHOICE Any Suit or Overcoat IN THE HOUSE SH.BO TAILOR MADE. MEYERS & SECOR Tailors Rensselaer . Indiana

Th. Pr.tU.at Moving Picture Show in th. City. BSX WABMXB, Proprietor.

RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

Lightning Accompanied the Severest Storm of Summer, But No Serious Damage Resulted. A heavy rainstorm came up at about 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and was accompanied by flashes of lightning and loud claps of thunder that evidently were striking some place withing the corporate limits of th 3 town. For about a half hour there was a heavy downpour and then the storm moderated somewhat and there was no more rain during the afternoon or night. At about 10:30 today, Thursday, it began to rain again, however, and looked much like an all day downpour.

While Wednesday afternoon’s storm seems quite general over the County, there are a few places reported to have missed it almost altogether. At the Tyler farm in Hanging Grove township, for instance, they were able to continue threshing, having had only a little sprinkle. Both east and west of there the rain fell heavily. While there were three especially loud claps of thunder, following flashes of lightning that seemed to strike in Rensselaer, no severe damage was done, although it looked for a time as though Ed Karnatz, a tailor att Zimmerman’s, had received his everlasting. He was working on the long bench in the work room at the Zimmerman merchant tailoring shop,

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —«— PICTURES. All on Account of the Laundry Mark, comedy. Fortune’s Fool, comedy. -- SONG When Yon Think There’s No One Looking, by J. F. Fredericks.

and George Burdin, another tailor, was standing at the side of the bench and between Eddie and the window at the east side of the room. When the first loud clap of thunder came Burden states that he saw what seemed to be a ball of fire enter the window and roll past him on the bench and right toward Karnatz. Burdin jumped back and Karnatz let out a scream that would have made a Sioux chief envious. Burdin thought Karnatz was fooling, but) when he did not try to get up from the position he had fallen to, he ran to his assistance and found that he was unconscious. He recovered partially but when another flash came he again fainted and again a third time. He was unable to move around for more than an hour, suffering a nervous shock particularly. This morning he seemed but little worse for the experience, but regards it as a mighty close call, which It no doubt was. Lights in John Healy’s house were burned out, the shock being so severe there as to break the fastenings where the wires entered the house. At the college the lightning struck in the grove, shattering a tree. The Telephone Co. suffered a SIOO loss by burning out of instruments. The rainfall Wednesday afternoon was 0.80 Inch, while last Monday and Monday night it was an inch and a half. There was a steady downpour here from 11 to 12:30 today, which will probably add another Inch to the total.

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