Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1910 — Page 1

No. 208.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. C. J. Dean is spending today with her son, Delos, at Parr. Sheriff L. P. Shirer went to Wheatfield this morning to serve witness summons. Mrs. A. G. Catt entertained about forty ladies this forenoon at sixhanded euchre. Miss Nannie Cartel returned to Monticello this morning after several day’s visit here. Shoe bargains for men, women and children in the shoe department at the Home Grocery. Bruce Hardy went to Huntington today to see his uncle, Homer Hardy, formerly of Remington. Mrs. Ross Hawkins and two childlen, of Logansport, came this morning to visit Mr. and Mrs. Will Mackey. Misses Stella Nelson and Edna Witt, of Tefft, came today to attend the teachers' institute, which begins Monday. Arthur Kanske, who had spent several weeks here with Elmer Godshal, returned to his home in Chicago today. Mrs. Mary A. Howe and daughter Agnes are expected to return today from Arvilla, N. Dak., where they have been since the first of May. Jerry Healy went to Frankfort to- * day to attend the county fair and visit old friends. He went by way of Lafayette and then on the traction. There will be another excursion to Chicago next Sunday; 75 cents for the round trip. Train due here at 9:15. The Cubs and New York will play ball. Dean Merica and wife have taken up their residence at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown, on Milroy avenue, and for the time being will board. Mrs. J. H. Wright left this morning for her home in Knoxville, Tenn., after a visit of several days with her uncle, Fred Waymire, in Barkley township. The Denison hotel at Indianapolis is to be torn away to make room for a newer and larger hotel building, sixteen or more stories in height. Work is to commence next May. Winthrop Graf left this morning for liis home in Des Moines, lowa, after spending about two months with his grandmother, Mrs. John Goetz, and other relatives in Jasper county. a Miss Kathryn and Maria Arnold went to Menominee, Wis., yesterday to visit their uncle, Dan Lesh, for two weeks. Harry Arnold will go there later to accompany them home. Miss Mary Gant returned the first of the week from Champaign county, 111., where she had been for about three months. Today she went to Parr for a two weeks' visit with relatives. Mrs. S. S. Shedd went to Chicago and will go from there to the summer home of her brother, Dr. John L. Porter, at Flossmoor, about 25 miles out of the city on the Illinois Central railroad, Mrs. L. E. Pennell and little son went to Morocco today, having received word of the birth at an early hour this morning of twin girls to her sister, Mrs:. William Pollock, formerly of Rensselaer. We are the only firm in Rensselaer that sells pure cider vinegar of as high a grade as 45 grains. Six gallons ol our vinegar is equal to 7 gallons ol that sold by others, but we sell It at 4he price as the lower grade. J. A. MCFARLAND. A ''Classified Adr." will sell it.

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For Sale: A couple of show cases. HOME GROCERY. The west front business room of the Republican building is for rent. This is a fine room for a small business and will be rented reasonable. Inquire of Healey & Clark. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Everleigh, of Watertown, N. Y., have been visiting his sister, Mrs. C. H. Tryon and hus-, band, since Tuesday, and today accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Tryon went to Chicago for a few. days’ visit before returning to their home. The township trustees of Howard county have voted to pay the teachers of the county for one day’s attendance at the Indiana State Fair. The schools will have opened before the fair begins and the trustees wanted to encourage their teachers to attend. Mrs. Frank Weber and Mrs. Jacob Wright returned this morning from a visit since Tuesday at Frankfort. They attended the fair there Thursday but a rain occurred in the afternoon that drenched the crowd and spoiled the races and other amusements. 1 "■■■ " 1 i ... i. i , W. H. Parkinson, who has been working at the automobile business in Indianapolis for several months, is in Rensselaer today. He came Monday and has been spending the week with his brother, Dr. Wallace Parkinson, at Brook. He is taking a little vacation and rest after a hard summer’s work. John Kepner has been home from Rome City for several days, biit will return there Monday to resume work. His daughter, Mrs. Tom Manley, who has been spending the summer with her husband there, will return here within a few days. The company for which Tom is a manager has just taken a contract for a new school house at Urbana, Ind., and it is probable that Mr. Kepner will work there part of the time. A letter received today from Mrs. Julia A. Healey, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. F. Mills, near Hamilton, Mont., for the past three months, states that they were never in any danger from the forest fires, although the smoke and asnes from the fires was very dense there and clouded the skies for many days, while it obscured from sight the mountains that are ordinarily in plain view. Mrs. Healey expects to start from there for Rensselaer, Sunday, August 28th.

Mrs. Edward Baech and children, of Delphi, came this morning for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Kate R. Watson and Mrs. Jay Lamson. Her son, Charles Nelson, accompanied her here. Charles attends Lake Forest University and during the past summer in company with a young man named Allen Cook he took a trip abroad, visiting England, France, Hungary and Ireland. The boys worked their passage both ways and had a fine trip from the standpoint of experience. They arrvied home about a week ago. Friday George Hopkins started for Morocco, and when about three miles this side of that place his team became frightened at a covey of guinea hens and ran away with him, and collided with the hind wheel of a buggy in front of them, throwing him out and overturning the buggy on him. The team cleared themselves from the wreck and ran some •distance. Word was phoned in and Ed. Harris and “Jockey” Lyons went out iq, the latter’s auto and brought him in. He thinks he has a broken rib or two. —Mt. Ayr Pilot. • An ordinary case of diarrhoea can, as a rule, be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has no superior for bowel domplaints. For Bale by all dealers. c

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So Called Experts Have Spent FortyFive days at S2O per Investigating Books and Are Stßl At Ph The Morocco town board is justly indignant at the fact that two of the state accountants have spent fortyfive days and are still at it, going over the books of that town. They are charging the fee of $lO per day and at the time of the last meeting of tlje Morocco board of trustees the accountants had a charge of S9OO against the little town and were going right along as though they intended to spend the rest of their lives at the work. The board of trustees passed a resolution condemning the accountants, and asking that the county auditor shall not honor a bill for their services. The resolutions state that they are not wanted there, that no tax payer asked for them and that the town is not in shape for such services without creating a hardship on the taxpayers. The Kentland Enterprise says: These emissaries of Mr. Dehority have been working on-, records and files of the towns in this county since July sth—forty-five days up to this date not including nights or Sundays they have been upon the job—at $20.00 per day and the end is not yet. We do not know what they have thus far accomplished, but we do know this: no taxpayer sent for them, none wanted them and the strong possibilities are, nobody will pay them for the amount of time they have consumed at $20.00 per day, except on the order of a court of competent jurisdiction and last resort. It is the law that the State Board of Accounts can assume, or has legal authority to dig into the musty archives of every munclpality in the state, for six, eight or ten years back and inflict a bill of expense amounting to several hundred "dollars on each town, either for the amusement of the chief, or to furnish some friend (political or otherwise) lucrative employment, without having been requested to do it by some interested taxpayer, then such law practically amounts to a conflscator of a town’s resourses, levied and collected for other and legitimate purposes, and the same should be speedily repealed and the big chief dethroned. A uniform system of accounting for each class of public office is desirable, and it would seem that an experienced and competent chief, with such qualified assistance as he could command, might devise and install without unreasonable delay or formidable expense. In Hie smaller towns of the state it lydfally occurs that a non-partisan board is elected, and every taxpayer knows, or may easily v know, the amount of money collected and for what it is disbursed, and we do not believe it is within the power of the State Examiner to dictate just how much any muncipality may pay for its commodities, when or where they shall buy them, or in other words it’s none of the State Examiner’s business what they do with their money so long as they do not conflict with any constitutional provision. We belive the Board of Accounts should be a department in one of the state offices, the same as the ‘Bank’ and ‘lnsurance’ department of the Auditor of 'States office, with a sufficient number of experts, subject to call from any interested taxpayer, and thus do away with expensive and expansive examinations arbitrarily forced upon a taxpaying public.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1910.

STATE ACCOUNTANTS ARE HOLDING UP MOROCCO.

The Nye Monologue Entertainment.

T. Emerson Nye, of Valparaiso, the impersonator, will give an entertainment at the Christian church on Tuesday evening, Sept. 6th. Mr. Nye is well qualified, both by education and 12 years training, for his work. He is an impersonator of rare ability and his dramatic readings are excellent. He has an extensive and varied repertoire, using nothing but the best H. B. Brown, president of Valparaiso University, says of him: “Mr. Nye is throughly qualified; all his work is well done. He is a gentleman in the fullest sense of the term." Price of admission 15 and 25 cents. The latest things In calling cards at The Republican.

BUICK PRICE IS CUT ALMOST IN THE MIDDLE.

$1,750 Car Brought to Rensselaer and Sold for Price No! Far From SI,OOO to Babcock & Hopkins. The reported cut in the price of Buick automobiles is really a fact. Just how much it is can not be found out definitely, but it is certain that the cut is from a third to a half. C. S. Chamberlin, the local Buick agent, and W. C. Babcock, of the firm of Babcock & Hopkins, went to Chicago Thursday and returned home in the evening with a Buick No. 16, a car made to sell for $1,650. The car goes to Babcock & Hopkins, who have been the. E. M. F. agents here for some time. Their object in buying it was because they could get it cheaper by quite a little than the wholesale price on the E„ M. F. Just what was paid for it can not be learned absolutely, but it is safe to say that the price was not far from SI,OOO and a possibility that that was the exact price, although the buyers would not confirm it. It* is also learned that the $l,lOO cars are cut to about S7OO and the SI,OOO cars to about S6OO. It is said that the local agents are not supplied with a positive list of reduced prices and that it is a matter of bargain and “jewing” to get the best results. The failure of crops in the northwest and the consequent failure to have orders from that section < for which great numbers of cars had been made, accepted, resulted in an overstocking of the factory and as the season was getting late and the manufacturing begun of the 1911 cars, it was decided to get rid of all the cars possible at a great reduction of price. The car brought here Thursday and sold to Babcock & Hopkins is a fine machine and would be a ready seller if the price is around SI,OOO. It is thought by many that the Buick reduction will mean the breaking of the backbone of auto prices and that they will never again get nearly so high as the list price of this year. That a fine car should be manufactured and sold for SI,OOO there can be no doubt and while the prices in 1911 may not be so low as a general rule as the reported Buick cut at this time, there will probably be a standstill in the business unless the price on all cars is brought down to a much lower figure. Babcock & Hopkins have disposed of their Flanders.

Program of the K. of P. Picnic To Be Held at Stock Farm.

The program committee has arranged the following program for their annual picnic to be held at the Rensselaer stock farm on Tuesday, Aug. 29th. The picnic dinner will be held at 12 o’clock sharp, after which the following program will take place: Foot race, married men, prize knife; foot race, single men, prize scarf pin; foot race, married ladies, prize comb; footrace, single ladies, prize silk hose; foot race, boys under twelve, - prize base ball; foot race, girls under twelve, prize hair ribbon; peanut race, girls under eight, prize doll; affinity race,, single, prize necktie and handkerchief; base ball throw, ladies, prize card case; mathematical contest, ladies, prize plate; base ball game, prize box cigars.

Monon to Run Special Train To the Lafayette Fair.

The Monon will run a special train from Rensselaer to Lafayette Thursday, September Ist, on account of the fair at Lafayette. The train will leave Rensselaer at 7:45 in the morning, and returning will leave Lafayette at 9 o’clock in the evening. This will furnish an excellent opportunity for yiose from this point to attend the day of the fair and get home the same evening. No reduction will be made in the railroad fare, as the company considers the present rate reasonable enough.

Card of Thanks.

The neighbors and friends who kindly assisted the family during the sickness and death of Mrs. James Shindler, please accept our sincere thanks. JAMES SHINDLER AND FAMILY.

Tb« Prattlaat Moving Motor* Show In tb* City. »SX WASHES, Proprietor. - fife.

ALEY WITHDRAWS FROM DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Will Become President of Maine University and Resign Head of Schools In Indiana. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Robert J. Aley, has decided to accept the presidency of the University of Maine, and has tendered his resignation of renomination to the state democratic chairman, U. S. Jackson, who at once called the democratic state committee together and named in Dr. Aley’s place, Charles A. Greathouse, of Indianapolis, whose name will be placed on the ticket. Dr. Aley will not become the president of the Maine institution until Dec. Ist, and it is probable that he will not resign as state superintendent before the latter part of November. It was at first thought that he would continue as the democratic candidate and resign after his election, leaving the appointive power to Governor Marshall, but the state committee did not want the governor to have that power and asked Dr. Aley to inform the committee of his intentions so that another candidate could be named. EJr. Aley is regarded as one of the best educators Indiana has ever had and his work as head of the public schools of the state has given splendid satisfaction. It is an unusual thing for the eastern states to come west for a college president and the compliment is a high one, but no more than Dr. Aley deserves and the state should feel proud of this splendid recognition. /The Maine University has an enrollment of about 1,000 students and Chas. E. Lewis, formerly of Barkley township, is a member of the faculty of that college. Mr. Lewis is an able instructor and will doubtless be pleased that the head of the university of which he is an instructor, is to be an Indiana man. Mr. Greathouse, who was chosen by the democratic committee to be the democratic nominee in place of Dr. Aley, was Thos. Taggart’s choice, which does not sound very good, and it is probable that he will fall far short of receiving the support that Dr. Aley was sure or getting. Greathouse i» said to hAve long been one of Taggart’s most trusted lieutenants, one of the kind that did whatever Taggart said. While Aley was a student and an educator, Greathouse was a politician and the selection of him as the candidate is said to have been partly to pay a Taggart political debt. He was the democratic candidate for state superintendent in 1900. Since that time he has not spent much time as an educator, but has been in the banking business, having been one of the organizers and promotors of the People’s Bank and Trust Co., at Mt. Vernon, of which he was the president until about two months ago. He is the owner of 3,000 acres of land. Two years ago he was the manager of the campaign of G. V. Venzies for U. S. senator. He is at this time a member of the firm of Files & Greathouse, grain dealers, with offices in the Board of Trade building at Indianapolis. Mr. Greathouse gave up school teaching ten years ago and has since been a business man and it looks like a big step backward to name a man like him for state superintendent of public instruction. It is a sample of Taggart politics, however, that kind with which “Smiling Tom” tries to get the people of the state to pay his political obligations with, and we expect to see the people turn it down.

Curtis Creek Service Sunday.

Rev. J. P. Green, pastor of the First Baptist church, will conduct the sendee at Curtis Creek Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.

TONIGHT'S PBOGBAM —♦— PICTURES. In the Great Northwest, a drama. SONG It’s Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Moans Goodbye. J. H. Fredericks.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Saturday..

Another Big Crowd Visited Fountain Park Assembly Thursday.

Thursday was another good day at Fountain Park and about 1,500 people visited the grounds and most of them heard ; the addredb of Ex-Governor Hock, of Kansas, which was regarded as one of the most pleasing speeches ever delivered in Fountain Park. The Rensselaer boys’ band gave two concerts, one in the afternoon and one fn the evening. They were well received and many compliments on their playing. There was a good sized crowd from Rensselaer at the park and this number would have been greatly increased as would also the general attendance but for a rain that came up at noon and that threatened the entire day. Many remained for the night performance, which consisted of the Magician Reno’s performance, also of very clever reading by a young lady elocutionist. The receipts for Hock day were better than for Dolliver day, but the bad weather kept many away on both occasions. The receipts for this week have been (rom 25 to 50 per cent better than for corresponding days during the second week of 1900. The association has already paid out for ' the entire season and the closing days will be above the expense. Sunday will be the last of the meeting and it promises to be a great success. It is hoped to have more at Sunday school than there were last Sunday, when about 500 were assembled. Following the Sunday school and the observation of communion service, Dr. Peters will deliver a sermon. He will also lecture in the afternoon. He was called to Eureka today to attend a meeting of the board of trustees of the Eureka college, but will return Saturday. His work is both elevating and entertaining and he has kept the cottagers and campers bouyed up by his optimistic enthusiasm. The Hungarian orchestra will be an attraction Sunday. Persons wbo have not yet visited the Fountain Park should try to attend the last day at least. The cost is moderate and the influence the best.

Judge Hanley's Little Mare Took Second Money at Crown Point.

Hattie Vest won second money in the 2:35 trot at Crown Point Thursday afternoon. In the first heat th*e judge’s sulky collided with another and the mix-up resulted in “Hattie Vest” finishing outside the money, but in the second heat Judge drove her in second place, bringing her up in the stretch from a rear position and showing the quality of the little imal; In the third heat A. L. Padgltt drove her and she again finished second, thus being entitled to second money. It was a very good race. There was a big crowd at the fair and Rensselaer people say the grounds there are beautiful.' Crown Point streets have been oiled almost throughout the residence district and are in a fine condition.

Basket Meeting.

There will be a basket meeting at the Good Hope Christian church next Sunday. \he pastor, G. H. Clarke, will preach both morning and afternoon. All persons are invited to come with well filled baskets and enjoy the day.

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