Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — Page 1

No. 204.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Superintendent Lamson is holding teachers’ examination today. For Sale: A couple of show cases. HOME GROCERY. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Cavender, north of town, Thursday. Shoe bargains for men, women and children in the shoe department at the Home Grocery. Glenn Whittaker, whose illness with dysentery has been previously mentioned, is improving slightly. Dr. M. D. Gwin delivered a paper before the Newton County Medical terday. Thfe last vesper service of the year will be held on the court house lawn tomorrow evening. Rev. Clarke will deliver the sermon. 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 fork will play ball. Mrs. James Hemphill, of Danville, 111., joined her husband here today. They will remain until after the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Hemphill, returning home Tuesday. Three new Buick automobiles passed through here today. They were purchased by Clinton parties at the P reduced prices now beijig given by the company. They were each different models. C. Arthur Tuteur is home from New Albany for a few days’ visit. The « l Wallace circus was in New Albhny last Saturday and he attended the night performance. He says that the circus now seems to havd plenty of help and everything is going along smoothly with it. The statuary act is still missng, however, Dr. Washburn received a letter today from his tenant on the farm which he purchased last spring near Jamestown, South Dakota. Notwithstanding the drouth there this year, and the nearly total failure of the wheat crop, he realized six per cent on his investment, from his half of the crop. _ They raised 1,000 bushels of wheat, which they sold for $1 per bushel. The members of the Boys’ Brotherhood of the M. E. church who, have been camping at the Edgewater Club park near Monticello on the Tippecanoe, arrived home last evening. Campers .from the Hammond district * were there from Rensselaer, Medaryville, Star City, Brook and Wolcott and a most enjoyable time was had. Rev. Harper, of Rensselaer, acted as cook during the entire time, and the boys grew fat on his cooking. Ninetythree visitors in all were in the camp, 30 being from Rensselaer. John B. Hemphill arrived in Rensselaer Friday from Sumner, Neb., where he has been conducting a newspaper for several years. He recently purchased a job printing plant at Northlpiatte, Neb., and expects to sell his newspaper at Sumner and devote his time solely to the job printing business in the future. Hits son is now In charge of the North Platte W shop. Mr. Hemphill has been in the : newspaper business in Nebraska for thirty years. He learned the trade in Rensselaer, working for James & Healey in the old Rensselaer Union office and later for J. W. McEwen, in the Derpocratic-Sentinel office. He was called here by the death of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Hemphill, whose funeral will take place Sunday. The west front business room of the building is for rent. This is a fine room for a small bus’ness and will be rented reasonable. Inquire of Healey ft Clark.

The Evening Republican.

AT THE Princess Conight PICTURES. Hako’s Sacrifice. A Vacation In Havana. How Bumptious Papered the Parlor. SONG. Let He Call You Sweetheart, by Roscoe Wilson.

The marriage of Harve Robinson and Miss Minnie Yeiter will take place tomorrow. Misses Minnie Tompkins and Carrie Phares, of Indianapolis, who have been the guests of Rev. Harper and family for ten days, returned home yesterday. Mrs. B. Forsythe is slowly improving from her recent severe spell of sickness and it is thought that she will be able to be out in the next few days.—Brook Reporter. Mrs. Mary A. Howe and daughter Agnes returned yesterday at 1:58 from Arvilla, N. Dak., where they ■ spent several months with Arthur Howe, who is in the barbering business at that place. The bonds for Kentland’s new water works system were sold by the town board last Friday night. They were for $5,500, at 5 per cent and were purchased by the Marion Trust company, for $5,851, or a premium of $351. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Critser returned Thursday evening from a visit of a few days with her brother, John Mauck and wife at Kankakee, 111. Mr. Critser reports that the corn was terribly dama'ged there by the high winds, some estimating the damage at $8 or $lO per acre. . v Invitations are soon to be issued for the sixth annual banquet of the Indiana Society of Chicago to be given on Saturday evening, Dec. 10, in the gold room at the Congress hotel. The executive' committee is composed of John T. MoCutcheon, Edward M. Holloway, Jos. Defrees, William B. Austin, Edward Rector and George Ade. Tuesday evening, September 6, the society is to have at its disposal the entire floor of the Illinois theatre to attend William D. Nesbit’s ‘‘The Girl of My Dreams.” Corn in Jasper county was considerably damaged by the wind that accompanied the rain early Tuesday morning, but we escaped luckily, it would seem, from reports from other places. Many Who planned to drill wheat in the corn rows will be unable to do so, because the corn is bant over badly. The rains "have put the ground in fine shape for fall plowing, however, and that is the order of the day where threshing is completed. One farmer said to the writer Friday that the corn that had-been fertilized stood the wind much better than that which was not, owing to the fact that the retaining roots were stronger in the fertilized soil. Sergeant Jerry B. Garland returned yesterday afternoon from Camp Perry, Ohio, where he had been for three weeks as a member of the Indiana state rifle team attending the national mfitch. In the final selection of the twelve that shot in competition with the other states, Sergeant Garland jvas left out, although he had shot in 7th or Bth place in the team of fifteen. It was determined in the selection of the team t 6 use the men who had been there before as nearly as possible and this being Garland’s first year he was left out. He got plenty of shooting, however, and shot consistently all the way through and came home with three medals, one being a 90 per cent medal given by the Ohio State Rifle Association, and two 80 per cent medals for slow and rapid fire shooting. He had a fine time while at Camp Perry and saw the best riflemen in the world. Indiana ended up about 24th in Class B, not having improved any over last year. We are the’ only firm in Rensselaer that sells pare cider vinegar of as high a grade as 45 grains. Six gallons of our vinegar Is equal to 7 gallons of that sold by others, but we sell It at the same price as the lower grade. j. a. McFarland. A “Classified Adv." will sell It.

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J. J. Eigelsbach’s Barn Set On Fire in Paint Burning Process.

The large barn at the J. J. Elgelsbach residence was saved from complete destruction Friday afternoon at about 4:30 o’clock by the good work of the Rensselaer volunteer fire department. Chas. E. Osborne and assistants were getting ready to paint the barn and were burning off the old paint. They thought they were very careful with the fire, but flames got through a crack some place and set fire to the hay and the barn was soon •in flames. When the fire whistle was blown Teamster Campbell and Marshal Mustard were busy destroying Canada thistles in the east part of town and although they made haste to the fire engine house and raced as fast as possible to the scene of the fire, the fire had a big start when they arrived. In fact, the entire roof was on fire and it looked as though nothing could save the barn from complete destruction. The firemen, however, soon- had two big streams of water playing on the flames and directed their work so well that it was not long -until the flames were subdued. The upper half of the barn was ruined but the lower part was uninjured. The loss was probably $l5O to S2OO. Many people seem very anxious that the fire team and driver shall be kept constantly at the engine house. This would be a fine thing but would prove quite expensive and mean a boost probably of taxes. It might mean the saving of property at any time, however, far more valuable than the expense i< would incur. The council will hardly provide for it unless a petition very generally signed and requesting it is presented.

Literary Man Lays Scene of Story In White County.

Frances F. French, a writer somewhat noted in the west, has just published a story entitled, “The Standhill Road Race,” and the scene where the story is supposed to have been enacted is in White county, near Monticello. The writer has a “robust fancy” says the Monticello Herald. The hero of the story is “Skid” Puffer, who is supposed to live in the Kankakee swamps, which might have meant Jasper county. On one occasion Puffer said: “Ev’ry fall ester seedin’, people ’roun’ here ’d go down to the White County Fair. W’en cornin’ home they’d git to racin’, specially w’en chucked up ’ith Monticello fire water. I’ve seen diff’rent parts of an’ stray mules fer twenty miles ’long the Tippecanoe river road many a time. I have seen es high es three diff’rent famblies crowded in one remainin’ wagon ’ith the men ridin double behin’ on horses an’ mules, mebby half of all of ’em had their heads wrapped up.” Further on in his narrative he refers to Winamac as “a heathen country east o’ here," and all through the story he takes a good deal of literary license in handling facts.

Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad Injured, But Not Seriously.

Kentland Democrat. While riding in her buggy and overseeing the work of threshing on her farm up in Lake township, on Thursday of laßt week, Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad was so seriously injured in a runaway as to necessitate her being taken to a hospital in Chicago at once for professional treatment. She was near the threshing machine when the engine whistle was blown, by which the horse she was driving was frightened and caused to run away. Mrs. Conrad was thrown from the buggy against a tree and among other injuries that she sustained was that of a steel stay in her corset breaking and one of the parts thereof no deeply penetrating her side and causing so serious a wound as to render hereon-., dltion extremely alarming. Itwas also reported here that she was rendered unconscious for many hours by the shock. Reports were also "received here at different timed during the first days of the week that she htd died but these rumors were without any foundation, and all word received here since Wednesday is, we are glad to note, to the effect that she Is gradually Improving.

Ault Padgitt’s Turk McGloria Takes First Money at Crown Point.

Ault Padgitt won first money with his gelding trotter, Turk McGloria, at Crown Point Friday, winning three straight heats in 2:19%, 2:17% and 2:18%. The purse was S4OO, S2OO of which went to the winner,

Fowler Should Not Be Included In the Ten Cent Class.

The editor of the Jasper County Democrat seems to be laboring under the impression that Fowler is a cheap town. He says that the price of a .shave, including a neck shave, Is ten cents. It is not so, brother. —Fowler Leader.

Funeral of Mrs. Sarah A. Hemphill to Be Held Sunday.

The funeral of Mrs. Sarah A. Hemphill will be held Sunday afternqon at 2 o’clock at the M. E. church, being conducted by Rev. C L. Harper. The casket will not be opened at the church, but friends are viewing the remains at the late residence this afternoon between the hours of 2 and 5 o’clock. Burial will be in Weston oemetery.

Only One More Week Of School Vacation.

The ‘Rensselaer city schools will open Monday, September sth, thus bringing to an end a vacation of three months. The instructors have all been employed. They are as follows: I. N. Warren, superintendent. C. F. Bradshaw, principal—mathematics, Ross Dean—history. William Lee—biology. Edith E. Shedd—English. ** Elizabeth Hume—Physics and chemistry. Adeline Barnet—Latin. Louise B. Kiefer-German. Miss Leonard—History and English. Erica E. Troll—Music and drawing. Alice Smith—seventh grade. Clara Parker—sixth grade. Ethel Sharp—fifth grade. Tillie Malchow—fourth grade. Minnie Hemphill—third grade. Martha Parkinson —second. Edith Adams—first and second. Lora Bruce —first grade.

No Money on Hand to Prosecute Township Trustees.

Attorney General Bingham has discovered where the public accounting law has put him up against a perplexing proposition. The governor recently referred to the attorney general the case of thirty township trustees whom the state accounting board has found short* In their accounts, with instruction to bring suit to recover the amount of the alleged shortage.! Thousands of dollars are involved in ». - f the cases and if they can be pushed to a finish they will result in a good return to the townships in which the shortages were discovered. But the s attorney general is at a loss to know jußt what to do with the cases. Whenever suit is filed by the attorney general in one of these cases ft will be necessary for him to employ a local attorney in the county in which the suit is filed to look after the case. The local attorney will have to see the various motions and other legal maneuvers preceeding the trial. There will be law questions raised, motions made for continuance and other “Jockeying” indulged in as in ordinary law suits. It would be impossible for the attorney general or his deputies to be on hand every time and every place. It 1s generally agreed, too, that it would hardly be expected as a part of the duty of the county attorney to look after these prosecutions. The chief trouble that confronts the state authorities now is, that the attorney general only has SI,OOO in his fund with which to employ attorneys in prosecuting cases against township trustees. This is all that is allowed by the legislature each year. A SI,OOO will not go very far in hiring lawyers to look after a hundred or more of this class of cases. It would cover the expenses of a few cases but the rest of them would be left unprovided for. The governor has not sufficient money in his contingent fund to employ lawyers- for the attorney general, so it* seems to be up to the legislature at its next session to make some provision to relieve the present situation.

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NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

William Edwards, president of the Elwood tin plate workers, has announced that the strike that went into effect July 1, 1908, had been declared off. The majority of the strikers will return to work Monday. The Gary Clearing House association, with seven banks of Gary as members, is now in operation. A. B. Keller, cashier of the Gary State bank, is at the head of the executive committee of the clearing house. Rear Admiral Ross of the Great Likes Naval Training Station yesterday ioncluded the closing exercises of Culver Summer Schools and mustered out of service the cadets of the Second Naval Batalion of Indiana. John Kleisner, an interlock machinist, employed by the Vandalia, was killed in East St. Louis by a train when he stepped out of the way of another one. He was fifty-two years old and leaves a widow and two sons in Terre Haute. Word has been received in Terre Haute of the accidental killing of Leo Sears, aged 28, a railroad man of that city, by his brother-in-law while they were hunting near Los Angeles, where Sears was visiting. Sears will be buried in Los Angeles, according to the dispatch. Joseph Wess Moore, a paroled convict who left California to escape reincarceration, dropped dead Wednesday night in the traction terminal station in Indianapolis, as he was about to board a car for Greenfield, Ind. Heart failure is said to have been the cause of his death. Moore was about 65 years of age. 4 cat’s head examined in the pathological department of the state board of health Wednesday gave conclusive evidence of a case of hydrophobia. It was sent in by Charles McCord of Anderson. The cat scratched one child and bit another. Only a few cases of rabies among felines have been recorded this season. Owing to the increased danger of hydrophobia throughout South Bend. Mayor Goetz has authorized immediate action in the destruction of all unmuzzled dogs running at large Members of the police department were ordered to drive all over the city in the patrol wagon, searching for unmuzzled dogs and shooting all found. While walking through his corfleld Wednesday Charles Knaub found seven cased of whisky and two cases of Syrup of Figs. The police investigated and found that the goods bad been stolen from a box car recently and carried to the field. The railroad company had an officer watch the goods all night and yesterday the liquor was loaded into a car and sent on to Denver. , The fight of River Park citizens to prevent annexation of Mishawaka Is waxing hot and a mass meeting is being held. The city of Mishawaka early this week adopted an ordinance extending the limits of the city to South Bend, and thus taking in River Park. The latter town desires annexation to South Bend and. the attempted grab by Mishawaka is bitterly resented. The construction work on the Pennsylvania railroad between Richmond and Knightstown, Ind., is one of the greatest engineering feats the> company has undertaken west of the Allegheny mountains. The cuts in some places are sixty feet deep, and in some places the fills are as great. It involves an expenditure of millions of dollars. The cement arches whlch_ span Blue river, near Knigatstow-', have been erected at a cost of $60,000 • k ____ My loan company ia still making *arm loans at 5 per cent. If you are .toing to need a loan make application no - aa some other companies are already refusing to loan. John A. Danlap, I. O. O. F. Bldg.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —— PICTURES. At the Eleventh Hour, a drama. The Man Under the Bed, a comedy. A Child’s Faith, a drama. - SONG Some Time in After Years. . Just One Word of Consolation.

WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Slightly warmer.

The Old Soldiers Are Now Going Rapidly.

About ninety names a day are dropped from the pension rolls, This average is equivalent to about 2,500 deaths a month, or about 32,000 annually, among the federal survivors of the civil war carried on the pension lists. How many survive who are not on the pension roll is not recorded In the pension office or the adjutant’s office of the war department. The officials refer to these unrecorded soldiers as the “Unknown army.” The old soldiers of both armies are vanishing rapidly. Just how many survive will not be known until after the completion of the thirteenth cen- ' sub, and can only be approximated now. The law providing for the taking care of the census of 1910 stipulated that there should be included a tabulation t)f the number of Union and Confederate soldiers and sailors living. The census of 1900 contained no such tabulation. The most generally accepted estimate of the total number of “individuals” serving in the Union army and navy during the civil was is 2,213,365. This estimate was prepared by Major General Ainsworth, adjutant general of, the army, which pension officials turn to for data to size np the Union forces in the war. But it is only an estimate. The records show that the total number of enlistments from the various Btates and territories during the war under President Lincoln’s various calls, aggregated 2,778,304. But of this number 105,963 enlistments of seamen and marines, leaving 2,672,334 enlistments credited to the army alone, exclnsiye of 16,422 men who were serving in the regular army. It is estimated that of these 2,672,341 there were 643,393 re-enlist-ments, which, when subtracted, brings the estimate of individuals in the navy down to 84,417, making the number of the Union side 2,213,366. This la the only official estimate ever made, and how far it varies from the actual number can never be determined. Some of the papers are advising their readers to buy their supply of coal early as they believe prices will be advanced to- a higher point than ever during the coming winter. The demand for coal is increasing from year to year and It is not only used more extensively in towns and cities but is being hauled to the country td the homes of many fanhers where the wood supply is exhausted. The price of coal is usually reduced the first of April to the lowest point, and from that time on there is a gradual increase on hard coal of about twentyfive cents, per ton per month until winter sets in. Two strangers have swindled farmers in the vicinity of Fayetteville and Glen wood, Rush county, out of amounts estimated from S2OO to S3OO by selling “medicated glasses,” which they guaranteed to “cure” the eyes. The graft came to light when one of the victims called on Dr. E. T. Smiley, of Gienwood, formerly of Indianapolis, asking him to make the glasses good. It was learned that one of the men had posed as the Gienwood physician and had said that the money would be refunded there in case the spectacles did not suit. Several other farmers and their wives called at the-Smiley office and asked that the purchase be made good. The swindlers have not .been located. \' - - Doan's Regulets cure constipation without griping, nausea, nor any weakening effect Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents per box.

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