Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Page 1

No. 207.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Rev. A. G. Work, of Fenton, Mich., is visiting friends here. Mrs. A. M. Horner, of Kingman, Kans., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jj F. Irwin. Mrs. Leslie Clark and daughter Ruth and Mrs. Cleve Eger are visiting . in Monon today. Howard Royster, of Watseka, 111., is visiting his uncle and aijnt, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dunlap. H. K. Ravenscroft and daughter, Lena M., of Karoma, Okla., are visiting j. F. Irwin and family. Four cans fancy hominy, kraut, pumpkin or string beans for 25 cents. JOHN EGER. It is expected that a large number will go by special train tomorrow to attend the Tippecanoe county fair. Mrs. Caroline Green, of Tipton, and Mrs. Elias Watts, of Broad Ripple, are visiting Mrs. Carrie Porter and other relatives. Dr. C. O. Clyne, of Monticello, 111., is here for a visit of several days with Dr. F. A. Turfler, with whom he was a classmate in college. Frank Borntrager, who is now engaged in the butcher business at Fort Wayne, is here looking after a prospective sale of his farm. Mrs. Julia Healey returned from Hamilton, Mont., last evening, where she had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. F. Mills, and husband. Jack Montgomery and Charlie Rhoades arrived home last evening from their eastern trip. They report an enjoyable time spent at various points. The first regular meeting of the ladies’ literary club will beheld Saturday afternoon, Sept. 3d, at the home of Mrs. A. F. Long. A full attendance of the members is desired. The application for the admission of Mrs. Franciska Kaiser, of Rensselaer, to Longcliffe asylum, has been acted upon favorably and she will be taken there by the officers at once. Dr. Rose M. Remmek has returned from Indianapolis and will be in her office in the Harris block every day this week. Special attention given to the eyes of school children. Invitations have been issued for the celebration of the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Rhoades, which will take place at their residence on the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, September 6th. We have just unloaded our tenth car of flour since the first of January. Quality and price are what get the business. Afistos or Lord’s Best, old wheat flour, only sl-50 a sack. ♦ JOHN EGER Mrs. Thomas Daugherty left this morning for a visit with her sister at Kingman, Kans. Mrs. Camp has been in poor health for some time with dropsy and is not expected to live. She was a former resident of Jasper county. Rex Warner went to Kankakee and Chicago yesterday in search of a singer for the Rex theatre. J. F. Frederick, who has been singing at the Rex since last spring, will leave Sunday morning for New York City to Join Al G. Field’s minstrels. Marlon Anderson handed us a clipping from a Seattle, Wash., paper giving an acount on a prize yield of corn. Ralph Warwick, an eight year old boy, won a prize in the corn growing contest. On an eighth of an acre young Warwick grew 68 bushels of corn. a Tent show tonight. 10c to everybody. Opposite courthouse.

The Evening Republican.

AT THE Princess tonight —•— PICTURES. “Mazeppa,” or. The Wild Hoffe of Tartory. SONG. Bed Clover, by \ Roscoe Wilson.

Grape Juice, the great health drink, 10c or 3 bottles for 25c. JOHN EGER. The population of Michigan state is 2,810,173, an increase of 389,101, or 16.1 per cent as compared with 2,420,982 in 1900. George A. Williams went to Carthage, 111., today to join his wife, who has been with her parents there. They will return home the first of the week. Four pounds fancy seedless or 3 Crown loose Muscatels, or 3 lbs. California evaporated peaches for 25c. I JOHN EGER. Miss Mary Stoll, of Philadelphia, has ascended Mount Winklerturm in the Tyrol at Paris. She is the first woman to ascend this high and dangerous peak. The Grand Trunk railroad began its official probe into the wreck at Durand, Mich., Saturday. Guards were stationed at the doors gnd all spectators were excluded. The Kokomo water works company has received assurance from the state board of health of the purity of Kokomo’s water supply. Samples were forwarded for chemical analysis. ■ ( Major J. B. Kenner, a lawyer, veteran of two wars and, in his prime a factor in district and state politics, is dead at his home in Huntington, after an illness of two months. Charlie Baker, better known as “Knockemstlff,” has returned to Rensselaer and set up a bootblacking establishment in the Wood & Kresler barber shop. Charlie is an expert in this line. We are the only firm in Rensselaer that sells pure 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. '

Mrs. George Fate and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Pullins, who have been visiting in Indianapolis since Sunday, returied home last evening. Mrs. Fate’s brother, who lives in Indianapolis, is having an attack of rheumatism, but is thinking of buying 400 acres of land in the northern pari; of Jasper county and engaging in stock raising. Mrs. E. S. Tillman, who has been librarian of the public library for several years, will complete her work here today and tomorrow will leave for her future home in Lebanon. Prof. Tillman is now in Lebanon attending the institute and next week will begin his work in the schools there. Mrs. Tillman will be succeeded here by Miss Myra Price, who w«h elected librarian some time ago and. has been preparing herself for the work since the election. I have again secured the agency for the Booth Guaranteed Oysters, for this season. The first shipment will arrive Thursday morning, Sept.'lst This year will be the best oyster year ever, the U. S. Government having condemned all the Impure oyster beds, and the Booth Fisheries Co. having secured, through its eastern agencies, almost all of the best beds, therefore we will be able to serve .those highly flavored fries, stews and raw oysters that made me so rich and corpulent last winter. Don’t forget the date for Booth Oysters, Sept. Ist, 1910. GEO. FATE, The Fat Dinner Man.

Estimating the cost of the experiment at about >IOO,OOO the war department officials declined requests to order a bombardment of the skies by all its guns on Puget Sound and at the mouth of the Columbia river in an effort to bring on rain in the burning forest district of the northwest. In addition to»the objection of cost, the army officers regarded the proposition as certain .to prove futile.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1910.

MRS. E. J. RANDLE SUMMONED TO THE GREAT BEYOND.

Well Known Farmer’s Wife Passed Away at lsls Today After Protraded Illness and Operation. Mrs. E. J. Randle, of Barkley township, died at about 1:15 o’clock this Wednesday afternoon. She had been falling for several months and became considerably worse Monday of last week. Tuesday it was decided to operate on her with the hope of saving her life. The operation was performed that day and she never completely rallied from it, but sank gradually away, dying at the hour stated. Mrs. Randle was the daughter <-f Mr. and Mrs. A., K. Yeoman and until a few months ago was a healthy woman. She leaves her. husband, one son ten years of age, her parents, a number of and other relatives. Her death will be mourned by a large circle of acquaintances.

Merrill Fined on Two Charges— Fine and Costs $43.60.

E. A. Merrill was tried by Squire Irwin Tuesday afternoon on the charges of intoxication and assault and battery on Clyde Davisson. Merrill plead quilty to the charge of intoxication and was fined $1 and costs, a total of $14.85. He stood trial on the assault and battery charge, but was found guilty and fined SIO.OO and costs amounting in all to $28.75, or a total on the two cases of $43.60. He staid the fines and costs for 90 days, with Ed Ritter as security. A warrant had been sworn out for Ritter’s arrest on the charge of intoxication, but after hearing the evidence the papers were not served. The surety of the peace proceedings against Merrill were dismissed. From the evidence it appears that Merrill was going home from Rensselaer. He had a quart bottle of whiskey. He picked up Ritter and his son near Davisson’s and at Davisson’s he •passed the bottle around to others. There seemed to be bad blood between Ritter and Davisson. The latter claims Merrill was singing an obscene song and when he tried to stop him, there was words between the two. Davisson threw a rock at Merrill wsich struck the wagon bed, making a deep indention. Merrill started after Davisson, and Davisson ran to the house with Merrill In pursuit. Davisson says Merrill had his knife in his hand; Merrill says he did not; Davisson claimed he received a cut on the hand with the knife; Merrill claimed he was not in reach of Davisson at any time. The evidence was conflicting all through, but the evidence was deemed sufficient for conviction and the Squire rendered a verdict accordingly. John Bicknell, who was arrested Tuesday for intoxication, this morning entered a plea of guilty and was fined a dollar apd costs,’ $5.30 in all.

Poor Father.

Children hush, for father’s resting. He is sitting tired and sore, with his head upon the chair back and his feet upon the floor. He is wearied and exhausted by the labors of the day. He has talked about the tariff since the dawn was cold and gray; he has lost eight games of checkers, for his luck was mean today, and that luck was still against him when he bucked the slot machine. So bis nerves are under tension, and his brow is dark with care, and the burdens laid upon his brow seem too great for him to bear. Stop the clock for it annoys him; throttle the canary bird; take the baby to the cellar, where it’s howling can’t be heard. You must speak in whispers, children for your father’s tired and sore, and he seems to think the ceiling is some kind of cuspidor. Oh, he’s broken down and beaten by the long and busy day; he’s been sitting in the 1 feed barn on a bale of prairie hay telling how the hungry grafters have the country by the throat, how the-tariff on dried apples robs the poor man of his coat; how the nasty polar rumpus might be settled once for all; See, hie feet are on the table and his back against the well. Let him find his pome a quiet and heart consoling rest, for your father’s worn and weary and his spirit longs for rest.

Tent show tonight. 10c to everybody. Opposite courthouse.

K. of P. Annual Picnic At Stock Farm a Great Success.

The annual picnic of the K. of P. lodge at the stock farm Tuesday was one of the successful events of the season. Members and their families were present in large numbers and notwithstanding the hot day all enjoyed themselves in the shade of the stock farm grove. A fine picnic dinner at noon was followed by contests in the afternoon, including a game of base ball between two picked teams. The events, prizes and winners are given below: Foot race, married men, prize, knife, W. A. Davenport. Foot race, single men, prize, scarf pin, Harold L. Clark. Foot race, married ladies, prize, comb, Mrs. Starry Kresler. Foot race, single ladies, prize, silk hose, Miss Maurine Tuteur. Foot race, girls under twelve, prize, base ball, “Mike” Porter. Foot race, girls under twelve,-prize, hair ribbon, Iva Healey. Peanut race, girls under 8, prize, doll, Elizabeth Moore. Affinity race, married, prize, coffee pot, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kresler. Affinity race, single, prize necktie and handkerchief, Boyd Porter and Maurine Tuteur. Base ball throw, ladies, prize, card case, Mrs. Earle Wicks. Mathematical contest, gentlemen, prize, hose, W. A. Davenport. Base ball game, prize, box of cigars, P. W. Clarke’s team.

The Weather Hicks Promises in September.

The following are the forecasts for the month of September, 1910, as given out by Rev. Irl R. Hicks: A regular storm period will be in progress as September comes in, and storm areas will pass the central valleys and the eastern states on the Ist, 2nd and 3rd. ■ \ A reactionary storm period falls on the sth, 6th and 7th. The passage of the moon over the celestial equator on the sth, so near the new moon on the 3rd, will probably prolong storm conditions from the first into this second period. High temperature and electrical storms, at all events, will be natural on and touching the sth. Change to somewhat cooler, rising barometer and fair weather may come progressively from the northwest from about the 6th to 9th. From the Bth to the 15th dangerous- storms may be looked for bringing a decided change to colder with frosts over northern to central regions. A re-actionary storm period falls on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th intensified by the autumnal equinox, and severe storms will prevail. A regular storm period extending from the 20th to the.,26th, will most likely take up, intensify and prolong the disturbances, originating at jhe reactionary period immediately preceding. -—' Indications of general frosts and possibly early snow northward, are good in the high barometer areas that follow and push the western flanks of storms at this period. A reactionary storm period will bring return storm conditions during the last three days of the month. Mercury and Venus unite with earth to disturb the elemets at this time. Rain and possibly snow north.

An Automobile Has Five Thousand Parts.

“I was greatly surprised the other day,” said a local automobile dealer, “while talking with the representative of a big auto factory to be informed that the standard type of gasoline car has nearly 5,000 parts. They are classified as including magneto and carburator, there are 1,508 pieces; in the transmission system, 126; in the real axle, 166,'in the steering column, 158, and so on forming separate parts assembled to co-ordinate and co-operate with one another in producing a healthy automobile. Furthermore, any one of these parts is quite capable of becoming the seat of an automobile disease, which If neglected, will result In serious complications, requiring the taking down of the mechanism in the machine shop.”

. TONIGHT’S PROGBAM Th* Prettiest Kevlar Picture PICTURES. Show la th* City. . . The Centenarian, a comedy. MX wabbbb, Proprutor. Hasher’s Delirium, a comedy. *■- 80wg y. g> Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland.

WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy with showers tonight; cooler tonight. Thursday fair and cooler.

The Reunion of the EightySeventh Indiana Volunteers.

Company A, 87th Indiana Volunteers will hold a regimental reUnion at Rensselaer on September 22nd and 23rd. The people in the city and vicinity will give it a cordial support. The hoys that are living here want to make it a memorable occasion. Co. A, with Col. E. P. Hammond as captain, left here fully one hundred strong of the young men raised here with the recruits from this county that joined the company and swelled the number to more than one hundred and forty. Today there are only fifteen of those boys left and they are boys no longer.’ They are bent with, age, impaired sight and their once dark hair is dark no longer, neither are they young and vigorous, but old and gray, yet within their hearts there is still a youthful impulse. They want to show the people that gather here at this reunion that they still live and remember the comrades of ’62 to '65. Also they want those that come to greet them to know that, the same patriotic spirit pervades the people of our city and county that imbued them in the dark and distant past when they shook the hands of the boys when they departed for the war in 1862. The survivors of Co. A ask all to join them in making this a happy occasion. On the evening of September 22nd the company and regiment will hold a camp-fire at the Armory. At the same time they want to give an old-fashioned basket dinner. The dinner will precede the campfire. Supper will be given from 6 to 7:30 on Thurs-’ day evening. All are invited to attend both supper and camp-fire.

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 those from this point to attend the best 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.

The Nye Lecture.

You should hear J. Emerson Nye» the impersonator, at the Christian church, September 6th. His subject is “The Portrayals of Human Life.” His selections are from the best of the world’s literature. “Prof. Nye is an impersonator of rare ability. Everybody is delighted with his pathos, wi{ and mimicry.”—Ada (O.) University Herald.

Baptist Church Services.

The vesper-service season has come to a close and now we resume our usual routine. Sunday morning theme, “Speeding on to Maturity.” Evening theme, “The accomplished death, bidden life and future glory.” Rev. J. P. Green,* Pastor.

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 A Clark. * ■ s. Tent show tonight 10c to everybody. Opposite courthouse.

This is the Handy Store l y- , During th* heat of numatt there ar* a host of appetising thing* that w* oan supply ready to oat. »o necessity at all for oooklag oneself cooking meal*. Our Canned Good* department is always ready to serve you. . Potted Kam, Sliced Beef. Delicacies in biscuits to so end. The freshest fruits from far and near. v Xn short. there is every requisite h*r* to enable a housekeeper to prepare appetising meals easily and quickly. And beat of all, the grad— that wo handle are guarant— d to ba pure and wholesome. Try us on anything you Ilka. McFarland & Son Reliable Grocers.

INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond—Fire destroyed the Mustine saw mill at Cambridge City Tuesday, the loss being about >3,000, with no insurance. The mill has been running full force. Kokomo—The Howard county fair being held at Russiaville opened most auspiciously. There is a flue line of exhibits in every department and the attendance is good. Columbus—Mrs. Mary Walker, of Hope, is in a critical condition from a dog bite. She was attacked Tuesday by a vicious dog, which bit her on the hand, arm, throat and face. Fort Wayne—City Attorney Harry G. Hogan is drafting an ordinance* to be presented to the city council preventing any one under 17 years of age from driving a motor car, and also making every autoist pay a fee of |l. for a local license. Danville—A big “oil strike” was made when a freight wreck on the Big Four knocked a hole in a 7,000gallon tank of kerosene. Neighboring farmers and townspeople have been dipping up oil ever since. One man boasted that he saved sixty gallons from the wreck. Richmond—The Bureau of Municipal Researce, which has had under consideration a proposition to investigate local milk conditions, prompted by a recent increase in the price of milk, has determined to undertake the work. The investigation will be made general in so far as the dairies will agree.

Ernest Kantz and a visitor on his place several miles northwest of Elkhart killed a thiry-pound badger just after it emerged from Harvel Gayman’s orchard five miles north on the Edwardsburg avenue road laat week. The rare animal put up a hard light One man whipped it with a buggy whip, thus attracting its attention while the other slipped up from behind and hammered it with a fence rail. In a collision Saturday at New Albany, Ind., between south bound Monon passenger train, running 2 hours late, and a fire department truck the latter was demolished and one ot the horses was killed.. Driver William Moss and Philip Reilly and Harry Lowry, fireman, were hurled to the ground. They escaped serious injury. Mrs. Morse, of Atlanta, Ga., wife of Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, claims that she has secured thousands of signltures to a petition to President Taft asking a pardon for her husband. The signers represent all classes, she asserts.

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