Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — Page 1

No. 240.

local happenings. Lewis Alter is over from Carpenter township today. ra^lam flour and new corn meal at the H«me Grocery. • John C. Vanatta, of Brookston, was here on business today. Miss Flora Harris left this morning for a visit at Brook and Morocco. Miss Mattie Hemphill left this morning for a short visit to Mt. Ayr. A nice little nut cake for only a dime at Fate's. Simply delicious. Robert Sheets and wife and daughter went to Parr today to visit relatives. Try our cocoanut drop cake, only 10 cents a dozen. Fate’s Quaker bakery. Mrs. C. M. Sands and tiwo children today accompanied her sister. Miss Belle Mcßee, to Monon. Wanted, at once, two lady clerks, experienced or inexperienced. Ransford’s Department Store. ■ . * Harry Parker and Hugh Kirk are today witnessing the Indiana-Chicago football game in Chicago. Devere Yeoman and Kenneth Allman are attending the Wabash-Purdue lootball game at Purdiie today. Make this the greatest Sunday school convention ever held in Rensselaer, by being there yourself. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cheesman went to Westpoint today, owing to the sickness of his mother at that place. Mrs. J. W. Hitchings, of Jordan township, went to Brookston today to visit her mother, Mrs. Joe Garrett. George Colvert, who works for W. J. Wright, is quite sick, having been confined at his home for several days. Airs. John Langhoff, southeast of Rensselaer, went to Chicago today to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred Corbly. . Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Randle went to West Point today for a short visit with their son, Frank Randle and family.

Stand by the county officers who have worked so earnestly this year, by attending the Sunday school convention. Mrs. Fred Dalgon, of Delaware, Ohio, came today to see her mother, Mrs. O’Meara, who has been quite poorly of late. Mrs. Clarence Clemans and daughter Bessie and son Wesley, of near Surrey, went tb:Wolcott today to visit relatives over Sunday. Don’t worry yourself about baking cakes. Try some of Fate’s latest and you will find them better than “mother used to bake.” Those who use the Pillsbury flour never have any trouble in getting good bread. Rhoades Grocery handles this celebrated flour. f Mrs. Harry Wiltshire and daughter returned home yesterday from Wabash, where they had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Peter Giver. Fred McColly, Will Coen and party i eturned Thursday evening from their fishing trip to the Kankakee river, sending fish home and having plenty to eat themselves. Mrs. W. H. Stephenson went to Chicago Heights today, called there by the sickness of typhoid fever of the little daughter of. her son, Clarence Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Adams went to Brookston today to attend the quarterly meeting of the Montlcello Baptist Association. They will be the guests while there of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gosma. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hopkins and Miss Helen Hopkins went to Lafayette today to witness the Wabash-Purdyfe football game, Mrs. Hopkins’ brother, Ray Hopkins, being the captain of the Wabash team. Harvey Wood,, Jr., Paul and Chauncy Wood went to Chicago this morning expecting to witness the start of the airships for New York, but it is announced today that the start will be postponed untif tomorrow. Leave your order at John Eger's for fancy canning pears. If the fruit is not as represented, you do not have to take them. A six-hundred bushel *>«r to be unloaded next week. . JOHN EGER.

The Evening Republican.

Princess tonight — * — PICTURE. The Latest Fashion in Sklrts.(comedy) Fiftieth Anniversary of Yokohama (hand colored.) Pure Gold (drama) Back to the Bleachers for Mine SONG. Pd Like to be a Friend of -All The Girls.

PEAR SALE. A car load of fancy canning pears, 75c, SI.OO and $1.25 a bushel, next week. JOHN EGER. New cooking figs, very fine, 15 cents per pound at Home Grocery. The homes of Rensselaer will welcome all delegates to the county Sunday school convention. — Let us follow up the splendid township Sunday school conventions by making the county convention a grand success. Will Zacker returned to Chicago today, where he works on a street car line. He had been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zacker, near Surrey and his sister, Mrs. C. W. Platt in Rensselaer. My loan company is still making farm loans at 5 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. The Andrew Downing dog and pony show will be in Rensselaer next Saturday, exhibiting just east of the depot. The advance agent, F. E. Davis, was here this morning and states that it is a first-class show. Mrs. Frank Doty and daughter Hazel, of Warsaw, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seward, of Big Rapids, Mich., took the train here for their homes today. They "bad been at Mt. Ayr attending the funeral of Mrs. George Brown. David Horsewood and wife, of Lagrange .county, left this morning for their home after a visit with their sons, Frank and Charley, the former on the J. M. Wasson farm and the latter on the Mrs. Adams farm. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hawkins, of Crawfordsville, and daughter, Mrs. Grover S. Waddell, of Oklahoma City, left for Crawfordsville this morning after a short visit here with the daughter of the former, Mrs. J. D. Allman. A case of scarlet fevef is reported from the southeast corner of Hanging Grove township, at the home of John Wagner. The boy is about 14 years of age and Is reported to have broken out in school. He attended the Osborne school, which will probably be closed.

Mrs. C. G. Beal and father, John Tharp, of Remington, took the train here this morning for Chicago, where they will visit relatives. Mr. Beal brought them over in his auto. In March, 1909, Mr. Beal sold his farm near Remington and later bought a farm of 217 acres near Crawfordsville. They expect to move to that farm during the coming year. “Shorty” Adams was kept in the padded cell at the county jail until he had it quite thoroughly demolished and finally Thursday it was found necessary to take him out. He fought like a tiger to keep the officers from dressing him but was finally overcome. It was necessary to put the big mits on him and keep thetn on him and he was transferred to a cell in the rear of the jail. Another appeal was made Friday to have him accepted at the asylum but word was returned that there was no room for him. William J. Bryan will come into Indiana for the supposed purpose of helping his old running mate, John W. Kern, get- into the senate. To do this he will have to advise his hearers, of course, to support the Democratic nominees for the Legislature in the counties where he goes. When he comes to Crawfordsville it is supposed that he will indorse Voris and Collings for the Legislature in spite of the fact that they are pledged to the repeal of the county local optipn law. Now, as it happens, Mr. Bryan is bolting Dahlman, the regular Democratic nominee for Governor in his own.state because that nominee is opposed to county local option. The friendship between the two men is of longer standing and of a closer nature than that existing between Bryan and Kern. Assuming that Bryan is sincere in his devotion to county local option as preferable to option with any smaller unit, we are curious to know how he can ask the voters of Montgomery county to do what he himself will not do in Nebraska. If he, as a temperant Democrat in .Nebraska, 1b right ift bolting his party’s candidate for Governor, why is not every temperance Democrat in Montgomery county justified in bolting his party nominees for the Legislature?—Crawforsville Journal. Sweet, apples and quinces.—Home Grocery.

■ ■ 1 Entered January 1, 1807, ae second-claaa mall matter, at tb* poet-offlee at Benseelaer, T„.n..r.. under the act of March 3, 1979.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY,,OCTOBER 8, 1910.

LAFAYETTE MURDERESS RELEASED ON PAROLE.

Mrs. Alice Lawson, Who Killed Her Husband, Paroled by Board— Eleven Others Released. Mrs. Alice Cooper Lawson, who killed he~r husband in a saloon in Lafayette in 1907 and was sentenced to the woman’s prison, was paroled by the board Friday. Eleven others were paroled and two were pardolaed. Mrs. Lawson had been sentenced for life. The Lawson murder case attracted widespread attention at the time the crime was committed. The testimony given at the trial revealed the fact that Charles Lawson had been a brutal husband. He was employed as a bartender and the couple lived in rooms above the saloon where Lawson worked. He was a har«j drinker and when under the influence of liquor, which was frequent, made attacks upon his wife with knives, beer bottles and various missiles. The murder occurred in the saloon, and followed a quarrel, during which the husband chased his wife about the room, throwing whisky and beer glasses at her. 'By chance Mrs. Lawson carried her husband’s revolver, and, in the absence of witnesses, who had hastened out of the room at the beginning of the quarrel, shot him. Mrs. .Lawson’s petition for parole was signed by the trial judge, the prosecuting attorney, his deputy and all the jurors. She was represented before the pardon board by State Senator Will R. Wood, and the Rev. O. R. McKay, pastor of the First Baptist church of Lafayette. THE PARDONS. Steve Fucynski, South Bend, burglary, 1908. Carl Carson, Winchester, petit larceny, 1907. OTHER PAROLES. James Andrews, Indianapolis, murder, 1903. William E. Blume, Indianapolis (venued to Boone county), murder, 1899. ' » ,James A. Julian, Colfax, murder, 1899. Ora Strine, Elkhart, murder, 1902. Charles Hubbard (colored), Indianapolis, murder, 1902. John Esra, Sullivan, murder, 1895. Harry Howard, Muncie, grand larceny.ASflS- ' Sterling Bolin, Richmond, assault and battery to murder, 1908. John Slatton, Washington, assault and battery to kill, 1897. Samuel Clawson, Albion, burglary, 19QZS William Osborne, North Vernon, burglary, 1906. Fourteen were refused' paroles.

At Winamac this week a street fair was held. The attractions included a hippodrome performance in which Junita makes a famous leap-the-gap on a bicycle; Junette, the flying woman; Minnehaha, the freak horse; the maid of the mist; Salome, in oriental dances and with a lot of big snakes; the Van Nosman bicycle dive; the Paulina high dive; trick house acrobats, Wells & Sells; Milo Bond, in a daily exhibition of the h«ndling of bees in a hive; B. F. Franks, in a daily wrestle with a bull. There were four big free acts and a number of pay acts. This may not sound good to some people, but that it is appreciated by a large number is the fact that the town of Winamac was crowded every day. The merchants got off at half the cost of all free shows and did thrice the business. The crowd came early and stayed late. Coupled with all these free and pay attractions was a stock and agricultural exhibit with good premiums. During the days that Rensselaer had its horse fair, Fowler, a somewhat smaller place, also had a horse show. The baseball attendance was large enough to bring in $175 one day and $162 another. The greatest receipts in Rensselaer for one day during the horse show was $81.50. The receipts on the 4th for July were only $135. The attendance at the ball game is not a fair judgment of the crowd but it is an indication. Rensselaer must give something more for the entertainment of visitors if it expects a big crowd that spends money. The horse show was a fine one, but it was not sufficient attraction to hold and entertain the people. Next year should see Rensselaer have a big carnival or something of that kind accompanying the horse show. The start of the air ship race from Chicago to New *lfork, for a purse of $25,000 given by the Chicago Evening Post and New York Times, scheduled for this afternoon from Hawthorne Tace track in Chicago, has been postponed until Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. This will gl/e an excellent opportunity to those attending the excursion to Chicago tomorrow to witness the start of the air ships. The aviators will make the first stop at South Bend, where they will remain over night. The route to be taken from Chicago to New York is that traversed by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern dition to the $25,000 given by the newspapers is a purse of $5,000 given by Clifford Harmon, an aviator.

SPECIAL ATTENTION Is given to cleaning and pressing suits and overcoats at Secor’s Clothing Store. ...

Aged Grandfather of Harrison Wasson Died at Union City.

Harrison Wasson and wife and two daughters went to Union City this Saturday morning to attend the funeral of his grandfather, David Waskon, who died Thursday at the advanced age of 93 years.

Gets Hammer Out For The Proposed Fair Association.

With characteristic negation Babcock has started a hammer out for the proposition for a county fair for Rensselaer. Every knock of Bab’s being a boost we expect to see the fair association founded and made a success.

Shafer & Staton to Establish Maxwell Salesroom in Rensselaer.

N. C. Shafer, the local agent of the Maxwell automobile, and Roy Staton, of Chalmers, have rented of Jay W. Stockton, one of the frame buildings on Washington street, just east of the Republican office and the same is being made into a suitable salesroom for automobiles. The agents will push the Maxwell good and hard. They will also do repair work, mainly on their own machines but will accept general business probably.

Miss Maude Spitler Entertained For Mrs. Delos Coen Friday.

The pretty home of Miss Maude Spitler on Van Rensselaer street was the scene Friday afternoon of one of the most enjoyable receptions in which the younger set have participated in some time. The guests of honor were Mrs. Delos Coen, of Chicago, and Miss Margaret Steel, of Chillicothe, Ohio, while most of the guests were members of the younger sew club, of which Mrs. Spitler was formerly a member. A novel contest was conducted, being the dressing of clothespins for dolls. Two prizes were awarded, one for sew club members and the other for non-members. Miss Bessie Davis was awarded the members’ prize and Miss Edith Leonard, one of the teachers, the other. Misses Martha Long, Ruth Harper, Bernice Hammond and Elizabeth Spitler served.

Vincent Eisele Sells His Farm for $130 Per Acre.

Vincent Eisele, who lives on a farm of 165 acres, south of Rensselaer, hks just sold the farm through the Wright & Son agency, to Charles Spencer, of Pontiac, 111., who will move to the farm next spring. The price paid was $l3O per acre, which is a good price ( l’or Jasper county, but as the Republican has always contended, no more than the land is worth when compared with the very high prices paid in Illinois. Mr. Eisele owns the former Ferguson property in Rensselaer, on Cullen street, now occupied by John Gwin, and will probably occupy it after March, although he talks some of returning to Illinois, his former home. He was one of the progressive farmers who came to Jasper county from Illinois a few years ago and bought land at-a low price. He has greatly improved the farm and this year made substantial improvements to the farm house, making it one of the best farms near Rensselaer.

Morgages In Indiana Doubled in a Year.

Mortgages on Indiana property in 1909 amount to nearly twice the sum which they totaled in 1908, and reach the staggering figure of $136,054,140. On the other hand the amount of mortgages satisfied during 1909 increased only one-half over the previous year. The total number of mortgages in 1908 was 59,499, and the amount of money involved was $77,693,196. In 1908, 61,495 mortgages were cancelled and thus the amount of surity bond for indebtedness was reduced by $60,705,527. The total number of mortgages filed in 1909 was 113,860 and the amount of money involved was $136,054,140. In 1909 only 82,412 mortgages were cancelled by satisfaction of debts and property amounting to $94,736,434, thus relieved the incumbrance. Deeds filed for 1909 number 114,910 and the consideration as a total amounted to $187,561,188, whereas the total for 1908 was $94,149,427, although in 1908 the statistics did not include auditors’ deeds, which only amounted to Also in estimation of mortgage totals school fund and chattel mortgages and miscellaneous lien were counted in 1909 not in 1908, but the kmount does not offset the general advance. Demurrers in two cases in which the United States is plaintiff against the Louisville and Nashville and the Monon Railroads are defendants, were overruled by Judge Anderson Friday in the Federal Court. The cases hinge upon alleged violations of the hours of service act, and the railroad companies, Ip their demurrers, alleged that the am was unconstitutional on several grounds. Each road is charged with allowing telegraph operators to work more than nine hours a day in what are known as .“night And day" offices under the control of the. roads. ,

▲•Classified Adv. will sell it.

The Prettiest Moving Picture Show In the City. BEX WABVEB, Proprietor.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight.

Obituary of Mrs. D. H. Yeoman.

Mary Emily, daughter of James T. and Elizabeth Morris, was born at Coshocton, Ohio, November 9, 1841, and died at her home in Rensselaer, Indiana, October 4, 1910, aged 68 years, 10 months and 25 days. With her parents she moved to In - diana in 1852. At the age of 13 she united with the M. E. church and remained a faithful member until called away by death. On October 5, 1865, she was united in marriage to David H. Yeoman, who survives her. To this union was born i-ine children, seven of whom survive her; one died in early infancy and Etta B„ at the age of 20. The living are Effie L. Mauck, of Muncie, Ind.; Dallas M„ of Ambia (but now in Alaska); Victor, who resides on the old homestead; Daisy D. Brawn, of Spokane, Wash.; James F., of Ambia; Hattie M. Hopkins, of Rensselaer, and David V., of this county. 'Two sisters and one brother survive her, Mrs. Charles Sines, of Flora, Indiana; Amanda Stinebaugh, of Anderson, and Oliver Morris, of Fostoria, Ohio. There are 18 grandchildren. Sister Yeoman was a true, faithful and loving wife, devoted to her family, believing that a mother’s place was in her home. Her hope in Christ as her Savior grew brighter and stronger as the time of her departure drew near, and she was not only willing, but glad and anxious to exchange her earthly home for her beautiful home in heaven, where sorrow and sickness does not enter, and where forevermore she could enjoy the blessed presence of the dear Savior who revealed himself, and whom she was taught to love in the days of her youth. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the house, conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper, and burial in Weston cemetery.

Shaky Banks Forced to Quit.

National banks which are shaky and which give no promise of improvement are being forced out of business. -* During the twelve months ending o*i Oct. 1, 113 national banking institutions went into liquidation. Of that number four no longer desired to continue business, four failed and ufent into receiverships and the other 105 went into dissolution because they were practically forced to do so. Lawrence 0. Murray, controller of the currency, has declared he will force every weak bank out of the field when its directors refuse to put it on a firm basis.

New apricots—Home Grocery.

WANTED Every Married Lady in Jasper County to Register at Our Store. We will Give Away, Absolutely Free, on the 19th day of November, three premiums, as follows: FlßST—Barter Ideal Oil Heater. SECOND—Carving Set. THIRD —Rochester Nickel-Plated Baking Dish Don’t fail to register. It costs you nothing, and vou may receive one of the above premiums. REGISTER NOW AT i Rhoades’ Hardware

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM '—— PICTURE. Muggzy’s First Sweetheart, comedy. The Heart of the Heathen Chinee, drama. SONG. You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine by Rose Williams.

/ FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY. Oct 8. The postofilce department ordered that all letters dropped without prepayment of postage should be sent to the dead letter office at Washington. Twenty-Five Years Ago Today. Ten thousand people engaged in a strikers’ attack on street cars in St. Louis. Bricks thrown at Mayor Francis.

“ST. ELMO.”

A play that is received by thd press, public and the clergy with unanimous favor must contain more than average merit/ of dramatic presentation. All unite in proclaiming “St. Elmo,” as dramatized by that famous playwright, Myron Lefflngwell, a superb creation, and one that will live forever. Most plays of modern times can be very readily discerned after the first act, but so complicated are the situations in “St. Elmo” that the auditor Is kept guessing until the fall of the final curtain. Manager Robinson has secured a splendid company to portray the several characters and no expense has been spared -to make the production noteworthy. Cathe Hadley, the creator of many of she. leading roles in latter day successes,, heads the cast as Edna Earl, Augusta J. Evans’ heroine in “St. Elmo,” and the balance of the company includes David Baldridge, Ralph Holland, Raymond Shaw, Pmy Riehle and Dorothy Emerson, who are fitted to the characters assigned them. The play will be seen here for one night only. The date is October 16th.

The Best Ever Seen.

Great Chief, the small, is the name of the tiniest elephant in all the world. Chief is not a baby but a full grown specimen, 27 years old and scarcely as tall as the ordinary pony. Chief was imported from Irfdia as a special feature of Downie’s World’s Best dog and pony shows, which will exhibit under canvas in this city Saturday, Oct. 15. Chief like all other animals In Downie’s show, has received a good education, in fact, he is said to be the best trained elephant in the world. Chief is very fond of childrep and all the little folks will have an opportunity to get thoroughly acquainted with him at the dog and ponies’ reception which is held at the conclusion of each performance. The prices of admission are, children 15cts., and adults 25 cts.

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