Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1910 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. k. Hallowi dates, 10c, Home Grocery. Harvey Davisson left this morning ior his home near Hamilton, N. Dak. Simon Phillips went to Fowler today to visit his daughters for about a week. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hagins returned this morning from their trip to the south. George W. Terwilleger recently purchased a farm of 200 acres near Crawfordsville. Mrs. Anna Wagner, of Louisville, Ky., came yesterday to visit Mrs. Mary' E. Corliss. Capt. John W. Brown, of Mt. Ayr, took the 10:05 train here ttiis morning for a trip to Chicago and Duluth, Minn. For those who failed to get pears out of our car, we will have another pear sale. Leave your orders at once. JOHN EGER.

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Blackmun, of Buckhanon, Mich., left this morning for their home after a short visit here with Mr. and Mrs. William Washburn.

In nice fruits and vegetables the Home Grocery always leads. They make a study of this phase of the business, which insures the very best, at low prices.

Mr. and Mrs. William Washburn, who have been receiving a visit from her brother, John Sebring, took him to his home in Medaryville in their automobile this morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Swartzell and two children have returned to Cass township, White county, after a short visit here with his sisters, Mrs. A. E. Aldrich and Airs. Alva Potts.

N. S. Bates and other strawberry growers are also finding ripe berries and they are of a fine flavor and good size. If you have a strawberry patch you may find some ripe ones.

We now have our car of fancy Michigan sand grown potatoes on track. 70c a bushel from car in two-bushel sacks. 75c a bushel from store. JOHN EGER.

Sylvester Gray went to Bluffton to-' day, where he owns the farm on which Harley Lamson livest. They will have a big joint public sale next week, as a preparatory step to Mr. Lamson’s removal to North Dakota.

There will be an excursion trt Louisville, Ky., from Lafayette next Sun day, on account of the Woodman’s conclave. The rate for the round trip from Lafayette is $2.00. The train leaves Lafayette at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.

Mrs. Margaret Pullln, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. George Fate, and Mrs. Charlotte Van Dyke, the latter of Anderson, left this morning for Cedar Lake. After a short visit there they will go to Chicago and thence to Battle Creek, Mich.

Miss Minnie Cox, of Fair Oaks, was taken to Chicago last Sunday, where Bhe will today he operated on for appendicitis. Several months ago she was taken there for the operation but the surgeon found the appendix ruptured and in such bad condition that an operation could not be performed. She has sufficiently recovered to stand the operation and it is expected that it will restore her to health. John R. Phillips, of McCoysburg, was here a short time Monday. He had been at the home of his stepmother, Mrs. Rebecca Phillips, widow of Harvey Phillips, near Monticello, for several days. Mrs. Phillips is about 60 years of age and underwent an operation for hernia last Saturday. She seemed to be getting along very we ll when Mr. Phillips left and the indications were very favorable for her recovery. The Republican would like to have high school correspondent. Some cne to send in the weekly happenings, both of a school and social kind, in which they are interested. The correspondence wtll prove instructive to the writer and entertaining to all scholars and their parents. The correspondent should work in connection with the teachers and endeavor to help school interests. Let ,27 one start right away. impure blood runs you down—makes you an easy victim for organic diseases Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood— cures the cause—builds you up.

The Evening Republican.

Princess tonight —♦ — PICTURE. The Man Haters' Club. ' SONG. Pennyland By Roscoe Wilson.

CUBS CRUSHED AT SECOND GAME OF WORLD’S SERIES. Heavy Batting Philadelphia Athletics With Coomes in the Box Defeat Cubs by Score of 9 to 2. The Cubs were defeated again today by the Athletics and Philadelphia is baseball crazy. The score was 9 to 2 The heavy batters of the American league landed on Mordecai 'Brown from the start and piled up a big lead which the Cubs could not head off. Coomes pitched great ball for the Athletics. Leave your order for kraut cabbage at the Home Grocery now. Miss Emma Wagner went to Lafayette today for a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kennel.

A new suit filed In the circuit court is by Warner Bros., who sue Mack Sullivan for the payment of a note.

Alfred Collins went to Salem, Ind., today, where he has a farm of 230 acres, which he secured in a trade for the mill.

MJ\ and Mrs. C. L. Murphy, of Chicago, came Sunday for a visit of ten days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows.

Mrs. John W. Clouse, of Barkley township, was taken to a Chicago hospital yesterday, where she will undergo an operation.

Mrs. Frank Shide went to Idaville today after a short visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher. Frank is working on a dredge near Idaville. They will hereafter read the Republican.

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.

Joe Pullins and John Reed left this morning for Macon, Miss., to visit Winifred Pullins and look over that country, which Winifred is greatly pleased with. It is possible that they will decide to locate there.

Ean McWilliams and C. D. Williams, ■of Dwight, 111., were here today to see a farm of 600 acres that was left them by their father, David McWilliams. It Is located In Hanging Grove and Milroy townships and the sons have never seen it. Their father died recently. They are engaged in the banking business at Dwight.

We are just unloading this week our thirteenth car of flour since January Ist, 1910. More flour than all the balance of the dealers in town have handled. Quality is what tells. Aristos $1.50; Puritan $1.40, and Diadem $1.35. Every sack warranted satisfactory or money refunded. JOHN EGER.

Mr. and Mrs. John Greene, of Sacramento, California, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long. They have been visiting Mrs. Greene’s relatives in Indianapolis, and will leave for Chicago on their way home tomorrow. Mr. Greene lived in Rensselaer during a portion of his boyhood days, leaving here for Chicago, and later removing to California. He in now engaged in the practice of law! in Sacramento.

Trustee G. L. Parks was in from Milroy township yesterday to advertise a school house letting. He will begin as Boon as possible the erection of a building at the new site for the Banner school. His son, Leon, who is 20 years of age, is convalescent from a severe case of typhoid fever that confined him at home for five weeks. There was one other case in the neighborhood at about the same time, being in the Hasty family.

Still the big pumpkin growers continue to be heard from. Albert Brand raised one on his garden spot that weighed 63 pounds and he is not certain that it Is done growing yet. He weighed it right on the vine and it is apt to grow enough more this time of the year to beat the Keener township pumpkins. Let other growers weigh their pumpkins and get into the contest. The pumpkins might be brought into the Republican office for exhibition. There is a vacant room adjoining the Republican office that is avail able for this purpose and we will be glad to display all products brought to us.

“Doan’s Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent."— Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Labor Statistics, Augusta. Me.

Entered January 1, 1807, as Meond-ctesa mail matter, at tba poat-offlea at Bansaalaar, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1870.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1910.

PETERSON SPEECH WORST EVER DELIVERED HERE.

Democratic Candidate for Congress Resorted to Misrepresentation, Class Predjudice and Deceit. The speech delivered at the opera house Monday evening by John B. Fetprson, democratic candidate for congress, was the worst political claptrap and buncombe ever delivered by an orator in Rensselaer. Mr. Peterson appealed to class prejudice, charged millionaires with being moral lepers, said we could do without the manufacturies, falsified tariffs and juggled statistics, alleged that the farmer gets but 35 per cent of the price of his products, made a snappish appeal for the votes of the old soldiers, and resorted to such cheap methods of misrepresentation as to brand him the weakest and the cheap est candidate for congress that has ever received a nomination in the 10th congressional district. Mr. Peterson arrived late, having missed the milk train in Chicago and having come to Rensselaer by automobile. He had an audience of about 150 men and women, a considerable number of whom were republicans. He was introduced by E. P. Honan, who acted as_ chairman of the meeting. He spoke for an hour and thirtyfive minutes and was given very careful attention, many of his hearers being shocked by the blandness of his misrepresentation. Most of the speech was devoted to the tariff and he explained that he was a believer in tariff for revenue only, thought that the tariff should be knocked off of every article of common use and consumption, and that the revenue would be derived by having a tariff on a few articles which the rich use. He would make it impossible for any rich to exist by shutting up all the factories and all the things the people wear and a good part of what they eat brought over from foreign countries. He said that he could go over to Washington and in fourteen days single handed readjust the tariff and put the country in a condition so that every fellow would get what was coming to him, so the- poor man would wear custom made clothes at $lO per suit, the poor man’s family would sleep between the best woolen blankets and not get up until noon and the rich met, whose brains and industry have placed them at the heads of great employing institutions would have to quit business and hustle for his daily bread. He said that he was a lawyer, a banker and a farm owner and manager and that he managed his farm successfully (even at 35 cents on the dollar) and that his bank had never failed to honor a check even during the money stringency of 1907. In introducing him, Mr. Honan had made this claim for him, which was rather a queer ond for Mr. Honan, inasmuch as he was a stockholder in the First National Bank of Rensselaer when the agreement of all banks was made in Jasper county. Business men knew at that time and know now that the organization of the local banks was a protection not only to themselves but to all their patrons because it prevented the money from being withdrawn from the local communities and centered in the cities, and Mr. Peterson’s bank deserves no special credit because he failed to do what other banks did for the protection of their customers.

Mr. Peterson had carefully selected a few tariff schedules, only a few, out of the 2,024 that were considered in the Payne-Aldrich bill, and these he misrepresented. He said that prices in Bixteen months following the enactment of the Dingley tariff increased about 200 per cent on wire nails, blassware, window glass, etc. This would mean* that if the tariff was to blame, that the tariff on these things was 200 per cent, but this was not the case and it is a fact that the price of many things raised with the prosperity that followed the passage of the Dingley bill on which the tariff was not changed in the least. The speaker thought that it was a graet thing that a man could buy a tailormade suit of clothes in London, free trade England, for $lO, and said that if the tariff on wool and clothing was done away with, the same thing could be done in this country, He probably did not know that it costs from $lO to $25 to pay American labor for making the clothes In this country and that it is this protection to American labor that keeps it employed at-good wages and makes it easier to pay S2O to S4O for clothes in America than it is $lO in low-waged England. He assailed the tariff on woolen products and said, almost with tears in his eyes, that if the tariff was withdrawn from woolen blankets all the poor people could sleep between warm blankets in the winter time and have twice as many for the same price that they now have. Boo! Hoo! Poor Banker Peterson, how sorry he feels for the poor people on the south side. He spoke of the tariff on cotton goods, when he well knows that the tariff was established at the earnest demand of southern democrats who wanted the product of their farms protected. His argument about stockings was the same old clap-trap. He . would destroy a great manufacturing In-

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PURTELLE BRINGS BOND TO GUARANTEE CONSTRUCTION.

Railroad Promoter Brings Bankers Security Co. Bond for $5,000 Which Will Be Filed With Auditor. / Eugene Purtelle, the interurban railroad promotor, was in Rensselaer a short time today. He brought with him a certified bond for $5,000 which he left with George W. Goff, and which will be presented at the next meeting of the county commissioners. Purtelle is asking for an election in Marion township to vote a subsidy for the railroad he is trying to construct. He stated that he would put up a $5,000 bond that he would forfeit if active construction was not begun within 30 days after the subsidy was voted. He will ask that a date be set for the election. Purtelle has made good his statement relating to the bond and Rensselaer and Marlon township should give the road the encouragement he asks. It will mean a big thing for Rensselaer. He is working night and day in the interest of the road and left here by automobile for Lake county? where he is at present actively engaged in promoting the work of the road and where his surveying and construction crew is at work. The financing of this road is somewhat of a mystery, but as the eastern financial journals have dwelt on the project as a possibility and the fact that the Erie and other railroad officials are keeping their eyes on this project, there is almost a certainty that there is more back of the than is apparent in connecting the central Indiana interurban lines with the gateway of Chicago.

George Ferguson Returns from West and Locates in Wheatfield.

George W. Ferguson and wife and three children, formerly of Rensselaer, but for some years residents of Low Gap, Wash., haye left the west and located in Wheatfield, where ho will be engaged in the livery business with his brother-in-law, Ward Hamilton. He is a son of Rev. B. F. Ferguson, who went to Washington shortly before his death.

Relatives Come From a Distance To Help Celebrate Birthday.

“Grandmother” Antrim was the center of attraction and the guest of nonor at a big dinner given last Saturday, her 94th birthday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rachael Scott. Those present were, R. R. Hume, of Kokomo; R. C. Massey, of Medaryville'; Frazier Antrim and wife and children, of Hebron; Mrs. George Morgan, Mrs. Alice Howe and daughter, of Rensselaer, and Julius Huff and family, of south of- town. ’ The dinner was given as a surprise and “Grandmother” was equal to the occasion and enjoyed It heartily.

Kankakee River at Dunn’s Bridge One of the Prettiest Places on Earth.

“One of the most beautiful places I have ever seen,” remarked a Rensselaer citizen a few days ago, “is the Kankakee river at Dunn’s bridge, north of Tefft.” He went on to state that he visited the place only a few days ago and was surprised to find that there were a number of nice cottages there and to see how fine the bank was at Dunn’s pleasure park, where great oaks make a splendid shade and where the river is broad, deep and calm as a lake. Persons wishing a beautiful summer home can do no better than to buy one of the lots at Dunn’s park. They are worth more than Mr. Dunn is asking for them and there will always be a demand for them.

Athletics Defeat Chicago Cubs In First Game of World’s Series.

With the Bender in the box, Connie Mackguillicudy’s Philadelphia Athletics won the first of the world’s series games from the Chicago Cubs Monday. The score was 4to 1. Bender held the Cubs to three hits, two of which occurred in the 9th inning and coupled by Strunk, permitted the Cubs to make one score, Tinker being the man to cross the plate. Bender struck out 8 men, Sheckard twice, Zimmerman twice, Davis, Hoffman, Stelnfelt and Schulte. The mighty Overall was knocked out of the box in the third inning and Mclntyre succeeded him. The result of the game has glven’the Phlldelphia their stock quotations all over the country as Overall was counted upon to win whenever he pitched.

Card of Thanks.

For the many kind acts of friends and neighbors during the sickness and following the death of our beloved mother, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks. The Children of Mrs. O’Meara.

Honey Wanted.

I can use a limited amount of honey to supply my trade and will pay cash for comb honey. LESLIE CLARK. Take no chance on your flour, buy the “Best,” at the Home Grocery, and have the best, only $1.50 a sack.

3 The Prettiest Moving Picture Show in the City. BEX WASHER, Proprietor. ————■

YTEATHEB FORECAST. Increasing cloudiness with showers late tonight or Wednesday. Cooler Wednesday afternoon.

Obituary of Mrs. N. S. O'Meara.

Sophia N. Hopper was born at Newark, Ohio, June 23, 1829. She was married to Sylvester O’Meara on the Bth of October; 1848. To this union were born eight children, namely, Mrs. Anna Maloy, Mrs. Mary E. Travis, Mrs. Catherine Eiglesbach, Mrs. Grace Donnelly, Thomas and Frank O’Meara and Mrs. Alice Dalton. Two daughters, Catherine and Grace passed away several years ago, and also one son in infancy. Mrs. O’Meara lived the life of a Christian, was a kind and patient mother and a loving companion. When she was married she became a convert to the Catholic faith and lived and died in the faith she so strongly maintained. She quietly passed to the beyond on Friday, October 14th, at the advanced age of 81 years.

Marriage Licenses.

Oct. 12—Ernest Washington Dewey, born St. Paul, Minn., July 7,1882, present residence LaGrange, 111., occupation service department Western Electric Co., Chicago, and Ruth Ashlock Libby, born Jacksonville, 111., Sept. 28, 1888, present resident Rensselaer, occupation housekeeping. First marriage for each. Oct. 13—John Homer Rusk, born Champaign county, 111., Sept. 4, 1871, present residence Barkley township, occupation farming, and Bessie Saltwell, born Barkley township, Dec. 21, 1886, present residence Barkley township, occupation housekeeping. First marriage for each. Oct. 15—John Edward Webb, born Newcastle on Tyne, England, Nov. 4, 1879, present residence Rensselaer, occupation fireman at Babcock & Hopkins elevator, first marriage, and Lillian Dora Sayler, born Surrey, Ind., Nov. 15, 1885, present residence Rensselaer, occupation housekeeping. Second marriage, first dissolved by divorce September, 1910.

Lecture Dates.

Oct. 26—Robert Parker Miles, dramatic lecturer. Nov. 30—The Schuberts, a mixed quartette of singers and entertainers. Dec. 9—L. B. Wickersham, popular lecturer. Jan. 19—Booth Lowrey, humorist. March 13—The Bellharz Entertainers. Extra Number—Byron King, last year’s favorite, whose date has not been set.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ — PICTURE. The Marriage of Ester, historical. Lerrin’B Abbey, St. Hornorats Island, scenic. SONG. When the Summer Days are Gone

Ada’s Sale OF Draft Colts ON Oct. 20/10 At the farm, 7 miles northeast of Kentland, Indiana. * 60 HEAD A fine lot of young draft mares, most of them In foaL The best draft geldings I ever owned. Matched teams a specialty. By far the best eolts I have ever offered. Size, quality and finish combined. Mules, Poland China Hogs, Cattle, and Sheep. Solid for Cotologuo. Don’t fail to see them aa they are the cream of the state. Will meet trains at Kentland and Brook. WILL H. ADE. David Harris, Manager.

Protection for Your Little Ones!

Although the *new class of Royal Neighbors met last evening, the election of officers and closing of the charter is left for tomorrow evening; so every woman of health and character desiring to proptect her little ones with this cheapest insurance in America, will take medical examination of Doctors English or Gwin, and come to I. O. O. F. Hall tomorrow evening for completion of the Camp. DEPUTY MINNIT DILLEN, At the Medicus home. Those who use the PUlsbury flour never have any trouble in getting good bread. Rhoades Grocery handles this celebrated flour.

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