Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — Page 1

No. 256.

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local happenings. Don’t forget that the football gamfe will be called at 1 o’clock Saturday. 1 ry our new home-made dill .pickles. , «• JOHN EGER. Del hart Strang, of near Fair Oaks, has returned from a stay of some time in Ransom countv. N. Dak. We will unload a car of extra fancy Michigan potatoes Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 24th and 25th. The G. E. MURRAY CO. Mrs. W. S. Day left this morning for LaPorte, where she will visit her son, Omar Day and wife, and Mr. Day’3 brother, George Day. She will also visit Mrs. Chas. Brown, at Knox, before returning home. J. B. Wiseman, of Newton county, not far from Fair Oaks, has returned from northeastern Montana, where he has built a house on a claim he took out last spring. His son Victor remained out there for awhile. The dry summer was hard on things there but he had a sample of dry land oats that ran 35 bushels to the acre. He will return there in the spring. x We’ve arranged it. A special representative from our Chicago tailoring firm, W. D. Schmidt & Co., is going to be here Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28th and 29th. He is bringing 50!) samples of woolens, in large pieces. Better look them over; it’ll be worth while; $12.50 to $40.00. MODEL CLOTHING CO., S. LEOPOLD, Manager. Mrs. Mary Peyton returned from Lafayette Tuesday evening, where she had been called by the death of her sister, Mrs. A. R. Spaulding, whose death occurred last 'Saturday morning shortly before Misses Grace and Wilma Peyton reached Lafayette. Mrs. Spaulding was a daughter of “Grandmother” Weathers and was 63 years of age. She formerly lived in Rensselaer. She was a widow and left no children. Hon. I. D. Dunn was down from Kankakee township over night. He is feeling pretty good for a man in his 87th year and continues to take a deep interest in his pleasure park at the Kankakee river. So great has the demand for lots been that he has decided to lay out a tier of lots in the rear of the ones on the river front. A 30 foot street will divide the front and rear lots and a street will also run down to the river. The Republican will publish a picture within a few days of one of the pretty cottages built there this year. If Mr. Dunn’s health keeps good he expects to have a big celebration at the park next 4th of July, which will be his 88th birthday. A Classified Adv. will sell it.

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HEAR LANDIS SATURDAY; BIG REPUBLICAN MEETING.

Former Congressman and Eloquent Exponent of the Tariff Will Address Audience at 2:80. Hon. Chas. B. Landis, of Delphi, a former congressman from the 9th Indiana district, and the man who was engaged in a severe political contest in 1894 in this district, when by compromise both Landis and Johnson withdrew and Dr. Hatch was nominated for congress. Mr. Landis made his speech at Irvington Wednesday night and the Indianapolis Star publishes it in full. It sparkles with the Landis sort of oratory, is brilliant, witty and bristles with facts that will make his auditors think. Mr. Landis is a republican of the uncompromising sort, the kind that believes in making the party right and maintaining it against the efforts of democrats to factionalize it. In his Irvington speech he said: “I want to say to you that if the people of this country forget or ignore the results, the lessons of the last democratic free-trade administration, it will bring about a condition of affairs in the midst of which Mary will be vine-clad, as well as the cottage.” If the day is favorable Mr. Landis will speak on the court house lawn; if unfavorable in the opera house. At 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Come to Rensselaer and hear one of the best orators in' the United States.

Death Overtakes Young Mother After Sickness of a Month.

Michael Kanne and family were notified this Thursday morning of the death at Campus, 111., of the wife of his son George. About a month ago a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kanne and the mother became ill from some infection a few days afterward. Everything possible was done to save her life but death resulted Wednesday night. The baby survives and is the only child of the parents. ’Michael Kanne and ‘sons Edward and Tony left for Campus today and Art Kanne and Mrs. Steve Kohley will go tomorrow. The funeral will be held Saturday. Take down the bars, turn yourself loose among the handsome woolen' samples shown here Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28th and 29th, in large pieces and see what happens. It’s a cinch you’ll find the pattern and style for. that Fall and Winter Suit and Overcoat you’ve been thinking about. MODEL CLOTHING CO., S. LEOPOLD, Manager. Potatoes still too green; prices going lower. Wait for the Home Grocery’s big two-car unloading, at the lowest price yet. Leave your order and rest assured that you will be protected and get the very lowest prices. “Best" flour, $1.50. —Home Grocery.

Entered January I, 1897, as ssoond-dass mail matter, at the post-offlea at Benaeelaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, ig79.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1916.

RECORD OF A. A. FELL AS TP. TRUSTEE

Drew in Salary for Four Years $1,550.00, and iftMud in After Failure of Parker Bank Sum of $1,785.70. MORTGAGED HIS FARM & i Republican Candidate for County Treasurer Borrowed Money on Farm to Meet Township Needs. > . ■, A. A. Fell, of Carpenter township, is the republican candidate for treasurer of Jasper county. He is not extensively known throughout Jasper county but is known to every man in Carpenter township. During the fall he has been busy caring for a 77-acre farm and until the past few days has not bqen out soliciting votes. His name is as good as gold in Carpenter township, where his honor stands at the very pinnacle of good citizenship, and he meets up to the highest requirement of merit for the office he seeks. The Jasper County Democrat would smirch his character for honesty by claiming that he had not been honest in the transactions following the failure of the Parker bank in Remington, and the Republican takes pleasure in presenting to its readers all the facts of his experience following the failure of that bank. The bank closed its doors on Dec. 19, 1907. Mr. Fell had deposited in the bank at that time $3,210.70. Twelve days later he made the December draw for the township from the county, amounting to $4,712.75. With this money he carried on the business of the township until the funds began to be exhausted when he went to George A. Chappel, of Remington, and made application for a loan on his farm to get money with which to carry on the township’s business. He borrowed $1,785.70 and put the money into the township treasury and met the bills of Carpenter township as they came due. In July he made the semi-annual draw and there was enough money to meet all the expenses of the township and when he turned the office over to his successor the.lst of January, 1909, he turned over about $7,000, and the $1,785.70 of his own money went villi it. The day after the bank failure he first made an application for a loan, expecting to pay into the township treasury the amount that was lost through the bank failure. He called his advisory board together, consisting of George Welsh, John Hudson and Robert Irwin, and told them what he expected to do. They told him to wait and see what developments there would be in the bank’s settlement. Acting on their advice he waited, but when the township needed money he put the mortgage on the farm and met every obligation of the township. On the first of January, 1908, a law went into effect that relieved trustees and other officers of the responsibility of selecting a depository and by bonding the depository relieved the trustee of the possibility of loss. The law went into effect 13 days after the Parker bank failed. Before that time the officer selected a depository and chose the one most convenient to the business of .his locality. There was but one choice for Mr. Fell to make, that was the Parker bank, of Remington, and in keeping the township money there he did what any other citizen of that township would have done had he been the trustee. Was it right that he should lose the money deposited? The legislature decided that it was not right and passed a law to relieve responsible officers of such responsibility. . A democratic governor, Thos. R. Marshall, signed several bills for the relief of democratic officers who had lost money in a similar way in Jackson and Washington counties. Was it right or is it right that A. A. Fell should’lose by the fact that he had deposited in good faith the peoples’ money in a bank that the people were doing business with and that waff presumed by every man in Carpenter township to be solvent? Mr. Fell’s term of office expired Dec. 31, 1908, and he called his advisory board together and showed them that he had lost in the bank $3,210.70 and that he had mortgaged his farm and paid into the township treasury $1,785.70, and that there was still owing the township by reason of the bank’s failure $1,425. There had been paid in dividends at that time not a cent and the probability was that the < bank would not pay more than 20 per cent. For four years in office as trustee,

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CRUMPACKER MEETING BEST OF CAMPAIGN

Congressman Delivered Fine Address, and Met Frankly the Issues and the Newspaper Inquisitions. s SEVEN CASES IN 7 YEARS Prepared Brief for Corporation Which Later Employed Peterson and Continued the Case. The opera house was filled, main floor and balcony, Wednesday evening, to hear Congressman E. D. Crumpacker and Finley D. Mount discuss the issues of the campaign from a republican standpoint. It was a splendid meeting and Mr. Crumpacker held the closest attention of the large audience and delivered a speech that for sound argument and honeßt appeal to the intelligence of voters has had no equal in any speech ever delivered in Jasper county. Mr. Crumpacker told of his attitude toward the tariff legislation and of his effort in committee on the floor of the house to have the schedules on some articles made lower than they ultimately were, but that when the bill was up for final passage he voted for It because it contained in his judgment a substantial preponderence of good and because the party was pledged to a revision of the tariff and he wanted to help carry out the pledges of the party. He defended the tariff bill in the main, said it was producing revenue, and by giving protection to American industries and American labor, was cpniributing largely to the era of general prosperity the country is enjoying. He related a number of the misstatements that have been made about the tariff and charged his opponent with participation in this misrepresentation. Mr. Crumpacker pointed with some pride, and It is commendable, that during the fourteen years that he had represented the tenth congressional district, he had always been on hand for the opening of the congress and had always been there for the close and had given the most conscientious attention to his duty as a representative of the people during every session. -He pointed out the fact that he had never left congress to look after either private business or politics and that he had never returned to his district to attend a convention that nominated him for congress. He took up a few questions asked of him by the Jasper County Democrat, prompted by the Willie Robertson press bureau at Fowler, and touching upon some legal connection Mr. Crumpacker had had with three or four cades. The principal one of these was a case much discussed by democratic newspapers, in which Mr. Crumpacker represented the Standard Oil Co. against Fordick. He stated that the counsel for the Standard Oil Co. died in 1901, and that he was asked to take up the case and he did so, preparing a brief in behalf of the company. It was during the vacation between terms of congress and before the case was completed he had returned to congress and the oil company turned the matter over to Mr. Peterson, his democratic opponent, who dismissed the work he had done for the case and prepared a new defense and who had been looking after all the Standard Oil cases in that section of the state since that time. He stated that he had two years before he was a candidate for congress, in 1894, represented the Columbia Athletic Club, and that his co-counsel was John B. Peterson, his present opponent. He stated that he had never heard of Kinsey & Co., the alleged bucket shop operators, and had never represented them, but that he had acted as the attorney for some board of trade branches in Indiana and had sought to prove that the operations of the Chicago board of trade was a gambling scheme and that he secured three members of the United States supreme court to vote in line with his argument. He spoke frankly, he did not try to deceive nor resort to subterfuge. He merely asked that his in--1 quisitor publish his answers, but, of course, this will not be done. Congressman Crumpacker referred to the fact that since he had been a member of congress he has secured the passage of 3,000 private pension bills for old soldiers in his district, that be has always favored legislation for the old soldier, that he went repeatedly to the committee that had the doilar-a-day pension bills in hand and asked that the bills be brought up for passage, that he supported the Olmstead bill which provided for the age pension, but argued that the mini-

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mum pension should be $24 per month insteafl of sl2. He said that the passage of a dollar-a-day pension bill would enable the soldiers now in the national homes to return to their old communities among their old friends where they would pass their -remaining days in happiness. He made no appeal for support based upon anything but his past performances as a friend of the old soldier and a pledge that he will personally do all in his power to secure the legislation they so well need and so richly deserve. Mr. Crumpacker’s speech was given the most careful attention by the large audience and was well received, many pronouncing it the ablest political address they ever heard. Finley P. Mount is the republican candidate for attorney-general. His home is in Crawfordsville. He is a nephew of former Governor Mount. He has never held an office and was never before a candidate. He talked some on the tariff but mostly about state issues. He had the figures to show that the democratic administration had not carried out its loudly proclaimed policy of retrenchment in the expenditure of the money of the state, but had increased appropriations and expenses and that outside of the expense of the public accounting law the increase in salaries and of extra employees the state spent $55,000 more a year than it did under the Hanly administration. His speech carried conviction with it and the taxpayers will begin to ask before long why this administration based on economic expenditures had not met the maturing bonds of state debt. The meeting was a good one. The people who heard it were instructed and found no bitterness but plenty of plain facts to ponder over.

Found Fine Land and Big Crops in Mississippi and South.

John Reed and Joe Pullins returned Wednesday night from a prospecting trip to Macon, Miss., near which place Winfred Pullins is managing a large plantation on which are grown cotton, alfalfa, corn and other products. Mr. Reed recently severed his connection with J. J. Lawler, as superintendent of the big Lawler ranch east of Rensselaer, and also contracted for the sale of his farm north of Rensselaer. He expects to move from Jasper county and may decide to locate in Mississippi, where he \ considers there is a fine opportunity for northern spirit and progress. Both he and Joe Pullins had several good managerial jobs offered them, and Mr. Reed priced several farms and may decide to buy and locate there. He states that Winfred Pullins is getting rich and will probably buy and make that country his permanent home. Mr. Reed brought back with him samples of cotton, Japan clover, corn, pomegranate and pecans, which are .on exhibition at Larsh’s drug store.

Football Game at 1:00 O’clock; Landis Speech Will Be at 2:30.

The high school team has arranged to start its football game with Kankakee Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock sharp, and if it is not finished by 2:20 the game will be brought to a close at that hour, thus permitting the Kankakee players to return home on the 3:13 train. „ < The speech of Hon. Chas. B. Landis will be at 2:30, so that those wishing to see the football game will be sure to get back in time to hear the speech.

Woman’s Relief Corps Entertain Remington Visitors at Inspection.

The W. R. C. met at the G. A. R. hail Tuesday and was inspected by Mrs. Martin, of Covington. A fine dinner was served and fifteen members of the Remington Corps were present. The meeting was greatly enjoyed by all present. The next meeting will be on Monday evening, Nov. 7th. The best tea and coffee —The Millar Line—Home Grocery.

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A TwcvDay Exhibit Of all the approved and fashionable suitings for Fall has been secured for this city and this store by special arrangement just concluded with W. D. Schmidt & Company, the Big Merchant Tailors, Chicago. This big tailoring firm will send a representative direct from Chicago with their complete line of 500 all wool fabrices shown in the large pieces, to be here for two days, Friday and Saturday, Oct 28 and 29, to display the line, take measures for either immediate or future delivery and post all who-eare to meet him on what is being worn in Chicago and the large cities. This Will Be The Greatest Fashion event ever held in this ffity. We feel a Just pride in having secured this exhibit for our customers and townsmen. It 4s a privelege not to be lightly thought of to select clothes from so "fine a selection and under such splendid advantages, at the same time having the benefit of an authority ( on fashions, with whom to talk over the season’s clothes needs. Also comes a lull line of woolens f Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits. Will be pleased to have the ladies of Rensselaer call. * „ Model Clothing Company S, Leopold, Manager TheEllisTheatre J. H. 8. ELLIS, Manager. °’" “ssSTotl. 28 ' » . Mr. M. fERNE Presents that Famously Funny Farce, Maloney’s Wedding Day with o Murray & Murphy And a Host of Commedians. Ail Avalanche of Wit and Humor Corns and So# for Yourootf. til Muoioal Numbsro. Prices, 25c, 35c, 50c Our Classified Column will sell, buy, find, rent, or exchange it. Phone 18.

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