Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — Page 1
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local happenings. Remember the Depot Grocery. Special bargains In tennis flannels and wool blankets at Murray’s. A. L. Padgett made a business trip to Lafayette today. Ladies , misses and children’s cloaks at wholesale prices at Murray’s. Better stuff at lower prices.—Home Grocery. » Born, today, t)ec. 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. F. King, an 11-pound boy. To avoid consumption,»eat Fate’s Quaker bread, 16 ounces to the pound. Hear Wickersham at the M. E. church Friday evening, Dec. 9th. Home-grown sand potatoes at Murray’s, 40c per bushel. Guaranteed New York buckwheat flour at Murray’s. Born, Monday, Dec. sth, to Mr. antjb Mrs. Leonard Keister, of Jordan township, a son. Fill your coal bins now. Coal famine is threatened. Call 273. Maines & Hamilton. If you will buy your rubber footwear at Murray’s, you will get guaranteed first quality goods. Try a dozen of -those nice, juicy Florida oranges, 3 for 5c or 20c a dozen. JOHN EGER. Will Kennedy went to Delphi today to attend the funeral of an aged bachelor uncle. Remember the lecture at the M. E. church, Friday evening. Admission 35 cents. Just arrived, a big line of the very best brands of cigars, for the Christmas trade, at The Home Grocery.
Clyde Bowman, of Lafayette returned home today after spending several days with Ed Oliver and family, at Newland. Let us have your coal orders. Our prices are right and delivery is prompt, fttaines & Hamilton, phone 273. Homer Arnold, who is attending business college at Marion, will hereafter read the .Republican, his father having directed that it be sent to him. We have buckwheat flour for sale. Maines & Hamilton, phone 273.
„ Why ' w»I ! not jgSF' I healthful * n heating T-JAVEN’T you 'KWM ffZrxfl • A noticed when w t^le indoor air is so hot < OraHKH&. an< * t^iat P e °pi e 'll fec ‘ chai y? h is be- " r®" lb cause t l’ e hot air from the furnace in its search I f° r mo > sture is robbing iff your skin, eyes, throat, f lungs, and nostrils. ' AMERICAN Radiators and IDEAL. Boilers never overheat the air, out warm it mildly and genially. It is the most healthful heat known that is why they are used exclusively in hospitals, greenhouses, laboratories, and in palatial homes. XliCßlflkT Tv\Cll 316 now ma<^e U 1 »»es to fit smallest AM k(ANyI Dr Al cotta K es > st ° rcs « « c - The P !ices are *° IV LLI\IVJUIA IXZLJ ll_, attractive and the rMU | ta SO economical, fl Radiators no one can longer afford to put up with the nuisatice or run the risks of old-fashioned heating. Aik for book (free). E D. RHOADES & SON Heating Contractors Rensselaer, « Indiana
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y' PICTURE. Mental Science. The Sheriff and Miss Jones. SONG. ; j Are You Lonesome, By J. F. Frederick, j - -
Blanket and underwear week at Murray’s. The phone number of the Depot Grocery is 202. Try it once. ' A barrel of very fine sauer kraut; 5c a quart at The Home Grocery. We still have some of those nice New York Baldwin apples at $3.25 a barrel or 35c a peck. JOHN EGER. Harve Robinson, of .Sentinel Butte, N. Dak., arrived today for a short visit at his old home. ' He is engaged in the banking and ranching business in the northwest. You can all have them how for your breakfast. The bottom has fallen Out of the grapefruit market. Nice, heavy grapefruit only 5c each. JOHN EGER. Remember special preparations for the Christmas present proposition. Everything in special holiday boxes. Select your presents early, we will take—care of them for you until wanted. G. E. MURRAY CO. H. M. Shipman will go to Brookston tomorrow and spend a few days with a'nephew. He will then go to Remington and other places and finally end up at Dix, 111., where he will again spend the winter with a sister. Miss Merle Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Harriq, who has been* sick with typhoid fever for the past six weeks, is now improving. She is gaining strength slowly, but her condition is now very encouraging. From two of the very best candy kitchens known to modern candy making, the Home Grocery is now receiving the Christmas candies and confections. It is opening exceptionally fine and the prices are ranging very low.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe went to Winamac this morning, where she will remain with him during the time he is selling his stock of goods there. She is still quite poorly and has been confined closely at home since returning from the hospital two months ago. Frank Shide and wife returned to Idaville today after a visit of several days in Rensselaer. They are working- on the Gross dredge, which was compelled to shut down for want of sufficient water to float their boat. Water is now being pumped into the ditch from another ditch and work has been resumed.
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Bank of Wheatfield $ 22.90 State Bank of Remington.... 41.68 Trust & Svgs. bank, Rensselaer 48.11 State Bank of Bensselaer 60.66 First National bank, Rensselaer 103.11 The report of the superintendent of the county farm was examined and approved. The receipts for the quarter were $629.43 and disbursements $860.26; seventeen inmates. Everett Halstead filed petition for refund of taxes. Auditor directed to draw warrant for the amount of taxes paid on bonds, less amount remitted to state. The report of A. Woodworth and J.C. Huston, gravel road superintendents, was examined and approved. * In the matter of the election for the Northwestern Traction company inspectors were appointed as follows First precinct, S. R. Nichols; second precinct, Ed Parkinson; third precinct, Charles Dean; fourth precinct, R. B. Harris. Election commissioners, J. H. S. Ellis and N. Littlefield.. John Biggs appointed drainage commissioner and directed to qualify and give bond ip accordance with law. Auditor directed to give notice of letting contract for county ofilcers’ supplies on Dec. "3, 1910. In the matter of the Snip stone road, Chas, E. Kersey filed bid for $1,141.55 for road No. 1; $2,326.55 for road No. 5. Romke Slpkema filed bid for $3,000 for road No. 2; SIO,OOO for road No. 4. Tunis Snip filed bid for $2,500 for road No. 3. All blds continued until January term. Chas. R. Peregrine files final report in Fennel ditch; allowed $56.98 for services as superintendent. The ditch was found to be completed and superintendent discharged. H. W. Miller files final report in Waterman ditch. Same approved and superintendent discharged. The time for the completion of the Smallfelt ditch was extended to July 1, 1911. The superintendent of the Prevo ditch was directed to refund to the county the costs advanced in Dunker ditch in the sum of $66.00, out of funds in the Prevo ditch. The bond of W. F. Osborne as superintendent of the Jungles ditch was exaYnined and approved.
Monticello Industrial Company Sues Non-Paying Lot Buyers.
Monticello formed an industrial association to boom the town, just about the same as the Rensselaer Commercial club. They held a lot sale and on the strength of a number of good contracts, borrowed some money to pay for the land and float a factory project or two. The lot contractors did not all pay up and when the borrowed money was due, the officers of the association were asked to settle, and they have brought suit against the men who contracted for lota, but did not pay them out. The Rensselaer club paid for its land, and many of the lot purchasers paid cash in advance for their lota. Many of the others have kept up their payments, but a few have fallen down. There is a growing fund in the hands of the treasurer of the association, which can be used for some good purpose at some future time. The annual meeting of the commercial club will be held next Wednesday evening, December 14. Nine directors will be elected. had been in rather delicate health, Biggest bargain in North Dakota. 160 acres of wild prairie land in Ransom county, all level as a floor and as pretty land as you ever looked ever. One crop of |2.50 flax will pay for this land. If sold quick. |29.0v per acre takes it. Adjoining land held at |4O per acre. Where can you beat it? W. B. Chisman, Lisbon, N. Dak.
We will have plenty of holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreathing for the holidays on sale at the green house. KING FLORAL CO. The Depot Grocery allows none to undersell them. Give them a trial.
RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1910.
HALLECK RESIGNS AS COUNTY ATTORNEY.
George A. Williams Employed to Succeed Senator, Who Will Go to Indianapolis In Janwiry. Owing to the fact that he will be absent to attend the session of the state legislature during the months of January and .February; and also because of his growing legal practice, Senator A. Halleck tendered his resignation Tuesday to the board of county commissioners. Attorney George A. Williams was employed by the commissioners to succeed Mr. Halleck. George L* Morgan petitioned the commissioners for the position of fireman at the court house heating plant. The petition was denied. The contract for supplies for the county farm was awarded as follows: John Eger, groceries, $173.72; Roth Bros., meats, $14.00; F. G. Kresler dry goods, $74.62. The county ofilcers reported fees collected as follows: Clerk, $296.50; auditor, $138.75; recorder, $600.95.— ~ The county depositories reported interest due the county in the following amounts:
For The Holidays.
SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS HEARS TAFT’S MESSAGE.
Document Contains 85,000 Words, Advacates Sane Tariff Legislation And Pension Increase. Congress gave respectful attention to the reading of President Taft’s annual message Tuesday. It is a long document, containing 35,000 words. It is not probable that favorable action can be given to all the propositions recommended in the document. The outstanding features of the measure are: He declares it is time to stop legislating with reference to regulation of corporations and to witness the effect of a vigorous execution of the laws already on the statute books. Just at this time, the president says, he believes the activities of the government in addition to enforcement of the laws, should be directed toward economy of administration, the enlargement of opportunities for foreign trade, the building up of home industry and the strefigthmMng of confidence of capital in domStic investment. Mr. Taft recommends strongly some form of ship subsidy to increase American shipping, especially to South America. The schedules of the rates of duty in the Payne tariff act have been subjected to a great deal of criticism, some of it just, more of .it unfounded, and to much 'misrepresentation. The act was adopted in pursuance of a declaration by the party which is responsible, for it, that a customs bill should be a tariff for the protection of home industries, the measure of the protection to be the difference between the cost of producing the imported article abroad and the cost of producing it at home, together with such addition to that difference as might give a reasonable profit to the home producer. The basis for the criticism of this tariff is that in respect to a number of the schedules the declared measure, was not followed, but a higher difference retained or inserted by way of undue discrimination in favor of certain industries and manufactures. Little, if any, of the criticism of the tariff has been directed against the protective principal above stated; but the main body of the criticism has been based on the charge that the attempt to conform to the measure of protection was not honestly and sincerely adhered to.
The time in which the tariff was prepared undoubtedly was so short as to make it impossible for ehe congress and its experts to acquire the information necessary Strictly 1 to conform to the declared measure. In order to avoid criticism of this kind in the future and for the purpose of more nearly conforming to the party promise, congress at its last session made provision at my request for the continuance of a board created under the authority of the maximum and minimum clause of the tariff bill, and authorized this board to expend the money appropriated under my direction for the ascertainment of the cost of production at home and abroad of the various articles included in the schedules of the tariff. The tariff board thus appointed and authorized has been diligent in preparing Itself for the necessary investigations. The hope of those who have advocated the use of this board, for tariff purposes is that the question of the rate of a duty imposed shall become more of a business question and less of a political question, to be ascertained by experts of long training and accurate knowledge. The shock to business, due to the announcement that a new tariff bill is to be prepared, will be avoided by treating the schedules one by one as occasion shall arise for a change in the rates of each, and only after such a report upon the schedule by the tariff board copipetent to make such report. It is not likely that the board will be able to make a report during the present session of congress on any of the schedules, because a proper examination involves an enormous amount of detail and a great deal of care, but I hope to be able at the opening of the new congress, or at least during the session of that congress, to bring to its attention the facts In regard to those schedules in the present tariff that may prove to need amendment. I can not too much empaslze the importance and benefit of the plan above proposed for the treatment of the tariff. It facilitates the removal of noteworthy defects in an important law without a disturbance of business prosperity, which is even more important to the happiness and the comfort of the people than the elimination of instances of injustice in the tariff. The inquiries which the members of the tariff board made last summer into the methods pursued by other governments with reference to ? the fixing of tariffs and the determination of their effect upon trade, show that each government maintains an office or bureau, the officers and employes of which have made their life work the study of tariff matters, of foreign and home prices and cost of articles Imported, and the effect of the tariff upon trade, so that whenever h change is thought to be necessary in the tariff law this
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The Prettiest Moving Picture Show In the City. BEX WABBTEB, Proprietor.
“Editorially” for Temperance, But The Ad Room Is for Whiskey.
The Democrat claims to be a good temperance paper “editorially,” but says that it don’t let sentiment run away with its business sense. This is the excuse for printing a three column advertisement for whiskey. Editorially the Democrat don’t believe in whiskey, but for $8 it will sell its columns to a distiller. In other words money is the ruler in the Democrat counting boom and no matter if the editor and the business manager are one and the same person, the Democrat will sacrifice a conviction for $8 and turn bartender to all who want Christmas whiskey. The Democrat speaks of the policy of the Indianapolis News, which carries whiskey ads, calling the News "editorially” one of the strongest temperance newspapers in the country. That would be a great joke all by itself to any one acquainted with the News. Three years ago the News did seem to be a strong paper for county option and Billy Blodgett went about the state writing up the beneficent effect that the county option law was having wherever saloons were voted out. Then a democratic state platform declared for a different basis of option and the News changed thumbs. It took two or three weeks for Blodgett to get himself back to the News way of thinking but he finally stopped his temperance praise. The saloon interests were in control of the News and its columns teemed with whiskey ads. Since then no one has said that the News was a temperance paper. It has followed the policy of the Democrat and has not permitted “sentiment” to “run away with its business sense.” The policy of the Democrat seems to be that of appearance for temperance, but financially for booze. It is a queer conscience that for $8 will sell out to the liquor interests. Regarding the advertising of a foreign doctor, The Republican is playing in no double role. When the advertising was refused by The Republican three years ago, the paper was under the control of the writer only. Since that time The Republican and The Journal consolidated and the departments of the paper are looked after by different members of the firm. The writer did not know that the advertising was in this paper until the paper was out. We think nb differently about traveling medical quacks now than we did three years ago. Likewise the whiskey ad proposition reached the hands of the advertising man, but realizing the polic.' and the convictions of The Republican editorially against the liquor business, an immediate censorship
For New Methods of Road Improvement in Indiana.
Only fifteen states do not assist in any way in the construction of public highways—and Indiana is one of them. The other states build highways at state expense, pay part of the cost when roads are built by counties, furnish engineering aid, provide convict labor, or In other ways assist in the work of providing good roads. Indiana does none of these. The following states have highway departments in charge of public roads: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, lowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, flew Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and the territory of New Mexico. These states build roads
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦— PICTURE. Mania’s Birthday Present, comedy. SONG. Honey, I Wfll Long For Yon.
WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight.
was placed on whiskey ads. The Republican will spoil no happy Christmas home by influencing father to spend his money for a package of Some years ago Babcock told in his paper, how he remained in the first ward for three years when he really wanted to move, just to help defeat the saloons by signing a remonstrance. Now he is putting you next to how you can get your holiday drinks. An $8 change of “sentiment.” Ha! Ha!
Represents a Friend at the Altar and In Divorce Court.
Last June C. Arthur Tuteur, of New Albany officiated as best man at the marriage of a close personal friend. Recently the friend confided in Tuteur that things were not going agreeably between himself and his spouse, and told him that he had determined to apply for a divorce. Arthur, who is a graduate of AnnArbor college, wished to be accommodating, and had himself admitted to the bar at New Albany in order that he could act as his friend’s attorney. The case has been filed, Arthur having drawn up a carefully prepared complaint, setting forth the reasons why his friend should be relieved of matrimonial bonds. (
Lecture Course Announcement, L. B. Wickersham will appear Friday evening, Dec. 9, at the M. E. church, as the third number of the lecture course. Mr. Wickersham, though new to this community, is a widely known lecturer, having filled over sixteen hundred engagements in lowa, his native state, and also many others in the principal' cities in the United States. Besides being the most expensive number on the course, the committee believes that in Mr. Wickersham they have secured a lecturer who will please the people. Judging from the patronage at the Miles lecture, Oct. 25, and the Schubert concert and entertainment, Nov. 30, people have been well pleased so far and a large audience, will greet Mr. Wickersham on Friday evening.
Farmers* Institutes. Fair Oaks, Dec. Bth. Wheatfield, Dec. 14th and 15th. In a man’s opinion a kiss is an end that justifies any meanness.
and assist counties with money and ~ engineering service. Delaware, Florida, Kansas and Wisconsin have no state roads departments, but they extend both financial and engineering aid. A few states pay all the cost of construction of state roads and In addition pay part of the cost of county and township loads. The Indiana Association of Good Roads expects to present to the General Assembly of Indiana In January a bill creating a state highway commission and providing for state aid In the construction of roads. > Every citizen of Indiana interested in better roads for the state may assist in this effort by petitioning the members of the legislature from his district to favor such a law.
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