Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1910 — Page 1

No. 294.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. A new line of cut glass just fii at Clark6’s. > Home-grown sand potatoes at Murray’s, 40c per bushel. 1 Buy your Christmas presents at the Presbyterian ladies’ bazaar. Special bargains in tennis flannels and wool blankets at Murray’s. Miss Edna Dunlap, of Mdnon, spent Sunday with Miss Opal Grant. y Ladies’, misses and children’s cloaks at wholesale prices at Murray’s. i. Sale of knives at Warner Bros.’ Friday and Saturday. 75c and SI.OO knives at 39c. ' Lawson Bruce returned this morning from Cadillac, Mich., where he has been for the past week.

Mrs. J. W. Baker returned to Monon today after a short visit with Mr. and tyirs, I. J. Miller, of Pleasant Grove. Razor, strap and hone for SI.OO at Warner Bros.’ Friday and Saturday next. Try Shino, the chemical floor mop, and do away with the covered broom. Sold at the Presbyterian ladies’ bazaar. The Presbyterian ladies’ bazaar will be open to the public Friday noon at one o’clock, in Mrs. Purcupile’s millinery store. Babcock & Hopkins are now shipping cobs to Lafayette, where they are used by the Monon railroad company at the shops. 1 Mrs. Susie Toney, of Kirklin, went to Fair Oaks today, wherS she expects to remain during the winter with her sister, Mrs. Ben Merrill. Everybody appreciates handkerchiefs, hosiery, sweater coats and useful articles. You get them at ROWLES & PARKER.

George Lowman left this morning for his home at Amboy, Ind. He had been here for about a week, looking' after his farm interests. W. H. Morrison made a business trip to Chicago today. Cream is now worth 29 cents, the Elgin jfrice being less than for a year or more. Christmas festivities will require new shoes. We have them for men, women and children. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. G. H. McLain, the insurance man, went to Crawfordsville this morning to attend a two days’ session of the live stock insurance companies of the state. Xmas presents for men, boys, women and children. We are headquarters for all kinds of Christmas goods at prices that are right. ROWLES & PARKER.

Christmas Presents for Everyone We have without a doubt the largest and most complete line of Holiday Goods ever shown in the city. All we ask of you is to look our line over before buying. Our Coy Department for Children is Complete The electric train running in our window is a a rest i°y for the childrdfw Don’t fail to have fhe** 6 * 1 * - ~ Wishing a Merry Christmas to all. Sassy’ T. COt)0» Druggist.

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Guaranteed New York buckwheat flour at Murray’s. , Y ° U bUy a nice piece of china at Clarke s at a very little price. Friday and Saturday you can buy i sc and SI.OO knives for 39c, at Warner Bros. If you will buy your rubber footwear at Murray’s, you will get guaranteed first quality goods. Mrs. M. D. Gwin went to Lafayette today for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier. 39 cents next Friday and Saturday wiH buy knives worth 75c and SI.OO, at Warner Bros. This is just to remind you that you can find that Clarke has a large selection of everything in the jewelry line. C. J. Brown returned to his home in Frankfort, Ohio, today, after a visit of two weeks here with his daughter, Mrs. A. K. Yeoman. Your shopping is made easy if you wear Dr. Reed’s Cushion Sole shoes.We have them for men and women. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. W. K. Haskell and Alex. Miller, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here this morning for Bluffton, where they went to see S. P. Haskell, who is in very poor health, having been operated on recently. Jasper Kenton and wife and their daughter, Mrs. Maggie Mead and child left Sunday for Oklahoma City, Okla., and will spend the winter in the southwest and possibly decide on a permanent home there.

Harve Robinson, of Sentinel Butte, N. Dak., who visited his brother Warren and family here for several days, left this morning for Bloomfield, Mo., to visit, his brother Ad Robinson. Ad has rather extensive land holdings near Bloomfield and moved there from lola, Kans., several months ago. Our underwear business has certainly been phenominal—way beyond our expectations. If . you haven’t bought your entire winter’s supply, better get in now. All sizes in stock, and buy of the firm that buys in case lots, direct from the maker. ROWLES & PARKER. Monon Agent W. H. Beam was given an annual pass last week by the company that employs him. Although it is customary for all requests for passes to be issued to agents for their own use or the use of their families, it is not often that agents are given annual passes, entitling them to travel as extensively as they choose on the line, and Mt. Beam was very much gratified when he received the pass. The largest line of cotton and woolen bed blankets, comforters and outings, at lower prices than any competition can name. Come in and examine these for yourselves. , ROWLES & PARKER.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1910.

Lane Case Against Railroads Being Tried at Adjourned Session.

The case of L. J. Lane against the Cotton Belt, C. & E. 1., and Pennsylvania railroads is occupying the court in a special session that began this Monday morning. Mr. Lane shipped three car loads of stock from Jonesboro, Mo., to Goodland, and claims that they were permitted to go’.without water as far as Momence, 111., jas a result of which many of them died and all were injured. Two dozen or more witnesses are here to attend the trial, largely railroad men. S. C. Irwin and Dunlap & Parkinson are the attorneys for Lane, while the railroads have a big bunch of attorneys. H. R. Kurrie, 6f the Monon, is conducting the case for the Cotton Belt road.

Get Your Warrants and Get Them Cashed Before Dec. 31st.

If Jasper county owes you anything and the commissioners have allowed the claim, you had better get the warrant in £ime for it to reach the depository on which the check is drawn not later than Dec. 31st. If you don’t do this the warrant can not be cashed until later when an appropriation for that purpose is made. This calls for extra bookkeeping and extra work for the officers handling the warrants and it will convenience them as well as be a benefit to those having claims due if they will call for the warrants at once at the auditor’s office.

Don’t Kick Abont the Court House Clock; It’s Up for Repairs. The court house clock is in the hands of a jeweler and will not run until cleaned. Don’t trouble Janitor Morlan, it is no fault of his. Mrs. A. Woodworth was taken quite sick Sunday with a severe case of pleurisy. Lee Kepner is now working at the barber trade at Kirkwood, about 20 miles out of St. Louis. L Our Christmas candies from America’s best candy makers, are certainly fine candies and our prices are right. ROWLES & PARKER. The Rensselaer poultry and corn show will be held in the armory the first week in January, starting Thursday, the 3rd, and ending Saturday. Mr. Hayner, piano tuner and repairer, from Chicago, is now in Rensselaer. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store.

Frank Osborne and family, who were burned out several days ago on the Mrs. Pierce farm, will depart tomorrow for their future home in Texas. Rev. J. E. Grimes returned to North Manchester today. He conducted the U, Bi quarterly conference at the churches presided over by Rev. W. G. Schaeffer. Miss Margaret Dresser has resigned as teacher of the Moffit school in Union township and Frank Garriott has been employed to teach the remainder of the term. The ladies’ literary club will meet Wednesday afternoon of this week at 2 p. m., instead of Friday afternoon, which is the usual time. It will meet' with Mrs. J. H. Chapman. Mrs. W. H. Parkinson and daughter,' Ardis Jane, of Brook, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parker, of Hanging GrOve township. They will remain until after Christmas. Mrs. Blanche Rice, of Chicago, and Miss Evelyn Kenton, of Mitchell, S. Dak., who have been visiting relatives here, left yesterday. They expect to visit Will Moore and family at Gowrie, lowa. v Don’t ecofiomize by wearing shoes which allow your feet to be damp and cold. This is extravagance in the end. We have shoes which will keep your feet warm and dry. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood are planning on a trip to Wichita, Kans., to visit her brother, Chas. Pierson, and family, former Jasper county people They probably start for there Thursday of this week , and expect to also visit in Oklahoma, being absent about a month. „

We have. lamb’s wool inaqles, gaiters, leggings, leather shoe strings, Viscol for making shoes waterproof, all kinds of polishes, and the many other shoe accessories. Many of these articles are needed at Christmas Ume. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Ray Yeoman came down frdm Valparaiso Saturday for a short visit. He was accompanied by Mr. Homer Black, who is at the head of the department of manual training at the Valparaiso college. Mr. Black is a cousin of the Warner boys and visited them while here. • “Those who attended the entertainment were given a treat, as Miss Eisner proved to be all and more than recommended. Her ability to impersonate and characterize deserves special commendation."—Burt County News.

HOOSIERS IN CHICAGO HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET.

Indiana Sons Prominent in Big City Held Feetfest and Talkfest at the Congress HoteL “The winds of heaven never fanned, The circling sunlight never spanned, The borders of a fairer land Than our own Indiana.” If any prominent Indiana man thought he could say something funny 'he had a chance Saturday night when the Indiana Society of Chicago, of which William B. Austin, formerly of Rensselaer, is a prominent meipber, held its annual banquet. \ It was held at the Congress hotel. If you don’t know anything about the Congress, we will state that it is no place for a man looking for a lunch counter. Gathered at the banquet board were many men who can remember a few years ago when they lived in the backwoods some place in Indiana, and who now own a dress suit and are trying to keepHt out of soak. They all get together each year and act as though -they thought all the rest were as successful as they pretended to be.

Nothing serious is expected to be said and if it is, some one starts a loud guffaw. One speaker even went so far as to say he was not a humorist and this fact was so evident that his acknowledgement started a big uproar and about half the banqueters spilled a mouthful of soup. George Ade had prepared a special book for the occasion entitled, “I Knew Him When .” A dash like that always looks suspicious and George gave it a worse meaning than ever before, SHe told about some of the early stunts of prominent guests and even went so far as to have reproduced photographs of the long ago, showing the unsophisticated youths who have grown into such prominence that they have the annual privilege of paying $5 per plate at the society’s banquet. Whatever Ade does is funny and his book kept up the merriment that would haye lagged occasionally without the Brook Joker. Kin Hubbard, who tries to have Abe Martin say two funny things every day, and makes a success part of the time, was present and told about Abe Martin’s neighbors, and the charitable feasters were good enough to laugh at him also. Kin told some inside jokes about Hez Pach, Constable Plum, Miss Tawney Apple and thereat, that .they never dreamed had leaked out.

One fellow said there were a lot of people who went to Chicago, made good, and then went back to the old home to find that about every one tljere had done better than themselves.

The Hoosier is a great being to start on, and usually gets to the place that he wants to go to, even if it isn’t any better than Chicago. And when ypu sit him down to a $5 banquet board he generally laughs $4.50 worth and breaks even on the’ deal. If- nothing serious happens, this same bunch of Hoosiers will get together again next year and laugh at the funny and near-funny things that happen. It’s a great care-dispeller and we would all enjoy it if we were big enough to have a dress sifit and a $5 bill at the same time.

First Report of U. S. Census By McLaughlin Was Not Accurate.

John Callan O’Laughlin, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, claimed a scoop on all other papers last Saturday when he gave out what purported to be the official census of the United States. The figures were given out the next day and it was shown that the ambitious correspondent had missed the total a little more than 500,000, which, the Indianapolis Star jealously says, wouldn’t entitle him to consideration lh a bean guessing contest. The right figures are 91,272,266. Including all the insular possessions the population exceeds 101,100,000. Indiana Is the ninth state in the union in point of population. - The states rank as follows: 1. New York. 27. Maryland. 2. Pennsylvania. 28. West Virginia. 3. Illinois. 29. Nebraska. ' 4. Ohio. 30. Washington. 5. Texas. 31. Porto Rico. 6. Connecticut. 7. Missouri. 33. Colorado. 8. Michigan. 34. Florida. 9. Indiana. 35. Maine. 10. Georgia. 36. Oregon. 11. New Jersey. 37. South Dakota. 12. California. 38. North Dakota. 13. Wisconsin. 39. Rhode Island. 14. Kentucky. 40. New Hampshire. 15. lowa. 41. Montana. 16. NorthCarolina42. Utah. 17. Tennessee. 43. Vermont. 18. Alabama. 44. Die. of Columbia. 19. Minnesota. 45. New Mexico. 20. Virginia. 46. Idaho. 21. Mississippi. 47. Arizona. 22. Kansas. 48. Delaware. 23. Oklahoma. 49. Hawaii. 2i. Louisiana. 50. Wyoming. 25. Arkansas. 51. Nevada. 26. BouthCarolinas2. Alaska.

Remember, special preparations tyr the Christmas present proposlUon. Everything in special holiday boxes. Select your presents early, we will take care of them for you unUl wanted. G. E. MURRAY CO. l ’

The Prettiest Moving Picture Show 1* the City. *®X WABHEE, Proprietor.

Mercury Almost Hit Zero On Its Downward Course.

The U. S. thermometer at St. Joseph’s college registered 1 degree above zero as the coldest point reached Sunday night. The instrument there is exposed on all occupying a lattice cage used at all weather stations. Some of the thermometers up and down the street registered help*? zero, one being reported as J’The government thermometer at St. Joseph’s college, however, should be taken as the correct one, and we have been promised daily reports from there, to reach us each morning at about 8 o’clock. The forecast is for fair and continued cold tonight. Tuesday the weather is expected to moderate and a snow is forecasted.

BURDENS LIFTED

From Rensselaer Backs—Relief Proved By Lapse of Time. Backache is a heavy burden; Nervousness wears one out; Rheumatic pain; urinary ills; All are kidney burdens—r Daily effects of kidney weakness. No use to cure the symptoms, Relief is but temporary if the cause remains. Cure the kidneys and you cure the cause. Relief comes quickly—comes to stay. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure kidney ills; Prove it by your neighbor’s case. Here’s Rensselaer testimony. The story of a permanent cure. Jacob R. Wilcox, Daytdn street, Rensselaer, Ind., says: “The statement I gave for publication in May, 1907,, in favor of Doan’s Kidney Pills, stills holds good. The cure they effected has been permanent. I had pains through my l.oins and was in misery day and night. I always felt tired and worn out and was annoyed by a distressing kidney weakness. Nothing relieved me until I began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills. They were of such great benefit that I consider them worthy of the highest endorsement.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents'for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.

Prices and quality are what count and that is what you get here. Christmas presents for everybody. ROWLES & PARKER.

I An Immense Display of Gifts j: for Everybody. Fendig’s City Drug Store right in front with the greatest assortment of gifts for Yuletide. Don’t ;; ;; put it off —everybody is buying early. ;; See our mammoth selection of Books—6oo copies :: ;; popular copyrights at 50c each, good editions. ' : ;; See our attractive line of Toys, Games, Dolls, Ani- ;; ;; mals, and Novelties for the children. ;; See our elegant display of Toilet, Military, Mani- '; !; cure, Shaving, and all kinds of Brush Sets, in :: ;; silver, ebony, and stag. ;; See our 15c Souvenir Calendars of Rensselaer and ' : St. Josephs. See our Fountain Pens, Knives, Safety Razors, : ; ;; Pictures, Medallions, and Christmas Stationery. ;; ;; See our line of Cigars in holiday boxes, our smoker ’ : ;: sets and cases. :: Don’t forget to at least drop in when looking for : : ; • the big line. Rensselaer and St. Joseph Penants J : Make Fine Presents. i: Fendig’s City Drug Store ;; NORTH SION WASHINGTON STNHNT. JI Remember we arm agents for thm Victor Talking Machines and Eastman’s Kodaks —thmy make desirable presents.

TONIGHT’S PBOGBAM —♦ PICTURE. A Luck Toothache, western comedy. The Masher, comedy. SONG. There’s Something Fascinating ABout The Moon.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and continued cold tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudiness and warmer, probably followed by snow.

Crcat Buyers: You can certainly And what you want in Candy, Nuts, and Fruits at the Home Grocery We appreciate year business.

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We have a complete assortment of the nicest slippers for men and wpmen ever brought to Rensselaer. If you anticipate buying slippers for Christmas presents it will be to your advantage to buy them early, while we have all sizes. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Blanket and underwear week at Murray’s.

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