Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1910 — Page 1

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local happenings. AH home print today. Head pages two and three today. A new line of cut glass just in at Clarke’s. Come in and see the candy display at Murray’s. C. M. Sands returned this morning from a visit of several days with his parents at Tefft. See our extensive line of carving sets. e. D. RHOADES & SON. Mrs. Firman Thompson went to Monon today for a short visit with her father, Dr. Clayton. Fancy Florida sweet oranges, 20c a dozen; grapefruit, 5c each; apples 35c a peck, at John Eger’s. Claude Sayler departed this morning for Tacoma, Wash., where he expects to make his future home. Mrs. E. K. Koons, of Union township, left this morning for Royal Center, where she will visit a son. Ex-Sheriff John O’Connor went to Monticello today to look after some fees still due him in White county. This is just to remind you that you' can find that Clarke has a large select tion of everything in the jewelry line. Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer, of Barkley township, returned this morning from a visit of three weeks at Zanesville, Ohio. Mrs. Rebecca Porter returned this morning from a visit of about six weeks at South Bend, with her sister, Mrs. C. W. Coen. - Mrs. C. A. Williams, of Chicago, stopped here over night, and left today for Louisville, Ky. She visited Mrs. Floyd Robinson. Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Kniman, recently ran a splinter into one of her hands and the injured place became infected and she has been having a severe time of it. Miss Ora Yeoman, now a ptenographer at Knox, is expected here this evening for a visit with her father, O. A. Yeoman, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman. We have in stock a line of fountain, bath and shampoo brushes. You will also find the largest line of high grade bathroom fixtures in “Art Brass” ever shown in Rensselaer. E. D. RHOADES & SON.

Plan the right heating, too! If you are planning a new house, don’t forget how important the heating question is. There isn’t any other feature which will save you so much or give you equal comfort as These outfits, for Low-Pressure • _ Steam or Hot Water, will repay Irvr I I 'heir cost in coal savings,, health AMERICAN x, I I>IAL /Iradiators OtlßoiixßS The outfit will outwear the building. All ash-dust, soot, smoke, and coal-gases are kept out of living-rooms —saving housework and wear and tear on furnishings. Then, too, think of the comfort of having full enjoyment of every nook and corner of the house on cold or windy days! Ask for estimate and free book. E- D. RHOADES & SON i Heating Contractors Rensselaer, - Indiana

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ — PICTURE. The Little Fire Chief. A Woman’s Wit. SONGS. Amine Mine, By Marjorie Loughridge. Stop! Stop! Stop! By J. F. Frederick ~ -

Come in and see our candy kitchen. THE G. E. MURRAY CO. 6,000 pounds of pure candies for our holiday trade, from 7 cents to 12 cents a pound. JOHN EGER. Chas/ Fielder and family left this morning for their home in Mason City, 111., after a visit of ten days here w'ith his sister, Mrs. H. B. Murrhy aad family. We intend to sell every brussels carpet-sized rug in the house, if price and quality will do it. THE G. E. MURRAY CO. Mrs' John H. Akers and Mrs. Chas. Page, of Gillam township, took the 10:05 train here this morning for Elmhurst, 111., where they will visit relatives. Frank E. Biggs went to Logansport today to visit his friend, George Putts, and may possibly decide to put in an application for a job firing on the Pennsylvania, at which Putts has been working for several weeks. All persons owing accounts to G. B. Porter will call at The Cash Store and settle before Christmas, as all accounts not paid by that date will be placed in the hands of attorneys for collection.

The Presbyterian ladies opened up their bazaar Friday morning and the first day took in sl2&. Today a market Is being conducted also. The articles offered for sale are very beautlful. • Chafing dishes, baking dishes, coffee pots, tea kettle insets, and a complete line of silverware that is unconditionally guaranteed, may be seen in our window. E. D. F.HOADES & SON. W. D. Clendennen left for his home at Stinesville, Ind., this morning after staying for some eight weeks at the home of his son-in-law. Ifw’n Frve. south of town. Emma Stewart, a lirtle girl who has been visiting at the Frye home, left on the same train for her home at Eilettsville. The girls of the Fowler high school met the first of the week and decided to all come to school on Thursday without any rats in their hair. A fine of ten cents to be paid into the atheletic association was to he the penalty to any one caught wearing rats or any derivative thereof. All but two obeyed the order. —Fowler Review. Coal for every purpose. Prices the lowest. J. L. BRADY.

Entered January 1, 1897, as second-claw mail matter, at the port-otttoe at Benseelaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1910. I

SALOONKEEPER AT KOUTS MURDERS HOME WRECKER.

Little Town in Porter Connty Scene of Murder Friday Morning—Victim , Named Johnson. Jacob Walters, a saloon keeper at Koqt*, murdered a man named Albert Johnson at about 5 o’clock Friday morning. The circumstances seem to be as follows:'' Johnson was an engineer and formerly boarded at the Walters home. He bec&me infatuated -with Mrs. Walters and her husband became jealous and Johnson was ordered away from the house. Friday morning when Walters was opening up the saloon he heard a noise in the back part of the house and going out there saw Johnson about to crawl out of a window which led from the house. Walters went into the saloon and came out with a double-barreled shot gun and just as Johnson was in plain sight he pulled the trigger and both barrels were emptied into him and the man fell to the ground, about 25 feet beldw and was dead when the saloon keeper reached his side. Walters then called up the Kouts constable and told him what he had done, saying that he was ready to be locked up. He was taken to Valparaiso and placed in jail. Walters was regarded as a good man, and until Johnson invaded his home, it is said, there was never a suspicion about him. He is about 35 years of age and the dead man is about the same age. Walters has employed Attorney D. E. Kelly to defend him and an effort will be made to secure bail. Acting on the advice of his lawyer, Walters has refused to talk about the killing. The Valparaiso Vidette says that sympathy at Kouts is with the murderer.

William Cheadle was in Fowler Wednesday. He has just returned from a trip to Valparaiso, where he placed his son Hercy in the school from which Mr. Cheadle was a graduate a quarter of a century ago. His son Morris, of the Mound farm, was in Fowler the same day. One of his horses, the best one, walked over the edge of the gravel pit and fell twenty feet below. It lived about twenty minutes. No bones were broken.— Fowler Review.

Ben Smith is out enjoying some fresh air today. It is the second time he has been out of the house for several weeks. Ben has been having a bad time with a borie disease of his right arm, very similar to that which attacked one of his legs several years ago. A specialist was called in consultation with the locall physician and he is now improving and hopes to be able to avoid an operation. The sickness has changed Ben’s plan for building a fine new house this fall and he will not start it now before spring. He expects to build just north of the J. L. Brady elevator, where he has constructed a very artistic yard front of cement.

John Hurley had a close call from a bad accident at the Brady elevator crossing today. He. was crossing just as the 10:05 passenger train came along and did not see it. The train was moving swiftly and when the engineer saw the danger he set on the emergency brakes and the train slowed down to some extent, but the engine struck the rear end of the wagon and shoved it around and the horses started to run. They were soon under control and no injury resulted, but had the engineer not slowed down as he did, Mr. Hurley and his team would doubtless have been killed.

Orlan Grant has decided to give up his place in charge of Rowles & Parker’s clothing department and has accepted a position as a traveling salesman for the Independent Rubber Co., of Fort Whyne. He will leave here next week and after spending a short time studying his sample lines will start out on the road. He will continue to make Rensselaer his home and will be able to come here frequently. A successor for him at Rowles & Parker’s has not been selected. Rensselaer is now supplying a number of traveling salesmen, others being Ivan Carson and Theodore George.

John Bruner and Mrs. J. M. Troxell returned last evening from their visit with the family of E. G. Warren, at Lawton, Okla., where they spent about a month. They had a fine visit and liked many things in Oklahoma, but also told of some things they did not like. There has been a droath in that state for the past year and there is no drinking water except what is bought, a 5-gallon bottle costing 26 cents. There were no crops about Lawton except cotton, which was very good. Mr. IJguner does not think Oklahoma is enjoying very much prosperity except in the cities, where the building boom continues. Ed Warren is getting along fine. He has a splendid job and is taking care of it. The two Warren girls, Grace and Gladys, have been married since going to Lawton. Their husbands are brothers by the name of Wolverton, both self-made and successful young men. Tom Burns, the brick mason, is in Lawton. He has plenty of work and likes Oklahoma. He makes his home with the Warren family. .*

AID FOR RAILROAD IS HOPE FOR RENSSELAER.

If Road Is Never Built Township Will Be Out But Litttt, and Failure May •Mean Great Loss. The Republican favors the voting of a subsidy for the proposed Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. We favor it as a matter of encouraging the construction of the road and believe that failure to vote favorably might have the effect of keeping this or some other road from coming through Rensselaer. It is not necessary that Mr. Purtelle, the promoter, be able financially to build the road. - It is not necessary that his plans at this time are sufficiently formulated to say positively that the road will be built. It is unquestioned that favorable action along the route proposed will mgke it more attractive to moneyed men and that the chance of Rensselaer getting a railroad are much better if the people have signified their willingness to help it along. One thing is certain. The people of Rensselaer want another railroad and want it badly’. And they don’t care who builds it. Mr. Purtelle may be able to interest some company in the financing of the road. He is putting in his time on the project and no one in Rensselaer has been asked to put up a cent for the enterprise prior to this time.

Rensselaer has helped by subscription to have several surveys made and Geo. W. Infield recently secured several hundred dollars in this manner, but the Purtelle route has been surveyed and not a copper solicited in Rensselaer. If the subsidy „is voted and the road is never built, not a cent of it will evtr be collected in taxes. If the road is built then the people of Marion township will declare the money well spent. The Hammond Times continues to hammer at Mr. Puctelle, but what it Is saying is not serious, it indicates that there -are—soittfe—people in Ham--mofid who would like to get Purtelle out of the way so that they could get control of the route he is trying to build. It is quite probable that the jealousies directed toward 'Purtelle will vanish In a short time and Marlon township should not fail to do as it has always done in the past, viz., vote favorably on the proposition and hope for the best. We stand no chance of losing. It has been presented that the matter of a subsidy for any enterprise is wrong in principle. It is probable that every one will aer"" in that matter,' and yet it is a feature of business in which we are all more or less engaged. When a merchant advertises to give out trading stamps he is trying to secure trade by means of a subsidy. When a newspaper engages in a voting contest for securing subscriptions it is a means of subsidy, for many people take the paper who do not care for it, but are subsidized into doing it to help out a friend. The Jasper County Democrat recently conducted one of these contests and states that it cost almost SSOO, but that the purpose was to secure subscriptions. This was a means of subsidy, nothing else and yet the publisher of the Democrat -d? plores subsidies. Only a few months ago the Democrat employed a solicitor to canvass the county for subscriptions. The solicitor provided prizes consisting of a cheap set of glassware and gave these with subscriptions. For his work he Rot the entire subscription price and the Democrat carried the subscriber for a year for nothing; For what? Why, the hope that the subscriber would continue at the expiration of the year to be a subscriber and after that pay the regular A other words the Democrat gave the paper away for one year with the hope of retaining the subscriber. That was Subsidizing the subscriber. The Republican believes that the chances of Rensselaer getting a railroad are materially better if a tax is voted Jn aid of it and no matter who the promoter is or how his proposition may look to some critics, Rensselaer has nothing to lose and everything to gain by voting affirmatively on the proposed aid.

We have the fargest stock of pocket knives in Rensselaer. Special pattern, wrapped in holly boxes, for the Christmas trade. E. D. RHOADES & SON. Governor Marshall, of Indiana, and George M. Reynolds and Wilbur D. Nesbit, of Chicago, will be the principal speakers at the monthly banquet of the Knife and Fork club in South Bend next Tuesday. Mr. Hayner, piano tuner and repairer, from Chicago, is now in Rensselaer. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. The Lake Shore railroad will spend about SI,OOO in remodeling the union depot in Kendallville in the next year, according to present plans. A baggage room will be added. New line of men’s house coats and bath robes for Christmas, at the G. E. Murray Co. Calling Cards make appropriate gifts. Engraved or printed, all styles, at The Republican office. You get correct styles and sizes here. A car of best Indiana lump just in. J. L. BRADY.

fc ;: ; “ The Prettiest Moving Picture Show in the Oity. BEX WARNER, Proprietor.

Jeffries-Johnson Boxing Contest Tuesday Night, Dec. 20th REWARD OF $500.00. Given to anyone who can show that the pictures to be shown at THE REX Theatre are not the original and only authorized motion pictures of the JEFFRIES-JOHNSON Boxing Contest, held at Reno, July 4th, 1910. These pictures are declared by Motion Picture authorities to be the greatest and best pictures ever taken. . The Cost of this film was $250,090.00. lhink of it! A Quarter of a Million Dollars! And Is going to be shown to you at the reduced rate of 10c. Can you afford to miss it? Bring the ladles wifii you as there is absolutely nothing shown that can possibly offend.

Special discount on all our carpetsized rugs until Christmas. * G. E. MURRAY CO.

Croat Buym! You can certainly And what you want in Candy, Nats, and Fruits at the | Home Grocery » \ ; We appreciate your ! business.

Chism,is Presents —Tor Beryone We have without a doubt the largest and jnosfe complete line of Holiday Goods ever shown in the city. All we ask of you is to look our line over before buying. Oar Coy Department for Children is Complete The electric train running in our window is a great joy for the children. Don’t fail to have them see it. Wishing a Merry Christmas to all. SET ft. f. £OH«, Druggist.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM PICTURE. On Her Door Steps, a comedy. The Girls In the Barracks, drama. SONG. Where the Ivy’s Clinging, Dearie, ’Round An Old Oak Tree.

WEATHER FORECAST. Minimum last night, 18 above zero. Cloudy tonight and Sunday; warmer in east and south portion tonight.

We want every school teacher and buyer for Sunday schools to come la and leok over our stoek of fancy cgudles and nnts, and get onr special prices. JOHN EGER.

The Ellis Theatre J. H. S. ELLIS, Manager. + Wednes., Dec. 21 One Night Only THE PERRYS OFFER Kidnaped • for A Million A Society Melodrama in Fire Aeta Featuring The Famous Little Perry Sisters

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