Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1910 — Page 1

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■ J. Lester Haberkorn Baritone At The Princess Tonight

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Senator A. Halleck Is in Chicago today. Good evening; how did Santa treat you? Get ready to write 1911 on your checks. Miss Tillie Malchow Is spending today in Chicago. John Poole made a business trip to Battle Ground today. Mrs. J. C. Parrett went to Chicago this morning to visit her parents. Try Winifrede splint. This is a splendid .coal. Maines & Hamilton. Miss Ivy Erwin, of Chicago, came to visit Rensselaer friends. This would be a good time to decide about some New Year’s resolutions. * Bradley Ross Is home from Boston School of Technology for the holiday vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Mills came from Muncie to spend Christmas at their old home. Homer Hopkins, of Monticello; spent Christmas with his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thomas, of Chicago, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. John A. Holden. Miss Ruth Hetrick came from Lafayette Saturday evening for a visit with Miss Eva Moore. John Sommers and wife returned this morning from a Christmas visit with Lafayette relatives. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill and son went to Peru Saturday to remain over Christmas with relatives. Miss Clara Parker and Marion Parker went to Franklin today to visit relatives during the week. Mrs. W. I. Hoover and daughter. Irene went to Delphi Saturday for a few days' visit with relatives. J. W. Childers went to Lafayette this morning, joining Mrs. Childers, who Is visiting there. A. C. Stauffenberg came from Manhattan, 111., this morning to visit his farm tenant, Harry Gallagher. Do you like good music? Hear Burch’s orchestra at the Princess Tuesday night before the dance. John Knox came down from Chicago Saturday evening to spend the Christmas period at the old home. Judge Robert Vanatta came home, from Marion Saturday evening to eat 'Christmas dinner at the old home. Miss M. Hostetler, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here this morning for Valparaiso, where she Is attending school. Mark Hemphill returned to Monon Saturday evening after a short visit here with his cousin, Miss Irene Simpson. - 1 ' Bell and wife, of Frankfort, were Christmas guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer. Mrs. Thos. Lang and four children, of Surrey, went to Indianapolis Saturday foV a visit of one week with relatives. . Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Irwin returned to Wolcott today after a Christmas visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs J. F. Irwin-

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM -—♦ —- PICTURE. Ruin, Italian drama. BONG • . No Sweeter Girl Thin Ton.

Arthur Nowels returned to Columbia City today. Mrs. Nowels and the son and daughter will remain for a longer visit. For the cook stove: Cannel egg at $6.50; Jackson Hill egg at $6.00 and washed nut $5.50. Maines & Hamilton, phone 273. Robert Fendig returned to Hammond this morning after a Christmas visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig. Hear Burch’s orchestra at the Princess Tuesday night. Mr. Haberkorn will sing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bowsher returned to Lafayette today after an over Christmas visit with her brothers, Milt and Sam Roth. E. C. Maxwell left for Anderson this morning, having received word that his brother, who has been sjck fcr some time, was very low. George Sharp and Miss Anetta Cox, of Indianapolis, came yesterday and returned there today. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rlshling. Miss Myra Watson, who is teaching in Chicago this year, came Saturday to spend the holiday week with her mother, Mrs. Kate R. Watson. Miss Maud E. Scott came from Chicago, where she is teaching school, to spend the Christmas period with her father, A. C. Scott, and family. Mrs. Will Kennedy went to Frankfort Saturday to visit relatives. She was accompanied by Miss Ruth Conard, who had been visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Smith entertained over Christmas William Ulyat and family, of Mt. Ayr, and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Roush, of Indianapolis. Putts returned to Logansport today after spending Christmas at home. He likes his work as a fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad. We sell Blatchford’s calf meal, x Buffalo glutin feed, mill feed, bran, middlings and chop feed. MAINES & HAMILTON. “Uncle” Clint Hopkins came home from Delphi this morning, where he had spent several days with his son, C. A. Hopkins, who came over with him. Joe Reynolds came down from Chicago and spent Christmas with his mother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols. He went to Frankfort today to attend an Elks "banquet. * Mrs. John McColly and daughter Donna, of Newton township, left this morning for Big Rapids, Mlch„ for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs Chas. Hammond. Mrs. Alda Parkinson left this morning for a southern trip, including a Stay of two weeks in Havana, Cuba. She accompanied a party of friends from Kankakee, 111. W. W. Reqve and wife and daughter, Miss Clara, took dinner with Clyde Reeve and family in Remington, Christmas. Clyde came over after them Saturday evening. Miss Manda Hoyes returned to Crawfordsville this morning after a Christmas visit with her mother. Miss Hoyes is employed in the office of Finley P. Mount, the Crawfordsville lawyer who was the defeated republican candidate for attorney-general of the state. You get your sale bills when YOU want tljem when ordered at T’ e Republican office.

Entered January X, 1807, M aeoond-claae mall matter, at ihe port-office at Ken.eelaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, IM.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1910.

HOG THIEVES VISITED THE LON COLTON FARM.

Knock Three in Heads and Hani Them Away, Leaving No Cine More Than Footprints in Snow. * - Last Friday night Lon Colton, who lives on the Henry Amsler farm near Pleasant Ridge, had a visit from hog thieves. They were not heard during the night, but in the morning when Mr. Colton went to feed the hogs he found that three of them were gone. He looked around and found that they had been driven to the east end of the hog lot, knocked in the head, thrown over the fence and hauled away. There was no way of tracking the thieves. From the footprints in the snow there were evidently two of the thieves.

Mr. and Mrs. Louie Leopold and daughter, of Wolcott, and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolf and daughter, of Hammond, spent Christmas wittr their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold, in Rensselaer. Mrs. Geo. H. Healey left on the early train this morning for Trafalgar, Ind., to visit relatives including"' an aunt from Denver, Colo., who is also visiting relatives at Trafalgar, whom she has never seen. Theodore George and Everet Kinney went to Crawfordsville today, where they were planning on attending a ball tonight. Mr. Kinney will go to Delphi, where he works in the New York store. Lewis Nichols has arranged to embark in the cigar and confectionery business and has rented a small room cn Van Rensselaer street formerly occupied by the creamery. He expects to open Thursday. John L. Nichols accompanied his daughter-in-law, Mrs' Dal Nichols, and her three children to Indiana Harbor Saturday afternoon. He returned Sunday and she will remain for about a week’s visit with relatives. Gaylord McFarland was home from Washington, Ind., and Guy Gerber was home from Logansport for Christmas. Both are engaged in business college work, as managers for branches of the school at Marion. Sergeant Ross Latshaw, of the U. S. army, detailed as an instruction noncommissioned officer with the Indiana National Guard, will be with Company M Wednesday night, Dec. 28th, and a full attendance of membership is desired. Mr. and Mrs. Elizur Sage and son Russell will start Tuesday for Ohio, by auto if the weather is suitable. Harry Hickman will accompany them and bring the car back. Mr. Sage and family will remain there for a visit Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Layman, of Terre Haute, were guests from last Wednesday until today of her sister, Mrs. William Florence, and today went to Marian to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hays, formerly of Barkley township. Mrs. Kate R. Watson and family, including her daughters Myra and Katharyn, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig and son, and Dr. and Mrs. ,1. M, Washburn and children are spending today at the home of Rev. and Mrs. E. Baech, in Delphi. Paul Ernest, of Monon, returned there today after a short visit with Gravlous and Apnetta Hansen. The Hansen children accompanied him to Monon, where they will spend today, and two other Monon children will return home with them this evening, x The dredge crew from Rensselaer who have been working on the Sternberg dredge near Rochester are home for the holidays. The Sternbergs have been having considerable trouble with this contract, owing to quicksand, which compels them to back up and do much of the work over again. It will be two 'or three months yet before the contract is completed. From Rochester the crew will be transferred to Celina, Ohio, where the Sternbergs have a big contract. . \ Christmas was as fine a winter day as one could ask for, although the snow which was promised for that day by the forecast did not arrive until in the evening and then only in a very light form. It was not a “green" Christmas, however, for there has been some snow on the ground since Nov. 28th, and the sleet of a few days ago was still frozen on the earth's surface. The weather continues ideal and we do not recall a longer period of beautiful weather than we have had this fall. W. W. Miller writes to have the address of his Republican changed to 226 8. Molino street, Pasadena, Calif,, and states that himself and family are not yet permanently located. He writes: “We are enjoying the famous southern California weather, which we find to be as represented. Some days are a little cool for summer clothing, but everything In the nature of vegetation is green. The city is beautiful and very aristocratic. Our trip out here was uneventful, but very enjoyable and yery interesting. Will write more next time.”

Town of Reynolds Rejuvenated By a Costly Fire.

Some times a fire is a good thing for a town and for the people in a town. For many years Reynolds, White county, was regarded as a very poor and dilapidated town. It deserved some of the jokes people said in talking about it. If a person is a joke it is that person’s own fault, but if a town is a joke the fault is with the people of the town and in the case of Reynolds it took a fire to save the old town from the junk pile. The fire came on the night of Aug. 27th, 1907. It was a big fire, yes, a good big fire, and it don’t make any difference how you interpret the word “good.” It wiped up as choice a lot of old frame shacks as ever disgraced an otherwise good little business burg. It went from one end of the block to the other and improved the looks of things with its brush of fire.. The shacks were not well insured. They were a bad risk and the rate was high. The stocks of goods likewise were poorly Insured. That was tough on the owners. But a fire is no respecter of financial conditions and sheds no tears. Reynolds did not cry much over the “spilt milk.” Brick and cement buildings sprang from the ashes and Reynolds moved up a notch in the standing of towns in this section of Indiana. There is. no better looking small town anywhere now than Reynolds, and a fire, a costly fire, that worked some hardships, did it. Town property there is worth more, farms in that neighborhood have increased in value, there is more satisfaction to the man who does business there, and the business men, for the most part the same men who suffered heavy losses, are enjoying conveniences that were impossible prior to Aug. 27, 1907. It’s an ill fire that _burns no one some good. Reynolds was rejuvenated and now the risk is better and insurance is cheaper and all are happier and a lot better off.

Milroy Township Young Man Marries Hanging Grove Girl.

At the residence of Rev. G. H. Clarke on Vanßensselaer street, at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, occurred the marriage of Miss Bertha Jane Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Cook, of Hanging .Grove township, and Mr. Orlando Manner, a young farmer residing in Milroy township. They were accompanied to the parsonage by Mr. Edward Cook and Miss Edna Lefler. Mr. and Mrs. Manner will reside on a farm near McCoysburg. 4- _ What have you to sell? Why don’t you sell it? A Republican classified ad will bring you a buyer willing to pay what it is worth. Don’t put it off. Three lines one week in all issues of the Daily and Semi-Weekly Republican for 25 cents. L. A. Harmon has arranged to have the very popular Burch’s orchestra here for a big dance at the armory Tuesday night. The orchestra will play at the Princess theatre the samd evening, and the dance, which will probably be largely attended, will start at about 9 o’clock. On Thursday night a dance will be given by the Rensselaer Social Club and it promises to be a very pleasant event. It will probably be attended by most of the young folks who are home from colleges for the holiday vacation.

Hurley Beam came down from Chicago for Christmas day and divided his time between home and prospects, and home got the short end of the divide. He is holding down a job with the Chicago House Wrecking Co., and making good, which he can do if he tries. Making good makes prospects brighter, and the “Ides of March” hold out a brighter hope for Hurley than they did for Julius Ceasar, and proper ending drama blds fair to conclude a romance that, well written, would make the Shakespeare tragedy read like a dime novel. Senior Hopkins passed through Rensselaer Saturday afternoon on his way to Crawfordsville from Minneapolis, Minn., where he has been for about two months. He is managing a branch office there for his brother, L. F. Hopkins and his brother-in-lawj G. K. Hollingsworth, of Chicago. He has not yet taken up bis residence permanently in Minneapolis and his wife has been in Crawfordsville during the time he has been in the west. It is probable that they will shortly move to Minneapolis, however, where he has teen building up a profitable business. Santa Claus visited Company M during the past week and furnished the club room with some new furniture, including a new rug, new center table, davenport, two rocking chairs, a set of straight chairs and some other articles, The rooms now present a very cretltable appearance. The armory proper has been rented two nights this week for dances and a system of numbered hooks is being built in the rear room of the front suite and for the nominal sum of five cents all clothing of one person will be checked. A small exchange will also be conducted for the company fund. The front rooms will be kept locked and In charge of a detail from the company..

The Prettiest Moving Picture Show In the City. BBX WABXEB, Proprietor, fife.

WEATHER FORECAST. Snow or rain in north portion tonight; Tuesday generally fair. ♦ Temperature for 24 Hours Ending With 9 A. M. Today. Minimum Saturday night, 2 above zero; minimum Sunday night, 23 above zero; maximum for 48 hours 26 above.

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Elkhart city council has appointed a committee to devise means of waging war on the San Jose scale in that city, which is declared by tree experts to be ten times worse than a year ago. William H. and George Bundy, brothers, of Crawfordsville, were notified Friday that checks worth $600,000 will be mailed them this month as their share in an estate in the east George Howard, 45 years old, a drunk confined in the Gary police station, cut his throat Tuesday afternoon with a razor, and also attempted to carve one of the officers who undertook to take the weapon from him. Apparently they do a good job of searching prisoners in the Gary jail. The unidentified man killed on the Lake Shore railroad was not William Glehdenning, of Laporte, as Mr. Glendenning has appeared, very much alive, and has viewed the body that was supposed to be his own. The partial identification was based on a postal card found in the dead man’s clothing. The real Glendenning .did not .know the stranger. Menlo E. Moore, of Vincennes, recently acquitted of the murder of Charles E. Gibson, has advertised for sale the furnishings of his home in that city. Mrs. Moore and her little son are at Mrs. Moore’s father’s hom-> at Washington. Moore has evaded questions as to whether or not he and his wife were again to make their home together. He would only answer, “I wish I knew.” He has been making trips to Chicago and Cincinnati on business connected with his theatrical enterprises. Although 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body when he short circuited a live wire at the plant of the Muncie Electric Light.plant at Newcastle Thursday, Paul Stewart, a young electrician, rallied and hospital physicians believe he has a fair chance to recover. At the time of the accident It was thought he could live only a few hours. His body was blackened by the electricity and his burns were deep. His wedding day had been set for Christmas eve. Declaring that she will never be taken to prison, Mrs. Lydia Owens, recently convicted in the court at Tipton on a criminal charge growing out of the so-called white slave case, refuses to eat and has tasted no nourishment since being returned to jail to await Her sentence. Her son, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges growing out of the same case, has tried to induce his mother to eat, but without avail. Four serious accidents marked Thursday at Lafayette. While operating a com shredder, Samuel Bausman, living at the edge of the city, lost his right arm. Michael Blaugh, a blacksmith, was badly burned when a blasting furnace exploded at the Esterline Labratory Supply company’s factory and a lot of blazing crude ’bjl was thrown in his face. He may die. A west bqund Wabash train struck a buggy in tyhich Mrs, Irwin Reppard and her son, 2 years old, were driving, and both were seriously hurt

Lecture Course Dates.

Jan. 19—Booth Lowrey, humorist. March 13—The Beilharz Entertainers. April 7 —Byron King.

fl new Confectionery Store. On or about Dec. 29th, I will open up a Cigar, Tobacco, Candy and Fruit Store in the small room on Van Rensselaer Street, at rear of Duvall’s Clothing Store. I ask a share of your patronage. LOUIS NICHOLS.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM ——♦ . jL PICTURE. The Banker's Daughter, a drama. SONG. I Met My Love ’Mid The Roses.

Wrestling ...Match jll. —♦ Haney My res and Wm. Stewart Will contest for the county championship, which both claim. Ellis Opera House Rensselaer, Indiana, Friday Night, Dec. 30 at 8:30 o’clock. This match Is aU the talk In Parr and vicinity and the contestants are keyed up to a high pitch of friendly rivalry. The contest will be under the CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN rules, with strangle hold barred. Two best out of Three FaUs. ADMISSION 25c, 35e and 50c. Reserved seats at Jessen’s.

J. Albert Overton, Jr, Is Christmas Gift at Tuscola, 111. Dr. J. Albert Overton, of Tuscola, 111., Is the proud father since Christmas day of a son, who will have the same cognomen as his father, and this will necessitate a senior and junior attachment. The stork arrived on Christmas eve and ‘Ta” Overton never spent a Christmas with greater cause for thanks. ‘

IV WOMEN ONLY KNEW What a Heap of Happiness It Wonld Bring to Rensselaer Homes. Hard to do housework with an ach-. Ing back. Brings you hours of misery at leisure or at work. If women only knew the cause—that Backache pains come from sick kidneys, ‘Twould save much needless woe. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys, Rensselaer people endorse this: Mrs. C. H. Dayton, Cherry street, Rensselaer, Ind., says: “Three years ago I had need of a kidney medicine and seeing Doan’s Kidney Pills advertized, I procured a box at Fendig’s Drug Store. For some time I had been annoyed by severe pains across the small of my back. I had dizzy spells and headaches and I believed the trouble to be the result of dtaordered kidneys. Doan’s Kidney Pills took effect at once and continued use relieved me greatly. At that time I publicly told of my experience and now I willingly confirm all I then said regarding Doan’s Kidney Pills.” 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.

Fam Loans. We are furnishing the money. DUNLAP & PARKINSON. Or lan, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Harry Swartaell. was almost run over by Billy Barkley’s auto Saturday afternoon. He came out of Rowles & Parker’s store with his mother and seeing some acquaintances playing with a toy across the street he started over there. His mother called him and he turned around suddenly and backed right into the machine. Fortunately he was but slightly hurt. The driver of the machine was not at all to blame.

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