Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — Page 1
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. ■ones TO DAILY STTBSCBIBEB.S. Subscribers to The Evening Republican will confer a favor upon tho publishers by reporting- promptly any failure of delivery upon the part of the carrier boys. The Republican tries to give good service in the delivery of, the pabut cannot do so without the cooperation of subscribers. If you fail to receive your paper notify us promptly by phones 18, 114 or 163 and your complaint will be given prompt attention. Frank E. Cox spent yesterday in Chicago. Car of lump smokeless just in. $f L. Brady. , John Poole made ,a business trip to Battle Ground today. Orlie and^Fred^Hemphill Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jacobs have returned from their visit in Illinois. William Washburn and Bert Sparling went to Monon on business this morning. J. T. Francis returned to Danville, 111, this morning after a short visit with relatives west of Rensselaer. We carry Indiana, Pittsburg and splint coals for heating and steam purposes. J. L. BRADY. George Ulm is home from near Quincy, he has been working on a dredge. He will return the first, of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark and daughter Ruth returned Saturday from a two days’ visit with their son Harold in Indianapolis. Miss Leatha Orr and brother Lloyd have returned to their home at Dai* forth, 111., after spending the holidays with their cousin, Miss LaVera Lee. 1 ~ 1 ■ —— Now is the time to order tile at The Rensselaer Cement Tile x Factory, so you better be sure and get them. They pay a better dividend than anything on your farm. Edgar P. Seyferlich, son of the new chief of the Chicago fire department, and his friend, Harry Cordesman, were the guests of Chief Montgomery and other officers of the Rensselaer Are department Sunday. See our revised prices on many lines before you conclude that yov can’t get good shoes at nominal prices. Reductions on all kinds —men, women and children’s. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.
Love and heating ' /# ■ Love in a cold house is not impossible, but it is not easily probable. Old methods have to take a back teat in the competition of youth and cozy comfdrt. f a . ~ 11T ftvni *°r Hot Water or Low-Prewun Steam MRICANx IDEAL fl RADIATORS IBOILCRS for aah-dutt, soot, or coal-gase* to rite to the living-rooma. Carpets and furnishings are not toiled, and the lightened housework assists to keep lore in the cottage, or any larger home. To« will bm4 car book (tree) —It contslat the aott vslssblo hosting inf or out wo, which 0*01? owner shooM hs*e st hs&4. E. D. RHOADES & SON Heating Contractors Rensselaer - Indiana
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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —. PICTURE. Who Wins, the Widow, comedy. Wanted, A Baby, Comedy. SONG ,\;/ 1 Honey Land, By J. F. Frederick.
John Bislosky made a trip to Chicago today. John Morgan spent yesterday in Monticello. F. B. Sims, of Fowler, is registered at the Makeever house today. Miss Madeline Ramp will not return to school at Valparaiso this winter, but will remain at home. v , Try us for cook stove coal. Our stock is very large and well selected. J. L. BRADY. Will Knox returned to Chicago this morning after a short visit here with his father, Thos. A. Knox and family. - \ * Miss Alice Shedd returned to.Otterbein, where she teaches school, this morning, after spending the holidays at home. Walter Crampton returned to Chicago this morning after a visit over the holidays with his uncle, C. E. Prior, and young friends. Frank Knox returned to his home in Chillicothe, Ohio, last Saturday after a visit of several days here with his brother, Thos. A. Knox. Miss Leathe Wright left this morning for Evknston, 111., and Miss Mary Wright left for Washburn, Wls., after spending the holiday vacation with their brother, W. J. Wright, and family, and other relatives. Carles Criswell, who went to Illinois recently to work on a farm, did not stay there long, as he was not pleased with his place. He has hired to Straud Ford, of near Fowler, and went there today, after spending New Years at home. Misses Mable and Blanche Hunt, of Baroda, Mich., who have been visiting in Lafayette, stopped off here today for a visit with their grandfather, W. H. Miller and other relatives They are the daughters of L. W. Hunt, a brother of J. J. Hunt. Ed Rainier, a young druggist at Covington, Ind., was last week fined SSO q.nd costs for selling whiskey. The total, including costs, was $l5O. The evidence on which the druggist was found guilty was furnished by detectives for the Anti-Saloon league. Some tremendous reductions In footwear at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe store. Every broken lot must be moved, hence we can give you a good shoe for a little money. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Bloct
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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1911.
Christian Church Will Hold Their Annual Banquet.
On Wednesday evening, Jan. 4th, In the church parlors,-will occur the annual banquet of the Christian church. Covers will be laid for every member of the church who can be present. Music will be furnished by the Merritt Orchestra. Special musical. and literary numbers will also be given. J.-L. Brady will be toastmaster, and reports will be made by the pastor and treasurers, and the heads of all the departments of the church. No attempt will be made at this time to raise the funds needed for the year, as the object of the banquet is fraternal and to launch plans for the new year. Each member of the church reading this Will consider that this is a personal invitation to be present.
Ladles’ Literary Club Reception Proved an Enjoyable Event.
The New Years reception by the Ladies’ Literdry Club, at the home of Mrs. A. F. Long last Friday afternoon proved a very pleasant occasion and about one hundred and fifty ladies called at the Long home during the public refception hours from 2 to 5 o’clock. The house was tastefully decorated in the club colors, red and white, and sweet strains of music, furnished by an Italian harpist, who occupied a small room -at the rear of the hall, filled the house. The harpist was hidden from yiew in a bank of palms. There'was no program, but the members of the club saw to it that the guests were pleasantly engaged in conversation. Ligfrtrefreshments were served. \ \
James White down from DeMotte today.
Wilbur Criswell went to Brookston today to look for a job on a farm.
Born, Saturday, DeG. 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Chamberlin, a daughter.
Mrs. J. H. Payne returned to Hammond this morning after a short visit with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chapman and daughter returned this morning from a visit at phicago Helghts.
Roy Israel returned to Lafayette today after spendlng the. holiday vacation with Rensselaer relatives.
Frank and Chas. Horsewood returned this morning from a visit with their father in LaGrange county.
Mr. -and Mrs. J. L. Vestal took -t train here en route to Bluffton today, after visiting relatives at ML Ayr.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Linn returned to Attica today, after a week’s visit with their daughter, Mrs. W, H. Parkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Ensminger returned to Elwood today after a visit here with her brother, D. M. Worland and family.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Kenny left this morning for University Place, Neb., after spending the vacation period with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Jackson.
Mrs. Peter Scallon returned to Lafayette and Victor Sullivan to Frankfort Saturday evening after a visit with Peter Hordemai\, Sr., and family, west of town..
Today is legally recognized as a holiday and the banks are closed, the postoffice is closed part of the time, there are no local freight trains running and the Western Union office is closed most of the day. Aside from these things the day is unobserved in Rensselaer.
Cha*. Qarriott and Ed Gilmore, the wrestling bout managers, were here this morning to meet Bill Kennedy, the challenger of the winner of the MyresStewart match. They found Kennedy unprepared to close the deal for the match and another meeting is to be held Thursday when it is hoped to be able to close up.
E. L. Bruce and daughter, Miss Lora, went to Fulton this morning, having received a telegram Informing them that Mrs. Brucd was seriously ill. She went there Saturday, in company with her sister from California, and planned to return here Tuesday. Only a brief telegram was received and it is needless to say that Mr. Bruce and his family were somewhat alarmed.
H. G. Clark was over from Mt Ayr Saturday. He would like to see Rensselaer start a fair association and says he believes some people from over about Mt. Ayr might subscribe for a little stock. Mr. Clark visited a good many county fairs last fall and is of the opinion that they all made some money, and he thinks the chance for a successful fair would be better here than almost any place be know* of. There is a big and prosperous country surrounding this city and no fair nearer than forty or fifty miles- People are tired of street fair* and the burden of their malntalnaawe falls too much upon the business men of the town. At a fair the people pay for what they get. Mr. Clark says he feels certain that the live stock interests In this section of Indiana would support a fair that would prove a hummer and pay out year after year.
CHICAGO GAVE BOISTROUS WELCOME TO NEW YEAR.
Midnight Revelers in Saloons and Cases Drank Wine, Blew Horns, Sang and Shouted Like Wild. The coming of a new year makes a lot of temporary idiots in Chicago. They act as though the passing of one year 4 and the beginning of another were sufficient cause to do all sorts of weird and foolish things and they proceed to do them. The tendency seems to be to do something unreasonable or even something very bad, and in the business district of Chicgo a new year is ushered in with a tooting of horns, a playing of bands, a shouting of people who think they are having a good time, and the clinking of glasses. •*
To the unitiated it Is a remarkable sight, one worth seeing just to furnish a study of the odd beings of humanity. But it is a sight with so many shameful thingß connected with it that one would not care to see it frequently.. The worse feature of the event is the dissipation. Men and women make it the occasion for a disgraceful debauch and not only drink, but get drunk, and in many of the cases where men and women gather together there were scenes of the most disgusting depravity. Chorus girls seem to be regarded as the most apt to exceed the bounds of decorum and they usually become the companions on evenings of this kind of young men with a lot of money, and champagne and wine gulped down until the slight reason with which many of these beings seem to be endowed at the start is drowned and they laugh and sing and cry and fight until the scene they ptoduce beggars description. A nice looking young •jiroman, accompanied by a young man, fell on State street, vomiting as she fell and cutting a gash on her head as she struck the pavement. She was rendered unconscious and her escort, almost as drunken as she, could not raise her to her feet. An officer was near and a cab was- called and the poor, wretched and deceived young thing and her equally foolish, although probably not so badly deceived companion were taken to the girl’s home, or that was presumed to be the destination, judged by the address furnished by the young man.
Another woman, apparently accompanied by her husband and another woman, vomited in the street while waiting for a street car, and the man wiped her mouth and tried to hold her up. “Don’t worry Amy,” he. said, “Jack is here, hell take care of you.” “Yeth,” she replied, in a drunken stupor, “but what will mother thay?” Mother and her feelings were coming in for belated consideration. was an effort to be cheerful and to express a general welfare for humanity, and the street crowd selmed trying hard to make every one understand that they were “good fellows,” and took, every one to be the same kind. At a hotel a young man staggering drunk was trying to Bhake hands with all in sight and he slapped a stranger over the head and knocked his hat over his eyes and his glasses off and the lenses were broken as they hit the floor. Naturally the stranger was very much put out and he demanded pay for his glasses, but the young, fellow tried to get off . some funny answers and the stranger left the hotel to get an officer. Before he had returned the debauched youth had returned to the case, drank another glass of wine and fallen'unconscious and was carried to a davenport and a cab called to take him away. An order had been issued that was expected to close all the drinking places at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. The order was ignored and the Record Herald has the following to say of the condition of things: One of the first places visited after 1 o’clock was George Silver’s place at 126 Randolph street. There were 400 young men and girls in this place and nearly every one was drunk. Fights were sporadic in the crowded room and Silver’s fat form was kept in a high state of oscillation in trying to preserve the peace. Liquors were sold steadily. A similar state of affairs was found at the Princeton case, 165 Clark street, at 23 Clark street and at 12 Quincy street. At David Lewisohn’g place at 323 Wabash avenue both the case and bar were open. A patrolman was drinking with the crowd at Lewisohn’s bar. . The' Venice Case &nd bar at 339 Wabash avenue were both wide open, as were the bar and sitting-room of Michael Brudder, 48 Hubbard court. The Boston case on State street was open and a policeman in a garrulous state of intoxloation was standing in front of the plaoe. The Sayoy Case on Wabash avenue was packed to the doors with a boisterous crowd. Patrolman 654 was in the Wabash avenue doorway keeping the crowd out Two plain clothes officers entered the place while the investigators were there. Andy Craig’s Tivoli saloon on Btate street was wide open, with the usual collection of thugs, thidVes, confidence men, together with the women friends, drinking there Dlneen’s saloon at 359 South State street was filled with a large crowd. So was the saloon at 286 South State street, Gaudette ft
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WEATHER FORECAST. Cold wave with northwest winds; Tuesday snow flurries and continued cold.
Delegates to State Congress Are Against Road Supervisors.
That the township road supervisor in Indiana is a nuisance, and that the office ought to be abolished, was the almost unanimous opinion of delegates to the state congress of Indiana In the closing session of the organization’s annual meeting. The supervisor came in for several rounds when the delegates were discussing whether or not they should approve the movement to establish a state highway commission. “The supervisor in my district came to me a short time ago,” said one delegate, “and handed me a signed road tax receipt, showing that I had worked five days on the highways. I looked at him in surprise, and I told him I had not worked a day on the roads, and thdt I had not been told by him when og>where to work. He looked at me blankly for a minute and told me he thought I had worked out my tax. that he had fixed up his books that way, and for me to take the receipt and save him the trouble of doing his books over.” Another delegate said: “I haven’t worked the roads for 16 years. I have always paid the road supervisor 75 > cents on the dollar to do it for me. I don’t know whether he did it or. not. I think not, from the fact that when our grand jury was sitting last time, he came to me and asked me to keep quiet about my road tax receipts until after the grand jury had adjourned.” accounts of the laxity of performance among road supervisors, and a declaration that the office should be abolished met with instant response. The opinion seemed to be that road supervisors are largely to blame for the wretched condition of roads In many townships and for failure of the land owners to get value received on their roads in return for the money and work expended for road purposes. The practice of railroad companies “farming out” their road taxes, or employing persons to do the work for them, was denounced as one of the grossest of the highway system abuses in the state, and the enactment of some law by which the practice could be prevented was demanded.
John Q. Lewis, county assessor, went to Indianapolis today to attend the meeting of the county assessors of the state. In wet or cold weather use ReM’s Cushion Sole shoes. They keep Jpe fpet warm and dry and afford that ■we so much desired at this season ofrne year. We have them for men and women. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House block. Ton get your sale bills when TOU want them, when ordered at The Republican office.
Hodson’s place at 83 Van Buren street, and Casey’s bar at 249 Jackson boulevard. The saloon of J. E. Fitzpatrick, 272 Madron street, which is just east of the ffrst precinct police station, was wide open and crowded at 3:30 in the morning. A lively fight added to the gayety in the Pompeiian Room of the Congress Hotel at 2:30 yesterday morning. Before it was ended, nearly every person in the apartment, including patrons, waiters and house detectives, had taken a hand in the melee. Three chorus girls from the Lyric Theatre and three young men in evening clothes were the center of the trouble The hotel people say they objected to the skidding of wine bottles over the floor by the young men. The young men say the trouble began through their objection to the promiscuous kissing of their women friends by other persons in the room. The real row began when two waiters got one of the men down on the floor and other patrons ran to his aid. Hotel detectives managed to extract the six principals of the affair from the melee and after dressing their wound! sent them off in taxicabs. ' pWhlle in the downtown district celebrating the advent of the new year with two companions Saturday night William Dobler, 18 years old, 1342 West Thirty-first place, was takes ill suddenly and died a short time after being taken home by his companions. * • * And this bedlam was Chicago’s welcome to the new year. Surely the modern city must be almost intolerable to the Lord.
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The Ellis Theatre J. H. S. ELLIS, Manager. —♦ —• Wednesday, Jan. 4th ONE NIGHT ONLY, r '~; - ■ ' ‘Lena Rivers’ Beulah Poynter’s play from *. Mary J. Holmes’ Most Popular Novel. No Advance in Prices Remember the Date WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4th
GOOD NEWS. Many Rensselaer Readers Hare Heard It and Profited Thereby. “Good news travels fast," and the thousands of bad back sufferers In Rensselaer are glad to learn that prompt relief Is within their reach. Many a lame, weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills. Oar citizens are telling the good news of their experience with the Old Quaker Remedy. Here is an example worth reading: Nelson Randle, N. Main street, Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills at different times when suffering from a lame and aching back and other symptoms of disordered kidneys. I was led to procure this remedy at Fendig’s Drug Store by reading about its good work in similar cases. Relief soon followed its use and the backache and kidney difficulties were finally disposed oi. Whenever I have taken Detail's Kidney Pills since then, they have acted just as represented. Ido not know of a case where this remedy has failed to prove of benefit." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. ,
Two Aviators Killed Saturday; Folly of Reckless Flights Proven
Arch Horsey and John Moisant, two aviators, or flying-machine riders, were daring men. Horsey had accomplished much during his short career as a 1 birdman. He was the aviator who flew from Chicago to Springfield and then to St. Louis. He held the world’s highest-up record, having sailed over two miles above the earth. Bnt be tried things so daring that they were foolhardy and was killed In California when at a height of three hundred feet he lost control of his machine and it fell to earth. Moisant was only a short distance in the air when his machine got out of order and he was thrown to his death. . They were victims of an ambition to do something that would give them great names. Had they been engaged simply in the perfecting of flyingmachines the sympathy would have been more sincere.
Gas Gnat to Be Depot? Sheriff to Sheriff floorer. Sheriff William I. Hoover Is now in office. He has decided upon Qns Grant for deputy and this appointment will be made in a day or two. Mr. Grant is a republican in politics, but it is understood that hsupported Hoover for election, and this appointment to bis reward. Rosetown and Lincoln Township Vote M to It for Subsidy While official information was not received, it was understood that the election for the Indiana Northwestern Traction company's subsidy in Lincoln township, Newton county, carried for the subsidy by the vote of 93 for the subsidy to 10 against it. •.to* 1 -- | We are furnishing the money. DUNLAP A PARKINSON. '
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