Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — Page 1

No. 14.

Lyceum Co, Presents the Following Pictures at The Princess i - TO « NIGHT. Blind Man of Jerusalem.

CIK Princess Cheats .. X, ' ' ' . nIM PHILLIPS, Proprietor. Watch Villa Space Every Say

, LOCAL HAPPENINGS. KOTICD VO DAISY SOB80BZBEB& Subscribers to* The Evening Republican will confer a favor upon, the publishers by reporting promptly any failure of delivery upon the part of the carrier boys. The Republican tries to fclve good service in the delivery of the paper, but cannot do so without the cooperation of subscribers. If you fail to receive your paper notify us promptly by phones 18, 114 or 153 and your complaint will be given prompt attention.

WEATHER FORECAST. Snow tonight; Wednesday generally fair.

Fine bananas. —Home Grocery. Isaac Miller made a business trip to Flora today. Alf Donnelly started south this morning on an onion selling expedition. Mrs. A. Gangloff went to Chicago this morning to attend the funeral of an aunt. Mr. and Mrs. John Marion, of Parr, took the train for Monon this morning, going thereonlmsiness J. L. Brady went to Indianapolis this morning to attend the meeting of the state grain dealers’ association. Mrs. P. L. Mattes started to Chicago again this morning. She was on the train that was wrecked at St. John yesterday. N. C. Shafer, the Maxwell man, went to Chalmers today to get a new 16 horse power runabout which Dr. H. J. Kannal has purchased. Miss Anna Honan, of Delphi, who has been visiting in Chicago, came to Rensselaer today for a short visit with* the family of her cousin, Attorney E. P. Honan. Acting Night Watch Parks put three weary travelers, one of whom was black, in the jail for a night’s repose last night, and this morning Marshal Mustard let them pay fur their liuapitality by shoveling some snow. Baby won’t suffer five minutes with croup if you apply Dr. Thomas’ Electic Oil at once. It acts like magic.

AnotherJunimer! Fresh Bread, 1c a Loaf Another Money-Saving Combination Offer. Everything Reduced. 3 Loaves Fresh Quaker Bread, 3c, reg’lr 15c ICm Extra Fine Tender Sweet Cura . . 08c, regular 10c 1 Cat Palace Drip Table Syrup, . . . 08c, regular 10c 1 Can Fancy Pork and Beans .... 12c, regular 15c 2 Pkga. Hippo Washing Powder- . . . 08c, regular 10c 1 Package (6 large boxes) Matches . . . 21c, regular 25c 1 Package Quaker Toy Oats . . . . 08c, regular 10c 1 Can Best California Peaches, very fine . 28c, regular 35c Sale Price - - ? - - 96 c, regular $1.30 A saving of over 30 per cent. Give «s your order this week. 5 per cent of oue cash receipts go to the Monnett Orphans’ Home. HOME GROCERY Qrawing ktlir Ivory Day 91 . . . *• * |> v * .’* * T r*V v " j -?.'

Th e evening Republican.

Victoria Falls. Naples and Vesuvius. Costumes of Different' Centuries. Alphonso Gets in Bad. Poor Piggy. Dumb Sagacity. Venice. Oh You Hobble Skirt, By J. F. Fredrick.

J. H. Montz, of McCoysburg, made a trip to Monticello today. / Mrs. Roberts and Miss Jennie Harris are spending today in Chicago. An election will be held the latter part of this month to make West Hammond a city. It will probably carry. Miss Anna McMund returned to Chicago Monday morning after a visit since last Friday with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brusnahan at the home of John English and A. E. Brand. C. C. Brown, of Stanley, N. Dak., who have been visiting relatives here, went to Lafayette this morning to visit his pister, Mrs. Alton Meek, whom he had not seen for several years. Mrs. Isaac Parker came Monday morning from Lee, where she visited her sister, Mrs. Alf Jacks, since Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacks are very well pleased with their business at Lee. For this week only for 25 cents, all one kind or assorted; 4 cans of the best standard lye' hominy, 4 cans of pumpkin, 4 cans of kraut, or 4 cans of red kidney beans. JOHN EGER. Louie Wilcox, of Springfield, Ohio, who attended the retail monument dealers’ convention in Chicago last week, came to Rensselaer Friday for a short visit with his sister, Mrs. Frank Leek, and many old friends. He left Sunday for his home. About three inches of snow fell last night and flurries have fallen during the day. The soft weather of laet week, followed by the freeze of Sunday, left the roadbed very rough Htid even with a big fall of snow it will take a considerable time to make a good bed for sleighing. The garment workers’ strike is to bte brought to a close in Chicago. Ti.e firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, the largest of the independent clothing concerns, has signed an agreement, with striking tailors hy which 10,000 are to return to work within ten days. The employing firm contemplates an increase of working room by wh'ch 2,00 u additional employees will be put to work shortly.

Satttri January 1, 18*7, u second-class mall matter, at tbs poat-oXBos at BsnssSlasr, Indiana, under tbs act of March 3, 1879.

r * RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, IUII.

Mrs. John Holsema wet to Lafayette today, having been notified that her mother was not expected to live. Her brother, George Mohlman, went yesteday evening. Mohlman and Holsema are both employed in the Rensselaer cement tile factory. Michael Kanne returned last Saturday from Campus, 111., after a short visit. Hfs son, George, returned with him and remained over Sunday, visiting his little daughter, who has made her home with her grandparents since her mother’s death. A 1 Kanne also went to Illinois for a Short visit. Delos Thompson, B. F. Fendig and W. V. Porter left this morning for a sojourn of two or three weeks in Florida. They will go first to Jacksonville, where Louis Fendig lives, and after partaking of his hospitality for a few days they will start out on a hunting trip. Mr. Thompson took with him his bird dog. Dr. I. M. Washburn may join them there later. Harry Wade returned last Friday from Mississippi. He believes the money making possibilities are great down there, but he did not like the poor advantages that exist in the country. He left this morning for Colorado, expecting to prospect in several parts of that state. Bert Sparling also returned from the south. He did not invest while there. Harry E_. Folk, the genial court reporter, is on hand and wears the same “old smile that won’t come off.” Harrv hails from the state of Ohio and naturally is interested in the big “doings” in Adams county, yet he- gets some consolation reciting the trials and tribulations of our twin cities of Gary and Hammond. It is hard for some of the “boys” to convince him that there is a difference between vote buying and the herding of ignorant foreigners just before the election.—Kentland Enterprise. A. A. Gorbet was down from DeMotte today. He is expecting Mrs. Gorbet back shortly from Gilby, N. Dak., where she has been for some time with her daughter, Mrs. Eva Hellengreen, to whom was recently born a baby daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Hellengreen went to North Dakota last spring at about the time his parents, Mr, and Mrs. John Hellengreen, went. They had a poor year, owing to the drouth, but will remain there another year at least and give that section of Norh Dakota a thorough trial. P& Mr. and Mrs. George Michael have been visited for the past few days by her two brothers, 0. L. and V. H. Sanderson, of Colorado. They left this morning for their home, which is in the San Luis valley, where Dr. I. M. Washburn has investments. They are splendidly pleased there and believe it is a country that will develop into a garden spot of rare productiveness. They shipped from there to Chicago 1,400 head of sheep, which they had fattened. They have been following this business for some time, with considerable profit. An East Chicago policeman named Steve Keri shot and killed Peter Jayzyk, a young Russian, Sunday night. Jesyk and others were drunk and were singing and making a wild noise. The officer remonstrated with them and they sht upon him, beating him severely. He drew his revolver and fired. Jazyk was struck and fe’l, after running a few feet. The policeman was so severe!} beaten that he had difficulty in reaching a nearby saloon. The dead man bad been in East Chicago about two years and had a bad reputation. Under date of Jan. 10th Mrs. H. L. Hendricks writes as follows from Aberdeen, Wash.: “Find enclosed 1J.50 for renewal to The Republican. We are having pretty good weather out here at present for this country; are having our first snow today, and it is about 2 inches deep. It will not stay long, as it is already thawing. We have some Rensselaer people here, among them Mort Murray, who has been here all winter. Last Sunday Ben Welsh spent the day with us. His -sisters, Gertrude and Ella, are teaching school out here. Miss Ella has been very sick, but is better now. This leaves us all enjoying good health. Will close, wishing you all a happy New Year." J. L. Babcock has been over from Wells county for the past week, spending part of his time in Illinois. Wells county looks mighty good to him and the many improvements that have been made there have made that county one of the best in the union. Bluffton, the county seat, has two interurban railroads, one running through the town north and south, and the other east and west The farmers there are the greatest beneficiaries, he says, of the electric railroads and one who has not lived in a community where there are electric roads hardly realizes the extent to which they are put to use. After the north and south road had been built about five years there was no trouble in building an east and west road and Jim says that the farmers along the road and the business men In Bluffton about all subscribed for stock and took almost enough to build the road. A Classified Adv. wUI aril it. ’

EUGENE PURTELLE IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND.

Petition in Bankruptcy Indicates that Railroad Promoter is Not Well Balanced Mentally. The Chicago papers relate the story of Eugene Purtelle’s petition in tankruntpy and some of the matters Introduced in the story causes one to wonder whether Eugene Purtelle is possessed of all his mental faculties. Purtelle was in The Republican office Monday and discussed his petition in bankruptcy with the writer in a very nonchalant manner. He seemed to care about as little about his list of liabilities, which totaled the large sum qf. $707,933.11, as most people would about a small debt. Mr. Purtelle seemed to think that the accumulation of a bunch of debts was a necessary feature of high financing and it mattered little who got*skinned or how it happened so long as t'l j figures represented a big sum of money. The writer put a number of pertinent, and a few impertinent ques - tions to Purtelle, and he did not seem to mind them a bit, although he did exhibit a slight uneasiness when he was told that the lack of success ot his Chicago investment was a porv recommedation for him to come before our people with in making a request for stock subscriptions. Mr Purtelle was asked if he had failed at everything he had undertaken and he said, “No, not everything,” but he did not say what successful affairs he had been connected with. Worse than the indifference Purtelle displays is the fact that he listed as debts money which the listed creditors state that he does not owe. He put Custer & Cameron down for $168,000, and they say that he does not owe them a cent, and he also put a man by the name of George A. Haskell down for SIOO,OOO, and Haskell denies that Purtelle is indebted to him. To offset this deception in the list of liabilities it looks from the manner in which Purtelle is discussed in Chicago newspapers as thotigh practically all his assets were dreams also. He claimed to have assets amounting to a little more than $50,000, but it seems that the sso,Odd is simply a claim against a number of men, who pronounce it all “bunk,” and claim th-.iy do not owe Purtelle a cent. Purtelle valued his personal effects at $989.1.-, which included a cane valued at $1 50 which Purtelle usually carried with him when he was looking up some one to Interest in a get-rick-quick investment. From the list of creditois of Purtelle, there appears to be a lotof other claims which he would be under no obligations to settle. The whole thing on Purtelle’s part seems to be so much of a frame-up that there is considerable doubi whether he is quite right in his mental make-up. It has been reported that Purtelle is selling stock in his projected railroad and that a number of purchasers have been found near Mt. Ayr. While the voting of a subsidy is all right, if does not look to be a good thing to buy stock and give the money to Purtelle with no further guarantee than he supplies. There seems mighty little prospect of the road doing any good when a fellow like Purtelle is at the head of it, and yet with the subsidies^ already voted and the ones in prospect, it would seem that with dependable parties back of it there might be a good chance of the road being built. It would seem advisable for the other men who are in the road promoting scheme to get rid of Purtelle without delay and then push the proposition energetically. If the subsidies as voted could be transferred to the Club it would seem toTie a worthy movement and we believe that the club would inspire confidence and be able to secure not only* additional aid, but the capital with which to build the road.

Naval oranges are good now. The Home .Grocery is selling some fine ones at 20c a dozen. California oranges are now at their best and for this week we will sell you large, fancy, seedless Navel oranges for 25c a dozen, and the extra large for 30c. JOHN EGER. Trade at the Horae Grocery this week to benefit the Monnett Home.

|.:5 r: | ., n^p< S@sfO I'v : | .I Smallest Horse »J tlu- World, Ai Bawd Boys’ Circus This Week. Calling cards at tbo Republican.

> , ~ liri 1 | The Prettiest Moving Picture > Show In the City. . MBX WABSEB, Proprietor.

< Pictures: “MEMENTO OF THE PAST”—drum. i. “KIDS WILL BE KIDS”-cesedy. “THE WAT OF UFT’-ima. , Song: “Oilier the Tim Vein Tree” u 4 “U Hoonland Felr” Both by Harry Eger.

The Sublime Passion Play.

Next to making the pilgrimage to that quaint little village of Oberammergau, located In the mountain fastnesses of the Bavarian Tyrol, a few hours’ ride from Munich, where the Passion Play is presented every ten years by the Villagers in fulfillment of a solemn vow made decades ago on condition that their town would be spared from the pestilence which ravaged the surrounding hamlets, the reproduction by moving pictures of scenes which are enacted throughout an entire day, are of peculiar interest to the Christian world. The Lyceum Bio-Scenic Co. will reproduce this great sacred drama in a series of beautifully-colored moving pictures at the Princess theatre Wednesday afternoon. Those who are interested in that world renowned representation may be sure of the deepening of their interest in the Bible accounts of Christ’s mission, by seeing this production. The matinee will begin tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. Special music and songs. The films aggregate 3,000 feet in length, making a performance an hour and a half long. - «

Remember it’s the Home Grocery that sells so much flour—“ Best” or “Northmore,” $1.60 a sack. We are now in the midst of the grip and the best remedy is hot lemonade, and to put the price in reach of all we will this week sell them at lc each, or 12c a dozen. JOHN EGER. One grocery is selling bread at one cent a loaf. See their adv.

Renssel’r Boys Band i Society Circus I ALL THIS WEEK j AT THE ARMORY i Matinees: Wed. and Sat'day! Fun For All. ATTRACTIONS: SOUTHERN LOG CABIN JUBILEE SINGERS } BONITA, Smallest Fat Woman on Earth VERNO, Thinnest Man on Earth i The Man Ape Large Collection of Baboons, Monkeys, Birds of all ; Kinds and Species TINYMITE, Smallest Horse in the World The most beautiful exhibit of Feather Flowers in : the world See the Jap Vase Store and the Perfume Booth and many others Sensational FREE ACTS: “ The Terrel Family ” World ! Grata! Aerial ArtUU. “Valencia Brothers" Bur Perfumer*. “Mons Zalla” . Aerial King. Many Other High-Class Acts j Admission: Adults lO; Ckildrea aider 12 yri. So 1

Double Bill i i—_ 1 * i i Admission 10c <

Carnival and Society Circus Started Monday Night at Armory.

The indoor fair and society circus started Monday evening with an attendance of about one hundred. The Boys’ Band played on the street and also in the armory. An admission of 10 cents was charged at the door and several scenes familiar in the streets during the progress of a,carnival, went seen. The small pay shows are in booths, and H. Sanger, the manager, takes personal charge of the show. A performance of considerable merit is the free attraction Inside the hall, which consists of trapese performing by two young men. The plantatfim performance was quite well patronized and the coon shouters are good entertainers. The voting contest for the Queen of the Carnival was started and the following young ladies were nominated: Lizzie Riddle, Ruth Ames, Gertie Leopold, Julia Leopold, Ethel McCarthy, Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades. Voting boxes have been placed la Duvall’s, Fate’s, Milliron’s, Little Indian, Jessen’s, Tobias's, Nowels’s, and at the armory. - --<*-• There will be a show each night and matinees Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

His lectures are eloquent, humorous, pathetic and powerful. I commend him as a man of strong character and great power. Apr. G. M. Savage, President S. W. B. University, Jackson, Tenn. At M. E. church, Thursday evening, January 19th. A Classified Adv. will sell it

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