Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1911 — Fred Landis Gets Mixed In Speech at Michigan City. [ARTICLE]

Fred Landis Gets Mixed In Speech at Michigan City.

It happened last fall, but is just getting into the newspapers. Fred Landis, the young brother of Charles B. Landis, who served one term in the national legislature and got out because he promised postoffices to too many people, traveled all fall with Senator Beveridge. He raved about the trusts wherever he went and particularly was he concerned about the encroachment of the railroads on the rights of the poor people. He always closed- his speech with a particularly effective peroration in which he told fyow these heartless corporations run their lines through farms, towns and graveyards —or anywhere that they choose. At Michigan City he pulled out all the tremelo stops and shouted: “And, fellow citizens, they can run their roads through those sacred cemeteries, those last resting places of the secred dead, where you, fellow citizens, and your ancestors have been buried for forty years." There is considerable rivalry between Lapqfte and Michigan City, and the former town thinks this is a great joke on Michigan City, but the News of the latter city, claims that after the speech Landis confided in several that he thought he was in Laportc when he made the speech.

There is still two months of open season left for that great German game bird, Silver Thread sauerkraut, only 5c a quart at John Eger’s.

Members of the Monon town council came to Rensselaer Sunday afternoon and inquired through City Light and Water Superintendent Chamberlin about the success of the Tungsten lights now being used for street lighting purposes at corners not supplied with arc lights. Monon is figuring along with Francesville and Medaryville on contracting for lights with a company that will put in a Joint plant for the three towns. The proposition is to supply Monon with 26 lights for S6OO a year. This looks like a big cost and is, compared to the cost of lights in Rensselaer, but, as The Republican has pointed out before, this city Is getting its lights too cheap and the private users are paying too mueh. Here this will doubtless be remedied shortly by placing all users on the meter System, which Is the only fair plan, and then evepr user will pay for Just what is consumed. It is probable that Monon and the neighboring towns will never get a more favorable lighting proposition than the one now being considered and if that town and its neighbors want electric lights they had better take up with the plan. Remington only installed Its lighting system recently and we understand that general satisfaction has resulted and that practically all homes are being supplied with lights.

For this week only our regular 16 cent imported Singapore pineapple chunks for 10c, or 2 cans of California lemon cling dessert peaches for 26c. JOHN BOER.

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