Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — Page 1

No. 21.

CIK Princess Chealre nEO mum, Proprietor. Wttth This Speoe imjr »*y v ' ,vr.V'-s •>■ »

LOCAL HAPPENINGS, Try the new French peas at the Home Grocery. Mrs. D. E. Hollister is confined at home with the grip. Good, sound Baldwin apples for 35c a peck at John Eger’s. , Good 4-foot wood delivered at $4 per cord. Maines & Hamilton. You will get top market price for horses here next Wednesday, February Ist. Bring them in. The new ones, at the Home Grocery, potted cheese 10c, Pimento cheese 15c. Try them. ■ «-- - ■ -- We have for the cook stove genuine Jackson Hill egg, cannel egg and washed nut. Maines & Hamilton. If you are in the market to buy a good horse come to Rensselaer next Wednesday, February Ist. Stephen Eldridge returned to Francesville today after a short visit here with his niece, Mrs. Frank King. This will be the last week to get 3 quarts of cranberries for 25c. JOHN EGER. Mrs. W. A. Davenport returned yesterday from Versailles, Ky., where she had gone to attend the funeral of a relative, v 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. The Delphi basketball team met defeat at St. Joseph’s eollege last night by the score of 40 to 20. The St. Joe boys seems to have the lads from the banks us the Wabash this being the second defeat they have administered to them. Emerson Coen, who accompanied the U. S. Abet to Europe, writes that he arrived in Guantanamo bay, Cuba, on Jan. 16th. He had a delightful trip with a lot of experience in some of the foreign countries. He plans a visit home this summer. Since July 1, 1910, and up to last night, there had been money orders totalling $17,822.81 sold In the Rensselaer postofilce. Much of this money went to mall order firms and probably a good many patrons now realize that the shoddy they purchased was not worth what they paid for it. The home merchants use you fairly. Why don’t you keep the profit from this SIB,OOO in Jasper county? For this week only our regular 15 cent imported Singapore pineapple chunks for 10c, or 2 cans of California lemoir cling dessert peachdfc for 25c. JOHN EGER.

Still Another Hummer I s' Are You Taking Advantage of our MoneySaving Combination Orders? Start This Week. Tomatoes, 1c a Can. 1 Can Best Stand. Tomatoes, ui< lc, reg. 10c ICu Imported Sardines, very finest, . sale He, regniar 15c 1 Can Omega String Beans, .... sale Bc, regniar 10c 1 Can Banana, the ptpnlar new drink, . sale 22c, regniar 25c 2 Packages Home Soda, ..... sale Bc, regniar 10c 1 Cake Fairbanks 1 Scanring Saap, . sale Bc, regniar 10c 1 Sack Lafayette Best Meal, .... sale 23c, regniar 25c 4 Swift's Pride Saap, .... sale 15c, regniar 20c 960 $725 A clean saving of over 30 per cent. There is no limit to the number of orders to any family. But the assortment will not be broken. Let us save you money. Home Grocery Orwwrtac Setter Iwrjr Day

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM r-« PICTURE. The Test of Friendship. SONG V; . .»n - ... -Y'. V‘‘‘ < I -* jftjr\t T. II- 1 -l U '- - - There's No Girl Like Your Old Girl, ' By J. F. Frederick.

Fine dried fruits.—-Home Grocery. N Don’t buy your fertiliser until you get Maines & Hamilton’s prices. Manor’House coffee, the best coffee on the market, at Rhoades’ Grocery. Mrs. Allen Gray, who has been at Goodland since the burial of her husband, came here today to visit Sylvester Gray and family. The young ladies ~0l the Catholic church will give a card party at the school hall Wednesday evening. Refreshments will be served. All are invited. Admission 25 cents. . I/’V-" -V- . Horsemen—The next regular sale day for horses will be Wednesday February ist. There will be plenty of buyers here and if you have horses to. sell thjs will be the place to bring' them. '• / % ✓ The Fowler Leader, which has been published semi-weekly for some time, will hereafter appear only as a weekly. The reason given for the change is that the readers prefer the paper once a week to twice a week. We are this week unloving our second car of flour for 1911. Quality is what sells the goods. Every sack warranted or money refunded. JOHN EGER. Horse and buyers will meet in Rensselaer ■'next Wednesday. Bring in any horse that you have to sell. A car load was sold the first Wednesday in January. These sales are private, with rio expense attached, and if the price Irou can get don’t suit you, take your horse back home. We have all sizes of hard coal, as well as the most popular soft coals, for both ranges and heating stoves. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO, Phone No. 4. Representative John G.’ Brown has introduced a bill in the house to'prohibit the mortgage exemption on more than one piece of land owned by the same party. It has been found that certain people in the state scatter their indebtedness in various counties and claim exemption in the different counties. Extra fresh eggs are quoted today in Chicago at 21 cents a dozen. In Rensselaer they are retailing at some of the groceries at 28 cents. Why citizens of Rensselaer should pay more for eggs than those living in Chicago Is hard to figure out. Dealers here are paying the farmers 16 to 18 cents per dozen and say they will be compelled to pay a less price unless conditions cnange. Order Jackson 11111, Luhrig or One-Forty-One coal for ranges; Pittsburg, Splint or Smokeless for heating stoves, and all sizes of anthracite for hard coal burners, of the Rensselaer Lumber Co., phone Mo. 4.

Entered January!. 1897, as second-class mall matter, at tbs post-office at Eensselasr, Indiana, under tbs act of Karen a, 1879.

RENSSELAER INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 19*1.

TWO JOLIET GIRLS SUICIDE IN LEMONT JAIL.

One Girl Formerly Lived Here and Is Sister of Mrs. Clifford Pas sons —Set Fire to Dresses. Stella Maxwell, 18 years of age, whose father, B. F. Maxwell, formerly lived in Rensselaer, and Freida Kempka, 17 years old, suicided by burning to death In a cell of the Lemont, 111., jail Monday evening. The girls lived with their parent# at Joliet, and last Saturday night attended a masked ball at Lemont,-a town not far from Joliet. About time to unmask the girls slipped out of the dance hall ahd into a small room where the wraps were hung. There they took two suit cases and two fur coats and a fur' collar and skipped out. As no one knew they had been at the dance, they made their escape, but detectives traced them to Joliet, where the Kempka girl whs arrested Sunday and the Maxwell girl Monday. The Kempka girl made a clean breast of her part in the theft, but refused to tell who was implicated with her, saying it was all her fault. When the Maxwell girl was brought to the jail they both broke down and told the story of the theft. At about 8 .o'clock that evening the Kempka giri set fire to her clothing and the Maxwell girl touched her clothing to the flames and both were almost instantly enveloped in flames. The fire was discovered by boys playing just outside the jail and an alarm was given, but before the turnkey could reach them the clothing was burned from their bodies and they were terribly scorched.

The girls Were conscious and told t|iat they had sought death rather than face the disgrace of their bad deed. The Kempka girl said that she wanted to die, but wanted her companion to live. She insisted that it was all her fault and that she had led the Maxwell girl into the deed. 'Both the girls were removed to Joliet and taken to St. John’s hospital. The parents of each weht to the hospital. The Maxwell girl died In a short time after her arrival there. The Kempka girl lived until Tuesday noon.

1 The Maxwell girl was a sister of Mrs. Clifford Passons, of Joliet, and formerly lived here with her parecte. The girls had been granted considerable freedom by their parents and had evidently become pretty wßd, and the Kempka girl had previously sought suicide by taking carbolic acid, the result of a love affair. She is reported .to have been a beautiful girl and a good singer, and to have sung in various picture shows. It was the first serious trouble the Maxwell girl had been in.

Try the Demar and Elkhorn cheese at Rhoades’ Grocery.

Call No. 4 for the best coal for ranges, heating stoves or base burners.

Mrs. Mary Deer and Mrs. Samuel Price went to Logansport today to pay a visit to a sister confined m Longcliffe asylum.

The growth of the flour business at the Home Grocery is phenomenal. They now sell more flour than any body.

Mrs. Jacob Raub and Mrs. George Wolvertop, of Chalmers, were guests of Mrs. S. R. Nichols yesterday. M,rs. Nichols has been in poor health for several weeks. '

Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody and Miss Bessie Moody returned from Urbana, Ohio, where they attended the funeral Thursday of Mr. Moody’s sister, Mrs. Clifford Fyffe.

Mr. and Mrs. George McAllister, of Glencoe, Minn., who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jesse Gates, went to Reynolds today to visit relatives. They will return here for a longer visit.

A. White, of Story county, lowa, has been here for several days visiting his niece, Mrs. H. E. Randle. He went to Pulaski county today, where he formerly lived, but expects to visit here again before going to his home.

L. L. Lefler was here yesterday from Lafayette. He recenUy traded Tor a farm of 80 acres near Alx, and his brother Bob and family are coming from Joliet, 111., to occupy It. Len purchased a couple of horses of Frank Ham to use on the farm.

Feather renovator men are doing business in Rensselaer. It used to be said that people who sent feathers out to be cleaned did not get back as many as they sent out. These are nice looking gentlemen, but it isn’t a bad idea to weigh your own feathers, no matter who you do business with.

Chas. Muller, of Lafayette, representing Mr. Perry Griffith, dancing master of that city, was in Rensselaer today, trying to provide for k dancing class of forty members. It Is probable that Mr. Griffith will come here shortly and undertake the organisation of the class. Saturday night Is about the only available night Prof. Griffith now has.

Ton get your sale bills when YOU want them, when ordered at The Republican office.

COUNTY OPTION SLIPFING; SENATE PASSED REPEAL.

By Vote of 29 to 21 the County Option Law Was Repealed by the Senate And New Law Passed.

Twenty-eight democrats and one republican voted to repeal the county local option law and substitute in its place a law providing for township and city option Tuesday. The repeal was opposed by nineteen republicans and two democrats.

The house will probably pass the repeal bill Thursday and an emergency is to be declared and it is probable that a number of saloon applications will t e pending wherever there is a chance about the next day. This will mean that Rensselaer will have to hold another election to keep out the saloons. All townships where saloons might be conducted will have to do the same thing. If temperance people are caught napping, saloons will be reinstated in many places. Eve?y time the democratic party pledges in its platform to do something real mean it Keeps its pledge. Governor Marshall lined up with the brewers and encouraged the doubtful ones to believe that they had pledged it and were bound by their pledge. He told them that the voice of the people had spoken and they wanted to get saloons back again. He will probably find out that there were a lot of democrats who voted the democratic ticket for other reasons and that many of them were ’opposed to a repeal of county local option. When you are called upon to cast your next vote against the saloons in Rensselaer you will realize that the brewers and distilleries are really behind the scheme, and you will wonder how Tom Marshal ever came to travel with such a gang. -

Rensselaer needs no saloons. And we believe that there will be a great majority against them when the time comes to show what Rensselaer thinks on the question.

Crabs When Caught in Nets And Dumped on Pier, Back Up.

Crab hunting is a favorite pasttime on the coast. Crabs are baited-with chunks of meat, drawn close to the water’s edge, scooped up in a net and dumped out on the pier. Then they strike for the water, moving off backward. ~ v

The crab is not the only sort of an animal that backs up. Ump-um. The Jasper County Democrat, selfappointed guardian of the interests of the people, has performed a stunt of backing up that makes a crab look like it was going the other way. Last Saturday’s Democrat said that the Bankers Surety Co. bond given by Purtelle was not “worth a tinker’s d—,” or even a “pewter d—” and said that the editor of the Democrat, ravenous for the good of the dear people, had called up the secretary of state and had been informed that there was no such company authorized to do business in Indiana.

This week the Democrat backs up, way, way up, but crawfishes like any unwilling fellow does when he hates to do a thing, and says that the bond "may be good.” Last week it was sure that it wasn’t worth a “tinker’s d —.” It says that the company is registered with the auditor of state, the proper place, but he does not say why the democratic secretary of state did not tell him where to make the right inquiry. Huge Joke! Great scoop! Fine stunt, this crawfishing! Gee, haw, back up! Ha, ha! Friend of the people! Taxpayers’ friend! Guardian! Joke!

Rowdies at Reynolds Assault a Monon Conductor.

Monticello Journal.

Several days ago Conductor John Reed, over on the other branch of the Monon railroad, had occasion to settle Clint and Ben Casto, of Reynolds, on bis train. They had boarded the train at Lafayette more than half seas ove-, and began to make themselves conspicuous and obnoxious to all in the car. Reed promptly forced them Into a seat and made them keep still. Sunday they went to the depot at Reynolds and waited for his train to pull in. When it did one of them, stepping upon the platform of the car behind Reed, struck the latter on the head with an empty beer bottle, knocking him to the ground. The two Castos then Jumped onto him and proceeded to pummel him. At that, the fireman, happening to see what was occurring, came running back with a coal pick. He took a swipe at Ben Casto and broke an arm and fractured two ribs for Caato. The next blow, if It had been struck, would undoubtedly have brained Casto, but the bystanders had managed to get across to them by that time and pulled the Castos away from Reed. Special Agent John Hayes, of the Monon, came yesterday to take up the matter, and it is probable tbe Castos will be under arrest by the time this article is read. One of them Is now under suspended sentence In the White circuit oourt for other troubles In which he had a hand and this case means practically a trip over the road.

The Prettiest Moving Picture Khow In the City. BEE WAUnffi, Proprietor.

To Cut Out All Sports On Decoration Day.

Decoration day festivities hereafter will have to be confined to tiddledywinks, charades, drop the handkerchief or Jackstraw* if Senator Hal leek has his way about it. Not only that, but if one plays any of the great American games, such as baseball, or indulges In horse racing on that day, one is liable to be brought before a court of justice and fined for committing a misdemeanor, if Senator JHalleck’s plans do not miscarry. ~ Senator Halleck started to change the Decoration day program Monday afternoon, when he introduced a bill providing that hereafter it shall be unlawful for any one to “engage in the racing of horses or in playing any game of baseball or any other public game, or in the directing or managing of any such races or games on May 30, commonly known as Decoration day.” Any violation of the proposed act is punishable by a fine of from $6 to $25 for the players and a fine of from SIOO to SSOO is provided for the promotors of such enterprises. Senator Halleck said he had been requested to introduce the bill by a number of veterans of the civil war, living in Rensselaer.

Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our sincere thanks to our neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and our great bereavement of our belgved husband and father. MRS. MARGARETHA MAY AND CHILDREN.

Che ford —jj 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car S7BO Complete !i When we say COMPLETE, we nen magnate top, glass front, ' speedometer, five lamps, generator and tools. Over f 150 worth of equipments. > —1 i f John M. Knapp, Agent Phono 18C, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ASK FOB DEHOHBTBATION. X FORD REPAIRS IN STOCK. The Ellis Theatre 1 ; ■ . 4 *‘ < > The Jordan Dramatic Co. Direct from Twenty-Two Weeks at Mabel Theatre, Chicago, Presents Under Arizona \ -< Skies "■ ' Jin Interesting Comedy Drama of the West. Friday Night, Jan. 27th And. every Friday Nigh* fpltowing. A* we come every week with a new play, we must deliver the ffOOrfs. £ X All Special Scenery ! Prices:. * », 25c, 35c, and 50c, at Jessen’s f

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM ... '« ncims. . Love at First Sight, comedy. - ■- SONS. Wall, M.TIII Pm W«rr. D.nrf., By Harry Eger.

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled with local rains tonight and Thursday. ♦— Temperature for 84 Honrs Ending With 9 A. M. Today. Maximum 44; minimum 31. 100 Horses Wanted. V . i ■• Sheets & McNelHs, the Chicago horse buyers, will be at Knapp's livery barn, Rensselaer, Ind., again on Saturday, January 28, 1911, to receive horses from 3 to 15 years old and from 800 to 1,700 pounds in weight. Bring in your horses on that date and receive the highest market priee. Don’t forget the date. Invited to Be Guests of Remington Knights of Pythias. The Remington Knights of Pythias have invited the Rensselaer Knights to attend their lodge Thursday night of this week, when initiation work in the second degree will be performed. It is probable that a number of mem* bers will accept the invitation. Notlee to Light and Water Cobs amors. Notice is hereby given to all parties who are delinquent in the payment of light and water rentals that such delinquent payments must be made by February 15, 1911, or said parties will be cut out. By order of the Common Council. Attest; CHAB. MORLAN, Clerk.

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