Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1911 — Page 1

No. 25.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. George Ulm made a business trip to Morocco today. > Ed Ranton went to Hoopeaton, 111., today, to visit his parents. Miss Ellen Sayler came down from Thayer and remained over Sunday. Attend the Oliver day at Maines & Hamilton’s* Saturday, February 4th. Miss R. V. Kemmet, of Lowell, was the guest over Sunday of Miss Cinda Macklenberg. You will get top market price for horses here next Wednesday, February Ist. Bring them in. Lyman Zea went to Crown Point this morning to continue his sale of linament and varnish. good horse come to Rensselaer next Wednesday, February Ist. Mrs. Anna M. Vondersmith returns to Kentland this morning, after a visit of a week with the family of C. P. Wright: Mrs. William Pollock returned to Morocco this morning after a visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Snedeker. Fancy sand* grown Michigan potatoes only 45c a bushel. Rowles & Parker’s Grocery Department. ■ "■ ■ " ■ 1 1 S. H. Hopkins went to Logansport this morning. He had contracted for a farm there, but has discovered an error in the title and thinks the deal will be off. \ The Ladies of the G. A. R. will hold % Lincoln 10 cent social at the home of Mrs. W. I. Hoover, at the county jail, on Thursday, February ,9th. Everybody is inyited. Sixty boxes of oranges and lemons for this week’s sale, nice, California seedless, navel oranges, or 1 dozen nice, juicy, Messina lemons for 15c, at John Eger’s. Ivan Carson left this morning to resume traveling for the Harsh & Edmunds Shoe Co., of Milwaukee, after spending the six weeks’ midwinter lay-off at home. Get a sack of our White Star flour, only |1.40 a sack, and equal to any 11.50 flour sold anywhere.' Every sack guaranteed. Rowles & Parker’s Grocery Department. Elbert Antrim was down from Chicago over Sunday visiting relatives. He is engaged in railroad work there, and like Rensselaer boys of grit and desire, is pushing to the front. A few fine overcoats and only one far overcoat to close out; get our prices as they are the lowest ever quoted- on equal grade goods. Rowles •& -Parker, The Leading Clothiers. H. E. Lowman, who for some time •conducted the Pleasant Ridge store, has purchased the general store of Robert McDonald, at McCoysburg. Lowman will take charge of the store on* February Ist 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. Adolph May was named executrix of the will of his late father, Peter May, and qualified last Friday by furnishing a $35,000 bond. He will probably sell the real estate, which includes the farm near Pleasant Ridge.

The Ladies of the Christian church are getting ready to ship a car load of paper Persons having old papers and magazines and wishing to give them to the church should phone to Mrs. P. W. Clarke, who will call for them. H J. Dexter will hold a public sale on Saturday, February lltb, at his farm in Union township. He has decided to reduce bis stock in order to lessen his labor, but will retain enough to continue farming on a smaller scale. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Barn as, parents of Mrs. Joe Larsh, went to their home at Kokomo today. Mr. Barnes has been in Portland. Oreg., this winter and just returned here last Saturday. Mrs. Barnes has been bere since Mrs. Larsh returned from Chicago. Horsemen —The next regular sale day tor horses will be Wednesday February Ist There will be plenty of buyers here and if yon have horses to sell this will be the place to bring

The Evening Republican.

Extra Good Program and Song Tonight.

County Treasurer Will Cooper was over from Monticello this morning. All kinds of feed for chickens, horses and cows for sale by Maines & Hamilton. * Roy Torbet went to Indianapolis this morning for a visit of several days with relatives. J. D. Allman left this morning on a business trip to Indianapolis and the southern part .of the state. Mr. and Mrs. E. W- ..Irwin returned to Wolcott this morning after an Sunday visit with relatives.* D. Schmitt returned to Decatur,. Ind., today, after an oyer Sunday vißit with his son at St. Joseph’s colloge. Lawrence Blacker, who has been .visiting his brother near Newland, left this morning for his home near Monticello. Frank Shide returned to work on the dredge near Idaville today. Will McGinnis did not go back owing to the illness of his wife. For this week only, 4 packages of seedless raisins, or 3 pounds of good evaporated peaches, or 3 pounds of good prunes for 25c, at John Eger’s. A forecast for the week’s weather sent out from Washington says that Btorms starting in the Rocky Mouqtains and coming eastward will rea a this part of the country Thursday and Friday and cause a big drop in the temperature those days. Now is your time, to see where you can use a lot of concrete tile. They are the cheapest; pay for themselves; cost you nothing. You can string them out; they never crumble, but get better with age. They are frost proof. Rensselaer Cement Tile Factory, C. Kalberer, proprietor. You’ll need rainy footwear for these rainy days and we can save you 10 to 20 per cent on all kinds of rubber goods. ROWLES & PARKER. Horse sellers 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 no expense attached, and if the price you can get don’t suit you, take your horse back home. G. C. Clark returned to Fowler today, after a visit since Saturday with his sister, Mrs. Bert Amsler. Bert returned from the hospital in Chicago Saturday, where he, recently underwent an operation for hernia. He is feeling fully as good as could be expected and believes his trouble will be fully relieved by the operation. Prices on all kinds of fencing are sure to be higher, as raw materials have already advanced, but our PreInventory Sale prices are by far the lowest ever made on fencing and it will be to your interest to buy now, as we are giving big discounts on our already low prices. ROWLES 4b PARKER. Fred Berger came over from Remington this morning. Pbineas Kent came from Brookston on the same train and the saloon question came up as they rode down town in the bus. Berger thinks saloons will be reinstated at Brookston And Monticello. Berger thinks that Wolcott, also in White county, will vote “wet,” and that Goodland find Remington will follow. It will be a great pity, Indeed, if these communities take a backward step, and we trust that the estimate these gentlemen have made is not correct. Kent came here to see Ed Oliver, and Berger came to transact some business and left for Chicago 6n the 10:05 train. Tomorrow is the last day of January. The month has slipped by without much of a fund. Several varieties of weather have been handed out and mild temperature without an unusual number of cloudy days has predominated. There has been very little snow so far this year, about 4 inches being the greatest at one time, and It went off thirty-six hours after It came. Today’s northwest wind is far from pleasant and January may make a bad face at humanity as it passes out February is a short month, but may be full of troubles, if Prophet Hicks can make It so. He has storms, regular storms, reactionary storms, blizzards, sleet, winds and a lot of troubles booked for every day of the month almost. It Is not uncommon to have some real cold weather In February, bnt we do not recall a month quite so fall of woe as the one Hicks predicts.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY SO, 1911.

C. G. Ward, of Monon, was an over Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sands. Call No. 4 for the best coal for ranges, heating stoves or base burners. Good 4-foot wood delivered at jour residence at $4 per cord. Maines & Hamilton. .JCIS - ---- - - - [ —r •• Mrs. Nellie Van Smith Taylor, of Chicago, came this morning for a visit with Mrs. C. C. Warner and other old friends. V r Ask your neighbors about that famous cannel coal they have been using and then try some. Sold by Maines & Hamilton. Everet Kinney has returned to Rensselaer from Delphi and resumed his former position in the Rowles & Parker store. Our big discount prices on men’s overcoats and suits still continue. If you need clothing it will pay you to buy now. ROWLES & PARKER. The boys of the Rensselaer high school are getting busy at basketball and will play at the college Wednesday evening and at Wheatfleld Friday night. ■■■ ■ - ( Miss Erica Troll, music teacher in the Rensselaer schools, went to her home in Chicago Friday evening and was unable to return today on account of sickness.

See our big display window— Women’s fine Tailor Made Suits, 60c on the dollar. You’ll say they are the biggest bargains you ever bought ROWLES & PARKER. . . . ■ . . T - The Ladies of the Christian church will give a chicken pie supper Thursday evening of this week, serving to begin at 5:30 o’clock. A good supper for 25 cents. Come everybody Order Jackson Hill, Luhrig or One-Forty-One coal for ranges; Pittsburg, Splint or Smokeless for beating stoves, and all sizes of anthracite for hard coal burners, of the Renssfelaer Lumber Co., phone No. 4. Judge Hanley was sick at Kent4and most of the time last, week, having had a severe case of grip. He Is scarcely well yet, but will, return to Kentland Tuesday morning for the last week of the Newton circuit court. B. 6- SUedd has received word that his brother, William W. Shedd, died yesterday at the home of his daughter in Fairbury, 111. He was 76 years of age. Within the past year Mr. Shedd has lost two brothers/ one sistov and a niece by death.- ' We are this we&& unloading our third car of flour for 1911. If it was not for the high quality of the flour, we could not sell the quantity that we do —more than all the balance of the merchants in Rensselaer are selling. If you have never tried it, do so at once. JOHN EOER. Emil Johnson, who has been living on the Rankin Halstead farm in Newton township, will hold a public sale on February 10th. He has been in quite poor health lately and 'or the past two weeks in bed most of the time. He has been dairying extensively and the work has been too hard on him and he wishes to rent a farm of about 60 or 80 acres, where he will not have so much beavy work. Mrs. N. C. Cofer, of Charleston, 111., came from Chicago last Saturday evening, where she had been visiting, and stopped off here for what she expected to be a short visit with her cousin, Mrs. Sam Roth. Just as she was getting off the milk train one of her feet was struck with great force in some mysterious manner and she found when she reached the Roth hdme in the bus that she was unable to walk and had to be carried into the hotue, Sunday a physician was called ana the foot and ankle had swollen until the injury was extremely painful and is apt to keep the patient laid up for several days. Apparently the heel of the foot was struck just as she stepped on the-lower step of the coach and she is at a loss to understand what it was that hit her. r The rehearsals have begun for the military drama to be presented by the local militia company and everything looks auspicious for one of the very best borne talent plays ever presented here. Geo. H. Hoskyn, the author of the play, who is putting it on, and who plays the heavy part, is an actor of unusual ability, and is training the characters in all the parts. It is hoped to pyt the play on within the next ten days. A chorus from the high school girls has been arranged for and will begin rehearsals Tuesday evening at 4 o’clock at the armory. There will be eighteen girls in this chorus and the feature proved extremely attractive at Montlcello. It is probable that the play will be produced two nights and that a banquet for all who take part in it, as well as for all members of the company, will be given. If you contemplate doing any fencing this season, it will pay you to get in on our pre-inventory prices on woven wire, as they are the lowest prices ever made on woven wire fencing. 1,200 rods sold last week. ROWLES * PARKER.

Lewins Settle Trouble With Mrs. Haskins While Jury Ponders.

While the jury -at Valparaiso was pondering over the case brought by Mrs. Ella Haskins against Charles and John Lewin last week, Mrs. Haskins got John Lewin and effected a compromise. The fact that they had settled the case did not become known until after the jury had been out for ten hours and had failed to reach an agreement. The Lewins are the men whose horses and wagons were attached in Rensselaer on January 4th by Sheriff Hoover on complaint made by Mrs. Haskinß, wlio claimed that they were seeking to get out of the state to avoid the payment of notes given tor rent. The Lewins were represented by Dunlap & Parkinson, and the plaintiff by George A. Williams, of Rensselaer, and Attorney Bruce, of Valpo. »Since the action was brought, the thirteen head of horses have been kept at the Norgor hitch barn, where they were first attached. The trial brought out some of the facts in the case not heretofore mpptioned in the papers. The defense of the Lewins showed that Mrs. Haskins had paid two agents SSOO for getting the Lewins into a contract and tiie attorneys dwelled at some length upon this fact as conclusive that they were deceived as to the quality of the land.The defense also tried to show that the Lewins were not going to leave the state, but were going to a farm in Benton county, only a short distance from Kentland. They showed that the Haskins farm, near Hurlbert, was only 22 miles from the Illinois state line and that the Lewins could have reached Illinois in 4 hours if they had set out to get away. The Haskins also furnished testimony to show that the farm was not renting for too much, and it was easy to show that the Lewins had followed a very bad plan of trying to get out, whether they were going to Illinois or not. Greatly to the surprise of all, including the attorneys, while the jury was deliberating, Mrs. Haskins got John Lewin and made a compromise settlement by which it was agreed that the stock was to be brought back to the Porter county farm and sold at public auction. Lewin was to gef S2OO that remained in Chicago from the sale of the corn and come here and pay off the claims against the stock, preparatory to its return. It was also a part of toe compromise that John Lewin was to return to the Haskins farm and tenant it the ensuing year. Mrs. Haskins said that he was a hard working man and a good farmer and that she would back him. She blamed the trouble on his brother Charles. The case proved profitable for the lawyers and the hitch barn owner, and none others.

Former Trustee Will Ask Relief From Loss in Bank.

A. A. Fell, treasurer-elect of Jasper county and a former trustee of Carpenter township, has circulated a petition asking that he be relieved from tbe loss sustained in the failure of the Parker bank in Remington. The petition was liberally signed and it is understood will be put in the shape of a bill and presented by Senator Hal leek. We believe that practically every man will consider the relief perfectly honest and fair, as Mr. Fell should not lose tbe mo 0 6? he had deposited in good faith in tbe bank that almost every other citizen of Carpenter township used. ,

Mrs. Henry C. Hoshaw Passed Away Sunday After Long Illness.

Death came Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock to Mrs. Henry C. Hoshaw, at her home on Madison street In the northwest part of Rensselaer. She bad been ill from diabetes for a long time but had been able to be up most of the time. Thursday she was taken worse and Saturday it became evident that she could not long survive. Death came sooner than was expected, however, and she passed away quietly al the hour stated. She is survived jy her husband and four children, al! of whom are married, viz., Wilbur A., Edward C., Samuel C„ and Mary J.. now Mrs. Prank Burns. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the M. E church and will be conducted by Rev. Harper." Interment will be in Weston cemetery. Editor McCullough, of the Remington Press, was frightened about half out of his wits last Thursday night when some one threw a stone through, his parlor window, near where he was sitting. Editor McCullough had at tended the K. of P. lodge and after returning home at about midnight, sat down by the fire and was reading a newspaper. Mrs. McCullough was near by and all at once their attention was attracted by the firing of a levolver near the house. They looked up and a stone crashed through the window. They turned out the lights and went up stairs, calling for tie nightwatch by telephone. There was no clue to whom the rascal was who threw the stone and no' apparent reason for. the deed and many believe that it was done by either boys or midnight rowdies, and that it was not the act of any person who was trying to "get even” with the editor.

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Rensselaer High School 11; Wheatfield High School 9.

The Wheatfleld girls’ basketball team played their return game with the Rensselaer NJam, at Warner’s hall, Saturday evening, and were defeated by the close score of 11 to 9. The game was fast and closely contested throughout and many fouls were called on each side. Wheatfleld was more successful In throwing goals from the foul line’than Rensselaer; the former getting 7 to the latter’s 3. Rensselaer threw 4 field baskets, Edna Robinson throwing 2 and Irene Simpson 2. Hulda Jensen threw the only field basket that Wheatfleld was able to get during the entire game. The feature of the game was the foul throwing of Minnie Clark, of the Wheatfleld team, who scored 7 of their 9 points by free throws. The two teams were about evenly matched and It was anybody’s game until the whistle blew. This was the second game tin Rensselaer has won from Wheatfleld this season, but a third game may be played at Wheatfleld in the near future. Warner’s hall was agqin crowded with enthusiastic rooters and as the popularity of basketball increases, the problem of seating the Spectators becomes a difficult one, because the hall is too small. After the game the Remdtelaer team entertained the Wheatfleld people and a few invited guests at the hall, for a couple of hours. In the “curtain raiser,” Capt. William Babcock’s team put a stop to the championship aspirations of Capt. Geo. Padgett’s team, by the score of, 12 to 10. Both sides played well and the game was fast and clean throughout. This is the second game that Bubcock’s team has won and they stand ready to meet any team of its size in town.

pANCHON married New Year’s day. Begun to keep house right away, Bought a cook book of proper print Then stocked her larder without stint. fHE way, as everybody knows, To man’s heart, thru his stomach goes. She held her lord from the first hour By baking bread of “ PANCHON FLOUR.” $1.50 a Sack, at THE G. E. MURRAY CO. Cbc ford ——■ ■■ ■' i ' ■' urn wrTnqtMUiY 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car S7BO Complete When we say COMPLETE, we mean magneto top, glass Dent, speedometer, live lamps, generator and tools. Over SIM worth es equlpmeats. John AU Knapp, Agent Phene 18C, *... RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ASM FOR DEMONSTRATION. FORD REPAIRS IN STOCK. Jr]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM 4— A. PICTURE. The Fugitive, a drama. SONG. Yea Leek Just Like a Girt I Used to Knew, By Harry Eger.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight; Tuesday fair. Warmer.

“Billy” Martin Wants Match As Preliminary with Light Man.

“Billy” Martin, who claims to be somewhat of a wrestler, wants to meet any man weighing up to 150 pounds in a preliminary to the Maple-Stewarf match. A part of the door receipts will probably go to the preliminary and Martin wants to wrestle for all or none. He will weight in at 122 pounds and prefers meeting the Remington man. He may be addressed in care of the "Little Indian Cigar Go."

The Correspondent’s Tree Sphere.

It is said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where one bad grown before, is a great benefactor. How true it can be said he who, by suggestion, causes two enobling ideas to dwell in hearts where one or none had dwelt before, is a benefactor whose influence goes on down through the ages. How much better to use the pen for the good of a community, cementing human interests, than to spitefully use one’s time in work which only rebounds to the writer’s own hearthstone. Rostand’s Chantecleer thought his crowing caused the sun to rise. Some correspondents imagine they are quite essential in affairs, when, if Instead, they sought to truthfully depict the real thoughts of the community, they might be of some value, and like Chantecleer, lose their selfconceit when the pheasant hen (the common people) tells them they are not necessary to make the world go round. HELEN MAR. 1 Try a dozen of those seedless, navel oranges for 16c a John Eger’s.

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