Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Frank Foltz is spending today in Chicago. Try a dozen of those seedless, navel oranges for 15c a John- Eger’s. V. J. Crisler made a business trip to Lafayette today. Attend the Oliver day at Maines & Hamilton’s, Saturday, February 4th. Ben O’Conflbr is spending today in Chicago. All kinds of feed for chickens, horses and cows for sale by Maines & Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Peters returned home Saturday from a week’s visit ht Oilman, 111. Mrs. George McCoy came from McCoysburg this morning to visit the family of William Daniels. Call No. 4 for the best coal for ranges, heating stoves or base burners. Caries L. Criswell returned to Fowler yesterday after a short visit with relatives here. Good 4-foot wood delivered at your residence at $4 per cord. Maines & Hamilton. Trustee Ed Lane, of Newton township, returned last night on the 11 o’elack train from a two weeks’ visit with a sister in Cleveland, Ohio. For this week. only, 4 packages of seedless raisins, pr 3 pounds of good evaporated peaches, or 3 pounds of good prunes for 25c, at John Eger’s, a, . - Firman Thompson went to Logansport today to see his mother. She continues about the same she has been since she was taken there. your neighbors about that famous cannel coal they have been using and Ahen try some. Sold by Maines & Hamilton. The clouds of the early morning passed off into a very fine day and if it were not for the rain forecast we might rejoice in the anticipation of a fine day to follow. 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 Mrs. C. W. Rhoades returned this morning from Goodland, where she visited her mother, who is somewhat improved over her condition of several weeks ago. The Ladies of the G. A. R. will hold a Lincoln 10 cent social at the home of Mrs. W. I. Hoover, at the county jail, -on Thursday, February 9th. Everybody is invited. Mrs. Frank Holley, of Marshall, Minn., left this morning for Morocco to visit relatives. She spent several days here with her aunt, Mrs. M. E. Corliss. Get a sack of our White Star flour, only $1.40 a sack, and equal to any $1.50 flour sold anywhere. Every sack guaranteed. Rowles & Parker’s Grocery Department. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyer came down from Gary yesterday. They are closing the deal for the sale of their River street property to F. E. Babcock. Sixty boxes of oranges and lemons for this week’s sale. 1 dozen nice, California seedless, navel oranges, or 1 dozen nice, Juicy, Mesßina lemons for 15c, at John Eger’s. J. W. Marlatt. G. H. MeLain, Leon Eigelabach, Art Battleday and W. H. .Morrison are attending the automobile show in Chicago today, all but the former going up on the early morning train. Order Jackson Hill, Lubrlg or One-Forty-One coal for ranges;' Pittsburg, .Splint or Bmokeless for heating stoves, .and all sizes of anthracite for hard coal burners, of the Rensselaer Lumber Co., phone No. 4. John W. Pullins left this morning for Oeddes, 8. Dak., after a visit of two weeks with his mother, Mrs. Mary Pullins and other relatives. He has been at Geddes six years and likes that country. Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum sets you crazy. Can’t bear the touch of your clothing. Doan's Ointment cures the most obstinate cases. Why suffer. All druggists sell it

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Born, Sunday, Jan. 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. George Babcock, of Jordan township, a son and their first child. A baby was born Saturday night ..*» Mrs. Glenn Overley. It died Sunday and was buried Monday, the township trustee providing for the funeral. Prof. Perry Griffith, of Lafayette, will open dancing classes at the armory Saturday, February 11. Class foj children at 4:00 o’clock P. M. Class for ladiez and gentlemen at &: 00 o’clock P. M. 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. J. H. S. Ellis witnessed the production of “A Man of Mystery,” at Lowell last night. This show will be played by the Jordan Dramatic Co., at the Ellis theatre, Friday night of this week. 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, wbo will call for them. Albert Hammond, who suffered a stroke of paralysis last Saturday, is not improving perceptibly. He is at, the home of his nephews, the Sparling boys, south of town. He will probably never get up again. Can’t look well, eat well or feel well with impure blood feeding your body. Keep the blood pure with Burdock Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take exercise, keep clean and you will have long life. Socialists in convention at Kokomo have pledged themselves to write all letters in red ink during the time that Fred D. Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, the socialist paper published at Girard, Kans., is confined in prison. ■ ■ ■ We are this week 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 EGER. Guy Hanna, at one time owner and publisher of the Monticello Journal, has been selected for superintendent of the Boys’ Reform School of Indiana, at Plainfield. There were thir-ty-two applicants for the job and it required eleven ballots by the board of trustees to make the selection. 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. Mrs. Geo. McAllister left this morning for her home in Glencoe, Minn. She expected to stop for a day or two in Gary, Hammond and Chicago, and her sister, Mrs. Jesse Gates, accompanied her to those points. Mr. McAllister is now visiting in the south- 1 ern part of the state and will return to the west later. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thewlius passed through Rensselaer on the 11:05 train today, enroute to Linden, Ind., and from there to Three Forks, Mont., where they have made their home for some time. They were Called back to attend the funeral of his sister at Linden. Mrs. Thewlius is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, who were at the station to see her. It is probable that they will return to Indiana from Montana, as he now owns a half Interest in the old home farm near Linden. . George Wolverton, of near Chalmers, White county, is having plans prepared for the erection of a big Btock barn. It will be 68x120 feet, with 30-foot posts and a self-support-ing roof. This roof does away with all supporting beams and makes the use of the hay fork easy. The mow will be large enough for 225 tons of hay. The ground room will be large enough for 125 cattle. 45,000 feet of timber will be required for the fraine alone and It will take 96,000 shingles to cover the roof. When completed It will be the largest and best equipped stock barn in White county. Don’t use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan'a Regulets. They operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY SI, 1»11.

CIRCULATING PETITION FOR CITY OPTION ELECTION.

Temperance People Begin Movement To Keep Rensselaer on the List Of “Dry” Cities. A petition is being circulated in Rensselaer asking that an election be held to determine what shall be done with reference to saloons. The Proctor bill that will become a law with the governor’s signature, throws the burden of keeing “dry” territory “dry,” and this necessitates an election in Rensselaer, to be held before May Ist, on which date Jasper county will become legally “wet” by the provisions of the law Governor Marshall and the brewers haye passed. It is gratifying to know that the saloon question is to be free from politics in the proposed election, and the petition asking for the election is being circulated by John Bruner, a lifelong republican, and Nehemiah Littlefield, the chairman of the democratic county committee. On May 1, 1909, Jasper county gave a “dry” majority of 590 ■ and Marion township voted “dry” by a majority of 198, each of the four precincts giving a “dry” majority. This time the election will be- confined to the city, and persons in the township outside of Rensselaer will not get to vote.

Ford Demonstration Next Week.

John M. Knapp, the Ford agent, has arranged to have a Ford demonstration all next week, showing a cutaway chassis, and all working parts of the Ford. The location of the room where the demonstration will take place will be announced later. All are cordially invited to call. John Biggs, of Wheatfleld, has sold his farm and will move to Wheatfleld. He will hold a publip sale on Tuesday, February 21st. * Over one mile of the finest embroideries and insertion to be sold at the Ransford Dept. Store on Feb. 3rd, for 10c per yard. No limit; buy all you want. 5,000 ya*ds of the very finest embroidery and insertion to be sold at 10c per yard at the Ransford Dept. Store, February 3rd. No limit. Sale Starts at 8:00 o’clock. Mrs. Harry Folk accompanied her husbaqd to Kentland to remain durnig the week. Judge Hanley, who has had a siege of the grip, went to Kentland also, but he was feeling far from well. Don’t miss getting some of those bargains in embroidery and insertion at the Ransford Dept. Store on February 3rd. All of it is worth from 25c to 75c per yard; 6,000 yards to be sold for 10c per yard. “JVly child was burned terribly about the face, neck and chest. I applied Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil. The pain ceased and the child sank into a restful sleep.”—Mrs. Nancy M. Hanson Hamburg, N. Y. The Lewin horses were released this morning by Sheriff Hoover, the costs were all paid and the stock was started back to Hurbert, Porter county, this afternoon, where the public sale will take place as provided foin the agreement between Mrs. Haskins and John Lewin. Over in White county stock prices are as high or even higher than they were last year, and persons who are to hold sales in Jasper county will doubtless receive better prices the balance of the sale season. The Journal speaks of one sale last week where hogs averaged $32 and where yearling brood sows went as high as ssl each. The best cows brought SBO, spring calves S2O, sheep $9.05. One sow that sold for $42 had eight pigs that brought S2OO. At another sale sheep brought $10.75 per head, cows $75, one horse brought $436 and another $225. G. L. Thornton, the Surrey merchant, whose deal with Harry Cook did not terminate in the sale of the store, has been in Kansas for the past two weeks, visiting old friends at Greenßburg, where he iived for some time several years ago. Mrs. Thornton has been visiting for the past month at Oshkosh, Wls., and returned home last night. She says that cold weather has been the rule at Oshkosh, with the temperature daily reaching 12 to 15 degrees below zero and lots of snow. She said she felt just like she had returned from a trip to the north pole when she found it so warm here. L. D. Boyd came over from Delphi this morning to look after the interests of a client. Mr. Boyd says that * petition is being passed for an election in Delphi to decide on the saloon question. Carroll county will be legally “wet” on February 28th, unless city and township elections are held favorable to the temperance people prior to that date. Delphi formerly had nine saloons. It has been “dry” for two years and the temperance people there hope to keep it so for all ruture time. It is half way between Lafayette and Logansport, both “wet” cities, but Delphi is better off without saloons for all interests.

Democrats Propose Further “Restrictive” Liquor Legislation.

The democrats are still seeking to “restrict” the sale of liquor in Indiana, but they insist In “restricting" it “upward.” If all the propositions the various members have, could be incorporated into law we would have saloons at every cross roads in the state. It certainly is wonderful the nerve that the brewers have displayed since, the election and it is more remarkable that they have been able to make the legislators believe that the result of the election was the voice of the people in favor of the reinstatement of saloons. We know there are many democrats in Jasper county who are ardent temperance men and who held the temperance matter second to some other issues in the campaign. In jthis they made a mistake, for the brewers were behind the democratic declaration to reinstate saloons and that was”, really the predominating feature of the platform. That Governor Marshall.should have been fooled by it sufficiently to have adopted the brewers’ measure is a pity, and many who have heretofore had confidence in him will now doubt not only his judgment, but his honesty.

Aviator Fell in Sea on Trip From Key West to Havana.

J. A. D. McCurdy undertook to fly from Key West, Fla., to Havana, Cuba, Monday, in a Curtiss biplane, and came within 10 miles of reaching the goal he sought. The distance is 115 miles and the aviator was compelled to descend into the ocean because his oil gave out. He was picked up by a ship and hiwSelf and his biplane conveyed to Havana, uninjured. The fe&t is quite remarkable, but McCurdy is fortunate to be alive to enjoy the glory of it. It seems a pity that the desire of men for notoriety will lead them to the performance of deeds so fraught with danger. These machines can be experimented with by shorter flights and the dangers of lofty heights and long trips over hazardous routes dispensed with until the machines are capable and safe. McCurdy' will doubtless follow the finish of many of the daring but foolish aviators within the past year.

Mayor Shanks, of Indianapolis, Stars Legislators in Interview.

Indianapolis, which has tried, during the regime of Mayor Shank, to regulate the sale of liquors, is said to have grown bolder lately and to be violating the liquor laws freely again. It is said that the resorts which had discontinued the sale of liquor for some time, have again begun to sell it. An Indianapolis newspaper interviewed the mayor and he said that he understood that the liquor handling had been started in the joints because members of the legislature who frequented those places had demanded »t. The legislators are up in arms at the slur and talk of all kinds of ways of getting even with Shank.

Dancing School to Start Saturday, February 11th, at the Armory.

Mr. Perry Griffith, who will open a dancing school here soon, comes highly recommended from Lafayette, where for 14 years he has conducted classes in dancing. Mr. Griffith is a member of the American Society of Professors of Dancing, New York. This is the oldest and strongest society of its kind in the United States, so Mr. Griffith is always up-to-4ute j n a u kinds of social dancing, also special step dancing for children. Under Professor Griffith’s perfect method of teaching any one may learn easily and without embarassment.

PIANOS FOE SALE AT ROCKBOTTOM PRICES. Since the opening or my piano store January Ist, I have sold two of those high grade pianos and have quite a number practically sold. I have also tuned upwards of a dozen. I have this day received another shipment, consisting of four Krell /French standard make, and they ars- beauties. These pianos are offered for a price surprisingly low, on small monthly payments, as I am not figuring so much on the profits as in getting these pianos placed in some of the homes in this section. To any one buying a piano of me, I will give a scientific course in music for three months, providing the pupil is a beginner and will call at my residence for instruction, and will also keep the piano in perfect tune for one year from date of sale. As I carry a good line in all the latest in sheet music, which I sell at lowest prices, my sales in this line have been reasonably extensive. I will be pleased to show and demonstrate these high class pianos to any one, at any time. PERRY W. HORTON. Allen Swim had a fall at the Babcock St Hopkins elevator last Wednesday, having slipped while sweeping dust on the top floor. He fell about 15 feet and badly sprained his back, but expects to be all right in a few days. Ton get your sale bills when YOU want them, when ordered at The Republican oVce.

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Strike Situation Grows Serious in Lake County.

Gary and all Lake county seems now to be in for a long continued strike affecting many trades and the outcome of which it is difficult to predict. Last Friday all the big contractors working in the county in a conference held at Gary decided to declare the territory “open shop,” meaning that all unions will be discredited and that any man can go to work. While the contractors were holding their meeting the carpenters and painters were also holding a meeting and they decided by an overwhelming vote to call out every man who is working for a member of the employers’ association unless the employer consents to sign the agreement for arbitration. Teamsters are expected to go out also. John Medicus, who has been idle for several weeks because of the strike of the lathers, states that he believes there will be 4,000 idle men in Lake county if the strike becomes as general as it looked when he was there last week. v

NOTICE OF REMOVAL. On and after February Ist, I will have moved my office across the street over Duvall’s clothing store, to the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Washburn. DR. MERRILL. The stone road between Rensselaer and Remington has been greatly damaged by heavy hauling during the past week. John M. Knapp, the liveryman, came from Piper City, 111., in a Ford machine yesterday and say 3 that the black dirt had been forced through the stone several places. Farmers should avoid heavy hauling when the roads are soft. One heavy load can do hundreds of dollars worth of damage.

7 —*—-—— - —7: " pANCHON married New Year’s day. Beguh 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 “FANCHON FLOUR.” $1.50 a Sack, at THE G. E. MURRAY CO. Clr ford 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car S7BO Complete When we say COMPLETE, w« Mean magneto tap, glass front, speedometer, five lamps, generator and tools. Over IIM worth of eqmtpmenta. John M. Knapp, Agent Phene 18C, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ASK FOB DEMONSTRATION. FORD REPAIRS IN STOCK. .

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM —♦— fictuse. in:: Liz's Career, a comedy-drama. SONG. Give Me One Mere Chance, By Harry Eger.

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled; local rains tonight or Wednesday; warmer tonight. HOTXCX TO OiLXZiT RUMCXZBESB. Subscribers to /The Evening Republlcar- will confer a favor upon the publishers by reporting promptly any failure of delivery upon the part of tne carrier boys. The Republican tries tthgive 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 163 and your complaint will be given prompt attention. Bloomington Girl Dies of Burns; Her Sweetheart Accused. Lililian Liford, 16 years of age, died Sunday at her home near Bloomington, Ind., from burns received ten days ago. Her lover, Litana Skelton, is in jail at Bloomington charged with her murder. Skelton was with the girl when her clothing caught on fire and the father accuses him of having poured, coal oil on her clothing and then set fire to it. The girl lingered for 10 days, most of the time being delirious. She would grab the covers of the bed upon which she lay and declare that Skelton was trying to kill her. No rational statement was procured from her. Bkelton is 27 years of age. He denies that he caused the fire which resulted in her death. A lively bunch a stags surprised R. B. Harris Monday evening and turned the home on College avenue into a scene of merriment, with sixhanded euchre as the principal entertainment. At the finish Amzie L#Rue and Floyd Robinson had tied for the most games and Amzie won in the play off, during which both players were given the advantage of suggestions from about all the outsiders. Ben was some fifty years of age that day and the boys remembered it with a befitting present. A Classified Adv. will rent It.

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