Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Some Splendid Pictures and A Pleasing Song Tonight . i

County Clerk Warner is attending a gathering of the county clerks of the state at Indianapolis. The Ladies’ Literary Club will meet at the usual hour Friday afternoon, February 3rd, with Mrs. E. P. Honan. Oil Inspector Honan took his office yesterday and made his first trip to' Remington on a tour of inspection. 5,000 yards of the very finest embroidery and insertion to be sold at 10c per yard at thS Ransford Dept. Store, February 3rd. No limit. Sale starts at 8:00 o’clock. The Daughters of the American Revolution have completed , their organization at Delphi. Mrs. Ernest E. Fritts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter, of Rensselaer, is the secretary of the chapter. 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; 5,000 ytfrds to be sold for 10c per yard. W. L. Wood was down from Parr today. There is nothing new in the athletic center of Jasper except that “Billy” Stewart is willing to meet all comers and Logan just sold his stallion “Dick” to Abner Sheldon, of Porter county, for S6OO. J Boys began to play marbles several days ago and. yesterday the sport was adopted by about half the boy-s oi the marble 7 age. Broad smobth places on the street in front of the court house have found favor and delinquent boys can probably be found there. Today is some colder, however, and the chaps will probably have to give up the sport that is considered one of the harbingers of spring until a later period. The militia boys started out with the tickets for the military drama last night and have been meeting a ready response, assuring a good attendance when the play takes place Wednesday night of next week. A prize of $2.50 is to go to the person selling the greatest number of seats. This play is one of plenty of action and certain to prove very pleasing to all who witness*t. The prices are 25, 35 and 50 cents. Mrs. John Eger and Mrs. C. A. Roberts, of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Industrial Society, entertained a number of ladies Wednesday afternoon at the home of the latter. Several very novel features of entertainment had been devised and the occasion was a very pleasant one. The first course of refreshments was burlesqued by a drawing which entitled the guests to refreshments according to lot. After this came other refreshments. The difficult task of carrying an egg on a shingle was tried by the officers of the Industrial Society and was won by Mrs. C. W. Hanley. Six years ago, Bailey Beedle, a freight conductor on the Wabash railroad, was killed in a rear end collision at Delphi. The wreck was caused by a misplaced switch. His widow brought suit asking SIO,OOO damages. Monday, in the Howard county circuit court she was allowed the full amount. The case had been shifted from court to court four different times and in one trial in Cass county she had been awarded $3,500. An appeal at thfU time was taken to the higher court ans the case was sent back for a rehearing. The verdict is for an unusually laixe sum, and it is probable that the raflroad company will appeal the case. The widow has re-married since the first action was commenced and her name is now Gretzinger.

“It is not only the heavily loaded teams,” remarked a citizen to the Republican editor Wednesday evening, “that are damaging the roads but automobiles.” He then went on to say that the chains used to prevent autos from skidding literally chop, the roads to pieces during the wet period and he thinks that autos more than heavy loads are the cause of the damage to the stone roads between Rensselaer and Remington. Doubtless he Is right about the damage machines do to roads and It would be a fine thing if the present legislature would pass a law that would provide that a tax be levied against all automobile owners and have it put into a fund to keep up the roads. Machines traveling between Chicago and Indianapolis have caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to the roads in Jasper county which have been built at a big expense to taxpayers and the machines should all be taxed to help maintain the roads. A Classified Adv. will Mil it.