Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Noah Zeigler made a trip to Monon today. B. F. Alter went to Forest, Ind., today on a business trip. Mrs. W. E. Jacks is quite sick with pneumonia at her home southeast of town. Biggest embroidery and lace salq of the season, beginning Monday, February 6th, at the G. E. Murray Co. i Chas. M. Chesnut, of Philadelphia, came this morning for a yisit with his cousins, Mrs. A. P. Burton and Mrs. H. J-.. Brown. Take a look at The G. E. Murray Co’s, embroidery window. Sale begins Monday, February 6th. Call at my store and get a little fresh mixed candy. I also have a nice line of fruit. Louis Nichols' Confectionery Store. ftiram Day went to Chicago today to attend the funeral of Berry Rutherford, an uncle of Firman Rutherford, who was killed by a train at Gresham Thursday. Mrs. Stella Dwiggins, of Lincoln, Neb., arrived this afternoon for a visit of indefinite length with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile, and other relatives. Special embroidery and lace sale, beginning Monday, February 6th, at the G. E. Murray Co. Irvin Frye, who has been living on the Rich farm, south of town, is moving to a farm > near Stinesville, for which platie his daughters, Iva and Eva, left this morning. The Presbyterian ladies will hold their regular monthly 10-cent social next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. James Matheson, on Cullen street. All are cordially invited. A short letter from Rev. H. L. Kindig, in which he sent a renewal for The Semi-Weekly Republican, states that he 4% still suffering some from rheumatism, although he is slowly recovering. Korah Daniels purchased the Horatio Ropp property in the east part of town last fall and will move it about March Ist, at which time Mr. Ropp qnd family will move to the W. S. Day farm in Barkley township. In directing that his copy of the Semi-Weekly Republican be in the future sent to Attica, Rev. Chas. W. Postill have a fine place here and theoutlook is good for a good time .with the people.” Rev. W. M. Sherrill returned to Battle Ground today after spending a week at the home of Mrs. Nancy J. Burget, near Aix. Miss Anna Burget accompanied him to Battle Ground for a visit of indefinite length. John Donnelly came back Tuesday from Denver, Colo., for a visit with his father, Alfred Donnelly, and family, and today himself and sister, Miss Edna, left for a visit of several days at Lafayette and Plymouth. John left home almost three years ago and has been getting along nicely in the west. 1 a A copy of the Magnum, Okla., SunMonitor of Jan. 26th, received by The Republican today, states that Luther Randle arrived Wednesday from Norman, Okla., where he passed the examinations to become a registered pharmacist. Luther is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Randle, formerly of Barkley township. A marriage license was issued yesterday to Arthur Miller, of Pleasant Ridge, Jasper county, and Anna Zable, of Lee, In this county. Their wedding will be solemnised tomorrow and they will commence housekeeping on a 200acre farm just across the line in Jasper county, north of Lee. The groom is the son of J.' D. Miller, who formerly lived on 8. W. Myers’ farm, west of this city.—Montlcello Journal. A short letter from E. L. Clark was received today. He enclosed a record of the temperature for Feb. Ist, which shows that at 3 p. m. that day the thermometer registered 90 above zero and the coolest for the day was 62 above. Today’s papers print dispatches from Oklahoma City showing that the temperature yesterday reached 94 above. Mr. Clark says that he rode qjiite a distance in an open buggy with Bam Yeoman. All Jasperites are Well except Mr. Yeoman, who has been sick, but is now recovering. It is very dry there.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM -• ♦ - PICTURE. A Tale of the Sea. Ramona’s Father. SONG The Bum and The Bamblebee, By J. F. Fredericks.

Mrs. E. L. Bruce and daughter. Miss Lora, are spending today in Chicago. Good 4-foot wood delivered at your residence at $4. 4>er cord. Maines & Hamilton. “7* Born, this morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Lewis, of Barkley township, at daughter. Mrs. C. W. Hanley and son Emil are taking in the auto show at Chicago today. 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. George Marr, manager of the big Nave ranch in Wheatfleld township, arrived here this morning from Attica, where he had been visiting Mr. Nave. > Mrs. John G. Shedd, of Chicago, and her brother, Warren Porter, and wife, of Walpole, New Hampshire, were guests today of S. S. Shedd and family. John W. Paxton was over from South Bend over night. He has not yet engaged in business but is looking about for something and will probably decide to make his future home in Indiana. B. F. Fendig returned this morning from his trip to the south. He has not been with Delos Thompson and Walter Porter for the past two weeks, but understood that they would be home in a few days. Cyrus Rice, whose little daughter captured about everything in the riding prizes at the Rensselaer horse show last fall, and who had many winners in the exhibit of horses, will hold a big public sale on Wednesday, February 16th, at his farm south of Remington. Mrs. C. A. Vondersmith, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. N. Littlefield, for the past ten days, went to Chicago this morning, where she will spend a couple of weeks in the wholesale millinery houses before returning to her home in Murdo, S. Dak., where she is engaged in the millinery business. William Taylor, manager of the Lowell opera house, was in Rensselaer today and arranged to start a roller skating rink in a room belonging to A Leopold, on Vanßensselaer street. Mr. Tqyloy has made a proposition to the local militia company to put on the play, “Under the Stars and Stripes,” at Lowell Saturday night of next week and it is possible that this will be done. Trustee Hillis, oi Colfax township, Newton county, was in town today. He is anxious for the building of an interurban railroad that will connect his part of the country with Rensselaer and a few other good places and says he believes that the building of such a road would double the value of every acre of land in his township. He would be glad to help along any company that can acquire the Purtelle rights. Mrs. T. N. Cofer left this morning for her home in Charleston, 111. She was compelled to go on crutches, owing to the injury she received last Saturday evening when leaving the train. She has suffered a great amount of pain and 1b still unable to bear any weight upon the Injured member. She is unable to account for the injury. She had just stepped from the train when something struck her a severe blow on the heal from behind. It caused an injury that made it impossible for her to walk and she has since been confined' closely to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Roth, where she was visiting. W. H. Cheadle, trustee of the Robert Parker bank, and his attorneys, William Darroch, of Kentland, and Dan Sims, of Lafayette, were here today taking depositions in the case of the trustee against E. L. Hollingsworth. This is the case that grew out of the transfer of the First National bank of Remington to Mr. Hollingsworth, just before the close of the Parker bank. Mr. Hollingsworth is represented by Attorney Emery Sellers. The hearing was under the direction of the referee in bankruptcy, Who was absent, but a reporter from his office made a report of the proceedings. Cant look well, eat well or feel well with impure blood feeding your body. Keep the blood pare with Burdock Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take exercise. keep clean and you will have long life.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1911.

ASKS TO BE RELEASED FROM HOPKINS’ BOND.

“Farmer” Said to Have Returned Home Intoxicated and to Have Started Trouble Again. “Farmer” Hopkins returned to Rensselaer this morning from a business trip to Wabash and 1 other places and is said to have been intoxicated when he arrived home. As he is under a peace bond, given several weeks ago after he had had trouble at his home with his sons; his bondsman, A. F. Long, asked to be released from the bond as he was liable to a forfeiture if “Farmer” caused trouble. “Farmer” started home on foot and is said to have taken most of the road for a pathway between here and the Alter tile mill, north of town. He stopped at the mill and was so obnoxious that Mell Wood went to a nearby house and called by telephone for the sheriff. Sheriff Hoover went to the tile factory but by that time “Farmer’s” son had arrived and he offered to take his father home and he was loaded in a wagon. He later is said to have climbed, out of the wagon and to have entered the Belle Center school house, but this rumor was not confirmed. One report reached town was to the effect that he was armed with a revolver and a big knife and had made threats about what he would do to any one that tried to take him. This was not confirmed and the rumors were probably greatly exaggerated. From the residence of a farmer living on the route of his travel we were informed that he was not talking loudly and was thought not to be armed, but was very drunk. The requirements of release from a peace bond are that the bondsman must cause the bonded to be arrested and turned over to the sheriff and after some thought Mr. Long decided not to do this at the present time. Hopkins has disposed of his farm land in this county and expects to move away. He is very quarrelsome when drinking and he would appear to be a tolerably poor peace bond risk.

Try a sack of Fanchon flour next time. Finest ever come to town. $1.50. THE G. E. MURRAY CO. 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. Ask your neighbors about that famous cannel coal they have been using and then try some. Sold by Maines & Hamilton.

“Under the Stars and Stripes”

Under the rays of a blistering sun lay the long thin line of khaki-clad American soldiers. Silently they hugged they ground; an occasional muffled report from the hills', and the soft drone of a spent bullet, being the only sounds to interrupt the peace of a perfect tropical day. Suddenly a bugle, far in the distance, sounds tlie “advance”—pie brown line seems transformed, it becomes filled with action, the men, motionless a few monments before, spring to their feet and begin picking their way over the uneven ground As they approach the position heid by the insurrectos a gap occasionally appears in the line, but it is quickly filled without any demonstration of feeling, almost mechanically. The volleys from 811 vestre's band of renegade constabulary become more regular as the boys in khaki cover the intervening ground, but flo answer comes from the muzzles of the Sprlngflelds. Again the bugle speaks, this time for the “halt,” and then repeats its clear notes with

GOVERNOR SIGNED OPTION LAW FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

Proctor Measure Became a Law and All Territory Will Be “Wet” as Two-Year Periods Expire.. Governor Marshall signed the Proctor platform township and city option bill Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the presence of his secretary, Mark Thistlethwaite, and Burt New, legal clerk. The bill was signed in the Governor’s office with a common steel pea. the one used by the Governor for all oth4r purposes, and will not be presented to the Democratic Editorial Association or any other association. There was no demonstration of any kind. The bill was brought to the Governor’s office early in the afiernoon and deposited by Mr. Thistlethwaite in the executive safe, where it was kept until taken to the Governor a short time later. Although there were errors in the original copy of the Proctor option bill, it was / held in the Senate after having been enrolled the second time because of the* - absence of any provision for determining the number of voters in the territory outside a city when ail of the city is not whhin one township. Whether to ask the unanimous consent of the General Assembly to change the bill, hold up the first bill and start a new bill through State Legislature, or amend the original bill, was discussed by the Governor with Senator Stotsenburg, Senator Fleming and Senator Kistler. Finally, the last course was adopted, but the Governor decided to withhold his signature until the amendment was drafted in a party caucus. The amendment to correct the defect in the bill was drafted Thursday and will be introduced by Senator Proctor in the senate. The amendatory bill is entitled: “A bill for an act to amend Sec, 3 of an act entitled (here follows the title of gency. - , the Proctor option law), approved Feb. 3, 1911, and declaring an emergency.”

Sixty boxes of oranges and lemons for this week’s sale. 1 dozen nice, California seedless navel oranges, or 1 dozen nice, juicy Messina lemons for 15c, at John Eger’s. Hbw 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. Try a dozen of those seedless, navel oranges for 15c a John Eger’s.

the command “commence firing”— eager hands turn the s&fety locks, adjust the sights, and before the echq of the bugle’s clarion notes has died away, other short, sharp, decisive echoes announce to the traitorous Tagalogs that play time has ceased and actual business begun. Thee with a yell and a wild rush the boys charge and soon the shrieking, disordered horde of brown devils are streaking for safety in the rice paddy —and the fight is over. » This exciting battle in tbe rice paddy, the escape from the old Juan Be Dios fort, Sllvestre's final retribution and many other thrilling dramatic features will be seen in Hoskyn's great Filipino war drama. “Under the Stars and Stripes,” to be for the benefit of Co. M, at Ellis opera house, Wednesday, February Bth. A magnificent cast has been secured to support the author, Geo. H. Hoskyn, and a fine chorus of young women will sing the Interpolated musical numbers. Tickets are now on sale by the members of Cp. M.

The Prettiest Moving picture ■hew la the City. MOC WAMU, PsopHetor.

“Anti-Bad Egg” Bill to Be Presented by Traylor.

Every egg that goes into the market in Indiana will have to be “candled” if a bill to be Introduced by Senator Traylor at the next roll call in the Senate is passed. The measure will compel the buyer oi* seller to examine the eggs by natural or artificial and eliminate all decayed, decomposed or “spot” eggs from any lot that is to be sold. These provisions will apply only from June 1 to Dec. 1 of each year, Senator Traylor taking the * stand that such precaution is not needed in the winter and spring months. It is said that practically all of the poultry dealers of the state are in favor of such a statute. A fine of not less than $lO and not more than SIOO for each offense is a provision of the bill. The state food and drug commissioner is authorized to make and publish uniform rules for carrying out the provisions of the proposed act. The bill is practically a copy of the bill which has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature. A loophole is left for dealers in eggs in the clause of the measure which provides that a case of eggs shall ordinarily contain thirty dozen eggs. Of these 2% per cent may be bad without the owner being liable under the provisions of the proposed law.

President Taft Thinks Warren’s Writings are Their Own Antidote.

In commuting the fine and imprisonment which the court sought to impose on Fred Warren, the socialist editor, President Taft spoke in the following language: “Were this a prosecution for criminal libel in a state court,” the president says, “the sentence might perhaps be justified because of the destructive and reckless purpose of the defendant in his publication. But, even in such a case, I would question the wisdom of making the defendant conspicuous and feeding his vanity by treating him seriously when his violence, his exaggeration, his wild accusations, and his mock heroics ought to be treated with ridicule.”, “Doubtless hiß writings are read with pleasure by a number whose views are as wild and as perverted as his, but for all persons of average common sense a reading of his articles is the best antidote for the poison he seeks to instill.” He is right. There is nothing that a man of Warren's type prefers more than the appearance of martyrdom, if he is ignored he will write himself to death.

Rensselaer Defeated Wheatfield At Basketball Friday Night.

The Rensselaer high school boys returned home from Wheatfleld Saturday morning feeling quite joyous at their victory Friday night over Wheatfleld. The score was ,9 to 4 in favor of Rensselaer. The line-up was as follows: Rensselaer Position Wheatfleld Parks * rs Seegrist Clark if Koster Porter c Asher Sage rg Stembel Hemphill lg Biggs Field goals—Porter 2, Parks 1, Koster 1. Goals from fouls —Clark 3 out of 7 chances. Result first half, Rensselaer 6, Wheatfleld 0. Second half, Rensselaer 3, Wheatfleld 4. Entire game score, Rensselaer 9, Wheatfleld 4. Referees, Dean and Sterrett After the game the Wheatfleld crowd treated the Rensselaer visitors to a supper and tbe hospitality was of a fine kind, greatly pleasing to the Rensselaer folks.

Wealthy Benton County Man Shots Himself Through Heart.

I. N. Atkinson, of Benton county, a wealthy farmer and once trustee of Pine township, that county, suicided Thursday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart. 11l health had caused him to become despondent and this is attributed to be tbe cause of the deed. For many years Mr. Atkinson was a partner in the Bank of Oxford. Senator Halleck arrived home this afternoon to remain over Sunday. He says that the legislature looks a big lot like brewOTs’ convention. The attempt to regulate the liquor traffic is by giving tbe saloonkeepers almost full swing. The democratic party is doing more than it agreed in its efforts to reinstate saloons in “dry” territory.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM —-♦ * ‘t PICTURE. Sunshine Sac, drama. Simple Charity, drama. SOHO. Mother, By Harry Efer.

WEATHER FORECAST. ti 1 * Flair and colder tonight; Sunday increasing cloudiness, probably followed by rain or snow. Maximum 40; minimum 25.

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The 17th annual convention of the Indiana Association of Photographers will be held at Winona Lake the week of July 10th. While coupling cars on the Big Four at Fowler, George Llckleiter, of Indianapolis, was crushed between them and instantly killed. ' Oliver P. Reese, a former Ft Wayne railroad man, has been appointed master mechanic of the Alleghany division of the Pennsylvania company. He succeeds the late George P. Sweeley. The village of Clunette, just west of Leesburg, is in the throes of an epidemic of measles. Not a family in the town has escaped without at least one case. Two milliom dollars for the support of superannuated ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church was decided on by the board of conference claimants of the national body which met in Chicago Wednesday. zl George Brown, Lafayette’s first superintendent of police, under the metropolitan act, is dead in Chicago at the age of 66 years. He was appointed police superintendent by Governor Matthews in 1823 and served four years. David Tranbarger, 84, is near death at his home in Anderson. He is probably the oldest justice of the peace in Indiana, having been in office more than fifty years. The wily jewelry he carries is a silver watch won when a boy in a spelling match. The largest missionary convention of women ever assembled at Washington opened Thursday when the Women’s National Foreign Missionary jubilee gathered in a two-day session. The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of women’s organized work for foreign mia«inM in America. Sixteen out of seventy-five pupils chosen from Joliet, 111., public schools were standing Thursday afternoon at the end of a two days’ "spell down,” during which all common words In Webster’B dictionary had been fired at them. At the end of the first afternoon thirty-eight were standing. Some are only 13 years old. George Reprogle, resident of Kokomo, was arrested Thursday morning on a charge of bootlegging. The police found in his possession 109 pints of whiskey. The liquor had been purchased from Martin Bllgh, a wholesale liquor dealer of Logans port. The liquor was put up in fancy bottles with glass stoppers, and wrapped in tissue paper. Arthur Smith, a young aviator of Ft Wayne, fell thirty-five feet Wednesday with an aeroplane of his own manufacture and sustained serious injuries. His machine is a »»»«« of ruins. The accident occurred when Smith was rising from the ground and was due to inexperience. It was his second flight, the first, made several days ago, haring been successful. A 96,000 team is to be put to work in the streets of Huntington: Q. & Fahl has a team of Belgians that are prize winners, purchased from the Crouch firm at Lafayette. He wishes to keep them well exercised between seasons and has offered them to Hunt ington’s street commissioner at the same rate that the ordinary attached to the dirt wagons brines for its labor.

Christian Church Services.

The subject of the fhinday moraine sermon is “The Privilege end Power of Petitions." The evening service will be devoted to music, with special numbers by the choir, and a short sermon by the pastor on “David, Israel’s Sweet Singer." Preaching at the Lawndale school house at 3 p. m. All are welcome. I Don’t use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan’s Reguiets. They operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation.

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