Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1911 — Page 1

No. 44.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. 3- '' . ,t." • - Goods are selling fast, at the Fire Sale, north of the depot . • : -Alf Donnelly went out on an onion selling trip this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Warner are both quite sick with toe grip. - - J ,-ra ~ “Uncle” Charley Platt has been quite Bick with the grip for several/days, a -T ; Last call for King William’s favorite dish, Silver Thread saurkrapt, 6c a quart at Jbhn Eger's. Stewart Moore is now working in n hotel at Kankakee, 111., to-whicli city he went with Russell Sage a week ago. For this week, nice juicy lemons, lc each, or 12c a dozen. JOHN EGER. k Miss Mary Casey returned to Chicago today after a visit of several days here with Miss Grace Worland. Rowley H. Morehouse and Jacob Hell, of Wheatfleld township, were callers at The Republican office Monday. For this week only—3 pounds fancy seedless raisink, large Muscatel raisins, prunes, peaches or (booking figs, for 26 cents. JOHN EGER. In Lafayette today begins a general slaughter of all dogs without muzzles. That city intends to nip the hydrophobia possibility before it begins to bud. Miss Constance Adams went to Chicago to Chicago this morning to study millinery styles. She has not accepted employment for the spring, but will take an assignment while there. We sell “Aristos,” the king of them all. The flour that made the southwest famous. The best flour made, or money refunded. JOHN EGER. '——' The goodß at the Ransford Fire Sale have been culled out and we are offering only goods damaged slightly by water and smoke, at 26c on the dollar. Come if you want some real bargains. D. M. who has been at Hunter Springs for the past week, will remain there for another week. Dave has been in quite poor health for several months past and thinks the treatment at the springs is resulting beneficially. Anson Cox, who has been working in Chicago since Christmas, building a fine house for his brother-in-law, William Holderness, is spending a few days at home. The new Holderness home is a’very beautiful mansion and is located in Oak Park. Hundreds of guaranteed Edison and Columbia phonograph records at less than the cost of the wax to make them, at Ransford’s Fire Sale, north of the depot; also three Victor disc machines at 25c on the dollar; only slightly damaged by water. Company M will have a progressive euchre party Saturday evening. Baked beans, Lot hamberger sandwiches and coffee, served in army mess kits will constitute the lunch. The attendance will be limited to members of the company, all of whom are urged to be present. > Otis Spencer and Chas. Spinney were over from Goodland Tuesday. About the middle of March r. Spinney, his brother Art, Warren Washburn and Andy Hawn will move to Dakota and go on a farm of twelve hundred acres. All work will be done with a steam outfit. —Kentland Enterprise. Hammond young men are organizing a company of national guardsmen. A meeting was held last Saturday evening and preparatory steps taken tp secure a fully enlisted company, it tfc probable that the company would be placed in the same battalion with Company M, to supply the yacancy caused by the failure of Peru to reorganize after the armory at that place was destroyed by fire.

In a grand jury investigation in East Chicago the gambling dens are being given special attention and it has developed that the police are receiving big money for the protection of gaming houses. A regular schedule of prices for police protection is said to have existed. For tbe privilege of running a crap game S6O a month was collected. For a combined crap and poker joint SIOO and for craps, poker, roulette and faro the toll was $250 per month. The Hammond Times says there must have been from $1,500 to $2,000 per month to 'divide among those to whom it was “coming." No one seems to know who got the money, so carefully was the system guarded.

The Evening Republican.

Widow of Late Monon President Brings Salt to Collect Insurance.

Mrs. Ira G. Rawn, whose husband was the president of the Monon railroad and who‘is thought to have committed suicide as a result of exposures in connection with a big; steal from the Illinois Central railroad, has sued ten insurance companies to recover policies carried by Rawn and which aggregate f 75,000. The companies asfe resisting payment, alleging suicide. J. H. Perkins made a trip to Monon and Lee today. Tomorrow being Washington’s birthday there will be no local freights in either direction. . * Miss Rose Misch came this morning from Wheatfleld to visit Mrs. Peter Hordeman near Parr. B. F. Fendig, the druggist, went home yesterday evening about knocked out with a case of grip. Harrison Timmons, the express driver, has been confined at his home with sickness for several days. Mrs. John Seifers returned to Montmorenci today after a visit here with her brother, Fred and Will Yeiter. W. F. Smith left this morning to look after some road contract possibilities at Valparaiso, Crown Point and other places. • A. J. Harmon left this morning for Mitchell, S. Dak., on a business trip that will decide whether or not he will work in that section again this year. Councilman A. G. Catt, D. E. Grow and C. J. Dean, members of the fire committee, and Fire Chief Montgomery went to Monon to look at a Are team with a view of buying it. A - report was circulated yesterday that John Schultz, now of Geddes, S. Dak., and formerly of Union township, had -committed suicide. The report proved to have no foundation. George Long returned yesterday from Illinois university and will not again enter school this spring, but will help his father in the drug store. He will probably take up the study of pharmacy this fall.

Schuyler Robinson came down from Gillam township yesterday on business. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Robinson, who have been spending the Winter with their children in Illinois, are now visiting their daughter, Mrs. Dr. Schmidt, at Tulsa, Okla. They are expected home shortly. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jacobs, who had expected to move to the L. H. Myers property, which was purchased last week by. C. E. Simpson, have now rented of A. Leopold the house on Rutsen street occupied by Mrs. M. E. Corliss, Who will move to the house she recently purchased of B. S. Fendig, and which is now occupiod by Dean Merica and wife. The latter will prob ably move to the house now occupied by Frank Ellis and wife, and the latter will move to the house Chester Zea formerly lived in. Another chain of removals was started yesterday when John Bruner and family moved to the house west of the cemetery vacated by A. E. Kirk. C. E. Simpson and family will move to the house vacated by Mr. Bruner, and Mrs. Powell, of Newton township, will move to the house Mr. SlmpsOn vacated and which she purchased. —— . The rifle range of the local militia company at Parr will be improved this year by means of a telephone system, so that communication may be had from the various firing points to the target pit. A moveable telephone will be used for the firing points, so that it can be detached from one point and connected at the next by merely hanging it to the pole. This will greatly facilitate the scoring and prevent mistakes. It is expected to begin firing as soon as the weather per mits, and to get Into as good condition as possible fen* toe company team match which will take place in May, and for the battalion team match in

June. It had been hoped to have the battalion match at Parr this year, but the Columbia City range has been placed in such good condition that the match will doubtless he held there. Company M developed three experts and a number of others who indicate that with practice they can make good. This lends encouragement that a team of five can be chosen that will give any other company in the state a race for the new shield that has been tiling up as a trophy to toe successful team The matches will be held on toe home ranges under supervision of officers from other organizations. For any pain, from top to toe, from any cause, apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil. Pain can’t stay where It Is used

SmtoNd January 1, 1897, as sscoud-elass mall matter, at tha post-ofloa at Bensselaer, Xurtiaua, under the act of Kazak 3, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1911.

SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENTS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

Grade Pupils Will Hold Entertainment In M. E. Church, and High School At-Public Library. School patrons will have an opportunity to see their charges in a free school entertainment Wednesday afternoon. The grades will appear in the interesting program herewith published at the M. E, church at 1:30 o’clock and the high School at the same hour in the auditorium of the public library. The public, and especially ther patrons, are invited. The programs follow: HIGH SCHOOL. Music High School Orchestra Patriotic Songs School Address Geo. A. Williams ■v . ■■ - A- :.. grades. Opening address... Sara Alice O’Neal Composition on Washington........ Delos RutherforfL Flag Drill and Song. .Ist & 2nd grades Washington Acrostic 4th grade Songs—“ Little Maid, Pretty Maid” “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”.. Ist grade Recitation Mary Hawkins Recitation Dean Sayler Recitation—“We Maids are Patriots, Too” .Ist grade Song—“ Poppy Land”.......2nd grade Recitation Delos Woodworth Song—“ Life’s Lesson” 6th and 7th grades Flag Drill.. .Willard Zea and Ist grade Recitation Clyde Tilton Recitation., .Martha Gob’e Recitation—" Washington, thfe True and the Brave”... .5 boys, 4th grade Song—“ Flag of Our Native Land”.. 4th grade Recitation—“ln Washington’s -Old Uniform” Walter Randle Song—“ The Stately Old Minuet”... • V. .Lillys Cox Song—“ Salute to the Flag”.. .3d grade Recitation Helen Duvall Recitation...... . .. . Elizabeth Moore Song—“ When the Regiment Goes Marching 8y”... 11 boys, sth & 6th Dialogue ....... .6 girls, 3d grade Recitation .Ruth Magee Recitation Thelma Tilton Mrs. Washington's Tea Party. /T... Girls from 6th and 7th grades Dialogue 3 boys, 3d grade Song—“ Our Country”. 4, 5,6, 7 grades Music.. High School Orchestra

Kirk Gives $100 Bond for Each Indictment for Appearance.

A. E. Kirk, the Parr druggist, gave a bond-of SIOO in each case for which he was indicted for his appearance for trial Thursday of this week. James H. McClannahan was his bondsman.

Aged Father of Mrs. Isaac Kight Died at Fair Oaks.

Sunday morning at 8 o’clock Enoch Spry, the aged father of Mrs. Isaac Klght, of Fair Oaks, died in that town. His funeral will take place Wednesday and the body Will be taken to Lake Village for tmrlal. <?

County Recorder Tilton’s Father Dead at Wheatfield.

John • W. father of County Recorder John H. Tilton, died Monday morning at 10 o’clock at his residence in Wheatfleld. He waa an old and highly respected resident of that town and f well and favorably known throughout the county. He was about 70 years age and a veteran of the civil war. His funeral will take plaee Wednesday, and will be conducted by Rev. Chas. Hickman, of Burnettsvllle, and a former M. E. pastor at Wheatfield. Rev. Hickman was a guest over night of Mr. and Mrs, Tom Jensen In Rensselaer.

“Billy” Stewart Looking For Bigger Worlds to Conquer.

“Billy” Stewart, the wrestler, and his manager, Chas. Garriott, came down from Parr this morning and this afternoon went to Lafayette, where they will try to arrange a match with the Greek wrestler Palos. Stewart wants a real match the next time. He realizes that If the people are to put up their money to see a wrestling match they don’t want to see a onesided affair and he is willing to tackle a real wrestler even If he gets thrown. Ed Gilmore, manager for Harvey My res, accompanied Garriott and Stewart here and will try to arrange for a match between Myres and Chris. Koepkey, the section boss. They are ready for that match any time that the contract ean be closed. Btewart will wrestle Palos either at Lafayette or here, and hopes to get a date set while at Lafayette.

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Nut Cracked at Request of Paper That Misrepresents Senator.

In a recent issue of the Jasper County Democrat, the following paragraph appeared: Jl Nat for The Republican to Crack. f the present majority in the Indiana legislature is owned and controlled by the brewers, as Abe Halleck is quoted as asserting, why did Abe vote last week with Brewer Steve Fleming, of Fort Wayne, against the S7OO license fee and the limitation of saloons to one for each one thousand population ? Is Abe trying to get over on the majority side—accepting his former statement to be cqrrect? In an earlier issue of the Democrat the following article appeared: Abe Votes With the Brewer—The Proctor liquor regulation bill passed the state senate Thursday by a vote of 27 to 21. The license fees provided tor cities are S7OO and in towns SSOO, including the state fee of S2OO. This bill also limits the number of saloons to one for each 1,000 population, and one for the first 500. On the passage of the bill Abe Halleck is recorded as having voted with Steve Fleming, the Ft. Wayne millionaire brewer, who opposed the measure on accqunt of the high license fee provided and the strict regulation of the liquor traffic. Here we have the effort of the Jasper County Democrat to misrepresent Senator Halleck, who has maintained a string stand for every measure for establishing or maintaining temperance legislation and whom the Democrat knows is a temperance man in practice and a sincere advocate of temperance laws. Considering the long hatred that the editor of the Democrat has harbored for Senator Halleck, that paper would not be expected to be fair with him nor honest in its presentation to the public of any thing he has. done, and the Democrat did not tell its readers that both Steve Fleming, the millionaire brewer, and Proctor, the author of the bill for high license, are democrats, /each of whom is in the senate for the express purpose of advancing the cause of the liquor business, and that no matter how Senator Halleck voted he would be voting with a friend of the saloon business. The Democrat did not say that this is the sgme Proctor who drafted the measure that became a law and which re-estab-lishes saloons in every “dry” county in the state as soon as the two years for which the “dry” vote was cast, expires. .He did not tell the readers of that, paper that this measure, with its high license feature and its limiting saloon clause provided that where saloons already exist the number cannot be reduced under the law, and the readers were not informed that the bill provided that the license could not be transferred from one person to another and the saloon moved from one building to another. The Democrat was so anxious to say that Senator Halleck had vdted with Steve Fleming, the big democratic brewer, that it saw nothing, but virtue in the measure of Senator Proctor and spoke of it as creating a “strict regulation of the liquor traffic.” The features of transfer would certainly be strict regulation, now, would they nqt? And it would be probable that Senator Proctor, the author of the saloon re-estab-lishing bill that occupied all the forepart of the session* and the new bill that is to substitute It, and that will keep the legislature going the rest of the session, would offer anything that would be any good for the cause of temperance, wouldn’t it? Senator Halleck can see a “nigger in a Woodpile” about as far away as any person in this senatorial district and he is representing the sentiment of four “dry” counties he opposes a bill that smacks of any Proctor regulation. The Republican has not yet touched upon the chief reason of Senator Halleck’s objection to the bill. It provided that there Bhould be one saloon in a town of 500 people and oneTfor each 1,000 population thereafter. Thi3 would let one saloon in Remington, one in Wheatfleld and probably three in Rensselaer. As soon as the licenses were granted a monopoly of the business would exist and these men would have been granted by the law a license that would be worth from $5,000 to $10,00(1, and could be transferred from one person to another and no other person could get into toe business in that community. Senator Halleck rightly figured that there should be no monopoly granted in the business and that if a community was entitled to any saloons it was entitled to as many as the people in that locality wanted. He also thought that the people in a locality should have a right to place the license at any figure it chose. Hfe remembered that the democrats have howled a lot about local self-government and he thought

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that the law which’ would please the democrats who have talked about local power so much should not be framed In Indianapolis to take these privileges away from the localities. Senator Halleck was right in his opposition to the Proctor so-called regulation bill and had he consulted the temperance people of his. district we have no doubt he would have found them all ready to support his action. It is not surprising that the Jasper County Democrat, which not only hates Senator Halleck, but also favors the re-establishing of the saloon business, should seek to abuse him and misrepresent him. When two such pronounced saloon sympathizers as Senator Fleming and Senator Proctor are on opposite sides in a matter, it is a toss up which one to vote with, unless, as Senator Halleck did, one gives the measure some consideration himself and then votes with no one, but on the merit or demerit of the proposition itself. v It was disappointing, however, to see Brother Sinfons, of the Monticello Democrat, who is himself a sincere temperance advocate and who has had the courage to criticize his party in its shameful disregard of all appeals from temperance sources this year, fall in line with Babcock and offer criticism of Senator Halleck. Brother Simons, however, will probably be fail* enough to say that Senator Halleck has been consistently on the side of temperance during his two years hy the senate, and all readers in the district will remember that A. J. Law, the man whom Senator Halleck defeated for a seat in the senate, voted against the establishing of the-coun-ty option law. The nut should be cracked so well that Brother Babcock will have no difficulty in getting at the kernel and he will have trouble in making his temperance constituency believe that Senator Halleck was not right in his vote.

The supreme court of the United States has held that railroads can not issue transportation over their railroad system in exchange for advertising, so that the transportation can be used in 'interstate travel. The ruling affects the Monon railroad, which has permitted newspaper publishers aloug its route to use the transportation in going to Chicago. The transportation will probably be accepted in the future only as far as Hammond. We admit our inability to understand the justice of a law that will deny the corporation the right to exchange transportation for a certain amount of advertising at the regular rates in a similar amount, and we can see no reason why a corporation should not have the right to enter into a contract of that sort the same as an individual. Some of the restrictions that pinheaded legislators seek to throw about the railroads are as foolish as they are unjust and we are surprised that the supreme court would sustain a law so unfair.

Notice to Hunters. The undersigned forbid hunting of any kind on their farms in Jasper county. J. J. LAWLER. NELSON DUCHARME, CARR BROS., KOLHOFF BROS.. ANDREW KAHLER. Farmers, Attention! Now is a good chance to get your spring fill of hardware at 25c on the dollar at the Fire Sale, north of the depot Come early while we have what you want. E. V. HANSFORD, a ■ —: *— Lecture Course Dates. March 13—The Beilhars Entertainers. April 7 —Byron King. A Classified Adv. will sell It

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NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

It cost Uncle Sam $14,&00'000 to enumerate the 1910 census, According to Director Durand’s report Issued Saturday. Senator Beveridge has recommended to the president that J. C. Scheffler be appointed postmaster at Wolcottville. The safe in the postofflce at Center* ville, Wayne county, was cracked early Saturday by robbers, who escaped with SSOO in cash and an equal amount in stdfops. They escaped in a stolen rig. The Parks local option bill, making the county a unit in voting on the liquor question, has passed the Alabama senate in practically the same shape that it came from the house. It is favored by the governor. This puts an end to state-wide prohibition in Alabama. A man pretending to represent the Chanute, Kansas, Cement company, sold SIO,OOO worth of bonds in the concern to farmers of LaGrange county recently, and the stuff is said to be practically worthless. His bait was in making each buyer a present of SSOO in stock. Governor Harmon of Ohio has Just signed the Reynolds nonpartisan Judiciary bill, which has passed both houses of the Ohio legislature, and under which candidates for the Judiciary are to be elected on nonpartisan ballots, with similar tally sheets, poll books and ballot boxes. John N. Poison, of Michigan City, a leader in the movement for a canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake Michigan by way of Toledo and Defiance, Ohio, and Michigan City, has gone to Washington, where he will confer vtith Indiana representatives concerning the project. Mr. Poison has detailed drawing and maps for the canal. William Overesch, of Lafayette, Is designated for appointment as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, a vacancy in Indiana’s quota being in the power of Senator Beveridge to fill, subject to the ability of the applicant to pass the required examinations. The appointment was made on the suggestion of Senator WiU R, Wood, of Lafayette, and Henry C. Pettit, United States marshal. .

Box Supper by Pythian Sisters. The Pythian Sisters will give a box supper Wednesday evening at the K. of P. lodge hall, to which all members of the lodge and all Knighta and their ladles are cordially invited. Mrs. Anna Tuteur, M. E. C. Mrs. Harry Kresler, M. of R. A 8. Calling cards at the Republican.

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