Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — Page 1

No. 48.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Silas Swain came over from Morocco today. Dad Waymire was down from DeMode today. Goods are selling fast at the Fire Sale, north of the depot. E. Ran ton, Sr:, returned to his home in Hoopeston, 111., today. Miss Harriet Overton went to Monon today to visit relatives over Sunday. William P. Simons went to Monticello today to spend Sunday with relatives. For this week, nice juicy lemons, be each, or 12c a dozen. JOHN EGER. James Ellis, Jr., went to Monticello today for a Sunday visit with his grandfather. Monroe Carr returned home this morning from a visit with his daughter at Sheridan. Mrs. A. Halleck and daughter Lura went to Indianapolis today to remain over Sunday with Senator Halleck. ■ Company M will have a bean and hamburger supper this evening for members. Progressive four-handed euchre will be played. For this week only—3 pounds fancy seedless raisins, large Muscatel raisins, prunes, peaches or cooking figs, for 25 cents. JOHN EGER. Miss Helen Harms came from East Gary today to visit her sister, Miss Etta Haems, who teaches the Kennedy school in Barkley township. Mrs. Mary if Lowe Returned this ■morning from Wisconsin, where she has been for several weeks. She~is feeling well and enjoyed the ’winter there.

? Henry Childers, of Delphi, came over Thursday for a visit with relatives, and today went to Mt. Ayr to attend a meeting of the church to which he belongs. TJie goods at the Ransford Fire Said" have been culled out and we are offer-ing-only goods damaged slightly by water and smoke, at 25c on the dollar. Come if you want some real bargains. Will Petty was in' from Virgie today. He says the roads have dried up remarkably within the last day or two and a few days more would put them in very good shape for the March Ist moving. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brosnahan expect to start next Tuesday for their home in Spokane, Wash. They have been here for thfe past three months, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John English. Sam English, who has been in Oklahoma'for the past five years, is reported to be contemplating a removal to Saskatehewan district in Canada. He is a a*h of John English and his wife is a (laughter of Wallace Murray. 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,/ A. H. Hopkins made a business trip to Francesville by auto yesterday. He says that the rrfads have /been Injured badly during the "soft” weather period. Especially is the stone road east of Pleasant Orove in a bad qpndition, with ruts almost hub deep. Mrs. Floyd Miller brought a freak egg to The Republican office this morning from Hanging Orove township. The egg is S inches in length and only an inch and a quarter in diameter at the widest place. Considering the frequency of chicken ' stealing depredations in that township, a person is lucky to get any eggs at all. Last cal If or King William’s favorite dish. Silver Thread saurkraut, 5c a quart at John Eger’s.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT'S PBOGRAM ' —• — PICTURES. Fisher Folks, drama. Buddy, an interesting juvenile drama. SONG All the World’s In Love.

Kouts Saloonkeeper Who Killed Invader of Home Goes Free.

Jacob Walter, the Kouts saloonkeeper who killed Alvin Johnson, whom he discovered leaving his house at an early hour in the morning and whom he* accused of criminal relations with his wife, was cleared by a jury at Valparaiso Friday. Walter had warned Johnson one time previously not to come to his house at any time. When he saw Johnson climbing oui of a rear window at his house, be opened fire, killing Johnson. Walter’s wife testified that Johnson had given her candy, which contained an opiate and that he then committed an assault.on her. This might sound a trifle fishy, inasmuch as it would hardly explain how Johnson happened to be giving her candy in her home at 5 o’clock in the morning, but the testimony didn’t harm Walter any. There was a general impression' in Porter county that Walter would gjo free and the verdict seems to have met almost unanimous approval. Isaac Parker was in town a short time yesterday, going to Brook to visit his daughter a day or two before starting for Mitchell. Temple Hammerton went through with his household goods and stock. Mrs. Parker will visit relatives in lowa before going to their future home. We sell “Aristos,” the king of them all. The flour that made the southwest famous. The best flour made, or money refunded. JOHN EGER. Orlan Grant came yesterday to remain over Sunday at home. He likes his work as a traveling salesman and it seems to agree with his health much better than j indoor work. A ruddy hue has replaced his somewhat palid cheeks and he says he feels fifty per cent better than he did before he started out.

Harley Bruce, who. has been living for the past year on the J. J. Eiglesbach farm, in Barkley townßhip, is moving to Georg 'erwilliger’s farm of 160 acres 3Vi miles southeast of Crawfordsville. He will load his household goods Tuesday, Mr. Teywilliger will also move there and will take a couple of cars. He has another farm of 40 acres there which he will occupy. We regret to see these good citizens leave Jasper county. The Eiglesbach farm will be occupied by Will Zard, who has been a grocery clerk irr'Rensselaer for a number of years, and who, following the steps of his older brothers, will doubtless make a big success of that line oL work. An error in yesterday’s Republican caused us to say that the big sale held Thursday at the Northern fi diana Land Co. ranch totaled about fifteen hundred dollars. It was aimed to say about thousand dollars. Joe P. Hammond, of Rensselaer, and M. V. Brown, of Crown Point, were the clerks, and they were kept busy almost all day Thursday figuring itp the big sale, the total of which proved to be well up to f 16,000. It was impossible to tell the exact amount owing to the fact that there was considerable hay that sold by the ton in the stack and it could not be weighed until hauled away. It is doubtful if a larger sale of personal property was ever held In Jasper county.

Itching, bleeding, protruding or 1 blind piles yield to Doan’s Ointment Chronic cases soon relieved, finally cured.- Druggists all sell it A few long scars on the side of a young man’s face may not be sufficient circumstantial evidence that his whiskers bave started to grow, but they’re an infallible sign that “pater famlllas'* is going to swear the next time he tries to use his razor. If there is anything a woman enjoys more than having her grocery bill smaller than her neighbors', it is to have it enough bigger so that the neighbors will talk about what an extravagant cook she is. The School of Experience gives no diplomas. No one has ever completed the full curriculum.

■Mtned January 1, 1897, as second-class mall matter, at the post-office at ffisnsaslasr, Indiana, under the aet of Karen 3, 1878.

Rensselaer, Indiana, -Saturday, February 25,1911.

BOOZE LEGISLATION AND THAT NEW CONSTITUTION.

Indiana General Assembly Still Plodding to Get Governor’s Hobbies Through at Regular Session. It is a dull evening in Indianapolis without a democratic caucus. Two things are nightly djscussed by the majority in the secrecy of their caucus chamber, where an effort is make to make all insurgents against the booze and constitution bills be good. The following day the things discussed in caucus are introduced into the legislature, where a democratic majority, whipped into line-by dire threats and profuse promises, carries things along without regard to any influence except that exercised by the breweries and the saloon league. Friday things w,ent democratic with a vengeance. The so-called Proctor regulative and restrictive bill was advanced to engrossment after undergoing some alterations that will contribute to the hope of planting a few saloons here and there in “dry” territory and of leaving all that exist at this time in “wet” sections. Strange to say that this bill which Senator Halleck opposed in the senate, and which caused the Jasper County Democrat to accuse him of voting with the brewers, was opposed Ih the house by all republicans except Van Horne, of Lake county, who represents “wet” territory and votes for anything that looks good to the brewers. The bill was amended in many ways. Practically all the amendments that went through were of democratic inspiration and aimed to make it easier to establish saloons. Several good amendments offered by republicans were defeated. One of these was to stop “treating” in saloons, which is regarded as the worst of drinking evils. This amendment was voted down 63 to 37. This makes it easy to start a little game of treats that results in a general drunk and causes a lot of innocent women and children to go without beefsteak for breakfast. But a little thing like the happiness of a few thousand homes don’t amount to much in a legislature where the control is centered in greedy brewers and men ambitious to engage in a business that closes eyes to everything but personal profit. Another amendment proposed that no saloon be allowed closer than 500 feet from any church, school or cemetery. This was defeated by a vote of 53 to 33.

The big surprise at the Friday session was the turning of Representative Cravens against the bill. Cravens is the democratic floor leader and. his act was* so much of a surprise that there was talk of deposing him as the leader. Fear that such action would result, caused the democrats to decide late in the afternoon not to hold a joint caucus that night. Cravens is a temperance man at heart and he has grown sick of the effort of his party to draft legislation favorable to the saloon interests. He was almost the only democrat, however, that did not stand pat He introduced a battery of twenty-two amendments all in a batch, which, had they passed, would -have defeated the purpose of the measure. The democratic leader charged that the bill created a vested right in that it meant a monopoly for those who procured licenses and were able under the protection of the law to transfer the licenses from one to another. Mr. Cravens said he -did not Bpeak from a temperance standpoint, but that he came from a “dry” county and he thought he should have some recognition, even though the majority of bis party was from “wet” sections. Representative Cravens said he was willing that the pledge of the democratic platform should be fulfilled, but that he could not see how (hat should bind himself or other democratic members from “dry” territory to fix matters so that a vested privilege was granted every time a saloon license was granted. He declared that the passage of the bill as it was worded would mean that the breweries of Indiana could be controlled by English corporations. Then Representative Beidenstlcker. the mouthpiece of the governor, said that he had conferred with Tom Marshall, who is a “good” constitutional lawyer, and the governor had laughed at the suggestion of “vested right Then Representative Furnas asked “Which constitution was the governor referring to?" and Seidensticker got mad and shouted back to Furnas that It “was none of his business.” Thus, goes on the dally grind for the restoration of saloons. With a bunch of amendments tagged on to it the bill was passed to engrossment and Proctor, of the senate, began mak-

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Carpenter's Address Pleased Audience at The M. E. Church.

The address of W. E. Carpenter at the M. E. church Friday night was very instructive along lines' of successful organization in Sunday school work, as well as the power that association has foi- the accomplishment of any good purpose. Mr. Carpenter is a banker at Brazil, Ind., and for the past twenty-five years he has been the superintendent of the M. E. Sunday school at that place. The fact that one-third of the entire population of Brazil is enrolled as members of that Sunday school indicates the success of his work. It was largely through his efforts that saloons were wiped out of Brazil and he was indignant that Thomas Marshall, governor of Indiana, had signed a measure that declares all the counties of the state “wet” which had voted “dry.” Mr. Carpenter did not speak from a republican standpoint but from the viewpoint of a man interested in practical temperance and the exclu 1 - sion of the licensed saloon from Indiana. His talk on methods of creating interest in the Sunday school was interesting and encouraging. He told of the great opportunity that the superintendent has and of the great influence for good that the Sunday school has. } He told how his own school had set out to do that looked weir nigh impossible but that were accomplished because of the determination and the fact that right was on their side. The address was heard by many from other churches and all seemed to consider it as of great importance because it canie from a man of business judgment.

Pie Social. The Virgie school will give an entertainment and pie social Saturday night, March 18. The proceeds will be used to purchase a new school organ. Everybody invited and the girls are kindly requested to bring a pie. FAE F. BRADFORD. Doan’s Regulets cure constipation without griping, nausea, nor anyweakening effect. Ask your dhiggist for them. 26 cents per bok>

UJhdt you Ulcar Proclaims what you Are. IT GIVES the measure of your refinement and personality. Made-to-Measure Clothes put you at ease —give confidence to you and bring it from others. Kahn Tailored Clothes are not “ manufactured/’ but moulded and modeled expressly for you. A ready-made suit does not express your personality. It can pot possibly be typical of you. When you buy ready-to-wear clothes, you don’t get clothes made for you alone, but those which have been made from the same model on which thousands were made. Prices being equal, why not have Kahn-Tailored-Clothes? C. EARL DUVALL Exoluaive Clothier, Hatter, and Furnisher.

Tin Prattles* Moving Picture Snow la the City. MX WABMX, Proprietor.

Pancoast Ditch Established By Order of Judge Wason.

Judge Wason came over from Delphi Thursday afternoon and Friday morning ruled oh the Pancoast ditch, the feasibility of which was previously ruled upon. He ruled for the establishment of the ditch, but made a number of changes in the assessment. He also ruled on the E. C. Maxwell ditch; which was also established.

Lent Near At Hand.

Lent begins on March Ist this year. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, which is so called because of the custom of placing ashes on. the heads of the penitents. Lent is always reckoned from Easter Sunday, which is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox on March 21st. If the full moon Is on Sunday, Easter is the Sunday following. -Easter comes on April 16th this year. Lent is always forty days before Easter, not counting Sundays. There are usually six Sundays intervening, but they are not counted. This makes Lent begin on Ash Wednesday, which is preceded by Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent.

Baptist Church Services. •f Sunday themes: Morning, “Having the Mind of Christ.” Evening, “The Gospel of Evolution or Revolution.” Unless otherwise announced later, the special meetings will begin the first Sunday in March.

TONIGHT’S PBOGRAM ; '■ . —• —' ‘ PICTURE. A Child’s Stratagem, drama. A Fair Exchange, comedy. A Personal Ratter, comedy. 80NG. '»> ' * You’ll Have to Stay After School, ! By Harry Eger. J

WEATHER FORECAST. Rain tonight or Sunday; colder Sunday, Maximum 42; minimum 26.

Obituary of Martha Possin.

Martha Stella Marion was born in Jasper county, Indiana, April 16, 1885. She was married to Paul Possln, Feb. 24, 1902. To this union were born three children, namely, Pearlie M., Goldie A., and Herbert W. She was united 'with the United Brethren church in June, 1908, in which she remained a faithful member until her feet were lifted from this earth to walk with the angels. She was a good wife and a loving and trusting mother. She departed this life Feb. 22, 1911, at Matteson, 111., being at the time of her death aged 25 years, 10 months and 8 days. She leaves a husband, three children, a father, four brothers and three sisters, and many friends to mourn their loss. Hep mother proceeded her to the better world <t)ct. 22, 1906. The funeral jwas held in the U. B. church at Aik, Ind., Feb. 24, 1911, conducted by Rev. Walter G. Shelter, of Aix., and interment was made In Prater cemetery.

Fanners, 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 yon want H. V, RANSFORD.