Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. All -home print today. ' \ Read pages two and three today. Miss True George returned this morning from, a short visit in Chicago. Spring- Millinery Opening, April 6, 7 and 8. MRS. JERRY JiEALY. Mrs. Harry Kresler and son John are spending today in Parr. ■ ■'S, Mrs. Robert Michael and Mrs. Jenkins are spending today in Fail Oaks. W. F. Smith and Clarence went to Lafayette today to attend the au'.o show, Mr. and Mrs, Harrison Warren returned this morning from a visit of two weeks at Peru and Garrett. Miss Martha Ramp went to Valparaiso this morning to visit her sister, Miss Madaline. Len Hammerton has moved to his own house, just east of the H. R. Grow residence, north of the railroad. Born, Wednesday, April sth, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter WOlf, of Union township, a daughter. Evaporated apricots, 10 cents a pound for this week; Not over 2% 1 pounds to one customer.—Rhoadr. Grocery.

Saloon licenses were granted to August Elbert and Philip Poutrie, two men of “good moral character” in Goodland. Chauncey C. Smith, who also applied, was denied a license. For your Sunday dinner we will have fancy oranges, apples, bananas, strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, radishes, and new Texas cabbage. JOHN EGER. “Uncle” Wallace Murray was quite sick several days this week and his condition was quite serious for some time, but now he is considerably better. He is at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, on Front Street. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hopkins and Miss Marguerite Brown, W. C. Babcock and Billy, Jr., and Frank Donnelly went to Lafayette on the 11:06 train to attend the automobile show. Mr. and Mm. Hopkins went to Lafayette Sunday by auto, and returned by train and will today drive the car back.

Joe Jeffries, for many years connected •with the G. E. Murray store fa Rensselaer, is said to have made an assignment in favor of creditor* at Huntington last week. Joe went there from Rensselaer some two or three years ago to engage in the grocery business. Hfa many friends y "here will regret that he has met with reverses. Sam Murbarger did not go to Knoxville, Tenn., to meet Dr. Roller, as announced, the match having been called crff. He gave an exhibition match at Lafayette Thursday night "With Prank Prindle, c it Piqua, -Ohio. Polos, the same night, threw “Demon” Barths, of ''Columbus, Ohio, in two straight falls. Polos will wrestle Martin A. Lewis at Remington tomorrow night, April Bth, and Murbarger will come to Rensselaer next week and meet Bill Egener, of Brazil, at the Ellis theatre on Saturday night, April 15th.

Millinery Opening I am pleased to announce that the Spring Opening of my store will take place FRIDAY and A Iy| 1 C SATURDAY, Apr. 14-1 J) The 1911 designs in Pattern Hats, • both domestic and imported, will be found, and all millinery novelties. Your inspection is desired. Mrs. PURCUPILE

The Evening Republican.

Want to sell It? Our Classified Column will find you a buyer. Mrs. Martha Smith went to Hebron this morißng % for a short visit with her son Roy. W. I. Leatherman went to Wolcott today to visit old acquaintances whom' he had not seen since his removal from there thirty years ago.

Mrs. Simon Leopold went to Chicago this morning to meet her daughter, Miss Selma, who is coming from Ann Arbor for the spring vacation. Union school, Marion township, taught by Miss Carrie Pierce, closed a successful term today with the customary “big doings.” Miss Gladys Pierce visited the school today. *' ’K — ■ C. H. Coover, a young man, frpqj Keiningtoii, was fcefe GVer night* He has been running the picture staov there, ljut has closed it and is figuring on going to Idaville to take a job on the Observer newspaper.- He has considerable experience on the Kentland Enterprise.

Myer S. Cornfeldt and Leo C. Goodman, the former of Chicago and the altter of St. Paul, arrived in Rensselaer last night, this being their first stop since their start on a novel trip to the Panama canal. They 'will try to earn their way through to the canal by taking photographs and consider the outlook very favorable. George Putts, who fired during the fall and early winter on the Pennsylvania railroad at Logansport, has been spending some time at home, having received a 90-day lay off owing to lack of business. He returned .to Logansport today but not to go to work. It is surmised that feminine charms accounted for this visit ' Our Stock Co. arrived this morning to play St. Elmo tonight They have enjoyed a good business all week. The company IS. exceptionally good in this play, haying worked in it for three years. The Kentland Enterprise says that the largest crowd yet witnessed the show this week and enjoyed it hugely. Next week the company will play another of the old favorites. “East Lynn.”

The Monticello Democrat says that having saloons does not stop bootlegging nor drugstore whiskey selling. Logansport, which has saloons galore, has several bootlegging joints, arid two of these were raided one night last week. Prior to the passing of saloons it was not uncommon for men to drink openly ha many drugstores and they sold whiskey with less restriction than now. So the return of saloons will nonstop these two f%ls. The Monticello Democrat also believes that it is next to Impossible to have law abiding saloonkeepers. There are usually back door or annex attachments where ean be obtained ;st illegal hours. That paper also suggests that most of the present violators of the liquor laws are ex-saloon-keepers and that they could hardly be trusted to run saloons according ta law if licenses were granted.

Have Firelight Photos Made.

We will be here for a few days only and will take firelight photos, either interior or outside pictures. Experienced photographers. Leave orders at the Model restaurant.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1911.

BOYS GO ON A BUM; ONE GETS BROKEN LEG.

Bay Day Suiters Fracture of Right Leg A bote Ankle After Stealing Ride to Cedar Lake. . . . 1 Ray Day, son of Hiram' Day by his first marriage, who makes his home in the east part of town with his* mother and his crippled brother. Dan, is laid up with a broken leg and will probably be unable to do any work for the next three months. Ray went bumming Thursday afternoon with Lee Richards, Roy Koepkey and “Arkansas” Wiseman. The boys*are said to' have “hopped” No. 6, the north bound passenger due here at 3:15, and gone to Cedar Lake, ufust how young Day’s accident happened seems a little .in doubt. He states that luj was engaged m a wrestle near the depot with a member of the railroad extr-\ gang, and fell some way with his right leg under him. The fracture is of* the large boner about six Inches above the ankle. According to his story and that of Richards, a Lowell doctor was called and attention given the injury. The dressing was very crude, but might have been all that was available at the time. Two boards joined together at right angles with the- heel of the foot m the corner and bandages fastening the leg to the boards constituted the dressing. The drawers leg was cut off and the trousers .leg ripped, but the trousers were bound about the leg inside the bandages. The accident happened at about 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening, according to the boys, and Day made an effort to get the night passenger train, due here at 11:05 o’clock, to stop at Cedar Lake and take him on, but the agent there did not get it to stop and he did not get home until 11:06 today. He sat in the depot at Cedar Lake all night and when he arrived home today the limb was so badly* swollen that it was almost impossible to tell the extent of the injury or to set it. Apparently the limb was not straight and Day thought the doctor from Lowell did not set it at -all. The local physician gave it attention. The young man had suffered a great amount of exposure an# will be lucky if it does not cause him a severe sickness. According to one story the boys, or some of them got tolerably drank after getting to Cedar Lake and Day was sitting on the platform in front of the saloon when the saloonkeeper came out and sat down on Ms lap heavily, doubling his leg under him and breaking it. Another story i» that the accident happened wMle the boys were hopping on and off trains. The Day home certainly presented a sad appearance. Mrs. Day is herself an invalid, and her son Dan, who is again making his home with her, is badly deformed. And now to have tha other sem and the -only support of the family brought home with a broken leg, was a blow almost too great to bear. Mrs. Day stated that she had begged Ray not to leave home and she took on pitifully when he was carried into the honse. His misfortune should be a lesson to other boys who are guilty of ming” and cause parents of all to be more strict with them.

Newton County Recovers Money From Former County Treasurer.

Kentland Enterprise. O. P. Keesler and J. D. Law, representing the bondsmen of Charles W. Spinney, formter treasurer of Newton county, paid into the hands of Clerk Hess Monday the sum of-$4,304.77, to satisfy the judgment confessed and entered against Mr. Spinney and his bondsmen at the January term. The judgment proper was for $4,208.31 ; interest, $58.91, and costs, $37.55. As previously noted a judgment for $650.66 was secured against Christian L. Brandt in 1905 for an erroneous payment made to Mr. Brandt on a stone* road contract. Mr. Brandt’s financial affairs prior to his death were in such condition that the county deemed it inadvisable to push collection. The administrator of the estate, at the March meeting of the board proposed a compromise for SSOO, and the same was accepted, and has been paid into the treasury. These sums will be distributed and pro rated to the various funds to which they properly belong.

Granger Bootlegging Cases Go Over to April Term of Court

The cases agaiust Hank Granger, of Thayer, charged with bootlegging, which were to have been tried at this term of the Newton circuit court, were postponed until the next term

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CENSUS FIGURES GIYE RENSSELAER POPULATION 2,393.

Figures Just Released Show City to Hare Gained 188 in Ten Years— Remington Has 982. Rensselaer 2,393. Marion township including Rensselaer 3,693. Remington 982. These figures were released this Friday afternoon and were sent to The Republican in a special dispatch frbm E. Dana Durant, director of the census. As stated by The Republican sever al months ago, Rensselaer would show a small gain during the past ten years. The gain is 138, the census of 1900 having shown 2,255 people residing heror On the other hand Remington has lost exactly 138; the census ten years ago having given that town a. population of 1,120. The population of Marion township outside of Rensselaer as shown by this census is 1,299. Rensselaer is well pleased to have grown at all. Many other towns in this section of the state showed a loss of several hundred and Jasper county showed a loss of about 1,200.

Lake Erie Freight Into Monon Passenger Thursday.

The reason for'passenger train No. 32 being late Thursday was the fact that a Lake Erie freight crashed into it at Frankfort. The accident is thus described by the Lafayette Journal: Monon passenger train No. 32, between Indianapolis and Chicago, running late, was struck by Lake Erie freight train Nq. 49, shortly before 9 o’clock Thursday morning, at the Monon and Lake Erie & Western crossing in Frankfort. Damages to the amount of several thousands of dollars was sustained. The Lake Erie was the heavier loser. , The Monon train was in charge of Conductor McCullough, of Indianapolis, with Engineer Shields, of Indianapolis, on the engine. The Monon engine crew escaped Injury. Baggageman Charles Miller, also of Indianapolis, was slightly hurt in jump ing. Miller’s car was the first car back of a dead mail car thati was struck by the Lake Erie engine. The mail car and two baggage cars of the Monon were derailed, one of the cars being thrown fifty feet from the track..

The passengers were severely shaken in the collision, but none were hurt. Engineer Hurley and Fireman Messmore, of the Lake Erie, remained on tfceir engine. Their escape was remarkable, as the engine was earned sixty feet from the track, and was half turned over, while the ten- 1 '?!* and freight car were jammed all around It. Conductor Burns was in charge of the train. The Lake Erie crew says it had the right of way, but that as the Monon rounded a curve the watchman gave the Monon the crossing and the Lake Erie was not able to stop. After the accident the target showed the way open to the Monon. Traffic was delayed several hours.

Judgment Given For $25 Against Brook Reporter Editor.

Orie B. Stonehill, editor of the Brook Reporter, owns an automobile, and one day last fall while sallying about the country enjoying the bracing atmosphere- while thinking up a Peterson editorial, he ran into the rear end of a vehicle in which John Rosenbrook, an aged citizen, was Beated. There was a spill that resulted badly for Mr. Rosenbrook. The testimony seemed to show that the editor was driving carefully, that he tooted his hopi loudly and made an effort to pai-.s the driver of the horse, but that the driver swerved to the right just as the suto did. The testimony also showed that Stonehill took his victim to his home, and showed him every consideration, offering to pay his doctor bill and have the buggy and harness repaired. Rosenbrook, 1 however, sued him for $2,500 damages.- The jury cut H down to $25.

Montieelio and Six Townships In White County to Tote April 27.

The city of Montieello'and six townships in White county, including the towns of Monon, Brookston, Wolcott, Reynolds and Chalmers, are to vote on the salbon question on April 27th. All but Honey Creek, where Reynolds is located, went “dry" two years ago, and that went "wet” by only two votes. * -V— ' • Don’t get to traveling so fast that you can’t see your creditors as you pass by.

sc-Tlmtre-5c BEX WABVBB, Proprietor.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Saturday. Maximum 63; minimum 22. April 8. —Sun rises 5:32.* sets S:22r Resolved—To quit crabbing about the weather and talk about painting the bridge white.

Exit, Income Tax.

Winamac Republican. * Despite the fact that most of the legislatures of the western states and those of th% middle west, have approved a federal income tax, the east, with its capatalistic interests, and the south, with its. jeajousy of any added federal authority, have given- the new plan a black eye, and little hope remains that such an amendment to the federal constitution will be carried through. The country needs some meaifls of adjustment between the cost of living of the laboring man, and capitalist with large income. An income tax fulfills the needs of the situation to a remarkable degree, relieving the pressure on the masses of the dwellers in city and country without the evil results of giving outright to these poor.

Indoor Social.

On Friday evening, April 7th, the R. S. class of the Rensselaef Baptist church will give a 10c social at McKay’s Model Laundry for the benefit of the class and church work. All are heartily invited to attend. From six until ten thirty. THE ROYAL SCHOLAR CLASS.

Commercial Club Meeting.

The directors of the Commercial Club will meet this evening at the club rooms to hear the report of „the committee on the factory proposition. All persons interested are requested to be present.

Plastering and Cement Work.

After working for several years tor H. Day, I am now working indepeendent and will do plastering or cement work either by day or contract, and guarantee satisfaction.

Get The Vaults Cleaned.

I am ready to start cleaning vaults. Will do the Job right and reasonably. Leave orders with me at Haskell’s barbershop.

HARRY WILTSHIRE.

Knockers should be Oslerized at any age. Eating some angel cake makes a man feel like the devil.

Spring Millinery Opening April 6th, 7th, and Bth. Display of « ' Paris and Domestic Pattern Hats and Novelties. Large Selection Tailored Hats. Mrs. Mary Meyer Healy

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