Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — Page 1

No. 84.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. *— Monticello is going to organize a dramatic club. Mrs. James Elliott has been quite sick but is now somewhat improved. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Williams returned this morning from a visit to DeLong, Ind. A 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gurtis Boughter is quite sick with pneumonia. • _ Mrs. C. P. Wright went to Kentland today for a visit with her aged mother, Mrs. Vondersmith. J. B. Clemens was down from Shelby again today. He is taking treatment for his byes here and seems to be getting considerable benefit. A Simpson has been confined to his home with sickness for, the past two weeks. He is now somewhat improved but still unable to leave his home. Mrs. Elmer Osman returned Thursday to her home in Benton Harbor, Mich., after spending two weeks here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Timmons. Sherman Poole, the baker, who has been sick for the past three weeks at> his room over The Republican office, is now sufficiently improved to be able to get out some. For your Sunday dinner we will have fancy oranges, apples, bananas, strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, radishes, and new Texas cabbage. JOHN EGER. Mrs. Will Zard and son went to Chicago this morning where she will attend the commencement exercises of a school that her cousin,', Miss Anna Zimmerman, will graduate from.

Mias Rose Platt returned to her home at Danville, 111., today, after a visit of two weeks here.with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Platt. Her father has been quite poorly again lately. _ If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will prevent constipation. They Induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents. Mrs. Mark Reed and little daughter Opal left this morning for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Borntrager, and husband, at Ft. Wayne, aud wltii her mother, Mrs. Q. M. Kessinger and fatally at LaGro. Miss Loe Pancoast came this morning from Indianapolis for a very short visit at home. She is teaching at Columbia City and silent part of this week in attendance at the teachers’ association at Indianapolis. Superintendent of the City Schools I. N. Warren went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the latter part of the session of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association. Moßt of the ■other teachers had goneoarlier in the week. New regalia to the value of $390 has been purchased by the local Masons, Master and Royal Arcb, and was üßed for the first time Thursday night of this week. The members were very much pleased with the purchase.

C.' D. Shook will move from the headquarters farm of the Northern Indiana Land Co. to his own farm a mile west, and George Marr, who has been living on the Nave farm, north of Wheatfleld, will move to the headquarters farm vacated by Mr. Shook. B. 8. Fendig returned last evening from a two weeks’ business' trip to the east. He went in the interest of the North American Cold Storage Co., of Chicago, and succeeded In selling a lot of cold storage products for them while away. He visited New York, Boston and other cities. Most disfiguring skin eruptions' scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you dear-eyed, clear-brained, clear-skinned.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦— PICTURES. THE NEW STENOGRAPHER. THE FURY OF A WOMAN SCORNED. HOW BELLA WAS WON. Redtatioa: “SHERIDAN’S RIDE” By Edgar L. Davenpart.

WOMAN WENT JOT RIDING; AUTO KILLED A MAN.

Conscience Stricken She Wrote Under Assumed Nome From Francesvllle—Found by Detectives. / t On Ewb. 27th John J. Bohn, a prominent Chicago man, was run down and killed by an automobile. The machine did not stop, but sped away and the matter remained a complete mystery until a brother of the dead man received a letter postmarked Frances-' ville and signed by Mrs. Jeanette Louisa Phleger, in which she confessed that she was in the machine when the man was killed. She said that she had confessed to the priest and he had advised that she write to the man's relatives. Two later letters were received, one from Francesville and one from Medaryville. Then the woman, on appointment with detectives, went to Chicago and met them, reciting her part in the tragedy. She stated that she was visiting in Chicago and had accepted an invitation from a couple of young men to dine out and then have a joy ride. They were on the ride when the fatal accident occurred. The men were driving very recklessly according to the woman. She promised to remain in Chicago and to tell her story to a coroner’s Jury, but suddenly disappeared. The detectives were in Francesville Sunday, April 2nd, trying to find out the woman lived, but they could get no information about her. On Tuesday the officers went to Medaryville, where they located the woman. Her name proved to be Mrs. James Fassett. She is the wife of a barber and the couple have lived in Medaryville but a short time. The woman was taken to Chicago where she will be held as a witness in the killing episode. It is understood that the men with whom she was riding are regarded as a bad set and a charge of manslaughter is pending against them. A fifteen-year-old girl in a neighboring town, who was in the habit of making the trains and flirting with the trainmen, succeeded recently In landing a beau. She gayly consented when he asked her to walk home with her. Her newly-formed acquaintance asked to be led to her home, and upon arriving there he boldly rang the bell. Her mother came to the door, and Mt. Traveling Man delivered a short lecture something like this: “Madam : here’s your little girl. I picked Jier up at the depot, a place where girls of her age should not go alone, unless on business. I have a daughter at home about the age of this one. lam away from home a good deal and don’t know for certain whether my daughter meets the trains and flirts with trainmen and passengers or not, but if she does I hope some one will do that which I have done—take her home to her mother."

The postoffice department has ordered that hereafter the requisitions of first and second class postofficeb for supplies shall be restricted to four general requisitions each year. Under the order postofllces in Indiana are to order their supplies in f June, September, December and March. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding or protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. Lafayette Lodge No. 16, I. O. O. F., Wednesday night initiated sixty-eight candidates. This is the second largest class initiated at one time in the state. If your piano needs tuning call on Otto Braun, tbe band instructor* First class work guaranteed. Leave your orders with any of tbe band boys. Great men are seldom appreciated while alive. Even tbe Saviour was one of the most maligned of men during life. Borne of the nudest styles in women’s dress are on the way over from France. For Bale—Mortgage exemption blanks at The Republican office. A Classified Adv. will rent it

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RENSBELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1811.

OTHER CENSUS FIGURES OF INTEREST TO US.

Brook, Kentland, Crown Point, Knox, Rensselaer and Franeesvllle Made Good Gains. The census figures of all Indiana towns were released Friday and are very favorable to Rensselaer. We are larger by more than 200 than either Delphi or Monticello and made a better increase than either of these cities. The following comparisons will prove of interest: 1910 1900 Gain Loss Brook 1067 677 390 Brookston 907 949 42 Chalmers 513 462 51 Crown Point ....2526 2336 190 Delphi 2161 2135 26 Fowler .. ..1491 1429 62 Francesville .... 729 596 133 Goodland 1105 1205 100 Kentland 1209 1006 203 Knox ....1644 1466 178 Lowell 1235 1275 40 Medaryville 710 .... Monon 1184 1160 24 Monticello .2168 2107 61 Morocco 927 920 7 Mt. Ayr ........ 231 .... Oxford 1010 949 61 Remington ..... 982 1120 138 Rensselaer 2893 2255 188 Wheatfleld 357 366 9 Winamac 1607 1684 77 Williamsport ...1243 1245 2 Wolcott 873 825 48 Brook made the banner increase during the ten years. This was probably brought about by the terracotta and overall factories located there. Kentland’s increase was probably duo to the building of another railroad there.

Another Version of Manner Ray Day Broke His Leg.

Lee Richards objected to having his name coupled with the other beys who were at Cedar Lake when the accident happened to Ray Day. He says he did not go there with them and did not know they were coming and that he “just happened” to be there when the accident occurred. -A later version of the way the accident occurred is now being circulated. The story is to the effect that Day became intoxicated soon after the. boys reached Cedar Lake and that the saloonkeeper was tantalizing him and trying to get him to either box or wrestle. He did not want to do either but the saloonkeeper bullied him and finally caught hold of him after slapping him several times. They tussled Just a little and then fell and Ray’s leg was broken. The saloonkeeper thought he was feigning and tried to make him stand on the broken leg, according to one of the boys. After he found that the limb was broken he became alarmed and sent for the Lowell doctor, and paid him S3O. so it is said. Since Ray is only 18 years of age, it is probable that things can be made very uncomfortable for the saloonkeeper if the reported stpry is true. The local physiqian set the limb Friday afternoon. He said that the dressing that the Lowell doctor had given it was about all that could have been done at an emergency call. He thinks the limb had been set but had slipped out again. It is quite a bad break arid will lay the young mat; up for some time. His father, Hiram Day, is reported to have gone to Cedar Lake today 7 , to ascertain the mannei in which the injury was Incurred. He will probably make things hot if tlisaloonkeeper is responsible.

East Lynn.

Our Stock Co. returns next Friday night with the play that is always new, although played before the American public since our grandparents were children, tbe ever green drama, “East Lynn.” Hardly a man, woman or child but has wept with Lady Isabel, hated Sir Frances Levison. pitied Archibald Carlysle and laughed at Mrs. Corny and old Dill. These characters have become classics, their words so familiar that one witnessing the play seems almost to be repeating lines learned himself. The plot, so true to life, appeals to all, and one never Bees it often enough to become surfeited with it. A play like “East Lynn” is like an oasis in the desert of modern plays and flimsy plots—it has a dignity, an appeal ail its pwn, shared by no other piece.

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FACTORY PROPOSITION FAVORABLY CONSIDERED.

Purdue Expert’s Report Not Flatter* Ing, But Sufficient to Cause Yete Favoring Factory. The report of R. V. Ludy, head of the department of mechanical engineering of Purdue university*, who with President D. M. Worland of the Commercial Club, C. S. Chamberlin, superintendent of the city light and water plant, and W. C. Babcock, of the elevator firm of Babcock & Hopkins, visited a Chicago manufacturing industry where an automatic feeder for stationary engines was at work, was read to a meeting of the directors of the Commercial Club and a number of members Friday night and discussed freely by them. This was followed by the unanimous support of all preseut to invite the manufacturers of the stoker to come to Rensselaer some day soon and submit to the club a statement of the kind of a contract they are willing to enter into. It is expected that a day the coming week will be selected. Secretary Charles G. Spitler has asked that they name the day so that an opportunity can be given all members of the club to attend the meeting. It is understood that the proposition will be something like this: The company will want buildings erected that will cost approximately $7,000 They will want a cash bonus in addition and will also ask that 10 acres of ground be placed at their disposal. They will agree to install machinery at once to the value of something like $7,000 and to begin operations with about 15 employees. They expect to follow the first installment of machinr ery with much more and ultimately to develop a big industry employing many more men. The proposition has not been made in so many words, but that is about what they are said to offer. The matter has been given a very careful Investigation and all who have seen the stoker in operation and talked with the patentee and his backer consider the device likely to meet favor and come into general use. The men who have the locating of the plant in. hand are said to have proven their dependability to the satisfaction of the members of the club who have been looking the matter up. They offer to give a bond for the fulfillment of tbeir part of the contract.

Greek to Wrestle Martin Lewis At Remington Tonight.

At Chappell’s theatre at Remington tonight William Polos, the Lefayette Greek, will meet Martin A. Lewis, of Ft. Wayne, in a two-best-out-of-three wrestling match. Lewis outweighs Polos about 10 pounds and the match should hi evenly contested. Victor Babcock and Harry May, of Remington, will go on in tbe preliminary, which attraction should be a good card in itself. Stories of the Civil War never grow old, as is evidenced by the great interest manifested in the “Civil War Day by Day, or Fifty Years Ag& Today” articles which are appearing in The Indianapolis Star, both dally and Sunday. The articles have been highly commended by men prominent in G. A R. circles, as well as by teachers of history. 'These articles appeal to tbe veteran for the reason that they recall the soul-trying days of 1861-66; to the younger generation because they give an insight into that memorable conflict in a concise, add yet highly interesting way. They are history, but not history put in a dry, mater-of-fact way. To add further interest to the articles, they are strikingly illustrated.

The editor of the Democrat dies hard in the matter of the election at Wheatfleld. He evidently hoped to see Wheatfleld go "wet” without an election. But his advice was not heeded by the commissioners and Wheatfleld temperance people will be given an opportunity to vote “dry.” If it should transpire that no township with a population of less than 1,000 can have a saloon, then the election would have been unnecessary, but it will not cost Wheatfleld tq exceed S2O .to settle it to the satisfaction of themselves, even if it don’t suit Brer Bab. “Is it not strange,” remarked a Wheatfleld democrat one day recently, “that we can’t do anything up here without tbe editor of the Democrat sticking in? I guess we know when we want to hold an election, and I don’t believe any one asked for his advice.” What ban* you to sell at this time of tbe year?< Try a classified ad la the Republican aad you can sell it. Remember, that all classified ads go la all issues of tbe Evening and BemlWeekly Republican.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled tonight; Sunday fair. April 9.—Sun rises 5:33; sets 6:33. Resolved—To hunt- up the hoe and fasten up the chickens.

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Governor Marshall addressed a large audience at Peru Thursday night in connection with ceremonies dedicating Miami county’s $300,000 court bouse. A resolution ratifying the income tdx amendment was adopted by the Tennessee senate. The house also adopted a similar resolution. John R. Voris, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and instructor in biblical literature at Indiana university, has resigned and has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church at New Albany. Mrs. Ella Wilson, -elected mayor of Hunnewell, Kas., has announced that during her term of office there will be no intoxicants sold la Hunnewell, and a woman chief of police will be put in office to enforce the laws. A bill providing for the election/>f United States senators by a plurality vote of state legislatures was introduced in the senate Thursday by Senator Root of New York. The purpose of the measure is to prevent deadlocks in elections, Joseph Healy, 40 years old, third general vice president of the Brotherhood of Paper Hangers, Painters and Decorators of America, is dead at St. Elizabeth's hospital, Lafayette, froi uremic poisoning. Hla home was in Cincinnati. After being out all night, the jury hearing the case of James Waltei. charged with killing Police Chief Ellis and Patrolman Kirkman, at Alexandria, returned 8 verdict of guilty Wednesday. The Verdict carried with it a life sentence. Refusing to pay dog tax, Mrs. Ann Walters, of Columbus, drove the assessor from her home. She says she has paid the tax for seventeen'years and that the present high cost of living prevents further contributions of the kind. A bill appropriating $7,000 for the widow of Governor John A. Johnson has been passed In the upper branch of the Minnesota legislature. This sum represents the salary Governor Johnson would have received during the final year of the term for which he was elected. There is no doubt that the house will pass the bill also.

Millinery Opening % I am pleased to announce that the Spring Opening of my store will take place . i i '" ■ ■ v FRIDAY and A Id 1C SATURDAY, Apr. 14-lD The 1911 designs in Pattern Hats, both domestic and imported, -will be found, and all millinery novelties. ! Y&. ' \ Your inspection is desired. Mrs. PURCUPILE

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM —• — PICTURE. Wtot Would Yob Do. The Light Beyond. The Mexican Centennial. OPEN AT 7 P. M.

AUTOMOBILE LIYERY. The undersigned is soar engaged in the Ante Livery business. Leave orders at the Willis Supply Co. JAMES CLARK.

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i Mr. Hamerbacker was in town Tuesday. Mr. McCashen was In town Wednesday. % Mr. Spencer was in town Wednes • day. Scott Berry was a business flatter here Wednesday. Truman Westphal was sick last week. Miss Myrtle Lewis visited her mother Sunday. Miss Sadie Cody came to visit her sister, Mrs. Alf Jacks Tuesday. Will Jacks, of was in Lee Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Lefler and children, of McCoysburg, called on Mrs. Alf Jacks Saturday afternoon. Misif Delena and Francis Lefler called on Miss Dollle Jacks Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Parcels and son Don visited Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parcels Monday.

Preaching at Good Hope Sunday.

Rev. G. H. Clarke, ot the First Christian church of Rensselaer, will conduct services at the Good Hope church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. All are invited.

Presbyterian Chureh Services.

The pastor will preach Sabbath morning on “Home Coming,” and In the evening he will use the stereoptlcon to illustrate a sermon on “Queen Esther.” Everyone cordially invited.

Have Firelight Photos Made.

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

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-

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