Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1911 — Page 1

No. 90.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Fine dry salt meat only 10c per lb. at the Depot Grocery this week. Miss Alice Shedd came this morning from Otterbein for a short visit with her parents. Dr. W. L. Myer went to Delphi by anto this morning and returned on the 10:05 train. , - \ John Knox was down from Chicago yesterday. He is now the cashier at the Auditorium pharmacy. Miss Grace Robinson went to Chicago this morning to begin her training at the Wesley hospital. Miss Loretta Picbner returned to Kniman this morning after a short visit here with Mrs. Dennis Brooks. Judge Wason, of Delphi, and Attorneys T. F. Palmer and Emery Sellers, of Monticello, were Rensselaer visitors today. Will Clouse has a felon on his left thumb, and feels like his last friend was dead. Lancing don’t seem to have helped a bit,

Alvin Clark was in/ from Lee today. He reports that the country 'there is flooded with water and farmers very much discouraged about oats seeding.. The Depot Grocery has enjoyed a nice steady growth since its beginning. Its managers / carry a good grade of goods and make every effort to please. / E. W. Maxwell, of Oklahoma, who has been visiting hts son, John C. Maxwell, returned this morning from a visit with relatives at Winamac and Chalmers. If you are having any trouble with the flour you are using, we can relieve you of that trouble if you will try Aristos, the king of them all. JOHN EGER. Starke county, which was voted “dry" by county option, will probably have plenty of saloons under the new democratic law. There are 25 applications for license pending in that county. Harvey Wood, Sr., went to Crawfordsville today and will return Mon-, day. Mrs. Wood went there a week ago with her daughter, Mrs. Harley Bruce, and will return Monday with, her husband.

Mrs. E. P. Honan is now expected home next Tuesday. She was removed from the hospital Wednesday and went to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Cochran, friends. She is improving very encouragingly. Sherman Poole, who came here from Kankakee, 111., to work in the Barnes bakery, and who was taken sick after his arrival, is now able to be up and around and will go' to work at the bakery next Monday. The Presbyterian Sunday school will gfese an Easter program at the Sunday school hour, 9;30 tomorrow morning. The members of the home department are especially invited to attend the service as well as the general public. The tenet forecast did. not pan ont, but the mercury fell to within 2 degrees of freezing. Today started in bright and it looked like warming up, but the strong wind from the west makes it disagreeable and the clouds proclaim an uncertainty for the next twenty-four hours. On our last sale of jelly in 5-pound pails we had a demand far beyond our supply and ran out, and to those that were disappointed, we are going to give them another chance and will place on sale this week, 10 dozen more at 20c a pail. ' JOHN EGER. Kenneth Rhoades went to Goodland yesterday in an automobile and brought his mother, Mrs. C. W. Rhoades, and her mother, Mrs. W: H. Townsend, home with him. Mrs. Townsend has been in quite poor health for some time and will remain with her daughter for a time In the hope of an improvement.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —• — 4..*; PICTURES. BETTY BECOMES A MAID. HOW BELLA WAS WON. THE DEAD LETTER. Seig by Miss Margin.

Cooked rolled oats, the new breakfast food, 10c, at The Home Grocery. •> Leonard Rhoades went to Chicago this morning to spend Sunday With his wife at the hospital. She is getting along splendidly. Miss Harriet Shedd will return to Northwestern university at Evanston, tomorrow after spending the week with ner parents here. Misses Belle Laßue and Nell Meyers are home from DePauw. The former has had quite a severe case of tonsilitis Since she arrived home. Never were so cheap; nice red onion sets, 3c a quart; garden seeds,-2 packages for 6 cents. JOHN EGER. Mrs. Mary A. Livingston came from Crown Point today to be with her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Pancoast, west of town, for some time. She is in her 82nd year. Mrs. Bert DeMotte, who underwent a slight surgical operation at a Hammond hospital arrived here from the hospital this morning and will spend several days here with her parents, Mr. and MrsrlL D. Britton.

The mysterious western light waa seen by mtfny again last night. Some maintain that it is a star while others say it is certainly an artificial light in a movable carriage* The adherents to the star theory seem to lie in the majority. / - ~ On account of the mill being unable to fill their orders promptly we were out of Aristos flour for a week. We have just unloaded our fifth car of flour for 1911 and are now able to supply you with Aristos dour, again. JOHN EGER. Henry % Stucker returned today to Madison, Ind. He was called here to attend the funeral of his brother, Isaac Stucker. It was his first visit to Rensselaer and he was very favorably impressed with this section of the country and states that he will move up here if he can get hi§ wife in the notion. Mrs. S. J. Sigler, who has been staying in Chicago since last fall, arrived here last evening accompanied by her daughter, Miss Gene, and together they went to Mt. Ayr this morning to remain for a couple of months. Jliss Gene, who is employed in the city as a stenographer, will return home tomorrow evening. Frank Babcock, of Carpenter township, was a caller at The Republican office today. He was fortunate to get his oats sowed early, having planted 125 acres between the 20th and the 26th of March. He reports that they are up in fine shape and are looking especially good. Most of his neighbors got their oat£ in early. In many points in this county, however, oats have not yet been planted and it begins to look a little uncertain for them.

Fred Bergei l came over from Remington this morning and went to Lafayette on the 11:06 train. He has purchased a used Oakland automobile of the 5-passenger 40-horse pattern and was going to bring it home with him today. Fred has never owned an auto before and bought this car to use in running between his home farm and hiß farm south of Remington, where he is going to go a great amount of improving the coming summer. He expects to buy a n-w car either this fall or next spring. Quick results were found by the use of The Republican classified advertising bureau today. Miss Grace Robinson lost ber watch while going from ber borne to the railway station and an advertisement was ordered in The Republican. Soon after the order to advertise it bad been given. Miss Mary McCullough, of Salem, Ina., who teaches school near Fair Oaks, appeared at The Republican office with the watch, having brought it here to be advertised. Miss McCullough was walking near the river bridge and found the watch. She was pleased to be the means of restoring It to the owner and declined to oons#ter a reward.

Baton* January 1, 1897, as sscond-class mall matter, at the post-offles at Bsasaslasr, Indiana, under the act of Xarftfc S, 187*.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 191 L

Marriage of Allie Francis and Grace Grant Occurred Thursday.

Mr. Allie Francis and Miss Grace Grant, from west of town, were married at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon at Che residence of Rev. G. H. Clarke, pastor of the Christian church. They had planned to be married several weeks ago, but the bride was stricken with paralysis on the day set for their wedding. She has not entirely recovered from the affliction* but is very much improved. Mr. aad Mrs. Francis will have the best wishes of a large circle of friends.

Joe Ellis Found His Own Housekeeper and Married Her, Too.

Joe Ellis and Mrs. Annie Hollin, widow of Edward Hollin, the shoemaker, were married this Saturday afternoon at about 3:30 o’clock by Squire Irwin. This is the groom’s fourth hitch on the matrimonial sea and'he is only a half century old. The preparations seem to have been making for this marriage when Joe refused to have anything to do with the housekeeper Sherm Richards found for him last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis will reside in the bride’B property in the east part of town.’

Funeral of Albert Hammond Will Take Place Sunday at 1:30.

The funeral of Albert Hammond, who died Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Sparling, south of town, will take place at 3:30 o’clock at the Sparling residence. Tt will be conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper, of Trinity M. E. church. Albert Hammond was never married. He has lived most of his life in Jasper county, but during part of recent years has resided part of the time in Kansas and part of the time at Patricksburg, Ind. He was 74 years of age. Deceased was a brother of Stewart Hammond, who is enjoying very good health at the age of almost Burial will be made in the Crockett cemetery.

Big Wrestlers Meet in Finish Match at Ellis Theatre Tonight.

Sam Murbarger, whose wrestling name in Rensselaer has been Tom Coburn* and Bill Egener, of Brazil, will meet in a finish wrestling match at the Ellis theatre tonight. Murbarger is known as an especially clever man and has disposed of all his rivals here without difficulty. Egener is coming here at the solicitation of Manager Ellis, having been recommended by Charley Clift. He is said to be a fine grappler and to have wrestled with some of the best heavyweights. That he will make a fine showing with Murbarger seems assured from the character of his endorsements and he claims to be extremely anxious to win. Wrestling has been well patronized here and yet hrld. The preliminaries will be by some of the best local boys.

Milroy Park is to be greatly improved this spring. Marshal Mustard has been trimming the trees, digging out some of the old ones and soon the filing will begin. A number have volunteered to put in a days’ hauling and a day will be set for this purpose. We have just unloaded two cars of potatoes; one of fancy Michigan sand grown table stock and one car of Northern Minnesota, Early Ohios, Early Rose, Six Weeks and Burbanks. Look at our stock and £et our prices. JOHN EGER. I ■ Mr. ami Mrs. E. W. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mussen and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lasher composed an automobile party that came here from Indianapolis today and after taking dinner at the Makeever hotel left for Chicago, where they will attend several theatres ahd the women do some shopping. « The Comer House was the scene of a very delightful 12 o’clock dinner Friday. Miss Gertie Leopold was the hostess and Mrs. Emery Mills, of Muncie, and Mrs. Tom Fougeres, of Wabash, were the guests of honor. The afeher guests were Mrs. Kenton Parkinson and Misses Cecil Morgan, Ruth Ames and Ina Merrill. A. S. Laßue was a busy real estate dealer yesterday and besides effecting the trade between Amos Davisson and D. H. Yeoman, whereby the former bought 260 acres of the latter’s Union township farm, he sold his own Union township 80, the purchaser being August Gumpert, of Cicero, 111. The price was about 875 per npre. The man who can hand out tally and make it stick usually ldtda his victim quicker than the logical persuader.

DOG PRONOUNCED MAD BIT MANY OTHER CANINES.

Head of Animal Sent to State Laboratory—AH Dogs Ordered Muzzled —Killing Begun. Rensselaer and surrounding country is in the midst of a real mad dog scare. It may or may not develop in serious consequences, but is sufficiently menacing to cause the authorities to take immediate action to curb an outbreak. Readers of The Republican will recall that an item appeared in this paper about two months ago concerning a dog that passed through town and that snapped at’and bit every dog that it came in contact with and that Marshal Mustard undertook to kill it. Among the. dogs bitten was a black Shepherd dog belonging to Harrison Timmons, the express wagon driver. The dog did not seem to be affected until last week when he began acting peculiarly, became sullen at first and then started out to bite every dog that he came in contact with. How many dogs this was, Mr. Timmons does not know,' but possibly twentyfive or even fifty.* The latter part, of the week the dog disappeared from home and did not come back for two days. When he did he was all chewed up, evidently having fought with every dog he had come across during his roaming through the country. He was- very cross when he reached home and Mr. Timmons soon decided thgt he was in no shape to run about the streets and locked him in the barn. He called Marshal Mustard Wednesday afternoon and they decided to kill the dog. When the marshal went to go into the barn the dog growled and made a charge at the door and the marshal retreated and killed the animal through a crack in the door. The head was severed from the body and sent to the state laboratory and this Saturday morning a report was received stating that the animal had rabies or hydrophobia. The marshal and the secretary of the city board of health held a conference and decided that immediate action was necessary as it would be tell where the disease might break out. Many dogs had been bitten and Mr. Timmons thinks the number may be as high as fifty. The period of incubation of the disease may be. any time from a few days to several weeks and a general muzzle order was decided upon. The plan is to begin killing after Monday and all dogs that are not muzzled or kept fastened up will become victims of the marshal’s firearms. AH persons who have dogs and wish them killed can bring them to the fire engine house and a place for the killing will be arranged in the lot back of that building.

MUZZLE YOUR DOGS.

All dog owners are hereby notified that they must either muzzle their dogs or fasten them up securely so that they can not run at large. All unmuzzled dogs found running at large after Monday, April 17th, will be ordered killed. This step is necessary in the interest of public safety. Secretary City Board of Health.

New Laws Will Probably Go Into Effect on 20th of April.

Although the new laws have been printed and circulated they are not yet in effect and will not be until Secretary of State Ellingham has received receipts from the various county clerks of the state for the volumes of the laws sent out last week. It is believed that all the receipts will be In so that a proclamation declaring the laws in force can be issued by April 20th. *

Dave Yeoman Disposes of Old Home Farm in Vnion Township. D. H. Yeoman sold his old home farm of 260 acres in the south part of Union township and north of Rensselaer Friday. The purchaser was Amos Davisson, of Union township, and the price was $28,000, or slll per .acre, Mr. Yeoman still has 315 acres in that township. The present tenant on the farm Mr. Yeoman sold is Roy Lowman, who moved there thij spring. A. S. Laßue made the sale.

When in need, remember that fine country lard at The Home Grocery. Sam Murbarger and his manager, Jerry Walls, arrived here this morning for the former’s wrestling match with Bill Egener, of Brazil, at the Ellis theatre tonight. Sam had a match last night at Montlcello, and a good attendance is reported. All 6c washing powder 6 for a quarter this week at the Depot Grocery.

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WETHER FORECAST.

Fair tonight with light frost; Sunday fair. Maximum 64; minimum 34. April 16—Sun rises 5:22; sets 6:40. Resolved—Not to say a disparaging thing about my wife’s new Easter hat, no matter how unbecoming it is or how much R coat ; -

Apil 15, 1861—What Happened Fifty Years Ago Today.

A half century ago today President Lincoln issued his call for 75,000 troops and all over the north young men were enlisting for three months’ service. It was believed that the rebellion would be quelled within that time. Probably the most remarkable occurance as well as the most important in the north was the change in heart of Stephen A. Dotiglas, who for twenty years bad opposed Lincoln, and who had run against him for the presidency the fall before. He requested an interview on the evening of April 14th, and he and Lincoln convened about the crisis. No witness heard their words, but the “Little Giant” came out courageously and placed himself beside Lincoln for the defense of the union. Douglas advised Lincoln about the call and said he would have made it for 200,000 instead of 75,000. General Lew Wallace was at that time adjutant-general of the state militia. Companies were being organized all over the state and Company G, of Rensselaer, was being recruited full by General Milroy.

Marriage Licenses.

April IS.—Allta Oscar Francis, born Muskingom county, Ohio, May '5, 1878, present residence Rensselaer, occupation farmer, and Grace Grant, born 'Jasper county, Indiana, January 28, 1878, present residence Rensselaer, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. . April 15. —Joseph Ellis, born at Orawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 6 S 1861, present residence Rensselaer, occupation laborer; fourth marriage, the other three having been dissolved by death, last one Oct. 4, 1910, and Anna Hollin, born at Newton, Long Island, N. Y., March 22, 1861, present residence Rensselaer, occupation housekeeper, second marriage, the first having been dissolved by death Nov. 17, 1909.

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