Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1911 — Page 1

No. 100.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. W. S. Richards, painter and paperhanger, phone 331. Mrs. J. A. Lucas went to Indianapolis today for a short visit. Quick deliveries of oil and gasoline —Depot Grocery. Mrs. Frank Hunt came down from Lowell today for a short visit with the family of J. J. Hunt The Home Grocery is now ready to redeem your Atlas E-Z Seal Fruit Jar coupons—bring them in. Mrs. John Eger is spending today with Mrs. Peter Hordeman, in Union township. If you want the very finest early cabbage plants get the Holden varieties of The Home Grocery. Maxwell will demonstrate his plow in the east part of town, Saturday afternooii at 2 o’clock. Baby won’t suffer five minutes with croup if you apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil at once. It acts like magic. A. J. Lewark, of Roselawn, was a Rensselaer visitor today, having coma down to pay taxes on his mother’s farm. Mrs. H. Gitchel, of Sheldon, 111., and mother, Mrs. R. A. Cooper, of Raub, Ind., are visiting Mrs. Sarah Pruitt. * The ladies of the Christian church will give a cream chicken supper at the church on Wednesday evening of next week from 5 to 7. Everybody welcome.

H. R. Kurrie is having some extensive repairs made to his Weston street residence, including the installation of a bathroom and hardwood floors. George Hamacker is moving to the Tryon farm, and will work for Fred Xinback, the tenant. Mrs. Hamacker came today, Mrs. Linback having gone to Monon to accompany her. Impure bloods runs you down — makes you an easy victim for organic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood—cures the cause—builds you up. Mrs. Mary D. Eger returned home yesterday evening from the hospital, where she underwent a minor operation. She is feeling very well and is assured of improved health for the future. C. L. Baldwin, the carpenter, went to Terre Haute today, where he will visit his father while recovering from the effects of his badly infected leg, injured several weeks ago when a scaffold fell. One of the great annoyances about dog muzzles is that they are often stolen. A dog leaves the premises for a short time only and comes back without a muzzle on. This is a bad practice and any one guilty of it should be punished. It makes a dog come high If you have to buy a new muzzle every few days.

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Third Hitch at the PowellGreenlee Trial Begun Thursday. The trial of Mrs. E. E. Powell vs. Eva Greenlee was started again this Thursday morning. A jury of eleven was chosen shortly before noon, the parties having agreed to that number when there seemed some difficulty in finding the twelfth man. This is the third hitch for the trial. It came up in the first place when Mrs Greenlee sought to recover the notes she had given Mrs. Powell for the purchase of the hotel. It next appeared at the last term of the court when Mrs. Powell sought judgment for the amount involved in the notes. The trial came to a sudden halt when well nigh concluded by the sickness of Frank Tillett, a Gillam township juryman. It begins to look like the court costs and the attorney fees would amount to about as much as the notes. Don’t you enjoy the blithe singing and lively good nature that constitutes a good musical comedy. “THEM Henderson Kids” looks like a real good thing in this ljne. It will be at the Ellis theatre Saturday night. Art Battleday and Leon Eiglesbach are planning a trip to the west, and may locate in the state of Washington. Both are automobile experts and hope to secure employment at their trade out there. A. Leopold returned last evening from the North Side hospital in Chicago, where he had been for about two weeks. He is feeling better than he has for a long time, looks improved and says he feels twenty years younger. „

Sheriff Hoover yesterday took Brandenberg, the self-confessed forger, to Jeffersonville to begin his term of 2 to 14 years in the reformatory. He will start for Michigan City, probably .tomorrow morning, with Joseph Mcr Colly, who will serve 2 to 21 years. The treasurer’s office presents a busy scene these days. Taxpayers are here from all o/er the cojpty. After next Monday the penalty is due and there will doubtless by a grand rush at the finish. Better try to get in Friday or Saturday and save time and possibly the result of getting shoved over to the next day with the penalty added. Mrs. Harley Shields and children came in from Pleasant Ridge this •tnorning. They will remain for the present with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Platt. When the fire was discovered that burned 'them out Tuesday, “Uncle” Charley was at their house. He was carried to a place of safety. Mrs. Shields thinks the fire had been smouldering in the roof all morning as it did not start from the flue to which the kitchen stove was attached and there had been no fire in the other since early morning. She says that the neighbors were all very kind to them. The house was a total loss. It belonged to J. J. Lawler and was insured for S4OO in the R. B. Harris agency. Mr. and Mrs; Shields have their effects stored in the school house.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1911.

The Evening Republican First Band Concert of the Season Takes Place Tonight.

The following program will be carried out by the boys’ band at the concert tonight, the weather being suitable. It is the first concert of the season and inaugurates the regular Thursday night free concerts on the streets of the city. PROGRAM March—W. M. B ...R. B. Halle Overture—Arion Pette Waltz—Riverside Ripley That’s the Fellow I Want to Get.. Geo. W. Meyer Schottishe Comique H. C. Miller Anvil Polka Parlow Medley Overture—Yankee Hash H. C. Miller R. M. B. March Jarrett

Many Farmers Think Council Should Provide Crow Bounty.

The Republican editor has talked with a number of farmers the past few days about the crow bounty proposition and finds that there is practically a unanimous opinion among them that the county council and commissioners should provide for the carrying out of the law passed by the last legislature providing for bounty on crows and crow eggs. The crows are doing a lot of injury at this time of year by eating turkev eggs. They rob the nests often as fast as the eggs are laid and sometimes will drive setting turkeys off the nests and devour the partly incubated eggs. They also dig up a lot of freshly planted corn and a lot more that has just come up. In the harvest season they eat a lot of the ripened grain. It is believed by many that a general campaign in all counties will soon greatly diminish the number of crows and frighten most of the balance away, and that the counties that do not provide for it will get the worst of it by these black marauders. It might be proper for the council at the approaching special session to ptovido the funds to carry out the law.

COLLEGEVILLE.

We had the following visitors with us last week: Mrs. Geo. Kussmaul and L. Kussmaul, Hammond; Alice Smith, Attica; E. E. Troll, Chicago; Miss Til lie Ramp and F. Porter, Rensselaer. The contract for the erection of the new water system has been let to the Des Moines Iron‘Co. The digging of the pipe trenches and the construction work of the 50,000 gallon tank will soon be in progress. The work is to be completed within three months. A new boiler and high power pumps will also be installed. This is the first season in many years/ the first since the organization of the first representative team in 1901, that St. Joe will- not have a varsity ball team chasing after the scalps of the neighboring institutions. The decision of the Athletic Board was unfavorable to the organization of a ball team under the present circumstances and that settled it. The four circuit senior league has this year been increased to five teams. There is some high class material m these teams, and no doubt we will be treated to some exciting exhibitions of the popular sport. J. Trench, assisted by J. Fitzgerald, is the general base ball magnate. The following are the managers of the different teams: Royals, C. Leary; Shamrocks, August Berghoff; Laurels, A. Copenolle; Cardinals, H. Hipskind; Imperials, Chas. Hughes. The amateur and the junior leagues are also in running order, and their diamonds are never vacant in free hours. The work of all the spring sports is in full progress. The tennis players have been at some considerable disadvantage owing to the poor condition of the courts because of winter’s refusal to be superceded by spring. Yet the racket men have perfected their organization under the general management of Harold Moran, and soon ttie cry of the “love score” will be mingled with the strike out shouts. Attracted by the midnight fire alarm, and lured by the tremendous blaze and rolling smoke, several of the Fathers hustled to the city to witness at first hand the destruction of the Babcock & Hopkins elevator. From this distance the brightness of the flames augured the destruction of the county metropolis, and on their arrival at the scene of the conflagation they were agreeably surprised to see the plucky little fire department succeed so admirably In confining the rampaging element to the building of Its origin. 4

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Chicago Auto Driver Who Didn’t Care Given Limit for Cansing Accident ) To Two Ladles. Arthur M. Robbins, president of the Centuar Motor Co., of Chicago, was fined SSO and costs in the circuit court Wednesday, that being the limit that could be given him for reckless driving on the public highway. On February 26th, Robbins and his mechanician, George Miller, were en route from Chicago to Indianapolis in a big Abbott-Detroit automobile, for which car Mr. Robbins’ company is the Chicago agent. The car was being taken to Indianapolis to participate in the automobile races and demonstration. Just south of Virgie the car passed Mrs. Joseph A. Lucas and Mrs. Fannie Baker, the former from Union township and the latttr from Frankfort. The ladies were driving in a buggy and Mrs. Baker testified that she signaled for the automobile to stop, but that no attention was paid to the signal and the car brushed past them so closely that it forced them off into the ditch, overturning the buggy, throwing the women out and badly breaking the buggy. The women claim that the autoists paid no attention to their plight but rushed right ahead. Both Robbins and Miller testified that they stopped their car, the former claiming that they stopped it within two car lengths of the accident, and Miller that they stopped it about 100 to 150 feet away. Both say that the rig was tipped over and that a woman climbed out and went toward the horse’s head, but they did not get out to offer any help nor to see whether any one was hurt. The autoiets seemed to be trying to make their getaway, but providence interfered and a few miles ndrth of Rensselaer the auto was disabled in such a manner that it could not proceed until repairs were procured from Chicago. In meantime Mrs. Lucas .and her companion had been taken to the home of the former, some two miles from the scene of the accident and Mr. Lucas had got Jack Reder and they had come to town to try to have the auto driver arrested. Sheriff Hoover went to the place where the auto was broken down and placed the men under arrest. There was considerable parleying that night about how to proceed. Lucas had not seen the accident and could not identify the parties and Mrs. Lucas could not get here until the next day. Lucas wanted Robbins to pay for the damage to his rig, which he placed at $25, probably a very reasonable amount, but Robbins said he “was not going about giving money to people.” On the early train the next morning the repairs for the automobile came, and as soon as the car was put into condition, Robbins and his machinist left town. They left cussing Rensselaer, so it is said, and City Marshal Mustard says that, they left town like “a streak of greased lightning.” He therefore filed a charge against them of exceeding the speed limit in the city. The warrant was served on Robbins Wednesday and he gave a bond in the sum of SIOO for his appearance for trial in September. Lucas was unrelenting and determined to apprehend the man and he went to Indianapolis in company with Sheriff Hoover. The men were found and placed under arrest. The case was set for trial in Rensselaer, Robbins being under SIOO bond for his appearance.' The testimony of Mrs. Lucas, Mrs. 'Baker, Mr. Lucas, Jack Reder, George Cover and Will Wiseman all showed that Robbins had not swerved from his course one bit when he passed the women and that instead of passing on the west side of the road, as he claimed, he had passed on the east side of the road and so closely to the buggy that there was not room for the buggy to pass without being forced into the ditch. The women also testified that the men never stopped their car, but went past them at a rapid rate of speed. The men claimed that they were driving at a rate not exceeding 5 or 6 miles an hopr and passed the buggy on the opposite side of the road. The car owner said he was en route to Indianapolis to demonstrate his car, but that its limit of speed was not to exceed 45 11 tnile8 an hour. The plaintiffs showed on cross examination that he had driven a car 58 miles an hour in the demonstration at Indianapolis for 120 miles and sought to connect this car with the one used in that demonstration. It was found that the defendant had come from Chicago to the point where the accident occurred in 6 hours or a little less, and that the distance was 80 miles. The defendant testified that he left here on the morning of the 27th of February at 6:30 o’clock

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and arrived in Indianapolis at 2:00 p. m., that distance being about 120 miles. The worst feautre of the case was the failure of Robbins to do what he could to ascertain whether the ladies were hurt and offer to make settlement for damages. The evidence seemed to show conclusively that Robbins did not care a bit what happened. He had a fast car and relied on making his escape and he would doubtless have done it but for the fact that his car broke down. It took the jury only about a half hour to decide that Robbins should be given the limit of the fine provided by law, and they assessed SSO against him. The action of the jury seems entirely proper. Rensselaer or Jasper county does not want to fall-out with automobilists. We are glad to have them come through our city and county, notwithstanding the fact that they do much toward destroying our roads, but we should stand ready to punish severely any man of the Robbins sort, who would run away from an accident, the extent of which he had no idea. It is now stated that Mrs. Baker has a dislocated or broken knee cap, a result of the accident, and that she will be permanently crippled. Robbins has been made the defendant in a $14,000 suit for damages, in the Marion circuit court, the plaintiffs being Joseph A. Lucas, Mrs. Jos-

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eph A. Lucas and Mrs. Fannie Bakery Robbins left his bond stand here until he makes settlement on the fine imposed. The fine and costs will probably amount to $l5O.

WEATHER FORECAST. Showers tonight and Friday. April 28. —Sun rises 5:05; sets 6:53. Maximum 73; minimum 48. Resolved—That tourist automobilists must understand that the horse still has some rights on the public highway. Notice to Public. Milroy monument has been considerably defaced by children climbing upon the pedestal and picking at the letters. The practice must stop at once and the undersigned has been instructed to arrest any one who is responsible for any depredations there. GEORGE MUSTARD, City Marshal. “Doan’s Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent"— Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me. Farm Loans. We are furnishing the money. DUNLAP * PARKINSON. Calling Cards at The Republican.

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