Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Reynolds and Remington are to pla/ - baseball tomorrow to Remington. Phone 95 for your grocery order. ROWLES & PARKER. Remington is to have three good wrestling »matches next Saturday night, March 20th. Measure the doors for new screens, then call Phone No. 6, and get good ones from the J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. —■ Mrs. Chas. Greenlee, of Parr, came yesterday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Everett Greenlee for a few days. We have just unloaded a car of ■'"H. & E.” sugar, the best sugar made. . JOHN EGER. Mrs. D. S. Alter and daughter Lillian came yesterday from Union township for a short visit with relatives. See the grade children in their operetta "at the opera house nexT Thursday evening, May 18th. - H. C. Hoshaw left today for Indianapolis, where he will visit for a week with his son, Edward C. Hoshaw, and family. ;-5 .-<4 - - - •’ . .... Both Home and Depot groceries will sell 4 cans peas, hominy, pumpkin or string beans for a quarter this week. 7/Next Thursday, May 18th, Revs C. W. Wharton will be installed as pastor of the Presbyterian cirurch at Kentland. A large can of soft soap, just the thing for house cleaning, for sc, or 6 tor 25 cents, at John Eger’s. ; 4 f°od Monon mother wishing to have Willie go to bed, told him all the chickens had gone to bed and the little philosopher added, “Yes, mother, and so has the old brown hen.”'. n I ■ V" We unloaded, last week, a car of “Aristos,” and a car of “Lord’s Best,” flour, making 7 cars or 1,500 barrels, since Jan. 1, 1911. “Quality” is what sells flour. JOHN EGER. Beware of the game warden. The open season is past and there can be no legal game shooting in this state until July Ist, when the season opens for squirrel hunting. ( For this week we will sell you for 10c our regular 15c imported Singapore pineapple chunks, or ,a package of “Jellycoq,” for making jelly desert, tor 5c a package. ’’ ' JOHN EGER.

Have You a Worn-out fZ&J Wash Boiler? ■ ■ r.’■ Special Offer For the next thirty days we will pay SI.OO FQR YOUR OLD COPPER BOILER, or 50c. FOR YOUR OLD TIN BOILER, regardless of condition toward the purchase of the ; Famous $3.25 Savage Extra Heavy Copper Wash Boiler Boiler that wears a lifetime" E.D. Rhoades & Son Rensselaer, Indiana

The Evening Republican.

♦♦❖♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦di***************** TONIGHT’S PROGRAM i ’—s? —■ .. - z PICTURES. In AN UNEXPECTED REVIEW. TBE COWBOY AND THE SHREW. ! THE SHOW GIRL’S STRATAGEM. ; HOP RAISING INTUSTRY

Ben McColly came down from Chicago Heights this morning. He firmly denies that he came to see the show, but he occupied a chair in front of the Makeever house and watched the parade. Jellycon, a delicious jelly dessert, any flavors, 10c or 3 packages for 25c, at the Home Grocery) Gusta Daseke, a Francesville boy, made a grade of .96% In the common school examinations, his grade being the-highest of 117 graduates in Pulaski county. 7.- h : /-'- Fifteen cents will secure you a reserved ■ seat for The Smuggleman. Chart opens Wednesday morning. __ Marion A. Anderson returned this morning from Indianapolis, where he has been working for several months. He has a good job with the Boulevard Cement Co., and will return there tomorrow. / Our screen doors are the best; hang right, wear longest and the price Is right J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Samuel O. Duvall was 79 years age Friday, May 12th, and the event was duly celebrated at a fatally dinner at the home of his son/Ed J. Duvall. Mrs. Frank Burch and son Arthur, of Oak Park, came to help celebrate the event, she being Jdr. Duvall’s daughter. Don’t wait until the house gets full of flies to put up the screens. If you" old ones are not first-class, order new screen doors of J. C. Gwin Lumber Co., phone 6. Mrs. Alda Parklson was hostess Friday afternoon to about forty lady friends and they were delightfully entertained by a violin recital given by Miss Lucy Moody Boyd, of Mt Vernon, lowa, who was assisted by Miss Bess Moody and Miss Alice Shedd, the former on the piano and the latter by vocal solos. \ New cheese, very fine. —The Home (xlocery. . Jackson township, Newton' county, toted strongly in favor of stone roads at the recent election. The vote was 147 to 25. Enterprise says: “With the completion of this system*, and a system in Newton township, Jasper county, now under way, there will be direct stone road connections between Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer, and between Mt. Ayrand Brook, Goodland and Kentland, excepting a one-mile break between the Jackson and Iroquois township systems.”

Batezea Januarr 1. 18S7. as sseoad-olass m*U matter, at tke psst-eSo* at BsnssMaer, Indiana, undar' the act of March 3, 187*.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY* MAT 13, 1911.

LONG SICKNESS ENDS IN DEATH OF CHARLES PLATT.

Soldier Citizen, Who Served as Both Sheriff and Treasurer of Jasper County Passes Away XCharles Platt, an aged German resident of Rensselaer, an old soldier and a former county office holder, died Friday afternoon at s:3o^o’clock after a sickness from kidney trouble lasting more than two years. Deceased had been much worse for the past two weeks. He was at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harley Shields, at Pleasant Ridge, when their house was destroyed by fire and was taken to his home on Van Rensselaer street. He took worse in a day or two and it was. realized that he could not last long. During his last days he suffered intense pain and death came as a relief to him. When the last moment came he was surrounded by his wife, his daughters, Lillie Shields and Rose Platt, and his son Qeorge. . Deeeased was bom in Germany Sept. 17th, 1829, and was therefore in his 82nd year. He came to America in 1852 and to Jasper county, Ind., May 12, 1854. t was married to Eliza Jane Cooper, of Barkley township, July 29, 1857. To them were born eight children, one of whom died in infancy. Three others have passed away, viz.,. Robert, Dave and Mary Ann. Besides the three who were with him when death came i/ the son, John, who is now In the west. . z On Aug. 9, 1862, deceased enlisted in the union army, joining Company A of the 87 th regiment. On Sept. 20, 1863, he was wounded at the batttie of Chickamaugua, being shot in the right wrist and forearm. He' was totally disabled and was sent to the hospital and: discharged the following May. He returned home that year and was elected county sheriff, which office he held for two^terms and he was then elected county treasurer for one term. Later he was the town marshal of Rensselaer for a number of years. He was an honest and upright citizen and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. The funeral, according to his own request, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock-at the M. E. church, being conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper. He prepared a short autobiography some years ago and this will be read at his funeral. Interment will be made in Weston cemetery.

Former Mt. Ayr Boy Dies in Hospital After Long Illness.

Roy Willey, son of Thos. E. Willey, deceased, and for many years a resident of Mt. Ayr, died Thursday night in a hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich. He had been in tailing health with kidney trouble for some time. Deceased was a grandson of Addison Parkison and he inherited onethird of his mother’s share of the Parkison estate. He then went to Michigan, purchasing a, farm near Constantine. He had since lived on the farm. Deceased had many relatives In Rensselaer, Mrs. George Ketchum and Mrs. J. M. Moore being aunts, and Mrs. A. J. Grant, a cousin. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Elijah, of Mt. Ayr, untie and aunt of Mrs. Willey, took the milk train here this Saturday morning for Constantine, responding toa telegram advising them of Mr. Wil)ey’s death. They did not know what arrangements had been made about the burial and it is possible that the body will be brought back to Mt. Ayr for burial. Deceased would have been 33 years of age on June 15th, and is survived by his wife, but no children. Harry Green, of "EH and Jane’’ fame, is in the city today seeing the circus and meeting his many old acquaintances. Harry says he will have one more season of "Eli and Jane" and then he will bring his new play, “The Town Fool,” to Rensselaer next season and open here as usual.

SPECIAL.

Beginning Monday, May 15th, for one week ending Saturday night, May 20tb, we will give to each customer 4 packages of Richelieu Self-rising Buckwheat flour for 25c 4 cans Mammoth Lye f0r..25c Regular 20c else Snow Boy washing powder, 2 for .......25c 4 cans corn for 25c ROWLES & PARKER. There is a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J W. Childers. Their; son, Parker, returned home from r tWo years’ stay in the west, and the!'' daughter, Mrs. Carl Hareha, and husband, of Lafayette, are here for a visit also. Parker visited several Western states aild worked for a short time last August on the George til. Marshall fruit farm at Medford, Oreg. He expects to remain In Indiana for an time.

UNIQUE FEATURES OF GOLLMAR BROS.’ SHOW.

An Aerial Act That Is a Thriller— Seals That Are Educated at / , Gollmar Circus. • -a There have been aerial acts from time immemorial. Every person in this enlightened age has seen acts performed in the air, but far different are the acts produced today than those of twenty-five yearn ago. There is a troupe of aerial performers with Gqllmar brothers’ show that for absolute novelty and daring have never been equaled. As this is an age of progress and knowing that people of today demand something new, Gollmar brothers, who are always on the alert for novelties, have engaged as u

One of the Seals with the Gollmar Show That Has Been Educated. See the Troupe of Wonderful Animals Today.

special feature, the famous Eugene troupe of lady and gentleman aerialists. ’ This family of high air performers produce gn act, that for astonishing feats of daring and skill has set a new record. Grasping by their teeth a specially constructed contrivance they are drawn to the top of the mammoth tent; here men twist, turn and swing from one-side of the tent to the other until the spectator imagines that from sheet* exhaustion they must fall. The audience and they themselves realize should they loosen their hold for the fraction of a .second they would be dashed to death instantly. For a death-defying feat, this act canndt be

“Wets” Celebrated at Francesville By Drinking San Pierre Booze.

Francesville Tribune. The “wets” of Francesville celebrated the “dry” victory Saturday night, by sending an automobile to San Pierre, where a few cases were secured and brought back for the thirsty. Sunday morning every business man who was under suspicion of voting dry found an empty bottle sitting In front Of his store.

Look out for The Smuggleman.

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equaled. It arrests and fascinates the beholder in a way that draws applause. : . One of the many novelties to be seen with Gollmar brothers is Capt. Kent’s troupe of trained seals and sea lions. Cafrt. Kent from the far northern Chores of Siberia, brought to this country a few years ago a troupe of seals and sea lions, believing that under proper tutoring a seal could be made to perform-some of the numerous acts performed by other animals. For three years he toiled with these dumb animals and slowly but surely he saw them making some improvements. At first they were taught to hold objects in their mouth; then gradually taught to balance things on their noses; then they were taught to juggle lighted fife, brands.

Capt. Kent succeeded so well he determined to eclipse anything else ever devised in the art of animal training. How well he has succeeded, those who visit the curcus can readily see after Capt. Kent’s seals go through the regular stunts of balancing, tossing bal 1 -', baskets, etc., from one to the other and whirling fire brands in the air One of them actually plays a complete tune on a regular brass band instrument. Every one witnessing this remarkable demonstration of animal training will readily agree that the height of their intelligence has been reached. The circus may be seen again this evening.

Proved What He Could Do for Indiana; Sphere May Be Widened.

Francesville Tribune. The saloon keepers, brewers and distillers have a candidate for president of the United States who is being backed by the Modern License league, an association of distillers and brewers. It is the first time it has happened and Indiana is peculiarly honored in the fact that the favorite son of the barrooms of the nation is none other than our distinguished Governo/, Thomas R. Marshall.

WEATHER FORECAST. ■ Fair tonight, followed by increasing cloudiness; Sunday rising temperature. ' . May 14.—Sun rises 4:44; sets 7:». Maximum 81; minimum 42. Resolved—that circuses are fine things, but not quite so Important, right now, as the planting of corn.

Scholastic Field Meet Won By Sophomores Friday Afternoon.

, A hastily arranged field meet, tn which the athletics of the high school participated, was carried out Friday afternoon and the Sophomores had no trouble in winning. Lloyd Parks and Charles Porter of that class, were the individual champions and together made 59 of the total pointe in the contest. A number of the school students and several of the admirers of field athletics from town, witnessed the events. The results were as follows: 100 yard dash, 10 3-5 seconds, Parks, soph., Ellis, sen., Porter, soph. 220 yard dash, 27 seconds. Parks; Clark, soph.; V. Robinson, jun. 440 yard dash, 60 seconds. Parks; Crlsler, jufi.; McCarthy, fresh. Half mile run, 2 min. 30 seconds., V. Robinson; Miller, fresh.; T. Padgitt, soph. One mile run, 5 min. 50 sec., Hamilton, soph.; Putts, fresh.; V. Robinson. ' High jump, 5 feet, 2 in., Porter; Parks; Clark. Broad jump, 19 feet, 4 in.. Parks; Porter; Ellis. Pole vault, 10 feet, Parks; Porter; T. Padgitt. Shot put, 35 ft 4 in., Porter; Parks; V. Robinson. «. Discus throw, 98 feet, 6 in., Porter; V. Robinson; Milled Mile relay, Sophomores Ist; Juniors 2nd. 50 yard dash, 5% seconds.. Parks, Ellis, Porter. The sophomores won a total of 75 points, the juniors 16, seniors '7, freshmen 5. Parks won 36 pointe; Porter 23. Rice Porter and J. G. McFarland were the referees and Prof. C. R. Dean the starter. The results were very satisfactory and caused many to wish that a track team had been developed this year and competition with other schools arranged. The best field men being in the sophomore class there would seem to be a fine opportunity for a good team another year.

Illustrated Sermon.

Tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian church the pastor will speak on "Isreal’s Ideal King,” using the stereopticon to illustrate the sermon. Everyone welcome.

Alter Chick Feed, 20c a sack at The Depot Grocery.

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