Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — Page 1

N«. 115.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Look oat for The Smuggleman. The Home Grocery sells Bonano. Bata. Saturday, May 13th, to Mr. ' and IfraJwlbert Harley, a son. Just in, ftesh Kellogg Corn Flakes. —Home Grocery. Tom Eigelsbach, of Chicago, expects to pay a visit shortly to his Rensselaer friends and relatives. * fiTf-tf'/ V. ;; y„; .. . v . y,';; James .Reed returned to Lebanon today after a short visit here with his brother, John Reed. Kuppenheimer Clothing and Crossett Shoes for men and young men. ' ROWLES & PARKER. See the grade children in their operetta at the opera house next Thursday evening, May 18th. Miss L. B. Sands returned to Lafayette today after a visit of a week with her brother, C. M. Sands. Fifteen cents will secure you a reserved seat for The Smuggleman. Chart opens Wednesday morning. J. P. Simons went to Monticello today for .a , visit of several days with relatives. Our screen doors are the best; hang right, wear longest and the price la right J. C. Gwln Lumber Co. Miss Donna Bull, of near Pleasant Ridge,'came to Rensselaer last Thursday for a short visit with relatives and friends. Our policy of not allowing you to buy a pair of shops unless they fit, Is attracting considerable attention. ROWLES & PARKER.

Mrs. Vondersmith and her sister, Miss Sightsinger, who is quite old and infirm, came this morning to see the former’s daughter, Mrs. C. P. Wright They live at Kentland. Don’t wait until the house gets lull of flies to put up screens. If your old ones are not first-class, order new screen doors of J. C. Gwln Lumber Go., phone 6. i Art Battleday and Leon Eigelsbach will start tomorrow morning for Spokane, Wash., where they expect to find employment as automobile workmen. Mrs. Mollie Vance went to a Chicago hospital (his morning, where it is expected that she will have to undergo a surgical operation. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Lulu Green. The E. G. Warden property on Clark street was recently sold to Mrs. Rebekah Ascue, of Virginia, the consideration being $2,500. The property is now occupied by Fred Arnett and family and Mrs. Laura Lutz. They will soon move and Mrs. Ascue and family will move here and occupy the property. Mrs. Ascue is related to the Halsteads.

Grover Ritchey, who was taken to Ldngcliffe asylum recently after being pronounced of unsound mind, is said to be in a very bad condition at this time a&d it is probable that he will never recover his mental balance and it is not improbable that he will not live long. He now refuses to eat. His wife expects to go there today to see him. A short letter from Mrs. Jennie Wishard tells of an accident that befell Paul Wishard, son of Dr. And Mrs. E. E. Wishard, at Noblesville. He and his little brother Richard were playing at a barn at the rear of the lot on a door that was leaning against the barn. The door fell when Paul was on top of it and his arm was doubled under him. Both forearm bones were broken. He will be laid up for several weeks. Mrs. Wishard saya the weather is delightful there and the corn planting is progressing nicely. Wheat and oats also look well and the prospects for a fruit crop is fine. A warm rain is needed there as here. Mrs. Wishard will probably return home in four or live weeks. A OlassUtod AOv. will «eU It

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PBOGBAM - -ts ♦— Home Orchestra will furnish music at the Princess tonight 2,000 feet of films.

Fresh almonds, pecans, and English walnut meats, at Die Home Grocery. Walter Lutz was home from Purdue Sunday to visit his mother and. other relatives. Mrs. J. J. Fox was here over Sunday for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Peyton. C. F. Gilmore and wife were down from Fair Oaks the latter part of the week. Mrs. Gilmore is in very poor health. fYou can find many new and attractive shapes and styles in our shoe department. We fit shoes. ROWLES & PARKER. Miss Letha Wright was down from Chicago over Saturday and Sunday visiting her brother, W. J. Wright and family. -■ - „ Our prices on lace curtains and rugs are helping us build our reputation for good value-giving. ROWLES & PARKER. E. W. Hickman, the plumber, went to Chicago this morning, where he will be operated on for appendicitis, of which he has had several attacks. There were a number of visitors at St. Joseph’s college over Sunday, and most of them remained for the minstrel show given that evening by the college boys.

Hazel Carr is remodeling his home on South River street and making it much larger. It will be a fine house when the present building plans are completed. City Clerk Charles Morlan left Sunday for Hunter Springs to take a course at the springs. Charley has been feeling poorly for some time and can’t get right again. His place as court house Janitor is being filled by Len Griggs. Gollmar’s circus Saturday was not witnessed by the large crowds that usually attend a circus in Rensselaer. The farmers were too .busy to quit work and the fact that we had the Hagenback-Wallace show here less than a year ago had its effect. It was a real clever show, however, with a number of good acts, but having only been on the road a week, things do not seem to be running smoothly yet. There were a number over from Remington for the night performance.

“Uncle” Joe Parkison and wife are still at the North Side hospital in Chicago. He wrote to relatives last Saturday that he was getting along very nicely and was encouraged. He underwent a slight surgical operation. He will be 83 years of age tomorrow, May 16th. Mrs. Parkison was 76 years old last Friday, May 12th. Both spent their birthdays in the hospital. Mrs. Parkison has been lame for some years and it has been discovered since she went there that she had a broken bone in her hip, a condition that has probably existed for eleven or twelve years. They will remain at the hospital for some time yet. Ben McColly returned to Chicago Heights this morning. Ben relates a race between Monon passenger''train No. 5, due here at 11:06, and an automobile. The auto belonged to Chas. Thomas, of Chicago Heights, and was a big high power car that cost $3,500. He wagered Tom Flynn, also of Chicago Heights, that he could get from )>yer to Louisville, Ky., quicker In his c*r than Flynn could 3h the passenger train. The bet was S2OO a side. They started last Thursday. The auto went through Rensselaer and thence to Indianapolis and then to Louisville and reached there at 6 minutes before 8 o’clock. The passenger train arrived at 9 o’clock or Just an hour and 6 minutes after Mr. Thontas got there with his car and the passenger arrived on time, too. Agent Beam tells that a car from Monticello beat No. 32 here one day last week. Just as No. 32 pulled out of Monticello a Rensselaer man saw the auto leave there. When the train pulled up in front of the depot at Rensselaer the auto was there waiting for it The auto had come by the way of Wolcott and Remington, a considerably greater distance than the train had traveled and No. $2 is considered a fast train, too.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1911.

Woman Who Endured Hardships In Idaho Visited Rensselaer.

Mrs. Walter Osborne and little daughter left this morning for a visit with relatives at Crawfordsville after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. J. D. Allman. Mrs. Osborne’s present home is in Baketsville, Cal., where her husband is engaged in the practice of law. . , Last year they were living on a government claim near Lane, Idaho, and were forced to leave their home by the forest fires. They went for some distance the first night and slept on the bank of a small lake. The following morning Mr. Osborne returned to their home, thinking that perhaps he could save their household effects by dumping them into a cave, but he found everything destroyed by fire. Mrs. Osborne was forced to leave the lake before he returned and she followed a gulley some twelve miles, carrying her little two-year-old daughter all the way, and fighting her way through tangled brush. There were thirteen in the retreating party that she was with and all were saved but only after the most intense hardships. After they reached the end of the long gulch and arrived at a place of safety they watched the ravaging flames and in less than an hour and a half the fire had burned over all the territory they had traveled in making their retreat. Mr. Osborne had taken a slightly different route in makihg his escape, but they came out at about the same pla e and were reunited after each had thought the other might have been consumed by the flames. They have given up their claim there but are net barred from taking another and this they expect to do after Mr. Osborne makes some money at law practice. Mrs. Osborne and little daughter expect to spend most of the summer in Indiana and will return here for a longer visit later.

All real estate owners in Jasper county, both town and farm lands, will find their land is being assessed at a higher basis this year than heretofore. They will find this especially true in the country, and they should know that the man behind the scheme of raising the land valuation is none other than Governor Thomas R. Marshall. He was profuse in his charges of extravagance when a candidate for office and he pointed out many ways of cutting down expenses, but now he has cut the kite strings'and expenses are running sky high and there will be no relief from high taxes until there is a real honest reform along that line. There are working in the state of Indiana about 100 expert field examiners. That means SBOO a day. The number of bank examiners, without any need whatever, has been increased from four to eight and the salaries increased; the number of oil inspectors has been increased from 26 to 42. These are only a few of the many things that have added to the burden of the taxpayer and that is the reason your land is being assessed higher. Are you aware that about half the time since the first of January, 1910, there have been two or more of these expert accountants working in Jasper county? Do you know that at this time there are two of them and that they havS been drawing sl6 per day for five or six weeks and that your land is being assessed higher to help pay this expense? - The Starke County Republican advises every farmer whose land has been assessed at a higher figure than heretofore to go before the county board of tax review and protest against the burden. The township assessors and the county assessor cannot help raising the assessment, but the county board of review can remedy your troubles.

Marriage License.

May 13.—Lewis Nichols, born Jasper county, Ind., October 29, 1878, residence Rensselaer, occupation merchant, and Carrie Della Aldrich, born Jasper county, Ind., March 8, 1882, residence Rensselaer, first marriage for each.

Good Rugs—all sizes, extra values. RQWLBB A PARKER. A Classified Adv.'will find It

Vocal Instruction Miss Alice Shedd will give instruction te a limited number •I pupils during the summer months. Flense arrange as soon as possible for boars. TERMS ON REQUEST.

Sam Duvall's Pointer Pap. Developed Raines Sunday.

Sam Duvall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall, was the owner of a pointer pup from the Eger dog. The animal suddenly developed hydrophobia Sunday at noon and Was killed. The dog had been tied in tbc back yard and was released to eat Us dinner. The Duvall family were attracted by its peculiar noise and went to see what was the trouble. Suddenly the dog‘dropped over and seemed to be dead, then it jumped up, frothed at the mouth and snapped at its feet and chewed at its tongue until it was almost bitten in two. He snarled and snapped at everything and evidently had developed a case of real rabies. Sam got a revolver and shot the pup and an examination of the legs and tongue showed that it had bitten itself in several places. Van Wood’s little fox terrier dog also developed hydrophobia symptoms this Monday morning and Van being without a gun went after the dog with a club and killed it. The dog frothed at the mouth and snapped at everything about it. Van and Duvalls aflg neighbors and the fact that the two dogs developed the disease at so nearly the same time indicates that they may have been bitten by the same dog.

Gangloff brothers lost a calf last Saturday from what appeared to be rabies. The animal was j&bout 6 months old and was in fine condition. Suddenly it began frothing at the mouth and snapping at other calves in the lot. Then it ran through a barbed wire fence, snapping the wires and tearing its hide on the sharp barbs. It ran into a large pile of split wood, knocking the wood down and ramming its head against it again and again. Finally it ran into the wire again and became fastened. Clemens Gangloff, not knowing what was the matter, went to release the calf from the wire and finally succeeded in doing so, but the calf died a moment later. Clemens got the froth from the calf’s mouth over his hands, but he had no scratches on them and there is small possibility of him becoming infected. However, himself and family are feeling much concerned. None of the other calves have shown any indication of the disease and it is not believed that this calf inflicted wounds on any of them. It is not known how this calf contracted the disease, but it is supposed to have been bitten by a dog.

John W. Paxton Invests In Lumber Business at South Bench

John W. Paxton, who several months ago sold his banking interests at Longmont, Colo., has purchased a big lumber business at South Bend. The following article from a South Bend paper tells of the investment: The big factory of the bankrupt Miller & Donahue Lumber company, is now the property of John W. Paxton, brother of Joseph C. Paxton, lumberman and banker. Mr. Paxton’s bid of $37,125 for the property was formally accepted today- Possession Will likely be given at once. Mr. Paxton has not decided what disposition will be made of the plant, which is at Division, Carroll and Monroe streets, but stated today arrangements will probably be made in a few days. Joseph C. Paxton is also interested in the deal. Mr. Paxton purchased the property at a public auction held Monday, after two attempted private sales had ended in failure. The bid has since been approved by Referee Harry C. Sheridan at his office at Frankfort,. Ind. A report of the sale was made by Stuart Mackibbon, attorney, who served as clerk.

Many Rensselaer People Invest In Automobiles All of a Sadden.

It looked for a time as though the automobile business was not running very strong in Rensselaer this year, but last week the business took on new life and at least five sales were made. George A. Williams and H. R. Grow each brought Fords, Judge Hanley bought a 6-passenger Reo, A. F. Long bought a 5-passenger Overland and A. Leopold bought an E. M. F. J. C. Gwin bought an EL M. F. about two weeks ago. There are said to be about twenty-five prospects in this vicinity at this time. Sunday most people that hpve cars were out with them and there was almost a continuous parade over the main traveled streets and roads all day.

Get screen doors of the J. CL Gwin Lumber Co. ——V" " 1 "" " 1 “ Extra values in rugs has made this a very popular department in our store lately. ROWLES A PARKER.

Gospel According to Mrs. Solomon.

How long, oh simple one, wilt thou continue to marry believing that courtship is a sample of matrimony? Go to! I say unto thee, it is but as the show window unto the shop; for it containeth all the attractions. Yet, once thou hast passed within, things look so different Verily, before marriage, every damsel thinketh her beloved the most promising man in world. Yea, and this is true; ’but a wise damsel shall perceive that, though his years were 999, no man could do all these things which a lover promiseth in one idle half hour upon the veranda. And 10, when it cometh time to redeem his pledges, he declareth that he hath lost the ticket!

. Behold, before the marriage he is astonished that she would desire anything besides a pat upon the head. Before marriage he avoweth: ‘‘Thou art very dear!” Yet after marriage he declareth: “Yea, thou art too dear!” Before marriage he thinketh in his heart: “There is no other like unto her!” And after marriage he v thanketh heaven that this is so. Before marriage he investeth his sheckels in flowers and bonbons and burnt offerings, and after marriage he expecteth that she shall, by economy, repay the investment with interest.

For, In the days of bachelorhood, he hath heard It said many times that two can live as cheaply as one, and he Insisteth that she shall prove it. Yea, and likewise, a man thinketh so much of a woman during courtship that he maketh up for lost time by never thinking of her thereafter! Verily, verily, the only way to find any man out Is to marry him, and then peradventure thou shalt find him out, early and late, even until the wee of the morning. Go' to! Every damsel shall be disappointed In marriage! For every damsel expecteth to wed an angel, and when she awakeneth to find herself married unto a man, she shall cry out: “Alas, I have been goldbricked ! ” Yea I say unto thee, my daughter, angels do not marry!

The Smuggleman.

“The Smuggleman,” an operetta in two acts will be given by the grade children of the public schools of the city, Thursday evening, May 18, at the opera house. About one hundred of the grade children have been selected to present the charming little operetta, “The Smuggleman.” The characters consist of fairies, gnomes, knights, mothers, grandmothers, good boys, naughty boys, Mother Goose, and all. The children are being drilled every day in the rendition of their parts, and it is fully expected to make this the most elaborate, as well as the most pleasing, of any of the entertainments yet given by the grades. It is given for the benefit of the children who take part in it as well as for the pleasure it may afford those who witness it. A charge sufficient to cover the necesSary expenses will be made. All seats will be reserved at fifteen cents and will be on sale Wednesday morning, May 17. All patrons of the school are urged to attend.

# ' Measure the doors for new screens, then call Phone No. 6, and get good ones from the J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

Che ford * . - *• “Qj! Ty:K\ 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car S7BO Complete When we say COMPLETE, we mean magneto top, glass front, ■^“ Ur & :°"H* John M. Knapp, Agent Phone 19C, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ASK FOR DEMONSTRATION. . 'MM FORD REPAIRS IN STOCK.

Sweetheart of the Com— NONE GENUINE WITHOUT TCI^SiGftOTIE

TheEllisTheatre J. H. 8. ELLIS, Manager. ONE NIGHT ONLY Sat’day, May 20 The Jordon Stock Co. Preseatiif “The Maid , AND The Man” EXTRA: Four Singing and Dancing Specialties PRICES TIE SAME.

WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair, except showers ex-: treme north portion tonight or Tuesday. May 16.—Sun rises 4;42; sets 7:11. Maximum 81; minimum*S4. Resolved—That this kind of weather would almost make a fellow sell the old homestead and buy a’ gas cart.

H. W. Marble Gets Contract For Digging the Delehanty Ditch.

The construction work on the M. J. Delehanty ditch in Wheatfield township was let last Friday. H. W. Marble was awarded the contract for 9.36 , cents per yard.

Notice to Dog Owners. Notice is given to the owners of dogs who have not properly muxxled same to do so at once, or the dogs will be shot. Some owners have muzzled their dogs properly, but others have simply put a halter on the dog. which is no protection from bites. Hereafter dogs so muzzled will be taken care of. GEORGE MUSTARD, Marshal.