Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Kentland has organized a ball team. Get screes doors of the J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Four boxes seedless raisins for 25c at John Eger’s. The Wrens will play the Remington team at Remington tomorrow afternoon.

Four cans kidney beans, sauerkraut, or canned hominy for 25 cents, at John Eger’s.

George Goff left this afternoon for a visit with his son Bert at Newel, South Dakota.

Eugene Purtelle, the interurban promotor, went to Chicago this afternoon to remain over Sunday.

Asa R. Shreeves, formerly of Co. M, Indiana National Guard, has enlisted in the regular army.

Mrs. N. J. Jacoby and Mrs. George Kuhns, of Frankfort, are visiting their nephew, Ross Goble, and family.

Soft drinks for hot weather; grape juice, root beer, birch beer, sarsaparilla and ginger ale, at John Eger’s.

J. C. Frazee, of Peru, was here yesterday and today on business. Mr. Frazee was a former resident of this county. He says that crops do not look as well here as they do around Peru.

Don’t wait until the house gets full of flies to put up screens. If your old ones are not first-class, order new screen doors of J. C. Gwin Lumber Co., phone 8.

Edward Frank Miss Ella Roorda, a young couple from near Fair Oaks, were united in marriage at the clerk’s office this morning by Squire Irwin. They will reside on a farm near Fair Oaks.

We have secured another lot of that soft soap in large cans, just the thin;: for house cleaning, 5c a box or 6 for 25 cents. JOHN EGER.

Mrs. E. W. Hickman has a letter from her husband yesterday. He has so far recovered from his recent operation that he will return home Sunday and she will go to the city that day to accompany him home. >

To introduce a new cornflake, we are giving a nice blown tumbler with each package. Only 10 cents at John Eger’s.

Eugene Purtelle, President Worland, of the Commercial Club, and Fred Phillips Interviewed a number of the land owners along the route of the proposed interurban south of town this morning. All who were seen expressed their willingness to donate the right of waj through their *lands and next week the matter of securing the right of way will be pushed.

Cooney Kellner’s hogs are continuing to die. Friday eleven died, making 63 in all. He had 92 head to begin with and thinks he will be fortunate if he saves a dozen head. One of the hogs to die Friday was a thoroughbred Duroc Jersey of the Blue Ribbon strain, for which he paid SBS last fall. Cooney has certainly been hit hard by this misfortune.

' Nine Marmon roadster machines with parties from Chicago have procured accommodations for Sunday night at the Makeever and Delos Thompson, who owns a Marmon, will pilot them all to Indianapolis Monday morning. A number of machines are passing through Rensselaer today and many are expected tonjght and Sunday. A number of Rensselaer auto owners will go down Sunday. Among those going from here are Mr. and Mrs. G. H. McLain and their guest, Mrs. McLain’s sister.

Try our candies, peanut squares, cocoanut squares, Runkle's assorted caramels, cocoanut, peanut and plain fudge; Mixed or all one kind, pointlte Salted pdanuts, chocolate creams, chocolate caramels, assorted bonbons, After-Dinner mints, marshmallows; * p0ut....; Me JARRETTE'S VARIETY STORE.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM PICTURES. BIG HEARTED JIN. THE SOPHOMORE'S ROMANCE. A WOMAN'S VOICE TEN WORDS FOR 25 CENTS. THE COURT MARTIAL. WATER FALLS IN NORTHERN SPAIN X

Opportunity for Judy to “Do More Than He Agrees" In Newton.

Kentland Enterprise. John F. Judy will be given an opportunity to make good his motto. I Mr. Judy was in partnership with Jesse J. Fry in the Roselawn bank. While the partnership existed Frank Coovert as county teasurer deposited a sum of money in the bank, about >2,100. Later Judy withdrew from the bank but gave no notice of the dissolution; and then came the bank failure. On the ground that Judy was a partner in the bank at the time the deposit was made, Mr. Coovert brought suit to recover his loss, refusing to have his claim prorated in the settlement of the bank’s liabilities. The case was sent to White county for trial, where Mr. Coovert was given a judgment. Judy then appealed to the Supreme Court and there®the matter has since slept. Last week the court affirmed the judgment afi'l Judy must pay the bill. The people of Newton county well remember the reverses Mr. Coovert met in the bank failures during his term as treasurer, and will be glad to learn that he will recover the amount he held in the Roselawn bank. It will also be remembered how promptly Mr. Coovert met his. liabilities to the county, paying every cent due on the day he surrendered the office. This judgment, we are informed, will enable him to pay off the last loan he was obliged to make in order to protect his bondsmen.

Dr. H. L. Brown is making quite extensive repairs to his Rives street residence. The hoiise is being raised, a basement installed and a heating plant will be installed also. Harry Eger caught his pups killing chickens at an early hour this morning and soon put a stop to their chicken killing by shooting them. Dogs are becoming so scarce in Rensselaer now that the sight of one is subject fpr comment

Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth, who has been spending most of the time with aged mother since the death of her father, is here for a short visit with her husband and to attend the commencement events. She and her mother spdnt the winter in Florida and Cuba. Mrs. Allen is now at Kalamazoo,. Mich., where Mrs. Hollingsworth will join her in a few days. Cecelia and Dorothy Hollingsworth are attending Wellesley college near Boston. Gerald Hollingsworth, who has been attending Culver military college, is also here.

A valuable object lesson in the value of crop rotation is furnished by recent experiments, notably at the Virginia Station, where corn has been grown continually on one plot since 1894, with an average yield since 1900 of over 24 bushels per acre. In a three year rotation of wheat, clover and corn the corn yield has averaged over 42 bushels per acre since 1900, showing a difference of over 21 bushels increase, due solely to rotation. Where the land was manured at the rate of about eight tons per acre in a five year rotation of wheat, timothy and clover hay, pasture oats and corn, the com yield has averaged over 60 bushels per acre.

The largest ditch that has been constructed in Indiana was the Hoagland or Monon ditch, in Jasper, Benton 'and White counties, and the total number of cubic yards of earth and stone excavated was nearly 1,600,000. Of this yardage there were thirteen thousand cubic yards of solid rock, which cost SI.2GFa cubic yard. The cost' of construction of the entire ditch Including besides the open work, nineteen thousand feet of from fourteen to eighteen inch tile, placed at the upper end of the ditch was $91,529.28. This ditch with its branches was completed in two years. The above facts are given to correct some of, the many false statements that are being made by people who are opposed to the flew Iroquois ditch. —Wolcott Enterprise. To feel strong, have good appetite and digestion, sleep soudly and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the great system tonic and builder.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911.

ONE OF THE BEST WAS 1911 ALUMNI BANQUET.

Big Crowd of Graduates of Former Tears are Hosts and Hostesses to the Class of 191 L All who attended the alumni banquet Friday night pronounce it one of the best ever held in Rensselaer. The only thing that threatened to mar the pleasure of the event was the intense heat, but this moderated along about 9:30 in the evening and the guests all were enjoying so heartily the fine banqtiet served by the Presbyterian ladies and the interesting toast program that there really was not time to worry about the heat. The banquet started at 7:30 o’clock and between the courses the toast program was interspersed. The toastmaster was Charles Crittenden Warner, a graduate of the class of 1880, the first class ever graduated from the Rensselaer ‘high school. As an original humorist Mr. Warner is pre-eminent. Artemus Ward, Mark Twain and Bill Nye would be tame beside him. If there is anything known about a person that can be told to produce a laugh and mild embarrassment, Charley Springs it in the most humorous way. If there is nothing known then Charley springs a new one. Those on the toast program sat in awe wondering what form of introduction would be ..directed toward them. His nephew, Rex Warner, came in for the best grilling. Charley produced a megaphone and in stentorian tones called out that the next performance would take place in two minutes—in two minutes the next performance. It brought down the house. Moses Leopold came in for some'joshing because of his new spring suit, but- Mose is an artist as a humorist himself and his repartee was of the Warner brand of cleverness. The toasting and banqueting lasted until after 10 o’clock and this was followed by a ball. The music was the same that has been here on other occasions from Chicago and gave satisfaction. The menu and toast program are published herewith;

Menu Lemon Ice Creamed Chicken Saratoga Chips .Macaroni au gratin Hot Rolls Pickles Jam Olives Salad Wafers Brick Ice Cream in Senior Colors Cake Coffee Programme Toastmaster . Charles Crittenden Warner ’BO Our Guests Frances McEwen Bostwick ’B7 “May they ever be eager with youth, and with fellowship.” Smoke.. Albert M. Antrim *O2 “Indiana now has everything that Chicago 9an boast except smoke.” Everybody t. ...Josie Miller ’O6 “The Have-beens, the Are-nows, and the May-bes.” Hobblesßex Warner ’O7 “Two hobbles make a harem.” Chaos ;..,. .Helen Meader ’ll “Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restored.” *' Good Fellowship;.. .Moses Leopold *96 "The world is good, and the people are good, And we’re all good fellows**together.”

Rensselaer Young Man to be Married at Delphi Next Thursday.

Ernest Clark, operator of the Republican’s linotype machine and brother of Leslie Clark, one of the publishers of The Republican, will be married at Delphi next Thursday. His, bride will be Miss Kathryn C. Rafferty, the daughter of Mrs. Rafferty, of Delphi. The marriage will take place in St Joseph's Catholic church at 1 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Clark will then go to Chicago and take a short lake trip, visiting relatjves of the groom at Whitehall, Mich. They will then return to Rensselaer and take up their residence in a home the groom has furnished across from the Mrs. C. F. Mills residence on Cedar street.

Body Found on Monon Track Near Lafayette.

With the head and both arms severed and the trunk badly mutilated, the body of a workman was found on the Monon tracks near the interlocker, one mile south of Lafayette Thursday morning. The body is believed to be that of a bricklayer employed on the new Shadeland high school, a few miles south of Lafayette. This is the third unidentified man who has been killed by trains in the same vicinity in the last few weeks.

Our screen doors are the best; hang right, wear longest and the price to right J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

AUTO ROUTE MARKERS WERE HERE LAST EVENING

Indianapolis Motorists Planning for Famous “Home Coming” Pass Through City Under Direction ' of Ex-Mayor Bookwaiter. Carrying enthusiastic member sos the “Fatted Calf Society,” of Indianapolis, under the direction of ex-Mayor Chas. H. Bookwaiter, there arrived here last evening a party of motorists in a big Premier touring car which is mapping out a route for the Indiana society of Chicago.

On June 23 and 24 there will be the great annual celebration of those Hoosier inhabitants of the Windy Clty/who trek back to their native soil, roll up their sleeves, and enjoy some good old fashioned Hoosier fun, and the party which passed through this city is carrying out one of the details planned long ago. Half a thousand men and wpmen, formerly of Indiana; will journey through the state on those days, most pf them upon the special Monon train, but it is known that a goodly number will motor to and from their early haunts, in tNteir own or borrowed cars, and according to Jtr. Bookwaiter, there will be no questions asked as to ownership. Through the courtesy of H. O. Smith, the Premier car which was declared winner of the 1910 Glidden tour -by the referee, is laying out the highways and byways which will best take the Chicago Hoosiers to and from Indianapolis, is shpwlng them the quickest way to get |here, and they may wander as they like after the festivities on the big farm near the city. The motorists left Indianapolis at five o’clock and were started on their journey by Booth Tarkington and Meridlth Nicholson. In the car were Mr. Bookwaiter, George H. Moore, P. P. Willis, and W. Me White. They expect to be met on the outskirts of Chicago by George Ade and members of the Chicago part of the new-famous organization. The roads in this section of the state were reported to be in fine condition and the trip a comparatively easy one in spite of the distance.

Great preparations are being made for the reception of the “Home Comers” when they strike Indiana soil again and the<qity of Indianapolis is not the only one which will be on the map when the visitors get through. One of the most unique celebrations ever conducted is being arranged, n special lake, for instance, having been made on the big Smith farm, just to give the old fellows some aquatic sport in the middle of a state. Enough stunts are on the program to keep th? exiles always homesick for their annual trek to the old home grounds. The Premier party left after a stop of about half an hour.

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

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Not Satisfied With the Eesy Release of Chas. G. Maury.

The Kentland Enterprise referring to the quashing of tho indictment against Chas. G. Mauzy, alleged to have been guilty cf graft in connection with working out railroad road tax, has the following to say editorially: The quashing cf an indictment in court on some technicality doos not erase suspicion from the public mind, although it is but fair to count cne innocent until he is proven guilty. The people, however, arc convinced that the railroads running through, this coujjiy have for years been farming out their road tax work at a loss to the county. They give the work to contractors at figures ranging all the way from 60 to 85 cents cn the dollar, and the work is generally sublet at a still further reduction. In these days of plenty of work at full prices it is not believed that railroads can get their work done for half price. There must be a scrimp somewhere, and the Prosecuting Attorney would be justified in continuing investigations.

Monon Tried For Violation of Telegraph Operator Law.

Judgments totaling $1,350 have been rendered against the Monon railway by Judge Anderson in federal court, on complaint of District Attorney Charles W. Miller that the company in November and December, 1909, and in June, 1910, had violated the federal law against keeping operators on duty for more than nine hours consecutively. The two complaints against the company charged forty violations cf the law at Monon, Delphi, Rensselaer and South Hammond. A penalty cf S2OO on the first, paragraph cf eachaction was imposed, and a penalty cf $25 on each of the other offenses that were charged. The Monon in its ans wer admitted that the charges were true.

Aged Benton County Stockman Victim of Uremic Poisoning.

W. S. Vanatta, of Fowler, one of the best known cattle breeders in Indiana, died Friday morning of uremic poisoning. He was 81 years of age. Deceased was the father of Frank W. Vanatta, whose wife is a daughter of Simon Phillips, and several of the Rensselaer relatives will attend the funeral Sunday. This was the first death that has occurred in the Vanatta family. Hb had been married 58 years, and is survived by the widow and five children, two sons and three daughters.

NOTICE. * • We will have Chamberlin's Brick Ice Cream on sale every Sunday during the rest of the season. Suiali bricks 20c; large size 80c. NOWELS’ ICE CREAM PARLOR.

WEATHER FORECAST. , ■ ■■ ■■ •• Fair and continued warm tonight and Sunday tnftreasing cloudiness, probably showers and cooler. -i- * - ! May 27, sun rises- 4:34; sets 7:20. RESOLVED—That it takes an awful hard jolt some times to make an old man understand that he isn’t popular with young girls.

Bookwalter Ticked Up Trump; Took Him Long Auto Ride.

Charley Bookwaiter was here Friday. He has had a let of experience with all kinds cf people but it has not hardened bis heart. It works differently with some I people. When they get power and money they forget the suffering of the poor and the tired wayfarer gets no kindness from them. ■Mr. Ecokwalter has served three terms as mayor cf Indianapolis and ho is the greatest booster in Indiana, barring none. If a big progressive enterprise is to bo pushed along in the state capital, every cne turns to Charley and he takes hold and things move. ■ Friday he was coming along the road from Chicago, “blazing the trail” for the Chicago Indiana Society, which will journey to Indianapolis cn June 23rd. He saw a tramp resting himself along the road and stopped his car.

. “Whither bound?” asked the ex-may-or of the Hoosier capital. "Pegging it to Indianapolis,” replied thn perapatetlc. “Rough sledding, isn’t it?” asked Bookie. —— “Only been on the road three- days from Chicago,” said the wayfarer,” and I calculate I can get to Indianapolis by June sth.” “Want to ride?” asked Bookie. “Never rede in one of the dinged things, but wouldn’t mind to try,” said the tramp. Bookwaltar brought him to Rensselaer, refreshed the penniless and decrepit old tramp, Tor that is what be appeared to be, with a lunch, and took him all the way to Indianapolis. That was some mighty good fortune for the tramp and will probably appeal to St Peter if Rookie runs short of claims ‘o enter the pearly gates of heaven. Ml. Eeokwalter stopped in Rensselaer fcr about a half an hour, visiting his old friend, Landlord George Fate, at the Makeever house. His chauffeur. W. F. White, had taken some pictures ale ng the route and left them for development with Photographer H. F. Parker.

Deceration Flowers,

Poses, per dozen, $1.50. Carnations, per dozen, .75, Peonies, per dozen, SI.OO. Iris/, per dozen, .40. Ferns, per dozen, Order early. King Floral Co.

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