Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. John R. Martin, of Wolcott, was in Rensselaer on business today. White and colored parasols, 98c and $1.45. ROWLES & PARKER. * “The Standard Bearers” organization will meet te the Monnett school Tuesday evening at 7:30. RESOLVED—That it is mighty unprifltable to plant corn and raise nothing but your neighbor’s chickens. The Pythian Sisters Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Mrs. True D. Woodworth. Mrs. John M. Gwin left this morning for Jamestown, N. Dak., near which city Mr. and Mrs. Gwin own a quarter section of land. The trip was made to visit this farm. Every wanted shade in gloves, long or short, “Kayser” or “Niagara Maid.” ROWLES & PARKER An even hundred tickets were sold to Chicago Sunday, about twice 'ds many ae wove sold at any other place along the route between Carmel ai d Lowell.

Cool white waists in all the new styles at 98c, $1.45, fl'.SB, $2.45, $2 95. ROWLES & PARKER. Miss Ocie Jackson returned to Lebanon today. She was employed during the millinery season as. a trimmer at Rowles & Parker’s. Miss Jackson is a sister of Mrs. Jessen. If you want good flour at the right price, get a sack of our White Star at $1.35. Guaranteed equal in quality to any flour made. Juse received another! car, ROWLES & PARKER. Mayor George F. Meyers, who is a half owner of the Maxwell auto purchased some months ago by he and J. J. Hunt, has purchased another Maxwell, buying a 5-passenger Model I car of N. C. Shafer. It baa been a long time since you were able to buy Mocha and Java coffee. For onr particular trade we now have a fresh lot of tbe genuine old Mocba and Java. .The best that can be bought—loc a pound. HOME GROCERY. Elias Hammerton went to East Lynn, 111., today to visit his sister, Mrs. Annie Hammerton, who is reported quite sick. Lem Huston is subst£ luting for Mr. Hammerton on rural route No. 2. We are headquarters for all kinds of picnec goods. “Full Cream” and “Brick Cheese,” peanut butter, canned meats, and fish, all kinds of pickles and olives in glass, root and birch beer, sarsaparilla, ginger-ale, and grape juice. JOHN EGER. Leland Jessen is home from Princeton, 111., and will visit his mother, Mrs. Jennie Jessen and family for about two weeks. The board of trade office he has been working for at Princeton has closed and he will probably go to work in Chicago after a rest and a visit at home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Busha have rented the Nowels property at the corner of Main and Vine Btreets, just south of the Remley restaurant, and have begun housekeeping there. The Evening Republican will help to make them happy. I did not buy a car load of flour but I can sell you Red Ribbon flour at $1.35 per sack; every sack guaranteed. I also handle Sleepy Eye flour. —Reed McCoy, McCoysburg, Indiana. Isaac Reubelt and wife and daughter Julia have arrived from Falmouth, Ky., for a summer visit with her mother, Mrs. Peter Rhoades and family. Their son, Ray Reubelt, joined tbe regular army last November and is stationed With the 14th Infantry In North Dakota. " r 1 1 1 1 1 ' »** You should Bee our white and colored parasols, They’re very popular this season. ROWLES ft PARKER.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM \ Wi - * PICTURES. THE MOTHER. HOW SPRIGGENS TOOK LODGERS. ' V.' // . '4:.'

Bates' Home-Grown Strawberries are on sale at Rhoades’ Grocery. Mary and Harold Rowen went to Parr yesterday to spend the day''with relatives. Get our prices on stepladders, from 5 to 8 feet high. J. C. Gwin Lumber CO.' <i Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Grow and Mrs. R. H. Grow made a trip to Delphi Saturday and returned Sunday afternoon. Bay Bates’ Home-Grown Strawberries, the finest on the market, at Rhoads* Grocery. Charles Smith returned to Chicago today after a visit since Saturday with his wife, who is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. -Jacob Wagner, near Remington. Elmer Humphreys left this morning for Terre Haute to see his father, who is reported to be in a very serious condition as the result of an infection that followed an injury- to oile of his feet. We have just finished unloading our Bth carload of flour since Jan. 1, 1911. This is more flour than all the balance of the merchants here have handled, but quality is what sells the flour. We guarantee Aristos to be the best flour made or money returned. JOHN EGER.

Harry Kurrie brought down a story In odor comparison from Chicago Saturday that It won’t hurt to print in a newspaper. Two skunks were frirking about the roadside on a sunny summer day, enjoying the freedom of the country and rejoicing in the belief that they were supreme as producers of foul scents. All of a sudden an automobile 'dashed by, letting out a foul odor of unburned gasoline. Both skunks held their noses, and one asked the other, “What in the world was that?” “I don’t know,” replied* the other skunk, releasing his nostrils and sniffing the air, “but whatever it is, we want it.” Persons who Lave smelled skunks and have never smelled the odor eminating from the rear of an automobile, where the flow of gasoline is too great for the burner, will now 'have some ider what to expect if they ever encounter the latter.

Vincent Eisele was kicked by a horse Saturday evening and very severely bruised and his right arm badly lacerated and the bone probably Injured to some extent. He had fed the horses and was walking through the stall. A mare twenty years old or more was eating and had her head in the,manger. She heatd bis footstep and Wcke'i, striking him in the stomach a»d knocking him down. He was struck several times before he could get away and he fell unconscious at tbe door of the barn. Mrs. Eisele, Alfred Collins and John R. Vanatta heard him cry out when he was first kicked and they hastened to the bairn and he was taken to the house, where hit. injuries were attended by the family doctor. He is recovering very nicely but is still quite sore. A week before ne was somewhat injured by a heavy piece of steel falling on him while be was hauling steel for the construction of a bridge.

J. Frank Warren arrived yesterday from Lafayette where he and Mrs. Warren have been visiting. He left today for Hartford, Connecticut, on a buslnss trip, and will stop at Philadelphia on business also. Mr. Werren says that He was never in serious danger of being elected mayor of Ok'ahoma City, but he gave the democrats the scare of their lives, that is, the ring democrats, the ones who cpntrol Oklahoma City. He had on his side many of the best democratic citizens of the city, the class that believe in law enforcement. There is a law in vogue in Oklahoma that presumes to grant suffrage only to those sufficiently qualified to use it intelligently. Like similar laws in southern states it is framed to keep the colored people from voting and it was worked in this election to the disfranchisement of a thousand colored voters, enough to have elected Mr. Warren mayor. Mrs. Warren will come here the last of the week to visit her sister, Mrs. B. L. dark.

Bator** January 1, 18*7, as —oowd-*la— mall matter, at tha poat-efte* at B*aaa*la*r, Indiana, under tk* act of Huok 3, IV7S.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE «, 1911.

FACTORY MEETING TONIGHT; EVERYBODY WANTED AT IT.

What Looks Like a Fine Thing May Come to Rensselaer and Public Is Asked to Turn Oat.

There will be a meeting tonight to consider a proposition from the factory people who were in Rensselaer about two weeks ago. For reasons that appear cogent the men at the head of the movement do not care to have the character of the business discussed by the newspapers, and the best that can be said is that tc«> proposed factory looks good as a prospect and that it is headed by a man already successfully engaged in the manufacturing business, and a man of wide experience in many lines of business. The public should turn out tonight and let it be known that they are interested in factory projects that are calculated to make Rensselaer grow."

No Saloon for Wheatfield; Commissioners Refuse License.

The county commissioners refused to grant a license for a saloon to George Tilton, the applicant from Wheatfleld township. Tilton made application after Wheatfleld voted “wet,” and it was expected there would be no doubt about the license being, granted after Judge Hanley had made his ruling in Newton county in favor of Ben Fogli, who was granted a license in Lincoln township notwithstanding the fact that there were less than 1,000 people in the township. The same condition existed at Wheatfleld, and George O. Stemble, Harry E. Remley, Frank M. Scott and Bertie VanDoozer had a remonstrance prepared against the granting of the license. Two paragraphs constituted tb6 remonstrance. The first set forth, that Tilton would not be the sole owner and proprietor of the saloon if granted the license. The second said that the granting of the license would be contrary to the order of the board of commissioners making 1,000 population the basis for a' saloon. The last clause is understood to have been tbe one that the commissioners heeded. Commissionr Pettit voted to grant the license, while Commissioners Denham and Stackhouse voted against the granting. It is probable that Tilton will appeal from the decision of the commissioners to the circuit court, hut it is aUto possible that he will be unable to get a hearing in the circuit court until the supreme court has ruled on the matter of the basis of population.

Thos. Eigelsbach and Miss Hattie Wilkin Married Monday.

Thos. Eigelsbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hency Eigelsbach, and Miss Hattie Wilkin, of Chicago, were married at the Indian school at 8 o’clock Monday morning by Father Andrew Geitl, in the presence of a number of relatives of the contracting parties. Miss Wilkin is thef daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkin, of Chicago, and has made one or two visits in Rensselaer, where she has made a large number of friends. The groom has been employed in Chicago_for several years, and now holds a good position there with the Chicago Street Railway Co. The bride and groom to he came from Chicago Sunday on the 1:58 train. They were accompanied by the parents of Miss Wilkin, also by her brother, Joseph Wiler, and husband. Miss Ella Kling, a friend of the bride, and Mr- John Milton, a friend of Tom’s, also accompanied them. Miss Kling was thp bridesmaid at the marriage and Mr. John Eigelsbach, brother of the groom, who was the best man. Mr. and Mrs. Eigelsbach will remain here for about ten days, visiting his parents, and the other Chicago parties, who came here to attend the ceremony, returned home on the 5:58 train Monday evening. The Republicn wishes the happy couple life of happiness.

Ministers Plan for Union Vesper Services to Begin June 18th.

The ministers of Rensselaer met this Tuesday afternon and made arrangements for the Sunday evening vesper services that will take place throughout the summer. The first one will be held Bunday evening, June 18th. On the evening of July 2nd a special service will be held and it is expected to get a minister from out of town for that occasion. Maximum Sunday, 93; maximum Monday, 92; minimum this morninv. 66. Oet our prices on fruit Jars, extra rubbers and lids. v \ JOHN EGER.

RIGHT-OF-WAY GIVEN AND CONSTRUCTION IS BEGUN.

Purtelle Starts to Build Railroad and Offers Limited Number of Shares of Stock for Sale.

The Republican is between two fires. It would like to boost Eugene Purtelle ' and his projected railroad if there was Sufficient substantiality about Mr, Purtelle’s movements to make us feel that we were giving the public a correct guidance in the matter.

But on the other hand, we do not want to do a single thing that might cause any person to invest a cent in Purtelle’s railroad, when there is a chance that bis movements are not sincere or that he is misguiding himself by his enthusiasm. All the land owners between the south township line have signed a contract to give the right-of-way to the railroad company, with the exception of Mrs. J. W. Pierce and Thos. Cain. Mr. Purtelle promised that as soon as the right-of-way was secured he would begin construction and he has Btarted it. He has put two men to work and let the contract for some grading at the Big Slough crossing to John Holder, a farmer living near there. But he has not planned the expenditure of any fixed sum and no one is able to say how far he intends to proceed with the construction. He says he is unable to hire labor for less than $2.25 per day. There is no sense in paying that sum for this work. If he has the backing to build the road' he should do like other builders do, get cheap labor that is familiar with that sort of construction work. Mr. Purtelle says he will build a bridge across the Big Slough ditch and that he will buy the cement by the bag here In Rensselaer to build it. That is very foolish business when he could buy it for little more than three-quar-ters the price by getting it in quantities. • This Tuesday mornliig Mr. Purtelle started out to Bell stock. He wants to put fifty shares of . stock on the market at $25 per khare. This would bring him in $1,250,, a very insignificant sum if applied to the construction, but it was pointed out to Mr. Purtelle that he might spend from SIOO to SSOO in the construction and then change his base of operations to some other place and have a very good balance in his favor. He did not like the suggestion and said he would not do such a thing, but he could not get/away from the fact that it was possible for him to do It. It was suggested to him that he deposit the . money from stock sold here In one of the Rensselaer banks and have It arranged that the money could only be checked out for construction labor. He refused to do this, saying that he wouid send the money to his Hammond bank, where he could get favors. The Republican has asked Mr. Purtelle many questions, pertinent and impertinent, and he has been quite evasive and reluctant and has never given us any cause to feel confidence in him or his scheme. If you want to point out to him a way to give confidence he blankly refuses to take advantage of it. A newspaper can not boost when conditions are such as these and greatly as we would like to boost the road and its promotor, we can see nothing at this time that looks worthy of a boost, except that Mr. Purtelle is busy and persistent. Such pluck has done things before and will again and may in this instance, but the prospects are but a faint shadow of our hopes. The stock Mr. Purtelle offers ife “fully paid and non-assessable” but there are not many people who want a $25 share of railroad stock. . If the people thought there was a chance of the road being built or if they had confidence in Mr. Purtelle there would be many willing to give a donation of $25 to the project For the present there is little to expect and Mr. Purtelle will doubtless have much difficulty in finding investors unless he does something to make the people believe that he te acting honestly and in good faith.

Prof. E. 8. Tillman was here qver Sunday from Lebanon. He is raising four acres of tomatoes thiß summer for the Lebanon canning factory and cannot stay away" long at a time. The average crop raised for the canning factory there last year paid S9O per acre and we expect Mr. Tillman to beat the average tomatoe grower as he does the average man. He Is coupling chicken raising with the tomato cultivation and will have a busy and we trust a profitable season.

Leave year order for pineapples for canning by Wednesday. Pines will be delivered Friday. HOKE GROCERY.

JASPER COUNTY POOLE FARM IS UNDER SUSPICION.

Some Digging Done to Try to Clear Up Mystery of Clyde Widiatn’s Disappearance.

Where is Clyde Witham and are there any bodies buried on John Poole’s Union township farm? These questions have been agitating some of the people of the neighborhood of the Poole farm ten miles north of Rensselaer. The agitation has reached the point where W. L. Wood, of Parr, the assistant prosecuting attorney of the Newton-Jasper circuit court, has spent part of one day digging on the farm and *he plans to carry the investigation farther. A young man named Clyde Witham worked for Poole. He was well known in Union township and especially at Parr. He had no relatives in this county and when he disappeared no one thought strange of it. He has been away now for about a year and a half and after Poole’B arrest for the murder of Joe Kemper, a farm hand on his Benton county farm, people began to wonder what had become of Clyde Witham. __ Those who had known him quite well feel sure that he would not have gone away without letting them know he was going, but ho one has been found who knew just when Witham left or where he went if he ever left the farm.

Ed Ritter lives next the Poole farm. After the arrest of Poole he recalled a peculiar incident that occurred a little over a year ago. He got up early one morning and as he went pasi Poole’s farm he saw some one digging. A very foul stench came from the ground and when Ritter asked Poole what he was doing Poole said that a steer had been buried there and that he was digging it up to skin it and sell the hide. Ritter told him he could not sell It in that condition, but Poole said he would sell it all right. The odor was so disagreeable that Ritter left. He gave no further thought to, the matter until after Poole’s arrest and when the disappearance of Witham was being- discussed he related the story' to others. It was -in this location that the'digging was done. Logan Wood had Eld Gilmore and John Price spend several hours digging at the spot where Mr. Ritter saw Poole at work more than a year ago. They found a lot of charred wood and apparently something had been destroyed by fire there, but. there was nothing to indicate that it was a human body. One small bone was found, but it was probably from the body of a pig. The men were told where three steers had been buried and digging there failed to lodate any evidence of steers at all, although some charcoal was found buried in the ground as though a fire had been burned there.

Mr. Wood has not given up the digging. He expects to make further investigation and will probably resume the search within a few days. He has consulted Prosecuting Attorney Longwell, who is anxious that the investigation be thorough. Mr. Wood has been informed that a former tenant of the Poole farm has said' that be was told not to plow where' a straw stack had formerly stood and that he plowed around it and later. Poole plowed the stack base himself. It is also claimed that Poole brought Kemper’s clothes over from Swanlngton and hid them on the ‘Jasper county farm, and Joe Frogs is said to have told some one that he knew the clothes were hid there. Fross lived on the farm last year. Poole is said to have come to the farm once with two good pair of shoes, one of which was too large and the other too small for him.

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mSSm Say to the Groceryman—< |JI |^||H NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THIS SKNATUKI

WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly coo’ev tonight.

They had evidently belonged to soma other persons and Poole brought then from Benton county. Simeon McCloud is now looking niter Poole's cattle on the farm; Hit home Is in Illinois, near Saunemih, and he owns 'd farm of 160 acres, adjoining- Poole’s land. He came over to look after his own land th<« spring and Poole told him that he did not have any one to look after bis cattle and he urged Mr. McCloud to come to his housa and *ake possession mid look after 'the cattle. He has since resided there, but Mrs. McCloud hgv returned to Illinois. Poole has & head of cattle over here. Thirty head are kept on his farm and 18 head on the Bundy farm. Mr. McCloud has continued to look after them and has had some instruction from Mrs. Poole and Miss Grace Poole. None of them has been over to see him nor to look after the cattle nor the farm. Mr. McCloud spends much of his own time grubbing on his farm. He expects to go over to Fowler before long to see Poole, if he can. He has no positive agreement with him about taking mure of the cattle and would sooner have an understanding. Mr. Wood, of Parr, would like to have all the information he can get frbm those who may know anything of Poole’s movements on the farm and he is prepared to continue hia investigation as soon as he can get some tangible basis to work upon.

Alfred W. Hopkins Harried in Chicago Sunday to Mrs. G. M. Trull.

Alfred W. Hopkins, a farmer Rensselaer boy, now a successful broker and business man, and Mrs. Q. M. Trull, of Chicago, were married Sunday by Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins, in the flat where they will make their home in Chicago. * Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hopkins, of Rensselaer, attended the marriage, the men being brothers of the groom. Friends of the groom hero, including bis old schoolmates, will Join The Republican in wishing himself and wife a life of happiness. Hundreds of yards of materials to make cool drosses for warm days. 12%c-l6c-20c-25c-35c all fresh and new. ROWLES ft PARKER.

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