Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Walter Crampton, of Chicago, is here for a visit with his uncle, C. E. . Prior. F. M. Sawin, of Edinburg, is the guest of his son, A. W. Sawin, and family. Miss Mary Rafferty, of Delphi, came this afternoon for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Ernest Clark. Miss Hazel Woodcox,' of Chicago, will arrive this evening to spend a week with her sister, Mrs. Thad Stephens. - Black Caps for canning) Wednesday and Thursday of this week. JOHN EGER. k T ~ - L - ",| Prof. C. F. Bradshaw, who is attending the Chicago University during the summer vacation, came yesterday for a short visit here. , ■ 1 '• 1 ■ “■ ■ - .... • . ,Mr.rHayner r .piJMio tuner and repairer from Chicago, is in the city. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. The Mt. Ayr town board has granted a franchise to the Indiana Northwests ern Traction Co., giving the road the use of the streets for the period of seventy-five years. /

Hail in the neighborhood of Alf Donnelly’s Globe Onion Farm did considerable damage to the corn. A strip of corn about a half nfile in width for a considerable distance was stripped of the blades. The farmers up around Kniman are cutting-oats. The yield la about half of normal. The corn in Walker never looked -better. The wheat crop is being threshed. The fly cut the crop to about one-half.

Boyd Porter arrived from Oklahoma City yesterday and will make an extended visit here before returning. Boyd has not been well and is greatly reduced in flesh. Since leaving Rensselaer he has been connected with a big store in Oklah’oma City. An exploding gasoline stove at the residence of Mrs. Stephenson near the railroad was the reason for the fire alarm sounding last evening. The fire was put out before the arrival of the fire company and the recall whistle was sounded before their arrival. The Princess was crowded band concert night during the three performances. Wm. Leek, the hitch barn man, issued free tickets to all his customers for that night, with the result of swelling the attendance to almost 500, a record breaking attendance fjr the hot months. The postoffice department has issued an order granting postmasters of the third and fourth classes In Indiana leave of absence for five days to enable them to attend the meetings of the Indiana State League of Postmasters to be held at Indianapolis on October 3,4, 5,6, and 7. Rensselaer and vicinity had a fine rain last evening, which will be of inestimable value to all kinds of vegetation. The rains the last two days have been pretty well distributed over the county, Remington and vicinity having had a nice rain before it reached here. There was only a slight sprinkle in portions of the north end of the county yesterday. The Republican is in receipt of a copy of the Winchester Democrat, in which the following complimentary mention is made of the former landlord of the Makesver House and his son: “The Randolph Hotel, under the v new management of A. J. and W. H. Brenner, is making a decided success of this popular hostelry. Especially are the Sunday dinners appreciated by the people of Winchester as is evidenced by the large number who are taking advantage of them. The Brenners are capable hotel men, always congenial, and onr city is to be congratulated that the Randolph is being so efficiently handled.’’ We unloaded, last week, another car of Eastern cane granulated sugar, the best sugar for preserving fruit. J 0““

The Evening Republican

TONIGHT’S PBOGBAM ’ —♦ — PICTURES. A ROMANY TRAGEDY. ? LOYAL LOVE. . SHAME ON MAX. PICCIOLA, or, A Flower in the Prison Yard.

Commissioners Decide in Favor -> Of Newton Township Roads. After hearing evidence and the arguments of the attorneys/for three days on the remonstrances against the construction of the two stone or gravel roads in Newton township, the county commissioners Friday afternoon decided in favor of the roads. The remonstrators have declared their intention of appealing to the circuit court and point out a new law which they claim will defeat the road. The law in question provides that the county surveyor shall have charge of work of this kind, unless proven to be incompetent. 1 The proceedings were begun under the old law after the new law was passed, other engineers than the county surveyor being appointed. Other business transacted by the commissioners at their July term and not previously reported, follows: It was ordered that a tax of 1% per cent be levied in Marion township and the city of Rensselaer In favor of the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., but that the collection of the tax shall, be suspended until the traction company has complied with all the condition? imposed by law to entitle them to qpceive the subsidy. The above ordfer is made with the belief and understanding that the line of the road places Rensselaer on the main line between the terminal points of the proposed line as indicated by the original survey. October 30th was set as the limit for paying assessments on the Joseph A. Akers, et al., ditch. Bonds will be issued for the unpaid assessments after that date. Ernest Cook, of Guatemala, Central America, is visiting the fanvly of Mrs. Kate Watson. ~ r Roy Lewis was struck by a broken pulley while in his barn at Wabash and fatally injured. Reduction in all trimmed hats until July 15th at Mrs. Purcupile’s. The selection is large and good. Otto Hires, while bathing in the Wabash river at Peru, was killed by lightning. Two companions escaped.

Leave your orders for Black Raspberries for canning, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. JOHN EGER. Struck by a Wabash train at Ft. Wayne, a wagon containing the Corunna baseball team was demolished. George Griffiths, one of the players, was killed. •" * Hiram C. Childers, 44 years old and for twenty-five years a conductor on the B. & O. S. W. railroad, was killed by falling from his train at Lawrenceburg. It was his first accident • ■

A boar valued at SSOO and a prize sow valued at S3OO died from the effects of the extreme heat at Purdue farm Wednesday afternoon. The hogs were two of the best in the big Purdue herd.

Frank Landgraff, age thirty, freight conductor on the Ft. Wayne division of the Toledo & Chicago electric railway, was instantly killed when thrown from the rear of his car Thursday by the vibration caused in rounding a sharp curve. He had stepped out to watch his trolley. The accident took place a few miles south of Garrett. John DeHuff, of Peru, who has been teaching in the public schools of the Philippines for nine years' has recently been advanced to the superlntendency of the schools at Manila, a leading position in the educational service ot the islands. Previous to taking this new position he was first director of the Moro school sales bureau in Manila. Approximately 900,000,000 envelopes will be needed to supply the government during the coming four years and Postmaster General Hitchcock has awarded the contracts for them, the cost being $630,922, a saving of $156,326, as compared with the contract prices of the past four years. The contracts are exclusive of those recently made for the. postal service, on which a $25,000 saving was made.

BiterM January L Ittt, aa Moond-clara mail matter, at th.-post-offle* at Bansmlaar, Indiana, tuuter th. act of March % 187». - ..■ -

Reports from all counties of the state regarding crop conditions show that the wheat is very near an average in yield and quality, the average per acre being about fifteen bushels and the grain plumb and good. The acreage was smaller than last year, and this will make a difference on the yield. The oats crop is the poorest for years and much of it will not be harvested at all, the stalks being too short to be caught by the mowers. Owing to the dry weather, the corn is not in the best of condition,-but it has not been permanently Injured and with seasonable rains the crop should be large. The pea pack was small owing to dry weather, but sweet corn and tomatoes both promise well.

The people of the United States are steadily deserting the country and the farm for the turmoil and delights of the city and town, according to statistics made public by the Census Bureau. During, the last ten years th-j percentage of people living in cities of more than 2,500 inhabitants increased from 40.5 to 46.3. Twenty years ago only 36.1 per cent lived .•< such Incorporated places. In 19.10, 42,623,333, or 46.3 per cent of the total lived in urban territory, and 49,348,883, or 53.7 per cent, in rural territory, according to returns.

In connection with my hitch and feed barn I have opened a new barn and sales yard and now have the best located and' coolest barns in the city, with commodious sheds for the shelter of wagons and buggies and movers. Convenient to business center and churches. Your patronage solicited. CHAS. E. HEMPHILL.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1911.

FINGERS TORN OFF BY EXPLOSION OF FIRE CRACKER.

Jim Meyer, Son of Ex-Postmaster Meyer, Loses Foor Fingers on s The Fourth. Jim Meyers, of Tolleston, son of Expostmaster F. B. Meyer, who is working in his father’s drug store at Tolleston, lost four fingers of his left hand and had the balance of the hand badly mangled the Fourth of July while attempting to shoot off a cannon cracker. The. following belated account of the accident is taken from the Gary Tribune: No deaths resulted from the celebration of the Fourth of July in Gary, although James Meyer, the son of Former Assistant Postmaster F. B. Meyer lies at Mercy hospital in a critical condition as the result of firing cannon crackers yesterday. His left hand was almost entirely blown off. Yesterday afternoon a party of young men were setting off fireworks before the Meyer drug store on Bormann boulevard and a long row of small crackers had been set up along the sidewalk. Inside the store Meyer 1 had several cannon crackers and decided to throw a big one out to outdo the smaller salutes. He lighted the fuse and holding the cannon cracker in his hand, rushed to the door. The screen door stuck, however, and the cracker exploded before it could be opened. The shock of the explosion of z the giant cracker tore off four fingers of J^eyeFsi ,hand(, and shredded the . flesh or the palm. The screen was blown out and the front of the store rooni was spattered with blood and bits of flesh. , , C. V. Gough, who was returning from the Country club, took the injured man into his automobile and hurried him to eMrcy hospital, where physicians were called immediately. The wound is serious and the danger of blood poisoning from the gunpowder is considerable.

Wheat Crop of Indiana Of Small Average.

Statistics Show People are Deserting Country and Farm.

New Hitch Barns and Yards Just Opened.

Flag Pole on Odd Fellows Building Struck by Lightning.

During the electrical storm last evening lightning etruck the wooden flag pole on the south end of the Odd Fellows building. The pole was splintered in many pieces and scattered along Washington street. No other damage was done to the building, but the occupants of the building received a shock that frightened them considerable. The lightning that struck the pole was in'the form of a ball of fire and when it struck the pole it seemed to burst and the fire was thrown in all directions, making a pretty sight.

Two Buildings Destroyed By Fire at Kniman.

Fire last night entirely destroyed the general merchandise store of Charles Kramer and the adjoining business building occupied as a residence by J. W. Heilscher. " “—. The Kramer store was in a building owned by Tom Sayers. The fire is supposed to have started from a lamp. It spread rapidly and it was only by the hardest kind of work upon the part of the citizens that the entire town escaped destruction. Even the women did heroic work in fighting the flames; Both buildings and contents were destroyed. The total loss is estimated at |5,000 or 66,000. Insurance was carried by the parties concerned, but the amount is not known. The largest loss was th® Ktamer and- building... .

Federal Tax on Automobiles Urged by Senator Simmons.

Estimating that one out of five of the 500,000 automobiles in use in the country is employed in interstate travel, Senator Simmons, of North Carolina expressed the opinion in a speech in the senate that a million dollars annually can be raised for tire improvement of wagon roads by imposing a license fee of 610 on such machines. He also prophesied that the improvement of the roads would have the effect of greatly increasing automobile travel and therefore of enhancing the fund. The proposition for an interstate tax on automobiles is embraced in a bill of which the North Carolina senator is the author and which proposes the appropriation of 61,000,000 annually for the benefit of the roads on which the rural mails are carried.

Old Soldier Tortured.

“For years I suffered unspeakable torture from indigestion, constipation and liver trouble,” wrote A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Erie, Pa., “but Dr. King’s new Life Pills fixed me all right. They’re simply great.” Try them for any stomach, liver or kidney trouble. Only 25c at A. F. Long’s,

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Interurban Construction Force Transferred to Thayer.

Engineer Slybach, of the Indiana Northwestern traction Co., transferred his operations today from south of town to Thayer. He took with him the gang of Roumanians who have been working here. The company has secured several miles of right-of-way between Thayer and Mt. Ayr, and it is said that operations will be conducted along that part of the line until the matter of right-of-way is cleared up here, which will probably not be until September, when the circuit court meets. It is also hoped by that time to hold subsidy elections in Newton, Jordan and Carpenter townships. Yesterday a load of cement and also of stone was taken out to the Howe ditch to be used in making the abutments to the bridge for the interurban and the sudden stoppage of. the work came as a surprise to the people. Every day the prospects for the early building of the road look brighter and every one should go to boosting the road and help Mr. Purtelle to overcome the many difficulties he is encountering in securing right-of-way, etc..

Population Center Moves to Point in Monroe County.

A marker denoting the exact spot of the center of population of the United States, which is in Monroe county, six miles southeast of Bloomington, is being erected by a Bloomington newspaper.- .- : .... An official report from Washington; just received, says, “The center of population, which may be defined as the center of gravity of all the inhabitants, is situated in latitude 39 degrees 4 minutes and longitude 86 degrees ip minutes. It is in the southeaste/n part of Monroe county, six miles from Bloomington. In 1900 it was in latitude 39 degrees 10 minutes and longitude 85 degrees 49 minutes. Its movement from census to census is a net resultant of all the various movements of the people, east, west, north and south.' In the past ten years this center has moved south about seven miles and west about twenty-seven miles. “The westward movement was nearly double that of the decade before, but much less than that of earlier periods, since the average westward movement per decade has been fortyseven miles. During the past century this center has kept very close to the thirty-ninth parallel, in some cases being a few minutes north of it, in others slightly to the south.

Presbyterian Church.

The summer communion service will be held at the morning hour next Sunday. Every member is urged to

J. C. PARRETT,

be present.

WEATHER FORECAST. - - - Fair weather, except- probably local thundershowers tonight or Bundaynot much change In temperature. July 9—Sun rises 4:37; sets 7:32. — .

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Two hggdred and one deaths and two hundred and seventy-three prostrations was the toll exacted by Chicago’s record breaking hot wave which lasted for five days. One hundred and twenty-five Infants are included in the list of dead. The homes of Town Treasurer G. L. Louden and John H. Kelly, a merchant, at Winamac, were entered by robbers, who got |7O of the town funds, a gold watch, a fountain pen, a pair of shoes and a hat At Kelley’s the robbers ate a supper. President Taft has signed proclamations eliminating 151,739 acres o£ land considered to be of more value for agriculture than for forestry from national forests in California, Idaho,' Montana, Nevada and South Dakota and adding 116,760 acres as being chiefly valuable for forestry. Several large oil tanks, property of the Western Oil company, were destroyed by a fire which consumed the. Indiana Fuel company’s plant at Indianapolis Thursday. The fire is . believed to have started from a defective wire on the switchboard in the fuel company's building which.’was destroyed. The loss is estimated at --- ■ While driving a mower pn his farm near Greenfield, George Bussell had an experience with a big blue racer which wrapped itself around his leg, presumably in escaping from the sickle. The snake appeared to be as frightened as the man and escaped into the uncut hay. Bussell was so frightened ho could not proceed for several minutes. After Kyle Weidner, one of a party of three tweleve-year-old boy bathers, had almost drowned in Eel River, near Bowling Green, this state, and had dragged a second boy, Emmet Boyer, under the water; the third and smallest boy dove into the deep channel and managed to get them out alive. There is talk of placing the case before the Carnegie hero fund commission. Work will be started within the next ten days oh South Bend’s nbw high school, the total cost of which will reach >500,000. The school will be the finest of its kind in the middle west as well as the largest In ths state. Features will be a big gymnasium, swimming pool, all kinds of baths and every kind of modern convenience. The school is expected to take care of local needs for the next quarter of a century.

Pastor.