Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.