Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1911 — Page 1

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■LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Eugene Purtelle was in town again today. .. D. S. Makeever made a business trip to Monon today. Mr. and Mrs. John Eger returned last evening from Chicago. Try some of those nice fat mackerel, 10c each at John Eger’s. , , ... ™»m|. 1 - Hominy meal and cotton seed meal fqr sale by Hamilton & Kellner. s L. H. Wylie, of Barkley township, left esterday for Louisiana on a prospecting trip. George Long returned to Chicago .this morning'after a visit here with hlB parents. Lyman Zea went to Otterbein today to canvass for the sale of his preparations. . We have again commenced to han-. • die fancy butterine, only 20c a pound at John Eger’s. Hot biscuits and coffee this week at Rhoades’ hardware store, during the Malleable Range exhibit. Sight rolls good toilet paper for a quarter. Sale continues all this week at the Home Grocery. Leo Reeve is recovering very nicely from his recent severe scikness and seems to be on the road to recovery. ’'.Charles R. McFarland came home this morning to get ready for the November term of court which convenes next Monday. O.>K. Rainier went to Battle Ground today and will go from there to liis farm near Chalmers, where his corn .crop is being harvested. . George E. Bartlett returned to Warren county today and his wife remained for a longer visit with her .sister, Mrs. June Hinkle. , There is not a range made that compares with the South Bend Malleable la beauty, durability and efficiency. E. D.’RHOADES & SON.

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TONIGHT’S PBOGEAM - ' ,JT -js '■ ■ ■ ' s:fC:r PICTURES. Her Wedding Ring. Electric Boats. Old Delhi and Its Ruins.

-j : \ Clean old newspapers in unlimitedquantities" at The Republican office. Born, Saturday, Nov. 4, tp Prof, and Mrs. Morgan Sterrett, of Wheatfield, a son. The mother is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred May. in Carpenter township. Miss Sarah Bowman and a little girl from the Monnett Home returned this morning from Kentland, where they attended a meeting of the district foreign missionary society. Some one will receive a SSO porcelain enameled bath tub free of charge November ilth. Make a purchase or pay your account ahd receive coupons on same. E. D. RHOADES & SON. Mrs. Geo. F. Meyers went to Chicago this morning, accompanied by her husband and the family physician. She will undergo examination, by.surgeons and'will probably have to submit to an operation for appendicitis and possibly for other disorders. We were again out of Aristos flour for a short time. We are now unloading our fourteenth car, equal to two thousand barrels, since Jan. 1, 1911, more flour than, all the other merchants together have handled in the same length of time. Quality is what sells flour. John Eger. James Craig was down from Thayer tßia morning. He reports that his sale last Saturday was well attended and the prices were good. There is a tendency all over the country right now for hojses to be a little off in price but. this did not show up at hte sale and twenty head of horses and mules were sold at good figures. Mrs. A. Gangloff returned last evening from Rome City, Ind., where she spent a few days with her stin John, who is taking treatment there. John has fallen off several pounds since he left here but that seems to be the first thing patients do at that sanitarium before they commence to get well. He will probably remain there for some little time yet and the doctors say they will restore him no health again..

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1911.

CONFIDENCE GAME TRIED ON RENSSELAER MEN.

in various parts of the U. S. and is a successor to. the ancient “gold brick” or “counterfeit” money game by which so many people from the rural districts were fleeced in other years. The letter is printed in script type to resemble writing and it is not uncommon for a dozen letters to be received at about the same time in larger cities. The letter was addressed: “United States, Scott, Harness Maker. Rensselaer, ' (Indiana). It reads: Dear Sir:

Although I know you only from good references of your honesty my sad situation compels me to reveal an important affair In which you can procure a modest fortune saving at the same time that of my darling daughter. Before being imprisoned here I was established as a Banker in Russia as you will see by the enclosed article about me of many english newspapers which have published my arrest in London. , I Jjeseech yon to help me to obtain a sum of 480,000 dollars I have in America and to come here the seizure of my luggage by paying, to the Registrar of the Court the expenses of my trial recover my portmanteaus containing a secret pocket where I have hidden the document indispensable to recover the said sum. , s ; v In reward I give up to you the third part vis 160,000 dollars. I cannot receive your answer in the prison but you must send a cablegram to- a person of my confidence who will deliver it to me. Awaiting your cable to instruct you in all my secret, 1 am Sir yours truly

Sadrowsky First of all answer by cable not by letter as follows: Ramon Guerra Calle Santander 10 V Valladolid (Spain) “Recibido encargo” ■ . Scott. Inclosed in the letter is a clipping which the writer represents to have been cut out of an English newspaper, but which is evidently printed up for the deception. This scheme of fraud has become familiar in many parts of the United States, but we believe this is the first of the letters to reach Rensselaer. Probably a great many*gullible people have been fleeced by the scheme. Evidently the pro* irtoters are following it with a great amount of profit or they would' not pursue It for so long a - period. It probably costs half a dollar to send out each letter. Should the party addressed make a favorable response by cablegram the next step is to induce the party to- send enough money to carry out the project of securing the man’s freedom. '-It the money is sent that is all that ever happens except that he is a big “suoker.” it is not certain where these people get their names, -OTT* in all probability the brain behind the scheme is an American one, and the names are probably gotten out -of a commercial rating book. It is so rank a fake that no intelligent person could fall for it It is so plausiblp and transparent that it is- a huge joke.

Good 4-ioot wood delivered at $4.00 per cord. Hamilton '& Kellner. New prunes, dates, figs and needed raisins are now In at the Home Grocery, * ' When you buy a Malleable Range you buy the beat. E. D. RHOADES & SON. Alter malting an unsuccessful effort to kill his wife, Andrew Kuebler, a well-to-do German farmer, near Evansville, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Jealousy was the motive. The agricultural implment Industry In the United States shows a notable Increase, according to statistics marie public by tlie census bureau. A gene; - al Increase Is shown Jo all items in 1909 as compared with 1964, except ’in number of establishments, which decreased from 648 to 640. \ i _ A barrel of the finest dill pickles you ever saw has Just arrived at the Home Grocery. , . y-i * -

FENAL ASSESSEMENTS TO PAT FOR IROQUOIS DITCH

•V- • ■' Removal of Le 4& at- Gangloff Farm Required One Per V' ; ' ' -• ■ dug, rock ledge on the Gangloff farm, east of this city, and to remove it required stotomenfof the "dredged n Z drtlh This was not contemplated in the original specifications but had to be make the ditch valuable. The ori glnal assessment was made without taking this additional cost into consideration and there was not enough money from the first assessment to pay for it. The extra cost was $5,000 'and Chas. H. Sternburg & Sons still had due them $4,988.45. They presented a petition to the county commissioners setting out these facts and also that there was at that time in the county treasury available for payment $2,405.19. The petition asked that this be paid to the contractor and that a means of securing the balance be provided. The commissioners authorized the payment of $2,000 to Mr. Sternberg and ordered Myrt B. Price, commissioner of construction of the ditch, to prepare an assessment sheet on the basis of 1 per cent of the original assessment on all property affected by the ditch as Oonstructed. This assessment sheet is tp be presented to the commisisojiers at their next meeting and will then be ordered collected by the county treasurer.

Just Had a Swell Time on Eve of Abe’s 49th Birthday.

Of sixty friends invited to celebrate Abe Long’s forty-ninth birthday all but two or three responded Monday evening and the spacious Long home on river street was the scene of one of the pleasantest stags of the season. It was the day before his birthday but his friends remained until a shade after midnight and saw that he safely started the last lap of tTie half century of life. Seven-up was played and Eld Honan was again th§ winner, being on the big scort end of twelve out of thirteen games played. He was given a nice leather card case. Harry Kiplinger brought up the end with three games to his. credit and he received a nice deck of cards. All the rest finished up some place between three and a dozen and had Just as much fun and participated, just as heartily in the excellent supper spread by Mrs. Long and a number Of lady aids.

Eat Mrs. Green’s Home Made Bread, “The Best Elver.” See ad in Classified Column, or Phone 477. A Classified Adv. will rent It.

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| THE BAND BOYS • > WILL SIVS A - ! < ► . . 1 I Box Social, Concert i ' A rv aug Dance j: AT THE ARMORY !; Thursday Evening, Nov. 9th ! if All are cordially invited. I Let the girls bring well- | % filled baskets. Come!! O V \ :: Healey Brothers will furnish music : for the dance.

RANGES! RANGES! RANGES. Yes; tliere are hundreds of steel ranges on the market today, and many good ones among them. But there is but one and that is the South Bend Malleable Steel Range, superior In every respect to every range made E. D. RHOADES ft SON.

• •<:n’.- T't WEATHER FORECAST. Rair and colder tonight; Wednea lay fair. Sun rises, 6:38; Sets, 4:51.

A set of cooking utensils give iway with each Malleable Range soi :hls week-.-E. D. RHOADES ft SON.

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