Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1911 — Page 1

No. 268.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Court convened today. New sweet spiced and dill pickles and bulk rijie olives at John Eger’s. Feed, bay and straw for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. W. R. Lee was in Michigan last Friday urging a shipment of potatoes which had been somewhat delayed. We have just opened up our first barrel of fancy Silver Thread, sauer kraut. Try it. JOHN EGER. W. L. Lewis has completed the conof the Harry Gifford ditch at Gifford and returned to his home at Brook. • " We have it—new Self Rising Pancake and Buckwheat flour, pure Maple syrup and new comb honey. JOHN EGER. ' Dr. John Ellis and doctor friend were here from Chicago Sunday and spent the day with the former's father, J. H. S. Ellis. Take those articles you don’t want to wear and have George Robinson sell them for you. Next door to Cal Cain's barbershop. Mrs. Mnnda Bailey and Miss Ida Seedle returned to their home in Goshen today after .a week’s visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Moses Chupp. When you want the best flour, order Aristos. For sale by John Eger.

Herman B. -j Tuteur nr 'i ' I JL vULIvA ■ _ v -s ' Made Clothes i • Q—. ' ' >* < 1 have this season ; around 250 ’ samples ! Blue Serges : In Plains and Fancies • 4 The largest assortment J in town to pick from; also all the ’>l Newest i Fabrics All in -yard lengths. ! ■ k .M, j ’ '• .‘.M,-•; ’ ** I know there to a laving.” • Iwyectln Invited. vLtANInu, rKESSIrIGe ’ . $ ‘4'.’ H. B. Tuteur Over Wirier’« Stere.

The Evening Republican.

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. Good cord wood at $4.00 per cord dellvered.-JHamilton & Kellner. Home grown lettuce any day at Holden’s, delivered. ... C-.-i’C" Borp, today, Nov. 13. to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wendel, of Union township, a daughter. Give us your coal orders. They will receive the best attention.—Hamilton & Kellner. Steve Martin, of Indianapolis, came this morning to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ross Porter. '•'> Many good, warm articles for this cold season at George Robinson’s second hand store.

Mrs. Rebecca Porter and Mrs. Alda Parkison attended the chrysanthemum show In Chicago Saturday. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe came home from the hospital Saturday. She is getting along fully as well as' could be expected. Rey E, A. Martin is the new pastor of the Chrlstain church at Monticello. He comes from LaFontaine, Ind. Visit the Economy Co., dealers in second hand wearing apparel for men, women and children. On Van Rensselaer street, nex> door to Cal Coin’s barbershop.—George Robinson. Mrs. J. ■ D. Allman and Mrs. A. J. Bellows gave a delightful party to a large number of guests Friday afternoon at the {ormer's -home on Dayton street. ' •

John Meditus, who is now .working at- Chicago Heights, was home over Sunday. There is an abundance of work at big wages for mechanics there. John is getting 36 per day.

The Methodist Industrial Society will give a dime social at the home of Mrs..E. T. Harris on Tuesday..afternoon, Nov. 14. All invited to come, especially strangers.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz attended the apple show in Indianapolis last week and pronounced it a fine exhibit. There were no Jasper county exhibitors so far as is known.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albertson and their two youngest children, of Raleigh, N, Dak., who have been visiting relatives in various Indiana places for the past two months, came here Saturday for a short visit with his brother John and wife.

Capt. William Guthrie and Harry Lowe, of Monticello, have formed a partnership in the law, loan and brokerage business, including the purchase and sale of bonds, stocks, mortgages and the securing of investments for capital.

Harvey Davisson brought through with his car of household goods ten bushels of potatoes for King Davis, that were raised on the latter’s farm at JJamilton, N. Dak. They were Burbanks and Early Ohlos and mighty clear, solid potatoes. The price at Hamilton is 50 cents a bushel.

John Gangloff krrived home Saturday from Rome City sanitarium. He is very weak and not getting along as well as he would like to7but there, does not seem to be very much anything the trouble except some stomach disorder. He had lost quite a little weight at the sanitarium but it is probable 'that home living will restore him to health again. A number of his friends called on him Sunday. George Bt. Robinson, viio wad'’ left a cripple for life by falling while at his work on telephone lines at Connersville more than two years ago, has taken charge of the Economy Co. second hand clothing and wearing apparei stock and moved it from the armory to the small room in the rear of Duvall’s clothing store. He will Sellajl manner of second hand wearing apparel for men, women and children, handling everything on a per bent plan. George has been improving a great deal lately and hopes to build into a good paying business, which he can doubtless do, as stores Of this kind are running successfully in a number of citie.

January 1, 18S7, a. ..cow! cl.i. mail matt.r, at th. po.t-offlo. at » M . M la.r, Indiana, under th. act of March 3, 1370.

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TORNADO SWEPT SECTION OF JASPER COUNTY

Saturday Night Storm Destroyed Barns, Z% ' .1 ' r '■ nr I I »' • Outbuildings, 1 elephone Lines, Hay and Straw Stacks. ■

KILLED SOME STOCK

Land Owners West and North of Rensselaer, the Greatest Losers— Very Little Insurance. ’ A destructive tornado swept through a section of Jasper county Saturday night at about 8:15, destroying barns, outbuildings, hay and straw stacks, orchards and forests and doing extensive damage to country telephone lines. An estimate of the damage would be difficult to make but at least several thousand dollars will be required to rebuild the destroyed property. ; Saturday was a beautiful day aside from a strong wind which blew incessantly at a 60 mile rate. The temperature was warm and fires were permitted to go out and windows and doors thrown open. The thermometers registered up to 75. Men went about ln s their shirt sleeves. In the evening a little sprinkle gave some warning to the heavy rain that followed and between 7 and 8 o’clock the rain fell in torrents. It soon

began to get colder and by midnight the rain had turned to snow and the mercury at 20 degrees above zero and the driving wind from the southwest and later from due west made a regular blizzard. Rensselaer escaped the worst part of the storm, however, as the tornado entered the county from the southwest and near the Henry Davli farm swept to the northwest, doing the last serious damage, so far as we have learned, on the Mike Burns fgrm, northeast of town. * Ellas Koons lives on the Henry Harris place. The barn was torn down as was also the windmill and several stacks of hay and stfaw. On the Ben Harris farm, occupied by Isaac Parker, the Jiay barn was blown down, a hog house 14x30 feet in dimensions was blown away, the woodhouse was moved off its foundation, the windmill was torn down, 15 window glasses were broken out Of the house and the kitchen of the house was moved slightly. Feed troughs were carried away. Every tree in the orchard was pulled up or broken off and lajge trees in the woods were twisted from the ground. Telephone poles were torn down all along the wake of the storm. On the Blsloskey farm, occupied by H. "T. Feldhaus, the barn and many outbuildings were town down. One good horse was killed but the' other stock escaped with slight injuries. Buggies, wagon and machinery in the barn were badly damaged. The buildings were insured against tornado.

The Makeever farms suffered some damage. Several barns were destroyed and others moved off their foundations. Hay and straw, stacks were' blown down/ On the Mrs. Rebecca Porter farm, occupied by Leßoy Lewis, the roof was blown off the corn crib and machinery house, haystacks and the wheel off the windmill were blown down. *

On the Chas. Porter farm, occupied by Sstel Osborne, outbuildings were blown down, the sheds were torn loose from the barn and the doors of the barn blown off. the windmill was blown down and many trees uprooted. Henry Gowland suffered a great deal of loss. The roof was blown oft the barn, the well house and windmill were blown down, the old house and a number of outbuildings were blown away. A wagonbox was blown entirely away. Sam Lowery, on the Bill Baker farm, reports considerable damage there, large pine trees in the yard were pulled up by the roots. One straw stack composed of straw from 100 acres, was blown entirely away. Shock corn was blown into an adjoining field and standing corn was blown down. Seven large trees in the orchard, two windmills, hogracks and the smokehouse all went down. At'Ralph Zeigler's home ho damage was done except that a hay rack was taken off the wagon and eardied a half mile and broken to pieces. At Werger Miller's place the old

'if'-:- x ' '■ ■ ’ ' barn was blown down and the new one shifted about on the foundation. Other small buildings weret Iternt down. Mike Bu*is’ barn was torn entirely down and other damage resulted. Constantine Zellhart had a barn what damaged and blown off ihe foundation and a pew blacksmith shop entirely destroyed'. ' . Tom Callahan had damage on a farm he owns 1 mile west of Newland, which he estimated at SSOO. He had it covefed by tornado insurance. The big oak barn was shifted on the foundation about 6 feet on one entf and B~feet on the other. A double corn crib was moved off thie foundation and a henhouse was entirely destroyed. The chickens and several turkeys, the property of J. C. Tow, the tenant, were killed. At John Dexter’s, near Newland, a new henhouse was carried away. ■ A barn in course of construction on a place owned by Commissioner Fred Waymtre had the ends blown out)

Chas. Anderson, north of Newland, had a new wagon badly broken up hnd a number of small outbuildings damaged and the roof snatched from the barn. < At Newland a number of buildings were slightly moved on their foundations and window panes broken out. The schoolhouse was slightly damaged and the woodhouse taken from one side of the building and set over on the other side and badly damaged. Reports of other damage keep coming in. The Jasper County and Bruner telephone lines in the country suffered heavily, many poles being down and the wire twisted and broken.. Their damage is extensive and wiH some time to repair. From all over the state and in many other states come reports of destructive wind storms, the toll of life being considerable in the aggregate. From a balmy, springlike day Saturday, the temperature fell from 55 to 65 degrees in* five or six hours and today is frigid and much lilje midwinter, although the wind that kept up all day Sunday has subsided. Over much of the country the telegraph and telephone lines are down and Rensselaer was entirely cut off for a time Sunday, both long distance telephone Union wires being down. The Western Union gained connection about 6 o'clock Sunday night. L ?• Lafayette papers report a terrific hurricane in that county causing b'ig property loss. At Waterloo, Ind., the business portion of the town suffered heavily. The city hall, two school buildings and the opera house were damaged to the amount of 120,000. At Bedford numerous stone mills were damaged, the loss being estimated to be a half million dollars. Damage similar to what occurred here is reported from twenty or more cities. The forecast for tomorrow is snow with rising temperature.

Charles Schleman Awarded the Fifty Dollar Bathtub.

Charles Schleman wde awarded bath tub given away by E. D. Rhoades & Son last Saturday. The award attracted considerable attention and the store and sidewalk was crowded by those interested in the award. Fred Phillips had charge of the award and jocously announced that he knew some one would get thp that never had a bath. The tub and fixtures were

worth 350, but Mr. Schleman, having no use for it, accepted an offer of |35 made by Ckpt J. M. Sauser for the tub. ) .: A '■> ■ * - Jesse E. Wilsoh, of Hammond, who had been in the southern part of the state, stopped off in Rensselaer Saturday , and attended the funeral of Mrs. J. J. Hunt. . Dr. “Dick” Fidler came down from Milwaukee Saturday to see his mother, Mrs. Newt. Hendricks, who is quite sick. He also found Newt, suffering from a bad attack of asthma. Dick is enjoying a fine practice in Milwaukee.

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**" 111 . ■ 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car $690 Complete When we say COMPLETE, we mean magneto top, glass front, speedometer, five lamps, generator and tools. Over $l5O worth of equipments. - John M. Knapp, Agent - Phone 186, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. - “ ASK FOB DEMONSTRATION. FORD REPAIRS IN STOCK.

WASSON BRINGS ACTION TO ENJOIN JACKSON.

Successor to Frank Kresler Bases Action on Contract Jackson Gave Not to Re-Enter Business.

Through his attorney, George A. Williams, action has been brought by Harrison Wasson to enjoin Joe Jackson from continuing in the bus business In Rensselaer. The complaint has just been filed in the circuit court. aJckson was engaged in the business here for several years. He sold out to Frank G. Kresler on Nov. 13, 1907, and under that date gave to Mr. Kresler a contract that he would not again enter into the business in Rensselaer. The contract was drawn up by B. F.’ Ferguson. Kresler later sold the business to Harrison Wasson. Mr. Jackson returned from the west during the summer and on Sept. Ist embarked in the bus business in opposition to Mr. Wasson. The contihct, which Mr. Kresler had included in selling the business to Mr. Wasson, is the basis of the action. Not only is it asked that Jackson be enjoined from continuing in the business in this city, but damages are asked for any loss sustained by Mr. Wasson during the time Jackson has been back-in business.

Court Cases Are Less Vitrolic Than In Old Days.

Under the heading “Retrospection’'* the Kentland Enterprise thus retrospects about the court bitterness of olden days: The October term of the Newton Circuit Court—and it was fair sample of all terms of recent years—reminded one of a June picnic compared to the courts of earlier days. A fewer number of law suits are instituted these days, and many more cases are compromised. A jury ’seldem tries more than a half dozen suits, sometimes less, and it iq a big term that produces a good headliner. Probably the people are more peaceful and lawabiding now days, but it wasn’t always ®°- I Back in the palmy days of Judge. Ward, Judge Saunderson, Judge Cummings, Judge Thompson, Judge Hammond, D. L. Bishopp, Wilbur Royce, T. C. Annibal, Dawson Smith, and a few others of their calibre, there were legal battles in the old court house that caused the rafters to reverberate for weeks. Eloquence, sarcasm and stinging epithets were hurled back and forth with impunity, and to the uninitiated a pitched battle was expected in the argument of every case. Jurors would come to Kentland clad in new suits, and return home with patches over the hip pockets from long service 'in the jury box. Night sessions were the rule and hung juries burned the midnight oil in their endeavor to convince the other eleven stubborn heads. About the first lawsuit the writer remembers was conducted by two of the above named jrentlemen. For two days' and two nights they fought like, demons. Even vilified and defamed each other until their characters looked like they uad been drenched in ink. And when incase 'Was given to the jury the two lawyers walked arm in arm to the drug store where they enjoyed a smoke,-and laughed at the quandary In which they had left the jurymen. But perhaps the present way accomplishes as good results, with a less consumption of brimstone.

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