Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1911 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Try some of Leavers home made can dtc't. v * rnnJm ■ ■ INI ■■■■■■ Rev. C. L. Harper made a business trip to Chicago today. Mrs. Nancy Pay Visited her son Ed and family last week. C- M. Sands family spent Cbrfctmas in Monon. Robert Johnson, of Lafayette, is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adams spent Christmas in Monticelln. Born, Sunday, Dec. 24, to Mr. and Mrs. N. Littlefield, a son. Mrs. William Lowman and baby spent Christmas at Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wortley visited over Christmas in. Logansport. Mrs.<rLevl Clouse and son Cecil eiere Christmas visitors in Monon. Miss Myrtle Amsler is visiting her grandmother at Fowler this week. Joe O’Connor, of Hammond, was a guest Sunday of Miss Lennie Grant. . v Miss Blanche Embree is spending a week with relatives at Tangier, Ind. Ross Myers and Miss Frances Yeoman visited In Chicago over Christn^s. The D. A. R. Society will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. S. S. Shedd. Orie Leavitt, the new barber at Haskell’s, is visiting at Chicago and Momence. ■ j v e - T . Parker Childers has returned from a week’s visit at Delphi and Crawfo{dsv!lle. / Mrs. Wm. Porter, of Gipnd Rapids, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark. Harold Brooks, of Indianapolis, is visiting Ids sister, Mrs. Bernice Brown and husband. Miss Vera Parker visited her sister, MTS. W. M. Parklson, at Brook, over Christmas. ' Walter'crampton is he-c from Chi-

Walter Crampton Is he-c from Chicago for a holiday visit with his uncle, C. E. Prior. Prof. J. H. O'Donnell, of St Mary's college, Ky.. was the guest Sunday of Miss Madeline Ramp. Miss Hester Halleck went to Chicago today to. visit with her - sister, Mrs. George Richardson. Mrs. Ida and daughter, of Oelwien, lowa, are visiting her sister, Mrs. Albert juggins. Attend the Rensselaer Gun Club ■*r*~ •, shoot next Thursday. You are invited to come and bring all your shooter friehds. % ■- . George Drake and wife and baby, of Chicago, visited his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Drake and family over Christmas. ‘ Sperintendent of Schools Ernest Damson will go to Indianapolis tomorrow morning to attend the meeting o' the state teachers' association. He will be absent until Friday. Miss Grace Norris, the assistant principal of the schools at Fulton In<L, is home for the holiday vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Norris. Mrs. B. M. McCabe, of Kankakee 111., Is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. 3. Parks, and another sister, Mrs. Rosa Brown, of Monticello, was also here ovpr Sunday and Christmas. James W. Beckman, of Minneapolis, and Delbert Beckman and wife, of Lafayette, were Christmas guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beckman. James will remain here for the Week. Paul Glazebrook Is home from Purdue for the holidays. He will graduate this year and expects to teach jMKt year; He will probably teach phrslca and chemistry, in .which studies he is specializing. B

The Evening Republican.

TQNIGHT’S PROGRAM Cain and Abel 4,• ,7 ?s''- : '£r ■ ” ■ A Cattle Rustler’s Fatter • —— 11 '■ ■ 1 Sai f.m ■ i i ni»' ■ SATE YOU* COUPONS.

That home made candy at Leavers bakerV is delicious. Try it. ’ * —— Landy McGee and family went •to Columbus, Ind., Sunday for a visit of several days with fdlatiVes. R. D. Thompson and family spent Sunday and Christinas With Mr. an l Mrs. Lawson Meyer, In Gary. E. K. Godahall and daughter, Miss Ruth, Went to Illinois Saturday for a week’s Visit with his sister. Mr. ahd Mi*. Louie Fendig, of Wolcott, spent Christmas with his parents, Jif. and. Mrs. A. Leopold. Roe Yeoman came home from Peru, Ill. v for a Christmas visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Yeoman. Russell Sage will move to a farm his father owns south of town, and which he will run the coming year. iili---- -- H Henry Jones returned to Chicago this morning, having been here since the funeral of his father, W. N. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harmon, of Terre Haute, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown over Christmas i. > . ' Mrs. Phillip Paulus and son Russell, of Newton township, are spending this week visiting relatives in Chicago v Frank E. Cox, of Rensselaer, and Floyd W. Cox, of Fair Oaks, were Sunday and Christmas visitors in Chicago. Miss Susie Hooker and Mr. Ed - ’■ ■■■ , * Brenneman, of Francesville, were Christmas vtHitors with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lambert. ■ ■ s George home from Chicago last Friday in time to help with the. Christmas trade rush at his father’s store. —w ... Glenn Bates left this morning for Portland, Oreg., after a visit of several weeks with hit? 'parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates. 1 i I. i■■ ■ Mrs. B. K. Zimmerman and daughter, lone, went to Blue Island, 111., today to visit her brother, A. C. Rhoades and family. Mrs. W. G.- Lloyd and her two children, Marie and Ulys Heckaman, are spending this week at Bremen, Ind, their former home. Mrs. Joseph Carson and children, of Lafayette, spent Christmas ''with her parents, Mr. add Mrs. E. L. Clark, and other relatives. John Duvall returned to Chicago this morning after a visit since Saturday night With bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W/Ottvall. Mr. and Mrs. John Childers and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Childers, of Del phi, spent Sunday with their brother, J. W. Childers and family. Mrs. J. L. Griggs and two children went to Kirklln Sunday to spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. Lester Brown, near that place.

L. W. Snider, chief clerk to the general superintendent of the Pullman car company, was a guest last week of J. L. Hagins and wife. Dr. and Mrs. Prank, McCarthy, of Terre Haute, were guests over Christmas of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy and family. Miss Pauline ZUlbart returned to Chicago today after a visit since Saturday with her parents. C. Zlllhart and wife, of Barkley township. Mrs. Martha Washburn and Miss Mary Washburn, of Chicago, .were guests over Bunday and Christmas of Dr. I. M. Washburn and family. Mr. and Mrs. fi. R. Moore returned to Hauunond this morning, after a Christmas visit with Blanchard Elmore and family at Remington. ftr. and Mrs. 'll W. Rlahling visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Osborne, in Hanging Grove township, over Sunday and Christmas. We will have another car of thor fancy Michigan sand-grown potatoes in a few days. JOHN BGUL

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1911.

MANY WEDDINGS OCCURRED AT CHRISTMAS TIME.

Tws Licenses Issued b/ Clerk—One Minister Had Four Weddings in Two Hays and Had te Hustle. The month of June never nv so busy a marrying period in Jasper county as did the 19H Yuletide, Cupid lias been working just as hard with his wlhter underwear and overcoat on as he ever did with his scant/ midsummer raiment County Clerk KVarner was kept on the jiimp Saturday and again Monday and ten licenses were issued-in the two days ! There was not a very even distribution of the marriage business among- tbe preachers and the sqires and Rev. C. L. Harper, of Trinity M. E., had considerably the better of It, having four of the ten and a prospect of another one or two. His first ceremony occurred Saturday at 12:1b o'clock at the home of Mrs. Stockslek on North Dayton street, when her daughter, Matilda, was united In marriage- to Mr. Karl Thomas Becher, a young farmer from over near Brook. Just after the ceremony had been performed and before the part’/ had set down to a fine dinner, a messenger was after the preacher to him to return to the parsonage and marry another couple. He departed at once and at 12:30 at his residence married Mr. Orange F. Snyder, a farmer from Waterloo, Ind., and Miss Ruby M-, Wolfe, of Gillam township. He then V ’ returned to the Stocksick home in time to partake of the wedding dinner. On Sunday at 1 p. m., at the parsonage he married Miss Minnie Ctrof Fair Oaks, to Mr. Frank Orr Garriott/of Parr, Frank is now farming in Union township, although for a number of years he followed school teaching, At 1:30 o’clock at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. ,C. M. Stanley, in the northeast part of the city, he married their daughter, Laura E., to Mr. Raymond ,D. Dobelbower, a stereotyper on the Lafayette Morning Journal. They will make their home in Lafayette. On Saturday Squire Irwin, at the Clerk's office, married Arthur L. Wortley, a Jordan township farmer, and Miss Belle Bultis, also of Jordan township. ~ Information was not secured as to where or when the other licensed couples were married.

Mathematical Predigy Died of Apoplexy in Springfield, Mass.

Arthur F. Griffith, of Milford, Ind., died in a hotel at Springfield, Mass., gome time Sunday night He was 33 years of age and was a marvelous mathematician. He was considered a wizard born an especial attraction for figures and had traveled all over the country and entertained many distinguished audiences of mathematicians. Without pencil or paper he coulJ raise a figure to the sixth power in about U seconds; could multiply three figures by three Agues in five seconds; and could multiply nine figures by nine figures in light seconds. v. - r 'As proof of his lightning .calculating system he once did the work of fourteen clerks in die state auditor’s office at Springfield, 111., for three hours, on a wager. On three occasions, tws6e in Indianapolis and once in Bloomington, 111., ne won races with adding machines. In a test before professors at Harvard he answered every question propounded, the fabled “fourth dimension? alone being barred. Problems that would require hours of figuring by most persons were solved in a few moments by Griffllth. Tbs answer to a problem like this would be at his tongue’s end: “What Is tbs compound Interest of one cent at 6 per cent from the birth of Christ to the present date and how far would that many silver dollars reach In the air if placed flat and against esch other on every square foot of a clear and level tils floor, 25,000 miles In circumference.” Buch as this was regarded as “light mental exercises” by Mr. Griffith.

Mrs. J. P. Hammond and son Maurice, of this city, and her mother, Bnglebret Jensen, of Wheatfle I'* 1 '* will start tomorrow for Boynton, Fla.. for a visit of about a month with the former'll sister, Mr*. Earl Darner. Emmet Hollingsworth arrived home from Fenton, Mich., where he lives with Rev. A. G. Work, for -a two Peeks’ visit with his permits, Mr. and fttS, E. L. Hollingsworth. > • - - - ■ ▲ big bundle of clean old newspapers tor a nlckle at The Republican ’ "C-V ; . -w. •;* 1

W. A. Davenport Called to Kentucky by Death of Relative.

W. A. Davenport was called rid Elizabethtown, Ky., Monday by the news of the death of- his stepmother, Mrs. W. T. Davenport. She was about 60 years of age and death was due to, cancer. His v father is also in very poor health. -7

Considers The Republican a Member of the Household.

Rey. W. 11. Sayler, of Buffalo Gap, S. Dak., in renewing his subscription writes: “I am reminded that anoth-' - year 1b passing and that 1 should remember my friends, so, as I esteem the old home paper as one of the household, I am enclosing herewith a renewal along with a wish that you will have a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. I want to assure you that we wait patiently for each welcome visit, of your paper.

Militiamen Will Have Indoor Rifie Match at South Bend.

Arrangements have practically been completed by the officers of the Northern Indiana Indoor Rifle Association for their annual match to take place in the armory of Company. F, at South Bend, on F*b. 22nd, It is probable that several from Company M will attend. On Jan. 18th, at South Bend, part of the officers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalllons of the 3rd Regiment, wi'l meet for a school, and new officers of the rifle association will be elected at that time. The Rensselaer officers will attend a conference at Indianapolis Jan. 12th.

Henry Wilson Has Been in Poor Heath at Mt. Vernon, S. Dak.

A subscription renewal from Henry Wilson, at Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., states that he has been quite poorly with brights disease, but he'ts nowimproved and the doctor thinks he will get along ail right unless he has a backset The weather at Mt Vernon had been fine unfil the 18th of December when it began to snow, and on the 21st there was about 5 inches of snow on the level. The Wilson boys go to school and think it great »port to catch jack rabbits in the snqw. There were 129 caught in one day by tbe school boys, so you may know they are having fine sport The market price for jack rabbits is 10 cents each.

Got Nineteen Polecats Out of One Den at Gifford Last Week.

Williard Hurley has been working up at Gifford f«r the pist two vvjeks and one day last week he smel’ed a mouse or a- polecat rather, and began to making lnvest’gatlons. He .bund the entrance to a den of the fuiry and odiferous iittle furbearl v animals and {’topped the hole with a shovelful of 'dirt He then stamped the earth down tight and began to dig cautiously, thus avoiding any escapes and also preventing the littl- s varmints from getting In their'favorite line of defense. Williard is a member of the militia and recognizes the strategic importance of preventing the enemy from using his artillery at short range. He Just left a little hole for the polecats to peek out of and every time one looked out to inqaire the time of day or to exchange greetings Williard rapped him one with the flat side of the spade and then palled him out and corded him up and then coaxed another one out. Finally the ekuuk cavern was depopulated and then Williard took an invoice and found that he had lit of the little fellows and that hfe had es catted Injury w!i*le making thb capture. was offered $32 to * the bunch and will probably sell. Williard is of half a notion to give up ditbhlng and go Into the trapping business.

Try the lfew Ante Bus— Prices Just the Same. I Try our new auto bus; prices tr* unchanged; any place in the city for 15 cents, round trip for a quarter, 25 cents ooe way to tbe college. Be* of service guaranteed Leave orders at Rensselaer Garage, Phone 355; Leek's hitch barn, phone 342; Barnes Restaurant 432, or . Tone Kanne’s residence, phone 214. r I wish to announces to the citizens of Rensselaer that I have purchased Joe Jackson's bus and will engage a the bus and transfer business In this city and will endeavor to give tood service night or day at ackson’s old prices. A share of your patronage U solicited. TONE KANNtt.

What a Woman Carries in Her Handbag Makes a Man Laugh.

They used to talk about the vast number pf thinra a boy carried in hia trousers’ pocket. Some one wrote a poem about it and it was spoken in every town in the country. But even the old fashioned boy has been supplanted in respect to the variety and number of things he kept in his pocket by the modern woman with a handbag. Recently The Republican received a letter from a woman living not far away, asking if any one had brought her lost handbag to this office. And she opened up her heart and told us what was in it Here Is the list: A ladies’ gold watch, some small change, a belt pin, a handkerchief, powder box and powder, a pow der rag, a perfumery bottle, a hand mirror and a small glass, a lead pencil, a small purse, a sample of red cloth, a barrette, several hair pins, a small paper of pins, a few fancy headed pins in a piece of cloth, a pair of glasses In a case, a piece of chamois skin, a broken bracelet and a pair of slightly worn kid gloves. Surely the modern woman and her handbag has made the pocket of the old fashioned hoy look like a sideshow. This lady’s lost treasure was not brought *to this offlee, if found, and we imagine it mfist -have tfeen picked up by some old bachelor, who did not realize that there was anything of value in it and probably threw it into the river. To the unfortunate woman, however, the loss will be great, and it will be just like starting up housekeeping again to replace the hand bag and its many valuable contents.

A Constant Subscriber Since 1856 Sends Renewal for 1912.

Under- date of Dec, 23, N. V. Snodgrass, now living at Gretna, Neb., sent a renewal of his subscription to The 'Semi Weekly Republican. In a letter he says: “I have been a constant subscriber to your paper since 1866* and I love 4,0 get the old home news. I am unable to read it now, myself, hot have some of my children or grandchildren read it for me. Pour of my sons and families live here and 1 live with them. I am thankful to have lived to this old age. If I am still alive until tbe 3rd of January, I will be 86 years old. Wishing you and all my old friends In Jasper county a Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year, I am as ever, „ N. V. SNODGRASS.

Reliable Pain Killer.

This is Lyman Zea’s great selling article. Lyman broke his arm and could not do manual work. He hit up dh Reliable Pain Killer and found that It was a great thing. He started to sell it and has been busy ever , since. He canvassed many towns in Indiana and Illinois. Wherever people knew of it, they wanted it; whenever they bought it, they found it a great thing for the instant relief and often the permanent cure of their trouble. Now they send to him for it from towns where he has canvassed, “Send me two bottles at once,” wrote a customer at Pine Village. Other orders almost daily. Lyman is thus aliTe to take care of his family, which includes his blind and crippled son, Ernie. Reliable Pain Killer is doing more than it agrees all the time. Buy from liie agent or send to him for it at Rensselaer.

OK fWd 4-Cylinder, Shaft-Driven Touring Car $690 Complete Whan we say COMPLETE, we mean magneto top, glass treat, » speedometer, five lamps, generator and teels. Over tm worth es eqntpments. John ill. Knapp, Agent rou> mum n stock.

Herman R Tuteur Tailor Made Clothes 1 have this season around 250 samples Blue Serges In Plains and Fancies The largest assortment in town to pick from; also au the Newest Fabrics All in l#-yard lengths. o ) I ... . , “ I know thtrt is a fliviig.” I affection livtfcA ; ■ .' ,V/V, fjg' ‘ * * CLEANING. PRESSING. | :• . .... llPfiJv 0— — H. R Tuteur Over Waraer’i Store.

WEATHER FORECAST. Snow or rain tonight; colder Wednesday and generally fair with a cold wave.

A Card of Appreciation.

As it will be impossible for us, to thank each one of our many friends and neighbors personally and individually for tbelr aid and sympathy to generously given during the last sickness of our hushand and father, please accepfibfif'card as an expres slon of our sincere appreciation. THE DANIELS FAMILY. Mr, and Mrs. Tedford, of Vincennes, are here spending the holidays with their daughter, Mrs. Geo. W. Hopkins.

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