Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1911 — Miss Zella Thomas and Mr. Ora Miller Married Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Miss Zella Thomas and Mr. Ora Miller Married Sunday.

At the residence of Elder Halstead at 7 o’clock last-Sunday evening occurred the marriage of Miss Zella Thomas, daughter of F. M. Thomas, to Mr. Ora Miller, a young farmer residing near Lafayette. The ceremony was performed In the presence of a few relatives and friends and from Elder Halstead’s home the wedding party went to the home of Mrs. Lizzie Guss, an aunt of the bride, where a fine wedding supper was given. It was a very enjoyable event for all who attended. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have gone to their home near Lafayette, carrying with them the best wishes of a large number of friends. Arthur Griffith, the Indiana mathematical wonder, who was fbund dead In bed at Springfield, Mass., Mentioned in Tuesday's Republican, was smothered to death by bedclothes, instead of dying of apoplexy. Griffith was subject to epileptic fits, and bad one in bed. He worked the bed clothes around him so that he was smothered, being found dead in the morning. A neighboring paper makes a monstrous heading of the fact that there were 53 Sundays in 1911. There is nothing peculiar about the fact at all. There are 365 days in a year, which means that there are 52 full weeks and one day left over. On leap years there are two days left over. During 1912 there will be 53 Mondays and 53 Tuesdays and during 1913 there will be 53 Wednesdays and in 1916, only five years away, there will be 53 Sundays again,. Some papers ge-. mighty bard up for news. ; Uncle Sam’s finances are in a “very satisfactory condition,’’ according to President Taft’s message to congress cn departmental affairs, delivered December *2l. The message discussed the nation’s financial status, proposed currency reform and many minor matters pending ih the various departments. A surplus of over $47,000,000 In the receipts for the year over the expenditures was shown by the president’s figures, and he remarked that the postoffice department for the first time in twenty-eight years was selfsupporting. The exchange of the Home Telephone company at Wabash was the scene of a strike yesterday, which resulted in the striking operators gaining the point they sought and causing a thirty-minute interruption In the service. The operators demanded $1 a day for their work. The Management asked that the demands be allowed to go unconsidered until tho first of the year. The operators objected and seventeen of the eighteen removed their receivers and left their chairs. Only the one gfrl refused to join the strikers. The company finally agreed to Increase the girls’ salaries.

The contest wlthip the Republican party in Indiana is not between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. Republicans everywhere understand that Mr. Taft was made president by Mr. RooseveU and that criticism of Mr. Taft is* therefore criticism of Roosevelt’s work. The assault on Taft is financed by Wall street interests at President Taft’s sincerity in anti-trust prosecutions. The man in charge of the campaign in ndiana is Mr. McCormick, of the harvester trust, which has robbed the Indiana farmers for a generation, and resents the use of the big stick on the criminal trusts. These people are using the name of Roosevelt only as a means of defeating Taft. Colonel Roosevelt is not the man to put in the White . House and then give aid and comforito the Wall street interests in their effort to put him out There is a big campaign fund behind the anti-Taft movement in Indiana, but it will, take more than stee 1 trusts and harvester trust boodle to influence the voters of this state.— Marion Chronicle.