Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1912 — Page 1

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TAGGART AND FAIRBANKS IN DEMOCRATIC SADDLE.

Control So Positive That die Better Element of Party Submitted Without Contesting It. The democrats at Indianapolis Thursday completed the organization of the state committee by choosing Bernard Korbly, of Indianapolis, state chairman. They set March 21st as the date for holding the state convention. They endorsed Tom Marshall again |or president, a veny half-hearted endorsement Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute brewer, and Tom Taggart, the French .Uck gambler, were entirely in control, and the machine Axed things up so methodically that the rank and file of the party were entirely overriden and Sam Ralston will be the democratic candidate for governor, probably without opposition. Korbly denies brewery affiliation, but the denial is not worth his breath, I for his backing was all of that element Surely Indiana democracy has gone to the very depth of degredation in this new organization.

Butter Cheaper.

Creamery, 35c pound. Country, 25 to 30 cents, but scarce. Swift’s Jersey Oleomargerine, 20c. This we cannot recommend too highly. Better than a large per cent of

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Tailor Made Clothes ' r*- r - * - 1 have this season around 260 samples .. « < Blue Serges j In Plains and Fancies The largest assortment in town to pick from; also all the Newest 4 Fabrics All in 1 -yard lengths. o “I kitw tore is I Mftag.” lispectien liriH. CLEANING. PRESSING. 0 1 - i ,V-C H R Tuteur for WmeYSHtt.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM THE MISER’S HEART. THE BO’SOft’S WATCH. SAVE YOUR COUPONS.

Dick Hartman, who has been living at Monon for some time, and who has not been in Rensselaer much for the past five or six years, was herq a day or two ago looking for a house. He expects to move here if he cau find one. Frank X. Busha and wife have moved to Lafayette. He will work part of the time as an operator at the shops and part of the time in the dispatcher’s office. Frank is a fine fellow and we regret that he has been transferred from Rensselaer. His place at the depot here has not been supplied. Four freight trains were tied up in Rensselaer today all at the same time. The cold weather had made progress slow and the crews had been out the full sixteen hours allowed by law apd the trainß had to be held here until other crews could reach wo from Monon to relieve them. One crew came on the milk train and another on the 10:06, both of which were two and a half hours late. Fred Qrlffin came over from Monticello today to attend the ikraltry show. He expected to have several hours here but the train from the south was two and a half hours late. Fred sold his restaurant there recently to E. F. Baxter, who formerly lived south of Remington, and Mr. Baxter took charge on Jan. Ist Fred does not know in what business he will engage but probably he has somewhat of a hankering to get back into newspaper harness. Eat saner kraut and try and live one hundred years. It costs only one cent a meal for each person. Sfrcentn a gallon for Bilver Thread saner kraut, at John Eger’s, J /

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Fresh head lettuce at Rhoades’ grocery. ’ ■; Frank Kelly made a business trip to Chicago today. . r - That home made candy at Leave!'s bakery is delicious. Try It # ■ * G&Uoway Fur Overcoats, S2B grade, for s2l. Duvall’s Quality Shop. Try some of Leavel’s home made candles. ... ~ ' Chapter X of “The Pool of Flame” will be found on page two today. Lee Baughman, of Medaryville, is visiting his sisters, Mrs. Carrie D. Short and Mrs. Jesse A. Snyder. v __________ We are selling three times as much ;0f our fancy butterine as we are butter. Only 20c a pound at John Eger’s. - 0 Junior Benjamin is confined at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Benjamin, with sickness, and is threatened with pneumonia. Emmet Pullins this week snipped bronze turkeys to" Dunning and Elsberry, Mo., Everett 111-, and Lewisburg, Ohio, all to turkey breeders. * The only place in the city where you can buy a large can of White Karo corn syrup for 10c is at John Eger’s. Mrs. Henry Baughman, of Monon, mother of Mrs. Carrie D. Short and Mrs. Jesse A. Snyder, is in quite poor health. She is almost 77 years of age. Bill Grayson is laying out a fine and costs amounting to $11.25 at the county jail. He imbibed too freely after falling off the New Year waterwagon. Mrs. Elena Riley, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Monroe Carr, is nearing her 88th birthday. She is in very poor health and not apt to live long. Attorney Williams was at Dwight, 111., Wednesday, on business fdr Mrs. C. W. Spencer, from south* of town, who is Interested in the settlement u? nn estate there. Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Parrett, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Williams, Mrs. Geo. H. Healey, Carl -and Orabelle Duvall and others went to Chicago today to witness “The Messiah,’ at the Auditorium tonight

Entered January 1, 1897, as second class mail matter, at tbs post-office at Xensselaer, Indiana, under the act oi March 3, 187*.

BENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1012.

CONTEST PROMOTERS MAKE A BIG HOLLER.

After -Soaking Babcock $278.40 for “Banner” Plano and Offering It to Republican for $145. * . Evidently Banner pianos as sold by a gang of contest promoters in lowa, and manufactured no one knows where, are a bjg lot like the old Jashioned Barlow knives. You get one and take your chances on results. Sometimes a Barlow .knife was sharp enough to trim a sore corn and some times they would not cut soft butter, but they were never very good. - Thereon test company pulled Bab’s bobbin for $278.40. He has given subrtantial proof that be was that big a sucker, but he had dipped right in and pulled It out of the gullible public. The company then offered a Banner piano, just the same thing, no doubt, to The Republican, for $145, and Bab howled. He had a howl eoming, and to pacify him and make him think he had beep treated all right, and to try to uphold the contest business as a proposition, the promotors wrote him a long letter, so full of “sop to the wolves" and so bitter toward The Republican that Bab published it as a justification for bis claim that the Banner piano has a retail value of $350. As a matter of fact, piano contests and all other contests, as applied to newspapers, are coming into rapid disfavor, and it is only here and there that a reputable newspaper engages in them. The contest companies are not regarded favorably by newspapers any place. To begin with, they sell inferior pianos as ah almost unvarying proposition. They make a profit off the pianos. They sell a scheme for running a contest which any oneof common sense could conduct without paying for. They are newspaper leeches and pull big revenue from the legitimate receipts of a newspaper and from the’ easy public. Thus, it was time for them to try to justify their existence. The Republican has maintained its ,big subscription list by its merits a 3 a newspaper. A contest given four years ago resulted in some new business, but the merchants who handled the coupons paid for the piano, and those merchant* who were not permitted to issue the coupons were done a great business injustice. Since then we have been approached by a vast number of schemes. Promoters and contest firms all over the country have tried to get their hands into our money drawer. Last fall we talked a little about it. We found that pianos that were used in contests by promotion companies willing to call themselves perfectly honest, could be bought as low as S9O, while they were supposed to carry a retail price up to S4OO, in fact, the so-called retail price could be-anything that an unscrupulous promotor or a hard-up newspaper publisher might upant to make it We could have induced a number of leading merchants in Rensselaer to have gone in with us, but we figured the matter carefully and gave it up. Tjie proposition of encouraging from six to twenty girls to harass their friends, for months tq take your newspaper and to have each one of the girls hoping that they might be successful and causing them to believe they might be, is not honest, and we decided not to go into it It is especially dishonest when the girls are not permitted to know how far they are behind and we brand as absolutely fraudulent a scheme that will induce a poor girl to spend her odd time for months with the belief that she has a chance to win wheh the actual result shows her to be sq far behind that there is no chance of success. The Republican has enjoyed a substantial growth in subscription and there are not many of the best homes in Jasper county that do not have The Republican in them, and we have given away no cheap glassware, no trips to New York and no Barlow pianos. We keep our subscription lis* clean. We want every subscriber to pay and If we have any notion that he won’t pay, we cut his name off our list We don’t want any perron to take The Republican that don’t want it and we would have a lot of that kind If* we ran a contest. A prominent democrat in Rensselaer has notified Babcock that if he ever runs another contest he can take his name off the subscription books, and we have* an idea that there are a lot more democrats who feel the same way about it In two contests conducted by The Jasper County Democrat at least S6OO has gone out of Rensselaer and the public has paid the money, It might have been spent legitimately with local merchant*. The local piano dealers handle re-

GEORGE ROBINSON DIED SUDDENLY THIS MORNING.

Father of Mrs. L. H. Hamilton Yfqtisn of Heart Failure at Age of Seventy-Seven Years. George Robinson, 77 years of age, father of Mrsi L. H. Hamilton, of this <nty, died at about 8 o’clock this Friday morning at his home Sharon, 7 miles southeast cf Rensselaer. He arose this morning In apparently his usual condition of health. After he had eaten breakfast he went to the barn and milked a cow and then came into tte hou=?e and hold .his wife; he could scarcely get his breath. He sat by the fire in the sitting room and she remained by him until he was feeling better and then Mrs. Robinson went to the kitchen. She was gone but a short time and when she returned he was dead. Mr. Robinson was an eld and respected resident of Jasper county. Besides Mrs. Hamilton, he leaves several other children/ including John, who lived near his father's home; Marion, of Rensselaer; Charles, of South Dakota, and a daughter in California. The funeral arrangements have not been completed. __ 1

liable pianos, made by: firms with a reputation and they are eeXA on a reasonable profit and have the guarantee of a local dealer of responsibility. The idea of a guarantee for s on years on a Banner piano! It would be like a Purtelle bond. The guar antee does not amount to shucks ai d everyone knows It In ten years the contest promoters may all be in a place where zero weather don't bother them and we have a tolerably good idee that when the postoffice department makes a thorough investigation there won’t be any more contests, at least there won't be any where the poor struggling participants are compelled to wear blind bridles so as not to see how far they are behind. The votes were counted in The Democrat by the 100 per cent pure and undefiled editor of that paper, whose distrust extends to every one except himself. They are still there, so The Democrat says, and can be counted. Yes, a fine proof of honesty. Imagine the votes of an election being counted by one person all had been counted and stored away and the result published, the invitation being issued to come in and count them. Why was not some one Invited in when the count was first made? That would have been honest. If the writer was one of the contestants he wou’d sure demand that tlic votes be counted by a cimmittee even at this belated hour. And the self-conceited 100 per cent pure and unadulterated editor of The Democrat favors an accounting board to keep the public officers straight. .That is queer consistency.

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it. JL Poultry Show Going on Ail W tk in the Odd Fellow Bsßdteg. Chickens given away I Rensselaer Orchestra every evening* | ' Thursday night. BABY SHOW Saturday Afternoon At the Princess Theatre SIO.OO IN CASH OIVKN TO THE EABICO. This is the best Poultry Show Rensselaer ever had. Don't miss it. ADMISSION, 10 CENTO

GOOD FARM RESIDENCE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Honse Occupied by Gaylord Parker Burned to Ground Wednesday Evening-Some Insurance. “ - A farm house now owned by George Kanne, 2 miles east of town, was destroyed by fire at about 6:15 o’clock Thursday evening. The property was occupied by Gaylord Parker and fam Uy. He had built up a hot fire in the heating stove, and the pipe, which passed through the floor to an upper soom, became too hot and the floor caught fire. Mrs. Parker saw it and Gaylord doused a couple of buckets of water on it and thought he had it out, but the fire had spread between the lower cealing and the upper floor to the sidewalls of the house and it was only a short time until the house was enveloped In flames. A call was made to Rensselaer for assistance and Fire Chief Montgomery and four of his aids hastened to the scene in an automobile, armed with several lit' tie chemical engines. In the meantime neighbors had been helping get tin things out of the house. The main part of the house was entirely consumed by the flames, but the members of the fire company succeeded in saving the summer kitchen, which was attached to the house. Most of the things from the lower part of the house were saved, but Gaylord will probably have a loss of about SIOO. Be carried insurance in the sum of S2OO in R. D. Thompson’s agency, The house was insured for SBSO in the same agency. This farm was purchased recently by George Kanne from David Bare, who bought it of W. R. Shesler. The house contained about 8 rooms and had recently been considerably remodeled and was a firstclass house., Mr. Parker is the son of Trustee Parker, of Hanging Grove tonwship. and his wife is the daughter of P. B Downs, of Newton township.

For This Week Only.

4 cans of Standard corn, hominy or kidney beans, for 25c, at John Eger’s. A Classified Adv. will refit it

THE ELLIS IDEM J. H. S. ELLIS, Manager. Tuesday, Jan. 91b AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN COMEDY BY OUTER LAB A DIE Casey Jones NEWEST IDEAS. AN ALLURING AND FASCINATING PLAY OF TODAY SEATS ON SALE AT JEBBEN*B. PRICES .. ......... 26e, 85e, Me. " . 1 • 11 WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and probably Saturday; continued cold. Official temperature, 6 below zero last

Notice of Early Closing. Commencing January Bth we will close our hardware stores at 8 o'clock every evening except Saturday, until further notice. WARNER BROS. E. D. RHOADES ft SON. CLEVIS EGER. 1 A Classified Adv. will sell it

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