Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Page 1

No. 12. ■

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Try some of Leavers home made candies. ,j g Born, FHday, Jan. 12, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Truly, a son. Mann Spitler, Jr., of Thayer, was a Rensselaer visitor today. , Edward E. Thomas, of Lawrence county, is visiting his brother, E. M. Thomas. . Better get In for some of that fine 1 sorghum at the Home Grocery. 75c a gallon while it lasts. “Bill" Grayson was z released from jail today, after serving out a fine and costs for intoxication. ~ If you want a dependable flour at a commendable price. the Home Grocery’s “Best" hits the target. $1.40 a sack.

Hallie Gwin, of Nappanee, and Clarence and Claude Robinson, of Brookston, are visiting Rev. and Mrs. Harper, and family. The six for 45c can special at the Home Grocery is a good one, and is for all this week. Ask about it when you order. . v ' Mrs. King Davis entertained her Sunday school class this afternoon. There were about 20 little girls present who enjoyed the afternoon with games and in partaking of refreshments. Tomatoes are scarce and the market is high, but the Home Grocery has a big lot o£ especially fine ones at only 10c a can. Ross Grant arrived here yesterday from St. Paul, Minn., for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Mattie Grant. He has been located at Minneapolis, Minn., but his work will take him to another' territory hereafter. ■

Mr. and Mrs.' Geo. A. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. I. M. Washburn aqd Moses and Julia Leopold were hosts and hostesses last evening at the home of the former, to members of the fourhanded e ( uchre club, consisting of about forty people

The season for hunting quail closed Monday and the little birds will have a breathing spell providing they can find plenty to eat and can survive the rigorous climate. Tn spite of the fact that an abundant quail season was predicted hunters in this section did not meet with any great success. Owing to the fact that a majority of £he farmers now protect their quail, however, it is probable that the birds sought the safe places and consequently escaped the hunters. • * - Rev. T. F. Drake, of Winamac, preached at the M. E. church last evening, at the last of the dedication week services. Rev. Drake was the pastor of the church here in 1890, '■wheh the old church was dedicated, at that time the finest church in Rensselaer. The church was commenced during the pastorate of Rev. E. G. Pelly and completed under the pastorate of Rev. Drake. Rev. Drake at that time published a church paper in Rensselaer and had files of the paper with him giving an account of the dedication twenty-two years ago. Last night was the coldest of the' winter, the government thermometer at the college registering 23 below zero. The weather man promises warmer weather from now on and today is promised to be the last of the aero weather for a time in the region south and west of the Great Lakes. Many more water pipes were frozen last night and water mains were burstM in some parts of town, which compelled shutting off the water in the buildings supplied by broken mains. The coal men are the only ones who have smiles on their faces-now and they are hardly able to take ogre of their orders. This afternoon the weather has moderated greatly and by tomorrow the weather be pleasant. Have your piano tune* by Otto Braun. Leave your order with any of the band boys. - ' -*, * ■ -j

The Evening Republican.

- TONIGHT’S PROGRAM THE BATTLE. GET-RICH HALL AND FORD. THE SEALED CONFESSION. SAVE YOUR COUPONS.

Prison Authorities Return Poole's Wearing Apparel.

The clothes that John W. Poole wore throughout his long trial and in which he was taken to Michigan City penitentiary, are now laying in the Big Four station at Swanington, just a mile from the Pooie farm and have been there for the past ten days. The prison authorities shipped them hack to Poole’s family after ‘Poole began his life sentence, and notified them that the clothes had been sent. So far,i the Pooles have paid no attention to the little box and leave it in the station where it is called to the attention of almost every person who passes through the building.

Emery Poole, the nlneteen-year-old boy, who was instumental in his father’s conviction on the charge of murder in the first degree, is back at the Poole farm and has taken charge. With him are his mother and his younger brother. Miss Grace Poole, who did everything in her power' to save her father from the penitentiary, is teaching school at Wheatfield and does not return to her home. For the past two or three years and during the trial of his father, Emory Poole did not live at "home, but since his father was taken to prison, he returned to take the management of the Poole farm. ~,

For you r electrical repairs and wiring call up Roy Delmer, Phone 151. Prices very reasonable; Additional frauds to the amount of SIBO,OOO have been discovered by Receiver Irwin of the Albion. National bank, Albion, Mich. D. F. Boyd, of Indianapolis, bought of Morgan Brothers of Greene county, in~one lot, 117 head of fine cattle, for which he paid SIOO a head. While on the floor playing with his children at his home in Greenfield, William Curry, age 40, was suddenly stricken blind. The cause is not known. Worrying for over two years because he lost a diamond ring, has deprived Van Lacy, age 50, of Wabash, of his reason, and he was taken to an insane asylum. The committee on interstate and foreign commerce, which has just returned from the canal zone, says it is entirely satisfied with the work be ing done on the Panama canal. ClaudO Lindsey, of Bloomington, Ind., was given thirty days in jail because he refused to answer a question propounded during the trial of a “blind tiger” case. He was held in contempt by the court The Terre Haute city council has named a committee of leading citizens, including two lawyers, to aid the councilmen in carrying out the plan to take over the waterworks plant under a provision of the franchise. ... ' " -X .;. . .

Judge Combs, ofFrankfort, has called a special jury to investigate the death of Albert Schenck, who was burned to death in the home of Ora" Reeves, at Colfax, some time ago. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, but there have been persistent rumors that Schenck met with foul play. Farmers in Racine and Kenosha counties, the big sugar beet raising district of Wisconsin, are' facing a loss of 11,500,000 in theh; crop this year on account of the action of sugar beet companies refusing to take beets contracted for and more than ■200,000 tons have been left to rot in the fields and at railway statiohs along the lines. County sheriffs throughput northern- Indiana are letters from a detective agency in Toledo, requestthem to be on the lookout for two men who . are swindling .farmers and others by the sale of windbrokeu horses. The men are known as A R King, Louis King, Robertson Bros., and Morgansey Smith and John Smith. They beat one farmer out of >450. . ...

Entered January 1, 1897, M second claca mall at the poet-offlee At Banaaelaer, Indiana, under the act of VL&tch 3, im.

Electrical Repairs.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1912.

Local Cold Weather Records During Past Thirty-Two Years.

' The Republican expressed the belief a few days, ago that The Hammond Times was in error in claiming that the recent cold snap was the coldest in forty-five years. Webased our opinion on our own recollection, which does not date back that far by' a good many years and were confident that within the past 25 or 30 years the temperature has been as low as 22 below, which was claimed as the " official . temperature in the Lake region Saturday night We are pleased to be able to publish an authentic weather record compiled from records by George O. Pumphrey and which substantiates our statement The following table will make a very interesting study: Ilin.

Jan. 2, 1879, at 6:30 a. m. ......—2l -Jan. 3, 1879, at 6:30 a. m. ..... —26 Jan. 4, 1870, at 6:30 a. m. .....—26 Jan. 5, 1879 at 6:30 a. m. ....... —24 Dec. 29, 1880, at 6:30 a. m —2l Jan. 9, 1883, at 6:30 a. m —lB Jan. 22, 1883, at 6:30 a. m —2O Jan. 19, 1885, at 6130 a. m. . —lB Dec. 18, 1884, at 10:30 a. m. ...—32 Jan. 20, 1885, at 6:30 a. m. ... —20 Jan. 22, 1885, at 6:30 a. m. .... —36 Jan. 28, 1885, at 6:30 a- m —32 Feb. 10, 1885, at 10:30 a. m —24 Feb." 13, 1885, at 6:30 a. m. —32 Feb. 18, 1885, at 6:30 a. m —22 Feb. 10, 1885, at 6:30. a. m —24 Meh. 20, 1885, at 4:30 a. m. ..... 5 Dec. 20, 1885, at 6:30 a. m —24 Aug. 12, 1881, holds the record for intense heat, according to Mr. Pumphrey’s record. At 1 p. m. that day the therpaometor registered 109 in the shade. On Christmas day of the same year the lowest temperature went was 40 above zero. The night was cloudy throughout. On Jan. 14, 1883, the thermometer registered no lower than 34 above zero during the day. There was a frost at night but no ice. The cold weather was saving itself up for a return engagement, which struck this locality in May of the same year, when the mercury went down to 3 degrees below freezing and ice a quarter of an inch thick froze. The same thing occurred on May 15th and 16th, 1882, where there was heavy frost and quarter inch ice. Mr. Pumphrey’s note book shows that for twenty years prior to Feb. 20, 1885, the thermometer never registered higher than 8 degrees above zeto except during the center of the day and then only from 5 to 8 hours at a time. During many of those cold winters snow came about the middle of December and remained with us until about the Ist or 10th of March. It often drifted from 5 to 8 feet high on open ground. A great many farmers in Jasper and Newton counties lived on the open prairie and underwent many hardships, and disadvantages. Coal could not be procured then as now and wood often had to be hauled from long distances. The country was not so thickly settled up and there'was no rural mail routes, no dally papers for the farmer and no telephones. There was no water-works system in Rensselaer either and consequently no water pipes to - freeze and no plumbers’ bills to pay. There were cob,pipes, however, and the isolated farmer took good care that these never froze up. Mr. Pumphrey did not supply us with a record of* cold spells during the years intervening between 1885 and the present time. Probably there were a number of occasions-when the temperature went to 18 or lower. The papers of the present time seem prone to claim that each spell of bad weather is the worst that ever happened. Only Friday morning the Indianapolis Star with big headlines told of a distastrous snow storm the night previously in that city. It pronounced the storm the worst in years. The writer of this comment reached the capital city the morning in question and found that the storm had been little more than an ordinary storm. Probably from 4 to 6 inches of snow had fallen and drifted in places from 15 to 18 inches. Traffic had suffered but little.

Walker Township Republican Call.

Pursuant to the order of the County Central the Republican voters of Walker township will meet at the usual voting place on Saturday, Jan. 27, 1912 at 2 p. m„ to transact any legal business!) rough t before said meeting. j JOHN O’CONNOR, r " Chairman. Wm. Middlecamp, Secretary. • q ~ T „ “The Best Ever” home made bread, cinnamon loaves, cakes, doughnuts, rye and graham bread and Boston baked beans at Mrs. Green’s bgkery. Order the day before. Phone 477.

SIMON CHUPP RESIDENCE NEAR SURREY BURNED.

Family Routed at 10 O’clock at Night —House Burned to Ground and Owner Had No Insurance. Simon Chupp’s residence, valued at about SI,OOO and located near the station of Surrey, northwest of Rensselaer, burned to the ground at about 10 o’clock Friday night; Mr. Chupp and family had retired for the night and all were asleep when Mr. Chupp’s son, who was sleeping up stairs, was awakened by embers from the burning roof falling on his bed. He rushed down stairs and awakened his parents and the alarm was given to neighbors who came to the Chupp home and worked valiently, but the main building could not be saved. Most of the household furnishings from the lower room were saved, however. The fire fighters also were able to save the well house, which was only 4 feet from the residence and other outbuildings also were saved. Mr. Chupp carried no insurance, but it is said that members of the Omish church, to which he belonged, will give him aid in the erection of a new home.

R. H. S. Basket Ball Team Defeats Brookston 30-10.

The high school basket ball team sustained the red and black athletic reputation last night when they defeated Brookston 30-10 at the armory. Brookston has been playing close to the top Ih the list of White county teams and has defeated the strong Monticello team and played close games with West Lafayette and Mulberry. The visitors drew first blood but were never dangerous as the ball was in Rensselaer’s possession most of the time. Porter and Robinson, although at times unable to hit the basket, played a fine passing game. Miller at forward and Sage at guard covered the whole floor and Adams playing back at guard seldom failed to shoot the ball out of the danger zone; Hamilton and Padgitt had hardly time to warm up but showed ability. Following is Che line up: Rensselaer H. S. Brookston H. S. Robinson/Tapt R. F. Allen. Miller, Porter L- F. Van Camp. Porter, Hamilton C. McClean. Adams, Padgitt R. G. J. Woods. Sage L. G. Bailey.

Field goals: Porter 7, Robinson 4, Miller 2, Sage 1, Allen 2, McClean 2, J. Woods 1. Free throws: Porjer 2 out of 5. Referee and Umpire: Dean and Hornung. Time Keeper, Dr. Loy and Robinson. Scorers: Clarke and S£mith. Time of halfs: 20 and 15.

Monon Pays $1,OOO For the Death of Brakeman in Rensselaer.

The Monon Friday settled for the death of Otto Hemphill, the brakeman killed at Rensselaer in 1910, by the payment of SI,OOO and costs of the case. James Burk, the administrator, brought suit for. SIO,OOO in the Carroll circuit court at Delphi, and the case was up for hearing this week, when the compromise put an end to the case. Hemphill was killed near Rensselaer, when the engine, on which he was riding, collided with an empty freight opr. The grounds upon which the suit was brought are extracts from railroad laws, which say that no obstacle shall be allowed to stand on an open switch, and which demanded that a car, damaged as the freight car wps, should either be repaired as soon as possible or removed from the tracks. The couplings on the car were broken. When the engine bunted against it, it struck flat against the end and Hemphill, standing on the cowcatcher, had both legs crashed, dying from the shock. The ease was taken on a change of venue from White county to Carroll county. ; . : ■

A Hero in a Lighthouse.

For years J. S. Donahue, So. Haven, Mich., a civil war captain, as a lighthousekeeper, averted awful wrecks, but a queer fact is, he might have been a wreck, himself, if Electic Bitters had not prevented, “They cured me of kidney-trouble and chills," he writes, “after I had taken other so called cures for years, without benefit and they also improved my sight. Now, at seventy, I am feeling fine.” For dyspepsia, indigestion, all stomach, livei and kidney troubles, they're without equal. Try them. Only 50c at A F. Long’s. ; *■* ■■■ ■■■■-■ y, ~.„w Cheapest accident insurance—Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil. Stops the pain and heals the wound. All druggists sell it

feIHG OUT yit t ■ a This is the second week in the year, and the time when most every wrong-doer decides to do right. While we are enthusiastic over doing the right thing, let 1 us do the most logical right thing by STMRTIMG a bank account—no matter hour small—which by this time next year will have grown, because we have made it grow. Thi* Bank i**ue» Certificate* bearing interest eompounded overs eln month*, and SAVINGS BOOKS i* which account* mas be rtarted with 91.00. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER Oldest Bank in Jasper County

Roof of Court House At Danville Collapses.

With a resounding crash that signaled a general rush from practically every business house in the downtown district, the entire roof of the massive court house at Danville, this state, collapsed at 8:30 Tuesday evening. The damage is roughly estimated at $25,000, though the twisted mass of wreckage at this time preeludes a close inspection of the damaged hall of justice. ' . J ■ A ponderous coat of ice and snow, coupled with the recognized ' weakness of the roof, is attributed as the cause of the collapse. Had court been in session there is no dpubt that there would have been a frightful toll of human lives.-Judge James L. Clark had occupied room until late in the evening, hearing a divorce case.

Traveling Salesman Gets Prize Worth $1OO at Hotel Bar.

Logansport, Ind,, January 12. — While gulping an oyster cocktail at the bar in the Dunn hotel yesterday, James Evans, of Buffalo, N. Y., a traveling salesman, struck some hard object and found a pearl, which two jewelers appraised as being worth SIOO. - The oyster cocktails are served free with drinks and when the news spread that a traveling man had found a SIOO pearl in a cocktail, the bar was jammed with others, asking for cocktails. However, no pearls were found.

Indiana Millitia Go to Wisconsin For Maneuvers.

Announcement was made by the War Department Friday that the militia of Indiana wil\ participate In joint maneuvers this year at Sparta, Wis. The plan to hold joint maneuvers at Fort Harrison was abandoned. Seven states—lndiana, Minnesota, lowa, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Michigan—will send their militia to Sparta and the maneuvers will be. conducted on a large scale. Regular troops will be sent from Fort Shelling and Fort Sheridan to teach the militiamejt the art of war.

Masons Take Notice.

The regular meeting of Prairie Lodge, F. & A M., for Monday evening, Jan. 15, 1912, will not be Opened until 8:30 p. m., in order that members who desire may attend the evangelistic services. ' . ■ > j ?

J. C. PARRETT, W. XL

Please Call and Settle.

All persons knowing themselves indebted to me will plehse settle as son? as convenient I need the money. I If. Washburn. ■’ >

■*: Motive. ' ' The W. R. C. will Have Installation of offeers Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16, attwo o’clock instead of in the evening as previously arranged. ' - IDA BENJAMIN. President

It’s There With The Flavor JII FHE ORIGINAL HAS THIS SIGNATURE

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair south, probably snow north find central portions, tonight or Sunday. Warmer tonight. . Minimum temperature, 23 below zero.

•?VLES SORED AT HOME IT REW ABSORPTIOM METHOB. It Jon nutter from bleeding, itching, HM or protruding Pile*, nend me year eiMnwg. to! 1 will ten you tow to cute youneU nt home by the new absorption treatment; and will eend uome of thia tome triatnanf free for trial, with reference* from year own locality If requested. Immediate relief and penMheßt cure aaaured. Send nn money, but tell other*. of thia offer. Write today to Ura. M. Summen, Box F, Notts Panic, lad.

Farm Bargains.

60 acres, near station and school, at head of dredge ditch, all level, productive land in cultivation'except five - acres in timber. Improvements are a good four-room, two-story house, good small barn and good well. Price >45. Terms S7OO down. 80 acres, all black land in cultivation, near school and churches, touches large ditch, fine Outiet for drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements ar e a good two-story house of six rooms, good barn tor ten horses, steel tower wind mill and good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only >45. Terms >I,OOO dows. 21 acres four blocks from court house. 165 acres, highly improved, half mile of the corporation of this ctty. Will sell in small tracts Iran ten to Q 80 acres at right prices. 599 acres with good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy terms. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres la Arkansas, a >5,000 mortgage and other property to trade for land or ty. Will put in cash or aswnwU Soothes itching skin. Reals cuts It '

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