Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM XX _ - ♦ -XX YOUTH vs. OLD AGE. GETTING MARRIED. Comedy “7 SAVE YOUR COUPONS.

A homeless dog picked up half frozen from the street a week ago saved the lives of Miss Mary Dugan, daughter of Detective Thomas F. Dugan, and her grandmother,' Mrs. Martha Williams, from suffocation when the Dugan home at Indianapolis caught fire from a defective furnace.

— When the vote is cast for the next presidential election a ballot will also be taken in four states on the matter of woman’s suffrage. Nevada, Oregon, Wisconsin and Kansas wllil submit the question to the people of whether or not the word “male” shall be stricken from the clause dealing with the subject of the right to vote. The supreme of Louisiana, in a decision handed down Monday, held that a ; negro has a vested right to a seat in a street car, despite the “Jim Crow” law in effect in New Orleans and other Louisiana cities and that he cannot be removed 4rom a seat in the white compartment of a car provided there is not a seat in the negro section. The advance agent for the Gordon Stock Co. is here today. The company will open at Lowell Saturday night in “Thelma” and will give a play in Rensselaer at the Ellis theatre Saturday night of next week, Jan. 27th. Mr.Gbrdon was atthfrhead of thfe stock year when It gave such splendid satisfaction and he has procured a company of especially fine actors for the company this year. It is quite sure that a filled house will greet them in Rensselaer. Rev. C. L. Harper of the M. E. church -preached last night at the union evangelistic meeting and delivered an excellent sermon on “Witnessing for Christ” He gave a laige number of illustrations of how others have been led to witness for Christ and the result of their efforts aud end* J with an appeil for every Coristian to be. an active witness. There wos a large crowd in attendance last night and as the severe cold crated it is hoped that there will be an <ven larger crowd tonight

C? Earl Duvall was called down to his store hastily Tuesday evening by the Information that a flood was in progress. While it did not take long to ascertain the cause of the trouble and stop the supply of water, it took a couple of hours, to get the water moppe •. up so as to be sure that no serio'u damage to his clothing stock would reult. Tuesday he turned the watei* on that supplies the rear .room upstairs which are to be occupied by A. J. Maisonneuve, the shoemaker, presuming it would be needed. But Mr. Maisonneuve did not remain there that night and a pipe which bad bursted from freezing thawed out and flooded the upstairs rooms and the water was not long in forcing its waj through the ceiJirigf Fortunately it was discovered before serious damage had resulted. M. R. Halstead, who has been living in Mississippi for the past year, has been back home for several days, having had some business matters to look after. Rankin is helping to develop the south and his first year’s experience has proven to him that there is a great possibility there. He raised considerable cotton last year,

but there was an over-production and the price was low and accordingly not so profitable as it had been in former years. He has put out about forty acres of alfalfa and will this year put out a great deal more and expects great results when, it gets into full bearing. Corn is a good crop there. Mr. Halstead is convinced that the country there affords a fine opportunity for northern hustlers, menwith a knowledge of farming and the energy necessary to succeed any place. He. says that with an equal amount of work a man will succeed better there than here. The coldest weather they have had there during the cold weather here was 18 degres above zero and that is colder than it usually gets there. Rankin wij.l be here for .several days before returning to his .southern home. He is located about 70 miles from Winifred Pullins. A Classified ASv. will rent it