Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1912 — Page 1

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ELLIS THEATRE ONE NIGHT ONLY Wednesday 'll FEBRUARY Band Boys’ Musical ■■■ 1 ' ' * 8- New Pieces-8 Extra Solos Quartettes , If you like good music, don’t fail to hear it. You have the blues and need the music. We have the blues and need the money. Seats for sa|e by the Band Boys anid at Jessen’s. - Price 25 c.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. See our new shoes. Complete line just arrived. ROWLES ft PARKER. Martha Spriggs, wldcSv of James M Spriggs, has filed letters of guardianship over her three minor children, with the county clerk. The newest thing in tan Button Boots, just in. ROWLES & PARKER. Mrs. E. Powell went to Crawfordsville yesterday to visit a few weeks with her parents, while awaiting the completion of the J. T. Randle family hotel, which she and her husband will conduct. The largest and best line of t ßoys’ nnH IVTan’n Wnrlr QYiaar in thp oitv at Rowles & Parker’s. ,-- - . - W. F. Hodges, formerly of Rensselaer, and who was appointed as a special prosecutor in the Gary graft cases, is a candidate for the republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of Lake county. One lot of Ladies’ Shoes, odd sizes and widths, $1.19, at Rowles & Parker’s. Harry Kiplinger went to South Bend yesterday afternoon and last night saw the fistic combat between Packy McFarland, of Chicago, and Eddie Murphy, of Boston, in which the former outpointed the latter. Richlieu coffees and canned goods, superior to all other brands, at Rowles, ft Parker’s. Wednesday, Feb. 14th, was the 17 th wedding anniversary of Mr, and Mrs. Jesse Nichols, and they entertained about twenty guests most delightfully at their home at the county farm in the evening. Cards were played. |3.00 and $3.50 Ladles* Shoes, odd sizes and widths, at $1.79. ROWLES & PARKER. This is a beautiful day, really bright and springlike and invigorating. The snow and lee ate fast melting under the rays* of a warm sun. The probable result will be rain and the weatherman prepares us for it by the vagueness of his forecast. A Washington dispatch says that all opposition to the confirmation of the appointment of Charles Daugherty as postmaster at Crown Point has been withdrawn and that Ute appointment will be confirmed and Mr. Daugherty installed in office without delay. The Fidelity Class of the M. E. Sunday School will give a market at VgnArsdel’s store, Saturday next, all day. Borne made candy, pies, bread, cook* des, etc. .. ■

The Evening Republican.

Marriage of Miss Elizabeth Rieddle and Mr. Al Kanne.

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Rieddle and Mr. Alphonsus H. Kanne took place at St. Augustine’s Catholic church in Rensselaer this Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, being performed by Father Christian Daniels in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Miss Charlotte Kanne was bridesmaid and Mr. Lonzc Healy was best man. The ring ceremony was employed in the service. Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was Served at the home oi the bride’s mother, Mrs. Lena Rieddle on Rachel street to the bride and groom, the attendants, the bride’s mother and the parents of the groom. Mr. and Mrs. Kanne went to Chicago on the 10:05 train, which was some two hours late. They will spend several days visiting relatives of the groom in Illinois and will then return to Rensselaer and take up their residence on the Kanne farm just vacated by Tone Kanne, one mile west oi Rensselaer.

18 pounds H. ft E. granulated sugar, SI.OO, with SI.OO worth of other groceries. ROWLES ft PARKER. “The Best Ever” home made bread, cinnamon loaves, cakes, doughnuts, rye and graham bread and Boston baked beans at Mrs. Green’s bakery. Order the day before. Phone 477. We have for sale good cord wood, block wood and split wood. Phone 273. Hon. Daniel L. Harding, formerly mayor of Ft. Wayne and prominent in railroad building operations in In-, diana half a century ago, died suddenly at his home in Ft. Wayne Sunday. * Entire new line of silks, embracing 36-inch messalines, fancy foulards, serge silks in all colors, and silk poplins. The best line of silks we have ever shown. ROWLES ft PARKER. I have rented the room back of the Rex theatre and hereafter all goods purchased of me will be shipped direct to me and delivered from this room thus saving the farmers the freight _and also the trouble of going to the depot after the goods. Anyone living in the country and wishing a good quality of groceries can send me their order by mail and it will receive prompt attentiop. The goods to be delivered are guaranteed to be just as good as the samples ahown. Have sold several orders and everyone well pleased. Give me a trial order. Phone 122 or write me at Rensselaer. Orders in town delivered to your door. Yours for business, Joe Jackson. New spring goods of all kinds are arriving daily. The best selection that the largest wholesalers can procure for us, and at very reasonable prices. We want to show them to you. ROWLES & PARKER. Edwin M. Lee, former state chairman of the Republican party, is said to have opened Roosevelt headquarters at the English hotel. While there is some Roosevelt sentiment all over the state and while many believe he would make a stronger candidate than Taft, there are not many of these people who would accept the leadership of a man so treacherous as Lee, who would violate every confidence of the position to which he had been chosen because of his disappointment at not getting a fat appointive office. Lee’s action in assuming leadership of the Roosevelt forces should be all that is necessary to make Indiana solid for Taft

Phorte your coal orders to us. HAMILTON & KELLNER. The 2-year-old son of Charles Pasley, living near Mount Vernon, Hl., is dead as the result of a grain of coffee becoming lodged in his lung. Our trade in buttertne has doubled in the last month. Fancy buttertne 18 cents a pound, extra fancy 29 cents a pound, at John Eger’s.

Entered January 1, 1887, aa wend olam mall matter, at th. post-ottca at Wauaelaar, Indiana, under the aet of March S, IOTU.

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RENBBELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, IW2.

MRS. WARREN SPRINGER PROPOSES BIG CHARITY.

Widow of Extensive Land Owner In Jasper County Plans Social Settlement for Chicago Poor.

Mrs. Margaret Springer, widow of Warren Springer, whose death occurred last week, was made the sole executrix without bond of the estate of her husband, which, according to a Chicago estimate, is valued at $2,000,000. According to the Chicago Tribune Mr. and Mrs. Springer had for a long time considered a plan of colonizing the poor of Chicago who were honest and willing to work. Their idea was to place them on a small farm near Kniman, Ind., where Mr. Springer has about 2,000 acres of land. The Tribune publishes the following about the eccentric millionaire and his plans which Mrs. Springer now proposes to carry out:

“The project, which Mr. Springer did not live to execute in person, was planned in detail by him and Oscar Lovell Triggs, former professor of English literature at the Unversity of Chicago. “The scheme includes the division of a 2,000 acre farm near Kniman, Ind., sixty miles from Chicago, between families from the congested tenement districts of Chicago and the establishment of a social community for the industrial and educational betterment of people lagging behind in the city struggle for existence. This colony of social redemption, backed by the Springer millions, is to be. made the nucleus for more extensive settlements.

“The proposed Springer colony ’s to bring into effect the dead millionaire’s pet ideas of social problem solutions. He protested always against city social settlements as means' for ultimately bettering the lot of poor workingmen and their families.

“Take the poor out of the city,” he is quoted by his widow as saying. “Stop trying to reform them amid their squalid surroundings in the city. They don’t need to be reformed. They will develope under the proper surroundings in the city and the neighbors will hear them. Instead of that we send them settlement workers who chloroform them, but the effect is temporary.” . v .

“My husband- and Triggs had outlined the plans of the community which they were going to establish before Mr. Triggs left the University of Chicago,” said Mrs. Springer. “After he was discharged my husband pleaded with him to take .hold of the work. He offered to deed him the whole farm and give him a free hand in running the community. But Mr. Triggs had been kicked about so much and he was so distraught by the notoriety which had come to him, that he' did not feel equal to the task at that time.” “Now I shall consult him and I may bring him to Chicago, if possible, to help me carry out this work, which my husband bad so much at heart My other helpers will be Stephen Marion Reynolds, of Terre Haute, Ind., and Seymore Steadman, of Chicago.’ “Mr. Springer experimented with various agricultural schemes on his farm to gain experience for his work. He came to the conclusion that the cultivation of strawberries, raspberries, onions, sugar beets, pickles and other vegetables would prove the most practical and profitable. He had the promise of a pickle manufacturer trf

establish a factory near the farm as soon as the colony was established.” “The farming is, of coursd’, to be carried on under the instruction of competent men. We desire to get as much out* of the soil as possible and to carry on intensive farming along the most up-to-date lines. We will demand that each member shall put his best foot forward and help himself, once he is established on his plot of ground.

“To his son, William, the** only issue of his first marriage he left |5,000. The son was not in Chicago to attend his father’s funeral. In fact, no member of the family seemed to know where he wsfc, or is, if alive. Long ago he was practically disinherited, and it was understood that for some time afterward he worked in Chicago as a streetcqf conductor, ringing up fares paid by his father and stepmother, to whom he did hot speak as they rode on his car. “Mr. Springer’s body is lying in an unmarked grave in Rosehill cemetery by the side of his son, Warren, whose resting place also is undesignated. The graves of one of Chicago’s most eccentric millionaires and his son will continue to be unmarked. This was his expressive wish. “But the realisation of a great philanthropic dream, which the real estate man drrsnwd some ten years ago and planned to execute in his old age Is

RENSSELAER ATTORNEY IN BIG CHICAGO LAWSUIT

W. H. Parkison Trying to Get Share of J. J. Lawler Property for Mike -.Lawler’s Children.

W. H. Parkison, a Rensselaer attorney, has been in Chicago quite a little lately, where he is working t» secure for the widow of Michael Lawler, a division of the lands and property of John J. Lawler, the extensive Jasper and Newton county land owner and Chicago cattleman. For some years Mike Lawler was associated with his brother John in business and frequently came to Rensselaer with him. - Mike died two or three years ago and Mr. Parkison associated himsel with a Chicago attorney, named Samuel C. Herron, and together they represented Mike’s widow and her two children in an effort to procure a division of the estate of John J. Lawler, contending that John and Mike were full partners in the'business and the land ownership and that .Mike’s widow was entitled to half of the big estate. Attorney Parkison worked diligently for a long time on the matter and just at a time when he thought he bad it in good shape he was surprised one day to receive a check from his Chicago collegue for $250, stating that the case had been satisfactorily settled and that was his part of the attorney fee allowed by the court. Attorney Parkison was not satisfied and determined to ascertain the nature of the settlementteuade. He went to Chicago and found out that Mrs. Lawler had been given $15,00 and each of her two children $2,500 and that the attorney Cor them had been given SIO,OOO. The attorney, who had permitted Mr. Parkison to do practically all the work had sent him only $250 out of the large fee. Mr. Parkison went to* the court, Judges Charles S. Cutting, and laid the matter before him. He found Judge Cutting thoroughly fair and honest and the Judge appointed Attorney John A Swanson to make an investigation with a view to reopening the case. Attorney Parkison feels convinced that the court was deceived by the attorney with whom he was formerly associated and that the settlement would never have been permitted had the court been familial with the conditions. He hopes to -be able to have the case reopened and tc represent the widow of Mike Lawlei in« an effort to secure a division of the property of John J. Lawler.

to perpetuate bis memory, according to the widow. Mrs. Springer spent Wednesday discussing with architects and builders her plans for erecting cottages in her proposed industrial colony near Kniman, Ind. At the end of the conference she announced that she would take no definite steps for building until she had conferred with Frank Lloyd Wright, the Oak Park architect. Mrs. Springer said Mr. Wright will be one of her advisers, and she would probably depend upon his counsel in planning her buildings for the poor of Chicago whom she proposes to turn into agriculturists. Mr. Wright is now on his second spiritual hegira with Mamah Borthwick Cheney in hie bungalow at Spring Green, Wis. He as well as Oscar Lowell Triggs, is in somewhat of an exile, but Mrs. Springer plans to call both of them back and use their ideas in the execution of her industrial project. “Mrs. Springer’s colony is to be more than a purely agricultural one. Some of the pet ideas of Triggs on industrial art which he exploited inChicago years ago will be worked out if possible. “We will try to train craftsmen and artisans and to teach them to make with their own hands useful and beautiful things,” says Mrs. Springer. "My husband had decided views on purely utilitarian art It was his theory that usefullness should be the first prerogative in the construction of all things and it would necessarily follow that the < articles would be beautiful.

“Mr. Springer hated all useless things. That is the reason why be insisted on having ju> monument built over his grave. He used to say to me: "Don’t throw stones at the dead, but give bread to the living.’ He Insisted that graveyards yere the ugliest places In the land, because they were cluttered up with useless stones.”

The Springer lands in Jasper county have for some years been largely managed by Ex-Sheriff John O’Connor, of Kniman, who will probably have general management of the proponed settlement The tone Of the Tribune article will sound very strange here, in view of the fact that for some years the Springer Jasper county land has been mortgaged to almost its value and that for the past two years there hap

i The Ellis Theatre J H M. s a J LLIs H Saturday Night, Feb. 17th o.- . F. S. Gordon Presents THE STOCK COMPANY o In the great Four-Act Comedy-Drama “Bilk in name Only” Beautifully Mounted and Costumed. o Souvenir Teaspoons Given to All Lady Patrons. ;; Prices: 25c-35c-50. Seats on sale at Jessen’s.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight, becoming unsettled .Friday with moderate temperature am moderate, variable winds.

been a foreclosure proceeding in the Jasper circuit court This proceeding has been continued from term to tern by agreement of the parties, but it is generally considered here that Mr. Springer’s affairs have not been ir shape to undertake any real philanthropy and that his widow will be unable to put into practice the ideas expressed to The Tribune.

Many Labor Leaders Arrested For Dynamite Outrages.

Forty-one arrests were made Wednesday in various cities of the United States of men against whom federal indictments were recently procured. They are charged with complicity in various dynamiting outrages, all being officers or members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. There are 32 indictments against each mkn arrested. Judge Anderson and District Attorney Charles W. Miller, of Indianapolis, are the men who have procured the information upon which the indict ments were returned. Mr. Miller states that -the government is prepared for trial at once, having its information all at hand.

Husband May Have Fallen From Water Wagon Since.

It is a funny world. A Rochester woman made a vow that she would stay in bed until her husband signed the pledge. Well, hubby balked with the signature but wife hung put She staid in bed for sixteen years and finally the male half of the sketch sighed “the pledge. Then he went to his heart’s delight and said, “Greetings, love, you can get up, I've signed the pledge.” Whereupon the wife answered, “Well then, I guess I’ll get up.” But the plans of mice and men oft gang, etc. She couldn’t get up. She found that her legs were atrophied and that she could not walk, because of the long stay in the hay. Just what they will do with the pledge isn’t chronicled in the dispatches.

Vast Gary Steel Plant Now Employs Nearly 7,000 Men.

Lake County Times. Nearly seven thousand men are at work in the Gary Steel Works at the present time. Never before has the monster steel works been so busy. For the first tome in its existence eight blast furnaces are in commission. A month hence there will be operating besides the blast furnaces forty-two open-hearth furnaces, the million-ton rail mill, the billet mill axle mill, plate mill, 10,' 12, 14 and 18-inch mills, machine shops, foundries and 560 by-product coke ovens which have a capacity equal to nearly 5,000 ovens of the'Connellsville type.' With the exception of the rail mill and a dozen open-hearths, which are now being prepared, all of the departments listed above are now in full blast : The smoke that now comes from the Gary Stem Mills, the thousands of men that come in and out of its gates, when the whittle sounds, and the reflection in the skies at night, all wean business. ‘

For This Week Only.

Four large cans of apples, hominy, kidney beans or canned corn for 25 cents. Remember this is for this week

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“A Welcome Chance to Those Who Suffer.” (taunt to RENSSELAER, INDIANA Saturday, Feb. 17 un Sunday, Feb. 18 Ta Stay at The Ntkeever Haase. Dr. Albert Milton Finch Of Jamestown, lAitau. Consaltatiei aid Exuriiatisi Ciifideitial, Invited, aid FMEE. I will be in Rensselaer on SATURDAY AND BUNDAY, FSB. 17 and 18, 1912, to see my old patients and all the new ones that will come. ;'' ' Remember, I come to you every four weeks, and have cured many c*mo la your city and country that have bnttt given up to die. Why suffer when you can be cured? I examine you free of charge. It in doubt about jrhat your trouble is, come and I will tell you what it is and for- ■ ever settle the question. Remember, if you are curable, I will take your case; if incurable, will give you such advice as will probably prolong your life many years. I treat and cure all Chronic Diseases. Don’t forget time and place.

Young Couple From Tefft Married at Heme of C. M. Sands.

At the home of C. M. Sands, assistant cashier of the State Bank, at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening occurred the marriage of Mr. Sand’s brother Mr. George Milton Sands and Miss ‘ Rachel Louette Cullen. The bride and groofh are from Tefft, in Kankakee township, and will make their home on a farm near that place. The marriage was performed by Rev. J. P Green.

GUfCHIASS! GnfGHAXS! ■* (HMGHAMS. Toile du Borde, goldenrods, and Renfrews. No better made to wash and wear. See the new line at Bowles A Parker’s. Tenr Last Chance for Sauer Kraat. We have opened ourflfth and last cask of fancy saner kraut. The price of kraut has dWAled, hot we are still selling ft at the old price. 2S cents a gallon at John Eger’s. Literary Betite. The Ladies Literary Club will meet With Mrs. A. Partisan Friday, Fsb. 18th, at 2:30. Mrs. Geo. A. Williams. —■■—,,■■■ i. ■ ,» j ■■■ »>■ . We sell baled hay and straw. « - IT *■. _ -,. 2

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