Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1912 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. - "**' :>. v , - - ,■ 1 ~. ■■"■ ~ ■’ . .‘jS Buy your wood and coal of Hamilton & Kellner. --Ellis Theatre Saturday, Feb. 24th, “The Senator’s Daughter.” Sherman Knauff left yesterday for his home at TOwn Greek, Ala., after a visit here with his sister, Mrs. Isaac Wiltshire. Do not fail to look over our line of farm machinery before buying. * BAM&TON ft KELUJEB. B. J. Jarrett made a business trip to Indianapolis Wednesday and was delayed by the snow storin in getting home, not arriving until today. Ellis Theatre, Saturday, Feb. 24th, “The Senator’s Daughter,” plenty of comedy as well as a beautiful love story, ending as all real stories should. Mrs. W. H. Townsend died at her home in Goodland this morning. She is the mother pf. Mrs. Charles W. Rhoades, of this city, who was at her bedside when death came. Eat Mrs. Green’s famous new pro cess brown bread, it is the “Best Ever." Try her mince pies, doughnuts, ginger cookies and all kinds of "goodies.” The “Best Ever.”- White bread, too. Phone 477 C This is Washington’s birthday, and the weather bureau at Washington does not send out a forecast on legal holidays. From. morping papers the forecast is as follows: "Clearing with not much change Intemperature.” County Assessor Lewis was in Lafayette yesterday to meet Tax Commissioner Matson, who told of the assessing plans for the coming assess- . ment period. Mr. Lewis left Rensselaer on the early train and arrived at the yards in Lafayette at about 8:30. A train was off the track a short distance south of the. yards and all passengers had to walk to town, a distance of about two miles. Coming back, he arrived home on the train due at 6:44 and which arrived Ist about 8:30. The assessors assembled at Lafayette were told that the plan of making assessments this year would be to assess all personal .property at 75 per cent of actual cash value, giving special! attention-to raising the assessment on household property Of wealthy and well-to-do people. A Classified Adv. will sell It s Fur i EVERYBODY LOOKS WELL—also “well” in a suit made by me, because I use only the choicest fabrics, ip the latest designs, and I iyn expert fitter and cutter. -J give a distinguished air to the wearer of a suit or overcoat made by me. Let me have a trial order from you so that I may ensselaer, Ind.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM The Professor’s Daughter. ‘ The Deserted Trail. SAVE lOUB COUPOWS."

Another Side of the Depot Racket—This Version by Operator.

Homer George.the night operated at the depot, called at The Republican office today to give his version of i the trouble with the stranger named Reed, whom he undertook to bounce from the depot Monday evening. He thinks he has been done an injustice and asks that his version be published. He states that he went to- Reed, who was sprawled out on the seats, taking him for a hobo, and asked him if he had a ticket, and Reed replied that he had. He asked to see it and found that the ticket called for passage between Reynolds and Lafayette only He told Reed that he would have to buy a ticket if he wanted" to lounge in the depot Reed refused and went out but soon returned. When the operator went so again inform him that he could not loaf in the depot he alleges that Reed drew, a knife. Sam Stevens supports this statement. George then got a whetstone and threatened to use it and again Reed went out The next time he saw Reed was when became back with Nightwatch Critser George says that Critser does not like him and that he was very.abrupt in-telling him that Reed could stay at the depot After Officer Critser left Reed sat down in the depot with a spade at his side. A young man. who had been in the smoking room walked through toe waiting room to the office and saw Reed with the spade and asked George what he Was doing with it. George replied, “I .dbn’t know unless he’s afraid of some one.” Then Reed jumped up and went after George with the spade, remarking that he was tired of the abuse that the operator was heaping upon him. Reed swank the spade but missed h's mark and struck one of the seats. The operator claims that Reed had tried to get Conductor Kellog to take him to Monon, offering 10 cents for the accommodation. It was this act. George Says, that caused him to think the man was a tramp. Sam Steveni also thought the man wap a tramp. George seems to regret the circumstance and the notoriety that we. t with it. He says that the rules of th.road are that persons not patrons of Lite road are not alloWed to lounge in the depots and he thought he was carrying out his orders.-Reed has not been heard from ’ Since he went to Lafayette and as to whether he will carry the matter up to the officers of the road is not known. He is a small man, probably about* 50 years us age. . s = r There are now two candidates for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Charles, Morlan, who for a long tone has been toe janitor at the court house and a faithful and diligent employee in every respect, made his announcement some time ago. Today A L. Padgitt, who is well known throughout >h e county, made, bis announcement, which appears in this issue of The Republican. Both men are of unflinching Republicanism and either will make a candidate that should have no difficulty in holding the solid party support in the coming election. The rivalry for the nomination will no doubt be thoroughly friendly, as both candidates are of the open and above board brand. There have been no more announcements made tor recorder, the race being between Frank BL Lewis, of Keener township, -and Geo. W. Scott and Charles J. Dean, of Marton township. No other announcement* has been made tor second district commissioner, and apparently D. 8. Makeever io going to gettbe nomination without opposition. In the third district, Charlhs A. Welch and Fred Berger are the only candidates so far announced. Everything points to a clean ticket, a ticket that will get together and work together and that will Kav© thfi Tcsofid and coatideuce of the voters irrespective of party, but that more particularly will have a claim op toe solid party vote. The bill "for Ellis Theatre Saturday, tfiTg a uFiEbt.. fintfirtain ip cr fid y if '* jl ** *• . * ( a.' w x i-ta. /■' ‘•"A’- • / '

Entered v inav. aa eecend wiati matter, at the wost-oZUoe at Benseelner. Indiana. under the act of March *- 187 a

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1212. ..

WAS A FRIGHTFUL STORM THAT STRUCK RENSSELAER.

Calls the Oldest Inhabitant to Scrateh His H ead to Recall a Worse Show aß<l ’ Today is bright and somewhat warmer and a brilliant sun has shown during much of the day. The wind has subsided and toe storm is apparently all over. Before sunset Wednesday the snow had almost ceased but the wind continued to blow for several hours. This morning great drifts of closely packed snow were banked up on sidewalks, in streets,' in yards, against houses and barns and travel was next to impossible, but the day was pleasant and it was early this morning when, property owners began to clean off the walks and then Jacob Gilmore, the snow plow man, started out on his mission of path making for the school children. Some places the snow was packed so firmly that the plow but skimmed the top and his horse soon became' so exhausted that he had to change to a team and to confine his .pathways to the center of the streets. The school attendance is a little better today than it was Wednesday afternoon. The rural route carriers had ail sorts of trouble. John Daugherty on Route 1 managed to get home at about 5:30 o’clock. He got his horses down in deep drifts twice and had help to get them out, but he kept on going. He had to cut out a part of his route' and arrived home almost exhausted and chilled through and through. Harry Murray got stuck in the same snowdrift that Mr. Daugherty did at a point where their routs overlap. He also forged ahead .but finally got stuck near the Bowling Green schoolhouse and had to Unhitch bis team and leave his wagon out all night. He remained over night at Estel Osborne’s and came home this morning, arriving at noon. It took a long time to dig his wagon out and to clear away a passage at the railroad cut, where the snow was banked six feet deep. J. Q. Alter reached the home of Marion Freeland in Newton township, and remained there over night and will be there tonight also. The lanes in that part of toe country are blockaded to such *n extent that travel Is impossible. The road supervisors are trying to get the roadways cleared for travel. J. B. Martindale remained all night at the home of Al Peters, south of town, and arrived home at about 11 o’clock this morning. He had a lot of trouble * yesterday, having to cut wire fences and go through the fields to avoid impassable drifts. . ♦ Ross Bringle came in from his father, W. D. Bringle’s about 9 miles southwest of town, at about 12:40 o’clock. He rode horseback, coming after medicine 'tor' hTs mother, has the grip. It took him 3 hours and 10 minutes and he was almost capsized in snowdrifts at places. Business in town is practically at a standstill. Grocers were compelled to give up deliveries Wednesday afternoon and stores closed at 6 o’clock In the evening. Coal dealers were submerged in appeals tor fuel and had to refuse to make deliveries in afternoon. Trains have been running with great irregularity. The , milk train from the north, due at evening, did not reach here until' 5 o’clock this morning, it went to Lafayette and turned around and started back and at 2 o’clock this afternoon had not yet reached Monon. It would naturally be expected that today’s run would be abandoned but this cannot be done on account of the mall contract, toe milk train taking on and delivering mail at small stations along toe route where other trains do not stop. Other trains are from two to fonr hours late, except the south bound Hoosier limited this afternoon, which was only about a half hour late.

The oldest inhabitant has had to scratch his head to find anything that comes up to thia as a storm. Steve Comer called us by phone this morning to let us know that his part of Jasper county was up and doing. He recognizee tots as a bad storm but pot toe worst ever. He remembers the cold New Tears of 1863 and a big storm of Feb. 14th, probably in *72 or *73. On that day a wolf hunt was to be pulled off with the* hickory grove, near toe jpresent town of Gif* ford,, as the central turning point It turned bad about 10 o’clock and a blinding storm a emm panted by frigid temperature ensued. The participants had a hard time to reach their homes The temperature sank steadily until it reached 14 below, sero and chickens froze to death in the eoops and cattle in toe fields. - The Indianapolis Star says it is the worst storm there since the sixties and the Chicago. Tribune ealls it the worst storm in tost dty since 1894.

“Baldy” O’Brien, Noted Tramp, Pays Visit to Rensselaer.

There are tramps, and tramps. The ordinary begging tramp that hits your backdoor mar be of the Imbecile variety or he may be a man of intelligence, whose balance wheel has failed to couple up right between brains and application. Either one is a tramp from choice. They make tramping a business and find real pleasure in the changing scenes of each day. They take the hardships as a matter of course, tho good fortune as a matter of luck. They have no mind for the future, no remorse for the past, they live only for the present and they don’t care for acquaintances except for convenience. We see mostly the kind of tramps that we don’t care to get acquainted With, the grinty, low browed, halfcriminal type. But all are not justly described by those terms. There struck Rensselaer Wednesday another sort of tramp, a kind that Rensselaer does not know much about. -.His name js “Biddy” O’Brien. He was a switchman for some years but he did not like it He went on the theory that a man was not obliged to do something that he did not like simply because there was money in it. He had the wanderlust and he used his trade as a convenience tor seeing toe country. He finally gave up toe trade because, as Abe Martin says, it took up too na|uch of his time. Then he traveled and bummed his way. He knew switchmen and trainmen from coast to coast. He did not have to ride on the bumpers; he had a card that showed him to be a member of the switchman’s union and he just climbed on the trains and took his chances. He whs seldom repulsed. He was entertaining, keen, cunning; he had nerve ’and could make a quick touch as gracefully as the most scholarly tramp in the business. He attended the national switchmen’s conventions all oyer the country and his fellow railroaders slipped all sorts of coin into bis palm. He learned their names, fore and aft add used rare discretion as to twhich was certain to bring the bdst. results if used in making an appeal tor aid. He ranked well at toe head his tramping profession. «e----wa» nd longer a tradesman; he was 'a real professional man, a member of toe wanderlust estate. Landlord Clarence Fate, of the Makeever hotel, was a switchman when he gave It up to become a hotel keeper. “Baldy” knew him; called himClarence and tor years knew there was a switchman who never turned him down when he was ahungered. He was a walking directory of addresses and the removal of a switchman from one city to another or from one part of a city to another part never put toem.out of “Baldy’B” itinerary. Even to quit switching and get, into some other occupation was no barrier to “Baldy.” ' Wednesday morning, some place out of the blizzard, “Baldy” dropped into Rensselaer. He went straight to the Makeever hotel. He knew Clarence,. Fate was there. He was fixed for-, a blizzard and he didn’t mind it. He knew there was a warm heart and a place to toast his shins when he found Clarence. <

■ His greeting was cordial. He walked into the hotel Just as though he was expected, found the landlord, called him Clarence, said some of the boys had told him not to fall to call and see him while he was in Indiana - .-He admitted that he was hungry, sleepy and broke, and Clarence took care of his wants. Today he was up cleaning the snow off the walk with the first signs of life about town. He blocked the snow off carefully into squares, took ponderous shovelfuls, worked deliberately, stopped occasionally to put his hand across the small of bis back, where the pain of his labor struck him, but he made a good cleaning as he went along. This is the tramp “Baldy” O’Brien. He should be seen to- be appreciated. He should be conversed with to learn something of the peculiar ipanner of man he is. He carries a switchman’s card and wears a Knights of Pythias pin and calls efery one brother that speaks to him. He would not make his permanent home here if given a pension; be would not remain any place. He loves ,the world and he loves to roam and it is doubtful if there is a man to Rensselaer that is as happy as “Baldy” O'Brien. Doan’s Regulets cure constipation, tone the stomach, stimulate the liver, promote digestion and appetite and easy passage of the bowels. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents a box. y “The Senator’s Daughter” is all that can be found in a bright, pleasing comedy-drama. EHta Theatre, dafS night, Feb. 24th. : ? -

/ K * <•y-|-Z Ms mtwGy and.became qpartner /nthe Bus/ness OUR SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MEN Began by saving the first mo«cy they earned, so that when a business chance arose they were In a position to grasp It- Many senior members of great firms became junior members of that same firm by having MONEY SAVED with which to buy the first Interest they had In the business. Start a bank account and see how happy you will be to see It grow; it will be the best friend you have, and the Best Partner. ----- Do Your Banking IVlth Us. First National Bank of Rensselaer

The Ellis Theatre J h m. s „.£ llls Saturday Night, Feb. 24th F. St. Gordon Presents THE STOCK COMPANY In the great Comedy-Drama of Washington society, Che Senator’s Daughter Bright - Entertaining t Full of Laughs A . STRONG DRAMATIC STORY. Prices:'2sc-35c-50. Seats on sale at Jessen’s.

' W? " SIDNEY LANDON. . Impersonator of Great Men. Mr. Landon is more than a mere impersonator—-fee will make you think the real, live, noted men whom he portrays, arg, standing before you and speaking to you. Mark Twain, our greatest humorist, will be here and deliver an afterdinner speech so characteristic of him, yon will think, almost, that he has returned.from the grave. The genius, Poe, the little-understood author, will make himself more real to you and you wiH realize bow human* and appealing he was, when he shows you his heart in his rendering of “Annabel Lee.” “Bill” Nye will convulse yon with his fun. Other celebrities may appear if-'there is time. z Then there will be Isaac Isaacstein, Yon Yonson, the German politician, the .man from Green’s Corners, Posey County, Indiana, the old war veteran, and others, all as true, to life as life itself. You will see at least seven or eight distinct and different characters, each worth while and each entertaining. The fourth number of the Lecture Course, at the M. E. church, Monday night, Feb. 26th. General Admission, 35 cents. "i

Household Goods at Auction.

Tbe follow tog articles will be sold to the highest bidder at the courthouse corner Saturday afternoon, Feb. 24th, #4 o’clock: 1 ii.. “'jy 2 beds, 2 dressers, 12-foot table, sewing machine, stand. 2 Stoves and other s BEN AHLERS. Fred Phillipa Anctioneer. y 4/. 7

ELLIS THEATRE ONE NIGHT ONLY TUESDAY 'yj Band Boys’ Musical 8- New Pieces- 8 Extra Solos Quartettes If you like good emmlc, dou’t fail to hear it. You have the Hues aad uoed the music. We have the Hues and need the money. ======== Seats for sale by the Baud Boys and at Jessen’s. Price 25c. ,,| || | I! ||l —— WEATHEB FORECAST, ■ ■ <■' ‘ Ciearning and not much change to temperaturo. ; *' - . . |. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Fur Qhoriff. A L. PADGITT, of Martan townamiouiicfis ills i Republican nomination tor Sheriff of Jasper county, subject to the deciakm of the county convention, to ba M 14.. March 18. 1812. ■ " .'«■ ■< * Valparaiso, Ind.—Sid Landon's, tapersonations showed him to be an artist of the first class in his line, were especially fee.—Vidette. M toe M. E. church, Monday evening, Feb26th.

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