Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Page 1

No. 56.

Clk Princess ClKaire rsio PHILLIPS, Proprietor. Wstota tuts Space livery Say

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Phone 273 for poultry feed. See our line of buggies. Hamilton & Kellner. Oscar Russell, of Gifford, made a flip to Monon" today. W. A. Roach, of Delphi, was in Rensselaer yesterday. Cord, block and split wood /or sale by Hamilton ft Kellner. ■ * —■■■—■ . 1 ■*—' m. - Willis Poole made a business trip to Battle Ground today. ISiiHiag Koons went to Lafayette last evening to attend the horse sale dftyL. L. Lefler, of Lafayette, came today for a short visit at his farm north of town. W. " ' • Baled straw, baled timothy and prairie hay for sale by Hamilton ft Kellner. v , 4 Born, today, March 5, to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Adams, of Barkley township, a daughter. J. H. Payne has returned to Rensselaer from Hammond and is working with the J. H. Perkins Co. Mrs. W. L. Myer is visiting her parents in Frankfort and Dr. Myer spent Sunday with them there. — * Try some of those nice smoked Finnan haddie, white-fish, halibut and bloaters. JOHN EGER. "Billy” Fergusqn left today for Lisbon, N. Dak., where he will work on a farm during the next six or eight months. Dan Waymire moved here from DeMotte yesterday and occupies the property he recently purchased from John W. King. The Knights of Pythias will have Workjn the first rank tontght f either one or two candidates. A full attendance is desired. . S. H. Cornwall, of Remington, was In Rensselaer yesterday, having brought an auto load over to attend : to some courj business. Pumphrey v and Mrs. Newton Pumphrey and two children left this morning for Qieir future home at Columbia City. Select your Easter suit at our opening Thursday, March 7th. Our prices are right and satisfaction guaranteed. ROWLES ft PARKER. John Nevill, of Pickneyville, 111., is visiting his brother, Henry Nevill. His daughter, Mrs. A. L. Morehead, and Gladys Nevill, of Morehead, Colo., are also visiting him. We can now furnish you nice leaf lettuce and celery; and if you want to make lentai salads, we have fancy canned shrimp, lobster and salmon. JOHN EGER. Mrs. Wash Lawman and two children left this morning for her old home in Paris, Tenn., where she will visit her brother, J. B. Conover, for two or three weeks.' Strauss Brothers’ Master Tailor for men at pur store Thursday, March 7th. 800 samples full 1 1-3 yd. lengths to select from. ROBLES * PARKER. Rev. R. H. Hume, .of Springfield, Ohio, who had been in Illinois, stopped in Rensselaer „ yesterday and visited until today with his daughter, Mrs. Ross Dean. We were out of potatoes for a short time last week, but we now have a carload of nice, white, Wisconsin, potatoes, free from frost. JOHN EGER. The monthly 10-cent social by the . ladies of the Presbyterian church will be held Wednesday March 6th, at the home of Mrs. A; F. Long. All are invited. I have \:Just opened a new meat market next door to Frank Rowen’s grocery. Meat delivered tp any pah of the city. I*llollo 202. / G. E. BECKER.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —-# ALIAS, BILLY SARGENT. , THE HAUNTED ROOM. THE FRENCH ARMY IN WAR MANEUVERS. SAVE VODR COUPONS.

WEATHER FORECAST. • - J . i iji ■ll ■■■a ■' . ~ /:'■ ~ ■/ - • Cloudy tonight, snow in south portion; clear Wednesday.

Frank Floyd has moved into town from the country and will follow ditching this' year. His brother-in-law, Frank Erwin, has moved here from Monticello and will also engage at ditching.. Dyspepsia is America’s curse. Burdock Blood Bitters conquers dyspepsia every time. It drives out impurities, tones the stomach, restores perfect digestion, normal Veight, and good health. Prof. x Otto Braun arrived in Rensselaer this afternoon from Chicago, where he purchased 6300 worth of band instruments for a new band that it being organized at McCoysburg and v hich he will instruct. Don’t forget our tailoring opening Thursday, March 7. 800 1 1-3 yard length samples to select from. Order your new spring suit now. We will hold same for you until wanted. ROWLES & PARKER. -jp —— Mrs, Jesse Carbaio, who has been with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amslcr, for several months, left this morning for her at Newark, N. J. Her brother, Bert Amsler, accompanied her as far as Indianapolis. We are this week unloading our third car of flour since Jan. Ist, 1912. Last year we handled sixteen carloads, and with the quality and price, we ought to be able to sell twenty carloads in 1912. JOHN EGER. and Halley ChestnuL of Philadelphia, Pa., arrived today to see their aged father, Thos. O. Chestnut, who was 79 years of age on Feb. 28th, and who is tn a very critical condition of health at this time. Alpha Ghristiey, of Jordan township, left today for Houston, Texas, where he has a brother-in-law living and where he will prospect some for /the next two or three weeks with a possible result of moving there an-" other year. George Scott continues to improve and was yesterday able to sit up quite a little and again today the same. A trained nurse, Miss Winifred Ferguson by name, who has been caring for him, returned to Chicago this morning. Mrs. C» A. Cox returned to ,the soldiers’ home at Lafayette last evening after spending two days with her parents, Elder and Mrs. D. T. Halstead, whose old age has paused them to notice the hardships of the long winter a great deal. W. R. Brown, who purchased the Lang farm of 120 acres near Surrey, is having some extensive repairs made to the house thereon and Clint Brown will move there when the repairs are made. Louie Muster is doing the carpenter work. We want you to come to our Tailoring Opening Thursday, March 7th and look over the season's latest ideas in woolens whether ready to order now or Sot. Five hundred pure wool samples all 1 1-3 yd. lengths. ROWLES ft PARKER. The Gordon Stock Co. will not visit Rensselaer for a couple of weeks, having arranged to make another circuit during that time. The company has been giving general satisfaction this year and their return will find Rensselaer theatre goers awaiting them. v-;-7;-. ' ' - - Silas R. Heath, formerly of Remington, who enlisted in the regular army last Mny and was assigned to the 21st infantry, is now stationed in the Philippine Islands. He writes back that he likes the army fine. A letter written by him on Jan. 16th reached Rensselaer today. _ Strauss Brothers’. Chicago’s Master Tailors, will sent their representative to be with us Thursday, Mareh 7th. 500 samples of 1 1-3 yd. lengths of the season’s latest ideas in woolens. Come in and select your new spiring suit Satisfaction guaranteed. ROWLES ft PARKER.

Entarvd Janwary l, 1897, ss wiwt class mail matter, at the post-o Mes at iMWtIMr, Indiana, nnder the act of March 3, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, ISI2.

Still Having Some Near-Zero Weather—March Record.

If there remain any groundhog doubters by this time, they are Indeed a difficult class to convert. The first five days of March have shown near-zero temperature, the record being as follows: March 1, above zero 6 March 2, above zero . ..... 1 5 March 3, above zero 13 March 4, above zero 6 March 5, above zero a vvavt 6 Some local thermometers are reported to have registered as low as zero, but they are not accurate, as the above figures are the official ones procured, from the weather station at St Joseph’s college. There has been a cold wind part of the time, however, that has been very penetrating and the weather has been even more disagreeabl than some of the much colder that occurred in January and February. There are a number of severe colds now and severel cakes of pneumonia. People are generally feeling quite exhausted with winter and the advent, of spring Will be welcomed everywhere. If Mr.'Groundhog will relax his enforcement of the cold spell the last week of his acknowledged allotment of time, he will place us under permanent obligations. The desire to make gardens and rake lawns and plant flower seed is strong with a lot of people now, while many coal bins and haymows are almost empty. The weatherman promises no relief, however, for today. He merely says “cloudy tonight and clear Wednesday.”

Depot Smoking Room Much Abused —Men Are Filthy.

That men are not much removed from hogs is demonstrated every day at the Monon depot. The building contains a smoking room for men, with a wash room and closet opening from it. The room has not served so much as an accommodation to the public as it has a- lounging room for the unemployed, who treat it with no respect and who have contributed to the filthy in which it is frequently found. A cuspidor sits in the center of the floor but the tobacco chewers and liberal spitters ! do not often hit the vessel and the floor is generally strewn with match stems, tobacco quids, pipe ashes, bits of paper and all manner of filth. It can be scrubbed out three times a day and still not be kept clean. Agent Beam has hit upon a manner of disposing of the neighborhood loafers and during the time of the day when there are no travelers he has been keeping the room locked. “It is disgusting,” said Agent Beam, “to think that any man could be- so unclean. Why, they drop down in a corner seat the farthest removed from the* spittoon and then try to see how close they can come to the opening without hitting it. Sometimes I feel like keeping it locked up all day long.” The toilet room is also abused by many and is not serving as good a purpose as had been hoped. The ladieß rest room, which occupies the other corner, is properly treated and there is no difficulty In keeping It clean. .7 ....

Remington Man Found Insane At Inquest Helt Saturday.

Albert H. Dickinson, a Carpenter township justice of the peace, conducted a hearing last Saturday to inquire into the sanity of Bryant W. Hammonds, who is 78 years of age, 6 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds. Drs. Rainier and Beser examined him and pronounced him insane. His wife testified his chief hallucination is that the bouse is on fire and he has a desire to throw furniture out of the house. He often thinks that he has made a mistake and got into the wrong house and Oat the owner is trying to give him the property. Sometimes he thinks he is a prizefighter and wants to engage bis wife in a game of fisticuffs. He has not yet been admitted to the asylum but application has been made. -

New York-Chicago Flyer Derailed—No One Injured.

Both endues. Abe baggage car and a combination coach of the eighteen-hour New York-to-Chicago Pennsylvania limited, traveling forty miles an hour, were derailed four miles west of Bucyrus, Ohio, Monday by the breaking of a wheel on the second engine’s tender. Nobody was injured. The Pullmans stayed on the track. Not even a window was broken. Traffic was delayed until noon. *■

A Otoiattod Adv. will find it

Elderly Lady Suffered Fracture Of Right Arm Above Wrist.

Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkins suffered a fracture of 'the radius bone of the right arm one day last week but the fracture was not discovered until Saturday. She suffered considerable pain but did not imagine her arm wSs broken. When she bad it examined by Dr. Washburn he found the bone fractured and placed' it in a cast. She is about 70 years of age and the injury will go quite hai;d with her.

Dr. Kannal Rebuilding His House Recently Fire Damaged.

Br. H. J. Kannal has McColly- ft Coen at work rebuilding his residence property on South River street, whion was recently so badly damaged b> file. The insurance was promptly adjusted and the workmen are making rapid progress at reconstruction. The house will be rebuilt as it was before * •» the fire except that the third story will not be built. Dr. Kannal and family are living at the residence which iiis mother formerly occupied on Mllroy evenue.

Mrs. George Reed Quarantined At Hahneman Hospital, Chicago.

Mrs. George Reed, who went to Chicago a week ago last Sunday to be present at the operation it had been expected to perform on her husband the next day, was compelled tj remain at the hospital owing to a prevalence, of scarlet fever among internes and nuraps at the hospital. There had been several cases there and the hospital authorities undertook to prevent a spread by isolating the patients but the spread became so great that the health officers took charge and placed the hospital under quarantine. Dr. E. N. Loy has been notified that the quarantine was lifted Monday. Owing to the conditions existing under tbe quarantine Mr. Reed could not be operated on and same has not yet taken plate.

Eighty-Six Years Old and Never Drank Nor Smoked.

John L. Turner, the aged bachelor who lives on bis 80-acre farm in Jordan township, went to Monon on tbe milk train Monday evening and expected to go from there to Francesville and Idaville on business. He was 86 years of age on Feb. 28th’ and is enjoying very good health, as might be supposed by the fact that he goes about and looks after his own business and travels at night as well as by day. Mr. Turner’s name will never appear as an endorsement of tbe life extending propensities of any brand of whisky, for he is and always has been a total abstainer from tbe use of both whisky and tobacco. He also abstains from eating pork and eats but little of other meats. He is a seventh day adventist in- practice and belief but says be has long ago given up hope of the adventists ever accomplishing any great growth in this country. Mr. Turner always has with him a tract with a very apt illustration that aims to inspire a person to Christian living and which he passes out wherever he goes.

Young Traveler Comes Home After Trip to Spokane, Wash.

TJje Hoosier Limbed brought Lee Richards to Rensselaer Monday night/ after almost a' year spent in the we3t and northwest is doubtless the most extensive traveler in Rensselaer and for ten years or more he has spent A large amount of his time seeing the United States. The desire to travel seems inborn with him and when he was only 11 years of age, he used to slip into some concealed place on a paksenger , train and make trips of long distances. His parents, Mr: and Mrs. W. S. Richards, would be ' alarmed about him and. for a Jong time feared that he would be maimed or killed, but he always turned up all right and be has never received a scratch in any cf his trips. Of recent years he has largely traveled on the inside of passenger trains and has worked in some of the big boom cities of the northwest. Tills last trip he went to Spokane, Wash.,, but did not find very much work there and he came back tb St. Louis, where he found employment in an automobile' and carriage paint shop. He attained hie majority while away this time, arriving at bis 21st milestone on Feb. 14tb. He expects toj remain at home for a time and to work with his father during the spring at the painting and paperhanging business Lee will cast "his first vote next tall and be will probably be the lightest weight voter in JaspeV county. as he weighs only a little over a hundred pounds. . ; 7

Rowles & Parker’s GROCERY DEPARTMENT Headquarters for Kitchen Goods. A Full Line of Richelieu Coffee. Dneqnaled in Quality.

Com . . 15c, twe for 25c PeM ...... 15c Pineapple 25c White Cherries . . 35c Peaches 30c Asparagus Tips ... 30c Pearl Onions .1 . . 35c Almond Staffed Olives 30 -Preserves . . . , . 25c Macaroni . . 10c Pulverized Sugar . . 10c

Seven bars Lenox or Swift's Pride Soap 25c Three packages Virginia Sweet Pancake Flaar .... 25c Acme Floor $1.45, White Star Flaw $1.35 Your money back if not satiffled. ROWLES & PARKER Phone 95 PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL DELIVERY ORDERS

ELECTRICITY The Practical Lighting Element o/ the Twentieth Century, Be “P"RA. C TIC A. L and at the same lime ECONOMICA.L. Ha-ve your Building Lighted tvilh Electricity. Electric Wiring Electric Bells Electric Flat Irons Electric Curling Irons Electric Vacuum Cleaners Electric Flashers for Signs Electric Flash Lights > Electric Signs LOCK ATTACHMENTS, can be used on any snap switch. Up-to-Date Fixtures of all kinds. Estimates given on all work. All work done according to National Board of Fire Underwriters —inspected by City Electrician. Raymond Delmer Shop at Rensselaer House, opposite the Postoffice. Phone 151,

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Breakfast Food . . . 15c Farina ...... 10c Rolled Oats . . 25c and 10c Oat Meal ..... 15c Yellow and White Cornmctl, 10c Milk, cans, . . 5c and 10c Gunpowder Tea, pkg.,lsc and 30c Pastry Flour . . . 7, 25 e Clam Chowder . . . , 25c Red Salmon, < . 18c and 25c Oyster Cocktail Saace 15c

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