Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Page 1

No. 60.

cik Princm Cheatre PUB PHILLIPS, Proprietor. Watch nil Space Every Say

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. . See our line of buggies. Hamilton & Kellner. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Chupp are spending today ip Surrey. Cord, block and split wood for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. -•--- Paye Clarke came up' from Purdue Friday afternoon for a short visit with home folks. Baled straw, , baled timothy and prairie bay for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Williams will move to the Frank King farm, two miles west of town. Mrs. O. M. Peek, of Dakota, is moving into Mrs. S. W. Williams’ Stott Grant property. V - Miss Naomi Gregg, one of the teachers, is spending the week end at her home in Grepncastle. Miss Lorene Warren weiit to Fair Oaks this morning for a-visit until Sunday with relatives. r Try some of those nice smoked Finnan haddie, white-fish, halibut and bloaters. JOHN EGER. J. W. Toyne came down from Me- • daryville Friday evening and transacted business here Saturday. S. Richardson, of Pleasant Grove, is moving in Mrs. S. W. Williams’ property in the north part of town. J. S. Brenner, of Mt. Ayr, made a trip to Chicago Friday evening, going via Rensselaer and the Hoosier Limited. , . S. W. Williams bought 3 horses one day this week to use on the H. F. King farm, as he will farm on a larger scale this year. . Mrs. Leo Wolf, of Hammond, spent Friday with her mother, Mrs. A. Leojp6ld, who is still confined to her bed, although Improving from her recent sickness. We were out of potatoesr for a short time last week, but we now have a carload of nice, white, Wisconsin, sand-grown potatoes, free from frost. JOHN EGER. . Mr. and Mrs. E. G.’ Perrigo came from Mt. Ayr yesterday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Crockett. He made a business trip to Roselawn today. I have just opened a new meat market next door to Frank Rowen’s grocery. Meat delivered to any part of the city. Phone 202. G. E. BECKER. Miss FI era Parks, of Mt. Ayr, went to Hammond Friday afternoon, via the Hoosier limited from Rensselaer, to remain over Sunday with her parents. Miss Parks is one of the Mt. Ayr school teachers. 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. Mrs. Bruce White went to Teltl today for a short visit with her sister, Mrs. William Warren and her niece, Mrs. Hattie Warren Grebe, who will depart Monday for North Carolina to join her husband, who is an engineer employed In railroad construction. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton, of Surrey, received a telegram from their son George.at Canton, 111., Friday, informing them of .severe sickness in his family. Mrs. Thornton left Hiai evening for Canton, where George has lived since* leaving Rensselaer With his father-in-law, E. V- Ransford. t v Mrs. Clint Brown went to Surrey this morning to see their remodeled bouse tit which herself and husband will move from Pleasant Grove next week. Everett Brown and family wll. move to the house vacated by Clint And Estel Price and mother, of Parr, will move? to the house vacated by

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —• —' A CHILD OF THE WEST. THE BLACKSMITH See GUS PHILLIPS ‘LOST—THREE HODRS’ SAVE YOUR COUPONS.

Phone 273 for poultry feed. Fred Daniels will leave for Mitchell, South Dakota, tomorrow, where he expects to get work. C. M. Miller, of Englewood, who has a branch egg buying store here, is here on business today. For any pain, from top to toe, from any cause, apply Dr. Tbomas’ Eclectic Oil. Pain can’t stay where It is used. •N —7 * The funeral of Mrs. Ira Norris wfll’ be conducted Sunday morning at the house by Rev. J. P. Green. Burial will be made In Weston cemetery. We can now furnish you nice leaf lettuce and celery; and If you want to make lental salads, we have fancy canned shrimp, lobster and salmon. JOHN EGER. Paul Ward, of Reynolds, White county, who is the drainage commissioner for the Ephriam Gilmore ditch, was in Rensselaer today taking care of some business-relating to the ditcl^ in this county. —— ; —• _ Dyspepsia fs America’s curse. Burdock Blood Bitters conquers dyspepsia every time. It drives out impurities, tones the stomach, restores perfect digestion, normal weight, and good health. Miss Martha Spencer returned to Hammond Friday evening after-a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner. She is the daughter of a sister of Mr. Warner’s first wife, her mother being Mrs. Lillie Burris Spencer. Rensselaer was Mrs* Spencer’s hoihd when she was a girl. Doan’s Regulets cure constipation without griping, nausea, nor any weakening effect. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents per box. Henry NevUl, who suffered injuries three weeks ago that made the amputation of his right foot necessary, is now recovering quite nicely and is able to sit up some each day. The shock of the accident and the two amputations which followed have been very hard on him and lie was some time in getting his nervs quieted. Now A® tef&elingjnftch improved. The limb is healed almopf all over. As Henry was a ditcher and worked at other kinds of manuel labor the loss of his foot will prove a serious barrier to him in the future. Mr. and Mrs. Nevill have rented the Kinney house on Front street and will move‘there next week and conduct a boarding house. Henry aiyj family wish to thank the people who have aided them since his accident They have been very generously remembered by a number of people and are deeply grateful for the aid.

B. S. Fendig came home this afternoon to spend Sunday with his wife and daughter Miriam. The latter has been sick for several days with a fever but is now reported to be improving. Mr. Fendig, who took the active management of the Carl Decker & Co. big egg and butter and other commission business three weeks ago, reports that the firm is doing a big business, with bright prospects for material increase. Mr. Fendig is rapidly getting on to the run of the business and is already in touch and and hap got acquainted with some of the most prominent business men of Chicago. He has been Selected a member of the Chicago butter and egg board of trade and also of the Elgin butter board of trade. The board of trade is similar to the* grain board of trade, except that actual commodities are dealt in almost exclusively. The board meets every forenoon bn business days, where prices 1 on butter and eggs are made by the spirited bidding of the dealers. The prices on. butter at Elgin are made in a similar manner. Mr. Fendig win go to EHgin the: first of the week to attend a session of that board. He has leased a) five-room flat on the north side, near Wilson avenue and will move to Chicago , about May Ist. leaving his daughter Miriam fierq with her grandmother to complete this term of school. : v plles yield to Doan’s Ointment. Chronic cases soon relieved, finally cured. All druggists sell it j

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After an extended illness, Mrs. Eleanor Minerva Florence died morning at 9 o’clock at the home of her, daughter, Mrs. John Woodfleld, west of Lafayette. Three years ago last February she suffered a stroke of paralysis and has been almost helpless „Bince. Death was due to the in - firmatles of age. She was horn In Clark county, Ohio, September 9.T828, and was the daughter of Isaiah and Rebecca Hunt. In 1846 she was married to Obed Florence, of- South Charleston, Ohio, and in 1869 they moved to Warren county and later to Tippecanoe county, where Mr. Florence died in 1865. For many years Mrs. Florence resided in Rensselaer, but ten years ago she went to Lafayette to make her home with her daughter. She is survived by four children, three of whom were with her at the time of her death. The children are: Mrs. Amanda Woodfleld, of Lafayette; Edward H., of South Charleston, Ohio; Thomas, of Vlrgie, Ind., and Wilbur 0., of Stone Heinge, Canada The remains will be token to South Charleston, Ohio, and interment-made In the Friends cemetery, near Selma, Ohio.

Young Lady Ran Needle in Hand —X-Ray Will Be Used.

.Miss Myrtle York, daughter of Mrs. Emma J. York, ran a needle into, her right hand several days ago, embedding it deeply between the third and small fingers. An x-ray was used by tbe attending physician, Dr. Washbum, to locate the needle and it will be necessary to make another x-ray exposure. This will be done tonight and the needle, which was broken when it entered the hand, withdrawn. It is so tightly embedded\hat some difficulty will doubtless be found in getting it out i , •

Augustas Phillips Will Be At the Princess Tonight.

Augustus Phillips, factor, a Rensselaer boy who has been very successful on the stage and who is now one of the leading stars of tbe Edison Motion Picture Co., will make* bis first appearance in tbe picture film shows at his brother, Fred Phillips’ Princess theatre tonight, starring in tbe comedy, “Lost*—Three Hours.” Paeked houses Will doubtless see the show. You should join the crowds and visit the Princess tonight.

Lewis at London, England, on Feb. 27, reached The Republican this morning. He writes: “I expect to sail foetNew York on Saturday, March 2, if the threatened coal strike does not affect our sailing. Everything is excitement here over the strike situation. All the miners in England and Wales will go on strike, about 500,000 if the operators do not meet their Both sides are determined and be a bitter struggle. The government Ip taking steps to prevent it It has rained every day for a month, but grass is nice and green and flowers are in w« n ' *. - . DiOOOL ' " '

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, IM2.

DEATH CAME FRIDAY TO AGED BLIND CITIZEN.

Janes Leatherman, Almost Ninety, Died at Home on Elm Street After Long Illness. , * - --S James Leatherman, the aged father of James N. Leatherman, died Friday afternoon at 5:20 o’clock at his home on Elm street in Rensselaer, after an illness tbat made him an almost total invalid for the past year. He-be-came blind twelve years ago, just a year following the death of his wife, and during all the succeeding years his daughter, Miss Mary, has been his housekeeper and companion. On March 15th, last year, he suffered a stroke of paralysis and since that time he had never had all his clothing on and was a constant care. His son, Simon, came from Lamar, Mo., about that time and assisted in caring for his father ever since. Mr. Leatherman would have been 90 years of age had be lived UHtil June 11th. He leaves five sons and two daughters, namely, ’James and Mary, •of Rensselaer; David, of near Wolcott; Simon, of Lamar, Mo.; Isaac, of Pleasant Hill, Mo.; John, of Chapman, Kan., and Mrs. H. K. Payne, of Indianapolis. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the residence. It will be conducted by Rev. Fisher, of Mexico, Ind., assisted* by Rev. Winn, of the Christian church. Rev. Fisher is a German minister and conducted the funeral of Mrs. 'Leatherman thirteen years ago. It was the request of Mr. Leatherman that he also conduct his funeral. Burial will be made Jn Weston cemetery, t

Mrs. Eleanor Minerva Florence Died Near Lafayette Friday.

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Democrat Has a New Idea About Policy of Protection.

The Jasper County Democrat, whose publisher has always been regarded as a democrat for revenue and whose editorials have usually been the “canned” sort supplied 'by the state central committee, is now out with a declaration strictly original in connection with the Republican policy of protection and it is a declaration that might prove very embarrassing to the Democratic party if it secured sufficient endorsement to make that party answer for it Over in Pennsylvania there is a new town called Roseta, founded by Italians. There is nothing very peculiar about this. There are foreign settlements in almost every state in the union where there is scarcely an American speaking man or woman. Qur needs in America have invited foreigners of all nationalities to locate here, to become American citizens, to do the many things which our native labor can not or will not do. The Italian has been -useful in constructive labor that Americans could not be found to perform, that Is thai American labor has not been compelled to do because of the opportunity for better and more, dignified labor under the Republican policy of protected Industries. Foreigners have not ’been competitors of American laborers and are not considered so by any person of intelligence. They have built railroads all over the country that would otherwise not have been built, they are engaged in construction work tin ail the big fields of industry and they perform a class of hazardous labor from which our American laborers shrink with horror. They do not always make tbe best citizens, but they are usually men of enterprise who have deteriorated through generations of poor opportunity in their native They have come to America because of the opportunities offered by our form of government, because of the wages which American protected labor has made possible, and here they have come into possession of a new hope and often they become leaders, in fields of industry and commerce, while they are no worse from the social.point of view than some of our American people who have not cared to improve their opportunities. The Italian serves a unique purpose id tbe constructive enterprises of this countries, while the Slavs and Pollocks and Hunyaeks and Greeks and Servians and Chinese and Japanese and Hollanders and Germans and men from every country on the globe have come to America, the land of protected opportunity, to get a start in life and, we have all these nationalities only a few miles from Rensselaer in the great city of Gary doing a class of labor that Americans will not perform. It is not often that the question of immigration is discussed in relation to labor conditions now, for it is only here and there that there is an Individual who is so ignorant |as to question the value of foreign labor to the upbuilding of American industries. While the Jasper County Democrat does not explain that its hatred of all foreign classes is as intense as It is for Italians, which the Democrat calls “Dagos,” there is plainly a feeling in the article that America should be selfishly for America alone, and that any foreigner that enters into competition with America should be excluded. In this connection it will not come amiss to recall the language used by the Democrat following the election of William H. Taft , three years ago, when that paper blamed eyery person of foreign birth for the election of Mr. Taft, placing ‘ niggers,” “dagos,” and all into one classification and insulting all individually and collectively. Probably there are a great many of us that would not be in America today if it were not for the encourage-ment-of our immigration laws. Probably there are a .great many of us whose not far distant ancestors lived in a country where opportunity did not abound, but who came to America, profited by the possibilities of our free, institutions and their descendents have become stalwart citizens. Why, right here in Jasper county, we have the example of the value of foreign labor. The northern part of Jasper county is to a great extent populated by Hollander farmers, who have settled on lands that American farmers could not use with profit and have developed it to a wealth producing status that, Wtere not otherwise possible. And yet they come into competition with American labor and with American farmers, but they are valuable In our economic developement and American consumers must consider them real benefactors. ... / * Does the. Democrat these;

Claim sf First National Bank Not a Preferred One.

The Republican was in error in saying tbat tbe claim of the First National Bank against E. Y. Hansford, bankrupt, • was a preferred one. This was not the case. The Fijst National claim of about |5,800 was not filed when the original claims on which 20 per cent had been paid were allowed. At this meeting the claim came up and was allowed on the same basis of all other claims, thus drawing 20 per cent of its face value fronl the funds at this time. This amounted to about $1,160. The bank will then draw with the other creditors another dividend of about 2 per cent.

Cut Flower Orders Filled.

We have moved to the first house south of the depot on Forest street We will have cut flowers always on hand and will promptly fill all wedding and funeral orders. When possible on special orders please give two or three days’ time. KING FLORAL CO.. Phone 132.

Easter Market Postponed.

The ladles of the Christian church have decided to cancel their Easter market and apron sale. The sale will be held later in the season. Our Classified Column will find you a purchaser for most anything you have for sale. Try it.

people in Its short but bitter tirade against our immigration laws? There can be no denyng that there are violations of the laws that admit foreigners to our shores, but to n sail the proposition as a whole were little short of madness and a confession of ignorance that needs no other, testimony. • ,-y-•-•••• ~ There was a time a few' years ago when there was a lot of objection to the admission of foreign labor into tbe United States. That was during the last democratic administration, when the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill was in force and American factories were dark and cold. American labor was receiving only $1 and $1.20 a day then and getting work only once in awhile and then there was real competition in labor and- the* Italian looked out ot place in America and he felt out of place too and went back to sunny Italy whenever he could get enough money together to get back,-But the passage of the Dingley tariff law kindled fires in the factory furnaces, put American labor to work, great enterprises cried out for men and Italians and other foreigners responded to the appeal and hence this little Pennsylvania city of 2,000- Italians over which the Democrat roars so lustily. We dare say that a visit to Roseta would show that many of the people own their own homes, have built their own churches, have good public schools and are citizens worthy the best tbat America produces. The jealousy of American labor can not be aroused by harping at jour immigration laws

ELECTRICITY > The "Practical Lighting Element * i of the Ttwentieth Century . > Be FKA C TIC A. L and at the tame time ECONOMICAL. < r Ha%)e your Building Lighted tottb Electricity. ' ‘ Electric Wiring ; Electric Bells : Electric Flat Irons Electric Curling Irons i Electric Vacuum Cleaners ] Electric Flashers for Signs ] Electric Flash Lights j Electric Signs ] j LOCK ATTACHMENTS, can be used on any snap switch. 1 I Up-to-Date Fixtures of all kinds. Estimates given on all work. | ! All work done according to National Board of j I Fire Underwriters—inspected by City Electrician. Raymond Delrner | Shop at Rensselaer House, opposite the Ppatoffice. 1 Phon*lSt. \ > ~ - ' : ' A

WEATHEB FORECAST. Fair tonight; Sunday fair and slightly warmer.

Case in Court 22 Years Settled by Judge DeHart.

After lying in the treasury of the state of Indiana for nearly twenty-two years, the estate of Anastatia Gunnip, who died in Lafayette thirty years ago, will be turned over to tbe heirs. Judge DeHart decided tbat the claim of John F. McArdle and others to tbe Gunnip estate was just and true and that the petitioners were entitled to the money left by the decedent. In order to establish their heirship the claimants were obliged to make extensive search and take depositions in 'lreland. : The estate originally consisted ot $1,350, that amount being paid into the clerk of the local court on April 27, 1885, but as a result of litigation " in the eighties to decide where the money should be deposited the amount dwindled to $944.14. This amount was turned over to the treasurer of state in 1890 by order of the Carroll county circuit court to which tribunal the case was taken on change of venue. The order of the court will be certified to the auditor of tbe state, who will issue a warrant on the state treasurer for the $944.14 to be paid to the Gunnip heirs.

Special Collection For Gary.

.There will be a special collection taken at the Presbyterian Sabbath school tomorrow for the benefit of the Gary church. It Is hoped that all will come well provided to give generous- . ly. „ SUPERINTENDENT.

Special Meeting)

▲ special raeetig ot Prairie Lodge, No. 126, F. & A. M., wfll be held on the night ot Monday, March 11th. Banquet to follow work. A £ood attendance la desired. C. H. MILLS. Sec’y.

The 1912 CHAOS WILL BE DELIVERED ON OR ABOUT MAY 17th. AU Rensselaer A luma! wfll want It—should have It, and we hope to receive an order from every member. Price, SI.OO Orders by mall will receive prompt attention. Mall er phene •rders to FLORENCE RYAN, phene SSI. er JOHN HEMPHILL, phene 12L RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

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