Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1912 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Phone 273 for wood, coal and feed. Fancy fig-newton cakes, only 10c a pound at John Eger’s. v . Order your groceries from Morrow Bros, in the Odd Fellows building. There will be three new members initiated into the Jefferson Club this evening. Morrow Bros.’ general store Is open and ready, for business in the Odd Fellows building. Norman Warner is 79 years of age today, March 15th, and his sons, D. G., N. H. and C. C., took dinner with him, Judson H. Perkins visited at South Bend and Mishawaka Wednesday. His brother Is engaged in the windmill business there. Harry Murray, son-in-law of Jim Fisher, has rented the Joe Larsh house recently vacated by Kenneth Rhoades and wife and will move into it in a few days. Attorneys A Halleck and G. A. Williams were called to Winamac today to testify as to the proper fee the attorneys for thfe petitioners in the Monon ditch case should have. Muncie Star: The recital and concert rendered by the Wabash Glee Club was one of the finest entertainments given in this city. At the Presbyterian church Monday evening, March 25th.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM “ForHisSon” “Umbrellas to Mend” “Ideal” Champion Swimmer and Diver. SAVE YOUR COUPONS.

We sell “The Plow a Man Can Pull.’’ HAMILTON & KELLNER. Drop in at Morrow Bros.’ store in the Odd Fellows building and look around; You will find on our ten-cent counter over two hundred useful articles, some worth double the amount we ask for them. Your choice for 10c. JOHN EGER. Twelve indictments were found against blind' tiger operators in Pulaski county by the grand jury which just adjourned. Fines of SSO and jail sentences for 30 days is the custom over there and the practice is likely, to be broken up. Try a 25c package of rolled oats and get a handy glass measuring cup with it. JOHN EGER. The Delphi Herald has found an old settler who remembers a winter that was worse. It was in 1844, according to the old inhabitant, that the Wabash river was frozen over solid until April 4th, so solid that teams could drive over it. • As we near spring, we crave something for an appetizer. We have a full line of sweet, «our, and dill pickles. JOHN -EGER; r ——————— “Bud” Hammonds, of Lisbon, N. Dak., was in town this morning. He had come back to see his aged father, who was taken to the asylum at Longcliffe recently. “Bud” is just as enthusiastic about the west as he ever was and looks prosperous and don’t hesitate to say that he is prosperous.

W. H. Stucker, who. resides on a farm he owns near Roann, Ind., is here for a short visit with relatives, his father, Phillip Stucker, at Mt. Ayr, and hjs wife’s relatives, the* Schanlaubs. He would like to return to Jasper county and may make a deal to do so while here. Mrs. Reuben Hess, of Kentland, was taken suddenly ill last week and hurrled to a Lafayette hospital, where her disease was diagnosed as diphtheria; Several were exposed and were given antitoxin. Mrs. Hess Is improving very satisfactory and there is little chance toffy spread of a disease. <W. C. Pruitt..was in today from his home In Jordan township, where he has been assisting his son for a day or two. lie has been staying with hia mother, who lives in the extreme southwestern end of Carpenter township, 2 miles southeast of Goodland ever since the 23rd of last November when, she had the misfortune to fall and break one of her legs at the hip. As she is 78 years of age the accident has gone very hard with her and will probably result fatally, as she has been failing quitd rapidly lately. Mr. Pruitt will return to her today. This is the 42nd day since''the groundhog emerged from his winter quarters, beheld.a black patch on the earth, cast there by his own body, which was between the earth anil the luminous orb of the beavers, and ducked back into his hole. That was Just six weeks ago and true to his reputation the weather has been real winter ever since. Thgr Republican, during that period, defended him against all comers and has argued almost daily to convince the skeptical of his power over the existing conditions. At last all were and the groundhog has gone right ahead ancj upheld his reputation to the last. Today, for instance, snow' has fallen from very early morning up to noon and has mingled with yesterday’s rain and slush and sidewalks and street crossings are submerged In water and slush. And now the sun has come out for just a little while, long enough to Jet the groundhog get'the boots, scared pff him again and if he is really entitled to another six weeks, he is doubtless now tucked away in the farthest recesses of his winter home. We can hardly see our way clear at this time to longer defend the little pest and after three days 6t grace, we expect warmer-feather to come, even Jf it meets the disapproval of his terra firma hogness. ■ , Oyster shells and otberppultry feeds sold by Hamilton &- Kellnjer.

Entered January 1, 18S7, as second class mall matter, at the poet-ofllce at Kensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1870.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1912.

DELIBERATE JUDGMENT OF PEOPLE SAFE GUIDE.

_ - I.- - • _ Z - • ■_. President Does Not Fawn For Favor In Saying That People May Make Mistakes by Hasty Action. The following is an extract from the speech made by President Taft in Chicago last Saturday night: “We all believe in popular government. I am aware of the exposure to criticism which the suggestion that the American people may make mistakes by hasty action and lack of deliberation will expose one. I am aware of the ease with which such a suggestion can be tortured into an expression of distrust in the American people. I am aware that a body of the people does not differ in certain traits from the individuals who make it up, and that .people like to be flattered as do individuals. ,“I know that people do not, any more than* the individuals, enjoy having their own defects pointed out to them. The truth is, though, that the man who tells the people of the danger that may arise from mistaken and hasty action pays a higher tribute to them than the one who constantly fawns upon them as if they were» incapable of error. “The most abiding compliment that can be paid to the American people is to point to the fact that in the constitution which they framed and have maintained they have recognized the danger of hasty action by themselves, and have, in its checks and balances, voluntarily maintained a protection against it. The truth is that in this last century we have vindicated popular government in a way that it has never been vindicated before. “Distrust of popular government! The pride that 1 have that this is a popular government and that it has shown itself the strongest in history is as deeply imbedded as any feeling that is in me. I Would be the last man to exclude from the direction of the ship of state the will'of the American people. That is the ultimate source of authority, and it does not in any way minimize my faith ‘ and my love of popular government that I insist that the expression of the popular will

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File Mortgage Exemptions In March and April.

Mortgage exemptions must be filed in March or April, and at no other time. Any notary or justice of the peace will acknowledge exemptions. Persons having mortgages on real estate are entitled to file for exemption of taxation up to S7OO or half the assessed valuation. ■■ If the valuation is $1,400 or more, then S7OO can be deducted, providing the mortgage amounts to that much. Otherwise the exemption is only half the valuation. One person can file but one exemption for the full amount; several exemptions can be filed by the same person if the total exemptions do not exceed S7OO. When property is held jointly all the joint owners must sign the exemption and S7OO is the limit. Where persons ask for an exemption as joint owners they cannot ask for another exemption as individuals. Firms, corporations, lodges, etc., cannot secure exemptions. Persons owning individual interests in real Estate can each secure an exemption to the amount of S7OO, providing their undivided interest has assessed valuation of $1,400.

shall be with the deliberation to make it sound and safe. “I fully and freely admit and assert that when the American people have had time to learn all the facts, and have had time to consider their bearing, their deliberate judgment is a wiser and better guide to be followed by the state than the judgment of the most experienced statesman, the anost learned jurist, the most profound student of history. In this popular sense the voice of the people is nearer to the voice of God than any other human decision.”

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JUDICIAL RECALL A FACT IN JASPER COUNTY.

Special Judge B. B. Berry, of Fowler. _ Refusal to Hear the Bontrager Ditch Case. Much to the surprise of remonstrators and petitioners in the Borntrager ditch case, that being the lower Iroquois drainage scheme, and to the disappointment of the attorneys in the case, Special Judge B. B. Berry, of Fowler, who came here Tuesday to bear the cause, put into practice the much agitated “judicial recall.” It wa ,( in a modified form, however, for he recalled himself only and the judge’s docket shows the following entry: “Hearing cause continued and now the court refuses to hear the cause -further and refuses to act as special judge." / To the members of the bar Mr. Berry explained that when he consented to try the cause he was of the opinion that he was to render judgment only on a few points of law and. that he had no thought that the cas4 was of such magnitude. He said he foresaw that it might occupy two or three months time and that he could not afford to leave his Fowler office, when he has a large practice. A special judge receives only $5 per day and Mr. Berry had a little prejudice against working for that salary, except in an occasional case where it would be of accommodation to the attorneys and would not take up too much of his time. It is understood that Mr. Berry stated that, should the court be unqble «nd a lawyer U> act as specia. judge, he would arrange to hear the case if appointed by the governor. Should he be thus appointed, he would receive the same salary as a circuit judge, which is about $lO per day. The case was, of course, brought to a sudden termination by his action and can not be taken up until a special judge is secured. Attorney George A Williams is counsel for the petition ers and about all the other local attorneys,and William Darroch, of Kentland, and Jesse E. Wilson, of Hammond, are for the remonstrators. Moses Leopold, as city attorney to* Rensselaer, spoke Thursday again«r

WEATHER FORECAST. , Fhir; colder tonight; Saturday lair.

Nordyke Owes $50 Fine at Monticello-Plead Guilty Here.

After copying The Republican’s article about the arrest of Bill Messenger and Bill Nordyke on a charge of illegal handling of intoxicating liquors, the White County Democrat says: “At the last term of court here- Nordyke entered a plea of guilty to the charge contained in a grand jury indictment against him and was given a fine of SSO. The record, however, shows that on recommendation of John G. Brown and a number of others the judgment of the court was suspended during good behavior. William may now be called upon to pay his suspended fine.”

the assessment of $2,500 levied again*’ the streets and alleys and public property In Rensselaer, whereas the individual real estate owner in this city is not assessed. Attorney Leopold took the viewpoint that city property owners were omitted from assessment because of. the large per cent of them that would remonstrate and that it is unfair to assess the city and not private property, for in paying the city's assessment, the money would be procured from general taxation and in that way persons who had chattels but no real estate would be required to pay for the benefit which only real estate received. Attorney Wilson contended that there was no justice in assessing property holders above the ledge of rock In Rensselaer. He talked at some length, but Special Judge Berry made no rulings and his withdrawal from the suit will require that it be started ovpr again when a new Attorney can be secured to hear it

Will Discontinue Buying Rags. Owing to the low price, danger of fire and lack of storage, I Will discontinue buying old rags, but will buy junk, iron, brass, copper, etc., as berea B- 8. FRNDIG.

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