Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — Page 1

No. 72.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. - GT " ■ -2-, Miss Lora Bruce made a trip to Lafayette today. - ■ > Easter hats unsurpassed in style and price at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Elias Koons made a "business trip to Peru ajid Logansport today. You are welcome. Come in and look our Easter hats over. Mrs. Purcupile. County Superintendent Lamson Is conducting institute at Fair Oaks today. .- We have a full stock of feeds for poultry. HAMILTON & KELLNER. Mrs. John L. Osborne left today for a short visit with a sister at Trafalgar, Ind. < ~ We sell the Keystone disc. See them before you buy. HAMILTON & KELLNER. M. B. Wishard came down from Chicago today to visit his mother in Rensselaer and his farm near Parr. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cooley came from Brookston this morning to visit their son, George Cooley and family.' Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hichings, of Jordan township, went to Brookston today for an over Sunday visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore went to Lafayette today for an over Sunday visit with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cheesman. Fred Hamilton and Don Beam went to Lafayette last evening to attend 4 Phi Kappa Sig dance. They will remain over Sunday. It will pay you to look over our stock of buggies before you buy. We have the quality and qpr prices are right HAMILTON & KELLNER’. Joe, Frank, Ed and George Kanne and fiiece, Viola, and Collette Kohley went to TSmonteTTll., today to attend the funeral of their grandmother. - Try a can of Campbell’s Soup, only 10 cents.- Tomato, Chicken, Ox Tail, Bouillon, Beef, Consomme, .Vegetable and Clam Chowder. JOHN EGER. Mrs. Z. E. Nutt, of • Kempton, 111., came today to visit her sister, Mrs. Sam Richardson, in Rensselaer, and her father, B. W. Burris, near Pleasant Grove. Do you'repair your own shoes? You can get everything in the shoe repair line at the Variety Store, where your nickels, dimes and quarters do double duty. ’ Miss Ida Milliken was called to Pine Point, Maine, This morning by the death of her brother, Ira Milliken, who died in New York, and will be burled/ in Pine Point. J. W, Nagle went to Delphi this afternoon ,pn his monthly over-Sunday visit. It begins to look as though there was prospects of Joe bringing a portion of Carroll county over here to reside before long. Miss Florence Reagon, who has been visiting relatives in Newton township for the past seven weeks, returned to her home at Frankfort today. Mrs. Frank Burnside accompanied" her for a visit of several days. Down goes the price on oranges. Nice, California seediest,navel oranges, 20 and 25 cents a dozen. Grape fruit, 4 for 25 cents, and nice leaf lettuce, 20 cent a pound. JOHN EGER. 7* s •'.■<- c w '• l "' 4.’ ■ '.** O. A. Burroughs, of Laporte, has been appointed state agent for the H. J. Heinze Co., of Pittsburg. The Laportean succeeds C.*A. Willis, of Plymouth. Mr. Burroughs is manager of the Laporte plant ' Tungsten Lamps—Note the Prices. 40-Watt, 32-candtep<nrer, each,...59c--60-Watt, 48-candlepower, each....79c Electric shades, 15c, 30c, 50c and. .75c 16-caadlepower carbon lamps 10c 32-candlepower carbon lamps 22c JARETTES VARIETY STORE.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1912.

LIVELY CONVENTION FOR SELECTION OF DELEGATES.

Taft and Roosevelt Forces Have Spirited But Friendly Clash and ■ T Break Even. Probably the most spirited convention ever held in Marion township for the selection of delegates to the state and district conventions was held this Saturday afternoon in the court house and so far as the number of delegates to the two conventions are concerned the Taft and Roosevelt factions broke even. The convention was very friendly, although there had been considerable activity during the past several days and some of the voters were very pronounced in their preferences. The result was as follows*. Precinct No. 1. To district convention: George A. Williams, for Taft 21 J. W. Tilton, for Roosevelt 32 To State Convention: Geo. H. Healey, foY x Taft ....31 J. H. Chapman, for Roosevelt..... .28 These two candidates tied on the first ballot, each receiving 28 votes. Preelnct No. & To District Convention: Walter V. Porter, for Roosevelt... .34 C. G. Spitler, for Taft 30 To State Convention: Phillip R. Blue, for Roosevelt... ..34 J. C. Gwin, for Taft 32. Precinct No. 8. To District Convention: W. F. Smith, for Taft.......... 7. Fred Phillips, for Roosevelt 28 To State Convention: ‘ G. W. Hopkins, for R005eve1t......25 A. G. Catt, for Taft 26 Precinct No. 4. To District Convention: Rex Warner, for Taft 28 R. B. Harris, for R005eve1t.’........17 To State Convention:* J. F. Irwin, for Taft. ......27 A. R. Hopkins, for Roosevelt 21 The voting power in each case is fractional, and to the state convention figures out three Taft delegates with a voting strength *of 1.75 and one Roosevelt delegate with a 'voting strength of .80. To the district convention, three Roosevelt delegates with a vote of 2.00 and one Taft delegate with a voting strength of .55. The state convention will be held at Indianapolis Tuesday and the district convention at Hammond on Thursday. Fred Wyamire was elected a delegate from East Barkley township to the state convention and Will Folger to the district convention. Waymire is for Taft and Folger for Roosevelt. In South Union, J. H. McClannahan, for Taft, goes to the state convention, and .EdJftK..JWt. to. the district convention, * r > ,

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vick, who live on South Weston street, have'been ordered to move because the house they occupy has been sold and they are iTnabW 1© ’ ' BtrttilWd house In which to live. Mr. Vick is almost totally blind and his aged wife has to care for_him all the time. They have been in very poor and largely objects of charity since their return from Minnesota some two years ago. The township has been paying their rent and a daughter in Chicago has paid their grocery bill but they have beep very bard up and in need much of the time. A movement has been on foot a time or two to send them to the county infirmary but it is reported that Mr. Vick refuses to go there. t Leonard M. Elder, who is attending Franklin college, is planning to attend college all summer and to teach and coach athletics in the Franklin high school the coming winter*. In addition to this, he hopes to be. able to keep up his college work. Leonard is a sample of the athletic educated young man. It was his love for football that retained him in high school and put him into college and has been the chief inspiration that has led. Mm in seeking an education. Now he has secured sufficient education to make it possible for him to teach in high school and this will inspire him to still greater efforts. We are gald to see him grow and we give full credit to football as the chief impetus. Mrs. Nelson' FetWs, the oldest woman in BL Joseph county, Wednesday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Walter E. Row, in Mishawaka, where a reception to 125 friends from northern Indiana was held. in The block-signals on the Indianapolis division of the Monon are now in operation as far south as Westfield and will be completed and in working order to Indianapolis by Monday. The contract has not been let tor the installation of a signal system on the Louisville Upe.

GOODLAND “DRIES" HAVE THEIR DANDER UP.

Remonstrance Cards Against Saloons ■ Have Been Stolen From the Auditor’s Office. Some temperance people at Goodland decided last week to make a fight against the continuance of saloons in that town' and to employ the remonstrance means of getting rid of the saljflk Some of the leaders went to kJHm to consult the remonstrance caWWed there with Auditor Purkey four years ago and to use the information contained in these cards as a working basis for their fight. Greatly to their surprise, only 32 of the cards could be found and these were signed for the most part .by people who had since died or moved away. This will make the work of getting signatures much harder, as there is no other roster of the temperance people and the leaders will have to start in new and go all over the work again. As the remonstrance Will have to be filed by Wednesday, it will keep the people who oppose the saloons on the jump to find enough signers. Saloons have been at Goodlapd for the past year and the experience has been anything but good from a moral standpoint and has been no trade advantage, according to Goodland people who have visited Rensselaer. The remonstrance cards were kept at a place where they could be consulted by the public and it would not be a difficult matter for some one to go in the auditor’s office and steal the cards. As they were apparently carefully sorted and only those left that would prove of no benefit, it is presumed that the cards were stolen by some friend of the saloons. The act has fired the zeal of the temperance people and it is presumed that they will make a determined effort to free Goodland of saloons.

Lawyers Get Bib. Fee In Noted Ketman Ditch Case.

Attorney Oscar B. Smith, of Knox, and J. M. Spangler and Caleb Barker, of Winamac, have-been allowed a fee of in the noted Tony L. Ketman ditch. The amount of the fee was determined upon Friday, at Winamac, when Special Judge Sties, who had established the work, heard evidence upon the subject. Attorneys were placed upon the stand and asked what the fee should be in the case. Some of them placed it as high as 135,000. This case was begun seven years ago and has been vigorously contested in the Pulaski and upper courts ever since. Smith & Spangler carried the contest on for the greater part of the time but finally Mr. Barker became associated with them. It is understood the fee will be spilt up forty per cent each for Smith and Spangler and twenty per cent for Barker. It is one of the largest fees ever allowed in a single ease in this circuit, and the case was one of the longest and hardest fought of any in either county.

Congressman Crumpacker Will Attend District Convention.

A Washington dispatch says: “For the first time since he made his initial race for congress in 1896, Representatice Edgar D. Crumpacker probably will attend this year the Tenth district congressional convention that will renominate him for congress. He has been renominated for congress seven times without being nearer to the nominating conventions thari the city of Washington, which is a very unusual record. His district convention will be held on March 28 at Hammond, He is being urged by Indiana friends to attend the state convention oh March 26, and probably will do so, going from Indianapolis to Hammond. There is no opposition to him for the, congressional renomination.”

Notice of Annual Meeting „ of Officers.

Notice is hereby given to the members and supporters of the Presbyterian church of Rensselaer, In<L, that the Annual Meeting will be held at the church at 7:30 p. m. on Wednesday, April 3, 1912, tor the purpose of electing two trustees,, two elders, and two deacons. The officers of the cburch, also proper officers of all auxiliary societies will make report. By order of the Board of Trustees, March 20, 1912. * G. E. MURRAY, President. J. H. 8. ELLIS, Secretary.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Snow north; rain or snow south portion tonight and Sunday.

Orphan Girl at Roselawn Will Be Saved Her Farm.

Newton County Enterprise. . Judge Burton B. Berry, of Fowler, was in Kentland Saturday and rendered "his “decision in the suit of William Darroch, guardian of Clara C. Jensen, against B. A. Gillespie and Joseph and Mary Evans, to sqt aside a deed. At the May term, 1911, a farm in Lincoln towhship belonging to Miss Jensen, a minor, was sold to Gillespie, and the transaction was approved by the court. At the October term suit was brought to set aside the deed, and Judge Wasson, of Delphi, was called to hear the case. A decision was given in favor of the plaintiff. In the meantime Gillespie had sold the farm to Joseph and Mary Evans, and they be came joint defendants and asked for a new trial. Judge Wasson granted a rehearing of the case, but disqualified himself to sit as judge. At this juncture Burton B. Berry, of Fowler, was called and the case was retried. Judge Berry withholding his decision until the May term. Saturday Judge Berry sustained the ruling of Judge Wasson, ordered the deed set aside, the purchase money refunded, and Miss Jensen reinstated as owner of the farm in question. Defendants prayed an appeal to the supreme court, and pending this suit William Dowling was appointed receiver to take charge of the rents and profits of the farm.

Pneumomia Caused Many Deaths During Month of February.

Deaths in Indiana for February showed a decrease over the number for the preceding month, according to figures from the state board of health. For the month 2,985 deaths were re-; ported. In January the number was 3,186. For< February of last year, the number reported was 2,900. The February state rate this year was 13.7, while for corresponding months of last year it was 14. The rate tor firstclass cities (Indianapolis) was 15.7; for the second class cities, including Evansville, Terre Haute and South Bend, the Tate was 15.7; for thirdclass cities, the rate was 13.9; tor fourth-class cities, 15.2; for fifthclass, 15.7. The rural rate was 12.6. The diseases causing the greatest number of deaths were the following, pneumonia, 391; pulmonary tuberculosis, 326; accidental causes, 187; cancer, 150; influenza, or grip, 112; typhoid fever, 41; other forms of tuberculosis, 37; diphtheria and membranous croup, 21; whooping cough, 21; measles, 3; smallpox, 2. One death was caused by hydrophobia in Dubois county.,"" 7 ~ *

Dr. Knox Not Coming to Presbyterian Chureh Sunday.

Dr. George Knox, bf-Lafayette, who was to fill the pupit at the Presbyterian church tomorrow in the absence of Rev. Parrett, who will preach at Delphi, will not be here, owing to sickness. He telegraphed this morning that ba has an attack of acute pleurisy that will keep him from eomlng. _ R«f. J. P. Green will fill the pulpit at the Presbyterian church in the mornivg and there will be no evening service.

A Musical Treat For Rensselaer, ' ■ The Wabash College Glee and Mandolin Club wmimat Presbyterian Church Monday Evening March 25 Admission: Adults Key Children 25c. Tickets on sale at Jessen’s and Long's. - 1,1 M !*"" '? The 1912 CHAOS WILL BE DELIVERED ON OB ABOUT MAX 17th. T T ’ AD Rensselaer Alumni wfll I want It—should have it, ind W hope to receive an order from •very member. .... J ’ " —♦ ■ ' ' Price, SI,OO Orders bp mpfl wfll receive prompt attention. Mail er phone orders to FLORENCE BIAM, pheno ML JOHN HEMPHILL, phono ML RENSSELAER, INDIANA. - ’

Monon Hotel Will Be Enlarged; Made Modern and Sanitary.

Monon News. Carl Middiestadt, owner ot the Monon House, Informs the News that extensive improvements are contemplated at this well known hostelry when the building season opens. A wing will be built on the south and west side of the present structure, corresponding with the one on the east and leaving a court in the center. The kitchen will occupy a room in the new addition as will also the dining room, wnicn win tncinae tne lunch room. The old dining room will be converted into ground floor bed rooms, and other sleeping apartments will be secured on the second floor of the new part The improvement will be made on the moat approved «snitary plans, and convenience and oomfort will be regarded according to modem idaas tend details of the proposed changes are being carefully gone over by Mr. Middlestadt and Landlord H. W. Long, experienced hotel men, and it is safe to predict that when the work Is acthe best equipped hotels in northern Indiana. -r . ‘ . 1 wHll I—ft JL ' tee Km -g ws *

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