Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1912 — Page 1

No. 98.

tI)C Princess theatre nUES PHILLIPS, Proprietor. Watch nil Spec# Every Xiay

Grand Song Recital BY i Miss Ilda Schnee, Contralto ? Prof. W. J. Nowak, Bass-Baritone Assisted by Master John McGahey, Violinist Prof. W. L. Hovorka, Accompanist An Evening of Beautiful Music and Song, which will be enjoyed by everyone. At the CHRISTIAN CHURCH Thursday Night, May 2d Tickets 50c, High School 35c At Fendig’s Drug Store t~ * >

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Buy the genuine Jackßon Hill coal of Hamilton & Kellner. Attorney Geo. A. Williams was in Monticello yesterday on business. Large sweet navel oranges, 20 and 25 cents a dozen, at John Eger’s. Twin girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lbuis Ramp yesterday afternoon. Insurance on horses against death from any cause at 6 per cent per annum.' R. B. HARRIS. ; 1 . / Johnnie Webber returned from' a monument jgelling expedition in the north part of the county. Purina Chick Starter and Crown brand poultry feed for sale at Hamilton & Kellner’s. Mrs. Delos Thompson and daughter, Lois, went to Indianapolis today for a short visit. High grade Tungsten Lamps delivered to any part of the city. Ray Delmer, phone 239.

Display on 3d floor ] OPENIN6 GREETINGS 1 jw-| • •>. ■ • \.-V / Having just finished the remodeling and beautifying of my store* I extend a cordial invitation to all to, witness the Exquisite Display of Home Furnishings the afternoons and in the evenings of FRIDAY and SATURDAY, April 26th and 27th, Without doubt this is the MOST MODERN and BEST EQUIPED FURNITURE HOUSE in Jasper County, and among the best in Northern Indiana, —— • 1 ,v 1 ; 1 # I I have the largest floor. space of any business in No steep, back-breaking stairways to climb, justj Rensselaer, and can display my elegant stock, which is step into the ELECTRIC ELEVATOR and_ enjov the! distributed over three floors, to the greatest advantage luxury that can be had nowhere else but in a large! and ease of my customers. city. Remember, no stairs to dimb. ~.- . . J - ■ - '■ -- - ■ ■ 1 ** ' " 111 " ' " ' Each floor is brimming, over with Furniture of most beautiful designs, and at prices and in a variety to suit every taste, and the pleasure to be derived from a visit . to the Rug Department on the Third floor will more than repay you for your trouble. EACH DAY AMD EYEKWG Of! WATCH THIS STORE FOR BEAUTIFUL WINDOW DISPLAYS. n- n- I THIS OPdHHG I have planned a Series of Window Decoration, to k changed from time to time, that are destined to be fall of Human Interest. tOrfrOlll NtW KflUf I "gg.£sr W . j.WRIGHTS FURNITURE STORE l«l«H *****

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PBOGBAM : r ■ ' ’ • The Five Senses. A Story of the Circus. Tony’s Oath of Vengeance. SAVE TOUR COUPONS.

Miss Bell Phares went to Parr today to spend , a two weeks’ vacation with her parents. • Mr. and Mrs. W, R. Lee came from Winamac yesterday, where Mr. Lee is engaged in the mercantile business. Mrs. R. Ferguson, of West Lebanon, is here for several days’ '■visit with her cousin, Mrs. A. A. Yates. Miss Helen Hopkins, who has been visiting in Chicago for days, returned home Monday. . Mrs. Mary Watson, of Aurora, 111., came today to visit with her daughter, who is attending the Watts de Peyster school. Mrs. Lantz Forgey and daughter, Miss Clara, and Henry Lantz, of Tullahoma, Tenn., came today for a short visit with Mill Caldwell. Automobile insurance at 2 per cent per annum, against loss by fire from any cause, any place, in the United States or Canada, by a company that is as good as the best R. B. HARRIS. A Classified Adv. will rent it.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1912.

Today is the last day that the Ringling Bros. Circus will show in Chicago this spring. Mr. and Mrs. Ray D. Thompson will attend it This week only, for 25 cents; 4 cans Great Western Hominy, kidney beans, pumpkin, corn, apples, or pie-peaches. v JOHN EGER. Mrs. Harry Wade is visiting he* son, George, for a few days before going to her new home at Lebanon, where Mr. Wade is engaged in the barber business. Robert White, of Wilmington, 111., who has been here for several days looking after- his property interests, expects to return to his home tomorrow. B. D. McColly, who recently bought a lot of timber from Barkley Bros., now has a force of men working in it and will instal a saw mill and cut it into lumber, selling much of it for quartered oak veneering. ■ j c We-have only a limited amount of northern grown, early seed potatoes left. Rurais, $1.50; Burbanks, $1.60; Six Weeks and Rose, $1.60. Ohios, $1.75. JOHN EGER. A. Leopold, who has been in a Chicago hospital for eight weeks, has sufficiently recovered from the operation he underwent to be able to return home and he arrived this afternoon at 1:55 o’clock. R. A. Parkison has returned from Hammond, where he was called as a member 6f the federal jury. He sat in only one case and part of another, the second having been compromised soon* after it was started. Mrs. L. A. Bostwick is now the representative for the Spirella corset, having been appointed Corsetiere. Any one desiring to see these corsets call Phone No. 549 and Mrs. Bostwick will call at the house with sample line. Mrs. Ves Richards will go to Wanatah tomorrow where her husband is working for W. F. Smith on a big stone road contract. Mrs. Richards will cdok' for the men. and will probably stay until the work is suspended next fall. ■ .■ -/V: " *" . S. McCloud, who lives on the Poole farm In Barkley township, was in town this morning. He was in the wake of the cyclone if it had kept to the ground but fortunately it went over his head. Particles of clothing, small boards and splinters were dumped down about his house, however, although he is three miles from where the, last house was blown down. Otto Braun, the bandmaster, came down from Lowell today. He'says that from 50 to 75 barns were destroyed in the vicinity of Lowell, besides innumerable small buildings. There is nothing left on his place but the house. A big barn and chicken house have disappeared completely and part of his orchard was uprooted and carried away. He believes that the presence of the orchard was all that saved his house. Sveral good farm houses, including the SIO,OOO Plummer residence, and the surrounding buildings, were destroyed.

FINED ONE BOOTLEGGER AND SCARED ANOTHER.

Bill Messenger Will Lay Out a SSO Fine and Nordyke Will Be Tried in Newton Connty. Bill Messenger, pardoned for the murder of a man at San Pierre after he had served several years in the penitentiary, was found guilty by a jury here Monday and fined SSO and costs for having sold two half pints of whisky to George Platt several weeks ago. Messenger will lay out the fine. His partner in business, at least the officers allege that they were partners, was James Nordyke, decided that Jasper county was a poor place to try a man who had a box full 'of bad booze in his sleeping quarters, when officers were willing to testify that they saw a channel of business visiting his room during the afternoon before his arrest and found several empty bottles scattered about his room, decided to ask a change of venue and this was granted and his case sent to Newton county for trial. Attorney W. H. Parkison was the special prosecutor in cases and acquitted himself very creditably. The men were defended by A. Halleck. One of the witnesses here was Charles Preston, clerk of the White circuit court, who came over to show that Nordyke was not unknown to the bootlegging business, having been found guilty and paroled from that county recently. Both Nordyke and Messenger have been in jail here since their arrest and Messenger has 50 days yet to remain. Nordyke will be left until the May term of the Newton circuit court when he will be sent to Kentland for trial.

Seth Nichols Sentenced to Jail For Stealing Clothing.

Seth Nichols,, a former Jasper county boy, who created a sensation recently 1 by claiming to be the murderer of Dr. Helene Knabe, of Indianapolis, and who later denied his confession after it was shown that the night the murder occurred in Indianapolis he was aboard a U. S. ship on the Atlantic coast, was Monday sentenced to the Navy Yard Marine Barracks at Portsmouth, for having stolen cldthing in Boston following his desertion from the U. S. Marine Corps. He is believed to be mentally affected.

Looking For More Business.

For painting, paperhanging and interior decorations, also for all outside painting call W. S. Richards & Son, Phone 331. . : * , ** . L. W.. Benbow, of Parr, who con-, ducts a medicine route in northern Jasper and Pulaski counties, was here a short time this morning on bis way to Newcastle, where be will see his aged father, probably for the last time. Hia father is Julius Benbow, who was 90 years of age last June and recently injured himself by a fall and is probably fatally sick at this time. Mrs. C. T. Plummer is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. S. C. Irwin and family.

City Counil Will Appropriate $100 For Band Concerts.

At the regular meeting of the city council Monday evening the city attorney was directed to prepare an ordinance appropriating SI9D for band concerts during 1912. He was also instructed to prepare an ordinance regarding the employment and salary of the .nightwatch for the ensuing year and present to council at the next meeting. A resolution was adopted for a sewer on Franklin street. The following claims were allowed: Corporation Fund; ~~ Georg-e Mustard, salary $30.00 Frank Crltser, same $25.00 Ray D. Thompson, express 35 Wm. Price, assistant engineer . . 2.00 Hoad Fund. Chester Zea, salary ........... .$30.00 Wm. p. Baker, hay 18.48 A. Rowen, cleaning walks 1.40 Jake Gilmore, same ............. 1.40 Wm. Coffel, work on street .... X 3.00 John Hordeman, same -3.90 Ed Randle* same 3.50 H. B. Avis, same . 10.60 James Hill, same 4.00 .Park Fund. Wm. Coffel, work Mllroy- Park ... 8.00 Ed Randle, same 1.75 H. B. Avis, same 3.50 Electric Light Fund. C. S. Chamberlain, sal and message 50.50 Mell Abbott, salary ............ 30.00 Dave Haste, same —30.00 Charence Thompson, work on line 38.00 Electric Appliance Co., supplies.. 3.12 Illinois Electric Co., same .....102.77 General Electric Co., same 127.95 Vandalia Coal Co., coal ......... 77.22 Jesße Gates, hauling coal 36.48 H. B. Tuteur, rebate -on lights .. .90 Ray D. Thompson, freight 94.58 Water Fund. Ray D. Thompson, freight 3.28 T. E. Malone, salary ........ ;... 30.00 Clinton Oil Co., packing —...... 33.47 And) Woodworth, rebate water rental .. :vy.«.v..v. 3.65

Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill Passes Away After Long Sickness.

Mrs. Rebecca Grant Hemphill, daughter of Thomas Grant, died at the home of her son, Dr. F. V H. Hemphill, at ,10:30 o’clock Monday morning, aged 60 years. She has been in poor. health for a long time and was operated on in Chicago May 15, 1911, since whioh time she has been on invalid and under the care of a trained nurse. She was born Dec. 31, 1852 In Jasper county and spent the greater part of her life here. In 1871 she was united in marriage to Watt Hemphill, who preceded her. to the grave 37 years ago. She is survived by a son and '■ daughter, Dr. H. F. apd Miss Mattie Hemphill, of this city, and three brothers, Franklin and Able Grant, of this city, and Dr. Colfax Grant of Mound City, Mo., and* one sister, Mrs. Lavouie Hemphill, of Greensburg, Kansas. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Church of God. Elder Joseph Williams, of Frankfort, will have charge of the services. Interment in Weston cemetery. . .

Renew at Once.

On May 1, The Ladies’ Home Journal will advance In price to $2.00 per year. New subscriptions and renewals, for one year from expiration of present snbs6ription, will be accepted until April 30 at $1.50. Mrs. LEM HUSTON. Phone 81.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Wednesday; rising temperature tonight.

Approaching Nuptial Announced At Party Saturday Evening.

Some weeks ago the engagement of Miss Jessie Knox, daughter of Ttaon. A. Knox, to Mr. Chauncey A. Huntington, son of F. P. Huntington, of Mt. Ayr. was informally announced in a paper read at a meeting of the Teachers' Institute. Miss Jessie Knox was the bostesf Saturday evening to a few of her girt friends at the home of her father, 2 miles south of Rensselaer. Music, games and eats were supposed to have been the main source of entertainment hut, contrary to the set rule, the guests took the matter of amusement into their own hands and the fun that seemed to please them most consisted in questioning the hostess about her plans for the future. She finally gave in to the persistency of her guests and formally announced her marriage to Mr. C. A. Huntington to take place on Thursday, April 25, at 8 p. m.

Bus Line Not Sold to Frye; Bids to Be Received.

Although W. F. Frye had arranged for the purchase of the Wasson bus line and thought he bad the deal practically closed, he was informed that the deal could not be closed up without the consent of the court, owing to the interest of the heirs. The Trust A Savings Bank was appointed to administer the Wasson estate and the bus line will be sold to the highest bidder. It is probable that both Krone Bros, and "Billy” Frye will be bidders at the sale, which will be made just as soon as the legal requirements have been adjusted.

Appeal Bond Filed in the S. C. Irwin Ditch Case.

• Granville Moody and others, who were iremonstrators to the 8. 6. Irwin stone road in Barkley. township and who were defeated in the commissioners and circuit courts, did not submit to their last defeat but through thslr attorneys, Dunlap A Parklaon, Monday filed an appeal bond and the case will be heard in the higher court This will delay the construction of the road a year, in all probability. 1 - - -■■■ - Some time ago George E. Hersbman bought a Kingsbury piano of the Cable piano company. A check sppeared In one of the panels, marring the beauty of the case, and he reported to the company. A man was sent here to Investigate it, ma3e a report, sad Mr. Hersbmah was asked to IfiMt the factory in Chicago and select another instrument. He was in Chicago last Thursday, found piano of the same style but higher to price, and was told it would be sent In place of the one he had. The new Instrument arrived Saturday and the old one has been returned.—Crown Point Register. For a mild easy action pjf the bowels, try Doan’s Regulets, a modem laxative. 25c at all stores.

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