Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Page 1

No. 105.

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Grand Song Recital BY * \ Miss Ilda Schnee, Contralto Prof. W. J. Nowak, Bass-Baritone Assisted by Master John McGahey, Violinist Prof. W. L. Hovorka, Accompanist a - 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

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. Mary E. Low® went to Monon yesterday. E. P. Honan returned yesterday from a business trip to Danville, 111. J. W. Toyne, of Medaryville, was here Tuesday, paying his taxes. Come and see our line of buggies and carriages. HAMILTON ft KELLNER. Mrs. Geo. Robinson went to her home at Connersville today after several days* visit here. v Chick starter, cracked corn, oyster shells, beef scraps and other poultry feed sold by Hamilton ft Kellner. |Mrs. B. J. Jarrette has been confined to her home for the past week with a severe attack of stomach trouble but is very much improved today. 3 ,

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hopkins left yesterday for an extended trip through the weßt. They will visit many points in Oregon and California and will be gone about a month.

A zone system of parcels post is provided for in a bill introduced in the senate Monday by Mr. Bourne, chairman of the committee on postoffices and post roads.

H. C. Meek, who came from Indianapolis this siMhg to occupy a farm of 240 acres in Union township, owned by his father, la making a number of improvements. Besides building .a new house and barn he is repairing fences, building new outbuildings and in many ways Improving the farm.

The high Bchool ball team will have its first game Ffiday afternoon at Riverside Athletic Park. The opposing team is the Wolcott high school. The game will be called at 3:30 o’clock. Rev. J. C. Parrett has been acting as

coaoh of the Jiigh school team and has it in fairly good condition for the first game of the Season.

John Casey was down from Fair Oaks today with a prospectus of a book descriptive of the Titanic wreck. The hook will be profusely illustrated and will contain about 380 pages, entirely devoted to the great Ship disaster. The author, Marshall Everett, is regarded as one of the greatest historians of modern times and the bock will be the most accurate account of the disaster published up to this time. It is published by the United Consumers and Manufacturing Alliance and will be ready for delivery on May 15th. The cloth binding sells for $1 and the half morocco for 11.50. Mr. Casey will be pleased to receive your order. 1 To find a buyer for your property, try * classified fifty, in this popor. A

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PEOGEAM *- — The Rival Constables. A Lucky Nix-Up. SAVE TODS COUPONS.

Mrs. M. Barnes returned to her home in Kokomo today after visiting her son-in-law, J. A. Larsh and family.

Mrs. Frank Dwiggins and baby came from Lincoln, Neb.; today to visit with Mrs. C. C. Warner and other friends and relatives.

/ Dispatches from Washington state that Dr. Harvey W. Wiley is being bombarded with letters from Indiana republicans urging him to seek the nomination for governor.

George Johnson went to Indianapolis .today on a business trip. He will return Saturday. During his absence Mrs. Johnson will visit their son, John M., near Pleasant Ridge.

Miss, Arlene Smith returned to her home ijb Thorntown yesterday, after visiting here for several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith and relatives in Chicago.

Joseph Scholl, who is engaged in the general teaming business in Chicago, was here this week looking after his farm interests. He owns a farm of 160 acres in Barkley township, which S. C. Irwin looks after in Mr. Scholl’s absence.

County Clerk Clarence Norquist, of Benton county, arrived yesterday to testify in the Bayard Taylor railroad case. He brought some county records with him relating to the plaintiff’s claim of important work in locating the railroad.

Mrs. James Matheson returned yesterday from*a trip to Toronto, Hamilton and London, Canada. She is offering her residence for sale and it is probable that she will locate in Winnipeg, Ont., where she has relatives. She will remain in Rensselaer for some time.

W. A. Davenport has been busy with his postmaster deputysfiip and his sidelines for the past few days. Besides putting in long hours at the postofflce be finds time to do an occasional job of wallpaper cleaning and to take a Jew orders for Logan. Marahall’s book about the Titanic disaster. Will has had a prospectus since last Saturday and took 23 orders the first evening be was out John B. Wolfe, who came from Oakwood, Vermillion county, 111., this spring and located on his farm of 200 acres, east of Newland, was s Republican office visitor Tuesday mud annexed his name to our subscription list Mr. Wolf Is anxious for the construction of the Ryan ditch which will remove the rock ledge in the Plnkamink and give him adequate drainage, which he can get in no other way. It has been so wet this spring that practically no farming work could be undertaken.

Banana Junurjr X, 1007, Ha sseond olaaa mall matter, at tha poet-oßos at Baaaaalaar. Indiana, aadar tbe act of Karoh 3, 187*.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, EAT 1, 1912.

NEW ELECTRICAL STUNT PERFORMED BY DELKER.

Dropped la Town, Started Big Business, Dropped Out Leaving Big Bunch of Bad Debts.

Rensselaer people who got off easy last year, seem to be getting “theirs” nowrßay Del me r, who was dubbed by many people here as the “Man of Mystery,” played in the role of thevillain in this little drama. He claimed that his horiae was In Texas, and when he came to Rensselaer several months ago he started working at the electrical trade. His labor was in such demand that it wasn’t long before he / had established a small electrical supply shop, with, the aid of capital borrowed of J. T. Randle, Louis Davisson and Roscoe Nelson. The stock was insured for S6OO with the Ray D. Thompson agency. Davisson and Nelson worked for him most of the time and he seemed to be prospering. Monday morning he told them he had some stock on hand that he could not use and was going to send it back to Chicago. He sent them out to work on an all day’s job and shipped all bat about SSO worth of the stock away while they were gone, leaving empty boxes on the shelves to allay suspicion. Nelson and Davisson did not know

that the stock was gone until Tuesday morning, when they discovered also that Deliaer had left on the early morning train, taking with him all the tools valued at about sls. As nearly as can be ascertained, Delmer got away owing about 9600, and no doubt the money collected from his work amounted to several hundred.

He succeeded in some way or other in gaining the confidence of J-.-T. Randle, of whom he borrowed $230. Me owed Davisson for borrowed m° Re y and labor about SIBO, and Nelson was left holding the bag minus $l5O. Nelson is also sponsor for his sl3 board bill at the Barnes Restaurant, which Delmer had made arrangements with Mr. Barnes to pay. Before leaving Tuesday morning Delmer also borrowed $lO from Mr. Barnes and there are several other small debts outstanding. Why people will lend money unsecured to a complete stranger like that, we canbot understand, but Delmer is gone and the money went with him and no doubt that is the last the victims will, .ever hear of him. It is reported that Delmer returned last nigh on the 11 o’clock train, but Nightwatch Critser met the train and denies that to be the case.

Next District Meeting of Home Missionary to Be Held Here.

There was a splendid turning out of delegates in attendance upon the annual convention of the Hammond district Woman’s Home Missionary Society, held in the Indiana Harbor Methodist church. The meeting was in session all Monday and Tuesday, and twenty towns in northern Indiana were represented; Miss Carrie Barge, of Pittsburg; was the principal speaker. Miss Barge is national organizer of young people’s work in She missionary line and is a fine speaker. She gave a splendid talk defining the duties that devolve upon women in home missionary work. Of the delegations present from the various cities included within the district, the largest outside of Indiana Harbor was from Whiting. The meeting adjourned at 4 o’clock Tuesday with the election of officers as follows: president, Mrs. George Streeter, Hammond; vice-president, Mrs. A. T. Biggs, of Valparaiso; correspondingsecretary, Mrs. W. E Gillet, Whiting; treasurer, Mrs. B. F. Veal, Michigan City; recording-secretary, Mrs. Kendrick, Gary. The ladies of the Indiana Harbor M. E. church served dinner to the visitors in the church parlors. The locaL society has 46 members and through the influence of its delegate to Indiana Harbor, Mrs. C. L. Harper, the convention was secured for this city next year.

W. H. Beam to Have Day Assistant at Depot.

Elmer Wilcox, who had tendered hla resignation at third trick man at the Motion depot to work for Billy Frye on the bus line, changed his mind when he was offered the neWly created position of day assistant tcT% H. Beam. Elmer trill work from 7 o'clock tirT S’detl. Dan Morrisy will continue to work the second trick from 3 to 10 o'clock, and G. B. Marlatt, who came from Brookston, will work the tjiird trick from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. The business at the depot has been increasing very rapidly and the creation of Che new job Is very timely and will relieve Mr. Beam of much extra work. '

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HARVESTER TRUST SUIT FILED BY GOVERNMENT.

AUege Many Violations of Sherman Law In ShH Seeking Disintegration of International.

In the federal district court at St. Paul, Minn., the government Tuesday filed Its suit for the dissolution of the International Harvester Co. The so-called trust is alleged to exist in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law and to have been guilty of all manner of illegal acts to secure a monopoly of the harvester and general machinery business and to squeeze out competition. The government alleges that the company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey in 1901, when a Consolidation of the McCormick, Deering, Plano and Milwaukee companies were merged into one and proceeded to gobble up all companies that looked like they might be formidable in competition. The government claims that it will be able to show that the so-callecf trust has not only raised the price enormously In territory where there was no opposition but has reduced the price below the cost of manufacture where there was competition, thus forcing the smaller concerns out of business or compelling them to accept their terms of settlement The complaint says that ‘‘defendants have systematically boiight up patents on harvesting machinery, tools and implements, and acquired all inventions therein, in order thereby more effectually to perpetuate the combination and monopoly.”

Individuals named as members of the International Harvester Co. are Geo. W. Perkins, Cyrus and Harold McCormick, Charles and James Deering, Elbert H. Gary and others. The Wisconsin Steel Co. and the Wisconsin dumber co. are also named as defendants. The government’s suit is In the hands of Edwin P, Grosveno.r, special assistant to the attorney-gen-eral.

Emery Sellers Tells of Advantages of Corporations.

There are a lot of people who do not oppose corporations as a general proposition, who realize that they form the greatest stepping stone of our advancement and have made possible accomplishments that private capital, could never have undertaken. It is where the corporations exist a« monopolies and in restraint of trade and in violation of law that they are obnoxious and dangerous. Emery Sellers, who is an attorney for the defendants In the railroad suit now being tried in the Jasper circuit court, and who has given much thought to legislative and governmental affairs, is frank to say that if it Were not for corporations the people in this part of Indiana would be hauling sand from Michigan City in wheelbarrows. No individual Would undertake the construction of a railroad. But where the corporation uses its power to secure unfair advantages and undeserved profits it must be halted and its officials punished. =~Mr. Sellers is in no sense an insurgent. He is neither a Bryanite nor a Teddyite. He says that we have been able to establish the best form of government that the world has ever known and that at the very time when conditions are the most favorable to

all classes of people there is a movement to destroy it and to set the country back a half century. Mr. Sellers is a democrat Schyler Colfax Jones, of Kentland, is a publican. Each belongs to the conservative element of their party. In a friendly discussion at the court house Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Sellers held Bryan to be the greatest menace to stable government, with Roosevelt a close second. Mr. Jones placed Roosevelt at the bead of the list with Bryan in second place. They both agreed, however, that It was somewhat of a "shake them both in a bag” proposition.

Republicans Named Ticket In White County Saturday.

At the republican convention in White county Saturday the following ticket was named: for Auditor, Homer Dresbach; for treasurer, U. G. Browneller; for sheriff, John Hocb; for surveyor, William May; for coroner, Dr. A. B. Cray; for commissioners, E. M. Ferguson and Chase Showalter. Mr, May, the candidate for surveyor, lives In Princeton township, near the Jasper county Une, and has taught school in Jasper county. He took a civil engineering course in Valparaiso univerW ' -

The farmers' favorite line of im-„ plements are made by the J. L Case Plow Works.

Helpful Hints. In our advertising from week to week it is our aim to offer helpful faints in buying for you; for if our suggestions bit the mark, it creates demand, which in time means a broadening of business for on. We have an exceptionally good line of Brooms at 38c, 45c, 50c, and 65c each. Mop Sticks, spring-head style, the right kind, at only 10c each. Tip Top brand, 14-oz. best Cotton Mops, at only 25c each. Big 4-lb. (quart size) Washing or Cleansing Powder, now only 10c pkg. 10c cake Fairbanks Scouring Soap (like Sapolio), special at 7c bar. Just now it seems timely to mention our housecleaning helps. Everything in brushes, soaps, lye, bonani, sapolio, .cleanser, and nickel and silver polisr. Please favor us with your wants in this line. The Home Grocery

TAFT AND TEDDY NECK AND NECK IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Latest Information Leaves Uncertainty As to the Outcome of Primaries In the Bay State- J 1

Tuesday’s primaries in Massachusetts were so close that the advices received up to noon today leave the outcome between President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt very much in doubt. The race is so close that an official count is expected to determine the standing of the candidates. Roosevelt apparently has won the delegates at large, eight in number. The majority of,the 28 delegates from the districts are thought to be favorable to Taft. Both sides are claiming the victory. Ohamp Clark fairly snowed Governor Wilson under for the democratic nomination.

Morgue Vessel Recovered Bodies Of Many of the Titanic Dead.

The Mackey-Bennett ship, which went to the scene of the Titanic disaster to recover dead bodies, arrived in Halifax, N. S., Tuesday, having on board 190 ‘ dead bodies. Of these 130 were identified. Most of the unidentified were seamen. .The bodies of John Jacob Astor and Isadore Straus were among the recovered. A 2-years-old girl was found among the unidentified and hers was the only body borne by the waves without a lifebelt. The features of the victims are said to have been calm and peaceful as though death had come suddenly and painlessly. The bodies of 57 identified seamen were reburied. Cash found on the clothing of victims amounted to about $13,000, while jewelry to a much greater value was recovered. Another vessel, the Minia, is also expected to bring to port a number of bodies and it is hoped the body of Major Archibald Butt, the president’s aid, will be recovered. *

J. R. Carr, the aged and slightly deaf gentleman who bought a 10-acre tract at the north edge of town and erected a one-room building thereon, has now sold “ Hie tract to Mayor Meyers and Is planning to remove to either Chicago or Milwaukee. He Is the pld gentleman who road a motorcycle about town.

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WEATHER FOEECABT. Unsettled; showers tonight or Thursday. g

M. E. CHURCH, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 7.

8:15 P. M. Admission 15 Cents.

The Lecture Course did not pay out this year but the Lyceum Bureau have agreed to send this man at a reduced rate in the hope of making up the de* flcit. • Those holding season tickets Will not be admitted on the tickets, but pay the regular price.

Stone Road Projects Wen In Keener Township Tuesday.

Keener township proved its .progressiveness Tuesday by supporting the Charles E. Kersey and George Naninga stone road petitions at the election held for the purpose of determining whether or not the roads were dosired by the voters. The Kersey road was in four sections, all adjoining and a separate vote was required for each section. All carried by the following votes: No. 1, for 103, and 5 against No, 2, for 98, and 7 against No. 3, for 98, and 5 against No. 4, for 97, and 5 against ■ The Naninga road carried by a vote of 92 to 13. The roads will total Hi miles or more.

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