Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — Page 1

No. 127.

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EXTRA! Tuesday Evening! “IN THE PATH OF THE CYCLONE.” Showing 60 Views taken at Reddick, Kankakee, Grant Park, and Morocco, Indiana, With Lecture. FULL PROGRAM,OF MOVING PICTURES, baida the 60 views taken by Mr. VanDalson. Admission 10c; children sc.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Uerry Horton went to Rose Lawn Saturday to play for a dance. N. G. Halsey visited over Sunday at Kankakee with his wife and daughter. Willis Lutz went to Kewanna, Fulton county, today on business. Fresh strawberries every day at John Eger’s. John Horton went to Lowell this morning, where he is working, Mrs. Firman Thompson went to Chicago for two or three days’ visit. Try our new, mild, full cream and brick cheese. JOHN EGER. Miss Agnes Kahler went to Lafayette today to enter a business college. To save money see those oxfords and shoes at. special prices at Rowles & Parker’s. J. R. Phillips xnd wife came from McCoysburg this ' morning to attend the funeral of Jack Warner. Mr. and Mrs. Harve J. Robinson visited over Sunday with friends and relatives at Morocco. _— - z -- I Mr. "and Mrs. Frank Maloy and son, John, spent Sunday here with relatives. - ;; ■'; - , For Strawberries, fruits and vegetables, telephone 95. ROWLES & PARKER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hurst came from Lafayette yesterday to visit with Mrs. George Colvert and family. Shoes to fit and shoes properly fitted Parker’s.

Miss Ethel McCarthy went to Chicago Saturday to visit with her sister, Mrs. Roy Chissom. ■■ i Miss Josephine Boyd returned to Delphi today, after a short visit of several days in Rensselaer. ‘ , •"'! '• ■! > * ■ Rev. T. J. Jones returned to Sheridan today after having preached Sunday at the Primitive Baptist church at Mt Ayr. . Noble Peacock, who has been living in Hammond for the past few years, came today and will work here this summer. ■ We have about 20 styles of pumps and shoes for the little folks. We give them just as much attention as the older folks at Rowles & Parker’s. - Walter English and his student friend, Mr. Moshler, of Pufdue, spent Sunday here with Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English and ottyer friends. Tom Shannon, of and a student at Purdue, visited over Saturday and Sunday with his couslh, Eidson Murray. Miss Nelle Sawin, one of this year’s graduates, went to Greencastle today to enter DePauw for the summer teachers’ training course. ’ Alfred Thompson went to Indianapolis today to visit hisfriend, Elton Clark, a graduate of the Rensselaer /high school in 1911. / Mrs. W. C. Murphy, of Crawfordsville, came -Saturday to visit with her son, who is attending St. Joseph’s college. She returned to her home this morning. Tan, gunmetal or patent oxfords in button or blucher for the young men. New conservative toes, low and medium heels, up-to-date lasts. Crossett oxfords are leaders, see the new ones at Rowles & Parker’s.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —♦ — Unwelcome Love. 0, Those Eyes. The Patchwork Quilt. YOUR COUPONS* - •

Mr. and Mrs, John Duvall spent Sunday at Mt. Ayr with Ed Harris and family. \ . Hot weather beverages: root beer, birch beer, sarsaparilla and ginger ale. Large quart bottles, 2 for 25c at John Eger’s. ’ Men’s $4.00 and $3.50 oxfords in tan or black, patent and gun metal, blucher and button; Odd sizes only. Get a pair for $2.00 of- Rowles & Parker. Born, Saturday afternoon, a girl to Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Smith, who reside on the John Marlatt and C. S. Chamberlin farm, fifteen miles north of Rensselaer. We are having another order filled for our Ammonia Proof shoe, which is giving such good satisfaction. Every pai/ guaranteed. For sale at Rowles & Parker’s. The world’s largest ship, the Imperator, of the Hamburg-American line, which is 10% feet longer than the ill-fated Titanic, was launched at Hamburg, Germany, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Greenlee, of Parr, returned tp their home today after a visit since Saturday with his Spencer Greenlee and family, at Plymouth.

White canvas strap pumps, the nobbiest thing in town. Sizes for the whole family. New high toe last. Just the thing for these hot afternoons. See them at Rowles & Parker’s. George F. Heise, editor of the Delphi Herald, was in town a short time this morning, having come here to meet Mrs. Heise, who was returning from a visit in Chicago. ■ —For a light welght-werk shoa tey a pair of our Elkskin Golf shoes. The best leather 1 made. Another case just received. See them at Rowles & Parker’s. • 7 f . - - -. Miss Ora Yeoman, who is employed as a stenographer in a Valparaiso bank, spent Sunday with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman, In Rensselaer. 17 years of selling shoes has made us careful. We tell you as near as we know ourselves about every shoe we sell you. Our motto is • satisfied customers at Rowles &• Parker’s. C. M. Sharp, chemistry teacher in the Rensselaer schools, left for his home at Springfield, Ohio, this morning. He expects to spends the summer attending Wittenburg college at Springfield and to return here and teach the coming year. Have you seen those $2.50 and. $3.00 ladies* oxfords on speciol sale at out store? If not you should see them and pick out a pair for common wear. You can save from *sl.oo to $1.*50 on each pair/ See them at Rowles & Parker's. Mr. and Mrs. John Collins came from Indianapolis yesterday and remained until today, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Collins. Their little daughter is burled here and their trip was especially made to cars for the little girl’s grave. ’ The Monon, it is reported, will install 140 miles of automatic block signals this year between Monon and McDoel and between Peerless and Bedford, Ind. All of the signals will be upper quadrant, thirty-one miles being two-position and 109 miles threepositioh. Manual signals wlßbe installed on .ninety-seven miles between McDoel and New Albany. Butter wrappers, any quantity, plain or printed, may ba had at the Republican OfltoU

Entered January L MW, as second ela— mail matter, at As post sWni at Wensselaer, Indiana, under the net of March 3,187 S.

MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Pleasure Trip of Three Medaryville and Three Lafayette Girls Came to An Abrupt and Unfortunate Ending When Machine Went Into Ditch East of Rensselaer. Going at a high rate of speed, an automobile containing six persons turned turtle in a ditch near the Elizabeth P. Alter farm, one and onehalf miles east of here, at about l:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and killed Enolia Retherford, of West Lafayette. The other occupants of the car were Miss Ruth Davis and May Jolly, both of Lafayette, and three Medaryville men, Orris Ballard, a locomotive fireman, Scott Lanan, a barber, and Chas. Franks, a hardware dealer and owner of the automobile. Miss Retherford was riding in the back seat with three of the other companions when the accident occurred. The machine turned completely over, the body of the back seat pinning her head to the ground, crushing her skull and made several lacerations on her forehead. Her death was instantaneous. Scott Lanan and May Jolly were also pinned under the machine, Lanan being temporarily stunned, and May Jolly receiving several bruises and flesh punctures on the body and right arm. The others were thrown clear of the car when the accident happened, receiving only a few minor bruises. After the machine was righted by farmers who saw the accident, it was found that the right rear wheel was completely demolished. The occupants of the machine claim that the spokes broke out of the wheel and let the machine down, which caused the accident. However, witnesses of the accident say that the machine was going about 30 or 35 miles an hour and that the occupants were laughing'and shouting as they flew by and that the machine was taking a zig-zag course in the road. Examination almost immediately after the accident showed: that for two or three hundred yards the machine had taken a very unsteady course, going from one side of the road to the other. Approaching the scene of the terrible accident, where the Retherford girl was crushed to death, the tracks indicated that the machine had almost taken to the ditch on the south side of the road. In an endeavor to avert taking the ditch there, the driver steered almost straight across the road to the ditch on the north side. The machine hung perpendicular as it swerved for 60 feet over the five foot embankment, and before the occupants had time to realize what was happening, the machine took the fatal plunge, striking the north side of the embankment and then rebounding to the bottom of the ditch, top side down, killing one girl and rendering helpless all but two of the party. When the body of Miss Retherford was extricated from the ruins, life was quite gone. Dr. Gwin was the first to respond to the call for aid, arriving a few short minutes after the acciednt. News of the accident spread like wild fire and it was not long before a multitude of morbid and curious townspeople closed in on the scene. The road was alive with vehicles for hours afterwards, of people from all parts of the county. Coroner W. J. Wright was called and moved the body of Miss Retherford to his undertaking parlors. Those involved in the accident were all nonresidents and the inquest was not held until after 7 o’clock. Evidence was brought out to the effect that May Jolly was at the wheel when the accident occurred, seated in the lap of Charles Franks, they being the sole occupants of the front seat. That part of the party, If not all, had been drinking was brought out in the inquest, when Ballard testified that he and Lanan had indulged on leaving Medaryville. The girls left Lafayette at 8:45 o’clock Sunday morning for Monon, where they were met by the men in the Lambert five-

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, KAY 27, 1912.

“JOY RIDE” ENDS IN DEATH OF YOUNG LADY

Enolia Retherford, of West Lafayette, Victim of Auto Wreck on Sunday Afternoon.

passenger car, which was comparatively new and in goad working order. The machine was owned by Franks, who is a hardware merchant at Medaryville, and who testified that at that time he did auto livery business. However, he admitted that he was not hired to drive yesterday but went for bis own pleasure. After leaving Monon the party started for Rensselaer, where they intended to take dinner. A 'short way out of Monon May Jolly exchanged seats witty a girl in the front seat and took charge of the steering wheel, which she retained until the trip was brought to the tragic end. Shortly after the machine was righted, Ballard, who was almost crazed at the time, drew a revolver from his pocket and was in the act of pressing it to his head, when a bystander saw the move and wrested it frqm his hand. It war found that the revolver was unloaded and it was returned to him. Later on Ballard was discovered crouched at the rear of the machine. He only had two cartridges, which he had loaded in the revolver. He had pulled the trigger twice in the attempt at self destruction, bitt had not turned to the full chambers of the Dr. Gwih was on him in a flash and aften a short wrestling Ballard was overpowered and the gun wrested from his grast Examination showed that the next shot would have been fatal. With the pulling of the trigger the second time Ballard had revolved the magazine •to .the first dealy chamber, which, but for the quick action of bystanders, would have added another chapter, to-the already terrible tragedy. Miss Retherford’s sister, Mrs. Myrtle Watts, of West Lafayette, with whom she stayed Saturday night, pleaded with her not to go, but when Miss Retherford told her that they were going to visit at the home of one of the girl’s uncles, she reluctantly gave her consent: None of the party seemed to have any definite plans as to where they were going after they got to Rensselaer, but it is generally ,understand, that camp was their destination. ■ About.an hour-after the accident a telephone message Was! sent to the dead girl’s father, Wm.>-Retherford, at Lafayette, stating that his daughter was. seriously injured. Tbe first‘inti mation he received of her death was when he arrived here Sunday evening at 5:44. He was met at the station by the girl’s companions, who were the first to break the sad news. Mr. Retherford arranged to have the body sent to Lafayette this Monday morning and he returned to Lafayette Sunday night. The men of the party, Ballard, Franks and Lanan, willingly volunteerd to pay for the casket and to stand for all expenses attendant tq the funeral. As Mr. Retherford is a poor laboring man, he was prevailed upon to accept their offer. The remains of Miss Retherford were sent to Lafayette at 11:20 o’clock this morning, and were accompanied by the girl’s companions, Rose Cooper, May Jolly and the men from Medaryville, all of whom'remained herq last night to act as escorts to their unfortunate companion. Enolia Retherford was only 18 years of age and tbe youngest one of the party. She resided most of the time at her father’s home at Ferndale, in Happy Hollow, a short distance out of Lafayette. Miss Rose Cooper was 22 years of age and was known also as Rose Davis, which name she gave here, while May Jolly is 21 years of age. She was formerly Miss May Steele and is well known around here. When a small baby she was adopted by Isaac Saidla, of Milroy township, and lived there until she grew to ■young womanhood. She worked at the Makeever hotel several years ago and was married to a man whose name, it is alleged, she now bears. She is an office girl employed by Dr. Wilson, of Lafayette. Her brother, Fred Steel, who lived here for .a mhnber of years, is now in the United States army, serving on the Panama canal. Orris Ballard, who is a cousin of George Scott, of this city, gained some notoriety some years ago, when his attempted elopement with Hazel HamMedaryville, was forestalled byAar lrate father.

Now is the Time for Canning Pineapples The quality is very fine, and we believe prices are as low now as they will be this season. Leave Your Orders Early Fresh Strawberries in each morning. Phone 41 Home Grocery

ANOTHER VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR CALLED.

J. P. Warner Stricken With Attack of Heart Failure and Dies at Home On Front Street. Another sudden death occurred Saturday to lessen the ranks of Civil war veterans in Rensselaer, making the third old soldier to die from hqart failure within two weeks. The latest victim was John Phillips Warner, better known as Jack Warner, one of the oldest residents of Rensselaer. Mr. Warner was working Saturday in his carriage paint shop on Front street and when Mrs. Warner called him to supper shortly before 6 o’clock Saturday evening and he did not answer, she went into the shop and found him lying on the. floor. She Called a physician and other aid and Mr. Warner was removed to the house, which is near the shop. He lived for almost half an hour, being partially conscious a short titae. Mr. Warner was 75 years of age end had been tn quite poor health for the past year, although able to be up a considerable part of Jthe time and to work at carriage painting in his shop. He leaves a wife and two children, David Warner, of Hammond, and Mrs. Charles Pefftey, of Remington. He also leaves two brothers, Norman and Marshall P. Warner, of this city. Mr. Warner served three years in the Union army during the Civil war, being in the sth Indiana cavalry. The funeral was held this Monday afternoon‘at 2:30 o’clock. 3 •

A. J. Maisonneuve, the Van Rensselaer street shoemaker, who left town several weeks ago owing numerous lebts, has settled all accounts against him and has recovered his household goods that were held here.and most of that which he had purchased of D. M. Worland. < (Shipped in strawberries were never cheaper than they are this spring and a fine quality of berry has been on the market at 10 cents a quart for several days. N. S. Bates, the local grower, reports that he will have only half a crop this year. Many of his plants froze entirely out during the winter. It is not probable that the home berries will be as cheap as those that are shipped in.

J We Know f That He Knows I \ % > A 5 ** Ji. M K When a property owner says K “I want my bouse ychite- ■" W leaded,” we know that he knows > Tk ■ ■ paint. We sell 11 Phoenix (Eckstein) • White Lead (Dtach Boy Painter Trade-Mark) J . because we know that paint made of pure white lead and .» linseed oil is the only durable, AWWV weather-proof paint. It is most economical because it covers so well and JI lasts so long. A white-leaded surface never needs to be scraped nor burned off. White lead paint grips into tbe wood, Come to us for your paint supplies and / J S-V Ask for our Painting Points containinc color schemes and many ’.-sSO helpful pmntinc sucsestKHM. . Sold by A. F. LONG E 9

WEATHER FORECAST. Thundershowers tonight or Tuesday.

Delos M. Coen Accepted New Position in South Bend Bank.

Delos M. Coen, who for the past few years has been associated with the Central Trust Co., a banking house of Chicago, as a teller, has severed his connection with that firm to accept a higher position, that of assistant cashier, with the Merchant’s National Bank of South Bend, of which his father, Chas. W. Coen, is cashier. Delos assumed his new responsibility this morning. Mrs. Chas. Spitler, mother of Mrs. Coen, was in Chicago the latter part of last week to assist in their preparations for removal to South Bend, but on account of the sickness of their son, .Mrs. Coen will be detained in Chicago for some time.

W. I. Hoover went to Chicago Sunday morning and accompanied his wife home, who was operated on three weeks ago for gall stones. She has made rapid recovery; since the operation and is feeling much better. Last Saturday she was able to take an automobile ride and noiv she is able to be around the house about half the -time. ————— Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Porter, will leave next Saturday with hfe brother-in-la# and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Woodworth, for their fidme in Norfolk, NeK, at which city he has a clerical position awaiting him in the Northwestern railroad offices. 1 ’ . Mrs.’ Edward Baech, of Delphi, who recently underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital, was brought to Rensselaer yesterday by Dr. M. Washburn and will remain at his home during he<> convalescence. The operation consisted of changing the position of a ligament Just below the right knee. The operation was entirely successful but it will be some time before the cast can be removed from the limb. - > Let your wants be known through our classified column.

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