Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1912 — Page 1

No. 134.

OPENING GayetyAirdome Monday, June 3 BEN F. BARNES, - - Manager BILLY BOUGHTOK’S § Overland Show Has been engaged for this event, bringing to Rensselaer one of the Best and Strongest Vaudeville Companies En Tour. LOOK AT THIS LIST OF PERFORMERS. NELAH, Queen of the wire. MILLIE St. CYR, French Magician. AMY BOUGHTON, Serpentine Dancer. THE LEANDOS, Premier Acrobats and Contortionists. HELEN MAY, Aerialist. BILLY BOUGHTON, Comedian. ARCHIE HINCHLEY, Song and Dance Artist Will exhibit at Gayety Airdome all week, commencing Mon., June 3. TEN CENTS TO ALL

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Carl Wood went to Chicago today. Dr. I. M. Washburn went to Chicago today. J. C. Gwin made a business trip to Chicago today. * Robert Fendig went to Hammond today on Geo. E. Murray made a business trip to Indianapolis yesterday. . Mrs. C. M. Sands returned yesterday from a visit at Monon. The Standard Bearers will meet at the Monneit Home this evening. Mrs. F. Emery returned from a business trip to Monon yesterday. - • Otto Braun, came down from Lowell today to hold band practice tonight ~ Miss Lois Thompson -returned yesterday from a visit in Indianapolis. The finest lot of buggies ever exhibited in Rensselaer. See them before you buy at Hamilton & Kellner**. ' E. M. Morrow, of Linden, came yesterday to visit his brother, Bev. F. A. Morrow. , j." •' . I <ii min i ■!■■ i ' in— ■ See oar line of cultivators and gophers. HAMILTON A KELLNER. Charles E. Kersey was appointed “guardian Monday of Lillian Sachs, only heir in the Rosa Klatt estate. The estate consists of 80 acres of land and about $250 worth of personal property.

The Evening Republican.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Wednesday; cooler extreme south portion tonight

Mrs. J. H. Chapman has qualified as executrix of the estate left by her mother, Mrs. Candace Loughrldge. -i « r Mrs. James McCaffrey returned to her home in Lafayette today after visiting over night wUh Mrs. Mary Peyton. * Mrs. E. C. English went to Glencoe, 111., today to visit for a week or ten days with her sister, Mrs. Louis F. Hopkins. Remember we handle the famous Deering line of mowers, rakes and binders. HAMILTON & KELLNER. Joe Larsh and children, Jack and Doris, went to Kokomo today to visit with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. Chas. Jouvenat returned to her home in Chicago today, after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. Charlotte George. ~‘ : Now is the time for pineapples for canning. They are at their best. Get our special price on them in case or tkzen lots. JOHN EIGER. Mrs. N. M. Harris returned to her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., today after several days’ yisit here with Benjamin Harris, Sr., and family. Mrs. Isaac Wiltshire, who has been in very poor health for some time, will leave tomorrow for Town Creek, Ala., to spend several weeks with relatives. ,If you are going to want any strawberries to can or. preserve we will make you a special price on them in case lots this week. JOHN EGER. Mrs. E. L. McFadden, of Chicago, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas.'-Platt, and other relatives for the past week, went to Surrey to visit her parents. Mrs. Frank Lyon and children returned to their home in Delphi today, after several days’ visit here with her mother, Mrs. Julia A. Healey, and other relatives. C. M. Davenport, of Kentucky, is now working for his brother, W. A. Davenport, at wallpaper cleaning and if he finds plenty of work to do he expects to move his family here and make Rensselaer his permanent home. Miss Lillian Morland returned to her home in Frankfort today after a short visit with her uncle, Charles Battleday and family. Her brother, Raymond, who has been visiting here all this spring, accompanied her home. You can secure Mica Special Roofing from any dealer in Jasper or Newton counties. If your dealer does not have it in stock, call me up and I will supply you direct Prices the same everywhere. HIRAM DAY. - 1 " ■■ ■ ■ Miss Elizabeth Spitler, who is attending Western College for Girls at Oxford, Ohio, will start in a few days in company with college friends on a delightful trip to- Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, and Cedar Point on Lake Erie. Miss Martha Long may accompany her on at least part of the trip. We have on exhibition in our show window a mammoth sack of “Aristos” flour that we are going to give away on the 4th of July to the one that guesses the nearest correct weight One guess with every 50-pound sack of Aristos purchased. JOHNtEGER. B. J. Moore returned last evening from Dixon, HI., where he had' been in company with C. H. Sternberg. Ed Sternberg was also there. He is now located *.at Kansas City. They bid on an extensive ditch contract, which sold for about $239,000. There is five miles of rock to be excavated.' Sternbern A Son and Mr. Moore missed getting the contract by a narrow margin. While he is only an amateur in the sign, writing business, J.Harve Robinson has completed a job at the Princess airdome that might well cause any professional painter to “sit up and take notice.” The name “Princess” is executed across the convex front of the theatre in a bold gothic letter that, though not ornate, is artistic In its severity. The letters are painted in two colors, the upper portion red and the lower in black, which, on the background of enamel white, forms a very pleasing and serviceable purpose. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burddck Blood Bitters as a cleansing blood tonic, ii well recommended, fl.oo at all stores.

■ntersd January X, 18S7, as seoond mass —matter, at tbe post-egos at «auaoolaor, Indiana, under the act of March a, 189*.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1912.

GETTING THE HONEY A FOR OUR CELEBRATION.

Band Boys Continue to Meet Cheerful Response From Merchants; Have Raised Over 3460. - - -» y Practically everybody seems to be right in for the celebration of the glorious Fourth. The band boys met willing subscribers to the movement right off the reel and Colonel Phillips, of the Princess Airdome gave $25. B. F. Barnep, of the Gayety, gave a like amount and restaurants gave sls, while merchants generally went down for $lO. The fund had reached a total exceeding SIOO by noon today and the committee was stiH at work. Bandmaster Otto Braun came down from Lowell this morning and took a hand In the boosting and the celebration is assured and enough money in sight to have a 'dandy. Just what the attractipns will be can not be told at this time but the band boys have always succeeded at every undertaking and they promise a hummer and we are willing to believe them and people, should start now to invite their friends to come here for the big day.

Wandering Comet Observed By Rensselaer People.

Many persons who were on the streets last night saw what seemed to be a large flaming star shooting through the sky between 8:30 and 9 o’clock. The body moved south and westward and remained in view for several rdinutes. y ■After the body had passed and seemed to burst, there appeared to be a trail resembling very much a comet tail or trail of smoke. Several persons observed only a flash and attributed It to lightning. Andrew Perrault, a real “son of the American Revolution,” is dead at Galena, 111., aged 91 years. His father enlisted in Washington’s army when 16 years old. The Laporte Electric Co. has filed in the office of the secretary of state a preliminary notice of dissolution. This is in line with the general plan of consolidation by the syndicate which controls the company. Elmer Chapman, for many years freight agent in Laporte for .the Lake Shore and Lake Erie roads, has resigned to take effect June 10. Mr. Chapman has purchased a third interest in the Meinke dray line at Laporte. Pure Food Inspector Frecl Tucker stopped Tipton bread wagons on the street Friday and Inspected their cleanliness, and then visited the dairies’ at milking time. As a result he has information, he says, which will warrant hip In filing several affidavits. • ■> Dr. Julius W. Sturmer, for twentyofie years, professor of pharmacy at Purdue university, resigned Saturday to accept an appointment as dean of the pharmacy department of the Medl-co-Chirurgical college at Philadelphia. Dr. Sturmer will enter on his new duties next fall. The birth of his fifteenth child Friday night probably gives Representative John M. Hamilton of the Fourth district of West Virginia the largest family of any member of the lower house of congress. Fourteen of the congressman’s children are living. The latest member is a daughter. The head of a hog, supposed to have been affected with rabies, has been examined by the laboratory of hygiene of the state board of health and pronounced free from 'rabie germs. The animal recently bit Avery Scott, a teacher living south of Shelbyville. Hydrophobia has been" prevalent in tbe neighborhood for some time. * —i, ■ One way to relieve, habitual constipation is to take regularly a mild laxative. Doan’s Regulate are recommended for this purpose. 25c a box at all drug stores. Representative W, • ff. Redfleld, a Brooklyn democrat and wealthy manufacturer, announced himself as a candidate for vice-president Saturday at Washington. It is significant that on Friday Mr. Redfleld had a long inter-' view with Representative Oscar Underwood, whom he greatly admires and loyally follows. Mr. Redfleld, in' the extra session of 1909, proved froth tbe manufacturers’ that American industries^ljnghd' no protection. * L ‘ For earache, toothache, 'pains, burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil, a splendid remedy for emergencies^

DITCH CASE IS BEGUN BY JUDGE J. W. HANAN.

Borntrager Ditch Remonstrators Will Ee Heard in Attack on Improvement of Lower Iroquois. Judge John W. Hanan, of LaGrange, who was appointed by Governor Marshall to hear the Borntrager ditch remonstrators in their attack on their assessments for the lower Iroquois ditch improvement, opened court on Monday morning and it Is probable that the case will occupy the most of the month of June. Andrew Kahler and Carey Carr, who are for the ditch, were among the first to testify. About all the attorneys in Rensselaer and several from outside cities are lined up with the remonstra* tors, while Attorney Geo. A. Williams is for fthe petitioners.

New School House to Be Built in Milroy Township.

County Superintendent Lamson has completed plans for a new school house to replace the old one in District No. 3, Milroy township. It will probably be built on the opposite side of the road from the present building. The contract will be let on Saturday, June 29th. The building will be completed in time for the opening of school in September. Superintendent Lamson believes he has provided the best set of plans ever employed in the use of a district school house in Jasper county. The building will conform to all modern provisions for lighting and heating. It will be a frame structure 30x30 feet in dimensions. The light in the main room will be from the north. The hall will be along the south side of the building, with plenty of windows to let the sunlight through to the children’s wraps. This is on the theory that sunshine, is the greatest disease germ chaser known. At one end of the hall a small manual training room will ; be erected. A woodbouse will be connected With the school building. The heating plant will consist of an inside furnace. , Trustee G. L. Parks will receive bids for the construction of the building up to June 29th.

World Famous Billiardist to Be Here Next Fall.

While returning from the auto rjices at Indianapolis last week, Calvin A Demarest, of Chicago, a famous cue artist, stopped for a while and made a friendly call on H. W. Kiplinger, proprietor of the Little Indian cigar store and pool room. Demarest is well known in United States and abroad In billiard circles and for years was the champion amateur billiardist. Having recently gone into the professional class Demarest played 18.2 balkline billiards with Wmie Hoppe, tbe cbanrpion of the world, and was only beaten 500 to 440. hjr. Demarest was well pleased with “Kip’s” pool and billiard parlor and expressed his surprise at finding so well an equipped hall in a town of this size. Before leaving he expressed a willingness to give an exhibition here of his billiard prowess, which is of a spectacular order. Mr. Kiplinger took advantage of the chance and made arrangements with him to come some time next fall, probably in October.

Ben F. Barnes’ Gayety Airdome Drew Big Crowd Monday Night.

The initial performance at Ben F. Berne*’ Gayety airdome was staged Monday night. Billy Boughton’s overland troup of vaudeville artists was greeted by a packed house and the amusing comedy kept the audience in constant ripple of laughter. Between the opening and closing comedy sketches were some very comnfendable specialty acts. Tbe Rensselaer band played a few selections before the box office was opened and a large crowd attended, in spite of the threatening storm. Billy Boughton and his company have been engaged for the entire week. _

Marriage License.

Jkmw Orville Thomas, born Logansport, Ind., June 5, 1888, present residence ’Remington, occupation merchant, a»d Eflie Blanch Whitehead, born Remington, Ind., March 21, 1889, present Remington, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for qgljjOi&v ■ - v 'Vi' ■ " ‘ A .

Piano Instruction.

. I will return to Rensselaer on Jane 15th and will be ready for a number more piano pupils. Phone 111.

MOVING PICTURES ON LAKE MICHIGAN BEACH.

Fisherman Amazed at Sight of Spanish Invaders Conquering Mexico and Taking Emperor Captive. Hernando Cortez and his army landed at Miller beach, east of Gary, last Friday afternoon, and Saturday there was a battle between the Spanish soldiers and the Aztec warriors, Montezuma's scouts. Cortez fought his way through “Mexico” and early Sunday morning he reached the City of Mexico and after a furious battle took the Emperor Montezuma captive. The “Masquere of Montezuma” was being portrayed by actors and Chicago Art institute students among the Miller sand dunes for a motion picture house. The sand stretches affords a good background and by sticking in a palm tree here and there the Mexican plains are initiated. The fishermen along the Lake Michigan coast rubbed their eyes at the spectacle the> saw Saturday. On horseback was Cortez, his steed lead by a dusky Aztec maiden. After him came the standard of* Spain and a Franciscan friar, swinging incense before a banner of the Virgin. Then followed the soldiers in their armor and blankets, all carrying quaint bunderbusses, and in the middle of the procession was the artillery. Scenery is scattered all over the sand dunes and in front of the dune “mountains” may be seen the shrines, Aztec abodes, temples and other buildings, tbe erection of which caused Gary lumber yards to be worked overtime. Norman Borchardt, a nephew of B. F. Fendig, of this city, is one of the company of art students engaged in making this picture. It will take about three weeks to complete tbe work.

Jesse E. Wilson Will Be An Assistant Sergeant-At-Arms.

Attorney Jesse E. Wilson is here from Hammond in the interest of a number of remonstrators to the Borntrager ditch and will probably be here during much of the time the case 1b being heard. He hopes the case will be ended in time to permit him to attend the republican national convention in Chicago on June 18th. He has been appointed an assistant Sergeant-at-Arms for the convention by the Chief Sergeant-at-Arms William F. Stone on recommendation of Harry S. New, national chairman. He is the enghteenth assistant according to the notice informing him of the appointment* . It is probable that there will be a great demand for admission to the convention and already politicians all over the country are using every means at their command to provide for their attendance at the big convention.

Guy Parker Buys Another Business at Herscber, III.

Guy Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Parker, of near Roselawn, and well known in Rensselaer, recently sold his interest in the Herseber, ,111., Mercantile Co., and was planning to hunt a new location but before leaving the town another opportunity presented itself and he formed a partnership with Robert Wright and bought a store which Joseph E. Wright had conducted for the past ten years. The Herscher newspaper gives an account of the transaction and closes .by saying that Guy and bis partner will doubtless make a big success of the grocery and drygoods business they have purchased.

Secured Aid Here For M. E. Hospital at Indianapolis.

Rev. W. N. Gaither, D. D., of Greencastle, assistant secretary of the university of DePanw, filled the pulpit at the M. E. church Sunday morning and acquainted the audience with the work the church is doing in the rebuilding of tbe Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. Monday and Tuesday mornings were devoted to calling upon the wealthier members of the local church to solicit aid for the building fund and quite a Hfaeral response was secured. The cause is a very worthy one and is meeting generous aid throughout the state.

If you want yonr wallpaper cleaned, leave your order at once with W. A. Davenport. '*=

We can give music lessons daring the rammer months to several pupils at the Monnett Home and Watte de Peyster School. Phone No. 447.

BEL LARUE.

Cleaning Wall Paper.

Music Lessons.

JUDGE AND ATTORNEYS WENT OVER THE DITCH.

Special Judge Decides to Start Cbm By Visiting. Stream Which 1$ is Proposed to Straighten. Judge John W. Hanan Monday afternoon determined to get at the very bottom of the ditch case he is trying at the outset and be arranged with the attorneys to go over the proposed drainage. Accordingly, in company with Attorneys Williams, Wilson, Dunlap and Foltz, the morning was spent on the north side of the Iroquois. The judge and attorneys walked over much of the land as far as Lamson'* bridge. They returned at noon and In the afternoon Engineer Hugh Gamble joined the party and the south side of the river was gone over. Judge Hanan is probably one of the most competent drainage attorneys in Indiana, having been Connected with many important cases in Steuben, Noble, Lagrange, Kosciusko and Elkhart counties. He has officiated as judge in a number of extensive drainage suits. He was also the author indirectly at legislation passed for the protection of our fresh water lake* from being drained out He was associated with Governor Marshall in several ditch cases when the governor was practicing at Columbia City. The attorneys who have met him are very favorably impressed with both his ability and bis fairness and the big ditch case will apparently be tried with the single aim of arriving at a decision fair to all litigants.

They Are Going Up; Food Prices Will Advance.

Unless you have your own garden and can live upon the produce you raise, you are apt to he up against it for the next thirty days. That is the scare which the department of commerce and labor is giving out as a result of the investigation of the high cost of living. It forecasts that there will he an increase of at least ten per cent over last year. Food products are the highest on record. Meat, eggs, butter, fish, potatoes, coffee, tea, sugar, salt, rice, molasses, beans and peas average 22 per cent higher than a year ago; wheat, oats,-barley and flour are reported 33 per cent higher. Leather products are 12 per cent higher, while textile goods are a trifle lower. The average increase of food products is 20 per cent. Six dollars go only as far, as five did in providing for the table need. The biggest advances have been in meat products, beef 26 per cent; bog products, 40 per cent and mutton more than 50 per cent Dealers lay the increase to last year’s poor hay crop and the general high cost of animal provender. Poor crops are also held responsible for more expensive breadstuff. » Considered In connection with a bulletin issued by the department of commerce and labor, presenting facts to show that not since 1907 have food animals been so plentiful as now, the statement of market men that the record breaking high prices are caused by a shortage of cattle As not taken seriously. . 7 Tbe most remarkable Jump in prices occurred in the pork market. In 1897 pork sold at $8.90 a barrel, the lowwater figure for the twenty-two years. In 1910 pork rose to- $23.73 a barrel, the rise for the thirteen years with several minor fluctuations being gradual. In January, 1911, the price was quoted at $22.47. It rose to $22.75 in February and then began a gradual decline until it reached. $17.56.

Clean Year Hats.

We will be in Rensselaer for a few days only, cleaning and reblocking men’s hats. Straws, panamas and Stetsons a specialty. We also clem and restore old faded rags to their original colors. Leave orders at the Comer House. The Chicago Hat A Rug Co.

Plano Tuning.

Now Is the time to have yonr piano tuned, cleaned and polished. Call on Otto Braun, the band teacher. ■' -| " " ,|l - 1 1 '1 A vice-prosidential boom for Governor William Glasscock, of West Virginia, one of the seven governors who urged Roosevelt to be a candidate and the only one of the seven who delivered the entire delegation from his state to the ex-president, has been launched. Six Pullman carloads of West Virginians will come to Chicago in a speeial to boom Glasscock. Itching piles provoke profanity but profanity won’t remove them. Doan’s Ointment is recommended for itching! bleeding or protnding pile* 50c at any drug store. ..

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