Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — Page 1

No. 178.

Gayety Airdome BEN F. BARNES, Manager " 111 " L The Delzaros Sensational Novelty Act Roman Rings and Trapeze. Don’t Fail to See Them A Guaranteed Attraction ■ “JOSEPHINE”—The young Josephine is told by the Gypsy that she will become a queen. “ON HER WEDDING DAY”—A very fine American drama. / “CATCHING CROCODILE”—On the river Kiang. i. ’ ’

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

V. J. Crlsler reurned today from a business trip to Lafayette. Ike Tuteur came down from Chicago today to visit with old friends. Miss Clara Robinson weijt to Frankfort today for a few days’ visit with friends. Orla Clouse returned today from, an outing trip to Dowagiac and points in Wisconsin. Mrs. John Mecklenburg left today for a few days’ visit with her son, Charles, at Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowen ttre visiting in Peoria, 111., this week with her parents and relatives. Miss Ada Diener, of Chicago, came Wednesday for a viSitflntilt'Sxraday with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy. Miss Louise Mendenhall, of Greensburg, is visiting Miss Nell Moody and other friends hqye for a few days. Miss Flora Kahler arrived today from Dyer, where she has been visiting her brother, Joe, for some time.

Shipment on car of peaches delayed. Will not arrive until next Monday or Tuesday. JOHN EGER. Merle Warren returned to his home at Lawton, Okla., today after several weeks’ visit here with relatives and friends. / Mrs. Ida. Champion and two daughters, pf Chicago, are visiting her mother,’ Mrs. Philip McElfresh, and other relatives.

Miss Anna Jasperson came from Tefft this morning and will be the guest of Miss Mary Goetz, of west of town, for a few days.

Miss Ella Condron, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy for the past week, returned yesterday to her home In Pittsburg, Pa.

George D. Zea was down from Dr. Turfler’s farm near Laura today. He has laid by his onions and Everything points to a mammoth crop.

Democrats of the house in caucus Wednesday night voted, 70 to 62, not to recede from their “no battleships” program in the naval appropriation bill.

Miss Maldai Teagarden, of San Antonio, Tex., arrived here Tuesday and will remain for an indefinite visit with her aunt, Mrs. Charlotte George and family.

Misses Vera and Ivatti Healey went to Remington today to visit Misses Martha and Helen Parker. Miss Wilda Littlefield is also visiting in Remington. Isaac Parker, who is operating Everet Halstead’s thrashing outfit, started to thrash his own crop today and will then proceed on a long run in Newton- township. Irma and Jennie Ganson have gone to their (home at Grand Tower, IIU to Visit relatives until the- reopening of the Watts de Peyster School for Girls on September 4th. George P. Daugherty is quite poorly now and last night was somewhat worse. His- brother, Lewis Daugherty, and daughter, Mrs. Chas. Bell, of Chicago, came today to visit him. ■ • • George Collins came from Indianapolis yesterday for a visit of two or three weeks with his parents,»Mr. and Mrs. Alt Collins and other relatives. Mrs. Collins will join him here later. '

The Evening Republican.

Frank Dalton, of Delaware, Ohio, who has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Mary E. Travis, for 'the past two weeks, has gone to Gilman, 111., to visit relatives before returning to his home.

*Ben Rossman, who with his sister, Miss Lillian, of Chicago, have been visiting for the past two weeks with Henry*Kolhoff and family, of south of town, returned to his home in Chicago today. Miss Lillian will remain for a longer visit.

John. Ramp, proprietor of the Home Grocery, has been working overtime for the past several days. His clerk, Lon Keiser, has been on the sick list for some time, suffering from a summer cold and complications. He will probably be back to work Monday.

The Gayety ’was crowded last night and the crowd seemed to be well pleased with the r aerlaT'“SKt'"by"Th« Delzaros. It is a big circus act for 10 cents. Patrons are asked to remember that two performances take place each night. The first is at 8:15 and the second at 9:15, or a little later.

Fowler is having a oarnival this week. The Review says that the shows of the Hoosier Amusement Co. are far above the average and that there is not a show to Which any person can take exception. The Republican publishes this for the benefit of The Jasper County Democrat, whose self-professed puritanical morals are easily shocked at the suggestion of the word “carnival.” ’

E. A. Benedict and W. M. Harmon, of Oxford, last week purchased the Kent Grain Co. elevator at Kentland and took possession last Saturday. Mr. Benedict will have charge of the business. Ho was in the grain business at v Wadena for a number of years. Mr. Harmon is cashier of the Heath bank at Oxfrd. Messrs. Kent and Washburn will retire from the elevator business. Both will devote their time to their extensive farming interests.

The call of the Kankakee is coming strong and clear to the fflkhermen of Kentland, and most of the time there is a delegation from this place sharing quarters with the mosquitoes along the banks. A. J. Thmpson, C. C. Kent, O. P. Keesler and Everett Hess were up the latter part of the week and caught a good mess of bait. Arthur Smart, R. E. Hamilton, Roy Ross and Harry Ross drove through Monday to try their luck, and Rev. C. W. Wharton and W. J. Ayres are there for the week with the Boy Scouts. In no other avenue of life could people stand up under so many disappointments. Kentland Enterprise. ? . James and Carey Carr are making extensile improvements to their farm home, a few miles west of Rensselaer, and when completed the house will be very convenient. They have a cellar, 14x16 feet at the rear of their house and built over it a large kitchen and a bath room. Porches were also built on the east and west sides of tie house. Carr Bros, have bees planning this improvement for some time, but never got around to it They have lost several apple crops by not having a suitable storage room and when their bumper crop of apples, consisting of dozens of barrels full, were frozen last year, they decided that that should be the last time. They are also building a double crib for storage of grain. It will "be 48 feet long and have a cement floor. - They pave been forced to do much of the work connected with these improvements themselves x on account of the scarcity of labor. *

Tii B, refl January I,' 18*7, M Mcond claaa mall matter, at the post-ottos st Rensselaer, Indiana, and ST the act of March 3, 187*.

Court Holds Will Meaningless, and The Minor Grandchildren Profit Thereby. Thre three minor children of Mrs. William Karsten, of Rensselaer, will share in the estate of their grandfather, John Karsten, deceased, of Ford county. 111., according to a recent der. cisin of the Illinois supreme court. John Karsten, at the time of his death, left three—children and the grandchildren above mentioned, being the children of his deceased son, Karsten. In his will he provided a special bequest of SI,OOO to each of his grandchildren, to be paid to them frqm the proceeds of a sale of a certain eighty -acres of land. By the second item of his will be provided as follows: “It is my will that my children (naming them) shall be equally divided between all three.” The living children sought to take the balance of_ their father’s estate, giving to the William Karsten children only'the $3,000 provided for them in the special bequest. Mrs. William Karsten, who is the mother of the minor children above mentioned, employed James H. Chapman and George A. Williams, of Rensselaer, to look after the interests of her children. A spit was instituted in the Ford county circuit court for a construction of the will of John Karsten, and from the decision of the Ford circuit court there was. an appeal to the supreme court of Illinois. The supreme court held that the second item of the will was meaningless and that as to all of his property except the eighty acres mentioned, he died Intestate, that is, without a will. This gives the three grandchildren, in addition to the special bequest of $3,000, their father’s share of their grandfather’s estate. The estate consisted of 400 acres of land besides other property and their share will approximate $25,000.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912.

RETURNS FROM SOJOURN IN SOUTHERN STATES.

S. E. Sparling Visited Several States And Found Some Excellent Agricultural Conditions. . Samuel E. Sparling arrived home Thursday afternoon from a prospecting trip through the south. We found Sam difficult to interview. He traveled so extensively and jaw so much with the eye of a student that to relate it in a newspaper interview Is a difficult matter. To start with Sam said that he had been every place in the south with the exception of Florida. He liked the black belt of Alabama and Mississippi and spent about a month in the neighborhood of Demopolis, Marengo county, Alabama. He spent about a week with Winifred Pullins, who is running a big farm near that place. Winifred is not cotton farming, but is demonstrating that alfalfa growing and draft horse breeding can be profitably carried oj in the south. Mr. Sparling says that cotton is producing from a half a bale to a bale and a half an acre. It is worth S6O a bale. Land is wbrth about $25 an acre.

The best developed country Sam .vfisited was Frederick bounty, Md., where he reports having seen the finest agricultural section he has ever seen up to this time. It Is largely devoted to small grain. Sam did not make a purchase and is still entirely footloose in the way of an investment. He may return there and he may go to some other point and he may decide to remain for some time 'in Rensselaer. He found lots of insurgency in the south and reports that Roosevelt is very strong throughout the states he visited.

Asked to go more extensively into a discussion of the states he visited, Mr. Sparling said that he could not,’ do so without taking considerable time and, that he might write a report of his trip for publication. This we tried to pledge him to do, but he gave no definite promise. .The Republican feels certain that he would be able to entertain its readers by one or more articles descriptive of agricultural conditions and possibilities in the south.

THE KARSTEN CHILDREN WILL INHERIT $25,000.

Special Meeting of K. of P.

All members of the Knights of Pythias are urged to meet at the hall this evening at 8 o’clock to make arrangements for the funeral of ‘ Brother M. W. Reed. W. A DAVENPORT, C. C. I have for eale a choice lot of blackberries. Phone 525-G. H. W. Wood, Jr. -j. <

M. W. REED SUCCUMBED AFTER LONG ILLNESS.

Highly Esteemed Citizen Victim of Cancer of the Stomach—Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon. Marcus Wesjey Reed, one of the best known and most universally liked farmers of Jasper county, died at 18 minutes after 1 o’clock this Friday morning at his home a mile and a half west of Rensselaer on the river road. He had been in failing health for about eleven months and last fall un/derwent a surgical operation in hope of restoring his health. Prior to the decline of last summer he had been in excellent health. He was a large and powerful man and his robust condition seemed to assure that he would live for many years. During the thrashing period he began to weaken and it was only with grim determination that he held out until the run in his neighborhood was completed. He could retain nothing on his stomach and gradually grew into a very serious condition. In October he was taken to Chicago where he underwent a surgical operation. The diagnosis to operation showed that there was a closure of the stomach. and it was thought probable that It could be remedied by an operation. It was found, however, after the operation was • begun that the growth in the stomach was malignant and it was decided to perform a ggstro-en-terotomy operation, which consisted of making an incision higher in the stomach and attaching it to another loop in the bowel. The operation re-'' suited very satisfactorily and he regained strength for some time and this year he put out his crop and' tended it and until- the cancerous growth extended to tftie new outlet of the stomach he continued to improve. A little more than a month ago he again began to fail and he was anxious to have another operation performed, not knowing the nature of his sickness. His physician, Dr. A. R. Kresler, who had Informed his family of the malady, decided at this time to tell him of its nature, knowing that further operation would be useless. Mr. Reed withstood the shock with great fortitude and struggled manfully to the end. He was brave and uncomplaining and stated to the loved ones about him that he was not afraid to die. He doubtless suffered a great deal but he kept it to himself and death came peacefully. Just before he died he was turned over in the bed to make him more comfortable. Beside his bed was his wife and their six children and his aged mother. Deceased was fifty years of age on May 21st. He is survived by his wife jnd their six children, viz. Mrs. Frank Borntrager, James E. Reed, Mrs. Nelson DuOharme, Jr., Leila Grace Reed, Harvey Ross Reetf and Opal Reed, the latter six years of age, and by his mother, Mrs. Eliza Reed, 76 years of age, Who made her home with him. One sister, Mrs. James Lister, of Chicago, also survives. The funeral will be. held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the late residence west of Rensselaer. It will be conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper. The Knights of Pythias, of which Mr. Reed was a member for a great many years, will, at his request, have charge of tftie service at the grave. A special meeting of the order will be held this evening to make arrangements for the service.

DITCH CASE CLOSEDDECISION ON AUGUST 8th.

Special Session by Judge Hanan Adjourned After Long and Tedious a Hearing of Evidence. * The Borntrager ditch case came to a close this Friday morning, when Special Judge Johq W. Hanan, of LaGrange, took some documentary evidence. The direct evidence was concluded Thursday evening. ’ (Judge Hanan was asked for a special finding of facts and returned to his home at LaGrange today and will there make up his finding and return here on August Sth to render IL It is considered almost certain that he establish the ditch, although it is probable that he will make some modifications in ditch assessments. Judge Hanan has proven an able and impartial jurist, and has won the admiration of the members of the local bar.

During the summer months mothers, of young children should watch foi any unnatural looseness of the bowels. When given prompt attention at this time serious trouble may be avoided. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy can always be depended upon. For sale by all dealers. c

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SEVERAL GOOD MEN FOR GOVERNOR NOMINATION.

Taylor, Hugh Th. Miller, Col. Durbin, Harris, Lockwood, Shanks, Henry and Olds are Proposed. As the date for the republican state convention approaches interest in the gvernorship contest increases and nine residents of the state are either active or receptive candidates for the office. -r -■ The list includes the names of Col. Durbin, of AnderSon; Addison Harris, of Indianapolis; D. W. Henry, of Terre Haute; Judge Walter N, Olds, of Ft. Wayne;. Hugh Th. Miller, of Cilumbus; James Wade Emison, of Vincennes, Mayor Shank, of Indianapolis, Charles Arthur Carlisle, of South Bend, and William L. Taylor, of Indianapolis. George B. Lockwood has been mentioned, but has made announcement that he is not in the race.

Col. Durbin served one term as governor of Indiana. Mr. Harris was an avowed “regular” in the fight for delegates to the national convention and is a staunch supporter of President Taft Mr. Henry, the possible candidate from Terre Haute, is supported by some of the leading politicians of the fifth district, it is said, and similar support is given to Mr. Olds from his district. Mr. Miller -served as Lieutenant-Governor during- the administration of Governor Hanly, and has almost the united support for the nomination now by the avowed “dry” element in the party. Mr. Carlisle’s candidacy has become more vigorous during the last few weeks than it was before. It is considered uhlikely by the party leaders that Mr. Taylor will make a race for the nomination, although it is believed he would accept it.

Mike Knboski Bought Former Joseph Green Farm of 96 Acres.

C. J. Dean recently sold to Mike Kuboski, of the Rensselaer Garage, the former Joseph Green farm, consisting of 96 acres and located 3% miles southeast of town. The price paid was SBS per acre. The farm belonged to Mrs, Jane Green and her daughter, Mrs. Joeva Green Hill, of Decatur county, Ind. It is understood that Mr. will rent the farm and continue to work at the Rensselaer Garage.- • • . - A Classified Adv. will sell it

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WEATHER FORECAST. • Fair tonight; slightly warmer central portion. Saturday unsettled and slightly warmer.

BEVERIDGE ALIGNS WITH THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.

Former Senator .Comes Out For Roosevelt and Will Be Chosen Chairman of B. M. Convention. Albert J. Beveridge, for twelve years a United States senator from Indiana and a supporter of the Roosevelt end of. the republican national convention, has decided to burn the bridges behind him and has come out flatfooted for Roosevelt and the new progressive party. His declaration is proving very pelasing to a large number of his admirers and he is to be made the chairman of the Bull Moose convention to be held in Chicago on August sth and may be the running mate of Theodore Roosevelt Beveridge will maka the keynote speech at the convention and set forth the policies of the new party.

. ■■■■■ You can secure Mica Special Rooting from any dealer in Jasper or Newton counties. If your dealer does not have ft in stock, call me up and I will supply you direct Prices the same everywhere. HIRAM DAT. ■; V- ■ - - - - ■

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