Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Page 1

No. 179.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS,

Miss Grace Norris ifiade a business trip to Monticello today.

Mr. and Mrs. Likens went to" Monon today to visit over Sunday with relatives.

I have for sale a choice lot of blackberries. Phone 525-G. H. W. Wood, Jr.

Miss Bertha Kepner returned yesterday from a visit since Sunday with friends in Indianapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Leavel went to Wabash today for several days’ visit with friends and relatives.

Everybody’s doing it. What? —Wliy, going to* see the Warner Stock Company next Monday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lamson and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig made an automobile trip to Wheatfield Friday.

Little Miss Grace Johnson went to Wabash today to visjt for a month with her aunt, Mrs. Will Stacker.

Miss Virginia Kessler, of Morocco, came today for a visit of a week or more with Mr. and Mrs. Rice Porter.

Miss Irene Balcom, of Remington, came today for a few days’ visit with E. T. Harris and family and other ; friends.

Mrs. J. P. Green installed a new bakers’ oven in her home several days ago to take care of her increasing bakery business.

Mrs. Chris Koepke and two children went to Francesville today to visit until Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Sanford Scott.

* \ Elder T. J. Jones came fromSchneid■t er today and went to Mt. Ayr, where he will, hold meetings at the Primitive Baptist church. Shipment on car of- peaches delayed. Will not arrive until next Monday or Tuesday. JOHN EGER. Mrs. Henry Amsler went to Battle Ground today to visit over Sunday with Mrs. C. L. Harper and children at their cottage there.

Miss Laura Herrod returned to Indianapolis today after a visit of several weeks with Mrs. eGorge Fate and family at the Makeever hotel. # Mrs. Dr. Campbell returned to her home in Indianapolis today after a week’s visit in Barkley township with Mrs. S. L. Jordan and family. s Mrs. James Elliott has been quite sick for several days and it is believed by the family physician that she has gall stones and an operation may be necessary.

J. Frank Warren, of Oklahoma City, is reported to have been poorly in health of late. Relatives here report, however, that the sickness Is not of a serious nature.

Jesse E. Wilson returned today to Hammond after remaining here some time on legal business pertaining to the Borntrager ditch case, which came to a close yesterday. The July section of the ladies of .the Christian church will give a 10<bent social on the lawn at the home of Mrs. W. S. Day, on Tuesday afternoon) July &olh. All are invited. Mrs. Margaret Pullin, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. George Fate, at the Makeever hotel, has been quite sick for the past week <>ut is now somewhat better. She is 82 years of age.

The Evening Republican.

Mrs. Thomas Thornton arrived from Detroit, Mich., yesterday for a few daya’ visit herd. From here she will return to the soldiers’ home at Lafayette, where she lives, having been on a furlough since last spring.

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.

Mr. and Mrs. Waldo F. Congdon are here fur a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Congdon have been living In California the past year, but are now on their way east, where they expect to locate.

Have you noticed the ne ,r electric lighting system of the R-C-H car sold by Johp Knapp? The cars are equipped with 12-inch Bullet electric head lights and double parabolic lens, and 6-inch Bullet electric side lights with parabolic lens.

H. W. Klplinger received word today of the death yesterday of Chas. Younts at Eaton, Ind., near Muncie. ■Mr. Klplinger and Mr. Younts were boyhood chums and Mr. Kiplinger left for there this morning to attend the funeral which will be held tomorrow.

ReV. A. G. Work, who with his wife has been visiting here for the part week or two, went to Lafayette yesterday afternoon and at 2 o’clock today he will conduct the funeral services of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, a former Rensselaer resident, who died in Lafayette Thursday.

John M. Knapp is going right after ’em with the pretty R-C-H automobile, for which he is now agent. Yesterday he sold another machine, this one going to Albert DeFries, of Thayer. This car i£ seemingly as substantial as it is beautiful and is meeting with much favor around here.

Leslie Fisher was over from Remington today to see Vincent Eisele and to try to induce him to erect a business room on a well located lot he owns in Remington. Mr. Fisher, who has been in the cream business for some time,* wishes to enlarge his business and embark in the grocery business and offers to rent the room if Mr. Eisele will build it

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins and two sons, of Rensselaer, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs William Keever, of Monticello, will leave Monday morning for Conover, Wis., where he owns 920 acres of land and where he has a cottage in which they will live until the first week in September. Art is a hay fever sufferer and finds that he can run away from it it he pulls for the north in time and don’t come back until the heated period is over. Mrs. Keever is also a hay fever victim.

The Monon park at the depot will be very attractive when all the arrangements for its beautification have been carried out Sometime ago Ben Smith, the concrete man, installed two beautiful pedestal flower pots at either end of ths park, in which hardy geranium plants have been placed. This did not look complete so, to create a balance, a circular flower bed was dug midways of the pots. Canna Hilles fill the center of the garden, surrounded by rdd collus and two rows of geraniums. To create harmony the garden is surrounded by a green border of alathenenthum, and the effect is very pleasing. This garden of Eden will be surrounded by a fence of steel bars Joined in concrete posts and When the work Is completed and the fencing painted white the Monon will have accomplished a task to be proud of.

BnteNd Jmuy 1. 1807, aa amxmd olaaa mail matter, at tte poat-oSco at Bammlaar, Indiana, nndar the act of March 8, 1870.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912.

“THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”

There are a number of good meh Who seem to take delight in quoting the eighth commandment and applying the same to the national republican convention which met last month at Chicago and to the national republican committee which passed upon the various contests brought' by Mr. Roosevelt. before the committee. This committee wAs composed of some fifty odd members, being men of experience and standing in the states and territories they represented. Out of the first 106 contests submitted there was a unanimous vote of the entire' committee on 101 of the contests. Such Roosevelt men as Col. Lyons, Senator Borah and Frank Kellogg, the trust buster of Minnesota, voted with the entire comipittee that these 101 contests were fraudulent. The statement of this one fact would seem to be all that would be necessary to carry conviction to > the average man that the stealing was in the crowd that would bring such flimsy and fraudulent contests. The contest that was fought the most bitterly was that in the fourth congressional district of California. This was where the Johnsons and Heineys and their zealots howled loud and long about the steal. Not knowing these men, a person would ordinarily give some heed to their sayings. But why did the committee seat the two Taft delegates from the fourth California district? And on what evidence did they act? A statement of the facts in the contests was never made by the chief howlers. Last January when the National Republican Committee met and made the call for the National Republican convention, California had no primary law. The states that had primary laws were taken care of in the call. The congressional district has always been the unit of representation in the Republican National conventions, just as the county is the unit in the selection of delegates to the conventions and just as the republicans made it the unit in dealing with the liquor question. After the call had been made the legislature of California was convened and their present primary law enacted. When the law was first introduced and the people sflw the purpose of the law there was serious objection made to it. Senator LaFollette wrote a letter tp the governor in which he told him that if they enacted the primary law as Introduced that the state of California would not elect a single delegate to the, Republican National Convention that would be entitled to sit

therein. The law as introduced enforced the unit rule in a Republican convention and that the Republican party from its inception had always opposed. That with a fair Republican primary law he would have a chance in California to carry two congressional districts, but with the unit rule established he would get nothing. But as the purpose of the enactment of

Sew Club Picnieers Had Delightful Time.

The annual picnic of the Ladies’ Sew Club was held Friday evening on the spacious and beautiful lawn surrounding the H. R. Kurrie residence at the foot of Front street Fr,om all reports it was a huge and howling success, both from the refreshment and the entertainment view point. Tlie ladies of the Sew Club, their husbands and children were there for the big time, numbering In all about seventyeight The adults numbered about sixty, and were all seated at one long table and the children had a table to themselves. According to some of the men who were there the feed was laid out in vast quantities and was simply great. After supper was over Chas. Warner took the matter amusement in his own hands and put the feasted guests to strenuous play, consisting mostly of races. The ’men’s race was won by Moses Leopold. The victory was contested by Dr. Gwin, as he believes that there *was a conspiracy against him. Doc has been some sprinted in his younger days and this fact scared some of the contestants. They finally let him run if he were handicapped. This suited Doc all right but it beat him. He thinks they worked a “schinanigan” on him by having two of the runners to block his .path, just to let Mose win. Doc is going to be a “Bull Moose” about it and claim victory anyway. Doc. got even with them, however, in the afllinity race, run by married couples. He and Mrs. Gwin won out in a walk. The ladies* race was won ‘by Mrs. Bert Hopkins. Little Miss Hal-

this law was to. get the entire delegation for Mr. Roosevelt and the gang that was against Taft and LaFollette,. they went ahead and enacted the law making the state the uqit The only time in the history of the Republican party that an attempt was made to enforce the unit rule in a Republican convention was when Grant was running for a third term, as Roosevelt is now doing. Logan, of Illinois; Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Conkling, of New York, undertook to enforce the unit rule in these states and force the .nomination of General Grant There was a strong political editorial in The Chicago> Tribune at that time denouncing the unit rule as a pernicious democratic -doctrine and unheard of in a Republican convention. The convention defeated the proposition and it was never attempted again until this convention. The gang in California did not stop at passing the law making ithe state the unit, but in furtherance of their purpose to shut out LaFollette and Taft geremandered the state and changed the boundary IJnes of every congressional district, which in some places necessitated the changing of precinct boundary lines. In other words, it looks to an ordinary fair-minded man that the Johnsons and Heineys and the gang had entered into a conspiracy for the purpose of shutting out LaFollette and Taft. But when the primary came on the fourth district went overwhelmingly for Taft and the state went overwhelmingly for Roosevelt. The Republican party is a voluntary organization and anyone wishing to affiliate with it must conform with the rules. The fourth California district went for Taft under the call and under Republican principles and tradition Did the rest of the state have a right to disfranchise a majority of the fourth congressional district? We have stated the facts with reference to the fourth congregational district of California. We think that no fair-minded Republican can say that the two delegates wpre stolen for the president, but on the other hand reason and logic would say that there had been an attempt to steal two delegates there from Mr. Taft In Kansas under a Republican primary law Ex-Governor Bailey and another gentleman were elected delegates in one congressional district and no one raised any question about it, but it remained for the gang in California to try and place a precedent for a pernicious democratic doctrine in a Republican convention. At Baltimore the progressive Democrats made every effort possible and partially succeeded in stamping out the state unit rule. Any man can investigate and he will find that we have correctly stated the facts' in the fourth California district contest and we maintain that the convention and committee did absolutely right. A man can not have something stolen from him that he never possessed.

Mail Flirtations Are to Be Strictly Tabooed in Future.

Flirtations and clandestine correspondence have been placed under the ban by the postoffice department—that is, so far as the delivery of mail contributes to the same at the general«delivery windows in cities. Approving individual action- taken by postmasters of many large cities, Postmaster General Hitchcock has issued a general order which has the avowed purpose of checking the use of general delivery windows for carrying on flirtations, and clandestine correspondence. Any persons who wish mall at general delivery wfndows, instead of home addresses, may hereafter be required to give their reasons in writing. Postmasters at offices not having city carrier service may notify the parents of minors in all instances where it appears to them that the minors are using the general delivery to obtain mail under objectionable conditions. Postmaster General Hitchcock directs all postmasters to enforce the regulations strictly and impartially.

le Brown again showed up as a winner when she and Tommy Thompson carried away honors in the peanut race..„A , In the ladiesf archery contest, Mrs. George Ar Wiliams was proclaimed champion. The egg race, indulged in by all, was won by Ross Dean. This was one of the most successful picnics ever held by the Sew Club and ’ it is the desire and plan of the members to make this a permanent event. 1

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Dr. s. Sydney Walker, Jr., Ready to “Come Across.”

Dr. S. Sydney Walker, Jr., the Chicago man for whom Dan Waymire has been looking the past two or three weeks, seems a bit remorseful for his actions here and now is trying to square things. Dr. Walker, it will be remembered, is the man who purchased some automobile tires of Dan Waymire, proprietor of the Rensselaer Garage, and paid for them with a check on a Chicago bank. His check and credit was good with the bank, but for some unexplainable reason he did not care to have the money drawn from his account and so stopped payment on the checks. Mr. Waymire received a letter Wednesday morning from Dr. Walker, enclosed with which was a check for something over $76, the amount of the purchase made of Mr. Waymirehere. The doctor volunteerd no explanation in ‘his letter regarding his action, but simply instructed Dan to send a receipt by first mail. This Dan did not do. Instead, he presented the check for payment at the Chicago bank. The check came back unpaid. If is presumed that the doctor stopped payment again. To protect himself and at tihe same time bring the matter to an end, Dan sent a receipt to the Chicago bank through the State bank here, and at the same time presented a sight draft. So far, nothing has materialized through the last move, but there is little doubt now that Mr. Waymire will receive his money. While in Chicago the fore part of the week Delos Thompson made inquiries at the Continental and Commercial National bank, on which the checks were made, regarding the standing and character of Dr. Walker. It was learned that he is administrator of an estate and that, for some reason, his account could not be drawn on without first giving a receipt. Dr. Walker, it was learned, was uneasy over the matter, and is anxious to make settlement.

Newton County to Have a New Town—Tripoli by Name.

A new town has been laid out northeast\ of Morocco. It is called Tripoli and is being colonized by Italians and Greeks. A tract of land comprising 1,400 acres is being laid off by a mart named Wlhicker, former surveyor of Benton county. It will be divided into 10-acre tracts and into a townsite with smaller tracts of acres and half acres. So far there are only four families on the land but the Plllarella Italian Colonization Co., of Chicago, is trying to Interest others and are advertising extensively. It is not a philanthropic proposition, but the promotors hope to sell the land in small tracts at a fancy price. The Morocco Courier says that it is expected that from 50 to 100 families will occupy the land in the spring and in preparation for their cultivation the land will be plowed up this fall. The land is ideal for gardening and the people who wiill come there are expert gardeners. The Courier expresses the hope that with the formation of the town enough votes will be secured in the north part of the county to move the county seat to Morocco.

Presbyterian Church.

Next Sabbath morning the pastor will preach Sb the text "And He Was Speechless.” In the evening the Rev. Mr. Jayne will speak at the Union Vesper service.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled, with local showers tonight or Sunday. Warmer tonight in central portions.

MILS. JOE JACKSON DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS.

Sickness of More Than Fonr Years Finally Conquers Estimable Lady —Funeral Monday P. M. Mrs. Joe Jaekoon died this Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at her home on South Front street. She had been an invalid for more than four years and in the hope of restoring her health her husband had disposed of his bus business here and moved away, trying the climate in New Mexico and Colorado. She received little if any benefit, however, and .while living at Longmont, Colo., she became so poorly that it was decided to bring her back to her old home. This was done about a year ago and it was feared that she would not reach home alive but sb? withstood the trip better than was expected and after her arrival here made Some Improvement but was never able to leave the home, although being able to be up part of the time. For the past two weeks she has been getting weaker* and her decline was very rapid the past few days. Deceased leaves a husband and one daughter, Gladys, 12 years of age. She is also survived by her father, Perry Marlatt and several sisters, among them being Mrs. Milt Roth and Mrs. W. H. Mackey, of Rensselaer, and Mrs. C. O. Swift, of Evanston, and two brothers, John W. and Isaac Marlatt, of Jasper County. Mrs. Marlatt, of Jordan township. Mrs. Jackson’s maiden name was’ Nora Marlatt She was 38 years of age. Her marriage to Joseph Jackson occurred April 17, 1898. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon, probably at 2:30 o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. C. I* Harper, of Trinity M. Bf. church.

Commissioner Denham’s Son Shot Himself Through Hand.

George, the 12-years-old son of County Commissioner Charles T. Denham, of Remington, accidentally shot himself through his right hand while playing with his father’s 22-calibre revolver Friday. In company with another boy he was examining the revolver. They were sitting on the bank of Carpenter creek and George, who is left handed, was examining the weapon when it was discharged. The bullet passed into the palm of his right hand, passed between the bones, ranged upward and came to the surface at the back of the band. The boy went at once to his home and the services of a doctor were called and the bullet removed. It is not expected that serious results will follow. See the Warner Stock Company in their pavilion theatre all next week.

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