Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — Page 1

No 188.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. A. W. Sawin and S. R. Nichols went to Chicago today. Ed Randle went to Chicago today to buy a load of cattle. Mrs. T. W. Grant is spending the day at Parr with relatives. V%; : . Mrs. George Bond, of north of town, is spending the day in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock are sipending the day in Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Harmop returned yesterday from Chattsworth, 111. Miss Carrie Pierce returned yesterday from a few days’ visit in Indianapolis. * Mrs. Wm. Clift went to Brookston today to visit relatives there for a week or two. Miss Helen Novack, of Chicago, came today for a visit with her cousin, Miss Dorthy Wolff. Henry Purcupile went to Lafayette today to visit with John Purcupile and family until Tuesday. Mrs. John Duvall and Mrs. Chas. Hemphill returned yesterday from a few days’ visit in Chicago. Edward Brown, of FYanklin, and Portland Young, of Greenwood, are guests this week of Floyd Meyers. We want your threshing bill for groceries, and will save you money on same. JOHN EGER. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy went to Danville, 111., today to visit for a week with her brother, Frank P. Meyer. I —A. J. Bellows is having excavation done under his residence on North Cullen street, and will build a cellar. Thomas and James Walter and their wives went to Kentland today to-attend the meeting and a picnic of the Indiana Live Stock association.

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The Evening Republican.

. Mrs. Dolph Day went to St. Anne, 111., yesterday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sibert, and family for two weeks. • " J. A. McFarland left today on a ten days’ trip. He will go to LaPorte, South Bend, Elkhart, Ligonier, Warsaw and other cities. Mrs. Chas. Davis and children drove over from Brook today and took the trfin here for Lafayette where they for a few days. C. P. Moody and nephew, Granville, Jr., returned home today from Ripley, 0., where they attended the centennial celebration of that town. Mr. and Mrs. RUfus B. Knox came down from Chicago today to spend their two weeks’ summer vacation with relatives and friends here. For your threshing bill we have put on sale our fancy evaporated peaches, 10c a pound, and fancy prunes, 3 lbs. for 25c. JOHFTEGER, Miss Bowman, with seven children of the De Peyster school, went to Battle Ground today where they will repain until the end of the camp meetings. Mrs. Isaac Teel and Mrs. Earl Guston, who have been visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. Warren, since Sunday, returned today to their homes in Parr. Frank Scharp and family returned to their home in Chicago today after a few' days’ visit here with his broth-er-in-law, John Hordeman, and family. Mrs. E. Smith, of Chihago, came Sunday for an indefinite visit with her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Nowels, and family and other relatives and friends here. Mrs. Dan Robinson returned to her home in Bluffton today after a visit since Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wells. Her parents returned with her for a short visit.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912.

DUBBIN FOB GOVERNOR NAMED BY REPUBLICANS.

Qualified Business Man of Proven Action, Wot Theory, Warned to Lead Party In This State. 7,. r> -J ™~ 4 ’’ " .■ ";T’, Winfield T. Durbin, of Anderson, a veteran of the Civil and SpanishAmerican wars, a businessman of capacity and integrity, and a man of action, was named by republicans .at Indianapolis Tuesday to lead the party in the coming state campaign. Mr. Durbin was governor from 1901 to 1905 and the period was characterized by economic administration and by the discharge of a large amount of state indebtedness. One ballot was taken, Durbin receiving 606% Votes, Shank 283 and Carlisle 260%. Ma?or Shank then moved that the nomination of Mr. Durbin be made unanimous. The complete ticket is as follows: • GOVERNOR. Winfield T. Durbin, Anderson, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Thomas T. Moore, of Greeneastle. SECRETARY OP STATE. Fred I. King, of Wabash. STATE TREASURER. Job Freeman, of Terre Haute. AUDITOR OF STATE. I.’ Newt Brown, of Franklin. ATTORNEY GENERAL. F. H. Wurzer, of South Bend. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Samuel C. Ferrell, of Fort Wayne. STATE STATISTICIAN, j. L. Peetz, of Indianapolis. _ REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT. Warwick H. Ripley, of Indianapolis. SUPREME JUDGE, FIRST DISTRICT Woodfin D. Robinson, of Evansville. SUPREME JUDGE, FOURTH DISTRICT. Judge Leander J. Monks, Winchester. '(lncumbent). APPELLATE JUDGE, SOUTHERN. DISTRICT. David A. Myers, of Greensburg. The ticket is regarded a strong one in all respects. The platform is especially substantial in its declarations. Tt meets the requirements of the time without effort to secure votes by making promises that can not he carried out. The platform favors the continuance of the unbroken usage of giving hut two terms to a president until a law that provides one term of six years is enacted. It favors the amendment of the anti-trust law to meet present conditions. Regulations of rates of all public service corporations, the same as of railroads is pledged. The Taft administration is endorsed. The democratic state administration is scored for its extravagance. A non-partisan administration of state institutions is urged. An amendment (p the registration act by, which its operation can be made less expensive and to apply to certain large communities is urged. Other planks are: Restoration of labor commission in the department of inspection. Eradication of child labor. Enactment of a just workmen’s compensation act. Optional commission form of government. A constitutional convention. State supervision, state aid and scientific construction of roads. Legislation to promote conservation, including forestry. Celebration of the centennial by the erection of a memorial building. An amendment to the state constitution providing foj the enfranchisement of women. The following primary law plank was dictated by Judge Hanley in committee: This convention indorses and opproves the enactment of a law providing for the primary election of all local and cpunty candidates and the primary election of all delegates to congressi&nal, state and national conventions, the same to be safeguarded by the Australian baUot system and the corrupt practices act. The most liberal provisions for the soldiers of the republic is advocated. The following is the wording of the county option plank: For more than a generation the re-, publican party of Indiana has responded to advancing public sentiment with respect to the saloon question. It has always- recognized it as a moral question which touches ■- the home in a very vital way. A Republican legislature, responding to what it rightly believed wa< the popular wish and the platform pledge of a republican convention, enacted a local option law. The people promptly availed themselves of its provisions and sixty-nine counties voted against the saloons. A democratic legislature,

Family of Joseph Fross In Pitiable Condition.

The Fross family at Fair Oaks is in a pitiable condition. The father, Joseph Fross, was adjudged insane and senjTto the asylum at Longcliffe - severalaays ago. He was vicious at times and very cruel family. Not long ago a child was born to Mrs. Fross and only lived a short time. She was in very delicate .health, haying been suffering for some time from tuberculosis. Mr. Fross would never allow a doctor in the house. Mrs. Fross died two or three days ago, leaving four children, all of whom are weak minded. Trustee Isaac Right telephoned to Truant Officer Charles B, Steward notifying him of the family’s plight. On the advice of C. W. Hanley, judge of the juvenile court, Mr. Steward made an examination and will attempt to place the children in the home for the feeble minded at Ft. Wayne. Mr. Steward can’t hope to find homes for the children. He does not feel that he could recommend them to anybody as they inherit a weak mentality from their father and a tubercular weakness from their mother. Places were secured some time ago for two of the four Sigman children, one being placed in the home of Jud Adams, of Barkley township, and the other in the “home of F. C. Turner, of Hanging Grove. The other two were taken to the Julia Work home for orphan children at Plymouth.

responding to powerful brewery influences and betraying the great majority of the people, repealed the law and saloons were forcel back in fiftythree counties from which they had been excluded under the republican law. We demand the re-enactment of the local option law by the next legislature and insist that every republican candidate for a seat in that body shall stand pledged to carry out the will of this convention. James E. Watson spoke for two ■hours and a half after being made temporary chairman. His speech was a level-headed discussion of the issues, with occasional digs at the bull moose party. He hit the democrats and their tariff plank with many hard blows and said: / ‘Things never were so cheap, as when the democrats put their tariff platform into law, and yet we never bought so little because we did not have the money with which to buy. We learned then that a thing was dear at any price if we did not have the price. High prices with good wages and prosperity are better than cheapness and poverty.” He talked at considerable length about the expense of democratic state control in Indiana. He told of salaries that were raised, of new offices created, of extravagance on all hands, of the borrowing of one fund to meet the expenses of another and of the failure to reduce the state debt while drawing constantly on the state sinking fund and reducing it to S4OO after using over a million dollars from the fund to pay the running expenses of the state. This money should have gone to reduce the s£ate indebtedness. When two-thirds through his prepared speech Mr. Watson threw away his manuscript and went rough shod into a discussion of the policies advocated in the democratic and bull moose platforms. He was roundly applauded. He reviewed with pride the history of the republican party and of the government. He praised the provisions of the constitution and urged that we take a new oath of allegiance to it. He said “we know there is no safe course in the life of men or of nations except to establish and to follow safe r\jles of conduct There is a sdivine principle of justice which Is above all governments, above all legislatures, above all majorities. Conformity to it is a condition of national life. The American people have set up this eternal law as a guide for their national action. They have formulated and expressed it in praotical rules of conduct when no interest or impulse was present to sway their judgment, and as we love our country and hope for the continuance of Its peace and liberty to our children’s children we should humbly and reverently seek for strength and wisdom to abide by the principles of the constitution against the days of weakness and temptation. With this vow on oar lips, with this resolve in our hearts, let ns, alike tn sunshine and in storm, in peril and in peace, stand erect and do the right as God gives us to see the right”

Miss Agnes Kahler left today for Chicago Heights and Chicago, where she will visit with relatives for (about two weeks.

POPULAR COUPLE MARRIED IN CHICAGO.

Mr. H. F. Parker and Miss Irma Kannal Evade Friends Here —Quietly Married in Chicago. They’ve gone and done it. Yes, Harry Parker and Miss Irma Kannal are now Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parker. At last two hearts now beat as one, as near as The Republican can gather the facts. They were not taking ./any chances to face the “gaff” of their many friends here before the knot was tied, but from the rumors that are going around today, Mr. and Mrs. Parser are in for a lively reception when they return. ” ‘ - The bride and groom-to-be went to Chicago this Wednesday morning on the early train, and were followed on the miljt train by Rev. J. C. Parrett, who will perform the wedding cere*, mony at noon. The Republican was unable to learn where the wedding would take place in Chicago, but it is presumed it will occur in a downtown hotel. Although the friends of the bride and groom thought they were going to be married some time this week, they were mildly surprised on learning of their departure this morning. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Parker will leave on a honeymoon for Conover, Wis., a summer resort, where they will remain until September Ist. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Kannal, both deceased, and is a young lady of many accomplishments. For a number of years she was a book keeper at the First ■National Bank. The groom is a gentleman of many attainments. He is of a genial disposition and a mixer. He has resided in Rensselaer for the past eleven years, during which time he has prospered as proprietor of the Parker Photo Studio, and made many friends. Their many friends will be glad to learn of the happy culmination of a courtship of several years’ duration, and will join The Republican in wishing them lifelong happiness and success.

FAIR OAKS LAD STEALS FROM RANK.

Fern Jones Lives High While Money Lasts—lnvests It AH in Purchasing Tobacco. Fern Jones, a 15-year-old lad, son of Floyd Jones, of near Fair Ogks, came down to Rensselaer Saturday evening to take in the sights, seemed to have no object ip life and in fact no nothing, and it was doubtful for awhile if he was sure he was living. He wandered aimlessly around and stayed at the depot all night. By Sunday morning,, however, he showed signs of consciousness. Driven by hunger and other primitive motives, and having no money to purchase the requisite food, he set out to find something. He walked to the home of Nat Heuson, about a mile'morthupf town, and, finding nobody at home, went through the house at random, carrying away with him a child’s bank containing $2.16, mostly in pennies. Heuson and family met the lad going north as they were coming to town Sunday morning and also met him coming back, but thought little of it until they discovered the bank jwas gone. The lad does not seem to be very strong mentally and about the only accomplishment he was possessed of is an insatiate love for tobacco. Mr. Heuson reported the theft to Marshal Mustard Monday noon, and gave a description of the boy. The boy purchased much tobacco with the stolen money and stayed at the city light plant Sunday night. He wandered several miles south of town to Jordan township Monday and returned in the evening with W. W. Washburn, whp picked him up along the road. Marshal Mustard found the lad soon after his arrival and turned him over to the truant Chas. B. Steward. The hoy was searched and nothing was found on his person but five cuts of Star tobacco, two tins of Prince Albert smoking tobacco, three packages of cigarets and one or two other sacks of tobacco. At first he denied all charges but later admitted the theft Young Jones rested in the jail Monday night and was released when his father came after him Tuesday at noon, and agreed to take care of him. The lad was very repentant and promised never to smoke or chew again.

The R-C-H cars are equipped with demountable rims and an extra rim Is furnished without extra charge with each car. This makes It possible for a lady to take a tour Alone with pleasure, as she does not have to worry over the prospect of a blown on t tire. *

QUALITY UNEXCELLED. FIT GUARANTEED. Advance Showing Fall and Winter Patterns I have arranged with one of the largest merchant tailoring establishments to have a representative In Rensselaer Friday and Saturday Aug. 9 and 10 with a complete line of fall pattern length samples of Fall wad Winter Saltings and Overcoats. The well dressed men of Rensselaer know what It means to have the advantage of early selections. ■ Suits may be ordered on those dates for early fall delivery or later at the will of the eastomer. Don’t fall to attend this important opening. H. B, Tuteur Rensselaer Dry Cleaning tforks Opposite Warner Bros. i

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled with probably showers tonight or Thursday. Not much change in temperature.

Another Jasper County Young Han In Educational Work.

Prof. L M. Lewis, son of Mrs. Margaret J. Lewis, of Barkley township* arrived in Rensselaer Tuesday night from Chicago, where he had stopped for a couple of days to hear the addresses of Albert J. Beveridge and Theodore Roosevelt at the bull moose convention, on his way home from Austin, Texas. Mr. Lewis has been engaged in educational pursuits for some years and for the past three years has been an instructor in the Texas state university at Austin. He has been engaged during the coming year as instructor in botany at the Pennsylvania state college. He will have a special line there dealing with plant diseases and involving horticultural experiments. He has been making a splendid success in his field of labor and pie Pennsylvania position is a substantial promotion.

North End Coo pie Married By Rev. Harper at Parsonage.

Ray George Anderson, of Wheatfield, and Miss Nellie Stalbaum, daughter of former trustee Charles Stalbaum, of Tefft, came to Rensselaer this Wednesday morning and were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage by Rev. C. L. HaPber. A sister of the groom accompanied them. Mr. Anderson is now a traveling salesman.

We were again out of “Aristas’* flour for a few days last week, but have just unloaded another car of Old Wheat “Aristas,’* making the 10th car of floor since January Ist, 1912. The high quality of “Aristas” is what Increases our flour sales. JOHN EGER. M H. J. Bartoo, formerly editor for some time of the Morocco Courier and a number of years ago a resident of Rensselaer, has purchased the Remington Press of John R. McCollough and is now in charge. N - ■» —-

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