Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1912 — Page 1

No. 189.

Gayety Airdome BEN F. BARNES, Manager Yager and Kemp In Acrobatic Comedy. This is a guaranteed attraction, and sure to please. Don’t fail to see them. “The Honeybugs’ First Quarrel.” “The Music HaU Singer”—A fine hand-colored Picture. “An Outcast Among Outcasts.” '3 - '

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. John Moosemiller made trip to Monon today. Maudie Leek returned here yesterday after a week’s visit with her mother in Lafayette. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public. Mrs. George Jordan, of_ East Chicago, Ind., is visiting with Mrs. S. Stephens and family for a few days. J % We want your threshing bill for groceries, and will save you money on same. JOHN EGER. Mrs. E. P. Honan yesterday accompanied Phil J. McKenna and family on their return trip by auto to Chicago. Mrs. C. Ross Dean returned yesterday afternoon from Springfield, Ohio, where she spent a month visiting her parents. J. E. Carson and family returned to Lafayette today after a few days’ visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B-LrClarkF Mrs. E. D. Britton went to DeMotte today to visit until Monday with her daughters, Mrs. DeMoss and Mrs. James Russell. The republican senatorial convention for Jasper, White, Newton and Starke counties will be held in Rensselaer tomorrow. For your threshing bill we have put on sale our fancy evaporated peaches, 19c a pound, and fancy prunes, 3 lt>s. for 25c. ; JOHN EGER. Miss Minnie Malone, of Buffalo, and Miss Irene Bailey, of Monticello, came today for a visit of several days with the former’s brother, Tul Malone, and wife. We were again out of “Aristos” flour for a few days last week, but have just unloaded another car of Old Wheat “Aristos,” making the 10th car of flour since January Ist, 1912. The high quality of “Aristos” is what increases our flour sales. JOHN EGER.

Another Calamity! .% , Yes, he’s dead; but he left no life insurance. I understand he was somewhat involved, and left quite a family. Do you want your widow to live as well as your wife ? Shall your children be dependent on charity, or shall they be educated and grow up as you now desire ? - Have you made ample provision for your own future ? There is a way to provide against all such contingencies. The Northwestern Mutual will step in with a check when you have cashed in yours. Life insurance companies in the United States and Canada paid $592,640,000 in 1911 in death claims and dividends. Are you amply insured ? v ——- Your rate will never be cheaper than now. Call or write for a proposition of the foremost policy contract in America. N Rensselaer, Indiana. C. ARTHUR TUTEUR, Agent

The Evening Republican.

DITCH IS ESTABLISHED—ASSESSMENTS REDUCED.

Lower Iroquois Improvement Petitioned for by J. J. Borntrager and Others Now Seems Certain. .Special Judge John W. JJanan, of LaGrange, came this Thursday morning to render his finding in the matter of the Borntrager ditch petition, which was tried in the Jasper circuit court during the months of June and July. As was expected, Judge Hanan found for the ditch and the record establishes it. A number of modifications in assessments were made and the Rensselaer corporation assessment was reduced from $2,500 to $2,000. Attorney Geo. A. Williams, who was the sole attorney for the petitioners, scored a big success*in the establishment of the ditch. Arrayed against him as the representatives for the remonstrators were Attorneys Halleek, Foltz, Dunlap, Leopold and Parkison, of Rensselaer; Darroch, .of Kentland; Wilson, of Hammond, and others. All were present when the decision was rendered and most of them had been authorized by remonstrating clients to give notice of appeal from the decision to the higher court. Judge Hanan asked the attorneys for the remonstrators to frame the wording of the record of exceptions. The appeal will doubtless be made by a considerable number of land owners and the City of Rensselaer will probably join, according to City Attorney Leopold. This will delay the construction from one to two years, in all probability, but it is hardly probable tliat it will defeat the project

Mrs. Herbert Crampton, of Chicago, came yesterday to spend a week with her brother, C. E. Prior, and her son, Walter Crampton, who is spending the summer here. Mr. and Mrs. David Sutcliffe returned to their home in Spokane, Wash., today after a two months’ visit here with her sister, Mrs. Len Huston, and other relatives. John J. Borntrager, of Newton township, has purchased an R-C-H automobile of the local agent, John Knapp.

Entered January 1, 1897, m eeoond oZaae nuUl matter, at the poat-oKce at Eeaseelaer, Indiana, under the aot of Karen 3, 1879.

Fine New Building Belonging to Ed Oliver a Total Loss-r-Als© Two Silos and 30 Tons of Hay. Another big fire broke out in the northern part of the county, completely devastating great barn belonging to Eld Oliver, on his farm at Newland, about twelve miles north of here. It is not known positively, but it is supposed that spontaneous combustion was the of the fire. The fire started about 9 o’clock this Thursday morning. Mr. Oliver was in conferring with Ray D. Thompson and Mr. E. E. Gant, state agent of the Home Insurance Co., of New York. Mr. Oliver was notified of the fire and with Mr. Thompson aifll Mr. Gant, hurried to his farm, arriving there just 28 minutes after being notified. By the time they arrived there the barn had burned to the ground, with the contents still burning. The barn was of gigantic dimensions, probably one of the largest in the county, and was built of the very beist materials. It had an enoripous capacity, measuring fifty feet wide by eighty feet long. From the ground to the eaces it measurer twenty feet, and from the ground to the cone it measured fifty-six feet. The barn sat on a solid cement foundation and had cement floors throughout. It was a modern barn in every respect and was as substantial as the best and most costly materials would make it. Along, with the barn were destroyed two silos, which were built on the north end of the barn and each measured sixteen feet in diameter by' thirty-six feet high. The contents of the barn were completely destroyed. They consisted of twenty tons of hay, thirty tons of oat straw, ten tons of cotton seed oil meal, costing $30.25 per ton, one hundred tons of ensilage, six sets of fine harness, a manure spreader and various other articles, for which Mr. Oliver was unable to enumerate. Also, several hogs Were cremated by the conflagration. A granery standing about 100 yards away was scorched by the heat but the contents, consisting of about 1,000 bushels of oats, were not damaged. ThraShers had been working at the Oliver farm but were stopped by the rain Tuesday. Some of the oat straw, was wet when placed in the barn, which condition caused the combustion. A separator belonging to Silas Tombs was, for some time, in danger of being consumed by the flames. It was standing at one end of the barn with the blower extending through the door. Several men succeeded in pulling it to safey but not before the terrific heat had melted the blower and unjointed it. The fire raged terrifically aUd was uncontrolable from the start and the probable loss ehtailed will reach SB,OOO. The entire property was insured in the Ray D. Thompson agency by the Home Insurance Co. Although each article was protected, the amount of the loss was by covered by the insurance. The barn, which cost $3,750 to build, was insured for $2,500. All hay, grains, fodder, ensilage, cotton seed meal, etc., was insured for SI,OOO. The manure spreader for SIOO and the harness for SIOO. The barn was Built less than a year ago. 7 T Mr. E. E. Gant, who happened to be here on business today, went to the Oliver farm and adjusted the loss, allowing Mr. Oliver about $3,800. Mr. Oliver is undaunted by the loss and even today placed and advertisement for bids for construction of a new barn. He will rebuild on the same site and in the same progressive manner he has showed in the past.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912.

BIG LOSS BY FIRE WHICH DESTROYED BARN.

A. D. Babcock, the lawyer-poet of Goodland, and wife, were in Rensselaer today. R. A. Mannon, H. W. Marble, Alex. Jensen and Mallie Clark, of Wheatfield, were Rensselaer visitors today. Earl Richeson, now associated with the MacMillan Book Co., has been here for a short time today visiting with his college friends, Prof. C. Ross Dean and Delos Dean. W. T. Davenport left today for Louisville, Ky., after .spending seven weeks here with his son, W. A. Davenport. and family. He had intended to make his home here but could not stand the climate, as it is too cold and damp. Mrs. W. H. Huff and daughter, Martha, and married daughter, Mrs. E. W. Simmons, formerly Mabel Huff, and her two children, of Indianapolis, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue and family. Mr. Huff is expected to join them Sunday for the day.

ROOSEVELT AND JOHNSON HEAD PROGRESSIVE PARTY.

Ex-President and California Governor Named in Chicago—Delegates Approve Platform. The new national progressive party completed its labors in Chicago Wednesday after nominating Theodore Roosevelt for president and Hiram Johnson, of California, vice-president, and adopting with unanimous vote the platform as submitted by the committee. The platform is constructed on the broad plan of the greatest good to the greatest number, so it implies, and if taken literally it holds: out hope of prosperity where men have built up their own failure. It is a socialistic platform and shakes the very foundation of constitutional government, advocating changes in the constitutional provisions of our forefathers that were placed there as a safeguard to our bommon rights. It can not be denied that viewed from the standpoint of social and economic equation the platform is worded to secure great things. But this is a pledge of socialism against which our people have rebelled when advocated by Eugene V. Debs. It is a proposition that destroys ambition and that' has not proved practical any place in the world. It is unselfish in declaration but its inspiration was selfish. It is humanitarian but many who have declared sot it have never lieen devoted to its principles as traits of individual character. It is filled with brilliant promises planned to entice support for the sentimept it contains. The high cost of living is to be inquired into, along with a plan of raising wages to a certain standard by legal process. Two inharmonious propositions. The conservative plank starts out with a declaration, of the use of resources for the good of the people and closes with a statement that the natural resources should be owned and controlled by the nation, but it makes no square-toed promise to do it. s . On the tariff question the platform becomes very clear and in a part practical. It announces a belief in the protective, tariff. The farmer will look at the declaration with some doubt, for it advocates equal conditions of competition between the United States and foreign countries, ‘‘both for the farmer and the manufacturer.” Thus, it proposes a reduction of revenues or a removal of them on farm products corresponding to the cost of production in this country and all foreign countries. Not only Canada but all foreign countries, which would make Canadian reciprocity look like a real protection. But it concludes with a demand for the repeal of the Canadian reciprocity act. We have here a sample of ambiguity as rare as a platform of platitudes ever pronounced. You can not tell what is proposed, but can see clearly that your vote is urged as a means of victory for the ticket named. While distrust is engendered for big business at home, the power of organization and management of our business men is commended for the opportunity thus afforded for building Up foreign trade. All in all the platform is a vision of the ideal with a suggestion of the conservative and behind both a shade of insincerity. Thus the national progressive party is launched with the support of many* men as good as the purest motive in the platform, and with the inspiration of a man who never advocated such principles throughout his life of office holding and whose motive now is the gratification of his own agibition.

Scholarships In Purdue For Contest Winners.

The four boys winning highest places in the Live Stock and Grain Judging Contest, which is to be held, at the Coliseum, State Fair Grounds, Indianapolis, Indiana, at 8 a. m„ Tuesday, September 3rd, will be given scholarships in Purdue University, school of agriculture, as follows: first, $100; second, $75; third, SSO; fourth -$25. Those amounts will be paid toward the expenses of , the winners, in taking either the four-year course or the eight weeks’ winter course. Any boy between the ages of 16 and 20 years, living in the state of Indiana, and who haß not been a regular student in any agricultural school or college, will be allowed to enter. For full information, write Mr. Charles Downing, Secretary State Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana. Any boy wishing to study up on stock judging, should write to Supt. G. I. Christie, Lafayette, Indiana, asking for a copy of Circular 29, Live Stock Judging for Beginners, which will be sent upon request °

at For months past, little articles^ have been accumulating in our show cases and on our shelves. Some of them are worth many dollars, vALL of them are pretty, useful, and GOOD. ' To make room for other stock we have mixed and - piled all those articles into our window. You can come into this store and pick whatever you want s out of the window. No matter what the VALUE is, the price is ONLY fI.OO. Come early and get first choice. LESSEN THE eIEWELER? Rensselaer, Ind.

WEATHER FORECAST. Showers tonight and probably Friday.

PERRY GWIN HAS EXCITING EXPERIENCES.

Camp in Mexico Attacked and Plundered by Insurrectos—Difficulty in Reaching United States. ■ . ■■■ I Perry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, of this city, who for the past several months has been working in the Mexican mountains for the Maderia Lumber company, wrote ah interesting letter to his parents, telling of his experiences. He is now in El Paso, Texas, with headquarters at the Y. M. C. A. Under date of August 2, he writes, in part, as follows: Well, I am back in the States after a very exciting time trying to get out of Mexico. I finally did get away in a box car and I got out just in time, for the Mexican Northwestern railroad has stopped running trains. Things got so bad that we had to close up our camp in the mountains and “beat it” enmasse. The Insurrectos came into our camp and took all our provisions and horses and they took everything that I had on my back, even took my pipe and all my smoking tobacco. The Mexicans that were working became very insolent and would not work unless they felt like it and they had two American foremen arrested by the Red Flag captain and fined for cursing them because they would not do what the Americans told them to do. They stole $75,000 from the Madera Co.’s store, in fact they cleaned out the store. While working in the mountains I passed 159 covered wagons loaded with Mormons from the Mormon colonies at P&fy-} eco and Garcia. They made a pretty sight as they came winding down the mountain trail, but it was also a pitiful sight Most every wagon had from four to eight little children in it and woipen and children were crying, dirty and tired. They had left the fruits of twenty years’ hardships in the wilderness to the ravages of the Rebels; they were breaking up home ties, and giving up everything that they possessed and going to a place of safety. They had been robbed, some murdered* outraged and subjected to' every possible indignity. They had their fire arms taken away from them and had no means of protection, so they are now in El Paso camping in vacant lots, lumber yards, hallways, etc. There were three babies born to the Mormons on their trip across the mountains to safety.’* , Perry states that the people in El Paso are worked up to a white heat over the actions of the Insurrectos and that millions of dollars worth of property has been destroyed by them and many lives lost He thinks it is only a matter of time until the intervention of the United States government will come.

▼TTTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTWW QUALITY UNEXCELLED. FIT GUARANTEED. Advance Showing It': Of Fall and Winter Patterns 1 f~ ; : ' ‘ - rI I have arranged with one of the largest merchant tailoring establishments to have n representative in Rensselaer Friday and Saturday j Aug* 9 and 10 with a complete line of full pat- | ’ tern length samples of Fall and ! ; Winter Suitings and Overcoats. ; - i The well dressed men of ! Rensselaer know what It means | to have the advantage of early < selections. 1 i Salts may be ordered on those < dates for early fall delivery or ] later at the will of the ens- | tomer. 1 Don’t fall to attend this im- ; poriant opening. t < H. B. Tuteur Rensselaer I' . 4 Dry Cleaning 3| Works » • 4 Opposite Warner Bros. i •

Dance at Virgie. There will be a dance at Virgte Saturday night August 10th, Everybody come and enjoy a good time. SchrMß - utitt * MeC ° rt » ilL Try tlm Classified Ootau.

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