Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Page 1

No. 191.

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. “Ten Days With aFleetofU.S. Battleships” “The Wooden Bowl”—Alfred carries luncheon to his father. “Billy and the Butler.” —=

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Born, Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Myers, of near Aix, a daughter. Mrs. Alex. Leech is visiting in Foresman with her daughter, Mrs. Carl Hamacher. Miss Agnes Howe went to DeMotte today for a short visit with her mother#Mrs. Mary A. Howe. Mrs. Martha Washburn, of Chicago, came yesterday to visit her son, Dr. I. M. Washburn, and family. Harry Wood returned yesterday from Taylorville, 111., where he visited with his sister, Mrs. Florence Greenwait. Mrs. Maria Vondersmith, of Bluffton, came today for several weeks’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. P. Wright. Mi*, and Mrs. A. Harmon returned to their home in Pontiac after a week’s visit here with their son, L. A. Harmon, and family. Miss Orpha Timmons, of Remington, who visited Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates and family here yesterday, w§nt to Hammond today. Albert Sherrill, of Otterbein, is working at Frank Haskell’s barber shop. He is a married man and will probably move here. For your threshing bill we have put •on sale our fancy evaporated peaches, 10c a pound, and fancy prunes, 3 lbs. ;for 25c. JOHN EGER. +- — 1 ■■ ■ " 1 Misses Beatrice, Fern and Thelma Tilton, daughters of County Recorder J. W. Tilton, went to Wheatfleld today 1 for ten days’ visit with relatives. Rev. W. G. Winn and family have moved from the J. H. Cox property on Van Rensselaer street to the W. E. Moore property across the street. Mrs. C. R. Dean returned yesterday from Springfield, 0., where she has been visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Hume, for the past six weeks. Fred Phillips has purchased a new 1913 model 3, four-passenger Buick, which will probably be here next month. He sold his old Buick to Rev. Clifton, of Mt. Ayr. The ladies of the M. E. church will hold their monthly 10-cent social at the church. Tuesday afternoon, August 13th. A musical program has been arranged. Everyone cordially invited. Miss lone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Zimmerman, returned today from a three weeks’ visit with relatives in Chicago and Blue Island, 111. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. (Bert) Rhoades accompanied her here for a short visit 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. A. W. Sawin, who has out several acres of watermelons at his farm at Fair Oaks, states that the crop does not look much better than It did two weeks ago. The cold weather andjthe rains of the past days and the absence of lots of warm sunshine have retarded the development of the melons and It looks as though the plants woufiTitarif a second growth Unless conditions change pretty soon, whatever the crop produced, It will 3>e rather late.

The Evening Republican.

Mrs. Arthur Judy, of Birmingham, Ala., came today for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pullins. Miss Jessie Koons returned to Logansport today after' a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Koons. Mrs. Rowen and daughter, Mrs. Ben Edwards, and children came from Chicago today to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Long and family, Mrs. Rebecca Porter returned today from South Bend, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. C. W. Coen, and other relatives and friends. Miss Ethel Myers, a clerk at Rowles & Parker’s, will go to her home in Kentland Monday for a visit of two weeks with her mother and other relatives. Mrs. M. A. Seaman returned today to her home in Henderson, Ky., after a two weeks’ visit here with her broth-er-in-law, Henry Gowland, and wife, of north of town. Mrs. Launce Canada and son left today for Winchester for a visit of several weeks. Mr. Canada has quit his job at the Rensselaer Garage and is now working for Harry Watson, the plumber. T&e Brook Reporter, which formerly supported the cause of Democracy, is now a Bull Moose organ. The Reporter is the .first democratic paper that we have heard of to come out for the new party. Mrs. M. L. Ford and son, Kenneth, of Hanging Grove township, left today for a three weeks' visit at Oakland and Newman, 111., with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Porter, and his mother, Mrs. J. J. Ford. Miss. Ethel Perkins, one of our high school teachers, has returned home from the University of Illinois where for the past eight weeks she has been taking some special work in German, Anglo-Saxon and English. Judge Robert Vanatta returned to Marlon today after a week’s visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Vanatta. His daughter, Marjorie, who had been visiting with him at Marion, will remain here with her grandparents. Rufus Knox, who with his wife has been spending a few days of their summer vacation here, received a telegram yesterday evening calling him back to Chicago on business pertaining to the possible purchase, between he and a former employer, of a drug business there. Billy Frye, this genial and hustling busman, is going to take a short vacation. He will go to Hammond tonight and visit over Sunday with his sister and wife and daughter, who went there yesterday. Billy hasn’t taken a vacation in several years and this will be Ms first day off since a year ago July 4th. J. W. Amsler, from south of town, was operated on for chronic appendicitis at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago yesterday. He had been suffering for ten years from the disease. The operation was successfully performed and he. will probably be able tp return home within about two weeks. E. H. Gower, who has been a guest at the Makeever hotel for the past tour Or five weeks, went to Chicago today. He is employed in a bank at Brooklyn, N. Y., but .was given an extended vacation on account of his health. The banking firm for which he is working owns several hundred acres of land near Medaryville and he was sent here to look after iA

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The Fross children, of Fair Oaks, who have been under the care of the tqwnship trustee of Union township since their father was sent to the asylus, will be cared for by relatives. Two daughters of Mrs. Fross by a former marriage, one living at Lowell and the other in Dakota, will give the children homes. The mother of the children died of consumption. Ed J. Randle and George Bond marketed the two car loads of fat cattle the first of the week which Ed had contracted some time ago for $9.75 per hundred. A select load made up of the best cattle out of the two loads was sold for $10.15, which was the highest price paid on that day’s market and very near if not quite the highest price ever paid for a load of cattle on the Chicago market. It is beyond any doubt the best price ever procured by a Jasper county shipper. A Newton township citizen- who was a Roosevelt man before the national convention but who is now for the nominee, recently had it thrown up to him that he had been for Roosevelt and ought to be for him yet. He replied “Yes, I was for Roosevelt, but I was for the republican party before I was ever for Roosevelt and I am going to abide by the convention that nominated him. We should have one common enemy and that is the democratic party. We can win if as republicans we will stand together, I have never bolted a convention and I am not for Taft and the platform on which he is standing.” W. S. Parks and Jake Gilmore, the two superintendents of the county roads leading out of Rensselaer, have been busy during the past several weeks in crushing stone and having it hauled out for repair work. In all 2,260 yards were crushed, the average of 51% yards per day being maintained. The cost of the crushing, including all expense of employes, power, etc.r was a little less than 75 cents per yard. Shipped in rock would have cost about $1.15 per yard. Some of the rock is being used for the streets in Rensselaer and some for a road superintended by Milt Michaels in Barkley township. The crusher shut down last week but the hauling continues. Mrs. William Daniels advertised a surrey in The Republican after trying to find a buyer without advertising for about thres weeks. The advertisement had no sooner appeared than buyers began to Inquire and the surrey was sold in a jiffy and still inquiries continued to come in until it was necessary to have it announced that it had been sold so that others would not respond. Then an advertisement tor the sale of a heifer appeared and It was sold the first day after the paper was out, and others were inquiring. The use of our classified column brings the buyer and seller together and is the most inexpensive agent that can be employed. Try it and you will be convinced.^ Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner? Bitter taste? Complexion sallow? Liver perhaps needs waking up. Doan’s Regulets for bilious attacks. 26c at all stores.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1912.

B. Forsythe attended the annual meeting of the directors~sf the U. S. Match Co., at Elkhart, Monday. From there he went to Winona for a few days’ sojourn at that resort, returning home last* evening. Misses Nell Sawin and Gladys Pierce returned today from Greencastle where they have been taking the twelve-weeks’ normal course at DePauw University, preparatory to teaching in the Marion township schools this year. Miss Hazel Stuart returned to hSr home in Hartford City today after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. Guy T. Gerber. Mrs. Gerber accompanied her as far as Delphi. They, with Mrs. K. T. Rhoades, Boyd Porter and others, have been spending the past few days at the Parkison farm. George Babcock, linotype operator for his father at the Jasper County Democrat office, left today in company with C. D. Norman and nephew for Hamilton, N. Dak., where he will work in the harvest fields and receive pay for it. He expects, eventually, to go to the western coast, where he will work at his trade as linotype operator. George Sible is laid up at his home with a broken rib and a badly bruised side, the result of a kick administered by one of his horses which he was unhitching Thursday afternoon. The Jhoof of the animal was planted in hia left side and it is very fortunate* the injury was not worse than it is. He will probably be unable for work any for two or three weeks.

NEW HOSPITAL ASSURED FOR RENSSELAER

Local Doctor and Chicago Surgeon at Head of Movement—Open for Business in September. The movement on foot for the establishment of a hospital here, which was mentioned in this paper several weeks ago, is now a sure thing. We have been so informed by Dr. I. M. Washburn, who Was the instigator with |?ir. C. E. Johnston, the Chicago surgeon, for several weeks. After considering the mutter Dr. Johnston has positively decided to locate here and will probably move here about the 20th of this month. ——~~~- J. T. Randle, owner of the building originally designed as a hotel on Cullen street, is making all necessary changes and it is hoped by the. promoters that the hospital will be ready for business by September 15th. The younger sew club has arranged to furnish one of the rooms and dedicate it to Miss Zulu Hopkins. Several other organizations are thinking of furnishing rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Hopkins will occupy quarters in the hospital; the former to have charge of the building and the latter to act as matron. Although tMs is a private venture, the hospital will be a public institution, any person having privilege to use its equipment and the privilege of calling for the services of any doctor or surgeon they may chose.

New Loan Company Incorporated To do Business In Rensselaer.

The Indiana First Mortgage Loan Co. has been incorporated to do business in Rensselaer. The capital stock is SIO,OOO. The incorporators are C. G. Spitler and John A. Dunlap, of Rensselaer, and M. E Graves, of Morocco. The offices will be in Rensselaer. It is the purpose of the company to loan money on farms and a limited amount on city property, only first mortgages being taken.

Mrs. H. E. Hartley and daughter, who have been at the home of her parents In Kentland since he took charge of the former J. L. Brady elevator, came today for a visit of a few days with Mr. Hartley at the Makeever house. Mr; Hartley had his household goods shipped from "‘Tacoma, Wash., some time ago but they have not yet arrived. He has rented the house now occupied by J. K. Davis and family and will occupy it as soon as the goods arrive. Mr. Davis will probably move some time next week. Floyd Robinson today brought to Th Republican office a sack of Abundance plums, about 20 in number, all of which had grown on a single small branch, about as close together as they could huddle. They were the finest plums we have ever seen and Mr. Robinson informs us that the tree on which they grew was not sprayed. The plums were fully two inches in diameter and the first half dozen taken from the sack weighed just a pound. We would have displayed them in the office window had it not been for the popular demand they met with the office, force. Silas Swain dropped in on us yesterday for a stay of a few days. He has been selling lightning rods over about Ft. Wayne. Thursday he dined with former Congressman C. B. Landis at Delphi. This particular Landis, who, by the way, was always the long end of the Landis is the matter of grains, the brothers trailing along on his reputation, is as regular as clockwork in his republicanism and a staunch Taft man. Silas says that the newspaper report that both of the Landis barns burned is a mistake, as only one of them was burned. The other caught fire several times but was saved each time by the hardest kind of work. Silas will wire the other barn as a protection from lightning. Although a carefully prepared speech of acceptance, Governor* Wilson evidences some fright as he views the great problem that will confront him if he is elected president and he closes his speech with a request for advice from all who wish to give it. He will find that advice is the one thing that he will have no scarcity of if elected. There will be men with all sorts of recommendations confronting him every time he , turns around. It was advice that got the better of President Grant and it has been advice that has caused Tom Marshall to be swamped so ridiculously By Tom Taggart and his ilk. The president of the United States should be a man of confidence in himself. It looks weak for Mr. Wilson to begin asking advice this early in the game.

Former Rensselaer Boy, Now College Professor, Is Married.

Announcements have been received in Rensselaer of the marriage on Auguse 7th, at Bedford, lowa, of Prof. Benjamin F. Coen, of Fort Collins, Colo., and Miss Jeanne Foster Welch, daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. William S. Welch, of Bedford. Rensselaer friends of the groom have surmised for the past year or two that he was contemplating matrimony, for his visits to his old hoiye became quite rare and when he was here his mind seemed to dwell on the far away in a telltale manner, and his old friends did not hesitate to say that there was a girl in the- case. - For the past five years Mr. Coen has been a member of the faculty of the Colorado state agricultural college and government experiment station at Fort Collins and Miss Welch was also an instructor in the college. They met there and a friendship which started with their first meeting led to the courtship and marriage. Mr. Coen was a history teacher in the Rensselaer high school for two years, of which school he was also a graduate. He was a brilliant student in school and college and has made splendid progress as a college professor. Prof, and Mrs. Coen will be at home at Fgrt Collins after September Ist, residing at 1105 Remington street. The Republican, joining with the many old friends of the groom in Rensselaer and vicinity, wishes for Mr. and Mrs. Coen, a life of happiness and success, which we feel assured they will have in rare abundance.

Has Anybody Here Seen Two Runaway Boys.?

The following self explanatory letter was received by the Republican yesterday from J. A West, 608, 160 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago: I am writing to enlist your co-op-eration in locating two boys who ran away from a boys’ school near Chicago on July 12th. The names and descriptions of the boys are as follows: Francis Angus Gerrard, aged twelve years, dark complextion, brown hair, blue eyes, scar over left eye. Clothing is marked with name In indelible ink and also the initial letter P. in red cotton. Home in Chicago. Otis Stillwell, fifteen years of age, light hair, light complexion, skin is rough and scaly. Clothing is marked with name A reward will be paid for the apprehension of each boy. Will you kindly give this notice as much publicity as possible and notify the writer of any developments.

Mrs. C. L. Bader Still In Very Serious Condition.

Winamac Democrat. C. L. Bader was here the first of the week, but has returned to his wife in a Chicago hospital. As stated in the last Democrat, Mrs. Bader was taken much worse last week, and for a time it was feared the end was at hand. In this sorrowful condition of affairs some, if not all, of the state board of pardons recommended to Governor Marshall on Friday that he at once give Bader a temporary parole to permit him to leave the prison and go to his wife. This the governor did, and Mr. Bader reached his wife’s side at 3 o’clock that afternoon. His coming brightened her materially, as did also the presence over Sunday of their son Chauncey, wife and little son, and she has held this improvement, though still in a helpless and very unenviable condition. It is hoped that the temporary parole will be mide permanent within a few days.

Couldn’t Get Marriage License— Buys Hunter’s License.

Henry Drake, of Wheatfleld, aged 27, and his intended bride, whose name we were unable to learn, went to the county clerk’s office this morning about 10 o’clock to secure a marriage license. Her mother accompanied them to give her consent to the marriage. When Miss Moore, the deputy clerk, found that the girl was only 15 years old, she had to refuse to issue the license.'" The bride-to-be looked her disappointment but the groom, who is much more'mature, mumbled a few words of the Wheatfleld brand of philosophy and„ purchased a hunter’s license. They still have a bright outlook, as the girl will be sixteen on the 19th of, next November, when, they assert, they Will return here for the license. -

Mrs. John O’Connor and daughter, Nellie, returned to their home in Kntmmi today after a few days’ vWR here.

WEATHER FORECAST. Local showers tonight or Sunday morning, probably followed by fair; not much change in temperature.

A Real Showman in Town—Yon'll Laugh at Harry Green.

Harry Green is so funny that he says he often wakes up at night and can’t go back to sleep for laughing at something funny be said or did during the day. If Harry’s gigglestuff don’t keep him awake, it at least has the quality of keeping everyone else awake and for seventeen years he has had an offer of SIOO stage money for any person found sleeping in the opera house while he is on the stage. The offer has never been claimed, not even in Crown Point, where men are said to go to sleep while their wives are giving them curtain lectures. Harry Green was the original Eli in the popular comedy that has Jane at the opposite end of a commonly used conjunction. He was inordinately funny and in many cities his annual visits were looked forward to as certain to dispel the accumulated gloom of four seasons. He went Sarah Bernhart a few better in playing final engagements of the old side-splitting comedy. It was getting the money and with all the fun in Harry’s makeup, he has always been strong on the mazuma end of the proposition. Every year his Eli and Jane drew a bigger crowd and more of the long green and Harry will bid his old cush-getter goodbye with tears in his eyes, but for a dozen years he had been telling his friends that be had a new play and he was afraid to go around again with the same “gaff.” He just made the change to keep a lot of people from calling him a term that gets a fellow into a lot of trouble in Georgia and isn’t appreciated in Indiana. So the grin-till-you-hurt man is here with a clever cast of supporters, including his own talented wife, to rehearse, stage and produce for the first time on any stage a new comedy written by himself, for himself, but with a* view to continuing the hold upon the humor spots of the people. He cal id the play “The Town Fool,” and it is proposed to introduce a phase of village life that will strike response from the theatre-going public in a manner to cause them to call up the box office for reservations as soon as. they learn that the show is coming. Manager Ellis has informed the playwright-actor that he will be confronted by a packed house when the play is produced on the night of August 15th and announcement of the advance sale will be made in a few days. In the meantime a rush order' for courtplaster to patch up faces cracked open by excessive laughter has been dispatched and a bunch of “don’t come if you Can’t laugh” signs have been ordered. All who expect to attend the show should spend the intervening time reading Judge and Puck and other funny books, so that the laughture muscles will be cultivated a trifle to the strain of “The Town Fool” next Thursday night, August 15th. See Harry Green and have something to tell your unfortunate friends who missed seeing him.

FARMS FOB SALE. 95 acres, large house, mostly cultivated, near head of dredge ditch, half mile to school and near station. Only $32.50 per acre. Terms SSOO down. 21 acres, five blocks from court house, cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood. Price SSO; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, lies near station and school, gravel walk, and in good neighborhood. Price $65; terms SSOO down. 40 acres, all cultivated, all black land, near school and station. There is a fair four room house, outbuildings and orchard. A bargain at SSO. Terms S4OO down. 80 acres on main road, R. F. 8., in good neighborhood, has fair house, good barn and outbuildings, orchard and good well. There are 45 acres in cultivation, 15 acres timber and 20 acres in grass. This is good heavy soil. Price $45. Terms SSOO down. 160 acres, level land, black soil; 40 acres timber, remainder tillable, near station and school in well improved neighborhood. There is a good sixroom house, large barn, good writ. Only $45. Terms SI,OOO down. _ . G. F. METERS. » ■ ■_ 1 We want yonr threshing bill for groceries, and will save yon money on same. JOHN MGER.

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