Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Page 1

No. 197.

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mraggl® TMUQNfT “ON THE CACTUS TRAlL”—Presenting G. M. Anderson. “LIFF AMONG THE MURUTS”-A savage tribe of North Borneo. “THE LITTLE BRIDE OF HEANEN”—Carmelita has no money for her first communion dress.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Don’t forget to clip Coupon No. 3 today. Buy your thrashing coal of Hamilton & Kellner. J. M. Witham went to Anderson today for a short visit. Myrt B. Price returned today from a visit at Remington. Mrs. Evaline Randle came up from Reynolds to spend the day. See the “Plow a Man Can Pull.” Sold by Hamilton & Kellner. Roy Gundy came down from Gary yesterday for a_.two weeks’ vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Kannel,j)f Lafayette are visiting Conrad Kellner and other friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Catt went to Brook to visit for a few days with her sister, Mrs. John Ullery. Mr. and Mrs. Frank King and Mr. and 'Mrs. Dan Waymire are spending the day in Chicago Heights. % The local band boys went to Lowell today where the Odd Fellows of Lake County are holding a big convention. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy returned yesterday evening from Chicago, where they have been visiting for several days. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Huffman and child returned to Chicago today after a short visit here with Peter McDaniel and family. Mrs. M. E. Hubbard returned to her home in Chicago yesterday after a visit since Tuesday here with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blue. *. 1 1 ~ Henry Nevill took his popcorn and peanut machine to Lowell yesterday to be on hand today for the big Odd Fellows convention being held there. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stucker, of Mt Ayr, and their guest, of Oklahoma, went to Lowell to spend the day. From there they will go to Valparaiso to visit relatives. We want your order for groceries and extra dishes that yon will want to buy for your threshing bill and will save you money on it JOHN EGER.

“The Republican'* HOME GROUNDS Improvement Club. " J For 6 consecutive Membership Coupons and _ $1.25 you will receive the entire collection of the ■ H six best hardy shrubs, climbing vines and roses in the Vorld. Big bushes and vines, ready at planting time. No. 3 Membership Coupon. - .

The Evening Republican.

New 1912 pack of canned peas at 10c a can. JOHN EGER. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Milner went to Frankfort today for several days’ visit. Mrs. Meda Hall and child went to Kirklin for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. * The jiffy curtains are a feature of the. R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public. Mrs. J. Hopper and Mrs. E. A. Hilford, of Roselawn, visited with' Bert Hopper and lynily here yesterday. Mrs. R. J. Crane and children, of Logansport, came today for a short visit with Frank Osborne and family. Coupon No. 3, of the Home-Grounds Improvement Club, on the first page of today’s paper. Clip it, and start now. Mrs. M. Feldhaus returned to her home in Louisville, Ky;, today after a short visit at Collegeville with her son. W. A. Huff came today from Indianapolis for a few days’ visit with old friends. His wife preceded him here about a week. Mrs. and children returned from Brookston today, where they went about three weeks ago to bury her husband. You can start with any number of the coupons in the Home-Orounds Improvement Club If you haven’t Nos. 1 and 2, start with No. 3 today. We have plenty of old wheat flour and can guarantee you against trouble that you will have with new wheat flour. JOHN EGER. .Miss Gladys Wild, of Peoria, 111., has been the guest of Mrs. Anna Tuteur and family for the past several “days. She will probably remain here until Monday or Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. George K. Holliugsworth drove down from Chicago in their automobile yesterday and remained in Rensselaer over night, proceeding to today. The Bpworth League of the M. E. church will give a lawn fete, Tuesday evening, August 20th, on the parsonage lawn. Everybody cordially invited.

The LaTours In their Australian Novelty Comiques and Comedy Jugglers and Soap Bubble Manipulations. This is a unique and novel act and something you have not seen before, and you can not afford to miss it. . This is a high-class attraction, and’ we know it will please you. Come out and see^

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 17. 1912.

PENSION AGENCIES TO BE ABOLISHED.

Old Soldiers Will Receive Pension Cheeks Soon That are Long Overdue. “ After January ‘3l, ±913, the pension office at Indianapolis will be abolished. At the same time the seventeen other pension agencies in the various of the country will pass out of existence and thereafter all • -t pensions for old soldiers will be distributed through the pension bureau at Washington. This was agreed on by the senate and house leaders Wednesday when the senate passed the $150,000,000 pension appropriation bill. The house passed the bill Thursday and President Taft’s signature is expected at once. The action of the conferees was the culmination of a dispute that has held up the payment of more than $9,000,000 of pension installments and those of other states on August 4th and has thrown the financial operators of the pension bureau into chaos. The house proposed that these agencies be abolished on December 31st of the present year. This was the only provision of the bill in dispute and its settlement will end the deadlock between the house and the senate. The measure will abolish eighteen $4,000 jobs and result in the retirement of several hundred district clerks. A saving of about $250,000 in administration of the pension laws will follow. The pension checks which have been held up owing to the controversy in the congress over the abolishment of pension agencies will probably reach the old soldiers today.

Auto prices to Fountain Park. I will make daily trips to Fountain Park during the meeting of the assembly for $1 for the round trip, four persons to a load. Phone orders to No. 80. TONE KANNE. Rev. Green will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday morning in place of Rev. Harper, who will be absent from the city.. -sr.' , Come and see the Milwaukee Corn Binder. We think it is the best one on the market HAMILTON & KELLNER. Mrs. F. A. Ross and guest, Mrs. L. K. Merrill, of New York, and Miss Ida Milliken went to Chicago to visit, over Sunday with her son, Thompson, and wife. Mrs. * Sam Roth and children went to Mulberry, Ind., today to visit with her parents and her two sons, Jay and Milton, who have been there for several weeks; Miss Blanche Hunt who has been working at the Jasper Trust & Savings Bank for her uncle, J. J. Hunt, went to her home in Baroda, Wis., for a two weeks’ visit. Miss Helen Novak returned to her home in Chicago today after a week’s visit with relatives here. Her cousin, Miss Dorothy Wolf, accompanied her there for a two weeks’ visit. Mrs. Ed Oliver went to Lafayette today, where she will have her eyes operated on at a hospital. She hopes to have cataracts removed that have been developing over her eyes for some time. Prof. E. S. Tillman and wife came last evening from Lebanon where they packed their household goods for shipment to Hammond, where he will the coming year. They expect to go to Hammond Monday. 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. John E. Lyons and wife, who have been canvassing here for The Woman’s World, left today for Lafayette. They will go from there to Frankfort and thence to Indianapolis. They expect to follow the work at which they have been very successful here. Miss Fame Haas went to Chicago and today, in company with several of her young lady friends of that place, will leave for Saugatuck, Mich., where they will spend a twoweeks’ outing at the Bird Center summer resort « Friends of E. J. Stone, who was formerly employed as a printer in a local newspaper office, have received word from him stating that’ his health is somewhat improved since he returned side work^which seems to agree with him much better than the inside work. He is a circulation solicitor for a newspaper at Oberlin, Ohio.

FINANCIAL TROUBLES CAUSE MAN’S SUICIDE.

Horace Gilbert, of West Carpenter, Drank Carbolic Acid When Officer Came to Get Mortgaged Stock. A sad suicide accurred shortly before noon this Saturday morning in West Carpenter‘township when Horace Gilbert, 45 years of age, father of six young children, killed himself by drinking a vial of carbolic acid. Gilbert committed the deed at his home on the Peter Buck farm, 3 miles east and 1% miles north of Goodland. W. R. Shesler, of Rensselaer, was at the farm when the deed was committed and Attorney W. H. Parkison arrived there soon after. Financial difficulties doubtless caused Gilbert to end his life. The story of his transactions is a sad one. Gilbert was a poor man and lived about on different farms in the neighborhood of Remington and Goodland. Last year he lived on the Eckhart farm near Remington and last spring he moved to the Buck farm. He was always mortgaged to the limit and each crop he raised was sold in advance and money borrowed on it early in the year. Last year he borrowed $l6O of J. L. Brady, giving a mortgage on his corn and also on his cows and horses. He sold the corn to a dealer named Murray at Goodland and claims that the horses died. He was criminally liable for having disposed of the mortgaged corn but there was no disposition to invoke the criminal laws. He seemed willing to have the cows taken and their value applied to the mortgage and promised several times to bring the cows in. He failed to do this and Thursday told Attorney Dunlap to send out for them. Constable W. S. Parks was to go but he was busy and deputized W. R. Shesler, who went there this morning. Gilbert was not at home and had not told his wife that the cows were to be taken away. She refused to allow them to go and sent one of the children for Gilbert, who was working with a thrashing gang not far away. He came to the farm and just as he reached the gate in the yard Mr. Shesler saw that Gilbert was staggering. He first thought that he was intoxicated and asked Mrs. Gilbert if he drank. She said that he did not and both went to the place where he had fallen, just outside the yard. He was almost dead at the time and expired there in the road. Mr. Parkinson came along a little bit later and gave what assistance he could to the distracted wife and children. Gilbert formerly lived in Illinois and is believed to have no relatives in this- county. He has a brother at Watseka, whom he claims is quite well-to-do. , He was at Watseka a few days ago ahd appealed to his brother for aid but was refused. He claimed that he was interested in a small estate and that his brother probably owed him something in settlement Coroner Wright went to the Gilbert home this afternoon to investigate the death. “Apparenly the wife and children, which range in age from a boy of 15 down to a babe in arms, are Entirely destitute.

Anton Trully made a business trip to Monon today. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago today for an over-Sunday visit with relatives. Mrs. Chas. Devereaux, of Kankakee, 111., is expected today for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Nathaniel Heuston. Mrs. Roy Chissom and son, of Chicago, are visiting over Sunday here with hen parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy. - ■ ■ - ■- -■ Dr. Rose M. ftemmek returned last night from Indianapolis, where she has been visiting with her parents for the past two months. Harry Keller went to Lafayette today to take treatment for rheumatism of the hand. He will probably visit there for a month. D. B. Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Holmes came down from Chicago today foi an over-Sundhy visit with the former’s son, A E. Wallace, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Scott and Mrs. Gus Grant went to Franklin today, where they will visit for a week and take in a county fair that is being held there. ' A horse belonging to G. L. Thornton, of Surrey, was killed last night by southbound train No. 35, due here at 1:30. The horse got out of the barn and wandered over on the Monon right of way. No. 35 travels at a terrific speed and it is said every bone in the horse’s body waa broken.

Jit Cbe Princess tonight VAUDEVILLE: LILLIAN BERNHART in Vaudeville Specialties. PICTURES: “The Greed of Gold”—drama. “Pandora’s Box”—comedy. = “Under Suspicion”—drama.

Runaway Horses at Lafayette Scattered Charity Workers.

The ladies’- aid society of the German Evangelical church at Lafayette believes in scattering deeds of sun-, shine but they do not take much stock* in the method employed Thursday when they started out for a picnic at the John Opp farm, south of that city. The women West Lafayette on a street car and were there met by a farmet 1 with a set of hayladders and a team of young horses. The women mounted the hayladders amid a babble of talking and laughing and raised their umbrellas to protect them from the sun’s rays. The young horses had never been in so much feminine society and they did not realize that woman’s talk is worse than their bite. They became frightened and started down the street as fast as they could run. There were more dramatic incidents occurred in the next few moments than could be crowded into a Btirring melodrama of a half a dozen acts. Women were strewn all along the street, while their shrieks of fright attracted a large crowd of people. No one succeeded in stopping the horses, however, until the driver brought them to a halt after they had run several blocks. He was then alone on the wagon. The women had paid little heed to the method, of their detraining and a number had alighted on their heads, while others had struck on their sides and others on their backs. Hur r ry up calls were dispatched for all the doctors on the west side and a number from the city and the women were gathered up and taken to nearby residences. Every woman on the wagon was more or less injured. Cut heads and faces, sprained joints, strained tendons and bruised muscles but no broken bones resulted. The impromptu acrobatic performance brought a termination to the coffee social. The women will continue their good work but they hope for a less demonstrative means of scattering deeds of sunshine in the future.

Oklahoma Woman Victorious In Battle of Ballots.

A copy of an Oklahoma City, Okla., newspaper reaches us, telling of the nomination of Mrs. Belle Hedlund, of that place, for county superintendent of the public schools. Mrs. Hedlund is a sister of Mrs. A C. Pancoast, of west of town. Mrs. Hedlund led the republican ticket in Oklahoma county on Tuesday, August 6th, for nomination for superintendent of public instruction and it was conceded the following Thursday that she was victorious,, having a majority of 1,000. Two other candidates, both men, in the race for the nomination, were turned down in her favor.

Francesville to Have Street Fair Some Time in September.

The business men of Francesville met last Monday evening and it was decided to have a street fair. Sufficient funds have been secured and the fair will be held in September. It is probable that a number of people will pass the new high school building while out walking or riding Sunday, and they will observe that considerable progress has been made during the past week. The front is largely completed and the upper dressing stone are now being placed. It is certainly going to be a beautiful building and one that,should inspire all to a greater endeavor to make out schools the leading 'ones in *E|iis part of the state. 1 » 1 ' 1 e — 1 i: Mrs. Rachel Scott, of Rensselaer, arrived here Tuesday evening for a visit with relatives.—Francesville Tribune. _ "

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair weather except showers in the extreme north portion tonight or Sunday; warmer north portion tonight.

Next Registration Day Will Be Friday, September 6th.

The second registration of voters will be held Friday, September 6tb. It is not expected to cause the confusion that the May registration created, although there are many questions to be solved before the general election in November. The appointment of inspectors and clerks made before the May registration stands until after the election, evcept where the appointees refuse to serve. In those cases the auditor mast appoint the inspectors and the inspectors choose the clerks. When the stations for the May session were chosen-it was with a view of holding the two succeeding registrations in the same places. This will be done provided no obstacles arise. All those who did not register in May must do so in September or October. Those who have not changed their residences since tbey registered in May will not be obliged to register again, unless they should mdve before the election. Those who did not register in May are advised to do so in September and not wait Until October. In May all applicants were asked where they resided in October. At the September session they will be asked where they resided in May of the present year, and if they registered in May, but have moved from that precinct, they must present' to the registration hoard 'with their applications a certified copy of the record of their May registration. The certified copy may be obtained from the county auditor.

Heart Failure Caused Death Of Clarence Sigler, of Oklahoma.

A telegram was received here last Wednesday afternoon from Tulsa, Okla., notifying Mrs. W. S. Coen of the death of her son-in-law, Clarence Sigler, of that city. His wife was formerly Miss Blanche Makeever, of this city. The Tulsa (Okla) World has the following to say of his death: Clarence E. Sigler died shortly after dinner at his home, No. 905 South Boston avenue. Mr. Sigler was a clerk at the post office, having been employed there for the past five years. He was 37 years of age and leaves a wife and two children. He was the son of C. C. Sigler. Two brothers, Claude and Ross, and one sister, Ola T. Sigler, survive him. Death was due to heart failure. The departure of Prof, and Mrs. E. 6. Tillman from Lebanon was the cause of general regret among the people of that city, where they had made many friends. Mrs. Tillman was given an 11 o’clock breakfast by the ladies of clubs to which she belonged, just before their departure Friday morning, and other social events had preceded this in their honor. Mr. Tillman had made especially good in his school work there and patrons and the members of the school board were disappointed at his decision to leave, but they realised what the advance in salary and importance of position meant to him. That he will make just as good in Hammond is am assurance felt by all of his acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark went to Hammond this afternoon for a few days’ visit with their daughter, Mrs. James Mead. They were accompanied by their granddaughter* Miss Ruth \ Clark. ". ! ’ ‘ S3reet potato season is now at hand. Fancy ones at Sc a pound at John Eger’a.

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