Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Page 1

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Clk Gayciy flirdome BEN F. BARNES, Huagcr Biff & DeArmo ■'. ■ • / • • \ * In Acrobatic Comedy and Singing. miiii m*mmm PATHE’S WEEKLY— ten interesting and up-to-the-minute subjects. See it every week. FOR HER FATHER'S SAKE—Dorothy Ferris and Alfred Bracci. THE BUTTERFLY NET—Two letters.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. C. W. Hanley is spending the day in Chicago. W. R. Meguire made a business visit to Chicago today. Mrs. Firman Thompson is spending the day in Chicago. Jdr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood, Jr., went to Lafayette today. iB. S. Fendig came 'down from Chicago yesterday on business. Prosecuting Attorney Fred Dongwell, of Brook, came over today. ' Ralph Chupp, of Surrey, went to Edinburg, Ind., for a week’s visit. V. — 1 - All kinds of baled hay, straw and feed for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. Dan Waymire and John Marlatt made a business trip to Chicago today. County Supenntenden Ernest Lamson made a business. Moaticello today. ' ■ ■ ** ■ ■—— A. E. Coen returned to Berwyn, 111., today after a few * days’ visit with relatives here. Lawn social at the Catholic church lawn by toe Christian Mothers Wednesday evening. All come. Earl Clouse, Billy Frye’s bus driver, is taking a vacation this week. Ray Overton is filling his shoes. The Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church will meet Thursday afternoon at the church at 2; 30. Mrs. C. A. Radcliffe is expected home from Chicago today, where - she has been visiting for toe past week.x • ... . Mrs. C. C. Snepps, of Edinburg, Ind, came Friday for a week’s visit with her brother, A. W. Satyin, and family. Mrs. Wm.' Day returned from several days’ visit at LaPorie with her son, Omar, and her daughter, Mrs. Charles Brown. x Mr. and Mrs. Harry Biggs, of Indianapolis, are visiting his parents, A. J. Biggs and wife, and other relatives for a week. Arthur Shedd came down lrom Chicago last night for a few days’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S Shedd and family. Mns. George Chappell returned yesterday to her home in Grant Park, 111., after a visit here since Friday with her father, S. Hatton. Misses Frances and Aghes Martin, of near Pleasant Ridge, left today for a week’s visit with relatives at Talbot, and Sheldon, Illinois. Mrs. C. B. Steward and Mrs. M. J. Burr went to Indianapolis today txrattend the stafe fair> They will remain there several days visiting friends. . John - returned yesterday to his home in Plymouth after a few days’ visit here with his wife’s parents, Mr.’ and Mrs. A. Gangloff. Mrs. • Nagle, who accompanied him here, will remain for a longer visit

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1 VOTERS! Remember your Second Opportunity to REGISTER 4a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER SIXTH If You Want to Vote at the Coming Election YOU MUST REGISTER! Should You FAIL TO REGISTER You CANNOT VOTE!

•Willard Smith returned from Chicago yesterday, where with his mother, he has been visiting fbr the past ten days. Mrs. Smith returns today. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stoneberger, who have been visiting Gilbert Lewis and family, of north of town for a few days, returned to their l home in Delphi Monday. Miss Amelia Tittle, who worked at the Western Union office in the absence of Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, returned today to her home in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Miss Erna Geretz, of Versailles, Ky., and sister, Louise, of Chicago, visited over Sunday evening with W. A. Davenport and family. They returned to their respective homes yesterday. Miss Faine Haas returned today from Saugatuck, Mich., where, with several young lady friends, of Chicago, she has been spending a three weeks’ vacation at a summer resort. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoyes and her mother, Mrs.-Mark Hemphill, went to Mitchell, S. Dak., today for a visit With the Kenton and Zard families. They will probably remain two weeks. Misses Martha Ramp and Lucy •Healy left tljis morning for St. Elizabeth Academy at St. Louis, Mo., where they will attend school this year. Both were members of the senior class this year. Miss Maud Scott, who has been spending part of the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. *Scott, of Jordan township, went to Chicago yesterday, where she is a teacher in the city schools. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stevenson and family returned to Chicago Heights yesterday after spending a wee’s vacation here with his mother, Mrs. W. H. Stevenson, and his sister, Mrs. W. L. Frye. Miss Maudie Leek went to Lafayette today, where she will live with her mother, Mrs. Dobelbower. She has made her home for the past several 'years with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stanley. r v The regular monthly dime social of 'the ladies of the Presbyterian church will be held at the home of Mrs. B. F. Fendig on Wednesday afternoon of this week, September 4th. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody and strangers in the city especially invited.

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David Elder Rendered Unconscious When Bolt Struck Front of Chas. M. Greenlee’s Store. David Elder was in Parr Monday afternoon when the rain storm came up and came almost getting his everlasting when a hplt of lightning struck the front of C. M. Greenlee’s store. Dave was sitting on a bucket near the front door and several others were standing beneath the frame awning when the rainstorm came up. Suddenly there was a crash of thunder and Dave slipped down on the floor of the steps between Chas. G%rrk>tt’s feet and lay there unconscious. The bucket on which he had been sitting rolled into the Shingles flying into the air and a few splinters were torn from the front of the-build-ing. Several men felt the bolt of lightning slightly but none were so much affected as Dave./ He soon regained consciousness and returned home on the milk train. He did not come entirely out from the stroke for several hours, his left side being principally affected. A black streak down his back showed where the lightning had passed through him. Today he is quite sore all over, but no serious results are expected. The damage to the store was about $25. Fortunately it did not catch on fire. Lightning the same afternoon struck the house occupied by "Grandpa” Gaffey. The chimney was torn from the house but it was not set On fire.

Characteristic of all monopolies that keep their negotiations strictly secret until the consolidation is effected, a close corporation was legalized in Rensseraer Saturday afternoon, when a representative of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of Muncie, and a representative of the Jasper County Telephone Co., of Rensselaer, much to the surprise of those associated with them in the two corporations, took out papers corporate and closed a deal that the Sherman anti-trust law will be unable to dissolve. Guy Loveless, of Muncie, and Miss Mollie McElfresh, of Rensselaer, were the parties to the corporation. County Clerk Perkins issued the papers and Elder D. T. Halstead put on the finishing touches. Miss McElfresh is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McElfresh, of Barkley township, and has been employed at the Jasper County Telephone Co’s, central offee for four or five years. The groom holds a position with the Western Union Telegraph Co., at Muncie. Their amalgamation of interests in no manner binds the corporations by which they were .employed and there is no expectation of an increase of telephone and telegraph rates. Miss McElfresh was very popular with the “hello” girls at the telephone office and with all who were acquainted with her. She had confided with only a few friends the secret of, her approaching marriage and many of the young ladies employed with her did not know of it until after the ceremony was performed and her parents were not advised of it until the next day. Following the ceremony Saturday evening at the home of Elder Halstead, Mr. and Mrs. Loveless went to the home of her. grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William McElfresh, and told them of their marriage. They took the 11 o’clock train Saturday night for Lafayette for a short visit with the groom’s parents and went from there to Muncie, where a furnished .-home awaits them.

Advise Hot Water Bottles Id Bottom of School Hacks.

In an effort to prevent a recurrence -of conditions that prevailed last winter, when several children suffered from frozen feet as a result of riding to andLfrom school in antiquated hacks, Dr. H. E. Grishan, of Tipton, health commissioner for Tipton county, addressed a letter to Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health commissioner, asking advice. Dr. Hurty replied that the school trustees can be held responsible under the law for such conditions, and he suggested to Dr. Grishan that a hot water bottle be made of galvanized iron, that it be filled with boiling water before the school hack trips start and placed in the bottom of the hacks as a footrest for the children, this device having been used in other localities. *, ' * “Doan’s Ointment cured me 1 of eczema that had annoyed me for a long time. The result wad lasting.”—Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner, Labor Statistics, Augusta, Mil

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER S, WI2.

STUNNED BY LIGHTNING AT PARR MONDAY P. M.

Telegraph and Telephone People Effect Consolidation.

NEW PARCELS POST RATES AND PROVISIONS.

Law Will Go into Effect on January Ist at Which Tine Salary of Carriers Will be Increased. In response to many Inquiries for information, Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., chairman of the senate committee on post offices' and post roads, has prepared the following summary of the provisions of the new parcel post law, which-will become effective January Ist, 1913: Any article is mailable if not over 11 pounds in weight, nor more than 72 inches in length and girth combined, nor likely to injure the mails or postal equipment or employees. Flat rate of 1 cent per ouce up to 4 ounces regardless of distance. Above 4 ounces rates are by the pound or fraction thereof and varying with distance as follows: Ist lb. Additional lb. 11 lb. Rd. & City De 1.... ...05 .01 .16 50 miles . 150 milfes 06 .04 . .46 300 miles 07 .05 .57 600 miles 08 .06 .68 1000 miles 09 .07 .79 1400_ miles ... 10 .09 1.00 1800*miles ...11 .10 1.11 Over 1800 miles 12 .12 1.30 The postmaster general may make provision for idemnity, insurance, and collection on delivery, with additional charges for such service, and may, with the consent of the interstate commerce commission after investigation, modify rates, weights and zone distances, when experience has demonstrated the need therefor. 'ln view of the increased labors that will be heaped upon ruTal carriers when the parcels post law goes into effect they will receive an increase in salary 1 ofsloo per year on all satndard length routes. The shorter routes will receive a proportionate increase.

White County Land Reclaimed By Tile and Big Ditcheds.

A staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News makes toe improvement of the Kelly ranch, near Monon, the subject of a big write-up in last Saturday’s paper. The article is quite thorough and recounts how Thomas Kelly, formerly president of the National Live Stock Commission company, of Union Stock Yards, Chicago, came to Monon in search of cheap land for cattle feeding purposes. That was four years ago. He bought 1,800 acres at prices varying up to S2O. It was all swamp or marsh land. Engineers were employed, ditches dug, 300 car loads of tile are put in the ground and now waving grain with abundant yields replaces the bogs of four years ago. The .article is profusely illustrated, toe barns, hog pens, shelter stalls, machine houses, feeding pens, cement bottomed hog wallows, and herds of hogs and cattle are shown. The land not be bought for $l5O an acre today. j While the beneficent results of drainage throughout Jasper and adjoining counties are well known to our residents, It is interesting to know that the improvement is worthy such extensive mention in the widely circulated newspapers of the state capital. It certainly would be difficult to estimate in dollars and cents the increased volume of Jasper county lands resultant from drainage.

C. Arthur Tuteur Named Democratic Prosecutor Candidate.

The judicial convention of Jasper and Newton counties was held in Rensselaer today. C. Arthur Tuteur, of this city, was the only candidate for prosecuting attorney and his nomination was made by acclamation. J. B. Fietcher, who several years ago clerked for B. Forsythe, was toe delegate from Kenfland.

Marriage Licenses.

Steve Stevenson, born Brazil, South America, residence Urben, 111., occupation horsedealer, and Mary George, born Colorado, September, 1893, first marjiige for each. Gus George, born in Colorado, October 15, 1890, residence Urben, 111., occupation horsedealer, and Mary Stevenson, born Brazil, South America, September 30, 1890, residence Urben, 111., first marriege for each. / Guy Walden Loveless, born Lafayette, Tippecanoe county, Ind., March 1, 1877, residence Muneid, Ind., occupation" telegraph operator, and Mary Vincentia McElfresh, born Barkley township, Jasper county, Ind* October 21,1888, residence Rensselaer, first marriage for each. ' C 5 The Milwaukee corn binder* the best on the market For sale by Hamilton ft Kellner.

Grocery Bargains —T-- ' L ~ - J " —, Bowles & Parker’s 17 pounds H. & E, Granulated Sugar, SI.OO Acme Flour $1.45> White Star Flour $1.35 4 cans Corn . . . 25c 2 tall cans nice Salmon . . 25c 4 cans Kidney Beans 25c Qt. jar spiced pick. Cantelonpe 25c 4 cans Pumpkin . . 25c ,Qt. jar Breakfast Cocoa . . 25c 4 cans Hominy . . 25c Qt jar Fancy Queen Olives . 25c 3 cans Peas . . . 25c 2 Iks. nice Country Lard . . 25c Miller & Hart’s Best Bacon, 20c lb. pinna 95 Rowles & Parker

IKE PARCELS INJURED WHEN MULES RAN AWAY.

Loading Furniture in Car When Team Took Fright—lnjuries are Serious Enough to Lay Him Up. Isaac Parcelß was quite seriously injured when his mule team ran away this Tuesday afternoon. He was helping a neighbor load his-furniture in a car at the Monon tracks, when a table that was in the front part of the wagon tipped forward and struck the mules. They started to run and Ike, who was in the wagon, was thrown out and one of the wheels ran over his right leg and dragged him a short distance. His left elbow was jammed into the ground and severely cut, the muscles beillg torn almost to the bone. His right kneewAs similarly injured. Dr. Hemphill was called and dressed his injuries. Ike will be laid up for some time. The wagon was demolished. The mules were stopped at the Donnelly lumber yard.”

Third Annual Opening of De Peyster School & Monnett Home.

The fall term opening of the De Peyster School & Monnett Home will take place Wednesday night. This will mark the fifth year of the establishment of toe home but will be the third annual opening of the school Miss Finley, the principal, has arranged for the accommodation of thirty girl students this year and has prepared an excellent program for the opening ceremonies. At 9 o’clock Wednesday morning the chapel address will he delivered by Rev. W. G. Winn, pastor of the First Christian church. In the afternoon from 3 o’clock to 5, a reception will be given at the home to the ladies of Rensselaer. Those attending will be shown through the school, which has been remodeled and built cn to and will be made acquainted with the work of the institution. A musical program will be given by Mrs. Delos Thompson and refreshments will be served. All and every woman in Rensselaer and tha-*community are invited to attend this reception, especially those interested in the work. At 7:30 o’clock in the evening at the M. E. church, Mrs. Walter Edward Schwind, corresponding secretary of National Methodist Deaconess Society will deliver the address, “Earth’s Hurt and Marred.” This address promises to be very interesting and everybody is invited and even urged to come out to hear her, No admission will he charged. This Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock Mrs. Schwind talked at the M. E. church. Everybody is cordially invited to attend, these services and they may be assured that their time will be well spent. : - - We sell the Superior disc drill. HAMILTON ft KELLNER.

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VOTERS! Remember your Second Apportunity to REGISTER is ~— FRIDAY SEPTEMBER SIXTH If You Want, to Vote at the Coming Election YOU MUST REGISTER! Should You FAIL TO REGISTER You CANNOT VOTE!

WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair today and Wednesday.

Grand and Petit Jurors For September Term of Court.

L The following grand and petit Jurors have been drawn for the September term of the circuit court, which opens next Monday: Grand Jurors. Amos H. Alter. ...Union Q. L. Hilliard .....Kankakee James L. 8abc0ck...,.........Uni0n Thos. M. Logan .Gillam Wm. R. Bull ...Barkley Louis P. Shirer Marion Petit Jurors. Ed Tanner..... .....Barkley Cecil L. Faria .Gillam Silas P0tt5....... Union D. A. Bichel Carpenter Wm. Murray.. Hanging Grove John P. Ryan Gillam L. L. Matheny ....Marion Benton Kelley '..Newton Chae. Halleck Union Frank Fenwick. Jordan Arthur Waymire Barkley Geo. M. Belcher..... Kankakee Richard E. Davis .Wheatfleld E. G. Rlchereek.. Carpenter Stephen De Hahn..... Keener W. N. Bowdy Carpenter

Notice to Woodmen.

There will be a meeting of the M. W. A. Wednesday evening and every Wednesday evening thereafter until further notice. A full attendance is .desired Wednesday evening as business of importance will come before the meeting. GEO. MUSTARD, clerk.

Library to Close.

The public library will be closed hereafter between the boom of < and 7 o’clock in the evening, until further notice is given. Impure blood runs yon down —makes you an easy victim for disease. For pure blood and sound digestion—Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drug stores. Price, SI.OO.

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