Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1912 — Page 1

No. 217.

the Gayety Birdome BEN F. BARNES, Manager MILANO AND ALVIN /n their laughable comedy eketch “Only a Joke” mTOKSsjro-Nnoiinr “The Lottery of Love.” “The Stolen Ring.” “The Miracle”—Story of an ancient Bagdad.

Popular Young Couple Married Sunday Afternoon.

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Simpson, on East Cherry street, at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, occured the marriage of their only daughter, Miss Irene Simpson, to Mr. Clifford Elvin Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Payne, of Barkley township. The marriage, whiHi was performed by Rev. W. G. Wihn, of the Christian church, was witnessed by about thirty relatives and friends. The bride’s cousin, Mr. J. B. Hemphill, of Monon, was man, and Miss Bertha Kepner was the bridesmaid. Miss Pearl Daniels played the wedding march. The home was beautifully decorated with green .and white hearts and a large Wedding bell of these colors was suspended a"bove the place occupied by the couple while the wedding ceremony was spoken. Following the marriage a luncheon of ice cream and cake was served. The groom then passed cigars among the men folks and a pleasant social time was spent. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson then went to the home of the groom’s parents in Barkley township, where they will spend the week. They will then return here and begin housekeeping in the Charles Grow property north of the railroad. The bride is one of the eharming women of Rensselaer and enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends. She was born and raised in Rensselaer and is a graduate of the high school. Mr. Payne is also a home product, having been raised on his father’s farm in Barkley township. He is a graduate of the Marion Business College and has for some timq been a clerk in the First National Bank of this city. Their many friends will join The Republican in Wishing them a happy married life.

Blessed Relief from HAY FEVER Thousands Use Turners Inflammacine —Doctors Prescribe It B. F. Fendig Fortunate to Secure Agency A 25 cent jar of Turner’s INFLAMMACINE will give most Hay Fever victims a hundred dollars worth of relief. It doesn’t take a day to do it either, for genuine relief comes, the minute it is applied to the nostrels. Every readetr of The Republican should remember that B. F. Fendig has at last been successful in securing the agency in Rensselaer for Turner’s INFLAMMACINE. A clean golden yellow antiseptic salve that sooths And heals speedily and surely. A box should be in every home. Use it to quickly banish distress from burns, cuts, bruises, sores, cankers,; sprains, sore eyes, earache, caked breast and eczema Remember also Dear Reader that for Catarrh, Golds, Sore Throat, Coughs, Tonsilitis, Bronchitis, Quinsy and Hay Fever nothing ever compounded so quickly ends all misery. 25 cents for a generous Porcelain Jar, and money back if dissatisfied.

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The Evening Republican.

CITY TAX LEVY INCREASED SEVENTEEN CENTS ON $100.

New School House and Street Lights - Make This Raise Necessary— Council Ufoceedlngs. At the regular meeting of the city council Monday evening, at which all members of the council were present, ■the tax levy for 1913 was* made. It shows an increase over this year of 17 cents on the SIOO. The increase was made necessary by the building of the new school house and the putting of the street lights on the meter basis. The roadfoand was decreased 3 cents and the corporation fund 5 cents. The other funds remain the same, with the .exception of the light fund, which is increased 15 cents. A special levy of 10 cents for school house bonds was made. The following table shows the levy for this year and next. 1913 1912 Road • Fund 40 43 Corporation Fund 30 35 Electric Light Fund ......25 10 Water Works Fund 20 20 Public Library Fund 10 10 Public Parks 3 3 Special Ad. for School Bonds. 10 Total on SIOO ..$1.38 $1.21 The street committee was instructed to have plans and specifications prepared for a sidewalk along the west side of Milroy Park and to ask for bids for the construction of the walk. The marshal was instructed to extend ‘the the east side of College avenue to the river and also put in tile on the street and a catch basin, near the bridge. The assessments on the Franklin and Plum street sewer were confirmed and the clerk was directed to certify the same to the city treasurer. Vehicle ordinance No. 145 was passed to third reading. A resolution was adopted for a sidewalk petitioned for by C. E. Simpson. The 1 following claims were allowed: Corporation Fund. -'Geo. Mustard, salary marshal 30.00 Frank Critser, sal nightwatch 30.00 Chas. Morlan, sal clerk 25.00 J. C. Kresler, sal spec marshal 14.00 Lightning Flask Specialty Co., 4 metal polish ..... 3.00 Rens. Lumb.er Co., coal 13.34 x Road Fund. Chester Zea, sal teamster .... 30.00 Rens. Lumber Co., sewer 125.69 Healey & Clark, advertising... 6.00 Phil Heuson, hauling stone.... 3.70 Sam Price, oats 22.86 Vern Robinson, serv teamster 14.00 'Alf Donnelly, hay 14.85 Park Fund. Tom Cox, mowing parks...... 3.40 Water Fund. T. E. Malone,- salary 30.00 Ray Collins, firing 15.00 Electric Light Fund. C. S. Chamberlin, salary 50.00 Mell Abbott, salary <.30.00 Dave Haste, salary 30.00 Dick work on fne... 25.00 Jesse Gates, hauling cba1...... ~28.42 Illinois Electric Co^supplies... 2.15 Western Electric Co., supplies.. 26.38 Standard Oil Co., oil 10.85 Vandalia Coal Co., coal .... Rens. Lumber Co., fire brick.. 5.25

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER !«, 1912.

FORMER ROSELAWN GIRL FIGURES IN CRIME QUEST.

Daughter pf Forjner Foreman of Otis Ranch Charged With Responsi- / bility of Two Deaths. A girl who went by tne najpe of “Frankie” Ford in a diveimWest Hammond and who was arrested last week and lodged in a Chicago jail because of investigations started to learn _ the cause of the death of John Messmaker and Ethel Harrison in the dive where she lived, is the daughter of Harry Baxter, for some years the foreman on the big Otis ranch at Roselawn. The girl married a man named Parker at Roselawn andlater drifted about various small cities near Chicago, including Gary, Indiana Harbor and Hammond. She lived in the vilest dives and became a victim of the morphine habit and influenced all of her associates that she could to use the drug. Finally she entered a dive conducted by Henry Foss, a West Hammond Here she lived under the name of Ford. The immorality and crime that has taken place in West Hammond and in the Foss joint has recently been exposed by the investigations of Miss Virginia Brooks and policemen and newspaper reporters. John Messmaker, a married man, became an associate of the Ford woman and-she had accompanied him on a drunken orgy one night about a month ago. The next morning he died in the Foss dive. The Ford woman was arrested as a witness and the theory yas that Foss had caused him to be poisoned. The Ford woman’s mind is distorted as the result of the morphine influence and her debauchery and she told a number of wild tales to the police about the death of Messmaker. The latest theory is that she was his murderer, having caused his death by a “shot” of morphine the night after they returned from their 'orgy. Ethel Harrison, another inmate of the resort, was also found M dead in the place and the Ford woman’s morphine treatment is said to have caused her death. The newspapers of Chicago have sought to make a much greater sensation of the matter than is shown by the investigation of W. H. Blodgett, the Indianapolis News correspondent. They told of a death chamber in the Foss dive, charged that a dozen murders had taken place, that there was a tunnel from the dive to the graveyard and about everything to .add to the sensation. Mr. Blodgett -prints what he claims to be the correct story and he believes that the Ford woman is alone responsible for the two deaths. He tells of much shameful conduct in which the police are alleged to have taken up a collection while protecting the immoral dumps. The work of Miss Brooks and the reporters has been retarded considerably by the dive keepers, who have given them many false clues, and threatened them with murder if they did not suspend the investigation. They are trying hard to find some law that will permit them to prosecute the vice promoting saloonkeepers and divekeepers, so that West Hammond can be cleaned up. The Ford woman is said to have been a bad one from early girlhood and people at Roselawn are little surprised to learn of the depths‘to which she has sunk.

Newman Funeral Will Take Place Wednesday Morning.

The funeral of George Newman, whose death from a revolver shot occurred Sunday morning at the residence of Bert Hopper, 111 South Weston street, will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Christian church. Rev. W. G. Winn will conduct it. Mr. Newman’s brother, William O. Newman, arrived Monday everting from Oklahoma City. He was unable to throw any light upon the death of his brother. George has four vacant lots in Oklahoma City, but they are not very valuable now, owing to the slump in real estate in that city. He had $125 on deposit in a Rensselaer bank and about $25 on his person, ample to provide for his burial., He belonged to the local lodge Knights of Pythias some years ago, but permitted his dues to lapse and was suspended. His father died and was buried in Tennessee, while his mother and sister are buried In Weston cemetery and he will occupy a grave on the lot with them.

_ Buy your feed, coal and hay of Hamilton & Kellner. yhen baby suffers with croup, apply and give Dr. Thomae* Eclectic OU at once. '‘Safe for children. A little goes a long way.. 25c and 50c. At all drug stores.

CHIEF ENGINEER OF INTERURBAN OPENS OFFICE HERE.

Construction Work will Begin Here as Soon as Contract Can be Let and - Preliminary Work Done. H. J. Wilson, of Chicago, chief engNorthwestern Traction Co., (the Purtelle road) dropped into town yesterday afternoon and at once got busy with attorneys of the road and before evening he had rented offices in the Roti) building and paid a month’s rent. Mr. Wilson states that he is here to stay for some time and that work of construction will begin south of town and be pushed as rapidly as circumstances will permit. He says he expects engineers here today to do the necessary work on the line and that the contract will be let within a few days for the construction work and that they expect to have the work of grading and the steel laid in the township yet this fall. He claims to have succeeded in financing the road and says its construction is certain. Eugene Purtelle, the promotor of the road, arrived in town last evening. It is understood, however, that the entire matter of the construction of the road is in the hand Mr. Wilson and that Mr. Purtelle has lost active control of the road, but that if it is built he will have some interest in it, for the work he has already donei Here’s hoping that they make good and that cars will be running through Rensselaer next year.

Tried Democracy a Term— Then Back to Republicans.

Election returns, frem Maine indicate that Willfam T. Haines, republican, has been elected governor over Frederick W. Plaisted, who was the first democratic governor Maine had had in a half century. The republicans will also have control of the legislature on joint ballot an<| will send a republican to the senate. There was no bull moose ticket in the state, although some of the leaders in the party are supporting Roosevelt in national politics.

Auction Sale. One pair of roan geldings, coach bred, 2 and 3 years old. To be sold to the highest bidder on 12 months’ credit Sale will take place in Rensselaer, near public square, at 3 o’clock SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Sept 14th. HERBY GARRIOTT. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer.

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KARNATZ SENTENCED ONE TO FIVE YEARS.

Crippled Tailor Who Sought to Blackmail B. Forsythe Will he Taken to State Reformatory. Eddie Karnatz, the crippled tailor who worked for some years for B. K. Zimmerman, and also~as a picture machine operator for Fred Phillips, Monday afternoon appeared in court and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of having tried to blackmail B. Forsythe, the -wealthy retired merchant of this city, the details of which were published in The Republican at the time of Karnatz’s arrest about three weeks ago. Judge Hanley passed sentence, sending Karnatz to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville for an indeterminate period of from one to five years. Karnatz had lived in Rensselaer for several years and had always had a good reputation. He was quiet and inoffensive and was considered by his acquaintances as a fine young man. His downfall seems to have come about by financial troubles. None believe that he''expected to carry out the threats he made if the money he sought to extort was not given him, but the act was so brazen that it could not be condoned and there was a certainty that the federal authorities would prosecute under the postal laws if the local court -did not. Judge Hanley felt considerable regret in having to send the young man to prison and he would have suspended sen-

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WEATHER FORECAST. Probably showers tonight or Wednesday; cooler Wednesday and in the northwest portion tonight

fence if Karnatz had employment in Renssejaer, where he would be certain to observe the requirements of making reports, but if he went out of the staje he would have to give bond and this he probably could not do. It is hoped that he will not have to serve longer than the minimum sentence and that he will never again commit so grave an error.

Entertained at 6:30 Dinner In Honor of Her Guest.

Miss Helen Murray entertained a number of young ladies Monday at a 6:30 o’clock dinner in honor of Miss Patty Miller, of Pawpaw, 111., who is her guest. Those attending were Misses Edna Hauter, Bel Laßue, Blanche Babcock, Alice Coen, Nell Meyers, Elizabeth Spitler, Martha Long, Clara Holmes, Bess Wiley, Georgia and Muriel Harris and Mary and Ruth Harper. The same young ladies will hold a picnic this evening at the home of Miss Hauter, southeast of-town.

Lawn Social at Parr.

There will be a lawn social at Parr Friday evening, September 13th, for the benefit of the church. Ice cream, cake and lemonade will be served. All are cordially invited.

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