Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — Page 1

No. 221.

“GOOD NIGHT”GUESTS STAYED

Jugs Responsible for Reluctance of Holden Guests to Leave Rex Treatre. It was different. Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Holden introduced a distinct diversion in the way of entertaining their friends Friday evening when they engaged the Hex Theatre and invited about two hundred friends there. The pictures shown that, evening to the regular theatre goers were rerun for the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Holden and were certainly very highly enjoyed. Three especially high-class films were shown. After the first film ushers passed through the aisle and distributed boxes of chocolates to the guests. After the second act Cope Hanley, accompanied by Mrs. Bert Hopkins on the piano, sang “Ah, *Tis a Dream.” His singing proved a real conquest and the guests applauded so heartily that he responded with bor of iLove.” It was received with equal appreciation. Aifter the last film, which was a superb refined comedy, introducing an exchange of a city flat for a country residence, and the complications ensuing- as the city and country people tried to accustom themselves with their new environments, were very amusing. After the film was finished the “Good Night” slide was thrown upon the curtain, but not a guest moved. The slide was withdrawn and then flashed upon the screen again. Still the guests sat quietly in their places. The eyes of all were fixed on a row of jugs which occupied a table in front of the screen. All thought that there was something there for the guests. Some thought of sweet cider, some of juice and others of absinthe. Suddenly it dawned upon all that there was really nothing doing and that the jugs had been placed

We take great pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and Jasper County, the Opening of Our New Store on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER the TWENTY-FIRST In making our debut to Indianians, there are just a few things that we would like to impress upon you: lITE have now three stores—one in New York City—another in Illinois—and the other here in Rensselaer. ” ’ Our Illinois store was founded by'our Mr. Traub some twenty-odd years ago, and a reliable business house, doing a good strong business, is the result. Then a few years ago we opened our New York store, doing business on the same honest principles in a modern up-to-date way, offering the best and newest merchandise at reasonable prices. Our Rensselaer store is to be operated on exactly the same lines as bur other two stores, and is to be a duplicate of the New York store. We have a buyer who lives in New York City and is in a position to buy merchandise for our stpre at less than other merchants have to pay, owing to the fact that our chain of stores provides us with a great outlet for merchandise, and we give you the benefit of the extra discount that we obtain. We guarantee you three things; up-to-date and reliable merchandise, one price and that the lowest, and last but not least, honest and courteous treatment The Ladies as well as the Gentlemen are invited to Our Opening, fczi TRAUB & SELIG I Clothing I Souvenirs “The New y ork store” furnishings Hats Odd Fellows Building Rensselaer, Indiana l___; —feaa-gge*— -1- JL...2 . ' 77; — • —7— —r-r —’y -r :- -—; , —i-rV -- \ •. •- • ■ '

The Evening Republican.

Morocco Will Be Cleaner Town by Subscription Route.

The Morocco Courier states that Dr. Recher, a physician of that place, has passed a subscription paper the past week to procure money to have the sanitary condition of the town improved. The streets and alleys and the park are to be cleaned and made more presentable and more healthy. -The Courier encourages the citizens to fall in line and do their part in making Morocco more presentable. A splendid move that deserves credit for the physician and the editor. Rensselaer has been in quite commendable shape this year. The enterprise of city officials has told in many ways, notably in the general good health that our people have enjoyed. The parks of the city are clean and attractive and most residence properties have also been kept neat and clean. This is something that requires timely attention. Once neglected, it takes a year to catch up.

Christian Church. Services at the Christian church Sunday, September 15 th, will be as follows: Bible -school 9:30 a. m. Worship and communion 10:30. Christian Endeavor 6:30 p. m. Evangelistic services 7:30 p. m. Morning subject, “The Charter of the Church.” Evening subject, “The Supreme Question.” Special music will be rendered at the evening service.

WEATHER FORECAST. Probably showers tonight and Sunday; cooler.

there simply as a sample of the kind of jokes Mr. Holden can play. He had certainly strung the entire crowd. The entertainment proved very pleasing to all and Mr. and Mrs. Holden received the hearty congratulations of all of their guests. The entertainment was in honor of the nineteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Holden.

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Dr. George W. Switzer Helped Select Dr. George W. Grose for Important Position. _ Dr. George W. Grose, pastor of the Grace M. E. church at Baltimore, Md., is to be the new president of DePau w -University, and Will take hold of the work entailed as soon as his withdrawal from his present pastorate has the endorsement of his immediate bishop. He will succeed Dr. F. J. McConnell, who was recently elected a bishop in the M. E. church. Dr. George W. Switzer, of Lafayette, well known to the Methodists of this district by. reason of his 16ng and able ministerial connections, was a member of the committee and also of the subcommittee that determined upon Dr. Grose for the place. In quest of a man the committee has made extensive investigation and traveled more than 6,000 miles. Dr. Switzer is now the vice-president of! a Lafayette bank and has not been in active ministry for two or three years. He is preaching about; all the time, however, and has recently been assigned to superintend the building of a new church near Lafayette, which was provided for in the will of a .wealthy resident. The church will have an endowment for its support.

The subject of the sermons for next Sunday will be “The One Thing Needful,” and “Self-Deception.” Everyone is invited to both services. The seats of the church, which have been causing trouble on hot days, have been scraped and rubbed this week, and it is hoped that the trouble in ended. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912.

NEW PRESIDENT FOR DE PAUW

Presbyterian Church.

OLD FRIENDS IN GILLAM TOWNSHIP

Came Back to Scenes of the Long Ago and Found Delight In Meeting Old - Friends at Independence. There is a touch of pathos in a home coming. The joys of earlier life are mingled with the sorrows that a visit to the old home recalls and the ripple of laughter that accompanies the relating of a story of a boyish prank is coupled with a few tears as there enters the mind the passing out of a life of some one very near and dear to those assembled. This mixture of gladness and sorrow was very evident at the Independence church in Gillam township last Thursday when the present and former residents of v the place met in reunion and listened to addresses of several who have gone out into the world and made good and who found great delight in spending a season amid the scenes of days long passed and gone. Thursday was the big midweek day of the home coming which really lasts an entire week, having begun Sunday, Sept. Bth, and closes Sunday, Sept. 15th. It was the pleasure of the writer to be at the meeting Thursday. There was a large crowd there. They had just finished a basket dinner when we arrived and there were evidences of its abundance in the chicken bones and pie crusts and watermelon rinds. There were beaming faces and we were introduced to people who had formerly lived in Old Gillam and who had gone out into the big world and made it known that Gillam was on the map. We were told that we had missed something by not having beet} there all week and that especially that morning had we missed it by not hearing the addresses of Attorney Elmer Rathfon and his sister, Mrs Laurrf" Rathfon Fisher, both of Chicago.

Passenger Train Belated Friday by Freight Wreck.

Passenger train No. 6, due in Rensselaer at 3:37 p. m., was delayed Friday by a freight wreck at McDoel, near Bloomington. At first it was reported 3 hours late, then 6 hours late, and it finally reached Rensselaer at 7 minutes of 2 o’clock in the morning, being more than 10 hours behind its schedule. To accommodate the public, train No. 38, which is scheduled make no stops between Rensselaer and Hammond, made all the stops which No. 6 usually makes.

Thursday was called reminiscence day and there were many people on hand to tell about things that happened way back long before the war and several to tell about the brave lads who went out at the first call of the country in 1861. Calvin Coppess, Tom Robinson, Geerge W. Faris, George Freshour and Tim Comer were at the home coming. They went out in the 9th Indiana and among them recalled the names of others who went out in the same regiment, viz. John T. Faris, Benjamin R. Faris, Little George W. Faris, Richard R. Freshour, Harry Coppess, Frank and Dallas Prevo, Steve and John Pierson, John W. Burgett and nine men by the name of Davisson, brothers, cousins, fathers and uncles. That was a big turnout for one country township at the very first call. Tom Robinson and other? had been drilling a provisional company for a long time and they were anxious to get into service. They were not all in the same company but the majority belonged to Company G, which was commanded by Robert Milroy. Gillam township was originally a rather small territory, that is the occupied and cultivated part was small. There was a great deal of swamp land and Ipw land that made the part about the Indenpendence church and schoolhouse almost an island. It was settled by sturdy God-fearing men and women and in the very early period the almost unanimous aim was to educate the children and to bring them up within the church. J. R. Guild

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NEW DEPARTURE BY REPUBLICAN

Larger Headlines Will Be Used Experimentally to See Haw PabHe Takes to Them. * The Republican has for a number of years confined its headings to very modest type, except on occasions when the importance of items seemed especially to warrant larger beads. For the most part the headings in The Republican have been all machine set and the linotype can not set anything larger than we have been using. Large hearings have no especial meaning except to improve the typographical appearance of the paper or to add to its sensational tendencies. There has been considerable tendency during recent years to sensationalize newspapers and many of the conservative papers that frowned on the system were forced to adopt it because the public wanted it This tendency has run to mad extremes in some newspapers and the “yellow” sheets are often largely headlines. The Republican is not adopting larger heads because of any local demand. Neither Js it doing so with a view to sensationalizing the paper. The large majority of our exchanges, however, are using large headlines and some of the papers sre models typographically. We beleve that we can improve the appearance of the paper and possibly win the greater favor of our readers by so doing. We again wish to impress upon our friends and patrons the hope that they will realize bow anxious we are to print all the news and that to do this requires the cooperation of our readers. If they will call us by telephone, drop us a line by mall or call at the office and tell us of happenings we shall be very grateful and The Republican will be vastly better. Correspondents are needed all over the county. We

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