Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — Page 1

No. 227.

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- LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Deering Standard binding twine for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. Dan Hoolihhn, of Chicago, is spending a few days with Ed Oliver. Mrs. B. J. Jarrette is recovering from an illness that confined her at home for seVeral days. We have a good supply, of hard coal. Let us fill your bins now while we can. HAMILTON & KELLNER. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Dorsey, of Chicago, came Thursday for a visit over Sunday with her sister, Mrs. H. E. Hartley, and family. , Mr. and Mrs. Michael Smith, of Huntington, Ind., came today to spend Sunday with their son, Cornelius, at Sfc\Joseph’s coliege. Harry English went to Lafayette Friday afternoon to witness the tank scrap and be a guest of his brother, Waller, who is a member of the senior class at Purdue. < Mrs. Charles Merritt left this morn- • ing for her home in St. Louis, after a week’s visit with J. F. Mitchell and family, southwest of town. Mrs. Angela Luers est this morning for a ten days’ visit in Peklh, 111., accompanying Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Sperry, who had been visiting here, home ih an automobile. Mrs. Robert Gillls, of Hammond, came this morning to visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer. Her husband, Dr..Gillls,'will join her here this evening. Perry Hurley, the blind man who formerly lived in this country, re- ‘ turned to Rossville today after a visit of about a month with his aunt, Mrs. N. J. Burgett, of near Aix. 9 - On January Ist the Oxford Gazette will adopt the cash in advance rule, and the paper will be stopped at the expiration of >he time paid for. This will apply to all subscribers. Harry Gauthier, of Chicago, who was born in Rensselaer during the time his father, George W. Gauthier, was a merchant in this city,, is visiting his uncle, H. E. Hartley, and family. Ton can secure Mica Special Roofing from any dealer in Jasper of 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. The George E. Murray jiroperty on River street which has been undergoing extensive remodeling, is nearing completion and the owner expects to occupy It within the next week or ten days. v Owing to the large number of accidents that have occurred becausp of the 18-hour schedule of trains between New York and Chicago it is reported that the runhing time will be increased to 20 hours. S. W. Noland, of near Lee, was a Rensselaer visitor today. He is looking after the construction of a new barn on the Albert Warner farm in Hanging Grove township and was here in quest of of carpenters. Miss Helen Murray returned today to Madison, Wis., to continue her college work in the university there. This is her fourth year in college, but she expects to take another term, which would give her a state license to teach in Wisconsin, which she expects to do. She is studying domestic

The Evening Republican.

Fred J. Wemple, a brother-in-law of J. J. Montgomery, accompanied by an Assistant, came from Chicago this afternoon to do the electrical wiring of Mr. Montgomery’s new bungalow on North Cullen street. Have you noticed the new electric lighting system of the R-C-H car sold by John M. Knapp? The cars are equipped with 12-inch Bullet electric head lights and double parabolic lenß, and 6-iUch Bullet electric side lights with parabolic lens, Mrs. George Hurley went to Reynolds this morning to remain over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Samuel Searing, and to visit other relatives. Mrs. Richard Markle, of Reynolds, and Clyde Wolf, of Altoona, Pa., visited Mr. and Mrs. Hurley yesterday. Will Murrey,’ administrator of the estate of his late father, Wallace Murray, will leave for Rollo, Saskatchewan, Canada, in a week or ten days to look after a quarter section of land belonging to the estate. Sam English lives near Rollo and also has a quarter section there. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith and son, Millard, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Healey autoed to Lafayette Friday evening and witnessed the tank scrap., clarence Smith returned home with them to remain until Sunday evening. School was dispensed with at Purdue today to allow the bruised contestants a chance to recover. The Jasper county opion crop Is indeed - marvelous. It Is probable that from 200,000 to 300,000 bushels were raised in the county this year. There is 'h limit to the demand for onions and consequently an abundant crop is sure to quickly affect the price. It is understood that the price at this time is about 17 cents a bushel. Francesville, Medaryville and Monon are now lighted by electicity. The current was turned on Thursday of last week. The current for the three towns is now furnished from a plant located at Francesville but next year a power plant will be located at Pulaski, where the power will be generated by water from the Tippecanoe river. J. F. Wilson, chief engineer of the interurban line, went to Milwaukee today on business- connected with the road. The surveying crew expected to complete their work to the township line today, but were unable to work this forenoon on account of the rain. The crew went out this afternoon and if the weather permits they will resume work. H. M. Shipman returned several days ago from Burk, S. Dak;, where he spent the summer with his son-in-law, Everal Smith. Everal has out 160 acres of corn, 140 of wheat and 65 of oats, and it Is the best corn crop he has raised in the seven years he has been there. He has lots of hay, while the potato crop is abundant and potatoes were selling for 25 cents a bushel. Everal rented his farm for cash rent and lives on a larger farm on a grain rent basis. He is getting along splendidly and has made money every year he has been there. Mr. Shipman is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Charles Grant, here, lie is undecided whether he will remain here all winter or go to southern Illinois, where he spent last winter. - ...• _____ Impure blood runs you down—makes you sa easy victim for disease. For pure blood and soond digestion—Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drag stores. Price, «LMI Use mu Hsssto-4 ~v-~ . - ’^T ; V J.. —■ t* ■ - /” ■■■ ' ’ .

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, IMS.

SOPHOMORES WON TANK SCRAP

Annual Contest Resulted in All Freshmen Being Tied Up* Marched to Stuart Field and Fainted. It is some scrap that the gingersnap kids have at the west side water tank at Purdue each year. It is a test, not only of strength and numbers, but of prowess and strategy. The nineteenth of these affairs was held Friday evening. Some of our readers don’t knew what a tank scrap is and having seen the one Friday night, we shall attempt to tell about it. Primarily it is to settle a dispute between the sophomores and the freshmen. The former, by their superior wisdom, have questioned the right of the new students to be alive and especially to be entitled to the respect of their superiors. -The freshmen have challenged this exaltation and in defiance have painted the numerals “16” on a big water tower a few blocks north by east of the campus. The challenge thus flaunted has the unanimous support of all who have the red blood of patriotism in their veins. They gather en masse on an appointed evening to meet the sophomores in combat, not mortal but desperately near to it. There are certain rules governing the fray. Slugging is not tolerated, kicking is prohibited, hair pulling is discouraged and there is a fine'line drawn between the rough and the molly coddle that it takes a microscope to discover. It is no * slap-you-on-the-wrist game by any means. Kids with mellow voices and candy in their pockets had better .stay at home. It is a lung tester and a chest developer; also a beauty destroyer and a haberdashery booster. But these comparisons and synonyms don’t get a fellow any place when he sets out to tell about a task scrap. r Suffice it to say by further preliminary that it takes all the spirit end dash and courage that a healthy college lad can muster. The audacious plebes are massed at the foot of a hill near the bone of contention, the numeral begummed tank. They shout a few hastily framed yells to the gesticulations of a leader who is able to bend in all conceivable shapes while directing the pronunciamentos of his classmates. Not many people are able to tell what is being shouted but they can see that/ it means defiance and trouble is fomented in a manner that would cause sodium and water to look like a placid happening. - , - But their volume of noise don’t bluff any one, and. in a short time a bunch of noisy sophomores arrive on the scene, headed by a torchlight procession. They have a little more euphony in their yellß and a little greater variety and a little more wind pressure. They form in battle line at the top of the hill. Some fellow with a match touches off a skyrocket and bedlam begins. A few war whoops are emitted from the sophomores, who start down hill hell bent for election. The freshmen at the same time start to an ascension of the battlefield. They meet with marvelous impact. That is about all that one can see in the dim Ught of the moon and the oil torches carried by the upper classmen. All of the combatants have ropes and these are used to tie the hands and feet of their adversaries. There Is a hum of defiant voices, and groans of anguish from the injured. One thinks of pictures he has seen of the battle of Gettysburg. The thousands of spectators surge about in an effort to find a place where they can see something that is going on. Every one asks every one who is getting the best of it and every one answers by telling what some one else Bald. The leaders of the two sides dash about directing the movements and putting steam into the almost exhausted combatants. The totally winded and otherwise injured fire carried to the rear and attended by doctors and volunteer Desdemonaa, who bend affectionately over the victims and plead with their eyes for their immediate restoration. And ttyere is nothing known to medical science that will bring a college boy back ,to life oo quickly as the perfumed breath and goo-goo eyes of a damsel of eighteen. But that is another story. It is a long story, too, and we haven’t the thne, nor space, nor inclination to take op a subject of this nature. It’s back to the tank ssrap for us. A hogwallow looks like a picnic ground compared to the battlefield The steam and sweat from the gladiators and smoke from the torches ' . , .

MONTICELLO MAN MAY GO TO PEN

Dr. George Sangster Being Returned To Answer Charge Of Forgery Preferred By A. K. Sills. Monticello Herald; Among the indictments returned by the grand jury last week was one against Dr. Geo. Sangster for forgery. The settlement by his brother last spring of all his debts on a 75 per cent basis and the taking up of all the notes was supposed to have ended not pnly his civil liabilities but the criminal prosecution as well, but it is said there was still a photographic copy of one of the forged notes accessible to the grand jury, and it was upon this evidence that an indictment was returned. He waa known to be living in fancied security at Williams, Arizona, and steps were taken to secure his return here. .Sheriff Price received word Saturday from the Sheriff there to come and get him as he had him under arrest and was awaiting orders. Hs started the same day for Arizona, accompanied by Marshal Dobbins, and is expected here with his prisoner in a few days.

gives up a fog that obscures the battle from the view of spectators. But it is still going on. You can hear everything that you can’t see. Your ears come _in mighty handy if you went there as a spectator. Finally the sophomores, who are reported to be getting the worst of it, send in a reserve of fifty fresh fighters, all big, husky fellows and they start a tying game that would make an oats binder look like a baby trying to tie a blue ribbon around its neck with its toes. The tide of battle turns, the freshmen are overcome, the sophomores who were' in bondage are released and the freshmen are tied to a long chain, their hands behind them. There is hardly a whole shirt in the outfit and trousers and underclothes are so badly torn that the wbole outfit looks like a lot of chorus girls minus the paint. The paint, however, comes later. The chained plebes, now thoroughly subdued, are marched over to Stuart ’field. The taunting sophomores march beside them and jeer them with mild but stinging invectives. The throng follows. On Stiyirt field they are painted with yellow paint, with a few additional marks, such as blackened eyes and green necks. They are made the plaything of the sophomores until 11 o’clock at night, when they are turned loose and seek the bathrooms of their respective quarters. Gasoline, sapolio, machine oil and acids are employed to remove the paint and dirt and grime. And then they retire with the happy thought that the next day is a holiday and the following one is Sunday and that they won’t have to do anything but nurse their bfuises until Monday morning. And that’s all, and believe me, it’s enough. Clarence Smith got a bump in the side of the head and the wind knocked out of him. ( Virgil Robinson, John Groom and Ralph Hammond escaped injury. Virgil wormed loose from the chain add escaped being painted. Few were so fortunate. “The “16” will now come down from the tank and “15” will replace it, the students will all be on an equality and will start in to get some of the information that dad is putting up a thousand a year for, while he and ma and the rest of the family go on half rations and cut out the “extras.” And this would naturally bring up the question, “Why is a tank,” but that is still another story and our readers must learn to use their imagination for part of these things.

Card of Thanks

We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the neighbors and friends and especially to the comrades and members of the G. A R. Post and Circle for the kind acts administered during the sickness and follownig the death of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. S. E. Yeoman and Family. _____________

Christian Cha^eh. Sunday services In the Christian chnrch will be as follows'/ Bible school, 9:30 a. m. Worship and communion, 10:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor, 6:30. Evangelistic services, 7:30. ‘

For regular action of toe bowels; easy, natural movements, relief of constipation , try . Doan’s Regulets. 25c at all stores.

ANOTHER CASE OF HOUSE THIEVERY

Dean Merica Robbed of s!> by Some Thief Who Entered House After He Was Asleep. 1 Several nights ago Dean Merica was robbed of $9. Upon retiring he hung up his trousers and when he got up the next morning he found them on the floor, his money gone and other things that were in his pockets scattered about the floor. He had left the doors to his house unlocked, a custom that many have followed. Since two cases of house burglary have occurred recently it would be best for all of us to be a little more careful on this score and not only keep ’this sneak thief out of our homes but see if we can not help to apprehend him.

WERE NO DEAD MEN ON MONON’S PAYROLL

General Manager Denies That Men Were Drawing Pay as Section Hands Who Were Dead./ Monticello Herald: A report was current some time ago that the first trip of the pay car on the Monon had disclosed the fact that the company was carrying several dead men on its payroll. General Manager A H. Westfall denies that there is any truth in the report. “Our employes receive their pay in the form of checks,” says Mr. Westfall. “As a rule these checks are awarded through the mails. About twice a .year, however, we send out a pay car and the employes are required to go to the car and sign a receipt for their checks. The pay car plan is in vogue on a large number of railroads. The last trip of the Monon pay car did not disclose any discrepancies. A report recently circulated that dishonesty was discovered is a slur upon the integrity of the employes of the company.” In discussing the outlook for business, General Manager Westfall says: We are looking forward to an exceptionally busy period..”

Obituary of Mrs. Joseph Yeoman.

Mrs. Rachael A. (Moore) Yeoman was born in Johnson county, Indiana, near Trafalgar, August 20, 1833, and died. in Rensselaer, Indiana, September 18, 1912, aged 79 years and 28 days. She, with her father’s family, moved to Jasper county in the year 1849 and located on a farm four miles west of Rensselaer. She was united by marriagq to Joseph Yeoman October 28, 1852, and lived west of Rensselaer in Newton township until the year 1889, when they moved into the bouse in the northwest part of the city, from which death called her hence. To this union nine children were born; six girls and three boys. Her husband, four girls and one boy have entered the silent land before her. She was bereaved of her husband on February 24, 1910. In the year 1876, during a series of revival meetings, both Mr. and Mrs. Yeoman were converted and united with the Free Will Baptist church, and both remained in the communion of the "church of their first love to the end of their days. Mrs. Yeoman lived a sweet Christian life that is highly commended by all her neighbors and friends. In her father’s family there were seven children, four girls and three boys, only one of whom, Mr. Robert M. Moore, survives to follow her remains to their last resting place. She leaves to mourn over her taking away, one brother, Robert M. Moore, two daughters, Martha E. Yeoman and Mary E. Rush, two sons, Robert J. told Reuben C., thirteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren, with other relatives and a host of friends.

Brady’s Bible Class. The members of this class are requested to be on band in. the morning at 9:30 to greet Bro. Brady. Good Hope. Preaching at Good Hope Christian church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. je*. . 1

For Sale—Bee keepers’ supplies. Leslie Clark, at Republican office. Catalogue free.

WEATHER FORECAST. Showers and cooler today; Sunday unsettled.

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ANOTHER EXCURSION SUNDAY

Monon Will Ran 75-eent Round Trip to. toe Windy City. . The Monon railroad has been doing a big business in excursions to Chicago this year. Since the excursion season opened excursions have been conducted every other Sunday and with increasing patronage. The parks, the theaters, ball games and amusement resorts have attracted big throngs from both divisions of the road and Rensselaer people have patronized all of the excursions with crowds varying from 100 to 250. % Another excursion will be .ran next Sunday, Sept 22nd. The round trip price will be 75 cents. For schedule see advertisement in this paper.

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