Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1912 — Page 1

No. 231.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NEXT FIVE YEARS

Rensselaer Merchant Who Content*. plates Improvements Would Like A Peep Into the Future. . , y'-: , - - - . x “I would give $1,000,” recently remarked a progressive merchant of this city, “if I could see five years into tne future.” Realizing that any person might turn a glimpse into the future to good account by a knowledge'of this kind he quickly qualified his statement by saying that he contemplated improvements in his permanent equipment that would run into a great amount of money and that there was such rapid development at this time in the things that his business needed that he is almost afraid to invest because a short time may entirely revolutionize the equipment. "‘" r " r 'V: This is a great age of electrical development, of concrete-construction, of transportation changes and the fellow who plans for the coming five years by looking at things as they are today is apt to lose out. It would be * worth SI,OOO to any businessman in Rensselaer for a very little peep into the misty five years future. And yet that five years will roll by almost before we know it and we. will probably be more in the dark than ever at the end of-that time.

New Cases Filed.

Lewis J. Lane vs. Trust & Savings Bank, administrators of the estate of Sarah E. Lane. Ira M. Washburn vs. John Middlekamp; suit on account. Bertha Davids vs. Carl, Davids, divorce. Plesa Clift vs. William Clift, divorce and maintenance,

Christian Church.

Sunday services in the Christian church will be as follows: Bible school 9:30 a. m. Worship and communion 10:30 a. m. Ohirstian Endeavor 6:30 p. m. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Bro. J. L. Brady will preach both mornig and evening.

Chicken Supper.

The Womans Home, Missionary Society of the Methodist church will serve a chicken supper in the dining room of the church Thursday evening, Sept. 26, 1912, commencing at 5 o’clock. Come one income all. Charges 25 centß. Butter wrappers* any quantity, plain or printed, may be had at the Republican office.

What’s the Use of Saving a few cents and ruining your Watch ? If it is not keeping time it needs repairing—just the same as your body needs a doctor when you are sick. And like v your body, unless it is doctored at once it will go permanently wrong. V Bring that watch in today. cJESSEN THE eJEWELEEj Rensselaer* Ind. /

The Evening Republican.

WEATHERMAN SAYS IT IS COMING TONIGHT

Prognosticator Says That Jack Frost Will Lay His Icy Fingers on The Corn and Pumpkin Vine. If the forecast of the weatherman comes true we can recite James Whitcomb Riley’s famous poem “The frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder in the shock” tomorrow and be literally proper and truthful in doing so. When the weatherman has a little doubt about the change in the temperature he says “cooler,” but when he really means business he says “colder.” And he says “colder” for tomorrow. Folks with insufficient red corpuscles in their blood will get busy with the underwear clerk and get out their last winter’s overcoat, while some fellows will begin to review the past few months to ascertain what became of their summer’s wages. You can notr bribe the weatherman. He says “colder” with his lips firmly set and we can all get ready for the corn husking, fire building and football stage of life.

OCTOBER SEVEN IS LAST REGISTRATION

Voters Who Do Not Register Then Will Be Barred From Voting On Election Day In November. ! October 7 is tJhe final day for the •registration of voters and those in Jasper county who have not registered must do so then or else they will be, disfranchised on election day. The law provides that where 'a man has registered and then moved to another precinct he must furnish a certificate showing the time and place of his previous registration, together with his registration number. These certificates are furnished by the county auditor and may be had by calling at his office in the court house.

Elder S. J. Lindsay, editor of the Restitution Herald, will preach at the Church of God next Sunday at 10:45 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited. Several men were borne down in the collapse of the platform from wMch Colonel Roosevelt spoke at Tulsa, Okla., yesterday, and the Colonel himself narrowly escaped. No one was Injured seriously, however, though several were bruised by the fall.

BatnK January 1, MST, u meat slate mail matter, at ftoa ptetoKos at Iteassslasr, Indiana, under tha aot of Karen a, lira.

Church of God Services.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.

MARRIED 56 YEARS—NOW WANTS DIVORCE

Mrs. Plesa Clift Asks Separation and From William Clift —Another Case. Mrs. Plesa Clift, through her attorney, William H. Parkinson, has filed suit for divorce from William Clift. The complaint alleges that plaintiff and defendant, were married February 7, 1866, and lived together until March 8, 1912, on which day he deserted her, and that they have not cohabitated nor lived together since that time. It is further charged that defendant has neglected and refused to suitably provide for her for more than six jnonths past. Complainant alleges that during all their married life she has been compelled to work and labor to support and maintain their family, herself and the defendant, and further alleges that the defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, that he cursed and abused plaintiff and at various times threatened to kill said plaintiff. Complaint alleges that defendant draws $24 per month and will draw S3O per month under the new pension law. Plaintiff alleges that she has a small property in Rensselaer that would rent for $5 per month, but that defendant has taken possession of said property and is living in it and refuses' to pay the taxes and refuses in any manner to contribute to her support. She further alleges that she has taken in washing and sewing during her mar_ ried life, but now at the age of 74 years she is no longer able to support herself and is compelled to live off the charity of friends and relatives. In a separate complaint plaintiff states that she has no means with which to prosecute this cause, and an order of the court is asked to prosecute the cause and for her separate support and maintenance.

Bertha Davids, through her attorney, Geo. A. Williams, has filed suit for divorce from Carl Davids. The complaint alleges that they were married January 24, 1910, in Rensselaer, and lived together until February 15th : the same year, on which day they separated and have not since lived together, that the plaintiff has since lived sat the home of her father, John Huffman, in Rensselaer. Plaintiff alleges that'she has not known his whereabouts since their separation and that he has wholly failed to provide for the support of herself and child. She states that she has tried to learn of his whereabouts by writing to his parents In Lafayette and that she now understands he is In the United States army. Plaintiff is now employed as an operator in the Jasper County Telephone office. Plaintiff asks for the care and custody of her child, Kenneth Davids. i

Mrs. Eugene V. Debs, wife of the noted socialist candidate for president, was a guest at the Makeever hotel over last night. She was traveling in a nice limousine automdbile from Terre Haute to Chicago on a visit of several days. Her brother, O. Baur, accompanied her. .. » “Politics to being a good fellow brought about my downfall,” said William H. Kruse, 36 years old, teller of the German National bank, Covington, Ky., Tuesday, when he admitted a defalcation of $14,050 of bank funds, for which he was arrested by a federal deputy marshal at the bank. Crops generally throughout the world this year are bumper. This is shown by figures in a cablegram received by the U. S. department of agriculture from the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, giving the preliminary estimates of the production of wheat, rye, barley, oats and com. 'Reports received by the Great Northern railroad say that more than 350 Montana fanners have been literally crowded out of homes by bumper crops. The bouses are filled with grain to the second story windows. Harvesters camp in tents beside the stubble fields, waiting for cars to move the season’s yield. Snowstorms are sweeping portions of North Dakota and Minnesota. At Crookston, Minn., a- steady rain of 3d boors tamed into a blinding snowstorm, and the northern portion of the Red River Valley is covered with snow. Two and one-half inches fell at Larimore, N. Dak., and light falls of snow also were reported from Grand Forks and Napoleon, N. Dak., and Pierce, 8. Dak.

INTERURBAN ROUTE TO BE CHANGED

Mt. Ayr, Roselawn and Thayer to Be Cut Odi—Via Virgie and DeMotte If Present Plans PrevaiL Chief Engineer Wilson is nbt satisfied with the route of the interurban road as originally planned, and if present plans. are carried out the route through Mt. Ayr, Roselawn and Thayer will be abandoned and a new route north from Rensselaer will be selected. This will cut out Newton township in this county also. Tax was voted in Lincoln and Jackson townships in Newton county and by the change of route this subsidy will be lost, but the new route, .being a shorter one, will more than make up for the loss of the subsidies. The present plans are to continue north from Rensselaer, taking in Virgie and DeMotte, crossing the Kankakee in that vicinity. This will be much more satisfactory to the citizens of Rensselaer and Jasper county, as it will open up a territory not now reached by railroad. It is probable that a petition will be presented to the commissioners at the October term asking that another Election be held in Carpenter township vote on the question of a subsidy for the road. It is hoped to hold the election at the same time as the general election in order to save expense

FIRST GAME OF WORLD’S SERIES AT NEW YORK

Initial Game Between Giants and Boston Bed Sox to Be Played Tuesday, October Bth. The National Baseball Commission has decided to hold the first game of the world’s series between the Giants and Red Sox, in New York, Tuesday, October 8. The second game will be played the next day at Boston. It was decided each team management under the separate league directions will control the sale of tickets for games in its city. The scores reach Rensselaer each day by 4 o’clock or earlier. John Werner took his little daughter, Margaret, to Indianapolis yesterday, where she entered the State Asylum for the Blind. This is her first term In school there. Sheets a bright little girl and seems very enthusiastic over the chance of getting an education and she was well contented when her father left her there. Rev. W. G. Winn left this morning for Pittsburg, Pa., his former home, where on Saturday night of this week he will deliver the dedicatory address for the new Odd Fellows hall, built at a cost of $40,000 by Hazel Glen Lodge, No. 1043, of which he was a member during his residence in that city. He will be absent about eight days, returning to Monticello next Friday, where he will address a district meeting of the Christian Sunday schools that evening.

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INTERESTING ITEMS FROM COLLEGEVILLE

Students Expelled For Unitecoming Conduct—♦‘Sweet Slxteens” Meet With Humiliation. Sunday afternoon the North Side Juniors defeated the South Side Juniors in an uninteresting game, 4-7. Tuesday afternoon the All Stars defeated the Religious by the score of 7 to 11. The game was called in the eighth inning an account of darkness. At times the game was replete with thrilling and brilliant plays, then again it lagged very much because of the ragged exposition presented. At any rate it aroused the enthusiasm of the supporters of both contesting teams. The Athletic Association held its annual mass meeting Sunday morning and chose the following board of directors: Charles McArdle, Herman Daniel, Lloyd Curby, George Sindelar, 'Paul Deery, Edward Shields. The present list of officers is a most representative body. All the classes whose members are eligible to offices are represented, and, though there are more offices than classes, no class has a greater representation than two. A number of street gamins, who, on doubtful testimonials, had succeeded in entering the college, were out the other day seeking some excitement. Not seeing a blue coat they got busy disturbing the peaceful citizens of Rensselaer in a fashion that they had learned from the sensational evening'

papers. But they soon learned that the guardian of the peace' In a country town is always on duty, and that dirty city alleys are better hiding - places than rows of ripening corn. As a result the Monon has had the benefit of a few untimely tickets, the college authorities have rid themselves of several dangerous and noxious characters and the citizens of Rensselaer can still entertain the hope that college towns are not necessarily the homes of rowdyism and the harbor of incorrigible ruffians. One thing at a time Is all that the most adept of us can safely do. If several “sweet slxteens” had been mindful of this faot one evening lately, they would have escaped the public humiliation that was their lot. A half dozen or so were pleasure riding on bicycles on College avenue. When they reached the college campus, the calico ideas were uppermost in their minds and the opportunity to attract some collegians’ attention for a little game of flirtation became irresistable. As" a result neither eye watched the road The wheel of the leader swerved Into a rut, and there was a tumble; the wheels of the other riders could not unassisted, hurdle the obstruction and there was a general and genuine spill of skirts and wheels and tangled hair punctuated by scarlet faces, In the very center of the public highway Then followed, as best they could, the discomfttted homeward steps. Here is hoping that there will be no further strolls down College avenue with similar intent and that, if so, they meet with a similar end.

Occasionally it becomes necessary tc remind some people that it costs money to print a newspaper and that the price of The Evening Republican js 2 cents per copy. It always makes us Wonder What some people think we live on when they drop in and get a paper and say “Thank you.” We give sample copies out at our discretion, i! —!—.—< Will Murray came on the milk trail from his home east of town this morning and states that there was considerable frost and that the grass wa*> frozen this morning. He thinks it will stop the growth of green corn. F'rom some parts of the county it was reported that there was fto frost. Mr Murray thinks those who reported tbur did very carefully. Chase V. Day came up from Spencer yesterday, where he was enjoying a visit with his wife’s relatives. His return was occasioned by a rush job of lathing which his father had at Monon. Chase has been feeling very poorly for several weeks, having stomach trouble. He is better now and expects the cooler weather to operate in favor of his recoveryFarmers who raised big crops of onions are feeing more cheerful than they did a week ago; Some one brought the word to town New York buyers were paying 50 cents a bushel. George Zea, on the Dr. Turner farm, seems to hold the record for big production. On an acre and onetenth he raised 1,260 bushels. Wish he could get a dollar per for them.

PROGRESSIVES PUT FOURTH ON TICKET

Ballot Will Bead: Democrat, Republican, Prohibition, Progressive, . Socialist, Socialist Labor. The state board of election commissioners at a meeting held in the governor’s office, alloted the progressives fourth place on the state ballot, giving third place to the prohibitionists. Under the order arranged by the board the ticket will read: Democrat, republican, prohibitionist, progressive, socialist and socialist labor.

Illinois Man Who Owns Land Here Will Move to Rensselaer.

Mr. and Mrs. James Barber returned to Paw Paw, 111., today, after having closed a deal for the purchase of the Charles D. Norman property, consisting of five acres a good residence just north of this city. Mr. Barber owns a farm 10 miles north of Rensselaer and wants' to be closer to it He will move here shortly. When baby suffers with croup, apply and give Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil at once. Safe for children. A little goes a long way. 25c and 50c. At all drug stores.

A Classified Adv. will sell it

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