Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — Page 1

No. 7.

• ' i • ' ■. ’ =——BlG— —= CLEARANCE SALE Greater Reductions on Suits, Overcoats, Furnishings Do Not Fail to Come on Saturday, Jan. 11. Traub & Selig “The New York Store”/ ’ I Odd Fellows Building Rensselaer, Ind.

SEVERE COLD SPELL HITS ENTIRE WEST

Orange and Lemon Growers in California Hard Hit—Thirty Below Zero in Montana. So far Indiana has escaped severe storms and extreme cold. The temperature much of the time since last Saturday has beep but little bel6w freezing and the coldest was about 10 above zero. Throughout' the northwest, however, there has been a severe cold snap and dispatches report that from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, CaL, every acre of oranges and lemons have been frozen. The loss is estimated at $40,000,000. Unusual cold caught the majority of growers unprepared and it is said only about one-fifth of the crop can be salvaged. The mercury is reported to have sunk to 30 degrees below‘zero at Miles City, Mont. At Pueblo, Colo., it was 22 below; at Denver 18; at Cheyenne 24. The storm swung far into the southwest, also, and at El Paso, Tex., is was only 6 above, while at Amarillo it was 2 below.

Insane Negro Tried to Kill Himself at Michigan City.

Sumner Lee, colored, janitor at the Michigan City Methodist church, was arrested and locked up because he made monkey faces at the members of the congregation. Before this he made an attempt to kill himself. He poured kerosene around the floor of his home and dragged hot coals from a stove onto the saturated wood. He then stabbed himself in the neck and beat himself over the head with a stove poker. His mother attempted to save him but failing, called the fire and police t departments, who rescued Lee and put out the fire. He was arrested and in the jail he tore the bandages from his burned head and made an unsuccessful attempt to hang himself.

Gaylord McFarland Notified That Position Awaits Him.

Gaylord McFarland, son of J. A. MeFarland, rewntly. took service examination for a position in the federal service and passed with a very commendable grade. Tuesday a letter came to him at Rensselaer, informing him that his name had been certified by the Civil Service Commission to the agricultural department and asking how soon he could report Gaylord is now working at Wabash,, to which place his father sent his letter. It is presumed that he will arrange ot take hte place very soon. He wilLstart in at Washington with a salary of S9OO per year.

Militia Drill Tonight

Let every member be at the armory sharply at 8 o’clock, prepared for a good drill. Le tevery member try to have a perfect attendance from now until the last drill night of the semi-annual in April \ George H. Healey, Captain.

Cash Food Store.

Milk Producer. It always pays to Teed the best of Wed; lots have tried it Why not you? Crushed corn and oats, our $1.20 cow feed. Phone 188.

Evening Republican.

MRS. JAMES GARRIOTT DIED TUESDAY P. M.

Acute Dilatation of Heart Follows Operation Performed for Tumor Saturday. Mrs. Malissa B. Garriott, aged Al ye&rs, 4 months and 24 days, wife of James K. Garriott, of Union township, died Tuesday evening at about 6:45 at the Rensselaer hospital. Mrs. Garriott was operated on last Saturday for the removal of an abdominal tumor. She seemed to come out from the operation in fairly good condition and her condition was regarded very favorable until Tuesday morning, when an acute dilatation of the heart set in and the attending physicians at once regarded her chances of getting through the attack as doubtful. The heart continued to enlarge during the day and death came at the hour stated. Deceased was the daughter of Malachi P. Comer and was born in Jasper county, Aug. 14, 1865. Besides the bereaved husband several children are left to mourn her death. The funeral will be held at the Christian church at 11 o’clock Thursday morning, being conducted by Rev. A. J. Brock, pastor of the Brushwood United Brethren church. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery.

Says Elisha is Now Best of Three Old Friends.

Monticello Journal Elisha Warden was called to Rensselaer yesterday by Mrs. J. W. McEwen to move the printing press from the McEwen printing office and place it on board the cars for shipment to Chicago. Elisha, Uncle Jimmy McEwen and this printing press are old-time chums and all three have grown old together, but Elisha seems to be the best of the trio at this date. Away back in the sixties or early seventies Elisha wrestled with this press on two or three occasions here in Monticello when Uncle Mac was editor and publisher of the Constitutionalist. Later, but still in the the-cars here for shipment over the “narrow guage,” to Rensselaer, where it has done duty until the publication of the Rensselaer-Sen-tinel was suspended on account of the falling mental condition of Editor McEwen.

Supreme Court Rules Against Road Petitioners.

The Supreme Court ruled against the motion of the appellants to reinstate cause in the case of Almira M. Stockton et al vs. Reuben C. Yeoman, and also Almira M. Stockton et al vs. Everett Halstead. These were cases carried to the higher court by Mrs. Stockton, Jay W. Stockton and others who had remonstrated against the stone road petitions of Yeoman and Halstead and others. A ruling in the higher court was recently made in favor of the remonstrators and this is -another victory for them, as the cases will not be reviewed in the higher court. ' We have our cellar full of the largest and finest potatoes we have ever bandied. 15c a peek or 60c a bushel JOHN EGER.

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Sixty-Eighth Session Will Convene Thursday—New Members Will j Be Sworn In. . x . 1 ’ - r / 7 1 L. G. Ellingham, secretary of state, will call the house of state Representatives to order at 10 o’clock Thursday morning and after Judge Cox has administered the oath to the new speaker, Mr. Ellingham will retire.. Judge Cox will swear in all members, after the roll has been called by Herman L. Conter, assistant secretary of state. In a joint session to be held either Thursday or. Friday the recent election returns will be canvassed and the speaker of, the house will, announce the election of Samuel M. Ralston as governor and W. P. O’Neil as lieutenant-governor. In the senate the program will be practically the same, except that Lieutenant-Governor Frank J. Hill will preside until Mr. O’Neill is sworn in It is probable that both sessions will adjourn after organization until after the Inauguration of Governor Ralston.

Will Play First Game of Season Friday Night—Opponents Will Be Announced Later. The Rensselaer high school will inaugurate basketball at the high school gymnasium Friday night of this week, when the high school boys’ team will meet a team probably from Lowell or Medaryville, the arrangements not having been completed. It is possible that the representative girls’ team will be chosen by that time and that a game may be arranged for them. The game conflicts with the militia game with Monticello, but there will be crowd enough to go around, perhaps, especially if Monticello brings its customary crowd of rooters. By Thursday it is expected to be able to state what team will oppose the high school team Friday night. 'a suit case advertised as lost in The Republican of Tuesday was restored to its owner. A reader of this paper reported that one of her childrep had found it in the street, where it had probably dropped out of an automobile. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the.R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public. At Logansport last Sunday Lonzo Healy was initiated into the Catholic Order, the Knights of Columbus. A number more will go into the order soon. For several years Edward P. Honan was the only member in Rensselaer. Miss Julia Leopold went to Chicago Saturday and today Mrs. C. C. Warner, Mrs. A. R. Hopkins and Miss Edith Shedd went there. Tomorrow they will be joined by Mrs. A. R. Kresler and Mrs. J. A. Dunlap and all will attend grand opera. Stewart Short has returned to the Boys’ Training School at Louisville, Ky., after a two weeks’ vacation at home. He is very much pleased with his school there. Stewnrt wore his military uniform while home and it was quite becoming to him.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913.

OPENING SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HIGH SCHOOL WILL START BASKETBALL

Morrow Bros., who had been booked by a lyceum bureau for a tour of the western states, received word the first o tthe week that the, WSgemenF liacTEcen cirTcXd for the time being, owing to the severe weather in the west. How long the delay will be for they do not know. ' "■ A. C. Stauffenberg, of Manhattan, 111., who recently bought the former Michaels farm, southeast of town, was here yesterday and today, looking after the renting of it. Mr. Stauffenberg has refused an offer of $5.50 more an acre than he paid for the farm, when he bought it two weeks ago. Mrs. E. P. Honan and Mrs. F< E. Babcock went to Indianapolis this afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Blodgett, the Indianapolis News correspondent. Mrs. Honan Will also spend a week with Mrs.,M. A. Ryan. Both will be on hand for the inauguration of Governor Ralston next Monday. The township trustees are filing tlwlr'reports with the county auditor and within the next few weeks The Republican wiM print the receipts and disbursements of all the trustees during the last year. Every taxpayer should study the report from his township and thus familiarize himself with the township business.

OUR NEW GOVERNOR NEEDS BIG CHAIR

Samuel M. Ralston Weighs 276 Pounds and Tom Marshall’s Seat Was Not Large Enough. i The chair of state which has served Indiana governors for years will be renounced by Samuel M. Ralston, our new governor, who weighs 275 pounds, and Tuesday he selected one of his own from a number of availables which Thos. F. Colbert, custodian of the state house, had brought there Jor the governor-elect to inspect * Although Governor Marshall was very much smaller than his predecessor, Gov. J. Frank Hanley, he occupied the same chair, but when Mr. Ralston tested it he said, “Not for me,” and immediately started things for a chair equal to sunborting him. He said he found tflr old chair uncomfortable. The chair he selected is of mahogany, upholstered in black leather and will cost approximately SSO. Tuesday Retiring Governor Marshall and Mr. Ralston held a conference lasting an hour and a halt going over the routine business of the office and discussing some of the problems of office, which some times hold over for years.

Nicholas Schmal made a trip to St. John today. See George F. Meyers’ list of Farms for Sale in another column. Mrs. Joseph O’Connor came down from Hammond today to visit her mother, Mrs. Mattie Grant. This week and next buy at Lee’s and get a chance at the beautiful ring. Frank Geitzenauer, of East Lynn, 111., is here for a visit of a week with his cousins, the Hammertons, in and near Rensselaer. For this week only, a full quart jar of sour-mixed or chow-chow pickles for 10c. JOHN EGER. Mrs. R. O. Wickham, whose husband is pastor of the Christian church at Remington, is taking treatment at the Rensselaer hospital. Are you a small man? Then get into one of those $5.00 bargain overcoats at Lee’s. Sizes 32 to 36. Miss Gwenna Holland returned to Kalamazoo, Mich., today after a visit of ten days here with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Carmichael. Phone 135, Duvall Bros., for bran, middlings, chop,, hay and straw; can not ba beat; take quality in consideration. George O. Bales, of Goodland, was a Rensselaer visitor yesterday, retiming home this morning via Fair Oaks and the “Bowie” special on the C. & E. I.

J. W. Beckman went , to Chicago this morning on a business trip. His mother, Mrs. J. C. Beckman, continues to improve and her recovery is now considered certain. Hon. John G. Woolley, the prohibition candidate for president in 1900, has now declared that prohibition is a lost cause and has renounced allegiance to the party. Al Rishling, who has been working for C. E. Prior for the past two or three years, has resigned his position there and it is rumored that he will engage in the poultry and egg business 'for himself. Lyman Zea today received a letter from his brother, J. W. Zea, of LaHogue, 111., informing him of the death of J. W. Zea’s wife Tuesday, December 31st. She had been in poor health for some time. Mr’’-' •• rvisaMBMMAIHBaBHMWrw** Miss A. E. Atkinson, a trained nurse who has been attending Mrs. A. H. Hopkins, went to Surrey this morning to visit Mrs. Walter Hopkins for a few days before returning to her home in Chicago. /There is practically no change in the condition of “Uncle” David Nowels. He continues to take no nourishment and constantly grows weaker. His son, D. B. Nowels, of Lamar, Colo., is expected here tonight. ( Two high school teachers were compelled to give up their work forthe day at least on account of sickness. Miss Mallory quit during the forenoon and went to her boarding house and Miss Ethel Perkins did not return after dinner. Both are suffering from severe colds and attacks of the grip. Although today is mild in temperature the heating of the new school building was inadequate and part of the recite tions were suspended, the temperature being below 60 degrees some of the time. We still have some of those fancy apples, Greenings and Baldwins, $2.50 and $2.75 a barrel JOHN EGER.

BIG FOUR WRECK NEAR LAFAYETTE

Broken Trucks Threw Passenger Train in Ditch—One Killed and 48 More or Less Injured. Irwin W. Zunner, a traveling man for a brewery, was killed, and persons were injured, some so seriously that they will probably die, in a wreck on the Big Four railroad Tuesday afternoon. Passenger train No. 15, rurining 20 minutse late, is estimated to have been running 75 miles an hour and at “Grave Yard Curve,” a quarter of a mile from Stockwell, the entire train left the track and went into the diteh. It is believed to have been caused by a broken tnick or a broken wheel flange. That the death list is not very large seems remarkable. Relief trains were sent out from Indianapolis and several doctors from Lafayette responded to the call for aid. So far as is revealed by a list of the injured none are known in this city. Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, former secretary of state, and a past £rand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, was on the train. He was but slightly injured. Conductor Kennedy of the ill-fated train was a real hero. He was severely cut about the head and face but he went about aiding the passengers and refused to have his injuries dressed until every other person had been cared for. The railway mail clerks, Ollie Miller, of Lebanon; C. J O’Connor, of Cincinnati, and L. E. Tailentire, of Belleview, Ky., also worked hard in rescuing passengers and in making things as comfortable as they could for them.

TUTEUR GETS JOB FOR ENTIRE SESSION

Will Be Clerk in Senate—Wires Attorney Honan That He Has Landed a 60-Day Job. C. Arthur Tuteur, who went to Indianapolis Tuesday after receiving a telegram promising him a job for half of the legislative session, today wired to Attorney Honan that he had cinched the job for the entire session, and that it is a clerkship in the senate. Attorney Honan is a close friend of W. P. O’Neill, the lieutenant-governor-elect and used his influence to get the place for Arthur.

LIE’S ONE-HOUR SPECIAL. i Lee’s one-hour after supper special this, evening will be: 7 spools any kind of thread for 25 cents. Remember, only between 7 and 8 o’clock. Card of Thanks. The children and grandchildren, of Mrs. Adaline A. Yates take this means of extending their thanks to the many friends and neighbeta for their many acts of kindness during their recent sad bereavement. ' ’ -, ■ I - • - - Notice to Odd Fellows. On the evening of January 9, 1913, at 7:00 o’clock, the Odd Fellows lodge will have a “Home Coming and Roll Call” Entertainment and refreshments will be given. All members are expected to be present. Visiting and sojourning brothers are Invited to attend. G. A. OVERTON, Noble Grand. _ Electrical Work. . Remember Duvall & Duvall do all kinds of electrical work. We don’t do the city work but will do your work. Before you let your contract get our figures first or last and be convinced.

Lyceum Course Dates. Jan. 31.—Maclnnes Neilson. March I(l—Sarah Mildred Willmer. April 14.—The Bohannans. Owing to the condition of my health it has become necessary for me to give up nearly all my work In Mrs. Green’s bakery, and must now turn my attention to some other kind of employment By trade I am a carpenter, but my physical condition will prevent my attempting anything but light carpenter work. I can, however, repair furniture, sharpen edge tools, file saws and fix many things that need repairing about your house. Satisfaction guaranteed. If you Have any furniture to dispose of give me a call; perhaps I can use it. J. P. Green, South Weston Street, near Rutsen. Phone 477. . A Classified Adv. will find it

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair; colder tonight; Thursday fair.

LOTS OF GRAIN IN NORTH DAKOTA

Frank Morlan Sends Paper From Williston Which Proclaims That Town the Best Market. Frank Morlan, who has been In North Dakota for a number of years and whet proved up a. claim and sold it and later married a young woman who was herself proving up a claim has sent a copy of the Williston, N. Dak., Herald, near which city he lives, to his mother, Mrs. Amanda Morlan. The paper relates that on Dec. 23rd, there was received in Williston 40,000 bushels of grain, mainly wheat and flax. Seven hundred loads of grain were hauled to that city in a single day and the paper v states that there was a long line Of wagons watching for a chance to unload at the mill and the various elevators. The 40,000 bushels of wheat and flax which the 700 wagons brought to Williston that day sold for $34,000, and The Herald pronounces that city the largest primary grain market in North Dakota. Much of the grain was hauled from McKenzie county, across the Missouri river from Williston. The'river had Just frozen over solid enough to make it safe crossing and the farmers were quick to take advantage of it. One farmer who was returning home counted 315 teams going to town. The farm that Mrs. Mbrlan was proving up when she married Frank is near Williston and they are almost proved up on it and it will be a valuable quarter section as all land in that part of North Dakota has proven very productive and has increased in value with the rapid development of the country. ;—_ —_—

Saw Bonfire; Thought It Was a Neighbor’s House.

Mrs. Elizur Sage sent in a fire alarm Tuesday afternoon and then almost immediately discovered that she had made a mistake. Looking out of the window of her home, the former Brady property, she thought that Frank Ham’s house was on fire and telephoned the central office. Looking again she saw that the fire was a brush heap in the rear of the Ham residence and that it was bring properly watched. She at once telephoned the fact to the central office but the fire whistle had blown the alarm In the meantime. The department was informed, however, in time to pro , vent the run.

Prominent Stockmen to Talk at Purdue Meeting.

The annual meetings of the Live Stock assiciation of Indiana will be held at Purdue next week, Jan. 13 to 19, during the farmers* short course. The Indiana Sheep Breeders’ association, the Indiana Hereford Breeders* association and the Indiana Live Stock Breeders’ association, will be in session the same time, jand all will have able speakers and instructors there.

Kentland to Institute Knights of Columbus Order.

At Kentland next Sunday an order of the Knights of Columbus will be instituted. Attorney Honan, of this city, has been a member for sometime, and will go there to help in the work and to deliver an address. About sixty charter members will be taken in.

TtieETfisTheatre J H 8. ELLIS, Manager. WEEK BEGINNING Mon., Jan. 13 1 \ 1 " r " Look Who’s Coming America’s Best Popnlar Priced Show The Halton Powell Co. Conceded by press and public to be ths leader, presenting a repertoire of original comedies and dramas. Special productions of HENPECKED HENRY. PRICES 10c, and 30c Wednesday and Saturday Matinee 10c and 20c. I < Ladles Free Monday Night under I Usual Conditions.

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