Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1913 — Page 1

No. 29.

BARGAINS NOV In Ming and Furnishings Traub A Selig “Tli* Naw York Btor*”

WEATHER FORECAST. Snow flurries this afternoon; fair and colder tonight and Tuesday; cold wave.

Amos Alter Helped Land Big Fish in California.

Amos Alter, who with Steve Comer, is spending the winter at ' Santa Monica, Cal., wrote a letter to W. L. Wood, of Parr, last week, in which he enclosed a fish scale, which was about an inch one way and an inch and a quarter the other. Amos stated that it was from a rock bass that weighed 524 pounds. He did not catch It all by himself, but he helped another fellow pull it from the bay, which was quite an experience. Logan well knows the tendency of exaggeration indulged in by fishermen and also that it is a long ways between Rensselaer and California, but he says that he has unbounded confidence in the veracity of Amos and that the story can her relied upon as a yard wide.

Parr Creamery Man Going Into Business at Reynolds.

The Reynolds Journal. Joseph Wilson and son, of Parr, Ind., have leased the local creamery and will be prepared to receive cream February 24th. The directors have bejMi doing their utmost to start the creamery again ever since it was closed almost two years ago Mr. Wilson will move his family here in the near future. He comes well recommended and has the best wishes of the community for his success. See George F. Meyers’ list of Farms for Sale in another column.

To f Night Ellis Theatre Big Feature 7* Act Vaudeville Walt Washburn & Co, in his great racetrack playlet A 100-to-l Shot MADAME LaBELL, Mind Reader, out of the ordinary. CHAS. O’DONNELL, Magician. ■' YOUNG PUEBLO, Blakeface act. Miss NELLIE KEELEY will sing the latest popular song hits. ORPHEUM TRIO, some Harmony. Prices 10c, 20c, 30c. .Phoke 98 for reserve.

SclontHlc Spinal Adjustments Remove the cause of disease and the result wlll.be health. J.C.SHUPERT CHIROPRACTOR Over Rexal Drug Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. Office Days: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and every evening.

. Arc you troubled with your n_ Have you been Disappointed Elsewhere ? j Do not despair. Come to me. I will examine your eyes, fit yon with the glasses your eyes really need, and if yon don’t need them I will tell you so. If the print blurs mid runs together when reading; If the threading of thi, needle la more difficult, or If your eyes got red and Inflamed, it is a sure sign that eye-strain la present and should be corrected. KRYPTOK LENSES, TORIC LBNBEB, LOW BRIDGE FINGER-PIECE MOUNTING FEATURED. ... ... " ‘ ■ \ • ■ ■ -- Dr, Rose M, Remmek Phone 408 Harris Block.

The Evening Republican.

J. L. Brady Wrote Good Letter to S. S. Class.

J. X. Brady, former teacher of the Bethany Bible Class of the Christian Sunday school, wrote an in teresting letter to the class, which was Ncead Sunday by Geo. H. JMcLain, president of the elass. He explained the wideopea- condition* prevailing at Stockton, Cal., and told of the tendencies of the foreigners that compose a large amount of the population. Mr. Brady expressed the wish that members of the class write to him at Stockton.

Children Must Attend School is New Ruling.

That children must attend school “between the ages of 7 and 14 years inclusive” is the ruling handed down in an opinion by Attorney General Honan. Superintendent of Public Instruction Greathouse had asked for Interpretation of the compulsory school attendance law. The attorney general holds that children may not be taken- from school until they have reached the age of 15, thus finishing their fourteenth year. The same ruling applies to the child labor law, says the official, and they can not be permitted to work until they are fifteen. Forest Morlan, of Chicago, came home for an over Sunday visit with his parents. He reports all the Rensselaer boys getting along well. They are all rooming at Leo Colvert’s. George F. Meyers has sold to H. R. Kurrie, 39 acres of the former Monnett land, north of Rensselaer, the consideration being $6,400. In the sale of part of this land to Dr. H. L. Brown, an acre was sold out of this to Dr. Brown. The land Mr. Kurrie bought does not join his other farm, but is separated by a 40-acre tract owned by Alf Donnelly. The Northern Indiana State Rifle Association will hold its annual match on Washington’s birthday this year. The final arrangements have not been made but It is probable that the match will be held in the gymnasium at Notre Dame University at South Bend. Company M, of Rensselaer, is an affiliated organization and it is probable that a team of five will go there for the match. A little son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig is still quite sick and is under the care of a trained nurse. The physicians express the belief that the child will recover. It had been the plan of Mr. Fendig and family to leave Sunday for a trip to Brunswick, Ga., and, Tampa, Fla., and they had their reservations made for that time but the sickness of their baby prevented their going and they may now abandon the trip altogether. The cold continued throughout Saturday and Saturday night, almost reaching zero again Saturday night. Sunday it moderated considerably and snow began falling at about 8 o’clock. A mantle of about three inches of the beautiful fell evenly on the earth’s surface. Frank Kresler found that the Ice had reached 4V S inches in thickness Sunday morning. The snow of last night would prevent freezing and he used a force of men today cleaning it off. The forecast for tomorrow Is colder and it is quite probable that we will get some ice yet.

The Odd Fellows lodge will give work in the third degree Thursday evening, Feb. 6. All sojourning and resident members are' Invited to attend. FRED S. TYLER, Secretary.

COAL-COAL Call No. 4 for all sizes of hard coal; also genuine Jackson Hill and Luhrig for ranges; Pittsburg, splint, smokeless ahd Indiana for heating purposes. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. A Classified Adv. will sell it

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Notice to Odd Fellows!

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1913.

AGED REMINGTON MAN DIED SUDDENLY

Adam Fisher Passed Away at His Home Saturday After Spending Adam Fisher, aged about 80 years, father of Frank Fisher, secretary of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Coi, died very suddenly Saturday afternoon, at his home south of Remington. j n company with Frank he had spent part of the day in Remington. They returned home at about 4 p’clock. Being tired he lay down on a sofa after reaching home. At 6 o’clock he was called to supper but did not respond. Investigation proved that he was dead. He was one of the prominent pioneer farmers of Benton county. He is survived by his wife and two children, viz. Frank, of near the Shiloh church, • and Mrs. Frank Nutt, of Lochiel. The funeral was conducted at the residence Monday morning at 19 o’clock by Rev. McNary, of the M. E. church.

How Good a Cow Have You? W. S. Day Has a Dandy.

—i — W. S. Day has had many years’ experience with cows and this year has an especially good one and if there is.any better in the county or adjacent country he would like to hear about it. He writes: “Do you know whether your cow is worth keeping or not? My cow gave in January, 31 days, 1,064% pounds of milk. I have fed all the good clover hay and corn fodder she would eat and 10 pounds of porn and cob meal each day. It you have a better cow we would like to hear from you.”

Phone 273 for coal, wood And feed. Mrs.jLouis Becher made a trip to Morion today. See the new John Deere low spreader at Hamilton ft Kellner’s. Miss Hazel Woodcox is spending today in Chicago. You get the genuine Jackson Hill coal of Hamilton ft Kellner. A vaudeville company will show at the Ellis Theatre tonight. Popular prices, 10, 20 and 30c. Mrs. Delbert Beckman came from Lafayette this morning to spend a few days with Mrs. J. C. Beckman, who will leave the hospital next Saturday. Remember, trains Nos. 5 and 6 will stop at McCoysburg on Feb. 6th, so that persons desiring to go from Rensselaer can attend Michael Ringelssen’s sale; Mrs. M. C. Rumley and daughter and Mrs. Edward Kanney, of Laporte, visited at the college over Sunday with their sons, Clarence Rumley and Vincent Kanney. Miss Omah Ferguson, of Wolcott, and Miss Nellie Gulley, of Indianapolis, who Is leading the singing in a revival meeting at Wlocott, spent Saturday with Mrs. A. A. Fell. Maurice, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hammond, was 7 years of age Sunday and entertained nine little boy friends at a dinner party at the home of his parents on Forest street. Comrade James E. Flynn, who has been at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hattie F. Weaver, at Lowell, has been sick since January 2nd with pneumonia. He is now slowly recovering. Abe Martin says: ‘Tell Binkley says o’ all th’ labor savin’ devices a good stout wife is th’ best.. Th’ world mgy he gittin’ better, but you don’t see any cash register factories closin’ down. The Elysian Club will give a ball at the armory tonight. The decorations used at the smoker last Wednesday night will remain until after this dance, which will be the last before the advent of Lent.

Mr. # and Mrs. Blanchard Elmore came' over from Remington this morning and went to Chicago on the 10:12 train to attend the automobile show. Mr. Elmore, who recently sold his garage business In Remington, will work this year as a special representative for the Richmond Automobile Co., whose local agpnt he had been for several years. A postal card from Mrs. M. E. Corliss, of Belair, Md., states that they have been enjoying real Florida weather there. The boxwood and laurel is green and the temperature mild. She adds; “Nature has done everything for this country but the people are not very ambitious. This town Is not well kept like Rensselaer.” - ... A Classified Adv. win Mil it

STERNBERG & SONS TO DREDGE IROQUOIS

Big Contract Went For 6.90 Cents a Yard, Which is .6 Cent Below EstiniatedOdst. - Charles Sternberg ft Sons will dredge the lower Iroqhois river, having bid in the contract last Saturday afternoon after a sharp bidding contest with J. J. Lawler, the wealthy Chicago stockman and Jasper county landowner. Mr. Law-' ler is not a dredge man but he was assessed about $8,500 for the construction of this ditch and his object in bidding so closely is said to have been for the purpose of reducing his assessment and his action will have the effect of saving in the same proportion all who are assessed for the construction. About thirty dredging firms were represented at the letting, although a number of them did not bid and several did not even qualify by putting up a certified check for $5,000. Several dredge men came here and went over the line of the ditch and when they found that Sternberg ft Son had a big dredge already in the river, decided that the handicap was too great for them to bid against. Sternberg & Son built the hipper construction and when it was done left their dredge boat in the river in anticipation of this job. The excavation yardage, as estimated by the engineer in making the specifications is 1,611,741 The estimated cost was 6.5 cents per yard, which would make the total cost $104,763.16. Since the ditch went for 5.9 cents a yard, the total cost will be $95,086.82, or $9,676.34 less than the estimated cost. This saving can be attributed to Mr. Lawler, as all other bidders quit when the estimate was reached, Horton & Mosely having made the bid of 6.52. After that time only Sternberg and Lawler continued the bidding and gradually the price was whittled down a tenth of a mill at a time, until Sternberg bid 5.9, when Lawler quit and the sale was closed. A tenth of a mill meant a saving of $161.17, and a mill meant $1,611,74, and other dredge jnen said that the contract was sold too low. Mr. Sternberg felt somewhat the same way about it but he probably has it figured out that there is a profit in it at the price for which it was taken. The sixteen companies making bids were: The Hummer Construction Co., The Horton ft Mosely Co., the Timithy Foohey Co., the Sullivan Construction Co., John J. Lawler, D. H. Yeoman, the Northern Construction Co., the Wolcott Dredge Co., Sweet ft Thomas, Dilley ft Berdine, Clyde A. Walb, Chas. Sternberg ft Sons, H. E. Rosebrook & Co., Fred C. Morgan, De Poy ft Enyart and the Rensselaer Dredging Co. Other dredging companies represented at the letting but not making bids were: E. B. Thomas, Royal Center, Ind. Gilmore Bros., Toledo, Ohio. Clyde A Walb, Lagrange, Ind. D. T. Dilley, Hebron, Ind Will Brown, Hebron, Ind. C. Y. Oyan, Valparaiso, Ind. The Spankle Co., Ft Wayne, Ind. M. J. O’Meara, Cullom, 111. John Hack ft Son., Lowell, Ind. Tripp ft DeYault Grgpnview, 111. Engle Bros., Monterey, Ind. John McMann, Goshen, Ind There were also several supply men here, including J. A Ghetty, the hustling representative of the American Steel Dredge Co., of Ft. Wayne; J. E. Marbaugh, of Monterey, representing the Fairbanks Steam Shovel Co.; C- 8. Kehler, of the Puritan Coal Co.; E. J. Sarber. of the Leashins Rope Co., St. Louis; and G. J. Tompkins, of the Trenton Iron Works. Mr. Sternberg talked with a reporter for The Republican after he had bid in the job. He said that he will begin as soon as the weather is suitable to enlarge and repair his, dredge. The dredge as it stands now cost about $19,000, and to equip it for the work it Is now to do will require an expenditure of about SB,OOO more. The boat, which is 90 feet long, will be lengthened 20 feet and its width increased from 35 to 45 feet. The bank spuds will be taken off and vertical spuds erected in the center of the front part of the boat The boom will be lengthened from 70 to 86 feet. The dipper, which is of 2 Y» yards capacity, will be used without alteration, except to be attached to the longer boom. The ditch Is required to be completed within two years from the time construction Is begun and Mr. Sternberg is of the opinion that this time will be ro qnired. The specifications for the three laterals do not require so great width, but Mr. Sternberg will make the laterals of the same, width as the main ditch If the land owners and superintendent will consent. This will permit him to

Centen Preparation? For the beginning of Lent we have made special preparation with a splendid line of food products. . No one knows the season’s demands better than we, and the entire period will be supplied with new arrivals of just the things you want. Particularly we have — HOLLAND HERRING * SMOKED WHITE FISH SLICED HERRING COD FISH SMOKED HERRING FISH FLAKES SMOKED SALMON CANNED SALMON SMOKED BLOATERS SARDINES A Full Line of Cheese The Home Grocery JOHN H. RAMP, Proprietor The Catholic Grocer

Elysian Club Dance a ————— Armory Tonight Music: Piano, Drums Saxophone The last dance before Lent No invitations. . Everybody cone. Fair Oaks and Parr Grades Held a Spelling Contest At Parr last Friday evening the 7th and Bth grades of the Parr and Fair Oaks schools* held a spelling contest, which resulted in a tie.Then a general spelling contest was held to find out wh& was the best speller in the house. Miss Wilma Peyton was first, with Mrs. Marlon Gant a close second. Feb. sth is the date of John W. Nowels’ farm and stock sale, 2 miles north and 2 miles west of Rensselaer.

use the same dredge Otherwise a smaller dredge would have to be used in making the laterals. As the ditches would be much better constructed on the wider plan, he hopes to get the consent of the taxpayers to make this change. The route of the ditch is through George Ade’s Hazeldon farm and Mr. Ade was allowed damages amounting to S3OO on one forty-acre tract. The sale will have to be approved by Judge Hanan and he will probably receive the report of the superintendent, Myrt B. Price, Thursday of this week. This Improvement was originally petitioned for by Carey L. Carr, oe al, and that petition was defeated by remonstrance. That was about five years ago. Soon thereafter J. C." Borntrager, who then owned a farm southwest of town, headed a petition and it was attacked by remonstrators, who sought every means of delay. Attorney George A. Williams represented the petitioners and about all the other attorneys were lined up against the ditch. Aside from securing some modifications in assessments the opposition accomplished nothing, and after giving notice of their intention to carry the suit decided by Special Judge Hanan into the supreme court, the remonstrators suddenly withdrew their opposition and the contract letting followed within thirty days. The estimated benefits to be derived from the digging of this ditch are about $145,000. That it will reclaim a great amount of hitherto waste land and vastly improve thousands of qther acres is a sure result that evQd 'the remonstrators conceded. It is the effect of these big dredges that has made our farm lands almost double in value within seven years. The benefits have far exceeded the most sanguine claims of the petitioners and this will doubtless be the result In this case. T

Grand Opening OF O * / Spring and ~~: “ ' " y, ; • Summer Woolens V ■ /* Wednesday and Thursday Feb, 5 and 6 Mr, O, A, Lucas of Kahn Bros, Tailors, of Louisville, will be here with a full line of Spring and Summer Samples and will be pleased to take your order and measure, o H. B. Tuteur

Ellis Theatre J. H. 8. ELLIS, Manager. ONE NIGHT ONLY Saturday, Feb. 8 Mr. TOM GREELY presents the old-time favorite comedy Side Tracked With Five Big Vaudeville Acts — DON’T FORGET DAT AMD DATE PRICES 26c, 35c, 60c. OaU Phone No. 98 lor Swum

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