Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — SAYS WE ARE IN BAD CONDITION [ARTICLE]

SAYS WE ARE IN BAD CONDITION

State Building Inspector Makes Adverse Report About Number of Things in Rensselaer. N. H. Kyser, a state building inspector, was in Rensselaer Friday and investigated a great many buildings and stated after he had finished that he finds conditions here about the worst he has encountered any place in the state. He stated that his report to the State Bureau of Inspection will roundly criticise seyeral buildings for neglect and for non-compliance with the laws that guard against fires. Although he talked freely to a citizen who reported his statements to The Republican, it is not deemed proper to report his statements until the state bureau takes action to correct the alleged bad conditions. __ L Quite a surprise was sprung here Tuesday afternoon,'when it became known that Miss Ocie Coffel, of this plase, and Leo Worland, of Rensselaer, had been married the day before in Chicago. They went to the city Sunday to attend a theatre and while there decided to get married with the intention of keeping it a secret until spring, but some of their friends hereabout discovered their names in the “marriage license list” in a Chicago paper, and telephoned the information to Miss Coffel’s parents and later .the bride eonfosacd that lt waif a fact. Miss Coffel has been in the- employ of the Francesville telephone exchange for several years where her accommodating srvices will be greatly missed by the management and the patrons. Mr. Worland is engaged in the furniture business with his father in Rensselaer, where they intend to reside—Francesville Tribune. “Don’t get gay” is the essence of an order issued to the Pennsylvania railroad company to employes. “An employe on duty,” says the order, “is forbidden to address a passenger of patron of the company as ‘friend,’ ‘stranger,’ ‘brother,’ ‘sister,’ ‘neighbor,’ or by any other term of such character. If the passenger’s name or that of the patron is not known use ‘sir’ or ‘madam.’ ” Prosecution of Armour, Moxley and other oleomargerine manufacturers to force the payment of sl,200,000 internal revenue taxes, which Commissioner of Internal Revenue Cabell asserts have been evaded, will be urged in the report of the Cox committee of the house, which recently investigated the matter. A navy recruiting office has been opened in Muncie, in charge of O. S. Nichols, chief machinist mate. The navy department is anxious to obtain a larger number of recruits from Indiana than usual this year, and will keep an. office open at Muncie as long as the demand and the enlistments justify it. The male students at Indiana university earn approximately $40,000 a year while in school, according to figures compiled by Chester Deßrular, of Garrett. Of this the university pays $19,701 this year to students who are working as assistants and teaching fellows in the various departments. Announcement was made at Laporte Thursday that the Rumley company had decided to establish its orchard tractor plant at Laporte and henceforth make these machines there Instead of In California. This will result in greatly increasing the size and capacity of the Laporte plant. The wireless operator at the U. 8. army post at Eagle, Alaska, heard the government station at Key West, Fla., 4,000 miles distant, sending a message to Mare Island Cal., * Dec. 18, according to mall advices received at Seattle. Schlesinger’s express of Chicago operates a three-ton power wagon which has run 4,000 miles without ever having been out of commission. The repair bill for the last six months was but $2.70. The Culver cadets, escort for VJce President-elect Marshall in the inaugural parade, have engaged practically the entire Ebbitt House iu Washington as their quarters for Inaugural week. '