Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1913 — Page 1

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A TOUCH OF SPRING IN THE AIR . Have you noticed the bright sunny mornings that we are now having? It means that Spring is on her way. It creates the desire in a man to “spruce up” a bit, and to feel and look his best And this is the best place to buy your new Spring CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS y TVAUB A SELIO: “The Haw York Story”

OBJECTED TO FATHER GETTING MARRIED

Children of Michael Schults Start Action to Have Him Declared of Unsound Mind. Seven children of Michael Schultz, of Union® township, Monday signed a petition filed in the circuit court, asking that their father be adjudged of unsound mind and that a guardian be appointed. Mr. Schultz is 81 years of age and it is said the action was started at this time to prevent him from getting married. According to reports M v . Schultz was to be married Monday to a Crown Point woman and' she came here to meet him and procure the license. The activity of the children* however,.stopped the proceedings and the old gentleman did not get to meet the woman. It is reported that she was met by one of the children and sent back to Crown Point and the old man taken back to his home in Union township.

Aged Union Township Man Broke Ankle Bone Monday.

James Burns, aged about 70 years, and an old resident of Union township, had the misfortune to severely sprain one of his ankles and to break one of the small bones in it Monday evening. He had been hauling hay and slipped off the ■load, lighting feet first, but striking the hard ground so forcibly that the injury resulted. It will lay him up for some time.

Mother Can Safely Buy Dr. King’s New Discovery and give it to the little ones when ailing and suffering with colds, coughs, throat or lung troubles, tases nice, harmless, once used, always used. Mrs. Bruce Crawford, Niagra, Mo., writes: “Dr. King’s New Discovery changed our, boy from a pale weak sick boy to the picture of health.” Always helps. Buy it at A. JF. Long’s, Druggist.

New Depot Restaurant HOME-MADE BREAD HOME-MADE PIES AND DOUGHNUTS Lunches, Short Orders, Confections, Cigars, Etc. Orders taken for Rolls, Oakes, Etc., for parties. ROOMS, 50c. Mrs. LURA PENNEL

TheEllisTheatre J. H. 8. ELLIS, Manager. THREE NIGHTS, COMMENCING Thurs., Feb. 20 Mr. F. S. Gordon Presents The Gordon Players OPENING PLAY “Tit tbt Bishop’s Carriage” A four-act dramatization of the famous novel. Pull of comedy, pathos and thrills. Each play fully equipped with special scenery and electrical effects. Singing and dancing specialties between acta Not a dull moment during the evening. With each ticket goes a personal guarantee from Mr. Gordon and your local manager of satisfaction or money refunded. We give you more for your money than any company on the road. Ladies Free Opening Night Note-%A lady will be admitted free on the opening night If accompanied by a paid reserved seat ticket if purchased at the advance sale before seven o’clock. One paid ticket will admit a lady and gentleman or two ladles. PBIOBS Ue-tfoNe. For Reserve Call Mis Theatre Phone N.

The Evening Republican.

SHOOTS YOUTH TO HER AVENGE SISTER

Hartford City School Teacher Probably Fatally Wounds Drug Clerk at Muncie. Declaring that he was responsible for the downfall of her younger sister, Miss Doris Underwood, aged 21, a teacher in the public schools at Hartford City, shot and probably fatally injured Otis Fisher, aged 20, a clerk employed in the Nichols drug' store at Muncie Monday evening. Miss Underwood went to Muncie after her school closed in the afternoon. Walking into the drug store, shortly before 7 o’clock, she began a conversation with Fisher relative to her sister’s condition. Fisher asked her to step to the rear of the store and they went behind the prescription case. Fred White, one of the prorpietors of the store, says he overheard the two quarreling and ordered sh« young woman to leave the store. “Just give us five minutes more,’’ pleaded the young woman. White stepped from behind the prescription case and had only gone a few feet when he heard the report of a revolver. Running back behind the case White found Fisher lying on the floor and the young woman was standing near with the revolver in her hand. White took the gun away from her and Edward Tuhey, son of Mayor Tuhey, who happened into the store at the tiffYe, took the young woman to the police station. There the young woman told a sad story to the police officers. She said that, since her mother’s death, several years ago, she had been acting the part of a mother to her younger sister, Ada, 18 years old, who is attending the Muncie Normal Institute. Miss Underwood said Fisher had been calling on her sister for some time, and, a few days ago, she said, she learned that he had ruined the girl’s life. “I asked him to straighten out the matter and he put me off,” declared the young woman, in concluding her story to the prosecutor.

Fisher was rushed to the city hospital, where it was found the bullet had entered his breast and lodged in the right shoulder. Fisher was able to' relate the incidents surrounding the shooting and admitted that he had been keeping company with the younger Underwood girl. At 9 o’clock his condition appeared to be growing weaker and physicians expressed doubt as to his recovery. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher. The young woman who did the shooting has been teaching school in Hartford City for a number of years and is prominent there. She was given a high recommendation by Trustee Ruraley.

It might he well at this time to issue a note of warning about whooping cough and measles. Some persons treat them as too trivial and do not try to keep their children, especially the very small ones, from contracting the diseases. Especially with the very young is whooping' cough dangerous and sometimes fatal, while it is not uncommon for measles to be accompanied with pneumonia during the winter Parents should not wantonly lead their children into exposure and no one who has the disease or who has left a house where the disease is should visit the home of persons who have not had it without first making certain that they can not transmit it, for in so doing one might unwittingly convey the messenger of death and have much cause for a stricken conscience.

Some of the features of the RC-H car are most axle clearance of any car, WSraer auto-meter, tally-ho horn, center control, automatic sparker, straight line drive shaft, Bosch magneto, non-skid tires. Jiffy And best of all, the car is sold for 9900, fully equip pea. This price includes everything. You do not buy the car and then have to spend two or three hundred dollars before you are ready to take a trip. If Interested ask John Knapp, the local agent, for a free demonstration.

Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind piles have yielded to Doan’s Ointment 60c at all stores.

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Sam Stevens has just completed a checker game started the first of last December. His opponent was Isaac C. F. Bentley, of Dayton, Ohio, and an expert at correspondence checkers. He is also a fine player at short range and last Sunday won the tournament at Dayton, Ohio, and is regarded the champion of that city.. Last December Sam began a correspondence game with. Bentley and the game has been going on since that time. Each spread a board and the moves were mhde by correspondence. Stevens would make a play and report the fSct by card to Bentley, who would make his move and reply by card or letter. The acknowledgement of Bentley’s defeat came today In a long letter, which shows that Mr. Bentley is a real sportsman and a good loser, for he acknowledged an error in having authorized a move designated 30-26, when she should have said 31-26. This move cost him the game and he eo acknowledged in his letter. The players are carrying on three other games simultaneously and have now started another to take the place of the one completed. Bentley has gone in strong for correspondence checkers and has stationery printed with his picture at the top and his profession, that of being a correspondence checker player, printed beneath his name. He is also a writer and an instructor in penmanship.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, IMS.

MUSTARD DEFEATED IN OLIVER LIEN CASE

Suit on Mechanic's Lien Decided Last Saturday. in Favor of :Uefendant Ed Oliver. The mechanics’ lien suit begun soon after the street fracas between Ed Oliver, the Newland farmer, and Marshal George Mustard, was heard last Saturday before Special Judge Wason, of Delphi. Thorsten Otterberg was a partner with Mustard in the building of Oliver’s bam and joined him in the lien proceedings. Oliver held that the job was not completed and that the contractors were to put a roof on the silo. The contractors claimed that they were not to do that, and filed the lien. Judge Wason heard the evidence and decided that the lien was not justifiable and that Oliver had paid all that was coming to the contractors for the work completed. The decision will -stick Mustard and Ot* terberg for the court costs, as well as the costs of their own attorney. The amount involved was only about S6O.

Completed Checker Game Started First of Last December.

A Little Pig Story From Horatio Ropp’s Experience.

Last October 11th two sows belonging to Horatio Ropp gave birth to 24 pigs. He saved 22 of them. He saved four and has just sold the other 18 and for which he received the splendid price of $137.64, the pigs weighing 1,480 pounds. He still has the sows and four of the young pigs. Horatio is frank to admit that the farmer is right in clover in the matter of pigs. Alpha Christley was in from Jordan township today. He held a big sale last Wednesday, conducted by Clark & Travis, of Lafayette. The sale totaled about $6,000 and he got some mighty fancy prices. Ten head of cows, mostly Jerseys, brought up to SSO. One mare-brought $240 and another $217.50. Alpha Bold his saddle horse and after the sale learned that his wife had secretly rebough it, paying the man who bid it in a profit of $4. Mr. Christley has a farm of 240 acres, which he bought seven years ago, paying $65 per acre for it The farm is now for sale at $l5O per acre and if it don’t sell tolerably soon he will raise the price of it He expects to visit in the southwest this year, expecting to get down as far as Houston, Texas, and may invest in that country. He will be able to say during the rest of his life that Jasper county was good to him, for he has doubled the value of all investments during seven years.

Our fish department is complete with all kinds of smoked halibut salmon, finnan haddies, bloaters and herring; spiced herring and sardines; salt mackerel, herring and lake fish. JOHN EGER. Phone 95 for the best eating and cooking apples. Ail varieties at 30c per peck. ROWLES A PARKER. Make your chickens lay by feeding them mixed wheat and buckwheat only iy*e a pound, at John Eger’s.

DIVORCE PROCEEDING ATTRACTS ATTENTION

Homer La kin Charged With Turkey Stealing by Wife in Action for Divorce From Husband. The suit brought by Mrs. Homer Lakin for divorce from her husband has attracted a large crowd to the court house. It began Monday and looks like it will continue over today. Special Judge Cunningham, of Kentland, is hearing the case. During the course of the wlaintiff’s testimony she stated that during their married life he stole chickens and turkeys, dressed them and shipped them to Chicago. She also told of his bringing a party of friends to the house to play poker and drink beer and said that when she cofaplained at the beer bottles strewn about the floor the next morning he took the shotgun and told’her that if she told anything about it he would kill her. He has been on the witness stand a considerable part of today and a large number of witnesses from Union township have been summoned to testify on one or the other- sides of the case, while the court room is well filled with witnesses.

Whooping Cough Causes Death Of a Two-Month-Old Baby.

Charibtte, 2 months-and 2 days old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Will Barkley, died at 12:30 o’clock this Tuesday morning of strangulation, caused by a violent paroxism of coughing. The child has had the whooping cough for the past three weeks and some of its coughing spells have been very severe. During the night the attack came and the parents realized that it was very severe and called for their family physician, who responded With all haste. When he arrived the baby was over the coughing spell but lay unconscious and although there was a faint beating of the heart the spark of life was soon spent despite every effort to revive it. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Barkley residence on Franklin street, being conducted by Rev. J. C. Parrctt, of the Presbyterian church. | Owing to the fact that death U[as caused by a contagion the funeral will be private. Burial will be at Weston cemetery.

Ministers Preached Sermons Against Card Party Prises.

Rensselaer ministers Sunday devoted parts of their sermons to a criticism of the custom of giving prizes at card parties. It is well known that during recent years cards have constituted the chief amusement at parties and clubs among both ladies and gentlemen in Rensselaer. It has been the custom at many' of the parties to give simple and Inexpensive awards. The ministers hold that this is a bad example to hold up before the young and that it causes intense rivalry that encourages cheating and falsifying. In justice to the people who have given parties and prizes let us say that we are sure they have never considered themselves contributing to delinquency and in justice to the ladies and gentlemen who have participated as contestants let us say that we believe they are for the most part actuated by a sense of entertainment and have not considered the possibility of the prize w,jth the greed essential to deception and cheating. That the practice was harprigsß as followed we feel certain and yet it is something that there might be a difference of opinion about and it is probable that hereafter prize giving will he discontinued in deference ter the wishes of the ministers.

No Need to Stop Work When the doctor orders you to stop work it staggers you, I can’t you say. You know you are weak, run down and failing in health day by day, but you must work as long as you can stand. What you need is Electric Bitters to give tone, strength and vigor to your system, to prevent break-down and build you up., Don’t be weak, sickly or ailing when Electric Bitters will benefit you from the first dose Thousands bless them for their glorious health and strength. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only 50c at AF. Long’s, Druggist The nicest large eating potatoes in the city, 15c peck. ROWLES A PARKER Something new to see in the spreader line is the Emerson LowDown, at Warner Bros.

BUTTER FACTORY TO START APRIL 1

W. H. Dexter Plans to Make Rensselear His Main Receiving Cream Station. W. H. Dexter, the Chicago cream buyer and butter manufacturer, who for years received most of the cream purchased at the Rensselaer station, was in Rensselaer Monday and conferred with his local manager, W. E. Harris, about starting his butter factory here The old Maloy brick building at the Main street crossing of the Monon railroad will be utilized for the factory. The building was" purchased two years ago by Mr. Dexter and was used by him as a receiving station for cream for some time. Later the room was abandoned when the down town receiving station was acquired by Mr. Dexter. He has completed the arrangements for in stalling machinery and expects to start the making of butter by the first of April The local receipts of cream will be used at the beginning but within a month it is planned to have the cream purchased at the Remington, Monon, Lee, Delphi, Brookston, Parr, Surrey and Wolcott stations shipped here and to make from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds of butter per day. The local trade will be supplied and the balance shipped to Chicago, where Mr. Dexter has a large business established. The factory will run every day and a force of five men will be required to run it. It is quite probable that the down town receiving station will be abandoned after the factory is started.

Justice and Constable Took A Hand in Saturday Wedding.

Squire Bussell performed a wedding ceremony last»%turday evening of a young couple at his justice parlors in Hanging Grove township. -The groom was Wiley Haskins, 17 years of age, whose home was at Seafleld, White county. The bride was Blanche Harper, daughter of Edward Harper, of Barkley township, and was only 16 years old. In order to get the youthful groom into a filial state of mind Squire Bussell found it necessary to dispatch a special constable after him, and he used Harry Cochran for the purpose. Haskins was found at his home and accompanied the constable to the squire’s office, where he expressed his willingness to marry the girl, and the squire accompanied him to town to get the license. The bride’s delicate condition prevented her coming. The ceremony was then performed and Mr. and Mrs. Haskins left for Seafleld, from whence news of a young Haskins is expected at almost any time.

Five Eelipses Scheduled For the Tear 1913.

There will be five eclipses in the year 1913—three of the sun and two of the moon. The first is a total eclipse of the moon, March 21-22. The moon being on the equator and In Perigee; the magnitude of this eclipse is about 1.5 of the moon’s diameter.

No. 2 is a partial eelipse of the sun April 7; the moon is two degrees north of the equator and in Apogee. No. 3 is a partial eelipse of the sun August 31; the moon is on the equator and in Perigee. No. 4 is a total eelipse of the moon, September 14-15; the moon will be south of the equator and In Apogee. No. 5 is a partial eclipse of the sun, September 30; the moon will be forty degrees north of the equator and in Perigee. Four eclipses are also predicted for the year 1914, two of the sun and two of the moon.

Dr. King’s Now Discovery Soothes irritated throat and lungs, stops chronic and hacking cough, relieves tickling throat tastes nice Take no other; once used, always used. Buy it at A. 7. Long's, Druggist

Rensselaer Cement Tile Co. n Has a complete line Cement I Tile ready for shipment. I | Would be glad to quote you prices either at the factory, the Trust & Savings Bank, or C. C. Spltler & Co.’s offlo*. ■I »■■ ■■■■■ I I 111 ■■III

WEATHER FORECANT. Fair and warmer tonight; Wednesday unsettled.

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