Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1913 — Page 1

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A SPECIAL LETTER

Rensselaer, Indiana, March, 1913. To Our Friends and the Public in General: x , We wish to let you men and young men (who are our friends and also those who still have our acquaintance to make) know that we have now on display in our store, a beautiful and complete line of new Spring Suits, in all colors and fabrics, consisting ' of new shades of blues, br-oWns. tans, greys, mixtures and stripes: * The models are of the newest designs, smart and snappy styles for the younger fellows and more conservative ones for the older men. Every suit is guaranteed all pure wool, and the prices at which we sell them are so low that it will astonish you when you see them. Don’t fail to tell your friends about them and don’t fail to come in yourself and look ’em over. Also the newest and l?est in Spring Hats and Caps, as well as all other furnishings for men and young men. Our prices, as you well know, are the lowest in town. Very truly, yours, TRAUB & SELIG.

BENEFIT FOR JEFFERSON CLUB Rex Theatre TU N MSt Y ..A ■ ■■■■■ , BURCH’S ORCHESTRA PICTURES: “His Hired Dress Suit” — Comedy. “Love and Circumstances”— Western Drama. ADMISSION IO CENTS

A. Leopold Left Germany Just 63 Years Ago.

Asked this morning if he knew Anything new, A. Leopold, the former merchant and largest owner of city real estate, replied: “I know that I left Germany just 63 yearn ago today.” He then gave a brief sketch of his life from the time he left He sailed from Havre, France, making the trip I 'to New York City in 18 days, which was the fastest time a sail boat could make. He only remained in New York a few days and then went to Philadelphia, thence to Pittsburg, remaining several months in each place. He next came to Cincinnati, where he remained 3 years. From there he went to LaPorte, Ind., and then to Rock Island, 111., remaining almost three years at each place. He then went to lowa City, lowa, remaining there almost two years. He returned to Chicago and then came to Francesville,, where he spent about a year. His next move brought him to Rensselaer and his judgment told him to “seek no farther.” He has resided in Rensselaer for half a century and has prospered abundantly.

Have you noticed the new electric lighting system of the R-C-H car sold by John Knapp? The cars are equipped with 12-inch Bullet electric head lights and double parabolic lens, and 6-inch Bullet electric side lights with parabolic lens.

The EHi sTheatre J. H. 8. EXiIiXS, Manager. MATINEE AND NIGHT Sat., Mar. 29 W. Offers the 4-Act * Comedy-Drams , Che Convict millionaire By CARLOS INBKEEP During Acts : 3 and 4 specialties will be introduced by Miss Line ceon an’d Mr. DeKalb. Prices, Matinee—loc and 20c. Might—2Bc, 35c and 50c. Tor reserve call Xllis Theatre, Phone 98. - *»

The Evening Republican.

Willard Shields Injured . In Wind Storm at Wabash.

Willard F. Shields, of Wabash, was quite severely hurt during the windstorm last Friday. The PlainDealer of Wabash gives the following account of the accident, which took place at the George Barcus plant:' “At the Wabash Foundry & Machine company’s factory, on south Carroll street, five men, accompanied by George Barcus, went up on the building to keep the tin roof from blowing away, about seven o’clock this morning, when suddenly a severe gust of wind came along and lifted the portion of tin upon which Willard Shields was standing, hurling him down upon the roof force that he was rendered unconscious and rolling him up with the tin roof, only the side of the building keeping the tin with its human weight from falling to the ground. Seeing their fellow workman’s plight, the other men. hurried to his side and after unrolling the tin roof, under which the man was buried, they immediately removed him to the office, where, after working with him for some time, he was finally brought back to consciousness. It is expected that he will recover entirely in a few days, providing he has npt been injured internally.” A letter received from Mrs. Shields in which The Semi-Weekly Republican was ordered sent to them, states that Willard’s back and right side are injured and that they cannot tell how long he will be unable to work.

Former Trinity Pastor Taking Trip in the South.

Rev. T. F. Drake, formerly pastor of Trinity M. E. church here, is now taking a trip through the south, and the Winamac Democrat-Jour-nal of last week published an interesting letter lronrhim, written from Tarpon Springs, Fla., where he said it was “just like good old summer time, with the mercury 104 in the sun, -but there is plenty of shade aqd a nice breeze blows most of the time." Mrs. Drake is with her husband.'He describes a boat trip from Tampa, Fla.', to Mobija Ala. From Mobile he went by rail to New Orleans. Mr. Drake gave Interesting descriptions of the points of interest he visited. v „ * - " , :' f . . •» yf f J The Richmond high school wireless telegraph-class of twenty, members is arranging with the Indianapolis Manual Training pupils to establish a Hne between the two schools. A Classified Adv. -#lll tent it.

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New Bara Wrecked South of> DeMotte and Considerable Damage Near Town of Kersey. Frank E. Lewis, of Kersey, was in town today and informs us that the wind did considerable damage Sunday night in the north end of the county. A new barn belonging to a man named Lagarines, a mile and a half south oTDeMotte, was blown down and wrecked. A 4-room unoccupied house on the H, C. Zimmerman farm, one-half mile south of Kersey, was blown down. The house was partially filled with grain. Two large haystacks 6n the same farm were blown down. The owner, H. C. Z,immerman, lives at Ottawa, Hi. A barn on the Andrew Kline farm, south of Kersey, was badly damaged, being broken in two right at the middle. A hen house on the same farm was torn entirely down. The old school house at Kersey, which was recently abandoned, was twisted about on its foundation. Reports of the Friday storm continue to come in. A large corn crib on F. M. Parker’s farm, northeast of Rensselaer, was lifted partly off the foundation and suffered considerable damage.

Rapid Construction of New Barbershop Building.

The flfcst of last week Van Wood, who has a barbershop near the old depot location, decided to build himself a shop and today he moved into it. That is about the most rdpid piece of construction of a business block we have any knowl edge of. The building is a neat frame structure, located just south of the Remley restaurant. It was erected especially for a barbershop and is well lighted and convenient. The carpenter work was done by Julius Taylor and George Heuson. Van was uncertain what effect the removal of the depot location would have on his business, but he has stayed at the old stand and has built up a good and permanent trade and his good workmanship has caused it to stick with him, and he now feels safe in building a shop of his own. With the starting of the creamery there Van expects the trade to pick up considerably. Another improvement in that neighborhood will be the -erection by Jim Snedeker of a business building on the corner where Van’s shop formerly was and when it is completed he will move his grocery store from across the railroad. It looks like the old depot business section is going to hold its own, notwithstanding the removal of the depot.

Temperance Paper Will Be. Printed at Winamac Hereafter.

Winamac DemocrabJournal. Dr. W. L. Overholser and Foster Riddick this week purchased the newspaper known as “Clean Politics,” which has been published at Indianapolis, and will move the fixtures to Winamac and continue its publication here. The paper will be at the Republican office and will be a 6-column folio in size. It is a prohibition paper and is intended to circulate throughout the United States. The. circulation, which has at times been up to 80,000, is now about 13,000. The new publishers will dhange the name of the sheet to “Get Together,” and will attempt through Its columns to unite the varlbus factions of the prohi party into a formidable power for the elimination of the liquor business. An editor will b& hired to take charge of the business. The parties who have been publishing the paper were on the verge of bankrutcy and Dr. Overholser was able to get control of the business for q small figure: The first Issue will be pripted In Winamac will be dated April 3. Very often a visitor arrives in town whom The Republican does not hear about and whose friends would like to know was here. Some time persons visited tire reluctant to inform the paper about their guests. Very.often some one says to the reporter: “I had a notion to telephone you about a visitor we entertained last week, but hated to do iti” No one should feel that way about it. We want to publish all the news and must depend upon our friends to help us out. We often are plaeed under great obligations to some persons for furnishing us items of news. The school board at Richmond has issued a statement showing that If all the teachers who had served twenty years or more In the nubile schools of that city would retire on pensions, It Hrould cost the city $15,070 annually.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1913.

STORM DESTRUCTIVE IN NORTH JASPER

IROQUOIS AGAIN OUT OF ITS BANKS

Easter Rain Storm Brought Flood That is Greatest Since the River Was Dredged. • The weatherman-throughout the central states forecasted clear weather for Sunday. The Indianapolis forecaster, apparently confident that good weather was going to rule, said that if it rained he would not come back to the office for a week. But the weathermen were mistaken. It rained from eajly morning until late at night with but little relaxation. The result is swollen streams, washed out culverts and almost impassable roads and streets. In the northeast part of Rensselaer the water surrounds some twenty-five or thirty houses, overflows the sidewalks and people have been compelled to improvise methods of getting out of their homes. The entirely inadequate Make-em-Self sewer soon became overflowed and the water stands in places at a depth of from 18 inches to 2 feet. The sewer underlies what was for many years an open ditch and after it was laid the ditch was filled up and the surplus water has no means of escape until this sewer can carry it away. The force of the water in the sewer was so great that the sewer broke out on top near the Charles Pullin property on the street leading to the cemetery and helped to flood that section of town. This would have occurred, from the river, which is out of its bounds in that section and has backed up entirely across the cemetery street and sidewalk. The water is higher than it had been since before the dredge improvement transferred the Iroquois river into a ditch, but it lacks almost or quite two feet of reaching the high water mark of former years. Louis Ramp, who works at the Donnelly Planing Mill, states that the water is not so high by two feet as it was a time pr two prior to the dredging of the river. *r Many cellars In Rensselaer are flooded, even in parts of the" town where the surface drainage has worke# perfectly. A resident of the east part town called The Republican to suggest that “beautiful Rensselaer” will be an impossibility until some adequate drainage system is instituted. He says that it would be vastly better to run big sewer drains down several parallel streets leading from the flooded districts on the east side than to spend money on bricking Cullen street. That this drainage should be given attention without delay is apparent to any one who has visited the east side since this storm. Dr. E. N. Loy’s garage is surrounded by watgr, but he fortunately did not have his car in the building. His residence is on the river bank just below the College street bridge. The houses on Austin avenue, west of the river, which were generally flooded during the old days before the drainage, are still a foot or more above the water. The river raised 'about 6 inches since morning, and the rain, which has continued since 9 o’clock th!9 morning, may cause it to raise still further, although the forecast is for cloudy weather tonight and clear tomQrrow. The current is very swift and tne water will recede rapidly when it gets started. The Republican could get into communication with no one living near the Burk or Pullins bridges, north of town, but it is understood that both are impassible and that the approaches are under water. A report reached town to the effect that a team got down in an effort of its driver to cross the Burk bridge and was rescued with difficulty. Telephone wires are down ,in many places in the country. The Western Union is entirely cut off from all connections and Miss Spaulding, the operator, has been unable to communicate with any other places today. The storm is general and much damage Is reported by the morning papers. At Terre Haute several per sons were killed Sunday night at about 10 o’clock and many others injured. A washout at Terhune, near Indianapolis, caused the delay of the northbound trains and No. 32, due here at 10:12, did not arrive until 3 o’clock this afternoon. George S. Smith last week contracted the sale of his 5-acre , tract at the north edge of town £o John P. and Elizabeth McCord, brother and sister. The price paid is $1,600. Mr. Smith bought the place from an old gentleman named Carr and Improved it by the addition of two rooms and a porch to the house. He paid $l,lOO for It. Mr. Smith has not made an investment so far and may decide to leave Rensselaer and hunt another location. >

MAKES HORSEPOWER THE BASIS OF TAX

New Auto Law Will Go Into Effeet July First—ss Per Tear for a 2'5-Horsepower Car. After July 1 owners of automobiles in Indiana will have to pay. an annual license fee ranging from $5 to S2O, the amount depending on the horsepower of the machine, instead of a $1 registration fee good for all time as provided under, the old law. The chauffeur will be required to pay an annual fee of $2 for a license, which will be issued to him ohly after he has passed an examination to be conducted by examiners employed by the secretary of state. No person less than 18 years old will be licensed as a chauffeur. An annual fund of several thousand dollars will be raised under the new automobile law. The money will be paid by the secretary of the state into the state treasury. The state treasurer will set apart ali license money as a road fund, which, less the expense of carrying out the provisions of the law, will be distributed among the several counties. The money will be used by the counties for-the maintenance of roads. Secretary of State Ellingham is receiving daily inquiries as to the details of the new law. While ail automobiles and chauffeurs must be licensed by July 1, no license fees will be collected until the governor issues a proclamation, expected between April 15 and May 1, declaring all the acts of the recenMegislature to be in effect. The new law provides that all registrations shall to expire on Dec. 31 of each year. All registrations applied for in 1913 shall be prorated in proportion To the number of months included between the first day of the month in which any such registration was applied for and Dec. 31. Thereafter such registration issued prior to August 1 of any year shall be charged for at fuU rate. Any registration issued after August 1 of each year shall be charged at onehalf the regular rate. The new annual license fees will be as follows: Motorcycles, $2; automobiles, twenty-five horsepoiver or less, $5; automobiles, forty horsepower or less and more than twen-ty-five, |8; automobiles, fifty horsepower or less and more than forty, sls; automobiles, more than fifty horsepower, S2O; electric-propelled vehicles, $3; motor Vehicles used solely for commercial purposes, $5. Manufacturers and dealers will receive a general distinctive number plate upon the payment of a $25 fee, and they will receive duplicate number plates at $1 each. After July 1 only state licenses, all of which will be issued by the secretary of state, will be required. No city will be allowed to charge a city license fee. The new law provides heavy penalties for the driver of a machine causing injury to any person, due to his culpability, if he leaves the scene of accident without giving the injured person his name and address and the number of his license, or reporting the same information to a policeman or to the nearest police station.

DREDGE CABINS WERE BLOWN OVER

Half Dozen Employes of Rensselaer Dredging Company Have Very Rough Experience. * The two cabins that go with tho dredge operating on the Powers ditch, northwest of Tefft, and belonging to the Rensselaer Dredging Co., B. D. Comer, and others, were blown over at about 2:30 o’clock this Monday morning and the or cupants had a narrow escape and all were'given a ducking. The names of the occupants could not pc learned, but from Trustee Shircr, of Kankakee township, we learr. that one of the occupants wa* slightly injured. The sleeping cabin is two stories high and one of the occupants stated that he felt the boat give a lurch and he got a match and struck it and was reach Ing for a lamp when another gust of wind hit the boat broadside ami pitched it over. There was some lively scrambling and the pants were com pel led'to- climb out of the windows on the upper aidof the overturned cabin. They had trouble in getting enough clothing $o cover them and all were well drenched. The Kankakee river is out of its banks all along, the water being higher than It has been for years.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Bain Monday; much colder tonight; Tuesday probably rain and much colder; shifting gales.

NEEDS REPUBLICAN IN RIVERSIDE, CAL. J. M. Burns Writes in Renewing Subscription—Fruit Suffered Severe Injury From Cold. Riverside, Cal., March 18, 1913. Edijtors Republican. Dear Sirs: As my subscription tor your paper has expired last month, I am enclosing you herewith a bank draft to pay for renewal of same As to the satisfaction that I get out of your paper, I must say, that I do not believe that I could get along without it. Being that I am an old resident of Jasper county, Indiana, perhaps my old friends would like to know something of the weather and conditions here in southern California. The weather in this section of the country has been very severe this winter for this country. The lemons and oranges were greatly damaged throughout southern California. There is absolutely no sound fruit in this valley, while at the same time they are shipping a great deal ol it. The trees in some groves are greatly damaged, while those in other groves are not damaged. We are having gbod spring weather now, and will be harvesting alfalfa in about ten days. Yours respectfully, J. M. BURNS. Examine our line of farm machinery before you buy. HAMII/TOy & KELLNER.

Why not use UNITED STATES TIRES The Strongest Tires in the World when THE RENSSELAER fj| GAUGE will sell them to you at the same price you are asked to pay for other kinds?

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