Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1913 — Page 1

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MOTE OF BLIZZARD IN SOUTH DAKOTA

John Fullins Also Sent Clippings From Newspaper About Worst Storm in Sixteen Tears. |v .' r T” v< Mrs. Mary K Pullins received a letter from her son, John Pullins, who lives at Geddes, S. Dak, where Joe Leach and other former Jafcper county people also live, stating that two blizzards occurred within the two preceding weeks. The Friday before he wrote the blizzard lasted for 18 hours. He also sent a slip from a paper stating that the storm was the worst in 16 years .and that a family of live on an overland journey to a new home were frozen to death. The man’s n'ame was Frank Perry. Hlmselt wife and three children, aged 8 years, 3 years and a baby were found dead by a searching party that went out after one of the moving teams wandered into a corral at a nearby ranch. Perry was the postmaster at Big Bend and had rented a ranch, which he Jried to reach in the face of the blizzard. The 19-year-old son was not frozen to death but was found wandering about on the prairie. He was delirious and his face, hands and feet were frozen. The searchers followed the trail made by thtf horses qnd found Perry and wife and their three children huddled together and all frozen to death. The men who went in search are missing and it is believed had suffered death in the storm. A dispatch from Pierre states that “the morning after" revealed Pierre with snow drifts on •very corner, as high in many plaefes as the ceiling of the first stories. The daily papers at Pierre suspended publication and business generally was stopped. The wind blew at she rate of 62 miles an hour but the temperature was not very low. A passenger train got within 2 miles of Pierre and was blockaded so that it could go neither forward or backword. Cattlemen had been congratulating themselves that there had been no loss to stock during the very open winter when the worst storm in 16 years struck the country.

Fancy white eating potatoes, 45c per bushel, beginning Saturday, March 29th, and lasting one week, in one bushel lots or more. ROWLES & PARKER. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the R-O-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public.

TheEllisTheatre J. SC. ». 11m, Manage*. MATINEE AND NIGHT Sat., Mar. 29 W. A. Schiller Offers the 4-Act ~ Comedy-Drime Ok Convict millionaire By CARLO* INSKEEP During Aets S and .4 specialties will be introduced by Mies lineoeon and Mr. DcKalb. Prices, Matinee—loc and 20c. Night—2oc, 35c and 50c. For reserve (call Ellis Theatre, Phone 98.

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The Evening Republican.

J. HAMILTON LEWIS ELECTED TO SENATE

Illinois Legislature Deadlock Came . To Close With Election of the Famous Chicago Man. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, was elected to the 6-year term in the U. & senate by the Illinois legislature Wednesday, when the deadlock which has existed since January suddenly terminated. He was the choice of the democrats of the state at the primary held on April 9, 1912. Governor Dninne put all his.strength behind the Lewis candidacy and the result is a victory for him. Before the balloting it was agreed that Lawrence Y. Sherman should be the choice for the senatorial short term, caused by the unseating of William Lorimer.

Gave Miscellaneous Shower For Bride and Groom.

Miss Agnes 'Platt carried out a Very successful miscellaneous shower for her brother Will and his bride, Tuesday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Platt, on Division street. Easter suggestions played an important part in the house decorations, the colons of white and pink prevailing. About fifty friends were present to meet Mrs. Platt, whose former home was in Lafayette and they brought a number of very beautiful and us > fqi presents. Mr. and Mrs. Platt are housekeeping in part of Mra. W. H. Stephenson’s house at the corner orElm and Franklin streets.

Ernest Herr, born Paulding, Ohio, June 1, 1886, occupation farmer, residence McCoysburg, and Averal ball, born MariortXcounty, West Va., October 2, 1893, residence McCoysburg: first niarriagei for each. Elijah Harp, born White county, Irid, March 21, 1869, residence Mont!cello, Ind., occupation carpenter, second marriage, first dissolved by death ten years ago, and Martha Francis Smith, born in Mississippi, Aug. 10, 1864, residence Rensselaer, occupation seamstress, second marriage, first dissolved by death, August 2, 1908.

The Ladies’ Literary Club invites the public,to a benefit meeting to buy pictures for the school room, Friday evening, March 28th, .8 o’clock. Admission, fifteen cents. The following program will be given: Vocal Solo., Mrs. E. C. English Vocal Solo Miss Georgia Harris Piano 5010..........L0is Thompson Lecture—“ Art”. .Prof. Wm. F. Clarke Vocal Solo Miss Alice Shedd Piano Solo Mrs. M. D. Gwin Vocal Solo Mrs. J. A. Dunlap

Every time you knoclt a man you give him a free ad. " Did you ever see a girl with a watch that kept time? You can screw up your courage with a cork screw but it won’t stay put. A hotel can’t snare a married man by advertising all the comforts ol home. Love may be blind, but don’t go home with a blonde hair on your vest, If you wife Is a brunette. 4 cans Great Western Homiiiy, String Beans, Pumpkin or Corn, for 25c. Rowtes A Parker’s, Phone 95. The millennium will be here when you can convince a man that it is wrong to love a woman whom he can’t marry. 17-inch Embroideries, 10c the yard. Hat Flowers, 10c and 15c. Curtain Goods, 7c, 10c and 12c the yard, at Jarrette’s Variety Store. Why pay 60c for potatoes when you can get better ones for 45c per bushel In lots of 1 bushel or more. Rowles & Parker’s, phone 95. , A woman loses her maiden name when she marries, and a man loses his legal right to bunko other women. Ellis Theatre, Saturday, March 29, “The Convict Millionaire." Matinee at 2:30 p. m. Prices 10c and 20c. Night at 8:30, prices 25c, 85c and 50c.

"The Convict Millionaire,” which comes to the Ellis Theatre Saturday {or matinee and night, contains three very strong comedy parts, and at times the comedy situations arc hilarious. At one moment the fendience is held spellbound by the beautiful pathos, and the next they are convulsed with laughter. While the hero and the villain are making a serious struggle, for the hand of the heroine; the Irish soldier and the milkman are making a comedy struggle (or the hand of Betty, the maid. Several good specialties a?e introduced during the action of the play. Prices: Matinee 16c and 20c: Night 25c, 35c and 50c.

Marriage Licenses.

Literary Club Benefit.

BENUELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913.

HOW tO SAVE WASTE BPACE IN THE There are thousands and thousands of homes where attic rooms are “done, off," and in almost every Instance a lot of space is wasted. This dan be overcome in most cases. Making a room in a top floor or “attic” Is generally done by paneling or plastering the walls,.and . where the roof slopes down to the floor or almost to the floor a large space ia cut off by building a short partition down from the roof to the floor. The partition or “wall” of such a room is generally not high enough for the average bureau or dresser with' its swivel mirror. No old fashioned bureau without a mirror is high enough for a chiffonier. And so a small one is generally placed against this wall. This takes np a lot of space, sticking out into the already small room. This can be avoided if, when the room is done off, instead of cutting off this space back of the short partition a series of drawers is built dn. The bottom drawer won Id'be deep and wide, and the other three or four drawers would taper up, the top one being quite narrow, as the roof is sloping toward this short partition all the time. With two snch built in bureaus or sets of drawers the entire floor space of the room remains for the bed, chairs and table, and yet there are plenty of drawers handy.

Visit the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Fancy vases at 10c at the 5 aqd 10 Cent Store. Mrs. W. H. Cook made a trip to Chicago today. Always something new at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Mrs. Ralph Donnelly is spending today in Chicago. A fine line of candy at 10c a pound at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. A woman always forgets that Nature gave her two ears and only one tongue. r . - Platonic friendship Js a sentimental mackintosh, which covers a multitude of flirtations. AttoAeys Halleck and Williams made a trip to Kankakee, 111., yesterday, on legal matters pertaining to the Haigh case. A 35c dish pan for 10c, by buying 25c worth of merchandise on Saturday, at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Chick starter, Crown brand poultry feed, beef scraps, wheat, buck-, wheat, cracked and shelled corn, for poultry, at Hamilton & Kellner’s. When a woman of fifty marries, she usually has to decide whether she would rather be a young man’s bank account or an old man’s guardian. Don’t fail to attend the special on Saturday. You will get a 35c dish pan for 10c If you buy 25c worth of merchandise at the 5 and 10 Cent Store. Now is the time to purchase a supply of the nicest eating potatoes in the city, 45c per bushel in bushel lots or more. ' , ROWLES '& PARKER. ■ " f ‘ - 1 A highbrow announces that E v e was a dame of rather loose morals and modesty and would not be received in society today. Why, with those qualifications she would be n leader in some branches of modern society. Mrs. A. F. Long and daughter, Martha, are expected home this evening from Lincoln, Neb., where they havd been visiting for about two weeks. Frank Hardman will accorn pany them home for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardman. Father George .Heldman left thi/ morning for Rbphester, N. Y., on a two weeks’ vacation. There was some doubt whether he could get to that city, however, as train serv ice was quite generally annulled along the lakes, the water being high at Cleveland. J. P. Simonds returned this morning from a viAit at Monticello. He started home Wednesday mom lng, going to Reynolds, but was too late to get" the milk train. Later in the day he got to Monon and spent a weary day there waiting for a train to Rensselaer, but there was none until the milk train this morning. ’ Everybody’s friend—Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil the great household remedy for toothache, earache, sore throat, cuts, bruises, scalds. Sold at all drug stores. 25c and 50c.

SOME INCIDENTS OF THE BIG FLOOD

Rensselaer People Worried Because They Can Not Hear From Relatives in Stricken Cities. . "" . • ' / Rensselaer people generally are congratulating themselves that they escaped with no greater damage during the floods that caused such direful losses at other places. Although quite meager v the bulletins published from, severel stricken cities in Ohio and Indiana, in the Evening Republican of Wednesday, gave a true indication of the conditions that existed and the reports were verified by the Chicago papers which reached here on the milk train Wednesday evening. While the death losses are probably not so many as told by the first dispatches there were deaths in many more cities and towns that at first reported and the losses in the rural districts are thought to be extensive. Rensselaer people with relatives in the stricken districts have naturally been greatly concerned. Probably the most worried people in this city were Mr. and Mrs. A. U. Cloud, formerly of Peru, where the parents of bpth reside. Mr. Cloud is a plumber in the qmploy of E. D. Rhodes & feon. When he learned of the flood and the great loss of life and property at Peru he feared at once that either his or his wife’s parents might have 'been included in the death list. No communication by telephone or telegraph could be procured, so Mr. Cloud determined to make an effort to rejich Peru in some manner and left Rensselaer on the milk train Wednesday evening, hoping to be able to make some connection that would let him get to Peru, but the success of his trip seemed very doubtful, owing to the fact that railroads generally had suspended trains. City Councilman Geofge W. Hopkins was somewhat concerned about Mrs. Hopkins, who is at Vincennes, on the Wabash river, from which .place stories of flood damage were sent out. He was unable to hear from her because there has been no train or mail service. Vincennes, •however, does not„seem to have suffred much. X

T. G. Wynegar, a traveling salesman, who makes his home in Rensselaer, arrived home on the milk train Wednesday evening from a trip to Benton ebunty. He had expected to find the flood condition much worse here than it was. Mr. Wynegar had a quite difficult time getting home, but finally reached here via Goodland and Fair Oaks. High waters prevailed every place and especially at the C. & E. I. bridge over the Iroquois river near Foresman was the situation grave and it was feared the bridge would be carried away, but this evidently did not ensue as the water has fallen considerably since that time. Mr. Wynegar was very much pleased upon reaching Fair Oaks to learn that the milk train was running and that he would be able to reach home that evening. He heard that a house had floated down the Wabash river at Lafayette and that a' woman and child were in the house and both were killed when the houtee struck the bridge/ F. W. Tobias, the newsdealer, has two brothers and a niece at Dayton, Ohio, and has been concerned about them. He wired another brother at Greenville, Ohio,' but has received no reply to his inquiry. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, the Western -Union operator, saw the name of William A. Sexton among the list of the dead at Columbus, Ohio. Miss Spaulding visited Mr. Sexton and wife in that city last year. She feels certain that he lost his life while engaged in rescue work.

A report reached Rensselaer this morning to the effect that the Eel river at Logansport had gone out, causing the death of 400 people. This report, however, could not be authenticated and there is some doubt about its correctness. General reports show that the waters are receding. In Rensselaer the situation has greatly Improved. The river at the Washington street bridge has fallen about 20 inches from the high mark and the same fall is recorded at the lower bridge. This has drawn most of the water from about the Benjamin, Morris and Wiltshire residences.

In the east end of town the condition also improved, but the sewer there seems to have altogether stopped up and In order to get rid of the surface water is was necessary to cut a ditch along the macadam grade on Webster street at; Elm. This was done this morning and Is rapidly taking the water away. There is some danger from Infection resulting from the water that swept over the sewer and flooded the old open channel of the Make-

ART EXHIBIT At High School Auditorium -.■'-g-rj-V ‘’’V.*."' , - 200 Reproductions of the World’s Greatest Works of Art In Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings Open Wednesday evening—7:3o to 10:30. Thursday—3:3o to 6; 7:30 to 10:30. Friday-7:30 to 10:30. GENERAL ADMISSION, FIFTEEN CENTS

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Friday: rising temperature Friday.

ein-self ditch getting into the wells at the pump station. A safe precaution against typhoid infection would be to boil .the water. Flooded basements have largely cleared and furnace fires have again been started and they are much in need today. The drifting snow that came during Wednesday afternoon continued through a good portion of the night and theiy was about 4 inches of snqw this morning. It is now melting and will probably last but a day or so. The city schools were able to resume this morning, although it had been thought impossible yesterday. The water drained from about the steam pipes and that ended the trouble. Not to exceed 50 per cent of the pupils were in school, however, this morning, owing to the fact that it had been an nOunced that there would be : no school.

Dr. F. H. Hemphill was called to Peru last Sunday to see Lyman Harris, a brother of Mrs. Hetnphill, who fell from a haymow and struck across a manger. His injuries at first were thought to be very serious but he is now out of danger. Dr. Hemphill returned home Monday afternoon, just ahead of the flood conditions that caused the suspension of the trains. Peru was Mrs. Hemphill’s and they are anxiously awaiting information of the disaster which occurred there. Dr. E. N. Loy and wife have relatives at Piqua, Ohio, which city suffered storm damage, but they have received no word from them. G. H. McLain and wife are also from Ohio and have relatives in the stricken sections from whom they await assurances with anxiety. The Monon is again running the milk train only today, making the round trip between Brookston and Chicago. General Manager Westfall and other officials, who went to Battle Ground Monday, are still on the job there. They can not estimate the length of time necessary to repair the fill south of the Wabash river. The report that the Monon bridge over the Wabash had gone out is not the case. The giving way of the fill helped to save the bridge, on which a train load of stone had been hauled in order to hold the bridge down. This expedient worked splendidly. It continues to be reported that the Brown street and Big FoUr bridges at .Lafayette Are out and that the Main street fridge there was almost carrfed away and that the water was 4 feet deep at the Big Four depot. On the Indianapolis division of the Monon there are three serious washouts, one ft Delphi, one at Kirklin and a third at Broad Ripple. No proihise of repairs can safe ly be made. Several mail clerks from here were out on their routes when the floods cut them off and they have not been heard from. Fred Chapman, Lem Hammerton and Ross Benjamin, at least, are away from home. Frank Leek and Charley Grow, two other elerks, are both at home this week. Pat Farley, who lives at Liberty and makes round trips between Rensselaer and Cincinnati, is here this week and he Is wondering about conditions at his homq, Miss Oeie Wood, of Parr, visited relatives at Columbus, Ohio, la.--t week and came home only a few days before the flood. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wood, have relatives there that they are anxious to receive word from.

Lawn Grass Seed, Garden and Flower Seeds, Rose Bushes and Bulbs, Hanging Baskets, Jardinieres and Flower Pots at Jarrette’s Variety Store. Itching, torturing skin eruptions disfigure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan’s Ointment Is praised for Its! good work. 50c it all drug stores.'

nyrrm;) .idii.i 111 .l.Wiy. vM k mmrnMM i “CifUile’* Bab Our Reputation, Your Satisfaction We appreciate that our standing depends upon the satisfaction given by our work. This necessity for good Work is not all, however, for our pride in the quality of our plumbing installations is also a strong incentive to make your satisfaction the first consideration. Allow us to install a Standard" bathroom, kitchen sink or laundry tray and your satisfaction will be assured. E. D. RHOADES & SON Hardware ># rmTiirn 1 11 iii fi ni nifvi »V*' $ $ SMOKE THE J! COID6C A HIGH-GRADE •; FIVE CENT CIGA* Hide li J; Rensselaer. ;; i: J. DeLONG, Maker ii :; Factory: Opera Hone Block 1: Patronize Home Indnstry <> < > »aoo»a»oooooooooooooooo»oa Must Not Hiteh On The Business Streets. Any one hitching on the streets of the business part of the eity will be subject to prosecution. This applies to the telephone and light poles, trees or hitching posts of any kind. By order of the dry Council. W. R. SHESLER, City Marshal. j The D. A. R. will meet at 2:30 Sot urday afternoon of this week with Mrs. H. J. Kannal.

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