Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — Page 2

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Farmer Makes a Protest Against Hitching Post Order.

The following discussion by a subscriber to The Republican deserves the consideration of every businessman, every farmer, every citizen, and is presented just as writtep. So important does it seem to us that a discussion on the subject by any who care to take part is solocited and The Republican elsewhere expresses its own views on the subject. Our farmer friend writes: ‘There were some men in our town who thought them wondrous wise,” but really they have reached the limit. The new imposed law making it an offense worth twentyfive dollars for one to hitch a horse to any telephone pole or private post on any of the main streets in Rensselaer is unreasonable under existing conditions. There are no hitch racks to accommodate the public; thus we are compelled to tie outside the city limits or pay 20c to take our team to the hitch barn. This is for the shelter only, no feed, and no insurance on articles in your rig; if anything strays away, they sometimes extend their sympathy, nothing more. Often people must pay this when horses are not sheltered more than one-half houf, and it is very inconvenient when in haste to drive to the barn, walk up town, then back to barn, at last get rig and drive back to the grocery for goods purchased' and I can 'enumerate dozens, yes hundreds, of things both useful and sadly needed that one could buy with twenty cents. All people cannot afford the rate. Some take eggs, butter, or a few gallons of cream two or three times each week; thus the barn rent amounts to quite an item. You businessmen should protest. We can tie our horses at Surrey, Parr or Oaks, and get just as much for our produce. Or we can leave the team in the barn and order* from Montgomery Ward. So we will leave it up to you to solve the problem. The best advertisement for any merchant in town just now would be a free hitching post. —One of many who would like a hitch rack in the shade, so we could take our choice between that and the twenty cent barn in fine weather.

Beast in a Man Shows Up When He is Most Needed.

The Peru Journal says: “One of the most disgusting incidents connected with the flood was the presence of drunkards on the streets as this great calamity was coming on. As the waters rose higher and higher and there was no place but the court house square to stand upon, of course they were all conspicuously in evidence. Men who ought to have been home looking after their families in the presence of this great disaster were taking to drink and were unfit to help themselves, their own or others. Who can explain it? Fortunately the saloon keepers on their own initiative, seeing the fools men were making of themselves, shut us their saloons tight at 11 o’clock Monday morning and drove their patrons out of doors.” To which the Monticello Journal adds: ‘The same conditions were noted in Logansport, where a large number of men foolishly drunk were staggering about the streets uttering their ribald jests, while misery and destruction spread all about them. In Logansport, however, the saloons did not close until ordered to do so by the Mayor.”

NORTH NEWTON.

Mrs. Wm. Bierley was in Surrey Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Baker is building a new barn on the farm at Evert Griqaes’, . Mr. Burns, of Mt. Ayr, passed through this vicinity Sunday. James Lane and family attended church In Rensselaer Sunday. James Lane and son, Harvey, called on the former’s father Sunday. Mrs. Milt Grimes called on Mrs. Wm. Bierley last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Anna Baker and Cale Baker and son, George, called at Evert Grimes’ Bunday afternoon. Mrs. James Lane and daughters, Rose and Amelia, called at Milt Grimes’ Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mclntosh came from Fountain county to visit her sister, Mrs. Milt Grimes, for a few weeks. Miss Dlle Grimes returned home Monday from Fountain county, where she has been visiting since Easter with her sister and other relatives and friends.

First Baptist Church.

Owing to absence of the pastor in Wffen, there will be no preaching at the First Baptist church next Bunday, but there will be services as usual the following Bunday. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.; B. Y. P. U., at 6:30 p. m. .. *

A Olatalfled Adr. wfll sell It

Rev. D. A. Tucker Writes From North Dakota.

Newport, N. Dak., April 8, 1913. Dear Republican;' Please find enclosed $1.50 for renewal of my paper. With profound regret, and sadness we have been reading of the great storms that brought death and distress and need, to such a large area in Indiana, and other states. Our mail has been so badly demoralized, that we did not get our mail regular; therefore became very anxious about some of our childreri"’in Indiana and Ohio. On Easter Sunday while you were having the great storm passing through Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana, we had 12 degrees below zero. The week before, also the week after, we had it as low as 20 degrees below zero. We have quite a little snow now. We are getting along fairly well in our missionary work here in the northwest corner of North Dakota; notwithstanding we have had it as low as 45 degrees below zero, we have had services every Sunday except one; better than I could have hoped; and yet I shall not winter here another/winter. We are all quite well, and wish through The Republican, to give our friends our best wishes; and to The Republican, we wish to say that The Republican is like a letter from home. Respectfully, , REV. D. A. TUCKER.

Two Realy Great Artists.

The Lecture Bureau is proud to present Ord and Jean Bohannan as two really great artists who are a credit to the Lyceum. We have long been looking for just such artists, who have all the high ideals pecular to the Lyceum, and yet can entertain in such a manner as to interest and please the cultured and uncultured alike. When Elias Day, the great character artist, and America’s most noted Lyceum coach, heard that we had secured the services of Ord and Jean Bohannan for the coming season, he wrote us a letter, from which we quote the foliowin: “My dear Mr. Abler:—l can’t tell you how pleased I am to learn that you have added Ord and Jean Bohannon to the ‘Select Folks.’ The Lyceum welcomes artists of their ability with open arms. I know them both and have been Tearful that you would not give them a hearing. J knew that once you heard them, your long experience w’ould grasp at once the fact that real artists were knocking at the Lyceum door. I have had many talks with them and they are as enthusiastic over their Lyceum future as I am over their desire to join our ranks.” ■ - _ An original program of readings, impersonations, tenor solos, soprano solos, vocal duets, readings set to music, all woven into one harmonious whole, with a beginning, an ending, and a purpose is only half the story of what these artists offer the public. It is practically impossible to describe their entertainment in cold type. It has all the unity of a lecture, all the charm of a varied entertainment, and the artistry of a high-class concert. At M. E. church, Monday, April 14th, at 8:15 p. m.

Ord Bohannan, tenor and impersonator, brings to the lyceum platform a store of culture and experience acquired through association with stock and road theatrical companies in America, followed by six years abroad, where his robust tenor voice was schooled by Lamperti, Sbriglia and Jean De Reszke. Mr. Bohannan bas toured Germany with the Dresden Mixed Quartet, in concert and oratorio, and appeared with Stadt Theatre Company of Kiel. Schleswig Holstein, in opera. Thjs artist’s peculiar adaptabilitj' for the lyeeum platform is probably best illustrated by the following kindly criticism: “Equipped with a beautiful resonant tenor voice, a fund of spontaneous humor, a perfect knowledge of dialects and a deep and sympathetic understanding of the world’s pathos, Mr. Bohannan is indeed a prince of entertainers.” At M. E. Church. Monday evening, April 14, 8:15 o'clock.

According to a statement compiled by auditors in the employ of the Frisco system, President B. L. Winchell traveled 55.394 miles in 1912 and 59,173 miles in 1911. Last year he attended jeventy-flve meet; ings, Including banquets and conferences. Most of the time he traveled on special trains, arising at 6 a. m. and working until 7 p. m. Pittsburgh—The works of Jean Bohannan have found a ready market ip three countries, and her remarkable versatility is displayed in the wide range of her writings—from Sabbath School primary numbers and Church anthems to charming secular songs, a thirty-minute song cycle and a massive male chorus, through all of which runs tlie golden thread of melody, spontaneous, fresh and above ail things, original. In addition, Mrs. Bohannan is a successful organist, a brilliant pianist and a sympathetic accompanlest.—Paul K. Harper, Musical Editor, Pittsburg Dispatch. At M. E. Church, Monday, April 14, 8:15 o’clock. Rich aid Cretcher, age 11, of Warsaw, has disappeared. He was sent to a neighbor’s house with a basket of clothes and has not been seen since.

Home Course Road Making

XL—The Relation of Automobiles to Modern Highways.

By LOGAN WALLER PAGE,

Director Office of Public Roach, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Association, 1912.

THE most complex problem now engaging the attention of highway engineers all over the world is the preservation of the crushed stone road under the destructive action of motor vehicles and the devising of new methods of construction adapted to the requirements of this twentieth century traffic. That the automobile has come to stay no one will dispute. It is estimated that there are already about 450,000 ma

AN OILED MACADAM ROAD WITH MACHINE TRAVELING SIXTY MILES PER HOUR—NO DUST.

chines owned in the United States, and the number is Increasing at a marvelous rate. The fact that must give us concern is that the old methods of construction which have stood every test for more than 100 years are inadequate to meet the conditions of this new form of traffic and that we are in the midst of a transition period which must eventually revolutionize the science and art of the road builder. The highway engineer of today is called upon to ascertain in what way the automobile injures the road, what is the exact cause of the injury, and finally to devise an adequate remedy. When Tresaguet, the great French engineer, made bis report to the council of bridges and roads in 1775 he set -forth the principles of construction which, as modified and added to by John L. Macadam in the early part of the nineteenth century, have proved adequate until the twentieth century. These great road builders and their successors sought to secure a road capable of withstanding thfe wear of iron tired horse drawn vehicles, for the motor driven vehicles had no place in their philosophy. They worked upon the theory that the dust abraded from the crushed, stone would fill the voids between the angular fragments and when wet serve as a cement, thereby making the road surface practically a monolith. The iron shod horses and the iron tired wheels passing over the road from time to time were depended upon to wear off a sufficient amount of rock dust to replace that carried away by wind and water, and this under the action of moisture recemented, thereby automatically renewing the bond of the road surface. ’ The rubber tired wheels, moving at excessive speed, fail to produce any new dust from the rock, but the tremendous shearing effect of the driving wheels loosens this dust, and as the body of the machine displaces a large volume of air the deflected currents carry the rock dust off the road, thereby effecting a permanent loss of the ail essential binder. It follows that the road is soon stripped of its fine binding material, exposing the upper or wearing course of the stone. These stones robbed of the binding material are soon loosened by the shear of the driving wheels, leaving the road badly raveled or disintegrated. It is, of course, apparent that the effects described are greatly Intensified on curves, where skidding is most frequent.

Highway and mechanical engineers have given much study to the action of the automobile on the road surface, and many ingenious theories have been advanced While it is true that _the slipping of the tire, skidding, shape of the car body, suction of the pneumatic tires, all contribute to produce the effect, the most conclusive experiments seem to warrant the assertion that the great tractive force or shear exerted by the driving wheels of motorcars is the main factor of Injury. A series of tests conducted by the United States office of public roads in 1908 produced, some interesting results along this line. Cars of various weights and types were run over a measured course at different rates of speed and right angle photographs taken of each run. A sixty horsepower car stripped for racing, weighing with its driver and mechanician about 2.800 pounds, was driven over this stretch of road at rates of speed varying from fire to sixty miles per hour, the speed being In creased five miles |>er hour tor each trip over the road. Up to fifteen miles an hour little or notffect was produced on the road, but from twenty miles an hour the effect was striking with each Increase tn speed. These demonstrattbns proved that little or no effect is

produced by’xhe^front"wheels and that practically the entire disturbance of the road is produced by the rear or driving wheels, if the effect were produced by suction or vacuum the action of both front and rear wheels should be somewhat similar at least, it seems apparent to the writer, therefore, that the road best adapted to motor traffic is the road which will best resist this powerful tractive shear. It has already been demonstrated that no plain macadam road is capable of resisting this* force. ' y “ The efforts of progressive highway engineers are thus directed primarily toward the preservation of our stone surfaced roads anathe construction of dustless roads by the use of a binder more powerful than stone dust and. secondly, to minimizing or mitigating the dust nuisance. For the purpose of discussing intelligently the experiments thus far conducted with special binders the term “dust preventives” has been applied to all of the various binders having for their main object either suppression or the prevention of dust These may be divided into two classes, temporary and permanent The temporary binders serve merely as palliatives and require frequent renewal. The permanent binders, so called, enter into the structure of the road as a constltutent element and are either incorporated with the other materials at the time of the con--struction or applied later by a surface treatment. In the class of temporary binders may be included water, salt solutions, light oils and tars and oil and tar emulsions, waste sulphite liquors, etc., while the permanent binders include the heavy petroleums and .tars, pitches and .numerous oil, tar and asphalt preparations. The value of salt solutions, which have been used to some extent, lies in the hygroscopic character of the dissolved salt, which, having considerable affinity for water, keeps the road surface in a moist condition long after a surface treated with water alone would have become dry through evaporation.

The light oils and tars as well as the oil and tar emulsions depend for their effect upon a comparatively small amount of true binding base left upon the road surface after the volatile products have evaporated. These materials prove effective only so long as they retain their binding power. When the binding power is destroyed it is necessary to apply more material. The heavy oils and tars differ from the lighter products in that they contain a much greater amount of true binding base. The results are, therefore, of a more lasting character and hence the naffie “permanent binders.” The semisolid and solid preparations usually contain a still greater amount of binder. With some few exceptions all of the true binders are bitumens. The usual method of applying these materials to the road surface is by sprinkling. The temporary binders can usually be applied cold, but the permanent binders because of their much greater viscosity must be heated until sufficiently fluid. In England and France the use of coal tar is practiced to a large extent, and their methods of application have been highly developed. Machines are,in general use which are self propelling and in which the tar is heated and applied to the road surface as a spray under high pressure. /These so called “tar sprayers” are not only very economical in the use of tar, but insure a more even distribution and better penetration of the road surface than it is possible to obtain in almost any other way. In the construction of dustless roads the crucial question is that of cost. The effort must be to develop a form of construction which will withstand fast automobile traffic and at the same time be within the financial resources of the community. This is largely being done at present by the use of a bituminous binder instead of rock dust. The two methods generally employed are known as the penetration and the mixing methods. In the former the hot liquid binder is sprinkled or sprayed over the stone and allowed to penertate through

AN UNTREATED ROAD WITH MACHINE TRAVELING SIXTY MILES AN HOUR—PLEN TY OF DUST.

the voids and coat the stones usually to a depth of two or three inches, in the mixing method the stones and binder are thoroughly mixed either by hand or machine, so that each atone is covered with a thin film of the binder This method in general insures the better and mhre even distribution of the binder throughout the road surface, but tbe cost ig greater than that of the penetration method. One of tbe chief causes of tbe great number of failures which have been recorded in the use of bituminous road □taterlals is the failure of tbe user as well as manufacturer to understand certain fundamental principles. To many a tar is simply a tar and an oil an oil. while tn reality there is a vast difference sometimes even In the tars produced at tbe same works. The oils also range from those of a paraffin base to those almost wholly asphaltic. Specifications for the bitumens should be prepared by an expert and materials should be tested io the laboratory.

JOHN EGER, President . DELOS THOMPSON. Cashier. J. H. CHAPMAN, Vice-President CHAS. M. SANDS, Aii’t Cashier. CM State Bank of Rensselaer Report of the condition of the State Bank of Rensselaer, a State Bank at Rensselaer, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business on April 4, 1913.

■ RESOURCES. - Loans and Discountss2s6,Bßß.s7 Overdrafts 1,663.47 U. S. Bonds 100.00 Other Bonds and Securities 7,390.00 Furniture and Fixtures... 1,000.00 Due from Banks and Trust Companies 39,538.16 Cash on Hand 11,583.70 Cash Items 141.47 Total Resources $318,305.37

State of Indiana; County of Jasper, ss: I, Delos Thompson, Cashier of the State Bank of Rensselaer, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. DELOS THOMPSON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 10th day of April, 1913.. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Notary Public. My Commission expires March 25, 1917. Money to Loan at Current Rates. Your Patronage Solicited.

LEE.

Mr. Duvall, the oil man, of Rensselaer, was in Lee Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Armstrong attended church at Lee Sunday. Mrs. Ida Lewis is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Orville Holman, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stiers and baby visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lamar Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jacks and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lefler and family. Mrs. Alvin Clark has been very sick with measles for a few days, but is some better at present. Mrs. True D. Woodworth and son, Delos, of Rensselaer, came to Lee Friday evening and visited her brother, Q. A. Jacks, and family until Saturday evening, when she went to her sister-in-law’s, Mrs. Frank Morton, and visited there until Sunday evening, when she returned to Lee until Monday and from here she returned home. True came Saturday evening and stayed until Tuesday morning. Miss Lona Jacks returned home Sunday evening from Rensselaer, where she had been working for her brother, Charles.

COLLEGEVILLE.

On the first three days of the next week the regular spring quarterly examinations will be held. Several of the students who hail from the sections that were most severely affected by the floods havv not yet returned.. to college, Sunday will be the feast day of St. Joseph, the greatest college festival. It will be duely and solemnly observed. Rev. William D. Sullivan, a graduate in.the class of 1897, now pastor of St. Bernard’s Church, Wabash, preach the festive sermon. On the few comparatively dry days that we have had the base ball squad was busily engaged in out door practice. The team will not be definitely organized until after the returns of the next examination, so that some of the candidates may have an opportunity to improve their class standing and thus become eligible -to the team. Tlie team that will play the Stars, or St. Xavier, on Sunday, will be selected by the management, and it is likely that Lili will be asked to go the full route on the slab.

SURREY.

Miss Mary Lonergan spent Sunday with Miss Elizabeth Luers. Miss Elizabeth Luers spent Thursday night with the Lang girls. Dan Morrissey, of Rensselaer, was in Surrey on business Monday. Walter Hopkins is in Rensselaer cn business a few days this week. Harry Thomas spent a few days this week with friends in Chicago. Moses Chupp, of Rensselaer, visited Dan Chupp and family Friday. Mrs. Harmon and daughter, Harriett, were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Ed Lane has been working the past week for Pete Hordeman, of Parr. John Hammerton, who is working at Mt. Ayr, spent Sunday with his parents. Miss Elizabeth Luers was the guest of Miss Ola ?acher Wednesday evening. Dr. Gwin was called to Surrey Wednesday evening on account of the Illness of little Jay Thornton. Miss Gladys Hammerton, of Parr, spent Saturday and Sunday with her uncle, Wesley Hammerton, and family. The supervisor is busy in this vicinity. having his men out grading the roads, which are badly in need of repairs since the flood. Miss Emma Zacher, who has been spending a few months In Chicago, returned home Wednesday. She was accompanied home by her little cousin, Florence McFadden, who visited her grandparents here until Sunday. The surprise on Wesley Hammerton Sunday with very well attended, several coming from Rensselaer and Parr, and nearly all the neighbors being there with well filled baskets to remind Wes of his birthday. A very pleasant day was spent.

A Classified Adv. will rent it.

LIABILITIES. Capital Stock—paid in ... $30,000.00 Surplus 19,000.00 Undivided Profits 483.28 Exchange, Discounts and Interest less interest and Expenses paid 8,535.92 Demand Deposits 211,042.79 Time Certificates 39,243.38 Bills Payable 10,000.00 Total Liabilities $318,305.37

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at publlo auction at his residence, 1 mile north and % mile east of DeMotte, Indiana, sale to commence at 10:30 a. m., on FBIDAY, APBIL 18, 1913, the following personal property: 20 Head of Horses— l team of black 5-year-olds, wt. 2200, good general purpose. carriage, or hearse team; 1 3-year-old sorrel standard bred mare, will make fine road mare; 1 10-year-old mare In foal, wt. 1100, good worker; 1 gray mare, 10 years old, wt. 900; 12 young mares ana horses coming 3-year-olds, halter broke, wt. from 800 to 900; 2 colts coming two years old, halter broke. 47 Head of Cattle— lo three-year-old Holstein cows giving milk, eight of which have calves by side; 5 Holstein 2 and 3 years old heifers, will be fresh date of sale; also 12 two and four-year-olds will be fresh soon; 1 Holstein bull, 3 years old, a good one; 1 Swiss bull, 4 years old, a good one, with papers; 4 yearling Holstein heifers; 4 yearling Holstein bulls; 8 Holstein well marked spring calves; 2 Swiss heifer calves. 60 Head of Hogs— Weighing from 75 to 200 pounds. Tools— l Spencer hay press, light and heavy farm wagons, 1 buggy, single and double harness, and many other farm Implements not here mentioned. 150 bushels early seed potatoes. Terms— A credit of 9 months will be given on all sums of over $5, without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 per cent from date of sale, purchaser to give approved security; a discount of 6 per cent on all sums of over $5 for cash. All sums of |5 and under, cash In " hand. No property to be removed until settled for. Lunch served. C. D. SHOOK. Frank Strickland. Auctioneer. J. P. Hammond, Clerk. LODGE DXBECTOBY. F. & A. M.—lst and 3rd Monday nights. Chapter—lst Thursday night. Eastern Star—lst and 3rd Tuesday nights. I. O. O. F. — Every Thursday night Camp—2nd and 4th Friday nights. Rebekah—lst and 3rd Friday nights. K. of P. —Every Tuesday night. Pythian Sisters—-2nd and 4th Friday nights. I. O. R. N. —Every Monday night. M. W.of A.— Every Wednesday night. Royal Neighbors—lst and 3rd Wednesday afternoons. C. O. of F.—lst and 3rd Sunday afternoons at 2 o'clock. W. C. O. of F.—2nd and 4th Sunday afternoons at 3 o’clock. O. A. R. - Ist and 3rd Saturday afternoons. Ladles of the G. A. R.—2nd and 4th Thursday afternoons. W. R. C.—lst and 3rd Tuesday afternoons. Gleaners—lst and 3rd Saturday nights. D. A. R.—26th of each month when not ( «on Sunday. Co. M, I. N. G.—Every Wednesday night President Wilson Tuesday directed that a wreath in his name be laid on the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello next Sunday, the birthday of the original democrat. Plans are under way for observance of Jefferson’s birthday at Monticello.

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