Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — Page 1

No. 108.,

H. S. ROMANCE TO END IN MARRIAGE

Will Price, Junior and Football Player, to Wed Pretty Miss Leona Tullis, Freshman.

The bigh school has lost two of its pupils, a girl and a boy, and a marriage sifted to take place next Sunday is to bring to the usual conclusion a high school romance that has made Latin, Greek, German, literature and geometry look mighty foolish and insignificant compared to a cottage built for two. The principals in the love affair are William Price, a junior, a star on the 1912 football team and one of the hopes of the 1913 team, son of John Price, the Parr blacksmith, who resides with his family in Rensselaer, and Miss Leona Tullis, a pretty freshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tullis, of Parr, who attended the Rensselaer high school. Will is 19 years old and Leona is 17. Together they went to Parr Tuesday morning to inform her parents, who up to that time were wholly ignorant of the fact that their daughter was, involved in a love affair, that they were so deeply in love that they were going to get married and that parental objections would avail naught. Mr. Tullis liked the grit of his daughter’s suitor and talked the matter over with the young man’s father, who said that he had hoped to keep his son in school but that he realized the futility of the undertaking. He said that Will was already a little older than he had been when he got married and that he thought the boy showed splendid taste in selecting a pretty and sensible girl. The fathers were agreed and the young folks delighted. All the request made was that the marriage be postponed until next Sunday, so that arrangements could be made for it to take place at the Tullis horne. The young folks reluctantly agreed to the seemingly interminable delay. They came here Tuesday evening so that the bride-to-be could get her clothing from the home of Mrs. Mary Peyton, where she has been living during the school year, and together returped to Parr this Wednesday morning. School friends who had thought they were married met them at the train Tuesday to showered them With rice and then organized a belling party for that evening, but the action was a little premature and The Republican is • reliably informed that the marriage Will take place Sunday evening and that for the time being Mr. and Mrs. Will Price will take up their residence with her parents at Parr, where the groom will work as a painter.

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The Evening Republican.

TWO SHOTS AND A FIENDISH SCREAM

Indicated That a Murder Was Being Perpetrated But Investigation Showed Otherwise.

What seemed at first to be an attempted murder proved after investigation to be only a little pasttime for two professional men and nothing had occurred that would ordinarily be worth mentioning. It was about 10 o’clock this Wednesday morning that two shots were heard by merchants and professional men along the north side of Washington street near the A. F. Long drug store. Accompanying the shots was a loud scream as of a dying woman. Merchants ran from their stores and several soon joined officers to try to learn the cause of the trouble. Nothing developed as a result of the investigation until Dr. W. L. Myer, dentist, and A. G. Catt, optometrist, pleaded guilty to having caused the excitement, although it was entirely unthoughtedly. Dr. Myer was testing a pistol out of a back window and Dr. Catt furnished the scream, just for fun, not expecting it to reach other ears than Dr. Myer’s. The news rapidly spread and a report was current about town that some woman had been murdered.

Some Fire Without Any Excitement and No Whistle.

The fire department answered a quiet call this Wednesday morning and made a run to the scene of a lively fire without having the whistle signal the alarm and without sounding the gong on the fire engine. Many thought the team was being taken out fox a practice run when it raced east on Washington street at about 9 o’clock in the morning. The cause of the call was the burning of two piles of new creosoted railroad ties along the Monon tracks near the Standard Oil tanks. The ties made a raging fire and the creosote caused a roll of black smoke so dense and high as to suggest to many that the oil tanks was on fire. The company soon had a stream of water playing on the ties and the fire was subdued without many knowing that the company was out at all. The ties were doubtless worth SIOO or more to the company.

M. Y. Slaughter Suffers Stroke That May End Fatally.

M. Y. Slaughter, who lived southeast of Rensselaer in the old Sharon neighborhood for many years, suffered a paralytic stroke while at the home of his son, Homer, near the tile mill, north of town, with whom he and Mrs. Slaughter had been living since March. He is 72 years of age and the stroke which involved the entire right side and affected both his motion and his speech, is -apt to result fatally. He had been failing in health for the past year.

Obituary of Bryant Hammonds.

Wm. Bryant Hammonds was born in North Carolina on August 11, 1833, and departed this life April 24, 1913, aged 79 years, 8 months and 14 days. In the year of 1855 he was united in marriage to Rachel Ravis, and to this union were born three children, Wm. Hammond, of. Lisbon, N. Dak.; Mrs. D. S. Goble, of Fairmount, Indiana, and Elizabeth Bartholomew, since deceased. In the year of 1866 he moved to Indiana and lived in and about Fairmount until 1880, when he moved to Jasper county, Indiana, where he spent much time. His companion departed this life in the year of 1895. Some time later he was united in marriage to Mrs. Jane Ryan, who survives him. Early in life he united with the Missionary Baptist church and was a member of same at the time of his death. He was also a member of the Masons. He is survived by wife, son, daughter, tewnty-two grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchild-ren, besides other relatives and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Sayler arrived here this afternoon from Great Bend, Kans., where they went three years ago. They were called back on the sad mission of attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. W. D. Sayler, which will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Mr. Sayler went west on account of his health and found that it resulted in a complete cure for his catarrh. They are here for a short time only, probably a week.

William Hammonds, of Lisbon, N. Dak., who was called back to Indiana by the death at Indianapolis of his aged father, Bryant Hammonds, was here today. He reports that his father was burled at Fairmount, where he had lived for some time with a daughter.

Entered January i, 1897, as second clans-mall matter, at the post-office at Rens-selaer, Indiana, under the act of March S, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAT, APRIL 30, 1913.

WHEATFIELD “WET” BY MARGIN OF 7

Seventy Did Not Go to the Polls and Village Will Continue to Harbor a Saloon. --

“ ’Tis true, ’tis pity, Pity ’tis, ’tis trqe.” Wheatfield went “wet” by a narrow margin. The result of Tuesday’s local option election in that township was as follows: Wet 92 Dry 85 Total 177 Wet plurality, 7. Not voting, 70. While it is not certain that those who remained away from the polls would all have voted “dry,” it is quite sui-e that there were enough of them to have kept a saloon out of Wheatfield, and it is tolerably certain that the majority of people there are opposed to the saloon. It is, certainly a great pity that one of these immoral dumps is to again be saddled on to a town and a community that has shown itself to be so much better without saloons. It is hoped that the temperance people of other townships fn the north part of the county get busy and prevent the starting of other saloons. ~

DOMESTIC TROUBLES ON SMOKEY ROW

First Eruption for Several Tears Said to Involve Two Families and Threaten Separations.

Smokey Row, as a section of Vine street south of the Monon tracks has long been nicknamed, is said to have, broken out afresh and that a woman on that street was on the warpath Tuesday evening and threatened to have her husband arrested for alleged frequent visits to a home on the north side of the track. The woman did not bear her anguish and ire in silence, according to testimony that reached The Republican, but went to the front porch to weep loud and long as she implored some one to help her clinch her suspicions of infidelity concerning her husband. In the meantime the husband is said to have denied his guilt to all who talked with him and to have expressed his disgust at the actions of his wife by saying that he thought of pulling out and leaving her to shuffle for herself. The outcome is not yet, according to the neighbors, who are said to expect almost any kind of a finish when the northside husband is told of the charges of the Smokey Row wife.

I. N. Warren Sold Balance of Tract—Hiram Day Purchaser.

I. N. Warren has sold the balance of his 10-acre tract at the cast edge of town, the purchaser being Hiram Day. He procured 4 acres and paid SI,OOO for it, plenty cheap enough and splendidly located. The 10-acre tract was first broken last year when M. L. Hemphill purchased 2y* acres and erected a new house thereon. Then C. W. Platt bought 2% acres and his daughter, Miss Agnes, bought 1 acre. The price paid by all purchasers was the same, $250 per acre. The tract Mr. Day bought Is in grass and he will use it for cow pasture, in fact, that was the purpose for which he purchased it, and he tells a little story by way of illustration. A good many years ago P. T. Barnum’s show wanted to exhibit at Lafayette. The fair association did not want them to show and not only refused to rent the fair ground but leased all available ground about the city. The agent wired Mr. Barnum the condition and Mr. Barnum authorized him to buy a farm close to town, and to hire every hack in the city and carry the people to the show free and as the show was in town the big day at the fair the show did about all the business and the public blamed the fair promoters. The next year Barnum’s circus had no trouble in renting the fair ground for a show ground. Mr. Day said he found himself in about the same fix. He could not rent cow pasture and decided rather than to sell the cows to buy a place to pasture them. •

We will unload another car of Wisconsin seed potatoes this week, and will again be able to furnish you early Six Weeks, Ohios, Rose, Irish Cobblers, Kings, Rurals, Burbanks and Bugless. Now Is a good time to change your seed stoek, when seed potatoes are of a good quality and cheap. JOHN EGER

THREE GARNERED IN DEATH’S HARVEST

Mrs. W. D. Sayler, Mrs. George D. Mustard and John Kennedy Pass to Great Beyond.

Three deaths, two of them In Rensselaer and another at Morocco, all occurred within the past twentyfour hours.

Mrs. William D. Sayler, who suffered a stroke of paralysis Monday of last week, died Tuesday afternoon at about 3 o’clock at the Sayler home in the northwest part of town, after gradually sinking throughout the day. Six years ago she had a stroke of paralysis, from the effects of which she had not entirely recovered. Mrs. Sayler was born in 1851. She leaves a husband and six children and many other relatives to mourn her death. The children are Lawrence and Wallace Sayler, of Rensselaer; Mrs. Winona Brewer, of Winamac; G. N. Sayler, of Albert, Kans.; Wilber Sayler, of Oregon; and Mrs. Ada Hufty, of Colorado. The two last named will not be here for the funeral, but G. N. Sayler is now on his way from Kansas and the funeral arrangements have been based upon the time of his expected arrival and will be held at the late residence at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Mrs. George D. Mustard, who has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Sylvester Gray, for the past six years, died at 4 o’clock this Wednesday morning after a decline of several months that took a serious turn a week ago last Sunday, when she had a severe attack of heart failure. Tuesday, however, she seemed somewhat better and it was not until 1:15 o’clock at night that she became worse and she sank rapidly away following that time. She was 81 years of age on December 29th. Her husband, two sons and one daughter survive, namely, John W. Mustard, of Goodland; Chas. H. Mustard, of St. Anne, 111., and Mrs. Gray, of Rensselaer. The funeral service will be held at the Gray residence Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock, by Rev. C. L. Harper, and the body will be taken to Grand Ridge, 111., for burial, that place having been the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mustard prior to their removal to Jasper county twenty-six years ago, and three sons are buried there

John Kennedy, whose age was about 65 years, died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Morocco. He had been quite sick foT several days and his sickness took a serious turn at an early hour Tuesday morning and Drs. Washburn and Johnson were called and an operation performed in the hope of saving his life. It was found that abscesses had formed on the bowels and that his appendix had ruptured and the physicians had but little expectation that he could survive. Mj*. Kennedy was a large land owner and for many years resided on his farm between Morocco and Mt. Ayr and he was well known in Rensselaer, where he frequently came to trade. He is survived by a widow and four or five grown children. The funeral will take place at Morocco at 11 o’clock Thursday morning.

HIGH SCHOOL BOTS GET ATHLETIC R’s

Football and Basketball Players Awarded Letter for Their Season’s Playing. Studies in the high school were suspended for a short time this Wednesday morning while the football and basketball players received their letters for having participated in three contests. The big "R’s” will adorn the sweaters of the players. Coach Harry Parker presented the football letters, making a good speech to the players who received the letters, namely: Capt. Ernie Moore, Will Eigelsbach, Paul Miller, James Babeock, William Babcock, Tom Padgitt, Leslie Pollard, Emil Hanley, Lezla Choate, Bert Greenlee, Edward Honan, George Healey, Worth McCarthy, Will Price, Ralph Lakin and Fred Putts.

Rev. J. C. Parrett presented the basketball letttts with some encouraging remarks. Those to receive the “R's” in this game were: Capt. Paul Miller, Will Elgelsbach, Kenneth Groom, Will Babcock, Stanlias Brusnahan, Tom Padgitt, Sam Duvall and Worth McCarthy.

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. BASEBALL Loyola University, Chicago VS* St. Joseph’s College Thursday, May Ist 3:00 p. m. / \ A good, fast game is assured, as these two teams have ever been equally matched. ' * '• k\V\ In the absence of LiO, either Maloney or Landoll will do the pitching.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer east portion tonight.

Mrs. C. A. Roberts Continues In a Very Serious Condition. Mrs. Charles A. Roberts continues to fail and today has been in an unconscious condition most of the time, and Indications are that her life is very near its end. •*' I ■ L 1.1 ■ ' . ■« Start spring right by having the piano tuned. Prof. Otto Braun wJli do the work right. Orders may be left with any members of the boys' band.

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ST. JOE TO PLAT LOYOLA THURSDAY Team That Was Rained Out on Previous Visit Will Play Strong College Team Tomorrow. Loyola, of Chicago, and St. Joe will play ball on the local college grounds tomorrow, the game being called at 3 o'clock. These teams have been trying to get at each other for some time. The game was flr*t scheduled for Saturday, April 26th, and St. Joe was making preparations for the game when Loyola telephoned that the date would have to be changed to Friday and this gave brief advertising time The team came last Friday morning, but it had been raining all morning and drizzled all the day and the garde thus became impossible. Now, a third attempt is to be made and if the weather is bright it will probably be witnessed by a number of Rensselaer people Harley Davidson Motorcycle Ful-Floteing Seat Free Wheel Control 5 H-P. Single Cylinder 8 H-P. Twin Cylinder EXCLUSITE AGENT FOR JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES GEORGE W. FONDONG GOODLAND, INDIANA

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