Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1913 — Page 1

No. 110.

COURT REPORTER M’FARLAND BETTER

Able to Leave Hospital in Chisago and Expects to Return Here in About Two Weeks. Charles R. McFarland, the court reporter for Jasper and Newton counties, who has been in a hospital in Chieago for some time, was able to leave that institution a few days ago and is now at a private residence in Chicago, but has written to his friend, Dr. C. E. Garver, at Fendig’s drug store, that he is on the road to recovery and expects to be able to return here in about two weeks to resume his duties. This will be good news to “Pack’s” many friends, who had feared his condition was Critical.

It is Corporal Harry Hickman Of Coast Artillery Now.

Rensselaer youths in the U. S. Army, as elsewhere, seem to get to the front when they go out after promotion, and Harry Hickman, of the 168th coast artillery company, stationed at Fort Monroe, Va., has Just been made a corporal. Doubtless he would have been promoted before this time except that he was detailed as a chauffeur for an officer for some time and was not eligible to promotion during that time. Don P. Warren, also stationed at the same fort, was promoted several months ago. They joined the army at the same time and each has “a year and a butt” still to do, which mean* that they will serve something over a year before being discharged. - r

“A Welcome Chance to Those Who Suffer.” Coming to RENSSELAER, INDIANA Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 9,10,11 To Stay at The Makeever House. Dr. Albert Milton Finch Of Jamestown, Indiana. Consultation and Examination Confidential, Invited, and FREE. I will bo in Rensselaer on FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. May 9, 10, and 11, 1913 to nee my old patients and all the new ones that will come. Remember, I come to you every four weeks, and have cured many cases in your city and country that have been given up to die. ' ~ Why suffer when you can be cured? I examine you free of charge. If la doubt about what your trouble ie, come and I will tell you what it is and forever settle the question. Remember, if you are curable, 1 will take your case; if incurable, will give you such advice as will probably prolong your life many years. I treat and cure all Chronic Diseases. Don’t forget time and place. I will pay 910.00 In gold for any chronic disease I accept and do not cure. . ' •

THE MOST GIGANTIC OF ALL COLORED CHAUTAUQUA CREATIONS The Dandy Dixie Big Minstrel Jubilee THE MIGHTIEST OF THEM ALL WITW A HALF HUNDRED FNOFLE. THEFAMOUB RID HUZZAR BAND AND AMALOAMATID ORCHESTRA. 10 Daiwers 10 Men 10 Vocalists 10 Shouters 10 Walkers A Clean, Clever, Classy Crowd off Colored Comedians DOORS OPEN 7:30 P. M. PRICES 250 and 35c

The Evening Republican.

Proceedings of May Term Of the Commissioners’ Court.

Edward P. Lane,’ petition for ditch, Devere Yeoman, superintendent of construction, reported sale of improvement to W. Frank Osborne, and execution of contract. Contract presented and approved by the board. Thomas Davis, petition for ditch. Contract ordered forfeited, and superintendent ordered to let contract for completion of ditch according to plans and specifications. The county surveyor was ordered to draw up plans and specifications for bridges in Wheatfield, Marion, Barkley, Union and Kankakee townships. The auditor was ordered to advertise for letting contracts for two bridges in Jordan township. George Naninga, petition for stone road improvement. G. A. Williams allowed $290 attorney’s fee. Charles E. Sage, et ah Petition for stone road improvement. Election ordered held June 11, 1913. Retiben C. Yeoman, petition for stone road improvement. W. Frank Osborne declines to act as superintendent of construction and board appoints Robert' J. Yeoman, who files bond in sum of $35,000, with Carey-L. Chrr, Reuben C. Yeomari and Orpheus C. Halstead as sureties. Frank Foltz allowed $555 attorney’s fees, 20 per cent to be withheld until final report of Superintendent of construction. Everett Halstead, et al, Petition for stdne road improvement. W. Frank Osborne refusing to act as superintendent, Albertus M. Yeoman was appointed superintendent In his piece, who files bond in sum of $40,000, with Daniel 8. Makeever, Orpheus C. Halstead and Edward Goetz as sureties. George A. Williams allowed attorney’s fees of $690, 20 per cent to be withheld until final report of superintendent.

Ed Oliver, et al. Petition for stone i;oad improvement. Ed Oliver appointed superintendent of construction, _who is directed to qualify and give bonds according to law. - S. C. Irwin, petition for stone road Improvement. Alfred B. Lowman files bond in sum of $40,000 as superintendent, with the Fidelity and Deposit Co., of Maryland, as surety. Bond approved. George Williams allowed attorney’s fee of S6OO, 20 per cent to be withheld until final report of superintendent of construction has been filed. Thos. F. Maloney, petition for highway improvement. Petitioners present report of viewers showing road to be of public utility and recommend the improvement. Cause continued for filing of claims for damages and supplemeptal report of the viewers. ■— • ■- Yeppe Hansen. Petition for highway improvement. Same action as irt above petition. Charles Erb was appointed superintendent of the Hanging Grove township roads, and ordered to file bond in the sum of SSOO.

The auditor was directed to advertise for bids for 400 tons of Indiana coal, mine run and screened lump. The old surveyor’s instruments were sold to W. Frank Osborne for the sum of $49.25. The board made an order showing that Wheatfield voted “wet” by a majority of 7 at the recent option election. Albert Hoehn and James Anderson were denied a liquor license in Wheatfield township tyr reasons previously stated in these columns. Albert Konovsky was granted a saloon license for the town of DeMotte. Auditor directed to advertise for blds for poor farm supplies. F. W. Clark and John Groom. Application for scholarship to Purdue. Examined and approved. The assessments in the Borntragef ditch were approved and made an order that assessments may be paid in cash on or before August 15,1913, £nd the auditor is directed to give notice to such effect. All assessments unpaid at that time will be placed on the tax duplicate and bonds issued therefore. The county board, of finance reported interest collected from depositories for April as follows: First National Bank, $70:25; Trust & Savings Bank, $58.96; State Bank of Remington, $36.67; State Bank of Rensselaer, $55.35; Bank of Wheatfield, $7.72.

Buy your Clothes from TRAUB & SELIG and SAVE MONEY.

Entered January 1, 1897, as second class mail matter, at the post-office at Rens-selaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913.

ONLY LOST $2O BY PICKPOCKETS

Will Hill Returns From Golden West and Reports That He Recovered Stolen Drafts. William L. Hill was in Rensselaer Wednesday afternoon, having come from Brook with Lawrence Lyons. He arrived at Brook from Madison the day before and had only recently returned from California, where in company with his wife and daughter they spent several months. The Republican published the story that Mr. Hill had been robbed of $470 by pickpockets soon after arriving at Los Angeles, and Mr. Hill tells how it happened and that his loss proved to be only S2O, the amount of cash in his purse, while the drafts which aggregated $450 were thrown away by the thief and later returned to him. In company with his family they were making a boat trip from Los Angeles to San Diego and just as he was entering the boat he felt a big crush and a man bumped him rudely as he said, “Let me past.” Mr. Hill discovered his loss a moment or two later, but could not find the pickpocket whom he was certain he could have identified. Will was pleased a daj or two later to receive word that two of the drafts had been found and somewhat later to learn from an Indiana bank that the other draft had been returned there by some one who had picked it up in California. The next fellow that tries to brush past Will Hill in a crowd will find himself tackled right on the spot; Mr. Hill reports that it was mighty lonesome in Madison without The Republican and ordered it sent for the ensuing year.

FORTY-NINE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS LEFT

Philip Blue Found That Number While Taking School Enumeration in Rensselaer.

In taking the school enumeration in Rensselaer Philip Blue also took considerable interest in complying with the rule to get the names and ages of survivors of the civil war, the Spanish-American war and the Mexican war. He found only one Mexican war veteran, William Bull, who is also a civil war veteran, and who is past 87 years of age. Mr. Bull, however, is not the oldest civil war veteran in Rensselaer, that distinction belonging to John Stively, father of Mrs. Joseph Sharp, who will be 90 years of age the 14th of this month, and who is mighty hale and hearty for his advanced years. ' . The two youngest soldiers in Rensselaer are Elizur Sage and George Morgan. The former is 64, while Mr. Morgan is 65, both were quite young during the time they were helping lick the “Johnnies.” Mr. Blue found that the 49 soldiers have a combined age of 3,506 years and average a little more than 71 years and 7 months. During the past fifteen months at least nine old soldiers haye passed away in Rensselaet, their names being as recalled by Mr. Blue and Burgess Dillon: J. F. Irwin, W. W. Matheny, James Overton, Holdridge Clark, Ezra Clark, J. M. Wasson, Samuel E. Yeoman, J. P. Warner, and William Daniels. Messrs. Irwin, Matheny, Overton, Holdridge Clark, Yeoman and Warner, six of the nine, died very suddenly, while J. M. Wasson, Ezra Clark and William Daniels were in failing health for some time. The number of deaths during the past year is apt to make us wondjer what the next year will bring forth to weaken the fast thinning ranks of the “old boys." Among the Spanish-American war veterans of the city are: “I. M. Washburn, Frank Shide, Theodore George, E. W. Hickman, A. E. Wallace and Harvey Gasper.

A WORD TO THE WISE-Don’t buy your new suit until you have seen our line. TRAUB & SELIG.

GIFFORD RAILROAD DEAL LOOKS GOOD

Although Temporarily Delayed It is Expected to Go Through—Some Opposition Here. > ” ' ■ 'i, - * -’• i - A' Rensselaer citizen who has kept posted about the negotiations for the sale of the Gifford railroad and lands to a Chicago corporation, says that he is very certain the deal will go through and expects that it will be consummated this week. It is the plan of the purchasers, he stated, to continue the road in the direction Mr. Gifford had been taking it, and it is expected to complete it to Wolcott yet this year and also to Crown Point. There is no intention to bring the road to Rensselaer, as had been stated when the negotiations were first begun. This will be a great misfortune for Rensselaer, as it is certain to divert much trade to the towns on the road that otherwise would come to this city. That it will go a long way, however, toward developing the Gifford country, is a sure thing and with the sale and 'cultivation of the lands there the population of the county will be materially increased and that will be a good thing for Rensselaer. The time will come, too, when another railroad and probably an interurban will be built here and we believe that our people should favor the sale, of this road in every way possible. 1 A man informs The Republican that at least three businessmen in Rensselaer have left no stone unturned to"'try to block the sale, sending the most unfavorable reports to the men who were contemplating the purchase, saying that the best of the Gifford lands' had sold for sls an acre and that the land left was not worth much if anything, and saying other things sure to cause distrust. But the prospective purchasers have made an investigation of their own which has caused them to discredit the reports received. It is said that the men who sought to block the deal in this manner hoped to be able to buy the land at a very low figure in case the deal failed and this they know can not be done if the railroad and lands all go to the same people, who have the means to develop it and get the price that the land ought to bring.

First May Picnic Very Much Enjoyed by Girls.

It required considerable edn joling on the part of ten girls of the grades to induce some of the teachers to chaperone them, but the teachers good naturedly surrendered and four of them accompanied the girlies on a stroll down the river Wednesday evening after school. All the delights of youth were enjoyed as the imaginations of the picnickers caused them to proclaim that an island they found had never before been discovered and with some ceremony they christened it Iroquois Isle and declared it all their own by the rights of discovery. A dainty luncheon was served at the fete celebrating the discovery and aided by the teachers two hours of very pleasant moments passed so quickly that all were disappointed at the rush of time and the fading light of the evening. Their, description certainly reminds us of the time "when we were kids,” and of the lines of Longfellow when he wrote: “When thou art worn And hard beset With troubles that Thou wouldst forget, Go to the woods and hills No sorrow dims the Sweet look that nature wears.”

It’s a case of the same old story— EVERY KNOCK IS A BOOST. When a competitor starts "Knocking” tactics he evidently realizes that he will have to "go some” In order to head off the trade that is flowing away from his doors. Join the many who have learned to get VALUE RECEIVED, at our store. JRAUB & SELIG.

We are now receiving Schulze’s Bread daily in 5 and 10 cent loaves. Phone 95. ROWLES & PARKER

Funeral of George Phillips To Be Held Here Friday.

Al Ri'shling returned Wednesday evening, from Burnham, 111., where he had gone the day before after learning of the death of his brother-in-law, George Phillips. The body was shipped to Rensselaer, arriving here this Thursday evening, and will be taken to the Rlshling home, where at 10 o’clock Friday morning Rev. W. G. Winn will conduct a short funeral service and the body will be taken to the Osborne cemetery for burial. , Mr. Phillips’ death was very sudden. He worked nights in the car shops at Burnham and returned from his work Monday morning and retired to bed. A few hours later he suffered a hemorrhage, which produced apoplexy and death occurred Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock. He has no children but is survived by his wife,’ who is a daughter of W. H. Randle and wife He was related to many Rensselaer people, his mother, the widow of Fleming Phillips, now living with her daughter, Mrs. Rlshling, at the advanced age of 85 years.

Funeral of William Greenfield To Be Held Friday Morning.

The funeral of William Greenfield will be held Friday morning st 11:30 o’clock at the M. E. church in Ren* selaer, being conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper. Interment will be made in Weston cemetery. f

Obituary of Mrs. George D. Mustard

Elizabeth Frost, the oldest of a family of three children born to Alfred and Mary Frost, was borii 1 in Green county, Pa., Dec. 29, 1831, and died in Rensselaer, Ind., April 30, 1913, after a week’s illness, aged 81 years, 4 months and 1 day. She was united in marriage to George D. Mustard, June 8, 1852. Six children were born to'this union, three of whom are living, viz. John W., of Goodland; Charles H., of St. Anne,“lll.; and Mrs. Sylvester Gray, of Rensselaer. The husband also survives, and there are ten grandchildren, and a nephew, Charles Frost, of Mammoth, Ark., and a niece, Mrs. Albert Thompson, of Denver, Colo. Mrs. Mustard moved from Pennsylvania to near Ottawa, 111., and resided there until about twentyfive years ago when they removed to Jasper county. After a residence Of a few years they removed to Goodland and then to Rensselaer about nine years ago. When the infirmaries of age began to tell upon them, they abandoned housekeeping and have for five years resided with Mr. and Mrs. Gray. Mrs. Mustard was a woman of sterling character and was a devoted member of the M. E. church, of which she had been a member since 1851.

For any itching skin trouble, piles, eczema, salt rheum, hives, scald head, herpes, scabies, Doan’s Ointment is highly recommended. 50c a box at all stores. 4 cans String Beans, Hominy, Corn or Pumpkin for 25c. Phone 95, Rowles & Parker’s. ‘ Mrs. L. A. Bostwick is selling the Spirella corset. Phone 549. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Notice During remodeling of store front, business will go on uninterrupted We are giving Special Prices on all Ladies’ Suits and Coats. An opportunity to buy a High-Grade Garment at a Low Price. Do not allow a little debris to keep you from coming in. More anxious than ever to do business. Fair * . • I •

WILL EXHIBIT AT RENSSELAER Not Until A Saturday, MAY lu

WEATHER FORECAST.

Local rains tonight or Friday; colder Friday in north and central portions. . • '

Tom Eigelsbach Gets Still Another Promotion.

Tom Eigelsbach, who has been an employe for the past thirteen years of the Chicago Street Railway Co., and who has received several promotions from time to time, has just been elevated to the position of division superintendent, which will place him at the head of 18,000 employes and give him added responsibilities, which he is well able to assume. Tom is marching to the front with the spirit of determination that has caused so many Rensselaer young men to scale the ladder to success and The Republican joins his many friends tn wishing him still further promotions.

Marriage Licenses.

Chas. E. Shines born Pulaski county, July 21, 1880, present residence Winamac, occupation chiropractor, and Margaret J, Debo, born Remington, Oct. 18, 1886, present residence Remington, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Menno Chupp, born Jasper county, March 12, 1889, present residence Surrey, occupation farmer, and Fennie Hostettler, born Elkhart, IndApril 1, 1892, present residence Surrey, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Attention K. of P’s.

We will observe Mother’s Day Sunday, May 11th, and you are requested to assemble in the Castle Hall promptly at nine o’clock a. m., at which time each member will receive a carnation. A short program has been arranged. Come. THE COMMITTEE.

“The Girl of the Golden West,” which is the offering of the Lyric Players this evening at the Ellis opera house, promises to be one of the theatrical treats of the season. This company, who have made so many friends during their engagement by the clever performances they have been giving the Rensselaer pcpple, and, promise something out of the ordinary this evening. “The Girl of the Golden West” is one of the most talked of successes of recent years, and this is the first opportunity the patrons of the Ellis Theatre have had to see this production. There will be only one performance. It will start immediately after the band concert. The seats are on sale at the box office of the theatre. The prices are ten, twenty and thirty cents. Those who miss this will without a doubt miss one of the best things seen here this season.—Adv. PANAMA HATS—Cleaned, Blocked, New Sweatband. Your hat refinished as good as new. For the accommodation of our many customers, we will express every Wednesday for the month of May, old Panama hats to be cleaned and refinished. This includes Men's and Ladies’ Panama hats as well as Men’s fine felt hats. TRAUB & BELIG.

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