Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hehry Phillips, of Newland, deceived a, telegram this morning in’iorming him of the death of his father at Cornwall, Ontario, Can. Patriotic people will be inspired by the Princess show tonight. One of the films is the “Flag of Two Wars.” , Mr. and Mrs. George Gautheir and two daughters returned to Chicago today after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hartley, the ladies being sisters. J. E. Roach, of Chattsworth, 111., who accompanied his home town ball team to Goodland yesterday, and then came on to Rensselaer with his old friend, William Traub, remained here over night.

The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kurrie, which was quite sick the first of the week, is now much better and apparently has passed the crisis and will have no further trouble. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young is to continue as superintendent of Chicago’s public schools. Her decision was announced yesterday following the refusal of the board of education by a vote of 14 to 1 to accept her resignation. Mrs. Blanche Sigler and two children, of Tulsa, Okla., who have been visiting her mother, Mrs. W. S. Coen, went to Kersey yesterday to visit the family of Frank E. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis came for them in their automobile. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Epworth League at Indianapolis yesterday, Buffalo, N. Y., was awarded the next meeting, July 1-5, 1914, of the quadrennial convention of the Epworth League of the World; Trustee Tunis Snip was down from Keener township today. He has just received a catalogue of the county fair to be held this month at Lamar, Mo„ where he has a brother living. His brother, by the way, is in charge of the cattle and dairy stock exhibit. Trustee Snip hopes to attend the fair this year.

Rensselaer and vicinity did not get any rain Thursday afternoon or night as had been promised. It was cloudy much of the time and had the appearance of rain, but rain did not come. There must have been rain not very far a way, however, as the temperature is very "much cooler. In Tippecanoe county there was quite a storm at 1:30 o’clock Thursday, quite a severe wind and hail storm occurred. Three thrashers took refuge under the separator and the lightning struck near the machine and all were severely shocked. The Purdue orchards were wrecked, grain damaged and tomato vines stripped. Several trees on the Purdue campus were blown down.

Milroy Park is certainly a very beautiful place and it has been admirably attended this year by Tom Cox, who keeps the grass cropped short and everything welt tended. Parks are not much patronized in small cities but there is only one time to acquire them and that is when the towns are small. They cost too much later on. If the plans contemplated by the petition for the purchase of a city park are carried out, it would be a fine thing if the Strong tract could be purand then the old Kannal property now owned by F. M. Parker at the corner of College and Milroy avenues. The old house could be torn away and the premises made very attractive. As the Strong tract extends to the river across from the cemetery, a driveway could be established along the river bank and two approaches to the cemetery made. If the real estate can be bought at a reasonable price the city should lose no time in contracting fbr it.

Editor Bartoo, of the Remington Press, evidently desiring to injure the writer, gives us a conspicious place in the mention of the ball game at Remington last Sunday. Editor Bartoo lies with a grace equal to his lack of information. He states that the writer is the business manager of the Athletics ball team. That is absolutely false as we have nothing whatever to do with the business management. He states that at the end of the seventh inning the writer made a demand for 60 per cent of the gate receipts. That is absolutely false. George H. Healey, to whom he made reference and who is the writer of this paragraph, made no such demand. He had nothing to do In any manner with the business settlement, did not meet the manager or acting manager of the Remington team, or negotiate with any person regarding the gate money, and did not even know on what terms the game was played nor what the receipts were. He was at the game merely by the chance of having been asked by County Auditor Hammond to take his daughter and go to Remington with Mr. Hammond and his wife. The charge is not a very serious one, but as the writer did no more than watch the game, as some three hundred other people did, it is easy to see in the tone of Bartoo the desire to misrepresent and a willingness to He right and left to accomplish that end. Fairness would result in a correction, but from long acquaintance with mqshfooted Horace we hardly expect him to do anything that smacks of fairness.