Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

'Erastus B. Kunkle, wealthy manufacturer, and widely known as the inventor of a safety valve for steam boilers, died Saturday at his home in Ft. Wayne after an extended illness. He was 76 years old. An ordinance fixing the legal maximum time a horse may be worked at ten hours a day wiU be introduced in the city council at Kansas City, Mo., tonight. The ordinance was framed by the Kansas City Humane society. Miss Addye Griffith, of Macon, 111., who has been in deaconness work in Chicago, came toda/to take up work with the Monnett-De Peyster school, and will he one of the teachers the-ensuing year. Doris Nicholson, one of the pupils, went to Aurora, IIL, yesterday on a vacation trip. She will return to reenter the school in September. County Clerk Judson H. Perkins left this morning for Bolton Landing, N. Y., where he will visit his sister. His brother, R. E. Perkins, of Mishawaka, accompanied him. Their father was born at Bolton Landing, which is on Lake George, but Clerk Perkins had never been there. They plan to be absent about two weeks and to make a number of side trips,, probably taking a trip down the Hudson. R. E. Foster arrived this morning from Des Moines, lowa, where he has been spending the summer vacation. He is a member of the Harry Green company and has been with the company through seven years of “Eli & %ane” and “The Town Fool.” Harry will arrive Wednesday and the company will all come here and get ready for the second season of “The Town Pool,” whlhc opened here last year and enjoyed a big run throughout the season. Harry is the real laugh of the season and the livest wire en tour.

A commercial auto truck, having fifteen Chicago couples as passengers, was turned over in a ditch near the .Nickle Plate tracks in at an early hour Sunday morning. The young people had been out for an all-night revelry, spending It at a pleasuer resort in Lake county. The wreck was caused by the driver of the truck loosing his hold on the wheel of the car while bending over to kiss one of the girls. All thirty of the passengers wer« spilled out and white duck trousers, slit ekirts, open-work hose,, arms and legs were in a tangle that It took some time to unravel. Twelve of the passengers were more or less Injured, only one seriously. A young man named Martin Roy, cut his eye on a broken beer bottle and will probably lose the sight of It.