Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — Page 4

twssiFiEO mnim kins fob cuanrm) ana. S two of The Semi-Weekly Republican, 25 cent*. Additionalspace pro rata. fob sale. FOR SALE—IO acres near station and school, on stone road, 30 acres in corn, 5-room house, fruit, well, and all good land. Price $55. Terms SSOO down; might take live stock.— G. F. Meyers. ’ ' . * FOR SALE—Great Western manure spreader; practically good as new.—Ed Goetz, Phone 519-E. FOR SALE—Fine lot of Home Grown Asters. All colors. Only 50 cents. King Floral Co. FOR SALE—Holdridge Clark property, 6 rooms, 2 lots, plenty of fruit; inquire of T. W. Grant. FOR SALE—Household 2rticks, including base burner, wood stove, cook stove, mattresses, springs, chairs, table, etc. T. W. Grant. FOR SALE—At a bargain if taken at once and paid for in ‘cash or negotiable paper; two good 5-room houses, located in the west part of town. Well rented; good wells; fruit; one has barn. John Schanlaub, Phone 535-B. FOR SALE—I have about 9,000 acres of good farm land, improved and unimproved, for sale at private sale. For particulars call at the office of the late Benj. J. Gifford, in the Odd Fellows building, Rensselaer, Ind.—George H. Gifford, Executor. FOR SALE—Four choice building sots, all near the court house Kut in different locations; all choice buildlag lots on stone streets. Leslie Clark, at The Republican office. WANTED. WANTED—GirI for general houso work. Mrs. G. F. Meyers. WANTED—You to list with me your farms for sale. I have a call now for 80 acre and 160 acre tracts; Harvey Davisson, office in Leopold building. WANTED—Furnished rooms for light housekeeping- R A. Overmore, Western Union office. LOST. LOST—A Phi Alpha Phi frat pin, diamond shaped and set with 16 pearls. Reward for return to Leonard Elder or Republican office. FOB BENT. FOR RENT—Two furnished or unfurnished rooms with lights anti bath. Good large rooms. Want to rent right away. Only one block from Main street. Inquire of Mrs. B. G. Oglesby. FOR BENT—Furnished rooms for school girls.—Mrs. Mary Peyton, phone 487. FOUND. FOUND—A Presto-Lite tank off automobile. Inquire here. FOUND—Baby’s or small child’s gold ring; has piece of cord attached. Call here. W. H. DEXTEB. W. H. Dexter will pay 27 cents for Butterfat this week. FABM LOANS. FARM LOANS —I make farm loans at lowest rates of interest Bee me about ten year loan without commission. John A. Dunlap. MISCELLANEOUS. PIANO TUNING—See Otto Braun, who will guarantee satisfaction in all of his work. EXCURSION TO Louisville SUNDAY, AlttUSt 24 VIA THE MONON ROUTE Stations Time Rate Rensselaer 5:30 $1.75 Pleasant Grove 5:39 1.75 McCoysburg 5:4T 1.75 Lee 5:51 1.75 Returning Special Train leaves Louisville at 11:00 p. m., Sunday, August 24, 1913. CASTORIA Jte Infants and flhiHrm. Ito KN Yn Rm Mwip tajtt Beam W? Order your Calling Cards at The offl *

Band concert tonight R Phone 273 for feed and coal Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig made a trip to Chicago today. Born, today, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Perkins, a daughter. Ivah Healey is spending today with Mrs. Lee Rardin at Parr. Mrs. John Kolhoff and Miss Leona Kolhoff made a trip to Lafayette today. Buy Thrashing Coal at Harring ton Bros, elevator. Phone 7. Born, this Wednesday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hemphill, a daughter. A good line of baskets specially bought, specially priced at the Home Grocery. Miss Gladys Grant went to Hammond today to spend a week with Miss Ethel Fisher. Miss Geneve Reynolds went to Elkhart this morning fpr a visit of two weeks with relatives and friends. County Auditor and Mrs. Hammond and son, Maurice, returned yesterday from Wheatfield, where they had been since Saturday. Miss Bel Laßue has gone to Marion to join a party of friends, fifteen couples in all, who will spend a week or more at Lake Tippecanoe, near Leesburg. Special for Saturday, Aug. 23, and Monday, Aug. 25, a can of Mennen’s Talcum Powder for 10c, with a 50c purchase or over, at the New 5 and 10 Cent Store. Frank and Harry Kresler, W. J. Wright and Geo. W. Hopkins spent yesterday fishing on the Kankakee river and caught a total of 92 catfish and goggle-eyes. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke went to Hammond this morning and will visit there and attend the Lake county fair at Crown Point during the remainder of the week. Mrs. Mary J. Cole came from Lafayette this morning to visit her sister, Mrs. J. P. Warner, and her brother, F. W. Bedford, who has been in quite poor health lately.

Remember, that the band concert will be held tonight instead of Thursday night, and that many will go to Fountain Park tomorrow to hear the world-famous Innis band.

Dale Thompson left today for a visit at Appleton, Wis., after a visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall. From there he will return to his home in Kansas City. .

The Unique Club of the Pythian Sisters will meet Friday afternoon of this week with Mrs. W. A. Davenport, the postponement from Thursday being occasioned by the Innes band being at Fountain Park Thursday.

Mrs. Charles Kasson, of Hammond, who has been visiting in Lafayette and Battle Ground, stopped off the 10:12 train this morning to visit today with her daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant, at the home of Mrs. Mattie Grant.

An 8-month-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haste died at Fair Oaks Tuesday morning of cholera infantum. The funeral took place this afternoon at 4 o’clock, Zern Wright going there this morning to superintend burial.

E. E. West and wife and their three children, of Bridgeport, 111., have been here for the past week visiting his mother, Mrs. James West and family and today all went to Thayer to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Mann Spitler.

Miss Emma Rishling returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where she had attended the millinery opening. She has secured a position as trimmer in a leading millinery store at Lebanon and will go there about the first pf September.

E. V. Ransford, formerly a Rensselaer merchant, is now engaged in the grocery business at Streator, 111., and is doing splendidly according to his son-in-law, George Thornton. He runs a non-delivery, cutprice store, has four clerks and keeps them all busy.

Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton and baby, of Kankakee, 111., are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton, at Surrey. George bas a good position with the-Inter-national Harvester Co., and is in the advertising department, where the prospects of promotion are very good.

The body of Joe Klassen, 18 years old, of Laporte, was taken from Stone Lake Monday after his bicycle and clothing were found on the bank by boys who had returned to the Stone Lake swimming hole. Klassen presumably went Into the water to .cool off and Jost his life when he wertt into a deep hole.

Blackbirds, forced to leave their feeding grounds elsewhere by the drought, have appeared in Pike county in largo numbers and in flocks ofthousands swoop down into corn fields, eating everything in flight. Farmers have organized and are guarding their fields with shotguns. Hundreds of the birds have been shot and killed. Try ottr Olaaalfled Column-

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

TULSA MAN ADOPTS 300 BOYS AND GIRLS

Millionaire in Oklahoma Oil City Doing Wonderful Thing For Poor Children. Tulsa, Okla., is a rapidly growing city, owing to the oil industries there. Several. Rensselaer people are located there and Rensselaer has heard a great deaf-olTuls^/ during recent years. Attentioh-is called to it now by the fact that Charles Page, a millionaire of that city, has adopted a means of spending his money that is certain to result in much good to society. Mrs.. Blanche Sigler, of Tulsa, who is now visiting her mother, Mrs. WJ S. Coen, has handed The Republican the following clipping, which tells of Mr. Page’s plan. It reads: “Every poor child in Tulsa, Okla., is singing the praises of Charles Page, a local millionaire, through whose generosity they are privileged to enjoy a daily outing during the hot summer months, and who has adopted into a home'lle has founded 300 poor children, and hopes to increase the number to a thousand. Near the village of SAnd Springs, a suburb of Tulsa, Mr. Page owns six thousand acres. He has converted eighty acres of the forest into one of the most complete parks in America, particular attention being paid to a playground for children. An interurban railroad owned by Mr. Page connects the village and park with the city. Every morning a special ear takes every child who cares to go to the park and bringsg them back in the evening free of charge. The larger boys in the permanent home on the estate work on the farm in the summer. The larger girls work a number of hours each day during the fruit season, canning fruit for the home. Mr. Page says that he intends to devote nearly all of his five millions to the perpetuation by endowment of his children’s home, which is to shelter, support, and educate a thousand children of the poor. What a blessed charity. Now and in the centuries to come, he will hear these words of the divine Master: J“‘lnasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matt. 25:40.)”

Attorney William Darroch and Jacob White and son, George, „were Rensselaer visitors today, John Van A. McMurray, of the District of Columbia, was Monday nominated by President Wilson for secretary of legation at Pekin, China. Trustee William Hazell and family, of Jefferson township, Newton county, where Kentland is located, passed through -Rensselaer today from Winamac to Monterey, where they had been visiting relatives since Sunday. The Rensselaer public schools will open the first Monday in September, which is September Ist. All of the teachers have been elected with one exception and when that position is filled a more complete article will be published concerning the plans for the year. County Clerk Perkins arrived home this morning from his eastern trip. In company with his brother from Mishawaka he visited Niagara Falls and Lake George. They had planned a longer trip, but his brother was not well and they decided to return home. M. T. Goss, the supervisor of agents for the sale of Michigan automobiles, has been demonstrating cars in this vicinity for the past two weeks and has created a very favorable opinion for his cars among auto owners and experts. The writer had a fine ride in his 5-passenger brown colored car Monday and in our inexperienced way we can give the highest endorsement of the Michigan. It went up hills, through sand and mud, better than any car we had ever ridden behind.

Jelly Glasses, 3 for 5c at the new 5 and 10 Cent Store, opposite court house.

A. L. Padgitt had shipped back from Lawrenceburg, where his brother, Frank, had a fatal accident, four race horses, which Frank had at the track. Frank had no record to show to whom the horses belonged, but apparently all but one belonged to him. One has been claimed by a man in Georgia, who will come here jitter it. One of the horses Frank owned has a record of 2:19 and is capable of developing a somewhat faster speed. The horses are being exercised here every day.

Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clouse returned last night froifi a ten days’ visit with their eon, Wayne, at Omaha, Neb. Wayne is a streetcar motorman and is <he heaveywelght of the Clouse family, weighing 236 pounds. Things were very hot and dusty in Nebraska, not enough rain to lay the dust during the time they were there. Early corn seems about done up but the late corn has a chance to make a fair crop. Through lowa and Illinois it was spotted, very dry in places and again very good, but it was not until they reached Jasper county on their return trip that he saw one excellent field of corn after another and Mr. Clouse said this morning that they were glad to get home again. Try our Classified Column.

$20 IS LIMIT OF ROAD TAX LABOR

If Individual or Corporation Owes More It Must Be Paid in Cash t —What Law Provides. Twenty dollars is the limit, under thp new road tax law, which any taxpayer may work out in road taxes in any township, and this fact has been made clear by the state accounting department in a letter written to. David S. Koons, township trustee at Cowan. The letter reads: “No taxpayer may, under the existing law, work out more than S2O of road taxes in the township. The law does not apply to districts, but to the township as a whole, and S2O is the limit that county treasurers may give any taxpayer credit for on such account.” Under the old road tax law, which was repealed by the new law of 1913, any taxpayer could work out all his road tax instead of paying It in cash. This system produced a huge system of graft because many of the large taxpayers, such as railroads and other big corporations, “farmed out” their road tax under contract to road contractors who did the work for them. It was charged for years that under this system the townships did not receive the amount of work on their roads that they were entitled to, but that in many instances the work actually done did not amount to more than 60 per cent of the amount of the road tax. Some persons have had the idea that the new law means that a taxpayer may work out S2O worth of road tax in each road district of the township, but the state accounting department says this is not the correct interpretation of the law. The part of the new statute which relates to this subject reads as follows, being the first part of section 18 of House Bill 603, published on page 871 of the acts of 1913: ‘The township advisory board, on an estimate made by the township trustee, shall levy annually oh or before the first Tuesday in June, a road tax of not more than 30 cents on each SIOO to be levied according to the amount of real and personal property owned in such township, outside the corporate cities and towns subject to taxation for road purposes, to be collected as other taxes are collected, except all road taxes are to be collected with the first yearly insta'llment of taxes: Provided, that any person or corporation owing taxes so assessed on real estate shall be permitted to work out the same up to the amount of S2O as nearly as practicable in the road district in which such real estate lies, and on taxes so assessed on personal property the person owing the same shall be permitted to work out the same up to the amount of S2O in the district where the owner resides. Said tax to be worked out at the rate of $1.50 per day for each man.” The state accounting department is of the opinion that the law is sufficiently plain to inform any one of its meaning. Another point in regard to the care of highways was the subject of a letter which the department wrote to W. F. Smith, township trustee at Pittsburg, Ind. The letter says: ‘Township trustees have no duty to perform with respect to roads that are under the supervision of the board of county commissioners acting as a board of turnpike directors. The cutting of weeds along such roads is a matter for the attention of the superintendent assigned thereto.”

Mrs. Frank Hayes Died At Marion; Funeral Held Here.

The body of Mrs. Frank M. Hayes arrived here ’Tuesday evening from Marion, where dfeath occurred Sunday morning. -She was 59 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes lived for several years in Barkley township, east of the former Blackford postoffice. They moved to Marion about -six years ago. Mrs. William Florence, of Union township, a daughter of the deceased, went to Marion last Saturday and returned here Monday to make arrangements for the funeral, which is being held this Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Christian church. Burial in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Hayes leaves a husband and ten children, namely, William F., John G., and Mrs. William Florence, of Jasper county; Thomas Hayes, of Bangor, Mich.; Henry Hayes, of Acme, N. Dak.; Mrs. Bert Layman, of Lafayette; and Leonard, Harry, Gifford and Pearl, who lived with the parents at Marian.

New Chrysanthemum Named For The President’s Wife.

“Mrs. Wilson” is the name of a >aa»type of chrysanthemum which has been developed by the experts of the department of agriculture for the department’s annual autumn flower show. Named in honor of the wife of the President, the new bloom is said to be magnificent specimen. Other striking blooms have been christened “Margaret,” “Jessie” and “Eleanor,” after the three daughters of President and Mrs. Wilson. The President and every member of his family are great lovers of flowers.

To find ■ buyer tor your property, um • claMlfled adv. In this paper.

ffIIMCES 'J IN KANKAKEE

POPULAR EVENT AT THE PAIR w L j Trotting, Pacing and Running Races a Feature of the Interstate Fair—Big Guarantee Fast Racea? The new guaranteed racing plan of the Kankakee Interstate State fair promises to attract an aggregation oft record-breakers. The race meeting at Kankakee on September 1 to 6, Inelusive, will draw the attention of ail followers of the racing sport Every afternoon there will be a program of racing beginning at one o'clock and continuing until probably tour o’clock or after. The dally program with the races and purses follows:

DAILY RACING PROGRAM. ’■ mu i Every Race Guaranteed to Go. MONDAY SEPTEMBER L 2:10 Pace $1,000.00 2:15 Trot 400.00 2:25 Pace 400.00 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 2r15 Pace ...$ 400.00 Three-year-old Trot ......... 300.00 Country Road Race......... 50.00 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 2:21 Trot $1,000.00 2:20 Pace 400.00 1:11 Pace 400.00 v THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 2:24 Pace ....$1,000.00 2:16 Trot 400.00 Three-year-old Pace.......... 300.00 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 2:03 Pace . $ 400.00 2:12 Trot ... 400.00 < Running Race Program. Stalls free to horses that run. Monday—One-half-mile run and repeat, SIOO.OO. Tuesday—One-fourth mile run, pony, $15.00. One-half mile dash, $50,00. Wednesday—One mile run, SIOO.OO. Thursday—One-half mile run and repeat, SIOO.OO. One-half mile mule race, $50.00. Friday—One-half mile run for horses that have not received first money during this, meeting, $50.00. Purses divided %0, 25 and 15 per cent. Sure Pay. Horsemen should remember that entries tn these races do not close until August .26, and that they may enter any time before then. Those who have not before attended this meeting can learn from their associates who have, that the management at Kankakee are a crowd of good fellows, and that they are as square as any men can' possibly be. Every race advertised Is guaranteed to go. •

FAIR HAS HIGH PURPOSE.

Improve Life qf Community. About this time of the year the Kankakee Interstate fair is advertising that it willhoM Its exposition September first to fifth. Amid all this advertising the observer may ask the purpose of such a fair. He "will be answered that a fair has an important purpose. Before all else it is an educational institution of the most successful type. It teaches by object lessons. This method of teaching we believe to be the most successful because it teaches without requiring ;a great deal of effort on the part of him who Is taught. At the fair, let un say, a man sees a new corn shieUer working. To learn from a written description how It works would require much timemuch study; and then one would not be certain that he understood the workings. But when the actual, working machine is before our eyes, we can grasp Its principle and judge of Its practicability Instantly. Thus, the interstate fair teaches the farmers of the newest InnovationsCln labor-saving and crop-increasing machinery. Stimulates Pqogreoa. In another way the J fair aids in Improving agricultural, progress. It arouses the fanner's . ambition. Nothing so stirs a man as-to see others doing a thing well. Where is the tamer who, when he sees his. neighbor producing better corn and raising better stock than be, does not set out to grow corn and raise horses that will surpass those of even hte neighbor? Men try to do what their neighbors do; but thefc try to do it better. At the fair the farmer sees what his neighbors have done in growing good, healthy ears of corn; he sees .their fat swine; he sees what can. be done in the breeding of choice l**e stock A fair plus a farmer eqaalJuggW csopa and bettor live steak., A 7” <

Ellis Theatre One Night Only Saturday, Aug. 23 Sis Perkins’’ A Comedy in Four Acts With Special Scenery and Effects Two Hours of Solid Fun > Everybody Likes SIS Not a Dull Moment A Good Laugh Better than Medicine C IC Has made millions CT C IO laugh, is funny, 010 you all know, now better than ever Prices 25c,'SSc, 50c DhnnA GQ

.=-=—IL. ."L ■■■ --5. FT Chicago to northwest, Indianapolis Cincinnati, and the South, - Xmuls▼tile and Trench Uok Springs. ■SWRIIVT, SVU TTMTW TIIIT.V In effect June 28, 1913. NORTHBOUND ~ No. 36 4:44 am No. 4 4:58 am No. 40 . ....7:33 am No. 32 .10:12 am No. 38 ... 3:29 pm No. 6 .. .............3:39 pm No. 30 6:02 pm No. 16 6:22 pm SOUTHBOUND No. 35 12:13 am No. 31 4:44 am No. 15 10:54 am' No. 37 .. . 11:32 am No. 5 12:16 pm No. 33 ............2:00 pm No. 39 6:22 pm No. 3 ~.. 11:05 pm

A True Tead Story. Mother put a dish of cornmeal and water by the doorsteps for the little gjdoks; but they did not come, and the files all came to have a party. A hungry toad happened to pass by. “Oh, dear,” he thought, “I want some files for breakfast, but they will all leave If Igo there. What shall I dot” He took another hop and stopped to think a moment “I know,” he seemed to say; and can you guess what he did? He hopped into the middle of the dish, took his hands and patiently rubbed the cornmeal over his body till nothing was to be seen but a lump of cornmeal and a pair of bright black eyes. The flies soon gathered again to eat but were eaten Instead. Was this not a wise old toad T—Primary Education. 4 ■ Ml. I ITT i , Gueer Trees. The banyan trees in India are very curious. After the branches are about twenty feet long they,bend and , strike root In the ground. These send out branches which in tun bend down and strike root. In this way a whole forest has been made from one tree. The oow tree grows in South America. Its branches are bare and appear to be dead. This, however, is not true, for If you eut little notches in the trunk, there will flow out a liquid which looks and tastes like milk. People living In the neighborhood '®e every morning to get their supply of mflk for the day.—Sunday School Advocate. Commissioner General Caminetti of the immigration bureau will investigate conditions at the Ellis Island Immigration station with a special board. Complaints against food will be taken up first. Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, Monday proposed an amendment to the tariff bill to spend the proceeds 6f the Income tax on good roads. Each state would appropriate an amount equal to its share of the income tax. The United States will facilitate a court test of the California antialien land law, but the initiative must come from some aggrieved Japanese representative. President Wilson let it be known Monday that such was the status of the Japanese situation. comm boabd ot nvaanoa. Trustees Tewnship Wtn. Folger Barkley O’ 'flee May Carpenter J. W. Selmer Gillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wertley «... Jordan Tunis Snip ..I Keener John Bhlrer ........Kankakee H. W. Wood. Jr. Marlon George Lu Parks Milroy E. P. Lane Newton Isaac Kight Union Albert 8. Keene ....Wheatfield Prod Kerch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Bupt... .Rensselaer Geo. A. Williams Rahsmlaor James H. Green Remington G-w. O. Btembel Wheatfield Truant Officer. C. B. Steward. Rensselaer Plain or printed Butter Wrappers, at this office.