Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1913 — Page 1

No. 218.

Assigns Reason For His Opposition to Babcock.

Editor Republican: The report is coming to me every day that 'Mr. Babcoek is still repeating the story that there was an understanding between Mr. Littlefield and jnyself that in case Littlefield was chosen postmaster the postoffice was to be removed to she block opposite the eourt house. Now, no conversation ever passed between myself and Mr. Littlefield concerning such removal except what was said in the presence of Mr. Babcock when we went to him to inform him of his misinformation in the matter. Now if Mr. Babcock is still repeating this story he does so knowing It to be untrue. It might be of interest to the patrons of the office to know why so many democrats favor Mr. Littlefield over Mr. Babcock. To such we will refer them to the records on file, in the clerk’s office, wherein it is set forth in. answer to his complaint in a suit brought by Mr. Babcock against the proprietors of The Rensselaer Republican, that during the years he (Babcock) was making* such claims as being the taxpayers’ friend he was at the same time in collusion (or rather a conspiracy with G. E. Marshall) to hold, up the taxpayers of Rensselaer for a large price for public printing, and that he (Babcock) did receive thirty per cent of the amount of such printing done by Marshall and for which Babcock rendered no service at all. For the penalty of such act see the revised statutes of Indiana which makes it a flneable offense in the sum of one thousand dollars. Mr. Babcoek, on seeing this answer to his complaint, suddenly withdrew his suit, and so far as I know has never met the question in any way. It is this receiving the people’s money without rendering any service for it that eliminates Babcock from the race for the post office. J. A. McFARLAND.

Mew Bridge to Be Built Over Kankakee at Water Valley.

The Lake county council appropriated $43,000 for a new bridge over the Kankakee river at Water Valley. This will be about four-fifths of the cost, the balance coming from Newton county. The Lake county council itfade appropriations for other bridges, including one over the Kankakee at Schneider in the sum of $25,000. Ten thousand was appropriated, for the old fair grounds and the new park at Crown Point.

No. 32 Will Stop at Lowell Next Sunday.

On account of ball game between Rensselaer and Lowell passenger train No. 32, due here at 10:12 a. m.. will stop at Lowell next Sunday, Sept. 14th. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Be sure and see the fine line of fall and winter suits and overcoats on display at Duvall’s Quality Shop. They are dandies. C. EARL DUVALL.

Baptist Church.

Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Evening service 7:30 p. m. Wednesday: Prayer meeting at 7:30 p. m. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. Mary Peyton at 2:30 p. m. on Saturday. We welcomoyou to worship with us. R. B. WRIGHT, Pastor. Milwaukee & Osborne Corn binders sold by HAMILTON & KELLNER Come in and see our beautiful new hats. All the latest creations. MARY MEYER HEALY.

We take great pleasure in inviting you to call at our store on \ Tuesday September 16th A representative of The City Tailors of Chicago will be here with over 200 Patterns of Fine Woolens in the piece , from which we ask you to make your selection for your new Fall and Winter Suit . r Fit and workmanship guaranteed. You will find it to your interest to call and have your measure taken TRAUB & SELIG Rensselaer, Indiana

The Evening Republican.

CHRISTIE GIVES A LITTLE ADVICE

Members of Chamber of Commeriff Are Told by Purdue Man to Advertise Their State. “Advertise Indiana,” suggested Prof.. G. I. Christie in an address before the ways and means committee of the Chamber of Commerce, at Indianapolis. Prof. Christie discussed the relation of the business man to the farmer, and showed that only in. eo-operation between city and country workers can the best interests of the state be conserved. “Today there is only one county which has an exhibition at the state fair,” said ‘T am working to that end, and'hope to see the time when there shall be an agricultural building at the state fair ground, to which every year each county in the state will send an industrial and agricultural exhibition.” The prosperity of the business life was dependent on the prosperity of the farms, said Christie. ‘The business man,” he said, “is interested in the farmer for two reasons; because the farm is the great source of the state’s food supply, and because of the great money returns of which the farm and the farmer is the basis.” The farmer, he said, was an individualist. He lacked the co-opera-tion which the business interests of the cities were able to form in their relations with each other. The chamber of commerce in Indianapolis and other cities, by the establishment of county agricultural agents, which has now been done in many of the counties, he said, could be of great service in bringing the' farmer and ttye business man together. They could help, he said, in stopping the shifting population of the rural districts, many farmers leaving the state and moving to others where the advantages had been demonstrated to them, and leaving the land behind, them in the hands of the younger and uneducated farmer. Prof. Christie pointed out that the farmer must be educated in better management of his farm, and made to see that all the advantages of city life might be transferred to the country, and that his children might receive the same education there as in the city. Not only the increase of his wealth, but the betterment of his social conditions were within the range of the assistance which the chamber of commerce could render to the producer of the state’s, wealth. Prof. Christie said agriculture was formerly the predominant interest of the state, but that the great class of manufacturing interests had been developed in late years. The value of the corn crop this year, he said, would be about $90,000,000. Sixty per cent of the deposits in the outlying banks came from the farm. The city banks had found that a large per cent of their reserve came from the outlying banks.

Athletics to Play Lowell Team Next Sunday Afternoon.

The Athletics will go to Lowell Sunday to play the team of that town. Lowell has played two games here this year,, winning onq and losing another. It is quite probable that a number will follow the Athletics Sunday, as Lowell people/ usually come here in large numbers whenever the teams meet. To accommodate the players and the fans Agent Beam has arranged, to have No. 32, due here at 10:12 in the morning, stop at Lowell. The return trip will be made at 6:22. Bottled sunlight sold and installed in suburban homes by the Watson Plumbing Co., Phone 204.

Entered Janaary 1, 1897, as second class mall matter, at the post-offlea at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of If arch 8, 18781

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAT, September 12, 1913.

CLERKS BENEFITED BY RECENT RULING

'Accounting Board Decides in Favor of,County Clerks and Fees May Be Retained. Clerks in many counties the State will be benefited by an opinion given by the state board of accounts in regard to the law enacted by the legislature of 1913, legalizing the retention by clerks of many thousands of dollars in fees under an act passed by the legislature of 1909, but which afterward was held by the courts to be invalid. 'finder the fee and salary law of 1895 the county clerk was required to turn all fees collected by him into the county treasury, and they became the property of the county. The legislature in 1909 passed a bill giving the county clerk more than fifty per cent of the fees charged and collected by him. Under this 1909 act many of the clerks retained the fees which the act gave them, while others turned the fees collected county treasury until the constitutionality of the 1909 law could be tested in the courts. The test case was filed and the courts held the act unconstitutional. This continued in force the act of 1895. This left up in the air the clerks who had retained the fees, for it placed them in position where they might be required to pay the money into the county treasury. To prevent this the clerks organized a lobby and worked for the passage of the legalizing act at the 1913 session.

William J. Kelley, who was clerk Of Ripley county, was one of the clerks that paid the fees collected into the county treasury. After the legalizing act of 1913 became a law he prepared an itemized statement of these fees to which he believed he was entitled- The bill amounted to something like $520. Ho presented the bill to J. Francis Loehard, county auditor and asked for a warrant for the amount. Lochard declined to issue the warrant until after the state accounting board had advised him whether he was justified in doing so. Lochard went to Indianapolis a few days ago and laid the matter before the accounting department, and Millard F. Cox, counsel for the department, has written him a letter holding that Kelley is entitled to recover the fees from the county. Cox’s letter is as follows;

“This department has considered the question submitted. Under the terms of the 1909 act the fees in question became the- property .of the clerk when collected: This act was declared to be invalid, with the result that the act of 1895 was continued in forca By the express provisions of the latter act the fees in question belonged to the county, and were properly paid into the treasury by the present claimant. But at .the 1913 session of the general assembly another act was passed, fixing a schedule of fees to be taxed and collected by clerks of the circuit court, and concluding with a slwtion containing the following provision relating to fees collected under the act of 1909: ‘AH of the fees so taxed, charged or collected under and pursuant to said aet from and after said 10th day of April, 1909, which by the terms of said act are specified as belonging to or as being the property of the clerks so taxing, charging or collecting same shall be taken and deemed to belong to and be the fimpp.rty nf such clerks and their respective claims thereto are hereby legalized.’ Until the contrary has been judicially declared, this department must assume that the above provisions are a valid exercise of legislative power. If so, the fees for which Mr. Kelley has filed a claim belong to him and he fs entitled. to have them repaid to him by the county upon an allowance being made by the board of county commissioners. Attention is called to the fact, however, that the 1913 act denies to clerks most of the fees attempted to be given to them by the 1909 enactment and specially limits their personal ownership of fees to those received for transcripts, for going after state election ballots, for services in insanity cases and per diem for attendance upon courts.

Operated on Glenn Tanner’s Hand in Chicago Hospital.

• Glenn Tanner, who had the misfortune to so severely injure his left hand in a shotgun accident last January, had that member operated on in St. Luke’s hospital Thursday. The surgeon found that the tendons had been carried away by the charge of shot, which passed diagonally across the palm from above the thumb. The bone was also carried away, and a few particles of dead bone were discovered and removed by the operation. The palm of the hand is little more than scar tissue and will probably never be of apy use to him.

See us before you buy a wagon or buggy.—HAMILTON, & KELLNER.

PROPOSES WATERS GAS PLANT HERE

Promoter Talked With Mayor, the Councilman and Others About Installation of Plant. Arthur J. Smith, of the American Gas Construction Co., of Newton, lowa, was in Rensselaer Thursday and remained over night to discuss with Mayor Meyers, members of the city council and citizens generally a plan to install a water-gas lighting, heating and cqoking plant in thip city.

Mr. Smith has been the assistant superintendent of a plant at Indianapolis and when he stopped off at Rensselaer he was on his way to Dell Rapi,ds, S. Dak., where he will become superintendent of the water and gas plant. Mr. Smith states that water-gas plants are practical in cities not as large as Rensselaer, and that they ean very successfully be run in connection with water and electric light plants. He made an estimate that $20,000 would install a plant here equal to caring for the number of meters apt to be used at the outset. He stated that it would pay as a privately owned plant. The process of water gas making is simple. Coke is blasted to a high heat, then steam is turned on the bottom of the coke, the steam forming hydrogen and the coke the carbon, crude oil is then sprayed on top of hit brick and the gas is formed. It is fine for illuminating purposes, for cooking and for spring and fall heating. A water-gas plant at Ames, lowa, supplies gas for the town of Nevada, 12 miles away. Mr. Smith stated that there are plants in a number of cities of less population than Rensselaer and that users are delighted with the product. The light is considerably cheaper, that electric and for cooking purposes it can not be excelled except by natural gas. He stated that 33 pounds of coke and 3% gallons of crude oil are required to manufacture 1,000 cubic feet of gas. While several were interested, Mr. Smith did not arrange for another meeting with the comicil nor with any possible investors for a stock company.

B. Forsythe Has Mammoth Crop of Onions and Cabbage.

B. Forsythe called at The Republican office with a yellow globe onion that measured 12 inches in circumference and weighed just one pound. It is a "fair sample of a 19acre patch raised by William Whited on the Forsythe farm, 2Vs miles northwest of town . Ed Oliver, who saw the onions, estimates that they Will produce 750 bushels to the acre. Mr. Forsythe also has out 21,000 head of cabbage, which have done only fairly well, owing to worm troubles. The onions and cabbage will be stored in his fine new storage plant in Rensselaer and will be sold when the price looks attractive.

The new fall Bonnets for Men and Boys are now on display at Duvall’s Quality Shop, and the shapes and colors are fine and the quality can not be equaled by any firm in our city for the prices. C. EARL DUVALL.

—-GRAND MILLINERY OPENING 1 ‘ . : • - ‘ £ ./■;/>',/ JK "'V. V'W-'V', Thursday, Friday and Saturday ' » September 18-19-20 Mary Meyer Healy

MAYOR GAYNOR OF NEW YORK DEAD

Succumbed to Sudden Attack of Heart Disease While on Board Ship in the Atlantic. Mayor James W. Gaynor, of New York City, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon ota board the steamship Baltic, on which he had taken passage several days before. He had been in poor health lately and when <a committee waited upon him to inform him of his nomination as an independent candidate he was unable to address them. His voyage was in the hope that the salt air might benefit his health. He expected to be absent only three weeks. The mayor’s death is supposed to have been due to the bullet injury he received about three years ago when Jams J. Gallagher tried to assassinate him. The bullet lodged in the mayor’s neck and had recently been causing him much trouble. He had been mayor of New York for almost four years and had never had a vacation. His son accompanied him on the voyage and was with him when death came. The information was sent to New York by wireless. The body will be returned to New York for burial.

Band Concert Tonight If Weather Continues Favorable.

Rained out last night for the first time during the entire season the Rensselaer Boy’s Band will endeavor to make the weekly concert good by giving it tonight. Bandmaster Braun went to Lowell this morning but will return to direct the concert this evening.

Services at Christian Church.

The following services will be held in the Christian church on Sunday, Sept. 14th: Bible school at 9:30 a. in. Preaching and communion at 10:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Evening services will be held in a union meeting at the Presbyterian church. Morning subject: “The Functioning Forces. of the Bible School Teacher.”

Services at Egypt School House.

Sunday afternoon at the Egypt school house there will be held the following services: Bible School at 2p. m. Preaching by Rev. Winn at 2:30 p. m. Everybody is invited to worship with this people at both of the services named.

Dressmaking.

For plain and fancy dressmaking done at home of customer, phone 316, Miss Alice Parks. :■

Methodist Church.

Communion services at Trinity M. E. church Sunday morning. Union services at the Presbyterian church at pight. Conference Sept. 23rd. All church benevolences are due before that time. Let us all help make a good report.

The swellest line of Neckwear just arrived, all shapes, all colors, beautiful patterns. C. EARL DUVALL.

MOORE & ROBINSON Made to Order Clothing Cleaning Mil Pressing Work called for and delivered First door south of Worland’s Furniture Store Phone 408

WEATHER FOREOAST. l ’ Fair north, unsettled south tonight; Saturday generally lair and slightly cooler.

ROAD SUPERVISOR CHARGED WITH GRAFT

F. M. Goff, of Union Township, Alleged to Have Given Road Receipts to Three. Frank M. Goff, of Fair Oaks, a well known citizen, was arrested by Sheriff Hoover Thursday on three indictments returned by the grand jury. In each case he Ja charged with haying given away road receipts. The beneficiaries of his alleged actions were Jacob Leichty, Frank Stover and Simon OverholA The presumption is that Goff i** ceived money for the road receipts and exempted the persons named from working out a part of their road tax. Goffs bond was placed at SIOO in each case and he was released to procure the same. Another Fair Oaks person to be arrested on a grand jury indictment was Mrs. Lucy Warren, who is alleged to have severely beaten her child. Mrs. Warren is an ardent holiness church woman and it Is presumed that she is mentally affected by her fanaticism. When taken before Judge Hanley she refused to be represented by counsel, saying that since her conversion she had depended entirely upon the Lord for her protection. She was released on SIOO bond, whieh she signed herself.

Auto Owners All Asked to Help Make Parade a Success.

All auto owners are asked to get busy and help make the automobile parade at the Red Men’s PowWow a big success. It is only a fear days until the celebration starts and every auto owner can help materially to make this feature a grand affair. Come In and do yonr part

Phone 27S for feed, wood an 4 coal

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