Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1913 — Albert Alter Stricken After Attending Reunion. [ARTICLE]

Albert Alter Stricken After Attending Reunion.

W. R. Nowels returned Thursday from Forest, Ind., where he went after receiving the information that his son-in-law had suffered a stroke of paralysis. Albert lies in an unconscious condition and it is only a matter of a few days until he will pass away.

Last Sunday there was a home coming at the Baptist church about three miles from Forest and close to the home of Albert’s father and the occasion was a reunion for many former residents of the neighborhood. Mr. Alter had taken his family to the ehurch and had enjoyed a very pleasant day, seeming in an especially good humor. Toward the latter part of the afternoon they started home in his automobile and the first symptoms of trouble was a blinding sensation and he turned the car from the road and ran into a tree, not hard enough to do any damage, but Mrs. Alter realized that, there was something the matter with him. They managed to get to his father’s house, where his condition became worse at once, he being almost totally blinded. He sat on the door rtep for a short time and then was assisted into the house. The paralysis started then on his right side and he realized his condition and would lift his right arm up and down with his left hand. His condition grew worse rapidly and soon the paralysis affected his entire •body, leaving him speechless anti sightless. Mr. Alter is about 53 years of age and it is understood his financial affairs are in excellent condition and that his wife and children will be well provided for. ,< It is easy for you to buy your Fall and Winter outfit here because our stock is the largest to choose from. Correct in style and priced the lowest It pays to trade here. TRAUB & SELIG.

to you as a blessing if not in a financial way and even from a selfish standpoint it is a good investment. If the Strong and Werner properties could be acquired and the parking plans carried out, there is nothing to prevent Rensselaer being the most beautiful city in Indiana within a few years. g-n This article is being stretched Bfflisiderably beyond the length at first planned, but we have found the topic so interesting that it is difficult to find a quitting place. The Republican has always believed that with the number of wealthy people we have some one should desire to perpetuate their name by making a substantial contribution to our future city. Dr. Hartsell might have done this. His wealth, accumulated here, was disbursed to relatives- who had never seen him and who had not been mentioned by him in a will made twenty-five years before his death. And Dr. Hartsell was a very prominent man with many ardent admirers and his honor could have been perpetuated if he had left a few thousand dollars for the improvement of the city so many years his home. Of course, he died suddenly and we can not know what his'intentions might have been, but he had been very sick for a long time a few months before his death and had made no will at that time. Fifteen or twenty thousand dollars would have provided for a Hartsell hospital, a Hartsell park or some other form of memorial that would have perpetuated his memory. Other names once prominent in our city m'ay be forgotten that might easily have been preserved with a little charitable consideration of the city where their owner had been affluent.

A few years ago r the Milroy' property was a desolation. A few women took up the plan for its purchase and later Mrs. Mary E. Thompson took up the monument proposition. She was loyally assisted by Miss Mary Washburn, who contributed her work as sculpture, and today Milroy Park is a beautiful spot. The monument honors our city’s foremost patriot and the names of every Jasper county soldier is engraved on the pedestal of the massive seat at its base. A progressive city administration has completed the work by having the grounds improved until today it is a beauty spot that radiates its influence to the remotest parts of town. ' It is quite probable that Dr. Loy will call a meeting of the civic as* sociation before long to discuss next year’s plans and a great throng of enthusiasts should attend and show their anxiety to take part in the plan to make Rensselaer a garden spot of delight. Then In a few years we can hold another home coming and feel proud to have as our guests the people who knew us in our “kiltie” days before this inspiration to be somebody in municipal existence slezed us. Altogether, now, let’s pull for the future without a knocker in the corporation.