Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — Page 1

No. 307.

WILLIAM P. BAKER DIED SUDDENLY

Wealthy Land Owner Passed Away Thursday Night at His Home Here—Funeral Saturday.

William P. Baker, 75 years of age last August, died at midnight Thursday after a brief sickness. On Saturday of last week he made a trip to Wolcott and the exposure caused ithe sickness which resulted in Iris death five days later. ' Mr. Baker had been a resident of Jasper county Tor'many years and is a wealthy land owner, having a farm of 560 acres three miles north of this city and also a la ge acreage at Hamilton, N. Dak, He had resided for a number of years in* Rensselaer, hlis residence being at the corner of Weston and Susan streets, where death occurred. He is survived by his wife and two ■children, Lawrence Baker, who is in the west and communication with him could not be established, and Mrs. C. T. Boticourt, of Wolcott. He also has one brother, John Baker, of Mt. Ayr, and one sister, Mrs. Tillie Hemphill, of this city. The funeral will-be conducted by Paul C. Ournick, pastor of Trinity M. E. church, who will be assisted by Rev. C, L. Harper, of Delphi, former pastor of the church. It will will be held tomorrow faternoon at 2 o’clock, at the Methodist church.

Another Editor Sees the. Ridiculous Side of Babcock.

Monticello Herald. The democrats of Jalsper county selected delegates to the Hammond convention Monday and the deelgation is said to be solid for Murphy. Editor Babcock, who Ihas been putting up a fight against Murphy, was defeated in his precinct at the primary meeting Saturday as a candidate lor delegate to the county convention to select delegates. He says ‘Saltpeter won’t save Peterson” at the next election, biit then what Babcock does not know seems to be a whole lot, judging from recent events.

Youth Received 100-Piece Dinner Set for Christmas.

Traub & Selig gave away a beautiful 100-piece dinner set for Christmas and it was received by Brook Moore, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Moore. Such a present would be calculated to induce matrimony within one of more mature years, and had it been Stewart, Jake or John, matrimonial announcements might have been forthcoming, but Brook doubtless presented it to his mother, and it was surely a Christmas to be proud of.

Will Build a Nice Residence In Rensselaer Next Year.

Michael Kanne has purchased of William Nowels the two lots at the northwest corner of Weston and Cornelia streets, which formerly belyonged to Dr. Hartsell, and will erect a fine residence thereon the coming year. He has contracted tor a trade of his present residence, which he built only a few years ago, for another farm, the particulars of which we were unable to learn.

flock of Gulls flying South Indicate Cold Weather.

John O’Connor saw a flock of seagulls flying southward this morning, which he considers as an indication that Colder weather is coming. The gulls that fly in this part of the country are the lake gulls or fresh water gulls and not the salt water kind that fly along the coast.

M. P. Church.

There will be preaching at the M. P. church Saturday evening of this week. Everybody invited to attend the services at this church.

NOTICE.

Persons knowing themselves in debted to me will make plans to settle January Ist, and oblige. _ L M. WASHBURN. a ■■ w.■■ »■ ——IIBB WANTED • Everybody to know that FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS CAN BE OBTAINED AT The Fish Market At AU Times. f, ■ : , 0

The Evening Repufitican.

Abe Might Have Said But Didn't

Miss Fawn Lipperfoutt received 14 hair receivers and 9 pin trays for Christmas. Tell Binkley’s nephew up at Rensselaer says that he would like an opportunity to pay a‘little income tax but his rich bachelor uncle is.in mighty good health.

John Knox Abandoned Drugs to Engage in Newspaper work.

John Knox was home from Chicago to spend Christmas day with his father, Thos. A. Knox, and other relatives. He left Rensselaer in the fall of 1912 to enter a pharmacy school in Chicago. For some time previous he had been employed at The Republican office as a reporter, at which work He showed splendid aptitude and unlimited enterprise. The editor of The Republican, who had started him on the journalistic road felt considerable personal disappointment when he decided to take up pharmacy, tor we saw in him the possibility of success in newspaper work. John relinquished his newspaper connections with somewhat the same reluctance and spent a year in college, working part time in a drugstore in Chicago. He could not get newspaper work out of his mind and last September applied tor a position in the advertising department of the Chicago Daily News. He was given a place and has since then been one of the classified solicitors and has formed a splendid attachment for the work and expects to be permanently in the newspaper work in the future. The Chicago Daily News, by the way, is the greatest classified advertising paper in Chicago and gets the largest price. The paper has a marvelous circulation and is easily the leading afternoon paper. The many friends of John in Rensselaer will be pleased to learn of his return to newspaper work and will expect to see him make mighty good in the-work.

Scarlet Fever Reported in Two Families—Cases Severe.

Two cafees of scarlet fever are reported, one in Fair Oaks and the other in Barkley township, probably 12 or 15 miles apart and having no connection locally, but peculiarly both cases to have been contracted in Hammond, where they had visited. The Fair Oaks case is that of the little daughter of Arthur Bopp, grandchild of Sam Potts, at whose home : t is sick. The other case is in tyre family of Fred Young, on the Frank Donnelly farm ip Barkley township. The cases are quite severe aut have been quarantined and a spread is not probable.

Shooting Match.

A blue rock shooting match for nurkeys will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 31st, at Victor L. Moore’s, onehalf of Groom’s bridge, 5 miles northeast of Rensselaer. Shells for sale on the ground.

Masonic Installation.

Prairie Lodge, No. 125, will Install its officers on St John’s Day, Saturday, Dec. 27th, at 8 o’clock p. m. J. A. DUNLAP, W. M.

Try our new range coal. GrantWarner Lumber Co., Phone 458.

IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW

What a Heap of Happiness It Would Bring to Rensselaer Homes. Hard to do housework with an aching back. Brings you hours of misery at leisure or at work. If women only knew the cause—that Backache pains often come from weak kidneys, ’Twould save much needless woe. Doan’s Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys, Many residents of this vicinity endorse them. Mrs. George Howell, N. Main St, Monticello, Ind., says: “I suffered off and on for two or three years from attacks of kidney and bladder complaint. Sharp twinges often darted through my sides and were followed by a dull, nagging ache in the small of my back. The kidney secretions were unnatural and I had headaches. Finally, I used Doan’s Kidney Pills and they quickly relieved me,, toning up my entire system. I have since enjoyed good health.” For sale by ,all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co M Buffalo, New York, sole agents United States. i Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.

K One man is killed for every 700,000 tons of coal mined in six counties of West Virginia, according to a bureau of mines report

Entered January 1. 18»7, aa second clam mall matter, at the post-ofllee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the aet of March I, 1111.

Miss Carrie Gwin and Mr. Ray Berry Wedded at Joliet, 111., Wednesday Evening. a, • ' .Y ■ -■ • Relatives and friends of the principals were surprised to learn of the marriage at Joliet, 111., Wednesday, .of Miss Carrie 'Gwin and Mr. Ray Berry, both of near Pleasant Ridge, east of this city. Miss Gwin went to Chicago Monday, informing a reporter for The Republican that she was going to visit relative^ 1 ahd would be absent for some time. There was just a suspicion of some surprise in her manner, but the modest reporter did not insist on a prolonged interview.. Evidently the plans were all nAde at that time tor the marriage, which, although not altogether unexpected, came as a surprise at this time to the relatives and many friends of each. The bride is itlhe daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin and a sister of Mrs. Frank Haskell and of Elmer Gwin. Mr. Berry is a prosperous young farmer and upon their return from a short wedding trip they will take up their residence with his parents, near Pleasant Ridge.

To the Editor: I have been asked several times Why I came to Rensselaer and why I did not stay here when my term of office expired as sheriff. Here are the tacts: When my term of office expired I returned to my old home, which was vacant while I was away. I wanted to go back to good old Walker township and cast my vote as an American citizen. I want to say right here that the four years I was living in Rensselaer with my house, barp and other buildings locked up, with no covers over any windows, there was never anything disturbed, not even a glass broken. That can not be said of every place, but thanks to the good bringing up and manners of the citizens of Walker township, it is the case around Kniman. One forenoon while I was sawing ■Wood Mr. Robert Michael came up and asked me if I wanted to sell or exchange my property. I will say, as Mr. Michal can tell you, that I at first treated it as a joke and asked him if he were joking. When he told me he was in earnest I was so (surprised that I told him I would have to have time to consider, as both my wife and I were married to our home in good old Walker. After considering that three of our children are married and that Nellie, the youngest, would graduate from Notre Dame Convent, near Kartkakee, 111., next June, when She would be able to command a good position in or out of a good school, and wanting, of course, like all other parents, the family to be as near together as possible and knowing that Rensselaer has good railroad facilities and also knowing of a host of good friends that we have everywhere in Jasper county, we concluded that Rensselaer was the proper place to locate. I want to say that when I told my children who came home for Thanksgiving while we were at the dinner table that we had sold our home the girls cried and we all shed tears, and I want to say in conclusion Walker township and my friends in. Walker will be always held dear to my memory. I will always be glad to meet my old friends from there and to have a good word for them. I have a splendid home here, well located and among my friends. The flag and I go together. JOHN O’CONNOR.

• Z) Marriage License. John Alexander Tilton, born Wheatfield, Ind., June 30, 1895, residence Wheatfield, occupation farmer, and Goldie Fay Cooper, born Monon, Ind., Dec. 19, 1895, residence Wheatfield; first marriage for each.

Get Your Automobiles Registered For 1914.

I now have “Registration Blanks" for automobiles, motorcycles and chauffeur’s licenses. Am prepared to properly file same for you prior to January first as well as later. JOHN M. KNAPP, Notary Public James H. Kelley, executive clerk of the University of Illinois, resigned Monday to become president of the Colorado normal school at Gunnison, Jan. 4. He had been at Urbana for four years. Formerly he was president of a state preparatory school in Oklahoma. , ■ •*•’o - Call Tel. 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. ' A Classified Adv. will find It

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913.

SURPRISED FRIENDS BY GETTING MARRIED

Back Again to Rensselaer.

MARRIED AT BRIDE’S HOME ON CHRISTMAS

Many Relatives Witnessed Marriage of Miss Glennie Davisson and Mr. Russell Lesh. The (home of Harvey Davisson was the scene of a happy wedding at 12 o’clock Christmas day, when Miss Glennie Hazel Davisson and Mr. Russell Lesh were married. The bride is the daughter of Mr. anti Mrs. Harvey Davisson and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Leah. There were thirtysix at the wedding, which was performed by Rev; Chas. W. Postill, Mr. Harry Arnold, cousin of the bride, was the best man,-and Miss Zera Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Smith, was the maid of honor. After the marriage the guests all .set down to a splendid Christmas dinner at the Davisson home.

Mr. and Mrs. LeSh will reside with her parents until the first of March, when they will begin housekeeping on the Harvey Davisson farm, 9 miles north of this city. They are receiving the congratulations of many friends, with whom The Republican joins in well wishes for a happy married life.

Men Vote For Saloons Because Women Dance Tango.

Another Georgia town has voted in favor of saloons and here is the reason given by a citizen: “If we are going to stand for our women folks wearing shadow skirts and slit skirts and transparent skirts, and our younger women learning to dance the boll weevil the Texas Tommy tango, the bunny hug, the bear dance, the half center, the buzzard flop and the puppy huddle cuddle, and go on down the line, then the men folk might just as well have their saloons and the whole push go to hell together.”

Calls Our High School Basketball Team “Rough Necks.”

Remington - Press. The Remington basketball team played with Rensselaer Friday night but tost the game by one score, the tally being 17 to 16. The boys put up a stout fight but the tactics of the opposing team, Which are said to have been of a very unsportsmanlike order, threw the game to them. This game, when contrasted with the nice clean playing put up by the Fowler team at their recent game here fails by the comparison. Our boys play a clean game in every way and there is no excuse for others doing anything else. Roughneck tactics never win for the users why thing but the utter contempt of all who enjoy sport for sport’s sake.

Baptist Church.

Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Morning service 10:45. Evening service 7. Miss Grace Peyton and Miss) Ryder, of Vermont, will speak for us at the evening service, as they are attending school at Missionary Training School in Chicago. They will tell of their work in that city. Everybody welcome.

NOTICE.

All persons knowing themselves indebted to me will please make settlement without delay, as I need money to meet my obligations. Settlement can be made with Howard Mills at the Trust & Savings Bank. J. K DAVIS.

The house judiciary committee to which was referred the report of the lobby inquiry agreed Monday to defer consideration of the subject until after the holiday recess.

Call Tel 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

Secretary Houston Monday issued an order continuing the quarantine put temporarily into effect September 20th, last, forbidding potato importations from the British Isles, Canada and all continental Europe. ,

Call Tel. 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

John Burka now gation by the war department for accepting graft while in the employ of the Panama railroad, cannot be criminally prosecuted, according to a decision of the department of justice.

Court records of Los Angeles county, California, wore cleared of the famous McNamara dynamiting case yesterday wheh the Indictments charging bribery against Clarence S. Darrow, who was counsel for the dynamiters, were dismissed. Darrow has been under bonds aggregating SIO,OOO tor two years.

An Open Letter to the Editor of The Democrat.

Editors Republican: I want to commend your article in answer to Mr Babcock’s cruel and almost entirely false ieport of the last county convention of the democrats. It seems Bab is so .filled with anger and desire for revenge that he is hardly responsible for what he says. His charge that the convention was packed- in the interest of Muprhy and Peterson I know to be without any foundation in truth. I put the laboring oar in his hands and challenge him for the proof of his assertion. On Saturday of the precinct convention I did*solicit democrats to attend the meeting, but solicited all alike and never asking whether they stood with the Babcock party or any other. Mr. Babcock was nominated as a delegate and his poor showing was not because the convention was packed, but it was because the democrats are tired and disgusted with the course being pursued by him. I have long been associated in a political way with such men as James T. Randle, N. Bates, Frank Welsh, George Stemble, Lee Glazebrook, Felix Irwin, N, Littlefield, J. A. McFarland, Wm. Hoover, Eli Gerber, L. Strong and many others. Men wtho were democrats and who stood for democratic principles before Mr. Babcock was known, and I deny that they belong to any click or faction in any way opposed to the Wilson administration, but that they are genuine Wilson and Bryan democrats. Ido know that Mr. Babcock did oppose both Wilson and Bryan before the Baltimore convention and said to the writer that Bryan was a d—m fool tor making the brave fight he did against Tammany and Wall Street interests and in favor of progressive democratic and I know that Mr. Babcock, if he lent any assistance at all to the Wilson campaign, it was done grudgingly. T do not remember one editorial in his paper favorable to Wilson. And now to try to pbse as an original Wiilson-Bryan democrat is too absurd. He says he represents 90 per cent of the democrats of Jasper county. Will he prove it? He knows* he cannot. As to his attack on Mr. Murphy and John B. Peterson, these men. are amply able to care tor themselves. Mr. Babcock has a head line on the title page of his paper that says The Democrat is the official organ of the democratic party in Jasper county. Once that was true, but it is not true now and unless he changes ' his course the central committee will see that the statement is erased. Personally, I have nothing against Mr. Babcock. As an editor he has ability, but his whole being is so filled with the spirit of revenge that all his influence that might be/or good is entirely destroyed. I ©an only wish that Mr. Babcoek might dearly see his error, and seeing it turn away from it, and use his paper and his talents tor good, not only for the party with Which he is identified, but for the good of the people in general, and no one will be any more glad to extend the hand of friendship' than L and in this I know I am expressing the sentiments, not only of his party, but of the people everywhere. No man can be truly great and noble Who cannot be great in defeat as well as in victory. W. R. NOWELB.

(In this very nice manner W. B. Newels, a life-long democrat and a man of the highest type of citizenship, has set forth the position of the men whom Editor Babcockhas misrepresented and has presented to the democrats of the county the truth, which for some peculiar reason Editor Babcock has withheld, apparently while controlled by anger and personal disappointment. Mr. Newels holds out an olive branch, offering a cessation of hostillities and an easy road to peace within the ranks of the democratic party of Jasper county. It is understood that other democrats who have been very much surprised and disappointed at the selfish and destructive policy of Editor Babcock hold the same view as Mr. Nowels, and will welcome the editor back into the party councils if he will make his paper a true representative of the party and not us« it to vent the animosity of the editor. Mr. Nowels could not have presented‘the matter in a fairer manner and certainly every democrat in the county will give it their hearty approval—Editor.)

Bev. Henry Wunder, D. D., for the last sixty-four years pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul church. Chicago, died Monday at his residence in that city.

Call TeL 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

The battleship New York, biggest in the navy; will have a reading and reception room for sailors, the first on on American vessel. This is an idea of Secretary Daniejs, who sought to maka life more pleasant tor the men.

INDIANAPOLIS ARMORY DESTROYED BY FIRE

Building Occupied by Soldiers During Strike and All Equipment Went Up in Smoke. The, infantry armory, located at -9ab puufqsy pua nue in Indianapolis, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night The fire was discovered at about 10:45 o’clock, at which time flames were issuing from the roof. ""Jerry, the colored fireman and janitor, had made a round of inspection about an hour before and states that everything was all right at that time. **

This was the armory In which Company M and fourteen other companies of the national guard were quartered during the recent strike of the street car employes, and the fire seemed to have started on the balcony at just about the place where Company M was located.

There was a large imount of ammunition stored in the armory and this kept up a continual popping and served to frighten the firemen so that only a feeble effort was made to put out the flames. The building cost about $15,000, while the equipment belonging to the state and government wsa valued at about $60,000. The building was owned by the Indianapolis battalion armory association. It was quite large but was only a shell of a building and it is probable that there is not another city the size of Indianapolis in the country where the state has not provided very «u----peror quarters for its troops. In respect to the care of its state troops Indiana is probably one of the most derelict in the United States and it is certainly hoped that the next legislature will provide for an armory of commensurate proportions in Indianapolis and take a forward step to providing them for all national guard companies in the state. ’

Has the High Cost of Living Affected This Clock?

Remington Press. Uncle Henry Mullen haw a clock. That is not an exceptional thing as most people have on£ but the peculiar thing about Uncle Henry’s clock is that while it has always been a well behaved time piece for these many years, in point of fact, about ever since Cleveland’s last administration let go, it now refuses to run except it be wound twice each day. This condition has prevailed ever since Wilson took the office of president, and what Uncle Henry wants to know is where the conniption comes between his clock and the democratic party, and if it la the effect of the present administration that is causing the clock to cut up such antics.

Call TeL 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. If you 'have any unredeemed certificates from the California Perfume Co. which you are willing to turn to the credit of the Monnett School please call Phone 447, so the tickets may be called for and sent hi at once. Call Tel. 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

$5.00 Given On Each of the Following Dates Wednesday, Dec. 31 All coupons good for the S2O ii gold, which will he given away January 1, 1914. THE MODEL CLOTHING CO. S. LEOPOLD, Ramer. Profit Sharing System. The next $5.00 given away will be on on next Wednesday at*B o’clock. Everybody comeand bring your coupons. WEATHER, Cloudy tonight and Saturday; slightly colder tonight

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