Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1914 — Page 1

No. 44.

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IT HAS BEEN SOLVED The 5 and lOc Stores of America are doing mere to solve the problem of ' THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Than any other thing. If you want to know the real value of a DIME WATCH OUR WINDOW SandIOCENT STORE F. D. BURCHARD, Proprietor

The Ladies Junior Aid of the Christian church have decided to postpone their lOeont social advertised for next Wednesday. The <neW date will be announced lator. Matinee 2:80 p.m., Ellis Theatre.

The Evening Republican.

The official vote on the stone rood proposition in Jordan township was 58 for and 86 against. The vote was filed yesterday with County Auditor Hammond. Typewriter paper at Republican.

Entered January 1, 1897, as second class mail matter, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of Mare h 3, 1879.

MANY CONTRIBUTING TO FIGHT INCREASE

Republican is Receiving Fifty-Cent Pieces to Aid in Getting Information for Fight. Has your fifty cents been left at The Republican to fight the raise in telephone rates? If not, then try to leave it Saturday. The contributions are coming .from -all- sections and there is reason to believe that the attorneys will be able to present to the Public Service Commission facts that will cause that board to dpny the petition of the Jasper County Telephone Co. to raise the rates. The further The Republican has gone in its investigation the more convinced it is that the company should make plenty of money at the present rates if the equipment was modernized and the service brought up to the standard in other cities. _ We are not opposed to any corporation making a fair interest qn its investment, But we are opposed and we believe every person should •be opposed to having this city and community forced to pay a rate that is certain to prove exorbitant and which is not necessary nor fair. We do not, as a community, or as individuals, owe anything to this company. It has been in existence a long time and it has not kept pace with the demands of the times and has not rendered service in keeping with the progress of the community. It does not do us any good to be told that the switchboard is old and worn out. When a press wears out in a newspaper office the owners have tobuy a new one if they expect to remain inbusiness. Every other business we have ever heard of is run on the same basis. If exception is to be made on behalf of telephone companies and the state is to compel the people to pay a rate that is too high in order that a corporation that has been indifferent for years about its property, then the law is wrong and should be changed. Come out to the meeting Saturday night and learn what has been done and what is being done to prepare to put the people’s ease up to the people’s commission. If you know of conditions in other cities and towns and the country surrounding them, come in and tell about it. We have yet to learn of any person who reports ever having lived in a community Where the telephone service was for years so abominable as it has been in this city. There is possibly a slight improvement at this time. The agitation is responsible for some greater effort. But this would soon die down unless the demand of the people is acceded to.

PYTHIAN ANNIVERSARY PLEASANTLY OBSERVED

Special Ritual and Musical Program Carried Out—Masons Gave Fraternity Example.

Thursday evening about one hundred and fifty were gathered at the Knights of Pythias hall to observe the golden anniversary of the order. Simultaneously in practically ever Knights of Pythias hall in the country similar exercises were being carried out. A special ritual had been prepared which set out the purpose of Pythian brotherhood and in which Chancellor Commander Carl Duvall, assisted by Vice Chancellor Elmer Wilcox and the other officers took part. Special musical features and recitations Intersperced the reading of the ritual. Mrs. M. D. Gwin, Miss Bel Laßue and Perry Horton gave piano solos. Mrs. E. J. Randle and Harry Eger sang solos, Irene Hoover ifind Master Delos Woodworth spoke Washington declamations in splendid style and Rev. W G. Winn delivered an address that impressed the purposes of Pythian friendship on all who heard it. Dr. Paul O. Comtek closed the program with a splendid benediction. The male singers of the order sang a number of songs and those present remained to hear the music and to visit for a half hour or more. Just as the program was closing an invotation was received frqgijhe Royal Arch Masons Inviting all present to, come to their lodge room, which is on the same floor in the K. of P. building, and partake of a luncheon, and this was done by many. The Masons were installing a class in the Royal Arch degree and had prepared such a large lunch that much of it would have gone to waste except for the invitar tton extended to the Knights The evening proved pne of great enjoyment.

FOUND—The surest method of making a sale; advertise in The Republican classified column.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1914.

LARGE AUDIENCE SAW WASHINGTON EXERCISES

Public Enjoyed School Function— Next Thursday is Made a Special Visiting Day.

Standing room was occupied at the Chirstian church Thursday afternoon, on the occasion of the Washington exercises by the south half of the primary school building. Barents of • the children who participated and many other school patrons were present and the program by the little folks proved very entertaining. Not only was every seat in the main auditorium and the Sunday School room taken, but there were many standing. The plan of holding these public evercises has proven a splendid one and the effect is increasing interest in the schools among the patrons. Next Thursday, Feb. 26th, has been designated a special visiting day and parents and friends are asked to come to the schools either during the morning or afternoon. Superintendent Dean is anxious that a large number of the patrons visit the schools during the day. The plan is not arranged for any special room but for all rooms, so that visitors can visit any room they choose. The primary grades, the intermediate grades and the high school, with the domestic science and manual training departments will all be in readiness to receive all who wish to come and the invitation is to all.

Dave Alter’s Sale Will Take Place Wednesday, Feb. 25.

David S. Alter, who will quit farming, will hold a public sale on Wednesday, Feb. 25th, at his farm in Union township, 6% miles north and V/2 miles west of Rensselaer and 2 miles east and a quarter north of Parr.

His list includes 10 head of horses, 16 head of cattle, 1 Duroc Jersey brood sow, and a long list, of farming and household furniture. Among the horses are some fine geldings sired by Nelson. The cows are all good ones. Don’t forget the date, Wednesday, Feb. 25th.

ANOTHER BIG DREDGE BEING PUT TO WORK

Will Dig About Two Miles in the Carpenter Ditch—Shipped Here From Lancaster.

Manager Jenkins, of the Stemberg dredge, is having another big dredge unloaded and something like six weeks will be required to set it up and get it started on the Carpenter Creek lateral of the Borntrager ditch. The dredge was shipped here from Lancaster, Ohio, where Mr. Sternberg recently finished a job of ditching. The dipper is of one and one-half yards capacity. The dredge on the main ditch, which had been closed down since a week ago last Sunday, owing to a break in the machinery, was repaired Thursday and again resumed work that afternoon.

Today’s Tribune Selection is Our Own Augustus Phillips.

The Chicago Daily Tribune makes selections of the best photo play stories of the day. It is interesting to see that today’s selection is an Edison drama in which Augustus Phillips, of Rensselaer, is starring and that The Tribune publishes Mr. Phillip’s picture witn the following brief sketch: “Augustus Phillips is a comparatively new arrival in the moving picture world. He spent eight years in a Brooklyn stock company, followed by two years at the Fifth Avenue and Lincoln Square theaters in New York. During this period he played Jules Beaubein in Eugene Walter’s “The Wolf.” Then he was for a season under the Cohan & Harris management in “Miss Ananias.” He was with the Southern Stock Co. of Columbus, Ohio, and leading man at the Alcazar theatre in San Francisco. He has met with great success in this new field and is regarded by the Edison company as one of the most valuable men on its staff of actors.” The story is entitled “All For His Sake,” and is related in brief in The Tribune. The Princess Theatre will give this picture soon, and all regular attendants at the theatre will see in the natural run all the plays described from day to day in The Tribune;

Baptist Church. Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Morning sermon 10:45. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. All are welcome.

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ELLIS THEATRE Saturday, Feb. 21 Afternoon and Night STEELY & MANUEL’S VAUDEVILLE RAMONA RIGOLETTA Singing and Dancing KELLY & MACK Famous Irish Comedians, Singing, Talking, Dancing PROF. COREY Funniest Magician on Earth McLAUGALIN & STEWART Those Screamingly Funny Escentrics Afternoon, 2:30, 10 and 20c. ... Night 7:30 and 9,25 c.

La Fayette Council Knights of Columbus Minstrels Entertainers, Singers and Musicians 18- People -18 CATHOLIC SCHOOL HALL FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 20 At 8:15 O’clock Everybody Invited. Admission, 25c.

Delphi Lady Writes of Coincident in Washington.

Mrs. W. H- Bradshaw, of Delphi, who with her husband has been making a trip in the east, wrote from Washington, D. C, under date of Feb. lath, relating a coincident that occurred at the Metropolitan M. E. church. Bishop McDowell delivered an address in the morning and that evening Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota,. delivered his sermon-lecture on Abraham Lin-, coin. After the service Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw were introduced to the senator and also to Rev. James 8. Montgomery and it developed that both had formerly lived in Carroll county. Rev. Montgomery and Senator Clapp are both native Hoosiers and Rev. Montgomery’s first appointment was at Pattsburg, Carroll county, while the senator lived in Delphi until he was 6 years of age. They had a pleasant reunion and in the course of their conversation Mr. Clapp held up one foot saying, “They don’t grow such feet outside of the Wabash valley.” Mrs. Bradshaw says in her letter, “After all, the world is not so large, and our ‘Mutual Friend’ is everywhere.”

FIRE SALE We are being crowded nearer the front door every day. Already the CARPENTERS are at work remodeling the grocery department and the BRICK LAYERS are soon to begin building the new front for the grocery department, and the PAINTERS are in possession of the upstairs painting and hanging paper. Our time is limited unless you take advantage of your opportunity to buy goods at from 30 to 50 per cent off on the dollar your OPPORTUNITY will have passed. The great sacrifice sale will continue until every dollar’s worth of the FIRE STOCK has been sold. D. A. KLOETHE, Rowles & Parker’s Old Stand. ■ . ■ -L Two cows, one a Holstein and one a Jersey, and extra fine ones, will be sold at Clemmons’ sale Thursday, Feb. 26th.

Last Chance To See R. H. S. on their home floor vs Lowell H. S. Winning this game will put the team in the running for Northern Indiana championship of basket ball. Buy ticket now -15 c Buy tickets at door, 25c H. S. GYMNASIUM 8 P. M.

Large Crowd and Good Prices at Public Sale. The Granville Moody and R. A. Parkison & Sons’ public sale on Thursday was probably the largest sale of stock that will take place in Jasper county this year. It was extensively advertised and there was a large crowd on hand and the prices were good. Eight or ten horses sold tor S2OO each or better. The highest priced one went to Mark Hoyes, who paid $237 for a 2-year-old filly; a team of 3-year-oJds went for $454; a team of 2-year-olds for $448. Vanatta & Rose paid $205 for a 2-year-old bay filly. John Nagle bought a black gelding for S2OO and N. Osborne paid S2OO each for a team of 2-yearolds which C. P. Moody had in the sale The cows brought from SSO to $61.50. Ten head of good horses and 16 cattle, including some good cows and oalves, will be sold at David S. Alter’s sale, Wednesday. Feb. 25th.

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