Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1914 — Page 1

No. 64.

I Coming Tonight And All This Week IREX THEATRE .*. The Season’s Sensation .*. I World’s Greatest Wanderlust In I W UaJN ‘ XLJN IN wJi\ The Adventures of John In Real Life I Get the Habit. Everybody is Going to the Doings of John. Come Early There Will Be Crowds. | Thrilling! Beautiful! Sensational! Superb! Educational! Dont Miss the Opening Night!

Fourth Installment “m JMwimim of Katblyn” x, ■ Princess Theatre Thursday,Mar. 19 This installment will be one of the most thrilling of Selig’s great production. Get the habit of seeing each installment of Harold MacGrath’s great story now running in the Chicago Tribune. The crowds are growing larger each night, so read the former chapters of the story and see the rest of the installments, as it is worth your time. Special matinee at 4 p. m. after moving pictures are made Thursday afternoon. Evening Shows, 7,8, 9. All Seats, 10c. [ CHUMS COLDS TREATED EXTERNALLY Don’t dose the little stomachs with Injurious medicines YICKS &SS2 SALVE Is applied externally to the throat and chest; the body heat releases soothing antiseptic vapors which are inhaled directly to the affected parts. Relief is almost Immediate. The worst cold Is cured overnight—croup in 15 minutes. At all druggistß, 25c, 50c and SI.OO. Liberal sample mailed on request. Vick Chemical Co., Greensboro, N. C.

LADIES’ SUIT DAY TUESDAY AT THE FIRE SALE ■■■ < 1 . ' > ; ' ■ ■ -;; ' .•• •: V ‘ * . 4 \ * > ( "" ; ~ ■ With every Ladies’ Suit or Ladies’ Coat sold on Tuesday I will give you ABSOLUTELY FREE Your choice of any LADIES’ READY-MADE SKIRT in the Rowles and Parker Stock. In this lot of Skirts there are several SIO.OO, $12.00 and $15.00 SKIRTS. THEY GO FREE TUESDAY with every Suit or Coat Sale. MEN’S SILVER BRAND COLLARS, 15c ones, we are selling at 9c each; Tuesday you buy two collars, and I will give you FREE THE THIRD COLLAR —For TUESDAY ONLY / . ‘ ' i * ■» . * » f ' * • ' , -'MtI t -- - - Dm A If I ACTUC Rowles & Parker’s Old Stand ■ M. IVUVC I HE RENSSELAER, INDIANA

The Evening Republican.

RAILROAD DEAL WAS CLOSED SATURDAY

H. R. KURRIE NEGOTIATED PURCHASE NOT ONLY OF GIFFORD ROAD BUT OF PRIVATE STOCK. PRICE WAS $95,000 Stock in Hands of Individuals Purchased at 10 Cents on the Dollar— Monon Will Begin Improvements Immediately and Will,Extend the Road to the North and West, Making Another Connection at or Near St. John. I The deal for the purchase by the Monon railroad of the Chicago & Wabash Valley railroad, negotiations for which had been pending for the past two or three weeks, was concluded in Rensselaer Saturday afternoon, when H. R. Kurrie, general counsel for the Monon, returned to this city from Chicago with Executor George H. Gifford, of the B. J. Gifford estate, ihis private secretary, N. G. Halsey, and his attorney, Moses Leopold. They arrived here on the 2 o’clock train from Chicago, went directly to the court house, where Judge Hanley was in waiting, and it required hut a short time to close up the deal. UnTEurrie, whenlfie"offer was first made had deposited SI,OOO for the option. He brought with him a, draft for $94,000 and this was turned over to Executor Gifford as soon as the transfer had been approved. Besides the stock in the railroad owned by the Gifford estate there were outstanding 488% shares, in the hands of several who had been associated with Mr. Gifford for some years in the operation of the railroad. These are probably all to be acquired by the Monon and an offer of $lO per share was made for the stoek and several of the stockholders sold. Frank E. Lewis, general manager; C. J. Hobbs, chief engineer; T. M. Callahan, N. G. Halsey and C. E. Kersey were stockholders. There were in all nearly 100 of these share holders and they are scattered from Maine to California Most of the stock was given away by Benjamin J. Gifford when he was building his railroad, Among the stockholders was A. C. Ruble, who was the head man for the Bloomington Pickle Company in Jasper county several years ago,

Entered January 1. 1897, as second clas s mail matter, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879.

and who was the ipresident of the board of directors while a resident here. He now lives at Omaha, Neb. Mr. Kurrie deposited in a local bank enough money to take up all of this stock and all the stockholder has to do is to take his certificate of stock to the bank and get the money. This money will be available for a short time and those who do not accept the offer will not get anything. Mr. Kurrie was accompanied here by the auditor and head bookkeeper for the Monon railroad. Messrs. Lewis, Hobbs, Callahan and Halsey, stockholders, were all here and all sold their stock at $lO per share. The face value of the stock was SIOO. While the road becomes the property Of the Monon at once it will not take active management until April Ist. Mr. Kurrie directed Messrs. Lewis and Hobbs to continue the management until April Ist, following the policy they have been operating under. Between now and April Ist the Monon engineers will submit plans for the contemplated improvements, a survey will be completed for the extension to the north and west and everything arranged for the active carrying out of the construction and the improvements to the roadbed, which will probably include the laying of new steel rails, the putting in of new ties and the improvement of the stations. It is probable that the extension will be carried to some point near St. John and there connected up with the Monon railroad. Mr. Kurrie allayed all fears about the junking of the road, saying that the Monon either had to, double track a considerable part of its track or secure this road to care for a part of the business. This purchase adds considerable new territory to the road and the distance from McOoysburg to St. John by the Gifford road and the proposed extension will be just about the same as it is over the present Monon road. The matter of working out the change in the schedule of the trains will be taken up later, but it is more than probable that at least one of the through trains that now passes through Rensselaer will be routed over the Gifford branch and it is not improbable that trains Nos. 15 and 16, which now run from Chicago to Michigan City, making a round trip each day, wiil-be sent on a new sehedule over the Gifford branch. It has been said for a long time that these trains were not paying and would be taken off. It is also probable that a number of freight trains will be sent over the new line. It is understood that Engineer Hobbs has been informed that the Monon can use him in the engineering department of the Toad and that a position will probably be found for F. E. Lewis, the general

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manager of the road. The section hands will be used and probably the train crew. There will be great activity this summer along the road, as it will take a long' time tb make the contemplated improvements. The money procured .from this! sale will practically let the estate of the late Benjamin J. Gifford out of debt, leaving 7,300 acres of land unincumbered. The price on all of this land has been advanced and the sale will not bo pushed except at the higher rate. One of the beneficiaries under the will stated that he considered every acre of the land worth at least SSO and that it should average every cent of that. This will make the estate worth $365,000. The estate also has about SBO,OOO in second mortgages on land which B. J. Gifford had sold and which the estate has sold to various purchasers. This will make the estate worth somewhat in excess of $400,000. The bequests under the will total $342,000, and the will provides the + l - executor, George H. Gifford, shall get all the residue after the bequests are paid. It looks favorable now for him to eventually get from $60,000 to SBO,000.

N. G. Halsey, secretary-treasurer of the railroad, will , continue in that capacity until April Ist. After that time he will probable be with Mr. Gifford in handling the affairs of the estate and it is probable that offices will be maintained here for some time. Miss Ethel McCarthy, who has been employed at the office for some time, has been offered employment in Attorney Gifford’s law office at Tipton, but prefers remaining here if she can find employment, which she doubtless can. The sale of the road has taken the greatest burden off the shoulders of Executor Gifford and he figures that the estate has benefited far In excess of the money procured from the direct sale. Much of the land is tenanted and being practically out of debt the estate will be earning some money and not running behind as It had been ever since Mr. Gifford’s death. It will probably take a long time yet to complete the sale of the land and close up the estate but the biggest end of it was taken care of in the sale of the road. A man who owns 600 acres of land in the Gifford country said Saturday that he figured that the sale of the road to‘ the Monon had made him $15,000. Other land owners feel the same way about it and from the standpoint of the estate it Is generally considered that a more fortunate sale could not have been made. t Order your Calling Cards at The Republican office.

COME TO RENSSELAER THURSDAY OF THIS WEEK

MOVING PICTURE MACHINE WILL OPERATE AND YOU CAN BE AN ACTOR IN THE MOVIES. BIG CROWD WANTED Machine Will Show Dr Turfler, Osteopath, in Demonstrations and Then Take Picture of Fire Team On Run, of Republican Office, St. Joseph Students, Scholars, Eelvators, Barkley’s Belgian Horses and Other Pictuers. Thursday of this week March 19, is to be moving picture day in Rensselaer. Manager George, of the Princess theatre, has arranged to have an' expert moving picture machine operator from the Essanay company, of Chicago, here to take the pictures and he wishes the streets of Rensselaer to be crowded on that day. Saturday, Charles F. Stack, manager of the commercial department of the Essanay film company, came down from Chicago and he and Mr. George made the plans for the events of the day. The morning will be devoted to taking pictures for Dr. F. A. Turfler, the. osteopath, who will use them in giving lectures throughout the United States. These pictures will be taken at Parker’s studio, and several subjects will be on the table, while the doctor demonstrates his spinal and dislocated hip adjustments. This demonstration will, of course, not be seen by the public. It will consume an hour and a half or two hours.

At 1 o'clock the operator will begin taking pictures along the main business streets. This may be the only opportunity you will have for a long time to get into a moving picture film and the pictures will be shown for six weeks, once each week, at The Princess. It is seldom, indeed, that a moving picture fit taken in a town like Rensselaer and it is expected the people Will come here in large numbers to get into the picture. ' "f At 2 o’clock the fire company, in charge of Chief Montgomery and Assistant Chief Rhoades, will make a run to the Makeever hotel. The machine will be set in front of the engine house and wild show the team being hitched. It will then be .." • _ _

stationed on the sidewalk in front of the court house and will catch the team as it runs by and is halted at the Makeever hotel, where the walls of the hotel will be scaled. The picture will show everything but the whistle. Every person in this vicinity should come in and witness this feature. The Republican office will then be visited and pictures taken of the linotype machine being operated by Harve Robinson. The presses will also be in operation and will be shown in the picture. It is even rumored that the proprietors will be caught at work. The carrier boys will be photographed as they start out with their papers. Pictures will be taken at St. Joseph’s college, showing a parade of students. Also at the public and parochial schools and of Barkley’s fine Belgian draft horses. A picture at the station will show the arrival of a train and the elevators. Mayor Spitler and the members of the city council will be to another picture the public library, court house and county officers will be taken. Then a picture will be taken of DuvalFs Jersey Dairy. The Princess Theatre and its foree will be photographed, and Manager George is cultivating a special smile for the occasion. Comrade Fox in a fast run with the United. States mail will be in the movies. D. A. Kloethe, the hustling manager of the fire sale, will be photographed in some advertising scheme, probably to throwing away some articles from an upstairs window. The plan bids fair to prove one of the most interesting ever evolved In Rensselaer and it is hoped that the streets are thronged with people on that day, so that the picture will show our city to be enterprising and full of life.

Hardy Shrubs.

Holden wants to order your hardy shrubs for you before March 20th, and by so doing all orders can be shipped on April Ist, thus saving you considerable money. Any hardy plant you want will be ordered. We can recommend «» new hardy begonia that will grow In the shade. Order now. 3. H Holden, Phone 426.

NOTICE. Those persons who know themselves to he Indebted to me are requested to call and settle or at least to call. This is the third request. If a fourth is necessary It will be made by an attorney. L M. WASHBURN. Order your coal of the GrantWarner Lumber Co. A new car of Jackson Hill just received.

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