Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1914 — Page 4

cussifiai com MATMI TOB CXASBXTXBD ADS. Three lines or less, per week of six Issues of The Evening Republican and two of The Semi-Weekly Republican, >5 cents. Additional space pro rata. FOR SAUL FOR SALE—Eggs for setting from a good laying strain of Buff Orpingtons; 75c and SI.OO per setting. Dr. A G. Catt, Phone 332. FOR SALE—One 16-inoh walking p8ow; one riding cultivator. H. H. Ford, River street, Phone 427. FdR SALE—Household furniture, also two stoves. See Arlie Bowen, ■on Bedford farm, or call phone 318. FOR SALE —Or will exchange for automobile or live stock; two lots across the river. S. M. Laßue. FOR SALE—A lot in the Phillips addition. Virgil Denniston. FOR SALE—One large ice box, cheap, or will trade for smaller one; ibne computing scale, cheap, as I do not need it in the restaurant business. J. H. Clemmons, Wheatfield, Ind. FOR SALE—A 3 year old gelding, wt 1300; also a 5 year old mare, wt. 1100. Billy Frye, the busman. FOR SALE—Some timothy hay at bam and gravel at residence. M. IAdams, Phone 533-L. FOR SALE—One carriage, 1 buggy, one 3-year-old colt, one golden oak bedstead, one Angle lamp with two burners. Mrs. William Baker, Phone 582. '----■- , ■ ■ ■ ■■ FOR SALE—By Lee Myres, on the infield farm north of Rensselaer, 16 head of good work horses, including, several mares that will foal this spring; can be bought on time FOR SALE—General purpose family mare; safe for ladies, 1,300 lbs.; 9 years; specially recommendec for single driving and work. Priced low. Van Hook, Riveredge Dairy, Phone 40-A FOR SALE—ISO-acre farm, 3 miles of Rensselaer on stone road; fair improvements; adjoining farm sol< for $l6O per acre; farm is fairly well tiled, about all under cultivation. A sacrifice if sold by May Ist; SBS per acre. Harvey Davisson, Phone 246. FOR SALE—Toulouse geese eggs, 25 cents each; limited number an< orders filled as received. Harry Cook, R. D. No. 3, Remington or Rensselaer Phone 5360. FOR SALE—Or exchange for Jasper county land, 160 acres of irrigated land in Colorado; good water rights. H. B. Brown, Kniman, Ind. FOR SALE—Timothy and Hungarian hay; also Michigan eating and seed potatoes. It wiil pay you to call on me before buying. Alf Donnelly, Phone 548-B. . FOR SALE—37O bushels of good, pure timothy seed. Call James E. Walters. John J. Lawler. FOR BALE—A good team of mares, 8 and 5 years old; not bred. John Reed, Parr, Ind.

FOR HINT. FOR RENT—House, barn, garden, truck patch and orchard; wood free. 12 miles north of Rensselaer; $3.00 per month. B. D. Gomer. WANTED. WANTED—Dining room girl. Apply at Makeever House. WANTED—Job on farm by young man. Experienced in all kinds of farm work. , Joseph Boe&, R. o***l, Tftfft.Jmd/ * WANTED- —i l few loads of straw or low grade hay for bedding. Riveredge Dairy, Phone 40-A. WANTED—Some mixed hay; must ibe good feed. Ed Banton. Jr, Phone 142-D. WANTED—To borrow $1,200 to $1,500. Farm land security. Interest 6% per cent G. F. Meyers. lost. DOST—A pair of new rubber boots, between Pleasant Grove and Pleasant Grove school house. Nate Richards, Phone 503-L. AUTOS AND BIOTOLES. A full line of bipycle repairs; expert work.—Main Garage. ( AJAX TIRES—The only written guaranteed 5,000-mile tire A full line at the Main Garage. OlDß—Automobile, motorcycle, motorboat, aeroplane, bicycle, farm machinery, thrashing machine, gun, cream separator, sewing machine, lawn mower—oils for anything always in stock at the lowest prices. Main Garage W. H. DEXTER W. H. Dexter will pay 26%c for Butterfat this week. ■ ■' "' 1 l ‘ a ‘ The Lafayette Journal, which wm recently purchased by Henry W. Marshall, is to have a Sunday edition. The first appearance will be on Easter day, when an elaborate paper to to greet subscribers. a

WtH Barkley’s little daughter is improved from an illness that threatened to develop pneumonia. Come and see our line of buggies. Hamilton & Kellner. Hear Byron Hiatt at the high school auditorium next Tuesday evening, March 21st. James H. S. Ellis and son, James, dame from the Ellas home east of Monticello this morning, where they had been since Sunday.

VICK’S SALVE FOR ALL COLD TROLjeL.ES Order feed, coal and wood of Hamilton & Kellner, Phone 273. The season tickets for the lecture course are good for the Byron Piatt lecture next Tuesday evening at the high school auditorium. New oar of Jackson Hill coal received. Grant-Warper Lumber Co. The extra number of the lecture course and the last for the year will be the Byron Piatt lecture next Tuesday evening at the -high school auditorium. / The famous John Deere line is sold by Hamilton & Kellner. The admission to the Byron Piatt lecture, the last of the course, Which will be held at the high school auditorium next Tuesday evening, March 31st, is 35 cents. Harry English went to Glencoe, 111., today, to spend the vacation week with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hopkins. Sheriff Hoover took Samuel £rice, of Barkley township, to the asylum at Longcliffe tod'ay. Price was recommitted to the asylum after having been out for eleven years. Mrs. Harry Wiltshire returned yesterday evening from a week’s stay with her sister, Mrs. Peter Giver, at Wabash. Mrs. Giver has been very ill but is now improving. There was a steady fall of rain last night and a part of the time today. Streams are swollen considerably and in some places in the State are reported out of their banks.

VICKS&ZISALVE

James L. Hunt has just moved here from Thornton, lowa, and occupies the 10-acre tract just north of town which he recently purchased of W. O. Schanlaub, of Kentland.

W. W. Miller, of Mt. Ayr, was named a® the third commissioner in the Gaff ditch at Kentland Wednesday and was directed to qualify at the office of J. C. Murphy in Morocco on Mlarch 30th.

Assistant State Fire Marshal S. J. P. White and C. L. UUery are ro ported to have unearthed evidence involving four well known residents of Lakeville and Plymouth in an arson ctonspiraey. The evidence will be presented to the grand jury.

(George D. Zea will reside on Or. F. A. Tufler’s onion farm near Burk’s bridge this year and a new house will be erected for him. Gerald Hollingsworth, son of E. L. Hollingsworth, will farm 5 acres of onions there this year.

VICK’S V »“j UST R.U B IT ON”*lu

Elmer and Marion Gwin and O. N. Hile returned this morning from a ten days’ visit to Pensacola an< Westville, Fla., where they enjoyed a very pleasant sojourn. Elmer Gwin is the agent for land at WestviJTe. At Pensacola they enjoyed a visit to the U. S. navy yards.

J. W. Christ, who has been a resident of Chicago for several years, is one of the newcomers at Newland. He purchased 10 acres of truck land and has taken an option on 20 acres more. He has quit his w<ork in Chicago and will give his onion farm his personal attention.

Philip Blue and wife and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mirs. W. A. Brown, will start some time next week for Canada, where they will live the coming year. Mr. Brown has rented a farm 21 miles from Regina, Saskatchewan, and Mr. Blue will help him in its management. Mrs. Garland Grant will occupy the Blue residence. MISCELLANEOUS. PAINTING and DECORATINGOrders may be left at any of the drugstores or I may be seen at tlie home of my mother, Mrs. Yes Richards. Good work guaranteed.— Clarence Hamilton.

SPRING WORK—Now is the time to arrange for the painting and paperhanging work. Please call us as soon as you can and we will get to your work just as early as possible. W. 8. Richards & Son. Phone 331.

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ELECTRICITY COST IN INDIANA CITIES

Investigation Shows That Prices Vary and That Charges in Lafayette Are Excessive. \

Apropos to the recent telephone rate discussion, interest will naturally be felt in an appeal made to the Public Service Commission by patrons of the Murdock electricity plant in Lafayette The plan of investigation being' carried on in The News sustains the method taken by The Republican to as. certain what the telephone rates were in Indiana cities similar to Rensselaer.

The investigation which E. I. Lewis, a staff correspondent for The News, is making, is the same made by The Republican, except that inquiry is being made into the cost of electricity in many cities, and that Mr. Lewis is visiting the cities personally instead of addressing questions to some person in the cities where the rate is desired. The Murdocks at Lafayette constitute a corporation inimical to the success of manufacturing industries and-providing a rich revenue for a close corporation which benefits from controlling a utility of a public character. Not only do the Murdocks own the street car system and interurban lines but also the lighting and power plants. The articles so far written by Mr. Lewis show that the Murdocks have made the most of their opportunity and that the users of electricity for light and power have been “held up” to pay a rate that has no justification based upon experiences in other cities the size of Lafayette. The investigation shows conclusively that the utilities of the country were sadly in need of regulation and that there is possible great good either for the commission or for laws regulating rates and so classified as to place cities and towns o<f similar size on a rate that is uniform or delegating to city councils the power to regulate the rates within prescribed limits. The last legislature established the commission plan and we believe it will prove of great good, although it will probably be expensive in its operation. Some of the discoveries of Mr. Lewis will prove interesting. For the minimum amount of electricity for lights;, that is, from 1 to 50 kilowatt hours, Lafayette charges 9 cents and Anderson 6. The disparity becomes greater as the use increases, thus making it possible for plants using electric power dn Anderson to procure their “juice” at half the rate or less paid at Lafayette. For instance, if from 8,000 to 25,000 Kilowatt hours are used the rate at Anderson is 1.50 cents, while at Lafayette the rate is 3 cents. The light rate for 1,000 or more kilowatt hours at Anderson is 3 and at Lafayette 7 cents. Mr. Lewis shows that a department store at Lafayette last month paid for light and power $89.49, While the same'amount of light and power could have been, had at Anderson for $40.56, c saving of $48.93. and that the Anderson company is making from $60,000 to $65,000 a year., Thus the Murdocks are receiving from one Lafayette store alone almost SSO a month more than would be required in Anderson. Off course, the businessman must regulate his prices to make that amount more than otherwise and the public pays the freight. The Richmond rate is practically the same as the Anderson rate, virtually half that charged at Lafayette.

The- Anderson plant,--whichvJs equal to the Lafayette plant fn every manner, cost only $225,000. The Murdocks have their plant capitalized for $900,000, and want the Public Service Commission to allow them to earn an annual dividend on $675,000 worth of watered stock. The injustice of this is apparent to every one and the Public Service Commission of Indiana will fall far short of its duty to the public if it dpes not regulate all utilities for complete justice t the people. The Murdocks have kept many small manufacturing industries out of Lafayette because they wanted twice the pay for power asked for in other cities and they have thus retarded the city’s growth and the interests of all Lafayette people while living in the luxury of their unfair profit. /

The Republican wishes to advise all interested in this important and timely subject to read the articles Mr. Lewis is writing and to inform themselves so that they will be able to do a citizen’s duty and send to the legislature men who will not fall in line with the protected corporations but devote themselves to the support of the “square deal” for the people.

A fifty mile windstorm that swept over Gary and the southern lake coast towns made street traffic almost impossible Wednesday because of the Shifting sand. Many billboards were wrecked and more than a dozen plate glass windows were shattered. In the outlying portions of Gary the moving sand dunes gives the region a Sahara desert aspect.

Arthur Smith was killed at the Delp grain transfer at Bourbon Wednesday when his clothes were caught on a high speed shaft.

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Visited Uncle in Ohio and Carriage Maker in Logansport.

Mr. and Mr. Robert Michal and son, Judson, have returned from an enjoyable ten days’ visit with an uncle of Mr. Michal’s in eastern Ohio. He resides at Lafayette, Ohio, and has a farm acwss in Pennsylvaiia, which Robert and he visited. On their return home they visiteti at Ft. Wayne, Peru and Logansport, where Mr. Michal went to see John Jackson, who for many years was the leading carriage maker in tthis part of the country. He is now 87 years ofage and 'has been out of business for many years but talks with interest about his experiences in- the business and recalled sales of carriages and,spring wagons to many of the old residentsof Jasper county. " z Mr. Michal struck eastern Ohio right at the sugar maple sap period and visited the eamps. He reports that farmers through Ohio were plowing and that enroute through the state he saw probably 200 teams at work in the fields. There has been very little plowing in this pant of Indiana and pnbbably none near Rensselaer, althoug it is reported that there was quite a. little plowing up along the Kankakee river.

Mys[?]ery Shrouds Fighting Between Federals and Rebels.

Both the federals and rebels claim the advantage in the fighting that has been going on at and near Torreon, Mexico, for . several days. Dispatches are meager and leave great doubt as to the outcome.

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RICH MAN LIVED A DUAL LIFE

Woman Seeks Millions <tf L. P. Ewald as Widow Under Common Law Matrimony.

Louisville, March 26.—The dual life of an eccentric multimillionaire, Louis Philip Ewald, which he spent a smtall fortune to keep secret, was disclosed today in the trial of a suit whereby Ellen J. Golden seek? $2,000,000 of his estate as his widow under the common law. The testimony showed that Ewald even took the woman’s name, passing as John P. Goldeq, in an effort to conceal his relations with her.

The plaintiff testified that the common-law marriage between her self and Ewald -took place in St. Louis in March, 1890. Prior to leaving St. Louis to take up her residence in an elaborate home bought for her by Ewald in this city she lived in Williamsport, Pa., Pittsburg,- Washington, Chicago and Denver.

Although Ewald operated a large iron foundry for twenty years and accumulated millions, he virtually was unknown personally in this city. He Shunned even ordinary notice and took no part ,in civic affairs. So great was his for obscurity that he seldom went outside his home or office except in a eab.

. After Installing the woman in a Louisville mansion he purchased a costly one next door and kept it vacant, evidence showed, for the purpose of greater seclusion. He was known in the neighborhood as Golden.

Ewald died almost five years ago. His estate was estimated to be worth about $4,000,000. He willed $15,000 each to nine brothers and sisters? most of whom live in St. Louis, and the remainder to Ellen Golden’s three children, whom he had adopted.

President Wilson Wednesday was notified of the departure for Washington of a second ''Coxey’s army,” which, it is said, will start April 16 from Massilon, 0., the starting point for the first “army” twenty years ago. T~ ,

Secretary Lane announced that he had authorized the construction of a railroad twenty miles long south of Yuma, Ariz., to provide transportation facilities for farmers and settlers on the Yuma irrigation project.

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UNION CENTER.

A large crowd attended the Fred Schultz sale Monday. Dan Lakin is moving to Blackford this week. Mrs. C. E. Stibbe called on Mrs. August Makus Monday. Mrs. Homer Stanley spent Monday with Mrs. Dennis Healy. William Unruh is doing some carpenter work for JJ. E. Stibbe this week. Leo and Edward Krueger and A. R. Schultz were Parr goers Tuesday. Mrs. Augusta Dunn and daughter, Marie, spent Tuesday afternoon with ,Mrs. z Fred Schultz. Mrs. Perry Griffith, of Parr, spent Sunday with her parents; Mr. and Mrs. Stibbe. Mrs. Emil Schultz and son, Delbert, returned home Saturday after a visit with her sisters, Mrs. Paul Shutte, of Goodland, and Mrs. Oscar Cadone, of Watseka, 111. Quite a little Inconvenience is caused in this vicinity by the milk, train coming an hour later. Those living on the Parr route do hot get their papers until a day late. A birthday party was held Iggt Sunday at Herman Schultz’s in honor of Mrs. Chris Schultz and Mrs. August Makuis. Their birthdays being so close together it was decided to. celebrate them on the same day. a bountiful dinner was served and after an afternoon of enjoyment everyone went home wishing both many more such happy birthdays.

Order your coal of the Grant* Warner Lumber Co. A new ear of Jackson Hill just received.

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