Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — Page 1

No. 87.

MARBLE DITCH WILL AT LAST BE BUILT

Supremo Court Bules Against Romonstrators From Lake County ; Reclamation. The supreme court has sustained the decision in the Jasper drcult court in approving the petition for the construction of the Marble ditch, Which is the enterprise for reclaiming the swamp lands along the Kankakee river from the Starke county line to the Dlinois boundary. This will probably be the last attempt on the part 'of John Brown, of Crown Point, and other land owners north of the river to defeat this reclamation scheme, in which W. F. Powers, of Lafayette, and the Northern Indiana Land Co. were associated with Horace Marble and for which Attorney Halleck has labored for the past eight years. Thousands of acres of land in Jasper, Newton,. Lake and Porter counties will be reclaimed by the lowering and straighterting of the channel of the Kankakee river and the construction of the laterals provided in the Marble petition. Since the death of Horace Marble, the ditch has been generally known as the Marble-Powers ditch, Mr. Powers being the next named of the petitioners. The estimated cos£* of construction exceeds $328,000, and the report of the engineer and the viewers recommends that- the ditch be sold in four sections.

-The following abstract of the decision of the court was published in Friday’s Indianapolis Star: —Public Drains—Ditch , Commissioners.—22l4l. Brown et al. vs. Powers etal., Jasper C. C. Affirmed. Morris, C. J. Proceeding commenced in April, 1907, after drainage act that year took effect, to establish drain in more than one county to straighten Kankakee River and build lateral drains. The drain commences three miles east of Jasper county line and extends through Jasper into Newton county, with laterals and affects lands in Jasper, Newton, Porter, Lake, Laporte and Starke counties, the greater portion being in Jasper county. The court appointed surveyor of Jasper county and a resident of Porter county who was not drainage of that county, drainage commissioners, his was not an abuse of discretion. (2) There was no error in appointing county surveyor of Jasper county prior to his apointment as drainage commissioner by board of commissioners, especially where the court thereafter appointed incumbent commissioner appointed by the board as one of commissioners. (3) Objections to report of an after appointed surveyor, not county surveyor, appointed commissioner on resignation .of county surveyor, were not sufficient where surveyor had served without objections and no showing after elected county surveyor ever attempted to qualify, were properly overruled. (4) There was no error in refusing to dismiss cause on hearing of remonstrances filed in report of commissioners becaues the petition was amended after the filing of the -report of the commissioners, -or for refusal to strike amended petition from files. (5) There was no error in allowing a change of judge after the hearing of one remonstrance by the regular judge by agreement ahead of the date set tor trial of the remonstrance, where the affidavit for change was made after the advanced hearing and before date set for hearing of remonstrances, and while appellants made no objection to change of judge. (6) “Appellants claim the entire proceeding is void because they assert tlje Kankakee

River, in. Jasper county, is naviga- ' ble. This court judicially knows the contrary.” (7) The court can not consider the question of the destruction of the timber on the banks as required by the commissioners’ report in the absence of the evidence from the record.

FOR SALE—A shed that mUst be torn down, but contains some good lumber. Goo. H. Healey.

AUCTION TONIGHT and every night from now until the entire Rowles & Parker stock has been sold. Sale starts at 7:30 promptly. Come out and hear jhe BALD HEADED AUCTIONEER. DA KI AFTHE * ■>-<■ i : "- ■ &Afess■ • w ■•■*• .■ . - '■ ’ < . ; : • • . ' . • . .. - ,?.a- - -.. .--v— ■ l—j : ■--- .1-. ■ ■. ■ l

The Evening Republican.

Wait H. Sage, Traveling Salesman, Recovering from Injury.

Walt H. Sage, who sells McLaughlin coffees and who iS; Well known in Rensselaer, is recovering from an injury that kept him confined to •his home from Jan. 29th to March 23rd. He was leaving a train at Huntington on the day the injury occurred, and stepped on the edge of the small- stool which the brakeman had set ori the platform. The stool turned and so did Walt and so did his right ankle. Ligaments in the latter were torn and the injury was very painful; Walt, however, did nbt lose his powers of speech and will be able to sing a song of McLaughlin superiority to his customers that will fill his. order book just as of old. He waS here Friday and aside from a slight flat tire effect on the starboard side is just as good as he was before he started to take a drink (of coffee) at Huntington.

A good Edison drama tonight entitled “With Eyes of Love,” in which Augustus Phillips stars. All should see it.

The Easter day services at the Methodist church will be very interesting. The Sunday School \iwill receive its Easter collection. The morning church service will have special music, also a class will be baptized, and taken into church. Dr. Curnick will preach on the of. Christ”. At 7:30 the Sunday School will give an Easter program of song and recitation, iri which fifty children will take •part-

Over 500 fine field grown pansy plants from Denver, Colo, and from the choicest imported seeds; 20 and 25 cents per dozen. Booking orders now. This cmount won’t last long. KING FLORAL CO.

Found a Cure for Rheumatism. “I suffered with rheumatism for two years afid could not geWny right hand to my mouth for that length of time,” writes 'Lee L. Chap man, Mapleton, lowa. *7 suffered terrible pain so I could not sleep or lie still at night. Five years ago I began using Chamberlain’s Liniment and in two months I was well and have not suffered with rheumatism since.” For sale by all dealers.c According to estimates 42,500 ears will be required to carry southern California's contribution of oranges and lemons to the east this year. Only 18,000 cartoads were moved last year. w -

If you need early seed potatoes, we have just unloaded a car of fancy Early Ohlos, Rose, Six Weeks, Hurals and Burbanks. Our seed potatoes are all northern grown, on new laud, free from scab and not worm eaten. JOHN EGER. Northern grown package and bulk garden seeds; white, red and yellow onion sets; Triumph, Early Rose, Early Ohio, Burbank and Rural seed potatoes. Home Gro-' eery. » ■ _ _ I. 0.0. F. No. 201. Work in the Golden Rule Degree Friday night, April 10th. Refreshments. All members requested to be present E. W. HICKMAN, 0. P. J. W. COEN, Scribe. Straight at It. There is no use of our “beating around the bush.” We might as well out with it first as last. We want you to try Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy the next time you have a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can see why you should not do so. This preparation by its remarkable cures has gained a' world wide reputation, and people everywhere speak of it In the highest terms of praise. It Is for sale by all dealers. C

Watered January 1, 1887. as second class mall matter, at the poetofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March 8, 1878.

Princess Tonight.

M. E. Easter Service.

Pansy Plants.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1914.

Newland Meeting A Great Success

Henry G. Bell Made Instructive Talk and Edward P Honan Added to Spice of Gathering.

REAL BOOM IS NOW ON Newland Has Appearance'of a Fron- ’ tier Town—Many Nhw Houses Being Built, Wells Drilled and- Other Improvements in Progress—Ed Oliver and T. M. Callahan With Other Hustlers Making Things' Hum—Callahan’s First Addition to Newland is Being Platted—' Lumber Yard and Cement z Factoryto Be Built at Houses a' Drawback. The meeting at Newland Friday ! was a great success. The half a j hundred who went from Rensselaer• I were surprised to .find so much ’ progress in that vicinity and to I j learn that some thirty houses have ' either been built or are under construction and that a hundred more are needed to care for those who have purchased land in that vicinity ahd the families who will be required to do the cultivating of the vast onion fields. The Gifford branch train, consisting of the old engine and a coach which the Monon had supplied for the occasion, awaited the Rensselaer delegation at McOoysburg and transported them to Newland, where they arrived a little after 12 o’clock. The train was under the| direct supervision of Frank E. Lew-1 is, the general superintendent, while Conductor Charley Pettit collected the tickets/ which had been sold by WilsoTi Bussell. It was the largest passenger travel that Conductor Pettit had ever seen during his long connection with the road. The train ran very slowly. There has been a lot of rain lately and the grade was soft, and no chances were taken of having an accident. There was a lively skirmislrto get something to eat after the train arrived at Newland and the best that most of the excursionists could do was to eat wiene sandwiches and coffee. This served them very well, however, and after looking about the village the meeting. was held at the school house, ow-j ing to the fact that a very strong wind was blowing and it was quite disagreeable outside. Among the most substantial improvements being made at this time are the erection of a 10-room house for Marcus brothers, which is nearing completion, and the erection of 6-room bungalows by Messrs. Spain and Borchers. Also the laying of a 600-ft. side track, which is to be used by .the new lumber yard and cement block and tile factory, which Otto Knoerzer, of Hammond, rs’gettihgreadytoefiectMr.Knoerzer is at the head of the Champion Potato Machinery Co. and is a man of considerable wealth. His daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. O. JT. Faber, are already there and are conducting one of tile general stores, the other being run by J. W. Spate. Mr. Knoerzer not only purchased sufficient ground for the*enterprises he is starting but also bought the open ditch lying be-, 'tween the school building and the railroad and which had been abandoned as a ditch some years ago and is having it filled, several men and teams being at work Friday. Perhaps the most important recent development was the decision -of T. M. Callahan to cut into lots of 150x50 feet a tract of 65 acres of land which he owns right at the town, one corner extending to the railroad and the main street of the town, and oh which there are now several houses. Mr. Callahan was

asked by many to do this, as several of the 10-acre tract purchasers would sooner have, their homes right at the town than to live on the tracts, and, in fact, much of the land suitable for onion cultivation affords no place for a house. County Engineer Yeoman n.-ade the trip to Newland Friday with a view to making a survey, but the wind was blowing such a gale that he could not do it. He will plat the entire 6g acres into blocks and lots and place it on the market immediately, Prices will range from $l5O to S4OO per lot. The land is not suitable Jtor grownig onions and makes excellent building places. It will be called Callahan’s first addition to the town of Newland and it is quite certain that many lots will be sold and houses erected during this summer.

The large house being erected by Marcus Bros, is the best that was ever erected in that part of the county and consists of ten rooms. A well is being drilled bj> Harry Watson. It is now 120 feet in the rock. The Marcus boys came from Davenport, lowa. Two other Davenport men, Henley and Vasen, are also erecting houses. Charley Elder has the contracts and also several others, including one for D. Young. Will Postill, with Will Simons and Ben Wolf, as assistants, is building the Marcus house and has several other contracts. Several are building temporary houses, among these is a man named Frankenberger. J. W. Crist and wife, of Chicago, are stopping at the Makeever house in Rensselaer. They ordered a portable house from Sears-Roebuck and expect it to arrive any day and he will then erect it and they will move in and get their crop started. North of Newland but near enough to be A part of the town is quite a settlement of newcomers and a number of new houses. The suburb is called Garyville, several of the residents being from Gary. Another place to the southwest has several new houses and a number of the owners are from Gary, among them “Big Louie,” who was formerly on the Gary police force.

Buyers continue to arrive and J. W. Spate recently sold his tract at a considerable advance in price, but he is unable to get another tract for what he sold out for. A man named Rife sold his land at an advance of $1,700.

Three big traction engines and gang plows are on hand ready to plow the land as soon as the weather is suitable, one belongs to Mr. Callahan and the other two to Ed Oliver, who is to get the land ready for planting for all to whom he sold land. The gang plows wbrk fine, running over land in which a horse would mire down. Most of the new comers have plenty of money to carry themselves through the year and if a large crop of onions and other truck is raised and the price is will be difficult to imagine the extent of building that will ensue this fall and next spring.

A year ago last fall Ed Oliver built his large storage plant. There is a commodious second floor and a ladder frdm the outside furnishes the only means of reaching the ■second floor. Vernon N wels, one of the visitors, climbed up the ladder to explore and was surprised to And two families living up there. They had movedyto Newland to raise onibns and pending the erection of homes had taken up their quarters in the storage plant. Vern beat a hasty retreat when he found

that he was intruding in living quarters. Thaf is a sample of the conditions that have confronted many others ahd several of the houses are quartering two or three families. One man is living iff a tent and two or three others, who expect to keep automobiles, have erected -their garages first and will Hye in them until they can get houses built.

The boom is on and it seems reasonable to expect that it will prove # permanent thing if the possibilities of that section for onion growing and general truok farming are fully developed. Many of the newcomers are not farmers, have never had any experience in that line of occupation. Some are mechanics and have lived in cities all of their lives, but they are men of intelligence and enterprise and will work industriously to the full realization of their hope, that of establishing permanent homes to follow the trucking business.

But to get to the meeting at the school -house, where Henry G. Bell talked for about an hour about truck farming. That , was the real purpose of the meeting Mr. Bell is an agronomist. whicMheans that he is a soil specialist. He works for the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association, but he does not take advantage of his Audiences by recommending the use of fertilizer except as a well-known adjunct to crop improvement. Mr. Bell was raised on a farm and attended college and then became a college professor. For some time he was an instructor in the state university of Maine, and there knew Charles E. Lewis, of this county, who was also one of the professors in the university.*

Mr. Bell brings to his hearers not only the results of long study and of broad experience but a clearness of expression and an 'honesty in his manner that attracts all who hear him and it is probable there has never been an address delivered in this county that was of greater interest to farmers. The school house was packed with people, all eager students and they gave him the closest attention. By means of charts which he had specially prepared for this occasion he illustrated the essential needs of various truck crops, including onions, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers and sweet corn. Mr. Bell told of the •purposes for which nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash are used, the first supplying growth to the stalk, the second the ripening qualities and the third the filling out of the vegetable. The proportions vary according to the deficiencies % of the soil.

He spoke at some length of the necessity of putting one’s greatest effort into getting the best results and that only the best should be satisfactory- He told of cases that had come under his observation where fancy prices were procured because of careful growing, where the product was free from blemish, of uniform size, having been carefully graded and where it was shipped in an attractive way. He said that too many farm owners consider their farms either heirlooms or life sentences, and that they do not get the enjoyment out of them that they should have. He made it plain that intelligence is as essential ui farming as in any businessand that the man who is not keeping abreast of the scientific methods of farming is not realizing as he should from his farm and his labor.

Mr. Bell gave two or tlyee receipts for the treatment of potato ills that The Republican is Minting on request. They are as follows: Scab. Spread out the potatoes you are going to plant on the barn floor or other good placet. Make a mixture as follows: One pound formalin and 30 gallons of water. Sprinkle over the potatoes, which are in pileA from 6 to 8 inches deep. Stir the potatoes and sprinkle again, so that all will, get a part ,of the foN.iaJin. Cover over with bags or old earpet and leave for about a day. Then cut and plant

immediately. If you have treated more potatoes than you find you care to plant, leave the extra ones exposed a day dr so and they can be used without danger, juat as though they had never been treated. This is important to prevent scab and adds to the market value of the potatoes. , Blight. Use the bordeaux mixture. Five pounds of lime, 5 pounds bluestone, 50 gallons of water. Sprinkle on the vines. Spray as soon as mixed. For bugs use the paris green spray, a pound of parts green ana a pound of lime to a barrel of water. Mr. Bell asked for questions and a few were asked. He offers to send bulletins relating to trucking subjects to all who ask for them. Letters addressed to Henry G. Bell, 916-917 Telegraph Bldg., Chicago, will secure the bulletins.

. Mr. Bell was followed by Attorney Honan, who was in a very happy mood and kept the large audience in a merry mood for a half hour. J. F. Bruner was present and talked about the telephone business. He stated that he was ready to establish a .central board at Newland as soon as there was a demand for enough phones, that a metallic circuit would be run to Rensselaer and that an improvement of the service could reasonably be expected. J. N. Leatherman was present and talked briefly. Ed Oliver made a short talk and several others took some part in the meeting. The’Gifford branch train took the Rensselaer people back to MeCoysburg soon after the meeting adjourned and there a wait of almost four hours occurred, owing to thedateness of the north bound train, but all seemed to consider the day a very pleasant one and were glad they made the trip. Newland is sure going some and it will probably take tank as the fourth town in the county within the year.

Announcement I wsh to announce that I have opened a produce house across from the Rensselaer Lumber 00., in the building formerly occupied by the Depot Grocery. I ask a share of your patronage and promise honest weights and a square deal. Phone 26 for prices on eggs and poultry. A E. WALLACE. The Easter programs as published in The Republican heretofore will be carried out Sunday, but can not be republished today owing to lack of space. ' Baptist Church. Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Morning service 10:45 a. m. Easter program. “The Triumph of Christ,” will be given at 7:30 p. m. All are invited. Home Folks Movies Enjoyed By a Thousand People Friday. The “home folks” movies at the Princess drew out large crowds at both the matinee and night performances Friday, more than one thousand seeing the pictures at the five shows. It was the greatest single attraction ever held by a motion picture house in this city. The pictures were very plain and most of those who were eaught in front of the camera could be seen and recognized. Manager Georgs will show the pictures several more times, making announcement of the nights shown.

Blemishes. Why go through fife embarrassed and disfigured with pimples, eruptions, blackheads, red rough skin, or suffering with tortures of Eczema, itch, tetter, salt rheum. Just ask your druggist for Dr. Hobson’s Eczema Ointment. Fallow the simple suggestions and your skin worries are over. Mild, soothing, effective. Excellent for babies and delicate, tender skin. Stops chapping. Always helps. Relief or money back. 50c. Recommended by A F. Long.

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