Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1914 — Page 1

No. 88.

“Home Folks” Movies Tonight! Princess Theatre The Rensselaer pictures will be shown again this evening at the Princess Theatre in connection with the regular show. SHOWS at 7, 8 and 9 p. m. All Seats IQc.

Clarence Hamilton and Mrs. Dora A. Knight Married.

At the home of Mrs. Sylvester Richards at 8 o’clock last Saturday evening occurred the marriage of her son, Mr. Clarence J. Hamilton, and Mrs. Dora A. Knight. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. P. Green. The groom is engaged in the painting and paperhanging business in this city, where they will make their home.

Hammond Lawyer Disappears After Making Collections.

Attorney Turnfer G. Gregory, law partner of H. E. Granger, of Hammond, mysteriously disappeared last .week after making a "trip to Gary, where he collected S7OO attorney fees. It is believed that Gregory met foul play after making the collections. Another mysterious disappearance is that of Rev. Louis R. Patmount, well known temperance worker. He left the hotel at which he had been stopping at Westville, 111., on March 31st and since that time no word has been received from him.. He took an active interest in the “dry” campaign and it is believed he may have been foully dealt with.

Met Death the Day His Vacation Was to Have Begun.

John Mitchell, the fireman who lost his life at the Dryfus theatre in Lafayette, was to have started on his annual vacation the day ’ e met Mis death. The call earne st an early hour Friday morning. A few hours later he would have been off duty for two weeks. Mitchell had been a member of the flic department for six years and is the first fireman who ever lost his life while oh duty in that city. A benefit fund Mas been started for the family of the dead fireman and many Lafayette people are contributing. The Courier is taking many pledges by mail or telephone.

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BROTHERS MEET FOR FIRST TIME IN 43 YEARS

fames Passons Entertaining Brother From Served in Army When Youths. B. H. Passons, of Eaton, Colo., Arrived here yesterday for a visit with his brother, James Passons, whom he had not seen for 43 years. The reunion was a pleasant ode and they will have a splendid visit for four or five days. When they separated 43 years ago James was living at Peru, wfhere the family had resided for several years. B. H. was at that time living in Pulaski county. .He went first to lowa and later to Colorado, where he has lived for the past 32 years. Although they had kept some track of each other during all the intervening years they had not met until his arrival (here. James is in his 70th year and his brother will be 67 in May. Both served in the union army, Jim being a member of the 46th Indiana and his brother in the 13th Indiana cavalry. Both are enjoying quite good health and living retired lives. It is probable that Jim will arrange to take a trip to Colorado before long and repay the visit his brother is now making him.

Valparaiso Student In Demented Condition Jumps From Window.

Valparaiso Vidette. D. Evanoff, the Bulgarion student who ran through Valpo streets two weeks ago while in a demented state, jumped from an upper story window of the county infirmary yesterday and never bfoke a bone. He then took Superintendent E. T. Funk and several others around the place on a merry chase over the fields. At one instance he waded a creek four feet deep with water. After a run of a half-mile he was overtaken and returned to the house. Evanoff was only scantily clothed at the time. Although he has begun to eat light diet, his mental state is still very bad.

Inheritance Tax From Estate Of the Late J. B. Ellis.

Delphi Citizen-Times. Harry Reed his filed his report as appraiser under the inheritance tax law in the John B. Ellis estate, Jefferson township. The personal property is appraised at $6,432.9(1; real estate at $32,840; total $39,272.90. Under the law there being four heirs, SB,OOO would be exempted, which would leave $31,272.90 subject to a tax of one per cent, or $312.27, which goes to the state, less pense of appraisement, which rips $lB.lO.

Indiana Society of Chicago Plan Annual Summer Outing.

Valparaiso Vidette. A delegation of eight from the Indiana Society of Chicago, headed by Col. Buckingham, will . arrive here this afternoon at 4;17 over the Nickel Plate. Valparaiso members, L. R. Skinner, Geo. F. Beaueh and F. N. Arvin, besides Mayor Sisson and others, will meet them and take them to Sager’s lake to look over the location with a view of holding the annual outing there in June. The Chicago men will return home by way of the Pennsylvania at 6:15. Secretary Bryan and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, Friday exchanged ratifications of the arbitration treaty which will continue for another five years.

Entered January X 189 J, as second class mail matter, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of Marc h 3, 1873.

RALPH SPRAGUE TO IMPROVE MILL

Is Installing Most Modern Flour Making Machinery and Will Have One of Best Plants.

Rensselaer is this year to witness the rejuvenation of its flouring mill, and great 1 good should come to Rensselaer and the surrounding country by reason of this fact. Ralph Sprague, who took charge of the mill several months ago and who -has''conducted it on a money making basis, is now having installed the latest machinery for flour making, and by the middle of July or in time to take care of this year’s wheat crop he will have everything in readiness to do the flour making for the farmers of the county. He is having installed five double stands of roller machinery, the Barnard & Lee make and universally recognized as the best milling machinery manufactured. An 8-sec-tion plan shifter is also being installed, while the old spouting is all to be torn down and Replaced by new of the latest approved type. The interior of the mill is being treated with a preparation recommended by the government for mills and Mr. Sprague states that it will be the cleanest mill that it is possible to construct and that it will be kept clean. It will have a capacity at the outset of 60 or 70 barrels per day and this will be increased as soon as the demand exists. (Mr. Sprague is a practical mill man, having worked at the business all his life. He was on the road for some time installing mill machinery and has managed a number of successful mills. He first came to Rensselaer twenty years ago and installed the machinery in the mill which he now owns. For five years he was in the milling business and milled Turkey Red wheat, the best quality of all around flour wheat and which Is the kind almost exclusively grown in this county. Some eight years ago, James E. Flynn, who works with Mr. Sprague and who at that time was running the River Queen Mill, had a carload of Turkey Red wheat shipped in here for seed purposes and the success of the experiment resulted in a revival in wheat growing. Mr. Flynn was really the pioneer in Turkey Red wheat in this county. Mr. Sprague says that his mill will be one of the best small capacity mills in the state and that with the machinery he is installing he can make just as good flour as can be made in any of the big mills in the northwest. “If I can’t do just what I say,” remarked Mr. Sprague, “I will go out of the milling business.” He indulged in a few figures which should make all see thoroughly that it is of the most important economy to have flour milling done right here in Jasper county. With wheat selling at 85 cents a bushel he can save all bran users in the neighborhood of $3 per ton for feed. This will be an announcement that will be of interest to all feeders of bran. The price of this article now shipped here is S3OIO per ton. He can.cut this price to $27 as soon as he gets to making flour. He says that he can give farmers 38 pounds of flour for every bushel of wheat brought to him and that he will make a special inducement to build up the business among farmers, saying that he will give them more flour and better flour for a bushel of wheat than they ever received before, and that If the flour is not up to the highest standard it can be returned to him. There will, to all appearances, be the finest crop of wheat in Jasper county this year that was ever raised in the county. Not the largest, perhaps, because the acreage is not extensive, but there is a good amount and it wintered in the very best shape. Mr., Sprague will have the mill ready to handle this crop and will be able to pay a higher cash price than farmers have heretofore received. Mr. Sprague took hold of the mill when it was in a deplorable condition and has been successful in running it as a feed grinding mill. He has decided to make the improvements /ifter a thorough study of the proposition and believes that the wheat growers of the county will be deeply interested in his decision to run a flouring mill. The news, that the mill is to be put into first-class condition will be welcomed -both inside and outside of town and Mt. Sprague should have and will doubtless receive the hearty co-operation of the people of this vicinity in his enterprise. . ,

Deliveries made to all parts *of town by the Iroquois Mills. Get yottr ehick feed there.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1914.

CLUBS FORMED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Meetings to Organize Boys’ Corn Club and Girls’ Poultry Club Well Attended. County Agent Barrett, accompanied by Prof. Harper, of Purdue University, and Superintendent Ernest Lamson, made a trip over the bounty last Friday and Saturday for the purpose of organizing a Boys’ Corn Club and Girls’ Poultry Club. The first stop was made at Center school iyyuse in Gillam township. There a crowd of something like 75 boys, girls and parents had assembled. Mr. Harper gave a very interesting talk on the organization ( and work of similar clubs over the state. After Mr. Harper’s talk Count/Agent Barrett talked to the boys and girls about some of the things they must do to make their club work a success. After this enrollment cards were passed out and quite a number of the boys and girls signified their intention of joining the club. The next stop was made at Wheatfield. Here the boys and girls from the northern part of the county had assembled. A similar routine was gone through here and about 75 boys and girls signified their intention of entering the work. While the meeting was going on a fire broke out in the west part of town and a call was made for all the large boys to help put it out, so that some possibly left the meeting without, signing up. Saturday morning a meeting was held at Remington and while the crowd was enthusiastic it was not as large as at the other places. Saturday, afternoon a large crowd of boys and girls assembled in County Agent Barrett’s office and on account of lack of space they went to the court room to organize. The prospects are for a large and enthusiastic Boys’ Corn Club and Girls’ Poultry Club. * Boys or girls from over the county who did not get to attend these meetings and want to join in the work should send in their name, age, township, postofflce, and parent’s name at once to Mr. Barrett or to County Superintendent Lamson so that they may receive membership cards and full instructions.

Diploma Examinations.

' Diploma examinations for the eighth grade pupils of the country schools will be held next Saturday, April 18th, at the following places: Gillam, Center school house. Jordan, Rensselaer school house. Kankakee, Tefft. Keener, DeMotte. Newton, Surrey school house. Union, Fair Oaks. ■- Walker, Center school house. Wheatfield, Wheatfield school house. Marion, Rensselaer school house. Pupils of those townships that took the March examination will be notified in their report where'to go for a second trial. Pupils of any township are at liberty to go to the most convenient place, though it may not be in their own township. ERNEST LAMSON, Supt. County Schools.

ENDORSED AT HOME.

Such Proof at This Should Convince Any Rensselaer Citizen. The public endorsement of a local citizen is the best proof that can be produced. None better, none stronger can be had. When a man comes forward and testifies to his fellow-citizens, addresses his friends and neighbors, you may be sure he is thoroughly convinced or he would not do so. Telling one’s experience when’ it is for the public good is an act of kindness that should be appreciated. The following statement given by a resident of Rensselaer adds one more to the many cases of Home Endorsement which are being published about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read it. William Clift, 528 College St.,. Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I had kidney and bladder trouble and my back ached severely. I didn’t sleep well and was annoyed by a too frequent desire to pass the kidney secretions. I took doctors’ medicine and remedies of various kinds, but found no relief until I used Doan’s Kidney Pills. Since then my back hasn’t troubled me and I have felt be£ter in every way. It gives me great pleasure to endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Clift had. Foster-Milburn Co, Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

Mortgage exemption blank, at The Republican office.

. u 1 r ■ •.-.•r--?,' Burch’s Orchestra of Pontiac, Illinois Concert Dance at at Rex Theatre The Armory Tuesday Evening Tuesday Evening at two shows at 9 o’clock. 7 and 8 o’clock Tickets, $1.50. ADMISSION, 10c. ALL ARE INVITED. Burch’s Orchestra always delights all who hear it at either concert or dance. DON’T MISS IT.

URGE GOOD FRIDAY AS NATIONAL HOLIDAY

All Denominations Working Together to Have Week Before Easter One of Worship. There is a general movement on the part of Christian people to make the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, known as Holy Week, a time of meditation, prayer and public worship. The Lutheran association of Chiacgo has started an organization looking forward to having Good Friday observed as a national religious holiday the same as Christmas. The supreme court of the United States has declared that this is a Christian nation and it seems "right that the anniversary of the day upon which Jesus Christ died, upon the cross to become the savior of the world, should be observed as a national holiday. We are living in a hard, material age and most people do not give sufficient contemplation to religious worship but If Good Friday was commemorated as a holiday the attention of all classes of people would be called to the atoning death of Jesus Christ. The Christian world makes Christmas and Easter great days for .worship of Christ, but Good Friday, the day which commemorates the death of Jesus, is almost entirely neglectedDr. Curnick is holding Holy Week services at the Methodist church, and will preach on Good Friday upon the subject, “The Cross of Christ.”

Tudie Arnold, of Blytheville, Ark., accused of having sixteen wives, was sentenced in the federal court at Fort Worth, Tex., Friday to ten years’ imprisonment on a charge of violating the Mann white slave act. Seven wives testified against him. Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife di the former president, has became a member ol the Anti-Woman Suffrage association at New Haven, Conn., according to an announcement made by the organization Friday. Suffragists previously had claimed her favor.

Thing You Mays I Qi* PA TA 0 Better Goods for ; NeedTM, wee*. f J ( || | j Variety Store ■ X ' • ■ . - ■ < Garden and Flower Seed < Bulbs for Spring Planting Garden Hoes, Rakes and Spading Forks Flower Pots, Porch Baskets and Jardiniers < Window Shades, Curtain Rods, Curtain Goods < White Wash, Paint and Wall Paper Brushes ] Barn, House and Floor Paint Chickens Founts and Spray Pumps < Men’s, Boys’ and Childrens’ Straw Hats \ Dairy Pails, Milk Strainers and Cream Cans Get The Habit; Go to the Variety Store. We j sell most everything at money-saving prices. Bert J. Jarrette - - Rensselaer, Ind.

Branson Clark, of Milroy Township, Died Last Friday.

Branson Clark, a Milroy township'fanner who would have been 45 years of age had he lived until Sept. 18th, died last Friday at his home in Milroy township, his death being caused by tuberculosis. He leaves a wife and children. The funeral was held Sunday, burial being made in the Beaver cemetery. The same day a man named Marlow, w*ho died at his home near Brookston, was shipped to Rensselaer and his funeral took place at the North Star cemetery, near Mt. Ayr, where his wife is burled.

George F. Meyers was able to be out today. He is not well and gains strength slowly. He believes the warmer weather will help to revive him and has arranged to start for the south in company with Mrs. Meyers. They will probably go Thursday and may go no further than Kentucky and for only from ten days to three weeks. Re;)'e‘entative Park’s resolution to impeach Justice Daniel T. Wright of the district supreme court was favorably reported by the house judiciary committee Friday: -

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