Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1914 — KENTLAND. [ARTICLE]

KENTLAND.

From The Enterprises C. C. Kent left the last of the week for Fort Stockton, Texas, to visit his neice and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Tanquary. Miss Nina Spitler was the guest of friends at Rensselaer Tuesday. ißishop Willjam A. Quayle, of St. Paul, is to be the headliner in the forthcoming May Festival to be given under the auspices of the Methodist Brotherhood. Mrs. Frank M. Ross spent Saturday at Indiana Harbor, the guest of Mrs. Karl Read. Sunday she was joined by Miss. Adah E, Bush and they attended a concert in Chicago given by Mme. Schumann-Heink. R. A. Shobe has purchased six electric fans for use in the Kentland theatre. They are of the sixblade, noiseless, oscilating type, of the best make. They will make quite an addition to the already up to date theatre. A thirty-two foot double granary on the William Bart farm, four miles south of Kentland, was destroyed by fire Monday evening. The building contained 1,400 bushels of corn, corn planter, tractor engine and perhaps some smaller tools and implements. The fact that he was sheriff saved William Dowlings bacon in Good land the other day. The Goodland town marshal was making a raid on automobiles Tunning without a license number displayed and “Bill” had left his number at home, and the coroner, the only official authorized to arrest the sheriff, was not in sight. Thos. Bendalow, a representative of A. G. Spaulding & Co., of Chicago, was here the latter part of the week and laid out standard golf links on the grounds of C. C. Kent, east of town, and at Hazelden. Golf promises to be the popular game in Newton county the coming summer. Heine Bockma, a young farmer living near Remington, was severely injured Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding skidded and threw him to the ground with great force. He was riding at a rate of speed estimated at forty miles an hour, when the accident happened. He suffered several broken bones’ and numerous cuts and bruises about the head and body. He will recover. Articles of incorporation have been granted to the McCray Grain Co., of Kentland, and the new company has taken over the elevator properties of McCray, Morrison & Co. at Kentland, Effner and Perkins. The incorporators are Warren T. McCray, Will Simons and Adah E- Bush. The elevator at Ade passes to the control of the Ade Grain Co., incorporated by Mr. McCray, Mr. Simons and Fred Lyons, of Brook. At the joint meeting of the commissioners of Newton and Lake counties held at Crown Point las Thursday contracts were awarded for the construction of steel bridges over the Kankakee river at Schneider and Water Vallley. The former went to the East St. Louis Bridge Co. at $27,480, and the latter of O. E. Nickols, of Hebron, at $42,375, the total for the two bridges being $69,855. Of this sum Newton county will pay $11,875.35 and Lake county $57,979.65.

George Alfired Townsend, a widely known journalist and author, who wrote for many years under the pen name of “Gath,” died Wednesday at the home of his son-in-law, E. F. Bonaventure, in New York city. He was 73 years old. He had been in poor health for some time. > Charles Compton, motion picture musician of South Bend, drank carbolic acid and died. He. had recently taken the whisky cure, but had lapsed, and growing despondent, decided to end it all. The fatal potion was swallowed in the presence of a sister, who was rend ered frantic with grief. A friend once asked Joseph Fels, the millionaire soap manufacturer, why he spent such large sums in advertising, and Fels answered with a request for the friend to name three modern scouring soaps. The man could get no farther than the one manufactured by Fels. “You prove that I advertise to keep in the public eye and the public mind, said the manufacturer. Millions have been sepnt, and other millions are being spent today to keep certain manufactured articles in the public eye, and the practically uniform success of such advertisers, with their accumulation of wealth, proves that their advertising appropriations are a wise investment. How anybody ever believed we could fill our country up with Australian wool, Argentine corn, Canadian wheat, flour, oats and hay, and products Of European factories without hurting American farmers and American business, is more than we can understand, yet this is what the people voted for last fall Well, President Wilson and his democratic congress have given us genuine revision downward, just what the people clamored for, and now that they have it, what are they going to do about it? Not one particle of benefit has come to the people from downward revision, but a whole lot of harm. And we are all hoping the harm will not grow moi# serious.—Waukon (la.) Standard.