Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1914 — Page 1

No. 303.

TONIGHT /AT THE PRINCESS Florence Lawrence “A Mad “ Man’s Ward" “Zudera” stops traffic on South Jackson street more than three hours. The; management states that over 1,600 people saw the picture, and many hundreds more were unable to get in at all. ZUDORA Thanhouser’s Greatest Photoplay

Looks Like the Price Families Are Being Strung.

The various Pride families in Jasper county are considerably excited at a claim (being made by some of that name that they are heirs to some very valuable property in the city of Baltimore, Md., that the land was leased for a period of 99 years and that the lease has expired and that they will all come in for a big thing when the split is made. Several meetings have been held and a number of the Prices have put up from $1 to $lO to help in the legal battle to establish their rights. It is said that some of the men of that name have been led to believe that they will get as much as $200,000. The Republican has seen schemes of this sort before and has no hesitation in pronouncing them frauds designed by schemers to get money from as many of the persons of the name as can be induced by a chain of plausible letters as can be induced to send. In the first place anyone should know that before the investees in high priced real estate pay their money they have the title to the land searched by the best lawyers and every possible flaw is corrected by legal procedure that will scarcely admit of distant relatives, even if actual relationship could be established, ever getting anything. A few years ago just such a scheme was worked with the Ball families, affecting real, estate in the “very heart” of Philadelphia The Balls got excited, spent lots of money, bought family trees which showed them to be of royal lineage and when they had all been worked just as much as they could the bottom dropped out of the thing. We be-

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RAILROADS TO ASK FOR HIGHER RATE

Measure to Come Up at This Term of Legislature Will Ask V/i Cents Passenger Fare. All steam railroads operating in the state will ask the coming session o ifthe general assembly to grant an increase in transportation rate to 2% cents per mile. It wilfl be pointed out that the interstate commerce commission, realizing that the railroads were not getting sufficient money, allowed an increase of one-half ecnt per mile for interstate travel. The first step taken was for the railroads to present their claim to Governor Ralston and the public service commission. Several years ago the legislature passed* a law making the rate for travel 2 cents a mile. It is probable that the liveliest thing to occupy the attention of the legislature when it convenes on Jan. 7th will' be an effort to repeal the present law, substituting for it a rate of 2% cents.

JAck Smith, the painter, is in a quite serious condition of health and it is quite probable that he will be taken to the tuberculosis sanitarium for treatment. He was examined by a local physician Monday and he found his condition such that sanitarium treatment seems the only way ’of saving him. It is believed that treatment there and following it a change of climate would restore him to health. Mr. Smith is a man of excellent character and his afflictions have been numerous. Fqr about three years he has been in failing health. On the advice of a doctor he moved to Arizona almoat two years ago, but the cflimate there proved bad for his little daughter and in an effort ■to save her they moved back here but the girl was not helped and finally died. John has been unable to work but very little and naturally he has about exhausted his resources. Two lodges of which he is a member stand ready, it is said, to give him all the aid necessary and it is hoped that he will, go to the sanitarium and that the treatment restores him to health.

lieve that there was a scheme worked among the Wards to estab lish their title to real estate in New York. They are all fakes, worked up by schemers who prey on the credulity of men and women. It is hoped that the Price families hereabouts will try to ascertain just who the men are at the head of this scheme and then write to the postofflee department at Washington and find out if they are not operating in violation of the postal regulations. We say this in all charity to the men and women who are putting their time and money into this thing, for we feel that they are being’duped by some smooth swindlers.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1914.

“ HOLY ROLLERS” IN BAD IN MICHIGAN

Grave Charges Against “Benjamin" Are Being Investigated—Old Whiskers a Sport. A few years ago, at least, Rensselaer was visited occasionally by several b.cwhiskered men from Benare in charge of the school townon horse 'buying missions. The men were known as the “holy rollers” or “flying rollers.” They belonged to the “Tribe of Benjamin,” and their leader enjoyed their worship and directed them, in tjieir labors while he dressed in white satin and lived in his “garden of Eden.” Recently charges of grave immorality, preferred by women and girls against “Benjamin” have resulted in an investigaion by state authorities and the “temple of love” in the “House of David” has shown evidence of toeing a very wicked place. A mass meeting of indignant citizens was held ip Benton Harbor when the true nature of The Israelite colony became public and it was shown that the “flying rollers” ton Harbor Mich., who came here ship and vote themselves on the school board and control the pay and the hiring of the teachers. The investigation has developed that the children retained at the “love colony” "are environed by immoral conditions and it is probable that the society of communed souls will be broken up. “King Benjamin” maintained an “inner court” according to the confession of one of his women/worshipers, where he had privileges which he claimed were granted to him by divine connections. He required the girls to dance for him and to occupy rooms near his and to leave the doors open and finally to sleep in his room to aid him in “fighting temptation.” He would wonder about all night in the inner chamber and then go to sleep about 6 o’clock in the morning and provide to be awakened by sweet strains of music from a chorus of girls rotbed in night gowns, while two or three more combed his whiskers and helped to dress him in his white satin robes. Old Ben had a very dickens of a time until he began to prophesy that the end of the world was going to occur on the 12th of last March and when there was nothing doing some of the wise ones began to call bluffs. Some of his band of women had been pushed back to make room for younger damsels and they seem now to be joining in the exposure and whiskers are apt to. be less popular and old Ben is apt to spend his remaining days far removed from the “heavenly chorus” that used to waken him at the noon hour.

Interurban Promoter Made Trip to Morocco.

O. L. Brown, promoter of the Lafayette and Northwestern Traction Line, accompanied by H. E. Shellhouse, the chief engineer, returned this Tuesday morning from a. trip of reconnaissance to Morocco and Mt. Ayr. This trip was preliminary to the first survey. Messrs. Brown and Shellhouse found travel very difficult and were forced to abandon a partially completed trip by auto and hire horses for conveyance. They found the people of Mt. Ayr and Morocco very much interested in the interunban project and were able to see enough of the ground between Rensselaer and Morocco to determine roughly the route to be taken in the later survey. The surveyors have been "working out of Rensselaer for several days and have brought the survey to the Makeever hotel comer, coming across from the college through the ball park and across the river at the foot of Cullen street near the B. D. McOolly residence, thence north on Cullen street. The route out of town has not been established. The deep snow and the cold weather has not stopped the survey, the warmly clad engineers and aides keeping right on the jpb, iwhich required the sinking of. Stakes in the hard frozen ground. There was nothing new, Mr. Brown said, in, connection with the road and will not be, quite probably, until the survey is completed and the men who propose financing it take a trip over the route.

Attention Pocahontas.

All members are asked to meet Thursday evening, Dec. 24th, at 7 o’clock. Session will be dismissed at 7:30 so that ®ll may go to the Christmas entertainmenta— By Order of the Pocahonta'’

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BRYAN TELLS WHY MOOSE LOST OUT

Failure of T. R. to Win Personal Following One of Causes Ascribed by Commoner. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 21.—W. J. Bryan says in the Commoner these are the three chief causes for the “decadence” of the progressive party: First—The failure of Theodore Roosevelt to wni a following on his personality alone. Second—The failure of the progressive party platform to present any new and clean-cut issues; and Third—Too much activity on the part of George W. Perkins, whom the people associate with trusts. “No permanent party,” Mr. Bryan adds, “can be built up on any man. A man may make an effective protest against something done by another man or group of men, but mere personal influence is .necessarily temporary. ‘The progressive party did not present any new or clear-cut issues. No one could tell by reading the platform what tariff reduction to expect, what changes to look for in the currency or what anti-trust remedies to prepare for. “Mr. Prkins was a liability instead of an asset His contributions to the party's campaign fund could not overcome the odium which his intimacy with Mr. Roose velt brought upon the party. ‘The progressives leaned toward reforms, and had they joined the democratic party they would have strengthened the reform element in that party, but Mr. Roosevelt denounced the democratic party as bitterly as he did the republican party."

Pleasant Valley School In Keener Destroyed by Fire.

The Pleasant Valley school house, 3 1 /z miles southeast of DeMotte, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this Tuesday morning. There was no indication as to how it caught fire. The teacher, Walter Replogle, telephoned Superintendent Lamson about the loss. It is probable that the 27 children who attended the school will be hauled to DeMotte to complete th course, also that Mr. Replogle, the teacher, will be used as an additional teacher in the school.

BRITISH RESENT AMERICAN ACTION

Note of Inquiry Sent to State Department About Dismantlement of Wireless on Collier. Washington, Dec. 21.—A note of inquiry has been addressed to the state department by the Mritish government in regard to charges which that government says Col. Goethals had admitted were baseless, against the conduct of certain British colliers,' in the waters of the Panama. The communication implied that the British ship was harshly treated. So far Secretary Daniels has been unable to learn just what led -to the dismantlement of the radio apparatus of a British collier, at Panama canal, even the name of the ship being unknown. He has ordered a full repprt, which will be laid before the state department as a basis for its answer to the British government. It was suggested by some naval exp rts that radio messages sent by British warships in the Caribbean directly across the Isthmus to other British naval vessels in the Panama Zone might have .been attributed by the operators in the naval wireless tower on the Isthmus to British colliers, lying in Canal waters.

Rev. Titus Given a Fine Christmas Remembrance.

Rev. G. W. Titus, pastor of the Christian church, received an agreeable surpries today when W. R. Brown presented him with an order for a new $35 tailored suit of clothes to be made by John Werner. Mr. Brown had made up the money from among the men of the church.

GREETING.

To Our Patrons: This is to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and most Happy and Prosperous “New Year—Hamilton & Kellner.

Closed Christmas.

We will be closed ail day Christmas, but will be glad to take care of your orders so that you will be amply supplied.—Hamilton & Kellner. *

U. S. AVIATOR IS KILLED IN FLIGHT

Army Scouting Machine is Wrecked in Pacific Ocean Trophy Con-test-Pilot Rescued. Oceanside, Dec. 21.—Lieut. Gerstner, observer in one oi the six U. 8. army scout aeroplanes\that started i today on a flight from Ban Diego I to Los Angeles, was drowned in the sea ten miles north of here. Capt. i L. R. Muller, pilot of the wreck d i machine, was resceUd by Capt. L. W. Patterson, another army aviator, whose aeroplane had been wrecked near where Lieutenant Gerstner met his death. Capt Patterson saw the wreckage of Muller’s • machine in the water and summoned aid. Muller was rescued badly Crushed by the fall and exhausted" Gerstner’s body was recovered. Lieut. Gerstner was the fourteenth aviator to give his life in the interests of government aviation since Lieut. Selfridge fell to hfe death at »Fort Myre, Va., in 1908, testing the ; first aeroplane for. the army. Fifteen army officers, two naval officers and .two civilian instructors make up the tolL>

Ed Gaffield’s Assets Valued at $2,636.40. Ed GSffield, son of Squire Gaffleld, of Milroy township, whose long sickness resulted in the cilosing of his store at Ambia and proceedings in bankruptcy, had a stock of goods and other assets valued at $2,636.40. He claims exemption op S6OO. Wilbiy F. Morgan is assignee\of his affairs. Don’t use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan’s Regulets. They operate easily. 25e at all stores. .. Xmas will soon be here and you will find on display everything useful for the men folks at Duvall’s Quality Shop. C. EARL DUVALL. Bath robes with slippers to match in all colors, at Duvall's Quality Shop. C. EARL DUVALL. Order your Calling Cards at The Republican office.

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