Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

No. 304.

TONIGHT AT THE PRINCESS The Million Dollar Mystery Win the SIO,OOO for Christmas. 7-8-9

Sheriff Makes Appraisement of The Israel Koffman Stock.

Sheriff Hoover, this week made an appraisement of tlfe stock of goods of Israel Koffman, the defunct and mysterious Jew who conducted a store for several months in the Makeever (building. It is probable that a local receiver will be appointed an ancillary or subordinate to the Central Trust Co., of Illinois, and Judge Anderson, of Indianapolis, on the recommendation of Attorney Parkinson, who is looking after the interests, of the Central Trust Co., will probably recommend James H. Chapman for the receivership. Save for the action, of the’newspaper publishers and Treasurer Fell, J. C. Felker, who came here to take charge would have the goods shipped to Chicago arid local creditors in all probability would not have received much for their claims*. Now, however, indications are that the stock will pay out in full. Felker has continued to remain in Rensselaer since the creditors called his bluff and defied him to move the goods without establishing his ‘ authority. His tin badge don’t seem to have been cutting much figure, however, and if The Central Trust Co. is keeping him here on a salary they are exercising some very bad judgment.

Free Christmas Presents For Our Customers.

Our cream customers are requested to call and get a free Christmas present. W. H. DEXTER & CO.

WEATHER. ..Fair tonight; Thursday increasingcloudiness; probably snow flurries.

A FEW REMINDERS For your Christmas Dinner, at prices that will Interest you. White Grapes, per lb • 15c Head Lettuce, per head Leaf Lettuce, per lb 20c Celery, per bunch 5c and 8c Cabbage, per v lb • • 3c Carrots, per lb. ~.. • • • • 3(5 Parsnips, per Lb 30 ! Turnips, per peek • 16cSweet Potatoes, per lb ....... .... 3c Naval Oranges, juicy and sweet, per doz ...20c, 30c, 40c, 50c Mixed nuts, per Jb. ....20c Wlalnuts, per lb ‘ 20c Pecans, per lb 350 Candles, per Tb 10c to 35c Cranberries, 3 quarts for 25c Dromedary Dates, per package • ..............10c Package Eigs '• ......10c Layer figs per lb 20c Pecan, Almond or Walnut. Meats, per lb ..60c Peanuts, per lb. ..A. --I B ® A good grade pie pumpkin, 3 cans for .’ ...25c Choice Sliced Hawaiin Pineapple,-per can ......15c A laige bottle Maraehino cherries, each '.. 15c Rowles & Parker > ! • Phone 95

Where Some of the Teachers Will Spend the Holidays.

The teachers have been making their departure for their homes and various other places since the closing of the schools Tuesday arftemoon and have gone to the following places: - •> .' , x Superintendent Dean and Principal Sharp to Springfield, Ohio. Mr. and Mi's. C. A. Tindall to Lindley Sharpnack to Chicago. Anna Hannon to Pine Village. Olive White to Union Mills. Ethel Dyer to Lafayette. Grace Stover to Downer’s Grove. Pearl Ruihley to Archbold, Ohio. L’Waive Mallory to Toledo,' Ohio. Carl Cleaver to Anderson. Cela Anderson and Lapel, Ind. May Stanton to Flora, Ind.

Operator Force at Depot Reduced; Hufford Laid Off.

' On the recommendation otf the superintendent and with the approval of Agent Beam the depot force has been reduced by laying off one operator, Ross Q. Hufford, of Rossville\being the man. This will‘require a rearrangement of the force. Agent Beam will do the operating from 8 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, when Elmer Wilcox will go to work, remaining until 11 at night, when Dan Morrissey will take the third trick and be on duty until 8 o’clock the next morning.

Ford Advertising Figure.

(Mark Sullivan, editor of Collier’s Weekly, made an interesting observation in an address delivered recently before the Detroit Board of Commerce. (Mr. Sullivan pointed out dthat the motor car manufacturers of the eountrjX have spent about $30,000,000 for advertising with the newspapers of the country in the last ten years, and that, as a result of this, the salaries, the standard of living and the efficiency of the country’s newspaper workers have been raised proportionately. In this connection, the Ford Motor Company, carrying a regular weekly schedule of advertisement in 105 metropolitan newspapers and several hundred more smaller dallies and weekly and semi-weekly newspapers, has within this decade spent approximately $5,000,000 or one-sixh of this $30,000,000 estimated by Mr. Sullivan as the investment of the entire motor car industry. Clearly, the Ford Motor Company has been a pretty generous patron off the American press.

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 tail! may go to the Christmas entertainments.— By Order of the Pocahontas

Closed Christmas.

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

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1914.

Promoter Says Construction . Economy Determines Route.

If the Lafayette and Northwestern interurban is built and we eer tainly hope it will be, it would b.• a desirable thing if the route could •be through Remington. Thegreat amount of travel between here and there make a road very desirable. Especially would it prove a great convenience during the sessions of Fountain Park. Mr. Brown’s reasons, however, are very good. The saving of 47 2 miles and the great expense of securing a rightof-way through the high-priced lands south or east of Remington are barriers, according to Mr. Brown, that would make the construction cost a great deal more and might prevent the building of the road. The completed survey to Rensselaer was finished Tuesday and the preliminary survey to Mt. Ayr is proceeding. The route taken was north on Cullen street to Vine, tjtee first street south of the Mononfdepot, thence west. It is not known whether the route will turn south to Clark street inside the corporation or along the county farm road after the corporation line is reached. Mr. Brown and Engineer Shellhouse are keeping the ball rolling and state -that construction during the coming summer is ardently hoped and expected.

ENDORSED AT HOME.

Such Proof as This Should Convince Any Rensselaer Citizen. f ' / The public’ endorsement off 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 eases of Home Endorsement which are being published about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read It. William Clift, 528 College Street, 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 Pilis. Since then my back hasn’t troubled me and I have felt better in evpry way. It gives me great pleasure to endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills.” 1 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.

No Deliveries Christmas Day.

There will be one extra delivery Wednesday and Thursday, at 6 o'clock in the evening, but no delivery on Friday, thus giving the drivers a full holiday. Please help us out by giving your orders as early as possible.—The Central .Delivery System, C. W. Gibbs. E. G. Sternberg was down from Chicago to look after the dredge work this week. He found them making, splendid progress and a little more.than half of the main Borntrager ditch is completed, the dredge now being about half a mile across county line. T. M. Callahan is planning to take a trip to California about the first of February, after he has disposed of his onion crop. He had planned to go to the south a year ago but was unable to do so by the illness of his wife. He will probably be absent several weeks. Miss Naomi Gregg, for some time one of the able teachers in our high School, spent several days this week visiting friends in Rensselaer and left today for Chicago, accompanied by Delos Dean, where both will attend the big dance this evening at the Congress hotel given by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, which is holding its national convention in that city. Miss Gregg is teaching in the Greencastle high school this yeaj. Sheriff Bill Dowling, of Newton county, brought two Greeks here yesterday and lodged them in jail. They are from a eolony of Greeks near Morocco. Several days ago these men caused the arrest of a man who had been employed by them, also-a Grs>k. They eharged that he had tried to kill them. The man was frightfully beaten up and they had tied him and hauled him in and turned him over to an officer at Morocco. When he came here and was able to talk he said that all he had done was to ask for his money for five months’ work and that the men and the wife of one of them had set upon him and beaten him. He caused the arrest of the others and now all three are

•in the Rensselaer jail.

Isaac Fitzgerald Victim Of Peculiar Accident.

Isaac Fitzgerald, 70 years of age, who works for Frank Schroer, of Barkley township, had his scalp torn from his head ahnost as completely as though he had been attacked by a band of Indians Tuesday afternoon at about 5 o’clock. He was helping to prop up a cattle shed when it pitched over and some part of the shed struck him on top o< the head and tore the scalp almost entirely off. It was just hangin gby a thin string at the back. Dr. Washburn was called and found the man suffering a great deal from the shock and loss of blood. The scalp was sewed back and the patient seems to be getting along nicely.

New Officers of Masonic Order to Be Installed Monday.

'The Masonic order held its election Monday night, the following officers being chosen: Chauncey Wood, W. M. C. A. Tuteur, 8. W. Devere Yeoman, J. W. ‘H. W Wood, Jr., Secretary. Samuel Fendig, treasurer The officers will be installed next Monday night, the installation being in the presence of a number of invited guests.

GREETING.

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

Bazaar Articles for Christmas.

Articles left over from the Presbyterian ladies’ bazaar are now on Sale at Mrs. John Eger’s home. They are fine for Christmas presents. See them.

C. A. Roberts, Christmas Buggies.

With the baseball world as full of agitation as the average rain barrel is of wiggle-tails, with the Federals' so is C. A. Roberts wanting to sell buggies. Rensselaer, Ind.

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Dainties For Your Christmas Dinner The Home Grocery has made specfat preparation for this day in fruits and vegetables Solid Cabbage, lb. 3c. Oranges, doz. 20c, 30e, 40c 50c. Carrots, )b. 3c. t MinCe Meat, package 10c. Parsnips, Jb. 3c. Seedless Raisins, 10c, 1272 c, 15e. Sweet Potatoes, Jb. 4c. Dromedary Dates pkg 10c Celery, 5c and Bc. <w, Bulk Dates, lb. 10c. Head Lettuce, lb. 15c. Bulk Table Raisins, lb. 10c. Leaf Lettuce, lb. 15c. ’ Mixed Nuts, lb. 20c. Cranberries, 3 qt. for 25c. Cream Nuts, lb. 15c. Malaga Grapes, lb. 15c. English Walnuts, lb. 20e. Baldwin apples, pk., 25c. Jumbo Peanuts, lb. 12’Ac. Fresh Oysters. Home Grocery Phone 41. ,

Mrs. Bon Grube Now With Relatives in Kankakee, Ill.

Mrs. Hattie Warren Grube, whose injury in a railroad wreck in West Virginia last October necessitated that she remain a patient in a hospital at Huntington, W. Va., for several weeks, is now at the home of relatives in Kankakee, 111., where she isunder the care of a physician. Later when more fully recovered she will go to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Warren, of Tefft, where Mr. Grube will join her later.

Clearing Sale Ladies' Hats. For two weeks I will conduct a clearing sale of ladies’ hats in four sections, at greatly reduced prices. First at 50 cents. Second at 75 cents. Third at SI.OO. Fourth at $1.50. MRS. PUROUPILE. Order your Calling Cards at The Republican office.

Paul Miller, another college student, came from Indianapolis yesterday to spend the holidays. Ed Robinson is another of our numerous college boys to be home for the holidays. He attends commercial college in Chicago. Sam Leichty and bride, of near Virgie, were given a charivari by Neighbors and friends Monday night and all were invited into the house and enjoyed a pleasant evening. The Good Fellows’ distribution will take place Thursday. Mrs. J. I. Gwin, of the board of is assisting the committee from the Van Rensselaer dub in making practical purchases. Quite a number of useful things and many dolls and toys were left at-the court house Tuesday afternoon. Turkey dinner. You aan get a good turkey dinner Christmas day at the White boarding house for 50 cents.

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