Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — Page 1

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Falls and Breaks Arm While Leaving Church Sunday.

While leaving the Christian church Sunday morning, Mrs. W. JS. Jacks, of south of town, slipped and fell, breaking her arm. A doctor was called and her arm set. She was then taken to her home and is getting along nicely now.

HANGING GROVE.

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell and children visited Gaylord Parker and family Sunday. Mieses Florence and Ella Bussell Spent New Year’s day with their brother, R. Bussell and family. Sank Cook returned from Chicago Thursday night, having had a load of hogs on the market the day before. Mrs. Chas. Stultz was taken quite seriously sick Friday morning by a chronic ailment. A doctor was called out. Earl. Miller an‘d Worth Stoneburger, of Clay county, who came up to Rensselaer last week to visit the former’s sister, Mrs. 0. W. Bussell, Jr., also visited Elvin Bussell a couple of days before returning to their home Saturday. Both of the young men are school teachers. Leslie Lowmarv and Miss Esther Johnson handed their friends quite a surprise Thursday evening, wjien it was learned that the young couple had been married that day in Repsselaer. They are staying at the home of groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lowman. Dr. Hemphill came out and placed the J. N. Tyler family under antine pending the outcome of the one case of smallpox. Helen is getting along nicely and it is thought will be able to be about again in a few days. Leslie Lowman went to Lafayette Saturday to relieve his father for a day or two at the St. Elizabeth’s hospital. Some member of the family stays with Frank all the time. He is said to be doing much better since Ihis limb was taken off. Mrs. Gus Stephens came home Friday evening from Crawfordsville, where she and children have been spending the holidays with -relatives and friends. Her return home before the rest of the family came was occasioned by the sickness of Mr. Stephens, as was before mentioned. He is better now. Tfite township advisory board will meet\t Trustee Geo. Parker's on Tuesday, Jan. 5, to settle up the township business for the old year, after which the office will be turned over to W. E. Poole, our new trustee. W. S. Lowman, R. V. Johns and Chas Erb constitute the new board, but Mr Erb is really the only new member, as both the former men haye been serving on the board the past four years.

PUBLIC SALKS. ■ .. *■ The Republican has printed sale hills for the following persona: Jan. 14. E. L. Brue. B. T. Lanham, at E. L. Bruce farm, 3V4 miles southeast of Rensselaer, general sale. ' Jan. 20, Horatio Ropp, generalfarm sale Speaking of big appetites: “How's" your furnace ” Elmer Stewart, of Frankfort, assistant in chemistry at Indiana university lasi year, has gone to Porto Rico to aceept a position with the government as sugar ahar lysist He will be stationed at ' Cabajada. * " v • - / t'W, R. Kurrie went to Chicago today.

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KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET FOR ONE YEAR

Mort Murray Married at Centerville, Michigan, On Now Tear’s, mi Mort Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murray, surprised his parents and friends on New Year’s day when he announced his marriage to Miss Marie Ryan, which took place at Centerville, Mich., on New Year’s day, 1911 The marriage was* kept a secret «11 this time and it was not until Mrs. Murray’s arrival here on the noon train New Year’s day that his parents had any intimation of the marriage. Mrs. Murray is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ryan, who lived on a farm near-Gifford eight years ago, since which time she has been living at Bloomington; Ill- • Mr. Murray will farm tfye coming year, but has not yet decided on his location.

TAPPED TILL AT MONON DEPOT

Thief Galas Entrance While Passengers Sit in Adjoining Room In Blissful Ignorance. The thief vrtio has been making a practice of tapping the till in the various depots about Lafayette, Saturday night visited the Monon depot at Monon, and got away with $20.19. The robbery was discovered by the night ticket agent, shortly before southbound passenger train No. S reached Monon, at 11:35 Saturday The thief gained entrance to the ticket office by prying open the window in the ladies’ .waiUatr room. Several men were in the men’s waiting room from the time the agent left until he returned, but none of them noticed anything wrong, and all were somewhat surprised when they discovered that the robbery had been committed. Monon Special Agent John A. Hayes was rrotff' fled of the robbery and went to Monon Sunday morning.

Can you write it 1915 the first time now? G. W. Infield returned to Lafayette today, School resumed today, after about ten days’ vacation. Ed Robinson returned to school in Chicago today. See Hamilton & Kellner for bargain spreaders. *A colored literary society has been organized in Fowler. Mrs. A. Gangloff left today for a few days’ visit in Chicago. Ed Oliver left this morning on a business trip to New York^ Kenneth Groom and Ray Fiddler returned to Purdue yesterday. iPhone Hamilton & Kellner for good coal and prompt deliveries. Granville Moody, Jr., made a business trip to Lafayette today. Mrs J Sam Roth and children have returned from a few days’ visit in Mulberry. The official board of the Methodist church will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. F. B. Lyon, of Delphi, visited her brother, George H. Healey and family,, Sunday. r The Sunday school board of the Methodist church will meetr Wednesday at '7 P- m. Ame! Hanley and friend returned to Champaign today,. where both are attending college. Miss Jane Parkison will not return to eollege but has entered the high school here. .Mrs. Margaret Pullen, mother of Mrs. L. B. Fate, who suffered a nervous breakdown about a week ago, has improved somewhat, but her condition is not very encouraging. - For the next two weeks until we take our annual inventory, we will sell all the goods on our 10c counter at Be. Over 560 different, useful articles, JOHN EGER. You can usually draw a man out with a corkscrew. Sympathy is all right, but it isfl’f a square meal. >. You can always get A wpw mad by telling her'that you heard her snoring. % • You can convert cash into expert ence. but you can’t reverse the’pro -.: ■ ' . * ••• • tr*

HBHBBNLAER. INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915.

REVIVAL OPENS AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Great Crowd Present at the First Day’s Meeting—First-Class Meeting. The evangelistic services which were commenced at the Christian church JSunda ywas indeed a veiy auspicious beginning. A large crowd whs in attendance at the Bible school service, especially in the men’s, young men’s and women’s classes. At the morning service the house was well filled and the congregation listened to some good singing by Prof. Altheide and his -large chorus. The solo was well rendered. At the conclusion of the morning service arrangements were made whereby special and high class music will be made a part of each meeting. The sermon theme was on the question: “Why a Revival, or Does Rensselaer Need a Revival?” The speaker said in part: The aim of the Church of God is not primarily to entertain; -nor does its while duty lie in social service. When Jesus planted His chunfli among men He made its primary object the saving of human souls. The greatest church today is not the church that touches the of mankind and leads it into the Kingdom of God. Rensselaer needs a revival for this very thing. There is grave danger of our forgetting God’s work here. There are souls that need the divine touch,, and the church must reach them. In the evening there was a great crowd present. The song . service under Altheide was good and the' audience responded. Prof. Altheide will have the greatest singing crowd you ever heard before the week ends. The sermon of the evening was on “Every Man’s Question.” The speaker said in part: Pilate had the golden chance of his life when he was called upon to deliver up Jesus. However, he lacked real backbone in the crucial test, and we have written his name big -among the upwards and weaklings of the world. Many a one in Rensselaer would be glad to do the square thing by Christ, but they are afraid Of what some people might say about them. The greatest man in all the world is the man who does right even in the face of opposition. The biggest battle a man ever fights is not a Santiago or at Amiens, but it is in his own heart. God honors the man who stands true and four square. Piate had his chance and lost. Abraham had his chance and won, hence we write his name among earth’s immortals. Moses had his chance of staying iiyPharoh’s home amid luxury and splendor, or leading a nomadic people. He chose the latter and yte write his name among castle’s illustrious. , Jesus came at the call of the Father, to save fallen humanity, and we sing: “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.” God gives every man his chance 'and it remains for us to say whether we will write our names with these illustrious characters, or whether we will stand- with the cowards, Pilfite, Judas, etc. Which choice will you make. The service will begin tonight at 7:30 and the theme will be: “The Man Who Laughed at God.” Come out and enjoy this service with us.

MYSTERY ENSHROUDS MURDER NEAR FRANKFORT

* Body of Walter W. Thomas Found in Barn at His Home Premises —Wife in Indianapolis; While Mrs. Walter W. Thomas and daughter were visiting last week in Indianapolis, Mr. Thomas, who lived on a farm eleven miles northeast of Frankfort, was murdered and his body dragged inside the barn, where it was discovered his brother, who lived on a neighboring farm, Irist Saturday. Mrs. Thomas had tried to call her husband by “long distance” from Indianapolis and failing to get him had called his brother and the murder was thus disclosed. Thomas’s name had been associated with a clandestine love affair arid it was believed he had been Hilled by Harry McCray, of Frankfort, who was placed under arrest, but later discharged, having provided an alibi. Thomas had been beaten over the head by a single tree from a wagon.

Contagions Disease Notice. The Hickman children, whose sickness was- suspected of being scarlet fever, proved to be an eruption accompanying tonsilitls. However, they arc kept out of The Hill child is better but still isolated and cannot spread the disease. The balance of the family are kept from the room entirely.— City Health Officer. -v We can'ffii your order for nice eOU " ,r? bUt JOHN EGER. , ‘ .T. ' »

MOTHER OF EIGHT IS SHOTGUN VICTIM

Woodsmen’s Camp Near Parr Scene of Terrible Tragedy Last Saturday Afternoon. Mrs. H. S. jfrout, mother of eight, was killed by a shotgun accident Saturday afternoon, at a .woodsmen’s camp on the Joe Kosta farm, two miles south of Parr. Her death was the result of the careless handling of the weapon by Clarence Miller, her son-in-law. The Krouts and Miller and his wife lived in a tent, the meager size of which gave 'room for all of the belongings of the poor family. Tn the afternoon Mrs. Kraut tyisied herself with the thousands of things a mother of eight found ts do, Miller, whose wife is the oldest Kraut daughter, took the shotgun and went outside to try to kill a rabbit. The shell caught and he tried to force it in. He paid no attention in what direction the gun was pointed. It was discharged and the shot tore a hqle through the side of the tent and then through the right breast and right arm of the tired mother of eight. Dr. Washburn was called at once. He ; thought the woman not so seriously hurt, and gave her what comfort lie could, but he had scarcely left the tent when the tired mother-gasped two or three times and passed from her tent life into the great beyond, lot .us hope to have complete surcease from the sorrow and hardship she had undertone heie. One or two of the had entered her right lung, causing death. The Krouts came to Jasper county from Fountain county. Appar- 1 ently Mr. Krout is a good mast and had done all that he could for his family, but poverty had kept at thcit ( door and the eight children, ages-from baby of seven months to the in a rried daughter, whose husband held . the shotgun that *E©4ftht such havoc. Ohe little tot, the second youngest, also received a shot, one of the little leaden pellets being embedded in its arm. *Dr. (’. E. Johnson, who on Jan, Ist succeeded W. J. Wright as county coroner, accompanied Undertaker Wright to the scone of the tragedy to conduct a court of inquiry. Ail evidence was to the effect that the shooting was accidental. Young Miller had simply been careless to a degree approaching criminal negligence in not having. the_ gun pointed off Into the woods instead of toward the tent and the mother of eight. The funeral is being held today, Monday, at Fair Oaks. The poor father and the motherless children are left in a pitiable state by, the tragedy.

RAN AWAY AND WERE MARRIED AT ST. JOE.

Tone, Overton and Marlon Reed Surprised Their Parents by Getting Married. Tone Overton, son of James Overton, and Miss Marion Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C, A. Reed, were married at St. Joe, Mich., last Saturday and returned home yesterday to receive the forgiveness >f their parents and receive the congratulations of their friends. (Miss Reed told her parents that she was going to Surrey to spend the day Saturday with a girl friend. She took the milk train in the mornjng in -company with Mr. Overton and went on to St. Joe, where the marriage took place. Miss Reed is only 17 years of age and was a high school student. The groom is 22 years of age and is an employe of Eigelsbach’s meat market. v They have nojt yes decided upon their future plans.

Col. W. A. McCurtain's Sale Dates.

„ Jan. 12tih—Opha Bisher. 3 miles east of Lewiston, general farm sale. Jan. 13—Herman Schultz, general farm sale. Jan. 19.—Mrs. S. B. Holmes, general farm sale. . Jan. 21, Garfield Burgefct, general farm salft with some pure bred Shorthorn cattle Jan. 20, Horatio Ropp. general farm sale Charles Lowman, general farm sale, January 26th. , Jan. 27. John Stibbe, general farm sale. , Feb. 2. Ed Barkley, general sale. Feb. 4—Eli Arnold, Barkley township, general farm sale Feb. 5, Ed Barkley, general farm 52116 L Feb. 8, Glenn Baku-. general sale Feb. 17, Charles Puffins, general sale " . Miss Fmnsfiaa wJjUKSRLift JM cago today for 21 week’s visit witn friends and relatives. , f 'T'£ * i

FOUR NATIONS PREPARE FOR HOSTILITIES

Greece, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria May Be Drawn Into i New Conflict. • . * London, Jan. 3.—The persevering steps which have been taken to bring about an understanding between the Christian Balkan states and with the Idea of effecting the neutrality of Bulgaria apparently have not met with complete success, according to dispatches received in London from the near eastern capitals, and Greece, Servia and Roumania are preparing for eventualities. During a discussion of the budget in the Greek chamber of deputies, M. Theokotis is reported to have declared that the speech recently delivered by the Bulgarian .which Bulgaria considered should have been ceded to it after the last Balkan war, constituted a menace: while the Greek minister of finance said that Greece was making urgent military preparations to maintain its liberated territory. Another dispatch from Athens says the Greek government has forbidden the exportation of cereals, flour, cattle, forage and arms. Should Bulgaria, contrary to expectations, attack Servia with the object of recovering Macedonia, Greece by its treaty obligations would, it is thought in political circles here, come to the assistance of Servia and the Balkan peninsula would be in the throes of a third war. • Turkey apparently expects jom-e trouble, as the Ottoman government has expelled the subjects of all neutral countries from the Dardanelles. > In Albania the revolution is said to be spreading and the Italians, who occupied the seaport of Avion a, have sent a bishop to Durazzo to protect Italian interests at the Albanian port.

Former President Taft Against Philippine Independence.

Jan. 2.—Former President Taft gave his-vuaws today on the administration bill for ultimate independence of the Philippines to the senate committee working on the measure. “When President McKinley sent me to the Philippines,” said Mr. Taft, “I told him that I thought that we ought not to be in the islands. He said to me that we had the bear by the tail and that we had to stay. Our first' purpose in being in there is to get out. “This discussion must depend a good deal on what you mean by self-government. We cannot give the Philippines self-government, be-* cause it cannot be given. We cannot present the Pilipina people with a character. It must be acquired. One way to acquire it is through hard knocks, as the AngloSaxon race acquired it. When we went to the'Philippines we tried to give it to them by maintaining a constitutional form of government as an object lesson and by educating the people in the language of free institutions. We tried to have the gov-ernmept participated in, but not controlled by the natives. You cannot make over a people in one generation. Particularly you cannot when that is a generation of adults and a vast majority of that generation is woefully ignorant. • It cannot be done. tion where I can say just what I think. You have called me ljere; I did not ask to come, and I'm going to tell you just what I know about things. “Now,” he continued, “what time do I think will be neeessary to train the Filipinos for self-govern-ment? The time that shall give to those people an opportunity to learn English so that they shall be am English speaking people. That will take more than one generation and probably more than two, if you count thirty years as a generation. You can’t educate all of the people —you haven’t got the. money.” ; The former president related .many incidents of his life in the Philippines and his association with the people. Many of f, * I dealing with the characteristics of the Filipinds, rocked the committee and the spectators who crowded the room with laughter.

Feasted His Friends On Rout Venison.

_i Vannie A. Arnold gave a venison roast on New Year’s eve to a lew of his friends, who enjoyed the occasion very much. ' The deer, which weighed UP pounds dressed, was captured by. Vannie while he was in northern Wisconsin, near Ashland, along the edge of Lake Superior. He has the head mounted. \lt was his first experience in deer hunting, which he

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Ex-President Taft Opposes National Prohibition.

Boston, Dec. 28.—“ National prohibition is a dangerous proposition,” said former President William H. Taft, speaking before the Bar Association of Boston at its triennial banquet tonight. “It would revolutionize the national government and would put on the shoulders of the government the duty of sweeping the doorsteps of every home in the land: “National prohibition is npn-en-forcible; it is a confession on tfhe part of state governments of inabil-’ ity to control and regulate their own especial businesmjpd dfttpl#* if the matter were placed under federal control It would result *n creation of a machinery of government officials large enough to nominate any president”

Law’s Protection to Motor Car Manufacturers.

- r \ A decision of vital importance to all motor car manufacturers was recently handed down by the tTnited'States district eourt of northern Illinois, Judge' Kenesaw Mountain Landis presiding. The court declared that the Barry Sales Company, formerly agents of the Ford Motor Company, be perpetually restrained and enjoined from using the word “Ford” in any advertising or representing themselves as agents for the Ford or imitating the Ford trade mark in Chicago, Illinois, or elsewhere. This decision is of great importance inasmuch as it established a precedent and removes any ances with which the Ford Motor Company, as well as many other great motor car manufacturers, have had to contend. The effect of it is to offer absolute protection to the manufacturer's trade mark.

NOT AN ISOLATED CASE.

Many Similar Cases in Rensselaer and Vicinity. This Rensselaer woman’s story given here is not an isolated case by any week after week, year after year, our neighbors are telling similar good news. Mrs. Aaron Hickman, N. Front St., Rensselaer, Ind., says: “In my opinion Doan’s Kidney Pills are the best kidney medicine on the market. I have taken them at different times ' when suffering from attacks of backache and other symptoms of kidney complaint and I have always had prompt relief. Over three years ago I first used them arid I was so well pleased with the benefit I got .that I gave a statement for publicatiori recommending them. Since then, when I have heard anyone complain of kidney trouble or backache, I have suggested that Doan’s Kidney Pills be procured at Fendig’s Drug Store and given a trial. Different ones of my family have taken this remedy and like myself, have been greatly benefited.” , Price 50c. at all dealers. Don t simply ask for a kidney, remedy get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Hickman had. FostarMilburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. business dull? There’s a |flne tonic at hand. Try Republican advertisipg, , - '

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