Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — Page 1

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TONIGHT AT THE PRINCESS • Watch for the mysterious woman who comes into “Zudora” in Episode No. 9. This new star is beautiful and a wonderful actress. < In Episode No. 9 this evening a freight train will be blown up in order to furnish a spectacular finish to the reel. “The Exploits of Elaine” is the only serial now running at The Princess. All others excepting “Zudora” are finished. Box office attractions. Read “The Exploits of Elaine" running as a serial in The Evening Republican.

BULL MOOSE AND COW IN COLLISION

Prank Haskell Runs Into Cow While Riding Motorcycle With Disastrous Results. Frank Haskell accepted an invitation to visit his wife’s mother near Pleasant Ridge Sunday and decided to make the tirp on a motorcycle in company with Elmer Giwin. Frank was getting along nicely and was almost to Pleasant Ridge when the machine ran into a cow that had gotten out of the pasture into the roadside. The driver escaped injury, but Frank was not *»o fortunate and took a headier from the machine, landing lagainst the cow and then in the ditdh. He was not injured seriously, but the seat of his trousers was destroyed and t.ie 'sole of one shoe was torn from it ae upper. He is having the damage repaired and will hereafter make his trip by other means than a borrowed motorcycle.

SCHOOL HOUSE AT ROSELAWN BURNED

- Caught’ From Spark and Was Totally Destroyed—lnsured For SI,OOO in Steward Agency. The Roselawn school house was totally destroyed by fire at about noon today, Monday. It cauglhit from a spark on the roof and as there was no fire-fighting apparatus in the town nothing could be done to save it. The building was a twostory frame structure erected about twenty years ago. Counity Superintendent Lamison, of his county, taught school there in 1899. Roselawn is in Lincoln township, Newton county, and Dr. Rice is trustee. The building was insured in the C. B. Steward agency tor SI,OOO. It is probable that difficulty will be met in finding a pliace to continue the schools the balance of the term.

Ran Excursion Over the Gifford Branch Road Sunday.

Instead of bringing his land prospectors to Rensselaer and then transporting them by auto to the Springer ranch Sunday Ed Oliver arranged to have an excursion train run over the Gifford branch from MdOoydburg. He brought 22 men on the excursion and four of these ' stopped off at Newland, the others going to the Springer ranch, a special stop being made north of Laura and within a quarter of a mile of the land Oliver has been selling. D The prospectors were largely Roumanians and Belgians and several are understood to have bought tracks of ten or twenty acres each. On the return trip a stop Was made at Newland and the Oliver onion storage plants inspected. It is estimated ithiat fifty new houses will be erected on the Springer ranch this spring and ft is probable that a new station will be made on the Gifford branch nearest the Sprnger land.

Box Social The Pocahontas Council will give a box supper on March 4th in their hall in the L O. O. F. building, to which they extend a cordial invitation to the Red Men, their friends and friends of the council A short program will be given.—Adv.

Box Supper.

There will be a box supper ait Belle Center school house, 2% miles naith of Rensselaer Friday evening, March sth. AH are invited.—Addie Harris, Teacher.

The Evening Republican.

BIG DAY ON WAY; ARRIVES MARCH 18

Rensselaer Merchants to Offer Bargains of Rare Value On First Big Market Day. ‘ -- -4—-—y March 18th. That’s two weeks from Thursday. Rensselaer will hold its first big “market” day. The Retail Merchant's Association consisting of more than thirty livewire merchants will inaugurate the first combined effort to bring a crowd of buyers to this city. It will be a well-planned occasion, including every kind Of business, and each merchant in the association will offer two special bargains, having their stores prepared to supply all who come to town that day. They will not confine their bargains to two items but the stores will be filled with the attractions of the season and all correctly priced. Not only are Rensselaer new®pap ens to contain large advertisements of the special sale, setting forth the special bargains that the merchants will offer, but the advertisement is to appear simultaneously in all the papers in the surrounding towns. It is hoped to bring people to this city who have never been here before and to let them know the value of Rensselaer as a trading point. It is hoped to make friends for the town, as well as for the individual merchants and it will be a “glad-to-see-you” day on every hand. This will be the first concerted effort made by Rensselaer merchants to broiaden the area of trade and it is hoped that our ipeople all fall into the spirit of the occasion and make it a winner. Don’t forget the date. It’s Thursday, March 18th.

Mrs. J. P. Warner Fractured And Dislocated Shoulder.

Mrs. J. P. Wairner, who now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Pefley, of Remngton, fell from the porch at the F. W. Bedford farm, east of town last Saturday and sustaned the fracture of the upper end of the femur bone at the right shoulder and also dislocated the shoulder. She came here last week to atten the funeral of her brother, Mr. Bedford. Dr. Loy attended her and She is at present at the Bedford home, being eared for by Mrs. Norris. - Dr. Loy iwtill probably take her to RwWffigiton Wenesday. Mrs. Warner is almost. 75 yeans of age and the accident will probably go hard with her.

Rensselaer On Route From Chicago to Tampa, Florida.

J. H. 8. Ellis, owner of the city bill boards, is in receipt of a letter from Harry Stoops, of the Chattanooga Poster Co., calling attention to the meeting to be held soon of the Governors of Indiana, Illinois Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and Florida to talk good roads in connection with the proposed automobile route from Chicago to Tampa. Renlsselaer is on the route, which will be a splendid thing for this city and should Cause us all to boost it in every way we can.

Panhandle Railway Mail Clerk Injured at Effner.

Monticello Journal. Robert French, railroad mail clerk on the Panhandle between Logansport and Effner, was slightly injured at Effner last Thursday morning when he was thrown down in the car when was attached. A three inch gash was cut over French’s eye which was closed with several Stitches. He continued the trip to Logansport, however, and returned to Effner in the afternoon.

Rev. Charles Postill filled the pulpit at the Methodist church Sunday morning on account of the illntse of Dr. Gurnick There were no evening services. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society will hold their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. E. P. Honan this afternoon. The ladies will meet at 4 p. m., while the gentlemen will be on hand at supper time . . The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society will meet at the Methodist Parsonage Thursday afternoon.

Let Taylor tailor you, Select from LOOO sampfles. WM. TRAUB (Mr. and Mm. John Nagle had the mfetortune to Jose their oldest baby boy, Anthony, today at IH3O, pneumonia being the cause of death. The child would have been 22 months oM on Mfareh 3rd. The funeral «r----rangements have not been eompioted.

Methodist Church Notes.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAT, MAROH 1, 1916.

GENERAL NEWS IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Busy Readers Can Thus Keep Abreast of the Times and Not Waste Much of Their Time. No Consolidation. Indiana and Purdue Universities will not be consolidated. The senate voted to indefinitely postpone action. Indiana will continue to be without a great university and the young men and women from all over the state will continue to go to Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and other colleges. Selfiish personal interests were greater than the welfare of the educational interests of the years to come. ,

Liability Measure.

The workmen's compensation act has passed the house and will probably pass the senate. It provides that an employee becoming permanently injured or killed shall be paid, either himself or his estate, 55 per cent of the wages he received while at work. This wage shall be paid for 500 weeks, provided it does not exceed $5,000.

Passenger Wreck. The New York and New England special, one of the fastest Big Four trains was wrecked at Templeton, near Lafayette, Friday morning. Seven persons were injured and taken to the Oaks hospital in Oxford. Constitution Talk. George W. Stuot, writing for the Indiana Daily Times, says our constitution is a relic of the past. We agree with him, but the majority of the people of Indiana voted last fall to maintain it. Wife Slayers Executed. Robert Kane, Oscar Vogt and Cinoenzo Campanelli were the subjects of a triple execution at the New York prsion at Ossining, N. Y., Friday. The men had all beqn convicted of wife murder. Women Want Suffrage. A petition signed by 50,000 women who want equal suffrage was presented to Governor Ralston Friday. Might as well have saved the paper and ink.

Farm Loans O. K'd. The farm credits bill, providing for loans to farmers, passed the senate at Washington last week. It provides loans from S3OO to SIO,OOO through national banks at 5 per cent interest, also for an issue of 4% per cent government bond® to get the money to eare for the loans. More Working at Gary. The mills at Gary are now employing 5,400 men and roll 500 tons off steel per week. When at full blast the mils employ more than 20,000 hands. State Gerrymander. The senatorial apportionment bill introduced Friday by Senator McCormick, puts Jasper into a district with Newton, Porter and Lake. This will mean that Lake county will supply all the candidates and that they will all be “wet” Maybe we won’t vote for them. The representative district® are also to be rearranged with a view 'to keeping them democratic and ‘'wet.” Distilleries Bankrupt. The best failures we ever heard of are reported from Louisville. The Mattingly & Moore and F. G. Walker distilleries have gone into the hands of receivers. We wish a lack of business would cause every one in the country to fail.

Daughter Accused Father. At Winchester a sensational charge has been made against Jacob O. Baker, a prominent farmer, by his 16-yearold daughter. He is 45 years old and was released after arrest on a $2,000 bond. Deputy Sheriff Suicides. Frank Pfioek, a deputy sheriff of Lake county, in a fit off despondency sent a bullet through hi® head Saturday in Zadowski’s saloon at Gary. He wtas 46 years old.

Advance orders taken now for Easter made-to-measure suits. WM. TRAUB. PUBLIC SALE. On the south side off the courthouse square Saturday afternoon, March 6, at about 2 o’clock, I will sell at public auction a number of farming tools, consisting of cultivators, planters, harrow®, etc. It will pay you to see these articles before you buy. TERMS—Cash. GEORGE COFFMAN. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. . (Miss Jennie Comer, who was taking a nurse’® training course in the Wesley Hospital, in Chicago, who underwent a surgical operation three weeks ago last Thursday, was abie t«<return to Rensselaer Sunday andU Will remain here for a month or six weeks while recovering her strength.

TEMPERANCE RALLY TUESDAY EVENING

Louis Albert Banks to Address People on 1 the Important Topic At Presbyterian Church. Tuesday evening at the Presbyterian church Lou[s Albert Bonks, one of the foremost temperance men in the United States, will speak in the interest Of humanity. This is the occasion Of the national prohibition rally, when it is hoped by a concerted effort to bring men to realise that the country is Still in slavery, that we are allowing our flair land to be blighted by the licensing of saloons, that we are permitting the -breweries and distilleries and their organization to throttle our legislatures and to maintain their destructive business in the very face of a big majority against them.

We do not know how Dr. Banks will handle the question, but he is a great power in the cause of temperance and his fearlessness and directness of dealing with the liquor evil has been the cause of efforts to take his life and he is today recognized as one of the greatest powers in the anti-salbon movement in the entire nation. Rensselaer rooted the saloons out some eight years ago and its people know that it was no small task. Many merchants feared that the result would influence trade adversely; others were personal friends of the saloonkeepers; others listened to the personal liberty argument. Now, however, the saloons are gone to stay unless some unfavorable legislation is passed that will not give a majority a right to keep them out. But not to carry on the fight against the licensed saloon and the whole liquor traffic is to stagnate and to take the chance of some day having our fair city blighted with the'saloon again. It is to our interest to strike another blow at the menacing monster. Dr. Banks will try to bring our people to realize that the iron is hot and that this is the time to strike.

The Presbyterian church should be crowded Tuesday evening. Fathers and mothers should be there, young men should be there. Those who have been slaves to the drink iabit should be there. Although we today call Rensselaer “dry”, liquor is being shipped in daily, it is being sold by bootleggers’ and in other ways. A big majority of our people are opposed to it being sold at all, but men who would otherwise be fine citizens find a way to get it and their dependents suffer while they wreck their lives. It is time to tighten the clamps. Hear Dr. Banks and become identified with the national movement that hopes to kick the nefarious, business into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. * Hear Dr. Banks Tuesday night.

Monon Shops at Lafayette Resume After Six Weeks.

The Monon shops at Lafayette resumed work this 'Monday morning after an enforced idleness of six week®. President Kurrie, of the Monon, in ordering that the Shops be reopened, stipulated that no new hands should be employed but that all the old one® should be put back to work. An appropriation off $26,000 was, made to run the drops during the month of March. About 600 men were expected to go to work and their employment was expected to greatly relieve the .business depression that has existed in Lafayette for some time. ’ J

Bedford Druggists Charged With Illegal Liquor Sales.

W. H. Hopkins, Milt Blackwell, Barnard William®, Grover Marley, Dodd & Doughitt, Carl Kramer and James A. Austin,- druggists off Bedford, have been arrested on the charge off making illegal liquor sale®. In addition to prosecution for the alleged violation of the liquor law® they will probably face proceedings for the forfeiture of their licenses as druggists before the state pharmacy board.

Young Girl Tried to Shoot Alleged Betrayer in Court.

At Huritington Saturday Mia® Frances Kaufman, aged 16, tried to shoot E. L. Tobias, a photographer, Ln the eourt room when the jury that tried Tobias on a criminal charge disagreed. She drew a revolver but was overpowered by the county clerk. Tobias is a defendant in two SIO,OOO suits filed by the girl and her father. He recently moved to Huntington from Kokomo.

That extra pair of trouser® awaits your taking, $1.50 to $6.00. L WM. TRAUB.

mmmhb Great National I Prohibition £*£■ Rally at the Presbyterian Church Tues., Mar. 2, 730 p.m. Address By ■M i.oiii,v | p J) note j evangelist, lecturer, author and reLOUIS ALBERT BANKS, D. D. f ormer . Everybody Invited > Admission Free This is a great opportunity for the moral forces of Rensselaer to hear one of the world’s greatest temperance lecturers.

Monticello Pleased With Treatment in Rensselaer.

Harry A. Pingry, secretary of the Monticello Checker Club, in a letter to the players of this city thanks them for the kind treatment received last Friday night and states that in the bustle to eateh the train the visitors had perhaps overlooked the matter of extending their individual thanks. Mr. Pingry expressed the hope that the Rensselaer playets will come to Monticello at an early date for a return game and -asks that the selection of a date be taken up without delay. The Monticello Journal also spoke highly of the courteous treatment shown the (Monticello players. It took about all the capital “V’s” in the Journal head-letter box to tell of the victories 'Monticello scored over Rensselaer Friday evening, for at the same time the checker players were winning their victory here the Monticello high school was drubbing our basketball team over there. Well, our checker players will try to redeem this defeat when we meet again and perhaps we ean use some capital “V’s” ourselves.

Old Glory Half-Masted For Maj. Gen. Chas. Haywood.

Major-General Charles Haywood, of the United States Marine Corps, retired, died at the National Hospital in Washington, D. 0., aged 75 years. His funeral occurred Sunday and John O’Connor had “Old Glory” ait half mast all day. General Haywood was a native of Maine and as a marine he fired the last shot before? the Cumberland went down on March 8, 1862. The shot was fired as the water was 'pouring through the portholes. He jumped overboaird and swam to a boat.

Acetylene Welding Cash.

March 1, 1915. After this date all acetylene welding will be for cash only. Please come prepared to pay.—Hemphill Bros., Front St., Rensselaer, Ind.

Now we are selling all $2.00, $250, $3.00 hats at 95c. See window. WM. TRAUB. Swift 60 per cent digester tankage and all kinds of feeds for sale by Hamilton & Kellner.

Butter! Butter! Butter! J ; -. ..' ■■ ■■ , Gold Bar Butter is without an equal. The only butter sold in Rensselaer that is made of whole milk cream. The milk is hauled to our creamery at New Troy, Michigan, by the farmer, and separated at the creamery; the cream is thensent to ourfactpryat Chicago, and made into butter. This butter is in the pound prints within 24 hours from the time the milk is taken from the cow. Our prices this ’ week in 5 pound lots 3Oc; under 5 pounds 32c. W. H. Dexter Co. - -

Get Tour Picture Taken And Apply for This Job.

There is a vacancy in the clerical force of the Rensselaer postoffice occasioned by the appointment of C. A. Bringle to be the carrier on R. D. No. 3, Remington. Any person, ‘male or female, between the ages of 18 and 45 years of age, provided they are physically sound, can take the examination wihich will be held in Rensselaer on March 27th. Married women-are not allowed to take the examination unless they get a divorce or cut loose from.the masculine end of the household. Males must be at least 5 feet and 4 inches in the stocking feet and must weigh at least 125 pounds without their overcoats or hats on. Each applicant will be required to submit to the examiner at the time of taking the examination a photograph of himself or hemelf taken within the past two years. Presumably the postmaster-general desires to see what sort of damsels he is getting in the service. It might be added that if you are not a democrat, you might as well not take this examination, for there hasn’t been an appointment made that does not wear the stamp of Woodirow Wilson since the administration changed. You can get application blanks at the postoffice and learn about the examination, duties, salary, etc. It is understood the salary is $360 a year.

Showing a complete new 1915 line of boys’ norfolk and little folks’ Oliver Twist suits. We invite mothers to bring the youngsters. WM. TRAUB. Order your Galling Cards at The Republican office W. W. Weinhardt PRIVATE DETECTIVE All kinds of private detective work performed. Special attention to locating missing witnesses arid murder cases. Best of references. LAFAYETTE, INDIANA.

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