Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senior Class of R. H.S. will repeat :their recent success “The»Naked Truth” 3 act comedy Saturday Night JUNE STH 8:15 p. m. Ellis Theatre 25c and 35c

Sister Antonia is paying a visit to the Sisters of St. Augustine’s Catholic church after an absence of several years. Sister Antonia was in charge of the Parochial school when it was started here a number of years ago and has many friends in and near Rensselaer. A. J. Kitt, for a long time a newspaper man at Goodland and also postmaster at that town for several years, has purchased the Fowler Tribune, John P. Carr’s remarkably unsuccessful paper. For years a republican paper in Fowler has had a hard time to exist, but Brother Kitt knows the ropes and should be able to make The Tribune equal to the requirements and secure for it the business that will make it a paying business investment. We wish for him abundant success.

The appellate court on Monday handed down a decision in the case of H. W. Bledsoe vs. David C. Ross et al for specific performance of contract covering the purchase of 78 acres of land a half mile east of Francesville. The case was decided in the Pulaski county circuit court in favor of David C. Ross and co-defendants, John Krugei, Anna Kruger and Chas. Kruger. It was then appealed to the appellate court which affirmed the action of the lower court. It is understood that the plaintiffs will appeal to the supreme court, which must be done within sixty days, otherwise the Krugers will be vested with the title.—Francesville Tribune.

The Monon News is serving notice that it will stop subscribers who do not get in and settle their accounts within the next week. The Republican and probably every newspaper is annoyed a great deal by subscribers who neglect the settlement of their accounts. It is not uncommon that this paper has from $1,500 to $3,000 in delinquent or overdue subscriptions and we lose in a number of casefe because of our misplaced confidence in some of our patrons. There is really only one way to avoid losses and that is to stop papers immediately upon the expiration of the time for which paid. Some time that method will be adopted by the country papers just as it has long ago been adopted by the city papers. We trust that every subscriber will look at the label on his paper and if his subscription has expired send a renewal. We need the money that the accumulation of these small accounts amounts to. '

Prof. C. A. Tindall, who had charge of the commercial department of the Rensselaer schools, left today for Indianapolis, where he will teach in a business college this summer. Next fall he will go to Fairbury, 111., to teach in the township high school. He leaves Rensselaer because he can get a much better salary, the cause of Rensselaer’s losing several very able teachers this year. His work in charge of the commercial department has been entirely satisfactory and it is a great misfortune that he could not have been retained. We are also to lose Miss Ethel Dyer, the efficient domestic science instructor whose work of the past two years has been so thoroughly successful. Like Mr. Tindall and others she is going where she can get more money. She will teach at Carlisle, Ind., a town scarcely a fourth as large as Rensselaer but the saalry is somewhat larger. The cost of maintaining the schools of this city has exhausted the highest levy that can be assessed against the property in the corporation and yet, with the large attendance, the per capita is not as high as in many places and the school board, ably assisted by Superintendent Dean, have exercised every economy to make ends meet. The result is that many of our best teachers have been lost to us. The school board may find it necessary to pay some larger salaries the coming year, although it may mean that money will have to be borrowed until means can be devised for increasing the School fund. This is a matter of such vital importance to Rensselaer that The Republican shall be pleased to have it discussed through its colums by any who have a plan to offer. It is probable that more will be said about it in a few days, ♦ 7 -