Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1915 — Page 1

No. 155.

Tonight AT THE Gayety The Black Face Comic Comedians showed to an exceedingly large Monday night audience, who met the stunt with a smile. The little Chalk Eye will appear again this evening when those contending with anything like solemnity or indescribable woe can see them and vanish anything on the order of trials and tribulations. Considering the quality of the entertainment the admission fee is about the same as nothing 5 and 10c

BOOSTING WARREN M’CRAY FOR GOVERNOR

Newton County Friends Are Getting Busy and Will Visit All Parts of Tenth District. Lawrence and Fred Lyons, of Brook, and Ray Cummings, of Kentland, the latter the republican chairman of Newton county, drove to Rensselaer today, arriving before noon and talked with several republicans about the proposed candidacy of Warren T. McCray, of Kentlamd, for governor. They were joined here by Moses Leopold, who accompanied them on a trip to Lake county to ascertain the chance getting support for Mr. McCray there. They have already had encouragement from Tippecanoe county and the southern part of the district and say that from all parts of the state where Mr. McCray is mentioned only the best reports are received. Miss Orphia Timmons, who for the past eight years has been teaching school in Seattle, Wash., was here a short time Monday afternoon and visited Miss Nettie Price. When Miss Timmons went <to Seattle eight years ago there were 400 teachers in the city schools, now there are more than 1,200. The increase about shows the growth of the population. This was the first visit Miss Timmons had made in Remington for two years. Prior to that time she had made aninual visits at home. Hear mother is Mrs. R, A. Timmons, of Remington.

THE WEATHER. Showers this afternoon and tonight; Wednesday fair.

HUGH KIRK PUBLIC CHAUFFEUR Motor Troubles Car Washing With M. J. Schroer Phone 78

Last Chance to Join the Moose for $5.00 take in another large class, Thursday night, July 1, attheArmory hall at 7:45 f p. m. At that rime the chapter will be closed and Initiation fee will be raised to $25. This will positively be your last rliance under the open chapter. You ran make application and go in until then for $5.00 with SI.OO exam- ■ ination fee. J. W. MANGES

The Evening Republican.

HUGH GAMBLE DEAD IN LAKE FOREST, ILL.

Former Well Known Surveyor Died After Illness of Several Weeks — Funeral Wednesday. Hugh Gamble died at 6:15 o'clock Monday evening at a sanitarium at Lake Forest, 111. He had continued to fail since his brother-in-law came from Lake Forest and took him away some ten weelra or three months ago. The cause of his death is believed to have been pyorrhoea, which is an infection resulting from teeth that become loose slid abort the roots of which a pus forms. It is commonly known as Rigg’s disease. Mr. Gamble had been failing for some time and had finally become so feeble that he was unable to leave his rooms over Fendig’s drug store. For some time he remained there until friends and relatives discovered his condition and it was arranged for him to go to Lake Forest He was soon placed in the sanitarium and sank gradually to his death.

Mr. Gamble was twice married. His first wife and baby died many years ago. He was later married in Rensselaer to Miss OQlie Alter, daughter of Dr. Moses B. After. Her death occurred Oct 31,1904. It is stated that Mr. Gamble lost interest in life at that time and had since frequently said that he did not want to live. He was about 55 years of age and was a civil engineer by occupation and an able man at that work. He was the engineer for the Marble-Powers ditch and had made other important surveys. Last fall he was the candidate of the progressive party for county surveyor. He had resided in Rensselaer since about 1897 and had frequently visited here .before that time. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in Lake Forest, 111., burial being made at the Graceland cemetery beside hie first wife and Child. Relatives from here will attend the funeral.

Dr. J. H. Hill and family, of Lowell, and Luther Hill and bride, formerly Miss Ola Huson, of Oklahoma, and W. S. Garrison and family, of Hebron, and Miss M&ble Starling autoed down from Lake county Sunday to spend the day with A. C. Panooast and family. They reported the crops in Jasper county as being much more advanced than those in their county.

Delay Has Been Dangerous in Rensselaer. Do the right tiling at the right time. Act quieklv in time of danger. In time of kidney danger Doan’s Kidney Pills are most effective. Plenty of evidence of their worth Mrs. M. S. Babb, Railroad Street, Monticello, Ind., says: “I was bothered by a dull, gnawing pain in the small of my back and other symptoms of kidney,complaint, such as dizzy spells, headaches and trouble with the kidney secretions. I got a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and they brought prompt relief.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—-get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs Babb had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1915.

MANY ARE REFUSED SCHOOL LICENSES

Inference Would Be That Jasper County Boys and Girls Are Below Average Intelligence. The more the conduct of the Jasper counity schools by Superintendent Lamson' is investigated the more does it become apparent that Jasper county aspirants to teach are discriminated against. Whether this result is because of the scrupulous honesty of Mr. Lamson in carefully grading the manuscripts of all applicants or not is a matter that The Republican is unable to figure out, but the fact remains that many graduates from the Rensselaer high school who have taken the normal course required by law are unable bo get ‘license’s and that this fact has wrecked their ambitions to teach and thus lay the foundation for a college education.

The writer has talked to former trustees, to school patrons, to disappointed applicants and to friends of education from all over the county and has yet to find any person who approves the management of the schools in Jasper county.

Our attention was called to four girls of the 1915 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school who had qll taken the examination and failed to pass. At least one was unable to borrow the money with which to attend the normal school unless it was certain she was to get the license. She will not 'be able to teach, although she doubtless would have been able to do fully as as many of the imported agency teachers. Another who had failed to pass went away to school for the summer and will try again, although relatives fear that she will not be passed. There are girls working in various occupations about town who are graduates of the Rensselaer high school and whose ambition had been to teach and then go to college. They were failed every time they took the examination. One girl is working a sa servant, but she is a bright and spirited girl and had she been given the encouragement that it would have been fair to have given her, she would have been sent to normal school and would doubtless hove proven a splendid teacher and would have been a great financial aid to hen* parents. One farmer trustee remarked to the writer that he had tried with all his power to get a license for a girl in his township, a bright girl and a high school graduate, but that Supt. Lamson had defeated her on every application and that he had been compelled to employ teachers from other places who were sent here through agencies and who were far from efficient. He said that he never knew of a case where Mr. Lamson had given any aid or encouragement to an applicant in Jasper county. *He seemed to regard them with suspicion and to fear that they would get through was the inference he had gained. The writer called upon Superintendent Lamson at his office last week and was shown the grades that a number had made. Charley 'Blue, Mrs. John L Gwim and Miss Day Jordan had all made excellent grades in most topics, particularly in arithmetic, history, reading, writing, grammar and geography. Mr. Blue in examinations (taken in 1913 and 1914 had made in arithmetic grades up to 95 and 100, in spelling grades up to 90 and §5, in U. S. history up to 90, in writing up to 89, in reading up to 89, in physiology up to 97, in geography up to 93. His grades in science of education had been placed as high as 92 in one instance, but in that examiantion he had been failed in reading, arithmetic, grammar, and physiology. Imagine an examination made so difficult that a teacher of fifteen years’ experience could not pass in reading. In other examinations Mr. Blue had been failed in Hteratuhe, grammar and science of education. Printed across one of the eraminatkra blanks sent out from the office of the sltate superintendent for thfc teachers’ examinations is the following: “THE BOARD SUGGESTS THAT, SINCE MANY QUESTIONS ADMIT OF A VARIETY OF ANSWERS, CREDIT BE GIVEN FOR THE INTELLIGENCE SHOWN IN ANSWERS, RATHER THAN FOR THEIR CONFORMITY TO THE VIEWS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.”

This gives rather wade range for the superintendent to exercise and seems to give him control of the license proposition entirely. It has made it possible for him to defeat for license sudh applicants as Mrs. John, I. Gwin, who was failed in literature when it is doflHaiii to doughnuts that aha knows more about literature than Superintendent Laanson cook! learn if he devoted the remainder of his days to the study. It is this power that makes It possible to defeat Chcries Blue on the science of education and reading and grammar after be had been given licenses year

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REMINGTON PEOPLE SIGN FOR HOSPITAL

Drs. Besser and Rainier Join With Load Physicians to Ask Commissioners to Make Levy. Remington people joined loyally in the hospital movement by signing the petition asking that a levy be made for the establishment and maintenance of a hospital in this city. Judge Hanley, County Treasurer Fell and Drs. Kresler and Washburn went to Remington Monday and after securing the assistance of Drs. Besser and Rainier went with them to the business men of the town and the petition was signed by all to whom presented. Seventy-five names were secured. The petitions will be circulated during the next few days in other parts of the county and it is quite certain that they will meet the same splendid response that they did in Remington and in this city. The hearty co-operation which the plans met from the very first suggestion leaves little doubt that the commissioners will provide for the hospital and if the levy is ordered at the meeting of next week it is probable that arrangements will be made to issue bonds to provide the money to begin construction. Interested friends of the plan are already discussing the location movement and several sites have been suggested. Probably the most satisfactory is that just north of the residence of George F. Meyers. There are several vacant lots there, less than two blocks from the court house. They belong t» the John Makeever heirs, who are interested in any good movement of this kind. The petition asks for only SIO,OOO, but local physicians expect that from $20,000 to $25,000 will be required to build and equip thfe hospital. If donations are not received the balance of the money can be provided by the levy of next year or appropriated by the county council. If there is any person in Jasper county or any. former resident of this city who wishes to furnish the funds to buy the ground, erect or equip the hospital or to partially do any of these things they can confer a great favor on this county by communicating their desire to The Republican. There are many persons living here who are amply able to do so. There are several former residents who could do so. It would be a lasting fame to have this a memorial hospital constructed from money supplied . by some charitable person. Other cities have been thus favored. Here is a real opportunity for some one interested in Rensselaer.

Pickpockets Appear at Indiana Society Picnic.

A gang of pickpockets inserted a number into the outing program of the Indiana Society of Chicago Saturday, which, though unexpected, proved the sensation of the day. When some one discovered that he had been robbed he Shouted “pickpockets.” Five men were seen to dart from the crowd and race down ithe road. Policemen and a few others gave chase and three of the pickpockets were captured after a two mile sprint. Michael Duffy, a wealthy Fowler man, said that he had been robbed of a wallet containing SI,OOO in checks and S2OO in currency. Half a dozen others reported smaller losses.

LESS MEAT IF BACK AND KIDNEYS HURT

Take a Glass of Salts to flush Kidneys If Bladder Bothers Ton. Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked, get sluggish, dog up and all sorts of distress, particularly backache and misery in the kidney region, rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, add stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren’t acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the add of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to Audi clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity, also to neutralize the adds In the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone, a delightful effervescent lithiawater drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs dean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease.

MORE ABOUT DEATH OF RAY COMER

Fair Oaks Youag Man and Friend Ran Into CLftS. Train at Hammond and Were Kijledr The death of Ray Comer in Hammond, which was mentioned in Monday’s paper, is given in detail in an article in the Lake County Times, which follows: “Ray Comer drove out of Hammond Sunday morning with Rudolph Blankenborg behind on a motorcycle belonging to John Miller, which Ray had undertaken to demonstrate to his friend. Blankenborg was a prospective buyer. Returning toward Hammond out of Highland, Corner came to the deep cut which the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railway crosses at the base. The control on the machine he rode was just opposite to that of the machine he owned, which was being repaired. When Copier had nearly reached the bottom of the incline a passenger train shot onto the crossing from the east. There are no warning bells and the company has no flagman there. It is evident that Comer lost control of his machine by throwing it in full speed ahead instead of shutting off power but it is possible that bad he been on his own motorcycle he could not have avoided the accident. The motorcycle struck the second passenger coach of the train and the riders were catapulted through the air and their heads crushed against the car. Both were dead when found and their bodies showed many bones broken by the crash. Deputy Coroner J. A. Graham went out with the police and the bodies were taken to a morgue at Hammond.” -

FRANCHISE ASKED ON CULLEN STREET

Lafayette and Northwestern Wishes to Pass Through Central Part - of This Qty. At the .meeting of the city council Monday night a franchise was asked by the Lafayette & Northwestern railroad company for streets in this city. The company desires to pater the city at the southern edge, to come over Cullen street on the east Side of the court house and then at the residence of W. L. Bott to go on Forest street to Vine and then turn west on that street and go straight to Mt. Ayr. This is a very practical route for the passenger cars on the interurban and it is understood that the freight will be routed over the other route, which is to pass at the west edge of town. Both of the objections of former franchises are overcome in this manner as there will be no freight hauled on the mam streets the passengers can be taken on and discharged right at the court house and the railroad station. The interurban election is to be held Wednesday, July 14th. Mr. Brown and Perry O’Ctmnor, the bitter a wealthy farmer and stockman -of Round Grove township, Waite county, say that if the subsidy is voted in Marion township, the road will be built, much of it yet this year. They say that Mr. Hirsch, who was here last week, assured them that his company would furnish 60 per cent of the money for construction and will sell bonds for the balance. The building of this road means a bigger Rensselaer ,a growing live (town and an improved country surrounding. It means the greatest boom in building and trade that the city has ever had. It meas a population of 5,000 when the next census is taken. Friends of progress should get busy in its behalf.

The council transacted considerable other business, as follows: s Permission was granted to Hamill & Co. to use part of Washington street while constructing the new front in the Leopold building which they are to occupy. The resolution, to vacate part of Sumner addition in Benjamin A Magee’s addition was passed. The same in Elan street.

A skating rink order was adopted, making it a misdemeanor to ran a skating rink without procuring a license and placing the cost at about $5 per day for the license. It is said that the skating rinks in some neighboring towns have proven a great nuisance. ~ , The adley in Block 9 is to be bricked end the contract will be let on July 12th. 1108 is the alley in the rear of the L O. O. P. building. The cemetery trustees made a report of the new addition to the cemetery purchased m 1913, and tire council approved the report. The superintendent of the light plant was instructed to purchase 25 meter box covers of the Clark Meter Box Co., at the same price as is paid for Ford Meter covers.

Electrical wiring and repair work done. Phone «2L—Leo Mecklenburg.

CENTRAL DELIVERY L. L. BRUCE !V'. IV.. ' V— r \ - Having taken over the Central Delivery System I shall give it the most careful management with a view to making H meet every demand of the public. If any patrons have complaints to make I shall be pleased to undertake any corrections that will improve the Promptness, accuracy and courtesy on the part of all driven is required. Hoping to conduct the business with entire satisfaction, I promise the best service possible at all times. Phone 515

Former Residents of This City Back For Short Visit.

Mrs. George SpMer and son, Harvey, of Seattle, Wash., sire here to visit relatives and old friends. They are stopping at the home of Charles Rishlmg. George Spitler and family moved to Seattle eight years ago and this is the first visit any of them have made to Rensselaer. Harvey is now twenty-one years of age and works as a painter in a sign making establishment. Himself and mother are enjoying excellent health well pleased with the west. George has a good job in a cabinet shop. They will go from here to Medaryville for a visit of a few days and then return here for a longer visit. The return trip will be made by way of Memphis and then south to San Francisco, /where they will attend the exposition and then go by boat to Seattle.

Believe Huerta Plot Backed by U. S. Interests.

Inside details regarding the phut of Huerta, General Orosco and a score of their assistants to restore the Huerta regime in Mexico, have begun to leak out and it may bo proved that the conspirators were to have had the financial backing of some prominent American interests. Probably some Americans will be arrested and an attempt made to prove t.hk»- It has been thought for a long time that some of the revolutionary leaders have received financial backing from Americans. Assistant Attorney General Warren made it clear that the agencies .of the department of justice are being directed, not atone against Huerta an*! Orozco, but all other offenders affiliated with Mexican factions who are not under indictment.

Valparaiso Merchants Agree On Regular Half Holiday.

Almost, all the merchanto in Valparaiso have agreed to dose their - places of business each Thursday at 12 noon for the balance of the day during the months of July ami August, with the exception of the weeks dn which a national holiday occurs. They will observe at least one-half of each holiday. This agreement, to go into effect July 1, 1915, is to be made permanent. • -

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