Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1915 — Page 1

No. 161.

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American Hospital Association Honors Miss Nettie Jordan.

In this issue of The Republican is published a splendid letter on the hospital plans, which was written by Miss Nettie Jordan, superintendent of the Aurora Hospital, at Aurora, 111., who is the daughter of Mrs. S. L. Jordan, of Barkley township. The letter was written following a brief discfission of the subject by Miss Jordan and the editor of The Republican, which closed with a request that Miss Jordan write a letter that would encourage the hospital building. We desire to express our appreciation of the timely reply to the request and feel that this letter will furnish much encouragement to the friends of he plans. Miss Jordan has just been elected the Second VicePresident of the American Hospital Association at the meeting held at San Francisco. The next meeting will be held in Philadelphia. This recognition of her ability is well-de-served and will be very pleasing to those who are acquainted with her in this county. She is doing hn important work as a contributor to the “Modern Hospital,” which is the official hospital journal of the United States and Canada.

Miss Vera Ann West went to Peru today, where she will probably visit for the rest of the summer. ' ■' Lewis Nichols for . ‘ / • Groceries or a > 1 Good Meal Phone 296 Opposite Babcock & Hopkins Elevator

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Says Chalmers Physician Had Two Families.

A suit has been filed at Monticello by Ella M. Wells, of Eagletown, Hamilton* county, to contest the ownership of the property of the late Dr. Isaac E. Wells, of Chalmers. She alleges that the doctor was married the second time after deserting her and without securing a divorce. To. Dr. Wells and his first wife three children were born, all now grown. He left his wife about 17 years ago. He was followed for a while. After he had been married the second time his first wife made preparations to sue him in Marshall, where he was then living, but he disappeared and could not be found. The present Mrs. Wells does not have niuch to say except that the doctor secured a divorce in the west and they were legally married. A girl, now 14, was born to the second wife of Dr. Wells. *

Ship Minnehaha On Fire; Was Frank Holt to Blame?

The steamer Minnehaha, filled with munitions and sailing for Halifax, caught on fire Wednesday night but the blaze was subdued. Because of the statement of Frank Holt that a ship would sink in mid-ocean on July 7th, officials and authorities are making careful investigation as to the origin of the fire. Other ships at sea have been seen but none of them have any explosives. More evidence seems to prove’that Holt is the Harvard professor, Erich Muenter, who murdered his wife in 1906. Holt is to be buriad in Dallas, Tex., where his wife resides.

Cincinnati is Scene Of Terrific Storm.

Twenty-two are known dead, ten are missing, and the property loss will exceed $1,000,000, as the result of a terrile storm which struck Cincinnati Tuesday night. Almost 100 houses were razed to the ground, many church spires were toppled and few houses were left unmolested. The storm Sunday also visited the southern part of our own state and five lives were lost, along with much property loss.

Just received another car Monogram flour. Guaranteed old wheat. The flour with the money-back guarantee, $1.75 per sack.—Rowles & Parker. Program at the Rex Theatre For Week Beginning July sth Friday, July 9th. “Tn the Dragon’s Claws,” a Lubin drama, two parts. “And Then It Happened,” a Selig comedy, one part. - - - a Saturday, July 10th, Afternoon and * Evening. A five part extra special—“ The Fairy and the Waif.” Tuesday’s and Saturday’s, special programs at 10c admission. We have booked some very heavy and worthy star productions for the near future of a magnitude no manager has yet ventured only on a percentage basis. Can we do it? Watch for The Fairy and the Waif; Chocolate Soldier; The Hoosier Schoolmaster; Mignon; Protea; Dollar Mark; Jimmy Valentine; The Key to Yesterday; More Than a Queen; Salambo; The Kangaroo; The Fifth Commandment; America; The Butterfly; and many others. See them at The Rex.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 9, 1915.

ENCOURAGES PLANS FOR COUNTY HOSPITAL

Jasper County Girl at Head of Aurora Institution Says It Will Prove Valuable. Aurora, 111., July 6, 1915. Rensselaer Republican, Dear Mr. Healey: r A After our little conference the other day I gave some thought to tne Rensselaer hospital project. There are so many advantages it is not easy to give proper emphasis to any one of them. In the first place a hospital, like schools and a library is a mark of civic progress. It is a commercial asset to the community, for the thousands of dollars that go to physicians and hospitals in the city remain at home, passing through the hands of local business people for drugs, laundry and the wages of employes. If the hospital is under good management it stands as an educational institution, as well as a means of restoring the sick to their respective places in the scheme of life. It educates nurses in the scientific care of the sjck, and by means of competitive service stimulates the highest efficiency from the doctors. They will be more liable to organize fnedical societies for the mutual benefit of the members and incidentally they give the real benefit to the public. Physicians will be made inclined to visit famous clinics in the medical centers of this country and the old world and come home imbued with a new spirit of scientific service for the sick public. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth and I am sure every one in Rensselaer thinks they have their feet on top of the ground. Rensselaer possesses wealth, influence and a spirit of progress, so theYe is not one reason why Jasper county could not build a new modern hospital, either by a beneficent group of people or by direct taxation. A co-operative group of people can accomplish almost anything they set out to do, if they possess 1 the qualities in my formula for success: clear vision, fine shades of decision, and continuity of purpose. I hdve a personal interest in your project for my people live in your community and there are many people whose acquaintance I made in a professional way and whose friendship I prize very much. We are completing a magnificent new hospital here and every one in the city is pointing with pride tp one more wonderful civic improvement. If I can h’d you in organizing your proposition or in tne detail* planning of your building, I shall be glad to do so as an honorary member of the Rensselaer Booster Club. Most sincerely, NETTIE B. JORDAN.

Judge and Attorneys Went Over Williams Ditch Route.

Judge Elmore Barce, who is the special judge in the trial of the Williams ditch case in Newton county, accompanied by Attorney Halleck, attorney for the petitioners, and Judge Darroch, one of the attorneys for the remonstrators, went over the Kankakee river Wednesday and Thursday, in order that the judge might get information of the lay of the ditch that might aid him in determining the case. They went first to Schneider and then in launches to Durton’s Camp, which is near the outlet of the Marble-Powers ditch, now being constructed. They then returned to Schneider and thence to the state line, where the outlet of the proposed ditch is to be. They visited the Linger Longer Gamp and foqnd it a very pleasant place. The proposed ditch is about 7 miles in length. Attorney Halleck represents the petitioners single handed, while a number of lawyers are engaged by remonstrators and Judge Darroch in making the trip over the ditch route represented the clients of all the attorneys for the remonstrance.

An Overland automobile is reported to have gone into the ditch west of town near the Elisur Sage farm last evening. A man stad his wife and four children were in the machine, which left the road and landed on all fours in a ditch some four feet deep. No one ■was injured. The Republican was- unable to learn who the parties were. .

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CHANGE OF RAILROAD ROUTE IN RENSSELAER

Meeting at Court House Attended by Several and Pledge to Make Change Was Proposed. Citizens of the town attended a meeting of the Lafayette and Northwestern Railroad Co., which proposes a road through this city. Mr. Brown, who has been here for some time, had with him Patrick Hirsch, of the Talbot Construction Co., of New York. Mr. Brown made a few remarks stating that the company which Mr. Hirsch represents is heartily endorsed by two banking firms in letters to him. He stated that it had been definitely decided that the road would run past the college, across the river and down Cullen street. He said that before Monday a written contract would be made with the college that the road would run along College avenue and not between the college and the Indian School as originally planned. The former profiles

had been filed but a letter from the secretary of state stated that the rule of filing blue prints applied only to steam roads, and the road will not be built across the river as originally planned. Mr. Brown was accompanied here by Ed Collins, a Lafayette attorney; by Attorney M. B. Beard and A. W. Lux, of Wolcott; and by Patrick Hirsch, Paul Hirsch and George H. Lester, of New York. * The company which Mr. Hirch represents will buy 60 per cent of the bonds of the company and the railroad must provide the other forty per cent. Mr. Hirsch’s company has built about sixteen railroads as he says “on the ground.” They have recently finished an $8,000,000 job in New York and now have the contract for a road to run between Quincy and Peoria. The company has had 22 years’ experience and is willing to give bond of a considerable sum that the company will carry out their contract if the people do their part. The men representing the company seemed to make a favorable impression and encouragement was given by a number of prominent men of this city.

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DR. MARY JACKSON DIED IN CHICAGO

Practiced Medicine in Rensselaer for Some Time and Then Moved to Hammond. Dr. Mary E. Jackson, who for several years practiced medicine in Rensselaer and who moved to Hammond some twenty years ago, died in a Chicago hospital Thursday. A dispatch from Hammond gives the following account of Mrs. Jackson’s life: “Dr. Mary E. Jackson, 59 years old, prominently identified with the woman’s movement, a leader in W. C. T. U. work and one of the organizers at Indianapolis of the Congress of Mothers, a national society, died in a Chicago hospital this morning. Her death was due to cancer. She practiced medicine for thirty years, most of her professional career having been in Hammond. She is survived by her husband, also a physician, and a married daughter. “Several years ago she was decorated with the I. O. O. F. diamond medal. Two years ago she went to Europe to study hospital conditions there with a view’ of founding a hospital under W. C. T. U. auspices in Hammond, plans for which are still pending. She was noted for her sterling character, and the many civic and patriotic movements she launched during her long career in Hammond.” Mrs. Jackson’s fuenral will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at St. Paul’s Episcopal church in Hammond. tl is probable that some of her old friends from this city will attend the funeral.

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Suspect Caught in Texas Was Not Charles Lawson.

•Sheriff Popejoy and Attorney Hannah, of Carroll county, have returned empty handed from their trip to Slinton, Texas, where they had expected to get Charles Lawson, suspected murdered of the Delphi nightwatch. It is said that the man had two deformed fingers on his left hand and that he bore a scar behind his left ear, the same as Lawson. There is said to be considerable comment about the trip to Texas because neither of the men who went knew Lawson. They say, however, that the man proved beyond a doubt that he had been jn Texas for several years. A new light concerning Lawson comes from Muskegon, Mich., where a man killed while trying to rob a store is thought to be the man wanted in Delphi.

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