Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — Page 1

No. 165.

Tonight AT THE Gayety Fenner & Roberts The famous acrobatic comedians, introducing twisting, forward, backward and double somersaults from catapult board. As. these people are champions we are expecting to see something exceeding above the ordinary this eve. The pictures are a choice selection for band concert. I 5 and 10c

Belos Dean, who is the platform manager on one of the Lincoln Chautauqua circuits, is home until Friday owing to some cancelled dates. He reports an excellent program. The same program will be given here. Last week during the heavy rains Delos was with the chautauqua just 29 miles from Cincinnati and they were almost flooded out. The woman’s Relief Corps will have their annual picnic at Mrs. George F. Meyers’ Friday p. m., July 16, and every member should be there with her dinner basket.

COMB SAGE TEA IN HAIR TO DARKEN IT

It’s Grandmother’s Recipe to Keep Her Locks Dark, Glossy, Thick. The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is grandmother’s treatment, and folks are again using it to' keep their hair a good, even color, which is quite sensible, as we are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the greatest advantage. Nowadays, though, we don’t have the troublesome task of gathering the sage apd the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use product called “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound” for about 50 cents a bottle. It is very popular because nobody can discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur is that, besides beautifully darkening the hair after a few applications, it also produces that soft lustre and appearance of abundance which is so attractive, besides, prevents dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair.

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The Evening Republican.

INTERURBAN ELECTION BEING HELD TODAY

Not Half the Vote in at Two O’Clock —Both Sides Claiming Victory. The Marion township election for the purpose of voting a 2 per cent tax in aid of the construction of the Lafayette and Northwestern Railroad is being held today in Rensselaer. The election is passing off quietly and the indications are that a full vote will not be polled. Up to 2 o’clock this afternoon not half the vote had been polled. Both sides are claiming a victory, but no one can forecast the result. If the election carries it will be by a smaller vote than in previous elections. The opponents of the subsidy are doing all the work and are active in trying to make votes against the subsidy. The chances are in favor of the subsidy carrying.

Thaw’s Fate to Be Determined Wednesday.

The fate of Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, will probably be decided Wednesday. Thaw is fighting hard to prove that he is sane and thereby gain his liberty instead of going back to Matteawan asylum. The case will be decided by a jury. Many expert physicians have examined Thaw and testified. One specialist says Thaw is entirely rational and another states that he is insane. Thaw’s wife, Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, has not testified against him but she has stated that she thinks that he is not sane and should he gain his liberty he will molest her little son.

Troops Held Ready to Block Plans of Lynching.

Three companies of militia have been ordered to the Milledgeville state farm in Georgia Tuesday night to thwart a plan to lynch Leo M. Frank, who is confined there. The orders were issued by the adjutant-general, who, Gov. Harris explained, bad blanket instructions to call out troops to protect state property. All roads leading to the farm are guarded. Frank recently began serving a life term for the murder of Mary Phagan after his sentence of death was commuted by Gov. Slaton.

Some time ago one James Short of DeMotte was fined for intoxication. Information supplied by Deputy Prosecutor Sands is to the effect that while under the influence of liquor Short cut some telephone wires and took some small tools/and put them in his pockets. Three charges were made against Short, but only the intoxication charge was prosecuted. The other depradations were committed while he was befuddled with booze. It was suggested that perhaps he did not intend to steal the tools that were in his pockets but had expected to use them for ballast. Short was shorter by the time the justice and the prosecutor got through with him and it should be a long time before Short longs for another such short-sighted escapade.

G. E. Rebhan, traveling agent of the American Express Co., is here today checking out the local agent, G. C. Hart, and checking in the new agent, W. G. Gehr, of Lima, Ohio. Mr. Hart will leave for his new position as agent at Crawfordsville tomorrow. The Crawfordsville office pays a better salary than this office, but Mr. Hart is deserving of the promotion, as he has made a splendid record here as a hard worker and accommodating agent and his friends will hate to see him leave here. His successor is a young man and will no doubt fill the office acceptably to the public.

The high waters caused by the recent heavy rainfall are receding rapidly and cellars that had several feet of water in them are now all empty and the river is becoming lower, but is still quite deep. Several property owners suffered considerable damage from the water in their basements. J. J. Montgomery had trunks full of wearing apparel stored in the basement of the bungalow formerly owned by him and the trunks were rescued after being in the water several hours with the contents in a badly damaged condition. Miss Maud Spitler had considerable household goods stored in the adjoining bungalow awaiting the completion of her new residence and these were also soaked with water. Only a few basements in town escaped the high water, which emphasizes the necessity of a better drainage system in Rensselaer. The basements in the business section were flooded for a short time, owing to the sewers being too small to carry the water that was pouring into them from the roofs and catch basins.

Yes, we have plenty of that famous Deering Standard Twine. HAMILTON & KELLNER.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING IN RIVER

Howard Clark Became Exhausted While Swimming and Is Rescued By Other Swimmers. Since the river has been so high since the recent bit storm, boys and men have been indulging in the sport of diving frcm the Washington street bridge and swimming down stream. The sport has been witnessed by large crowds. , Tuesday Howard Clark donned a bathing suit and dived from the bridge, but as he had swam down stream to nearly the creamery bridge he became exhausted and did not have strength to swim aginst the heavy current to the shore. Dr. Washburn, Lloyd Parks and others were sitting on -the bank at the bridge in bathing suits and as Clark passed under the bridge Dr. Washbum noticed he was in distress and called the attention of the others to his condition and as Clark sank under the water for the first time Washbujm and Parks dived into the water and towed him to the shore. It was a narrow escape and had no one been near Clark would have been drowned. He was all right in a few minutes but this mohung felt the effects of his experience and became sick enough to find the services of a doctor necessary. Some cf the swimmers are quite expert and a few of them have the courage to make the high dive from the 'top of the Washington street bridge but the majority content themselves with the dive from the railing of the bridge.

“Rip Gizzard,” North Carolina’s New “Pizen.”

North Carolina’s drastic prohibition laws are being threatened seriously by the new “pizen” invented by the sons of Hyde county. It is a substitute for com liquor called “malt beer” or “Rip Gizzard,” and is highly intoxicating. It is said to have the far-famed “licker” which makes a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog’s eye looking like a dose of soothing-syrup. The recipe calls for a peck of meal, 10 pouhds of sugar and two or three pounds of dried apples. Five gallons of water are added and the conciction is set back of the stove or in the sun to ferment. In a few days it has worked, and is then drawn off ready for the consumer. Negroes are making great quantities and one of them, regarded as an expert, offers the following method: One gallon of meal to two gallons of water. Put on the stove and boil. As soon as the mixture boils, add two pounds of sugar. Pour into a stone crock and let stand a week, by which time it will ferment. Add two pounds of sugar and strain off. This recipe doesn’t require apples. The anti-saloon league and W. C. T. U. of North Carolina are making strenuous efforts to stop this new traffic in intoxicating liquor. The mess is so cheap that many gallons are being made, for private consumption and for sale. “Rig Gizzard” bids fair to supplant every substitute for liquor now being sold in North Carolina.

Burk Girl Says She Murdered to Defend Self.

Still protecting her sweetheart, Frank Taylor, Inez Burk, 16-year-old slayer of her mother, Mrs. Archie McClain, again confessed the killing in a written statement to Prosecutor A. Guy Monday. Taylor, who is 17, also made a statement in which he denied knowledge of the killing. The couple affirmed the statement made after they had been arrested in Pekin, Hl. Though facing a charge of murder, the girl, surrounded by officers, and with tear-stained, remorseful countenance, stolidly maintained that she struck her mother in self defense with an axe and cut her with a paring knife. She sobbed out to the officers the details of her fight in the squalid rooms on Sunday afternoon, July 4, and said that when she fled she did not think she had killed her mother. She said she had lived in misery for a long time. When her mother attacked her Sunday she said she struck her twice with an axe and felled her with the blows. She exonerates Taylor of any participation whatever in the crime.

Sylvester Hatton Dies After Long Illness.

Sylvester Hatton, an old soldier who moved here from Monticello about 'three years ago, died at his nome in the northeast part of town tl is morning at 8 o’clock, after an illness of about a vear, of dropsy and stomach trouble. He lived in the former Charles Groy property, which he owned, with an unmarried daughter. His age was about 79 years. He will be buried near Momence, HL. Friday.

CELEBRATE THEIR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Former Residtnts of Mt. Ayr Recipients of Fifty Gold Coins On Occasion. The Republican has been handed a copy of the Homer, 111., Enterprise, containing an account of the golden wedding celebration of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wright, residents of this vicinity about thirty years ago. Mr. Wright is the brother of Randolph and Jeff Wright, of near Mt. Ayr. A partial account of the celebration follows: The children of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wright, with their families, were all together July 4 and 5, 1915, for the only time in the past 14 years, Aaron, the oldest son, traveling the most of two nights between here and Detroit, Mich., in order to be present and back again for his work Tuesday morning. The company of sixteen relatives took dinners together on July 4th at D. Wright’s home in town and on July sth at the home of Squire Lee in the country. A photograph of the crowd was secured. The children presented each of their parents with a comfortable rocker, and Mr. Wright presented Mrs. Wright with 50 gold coins, one for each year they have been married. Fifty years ago on July 13, D. Wright and Mary Ellen Hyer were united in marriage at Washington C. H., Ohio. The incident was somewhat romantic, in fact, quite so, from the viewpoint of the neighbors in that community. A squire was called from his midnight repose, and the ceremony quickly said, while her parents were unaware that she had left the home. Taking a night train they went at once to Mt. Ayr, Ind., where D. Wright had grown up, and where his parents still lived. They fitted up a team and wagon and moved overland to Mason county, 111., near Ha--vana, where they started up housekeeping in a one-room house at a cost of about S2O, and this, too, at war prices, being in 1865. The first calico dress purchased after their marriage cost 25 cents per yard, and that not the best grade either. Forty acres of raw prairie land were soon purchased in Mason county at $5 per acre, with a capital of SSO, the balance, $l5O, was borrowed at 10 per cent for five years.

By this time the ire of the Ohio relatives had subsided and on invitation they returned to Ohio and resided for about two years, then emigrated to Homer, 111., in 1878, he in a wagon overland, and she by railway. They purchased a tract of the D. Wright homestead, where Squire Lee now lives, at S4O per acre. The grandparents of D. Wright emigrated from the state of Delaware to Ohio with six children, walking all the way. The mother of D. Wright, who was the youngest of the family, about one year old then, was carried in their arms all the way. The father of D. Wright was a pioneer in Indiana and helped erect the first house in Warsaw, Kosciusko county, Indiana. Mrs. Wright’s father was the first white child bom in Fayette county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have resided in or near Homer since 1868. Next week they will pay a visit to the Ohio community, where they caused so much talk a half century ago.

$10,000 Secured by Disciples of Wallingford.

Elizabeth J. Stockton, who resides in Montmorenci, was the dupe chosen by Allen O’Connor and A. J. O’Connor, brothers, once residents of Benton county, but now supposed to be in Chicago, and because of the circumstances attending the swindle there will be much sympathy for the woman who has been bilked out of something like SIO,OOO. The stunt was as ruthless as anything ever pulled off in the pages of fiction by J. Rufus Wallingford. The men, who represented themselves as being from Earl Park, gained the confidence of the old lady. They visited her home frequently and finally by honied words of flattery as to her business judgment and false representations as to the value of their stocks and the certainty of big dividends which would accrue to the lucky purchaser they finally succeeded in ingratiating themselves into her confidence and deliberately robbing her of thousands of dollars of cash and securities.

Program For the Band Concert This Evening.

The following is the program for the band concert this evening. The band boys will be assisted in the program by members of the Roily Polly Girls Company, now playing at the opera house, in vocal selections. Following is the program: On the Front Line.. Overture, Sweet Brier. Boots and Saddles. Dream of Heaven. : —t When I was a Dreamer—Vocal selection by Leona St. Clair. Selection, Snap Schoot. Michigan—Vocal selection by Mr. B. L. Little. L Colossus of Columbia.

SAYS LAMSON FORCED DAUGHTER TO RESIGN

Mother of Young Lady Who Taught School in Walker Township Writes to Republican. South Bend, Ind., July 12, 1915. Editor Republican: Having read the comments on the manner in which Mr. Lamson has been handling the Jasper county schools, there is something I wish to have explained. Why should the school in district No. 8 at Fair Oaks be without a teacher the latter part of August if there are so many deserving applicants in Jasper county? The latter part of August, 1914, a son of Trustee Karch who was attending school at Winona, Ind., asked Prof. Imel to put the application for a teacher for No. 8 school of Walker township before the Teacher’s Assembly. No one cared to take the position. Prof.. Imel recommended my daughter, Valerie Miller, who was taking a teacher’s course at Winona, having graduated from the South Bend high school and also having finished a post-graduate course there.

After the course was finished at Winona it was too late for her to get a school in South Bend as the teachers had all been appointed, so she accepted the position at No. 8. She was treated unfairly by Mr. Lamson, who forced her to resign by threats, telling ■her the people were all against her and were going to put her out of the school. We found afterwards that the only ones who were not in favor of her were the parents of several large boys who were fit only for the reformatory. These boys even assaulted the younger girls on their way to and from school, tearing their clothes and otherwise mistreating them. My daughter asked Mr. Lamson to assist in governing these boys, but he told her that she should resign if she could not control them. Has this school been conducted in the lawless fashion always or did those boys act that way because my daughter was an outsider? Why wasn’t this school given to some worthy young man who was capable of handling these unruly young men? After my daughter resigned the school was given to a young-lady who came from south of Indianapolis. We understand she gave up the position before the term expired. We cannot understand why such conditions exist in a civilized country, where education is considered such a valuable asset. The Republican no doubt remembers the item published by Mr. Lamson in October, 1914, which stated that a Miss Miller who had been teaching the school at Fair Oaks *had so worried Mr. Karch that it caused him to have a stroke of apoplexy. My daughter called on Mr. Karch’s family, who denied this charge. Mr. Lamson even went so far as to send an exaggerated and undesirable report of my daughter’s ability as a teacher to a prominent lawyer of our city, thereby intending to destroy all her chances of obtaining a school in this locality. We believe that Mr. Lamson could have been forced to resign then had we wished to carry the matter further. We have sent these facts to you only because we are advocates of good education and fair play in all things.—Mrs. V. B. Miller.

Fire Marshal Says Gasoline Must Go Underground.

A general crusade has been undertaken by the state fire marshal department, to put gasoline underground in Indiana. Hundreds of orders have been issued already and the enforcement will be undertaken at once on the expiration of forty days’ time allowed to obey. The penalty provided for each day’s neglect to obey the order is a fine of from $lO to $S°. K . The files in the state.fire marshal department are eloquent in arguments in favor of the underground storage tank. Accidents often fatal in their results are of almost daily occurrence in the state. One of the greatest menaces »to firemen in fighting incipient blazes. is found in gasoline stored in cleaning and tailoring establishments above ground. This class of risks has received special attention. Prosecutions for failure to obey orders will be made under the general fire marshal law of 1913. The storage of gasoline up to ten gallons in an approved safety can is permitted above ground. Greater quantities must be put underground.

The price of wheat has dedined and we are giving you the benefit of same. Monogram Flour >1.75; White Star Flour $1.65. Your money back if you want it.—Bowles A Parker.

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Justice vs. Prejudice.

The recent articles concerning the county superintendent appearing in The Republican have,been interesting from many points of view. The one that appeals the strongest is that showing how far personal prejudice will lead us away from facts. In an editorial the other day the idea was advanced that the schools of Jasper county were in a higher state of efficiency during the time of Mr. Lamson’s predecessor than they are at present. This was before the time of the law which now requires that the applicant shall have had a ligh school course or its'equivalent, and at least twelve weeks normal training. Before this time all that was required was an eighth grade diploma and a passing grade in the questions prepared by the state. Are there any intelligent, interested patrons who would be willing to have out schools again placed, on that jasis? Some of us have'very vivid recollections of helping our children at home, to supplement the lack at school. That state of affairs was due, not to Mr. Hamilton, who was superintendent them, but because the state requires a higher standard. Therefore,' if our schools are not now more proficient, then shall we have to acknowledge that so far as our teachers are concerned, high schools and normal schools are a failure. We are forced to admit that our schools at the present time are more effective than they were a few years ago. Any one will say that progress has brought about harder conditions for the teacher to meet in order to be granted a license. Any superintendent at this time will say there are more efficient teachers now in Indithan ever before. There are two classes of applicants, viz: Those from our high school who are able to pass the examinations and make licenses and those who sometimes fail. Of those who fail, the majority take the blame upon themeslves, realize their weak points and persevere until success does crown their ecorts. In talking this point with several teachers, we find one saying: “Yes, I have failed several times on examinations, but realize it was my fault. If I had deserved passing grades, I know I should have received them.” Another teacher says: “I know I get all I earn.” As the papers of any applicant may be sent to the state superintendent upon payment of a small fee which is less than a day’s wages at teaching, it would seem a good business proposition for anyone who feels justice cannot be obtained at home to seek it elsewhere. Victor Hugo says: “It is the hatred of narrow minds for liberal ideas that fetters the march of progress.” In view of all that has been said in sympathy for unsuccessful applicants, the question arises, Are the schools of Indiana running for the benefit of our children, or to create jobs for teachers? Mrs. I. F. MEADER.

TH® WBA ™ IL Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Probably showers north and central portions.

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