Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1915 — Page 1

No. 167.

Tonight AT THE Gayety DeVeau & Leslie A Sister Team of Note * Those Harmony Singing and Dancing Girls Photos at the Princess will give an idea of the character of the stunt. New pictures each night. No serials. 5 and 10c

Rev. Clifton Able to Go About With Escort.

B. F. Clifton, former minister of Kingman, out under bail for thefts in Montgomery and Fountain counties, is able to be up and around. He seems entirely rational most of the time but he is not allowed to leave his father’s farm north of Flora without an escort. The physician in charge of Clifton says that he will entirely, recover although it may be a month or two. Some of the former minister’s troubles have been adjusted by his brother, James Clifton, of Connersville. The furniture in the house in which Clifton was to live after his marriage, which was postponed, has been stored.

Fight Begun to Tax Greek Letter Frats.

A fight has been begun between the Putnam county board of review at Greencastle and the official representative of the Greek letter fraternities at DePauw university as the result of recent action of the board placing the fraternity property on the tax duplicates. A state law exempts fraternities under the supervision of the college but the board believes this to be unconstitutional. The fraternity representatives will seek to convince the board that so long as other fraternal organizations are exempt it would be unjust to pick out the college organizations and tax them.

Coming, Mo., Under Water; Dike Breaks After Cloudburst.

Kansas City, Mo., July 13.—Rain, which reached the proportions of a cloudburst in northwest Missouri today swelled the Tarkio River until it broke its dyke and inundiated Corning, Mo., fifty miles north of St. Joseph. Residents of Corning fled to the hills and merchants removed their stocks to upper stores. Late today water had crept over the entire town of 500 inhabitants and was rising steadily.

Delos Dean will be at Hartford City next week with the chautauqua. He is pleased with his work and says that the chautauqua is drawing a good business and that every town so far has made a contract for next year.

Cleveland threatens to demolish 200 old fire trap buildings.

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Jesse A. Snyder Lost Over Three Hundred Chickens.

Jesse Snyder, the carpenter and contractor, was hard hit by the heavy rain storm of last Saturday night, losing between 825 and 350 young chickens from his pure bred Barred Rock and White Orpington pens. One hundred and fifty of the chickens were almost ready for market, weighing from 1% to pounds. Included in the lost were several young chickens whose fine markings held out the hope that they would be prize birds, in which Mr. Snyder deals, and he had several that could not be bought for a $5 bill. Jesse and his wife were up town Saturday evening when the rain came and had with them their little nephew who had recently recovered from a case of typhoid fever. They waited in down town stores until they were closed and then a large number went to the Red Men’s hall and remained all night. A destructive gight greeted them when they returned home Sunday morning and saw all their colonies under water. Jesse also had some 40 bushels of early potatoes ready to market and these were rotted in a day or two. He estimates his loss at S2OO.

Blacksmith in Jail For Failure to Pay Dog Tax.

Lawrence Parson is in the Rensselaer jail because he could not furnish a bond in the sum of S3OO when bound over to the circuit court for failure to pay his dog tax. It might be said that Parson went to jail for his dog. He was a blacksmith at Remington and says he is married and has his family at Kokomo. He says that he has worked constantly and had only lost two days in three years. He had a dog and is said to have neglected to list the animal for tax. He left Remington and went to Otterbein, where he was arrested and returned to Remington and given a preliminary hearing before Squire Albert Dickinson, who bound him over to the circuit court. Just what the full circumstances are we have been unr able to learn but unless there is a very glaring case of wrong-doing it would seem that for Parson and his family ahd the dog, the dignity of Indiana and the taxpayers of Jasper county it would be a great deal better if he was released. Query! Why is a dog?

Jackson Club to Run Excursion To Cedar Lake July 25th.

The Jackson Club, of Lafayette, will run an excursion to Cedar Lake Sunday, July 25th. In an effort to rehabilitate democracy in Tippecanoe county the picnic has been arranged and there is every indication that it will be carried out in true Jackson Club fashion, which includes everything that is calculated to produce political enthusiasm, although the bills mention only bathing, boating, fishing, dancing, etc. The rate from Rensselaer is 75 cents for the round trip. The train is due here at 9:27 a. m. The rate from Surrey is 60 cents, from Parr 50 cents and from Fair Oaks 45 cents. The train is to arrive at Cedar Lake at 10:45 and returning will leave the lake at 7 o’clock.

Band Concert Program For Sunday Evening.

Gethsemane Commandery. Throw Out the Life Line. Moszkowskis Serenade. Serman by Rev. Parrett. Nature’s Adoration; Dream of Spring. The Troubadour. Sweet Bye and Bye. There has been some serious delay recently about getting the road from the west end of Washington street to the road south of the college completed and ready to open up. The reins have added to the trouble, but the most serious obstacle is the delay of screenings for surfacing the road. Superintendent Gray is working a large number of teams and believes he will have a fine road when finished and realizes the great inconvenience to travel in being shut off the road, but the delay has been unavoidable. Russell Thompson and his cousin, Miss Nelle Thompson, returned to their homes at Sullivan today after a week’s visit with Miss Gertrude Hopkins and mother.

Little Jobs As. well as large ones. You probably have some electrical work that needs attention; the extension or changing of lights, the repair of irons, fans, etc. Call me at phone 261. Leo Mecklenberg

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1915.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ONION PROSPECTS

Apparently Newland and Springer Loss is Complete—Many Are Planning to Leave. While there is grave uncertainty throughout the agricultural districts of this part of Indiana with regard to wheat, oats and corn, there seems to be no crop so certainly doomed at this time as onions and T. M. Callahan, who is an extensive grower in the Newland fields, states that he believes the crop there is entirely lost. Even where they are not covered with water there is so much moisture in the fields that the hot sun has cooked the tops of the immature bulbs and decay will follow. Mr. Callahan says that there were about 2,000 acres of onions put out last spring and that perhaps as many as 500 acres were lost during the wet weather of May and early June, but the prospects were fine for an immense crop when the last rains came that caused an overflow and the loss of practically if not the entire crop. The same condition exists on the Springer ranch, where conditions are about as bad as can be painted and where the foreigners are said to be practically without money. A meeting of the German-Hungarians from the Springer ranch was held in the office of A., Halleck Wednesday and he advised them to return to their little farms and make the best of it, deferring any action until it is seen how total the olss is. The cabbage and pickles as well as the onions are under water. Harry Reed, who was raising onions and mint for W. H. Hogan, near Gifford, believes that his crops are a .total loss. There was two acres of mint and a fine yield was in prospect. It is under water from 6 to 18 inches.

Quite a number of onion farm owners are planning to leave the fields that two weeks ago held the promise of small fortunes for them. They are going to Ohio, lowa, Pennsylvania and other places. Some are trying hard to keep a “stiff upper lip” but it is about all they can do and if the loss is as complete as some think there will probably be a big exodus during the next month. Wheat and oats are also suffering to a remarkable extent. In many fields shocks of wheat are surrounded by water up to the bands and black decay has set in about the lower part of the straw. The wheat is sprouting in the shocks and is said to be sour and to smell like sour dough. Oats are down flat on the ground and can not be cut on account of the wet, soft ground. It is said that on some farms an experiment is being made to put the binders on mudboats, with the bull wheel only touching the ground and operating the binder with a gasoline engine. Hay is also down and corn either under water or the fields so wet that great damage is resulting. The full extent of the • disaster can not be estimated but it is safe to say that in the onion fields alone $250,000 worth of crops have been lost, while the small grain damage will probably be 50 per cent. The water stands on the ground, the ditches being inadequate to carry it away. The river was still rising in Rensselaer this Friday morning and some reported water backing up into their basements again Thursday night. By noon the water began to fall a little again. The north side prevailed in the matter of whether the sewers under the Monon railroad could be kept open or closed and they are open today and the water is being drained from the north side to the south side, although the sewers were kept stopped up Thursday night. It is understood that Bert Abbott, of the south side, and Marion Cooper, captain of the north aiders, came to blows and that Cooper was knocked dawn in the fracas. The situation in that section is not to be wondered at and the trouble is not due to any of the afflicted persons. Years ago there was an active ditch ran through the central part of town. It was called “Make-em-Self” and during high waters it was a mighty busy little ditch. Some years ago it was decided to make a sewer ditch of it and a 2-foot sewer was installed. The first freshet disclosed the inadequacy of the ■ drain. It was then decided that the ditch should not be filled in over the drain tile, but gradually property, owners began filling up the ditch until the surplus water was dammed up and every time there is a big rain trouble ensues. The great amount of the water comes from the north and the railroad constitutes a dyke that holds it some three or four 'feet high on the north side. Tile drains have been placed beneath the tracks and -this is all right when there is no great excess of water but when the 2-foot sewer is congested the water runs over the

Independence Postmaster Is Found Short $2,200.

Postmaster J. A. McKenzie, of Independence, a small town 16 miles west of Lafayette on the Wabash river, was on Wednesday found to be short $2,200 in his accounts with the United States, and his arrest and prosecution will follow. A report had not been received from McKenzie for a year, so a government inspector was sent and found the office in bad shape. McKenzie faithfully promised to go to Lafayette to settle his shortage but he did not show up. The case will be reported to the federal grand jury for action and McKenzie may get a trip.

surface of the ground and about the houses. Marion Cooper occupies one of the lowest places on the north side and was ac H ve in pulling the sacks out of the sewers as fast as the southsiders put them in. ( The condition that exists in the east part of town is a matter of such grave concern that steps should be taken to furnish a “good and sufficient” outlet, for it is decidedly unfair that the property owners in that part of town should have to suffer from the high waters when the open ditch of some years ago gave them fairly complete drainage.

DUVALL’S Quality Shop C. EARL DUVALL Rensselaer’s Only Up-to-Date Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter Beginning Saturday, July 17, and Lasting to August Ist We will sell all men’s, boys’ and children’s clothing, shirts, hats, caps, wash suits, rompers, suit cases, traveling bags, trunks, and everything in our line at big reductions. It will pay every man, woman and child to attend this sale as it means money in your pockets. The following are a list of prices:

Men’s Suits ' All $25.00 Suits $16.45 All $22.50 Suits for - $15.45 All $20.00 Suits for - $13.45 All SIB.OO Suits foi ■ $12.45 All $16.50 Suits for - $10.98 All $15.00 Suits for - $9.95 All $12.00 Suits for - $7.45 All SIO.OO Suits for - $6.98

SAME PRICE ON YOUNG MEN’S SUITS

Boys’ Norfolk Knickerbocker Suits Boys’ SIO.OO Norfolk suits for $6.98 Boys’ $9.00 Norfolk suits for $6.45 Boys’ $8.50 Norfolk suits for $6.00 Boys’ $7.50 Norfolk suits for $5.48 Boys’ $6.50 Norfolk suits for $4.98 Boys’ $6.00 Norfolk suits for $4.48 Boys’ $5.00 Norfolk suits for $3.45

Everybody should come and purchase some of these bargains as they are all new and seasonable goods. Remember the date: July 17th to August Ist C. EARL DUVALL

Route Book Publisher Passed Through Rensselaer.

J. H Minor, of Kansas City, publisher of thfc Touring Information Bureau guide book for tourists, was in Rensselaer a time this morning on his way over the Dixie Airline to Indianapolis. This road will be given prominence as the best road between Chicago and Indianapolis notwithstanding the various other routes officially and unofficially chosen. The book published by the Minor company is called “Tib” and covers all important routes in the country. Accompanying him was Louis Streamer. At Water Valley they picked up and brought to Rensselaer Joe Ernst, the Monon conductor, and Geo. F. Fraser and Roy M. Johnson, of Lafayette, who had been fishing at the river but without much luck.

County Trustees For Hospital Hold Meeting.

The first meeting of the trustees appointed by the commissioners to take steps to build a county hospital met this Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock to organize and get ready for business. The trustees are E. P. Honan, J. D. Allman and L. H. Hamilton, of Ttensselaer; C. H. Peck, of Remington, and Frank E. Lewis, of Kersey.

Manchuria in 1914 imported 16,600,000 gallons of kerosene.

Men’s Hats Stetson Hats, $4.00 grade - $3.25 Stetson Hats, $3.50 grade - $2.75 Kingsbury Hats, $3.00 grade • $2.25 Panama Hats, $7.00 grade - $5.45 Panama Hats, $5.00 grade • $3.55 Sailor Hats, $3.00 grade - $2.00 Sailor Hats, $2.00 grade • $1.38 Sailor Hats. $1.50 grade - SI.H

Shirts In order to lower our shirt stock we will sell all shirts at great reduction. $4-50 silk shirts - $3.25 $3.00 silk shirts - $2.25 $2.50 silk shirts - $1.78 $2.00 shirts - - $1.38 $1.50 shirts - - $1.13 SI.OO shirts - - 79 c 50c shirts - 39 c

John McCurtain Runs Away From Insane Asylum.

John McCurtain, the man who was confined in jail here for several days when unable to furnish bond to keep the peace with his wife, and who was lattr sent to the asylum for the insane at Logansport, ran away from that institution several days ago and is reported to have shown up at his wife’s home at Parr at about midnight Wednesdty night. He was later seen near the rifle pit of the government range north of Parr. Sheriff McColly will arrest him as soon as definite word can be received as to where he is. He has threatened his wife and it is said she lives in deadly fear of him. McCurtain is not thought to be much insane, but to be possessed of a determination to frighten his wife and family. On one occasion he went after hi» wife with a shotgun. Probably a long jail sentence would help straighten him out. John’s is a case that looks like it needed some rock pile diagnosis.

County Auditor Hammond received a letter today from Mrs. Hammond, who is at Joliet, 111., stating that his daughter, Mrs. Led Golvert, who was operated on for appendicitis recently, was still in the hospital and would have to remain a little longer than was at first expected, but she is doing very nicely.

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