Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1915 — Page 1

No. 172.

TO PROBE STOCK SELLING DEALS

Utilities Commission Issues Summons for Officers of Lafayette And Northwestern Ry. Co. Indianapolis, Ind., July 21.—The public service commission, of Indiana, has issued an order citing the officers of the Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad company to appear before the commission at 10 o’clock a. m., July 24th, 1915. A hearing is to be had in response to the selling of stock in the railroad company without the consent of the commission. Summons for many persons as witnesses have beeh sent to the sheriffs of Tippecanoe, White and Jasper counties. It is said that the action of the commission is based on information that the company has been selling stocks and bonds without first obtaining the consent of the commission, which is in violation of the law.

Tagging For the Band Resulted in $50 Collection.

The band was very much pleased with the result of the tagging campaign for funds Wednesday night and after all sources of collection had reported it was found that SSO had been secured. For the most part the greatest cheerfulness was exhibited by the givers, who realize that they have shared in the enjoyment of the good mu&ic for a long time without contributing and were really glad of the chance. There were some, however, who refused to give, perhaps because they did not have it. If any of these wish to contribute at any future time, they may hand the money to Don Beam or give it to any member of the band on concert night. The total pledges from businessmen is $330 for the concert season. The city council also appropriates $l5O, making a total of S4BO, which is not sufficient to provide for the expense. The treasury was depleted when it was decided to employ the tagging method of collection and the stress was relieved. The band boys wish to thank all who gave and to invite every person to come and bring their friends to the concerts which are held every Wednesday evening; also to the religions concerts held on Sunday evenings at the vesper service.

Uncle of Earle Reynolds To Build Chalmers Playhouse.

Levi Reynolds, of Chalmers, an uncle, of Earle Reynolds, is building a new opera house in that town. The building will be fireproof and electrically lighted. The auditorium will be 90 feet long by 35 feet wide. The floor will be level and chairs will be arranged so they can be easily removed and the room used ter dancing or other purposes. The building will be ready for use about the first of September.

HEAVY MEAT EATERS HAVE SLOW KIDNEYS

Eat Leas Meat If You Backachy Or Have Bladder Trouble. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which excites the kidneys, they become overworked from the strain, get sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders come from sluggish kidneys. The nioment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lembn Juice, combined with lithiaT and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize the adds in urine so it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot injure, makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take onw and then to keep the kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications.

Good Farms for Sale. On reasonable terms. Call at the office of George Gifford, executor of the estate of B. J. Gifford, Odd Fellows Block, Rensselaer, Indiana.

The Evening Republican.

Return From Delightful Lake Trip to the Falls.

Mrs. Ethel Smith and Misses Nellie Reish and Bertha Kepner returned today from a pleasant lake trip to Niagara Falls. They went by boat from Chicago last Thursday, arriving at Buffalo Sunday morning. They then visited the falls and returned by boat, stopping a day at Mackinaw,

MESA VERDE PROPHETS

Indians Who Foretold Our Wet Summer Now Say That We Shall Have Long Cold Winter. Wheatfield Review. Special bulletin from Department of Interior, Washington, D. C., to the Review: The season so far verifies the weather predictions of the Indians who occasionally visit the Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado for trading purposes, but who never stay an hour longer than is necessary because of their dread of the “little people” whom they believe stiff inhabit, in spirit form, the prehistoric cliff dwellings that have made the Mancos Valley famous the world over. Last fall the Mesa Verde prairie dogs deserted their villages for new ones and the Indians have been shaking their heads over it all winter. “Rain, much rain,” they say; “rain all summer.” So far they seem to have predicted right. And now they are again shaking their heads. “Cold, much cold,” they say; “bad weather coming.” And why? Because this summer game has been unusually plentiful on the Mesa Verde. Deer are more frequently seen than for years. Rabbits and hares are so numerous one can scarcely go about without seeing them in large numbers. Coyotes and mountain lions are also unusually plentiful, which may be explained by the abundance of the small game on which they live. —:

Who Is Samuel Martin, Age 22, of Rensselaer?

Indianapolis Daily Times: Samuel Martin, 22, of Rensselaer, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to ten days in the workhouse in police court here, after being convicted of a charge of petit larceny. It was alleged he stole a watch from his former roommate, Carl Anderson, when they roomed on North Senate avenue a year ago, and pawned the watch at Lafayette. Anderson said it was the second time Martin had taken the watch.

' Judge Truman F. Palmer, for twelve years judge of the White-Car-roll circuit court, has been urged by friends to enter the race for judge of the Appellate Court for Northern Indiana district and has decided to seek the republican nomination. About fifty of his friends went to him and urged hi njto get into the race and he decided to do so and two committees were appointed to boost his candidacy, the general committee being composed of J. L. Ackerman, Bert VanVoorst and Claud Loughry and the publicity committee composed of A. K. Sills, Jr., S. W. Thompson, H. Fairfield and C. S. Preston. Judge Palmer is 64 years of age. He is a graduate of Indiana University, he is a Shriner and a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He has belonged to the Columbia Club since its organization. He was president of the State Bar Association in 1903. The next year he was a delegate to the republican national convention. As a citizen he is praised for his uprightness, honesty, energy and integrity. As a lawyer he has been successful and has esablished a large clientele of business. As a jurist he is just, impartial and dignified. Judge Palmer would be a good man on the appellate bench.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915.

U- S. SAVES GREAT SUM METHOD USED

Figures Compiled by Dr. Kannal Show That Extermination is Better Than Treatment.

At this time the United States seems to be entirely free from the foot and mouth disease which wrought such large losses and great inconvenience in the stock business the past year. The eradication of the disease is due to the rigid methods employed by the department of agriculture and the aides from the various states, who, often in the face of much local opposition, went ahead and performed what .they saw was a clear duty and the only sure means of exterminating the foot and mouth disease.

Dr. H. J. Kannal, who as an agent of the government and state worked energetically and intelligently, has recently compiled some interesting figures to show that the method employed in the United States was the only certain one for the protection of the stock owner and also saves him an abundance of money. These statistics are a comparison showing the cost to Indiana stockmen in relation to the cost in foreign countries where the disease is treated instead of eradicated by the slaughter of the infected stock.

The total value of animals destroyed during the year was $178,552.75. The total value of property destroyed was $1,689.06; the total cost of burial was $4,315.93, and the total cost of disinfection was $2,603.52. This made a total loss of $187,161.26. The total value of cattle in Indiana is $59,924,000; of sheep $6,016,000, and of swine $42,920,000, making a total of $108,860,000. The cost per SI,OOO for the slaughter of infected stock and the burial and disinfection and the destroying of infected pens, etc., was only $1.70. In England, where the disease is treated, the annual stock loss from the foot and mouth disease is 20 per cent and if this loss resulted in Indiana there would have been a loss last year of $21,772,000 instead of only $187,161.26. The loss accurately figured was .0017 of one hundred per cent instead of .20 of one hundred per cent. England fares better than most of the foreign countries as in Denmark and Holland the annual loss is 25 per cent and in Germany and France it is 30 per cent. In those countries when the foot and mouth disease breaks out the cases are quarantined and allowed to either die or recover, but the radical measures adopted here are not followed and as a result year after year there is a monstrous loss. Dr. Kannal figured that this method of treament would result to the comparative losses in Indiana alone: England comparison .. $21,772,000.00 Denmark comparison .. 27,215,000.00 Holland comparison .. 27,215,000.00 Germany comparison—32,6sß,ooo.oo France comparison ... 32,658,000.00 Actual loss 187,161.26 When the cost of last year purchases reasonable assurance that there will be no further outbreak of the disease for many years the full wisdom of the means employed will be conceded by all.

Notice for Bids, Notice is hereby given that the advisory board of Union township, Jasper county, State of Indiana, will receive sealed bids at my office until August 13th, 1915, at 10 o’clock a. m. for the remodeling of the Parr school house in the said township, according to plans and specifications on file in my office. The said school house is to be completed by September 10th, 1915. The right is hereby reserved to reject any and all bids. Dated July 22nd, 1915. G. H. HAMMERTON, Trustee Union Township. NOTICE TO AUTO DRIVERS. There are a few drivers of automobiles in this city who have no regard for the law of the state nor the lives of its citizens, and I hereby request all law abiding citizens to assist the officers in quenching this evel practice by filing an affidavit against any one whom they know to be violating section 10476 c R.-S. Ind. revision of 1914. It should not be a license for an industrious man with a family to jeopardise the lives of other industrious men with families. Done this nineteenth day of July, 1915. CHARLES G. SPITLER, (Seal) Mayor. Come and see us about your threshing coal.—Harrington Bros. Co. I have 76 varieties of bedding plants and for porch boxes. The greenhouse is open for inspection at any time.— J. H. HOLDEN. Buy the best and most economical tJiTtmbirig coal at Harrington Bros. Co.

RECEIVER ASKED FOR MONTICELLO FIRM

Two Suits Filed, One by J. D. Timmons, a Stockholder, the Other By J. B. Waddell, a Sub- — Agent for Sale of iStock.

Monticello, Ind., July 20.—J. D. Timmons today in the White county circuit court filed a petition asking far the appointment of a receiver for the Schultz Manufacturing Co. He alleges that the company is insolvent; that Charles A. Schultz, head of the concern, has used money of the company for his own personal use; that he has paid his employes excessive salaries; that the company owes the State Bank of Monticello a large sum of money and that the allegations of Mr. Schultz in regard to formerly having a factory in Portland, Ore., are untrue. The company was incorporated here during July, 1914, with $75,000 worth of common stock and $150,000 worth of preferred stock. It Imanufactures milling and grain cleaning machinery and at the present time is employing about twenty men. Mr. Timmons further alleges that Mr. Schultz conducts the interests of the company to suit himself and that he has named the board of directors and officers of the organization. Mr. Timmons is a director in the Farmers’ bank of this city and owns stock in the company for which he is asking a receiver. The Schultz Manufacturing Go., Charles A. Schultz and C. P. Ritter were made defendants in another petition for the appointment of a receiver filed by J. D. Waddell. Mr. Waddell alleges that the company owes him $l,lOO. He avers that he was employed to sell stock and that after he had located several prospective purchasers that Ritter went to them and sold them his own personal stock and not the stock of the company. '

Gov. Ralston Returns Home After Long Trip West.

“ Governor and Mrs. Ralston arrived at their home in Indianapolis Wednesday evening after a six weeks’ tour in the west. Their trip extended through California, where they attended the exposition, through southern states to New Orleans and then to Havana, Cuba, and the Panama canal. “I never was so proud of my citizenship in Indiana as I am now,” said the governor after his arrival home. “I always have known that Indiana was a great state, but a Hoosier does not quite appreciate his state until he goes away from home and hears what other people think about us. Many times I heard admiration expressed for Thomas Hendricks, Governor Morton, Ben Harrison and many other great men who have rendered distinguished services for their state and country. James Whitcomb Riley is known everywhere.”

White County Man Said to Have Practicable Invention.

The Monticello Journal prints at length an article saying that Victor Martin, of Cass township, White county, has an invention which will allow submerged submarine sailors to escape. At the present time the real workmanship of the invention is kept a secret. It is said that enough of the plans have been submitted to Secretary Daniels to interest him and that Martin may 'be called before the board of naval engineers to submit his plans in full. It is also reported that Mr. Martin has been offered large sums, which he has refused, f<xr his idea, even in an unpatented state.

GO NO FARTHER

The Evidence Is At Your Door. Rensselaer proof is what you want and the statement of this highly respected resident will banish all doubt; Charles Malchow, Harvey St., Rensselaer, Says: “Kidney complaint and backache kept me in misery for years. The pain from my back extended through my shoulders and even into my neck. The kidney secretions annoyed me by their irregularity in passage and proved that my kidneys were at fault. I got Doan's Kidney Pills at Fendig's Drug Store and after taking a few doses, I knew that I had at last found the medicine I needed. My kidneys were strengthened and the pains in my back were removed. I have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills since then, when having similar attacks and I have never failed to get relief.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Malchow had. Fo srter-M ilbunT Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

We have fresh fish every day at the lowest market price. We also carry a nice line of fruits, candies, potted plants and cut flowers. Give us a trial.—Osborne Floral Company,’ Phone 439. See Hamilton & Kellner for buggies. _

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

The Republican is always pleased to have citizens discuss matters of public interest through its columns. Nothing speaks of a higher community intelligence than a public discussion in a friendly manner of things affecting the public and we invite others to contribute along the lines here discussed or about other matters of public interest.

Proper Drainage. Editors Republican— Rensselaer is not the beautiful city now. We have voted down the interurban railway. We have our city flooded with water and filth, causing stench and sickness, destroying homes and causing people to move o€t of the city. • This is caused mainly by the city allowing the filling up of Make-*Em-Self ditch before adequate sewers were provided to take care of the immense amount of water coming off the farms adjacent to the city. The damage has been done and there must be same way to relieve the east part of the city. First, there should be a 15-inch tile starting on the north side of the corporation line and east side of same and running west to the river, in order to cut off all the overflow from the farms north of the city. This should enter the city below the city in order ito have the full advantage of the fall in the river and not pass through the city. This should not rufi south above the falls, os we would lose the fall and the filth carried through the drain would pass through the city.

Second, and another plan, would be to run 12-inch sewers from the east side of the corporation line down each street as direct to the river as possible. This, with sewers going in every direction would take care of all water and provide drainage for all property so all could have basements. We have at least 10 feet fall from the lowest point east to the This would make a general system of drainage which we do not have now’.

Swimming Pool. It certainly looks fine to have our people take hold of public improvements in the manner in which they do. There is not much doubt in the mind of the writer but that the people of Rensselaer will come up to their usual standard of civic pride and progressiveness in providing ‘a swimming pool. #We would, however, suggest a little deliberation before spending SSOO or S6OO of the public’s money. Don’t jump at this proposition too quickly. We all had our annual bath when the Iroquois was up, and now we are in no immediate need of a swimming pool; but don’t think the writer is not in favor of the pool. He is most emphatically for it. There are so many things to consider. We want a public play ground; we want more equipment for our gymnasium at the high school; we eventually will have a physical director in our schools, for it is just as important that a child be taught the proper use and care of the body as it is that the mind be developed, for the highly developed intellect would be very inefficient with an undeveloped body. Some of the things to be considered about a swimming pool are, permanency, accessibility and location. Children of school agte will be the most frequent users of the pool and it should be located where it will be most accessible to them. A public play grounds and swimming pool would be fine very near the school building. There are shower baths at the gymnasium and lockers, also. These could be used during school months in connection with the pool, and supervision might be arranged for from the teaching force. There is ample space north of the high school building for a pool. This space belongs to the city schools, and in talking to members of the school board I am of the opinion the space would be obtainable for this purpose. In this location the pool could be easily filled and as easily drained, and perhaps heated if need be, provided, of course, proper arrangements could be made with the city. These things should all be taken into consideration before locating or building a public swimming pool. —CONTRIBUTED.

Buy your threshing coal of Hamilton & Kellner. 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 621. Leo Mecklenberg

WANTED—HOSPITAL SITE AND OTHER AID

Opportunity for Some One to Perpetuate Memory By Noble Act— Dr. Long Was Example.

While steps have been taken to provide for Jasper county a hospital that will in succeeding years prove over and over again the wisdom of those interested in its founding, it is desirable that outside aid be given in order that the hospital will be erected upon lines commensurate with the needs and entirely modem. The Republican is prompted to suggest to those of its readers who are able to do eo that here is a grand opportunity to perform a deed that will prove a lasting benefit to humanity and give the donor perpetual honor. So far no appeal has been made to any person, but it is hoped that some reader will realize the worthiness of the plan and come forward with an offer to erect a memorial hospital or at least contribute liberally to that end. There are a number in Jasper county who could make of gift of $25,000 to $50,000 without great sacrifice and there are former residents who could do the same. Let them consider this seriously and come forward with a plan of aid.

The board of trustees appointed by the county commissioners looked about Rensselaer last week with a view to selecting several locations and decided that the most desirable was the “thorn grove” between the residences of S. S. Shedd and Frank Foltz. This belongs to Mts. S. de L. Van Renseslaer Strong, of Imwood, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her husband is Allan H. Strong, an attorney for the Pennsylvania railroad. The trustees for the hospital had Mayor Spitler write to Mrs. Strong asking her to donate the “thorn grove” foT hospital purposes but she declined to do so and also stated that the ground was not for sale. The property could, however, be acquired by condemnation proceedings, in which case it should be purchased for something like $3,500 or $4,000. Dr. Robert W. Long, of Indianapolis, whose death occurred on June 18, gave $200,000 some time ago for founding a state hospital in Indianapolis. It is one of the finest hospitals. Dr. Long served in the Union army during the civil war and graduated after the war from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He practiced at New Maysville and Irvington and in 1890 moved his office to Indianapolis and during the latter quarter of a century of his life was identified with the leading medical and surgical associations in Indianapolis and the state. Commenting on his philanthropic gift -The Indianapolis Star of June 19th, said: _ “The passing of Dr. Robert W. Long of Indianapolis means a loss to the city and state of a broad-minded, far-seeing philanthropic citizen—a man who lived not for himself alone. “When he came to think of the disposal of his wealth it was natural that, as a physician, he should incline with favor to the building of a hospital, knowing as he did the need of another institution of the kind in Indianapolis. It was the outgrowth of his professional experience, too, that led him to see the need of a hospital open to the people of the state at large, where they might obtain expert medical and surgical service not available near their own homes on the same terms as city residents, and free if necessary. It was with that idea in mind that he established the memorial hospital __ that bears his name, making it an' adjunct to the State University School of Medicine, and thus giving all citizens an equal right to its privileges. The good that Dr. Long did in founding this hospital will continue after him. It is a lasting benefit to the public and will bring many a blessing to his memory. And it means much to the community to have had such a man among its citizens. He set an example that has already been followed and that will not be forgotten.

New Cases Filed.

A suit for divorce has been filed by Georgie Wesner against her husband, William Wesner, alleging cruel and fnnnirum treatment. She states that her husband would not allow her to go to church or visit neighbors and that he often went a week a* a time without speaking to her. They were married in 1895 and separated on July 19th, 1915. . J. C. Gwin & Co., vs. A. P. Swartzell et al, mechanics lien. Misses Lenore Carr, Alice Thomas and Fern Davisson went to Lafayette today for a week's visit with friends.

THE WEATHER. Fair with moderate temperature tonight and Friday. .

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