Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1915 — Page 1

No. 197.

AT THE Tonight Gayety The Famous Drexel and Howes Novelty Violin Toe and Aesthetic Dancing The lady has the reputation of being the best extant. She walks and dances on her toes as easy as on her feet. The Eastland pictures which will be shown Saturday night are procured from an ex- hange whose camera men were on the scene within 10 minutes of the capsizing of the ship. They send triple the number of feet of film of any other company. 5 & 10c *

Drawing For Tennis SemiFinals to Be Held Tonight.

The drawing of names for the semifinals in the tennis tournament will be held at the Makeever House at 7:30 tonight. All those interested in this should try to be there. Clarence Fate and J. J. Montgomery will do the drawing. In two fast sets yesterday afternoon Wm. Babcock won from Dwight Cumick 6-4 and 6-3. In the morning George Healey won from Lon Healy in two sets 6-1 and 6-1. This morning B. F. Fendig won from George Long in straight sets 6-3 and 6-2.

BIG 4 DAYS SALE Aug. 18,19, 20, 21 mmmmJbm ■ ■ i ■■■■ . . l" 1 ■ ' We will start our sale Wednesday afternoon, and the sale will close Saturday night. This sale is for cash only. 16 lbs. granulated sugar for SI.OO with a 50c purchase of other,, merchandise. 2 jars regular 26c jam, sale price 2 for 26c Corn Flakes, best brand, regular 10c, 4 for “oi A dandy good broom, regular 25c, sale price ~...21c Fancy bacon, nice and lean, regular 22c sale price 18c Long Horn cheese, nice and mild, regular 26c, sale price 18c Clothes Hampers, large size, rcgualr $1.39, sale price 78c Small clothes hampers, same grade, SI.OO, sale price 58c 6c market baskets, 2 for Veribest. brand of coffee, regular 35c, sale price 27c Lover cup coffee, regualr 30c, sale price 23c A good 26c coffee, sale price. 21e 33 1-3 pounds sugar for SI.OO with a SIO.OO order of other groceries not including sugar or flour. Rowen & Kiser Telephone 202 Ren?eelaer, Indiana

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The Evening Republican.

Reynolds & Donegan Receive Dates For Fall Bookings.

Earle Reynolds and wife, who as roller skaters in vaudeville are known as Reynolds & Donegan, have received notice of their fall bookings. They will open on Aug. 30th at the Orpheum theatre in Memphis, Tenn., the next week they will be in New Orleans, the next week is open, the week of Sept. 20th they will be in St. Louis and the week of Sept. 27th at the Palace theatre, Chicago. iMrs. Reynolds left this morning for New York City, where her father, James E. Donegan, of the famous Dunedan troupe of bicycle riders, is an invalid at the Coney Island hospital. She will return here the last of next week.

Ernie Moore Passed State Pharmacy Examination O. K.

Ernie Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore and a graduate of the Rensselaer high school, who went to Purdue last year, taking pharmacy, took the state pharmacy examination recently and passed it with a creditable grade. It will not be necessary, therefore, for him to take the second year in the pharmacy school unless he wishes to do so. $ Ernie has for a number of years worked in A. F. Long’s drug store and this gave him a decided advantage in his college work. His many friends are glad of his achievement.

Cat fish, skinned and dressed, lb. 15c Pickerel, lb 15c Tulibees, nice fish, lb 15c Yellow pike, lb 20c Halibut, lb 18c No charge for dressing and delivering. OSBONE FLORAL CO., Phone 439-B. Buy your threshing coal of Hamilton & Kellner.

Tippecanoe County’s 49th Annual Fair J ... . . > 1

FRESH FISH.

HORSE RACING Motorcycle Racing Mammoth Midway

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1915.

REASON WHY LAWRENCE PARSON IS A TRUSTY

Remington Press Asks If County Jail Is Place For Vacation —Humanity Makes Reply. In commenting on the prisoners in the county jail, The Remington Press asks whether the jail is maintained as a place pf punishment for prisoners or a place to spend a vacation at the expense of the county with an automobile and gasoline furnished as a special inducement. The article has reference to Lawrence Parson, a young blacksmith who was convicted at Remington of failure to pay dog tax. He was fined S2O and the fine and costs totaled $45 and failing to pay Parson was sent to jail. Sheriff McColly has made a sort of trusty of Parson and he has proven worthy of the trust and has worked diligently about the jail premises and at any task assigned to him. The Republican can not see why the taxpayers are not just as well off as they would have been had the prisoner been confined in a close cell on a bread and water diet. The sheriff is allowed by law a certain amount for his board and the county would pay just the same whether he was closely confined or given some latitude of liberty. The automobile incident apparently refers to the fact that when the public was helping search for the body of little | Delos Woodworth this prisoner also j took part in the search under the di- ! rection of a deputy sheriff. The coun- j ty did not pay »>r any gasoline and it ( was merely an incident that the young man rode in an automobile.

The Republican is now quite thoroughly convinced that the prosecution of young Parson was not based so much on the fact that he had failed to pay his dog tax as it was on the spite of some persons who had given Parson credit and had not been paid. This fact on his part is not defensible and we have no interest in Parson except that if there was an injustice done to taxpayers it was in giving him such a severe sentence and in thus making him a boarder of the county for 45 days. However, Parson has come nearer being worth his board than any other prisoner who has been in the jail for a long time and by working about the yard and house he has kept himself in the best physical condition which could hardly be expected in the case of close cdnfinement. Some may look upon a jail sentence as a punishment but most people and we are certain this is the case in Remington with the exception of those few who have a spite at Parson regard the law as a measure of correction and not of persecution and this higher purpose has been fulfilled and it is not probable that Parson will again decline to pay his dog tax. Since the ice in dog tax violations has been broken it might be a good thing to give other violators a taste of it, not confining the punishment to a young man whose prosecution seems to have been solely a matter of hatred and not inspired by the act of his law violation.

Be that as it may, a 45 days’ jail sentence seems to be a mighty severe punishment for failure to pay taxes on a dog, which was given away the day after the assessor called upon the owner. Parsons is said to be a good blacksmith and able to earn sls or more per week and a number after his services and he has been engaged to go to work for Fred Hemphill, the Cullen street blacksmith, the day after he is discharged, which will be a week from next Sunday. He has been offered a job by Will Geier, a Remington blacksmith, and also by another blacksmith at Frankfort, since he was lodged in jail. The hatred exhibited toward Parson is about the kind that prompted the people of Georgia to lynch Leo Frank and is unbecoming citizens of the higher type and we do not believe that there is any general complaint because Parson has been made a trusty. Thank God Sheriff McColly is not a bread and water sheriff.

Fountain Park Notice. From now on the round trip fare to Fountain Park will be 75 cents. — Harry Milner, Phone 521 or 206.

NeviSed Premium List New Floral and Agricultural Hall

WASHINGTON STUNNED BY SINKING OF ARABIC

White Star Steamer Sunk In War Zone By German Submarine Near Sinking of Lusitania. News has reached this country of the sinking of the ship Arabic of the White Star line by a German submarine. No warning, it is said, was given by the German boat. The news came as a shock to Washington and the whole country, because we had thought that since the last note to Germany that no furher aggravation would come of the already tense situation between the United States and Germany. It is not thought that the loss of life will be large. There were 180 passengers and 247 in the crew on the ship, making a total of 423 on board. So far two American lives are unaccounted for.

In the last note to Germany, which it was generally accepted was the final word on the principals of the questions of the United States, Secretary Lansing used the following in referring to American rights in the war zone: “Friendship itself prompts it (the United States) to say to the imperial government that repetition by the commanders of the German submarines of those acts would be considered deliberately unfriendly. If no American lives were lost, it is thought in most quarters that drastic measures are improbable, but in event it is found Americans were drowned, a rupture in- diplomatic relations is discussed as likely.

Jasper County Gets More Auto Tax Than It Paid.

Jasper county this year will receive from the state more money for road repairs than it paid out in automobile tax. The difference is less than $250, but it is good to be on the right side of the ledger. A statement just received by Auditor Hammond shows that the gross receipts of Indiana for auto taxes was $536,962.19 and the expense of collection was $36,634.40, leaving a net sum of $600,327.79, which will be apportioned among the counties of the state, based upon the three divisions provided by law. Jasper county has 209 miles of free gravel and stone roads and will receive $4,316.58. It paid in auto taxes $4,077.00. There are in the state 28,263 miles of free gravel and stone loads and there will be $500,327.79 for repair work from the auto tax fund. The amount seems large but as a matter of fact it will be only about $17.70 per mile. It seems like it would have been a wise provision of the law if something like 25 or even 50 per cent of this money could have been used for constructing a permanent state highway between Indianapolis and Chicago and Indianapolis and Evansville. It would only take a few years to have permanent highways running in each direction from the state capital and by the employment of other means of raising money after the value of the permanent state roads was e3tabished we would soon have many miles of roads that did not require such a vast expense of upkeep.

Cut Out Coupon and Get Two Cakes of Palm Olive.

On the back of today’s Republican is a full page advertisement of the Palmolive soap company. If you will cut out the coupon and present it to a Palmolive dealer with 10 cents you will get two cakes of Palmolive. The price is 10 cents a cake and users know it is worth the money. The advertising is to get it into many new homes and you will inake a mistake if you fail to cut out the coupon and get in on this toilet soap bargain.

Special Low Rate Excursion to Chicago, Sunday, August 29th.

The Monon Route will run another of its popular low rate excursions to Chicago on Sunday, August 29th. The train will leave here at 9:17 a. m., arriving in Chicago at noon. Leave Chicago at 11:30 the same day.

Notice Public Auction. I will sell my horse and wagon to the highest bidder Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The auction will be held at the court house square.—R. P. Benjamin.

EARL PARK POSSE CAPTURES HOLDUP

Negro Captured in Cora Field After Wild Chase—-Held Up Night Agent and Got Money. • At 3 o’clock Thursday morning a negro stepped into the depot at Earl Park and held a revolver in the face of the agent, Virgil H. Turner, and demanded the money from the cash drawer which was given him.. The amount was $28.50. He was also forced to give up a revolver that he had in the drawer. The bandit the.x disappeared in the darkness. As soon as possible Turner notified the town marshal and & posse was organized to go on the man hunt.

It was learned that a brakeman had put a negro off a train at Scheff. The marshal and two others went to Scheff. The bandit saw them before they reached him and pointed two revolvers at them. One of the men fired four shots at the negro, who fled, but none took effect. The negro took to the cornfields and was heard for some time. He went to a farm house to get a drink and then disappeared again but was seen by a man from the top of a bam who had a pair of spy glasses looking for him. The posse was notified and hurried to the scene. The bandit started to ran but met three of the posse. He was commanded to halt but did not and was fired upon. He returned the fire but one of the posse shot him in the back with a shotgun and he fell to the ground. He was taken to Fowler, and it-is said *the wound may prove fatal. The stolen money was found in one of his sleeves.

Court Martial Board to Try Sergeant Ball Named.

Thirteen officers of the Indiana National Guard, constituting a general court-martial board, were named Thursday to try the case of Sergeant Edwin Ball, who as a member of a provost guard during the summer camp of 1913 shot and killed Private Walter Dowell, who had tried to escape after being placed under arrest. Maj. George H. Healey, of Rensselar,' was named on the board, which is to convene in Indianapolis on Sept. 7th, and sit without regard to hours, which means that it will sit until the case is fully determined. After the killing Ball was indicted by the Marion county grand jury, but when the case came up for trial the civil court ruled that it was without jurisdiction and that the accused sergeant should be tried by a military court. It was on this account that the board was appointed.

Band Concert Program Sunday Eve.

Throw Out the Lifq-Line. Angels’ Serenade. Selection, Sacred. Sermon by Rev. Cumick. Moszkowski’s Serenade. Rock of Ages. Selection, Faust. March. We are selling buggies. See our line before you buy. HAMILTON ft KELLNER.

. FREE Tickets on new touring car : aiKi S2OO cash pirizfes with each admission to the grounds, or circle* ABSOLUTELY FREE.

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The Art Studio Lessons in China, Oil, Water Colon, Pastel, Crayon, Charcoal and Tapeetry Work, Drawing a specialty, Outdoor Sketchings Piano and Vocal. Italian method taught. Hand Painted China for sale at Studio ana Jessens’ Jewelry Store. Also undecorated china, art materials and water colon. ' Emi lie M. Wightman. .«u .■ ■■ :*. s . .'i v j •• ■ -,y ■ "''lArvftjj

—EXTRA— Ellis Theatre Rensselaer Big return Week Starting Monday, Aug 23rd Glad to be back Comeli-Price Players With the man who put F in Fun, HAPPY HAL PRICE " , P e

All the familiar faces —but all new plays, scenery, costumes and music. High class vaudeville between each act. * Monday’s Play “In the Bishop’s Carriage” Same old prices—10c, 20c, 30c. Reserve by phone No. 98. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. One lady admitted free on Monday night with each paid reserved seat ticket, if purchased before 6 p. m. Cider Making. I have a cider mill just east of the stock yards north of the railroad. Runs every day; bring in your apples. —Ed Booth. 9 s I ■ gLlm - I lo B ■ I An artistic harvest of musical sounds in every French & Sons and Lagonda Piano. Buy the best if you can afford it. We will make it easy for /ou to own one.— [L H. R. LANGE & SON. » oft -1 tm-.. ' -- - *

Big Barbecue on Wednesday Tippecanoe Count’y Annual Home Coming Week YOU ARE INVITED

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