Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1915 — Page 1

No. 226.

ROBERT WARD ON TRAIL FOR MURDER

(Second Murder Trial of Session Now Going On In Monticello—Ward Abusive to Wife. ml Robert Ward is on trial for his life in Monticello and the state in the early stages is making a strong showing on the charge that Ward murdered his wife, who seems to have been a victim of his abuse for some time before her death. The first witness for the state was Noah Miller, father of Mrs. Ward, who told of the abuses of Ward, how he had cursed her only a day or two before her death and to’d her that he wished he was rid of her and would get rid of her. He testified that Ward was drunk on the evening his wife lost her life, that he showed no interest after her death and did not attend her funeral or pay any part of the funeral expenses. Mrs. Ward was burned so badly that she died and the evening of her injury her son came running to the home of Mr. Miller and said: “Bob’s beating mother to death; come down quick.’* Mrs. Miller also testified that Ward had beaten and mistreated his wife. Ward claims that his wife poured coal oil over her body and set fire to her clothing. Neighbors say that she had been injured by Ward and believe that he set fire to her clothing himself. Several testified that they smelled whiskey on his breath. After Mrs. Ward was so badly burned she was removed to the home of William H. Goar, a neighbor. Ward called to see her and she asked him why he did the act. One witness testified that he asked her why she did it and she said she did it because he wanted to be free and she wanted him to be free because she loved him. One witness said that when Mrs. Ward was dyiijg she asked: “Do you think God will forgive me for the act I have done?” v Ward had admitted to a neighbor that he saw his wife pour coal oil over her clothing and threaten to kill herself. "When asked why he had not prevented her he said he thought she was only bluffing.

Trial Calendar, September Term, 1915. Second Week. Sept. 23. State vs. Burris. State vs. Gleason. Excelsior Stove Co. vs Greve et al. Sept. 24. Vance vs Herr. , * Judy vs Elmore. Sept. 25. Wesner vs Wesner. Third Week. Sept. 27. jganderfur vs Jordan. Universal Trading & Supply Co. vs Goepp. Cleveland Stove Vo. vs Greve. Sept. 28. State vs. Hoehn. White vs. Miller. Sept. 29. First National Bank vs. Rutherford et al. Michael vs Caldwell et al. Michael vs Caldwell et al. Sept. 30. Miller & Hart vs Van Beek et al. Cullen vs Maquire Estate. McClelland vs Lybarger et al. Davis vs Roorda. Oct. 1. Bruner vs Jasper County Telephone Co. State vs Miller. State vs Polen.

Mrs. F. A. Turfler made a trip to Monticello today. ; Dr. E. C. English is attending the medical society in Indianapolis. New goods and lower prices. Wait to see them.—S. Leopold, Mgr. Mrs. Mary A. Howe continues very low with typhoid fever and will have a very close cal to get through. The funeral arrangements for Rev. A. G. W. Farmer have not yet been completed, as word from a daughter in Idaho is being awaited.

PUBLIC SALE OF CATTLE. The undersigned will sell at public sale at Leek’s hitch bam in Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915, 25 Head of Cattle—ls springers and 10 2-year-old steers. 8 months credit will be given. JOE HALLIGAN. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. Fried Chicken Supper. * The Good Cheer class of the Presbyterian S. S. will serve a fried chicken supper Friday evening, Sept. 24th, at the church basement. The public If It’S Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg do It. f»hone 621

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John Marlatt Has Case Of S mallpox; No Alarm.

John W. Marlatt, proprietor of the Rensselaer Garage, has the smallpox At his home on North Weston street, and the home is under quarantine, while the members of the family and others who had come into contact with him have been vaccinated and it is the opinion of Dr. M. D. Gwin, the health officer, that there will be no spread of the disease and no alarm is felt. There is no knowledge of where Mr. Marlatt contracted the disease and it is possible that it may have broken out without having been exposed to the disease. There are several cases of chkkenpox in town at this time.

Quite a number took in the fair at Logansport Thursday. Millard Bell and Jake Wagoner were here from Morocco Monday. Frank Hodshire, of Monticello, spent Monday here with friends. Born, Sept. 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hicks, of Portland, Ore., a son. Rev. Hoover returned Thursday :‘rom a few days’ visit in Chicago. Mrs. Dan O’Connor sold the pool lall Monday to B. S. Rice, of Fair Oaks. €. H. Peck, R. H. Robinson, ,S. G. land and Jas. Washburn were Lafayette goers Monday.' * Quite a number of bidders were here Monday to file their bids on the work of the new library.

C. B. Johnston and Miss Margaret went to Kokomo Wednesday morning j'or a visit with relatives. B. C* Fowler, Tip Kenyon and Robt. attended the tractor demonstration at Fowler Wednesday. Comrade Stokes returned to the soldiers home at Marion Thursday after a ten days’ furlough here with his sons, Ed and Muncie. Monday was Tim Harrington’s birthday and there was a surprise party pulled off for him at Lafayette. Quite a number of his friends from lere attended. Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Walker returned Wednesday from a three months’ visit with their daughter, Minnie, at Alberta, Canada. Cards received here announce the coming marriage of Rev. H. J. Hoover to Miss Jennie Prettyman, to take place in the Moody church at Chicago on October 14th.

This has been an exciting week here and two or three arrests have been made but for reasons of respect for all concerned no names will be mentioned and all hope that the events will soon be forgotten.

SALTS IF BACKACHY AND KIDNEYS HURT

Stop Eating Meat For a While If Your Bladder is Troubling You. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, aays a wellknown authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels, removing all the body’s urinous waste, else you have backache, side headache, dizzy spells, your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get Bore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. * Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts. Take a tablespoonful in a glaas of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithii, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggist kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public aale at Leek's hitch bam in Rensselaer, on Saturday, Sept. 25, 1915, 6 steel wheeled Wagons wit a hay racks; also two cows. DR. F. A. TURFLER. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. Drs. M. D. Gwin and wife and A. B. Kresler and wife are in Indianapolis attending the state meeting of the medical society. - ~

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1915.

METHODIST CHURCH HAD PROSPEROUS YEAR

Dr. Curnick Will Take to Conference * .One of Best Reports That Will Be Received. The Methodist church has had one of the most prosperous years in its history and Dr. Ournick wilt take to the annual conference which meets in South Bend next week, one of the best reports that the conference will receive. During the year a special effort was made to wipe out the debt and as a result $1,900 was raised and paid, which cleared the church of debt. The gift of $3,250 by Mr. Geo. fiosmer for a pipe organ will make this year remembered as a banner year. The church also raised and paid over one thousand dollars for new carpet and improvements. The current expenses and benevolent colections will also make a fine showing financially. During the year the congregations, Sunday schools and all the activities of the church have increased and prospered. The Ladies i ndustrial Society raised over SSOO, the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society $lB2, the Woman’s Home Missionary Society sllO. The men are organized into a splendid brotherhood and during the year several suppers were held at which about one hundred men were present. The Epworth League has a membership of 75 young people. The tkurch membership is 600, while the entire Sunday school enrollment is over 500. Dr. Curnick will have the honor of preaching the annual missionary sermon at the conference. Bishop Wm. McDowell, D. D., of Chicago, will preside at the conference.

Parker to Coach St. Joseph College Football Team.

St. Joseph’s college is going to enter upon the most active participation in football this year it has ever indulged in and Coach Harry Parker, for twelve or fourteen years the mainstay in the coaching of the local high school elevens, has contracted to instruct the colelge boys, which will mean that they will have the best team they ever had and be in condition to meet the strong preparatory schools and secondary colleges. While the college did not enter into the game early enough this year to get a schedule that will include any of the colleges of the state it will give an entering wedge to get games from these schools another year and should be a meaps of giving St. Joe some splendid advertising and be the result of bringing many fine football contests to the college in future years, while games this year will probably be arranged with schools like St. Ignatius, St. Viators and Catholic schools in Chicago. Mr. Parker made a great success with his various high school teams, sustaining only a small per cent of losses.

Wait to see the line of furnishings and clothing at the new store, 1 door north Duvall’s store, North Van Rensselaer street. —S. Leopold, Mgr. Billy Frye’s new bus is proving a popular means of travel and Billy has already deamed how to drive it and it carrying many passengers between the depot and stations and over town. It holds seven passengers besides the driver and from one train Tuesday he had nine, but that is too many for comfort. Get Hamillized and buy 50c work shirts for 43c, 85c overalls 69c, 6 pair box for 60c, guaranteed against holes for six months.—Hamill & Co. THE WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; warmer tonight.

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JASPER CO. COURT PROCEEDINGS TO DATE

George Marvin to Hear Ryan Ditch Case—Langdon Not Guilty of Charge of Rape. Ryan Ditch. Attorney George Marvin, selected as special judge to try the Ryan ditch case, came to Rensselaer Thursday to assume jurisdiction of the case and set it for trial some time during the month of October. Hatton v. Hatton. Cause dismissed at cost of plaintiff. Thurston v. Thurston. Chas. A. Bonner, Ellis Jones, Alson A. Fell are appointed to make partition and directed to meet at clerk’s office Monday, Sept. 26, and qualify. Peoples Life Ins. Co. v. Barkley. Judgment for plaintiff in sum of $216.24.

Vance v. Heer. Defendant granted cahnge of venue to Newton county. Gilbert v. Auto Sales Co. The examinations of James >H. Gilbert, plaintiff, and H. W. Gilbert and F. L. Lough, are being taken before Court Reporter Wagner, having commenced Wednesday and to be continued Thursday. The action is upon a claim of plaintiff against the Auto Sales Co., to the amount of about S7OO, to which a cross complaint is filed by Auto Sales Co., by its receiver, alleging that plaintiff owes the Sales Co. an amount in excess of the claim. Guy & Williams are appearing for the plaintiff and Chapman and Blue for the Sales Co.

State v. Langdon. This case was /commenced before a jury Wednesday morning and went to the jury at 5 o’clock in the- afternoon. The charge was assault and battery with intent to commit a rape upon Emma Ellen Jackson, less than 5 years of age. The testimony is such that it cannot be reported. There was evidence that the mother of the child offered to settle the matter for the sum of SSO, the mother admitting that she thought of making a settlement on a financial basis. It is not often that a child so young will be permitted to testify, yet it is within the discretion of the court to permit the testimony. A large number of witnesses were present from Wheatfield. The jury, after a half hours deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. Prosecutors Hess and Sands represented the State and Halieck and Blue the defendant.

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Good Cheer Class to Serve Supper. The Good Cheer class of the Presbyterian Sunday school will serve the flowing menu Friday evening, Sept. 24, from 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock. Price 35 cents: Cream of tomato soup Wafers Fried ihicken Chicken gravy Sweet potatoes, southern style Mashed potatoes Cabbage salad Baked apples with marshmallows Hot rolls Butter Jelly Peach n>ie, vanilla cream a la mode Coffee. FRESH FISH. V Halibut, lb 20c Catfish, lb 18c Yellow Pike lb 20c Herring, lb l*c Trout, lb. . 18c OSBORNE FLORAL CO., Phone 439-B. CUT FLOWERS. Potted Plants — Ferns, 25c to $1.50 each. Begonias, 10c to 25c each. - Geraniums, 10c to 26c each. Special orders for funerals and other occasions furnished on short notice. i _ OSBORNE FLORAL 00., Telephone 439-B.

McCray Made Impression At the Big Burgoo Picnic.

Warren T. McCray, the Kentland candidate for governor, made a fine impression with the great crowd of voters who attended the big burgoo picnic at the state fair grounds Wednesday. He made a brief speech, setting forth his desire to give to the state a business administration, wholesome, clean, fearless and economical, and there was the impression throughout the great audience that he would do just as he pledged himself.

Five candidates for governor and four for United States senator lined the stage in the big stock pavilion at the fair grounds. In addition to these were several others, including Will H. Hays, state chairman; Jack Henley, state secretary ;and two young men from Anderson, both former progressives. They were Paul P. Haynes, former progressive state secretary, and Oswald Ryan, formerly a progressive. They both said they were back in -the republican party because they wanted it to win and would aid and abet its actions for wholesome legislation in every possible manner. Will H. Hays made a fine speech, appealed for activity, said this was to be a campaign for sucl\ important results that every citizen should become interested, have ideas and help to incorporate them into the formation of the republican platforms and policies and into law. His speech teemed with enthusiasm and he was enthusiastically applauded during various stages of his address. Then came “the stock judging” as dr. Hays had said, for each of the candidates for United States senator and governor and each was introduced and made a speech limited to eight minutes. All were good, all had the true ring and each was accompanied iy a pledge that no matter on whom the mantles fell the other would be for them and for republican success. Mr. McCrtty was the first to speak and in a calm manner he outlined the cind of campaign he would make and the manner in which he would serve the people. He was well received. James P. Goodrich, Charles A. Carlisle, Quincy A. Myers and Mayor R. 0. Johnson then spoke. The most enthusiasm was probably centered about the speech of the Lake county candidate, for he put lots of spirit into his brief address and kept the big crowd in a jolly frame of mind. He said that until the European Avar was well underway and munitions orders began to flood the steel mills that not' 30 per cent of a force was employed. He said that there was 30 per cent labor and 70 per cent hell in Gary from the time the democrats passed their tariff bill until the time that the European war began to make widows and orphans and he preferred a tariff to keep our mills busy and not the sacrifices of a war. He was just getting warmed up well when his time limit was reached.

The senatorial candidates, Arthur ; l. Robinson, Hugh Miller, William L. ' ’aylor and James E. Watson all spoke and ably, too. Mr. Robinson is a scholarly young man, and he assailed l;he democratic Mexican policy with vigor. Hugh Miller spoke on business needs, the necessity for protection for American labor and declared that republicans have always declared for and provided laws that proved a great boon to prosperity for all alike, the manufacturer, the laborer and the businessman. William L. Taylor was in his nappiest mood and got off a burlesque on the gubernatorial candidates that delighted the audience. Throughout the day there had been calls for James E. Watson and he had responded to the call in the morning and again in the afternoon, when he talked briefly but with sledge hammer gestures he drove home to every hearer the strong points he made. His

picture of the democratic gallery of the past half century and the issues of that party during that period was a shout from start to finish and as he told of the leaders who had been renounced and had passed away to be forgotten and discredited, he pointed above him to two great flags and said, “Ah, we could suspend between those two emblems of liberty the pictures of every great republican president and every great leader of the party anri every citizen of the country would rise up and shout with pride in their accomplishments, but where is there a democrat whose picture hanging there would cause any pride of citizenship or recall any great accomplishment?”

Round after round of applause followed him and the big meeting adjourned and many of those present went back to the Columbia Club to listen to the hearty love feast as the candidates were introduced to the hundreds of new members of the Columbia Club. The Lake County special with a band to lead the Johnson forces had reached Indianapolis at about 10:30 in the morning and the friends of the mayor marched to the circle and twice around it before they took a street car and went to the fair grounds. The train returning left Indianapolis at fi o’clock and reached Rensselaer at 10:60. 4 The Republican regrets that it can not print a considerable part of the

REPUBLICAN BARBECUE AT INDIANA HARBOR

Two Steers, 1,000 Pounds of Chicken and 5 Barrels of Oder to Be Served Free.

The North Township Republican Club of Lake county issues a blanket invitation to all republicans and their families to join them as their guests at a monster barbecue to be held at Lake Front Park in Indiana Harbor next Saturday. They offer as inducements U. S. Senator L. Y. Sherman, of Illinois, as orator of the day; State Chairman Will Hays as presiding on the platform, and the “silver tongued” Jim Watson, than whom no more powerful spell-binder exists, as one of the speakers, to say nothing of what the - wild waves of stately Lake Michigan, on whose shores the event will take place, may be saying. You must not, however,, get the impression that speaking will be the only form of entertainment. Far be it from the committee of live wires who have the arrangements in charge to forget that the inner man must also be taken care of and as an evidence of this, the following are a few of the eats that will comprise the menu. Two big fat steers, one thousand pounds of dressed chickens, fifteen hundred, loaves of bread, five barrels of cider and many other good things too numerous to mention. There will also be contests with prizes galore, a very substantial prize being offered for the largest republican family on the grounds, dancing at the .South Bay hotel from 3 to 6 p. m. and if the weather permits, bathing in £he lake for those who wish. Hayes Military Band as well as bands from Crown Point and other parts of the state will be there to entertain with music as will also Messrs. Claude Kay and Gus Klein, soloists from Chicago and the East Chicago Elks famous quartette. Workmen are already busy building the speakers platform and the grill on which the steers are to be barbecued. This grill will be 20 feet long, 5 feet wide and 3 feet high. Several expert chfefs have been engaged who will have charge of the cooking of the cattle and this will be started Friday morning, as it is said by those who know that' 36 hours are required in the process. Reports received by the committee from different parts of the state indicate that an immense crowd will be in attendance. The club takes care of nil the expense so that there will be no charge for anything on the grounds. Don't let the “kiddies" miss it, and don't miss it yourself.

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 ail 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 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Malchow had. Foster-Milbum Co„ Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

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speeches of each of the candidates, but it will be some time before the primary election and it is probable that many of the candidates can come here during that time and all voters should try to hear them and thus 'be enabled to decide what men are beat suited for the offices they seek.

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