Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — Page 1

No. 231.

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P. w. Clarke Operated On For Appendicitis Tuesday.

The diagnosis of surgeons at Wesley hospital Tuesday disclosed that P. W. Clarke, the jeweler, had appendicitis and that the appendix had been drawn around to the back in the region of the kidneys, thus indicating that it was his kidneys which were bothering him. He was operated on that day wnile Dr. Kresler, who accompanied him to the hospital, was with him. He is getting along very nicely and it will probably not be many days until he can return home.

CUT FLOWERS.

Potted Plants — Ferns, 25c to $1.50 each. Begonias, 10c to 25e each. Geraniums, 10c to 25c each. Special orders for funerals and other occasions furnished on short notice. OSBORNE FLORAL CO., Telephone 439-B.

Attention Pocahontas.

All members are urged to be present Thursday evening. Important business. Refreshments. —Pocahontas.

Fate’s College Inn has some fine oysters. Try our Classified Column.

Republicans: Whom Do You Want Nominated?

The Republican will conduct a straw ballot to decide the choice of its readers for the offices of Governor and United States Senator. The b*U'*ticg will close Saturday night, Oct. 2nd. Readers are asked to cut out the coupon and mail it to this office, preferably signing your name to it, but it will be counted whether your name is signed or not. Please do not send in more than one vote as we do not want any repeaters in northwestern FOR GOVERNOR— | —| Warren T. McCray |—l James P. Goodrich ’ [”] A. Myers j--j R. O. Johnson | —| Charles A. Carlisle

Signed P. S. Information confidential Don’t sign if yon don’t want to, but send

The Evening Republican.

J. N. Leather man Appointed Guardian of Miss Agnes Howe.

J. N. Leatherman has been appointed guardian of Miss Agnes Howe, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Howe, who died last Saturday. His bond was in the sum of $2,400. Miss Agnes, who had entered DePauw University, will return there the first of the week and continue her college work. Mrs. Howe carried insurance in the Royal Neighbors iiw~ the sum of SI,OOO and had some other means, sufficient to provide for her daughter’s education.

Tonight’s Band Concert Program.

March. Overture, Lustspiel. Kentucky Home. Dream of Heaven, Waltz. Ottague des Uhlans. Are You the O’Reilly? Selection, II Trovatore. March.

Halibut, lb. 20c Catfish, lb. .18c Yellow Pike lb ....20c Herring, lb. l* c Trout, lb 18c OSBORNE FLORAL CO., ' Phone 439-B.

If you have anything to sell advertise it in the Republican’s Classified Column.

Indiana. This vote is not limited to Jasfrer county, as The Republican has a number of subscribers living outside the county. The South Bend Tribune is trying to secure a report from all counties of the state and the information will be given from Jasper county based upon the result of this straw vote. Mark in the square at the left of the name the candidate you favor: FOR U. S. SENATOR—- □ Arthur R. Robinson [ ] James EL Watson □ Walter Olds [~~| William L. Taylor □ , Hugh Th. Miller

FRESH FISH.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1915.

LYCEUM COURSE TO START ON NOV. 5TH

Several Form Organization to Secure Five Numbers From Redpath Bureau This Year.

Miss L. Murl Springsted, representing the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, came to„ Rensselaer again Tuesday and that evening met a number who are interested in putting on a lyceum course this year and the plans were set in motion by organizing and agreeing on the numbers for the course. The numbers employed are: The Old Colonia Band. Ralph Bingham. Chief Tahan. William Rainey Bennett. The Columbian Entertainers. They will come in the order published, the first entertainment being the Old Colonial Band on Nov. sth. The organization was formed ‘ by choosing Rev. J. C. Barrett, president; Miss Glen Day, vice-president; C. R. Dean, corresponding secretary; J. Ira Coe, treasurer; J. Elvyn Allman, advertising.

To Spend Month Shooting In Matches at Jacksonville.

First Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland, of Company M, 3rd Inf., I. N. G., stationed jn Rensselaer, left Tuesday night for Indianapolis, where he will join the others who are to compose the rifle team at the national matches to be held at Jacksonville, Fla. The matches do not begin until Get. 16th, >tu the teams and the individual marksmen gather there for practice of two weeks or more bdfore the competitive matches begin. Lieutenant Garland took part in the twelve days’ competition in the state recenty and is in the vnest condition for shooting. He was supplied with a new star guage rifle before leaving ; Indianapolis. The Indiana team has never shot a really good team score, although there have always been several excellent marksmen on it. Two years ago Lieutenant Garland was the high man on the Indiana team, fourth high in the national individual and well at the front in all other matches in which he competed. He will be among the very best military marksmen in the world and will make them all shoot to defeat* him in the matches he enters this year.

Miss Edna King Married At Delphi to Aden D. Rupe.

Miss Edna King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. King and for some time an employe of The Jasper County Democrat, in company with her fiance, Mr. Aden D. Rupe, went to Delphi today, Wednesday, and they were married at the noon hour at the parsonage of the Methodist church by lev. C. L. Harper, the pastor. From there they will go to Indianapolis and take a short trip through the south, returning in about a week or ten days to take up their residence at Warsaw, where Mr. Rupe is a farmer. His j’arm extends into the corporation of Warsaw and they will live inside the city. Miss King has many friends in this city who extend to herself and subhand their very best wishes.

Another Problem.

A Washington dispatch reports that President Wilson fears a flood of cheap foreign goody into this country at the conclusion of the war in Europe. That President Wilson should fear such competition has caused surprise. There is another problem that may cause the U. S. some concern after the war and that is immigration. It is predicted that following the war there will be a flood of immigrants, worthy men and women who seek a greater opportunity than can be found in war-cursed Europe and who want to get ffom under the burder of taxes that must be carried if the war debt are ever paid. If predictions are correct the U. S. will be greatly embarrassed by a flood of immigrants who may come in sue numbers that employment can not be found for them. Here is something else to think about.

STORAGE BATTERIES Repaired ancf Recharged Also Magnetos repaired and mag aatos recharged. Also Everything electrical. K. T. RHOADES & CO. Phom 379

HOEHN GETS FINE AND JAIL SENTENCE

Wheatfield Man Found Guilty of Keeping a Blind Tiger—Conviction Aids Temperance.

George Hoehn, a Wheatfield butcher, was tried in the circuit court Tuesday on four counts, each alleging violations of the liquor laws. Three of the charges alleging giving liquor to minors. On one of these he was tried and the jury returned a verdict of “not guilty.” The other two cases were dismissed. The other charge was that he kept a place where liquor was sold, bartered and given away, contrary to law. This case was tried before a jury and he was found guilty and sentenced to jail for 30 days and to pay a fine of SSO.

His counsel was John Greve and Roy Blue, while the state’s case was looked after by- Prosecuting Attorney Reuben Hess and his Jasper county deputy, Chas. M. Sands. The evidence showed that Hoehn and his brother and a couple of parties who work for Hoehn were in the habit o “rushing the can.” This is a term almost obsolete in Rensselaer, but it consists of taking a bucket or can and sending for a quantity of beer and then drinking it, usually a number clipping in for the purchase and all who do are entitled to pour some of the suds down their necks. Hoehn and his friends were quite certain that their conduct in this matter was perfectly regular and that their act did not in any manner constitute a violation of the blind tiger act and that if he wanted to run his meat market and grocery store in that manner he tad a perfect right to do it, but the state found that some of the beer was est in the hack part of the store where some boys had access to it and while the defense showed that the defendant had warned the boys •gainst being about his place and there was no proof that he had permitted them to get the liquor, yet the ;ury held that his act was not proper and came within the province of the aw.

Hoehn is a jolly fellow and a good citizen when not intoxicated hut something over a year ago he was a defendant in the circuit court as a result of trouble said to have occurred while he was drunk. The marshal had tried to arrest him and a fight had ensued and it required several to put him in jail. He wrecked the jail and raised a lot of trouble and his conduct was far from exemplary. To all appearances he has exhibited somewhat of a cloven hoof in opposition to the enforcement of the liquor laws. Mt. Ayr for a long time had a man who defied the laws in this respect. He was arrested and fined and sentenced to jail and his sentence suspended and he returned to ply his old trade of law violation. Finally he was placed in jail and kept there fpr some time. This reformed him and persons who know Pat Miller and his naturally kindly ways realized all the time that he was making a big mistake and that he was in the end to be his own chief enemy. Nothing out of tne way has been (heard of concerning Pat for a long time and we hope that there never will be again.

Wheatfield was without saloons for a number of years. When the proposition was up to vote as to whether there should be a saloon again or not it was argued by the friends of the saloon that there would be blind tigers and bootlegging unless a saloon was provided. There had been efforts to convict Billy Weiss and one or two others during the time there was no saloon, but the same persons who argued for saloons because they improved the blind tiger condition were the ones who came to the rescue of those who had been accused of the violations. It is a hard matter to secure convictions in liquor law violations and if courts and juries waited until "the accused pleaded , guilty and told the “.truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth” there would never be any convictions. If Mr. Hoehn was guilty and twelve mighty good men decided he was, then he should be punished according to the sentence, unless, as would be most desirable, he would assure the officials that he will never again give them any trouble. Peculiarly there seems to obscess about every man who is charged with liquor law violation that he is going to continue to violate the laws with the mistaken idea that he is getting even with some one. As a matter of fact the persons who are identified with the movement to prosecute and convict those who evade the laws are the best friends and not the enemies of the violators and if George Hoehn, big, jovial and qualified for the best of citizenship, would just cut out “rushing the can” and never give occasion to have to forbid boys to stay away from his meat market and grocery store we believe he would be much better satisfied himself, have the support of all the people and be of vastly greater good to the community in which he lives. —• Reform in temperance will come

MILITARY HONORS FOR F-4 VICTIMS

Seventeen Unidentified Bodies of 11lFated Submarine Are BuHed In Arlington Cemetery. Washington, Sept. 28.—Full military honors today were accorded to seventeen unidentified victims who lost their lives when the United States submarine F-4 mysteriously sunk at the entrance of Honolulu harbor some months ago. Their dismemherec bodies, in four caskets, were buriec in the Arlington national cemetery, the services being attended by high officials of the navy and others. As the flag-draped caissons were drawn from the Washington navy yard to Arlington, thousands of civil war veterans and others attending the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, lined the street and uncovered their heads in reverence, the bodies which were recovered only recently after having been submerged for months were in such condition as to make their individual identification impossible. There were 21 men aboard the submarne. Four bodies were identified and buried elsewhere.

Went to Chicago to See Specialist About Condition.

Delbert Beckman, who has been expecting to go to the west for his health, went to Chicago this Wednesday morning to consult a specialist about his condition before he decides positively on the move. Delbert has ieen feeling a little off for some time and has had a slight cough and had considered a western climate. His place in the State Bank will not be filled until he determines that it is necessary, for him to seek a new climate.

Oysters at Fate’s College Inn.

about by degrees. Education, religion, good health and decency are gradually rooting liquor from the fastnesses in which ignorance, deleaved appetites and organization c the manufacturers had intrenched it. j Sight or nine years ago there were a number of business houses in Rensselaer where the proprietors and employes “rushed the can,” but the practice disappeared with the defeating of the saloons and Rensselaer is a greatly improved city and there are not many boys raised up with a desire to sneak in some place and get a drink of beer. More and more each year we realize the folly of the liquor traffic and the injury it lias been to otherwise good citizens and the homes it has wrecked and youths it has deprived of an education and as long as there are men who can not see this and have the character to comply with it, it will be necessary to prosecute and convict the violators of the law and to send them to jail and require them to pay a fine. Mr. Hoehn was permitted to return to Wheatfield pending a motion for a new trial.

AT THE PRINCESS TONIGHT “THE SCALES OF JUSTICE" The drama of a district attorney, who throws hoonr, position and duty in the scales against a woman's love. FIRST SHOW 7 O’CLOCK. PRICES 5 and 10 CENTS.

That Yellow Bus Is Here Now I am ready to take care of >rou at any time, whether it s train time or not. Will take care of calls at any time in any part of the city. ■ - BILLY FRYE, Proprietor IB Phone 107 or 369

GROUND TO DEATH BY FREIGHT CARS

Crawfordsville Woman la Mangled By Monon Train In Charge of • Lafayette Men. Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 28. With her half-brother as one of three witnesses Mrs. May Conrad Sturman, 39 years old, was crushed to death by a cut of Monon freight cars north of the station at 2:45 o’clock yesterday afternoon. As she was almost totally deaf she was not aware of the approaching cars, nor could those who saw her danger ? give her warning. Both of her legs were severed just below the knees and her right arm was crushed off. The hip bones in her right side were mashed. The accident occurred, while extra switch train No. 265 was assembling. Engineer Fred Modge, and Conductor Matthew L. Rae, both of Lafayette, when called before coroner’s inquest held immediately after the body had been removed, testified that they did not see the woman on the track untU she was run down. They also testified that the three cars in the cut stopped within two and one-half car engths after hitting Mrs. Sturman. Two of the cars passed over the body and the cut came to a stop as the front wheels of the third car were upon her. The coroner’s verdict held that the accident was unavoidable.

BULBS.

This is the time of year to put them out for the spring blooming. I have all kinds and they are fine ones, tulips, hyacinths, and others. Order row and have the pleasure of flowers when the snow leaves in the spring. Watch for an opening.—J. H. Holden.

A coat lost by Mrs. E. E. Bundy was found by Joseph Francis, Sr., and was brought to The Republican office, wheer.it awaits its owner.

WEATHER. Fair tonight; probably frost north and contral portions; Thursday increasing cloudiness.

Trial Calendar, September Term, 1915.

Third Week. Sept. 29. First National Bank vs. - Rutherford et si. Michael vs Caldwell et al. Michael vs Caldwell et al. Sept. 80. 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. Fourth Week. Oct. 4. Yeoman vs Makeever et aL Makeever vs Rush, Trustee Newton township. Oct. 5. Kennedy et al vs Kennedy et al. Hardenbrook & Erickson vs Oliver et al. Oct 6. Tillett vs. Tillett Estaflfe. \ Parker vs. Tillett. Estate. James vs P. C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co. Sept 7. Werner Vo Dexter et al. Wyncoop vs Rowles & Parker. Camblin vs Archibald et al. Oct. 8. State ex rel Hammond vs Aldrich et al. Hammonds vs Hammonds Estate. Goble vs Hammcnds estate. Harris vs Hammonds estate.

If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg doit. Phone 621

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