Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1915 — Page 1

No. 240.

PRINCESS TONIGHT Daniel Frohman presents Laura Sawyer and House Peters in a startling scientific detective play “An Hour Before Dawn” A sequel to “Chelsea 7750” in Motion ■'■ Pictures Produced by the Famous Players Film Co. Show at 7 o’clock. 5 and 10c.

DAVID ELDER FELL AND IS BADLY HURT

Working On Hallagan House and Fell Distance of 18 Feet—lnternal Injuries Feared. David Elder, the carpenter, was injured at about 7:30 this Saturday morning by a fall of 18 feet while working on the new residence property of Miss Maggie Hallagan, on Division and Harrison streets. The full extent of his injures could not be determined by Dr. Gwin, who was called, owing to the fact that he was suffering such intense pain that the examination could not be. thoroughly made. He had alighted on his back and it was feared he had sustained internal injuries. He had a broken bone in his left foot. Mr. Elder is about 56 years of age and although a very rugged man the flail is apt to prove very hard on him. He was employed by J. C. Beckman and if his injuries incapacitate him for a period of more than two weeks he will come under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation law, which will entitle him to draw 55 per cent of his wages during the continuance of his incapacity. Whether Mr. Beckman had taken out insurance to protect himself or not is not known, but this should serve as a warning to all that insurance ip the only safe manner of protection. An injury to two or three employes, falling at the same time on a contractor, would almost put him out of business.

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. . OSBORNE FLORAL CO., Telephone 439-B.

Christian Church. 1 Morning 9:30 Bible school and adult classes. If you are a member of the school you are urged to come out to this service. Good classes and a warm welcome await you. Morning service 10:45. Sermon. 7:30 Evening service. Sermon. You will be made welcome at these services.

Methodist Church. Sunday School 9:30. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Epworth League 6:30.

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

The Evening Republican.

MUSICAL CLUB WAS INSTITUTED FRIDAY

Mrs. E. J. Randle Chosen PresidentMeeting to Be Held Monthly— Choral Club Next. Thirty-seven ladies met Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. D. Gwin and organized a musicale society, an auxiliary to the Ladies’ Literary Club., It is expected that the membership will be increased to forty or more very shortly. Mrs. E. J. Randle was chosen president, Mrs. M. D. Gwin vice-president, Mrs. J. H. Chapman secretary arid Mrs. A. H. Hopkins, treasurer. A program committee of nine was appointed with Mrs. J. A. Dunlap as chairman. The committee on by-laws and constitution reported and its report was adopted. The meeting place was not definitely decided upon but will probably be4n the library assembly or in ope of the churches. Monthly meetings are planned. Steps were taken for the organization of the choral club.

Hammond to Have a Fall Festival Oct. 20-23.

The present activity and bustle at present going on in Hammond is caused by the forthcoming Fall Festival which will take place October 20, 21, 22 and 23. The chamber of commerce, which is sponsoring the event, is planning to make this festival more extensive and comprehensive than anything of the kind hitherto produced in that city. - . An unusually large appropriation has been set aside for the free outdoor attractions and every care taken that these will include only high class and special features. There will also be a nightly display of fireworks, with a mechanical device showing a war scene and bombardment. The booths for the mercantile and manufacturing exhibits will be located on specified streets of a central section of the city, which will also include a Pleasure Zone, where the amusements and free attractions will be placed and pasttimes which will include carousels and mechanical devices of every name and nature will be there, with every conceivable kind of music and recreational devices at Hammond Fall Festival, display nightly, with amusement devices of all kinds. Special illumination and decorations, bands, parades and everything that will contribute to an especially enjoyable and profitable vacation will be there. And severak important circus and hippodrome acts will be among the offerings together with many novelties and high class features.

One Hundred and Seven Recitals In Panama,

- Recently Miss MacLaren returned from engagements with the Y. M. C. A. in Panama, where she gave 107 recitals. She was referred to there frequently as the “Idol of the Isthmus.’* At Presbyterian church, on Thursday evening, Oct. 14th.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915.

SALOON IN MONON WOULD INJURE TOWN

Rensselaer Much Better Off Since Bars and Traffic Were Defeated — Morals Also Improved. I 'A local option election will be held in Monon Friday, Oct. 29th, and the friends of the saloon are claiming that business in that town would be improved if there was a saloon or two. The Republican editor remembers when Rensselaer had saloons and recalls that there were many men who spent their time and money in those places while their poor families suffered in deprivation. We know of several persons who thought they could not go to their homes at night without stopping to spend a few jitneys in the saloons and a number of others who threw a few high balls into their stomachs every day. We know that many of these have reformed and are glad the saloons are no longer in this city. We remember that we used to see young fellows sneaking into saloons and that there were very few boys who arrived at the age of twenty-one without having been thrown into places where they had a hard time saying “No.” Now there are very few of our young men who have ever been in saloons and there are many who used to spend several hours a week in the saloons who have not been in one for five years. We remember that even the nice and promising young men, business and professional, used to gather in the saloon a few hours in the evening and suffer from the of time they made to their better thoughts and better opportunities. We remember that there were a lot of young men who lived in the country and who came into town on Saturday nights for a “hell of a time” and

usually had it and frequently got into fights and scrapes with some of the half-drunk town boys. We remember that it used to be necessary every few weeks to send a constable some ten or twenty miles to arrest some fellow who had been sold booze until he was not in his right mind and bring him in town to be fined or sent to jail. We remember that gambling rooms were a part of some > or all of the saloons and that a good many young men and older ones, too, spent much of their time in that occupation and that a raid was necessary occasionally to keep things quieted down, but at that it was not an uncommon thing for some man’s wife to have to go to the gambling room for her husband or to demand back what he had lost. We remember that a house of ill repute existed in Rensselaer at that time and that one saloon keeper, a married man, was the sponsor for it and that it was a sort of sideshow for the liquor business. We know that all these things have been removed since the saloons were defeated and that Rensselaer is now better off financially, physically, •morally and that its citizens are better off individually and that many who were victims of the liquor habit are now everlastingly opposed to* the business because of its debasing influences. We have better schools, better clothed and better fed children; we have better churches and better Sunday schools: we have better public spirit, loftier community interest, nobler ambitions, brighter hope for our boys and girls,, better consciences, purer business methods and a better chance for Heaven than we had when there were saloons here and we believe that never again unless unfavorable temperance laws are passed will there ever be a retail liquor establishment in this city. We believe that Monon has seen many of the same reforms that Rensselaer has and that it would be a pity if it would recede from its higher standing and again place the accursed temptation before its citizens. Let the family-loving, God-fearing, truehearted men of Monon come to the front and defeat this effort to restore hell’s greatest agent on earth, the licensed saloon.

Pianos and Player Pianos.

One S6BO Schiller Ideal Player for $465. Two $550 Lagonda Player $385. One $875 Jesse French & Son’s piano $285. One $450 Schiller Piano with Wessel Nickel & Gross action. Best there is made $325. One new yawing machine $17.50. Two organs at bargains. 10 lessons given free with every piano. H. R. LANGE & SON.

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.

BUGLE SOUNDS TAPS FOR BURGESS DILLON

Veteran of Civil War Passed Away After Long Illness—Funeral to Be Held Monday. - • V. I ■ ■ 'M Burgess Dillon, 72 years of age the 13th of last February, died at' the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Rishling, at about 9:30 o’clock Friday night after an illness that lasted more than a year, but which became critical with an attack of heart trouble that evening at about 6 o’clock. Mr. Dillon served through the civil war in the 20th Indiana regiment and was one of very few old soldiers who afterward resided in Jasper county to serve in the battle of Gettysburg. He saw a great deal of active fighting and was one of the most loved of the old soldiers of this city and county. Two or three times during the past year his sickness ha<l led him near the end of life but he rallied from each and for some little time had been able to make almost daily trips about the town and was up and about as usual the day of his death. Mr. Dillon’s wife died many years ago. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Charles Rishling, and by a sister, Mrs. Amanda Morlan, mother of Charles Morlan, who has been with her daughter, Mrs. Anderson, at Fargo, N. Dak., but who is now on her way home to attend the funeral, which will probably be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Church of God. The Grand Army of the Republic will have their ritualistic service at the grave.

A GOODRICH BOOSTER VISITS RENSSELAER

“Jinks” Brenner From Winchester Says He is a Good Man at Home and Worthy of Support. A. J. Brenner, of Winch ester,.proprietor of the Randolph hotel in that city since he left Rensselaer some four years ago, came Friday for a brief visit. Mrs. Brenner had been spending about two weeks with relatives at Morocco, Mt. Ayr and the family of A. J. Keeney, west of town, and Mr. Brenner came to accompany her home. He reports success <as proprietor of the hotel and says that Will Brenner and wife are fine and their 4-year-old boy a wonder. This youngest Brenner is now attending kindergarten and Jinks is of the opinion will some time be as smart as his grandfather. Mr. Brenner was not here very long but he devoted a good part of his time to boosting the candidacy of James P. Goodrich for governor. Mr. Goodrich is a resident of Winchester, although he has an office in Indianapolis and spends much of his time there. Mr. Brenner says that he is one of the best men and best business men in Indiana and that a great mistake will be made by the people of the state if he is not nominated for governor. He says that Mr. Goodrich’s goodness is not assured by any showiness but by a condition of his heart and that for years he has been in the habit of taking poor boys in Winchester and giving them an education and staying with them until they were through college and on their way to success. He says that Mr. Goodrich’s Presbyterian Sunday school class is one of the finest in the state and that down around Winchester the way to be sure of getting yourself permanently disliked is to say a word against Jim Goodrich. He has been identified with many business successes, has held important receiverships and whatever he gets behind goes forward. That Jim Goodrich is a real forward-looking and for-ward-planning citizen and there is no retrogression nor stagnation about him. In this connection The Republican wishes to say that in a few days it will present a part of a speech Mr. Goodrich made recently in which he set out some views he has on tax legislation, a matter of great importance in this state. Jinks Brenner comes here so infrequently that he hardly knows the old town because of its rapid progress. Since he was here two years ago there have been fifty fine new houses erected, Washington street has been paved, the new boulevard lights have been installed and Billy Frye has put in an auto bus. By the time he gets back again we are apt to be riding in streetcars and have a dozen or so new business buildings. >We are going some, that’s true, but we never want to get so fast that we can’t take t:me to enjoy a half hour with our old friend, Jinks Brenner.

Stoves Put Up and Blakened.

Don’t worry about your heat’ng stove. We will put it up, blacken it and shine the nickle parts. Call today.—F. W. Cissel.

MARSHAL ROBINSON BREAKS LEFT LEG

Horse Frightened at Charlie Chaplin Kicks Officer Who Is Riding On Load of Cinders. Marshal Vern Robinson suffered a badly broken leg Friday afternoon as a result of the virit here of one of the numerous impersonators of Charles ChaPlin. The visiting comedian had come here to help advertise a Charley Chaplin comedy at the Rex theatre and had gone to the school house to amuse the scholars just as school was out in the afternoon. The boys were having a lot of fun with Chaplin, who was doing his best to do something funny and who climbed on to the back of the wagon load of cinders which the marshal was hauling with a one-horse rig. The horse became frightened and one tug came unhitched and as the marshal tried to stop the horse the wagon ran up against its legs and it began to kick and Mr. Robinson was struck on the left leg, the cork of the animal’s shoe penetrating the skin and breaking the tibia or large bone about half way between the ankle and the knee. He was removed to the school house apd a call for doctors sent out. Drs. Johnson and English responded and found that the fracture was of a compound nature, the bone having shattered and pierced through the muscles. It was dressed in good shape by the doctors and Vern was removed to his home, where he spent a very comfortable night He will be laid up for several weeks probably.

McCoysburg Store Robber Taken to State Penal Farm.

Sheriff McColly took Howard Boone, the hobo who robbed McDonald’s store, to the penal farm near Greencastle Friday. He met *the sheriffs of Laporte county and of TiPpecanoe county each conducting prisoners there or to the reformatory at Jeffersonville. There are now about 1,600 prisoners on the penal farm and some barn-like two-story frame buildings are being erected. It is a popular place for sending habitual drunks and derelicts and if there are any of this sort in Jasper cqunty they had better go a little slow unless they want to sleep where there are no first-class accommodations. Sheriff McColly heard that Louis Jemison, the Russian who was sent up from this county recently for beating his wife, had escaped. That is not improbable in view of his statement that he was going to beat it at the first chance and get back to Russia to join the army.

Charles Chamberlin Has No Sickness of Any Kind.

An article in another newspaper states that Chas. S. Chamberlin, city light and water superintendent and a farm partner of John W. Marlatt’s, has a sickness resembling smallpox., The article was published without any investigation and is not true. Mr. Chamberlin has not been sick a minute but has been spending most of the week looking after business on the farm. Earlier in the week his little daughter was ill for a day or two and evidently this fact led to the wholly untruthful report that Mr. Chamberlin had the smallpox.

Presumably Mrs. A. Dayton Will Be Buried At Lafayette.

Mrs. Amelia Dayton, who died at the soldiers’ home near Lafayette at 5:45 o’clock Thursday evening, will probably be buried at the soldiers’ home cemetery. Relatives here had received no word up to this Saturday morning, and her son, Clifford Dayton, who went to Lafayette Friday morning stated that he would probably arrange to have the funeral held there. Mrs. Dayton was taken to the home on Sept 12th, less than a month before her death. She was about 80 years of age.

Monnett Guild Meeting Postponed For One Week.

The Monnett Guild will not meet Monday, Ort. 11th, owing to the fact that some material that is to be used at the next meeting will not be on hfind. The meeting has been postponed one week and will be held on the 18th when it is desired that all members are present.

LYCEUM COURSE DATES.

November s—Colonial Band. January 19—Ralph Bingham. January 28—Tahan. February lb—William Rainey Bennett. March 29—Columbian Entertainers.

WZATHEB. Fair tonight with heavy frost; -Sunday fair and warmer.

LAFAYETTE MAN SLAIN BY POLICE

Jesse Overley Was Robbing Car In Hammond Yards When a Revolver Duel Ensued. Hammond, Ind., Oct B.—A true aim and a steady nerve caused death in the darkness early this morning, when a revolver battle with car thieves, Officer Ben Strong, of the Hammond police, stood in a rain of bullets and, waiting until he saw the flash of his nearest opponent's gun, opened fire. His shooting was so accurate that one of the bullets. struck the muzzle of the revolver of the car thief, who was mortally wounded. Jesse Overley, the car thief, was killed by three bullets from Officer Strong’s gun. He was employed as a Switchman for the Monon railroad and is well known. The second car thief, whose identity is unknown, escaped into a nearby woods after a desperate revolver duel.

Mrs. A. J. Law Suffers Fracture of Arm at Morocco.

Mrs. A. J. Law, whose husband was for a short time state senator representing this district, fell at her home in Morocco Tuesday and fractured her left arm. She was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, to my sainted mother and my honored that the arm was broken in four Places. Drs. Shafer and Pyke attended her. Mrs. Law is a sister of Dr. Shafer.

Mrs. Lon Colton Hastened To Hospital For Operation.

Mrs. Lon Colton, who was just recovering from an attack of appendicitis, suffered another acute attack Friday afternoon and was hastened to Lafayette, where at St. Elizabeth’s hospital she was operated on. She rested very well after the operation and is expected to make speedy recovery. Dr. Johnson accompanied her to the hospital and performed the operation.

B. S. Fendig Resigns as Manager of Carl Decker & Co.

B. S. Fendig, whe went to Chicago about four years ago to 'become the manager of the Carl Decker & Co. plant, commission agents of poultry and poultry products, has resigned his position. He is spending a few days here and is undecided as to what business he will engage in.

Spelling Match and Box Social. There will be a spelling match and box social at the Powell school, district No. 6, in Newton township, Friday night, Oct. 15. All are invited. Elizabeth Kahler, Teacher. Piano Lessons. I have made arrangements to start a class in instruction on the piano at once. Inquire at H. R. Lange & Son’s music store.—H. R. Lange, Jr.

AT THE PRINCESS TONIGHT - ■ ~ , 1 * a -_ _ v “An HOUR BEFORE DAWN” An astounding mystery introducing the greatest marvel of the age. A sensational crime that mystifies the Police is finally traced to a recent authentic scientific discovery. Produced by the Famous Players Film Company.

STORAGE BATTERIES Repaired and Recharged —I Also Magnetos repaired and mag netos recharged. Also Everything electrical. LT. RHOADES & CO. Phone 579

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