Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — Page 1

No. 264.

OLIVER EXPLAINS OVER TELEPHONE

r«ll<» From Chicago to State That He TtmA Been Misrepresented In Land Transaction. The Republican on what we regarded excellent authority stated in a recent issue that Ed Oliver had traded land near Newland to Miss Carrie C. Gensert for the tract of land she had contracted to buy on the installment plan from John A. Dunlap and *V. J. Crisler and which resulted in their indictment in Chicago on the ground of a confidence game. The Republican was probably mistaken in part and we gladly give the statement of Mr. Oliver, wh> called us Friday afternoon over long-distance from Chicago. Mr. Oliver stated that some time after the sale of the 10-acre tract to Miss Gensert he met her and she complained to him that she did not get the land she wanted and said the land she had purchased had a sand subsoil and that she blamed Mr. Oliver because he had encouraged her to buy it. He states that at that time he had increased the price of his Newland land to' $325 per acre and was selling at that, price, but that he felt that he should do something to assist Miss Gensert and two other women who had also contracted for tracts in the Springer plat, and that he made them a proposition that for them he would reduce the price of his Newland land to S2OO per acre and give them credit on a 20-acre purchase with $1,500, the total amount the three had paid on the Springer purchases. This would reduce the price of the land to $125 per acre. They agreed to the plan and were sold the 20 acres. Mr. Oliver says that he in no sense took over the Springer ranch properties nor promised to secure the return of the notes given for the purchase of the tracts. From notes made during the telephone ccr.versation with Mr. Oliver we think the above fully covers his explanation. It is published without any knowledge of the facts, except as related to us by himself and by a former conversation with Mr. Dunlap, in the office of Attorney Parkinson, and in the presence of Messrs. Parkinson and

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The Evening Republican.

E. P. Honan. The Republican learns that Mr. Dunlap, whom we are convinced was an unwilling party to any deception, has in the most manful way satisfied Miss Gensert by returning to her the unpaid notes and the cash she had paid and released her altogether from the contract. If Mr. Dunlap made any mistake it was in being connected at all with the sale of the Springer tracts, although at the time he engaged in the business the Newland project looked so successful and there was a feeling of confidence that all of the muck land was to be worth S2OO an acre for trucking and oniongrowing purposes. M f iss Gensert, we understand, was a stenographer in a Chicago office. She had no idea of land values and was naturally influenced by the enthusiasm of the people who had crops at Newland and by the statements of the salesmen. She not only purchased but in her enthusiasm induced others to do so and then a bad year followed and there was almost a total wreck throughout the onion-growing section. Had it turned out otherwise and a big crop been raised and a good price been paid for it Miss Gensert and her friends might have realized every claim made by the agents. The Republican believes, however, that the methods of land selling at Newland and surrounding country have not been right. Many may disagree with us, but it is certain that a number of the purchasers will never realize a dollar from their investments. Land that was bought at prices ranging from S3O to S6O per acre was sold to them at S2OO and more per acre. The buyers in almost every instance were not acquainted with land values, many of them were ignorant on the subject of drainage, many of them had no idea of the c*fet of putting in and tending a crop of onions or knowledge of the storage cost and the delays that are occasioned in marketing. Many of the buyers were people who had struggled for years to lay up a competency and they have paid it all and given back mortgages for two or three times what the land had sold for previously. President Kurrie, of the Monon railroad, who is deeply interested in the development of the Gifford coun-

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1915.

try because he induced the purchase of the railroad that traverses it, says that he feels confident the better way of settling it with substanial people and for permanent results would have been to sell it at a fair price and to men and women who would come on it and who had a chance if they could have purchased it at the right prices. The Republican has always regarded Ed Oliver as a wonderful man for Newland. He saw the possibilities of the section as a trucking center. , He experimented with onion raising and had some successful returns. If all had been fine in the way of good crops and big prices there would have been no complaint, but all will never be fine. The onion business is uncertain in two ways, the season and the price. A failure in either will make hard times for the grower on S2OO land. This year it was the weather, last year the price. On S6O or $75 land so much would not be expected. We trust that next year will prove a good one, but in the meantime there is nothing to justify the sale of any of the land at the big prices asked. Newland and the Springer ranch will do better if the buyers are satisfied when then learn that much of the land was held at SSO and less for many years before. Robert Blue and Elvyn Allman went to Lafayette today to witness the lowa-Purdue football game. T. F. Clarke returned to his home in Rattle Ground yesterday after a visit of several days with his siGter, Mrs. Robert Dowler and husband. T. M. Callahan went to Tipton today to visit with George T. Gifford, connected with the Gifford estate, who has been convned to his home with sickness. Mrs. Jennie Wishard returned today from a several weeks visit with her brother, Bruce Porter and family, near Mt. Vernon, S. Dak. While there she visited with friends at Mitchell for a short time. Mrs. Wishard says the corn in that part of the state was pretty badly frost-bit and would not amount to much, although they had a very good wheat and oats crop. She enjoyed her trip very much. On her way home she stopped for a week’s visit in Chicago with her son, Melville.

INDIANAPOLIS LOTS AS A SAFE INVESTMENT

Little Paragraph of Warning Sets One L. Kennedy in Position of Making Explanation. L. Kennedy, of Indianapolis, is here trying to sell and probably occasionally selling a lot in Indianapolis on the installment plan. The Republican issued a little suggestion of warning to those who might be inclined to buy or to bite and The Democrat offers its columns to Mr. Kennedy to defend his proposition and to indulge in a bit of sarcasm about Canada as an investment, because The Republican for Theodore George did considerable advertising last year, the same kind of advertising which hundreds of magazines and newspapers did throughout the United States. To divert just a mohient from “our great capital city” we might say that had there been investors from Indiana in Canada last year who had put cut a crop last spring they would doubtless have made more real money than they will realize in a lifetime out of a nonproducing unimproved lqt in Indianapolis. We have no fight against “our great capital city.” It is some city

and has made a very creditable growth, but we do not believe that investors ih vacant lots will ever make a dollar on their investment. We do not pretend to know how much commission L. Kennedy gets for their sale, but you can rest assured that if he gave up an agency in the John Hancock Insurance Co., after fourteen years, that the proposition had to look good, that is good for Kennedy, and it Will take a long time for the lots to advance sufficiently to pay Kennedy’s commission. Then there will be some other profits to pay for the company that is pushing the sale will not put it on unless there is a big profit in it and the lot buyers pay the profit. There is lots of room for Indianapolis to grow and if it keeps up the pace of 65,000 every ten years until the end of time it will find thousands of acres of land still available to be platted and exploited by shrewd real estate men and experienced salesmen, who will pounce onto the people of the small cities and towns when if there was anything real good and certain as an investment Indianapolis capital would grab it in a moment. It is Indianapolis capital? that comes out into Jasper county and buys 6 per cent road and ditch bonds, but it is Rensselaer capital that is offered the “real snaps” in “our great capital city.” This is a nice subject. We like to discuss it and are de-lighted that L. Kennedy, who desires to state, etc., that he is a man of good repute and well satisfied with himself, gave us the opportunity to do so at some length. The writer was a resident a few years of Washington, D. C., and one day we reecived a letter from W. W. Watson, then a resident of Rensselaer. He asked that we go to Brookland, a suburb of Washington within 15 minutes car ride over two routes from the treasury building and see a lot he owned there and try to find a buyer for it at $750.00. Mr. Watson explained that he had purchased the lot of an agent ten years before for S9OO. When he purchased it the Brookland suburb was just being laid out. It was situated within two blocks of where the street car line was to be. Well, when Mr. Watson wrote his letter, some ten years after buying the lot, Brookland had grown up. The projected car line had been built, another car line approaching the town from another direction had been built, streets had been paved, sidewalks built, hundreds of homes erected, a sewer system installed, city water and electric lights put in and Brookland was one of the nice suburbs with many contented homes. Mr. Watson had a lot splendidly located, a half block from a paved street, good houses on each sied of its and there was every reasoh to believe that the lot should have doubled in value. There were a half dozen “for sale” signs on it by as many different real estate firms. The writer visited them and asked why the lot did not sell and was informed that there was no demand for unimproved property, but every one of the dealers was exploiting some new subdivision that was just being opened and that was sure to “double your money.” At one or two places we represented that we might buy the lot, but Hie agent at once began plans to sidetrack us on to some other location, in a new addition. We advertised the lot for sale, posted notices in the government printing office and made it plain that the price was slso, but there were no buyers* Figuring money as worth 6 per cent it had cost Mr. Watson $54 each year to keep his lot in Brookland. In ten years this was $540, not to compound it, which made the lot stand him at $1,440, but it was for sale at $750 and was a really fine lot in a splendid location. He finally traded it for a fruit farm in Mississippi or it went in on the deal. Well, Washington, D. C., “our great national capital,” is also some grower and real estate men say that no investment there will go wrong in

Lyceum Course Starts Off With Exceedingly Fine Number.

The Old Colonial Band, of which E. Carmeliny is director, gave a most delightful performance here Friday evening, it being the first number of the lyceum course which is being supported by the churches of the city. The audience was large and appreciative. The program was well diversified, combining classical and patriotic music in a pleasing manner and having a number of solos by Mr. Ambrose Wyrick, whose numbers all called for hearty applause. The program concluded with a rendition of “The Spirit of Seventy-Six,” ia which three members of the band, the first playing a fife, the second carrying a flag and the third playing a snare drum, marched across in front of the state while the band played many of the patriotic American tunes. Mr. Carmeliny is a soloist of widely recognized abiilty and has before he became a director been a soloist in a number of the great bands of the country and of Italy, his native home. His selections were enthusiastically received.

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Presbyterian Church.

Sunday school 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by Rev. J. Budman. Fleming. Dr. Fleming pleased his audience very much by his logical sermons Sunday before last. All who heard him at that time will be pleased to have another opportunity to listen to him.

the long run, but you may have to let it run until your form, like John Brown’s, lies mouldering in the grave. L. Kennedy is probably not offering you a single thing better than Mr. Watson had in Washington. It is a prospect, a gamble in real estate. There is nothing in sight for years to come unless by some chance that has been overlooked by the money that is seeking a good investment in Indianapolis unexpectedly develops. L. Kennedy, former agent for the John Hancock Insurance Co., ■ would probably tell you that he is a highpriced man. In other words that he gets a pretty penny for selling you a lot and indirectly that you pay it. He don’t come right out in print in that way but he leaves that inference. He is to be congratulated for his adroitness and we believe we see why he is chosen to put over this Indianapolis lot proposition in the small towns. He does not become downright angry and in this respect he differs considerably from the men who came here some years ago from Oklahoma to sell lots in Hallett and who threw a fit when The Republican suggested that it might be a good thing to investigate. There had already been several buyers, among them was sufficient sporting blood to make a trip to Hallett and pass judgment on the investment. Several prominent former Rensselaer citizens who were living in Oklahoma said the proposition was bad but one of the men who went to Hallett wired back that it was just as represented. However, Hallett blew up and whatever was invested was lost. The writer is disposed to be real fair with L. Kennedy and as we are intending to spend part of today and all of Sunday in “our great state capital” we shall try to ascertain what sort of an investment is being recommended to our people and we shall not object if those who want to take a chance act upon L. Kennedy’s recommendation and ignore our “breezy” articles. By the way, speaking of breeze and The Republican’s warning. * A few months ago a man came here to sell stock in the “Consolidated Fan Co.” There is the application. Fans and breeze and not a word about Kennedy. The fans were to be installed in hotels and for a nickle in the slot you could get a nickle’s worth of breeze. When you wanted more air you deposited another nickle. On paper it looked like a 50 per cent investment. Every person wants a breeze and the agent figured it out thr.t people would never miss a nickle. The Republican got “breezy” and the solicitor got mad and left town and our people were thus kept out of a 50 per cent investment. Later we were told that the company was watered for 70 per cent of its stock before it wa * put on the market. This “breeze” is a terrible fault, but a sort of habit with The Republican and some of the breezes are as balmy as a rare day in June. If some time in the distant future wh n you are looking over your inver ments that you wish you had the each for you happen to find a deed for an Indianapolis lot worth something like 50 per cent of what it cost you, then you can think of Republican “breeze” and L. Kennedy and take yot i* choice.

LADIES LITERARY CLUB AIDS PLAYGROUND

Appropriates SSO For Apparatus For School Children—Remington Ladies Here Friday. The Ladies Literary Club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. W. L. Bott, holding what was termed federation day to receive the report of Mrs. M. D. Gwin, who was the delegate to the recent meeting of the federation of women's clubs in Indianapolis. The report was very interesting and complete and gave all who heard it, including some thirty ladies from Remington, a splendid idea of the important work in which the women's clubs of the state are engaged. An ijnportant act of the meeting Friday was the appropriation of SSO for playground apparatus at the schools of the city. It is probable that the first purchase will be a slide and that the addition of other apparatus will follow. The subject of the Literary Club this year is “Italy,” and Mrs. J. H. Chapman read a paper on “A Day In Venice,” which was extremely interesting and instructive. Mrs. Gwin played two Venetian boat songs, one from Mendelssohn and the other from Nevin. Mrs. J. A. Dunlap sang “I Hear You Calling Me.” Light refreshments were served. Next Friday, Nov. 12th, is the first regular meeting of the Matinee Musicale, an auxiliary of the Ladies’ Literal y Club. The following Friday, Nov. 18th, will be anniversary day and it will be celebrated by having Mrs. W. I. Thomas, of Chicago, give an address. Mrs. Thomas was one of the delegates to The Hague peace conference, accompanying Jane Addams there. The place of holding this meeting has not been announced but will be in a later notice. With the Daughters of the American Revolution behind the plan for a permanent bandstand and the Ladies’ Literary Club behind the playground plans Rensselaer is sure to prove what noble women devoted to the welfare of the community can do and both are to be congratulated for their interest in public matters.

Have You Seen the Way Our Depot Is Kept Up?

Rensselaer visitors, many of whom have been coming here off and on for years and who have noticed with pleasure the manner in which our town is kept up, have had a new cause for complimenting us recently. Agent Beam and his aides at the depot have made a sort of floral conservatory of the waiting room, having a large box of flowers at each window and baskets hanging from the walls. They receive many well-deserved compliments and are doing their part toward making a better Rensselaer. If you do not happen to have occasion to visit the depot it will be of interest to you to make a special trip there Sunday or some other time and see how nicely our station looks and compare it in your mind’s eye With the old depot. Rensselaer will grow in commercial importance and in social and educational value by every good deed its citizens perform. What are you doing to help it along.

WEATHER. Cloudy tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature.

RHEUMATISM ASD ALLIED PAIN —THEY MUST GO! The congesfton of the blood in its bow causes pain. Sloan’s Liniment penetrates to the congestion and starts the blood to flowfreely. The body's warmth is renewed; the pain is gone. The “man or woman who has rheumatism, neuralgia or other pain and fails to keep Sloan’s Liniment in their home is like a drowning man refusing a rope.” Why suffer. Get a bottle of Sloan’s. 25c and 50c. SI.OO bottle holds six times as much as the. 26c size. (3) Methodist Church. Sunday school 9:30. Public worship 10:45 a. m. 7:30 p. m. Preaching by pastor. Epworth League 6:30.

MLLE. Ml NEW YORK’S FAMOUS Palmist and Clairvoyant Has just returned from Europe where she met with remarkable success foretelling coming events. This wonderful woman can tell you all about your business and love affairs; anything you woud like to know. SPECIAL OFFER Bring this ad and 26c and Mile. Zara will give a $1 reading; or for 50c and this ad a $2 full life reading. You will fin dher at the home of Mrs. E. L. Clark, on Van Rensselaer street, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., including Sunday-. J§|

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