Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1915 — Page 1

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Wrestling Bouts Saturday Night Victories For Marlin Boys.

Saturday night’s wrestling card at the Ellis theatre resulted in victories for" Jess Marlin in the windup over Sherm Parks, and Young Marlin defeated Herman Ames in the preliminary. Marlin won from Parks in straight fails, the first in five minutes and the second in three, both falls being taken by a hammeriock. Superior weight and condition favored Marlin. In the preliminary Voting Marlin defeated Ames in straight falls, taking the first in seven minutes and the second in 15 minutes. This Ibout proved to be the better of the two. Jess Marlin win wresle in Morocco Christmas night, and will probably have several more bouts here this •winter, as he now has several matches in sight The mat game, which proved so popular some few years ago, is again coming into favor and as long as they are kept free from crookedness the game -will find many enthusiastic supporters among the fans. Why not a photo for Xmas? Parker, the photographer, has the latest styles, etc. Prices to suit your purse. Get Hamillized and own a Ford.

SPECIAL at the REX THEATRE Tuesday, December 21 An Edison Four Reel Masterpiece “June Friday” Featuring Augustus Phillips, Gertrude McCoy, Mabie Dwight, Robert Conness, Duncan Mcßae Robert Brower, and other noted stars. Also a strong comedy final. General Admission 10c. Children sc. Remember the date, Tuesday, Dec. 21

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The Evening Republican.

Lillo Hauler Improving After Talking Home Treatment.

Lillo Hauter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hauter, who returned home about a month ago from North-field, Minn., for a course of home treatment following a break down from over work, has made splendid improvement sinec his return and his family are greatly encouraged. He is now able to be up much of the time and to take care of his correspondence. For some time after his arrival home he was confined to his bed. He has been the' county agent and a teacher in the schools at Northfield and has worked unceasingly to make a success of (bath and The strain proved too much for him. A complete rest and' some home treatment, it is believed, will restore him to health.

Father Geitl Very Low And Death Expected Soon.

Father Andrew Geitl was still alive at 2 o’clock this afternoon but his condition was such that death was almost momentarily expected.

Christmans Gifts For Bays.

A raincoat, a sweater, mackinaw, tie, suit or overcoat, shirtwaist, make very acceptable gifts.—Hamill & Co.

Landis Savings Accounts.

Start a Landis Savings account at the Firse National Bank. Let me take your order. I will be glad to explain it to you.—Ruth Wood, Phone 444.

W. L. Wood, of Parr, today\made a deal for Mrs. Eva McCurtain, selling her small property in Parr to William H. Myers, Jr., who will occupy it soon after the first of the year. The price paid is $350. Mr. Wood did not charge any commission for making the sale. Nice selection of pure toilet articles, for safe at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Home-made wet mincemeat, 15c a pound at the Home Grocery.

THE WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and Tuesday except for snow flurries this afternoon near Lake Michigan.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1915.

Points Out Inequalities of Uncle Sam’s Mail Service.

Brother Logan, of The Goodland Herald, points out some unreasonable and unfair things in connection with the government’s plan of getting mail to citizen® who are differently situated. His discussion is timely and very proper. The postoffice department is a sort of law unto itself and every postmaster-general who is placed at the helm tries to make reforms that will popularize him. The plans all seem to be at the expenes of the residents of cities and .towns that are too small for free distribution of the mails. • . In all the large cities and in most places of 5,000 people or more there are plans for free mail distribution, the deliveries being from- once to a half dozen times a day. Also in the country there is free distribution of mail, provision being made for parcels post deliveries and collections. The cities and the country favored with free deliveries get them absolutely without cost, but persons who live in the small cities and towns who have to go to the postoffice for their mail are required to pay for the privilege and if they accommodate the postmaster by haring a box they lessen his work and while getting a little more prompt service themselves they pay well for it. Time was a few years ago when a person who had a call box paid 25 cents a quarter for it. The price has been pushed up by steady stages until it reached 45 cents and now an order has been issued increasing the rate to 60 cents a quarter or $2.40 per year. Persons with the lock boxes and drawers pay more. While the -sums they pay will not in the aggregate go very far toward the great expense of carrying the mails, the injustice of the plan is very plain. All who have their mails delivered are exempt from paying and all who have to go to the office after their mails have to pay. Editor Logan thinks that the injustice could be corrected by declining to rent the boxes, but The Republican is not much in sympathy with any plan of boycott. A belter method, it would seem, would be to petition members of congress, pointing out the inequality. 'Surely none can fail to see that the plan is unfair and should demand correction. Whether t be for free mail boxes or for some expense to those who now get their mails free, in order to proportion the expense, we do not know, but it is a topic worth consideration by the law

John Q. Lewis Sold Three Draft Mages to Crouch & Son.

John <Q. Lewis last week sold to Crouch & Son, the Lafayette horse importers, three draft mares. Two of these he had purchased about four years ago of the Crouch firm. The third was a 2-year-old mare that weighed over 1600 pounds and was one of the finest, if not the very finest, ever raised in the county. In the sale this mare figured at S9OO, which is probably the highest price ever paid for a mare bred and raised in Jasper county. The mares are / all Belgian stock, the oMer ones having been imported.

Masons Take Notice. Next Monday evening, Dec. 20th, is election of officers for the ensuing year. Members please be present at 7:30. This is also the time to pay lodge dues. Please be prepared to pay same.—Harvey Wood, Jr., Secretary. It will pay you to “get Hamillized” even if you don't get the Ford. Orlen Grant and wife returned to Hammond Saturday. He is feeling better each day and his relatives noticed* a marked improvement in his condition while here. Wayne Clouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clouse, who lives in Omoha, Neb., will receive The Semi-Weekly Republican for the ensuing year, a Christmas gift from his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Catt, who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Frank Wood, on their ranch near Billings, Mont., for several weeks, are expected home within a few days. The last word their son, Dr. Catt, had from them was that they expected to start home yesterday, the 19th. E. G. Sternberg came down from Chicago yesterday and today made a trip to the dredge, which is now in the neighborhood of the George Ade farm. Ed very kindly asked the editor to go out with him and have a dredge dinner but the invitation had to be declined because the editor was busy. A Jim Parker was here Saturday for a short stay, returning that evening to Frankfort. He plans to return to Portland, Oreg., soon, although he may postpone going until spring. He has been engaged in painting steel and iron there for some time but business has been slack the past two years. An improvement is expected in the spring.

M’CRAY CAN LEAD PARTY TO VICTORY

Discussiknts With Republicans From Over the State Convincing That He is Best Candidate. Republican victory year is promising and if any of the four or five active candidates for governor are named, success should ensue, but to assure a reunited party from Michigan to Kentucky and Ohio to Illinois, there is only one course open and that is to nominate for governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, of Kentland. During the past week tha editor of The Republican has been in Indianapolis twice and in the extreme north part of the state once and has talked with republicans .who have felt the pulses of the public and who know 7 beyond any doubt what is the right thing to do to secure success at the polls next November and to permanently cemenU the party so rent by errors three Jyears ago. Not to discredit any of the other candidates, with two of whom the writer is well acquainted and whose long and faithful party affiliations and their great abilities qualify for any high office, we are convniced that the party can not be fully reunited with them as the standard bearers. Party unity is of the greatest importance this year. Former progressives as well as all republicans know that the Wilson administration has failed signally to meet the requirements of the nation. They realize that there must be a restoration of the tariff on many articles in order to provide for the operation of factories that were compelled to close because the American standard of wages could not be maintained in competition with the same class of factories in foreign countries. • They are alike dissatisfied with conditions in this state, where extravagance in management and the creation of new offices necessitated an increase in the state tax levy and the county levy too. Thinking alike and both anxious first of all to defeat democracy in state and nation they are still prepared to make some demands in the way of candidates and issues. There is one man who will meet every requirement and that is Warren T. McCray. Of ideally clean personal life, he has pursued a course so admirable in its industry and business conduct that he has made a fine success of everything he has undertaken and while growing big in a business way he has also had interests that have brought him into touch with people from all iver the state and they have recognized in him the qualities essential in a candidate who is to be elected on a promise to restore republican (business management in Indiana. While it is not planned to play up to the voters the fact that Mr. McCray has been a world success as a Hereford cattle breeder, this fact has proven that he has capacity for making a success of any business in which he engages and it has been the means of making him acquaintances throughout the state who will be active in securing him the nomination and election. It is noticeable in this connection that pledges of support are coming from these men and that they are not only republicans and progressives but demoprats who are restive under the yoke of bossism. For years there has been a hope that there might be named a candidate who was distinctly a businessman and neither a politician nor aligned with party bosses to whom the candidate had to pledge subservience and patronage in order to get nominated and elected. Tom Marshall was named by the democrats as such a cadnidate, bu/t he went over entirely to the old gang. Samuel M. Ralston had never been closely aligned with the bosses until he realized that to secure the nomination he must depend on the Taggart machine. In his case the nomination was delivered, a rent republican party elected him and Taggart and his crowd have controlled the patronage and have handed it out to the faithful in big chunks at the expense of the taxpayers. The democrats are getting ready again to name just such a candidate. It is John A. M. Adair, of Portland, unquestioned part of the Taggart machine and certain to follow in the footsteps of Marshall and Ralston in matters of extravagance in administration. State Chairman Will H. Hays has removed every vestige of bossism from the republican party of Indiana. He has made it a party of the people and there is no hand dictating nominations or issues. The machinations of olden years are buried by popular demand. The people hold the reins. Gradually the voters are being brought to the point of , nominating their candidates and (the name of Warren McCray stands over and above all as the man not only to unite the party and bring victory at the polls but'who possesses the business capacity to steer the ship cf state as a great business enterprise and not as the champion of hungry poliIn J**per county every vote should go to Warren T. McCray and we feel that 1b will receive item with almost

No Doubt Some of your friends who haye joined Our Landis Christmas Savings Club Are saving their money to buy presents FOR YOU •* ■ ’ • ■’ . Are YOU using the same foresight and precaution? Don’t let the holidays come and find you unprepared Have the money te enjoy Christman as you like to enjoy it. Make it a Sure Tning. BECOME A MEMBER AT ONCE You can easily keep up the weekly payments in one or more classes. WE INVITE YOU.. First National Bank 4F Rensselaer, Indiana

Christmas Gifts For Men.

Silk neckwear, mufflers, initial handkerchiefs, collar bags, cuff buttons, stick pins, watch guards, bath robes, smoking jackets, shirts, all packed in beautiful gift boxes. Hamill & Co. We extend to our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We want to thank you for the splendid patronage of 1915. We shall continue to give you the very beat service possible. Eight years odt-ex-perience has helped up to ibuy the very best the market offers. We will not be open for business on Saturday, which is Christmas, and we ask that you let us have your orders early this week. With deepest appreciation we are, Yours very truly, HAMILTON & KELLNER. Be sure and order some of that good homemade bread, doughnuts and other baked goods.—Mrs. John Frey, Phone 636. Aside from slippery streets aid pavements this is about all that could be desired in the weather line and the crisp air is invigorating and the greeting of friends calls for an exchange of favorable comments about the weather. It is real wniter weather, however, and since Thanksgiving there has been snow and ice about all the time. Very little snow, however, has fallen at a time and of some ten small snows the aggregate would not amount to over two nr three inches.

this unanimity. Persons writing letters to relatives and friends in other parts of Indiana, can materially aid the candidacy of Warren T. McCray by saying a good word for him. He has the disadvantage of lacking acquaintance with many who have been party workers, and this can be overcome by the activity of his friends. The primary is only a little more than two months away. It is important that the. intervening time be employed by boosting McCray’s Candidacy with all vigei. Suppose you write a few letters during the holidays. They will bring thousands of votes on March 7th.

The Osborne Floral Company

can supply you with cut flowers, potted plants, baskets for cut flowers and plants, crepe paper, holly, boxwood, mistletoe, etc. Potted plants in bloom for 10. cents to SI.OO. Cut flowers at Hie lowest market price. Christmas trees. Wreaths fifteen cents up according to grade. We also carry a full line of the best candies, nuts and nut meats. English walnuts, fi’bertsj almonds, in shell, 20 cents pound.. . '

OSBORNE FLORAL CO Telephone 439. We Deliver

Fair Oaks Sunday Schools to Give Christmas Entertainment.

The Christian church Sunday school of Fair Oaks -will hold its Christmas entertainment on Friday evening, Dec. 24th, at the church. The entertainment will consist of tableaus, pantomines, readings, etc., and Oliver Brouhard, the Monon signal maintainer, is rigging up an electrical display for the occasion. The Methodist Sunday school will hold its entertainment this week also, probably Thursday or Saturday night.

Xmas Gifts For Men.

Bath robes, smoking jackets, neckwear 50c to sl, silk hose 50c, initial handkerchiefs 10c to 25c, hats, caps, a suit or overcoat, umbrella, suit case, traveling bag, shirts 43c to $2.50. Hamill & Co.

Marriage Licenses.

Edward Lawrence Hershman, born June 27, 1898, residence Wheatfield, occupation farmer, first marriage, and Lillian Josephine Wallace, born Dec. 21, 1885, residence Stoutsburg, second marriage, first dissolved by death April 10, 1908. Ernest A. Cook, bom Jasper county, Ind., Dec. 18, 1892, residence McCoysburg, and Myrtle Henrietta Poole, bom BcCoyeflrarg, Ind., Dec. 13, 1895, residence McCoysburg, first marriage for each. The Catholic bazaar and suppers last week netted a total revenue of $626, almost all of which was clear money. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill went to Chicago today on a shopping trip. Fresh peanut brittle every day at Bever’s candy store. Home-made. Petty stealing at the school houses continues. Last Saturday girls in the domestic science classes gathered at the intermediate building to make candy for sale and it was placed in one of the rooms and locked up. This morning, however, seven batches of the candy were missing.

Nut meats, English walnuts 55 cents, black walnuts 50 cents, hickory nuts 60 cents, pecans 60 cents, U* monds 50 cents per pound. Bananas 15 cents dozen. Oranges 30 cents dozen. Grape fruit 5 cents each, 50 cento dozen. We still handle the best fresh atol smoked fish the market affords. Booth’s celebrated oysters at 45 cents per quart. Oyster crackers.

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