Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1916 — Page 1

No. 19.

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Cloyd Loughry Injured At Monticello Thursday.

In an accident which occurred last Thursday evening on the platform at the Monon station, C. Loughry received a painful scalp wound and was rendered unconscious for a short time. Mr. Loughry had just alighted from the 6:09 Monon train and was walking down the platform toward Broadway when a horse driven by Rufus Ross became frightened at the train and ran up onto the. platform. The wheel of the buggy struck Mr. Loughry and he was thrown violently to the platform, where he lay unconscious. Bystanders carried the injured man to a neabry automobile and he was hurried to his home, where the deep wound in his scalp was dressed by a physician. He was greatly itnproved today and was able to be at his work, although the injury is a very painful one.

Mother of Edward VanArsdel Died At Monon Thursday.

Monon News: Mrs; Mary VanArsde.l died at the home of Mrs. Flora Reberg Thursday at 10:30 a. m. She had been very low with pneumonia several days and her advanced years reduced her chance for recovery. Had she lived till May 9 She would have been 80 years old. She is survived by two sons, Edward, of Rensselaer, and William, of Indianapolis. The arrangements for the funeral had not been made at this writing, (Jut it will be today. ,

Help Your Liver—lt Pays. When your liver gets torpid and your stomach acts queer, take Dr. King’s New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. They purify the blood, give you freedom from constipation, biliousness, dizziness and indigestion. You feel fine—just like you want tp feel. Clear the complexion, too. 25c, at druggists.

Keep in Mind the G. E. Murray Co’s January * Clearance Sale Closing out lines of Men’s and Boys’ Suits and Overcoats. Boys’ flannel shirts, SI.OO quality for • Columbia Wool Blankets, (PC AA $7.50 quality for S'V.Uv Bath Robes, 25 per cent off regular price. Furs at just ’/z regular price. The G, E. MURRAY CO.

O. L. Calkins Leo Worland. CALKINS & WORLAND Funeral /Director# Parton ta Nowels Block across from the postoffice. New combination auto ambulance and funeral car. ■„ Expert servicea piaranteed in all cnse» «ntrnated. to our «re. Mr. Calkins is licensed as funeral director and embalmer in both Indiana and Illinois. Phones 25 or 307 «»»• - - -■

The Evening Republican.

MERCHANTS ELECT NEW SET OF OFFICERS

Decide to Continue Association and Expect to Put On Several Sales This Year.

A goodly number of members of the Rensselaer Retail Merchants’ Association met Friday evening and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: iSam Fendig, president: George* E._ Collins, vice-president; F. D. Burchard, secretary-treasurer, and the following board of directors, Gbo. E. Murray, John Ramp, D. E. Grow, A. F. Long, Nattie Scott, B. J. Jarrette and Milt Roth. The members voted to continue the association and to push things vigorously along the lines that prompted the organization. It is probable that several sales will take place during the spring and early summer and the merchants will try to create a wider desire to “Get It In Rensselaer.”

Cases of Scarlet Fever Cause Quarantine at St. Joe.

A quarantine has been established at St. Joseph’s college because of cases of scarlet fever Just discovered. It is understood that there are a number of cases and that the entire student body has suffered exposure. The cases are being cared for in the infirmary and every effort will be made to head off extension.

First Church of Christ.

Sunday school at 9:30. We have a class for you. Gome and see it. The subject for Sunday morning will be “What It Is to Know God,” and in the evening “The Wages of Sin.”

9:30 Bible school. A class, a teacher and a welcome for all. 10:45 morning worship and sermon, subject, “The Life That Noto Is.” 7, evening worship and sermon. Subject “The Life That is to Come.”' The church needs you and you neeff the church. If you are a stranger or without a church home in Rensselaer, come and worship with us. Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister.

Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Sabbath school next Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Preaching Sunday, Jan. 23rd, morning theme “Christian Toleration,” at 10:45. Evening theme “A Ray of Heavenly Light,” at 7:00. Every member is urged to attend all these services. All who have no church home are cordially invited to worship with us. Everybody welcome. “They who would grow in grace, must love the habitation of God’s house. It is those that are planted in the courts of the Lord who shall flourish, and not those that are occasionally there."—J ohn A. James.

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Most Effectual.

“I have taken a great many bottles of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and every time it has cured me. I have found it most effectual for a hacking cough and for colds. After taking it £' cough always disappears,” writes J. R, Moore. Lost Valley, Ga. Obtainable everywhere. C

SALE PERSONAL PROPERTY.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, that on Thursday, February 10th, 1916, in Newton township, Jasper county, Indiana, at the farm of Henry O. and E. T. Harris, four miles southeast of Mt. Ayr, and- six rnfles southwest of Rensselaer, Indiana, I will offer for sale at public auction, one sorrel gelding, age about 9 years, weight about 1000 pounds, to satisfy and discharge my lien of $60.00 on said hores for care, keeping arid feeding, from April, 1915. Said sale to be at 2 o’clock p. m. <m said day and to be for cash. Said herse is the property of Chester Koons. JAMES A. WHITED.

Phone 7 and call for our B. B. range coal.—Harrington.Bros. Co.

Presbyterian Church.

Baptist Church.

F. H. Beard, Pastor.

RENSSELAER, INDIAN A. ■ SATURTJAY, JANUARY 22, 1916.

MOTHER OF A WEEK TRIES TO SUICIDE

Mrs. Newton Kupke Arose From Sick Bed to Get Revolver and Fire Bullet Into Breast.

Mrs. Newton Kupke, mother of four children, the youngest osly a week old, lies in her bed at Newland in a precarious condition, the result of having fired a bullet from a 32caliberTvers & Johnson revolver into her breast. , The act was committed at about 6 o’clock this Saturday morning. Other members of the family had gone to the dining room for their breakfast and Mrs. Kupke, who is not strong and who was still confined to her bed in consequence of the recent birth, arose and procured the revolver which her husband had kept hid. She placed the muzzle at her breast and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through the body, piercing the left lung and j&st missing the heart, and came out back near the left armpit. —called- and has worked earnestly to save her life. This afternoon he called Dr. Johnson into consultation. It is thought that the poor woman can not live as she was weakened as a result of her confinement. Mrs. Kupke is a woman about 33 age and her mental condition has been bad for some time. She insisted that she had tuberculosis and an examination was made by doctors but a negative return was made each time. Her worry is said to have caused her mental trouble.

JOE WARBRITTON GETS LONG TERM

Youth Who Beat His Mother Fined S2OO By Mayor Spitler—Will Serve Time at Penal Farm. Mayor Spitler Friday afternoon fined Joe Warbritton S2OO and costs, a total of $220. He will be taken to the penal farm Monday to begin a term of 220 days. Joe was accused of beating his mother at Fair Oaks. He was bruoght before the mayor about three weeks ago and fined SSO and costs. The mayor gave him a lecture and suspended sentence but that did not prove sufficient inducement to get Joe to change his ways and he repeated the offense at home in less than two weeks. He probably realizes now that Mayor Spitler was not joking when he told him what to expect if he did not behave himself.

Report of Receipts and Expenses Poultry Association.

Secretary-Treasurer John Webber makes the following report of the receipts and expenditures of the Rensselaer Poultry Association: Beceipta. Advertising in Premium List.. .SIIB.OO Am. Poultry Journal, subs 2.0 U Poultry Tribune, subs Membership Dues, 1916 ....... 56 00 Season tickets sold Door receipts Entry Fees &4.i» Bal. on hand, 1915 2.47 Total 5290.87 Expenditures. Ribbons, R. B. Powers $ 9.20 Printing catalogue, Republican.. 50.00 Silver cups, A. F. Long ..... 11.25 Feed, Hamilton & Kellner, Mill.. 7.25 H A Pickett, judge 39.00 J. Snyder, supt. and janitor .... 12.00 Hall Rent, H. B. Tuteur ........ 25.00 J. Webber, secty. and treas 25.00 ■ Miscellaneous supplies . ■.. • 15.0 s D. Robinson, doorkeeper .... .. . . 8.00 "premiums paid 't>n pouM-ry . 44.59 Total 22 ... •» ...*. . ; ■ rv. $246.97 Total received 1 • ■ -{290.87 Total paid out • ■ .$24b..n Balance oh hand 44.50 JOHN WEBBER. Secretary.

Fresh Fish at Osborne’s Store.

Pickerel ...... • 15c Halibut ....................... 20c Catfish ...... ............... 18c Trout , • • • 18c Yellow Pike 18c We also carry in stock cut flowers, potted plants, candies, etc. —Telephone 439. Miss Alice Thomas wentto Lafayette today to" resume, her Saturday music lessons. Her father, W. L. Thomas, who is now working at Decatur, 111., 'writes that he is well pleased with his work but that there has -been a great amount of sickness there including a number of cases of smallpox. The cases are all isolated

TH* WKaTHXB. ■ , - ■ --7 ' . Fair and colder tonight and Sunday.

COMPLETE STORY OF WOLCOTT TRAGEDY

Father First Used Carbolie Acid In Trying to Take Child’s Life, Then Shot Him Twice.

Ed N. Thacker, city editor of The Monticello Journal, who accompanied Coroner Gable to Wolcott when the first news of the tragedy of Thursday reached that city, wrote the following story of the tragedy for his paper: The present generation at Wolcott will hot outlive the recollection of the bleak, drizzling day in January on which was given, as one sedate per“son put it, “The hardest blow Wolcott has ever had.” He was referring to the finding on Thursday of the mudrered body of handsome little Donald Rich, and beside him th eself-murdered body of his unnatural father, who loved the boy so much in life, it seems, he churlishly took the lad with him on the great adventure into the undiscovered country. “He fairly worshiped the boy,” everybody said, and they gave that as the reason for the father taking the son with him. And while expressing their high regard for the man who was so lately their fellow citizen and friend, they chided him, as they looked into his dead face, for having robbed the mother of her boy. “IT he had only spared Donald,” they sadly said, “it would not have been quite so bad.” The community at Wolcott, ordinarily unruffled by tragedy or scandal, pursuing the even tenor of its way, was thrown into a frenzy of excitement, pain and grief when the awful announcement of the double tragedy was made following the investigation of the town marshal. All else was forgotten by everyone and all minds were centered on the terrible tragedy. Businessmen quit their stores, farmers, apprised of the dreadful happening, came hurriedly to town and in groups stood and discussed the dreadful happening and vainly tried to find a reason that would explain the father’s rash act. The most charitble conclusion arrived at was that he-had become temporarily deranged on account of brooding over business reverses.

The Riches occupied a cozy story and a half cottage on Range street in North Wolcott, and gathered in the yard, when Coroner Gable and the Journal representative arrived, was a crowd of the dead man’s friends and neighbors. Enough to assist the coroner and Undertakier Holdridge were admitted to the house and with nervous tread they mounted the stairs to the death chamber and with horror stricken faces looked upon the awful scene. Strong men, unused to weep, sobbed out their sorrow like tender hearted women as the body of little "DbnaU was first lifted from the bed

to the undertaker’s board where the stains of murder were removed from his face upon which there was the ?happy look of youth. It was then discovered that two bullets had been fired into the lad’s head. One pierced the ear arid made a hole at the base of the skull on the right side. The other bullet hole was about a half inch below the first. The indications were that the father had his arm around the boy’s neck and shoulder when he fired the fatal shot. There were no exterior wounds on the father’s head, but on account of the profusion of blood which formed a pool on the bed where his hfiad reclined it was evident that he had placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth when he fired the shot that ended his life. The finding of a small phial that had contained carbolic acid, and the burned and swollen condition of the mouths of the victims of the murder and suicide very conclusively confirmed an earlier suspicion that the father’s first intention was to kill himself and son by that method. Whether he persuaded the boy to drink the acid, or forced it down his throat, will never be known. Remorsefully stricken, no doubt, by the suffering of the lad after the ack had been administered, the father resorted to the speedier method an< ■with the revolver made assurance doubly sure.

Mrs. Rich and little daughter Lois went to Goodland Wednesday morning to visit witlh her parents. Her mother, who had been spending a few days in the Rich home accompanied them to Goodland. The opinion was generally expressed at Wolcott that their absence from home was all that prevented the annihilation of the entire family. “There is not a doubt in my mind,” one of the neighbors said, commenting on what seemed to be the providential . absence of the wife and daughter, “that Bert would have killed the entire family if they had all been at home.” Two of the brothers- of the deceased grain man, Walter Rich, of GoodJand,. - and Frank Rich, of Kentland, arrived in Wolcott about 3:30 o’clock and it was learned that Mr. Rich had t

TURKEY WINNERS IN JASPER COUNTY

Emmet Pullin and Tom Cain Capture Best Prizes In Chicago Show — . Egg Prices Are High.

Emmet Pullin and Tom Gain, the former with Bronze turkeys and the latter with White Holland turkeys, won first prizes in the Chicago show last week and next spring will receive fancy prices for all the eggs they care to sell. Winning first prizes at the big shows was not a new thing For Mr. Pullin, for he has been in the game for a long time but it was Tom’s first experience and he was surprised as his own splendid success. The Pullin prizes were: First on gobbler, first on hen, first on cockerel and first on pullet in the Bronze turkey classes.The Cain prizes were: First on gobbler and first, and second on hen. He showed but the three turkeys. Mr. Cain booked a number of egg orders at $1 per egg. He will not have any birds for sale this year. Mr, Pullin has a reputation for Bronze turkeys and Barred Rock chickens that extends all over the country and the success of Mr. Cain in the White Holland line will bring added fame to Jasper county as a poultry center. William Hershman, of Walker township, former county commissioner, has made a reputation for himself as a Black Minorca breeder and he won prizes this year at the Indianapolis show but did not exhibit in Chicgo.

Sacred Concert at the M. E. Church Sunday Evening.

A sacred concert will be given at the Methodist church Sunday evening. The services will begin at 7:00 o’clock. The following is the program: Organ Prelude ..........Loesschorn Idylle Dudley Buck Canzonetta Rockwell Mrs. M. D. Gwin. Anthem—The Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away Woodward Choir. Solo—The Earth is the Lord’s.Lynes Mrs. P. C. Cumick. Anthem—Sweet is Thy Mercy. Bamby Ghoir. Solo—The Ninety and Nine. Cam pion Mrs. J. A. Dunlap. Organ Offertory—Evening Song HI A. Matthews Mrs. M. D. Gwin. Duet—l Waited For the Lord.... Mendelssohn Mrs. Harold Barnes, Mrs. J. A. Dunlap. Mrs. E. C. English and Choir. Solo—Come Unto Me Ooenen Mrs. H. L. Barnes. Organ—Marche Solennelle. Lemaigre ~. Mrs. M. D. Gwin.

WAR UPON PAINT

Pain is a visitor to every home and usually it domes quite unexpectedly. But you are prepared for every emergency if you keep a small bottle of Sloan’s Liniment handy. It is the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Simply , laid on the skin—no rubbing required—it drives the pain away. It is really wonderful.

written a letter to his brother Walter Wednesday, in ’yhich he said he was going away and intended to take Donald with him, but would leave Sister (Lois) with Bess. When the awful news was telephoned to Walter and the party started to read the note left by Mr. Rich, he said, “You don’t have to read it; I think I know what it contains.” Mrs. Rich did not arrive in Wolcott until later in the day, and the neighbor ladies had taken the precaution to remove the stains of the terrible tragedy before she was permitted to go into her destroyed home. Mr. Rich was one of the best known men in this section, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Rich of Remington. They survive him, as do also three brothers, J. D. Rich; of Brook; Walter Rich, of Goodlanfl, and Frank Rich, Of Kentland, the latter being the present treasurer of Newton county. The brothers as a company operate a chain of five elevators, the one at WolCott, managed by the deceased, being of the number. Mrs. Rich is a daughter of A- C. Tedford, formerly a Resident of Monticello. While residing here Mr< Tedford clerked in the Taylor Bennett grocery store. From here he went to Remington and formed a business partnership with Wm.Rkh, father of the deceased. He died in a hospital at Indianapolis about a year ago, during an operation Rich has a number of relatives living, in the county and was a cousin of Rev. T. R. Spray, of Frankfort, a former pastor of the Monticello Christian church.

ELLIS THEATRE i . ' . • ' r TONIGHT V 7* ‘ ,l ’ “The Girl of the Whispering Pines” Under the personal direction of the Author, Sherman L. Jones. / Prices 25c, 35c and 50c.

GAVE A MOST EXCELLENT STAGE PERFORMANCE

“Girl of the Whispering Pines” Company Delivered the Goods In Heaping Measure. : the Whispering Pines,” presented here at the opera house last night to a fair sized audience, was one of the best legitimate plays shown here for several seasons. The play is the ever popular melodrama with a likeable hero and heroine, a wicked villain, and the usual happy ending. The lead part, that of Marylee Hammond, the girl, was very aWy played by Miss Theo Johnson. Sherron L. Jones, the author and manager of the play, was effective as Steve Parker, the doughty sheriff, who marries the girl. Donald Hopkins, as the villain and Jack Warburton, H. G. Knabb and Lola Painter in the comedy parts drew their share of the applause from the audience. Every person in the caste played up to his part with enthusiasm and all showed exceptional dramatic ability. While the pat-? 1 ronage at last night’s play was not in keeping with the excellence of the performance the audience was an appreciative one and was generous with its applause. The Premier orchestra, which furnished the music for the evening, also received much favorable comment.

Colds Need Attention.

Internal throat and chest troubles produce inflammation, irritation, swelling or soreness and unices checked at once, are likely to lead to serious trouble. Caught in time Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey loosens the jhlegm and destroys the germs which lave settled in the throat or nose. It s soothing and healing. Pine is angether possess excellent medicinal qualities for fighting cold germs. Insist on Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey. 25c, all druggists.

Where a Dollar is Worth $1.50 At this store right now during our Closing Out Sale of Clothcraft Clothing for men, boys and children. The more you invest the more you make THE G. E. MURRAY CO. CfOAL For the range Jackson Hill and Rex Egg. ; For the furnace, Egg Anthracite, Sovereign Lump and Pocahontas. For the baseburner Scranton Anthracite, Nut and Stove. King Bee, Kentucky Block. Grant-Warner Lumber Co. Phone 158

If it’s let Leo Mecklenburg do it. Phone 621 ;

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