Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1916 — Page 1

No. 23.

PRINCES Q THEATRE U Rensselaer Quality House ‘SUCH A PRINCESS’ 3 parts ‘ IN DAYS OF OLD WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD” A Fairyland Romance featuring Miss Elsie Albert, a picture especially for the -children, but which .grownups will enjoy as well. Also a Joker comedy “THE LOOSE ROLL” With Max Asher Coming tomorrow, Mary Fuller in “Lil’ N«r’ Wester’" Prices 5 and 10 Cents.

Rensselaer Receives 37 to 16 Trouncing at Monticello.

Rensselaer high school basketball team was defeated at Monticello Wednesday afternoon 37 to 16. This was the second straight defeat for the locals. Monticello was in better trim than the locals, who were handicapped by playing on a foreign floor. Brook high school will play the locals at the high school gym Friday afternoon. Schleman’s Angus and Shorthorn cows and heifers are just what you are looking for. You can buy them Feb. 1. | Trinity M. E. church will hold a reception Monday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Fell and Mrs. Lee. A program will be given from 7:30 to 8. The many organizations in the church with which they have been so closely allied unite in giving this reception, who which everyone is invited.

The box social given by the ladies at the parochial school hall last evening was a financial as well as a social success. The ladies showed the leap year -spirit and bought boxes the same as the men. They became so enthused that Ed Kanne, the auctioneer-, had a great time keeping them from bidding against themselves. A very good time Was had by all and over $35 realized. W. A. Davenport’s class in the Christian Sunday entertained Mrs. Lem Huston’s class at a dinner party Wednesday; evening. There were twenty-two present besides some pf the older folks, including the two Sunday school teachers, and Mrs. P. W. Clarke, J. N. Leatherman and Rev. McDaniel. After the dinner there were some pleasant toasts and .then games were played for some ■time and all had a delightful time.

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

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The Evening Republican.

Another Wolf Drive Is Planned For February 4.

A Medaryville dispatch tells of a wolf drive that is to take place oh JFeb. 4th, which is Friday of next week. The message states that .Charles W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, and Ben Turner, Trustee R. E. Davis, Frank Hirshpian, George Miller and other hunters are managing the drive. It says that Chicago motion picture men have agreed to be present and make pictures. The article, which seems to be considerably overdrawn, says that at least two thousand men and boys are expected to take part and that the area to be surrounded will be equal to two townships. The lines are to be formed at 9:30 and all will be in readiness for the start at 10 o’clock. Hot lunch will, says the dispatch, await the hunters at the roundup. . . ' ' The article-launches into a little effort at sensationalism that makes it somewhat objectionable when it speaks of the wild swamps and timber regions of northern Jasper county and tells how the wolves have .been preying upon the flocks and poultry of the scattered farmers until they have called for relief. It takes about that sort of sensationalism to get space in a city newspaper but we feel just a little resentful because it is not true. There are no wild swamps and woods in northern Jasper and the wolves are far from extensive. The last round-up failed to locate any. It is .believed there are some and the hunters 'hope to locate them on the next drive, but the hunt is organized more particularly for the sport than for any other purpose and we don’t want persons living in other parts of the state and in Chicago to get the idea that there are sections of northern- Jasper county that are wastes and valueless. When the hunters gather for the drive they should price some of the land in the “wild and wooly” section of Indiana and they will find that it is worthy of a better reputation than some are trying to give it.

Jackson Township Farmers To Hold Institute at Mt. Ayr.

The Jackson Township Farmers’ Institute will be held at Mt. Ayr, Friday, Feb. 4th, 1916, at the Methodist church. The following program will be carried out.

Friday Morning—10 O’clock.

Music. Prayer by Rev. Hoover. Soil conditions and soil improvements, by R. L. Thompson, Topeka, Ind.. Discussion. The intelligent appreciation of the farmer wife’s mission, by Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Newburgh, Ind. Adjournment. Dinner, served by the church ladies. Afternoon Session—l:3o O’clock. Music. Song by high school. More and better live stock, and the poor man’s opportunity, by R. L. Thompson. General discussion. - The boys and girls —of the farm, by Mrs. Lewis Taylor. Come, let us have a good time. CHARLES W. FLEMING, Chairman.

BASKETBALL Rensselaer H. S. vs Brook H. S. Game starts promptly at 7:15 p. m., and will be through in time for the elcture at the Presbyterian church. FRIDAY JAN. 28 Admission 25c Z.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916.

Man Who Impersonated B. J. Gifford Poes to the Pen.

Valparaiso Vidette: Charles Luther Warren, alias Perry Hull, alias B. J. Gifford, the “man of millions,” who fleeced several Ft. Wayne merchants out of large sums of money by cashing fake certificates of deposit, and deluded Beulah Youse, of that place, into forsaking. her worthy sweetheart, a struggling college student, and marrying him instead, and was arrested here by Officer James Lyons, of the Pennsylvania force, was brought up before Judge Eggeman at Ft. Wayne Wednesday afternoon, and in exactly six minutes after being presented in the court room, Warren walked out with the sheriff, sentenced to five years at Michigan City, ajjd to pay a SIOO fine. H. L. Somers, “pauper attorney; appeared for Warren and endeavored to prove his insanity, but several witnesses testified they believed he was rational. .Sam Wolf, of the firm of Wolf & Dessauer, testified that Warren passed a phoney check for S4O in the store, and Mrs. Youse, mother of Warren’s deluded wife, who has not yet obtained an annullment of her marriage, appeared and testified that he had spoken of his $140,000 annual royalties from the Knight motor and of the details leading to the marriage. It was her opinion that Warren was sane. After receiving his sentence, Warren arose and expressed the opinion that he was being treated unjustly. Judge Eggeman silenced him after Warren had gone through meaningless gestures and statements, and ordered him removed from the court room. Warren’s wife did not appear in the court room.

Need a Candidate Who Can Get All the Votes.

The Republican party this year needs a candidate who can get all the votes of republicans and former progressives. It is no time to speculate on the hope that progressives will flock back penitent and with bowed heads. That they are coming back there can be no doubt, ‘but they are coming as they should come, with heads erect and fully determined to demand full rights in organization, the making -of paltforms and the naming of candidates. In Warren T. McCray is a candidate that not only republicans of all time can support but whom the progressives can and will also support and in whom are combined the qualities of ideal citizenship as well as availability as a candidate. If republicans desired solely to win they could not in all of Indiana find a candidate that filled the ideals of model candidate more completely than Mr. McCray. We do want success at the polls and at the same time we want our candidate to have capacity, clean life, keen foersight, business integrity, unlimited industry and in Mr. McCray we have a man of proven success as farmer, businessman, banker and at the head of the state agricultural association. ' Confidence in him as a candidate is even excelled in our confidence that he will fill the office of governor of Indiana in a manner to assure to all citizens the best administration possible of the affairs of state. His nomination means that the republicans wil lhave a candidate who will poll 25,000 more votes than any other candidate- possible to name. We want those votes and we will get them if we place at the head of our state ticket the name of WARREN T. McCRAY.

Methodist Church. Sunday school 9:30. Public worship 10:45 a. m. and 7p. m. Preaching by pastor. Epworth League, 6 p. iri. Everybody invited.

The Colton-Markin public sale will be held at the old Joe Parkinson farm, one-half mile west of Pleasant Ridge on Tuesday, February Ist Philadelphia Times—One of the most romantic stories imaginable. Tahan, at Presbyterian church, Friday evening. •» —— ' Fred Phillips and J. W. Shawcross have issued invitations to a motion picture and Edison entertainment to take place Sunday evening at 7:30 at the Princess theatre. John Tudor and wife, of Hartford City, came yesterday to see her father, George W. Tudor, who suffered a stroke of paralysis the day *before. She remained with him, but Mr. Tudor returned to his home today. This is my 28th year as a salesman in ornamental' shade trees, fine shrubbery,. roses and perennials. The best of everything. Money cannot buy any .better. Write me a card or see me in town and let me know your wants.—P. F. Roberts, R. F. t). Nq. 1,

LITTLE BENSON BOY HAD APPENDICITIS

Charity Board Had His Removed to Makeever Hotel Where He Underwent An Operation. The Charity Board, learning that little Jimmie Benson, 9 years of age, was sick with appendicitis in the miserable tented home of his indigent parents, caused him to be taken to the Makeever hotel where he underwent a surgical operation this Thursday morning. It was performed by Dr. Johnson, assisted by Drs. Washbum and Loy. The appendix had •ruptured and an abscess had formed and the case is a quite bad one. The frail lad showed the ecect of the deprivations he has been compelled to suffer and his thin little body indicated that he was almost starved. The father is known as “Shorty” Benson and for some years has lived here part of the time. At present the family are living in a tent and a boat house on the bank of the river. The father works about town as a housecleaner and at odd jobs. The family is the most indigent, probably, in the community, and it might be a good thing if the children, who are said to be bright, could 'be taken from the parents and placed in some institui tion where they could be removed .from the shiftless influences that sur- : round them. A number of years ago when one x>f the children was a baby and there were older ones scarcely able to walk the parents put the baby in an old 4)uggy and started down the railroac} track, stating the intention of walking to Attica. They were gone for a year or two and then came back here. Some years ago the father lived in the marsh section of the northern part of the county. Miss Nell Biggs, a trained nurse, is taking care of the boy.

Now is the time to advertise your pure bred poultry and eggs, your seed oats and seed corn and to put on the market those tilings which are not earning you anything but which may be turned into cash. The Republican furnishes a medium of sale that seldom fails.

Subscribe for Stock z * ’ in the Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association A good safe investment, backed by Rensselaer business men. Start a systematic savings account. Provide a nest egg for a rainy day. Build yourself a home and own it through our building plan off payment. 25 cents a week is the first aid to owning a share. Dividends declared semi- — annually. Ourbookswlllbeopen until Feb. 1 to receive January payments on stock. Inspect our By-Laws. Talk it over with the Secretary at the office of the association in ; the Odd Fellows build- - . • -J- • - . - - * •- -f“ •' . ' • '"'Z’ZZ’3 ■ng. - 3aeE_— ,—. ■ — - : : - B.F. FEN DIG, Pres. D. DELOS DEAN, Sec.

District Meetings of State Tax Board Planned.

County Assessor G. L. Thornton has received a notice of the meetings to be held in the various sections of the state by the state board of tax commissioners. Jasper county assessors will meet at Lafayette on Thursday, Feb. 3rd, at 2 p. m., with representatives from Benton, Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Newton, Parke, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Vermi Ilian, Warren and White. The county assessors are urged to be present and to have as many of the township assessors and deputies attend as possible. The letter concludes by saying: “We are very anxious indeed this year to secure the equalization of taxation between the various classes of property and this can only be done by uniform methods and work between the assessing officers.”

Young Lady Breaks Arm By Fall at Skating Rink.

Miss Olive Pollard,, daughter of Frank Pollard, south of town, fell while skating at the rink Wednesday evening and fractured both bones ol the right arm near the wrist, a Colles fracture. The Satndard Bearers of the Meth'odist church will meet with Miss Helen Parkinson Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. All members are urged to be present. The roads of the county are in a very miserable condition and in many places the stone and gravel roads are cut through and every place there seems to be deep ruts. Heavy hauling and automobie'ls are largely •responsible for the condition. The i heavy hauling law is not enforced as it should be and there is a shameful of it by many farmers. In ■other places officers have arrested violators and the effect has been the breaking up of the practice. Many automobiles have been stuck in the roads and a big touring car was stuck Wednesday afternoon near the C. F. Stackhouse farm, north of town.

AT THE REX THEATRE TONIGHT A Sensational 5 Reel Metro Production featuring Mme. Petrova and Vernon Steel in “THE VAMPIRE” See a thrilling auto plunge from a high cliff. See It If You Can TONIGHT At The Rex

Mrs. Joe Ellis Died .. ; Of Pneumonia This Noon.

Mrs. Joseph Ellis died at noon today, Thursday, of pneumonia. She was the widow of- Edgar Hollin be- - fore she married Mr. Ellis a few years ago. Mrs. John Carmichael is a daughter. Her husband survives. The funeral arrangements have not .been made but it is probable that the funeral will occur Saturday.

THE WEATHER.

Rain turning to snow followed by generally fair weather Friday, except snow in the northeast portion and much colder with a cold wave; southwest to northwest gales.

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