Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1916 — Page 1

No. 33.

PRINCESQ THEATRE 0 TONIGHT Universal Prize, Romantic Drama in 3 parts featuring The Favorite Cleo Madison in “THE FASCINATION of the FLFUR DE LIS” a wonderful picture produced in a lavish manner also Joker Comedy “A Millionaire for a Minute’* Admission 10c, Sc. 7 o’clock

FIRE DESTROYS HOME LAUNDRY

One of Oldest Buildings at the State Soldiers’ Home is Wrecked By Flames—Fully Insured.

Lafayette Journal. Fife, thought to have originated in crossed wires, completely destroyed the laundry building at the state soldiers’ home shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. The building, a one-story brick building, was a mass of smoldering ruins within a short time, and it was only the valiant efforts 'of the home fire department that saved the nearby buildings. All the clothes in the laundry were lost, although a part of those in the clothes store, which was in the same building, were saved from ihe flames. The building was one of the first erected at'the home in 1895 and cost approximately SIO,OOO. The loss is entirely covered by insurance. The brick walls fell at about 1 o’clock and the firemen turned their efforts to the carpenter, paint and plumbing shop, w 1 ich was endangered, but saved fiu '. the flames.

We can order your engraved calling cards at this office.

/Get a Can / TO-DAY HWW / From Your / Hardware \ j or Grocery Dealer\ WRESTLING Ed Longstreth of Parr VS Vic Michaels Ellis Theatre Thursday, Feb. 10 8:30 p. m. Admission 25c

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The Evening Republican.

COMPROMISE ASKED BY TELEPHONE CO.

Promise All-Metallic Lines, Supervisor In Office and First-Class Service If Accepted. Charles J. Murphy, member of the Public Service Commission of Indiana, who had expected to hear the appliaction for an increase in rates by the Jasper County Telephone Co., is ill with the grip and unable to conduct the hearing, and he sent in his place Miller Kent, of Brookston, who is employed on the commission and who has heard a number of cases before. Mr. Kent was accompanied here by Miss Moore, a stenographer, and C. Arthur Tuteur, of this city, also employed on the commission. There were quite a number of persons, largely patrons of the telephone company, at the court house when the members of the commission arrived on a belated train. Mr. Kent stated at the opening that the commission had suggested that a compromise might be effected and embodied in his statement a mention of the fact that the commission had been advised that service in the past had not been satisfactory. As soon as Mr. Kent had made his statetnent W. H. Parkinson, who is being aided in a legal way by Edward P. Honan, made a proposition of a compromise. It was substantially as follows: The company has spent from $lO,000 to $15,000 in rebuilding its‘plant in Rensselaer and now has substantially 200 of the telephones on full metallic circuit. The company will be willing if permitted to charge $1.25 per month to all who have had the metall’c service installed. They will also establish a 4-party service on all metallic lines and for the party line phones charge $1 per month. If permitted to do this they will employ a supervisor for the girls in the central office and guarantee good service. Attorney Halleck, who appeared with George H. Healey, of The Republican, for the telephone patrons, stated that he was not clothed with authority to compromise and that he would like a little time to discuss the matter with patrons. It was suggested that the hearing be continued until 1:30 o’clock and that the patrons present and those who represent the patrons, generally discuss the matter ondthis was done, the telephone menand their counsel and J. K. Johnson, an Indianapolis engineer, withdrawing. The matter was discussed at some length and it was decided to make an offer of a continuance until the proposition of compromise be discussed at a mass. meeting with the subscribers and if the postponement was not granted then to proceed with the case. This proposition was made to Mr. Kent when the hearing was reconvened at 1:30 o’clock.

Halibut, lb2oc Catfish, lb • • • •^® c Pike, lb Pickerel, lb. '•J® c Herring, lb•"’'J? Smoked white fish, lb. 15c Smoked halibut, lb.2nc Fresh fish on hand at all times at the Osborne Floral Company, telephone b 39.

Commencing Monday, Feb, 7, and for one week only, taken from our regular stock of 10c canned goods, and every can guaranteed ;1 can of a kind or assorted: 4 cans sweet com -25 c 4 cans string beans 25c 4 cans sweet tender peas 25c 4 cans baked beans in tomato sauce 25c 4 cans Snyder’s tomato soup .... .25c 4 cans hominy .25c 4 cans sauerkraut .~.®e Try some of our nice smoked Finnan Haddies. . JOHN EGER - - - Phone 54.

February 15—William Rainey Bennett « March 29—Columbian Entertainers. All kinds of feed for sale by Hamilton & Kellner.

FRESH FISH.

Lyceum Course Dates.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1916.

KAISER’S 5TH SON VICTIM OF A SHELL

Prince Oscar Slightly Wounded In Head and Thigh During Battle On Eastern Front. Amsterdam, Feb. 7.—Prince Oscar of Prussia, fifth son of Emperor William, has been slightly wounded in the head and on the upper part of the thigh by shell splinters during the fighting in the eastern war theatre. Prince Oscar was wounded at Viriton, Belgium, in September, 1914. He was ill for a long time and was declared to be suffering also from an affection of the heart. He returned to duty in the field in November, 1914, and narrowly escaped capture the following month during the fighting in Poland.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Fred Phillips kindly brought his new Edison diamond point talking machine to the high school Friday morning and the following program w'as rendered: • • Hungarian Rhapsodic No. 2, Liszt. “Since the Day,” from Charpentier’s “Louise,” Anna Case. Humoresque, Dvorak, violin solo, Isidore Mogkowski. “O Paradise,” from Myerbeer’s L’ Africana, Guiseppe Anselmo. Serenade, Titlo, stringed quartet. “Wait Till the Clouds Roll £y”. Palmer, tenor and contraloto duet. The students were very appreciative and wish to thank Mr. Phillips forhis courtesy. The senior class held a meeting Friday evening to perfect plans for the senior reception. Friday evening, Feb. 18th, was the date selected. It will be held in the armory and will consist of a short program, light refreshments and a dance. The following committees were appointed: Refreshments, Margaret Babcock, Evelyn Freeland and Marian Meader. Music; Carl Eigelsbach and Emmet Hollingsworth. Entertainment, Helen Leatherman and Margaret Norris. Decorations, Ross Lakin, Elvyn Allman, Maud Elder, Lucille Luers and Wilda Littlefield. These committees will make their various reports at the next meeting of the class Wednesday evening. The following program will be given at the high school Thursday afternoon: Piano Trio, Helen Parkinson, Thelma Martindale, Cornelius Leonard. “Leak in the Dyke,” Phoebe Carey, Vera Healey. Essay, .“Women of Holland, Life and Occupation”, Iva Poole. Piano Solo, Leila Paulus. “The Race”, Harry Moore. “A Picture,” Longfellow, Willard Zea. Piano Solo, Alice Thomas. The public is cordially invited to these .literary meetings. Dr. Ellis, formerly president of Vincennes University, addressed the high school Monday morning in a brief but splendid talk to which the entire school gave their whole interest and attention. The subejet of the lecture was the attitude with which the boys and girls of today face life. The high school is fortunate in having had Dr. Ellis speak. The commercial department is efficient enough that the pupils are writing letters, reports, copies, etc., for the school. • Mr. Coe and the poultry class went to Lafayette Friday to visit the Purdue poultry farm. Saturday forenoon they visited the Crouch stock farm. In the afternoon they went through the university shops, etc., being treated with much courtesy. In the evening they saw Ohio State defeat Purdue 25 to 19. They returned to Rensselaer Sunday morning thoroughly pleased with the visit. The junior German Mass has finished Keysets “Das Madchen von Treppi” and will begin Schiller’s “William Tell.” 1 ' * There will be held at the high school a carnival Saturady, Feb. 26. The receipts will go to the Chaos. The first draft of the senior themes are due Feb. 25. .The themes are local in character. This is caused by this. year being the centennial year of the state. The senior English class is reading Poe’s Prose Tales and after finishing will make a critical study of Hawthorne’s “Twice Told Tales.” The sophomore English class has finished Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and will commence on Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” The Virgil class is on the third The physics, class is studying heat. They have just finished studying sound. They will be on the study of heat for the next two or three weeks.

Headquarters For Dodge ano Cneviolet

Agencies will henceforth be located at Renselaer garage. Call and see them. ' ■

Phone 7 and call for our B. B. range co al .—Harrington Broa. Co.

VILLA TO ATTACK CHIHUAHUA CITY

Residents Fear Bandit’s Purpose— Pancho Omits Shaving Until He Has Captured That Town. Ed Paso, Tex,, Feb. 7,—Fears that Chihuahua City will be attacked by forces led by Francisco Villa are general in that city, according to persons reaching here today from the south. Among the reports circulated in the city, they said, was one that Villa has vowed not to shave until he can do so in Chihuahua City. Ranchers in the vicinity of Santa Clara are said to have brought this story to the caprttlT * A nurtflier of foreignersare preparing to leave for the U. 'S. as soon as they are assured of adequate protection. r Military dominated the capital. The police force consisted of eight men and was disarmed a week ago after a Carranza general, taking exception to the impounding of two horses, shot and killed two policemen. Beyond the sending of 250 soldiers to Sauz, the scene of the murder of General Arnelas by Villa followers, at the' hold up of a train from Juarez a week ago, nothing has been done in Chihuahua City to aid in pursuit of Villa.

FOES UNITE TO BOOST WAR BILLS

Speaker Clark and Representative Mann Fight Side By Side In Support of Defense.

Washington, Feb. 7 Clark and Republican Leader Mann fought side by side in the house today for an adequate national defense. With party lines obliterated, most of the members followed their leaders an<l two navy measures passed without a dissenting vote. One, to provide for adding three hundred midshipmen to the entering class at Annapolis next July, passed 173 to 0, and the other, to equip navy yards for construction of battleships 43 and 44, passed without a roll call. Mr. Mann tried to put the antipreparedness advocates on record by calling for a division on the naval academy bill, but there were no negative responses. The appearance of Speaker Clark on the floor to champion preparedness measures aroused wide interest. Rumors persisted that he wpuld take active charge of the fight to increase the army and navy. Majority Leader Kitchen having joined the opposition.

STOPPED FUNERAL TO QUENCH FIRE

Brushwood Church Caught On Fire While Funeral Was Being Held For Charles Campbell. Tj * * As the funeral of Charles Campbell was bejhg held this Tuesday morning at the Brushwood United Brethren church at Aix, fire was discovered in the church roof. The flue at the church rests on a rafter and the pipe enters the flue at the rafter and touched it and set- it on fire. The service was just started when the fire was discovered and the service was at once suspended and a volunteer company was organized and getting water from the church and school house pumps, the fire was extinguished without serious loss, and then the funeral service was resumed. •

DOING THEIR DUTY

Scores of Rensselaer Readers Are Learning the Duty of the Kidneys. To filter the blood is the kidneys’ duty. When they fail to do this the kidneys are weak. Backache and other »kidney ills may follow; Help the kidneys do their work. Use Doan’s Kideny Pills—the tested kidney remedy. ■' Rensselaer people endorse their worth. Nelson Randle, N. Main St., Rensselaer, says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills at different times when suffering from a lame and aching back and other symptoms bf disordered kidneys. I got this medicine az Fendig’s Drug Store. Relief soon followed its use and the backache and other kidney ailments were removed. I do not know of a case where Doan’s Kidney Pills have failed to prove of benefit” Price 50c, at aH dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s. Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Randle had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

We have plenty of northern sandgrown potatoes. home grocery.

SUPREME OFFICER AT COUNTY MEETING

Fred E. Wheaton Accepts Invitation To Be Here Tuesday to Attend Knights Gathering. If every member of the Knights of Pythias in Jasper county could get here Tuesday afternoon and evening of next week, Feb. 15th, to attend the county meeting of that order, then Jasper county would win the prize offered for the best county meeting in the state, and every member would toe well rewarded by meeting the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, Fred E. Wheaton, of Minneapolis, who will have with him the Bible which the mother of Justice Rathbone gave him almost seventy-five * years ago and which he as the founder of the order of Knights of Pythias used when the rank of page was given to the first young man who ever took the obligation. County Chairman Davenport, who is working energetically to make the meeting a big success, received an acceptance from Mr. Wheaton Monday. He will be here positively. The page rank candidates who are to take the work next Tuesday evening, will make their obligations before the historic old Bible and the impressive ceremony will be even more impressive on that account. Thursday evening of this week a number of Knights are going over to Remington to put on the Knight rank for that lodge and all who have taken part in third degree work are asked to accompany the team.

“Arizona Players” Ousted From Monticello Theatre.

Monticello Journal: The vaudeville troupe, advertising themselves as the “Arizona Palyers,” appeared for one consecutive performance at the Mathews theatre last night and then moved on, at the request of Manager Mathews, who refused to inflict the talent on his patrons another night. The acts were sq bad that they were funny and nobody who was there last night can say that he didn’t get his money’s worth, for everybody laughed heartily, not at the comedy, but the attempt to make it comedy. It was so rotten it was good. Manager Mathews said this morning that he had no apology to make. “I was stung the same as other people and that’s all there Is to it.” But it was some show —not.

Miss Bethel Arnold is sick with a bad attack of grip.

Mrs. Rice Porter will entertain the sew club at her home Thursday afternoon of this week.

Vannie Arnold went to Kokomo today for a few days’ visit and to attend the wedding of a friend.

Talk to us about your coal; we have something to tell you about our coal. —Harrington Bros. Co.

Members of the D. T. T. D. L. (Duvall’s Thirty-Third Degree Loafers) will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Reed this evening at a 6 o’clock dinner.

A very nice lot of Cyclomen plants that formerly sold at SI.OO, are now priced at 50 cents each to make room for Easter plants.—J. H. Holden.

Miss Aileen Allman returned to Northwestern University today after a short vacation between semesters with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman.

John Ward, of Roselawn, returned this morning from a trip to Lafayette to consult with John F. Judy, for whom he has been buying stock for the Judy farm near Roselawn.

Virgil Denniston went to Chicago today to remain until Wednesday. From Chicago he will go to Bozeman, Mont., where he has been employed in a barber shop for the past several months.

R. Lyle Constable, of Goodland, who is seeking the republican nomination for representative of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties, was a Rensselaer visitor yesterday and is making an active campaign over the district.

Just received a fresh supply of smoked whitefish, luncheon herring, lake herring, Irish mackerel, codfish, fish flakes, Booth’s sardines. HOME GROCERY.

Six Bedford, Ind., druggists have had their licenses revoked following an investigation, which showed that they had been selling Hquor illegally. One hundred witnesses were examined.

An appeal has been made by the charity board for bed clothing for the Bowser family, which has been afflicted with the smallpox, consequently being forced- to destroy all their bed clothing. Anyone having any old bedclothing would confer a favor by leaving it either at the Bowser home dr by taking it to the court house.

THE REX THEATRE Tuesday’s Special “THE OLD SIN” A 3 part society drama featnriag June Keith and John Lorenz, John Cossar and others “When the Wires Crossed”A strong original political drama Politician Take Notice A really good comedy with a realplot “The Cello Champion” Tuesday Night at The Rex

Proceedings of February Term Of Commissioners' Court.

The county commissioners met in regular session Monday and rushed the business through, adjourning that evening. The following business was transacted: Fred Baier et al, petition for srtone road. Report filed January 29th presented. Expense account as set out in report allowed. Cause continued for filing supplemental report. Thomas M. Callahan et al. Petition for stone road. Myrt B. Price appointed engineer, W. V. Porter, Frank J. Babcock and Joe Thomas, viewers, to report at March term. King-Lawler ditch. Superintendent reports sale of ditch. W. Frank Osborne asks extension of time, and is granted to July 1,. 1916. George F. Meyers et al. Petition for ditch. Wm. Michaels, drainage commission, is disqualified on account of relationship to some of the interpointed in his place. Interest on county funds for month of January was reported as follows: First National Bank $122.53; Trust and Savings Bank, $60.88; State Bank of Remington, $63.32; State Bank of Rensselaer, $55.30; Bank of Wheatfield, $16.78. The usual number of claims were allowed.

Union Service.

. The union service at the Christian church was well attended last night. The main audience room was well filled with earnest Christian people. While we would have been pleased if both rooms had been filled, the value of the service to the community cannot be determined by numbers. All the resident pastors were present and Rev. J. Budman Fleming, of the Presbyterian church, preached a very interesting and appropriate sermon. It was fitting that at the first of a series of union meetings our attention should be so helpfuly called to the great thought of union in a divided Christiandom. 'the audience followed the thought of the sermon with helpful reactions. The offering of the evening was given to the charity board and the people responded with a liberal sum for this worthy community service.

DENTAL NOTICE. During my absence in Florida my office will be closed. I expect to return about Feb. 20th. —H. L. Brown, Dentist. - <0 We have a nice, clean burning lump coal at U-00 per tom—D. K. Grow. If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg do it. Phone 621 COAL For the range Jackson Hill and Rex Egg. For the furnace, Egg Anthracite, Sovereign Lump and Pocahontafc For the baseburner Scranton Anthracite, Nut and Stove. King Bee, Kentucky Block. Grant-Warner Lumber Co. Phone 458 ‘ . a : • a.

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