Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — Page 1

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PRINCES Q THEATRE 0 Rensselaer’s Quality House ’ TONIGHT Prize Romantic Drama in 3 Superb Parts “Blood Heritage” Featuring Betty Gray and Gladden James. Blood will tell, says the old adage, and scientists prove that this is literally true. Similarity .of Blood proven by laboratory tests will prove relationship. That is the novel basis for this thrilling play, that for absorbing interest and unexpected developments, ranks high. It is an unusual story, and the love interest is not only there “as you like it,” but it is a )?ig part of the whole plot. Billie Rhodes and Ray Gallagher in A Nestor Comedy “Saved By A Skirt” _ Adm. 10c and sc. 7 O’clock

SPRING MEETING OF PRESBYTERY

Ministers and Laymen of Logansport Presbytery Will Hold Three-Day Session Beginning April 10. The plans for holding the spring meeting of the Logansport Presbytery in Monticello are well under way. The Presbytery will convene on Monday afternoon, April 10th. The Moderator’s sermon will be preached by the retiring Moderator, the Rev. J. C. Parrett, of Hammond, on Monday evening. On Tuesday the routine business of the Presbytery will be taken up,«and at 3:30 p. m. of that day the “Conference on Evangelism” will open, with Dr. Cleland B. McAfee, of Chicago, as leader. Rev. Dr. Terhune, »of Huntingtort, Ind., will also be present, and both of these men will deliver the keynote addresses of the conference on Tuesday evening. Dr. Terhune will continue the conference on Wednesday morning..

Dr. Curnick Married Couple At Parsonage This Morning.

Dr. P. C. Curnick performed a wedding ceremony at the parsonage this morning at 10 o’clock, the contracting parties being Edith May Waling, aged 20, and John Randolph Shields, aged 21. The young couple will reside on a farm about 5. miles south of Rensselaer^

Important.

To those who want shrubs of any kind, plants or shade trees, you will make no mistake by ordering early. I have ordered my first order and-will order again March 15th. I can save you money and the same time you will receive A No. 1 stock. Will be pleased to help you make your selection. Have fine books to order from and a good nursery. At your service any time, J. H. HOLDEN.

Box Social. The Ladies’ Aid will give a box social at McCoysburg Saturday, Feb. 26. Ladies bring boxes. Lyceum Course Dates. March 29—Columbian Entertainers. We will have a carload of bargain spreaders March 1,. 1916.—Hamilton & Kellner. .p basketball Friday Afternoon Feb. 18 at 3tßo o’clock at : a m H.S. Gymnasium MONTICELLO H. j ——lllLpS —'L : . RENSSELAER H. Sthe year. """ * v . Game iB at“3:3o in the afternoon. Admission 25 emits. ~

The Evening Republican.

SAYS HANK GRANGER DRESSED IN SKINS

Chicago Tribune GiVes False- But Amusing Description of Life of Well-Known River Man. . The Chicago Tribune is responsible for the appended article telling of the death of Henry Granger, of Thayer. Like many articles in the city papers so was prepared without much regard to its truth but was written to entertain. * Instead of dressing in skins Granger was always quite well dressed and was a very clean looking and well appearing man. The article is reprinted here because of its untruthfulness. It shows the demand of the public for sensation and the fertile imaginations of the city reporters. The Tribune said: “Fate played a grim prank on the ‘king of the Kankakee river’ yesterday. A figure left over from the days of Daniel Boone, hundreds of wealthy sportsmen in "Chicago, northern Illinois and Indiana knew the ‘king’. At his little shooting lodge 10 miles into the woods from Thayer, Ind., Gen. Lew Wallace, the Studebakers of South Bend, and notables from every part of the middle west had been his guests year after year. He had been hunted and arrested periodically for moonshining, poaching and fishing out of season. Roughly tanned animal skins had been his clothes for fifty years. He lived and fought with his boots on. But on Saturday, for the first time in years, he emerged into civilization to visit his daughter, Mrs. Rosina Haberman, in Hammond, Ind. At night he tore off the boiled collar his daughter had forced on him, close dthe windows to shut out the. clang of the unfriendly street cars, and declared his intention of getting back to the woods for good ‘if he lived unti Imoming.’ And at dawn they found him dead of heart failure, “The ‘king’, his real name was Henry Granger—was a picturesque figure, 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 285 pounds. Although prosecuted repeatedly for various offenses, no jury of Indianians ever would convict him, for his game and fish and the proceeds of his ‘moonshine’ whisky-, always went to his poorer neighbors. Government agents who went to his cabin in the guise of sportsmen usually went away baffled, and frequently the victims of some grim practical joke. “Granger had his lodge fitted up with a few rude bunks and his distinguished visitors always had to sleep as he did —with their clothes on. Many of the notables who had hunted and fished with him are expected at his funeral in Thayer tomorrow.” Of his death The Hammond Times says:

Henry “Hank” Granger, “king of the Kankakee river,” passed into eternity Saturday night and with him went a thousand secrets of the picturesque stream. Hundreds mourn the death of the ante-be Mum character who remained an unchanged pioneer, hunter and fisher, while a moneymad world sped on. In the home of a daughter, Mrs. William F. Haberman, at 317 Thofnton Ave., Granger died of heart failure following an injection by a physician of serum for lagrippe. He had spent a jolly hour with the family after the evening meal and those present assumed his health to be as improved as his spirits. He suffered no pain at death. He was 58 years of age and weighed 286 pounds. He was arrack shot. The huntsman, father dr nine children who survive him, was born out of season. His people passed away fifty years ago. At his home in Thayer he ruled the community with a kindness and only prowling government agents feared him, for on them he played practical jokes that. sos originality have no equal. “Farmers came from miles around to the Granger domicile to have him settle their disputes. The hundreds of geese and ducks he killed were distributed to those in need. No man, woman or child in want was ever denied assistance by Granger. A woman, 80 ygars of age, unable to walk, was taken into the Granger Home and kept until her death. “Up the river 10 rpiles from Thayer, Granger maintained his hunting lodge, and entertained many wealth / sportsmen. It was never proven in onnrt that the host served other than pure spring water. He neither used tobacco or liquor in any form, and did not swear. He was bom in Eagle Creek township and lived in Newton and Lake counties his entire life, doing nothing but hunting and fishing* Many a coon supper was supplied by the hunter, in fact, he only recently. He is survived by his widow. Three of their eleven children are dead. “There were,v Indians around Thayer when Hank Granger was a boy. He changed the channel ■of the river

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1918. '

QUEER ADVERTISING FOR A NEW HIGHWAY

Col. Charles W. Thatcher Travels With Burros Hitched to Dilapidated Old Wagon. i ' v y^T : ---in* If attracting attention is going to do anything toward better roads the method employed by Col. Charles W. Thatcher, of Virginia, will get results. Himself and his burros and his queer little spring wagon have attracted attention in many states and when he struck Rensselaer at about noon today, Wednesday, it was not long until his wagon was surrounded by many curious persons. The driver has much the appearance of the “Arkansaw Traveler.” He gives no exterior indication of the fund of knowledge that he has amassed and when he started to lecture on good roads and to tell the people of his queer method of traveling he surprised those who heard him quite beyond expression. / His little wagon is loaded down with all manner of queer things. Buffalo skulls, deer antlers, the skeletons of wild animals, old tin cans, automobile signs'and a lot of other things, wired and tied together. None things were__placed on the wagon by himself but were put on"by persons along the route he has traveled. They furnish only one purpose, that of .novelty. Col. Thatcher cheerfully submitted to an interview by the reporter. He is making his trips for the Washington Highway Association, of which he is the chief engineer. He is not speeding over the country"in an automobile trying to construct an over-night route, but is going only as.fast as his burrows can take him and then going over the route again and again. He has traveled from Boston to New York and thence to Chicago and Seattle, Wash., and back again. He is now on his way from Chicago to Florida. He goes from here to Monticello, thence to Logansport, Marion, Muncie, Richmond, Hamilton and Cincinnati and thence through Kentucky and across the famous Cumberland Gap into Tennessee and on an almost straight -line to-Fioridar -He-states that the distance is shorter by 126 miles than the Dixie highway. The route he has decided on for the Washington highway is 200 miles shorter from Chicago to Yellowstone Park than any other road. Col. Thatcher is convinced that government aid in the construction -of highways is essential in the solution of the question. He believes that the automobile tax and the federal aid should build the roads without any expense whatever to general taxation. He favors concrete roadways 20 feet wide and says they can be built for about $17,000 per mile, that they are more lasting and better than brick and also cheaper. He says that brick construction has a large element of graft in it. On Feb: 22nd Col. Thatcher is to deliver a good roads address at a meeting at Logansport and a day or two later at Peru. . He has received much publicity along the road and had a roll of newspaper clippings as large around as a stovepipe. The Chicago Tribune last September published a picture of himself and wagon and gave him an extended write-up.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Having formed a partnership with my son, John, to begin Monday; Feb. 21, 1916, we will have to open new books. _ All persons indebted to me will please call and settle their accounts. Under the new management the open accoutn system of credit will be discontinued. But for your convenience, credit will be given by the week or by the monthly coupon system. Thahking you for your liberal pat-* ronage of the past and soliciting the continuance of same, I am Yours Respectfully,

J. J. EIGELSBACH.

Mrs. Edward Taylor and little daughter, of Chicago, and Mrs. Warren Washburn, of Goodalnd, came yesterday for a visit of several days with friends. Try our Classified Column. .•■T ’ many times by cutting boat roads through which the water wouid wear and in the course of ten or ftfeeen years cut off miles of river. A number of months ago all of the members of the Granger family had a reunion at his Home, where he invariably kept :a couple of fat hogs, a good Jersey cow and plenty of chickens. Only a few people knew of a secret cooler in the big ice house on his place. Attorney H. E. Granger, of Hammond, is a nephew.” \

COLUMBUS CLUB HELD ANNUAL BANQUET

Knights Had Ninety-Two at Fourth Annual Affair—Number of Eligibles Were Guests This Year. The Knights of Columbus of Rensselaer, which make up the membership, of the local Columbus Club, held their fourth annual banquet Tuesday night at the parochial school hall, ninety-two covers being laid. The Knights had as guests of honor this year, a number of eligible men for membership, of Rensselaer and surrounding community. Eight members from Kentland were present. Also twenty Knights and their ladies from Lafayette. After invocation by Father Daniels, the Christian Mothers Society served a four-eourse dinner. The songs and toasts followed. The first number was a song by T. J. Connelly, Grand Knight, of Lafayette council. He sang “A Little Bit of Heaven,” and was called back for several encores. Rev. Ernst, of Lafayette, then gave a talk upon the true ideals of Knighthood, which greatly all present. Frank Meyer, formerly of this place, -then told the local members about the great work the order was accomipilshing in the state of Illinois. He also pleased the crowd by telling several witty stories and jokes. Mr. Meyer is ex-grand knight of Danville, 111., and also district deputy of that section of the state. Miss Ruth Wood then sang several songs in he* usual pleasing manner and responded to a number of encores. Father Wagner, D. D. of St. Joseph College, then spoke on “The Knights of Columbus and Education,” and told of the perpetual scholarships which the Knights had established in the Catholic University of Washington, of the high intellectual standard of this class of Knights who were only eligible after completing a sixteenyear course of education and then compelled to pass rigid examinations before being admitted. Hon. Lawrence D. Carey, of Monticello, then told of the activity of the Knights in trying to aid their respective communities in all civic movements and doing all in their power to promote better feeling, with their fellow men. "The Soul of a Violin,” a reading by Mrs. Harvey Messman, held the audience spellbound, Mrs. Messman delivering it with her usual great ability. • E. P. Honan acted as toastmaster and the banquet this year was under the direction of John Ramp, now president of the club. The Wood orchestra played while the dinner was being served. Their music was excellent and greatly enjoyed by all. The state convention of the K. of C. will be held some time in May, and many of the local Knights intend to be present, as the first three degrees will be exemplified at this time and several large classes will receive the degrees.

Eighth Graders to Play Chalmers Dittos Tonight.

Earl Chamberlin, one of the teachers in the Rensselaer schools, has arranged abasketball game for th.s evening between the.'Rensselaer and Chalmers eighth grade teams. It will take place at the high school gym and the admission will be 15 cents. Mr. Chamberlin's home is at Chalmers. A very good game is expected.

Ministerial Association Endorses Slot Machine Action.

The Ministerial Association of Rensselaer met this morning at the library and passed the following resolution: Whereas, We understand that Mr. Chas. G. Spitler, mayor of Rensselaer, and Mr. Chas, M. gands, assistant prosecutor of Jasper county, have caused all slot machines, punch boards, -and cigar wheels to be removed from all public places in our city; Therefore, Resolved, That we, the Ministerial Association of Rensselaer unanimously endorse such action as being in the interest of law and order and as removing a great temptation -from our midpt, especially harmful to boys and young men who are minors. Signed: * Rev. Paul C. Curnick, Pastor Methodist Church. Rev. J. Budroan Fleming, Pastor Presbyterian Church. Rev. Asa McDaniels, Pastor Christian Church. Rev. F. H. Beard, v Pastor Raptist Church.

Order your calling cards here.

TRIAL CALENDAR OF CIRCUIT COURT

Cases Set For Hearing Largely During the Last’Three Weeks of Term—Few State Cases. Feb. 16. Gwin vs. Grieser et al. Second Week. Feb. 21. State er rel Budd vs. Hammerton, Trustee. Banes vs. Balcom. Makeever vs. Rush, Trustee. Feb. 22. Gifford, Ex., vs. Bussell et al. Hayes vs. Gifford Estate. Elliott vs. Schrader. Feb. 23. Yeoman, Adm. vs. Makeever et al. Miller & Hart vs. Van Beek. Nichols vs. Nichols et al. Feb. 24. Stockton vs. Van Steenbergen. Feb. 25. McClelland vs. Lyibarger et al. Third Week. Feb. 28. State vs. Graham. State vs. Gordon. Cleveland Stove Co. vs. John Greve. Case Thrashing Machine Go. vs. Herr. Samsel vs. Wilson et al. Moore vs. Hallagan. Feb. 29. Dinwiddie vs. Gifford Estate. Bussell vs. Gifford Estate. Piper vs. Oliver. March 1. Bisher vs. Zehr. Martin vs. Linton. Linton vs. Hollingsworth and Davisson. Mareh 2. Gregory vs. Barnes. Dunlap vs. Cochran. March 3. Cummings vs. Inman. Hintz vs. Fess. Fourth Week. March 6. Infield vs. Meyers & Hart. Watkins Medical Co. vs. Longstreth et al. Brothers vs. Spate. March 7. Sachtleben vs. Frame. Williams vs. Stembel Estate. March 8. Price vs. Price. Vandervliet vs. Watson. Paxton vs. Shindeler et al. March 9. Clapham vs. Hanawalt & Ackerman. (March 10. Schreiber vs. Turner, 2 cases.

Unusually Cold In Washington With Four Feet of Snow.

Harry Hendricks today received a letter from his son, Clarence, at Walla Walla, Wash. He sent a newspaper clipping telling of the cold weather and heavy snows and of washouts along the railroads when the snow began to melt. It was so unusually cold as -to attract wide attention to that section. For one week the mercury had been below zcn every day, the coldest being 18 below. -—4—■ * ,

The Franklin Motor Car.

The most efficient —never truthfully denied. The easiest riding—by all admitted. The cheapest in the long run. Let us show you the car. C. B. Johnston & Son, Remington, Ind. Distributors for Jasper, Newton, Benton and White counties. Local representatives desired. Send for literature..

Basketball TONIGHT Rensselaer Bth Grade YS Chalmers Bth Grade AT H. S. GYMNASIUM A good game is expected. Come out and see it. Game starts at 8 Admission, 15c.

a L. Lee Werlnad CALKINS & WORLAND Funeral Directors Parian hi Newels Block across from the postoffice. ' New combination auto ambulance and funeral car. Expert services guaranteed in all cases entrusted to oar care. Mr. fialktna is licensed ns funeral director and embalm er la both Indiana and IDinob. ' — r Phones 25 or 307 + * V—j

Special Metro Pictures at THE REX -j THEATRE Thursday, February 17 Both Afteraoon aid Evening Valli alii, the taleated English actress will appear in “The Woman Pay#” An exceptional fixe reel production full of dramatic Interest. A Realistic Storm Scene Intensely interesting from start to finish Seen at the Rex Thursday Matinee at 2. Evening at 7. General Admission 10c, Children, S Spring Sale Day Postponed Until a Somewhat Later Date. Retail Merchants, have decided to hold their first sale day somewhat later than was originally planned. The first date selected was March 22nd, but it is now planned to hold it early in April. When it occurs there will be a live time with many things to attract large crowds to Rensselaer. DENTAL NOTICE. During my absence in Florida my office will be closed. I expect to return about Feb. 20th. — H. L. Brown, Dentist.

A Japanese Carnival at the ROLLER RINK in Rensselaer Thurs. eve, Feb. 19 A Moonlight Skate will he the feature of the eveniig A prize will be given to the skater representizg the best Jap character ia coßtvme. A good time assured. 'V. OMMVMMHMMVPi t General Admission 10c, Skttes lie If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg doit. Phone 621

COAL 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-Wamer Lumber Co. Phone 458

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