Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — Page 1

No. 196.

GAYETY AIRDOME IHURS, FRI., SATUR. I '‘ Lillian Gaston’s PALM BEACH GIRLS ' Change Program Nightly Don’t Fail to See This Show c 9 PEOPLE 9 = . Mostly Girls Clean and Refined 10 and 20c

Monon Section Men Are Still Off the Works.

All of the Monon section men, exsept three crews that are working on the division between Michigan City Louisville, are continuing to hold out for higher wages with very little prospect of a settlement. No track work whatever is being done on the line through this city, but the track is inspected daily by the section foremen who did not strike as they were satisfied with the pay they are receiving. The men who struck were getting $1.60 and made a demand for $2. They claim that they suffer most in the winter time when they are put on half time very often and the working day reduced to eight hours. —Monticello Journal.

Fined for Disturbing Meeting at Gifford.

Squire C. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, accepted pleas of guilty Monday from Alva Hall, Uoe Woolever, Walter Kahn, Clarence Toombs, Charles Parks and Lee Meyers to the charge of disturbing a meeting at Gifford and were fined $5 each, which with the costs ran the amouht up to $10.40 each. On July 23rd the boys disturbed a' meeting at the Gifford church and their arrest was the result.

Notice. Anyone having a bill against the chautauaua association will please present their Dill at once in order that all accounts may be straightened up as soon as possible. Bills payable at the First National bank. _ The Junior Aid society of the Christian church have postponed their meeting until Wednesday, August 23. Dental Notice. I will be absent from the city until August 28, and my office will be closed during that time. My patients and those desiring my services will please take notice. DR. W. L. MYER.

Removal of Junk Business. I have rented a business room onehalf block north of Bacock & Hopkins’ elevator, facing the Rcnssedaar Lumber Co., where I will hereafter carry on my junk business, paying the highest market price for rags, piaper, iron, rubber and all kinds of metal, copper, brass, zink, aluminum, lead, copper wire, light copper, copper boilers, etc. Bring me your junk at my new place of business or if notified I will call and get it in my motor truck. Phone 577. SAM KARNOWSKY.

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EGG TESTING CAR TO BE HERE FRIDAY

U. S. Department of Agriculture Egg Grading Specialists Will Give Free Demonstrations. Uncle Sam’s special egg candling, packing and chilling demonstration car will arrive in Rensselaer Friday, August 18, about 9 o’clock. At each stop the specialists with the car have tested, graded, chills! and packed without charge local eggs for the local shippers. When the car reaches ensselaer it will be located on the side track most convenient to the town. The demonstrations will begin on arrival and continue until 4:30. The car will spend one day in this place. The department specialists on this summer tour will give special attention to eggs and their proper preparation for shipment. They will also give information to those especially interested in the most approved methods of dressing, chilling, and packing chickens and turkeys for shipment «o the New York and other distant markets. A model showing the construction of a small ice-chilled precooling plant will be exhibited and explained. The purpose is to increase local profits from poultry and egg 4 prevent waste and preserve quality. Eggs will be candled according to the commercial standards and “fresh,” “stale” and “heated” eggs, “bloodrings,” “white rots,” “black Yots” and other grades will be exhibited. The demonstration in detecting “white rots” is said to be very important, as many candleis confuse “white rots” with “fresh” eggs. The eggs will then be sorted by market standards of size, cleanliness of shell and condition of contents.

The eggs can then be put into the of the car, where they may be chilled to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in 24 hours. Eggs chilled in this way beforfe being put into the ordinary refrigerator car do not deteriorate rapidly. Eggs packed warm in a refrigerator car do not get chilled properly for about five days, during which time they undergo constant deterioration.

The chilled eggs can then be loaded in cars for shipment. The demonstrators will, show the most successful ways in using fillers, flats and buffing, placing and number of nails to the case, and the bes<. way of stowing cases in the cars. A small model car will be loaded in order to show the practical application of straw or wood buffing, bracing the load, placing the cases so that they will be kept cool, and other details of stowing egg cases to prevent damage in transit. All interested are cordially invited to attend. The car in itself is well worth seeing. The cooling system is operated by its own gasoline engine. Thp engine also provides electric current so that the refrigerating rooms can be well lighted and night demonstrations can be held. This same car spent last season in southern Indiana. In previous seasons the car was in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky, and shippers who followed its methods were able to ship turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas trade in New York in such a way that they reached the eastern markets in prime condition in spite of abnormally warm weather, and what had been unprofitable summer egg business were made to pay.

FESH FISH. Halibut steak «20c lb. Catfish 20c lb. Whitefish 18c lb. Herring 16c lb. Trout ....20c ’b. ‘Yellow pike 18c lb. OSBORNE FLORAL CO. Phone 439-B We Deliver. Pony Express, Phone 623.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1916.'

Brookston Man Flim-Flammed by Wire Tappers for $15,000.

The lure of easy money made Dr. Don M. Kelly, 55 years old> “easy picking” for a trio of swindlers in Detroit on last Wednesday, when he was allowed to play a “sure thing” in a horse race to win $20,000, and the experience cost him $15,000. According to reports from Detroit on Tuesday, warrants for the trio were issued and one of the alleged swindlers was placed under arrest. Dr. Kelly was on his way to New York when he met three strangers who opened a conversation and won the confidence of the physician. Kelly was allowed to get in on a good thing with a chance to make a $20,000 profit for himself.

Dr. Kelly wrote his check for $15,000, his share of the money to be put up. The horse dubbed “Defense,” and supposed to be running at Saratoga came in ahead of the bunch, but the race horseman said he would not pay the doctor his share of the money until he was absolutely certain that the physician had tendered the check in good faith. To prove the reliability the men insisted that Dri Kelly show the cash. The physician sent to Lafayette for a draft for $15,000, which he had cashed. He took it to the office of the race horse man, and placed it in the gambler’s hands. The gambler went into another room and returned in a few minutes and informed the physician that he had bet it with $64,000 on another horse and that the entire amount had been lost. Kelly yelled “police" and Stanley was arrested. The other two men are being sought. Dr. Kelly is one of the best known residents of White county and has been practicing, medicine for a number of years at Brookston and owns much valuable farm land in that vicinity.

Danger of Big Railroad Strike Is Waning.

Washington, August 15. —President Wilson’s effort to bring the railroad managers and the brotherhood leaders together in some form of a settlement of the differences which threaten a nation-wide railway strike has, after two days of conferences, progressed only to a point where a ground work for further negotiations has been laid.

Hope of arbitration of all issues waned today, but the siauation was brightened by the possibility of a settlement being reached by the railroads conceding the principle of the eight-hour day and both sides settling collateral issues by some form of negotiations as yet undertermined. After communicating with President Wilson tonight, the employes’ sub-committce sent word to New York for the 640 members of the general committee to come to Washington in order to facilitate matters. They are expected Thursday and probably will see the president Friday. The managers’ committee will confer with him again tomorrow. Two official statements issued from the white house during the day merely stated that the discussions still were in progress and that no report could be made on the results. The first statement, issued by Secretary Tumulty after the president had met the railroad managers during the forenoon, follows: “The president spent an hour and a half this morning with the representatives of the ■ railway management. After the conference he said it was impossible as yet to report on the results; all that he could say was that a very candid and honest discussion was in grogress about a practica basis of settement.” «

September 2 Wilson’s Day.

Washington, August 15. —Formal notification to President Wilson of his nomination will take place September 2. That day was definitely selected today when arrangements were made for the president to go to Long Branch, N. J., for the cermony. The president has already completed his speech of acceptance. The notification speech will be made by Senator James. The president probably will remain at Long Branch until he leaves for Hodgensville, Ky., to speak September 4 at the Lincoln ceremony. President Wilson today conferred with the democratic campaign committee at luncheon. He will see the associate conufiittee of progressives, later.

During the noon hour today some snealc thief entered Al Rishling’s produce market and took $8.75 in quarters, which were wrapped up from the money drawer. Mr. Rishling has a good idea who the guilty party is and if he does not return the money Mr. Rishling will have them placed under arrest. Mrs. Fae Pettty returned to FayOaks this morning after visiting Mrs. Kathryn Shields here for a few days.

CHAUTAUQUA NEXT YEAR DOUBTFUL

Contract Wanted by Lincoln Company for Next Year Called Not Equitable. Following a meeting after the Chautauqua program Monday :ffteinoon between the guarantors and people interested in having a chautauqua again next year, held at the chuutau : qua tent, with the manager in charge representing the Lincoln bureau, it was decided not to ask for ticket pledges nor to sign up a contract for a Chautauqua the coming year—at least not at the present time. The contract asked for by the Lincoln management was not agreeable to the guarantors, as it called for more money than the contract for this year called for. We believe that the citizens of Jasper county in generi-.l would like to see a chautauqua in Rensselaer again next year, but we feel that these people that have supported the venture in past years should not be called upon to guarantee the Lincoln people the same money that they ha v e in the past, at least not until the quality of the program shows a sufficent improvement to warrant the paying of such money. We are not condemning the program of the past week, but feel that the chautauqua people received more money than they have a right to ask. Year after year a few local people have stood back of the guaranty and devoted considerable time and labor to make the enterprise a finanacial success, and the sentiment of many of the guarantors is that the contracts with the Chautauqua people have been too one sided. Heretofore the guarantors have been taking the entire risk of running into bad weather during the chautauqua week and other conditions that might at any time* come up, and it seems in fairness to the guarantors that the chautauqua company should take some of the risk. The contract that the Lincoln people wanted for the coming year was as follows: The regular guaranteed ticket sales of $950, and the local expenses and entertainment of the talent, amounting to about $l5O more The next $l5O above the guaranteed $950, goes to the local people to pay for entertainment' and local expenses of the talent. Gate receipts and sale of tickets aboue $l,lOO to 'be split 50-50. At the present time there is about $250 in the hands of the local treaswhich has been made in the past three years. There will be a deficit this year between $45 and SSO, and it is due to this fact that the guarantors were reluctant to sign a contract at this time for the coming year. The general sentiment among the people is that we should have a chautauqua each year, provided that reasonable terms can be reached with the chautauqua bureau, but the guarantors feel that they should not be called upon to carry the burden each year alone. And they are right too. The chautauqua people take no risk whatever. Their money is guaranteed before they come to the city. The city donates considerable to help make the chautauqua a success aside from the guaranteed which is also given, so it may readily be seen that the Lincoln people take no chance whatever of losing financially. We have talked to a great many business men during the chautauqua week which has just closed and the opinion of practically all of them is that the chautauqua bureau has all the better of the contract. It has been decided to maintain the local officers in office for the time being and to hold a meeting about December first, at which time the different chautauqua companies will be invited to submit a proposition for the coming year. This is the fourth time for the Lincoln company in Rensselaer and for the most part their programs have been very good. Some crticism has been made of some of this year’s numbers. We believe that the local committee is taking the right course in waiting utnil a later date to sign a contract for next year, and that if the same amount of money is guaranteed to the chautauqua company agreeing to come here that they should be asked to give a program in keeping with the money they receive.

"v Property at Public Sale. I will sell my property at the north end of Franklin street at public auction on Saturday, August 26th. Anyone wanting to see the property before this date should call upon Harvey Davisson. —Andrew Coffel. I will be in Rensselaer three days horses. Call or write Padgitt’s barn. —-Len Pevler. Ania F. Turfler, Osteopath.

Lieutenant Garland Writes Letter From the border.

Llano Grande, Taxes. August 12, 1916. Friend Lee: Well, they say it never rains in Texas but its raining today. Began about 1:15 and it is near 3:20 and still raining. We never care for the rain now for we have plenty of ditches dug and our tents are trenched in good shape. We began taking an hour’s hike every morning about three weeks ago and on Friday we took a five to seven mile hike. We took a ten mile hike Friday morning with packs empty and sidearms and not a man fell out.

John Rush has been having some trouble with one of his hips. Don’t know what is the matter, aside from that we are all in good shape. We have the name of being the toughest outfit in the regiment. When we are in the lead they are always calling to hind we are always calling them to hind we are always calilng them to hurry up. The men have been enjoying themselves at nearby towns since pay day, bet they are always here and ready to drill* the next morning. Have been wanting to go hunting myself but hae never had the time. Captain Tuteur and Lieut. Watsoq, are in Mercedes this afternoon. They ought to be home soon but roads get so slippery after a rain that a machine can hardly run. Well, I supose you have been reading the accounts in the papers so I can’t think of anything extra to write. Men are much better satisfied than they were at first. JERRY.

Capt. Hobson Praises Rensselaer Citizens and the City.

Capt. Richmond Hobson, who delivered an address at the chautauqua last night, in a talk with John O’Connor asked that the latter convey a message through the columns of The Republican to the people of Rensselaer, thanking them for the reception tendered him last evening. Mr. Hobson parised the city and its citizens very highly and stated that lie had never seen in all his travels a cleaner or more beautiful little city than Rensselaer. Mr. Hobson is well acquainted with Admiral Bradford with whom John O’Connor made his trip arou.id the globe under and said that when he got back to Washington he would remember Mr. O’Connor to the admiral and tell him of the reception that he received here. Mr. Hobson had a severe cold while here and labored under difficulties while delivering his address last evening but his reception here almost made him forget that he had a cold. Mr. Hobson also wants to correct a mistaken impression of Rensselaer people who thought that many of his men were lost during the battle of Santiago and says that he did not lose a single man who was on the Merrimac at the time.

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I DEMOCRATS NOMINATE . HERSHMAN FOR CLERK

Gillam Township Man Receives Nomination on First Ballot—Four Candidates. The democratic central committee met at the court house this afternoon for the purpose of nominating a candidate for clerk to be placed on the ballot -to be voted for this fall. The meeting was presided over by County Chairman Welsh. W. R. Nowels, of Rensselaer, addressed Hie meeting, after which nominations were called for. The folowing nominations were made: Walter Harrington, of Union; George Collins, of Rensselaer; Thos. Maloney, .of Kankakee, and A. D. Hershman, of Gillam. A recess of 15 minutes was taken to give the committeemen a chance to discuss the candidates in secret session, after which they returned and proceeded to ballot. A. D. Hershman received the nomination on the first ballot, which stood as follows: Maloney 0 Collins 1 Hershman ....8 Harrington 5

Long Distance Hiker Comes Through Rensselaer.

Francis X. O’Brien, who is walking from Philadelphia to Chicago for the purpose Of studying the big market roads in the Pike’s Peak ocean to ocean highway, has left Indianpolis and is on the last leg of his journey. He will come through Jasper county over the Jackson highway. He plans ned to stop at every postoffice town to stop at every postoffice and to acquire first-hand information about the \roads.

Van Renseslaer Club Picnic Will Be Held Tomorrow.

The Van Rensselaer Club picnic will be held at Cedar Lake tomorrow, August 17th. A special car will be> attached to train number 32 leaving Rensselaer at 10:36 for the picnickers. About 50 have so far signified their intentions of going. The picknickers will return a£ 11 Thursday night. Lassen Brothers’ pavillion has been leased for the day and the picnic'will be a strictly private affair.

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Dean returned today from a visit at Springfield, 0., with Mrs. Dean’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. B. Hume. Mr. and Mrs. Dean also visited at Buffalo, Niagara Falls and other eastern points Misses Louise and Elizabeth Hanley, daughters of Frank Hanley, of Chicago, are here for a visit with C. W. Hanley and family. Mrs. Lebonta came from Chicago today to visit Philip Roy and family, south of town.

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