Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — Page 1

No. 212.

AT THE GAYETY Tonight RED FEATHER FEATURE ‘My Old Dutch’ IN 5 PARTS 5 and 10c.

Funeral Services of Mrs. Michael Quinlan Held Today. The body of Mrs. Michael Quinlan, who died in a Wichita, Kans., hospital Friday, arrived in Rensselaer Sunday. The funeral services were held this morning at the Catholic church and burial was made in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Quinlan, whsoe home is in Fairmount, Ind., had been an invalid for the past twelve years from rheumatism and with her husband she went to Pueblo;“Cblo., about a year ago. They recently left Pueblo, going to Wichita. Deceased leaves to mourn their loss a husband, four brothers and two sisters.

Notice to Auto Owners. I have moved my tire shop from the Main Garage, whore I have been located for the past two years, to first door south of Fred Hemphill’s blacksmith shop. Bring me your casings and tubes to be repaired. Prices reasonable. Few supplies carried in stock. Phone 521. HARRY MILNER. Fine roasting cars for sale.—Mrs. Geo. Collins, Phone 243-Red. Over two thousand samples to choose your fall and winter suit from. Every garment guaranteed to fit perfect and hold their shape. Prices reasonable. DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP, C. Earl Duvall. Victor Odle, small child of Vem Odle, of Barkley township, had his left index finger cut off this morning by a wind pump. Miss Edna Robinson returned Sunday from an extended visit with her cousin, Miss Marion Robinsdn, at Idalia, Mo. . Miss Elizabeth Vawter returned to her home in Indianapolis today after visiting Mrs. Ernest Lamson. Mrs. Lural Anderson and Mrs. Alfred Jacks, of Lee, were Rensselaer visitors today. Victor Hoover went to Lafayette today, where he will attend Purdue this year. Phillip Mossier, of Hammond, came Sunday for a visit with A. Leopold and family.

PHILLIPS & SPRAGUE Correspondents Of E. W. WAGNER & CO. Established 1887 Members: New York Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Stock Exchange Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce St. Louis Merchants Exchange New' York Produce Exchange Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Continental and Commercial Bank Building 208 So. LaSalle Street CHICAGO announce the opening of a bnnchiffice at ths MURRAY BUILDING, RENSSELAER, INDIANA Telephone 62

The Evening Republican.

Professional Notice. Our friends and clients will please take notice that Mr. George A. Williams has moved his taw offices from the rooms of the First National Bank to rooms just across the stairway iij the Odd Fellows Building occupied by, Mr. D- Delos Dean, and that Mr. Williams and Mr. Dean .will practice law under the firm name of Williams & Dean with offices in the Odd Fellows Building. ~■ . ■ Renselaer, Indiana, August 26, 1916 George A. Williams D. Delos Dean Mrs. John W. Paxton, of South Bend, sister of Mrs. Kate R. Watson, returned to her home Sunday after a visit of several days. Herbert Paxton, of Hammond, was a Sunday visitor at the Watson home, also returning home Sunday evening. Dr. R. C. Beeler, of Indianapolis, drove to Rensselaer Sunday to visit for the day, Mrs. Beeler returning with him after a two weeks’ visit with her mother, Mrs. Watson. Henry Nevill received a telegram Sunday stating that his son-in-law, A. L. Moore, had been injured in a train wreck the day previous and had been taken to a hospital in Denver, Colo. No particulars were given as to the extent of his injuries. Mr. Moore has been employed for some time as fireman on the Rock Island lines. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Caldwell went to Delphi today to be pres mt at the laying of the comer stone of the new Carroll county court house. They will go from there to Logansport to visit Mrs. Coldwell’s sister, Mrs. M. JE.. Fouts and family. Mrs. John A. Gray and son, Ralph, of Hobart, Ind., who have been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Robert Hurley and other relatives here, retunied to their home today accompanied by Mrs. Gray’s aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkins. Mrs. Emma Tumpaugh and little granddaughter, Mary Alice Turnpaugh, of Logansport, came yesterday for a visit with her two daughters, Mrs. S. M. Haas and Mrs. Nelson Shafer. Dr. John Ellis and wife, of Chicago, came Sunday for a short visit here with friends and relatives. Dr. Ellis will return to the city this evening, but Mrs. Ellis will remain for a longer visit. Buy the boys’ school clothes now, as we can save you money on all winter purchases. DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP, C. Earl Duvall. Mr. and Mrs. Cilfford Thomas returned to their home in Chicago today after visiting for, a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Eger. Mrs. Peter Giver and daughter, Ruth, of Wabash, Ind., are visiting Mrs. Giver’s sister, Mrs. Harry Wiltshire and family. They will return home tomorrow. Fall and winter caps, we” are now shpwing in all colors and sizes. Call and see them. DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP, C. Earl Duvall.

JASPER COUNTY s. s. CONVENTION September 21 and 22 Rensselaer, Indiana

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1916.

ANOTHER LETTER FROM MAJOR HEALEY

Writes Interestingly About Conditions On Border—Made Trip to Progresso. Llano Grande, Tex., Aug. 30. Tjiejicpublicaii: Last week after a visit to Brownsville I wrote that the Rio Grande river looked too small to form the boundary line between two countries that differed so materially as the United States and Mexico, or as translated from Caesar, in “languages, institutions and laws.” After my second visit to the river I am more than ever convinced that this is the case. Sunday, accompanied oy Lieutenant Arthur Tuteur, I visited Progresso and drove on to the river/ Probably many will remeriiiber that Progresso was the scene of one of the Mexican raids, something like three years ago and that a small station for regular

troops has been maintained there since that time. The raid was made by some 84 Mexicans, who swam the river, robbed the storekeeper at Progresso and made their escape. The stortkeeper left, moving to Mercedes, some ten miles away. Progresso is about thee-quarters of a mile from th? river. It consists of a Catholic church, a fine residence, now occupied as the headquarters of the troops stationed there, a large brick store room, now used for an army hospital, and a number of smaller buildings, all occupied by troops or given some military use. The regular troops stationed there had constructed various devices of protection. Standing trenches communicating with the quarters in the rear, and sandbag abutments. An observation tower was constructed with a view to watching the movements of the Mexican troops across the river but this is not in use now -is there are no Mexicans near enough the border to be seen. Flanking Progresso on each side are Mexican villages, that is, U. S. villages composed of the most inferior sort of Mexicans. We were riding to the river and came suddenly upon the habitat of adobe huts. Small shacks covered with mesquite grass and the sides of smail mesquite limbs and plastered witff mud made the homes of the poor and ignorant occupants. No floors, no chimneys, few cooking utensils, and in a few cases small cook stoves that emitted their smoke into the shack and it escaped through a hole in the corner near the stove. One room, composing kitchen, bedroom and living room, enough to harbor a family of from four to eight and to leave room for a few chickens. A sergeant who accompanied us on the trip but who visited the village to the east of Progresso, while the one we visited was to the west, reported looking into one house and seeing a sow laying with her back almost z against the stove and nursing a litter of pigs, while the Mexican woman was preparing in an old bucket the noon-day meal. The little houses clustered together with no effort at regularity and with wierd pairs of curious eyes peeping from between the small limbs where the mud had been washed away. Here and there was an abandoned hut that had fallen or blown over, and others that were pitched to the side at an angle of 30 degrees but were still occupied. It is hard to imagine such depravity and I doubt if the American Indian ever lived so wretchedly. And yet these people hold the possibility to being developed as human beings if influenced by a government that will hold out a hojje for their future, a hope that has been denied to them during the past three hundred years. I have said that these people are within the United States, where they are guaranteed full rights and protection, which is true, but they are the result of all these years of bad laws, unjust rulers, corrupt institutions. It will take many generations to overcome the degrading conditions that exist, but if Mexico is ever to become a well behaved neighand if the wretched peons are fiver to be moulded into hopeful forms of humanity. That they become bandits, soldiers of fortune, nomads, stoic forms that distrust and hate the world and all its people is not remarkable when it is considered that they are a pare of a nation whose rulers have plotted against their people for so ffiany decades. It was more than sixty years after Mexico and Arizona became territories before we deemed them desirable for statehood, but the door of hope had opened to many thousands of people and they have improved just as they will improve in Mexico if the millions there are ever given the opportunity guaranteed by a free government such as the United States could guarantee and supervise. I have been interested in noting that the children (ninos) are quite bright in comparison with their parents, but lack of schooling, hard labor when too

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ONION KING WEDS MARGUERITE SPRINGER

Ed Oliver, Newland Onion Grower, Married Wealthy Widow of Warren Springer Saturday. The 8 o’clock edition of the Chicago Sunday Tribune contained an article that will be of much interest to Rensselaer and Jasper county people in general. On page one, part two of the Tribune, the pictures of Marguerite Warren Springer and Edward Oliver are shown, under the heading “Onion King and Queen.” Mr. Oliver and Mrs. Springer were married Saturday, the wedding taking place at Unity Church, Warren aVenue. Mrs. Springer is reputed to be very wealthy and is noted for her philanthropic plans. According to the Tribune Mr. Oliver’s fortune is rated at three million dollars. There is no use of The Republican discoursing at length on this couple, as they are well known to all Jasper county people, having spent many years in this vicinity, in which Mr. Oliver gained fame as an onion grower, so we will print the article as it appeared in the Tribune:

Mrs. Marguerite Springer, who is the widow of the late Warren Springer, and w'ho gained note for the number of benefactions she has announced, was married yesterday to Col. Edward Oliver, the Indiana and Wisconsin “onion king.” The wedding took place at Unity church in Warren avenue. It was a surprise wedding and an extremely quiet one. x The Rev. Fred V. Hawley conducted the ceremony. He is an old friend of Col. Oliver. The only witnesses were the daughters of the bride and groom, Mrs. Edward D. Keith, of Chicago, and Miss Julia Oliver, of Waupun. Col. and Mrs. Oliver were an impressive looking couple. They are nearly the same age. Both have snow white hair. Col. Oliver is a big man, most- of whose life has been spent in the open air. He is not so well known in Chicago, although he has spent a good deal of time in Chicago during the last few. months. It was known only to the family ol the two that they were to be married. The date has been uncertain. In fact, it was only on Friday that it was determined definitely that the wedding would take place yesterday. It was the delay in getting the residence of Col. and Mrs. Oliver ready that caused a number of postponements of the wedding. They will live at 1306 Astor street, the old home of James L. Houghteling. The bride and groom have not known each other for a long time. Col. Oliver recently purchased the farm of Mrs. Springer in Indiana. It was near some’ of his own land there and he wanted more room for onions. Practically all of the big hotels in the country use his choice varieties. After the wedding Col. and Mrs. Springer held a quiet dinner at theii home. In the evening they went visiting. Mrs. Springer-Oliver <ook her handsome husband around to her friends on the north side and surprised them. “It was an extremely quiet wedding,” she said. “We are going to remain in Chicago for our honeymoon. Our daughters will be with us and 7/2 shall love to remain right here.” Early in the winter they expect to go to Florida. • Warren Springer died in February, 1912. Immediately thereafter Jiis widow exhibited great anxiety for the whereabouts of William Springer, tae son, and offered a reward for information leading to the discovery of William. Mrs. Springer has long been a we 1 known figure in Chicago. Some of tae incidents follow: November, 1901—Announced $lO - 000 for art institute site. May, 1909 —Announced SI,OOO home for consumptives in the mountains. February, 1912—Offered $5 for information about William Springer. March, 1912 —Announces psychotherapeutic citji to cost thousands. March, 1914—-Sued by Architect J. D. York for SIO,OOO for failure of colony plans. March, 1914 —Announced donation of automobile for charity raffle. June, 1915—Sued by C. A. Murphy for $50,000 in “mystery case.” July, 1915— Narrowly escapes bandits in Mexico. December, purchase of Muncie Normal institute for $143,000. December, 1915—Burglars loot her apartment. Col. Oliver is reputed to possess an estate valued at $3,000,000 or more. He is said to be a monarch of onion growers, in the cultivation of which fragrant vegetable he is declared .3 devote many acres of Indiana and Wisconsin land. Mrs. Springer-Oliver has continue! in the management of her late hus-

WIFE OF CHARLES R. M’FARLAND ARRESTED

Wife of Former Jasper Court Reporter ' Arrested For Shielding Friend of Shoplifting Charge. Sunday’s Chicago Herald tells of the arrest of Mrs. Charles R. McFarland, wife of a Chicago dentist, on a charge of shielding a friend, accused of shoplifting, and refusing to tell what she knew about it. Mr. McFarland was the former Jasper circuit court reporter and served several years, in* Rensselaer in that capacity and is well known to all Rensselaer people, but it was not generally known here that Mr. McFarland was married. He recently graduated from the Chicago Dental College of Surgery. The following was taken from the Chicago Herald:

This is the story of two Indianapolis brides. One laughed and shrugged her shoulders in the South Clark street annex last night. The other sobbed and sobbed. Six years ago in the Indiana capital Elba Carroll, the daughter pf parents in comfortable circumstances, and Margaret Heath, whose earliest recollections were of an orphanage, met at a sorority dance. They were high school girls and became fast friends. For a time their paths ran together. A year ago they separated just after S4OO worth of goods had been stolen from a department store. Miss Carroll left Indianapolis suddenly. Margaret Heath was arrested for shoplifting. The police found that Miss Heath was little more than a dupe, and although subsequently she and the Carroll girl were jointly indicted for larceny she was given her liberty. Not long afterward Charles R. McFarland, son of a wealthy Cleveland poultry man and a student at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, met Margaret Heath. The meeting took place at a fraternity dance. It was love at first sight. They became engaged. Th? marriage took place March 20 last in

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MONDAY At The StarTheatre A Paramount Picture In 5 Parts ‘THE GOLDEN CHANCE” You can depend on viewing a good one tonigbt TUESDAY An Equitable Production in S Acts “THE IDOL” 10 & sc.

Organized Bunch of Chicken Thieves is Operating.

Francesville Tribune. Renseslaer papers mention occasionally losses to poultry raisers because of numerous thefts. There seems to be a well organized bunch of chicken thieves working in Jasper and Pulaski counties, and somewhere along the route there is a poultry dealer or two helping dispose of the hauls, many of which have been made around Francesville lately. The thieves have some place to dispose of the poultry where it is shipped out in a way that eliminates suspicion. Poultry raisers can break up this system of thievery by getting a detective to spend a couple of weeks in the two counties.

The new fall “Bonnets” are npw at our store on display. Stetsons, Kingsbury and Red Seal. All colors and SIZPS. DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP, C. Earl Duvall. See the windows at Hilliard & Hamill’s. 7

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