Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — Page 1

No. 302.

THE Q RINCESU TONIGHT Anna Q. Nilson and Rockliffe Fellows in ‘Regeneration’ This play is a powerful Fox film drama and one that is sure to meet with your approval. / ' 5 Acts 5 and 10c

Township Trustees Making Reports on Road Elections.

The township trustees have been filing their reports with Auditor Hammond this week on the election of road supervisors in the various townships of the county. The law requires that the reports be filed within three days following the election, hence today is the last day for the filing of these reports. Additional' reports to those we have already had are as follows: Carpenter No. 2, Chris Christensen; No. 3, Harvey Zinzer; No. 4, James Sheldon. Kankakee, No. 1, O. M. Turner; No. 2, Hans Nelson; No. 3, no election held; No. 4, W. F. Neier. Keener, No. 1, George Terpstra; No. 2, Nelson Fairchild; No. 3, Herman Kamminga. Newton, No. 1, John Lonergan; No. 2, Stanley Lane; No. 3, Benton Kelley; No. 4, Arthur Mayhew.

Pictures Given to School Classes Selling Most Red Cross Seals.

Mrs. M. D. Gwin reports that the committee are succeeding nicely in the sale of Red Cross seals. Thus far about 7,000 have been sold. Of this number 4,481 have been sold by the pupils of the public schools. The prizes offered for the rooms selling the most seals were won as follows: In the primary, the pupils of Miss Malchow’s room sold 928 and they receive the prize, a fine picture of Riley. Miss Anderson’s room was a very close second, selling 914. In the intermediate rooms Mr. Stoneburner’s pupils won, having sold 662 seals. The pictures were presented Tuesday afternoon.

ODD FELLOWS. TAKE NOTICE: THURSDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 21, conferring first degree on seven candidate* furnished by Mt. Ayr lodge. Lunch by the committee. A large attendance is expected to welcome our visiting brothers. I’LL BE THERE. GEORGE E. COLLINS, Noble Grand.

NOTICE. TO THOSE OF OUR CUSTOMERS for whom we are holding gift purchases, if notified, we will endeavor to deliver all of such. This service is entirely FREE. HILLIARD & HAIMILL. L 0. O. F., Iroquois Lodge No 143. AH members are requested to be present next Thursday evening at 7 o’clock Seven members for first degree. Refreshments. Come. General good time for all.—Geo. E. Collins, N. G. Get your Xmas shoes and slippers for men’ women and children at FENDIG'S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE. Candy at all prices at Bowen’s Grocery.

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The Evening Republican.

Lot 319x660 feet. Buildings located 250 feet from road. Main building 160x39 feet. 2 doitnitories identical in plan, 109x34 feet. Gymnasium 35x60 feet.

TELEPHONE LINEMAN IN SERIOUS TROUBLE

Floyd Gruver, While Intoxicated, Steals Part of Hog and Is Arrested. Floyd Gruver, chief lineman for the telephone company, let drink get the better of him Tuesday afternoon and he will have to answer in the circuit court to the charge of petit larceny. Gruver was sent to the country m the telephone company’s new Ford to collect dtfga and look after repairs. He visited several points in the north end, including DeMotte. Alt Fred Schultz’s residence in Union township he found the family absent but tHe house unlocked. He made some repairs to the phone and left a note for them telling of the work he did. Leaving the house he noticed a hog that had recently been butchered, cut and in a shed out doors. Gruver loaded about half of the meat in the automobile'and started for home. He was in no condition to drive the auto through the heavily drifted roads and got stuck several times, but was helped out by others. He was again stuck near Aix and Dan Lakin found him stretched out in the road nearly insensible and helped him and the car to town. , Mr. Shultz returned home shortly after Graver’s departure and noticed the disappearance of the meat. He came across Gruver stuck in the snow at the roadside and helped him out, and while doing this he noticed the meat in the car, but said nothing, but came on to town and lodged complaint with the authorities and Graver was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. His condition was such that he could not be given a hearing at that time and he was placed in jail over night. This morning he was given a hearing by Squire Dean and bound over bo the circuit court in the sum of SIOO and being unable at that time to give bail he was placed in jail. Gruver has not lived in Rensselaer long, but the telephone company has always found him reliable and entrusted collections with him and never had' cause for complaint. Graver says he has no recollection of taking the meat and lays his act to his condition caused by the drink. He says he does remember of buying some liver of a farmer before he readied the Schultz place for which he paid fifty cents. The farmer had just butchered. Mr. Bott, of the telephone company, wenlt to Graver’s rescue at noon today and gave bail for his appearance at the next term of court and will put him to work again, as he has confidence in him. Gruver has a wife and seven children and the sympathy of the people is with them.

When you have a blow out, blow into Milner’s Tire Shop.

PROPOSED GREATER MONNETT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Look For The Young Ladies In Charge

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1916.

You’ll ibe satisfied with our coke, the best ever.—Grant-Warner Lumber Co.

The Otis Thanksgiving Turkey

An Apostrophe. Before the gates of mom were opened or the gleaming arrows of light had pierced the slow retreating darkness the night you g-o-b-b-l-e-d and g^-Jb-b-l-e-d! You found the early worm in dishabile and stayed not upon the order of your ruthless intrusions, but, gathered her in with the gentle dew upon her curl papers. Alas! Alas! You daily saw'the level rays of the young summer sun as they broke athwart the fields and meadows of Roselawn and smote the filmy cobwebs and clover blossoms and tall grass blades with a glorious irridescence. You always knew the time and the place of the fatted grasshopper, and in order to take him you feared not to walk thro cold wet stubble lands in your shining boots, while the morning air was yet chill and before the strident munmer of the Cicada children had begun! You strode in lordly fashion thro - the grain fields of the Otis domain and took your ample toll While denizens of the wheat pit were tearing their hair on account of immediate deliveries and Number One Hard meant $2.00 per bushel! But your wattles reddened for the last time at the call of your bronzed lady friend, and your funny purple snout wiggled into your eyes and out again as you responded with what was your final gobble! How you strummed the earth with your stiffened tail coverts in that final futile essay of pride! Oh me, and alas! And then the minister of the First Church and his Hungry Five got you! Your epitaph shall be “He left this worldly world and entered the Presbyterian Ministry.” The above article was contributed by C. T. Otis, the Roselaiwn ranch owner, who makes his home in Chicago, and was written by Reverend Doctor Covert, of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, and chaplain of the Indiana Society of Chicago. It has been the custom of Mr. • Otis for a greaj; many years to present his friends with turkeys, raised on the Otis ranch at Roselawn.

Your Christmas dinner wSI not be complete without one of O’Riley’s fruit cakes.

NEW MONNETT SCHOOL.

We are glad to be able to publish in this issue the picture of the proposed new buildings which are to be erected as soon as possible. Some subscriptions have already been received from people outside of Indiana who are interested in the welfare of this, the only school of its kind in the country. SIO,OOO will build the gymnasium of the new building and to the person of Rensselaer who wants thus to perpetuate his or her family name, an opportunity is offered to name this part of the new building. Gifts of SI,OOO will build and name the different rooms of the building. This is a project that is going to mean not only a great deal for Monnett School for Girls, but will'place Rensselaer on the map as being the only city in this country that has a school for girls, where parents in moderate circumstances can send their girls of 6 to 14 years of age for Christian education and - a Christian lome. Does it not seem a particularly sad state of affairs when with all of our great philanthropies in this state and throughout the country, hundreds and thousands of girls are denied the privilege of such a school as Monnett affords. A larger Monnett School for Girls means a Greater Rensselaer. Make a Christmas offering for the School. Help to raise the $50,000 needed. Gifts of SIO,OOO to any smaller amount will be received. Eighteen months is given in which to pay your subscription. Let’s be boosters for Monnett. Subscribe in large amounts now so that the early morn of the neiw year will bring the realization of our fondest hopes. Who will build a class room at $1,000? Who will build the gymnasium at $10,000? Who will build at a cost of SSOO to slysoo, the various dormitory rooms, library, domestic science rooms, etc.?

THE BEAUTIFUL WREATH IN Hilliard & Hamill’e window is attracting considerable attention, being the largest ever displayed in Rensselaer. v. Royal Arch Masons. Annual election of officers and othed important business Thursday evening, Dec. 21st, at 7:30. A full attendance necessary.—Ohas. H. Porter. i, a I. O. 0. F. Encampment No. 201. All members requested to be present at 7:00 Friday evening, Dec. 22. Degree work will be conferred by the Monon degree staff. Plenty of refreshments. Also last night for dues. —E. W. Hickman, C. P. f

TODAY _ AT THE •w,. • Star Theatre MARIE DORO IN “Ths Morals Of Maroua A 5-reel Paramount picture. In addition to this we will present little Billy Burke in a 2-reel highly entertaining feature of Gloria's Romance. A big entertainment for- the regular admission of 5 and 10c. Wola Dana and Augustus Phillips tomorrow in “THE INNOCENCE OF RUTH."

ED OLIVER MADE DEFENDANT IN SUIT

Is Defendant In Sait Filed By Chicago Bank; Action to Discover Real Estate. A suit was filed in the clerk’s office a few days ago by the Greenbaum Sons Bank and Trust Co., of Chicago, vs. Ed Oliver et al. The suit is an action to establish a lien and discovery of certain real estate in Jasper county, 728 acres which was conveyed by the defendant and wife to plaintiffs jn September 6, 191$, to secure a loan of $50,000, which was made to them for four months’ time. The deed was made to Milton E. -Falkner. It is understood that the suit will probably be settled in a manner satisfactory to both parties and will not reach court. The complaint sets out that the defendants (Oliver and Oliver) agreed that within a reasonable time after the making of the said loan to furnish plaintiffs with another deedproperly describing said land by metes and bounds and also with pergonal collateral of the aggregate sum of not less than SIOO,OOO to be de-posited-with said bank as additional collateral security of said note; that defendants have paid no part? of fee principal of said note and though frequent demands of them to make and deliver said deed properly describing said real estate, they failed and refused to do so; that the deed first mentioned as refused for record in Jasper county for the reason the descriptions were insufficient to properly locate said lands; that by reason of the failure and refusal of the defendants to execute said deed pursuant to agreement plaintiffb have been deprived of the security and protection agreed upon as a consideration for making said loan; plaintiff sets out certain lands which plaintiff is informed and believes lefendants are the owners of and intended to be conveyed by defendants pursuant to agreement, but plaintiff is also informed and believes that the title of record to a larger proportion of the land described is in the name of Emmet L. Hollingsworth, who holds said title as trustee for the sole use and benefit of defendants. Plaintiff claims to have first a prior Hen on all of said real estate and arte that defendants be required to make, execute and deliver such deed or deeds as will establish in plaintiff a good and sufficient lien on said real estate pursuant to said agreement.

A SILK UMBRELLA WILL BE APPROPRIATE FOR “him” Xmas morn. The kind “he” life* are to he had at Hilliard A Hamill’s.

Minerva Fruit Cakes are the beat made. Get them of O’Riley. Phone 613, the Golden Loaf Bakery, for Christmas fruit cakes. For your candy and nuts go to Bowen's Grocery, Phone 202.

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