Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — Page 1

No. 61.

We Are Showing a Play Ground Slide for the children. Ask the “kids” to look in our window W. J. WRIGHT

BETTERMENT ASSOCIATION

DIRECTORS HOLD IMPORTANT MEETING TUESDAY EVENING IN THIS CITY. A well attended and enthusiastic meeting of Jasper County Betterment Association directors was held in this city Tuesday evening when the following matters were discussed: A membership drive, to enlist the support of every family in the county for the Jasper County Betterment Association, will be started in every township Monday morning, March 17, according to plans made at the above meeting. This association, which has for its purpose the organization of all the constructive forces of the locality and the co-operation with similar organizations in other parts of the country, was established two weeks ago under the most favorable circumstances. It has developed a plan of action designed to promote the prosperity and improve the good citizenship of the people and in order to put this plan in action it requires the united support of the people whom it serves. The following committee chairmen will be in charge of the drive in the various townships: (Carpenter, Harvey Williams; Jordan, John Kolhoff; Milroy, C. L. Parks; Newton, John Rush; Marion, Charles Postill; Hanging Grove, Geo. Parker; Gillam, S. C. Robinson; Barkley, John R. Parkison; Union, Geo. Hammerton; Walker, Wm. Hershman; Wheatfield, Simon Fendig>Kankakee, M. J. Hohner; Keener, Charles Enz. These chairmen will appoint their committee member* and make a personal canvass of every person in the county for membership. The drive will be concluded Saturday, March 22. . President Moses Leopold, who is acting as county chairman of the drive, states that the movement is being strongly supported by unsolicited mlemberships, a number of persons bringing or sending their memdirectly to the secretary, and that the outlook for a complete success of the drive is very bright, the

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value of such an organization being generally appreciated throughout the county. Preliminary arrangements were made for a county wide picnic to be held July 4th. Harvey Williams and George Putt were appointed to del termine whether or not Fountain Park could be obtained for the event. The association will suggest that in so far as possible communities forego their local celebrations this year'and everyone come together at one place for a great get-together-day, entertainment being provided by games, addresses and amusements. A petition requesting the directors of the Jasper County Betterment Association to hasten the construction ' of a Community building and live--1 stock pavilion so that the same would be completed and ready for the stock show this coming fall, was presented by John A. Dunlap. The petition was circulated by O. S. Bell and S. P. Hilliard and carried the 1 signatures of practically all the prom- | inent farmers and stock men in the county, including many of the directors of the Betterment association. Accordingly, the following committees were appointed: Location, Geo. E. Murray and John Rush; building, Stewart Learning and Ed. Ranton.

It is rumored that the boys at the Monon station have received a good sized chunk of back pay and that Dan Morrissey will not be the only Rensselaer railroader to wear million dollar clothes. Well, the fellows down there are good scouts and if it is necessary to keep the world safe for democracy by a distribution of the deficit of the railroads, let her go. r Evidently the advance and back pay given the men at the stations is still far less in amount that that given the trainmen preceding the last presidential election and since. Evidently the marriage of the administration and the bolsheviki is a very happy one.

TEMPERATURE. The following ia the temperature for the twenty-four hour* ending at 7:00 a. nj. on the date indicated: Max. Mix. March 11 .41 20 March 12 s> 42 29 March 13 56 34

DEPOT BOYS GET DOUGH.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919.

MRS. H. R. KURRIE IS ASPHYXIATED

WIFE OF MONON PRESIDENT DIED SUDDENLY AT CHICAGO HOME THIS MORNING. The entire community was stunned today when a message was rereived here conveying the information that Mrs. Harry Kurrie, wife of the president of the Monon railroad, had been asphyxiated by gas at her home on Hyde Park avenue in Chicago and had passed away early this Thursday morning. The Republican has been unable to obtain but meagre details of her death. Mrs. Kurrie was the daughter of Judge Simon P. Thompson, deceased, and a sister of Firman and Simon Thompson, of this city. Her marriage occurred to Mr. Kurrie in December, 1909, and to this union two children were born, Harry, aged 8 years, and Thompson, aged 7 years. During the winter months the Kurrie family made their home in Chicago, returning to Rensselaer during the SUUMTICr. " --- —■ '“H At the time of her death Mrs. Kurrie was thirty-six years of age, having been born September 18, 1882. She was a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and later attended a girls’ school in Chicago, returning to thiscitjrf olio wing the completionof her school course in that city. Mt. Kurrie was in New York When his wife’s death occurred and left for Chicago immediately upon receiving the sad news. The remains will be brought to Rensselaer this evening and burial will be made in Weston cemetery probably Saturday or Sunday. Fuller particulars will be given in a later issue.

10 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRES; WANTS TO RENEW

The Rensselaer Republican, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gentlemen: — Some new man around your office thought we might be able to get along without the Republican, when we would no more think of trying it than Taft would think of trying to do without suspenders. Why, we have two boys, and where, we would like to know, will they ever learn English, rhetoric, literature and political “come-backs,” unless they have access to your §emi-Weekly? And again we ask you, where? If you are unable to answer that we must insist that our paper be sent to us regularly, .even if you have to snitch one from Judge Hanley or Abe Long. We have just finished a ten-year subscription, and we would like to renew for that period. Please name price for a decade. But, in the meantime, please be sure that we do not miSs a copy. Mrs. Overton joins me in personal regards, in addition to our congratulations on the character of the paper you are furnishing us from the “Old Home Town.” Your friend, J. A. OVERTON. 301 S. Third St., DeSoto, Missouri, March eight, Nineteen nineteen.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS.

, Although the numeral 13 in the month of March may not be emblazoned in red ink on the calendar, it should be, for it is the anniversary of the 'birth of one of Rensselaer’s best known young men—Van R. Grant. Mr. Grant confesses to thirty-sev-en years of life, having first viewed this planet on the thirteenth day of March in the year eighteen eightytwo. Those thirty-seven years of life, except for short intervals, have been spent in Jasper county, hence Mr. Grant has had the pleasure of seeing Rensselaer rise from a small village to the present flourishing city. The fact that the subject of this brief sketch was born on the thirteenth and Friday, at that, has been no drawback to him and fortune has smiled on him in more ways than one. His thirty-seven years have been busy ones and have been characterized by ambition and hustle. The outstanding features of Mr. Grant’s career have been his ascendency to the president’s chair of the Van Rensselaer club, an office which he is capably filling at the present time; his piloting of the Rensselaer Athletics, a base ball team that was recognized as one of the best in the state ©under his regime; the prowess he has gained as a truck grower, and the fact that he hhs three of the finest youngsters in the state <d Indiana. When interviewed by a reporter, Mr. Grant staged that he was well pleased with the wonderful weather on his anniversary and that instead of feeling older that he felt quite the contrary.

BUNTE’S REMARKABLE RECORD Six months of solid experimenting before their article met with their own approval, was the remarkable record made by the Bunte candy fhariufacturers in* producing their new chocolate bar. Try them at Montgomery’s news stand.—Adv.

LAFAYETTE HAS ON GALA DRESS

AS KEYS OF CITY ARE TURNED OVER TO CHAMPION BASKETBALL FIVES. Former Title Winner*. >•1911 —(Crawfordsville. 1912 .Lebanon. 1913 .Wingate. 1914 — Wingate. 1915 — Thorntown. —19.16 —J efferaon . 1917 ’Lebanon. 1918— Lebanon. * * ♦ ♦ v . ~ "All Lafayette is teeming with excitement today with the opening of what promises to be the greatest basketball tournament ever offered since the inauguration -of such classics in the year 1911. All day yesterday the championship fives from the various sections x of Indiana swarmed into the city and were promptly taken care of by the citizens and offered the keys of the city. Never before has Lafayette been offered such a dainty sporting dish and she is doing her very best to show that she appreciated the honor conferred upon her and thereby assure herself of future meets of the kind. The Tippecanoe city is ideally located and has all the necessary facilities to insure that the meet will be a success in every way. k The barriers were lifted at z o’clock on the teams who drew the getaway squabbles. The following is the afternoon and evening schedules: 2 : oo—Richmond vs. Bloomington. 3:00 —Manual Training vs. Vincennes. 4:00 —Thorntown vs. Anderson. 7 : 30— Washington vs. Huntington. 8:30 —Columbus vs. South Bend. In the opening scramble Bloomington should have but little trouble with the Richmond quintet, ’thereby discounting all the hard work of the latter of a week ago m winning the sectional title. In the second game Vincennes should be returned the winner over the Indianapolis five, lhe third game of the series should see one of the hardest foufcht battles that will come up during the entire tournament, when the Anderson five meets Thorntown. Both teams are recognized as being of championship timber and it is unfortunate that they are forced to meet each other so early in the fracas. Anderson should win and then have easy sailing until the final. In the first game of the evening Washington should dispose of Huntington in a tight fit Neither team is of state championship calibre and the game should no 'bearing on the ultimate result of the tournament. South Bend sheuld win from Columbus, but these teams, too, are not of extremely high grade and the winner will probably fall in the early rounds. , . . . Seven games are booked for rnday and six for Saturday in addition to the tourney final. Owing to the late start we are unable to give any oi the tourney scores in today’s edition.

THURSDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

i Dor a Daniels, daughter of Mr. arid Mrs. Horace Daniels, of Barkley township, is taking training as a nurse in the hospital. Mrs. Wm. Hough’s condition remains about the same. Joseph Fitzhugh is much improved. Z. L. Swaim, who entered the hospital Tuesday for medical treatment, remains about the same. Edward Schwager is improving. L. H. Potts’ codnition is not improved. Ruth Dewees, who has been very ill, is slowly improving. If conditions permit Miss Caroline Herman will spend Saturday and Sunday with her parents in Chicago Heights. -

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PROMISE BETTER POSTAL SERVICE

Improvement in the postal service has been promised by Assistant Postmaster General Koons in a letter addressed to nearly 15,000 business men, who at the request of the postoffice department recently submitted suggestions for the improvement of the service. Instructions already have been issued to postmasters and employes, Mr. Koons said, with a view to removing many of the causes of complaints.

SUPREME COURT JUDGES FLAYED AS OLD FOSSILS

Cleveland, March -12. —In what may be his farewell public address before he begins serving a ten year sentence imposed by the federal court here on a charge of violating the espionage act, Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader tonight upheld the Bolshevist rule in Russia and referred to Lenine and Trotzky as the “foremost statesmen of the age.” Debs said the judges of the United States supreme court were “begowned, bewhiskered, bepowdered old fossils, who had never decided anything.” Referring to the prison term that he faces he reiterated his opposition to the law he violated while the war was in progress. Announcement was made of ; a meeting to be held here March 23 to protest -against the imprisonment of Debs ahd to organize to obtain the freedom of all political and industrial prisoners. A big crowd of police and agents of the department of justice were scattered through the crowd but there was.no semblance of disorder.

THROW OUT THE LINE.

Give Them Help end Many Rensselear People Will Be Happier. “Throw Out the Life Line Weak kidneys need help. They’re often overworked— they don’t get the poison filtered out of the blood. Will you help them? Doan’s Kidney Pills have brought benefit to thousands of kidney suffcrers* • Rensselaer testimony prover their worth. _ Mrs. J. C. Beckman, Van Rensselaer St., Rensselaer, says: “Judging from my own experience with Doan s Kidney Pills, I gladly recommend them as a reliable medicine. Doan s have always relieved me of backache and other symptoms of kidney disorder.” , TX »* Price 60c, at all dealers. Don t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mrs. Beckma.. had. Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

AT HOPKINS SALE. I will offer for sale at the R, E. Hopkins sale on March 17, the following property: t 1 black coming 4-year-old mare. 1 manure spreader. 1 J. L Case sulky plow. 1 Deering binder. Terms —Same as those of sale. W. J. McKINNEY

THURSDAY’S WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Cloudy with probably rain toriight and colder in north portion tonight. ?

SUPPLY OF ANTHRACITE COAL. We have just received a car of chestnut hard coal and now have a large stock of all ies of anthracite coal.—THE FARMERS GRAIN COMPANY, phone No. 7. FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK Now is the time to piace your oiler for fruit trees and nursery Stock.' Every tree and plant I sell is absulutely guaranteed in every respect. • 7 S CHARLES PEFLEY.

SUPREME COURT MINUTES

ABSTRACT OF OPINION HANDED DOWN MARCH 7—HILL VS. MONON RAILWAY. 23300. Frank Hill vs. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad Company. Reversed. Myers, J. (1 Action by appellant for damages for personal injuries, the complaint was in three paragraphs, and a demurrer was sustained to the first and second paragraphs and trial on the third. The appellant was injured while on appellee’s track, going back to stock yard chute, after removingra loaded car from the chute to make room for an empty car, there being four cars to load, which had to be moved by hand by the loaders. He was injured while walking near the main track by an engine, running light, without giving signals, it being alleged that the appellant had so blocked other passage ways that appellant was required to walk where he was walking. The first paragraph alleges negligence on the part of appellee in failing to give the statutory signals for a crossing but a short Instance from the place where he was injured. As appellant was not a traveler on the highway, the statute requiring signals was not for his protection, and the demurrer to the first paragraph of complaint. (2) The second paragraph of the complaint charges negligence in having an obstructed way requiring the appellant to travel near the main track, and failure to equip the engine injuring him with a proper headlight. It » held that the facts shown showed a duty of care on the part of the appellee, and that it was error to sustai nthe demurrer to the second paragraph of the complaint, and that no contributory negligence, as a matter of law, is shown. The rights and duties of the parties are considered at length. (3) The sustaining the demurrer to the second paragraph was not harmless error because of the trial on the third paragraph, as the third alleges error only in the matter of equipping the engine with a weak oil headlight, and does not allege negligence in failing to equip with a headlight as required by the order of the public service commission, as does the second., (4) The court does not take up the alleged errors covered by the motion for a new trial, saying no good purpose can be served by their consideration. , x

SOLDIERS BEING DISCHARGED GET $60 BONUS

'Milton Cobb and A. S. Kittering, of Thayer, arrived here this Thursday morning on the early train from Columbus Barracks, where they had been honorably discharged from the army. Both men had seen overseas service. They continued to their homes on the Milk train. Both had received the $60.00 bonus the government is now giving to the soldiers.

INDIANA DRAFT BOARDS WILL BE MUSTERED OUT

Major Robert-C- Baltzell,—statedraft agent, has received orders from the provost marshal general at Washington to have all local .draft boards in Indiana checked in and closed on or before March 31. Major Baltzell has communicated the order to the boards and all will probably bejniMtered out of service by March 20. This will mark the end in Indiana of the draft organization;

NEW SUITS FILED.

No. 9023. Micah Gray vs. Thomas McAlear; action on contract.

Fred Limbeck will offer for sale a good grain binder at the Chauncey Wood sale on March 18.

AT THE * STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES “ TODAY •■ ■ H GLORIA SWANSON AND J. BARNEY SHERRY I “HER DECISION” h; . . -■ ■ . - ' 1 ~ FRIDAY— ' ACTION GALORE = > WITH GEORGE WALSH e —lN—the clever kid Walsh Has No Equal for Spood *nd . -Originality SATURDAYLOUISE HUFF —— And JOHN BOWERS —IN— , /* “THE SEA WAIF” Al iS’O'• r . ‘ r ‘‘THE HAND OF VENGEANCE*

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