Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1920 — Page 1

No. 34

■ Don’t Buy a Sweeper Unless It Has a Power Driven Brush. Don’t Buy an Electric Sweeper until you have a home demonstration of the Hoover., IT BEATS--IT SWEEPS—AS IT CLEANS W. J. WRIGHT RENSSELAER, INDIANA

MARKETS BY WIRE.

(Furnished by Thp Farmers’ Grain Market, H. H. Potter, Mgr.) Live Stock Market. Hogs—Receipts, 3,500; carry over, 6,500; higher 15c; top, $14.85. Cattle—(Receipts, 1,000. (Sheep—'Receipts, 3,000. Grain Market. May oats opened at .76 7-8; closed at .756-4. July oats opened at .69 3-4; closed at 68%. May corn opened at 1.30 3-4; closed at 1.29 to 1.29 1-8. July corn opened at 1.27 3-4 to 1.27 1-8; closed at 1.25 7-8 to 1.26. Sept, corn opene at 1.25; closed at 1.23.

WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Sunday. Probably snow flurries in east portion. Not much change in temperature.

Senator Underwood has withdrawn as a candidate for the Democratic nomination. One beauty of withdrawing now, candidates are recognizing, is that they don’t have far to withdraw. —Kansas City Star.

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Lewis J. Selznick presents Elsie Janis —in— ' : “A REGULAR GIRL”

When Elizabeth decided to show 'em that women are as useful a* men, she didn’t know that rich papa would eoncoct a scheme destined to give her the merriest tussle of her romantic life.

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Are owners only. We depend upon the people we have dealt with and who knows cars voltage. On the whole these'good people are well satisfied customers. They couldn’t help but be satisfied—for we sold them high class cars. But mostly our customers are enthusiasts and when a prospect asks them what they think of us and our cars, their genuine enthusiasm does the rest. That’s why customers come before prospects around the institution and always shall. I always , pitied the bride, because she never gets the “best man.” But there’s no excuse for anybody not getting the best' car for his pocketbook. All they have to do is buy it from Thompson and Kirk. A

Fred Mechlinberg went to Chicago today. William Clouse has rented the house where he now lives from Charles Schleman and will stay here until he can find a farm to suit him.

She’s a female Fairbanks when it to stunts and athletic*. ; Elsie Janis is' a- regular girl--she helped ’em over there and she helped us over here. You’ll never know what - happened ’till you seo Elsie Janis in "A Regular Giri.”

RKN3SRLAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920.

MESSMAN SUIT IS DISMISSED

KENTLAND DEMOCRAT GIVES ARTICLE IN REFERENCE TO THIS CASE. Sometime ago the Republican gave considerable space to a case filed in the Newton county court in which Herman Messman of this city brought suit against Warren T, McCray. The suit was brought, so the complaint alleged, to quiet title to land in which Mr. Messman claimed an interest. The following article from the Kentland Democrat has reference to this case: ‘ On call days of the present term of the Newton circuit court the case of Herman Messman against Warren T. McCray was set for trial on Tuesday of this week, but when the case was called, on that date, the plaintiff’s chief counsel. W\ H. Pafkinson, of Lafayette, was reported to be sick, and failed to appear, and his co-counsel, Hume L. Sammons, dismissed the case at their client’s costs. Mr. McCray then called Attorney Parkinson by phone and the latter answered the call in person. But to anyone familiar with the case it would not have been surprising if both of the plaintiff’s counsel had found it convenient to be absent when the case was called. The suit was instituted last August and on the morning of the same day that the case was filed at least three daily papers circulating thruout Indiana published the substance of plaintiff’s complaint—which was not filed in court until hours after these newspapers had gone to press. The purpose of such in-advance publication can well be imagined. It is an unusual proceeding for any honorable attorney to cause to be published (even locally) the contents of his court pleadings (whether libelous or not) prior to the determination of his case in court. Professional ethics and sound discretion as to the rights of the parties forbid it. Yet, in this •case —for some purpose or other — it was done without stint, regardless of the libelous matter it contained. It appears that on the day before this suit was filed, Attorney Parkinson called upon Mr. McCray and demanded that unless satisfactory settlement of the pretended claim was made immediately, suit would be filed against him. Mr. McCray unreservedly and absolutely refused to entertain any such proposition, whereupon Parkinson went to the office of his co-counsel and left instructions to him that unless Mr. McCray did so settle he should file the case in court. Parkinson then hurried away an<T before the newspapers containing account of the finding reached Kentland Attorney Sammons had also left town, on a fishing trip—to be absent several days. Whether they Were actually deceived by their client as to the merits of his case, or that it was thought that on account of Mr. McCray’s then being a prospective candidate for the office of governor he might be an easy mark and fall for the demand, our readers may draw their own conclusions.

From the filing of the case until its dismissal, Mr. McCray has persistently insisted upon a hearing at the earliest possible moment. He filed his answer last October, m hopes of having it tried at that term, but the case was continued. However, the persistent efforts of his counsel, William Darroch—who is a conscienteous Democrat of the old school, with an abiding faith in the principles of his party and great respect for the ethics of his profes-sion-forced the plaintiff and his counsel out into the open. Plaintiff’s counsel secured the services of J. H. O’Neill, a member of the state board of accounts —who, as it happens to be, is a Democrat—from Indianapolis, to examine the books of McCray, the McCray Grain Co. and the McCray-Morrison Grain Co., showing all transactions between Messrs. McCray and Messman, hoping, no doubt, that such examination might disclose some kind of clue that would help tb bolster up their impossible case Mr. O’Neill was given free access to every book and paper he cared to investigate, from the time when Mr. Messman first began to do business with Mr. McCray, up to the present time. Mr. O’Neil labored industriously for two days, and having completed his work, Mr. McCray requested of him he furnish him with a copy of 'his report, but of the granting of this' favor at that time he asked to be excused, for the reason that as the other parties had employed him it would not be ethical for him to do so; he did say, however, that he had never examined a more complete or systematically kept set of books and that they were in perfect balance. It was for the purpose of securing a copy of this report that Mr. McCray called Attorney Parkinson on the phone immediately after the dismissal of the case, and Paridnsoh promised to furnish it for him. there is no law in Indiana prohibiting action such as was indulged in, in this case, there should be one enacted; and if there is any permitting n' litigant to frame -up any kind of case his fertile imagination may conceive of, for the purpose of

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MONON CRUSHER WILL RESUME WORK MARCH 1ST

Monon News.—George. F. Balfe, manager of the Monon Crushed Stone Co., returned this week from Cleveland, 0., where he purchased a 20-ton locomotive train. This device is manufactured by the Browning Engine Co., and has a yard and a half clam-shell bucket. Immediately on its arrival, it will be used for reclaiming stone and storing it for use as a reserve later on. Weather conditions permitting, the plant Will resume operations March 1 and the numerous demands for crushed stone indicate that the crusher has a busy season ahead, running at full capacityMr. Balfe, who is president of the Indiana Stone Men’s Association, will go to Louisville, Ky., next week to attend the meeting of the National Crushed Stone Operators Association. 1 1

DETZER ACQUITTED OF ABUSE CHARGES; RECEIVES THREATS

New York, Feb. 6.—Simultaneously with the announcement at governor’s island today that Captain Karl W. Detzer had been acquitted by a court martial of charges of cruelty to American soldiers at Lemans, it became known that the exonerated officer had received several threatening letters warning him not to show himself in certain middle western cities. Captain Detzer was handed a letter from Lieut. General Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the department of the east, informing him that the general courtmartial which since December 10, 1919, had been hearing evidence of his alleged brutality to overseas men, had found him “not guilty on all charges and on all specifications.

MEDARYVILLE SLIPS LOCALS K. O.; 19 TO 7

Playing in a garage and on a cement floor covered with automobile oil, the Rensselaer high school basket ball team fell in defeat before the Medaryville five at that place Friday night by a score of 19 to 7. The locals were greatly handicapped by the conditions under which they were forced to play, and at no time did the game resemble basket ball. . The Pulaski quintette is composed of large men, thoroughly schooled in the art of playing on such a floor as they possess. Medaryville will b 6 here the coming week for a return game and the local players have promised a victory to the local fans.

Prof. L. D. Baker, superintendent of the Remington school, attended the meeting of the school superintendents of the state in Indianapolis this week. W. E. Johnson, of Remington, president of the Jasper County Sunday school Association, attended a conference of the state _ Sunday school association at Indianapolis this week.

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publishing broadcast a libel against a fellow citizen, whether for pelf or spite, such should be repealed. The Democrat does not subscribe to Mr. McCray’s politics, but it does believe in fair play. For some years past The Democrat has not’ received fair play at the hands of some of its own party brethern, but it is still doing business (as it has been for more than a quarter century under its present management) and bids fair to continue so until long after its present malefactors are gone and forgotten; and if it is to be a Republican governor for Indiana after next November’s election there is no candidate of that party whom we would rawer see elected than he, for thgreasons that he is one of the worthiest of Kentland’s citizens and that it would be an honor to our town to be the home of the governor of our state.

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VERDICT FOR MONON IN DAMAGE SUIT

The case of Robert A. Engle, administrator of the estate of Melinda Engle, against the Monon railroad, ended abruptly in the superior court Friday morning when Judge Henry H. Vinton instructed the jury that heard the evidence to bring in a verdict for the defendant. It was alleged Mrs. Engle came to her death on June 8, 1919, a? the result of injuries received in an accident at Monon, Ind., on July 8, 1918. The administrator asked damages in the sum of $lO,000. Mrs. Engle was a passenger on a Monon train en route to Francesville when the train collided with a truck driven by Paul Overton at Monon. The truck was carried down the track and crashed into a switch stand, causing the switch to open and the train to collide with a box car. In making his finding Judge Vinton said the approximate cause of the injury was the act of a third party in driving a Ford truck on to the railroad track in front of the train.—Lafayette Journal: ’—O' — Paul Overton is a Rensselaer boy, but is now residing in Monon.

Albert -Hahn returned to his worK at Hammond today after visiting his parents, M» and Mrs. D. Hahn, of Gifford. John Anderson returned to North Dakota today after visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. David Hahn. Elmer Wi'cox returned to his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, today after being called here by the illness and death of his father, Jacob Wilcox.

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SAYS PAPERS MUST RAISE THEIR PRICES

Indianapolis, Feb. 6.—Replying to criticism from sources offered against the action of many newspapers of the state in again raising subscription and advertising rates, Thomas Donohue of Lafayette, Secretary of the Indiana Committee on Public Utility Infonnation, issued this statement to utility men thruout the state: ~ “It is. just as absurd to say that a newspaper should stick to old time subscription and advertising rates, in these after-war times, as. it is to say that the average electric, gas, street car, water or telephone company can operate on the old rate basis. White paper, ink, labor and all other costs of newspaper making have soared to undreamedof heights, just like coal, oil, steel, copper and labor prices and taxes and all factors in the operation of the utilities. , - . ‘• “Financially sound and healthy newspapers are as necessary to the progress and well-being of a community as financially healthy utilities are. They can no more be expected to serve their communities . e__ciently, unless permitted to thrive—keep their plants in good working order and their credit good —than Should you expect a utility company to do so. They depend upon rates —prices fixed for subscriptions and advertising—for their revenue, just as utilities depend upon their service rates. If these rates are not fair and high enough to cover costs and leave a profit, newspapers must deterioriate. No community can afford to have its newspapers in that condition. Starved and therefore inefficient newspapers are a handicap to any community, just as starved and inefficient utilities are.”

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 6. Opponents of national prohibition are organizing to obtain planks in the Republican and Democratic platforms advocating the liberalization of the prohibition enforcement law and to elect a majority of the next ocngress favorable to the manufacture and sale of light wines- and beer. The movement in both 'parties will appeal for the restoration of personal liberty and states’ rights. — Louis Titus of California, general counsel so rthe Skinner & Eddy Ship-building company of Seattle, was today appointed by President Wilson as a member of the shipping board. The appointment will be investigated by the senate commerce committee, in view of the fact that the Skinner & Eddy company has pending claims amounting to about $8,000,000. Representative Mondell, Republican leader, told the house that a serious financial* situation may result unless congress curtails expenditures. He warned that the market price of Liberty bonds would be greatly reduced if additional bonds are issued. / — The American Federation of Labor executive council is in session here planning for an aggressive political campaign with a particular view to electing to congress men who will support labor’s cause and to defeating sitting members who have supported anti-labor legislation.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: • Max. Min. February 6 40 27 February 7 37 80

W. S. Oakford left this morning for his home in Peoria, DI. He may go south to spend a few weeks in a warmer climate.

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