Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1920 — Page 1

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-I .. . ... ' m v ' * • - . • ' . We have a bed davenport like the aboye cut with rockers to match covered in brown imitation leather and finished in * either fumed or golden oafc~~ “This is only one of several styles davenports that we have the rockers to match. The bed davenport is the economical piece of furniture to buy -for the living room as you can seat four people and have an extra bed. > If you will buy a good twenty-five pound felt mattress the bed will be comfortable. W. J. WRIGHT - RENSSELAER, INDIANA

MYRA INEZ BRINGS $875

LEWIS’ SECOND HAMPSHIRE SALE WAS LARGELY ’ . ATTENDED. i ' There was a large, enthusiastic number of Hampshire fans present at the John R. Lewis sale in this city Thursday. Myra Inez was the top-notcher and-was sold for $875. She was purchased by Colvert of BoswelL • • Harvester’s Gold was bought by by J. B. Frenow, of Leesburg, 0., at S3OO. Hoosier Lady stepped e way at the tune of $250, the buyer being the (Pine Grove Stock Fann Co., of Marlette, Mich. * Stewart Learning, who is soon to take up .his abode on his Wisconsin farm, and Mrs. Simon, of Monticello, each made' purchases at $250 head. There were forty-nine hogs sold and. they brought $5,680. The first twenty sold averaged $189.75. The first twenty-five averaged $l7O and Ae Iprty-nine averaged Eleven of the forty-nine were sold to residents of this county. —fa ■ W

i —« ——w , Mrs. J. Robinson, of Lafayette, and Jim Kepner of Pagman, Canada, came today to attend the fun-, eral of their cousin, Mrs. C. Turner, which was held this afternoon.

PRINCESS THEATRE . MATINEE—SiIS NIGHT—TtOO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MARY PICKFORD f;• t ' ‘The Heart of the Hills’ ■ / ' • ' . w f £3|PBlFWr> Little Mavis Hawn, a loyal Ken- for murder event juror claims he tueky clansman, promises her “pap” fired the fatal F asWIM dying from a feudist but- wins to fame far th* Lawfamds. let that she will his slayer— Then comes the-great crisis when cheated out of her heritage by land she face, her father’, grabbers, she heads the Night Rid- later love and claims of the city and •rs, who slay the gang leader. Tried the mountaineer lover,. , Th. Thirteenth Episode es 1 “ELMO the MIGHTY”

The Evening Republican.

STUDENT OF MONNETT SCHOOL DIES AT HOSPITAL

Irene Richardson, 13 years of age and a student of the Monnett school for Girls, died at the • bosprtal at five o’clock Thursday afternoon after a brief illness. Miss Richardson had been operated on fdr mastoid trouble. .Her condition steadily grew worse despite the operation until death came. - The young lady had been a student of the school since January of 1919, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Richardso'n, of Blanford, Ind. She is survived by •her parents, one' brother and one sister, all of whom were present when her death occurred. The remains were shipped- to Ridge Farm, 111., this Friday morning where burial will be made.

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Saturday except probably snow Saturday in north portion. Rising, temperature.

Mrs. J. W. RaipS/Was called to Whitland on account of sickness in her daughter’s family. Mrs. J. A. Wright returned home today from Frankfort where she had been called by the illness of her father. Her father has suffered with hiccoughs the last six weeks and is gradually growing weaker. M. L. Ford for a number of years 4 very' much respected citizen of this county, but who for a few years has been living near Leiter’s Ford, Fulton county, writes to hive the address of his Republican changed to R. F. D. No. 4, Bluff-, ton.

ULNSSKLAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.

OUR ONION KING IN FRANKFORT

COL. HEALEY GIVgS JASPER COUNTY MAN WRITE UP IN CRESCENT-NEWS.

The following article is taken from the Frankfort Crescent-News lof February 26 and relates, of course, to our own “Onion King’’: I Alfred DonneHy, known throughout Indiana as the “Onion King,*’ I was a Frankfort visitor today, Donnelly has 300 acres of fine land near Rensselaer, Jasper county, and • several large storage houses- for ! onions, -cabbage, popcorn and vari--1 ous other vegetables are near the j fine residence. Mr. DonneHy was the pioneer in the onion business in I Jasper county, and since he started that specialty line of farming many i others have taken it up and muck ' soil that was doubtful value for : general germing very valuable not only for onions but for potatoes .tomatoes and other valu'ables. Land that was unsalable at $lO and S2O an acre went up to S3OO an acre as truck land. Mr. Donnelly not only raised onions but bought them in the fall of the year from other growers’ ' and stored them for the higher prices of a later season. He was an excellent judge of market possibilities and rarely ! ever missed in judging the best eefiing time. He has seen onions vary in prices from 'a. few cents a bushel to several dollars a bushel. A few years ago he abandoned large onion grpwing and embarked in theonion set business, which he found consistently more profitable than the growing of large onions. 9 During his entire .onion growing and selling experience he has .sniveled throughout Indiana and sola to retailers and wholesalers, cutting out a large part of the middlemen’s cost. He knows thte prospect of, the onion crop in every field of the United States, also in l Bermuda and foreign fields and this knowledge has been a wonderful asset to him, in buying and, selling.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express to our many friends and neighbors our heartfelt appreciation for their many acts of loving kindness shown our father, Theodore Keiper, dur' ing his last illness. We want to especially thank Superintendent Hemphill ajid. the nurses at the hospital for the effort they put forth to make father as comfortable as possible during his sickness. * ' J. V. KEIPER, A. T. KEIPER, MRS. BERT ABBOTT.

There a/e many ways of effecting * economy in buying your eatables, PERHAPS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS IS TO GET THE BEST QUALITY. We-handle only'the BEST QUALITY goods in all our lines and our prices are as reason- : able as they can be made under pres- > ent conditions. YOU CAN PRACTICE ; ECONOMY HERE. ' SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY ONLY HOUSE, the highest grade flour made, per sa<:k.. . . .$1.89 Large cans fancy sliced Pine- / reg. 60c grade, limit, 6 z , cans to a customer.... .45c Extra fancy cooking figs, per lb. .. .25c Ideal reg. 55c _ grade, per pounds 49c Large cdns best grade Sauer Kraut, per can ... -- -» «*• »*" FRUITS & VEGETABLES Head Lettuce-— Celery Cabbage Turnips—Parsnips—Grape Fruit — । Apples—Oranges —-Fresh CbcoaiMits. ~ IDEAL GROCERY Clouse & Worden Phone 344 . . Phone 344

MAY REBUILD BLACK BELT

BOMB THROWING RETARDS WORK OF GOV. LOWDEN COMMISSION The following article was taken from the Chicago Daily News of February 25: “We ate working continuall/'and constructively upon the race prob* lem in Chicago,” said Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, acting chairman of Gov. Lowden’s commission on race relations, “but in the meantime we 'have ‘collaborators* who are throwing bombs. Attempts to solve or remedy the situation by terrorism serve only to make matters infinitely worse. And they are bad enough now. Chicago, as a matter of fact, is perched nona too happily on a volcano. We must be careful of the present and we must build for the future.” Asked along what lines the commission is working, Dr. Shepardson said: “We have a number of committees. Each committee is taking up one factor of the problem and making an intensive survey. We are making remarkable progress toward ! determining the causes of Chicago’s; ; race riots.. When we have reported I that situation we will 'be in a position to build clearly and. begin work toward removing the causes. “Ope of the plans I have encountered toward a solution is that of Rebuilding the south side and the so-called black belt. It is obvious to us now that the deteriorai tion of the 'south side is not to be blamed upon the negro. The stockyards, the railroads and the automo- ' bile industry and the growth of the city' in a general way to the unmaking of the one tihie residential districts. The negro was pushed into them the least desirable place in the city. The Result ,now is that' we have no intelligent segregation that will permit the negro to live among those of his own kind whom he prefers, but a segregation that throws all negroes into one vicious neighborhood. “The negro does not desire to scatter himself over the entire city. But he desires a clean place to live. It is up to us to evolve wAys of making-his section of the city clean. This can be done by uprooting the joints which surround him, 'by making. it possible for "his family to live in a residential street in which there will be little danger of some one suddenly opening a dive.

May Enlarge Negro Section. “The negro section must be cleaned up for the negro and perhaps en-

The Tax man will ring the bell on Monday! If you« hold eight per-cent non- . . taxable Preferred Stock in the Rensselaer MTg, Co. You Should Worry.

'II larged. Since the negroes here (have Increased from 50,000 to 130,000 it is obviously necessary to ‘increase the space housing them. Upon this problem. and its many facts we are carefully working. “But in the meantime the situation is precarious. The fact that inflamnmtory literature is being distributea by-both whites and blacks is dangerous and the fact, ' above all, that bomb throwers are avowed to operate' unmolested is extremely dangerous. As far as I have been able to see from the newspapers, few,* if any,- of the outlaws hprling botnbs as a remedy for the ■race have been arrested and prosecuted.* The t imperative need for today is patience and selfrestraint.” / Dr. Shepardson spoke before the City chib today, telling of the work of the race commission.

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CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL IN BENTON COUNTY BURNS

Fire Wednesday afternoon destroyed the consolidated building at Green Hill, Benton county, the loss being estimated at $lB,000. The teachers and pupils made their way out of the structure and some of the seats and fixtures on the ground floor were rafhOved before the flames reached them. The building was a brick structure, was built fifty- years ago and was originally the Green Hill Seminary. Later it was used as a .United Brethren church and then it das enlarged and remodeled for a school building. The town has no water works and nd effort was made to check the progress of the fire. The loss is partly covered by insurance.

RED CROSS NOTICE.

The knitting department of the Red Cross is closing up, and desires all work returned at once. Yarn and needles at bargain prices. ORA T. ROSS, Director.

SKATING RINK NOW OPEN.

The skating rink will be open Wednesday and Saturday evenings until further notice. Open kt 7:30 o’clock. Saturday, 7:80 tb 9:15 and from 9:15 until midnight. Skates, 27c, was tax 3c. Ladies 9c, war tax, Ic., . \ CALIX PAQUETTE.

ABE MARTIN.

(Indianapolis News.) By some generous provision a has-been never lives t’ know it. “When a feller hain’t gittin’ talked lint’ somethin’ downtown his wife is i gittin’ talked out o’ sometihiVi Out ' home,” said Lase Bud, t’day. I fl 1

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending a* 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. February 27 22 7 I

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