Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1920 — Page 1

No. 163.

Delayed Shipment of _ PORCH FURNITURE A New Kind Painted grey and black and Ivory and green. Chairs, rockers, tables, setteesand swings entirely different from anything we have shown before. WATCH OUR WINDOW w. J. WRIGHT

REPRESENTATIVE WOOD RECEIVES OFFICIAL CALL

Hon. William L. Wood, joint representative from Jasper, Newton and Benton counties, received his official notice Wednesday of the convening of the Indiana General Assembly on Monday, July 12.-" The' special session is made necessary by the unexpected raise in the prices of all commodities used by the state institutions and thereby requiring much more funds than appropriated by the last session of the legislature. It was thought by the members of the assembly while in session last year that prices would be reduced and that appropriation made at that time would be sufficient.

ATTEND BIBLE

The following young ladies are delegates from the Presbyterian church in this city to the Winona Bible School at Winona: Irma Campbell, Miabel Eisele, Irene Hoover and Josephine Washburn. Mayor Spitler took the young ladies to that place Tuesday in his automobile.

DEATH OF FLOYD PHILLIPS.

Floyd Phillips, who had been in a hospital in Kankakee, ip., for some time with tuberculosis died Wednesday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Phillips of Momence, 111., but formerly of this city. Funeral services will be held at Lee Saturday noon.

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—ItM NIGHT—7:IS —TODAY— Thomas H. Ince Presents Dorothy Dalton “L’APAC HE” Also Comedy FRIDAY, JULY 9TH Adolf Zukor Presents Elsie Ferguson —IN— The Counterfeit

.e She was one of the Harringtons of Virginia. So it wasn’t surprising the* the government should choose her for “confidential work” in New* port society. Then the United States secret service agents, in a stirrihg battle, trapped a band of

MARIE WALCAMP “A Two Reel Western Series” I

The Evening Republican.

The Monon Route announces the restoration of passenger train service to Cincinnati, effective Sunday, July 11. The service from Indianapolis to Cincinnati will be over the C. I. & W. , J . x . No change will be made in the schedule of trains passing through here, but a new train will be added which will leave Chicago at 11:40 p. m., will arrive at Indianapolis at 4:40 a. m. and at Cincinnati at 7:45 a. m. It is understood that this train will not stop for passengers here or at Monticello, except 'for those going beyond Indianapolis; j A. new time table is to go into effect Sunday but the local agent has not received a copy of the same.

WILL RESTORE CINCINNATI SERVICE

PASTURE LAND FOR RENT. Have ninety acre farm at Pleasant Ridge, two hundred acres and two 90-acre farms at Fair Oaks. Will rent by the acre *®r the «m----son. JOHN J. LAWLER, SEE ERNEST BEAVER. R. F. D, No. 3, Rensselaer, Ind., or phone 938-L NOTICE. R. E. Davis, the piano tuner and player adjuster, -is here. Leave your orders at the Rensselaer Hotel, phone 167. Expert on all makes of player pianos. Work guaranteed. Europe’s theory is that a Good Samaritan always has something up his sleeve. —Nashville Tennessean. *

counterfeiters, and the man who. loved her understood why she couldn’t explain when he caught her, one । night robbing a safe. Exquisite; gowns, magnificent scenes, absorbing romance and a fight that stirs the blood. A picture of real distinction. I H . . 19 * ■ 9

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 8, IMO.

3 KILLED IN TRAIN TRAGEDY

TRAIN STRUCK AUTOMOBILE AT WATgR VALLEY RESULTING IN DEATH OF 3. Mrs. John Ahlgrim, of Shelby, her youngest child, and nephew, Frances Firaif, are dead as the result of a tragedy which occurred at Water Valley about three o’clock Wednesday afternoon when northbound Monon train No. 38, due in .this city at 2:51 p. m., struck the automobile in which they were riding, killing them instantly. Two other occupants of the car, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sirois and another child of Mrs. Ahiprim, were seriously injured but will not die. The machine was carried a hundred feet or more before it was thrown clear of the track. So far as is known there were no witnesses to the tragedy other than the engineer of the train. According to the story of the two surviving occupants, the engine of the machine stalled just as Mrs. Ahlgrim drove it onto the tracks and she was getting out of the car to crank it when the train struck them. When the train passed through this city it was forty minutes late and it is supposed that it was running at a high rate of speed in order to make up the lost time as it passed through Water Valley. It is said that the engineer has -estimated the speed of the train as being sixty miles an hour when it struck the automobile and that he did not see the car in time to avert the tragedy. The bodies of Mr. Ahlgrim and the two children showed only Slight bruises, all of the occupants of the car remaining in it until it was thrown clear of the tracks. The approach to the tracks at the point where the tragedy occurred is very bad, the view being obstructed and according to the story of the little Sirois girl they neither saw nor heard the train, the noisb from a sawmill which was operating near-by deadening the sound of the train. Mrs. Ahlgrim and the children had left her home at Shelby to go to the home of her father-in-law, Mox Ahlgrim, at Water Valley for a short -visit and were only a short distance from his home when struck by the train. . . Funeral services for Mrs. Ahlgrim and the two children will be held at Lowell Saturday afternoon.

THURSDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

The Rev. W. H. Sayler and wife ate in the hospital the result of injuries received when their automobile upset while they were on their way to a Sunday school picnic this forenoon. Mrs. Sayler has a dislocated, and possibly a fractured shoulder? It is thought that Mr. Sayler’s injuries are not serious. Mrs. Alonzo Bridgeman was taken to her home near Morocco by her husband. _ Miss Ford, .who had been acting as superintendent, is sick at her home in Remington. Miss Mattie Hemphill has assumed her duties as superintendent after a two months’ vacation. Mrs. Frank Garvin and baby went to their home Wednesday. Ruby Smith and Ciola Wolfe who had undergone tonsil operations went to their .homes Wednesday. Lewis Miller was able to leave the hospital Wednesday. . The two daughters of Edwin Clarkson of Morocco underwent operations at the hospital today. The two children of Harvey Godfred alspi of Morocco underwent operations today.

MARKETS BY WIRE.

(Furnished by The Farmere Gram Market, H. H. Potter .Mgr.) Chicago, July 8, 1920. Live Stock Market. Hogs, recpts.. 26,000; top, $16.20. Cattle, receipts, 9,000. Sheep, receipts, 10,000. Indianapolis hogs, 9,000; top, $16.10. . , Grain Market. July oats opened at .95 1-4; closed at 94 1-2 and 8-4. Sept oats opened at .80 and .79 1-2; closed at 7.8 1-2 and 3-8. Dee. oats opened at .76 3-4 and 5-8; closed at .75 6-8 and 1-2. July corn opened at 1.59 1-2 and 1.58; closed at 1.57 1-4 and 1-2. Sept, corn opened at 1.60 ana 1.58; closed at L 56 1-8 and 1.56. Dec. corn opened at 1.43 3-4 and 1-4; closed at 1.40 1-2 and 1.40. . < ■ ■ ■■■

THURSDAY PRODUCE PRICES.

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WEATHER Thunder storms this afternoon or tonight Friday fair. rOS SiTiW bushels of buckwheat. Phone SM-C. E. U Bruce.

SUPREME COURT HITS TAX LAW

HORIZONTAL INCREASES BY STATE BOARD ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. v The supreme court of Indiana affirmed Wednesday the decision of the Marion county Superior eouft, which granted an injunction to prevent the collection of taxes caused By the horizontal increase of assessments made by the state tax board. Suit was brought by a group of Marion county farmers, who carried the case to the Supreme court after being defeated in the Appellate court. The increased assessments amount to about $750,000,000 in the state, all of which is nullified by the decision of the Supreme court. 'Court Opinion. “It will be seen that the state board not only Undertook to determine the question of equalization as between counties,” the court decision reads, “but extended its considerations to the matters of equalizing the taxing units within the counties by means of horizontal increases varying in amounts as 'being the units as the judgment of the board might determine. Exceeded Authority. “When the board assumed to equalize the various taxing . units of a county at the time and in the manner here shown it thereby exceeded its authority, in that it assumed to exercise statutory functions not within its power or authority either expressly* or impliedly given to it by the state. “Paragraph eight does permit the board to make rules and regulations, but it does not rive authority to enact or amend the law or to enlarge its duties or extend its power beyond those given it by law. The legislature has determined the purposes for which the board was constituted and made certain rules for its guidance. Insofar as the legislature has prescribed rules the bpard must eomply with them and the tax payer has a right to rely on their being followed. No Power to Reassess. “However, for the orderly transaction of business confided to the board and to enable it to the duties enjoined upon it by law, it may make rules and regulations not inconsistent with legislative action. There is not a section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in the present tax law, save the sentence heretofore construed, that can by any reasonable rule of construction, be construed as giving the state board authority on its own motion as at its fourth session, to review and reassess or assess originally by horizontally increasing or decreasing the assessment of real or personal property, as was done in this case. The jurisdiction of the board at its fourth session has been determined by the legislature and any rule that the board might make purporting to give it additional authority or providing for other methods for assessments would be contrary to law and void.” Many Affected. The court then examined the complaint and interpreted it to allege that the appellees and more than 300 other tax payers of Washington township, Marion county, were affected by the tax board s order which specifically increased horizontally all Washington township lots and land assessments of 50 per cent, all improvements 30 per cent and all personal property except certain specified, 50 per cent. Court’s Conclusion. The court concluded that the several sections “expressly and clearly limit the board’s action: (1) to a consideration of the assessments of real estate and personal property of the various counties in -the state. (2) A determination of the counties in which the assessment of the real estate or personal ® r both appears too low. (3) Fix the time when it will consider the matter of the increase of such assessments. (4) Certify 4 to the auditor of each of the counties its determination to consider the increase of such assessments stating whether the proposed increase pertains to real .estate or personal property or both.”

HAVE INSTALLED ELECTRIC SIREN

Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery has had installed an electrie siren at the corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. The alarm will be controlled by the central telephone office and will give the warning at the same time as the alarm is sent to the fire station. * , Besides giving potice to the firemen this alarm will also warn people to clear the streets and may prevent accidental This will be quite necessary when the automobile fire truck is installed.

ABE MARTIN.

(Indianapolis News.) What’s become o’ th’ ole haunted house that notmddv would rent? “There’s nothin* left V strive fer any more but a still better car,” sighed Tell Binidey, fday, in bewailin’ th’ plentifulness o’ money. Ladies’ low shoes, special at $3.98 at Rowles and Parker’s.

New York I Well we are back from our biggest town, and The Franklin is some car. ..- r New York City stands out for— * No smoke, near the city trains are pulled by electric engines. The people are quite and easy going. The Subway. Low buildings and a few zery high ones. In the evening men are wear ng light colored trousers with dark coats. i 11* t MURRAY’S • " ■ MEN’S WEAR -

JULY TERM OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The commissioners of Jasper county held their regular July term in this city July 6 with all members present. The following business was transacted. BRIDGES. Barkley township. Daniels. Contractor allowed $195. Wheatfield township. Hodge ditch. Contractor allowed SSOO. Barkley township. Contract awarded to Winamac Bridge Co. at $7,998. , ROADS A. S. Barlow, contract allowed SI2BB. / W. E. Cain. Continued for supplemental report. S. v D. Clark. Supplemental report filed. Road ordered established. Attorney P. R. Blue allowed $125, 80 per cent ordered paid. C. M. Dewey. Supplemental report approved. B. W. Ellsworth. Contractor allowed $487.20. W. P. Gaffield. Continued for supplemental report. A. D. Hershman. Bond of A. D. Hershman as superintendent approved. John A. Jordan. Election commission report 59 votes for and 2 against. James Lane. Contractor allowed $1270. J. E. Murphy. Bond sale, approved by State Tax board. John O’Connor. Continued for supplemental report. , Wm. O. Rawles. Contractor allowed $2,123.20. Bonds sold to Fletcher American Bank, Indianapolis. ’ - , ~ Edgar S. Thornton. Bonds sold to Meyers-Kizer Bank, Indianapolis. Contractor allowed $4,657. Fred Tyler. Contractor allowed $3,512.80. „ ' Wm. L. Wood. Contractor allowed $1,900. —y Robert J. Yeoman. Contractor allowed $836.50. Richard Gravenstuk, R. Sipkema, Thomas Abbring and George Nanninga. Continued for supplemental reports. Expense account allowed and ordered paid. • Alfred Duggleby. Road ordered established. Atty. P. R. Blue allowed $125, 80 per cent ordered paid. Auditor to advertise for bids to be received August 2, 1920. John C. Parker. Engineer and viewers’ report filed. Expenses aL lowed and ordered paid. Continued for objections. E. E. Rockwell. Petition and notice found sufficient. E. D. Nesbitt appointed engineer, W. L. Wood and William Bringle viewers.

DITCHES. Joseph Kosta. Drainage commissioners report examined and approved. Expense account examined and approved. Cause continued for objections. Frank Zacker. Petition and notice found sufficient. Charles May. Petition to clean and maintain. Continued for objections. ; MISCELLANEOUS. Report of fees collected by county officers s for the past quarter were examined and approved a# follows. - ■ ■ ■ ... 1 True D. Woodworth, sheriff. $394.27 Jesse Nichols, clerk I?™’™ Geo. W. Scotia recorder $538.80 8. C. Robinson, auditor —$ 44.55 Trustee Charles W. Pos t ill ?f Marion township was authorized to extbrfd additional aid. to Mrs. Lyman Zea, Mrs. Mary Deere, and Rosa The board sitting as. a board of ’finance examined and approved the reports of interest collected during June by the following county depositories: . First National Bank, Rensselaer, $157.07. . . - ’ Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $222.91. State Bank, Rensselaer, $196.08. State Bank, Remington, $206.18. Farmers’ National Bank, RemmgVxrjiltanW National | Farmers’ A Merchants National

WILL SPEND VACATION IN THE WEST

Judson J. Hunt, secretary-treasur-er of the Trust and Savings Bank of this city, his wife, son, John, and daughter, Sara, will leave Saturday for Portland Oregon, Victoria, B. C., and other western points of interest. They expect to be away for a month. Mr. Hunt has not. taken a vacation for a few years and is very much in need of relief from the strenuous duties of a large active institution such as the one of which he is at the head. C. H. Mills, the assistant secre-tary-treasurer, will be in charge of the bank while Mr. Hunt is away. He will have the assistance of Supt. C. R. Dean and wnen necessary President C. G. Spitler or VicePresident Edd J. Randle will be at the bank.

EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN PLANNED BY DEWEY BIGGS POST

The officers of the Dewey Biggs Post of the American Legion of this city have just entered a contract with Rensselaer merchants whereby the latter will donate five per cent of their gross sales to the Legion on Wednesday, July 14, the proceeds lo be applied toward the furnishing of a hall which will be used as a meeting place by the members of the Post The movement now being launched is a preliminary step on the part of the Legion memI bers toward buying a home fd weir own, which they hope to do within the next few years. Co-operation on the part of the general public will make the Legion hopes a reality. I The offer on the part of the merchants is a most generous one and is greatly appreciated by all members of. the Post, and it is thought that the sum realized from the sales that day by the Legion will be a large one. . . In the evening a lawn fete, riven under the auspices of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Legion, will be held bn the court house lawn, at which time ice cream and cake will be served, and it is hoped in this way that the sum total for ‘ the day will be considerably swelled. The women have taken * very active interest in the Legion and can be depended upon at all times to do their part toward making the local chapter a successful organizaThere will be dancing and other forms of entertainment at the court house during the evening and aU are invited to avail themselves of the opportunity for an evening of enjoyment.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. 1 Philadelphia, 1-6; Boston, 0-0. No others scheduled. National. Chicago, 8; St. Louis, 5, v Pittsburg, 2; Philadelphia, 1.

ATTENTION, MOTORISTS!

Attend the tire conservation Inhibit and instruction course be tr- & RUBBER MAIN GARAGE, BEST IN RENSSELAER. " Northern Jasper county baa received some very heavy rainnut during the past week, and has this been true in the vicinity of Virgie where the> farmers _h*ve been compelled to abandon Wear -jam work to a great extent <m account of the flooding of their fields. The crowd at the band, concert last evening was not .ah, large-~as usual, due, no. doubt,; dance of entertainment eanW in the week. Job printing at ths RepublteM

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