Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PAPER RAILROAD MAX. _ S "* i Eugene Purtelle, n Traction Wallingford, in Trouble. Eugene Purtelle, who several years ago loomed large on the northern Indiana traction horizon as the promoter of a $5,000,000 interurban system that was to run from Hammond to Monticello and ultimately to form a link in an Indianapolis-Chi-cago line, and who “blew u p” and subsequently promoted other “paper railroads’’ in various parts of the Hoosier state, is once more in trouble—this time in Chicago where he was arrested on the charge of beating the Sherman house out of a S6O hotel bill. Previous to this he had been indicted in Chicago on the charge of operating a confidence game in connection with one of his many traction venttires.

"• A. Miller, a Chicago lawyer, appeared as the complainant in the latter charge against Purtelle—Miller caused the arrest of Purtelle April S last. Purtelle, he asserted, had represented himself as president of the Tipton'-Frankfort Traction Company and had sold him stock: on' the representation the money was, to be used for buying equipment" The lawyer said he traveled between Tipton, Ind., and Frankfort, Ind., without finding any trace of the supposed connecting line before he swore out a warrant.

Judge Prindiville held Purtelle to the grand jury in $2,000 bail. He was indicted a week ago and the grand jury ordered the bond raised to $3,000. It was on this order Purtelle was taken into custody yesterday.

Purtelle, now in his early thirties, has lived a life full of thrills not only for himself but for others. In 1902, beardless but businesslike, he was Milwaukee manager for “Red Letter’’ Sullivan, then operating a string of bucket shops stretching from coast to coast. The next year, after serving as general manager in Chicago for the Sullivan organization—which let him out of a job by failing—he returned to Milwaukee as representative of the E. E. Jones company, another Chicago firm patterned after Sullivan’s. In 1909 Purtelle blossomed forth as president of Purtelle & Co., stock and bond brokers, at 222 South La Salle street. One year later his hox in the Chicago Safe Deposit Company’s vault was forced and $5,000 was taken to satisfy a judgment obtained by John G. Keith, an insurance broker, Purtelle subsequently filed the praecipe of a $50,000 damage suit against Keith.

Nat long afterwards, Purtelle, still buoyant, exploited the Northwestern Indiana Traction Company, a $5,000,000 paper interurban line supposed to link Monticello and Hammond. The chief accomplishments of the company were the running up of an SB,OOO labor bill and the successful defending of the suit of a hotelkeeper at Dyer, who demanded S6OO for boarding a party of surveyors. Just why Purtelle never tried to work in Lafayette is a twentieth century mystery. He could probably have done as well here as the Columbian Casualty Co., or the Tishimingo Tie & Concrete Co. did.—Lafayette Sunday Record.

Newton Township Sunday School Convention. The Newton township Sunday school convention, children’s day exercises and basket dinner, will be held at H. L. Wortley’s grove, Sunday, June 13. The program is as follows: 10:00 a. m., Sunday school; 1:00 to 2:00 p, m„ children's exercises; 2:00 to , 4:00-p. m., township convention. Several county Sunday school officers will be at the Sunday school and convention. Special music by Johnson Bros. H. L. WORTLEY, Tp. Pres. Short Career of a Big Gun. In a lecture on modern artillery at the Royal Institution, recently, Lieutenant Colonel Hadcock, of Elswick, contrasted the life of big guns with that of a butterfly. In the case of the latter he supposed that 24 hours would be an ol(J>ege. The big gun, on the other hand, looked everlasting, but it only lived when it was being fired, and if an incessant stream of projectiles could be poured out from it its active life in tha4 sense would be only 12 seconds. —London Times. Five different grades of legal size typewriter paper kept in stock in Th« Democrat’s stationery department Also abstract and legal document backs, printed or blank. Don’t pay fancy prices for your typewriter paper when you can buy it here of as good or better quality for much less money. Our typewriter paper la put up in boxes of 500 sheets, but will be sold in smaller quantities if desired.