Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1903 — Page 2

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The June Weather Report.

The state weather report for Jane has just tweu issued, from the central station at Indianapolis. Here the month was oonsideged the coldest June in anyone’s remembrance, and the state report bears out that belief. The mean or average temperature for the month was 56 1 degrees, which was 3.5 lower than the June average last year aud 61 below the normal average for the month. At Rensselaer the meau temperature was 63 8 degrees, or 5.4 below the normal. ... The average rainfall was 3.72 in shea, or .29 below the normal. At Rensselaer the rainfall was 2.34 inohes ; or 3.27 inches beloxr the average here for the past six years. We thus had here not only an unusually cold but an unusually dry Juue. July however, is amply making good both deficiencies.

Notice to Library Stock Holders And owners of existing public libraries in the City of Rensselaer. The offer of Mr. Carnegie to erect a new bui ding was followed by a new law, Beaming to authorize managing boards to transfer the books of said libraries. The officers of the School and Jasper Public libraries have proceeded under said law to offer and transfer to the Publio Library Board the books aod'release the taxes now levied when the new library has been built and equipped on Lots Eleven and Twelve in Block Sevea. (7.) The new board te buying said site by Subscription and wants to know all needful taxation,, Wherefore on.. Saturday. August Bth 1903 the stook holders and those claiming to own said' libraries are requested to me tat 2p. m. in east court room and take suoh proper aud lawful aotion as may be deemed appropriate touching the offer of Mr. Carnegie and the union of all libraries in City and township upon said site. -The holder of each share of stock is entitled to one vote. By order of the Board of Direotors of the Jasper Public library. S. P. Thompson President. John F Major, Secretary.

Hard to Get Rural Route's. - As a result of tbe investigation oftfce postal service a ohange in tbe methods of investigating routes for proposed rural frae delivery service has gone into operation by order of Postmaster General Payne. Under the new soheme routes will be investigated by states, irrespective of congressional distriot lines as heretofore. This is in line with the reoent declaration of TVforth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow that petitions for routes will be investigated in the order to their filings the oldest petition receiving the fi'-ct consideration-ii»i every, state. Tur-<» are now lfi ( 9Bßipetitions for additional routes pending in the postoffiwo department' and substantially j ry represent alive in oongreas is being pressed by his constituents to aeourtf expedition in their investigation and establishment. Notice or Vacation of Street and hots. Notice U hereby given thr» the uniierelgned has filed hie petition with 4h • Auditor of Jan 1 per County, Indiana and before the Board of ' l Commission ire of said Count r that he dreiree tbe vacation of lots one (11. taro (81. Um-,-13) and four [l] aad Railroad Street, all of which is a matter of reoord la Deed Reoord 43. pace 877 of Reoord of Jasper County, Indiana, to which refareuce is bad, Ss well as the petition for the vara tips of said street and aaid lots. Thia street arid said hits aVe lorated In the north west corner of thh eaat half of the north area* quarter of eeetioo seven teen (171, town ■hip thirty one 131] north, range six 161 west. Jasper Oountv, Indiana and that the right of way of the Chicago A Eastern Illinois Rail road Company will be affected by the vacation of said street. Therefore, notice la hereby siren said Railroad Company as well aa all other persons who may be interested or affected by the vacation thereof and that said petition will come up for hearing before the Board of Commissioners on Monday, August 8, IW WILLIAM QAIJJR, Va. C. Baboock. Petitioner. Auditor of Jaeper County, Indiana. Folts. Spitler AKnrneT Atty for Petition JaaSOJnIMI

Mr Shirley Greatly Impressed.

Indianapolis. July 12. “The most noticeable thing to me aboot the coming St. Louis exposition is the extensive scale on which it is to be given,” said C/C. Shirley of Kokomo, member of the Indiana fair commission from the Eleventh, district, who was here yesterday “On the occasion of our recent visit to StJLouis I examined into the plans of the fair managers with a view of finding, how the ex position would compare with other fairs of the kind that have been given in the past ‘ Before I did this I had little idea of the real magnitude of the exposition, and I do not believe one man in ten thousand todav appreciates the extensive scale of the fair For instance, I imagine few people know that the St. Louis fair will be twice a 3 large as the Chicago fair and will cost twice as much, yet these facts are easily demonstrate ! by the figures, al-

though I cannot go into them now. Putting the case in another way, the St Louis fair will equal in magnitude those of Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha, Charleston and Buffalo combined. As another striking comparison I would point out that every building at the Buffalo fair might be*set down in either the transnoration or agricultural building at St: Lodis and leave two thirds of the space unoccupied.”

In British Columbia.

James S. Alter, the one armed citizen of Carpenter Tp., who beyond doubt has seen more of these United States than any other native of Jasper county, is now, or was very lately, pursuing his vocation of book and picture seller, in far off British Columbia. He writes 4q/FHE Republican from Vancouver, as follows: This finds me away up in British Columbia. This is a great country. The western part is mountainous, the center part is more level. It is a grazing country; rich in minerals in the mountains. It extends tp the southern point of Alaska. Some good timber along the coast. Trees about 300 feet high and 12 feet across the stump. Vancouver is a thriving city of 30,000. Here the twilight disappears in the northwest about 10 o’clock p. m., then begins to get light in the northeast about 2 a. m. these long days. I came up through Washington State, visited some of the forests of large timber, so dense and so high it is quite dark and cool in the timber, where the trees run up from 250 to 350 feet and from 8 to 15 feet across the stump. One tree they cut down was over 400 feet high, it made 96,440 feet of lumber. The commou hazel brushgrow like trees from 5 to 7 inches through 20 inches round, common elder from 12 to 15 inches round It is claimed to be the finest lumber oouutrj? in the world, and as I came across the Rocky Mountains in June I rode for miles among the snow and evergreens. Well it has been quite rainy along the coast for some time. Yours Truly, Jambs S. Alter, Vancouver. British Col.

Special offer to iatrodaoe Kingan’s Potted Meats. Potted Ham, Deviled Ham, Deviled Tongue Large oans, 4 centi each. Dried beef 10 ots a can. Corned beef 15 oents a can. John Eger. If you are in need of a Scwlnu . rnacWne Call at the SINftER OFFICE temice Old Machines taken in Exohange. Nsealts. Otis and Supplies] always ea hand Gleaning and rin g a specialty all workra nteed. I Good second hand machines at bargain. We rent machines by the week or month. ' PHONE 169

THE CITIZEN’S DUTY

Governor Durbin Touches the Keynote of One of Today’s Very Present Needs. ~ Mb -'■ » t ■ , A TERRIBLE OBJECT LESSON V , ~jJ «*«". Address to the Indiana Bons of Veteran! Conveys In No Uncertain Terms the Views of the State’s Chief Executive Upon the Recent Horror at Evansville —Some Needful Truths Are Driven Home. Indianapolis. July 10. Governor Winfield T. Durbin’s address to the state camp of tfie Sons of Veterans Wednesday evening, read by Major Arthur L. Bodurtha of. the Peru Journal In the absence of the governor, who was detained at Indianapolis by reason of the threatening situation at Evansville, is being widely quoted because of the emphatic declarations of the state’s chief executive setting forth his attitude on race riots and lynch laws. Coming at a time when the state is in the shadow of a terrible object lesson in the fearful results of attempted mob rule, the governor’s utterances on this occasion are of present interest. Governor Durbin said: ■- - - r -

"The demands of public business, made more pressing by unfortunate occurrences within the borders of the state, make it imperative that I shohld cancel my engagement to be present during the state encampment of the Sons of Veterans, I have been looking forward with pleasurable anticipation to this occasion, not only because of the gratification it would give me to renew old and agreeable associations. but that I might give oral expression to the high respect in which I hold the great organization you represent.

“The men who fought on the battlefields of the Rebellion did more than merely to preserve the Union in its original integrity. Great as was that consummation, of ever greater value is the heritage of inspiration which has come down to later generations of Americans through the noble courage, the transcendent patriotism of men who by the hundred thousand marched into the valley of the shadow of death that this republic, “the last, best hope of earth,” might be preserved. Futile the efTort to adequately estimate the magnitude of our obligations to the soldiers of the sixties, and useless to seek to glorify with human speech the service they performed, for the eloquence of such deeds aj theirs surpassed in infinite degree the eloquence of words.

The People Not Ungrateful. “We have not been an ungrateful nor • forgetful people. Our government has been generous beyond all precedent in Its fulfillment of Abraham Lincoln’s conception of the nation’s .duty towards its preservers—“to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans.” There is no more convincing refutation of the doctrine that republics are ungrateful than our annual pension budget of $150,000,000, a sum approximating that required for the maintenance of any one of Europe’s mighty standing armies. Thirty-five states and national homes opening their hospitable doors to 25,000 disabled soldiers and Bailors are monuments to the deepseated national appreciation of the volunteer. And yet; grateful as are the soldiers of the greatest war of history for all this material manifestation of a nation's gratitude, they have more than all this to ask .of the generation now so rapidly crowding them off the stage of action. The men who left the desk and the plow, the forest and the factory, the farm and the shop in answer to the call of duty in the houy when the very life of the republic was at stake, who faced disease and wotinds and death Itself unflinchingly, were Inspired by something higher and holier than sordid seeking after gain, either present or to come; In truth this entered Into their calculations not at all. The highest reward which the American people can confer tn the succeeding years for the unexampled sacrifices mad* by their militant forefathers, is that they shall Jealously preserve and bequeath inviolate to the future Citizenship of the republic that spirit of devotloa to American institutions which called into the field, and made vctorioua the- armies that followed Grant and Sherman and Sheridan forty years ago. Serving a Greet Purpose. “And it is to thia high purpose that this organisation gathered in convention here is dedicated. It is not a society conceived in the mere pride of ancestry, though ho American could confsr upon his children a richer heritage than the memory of sacrifices freely made, of arduous service une tflshly performed, of courage that did not shrink from the imminence of death itself, when the life of the nation. yes, more than that, the very perpetuity of free institutions, was at stake. But we believe in this country that the circumstance of birth is nothing; that it is only what a man is, not what someone else was, that counts; Chough we do not forget that what a Mb is may hear a very vital relation is the vtrtuae or the vices of those who gave him beiag. and of his poe"Btt what More fitting than that the ehftttxwa es t jo aeeo who Bor the flag’s safes fought upon a thousand battle-

quite as bravely in the same cause at home, should give themselves to the high and holy duty of commemorating the deeds of their fathers, and of Impressing upon one another and upon all the people of our common country that. In the undying words of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg: “ft is for ua, the,living • • to be dedicated * • to tfie great task remaining before ua, thei from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they • * gave the last full measure of devotion, that we may • • highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of I freedom, and that government of the j people, by the people, for the people, shall ndt perish from the earth.’ The Mob Denounced. “Within the past few hours, In one of the most populous and progressive cities of Indiana, we have had evidence of the fact that the time has not yet come even hi this great state, justly celebrated for its intelligence and its patriotism, when we may safely cease the inculcation of devotion to those free institutions for the establishment of which the blood of our heroes has been shed upon all the republic’s battlefields, from Lexington to Santiago. The man who joins in the senseless savagery of the meb is trampling under his feet the flag for which your fathers offered up their lives," is hurling himself insensately agair.st the barriers which centuries of civilization have erected between brute force and human rightp. The man who, inspired by the stupid passion of race hatred, would prescribe the halter and the torch for an entire race because individuals of this race sometimes commit offenses for which our laws prescribe befitting penalties, has not within him a spark of that regard for the rights of the weak which made this republic possible!. No Race War In Indiana. “Sons of Veterans, we will have no race wars, no class wars in Indiana. To all citizens, regardless of color or condition, impartial justice shall be meted out, upon all guilty of crimes the penalties prescribed by law shall be promptly visited, and he who goes to war in Indiana, no matter what his pretext, must fight under the red flag of anarchy and against the invincible flag of seventy millions of American freemen. The inevitable result of such a war is not a subject for speculation. “Sons of Veterans, because of the memories you cherish, the principles you uphold, the country you love, to no service more appropriate can you devote yourselves than to that of deepening and 3 widening public respect for the flig which symbolizes the traditions and the aspirations of Americanism, and for the uniform worn by those who follow it in peace and war in the service of the state and nation. The man who lives within the blessed shelter of the flag and yet looks upon it with unnatural hatred, the man who enjoys the protection of our bloodbought institutions and yet condemns his country and its defenders, is unworthy of having a flag or a country, much less such a flag And such a country. vi The Duties of Citizenship. “This government was established, it has been maintained, it can endure, only because it embodies the aspirations of a united people and round about it have centered their loyalty and love. It is not enough that we shall give passive approval to our Institutions and indifferent acquiescence to our laws. The duties of citizenship transcend such harrow limitations. The fires of patriotic ablaze on Bunker Hill more than a century ago, and which have lit up the pathway of the republic from that hour down to this, must be refreshed by each succeeding generation of Americans, lest they die away. The duty now descends to you, you have accepted it, and your organization, founded j in the memory of patriotism tested in [ the fire of bloody conflict, is helping. | in the fulfillment of its beneficent purposes. to make it certain that your fathers, in the language of Lincoln, ‘shall not have died in vain.’ Qod speed you in such service.”

Ta if and Finance.

Deeply Imbedded in the foundations of this nation’s prosperity are two potential elements of success which should not be disturbed for some time. These are tbe tariff sod finance. At a time when Great Britain, through her amet observing statesmen, confesses tbe partial failure of her free trade pottey and la taming her attention seriously to tbe adoption of protection it behooves the United Staten to stand fast by the doctrine that has developed tbe wfife’l industrial greatness and mode It a formidable competitor In tbe markets of the world. Fealty to tbe economic welfare of this country stands first In tbe estimation of every right thinking American eltiseh. end tbe wisdom of adhering to tbe protective tariff policy Is now more apparent than It haa been In many years. With a sound tariff policy and sound money, prudent and peaceful industrial conditions and tbe same progressive spirit that has won for American products an honorable place in tbe market! of the world there Is no reason why the next decade should not be one es unprecedented prosperity for the United States.—Scranton (Pad Truth.

Not for Many Years.

Tbe p Asperity of tbe coon try Is baaed bn tbe solid rock of e sound and economic policy, and It SHI stand. Tbe American people art not ao weary of prosperity as to long for poverty, and It win net be neat year or tor many years that a free trade candidate will be elected president of the*. United ■tetea—Trenton Gssetta.

nn npn I* v i fl if w ■ n h n i i\v mmmm i&m ■ PHYSICIANS. XJRB. JOHNSON & KRESLKR Physicians and Surgeons, Office over Porters Store in new HoUingsworh fetuUUDK.. - -j- —Jfr-S Wr Offlce Phone 806.' Dr, yohnsOn’a residence 221 So River Street Phone 21, Offlce hours: 10 to 12am; 1 to3and7 toßpm. Dr. Kresler’a residence at offlce—Phone 196. Offlce hours: 9 to 11:30 am. lto3A7toßpm. BENSBXLAKR, IHD : w. W. HARTSELL, M. D; HOMEOPATHIC Pnysician and Surgeon, diseases a specialty. In Stockton - Williams block opposite court house. Phone SO BEKSSELAEB, IND. 1.8 & I M. WASHBURN, M. D Physicians and Surgeons,

u»r I. B. Washburn will give special attention to ilUeasesof the aye. ear, nose, throat and chronic diseases. He also testa eyes tor glasses. Offlce a -stairs, over Ellis ft Murray's store. Telephone No. 48. RLN3SELAER,IND. QR A. L. BERKLEY, Physician and Surgeon. - - _ _ i. _ , Offlce Odd Fellows’ opposite public Square. Phone ia>. BEKSSELAEB, *ND OR. E, O. ENGLISH. Physician and Surgeon Night and day calls given prompt attention, Residence rnene 118. Office Phone i 77 RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Dr. a. j. miller, Physician and Surgeon. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office up stairs in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly day or night, Office and estdence phones 204 (Jasper to.); also DR. TURFLER & TURFLER, Dr. Francis Turfler Dr. Anna Francis Turfler. Osteopathic Physicians Graduate American School KIRKSVILLE MO. < ffics Warher’s new building suite 1. RENSSELAER, IS 3

ATTORNEYS. f Charles G. Spltler Harry R. Kurrle. POLTZ, BPITLER & KURRIE (Successors to Thompson ft Bro.) Attorney-at-Law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Lnans. Only set of Abstract Books In County RENSSELAER, IND. PERGUSON & WILSON, Altomeys-at-Law, Will practice in all the courts. WUI give careittentlon to any and all kinds of Legal Business 'utrustadto them. Offlce west side of Public Square—upstairs, RENBBELAER, IND. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams Baughman & Williams, Attorneys-at-Law. □Law, "Notary Work, Loans and Real Estate. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Offlce over “Racket store. REttSBELA.ES:, - INDIANA. OHARLES E. MILLS Attorney-at-Law. Insurance, Collections, and Real Estate, Ab •tracts oarefuliy prepared. Titles Examined Farm Loans negotiated at lowest rates. Office upstairs In Odd Fellows’ Temple.

OTM. B. AUSTIN Lawyer and Loan Broker. Office la Forsythe Block, comer Washington and Ysnßensselaer at.. RENSSELAER, . - ■ ikd, J. J. HUNT. Attorney -at-Law. law. Real Estate, insurance. Abstracts and loans. Omen: Over Kills g Murray's store RENSSELAER, IND. E p - HONAN, Attorney At Law, Caw, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Real Esjste. ill practice In all the OourtT AU business attended to with promptness and dispatch. | RBNBBKLARR, INDIANA* RAY D. THOMPSON, Attomey-at-Isw, Setary Public, Collections, i vans, and all legal Business carefully tended to Offloe Over First National Ba^k North of Court House. J. F. Irwts v 8.0. Irwin IBWIN A lEWD^ Successors to Warren it Irwin. Real Bttate, Abstracts, oUactioui, Farm Leant end iFire Isstuanoa hce moil Fellows’ Block, RENSSELAER, IND ti

* . Attorney-Oct-Law. * ■ . Law Beal Estate, Abstracts and Loans k. M Attorney for the Chicago, M ft Louisville Railway Go. Win practice In sdl of ihe Courts Office over Farmers’ Bank Con Wash ngton St. Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind. BIALPH w. marshall, Attorney at Law. S'h Special Attention to Settling Bstgu s. . DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. i —OYFICK— In former Clerk’s office. East of Court House. f RENSSELAER, IND. BAtf&S ” j- . A. McCoy, Pres. T. J. McCoy, Cashier Walter White, Asst. Cashier. MO COY & CO.’S BANK Oldest Bank jasper County. ;Estab shed 18M. Trai sa its a general banking bnstness, bugs r, notes t nd loans on long or short time on personal ot r >al estate security, Fair and liberal treatment Is promised to alt. Interest oald on time deposits Foreign exchange bought and sold. Your patronage Is solicited. Patrons , having valuable papers may desposlt them for 1 safe keeping Clk first national Baity, Of Rensselaer, Ind. Addison Park'son, President. John M. Wasson, V. President. B. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier Successor to the business the 'Commercial State Bank Opened March 2nd. 1903. at the old location NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted!; 4s posits received payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on ail Oltles at Home and Abroad bought and sold. Collections of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 per cent Farm Loans Your Business Solicited.

DR h. l. brown, DENTIST Crown and Brldgework, Teeth without plates a specialty. All the latest methods In Dentistry. Offlce over Larsh'g Drugstore. Gas administered for painless extraction of teeth. JTW. HORTON 5. t Dentist! meigra f§afieH and Pamlaln TTeik, fiat tdi Palnlsss Bstiastlen, f* J Office opposite court house - J± a L. WILLIS, Gunsmith, Special attention gb£&»' to Bicycle Repairs of a Front; street, i; block aoutb 0( Washington. - BICYCLE SUNDRIEB. --•PIONEER-•••'A MEATJARKETJ J Eigelsbach. Prop , Beef, Pork, Veal/ Mutton, Sausage, Balogna. Etc. at the lowest prices. —Highest Prioes Paid for— ) HIDES. & TALLOW' Lorn. REAL ESTATE Insurance * Call on B. O. Gardner for bargains in land, properties for sals or exobange. Agt. for the John Hanoook Mutual Life Insur&noq/ Company. Agt. for the Trader* Fire Ine. Co. List your properties with me Farm or City. Yours for business, B. O. Gardner, Rensselaer, Ind. i

"Notice of School House Letting. Notioe in hereby given that the undersigned TRUSTEE OF WALKER TOWNSHIP Jupor County, Indiana will until 10 o’clock a. m. mE| TueedAy, July 21st, 1003, receive Mated hlda for a new house to be constructed on the actr>ol site of School District No. 8 of said Townsflte. Plans and specification now on file in my ifficeandtn the office of the County Superin- < ••indent of Schools, Rensselaer, Indiana. The Advisory Board are hereby called to meet at say office oa the above date as required the right to rejwdany^ Bids tany be mailed to— LEWIS P. SHTRER, Trustee Walker Township, Wheatfleld, Indiana,