Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1903 — Can’t Get the Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Get the Wheat.

J. Q. Huntzinger writes his partner James H. Flynn, that owing to scaroity of oars it will be impossible to get a supply of hard wheat here, in time this fall’s sowing. Those who have been waiting for this wheat, will therefore have to make other arrangements. The firm are very sorry to disappoint the farmers in this matter, but it could not be helped.

Sailor Jean was in Indianapolis last Monday, sixteen days ahead of time. * He has undertaken to visit every capital city in the United Sta'ee, on foot, and do the job in three and a-half years. This will require a tramp of 22,000 tniles. If he makes the time be gets $5,000 from a merchant and for every day under time he gets S2O additional.

A hard anti-saloon war in Kokomo has, 'just ended with a defeat for the temperance people, all along the line, and twelve saloons are expeoted to reoeive their licenses Monday It is alleged the saloons ■pent mo ley lavishly in proounng withdrawals, many having signed the remonatranoe for the sole purpose of withdrawing at the last moment and leaving the remonstrants in the minority. The tempiranoe folks admit the fight baa ended and that the saloons have finally triumphed.

Not many people are aware of the faot that Thomas Lipton, of Shamrock fame, is a taxpayer in Benton oonnty bat such is the osee. He is the owner of the Lipton Oar Line Go. that operates its cars atl over most of the railroads in the U. S., end some of them go through Fowler 'over the Big Four. To the corporate town of Oxford Lipton pays 16 cents a year, to other towns and townships be pays in proportion. Sometimes his agents overlook the taxes bat they are paid about so often, perhaps onoe in every 3 or 4 years Fowler Republican. The Demoorat is bitterly disappointed over the great success scored by the K. of P. oarnival here, in spite of all its efforts to injure it; and eapeoully is it angry at the failure of all its propheoies of evil to result from it. Everything and everybody that contributed to the suocess of the affair is nnder its displeasure. This of oourse includes The Republican and henoe, for want of anything better, it misrepresents a little paragraph in the Evening Republican, in praise of the excellent order and oonduot o! the orowds who were attending the carnival, into praise of the oarnival show people, in those particulars. Especially does it try to make it appear that a playful comparison of the good order and law abiding deportment of the people attending the oarnival with the good order at the M. E. conference a year ago was a lining up of the oaruival show people with the eloquent and honored Methodist olergymen who attended the conference. Our paragraph contained no suoh inference ae that, except in the minds of those who want to go out of their w«y to tiu i oause for offence, where none was iut >nded. The Jwar of the Demoorat on the carnivals is purely a personal matter. That paper made frequent favorable allusions to th - proposed oarnival a year ago nutil after it was evident that most of the printing business resulting from it had gone t » other establishments, and right then the disoovery of the terribly wicked oharaoter of street carnivals wis first made.