Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXXIX. NO. 26

CULVER TRIMMED US UP.

Bat It Took A Mighty flood Team to Do It Bruised, disheartened and ex.hausted from the tierce and rapid play of the hardy athletes that composed the Culver Military Academy football team, the game lads of Rensselaer high school team pluckily contested every inch of the ground Saturday afternoon, and only suffered defeat after the worst physical punishment ever administered to defenders of the red and black. Since it is all over and done, the only remarkable thing is that the light lads in our line were able to restrain the visitors as well as they did, and that the score was not much worse than it was. At the same time there was the greatest element of luck that Culver made its first touch down, for it resulted after a very poor punt by Dobbins, and a delayed pass that might have been halted save for a little stage fright that overtook Rensselaer at the Outset.

Culver was the best team, being composed of older, heavier and daily trained athletes —solid, as iron and capable of endurance. And yet with all this advantage they played all the first half on practically equal terms with our boys and in the second half after Culver had forced the ball from the field center to our five yard line by a series of mass plays into the line, our boys braced aad held them for downs and then Dobbins carried the ball out 18 yards on a fake punt. Rensselaer soon had to kick again, however, and the ball was sent well down into Culver territory. This time Culver succeeded in forcing the ball down our field until Fullerton finally made a touch down. During the progress of the game Culver was forced to punt on a third down several times, while Rensselaer made its gain several times. Morgan made two gains of 15 yards each, and Yeoman made one of 18. Dobbins made one of 18 and two or three other substan tial gains. The longest run of the game was made by Morgan, who secured the ball on the 12 yard line from a kick off and carried it back 38. yards. Hopkins particularly aided in interference for this run. Kirk withstood severe punishment in bracing the line on all points of attack but never wavered. Beam, at center, playing against a 212 pound man, was badly worsted but held out gamely. Hopkins played against the Culver Captain, a 208 pound man, and it was against Hopkins that much of the mass playing was directed, but he held on pluckily, tho suffering from many hard bumps. Coen, who played right end, and defensive full back, was rather the star of the whole game, and saved touch diwns rainy times by accurate tackling and by throwing himself into the mass plays, upsetting several Culverites in one bnnch. One spectacular feature in the game occurred just after Culver kicked oft in the second half. Kirk caught the bill and passed it to Dobbins on the 10 yard line. Dob bins then kicked the ball a good 56 yards, for the longest kick ever made in a regul .r game here. Coen and Yeoman were down field waiting for the ball and the former secured itand carried it over Culver's goal, but no Culver player having touched the ball after the punt, the touch down was not allowed. Rensselaer’s jubilation was at a high pitch when the opinion prevailed that the touch down would count. It was a fine game and was witnessed by a large crowd. Culver's manager anil also the coach, praised our playing highly and pronounced us the best high school team in tie t tate. They agreed that we should easily dis

p >se of Englewood bn Thanksgiving day. The first half score was 5 to 0. The final score 11 to 0. The line-up: Culver Position Rensselaer Crary Right end Coen Fegan (C.) Right tackle Wood worth Cavnah Right guard Elder Eckhart Center Beam, Gorman Stone Left guard Hershman St. Clair, Hopkins, Harris Left tackle Bruner -Dyer —-- —•— -—... Chambers Left end Yeoman Duvall Balcom Quarter Brenner Morgan Haskins Right half Parkinson Fullerton Full Kirk, Long Woollen Left half Dobbins(G) Referee —Fansler, Notre Dame. Umpire—Parrett. Touchdowns— Haskins, Fullerton. Goal —Fullerton. Time of halves—Twenty-five minutes. •

Got Some Fractional Hogs.

Thursday Christie Vick, acting for County Treasurer Nichols, went out on a hog anl fractional hog hunting expedition, and when he found what he was hunting for he levied on them for taxes. The hogs and parts of hogs levied on belonged to Ben Smith, and already were being held for various store bills and such. Ben’s hog interests were scattered pretty widely and Christie reports having found a whole hog at one place, half a hog t© a hog and a half at another, and a pig and a half at another, etc. As a matter of fact, however these fractional hogs are really only Ben’s share in them and the other fractions belong to other people. Saturday Christie went out again, on the same purpose, and levied on one that was a whole hog sure. It was Ben’s celebrated full high bred Poland China sow that he had paid $390 for and which weighs now 325 pounds. She was found at the farm of Ben’s father-in-law, M. Y. Slaughter, several miles southeast of town. She was Ben property solely, no one else, so far as known, claiming any interest in her. Ben’s goods, which have been at the depot ever since they were first attached, were moved Friday morning into the Siarr warehouse, where they are on friendly terms with Cooney Kellner’s saloon furn iture.

Evangelism at the Christian Church.

Interest in the revival at the Christian church has widened and deepened since the first service a week The crowds have in creased from night to night until on Sunday night all of the avail able space in the large building was filled. Many are confessing Christ for tae first time and numbers are placing their membership with the church. Rev. Wilson is a master preacher. His sermons are full of logic and packed with bible truths which he enforces with carefully selected illustrations. He is a rapid speaker and commands the attention of everyone in the audience from the beginning of his sermon until he has finished his exhortation. The large chorus which under the direction of Prof. Lintt, has been rendering efficient service has been supplemented by a “Sunbeam Chorus” of childs voices. In the combined chorus there are more than a hundred voices. Prof. Lintt is asking for more adult voices for the main choir. The meeting will continue indefinitely. The subject of the Tuesday evenings sermon is “Turning to God” on Wednesday night “Behold thy Mother.”

Another car Gold Medal Hour, the world’s best just arrived. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Doot wake any more mistakes 8 e Prof. Tripodi.

ISSUD EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. IRE FRIDAY ISBDE IS THE WEEKLY BEPtBLICAN

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, TUES DAY, NOVEMBER 27 1906

ELECTRIC ROAD STILL LOOKS GOOD

A directors’ meeting of the proposed new traction railroad fras held at Reynolds, Thursday. Of the ten directors all but one were present. Those attending |from this county were Robert Parker, of Remington, J. N. Leatherman, C. W. Coen and G> F. Meyers of Rensselaer, and S. T. Coiner of Union Tp. The survey was reported just completed that day. Everything is looking good all along the line. Several companies seem anxious to finance the project, and are all clamoring for ao early look at the plans to figure. Capitalists in New York, London and Chicago are represented in these requests. The engineer reported that the very thoro statistics he has gathered show a probable annual business of $2,000 per mile more than had b?en estimated. The proposed line is between seven to ten miles shot ter than the Monon between Lafayette and Hammond. Managers of connecting lines into Chicago on the north and Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville o i the south, have requested conferences with a view of arranging for connections in those directions.

The Standish Divorce Ca se

The divorce case of Mrs. Sarah L. 'Standish vs Charles Standish, was tried by Judge Hanley Thursday afternoon. They were married on the 13th day of the Month of Roses in the year 1904 and parted on the 25th of October, in the same year, They had both had revious matrimonial experience, and that was nearly all they did have, but what else there was the wife had it, and that is where the trouble started. She had S4OO and Charley wanted to get his fingers on the cash and she would not let him. It was an exactly ’similar case to that reported by Mother Goose, long ago.

My little old man and I fell out, And I’ll tell you what it was all about. I had money and he had none, And that is where the trouble begun. Charley wanted the money or nothing and so he left her on the date last mentioned. During the four months of wedlock he never contributed a dollar to her suppoit according to her evidence. The defendant is over about Brook, and tho he was served with a summons by the sheriff of Newton connty, he did not put in any appearance. Mrs. Standish however was witness enongh for the whole case and when she got in action Reporter Sigler, who was taking down the evidence “just for practice,” got a'plenty of it. Even the announce merit of the court that he would grant her a decree did not suffice to stop the fluent flow of evidence

A feature of the evidence was a letter io the plaintiff from the departed defendant in which occured this remark: “Sadie, You will never see your. Charley again. If you will be good we will meet in heaven.” A remark which caused general amusement, and which the plaintiff shared as much as anyone. She also had another document roiu her recreant Charley, consisting of a pencil picture of a young woman of Brook, her name being given, and labeled, “This is my girl.” This was passed around at the full and free consent of the plaintiff. Besides her divorce she was given the light to resume her former widow’s name of Mrs. Sarah L. Sullivan.

Bee the elaborate line of Thanksgiving Haviland china, dishes. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. . We nave some highly pedigreed Do roe Roars for sale. Prices right. Geo. O. Pumphrey & 8o*» We are it for every thing good to eat and wear. The leaders. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

WIVES TO THROW

Thursday the woman who had been staying here for the past two weeks as the wife of X. W. Wittman, manager of a medicine and variety show that has been here that long, went away telling her landlady, Mrs. Sears, that she was going to .Chicago for a few days visit. Friday forenoon another and quite different looking lady arrived on the train and repaired to the Sears residence and enquired for “The Doctor,” who was still in bed. Mrs. Sears was disposed to question into this lady’s right to be shown to the doctor’s virtuous bedchamber, and she was thunderstruck when she asserted she was his wife. She was so positive in her claims however that sue was showed to the doctor’s room, where she seems to have received full if not pleased recognition as being the wife she claimed to he. And which relationship he fully admitted.

Mrs, Sears was naturally very indignant that she should have been so imposed upon, and refused any longer to harbor the doctor, and he and his wife went to a hotel. Still back of *this incident was the case of another female member of this show who left on Saturday of last week. She rushed out to the depot in time to catch the milk train, but betore she had time to fix her hair up. She had told in one of the restaurants here that she was the one really hired to take the wifey role in the company, but when the impressionable doctor got his eyes on the little blond she was “it” forthwith, and this other woman simply a common member of the company. According to some reports, thia first woman was the cause of the real wife coming Friday, and that she had got even with the fascinating doctor for choosing anothei’s charms to hers, by writing to the real wife and telling her about what the situation of affairs here was.

By all reports there was quite a stormy time when the real wife reached the dot tor’s side, and she had not fully relieved her mind after they got out on the streets in the business part of town, as she was overheard reproving him very vigorously, and he was heard to reply that it was all a part of the show business. The doctor himself says it was all thru a mistake. That he was married about two years ago, and finding the marriage a mistake, parted from his wife, and had been Informed that she bad got a divorce, and he had therefore made a marriage by written agreement wiih this other woman who came heie with him, and asserts that such a contract marriage is legal in New York, where he claims it was executed.

A special Thanksgiving sale many reduced prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Buj’ your husband or beau a nice smoking jacket or bath robe Xmas, we have a full line of them in all prices and can save you $ 11 DUVALL & LUNDY. We are inaugurating a great thanksgiving cloak sale at reduced prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. You will find Duvall & Lundy strictly cash and one priced and we can make you tatter prices than any other firms in our city. As we do no credits business. Call and see us. DUVALL & LUNDY. We lead others follow, who willl be next to copy after Rensselaer's only catalog house. Chicago Bargain Store. Wanted, a competent girl for general house work, in family of four. Inquire at this office. If you need a nice winter suit don't fi»rg< t to kok at < ur line 1 etwe buying for we can tave you how ♦3.00 to 15.00 on them. DUVALL A LUNDk.

The Moore Law Sustained.

Blanket Remonstrance is Valid But All Applicants Must Be Given Hearing. The supreme court held Thuisday that the Moore law, proviving for “blanket remonstrances” against granting saloon licenses to any and all applicants in a town ship or ward is valid. The court also holds that such a remonstrance may besigned by an attorney holding separate powers of attorney from each of the voteis he represents which have been sent to him by letter or postal card; that after the remonstrance has once taken effect voters can not afterward withdraw their names to favor an applicant for license at a future term, and that a sufficient remonstrance, once filed, cuts off all right of the commissioners to issue a license to anybody for two years.

HEARING FOR APPLICANTS. But it decides that each applicant in turn may deny that the remonstrance bears the requisite number of names, or that it was really signed by the persons whose names it bears or by their attorney, or that such persons are legal voters or a majority of the legal voters of the township or ward. It holds that each applicant is entitled to his “day in court” to controvert the filing of a legal remonstrance. but if the fact the fact that a legal remonstrance was duly filed is shown, he can not obtan a license. The case of Oliver P. Cain vs Jonathan L. Allen, appealed from the Owen circuit court, was reversed because Cain was refused an opportunity to prove that the remonstrance which had been filed in his case was not signed by authority of some of the voters named as remonstrators. Five other cases in which the constitutionality of the Moore law was involved were consolidated with that case as’to the constitutional question and all were argued together. “ A general remonstrance, signed by the required number of voters and filed with the auditor three days before the beginning of any regular session of the board of commissioners continues to operate against the granting of a license to any and all applicants for two years frcm the date of its filing. “All voters who have legally feigned it and who do not withdraw their names before the beginning of said three days’ period, must abide by the remonstrance for two years.

“If it is found that the rembn strance is in due form and adequately signed, that finding, ipso facto defeats the further jurisdiction of the board.”

Advance sale holiday good. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. For Rent, a handsome seven room house, and five acres of land. Good barn, good well and good outbuild ings. Situated half a mile north of Rensselaer. A tenant by the year is desired. w3t E. P. Honan, Agent. Extra fancy cranberries 8 I<3 cents qt. Bananas 10 cents dozen, fancy Mich, apples 20 and 25cta a peck. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. * Special Thanksgiving grocery sale headquarters for the t»est of everything at wholesale prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. For Sale—s room house, lot 75 feet front, 300 deep. Good location, fruit and garden spot, quire of E. P. Honan Th*e largest and most complete line of ladies cloaks in western Indiana at reduced prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Mis, Mary A. Howe will accept culls for all kiud’bf family nursing; making future engagement*; ai.d will ta glad Ho acquaint js'isons with the ’he make’. Adfl wb her at or call nt her home in Rensselaer. Telephone 284.

Old Time News.

Fifty-One Years Ago. JASPER BANNER, Nov. 22, 1885. The paper put np a most |strenuou? holler because the new c iinty auditor had sent the delinquent tax list out of the county to be printed, and which action was declared “pusillanimous and vindictive in the extreme,” and the office ont of the county which was to print it was declared to be a “miserable rat concern.” It was not a fair and now would not be a lawful act, to send the list away to be printed, bnt probably the editor’s violent language in resenting it made matters all the worse for him. Those were the days when tarring and feathering and riding on a rail were realities as means of unlawful popular punishment, and a young man at Galensburg, Mich., had been put thru the whole program for insulting a young lady. Suicide was said to then be an established epidemic in France. Not a single mention of any local happening appeared in this issue.

Thirty-Seven fears AgoRENSSELAER UNION, NOV. 18, 1869. Henry H. Watson and Mary £L Shortridge were married by Elder Halstead, at the bride’s parents in Hanging grove, on Nov. 17th. ■Jim Maloy was th inked for a mess of fish and the bridal couple for supply of cake. The Progressive Spiritualists had rented the hall over Willey & Sigler’s store and installed a $125 organ and engaged JC. P. Hopkina to play it. The spiritualises werecutting quite a swath in those days Duck and goose shooting continued good and on Tuesday evening three boys caught 50 pounds of" pike in the river. Three “men” had been in town Tuesday looking for a “young gentleman” who bad stolen $125 from some section hands at Goodland. Whether the men caught the gentleman was not stated.

Still Trying To Bluff Michael

On a warrant from Monroe county charging perjury George W. Michael our former townsman was placed under arrest Wednesday at Li Fayette and taken to Bloomlngtm where he piomptly gave bail. A charge similar to the present one against Mr. Michael was nolle prossed a few weeks ago, but the matter was levived and another affidavit filed. Mr. Michael says he is not w< trying, as he considers the case simply spite work. He thinks the charge is made with a view to influencing the m nds of the court and jury in the trial of U. B. Kellogg, in which Mr. Michael will be an important witness. The desperate and dead beat crowd Mr. Michael is fighting against of course have no fear of a suit for mali cious prosecution for what good would a judgement be against such an irresponsible gang!

Colthing. shoes and cloaks when you buy them here yon know they are right. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Blankets, cotton or wool, at prices to suit all at G. E. Murray Co. Home made sauer kraut at Murray Co. Our mammoth holiday stock will -be shown this year on second and third floor. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

Roller bkate Thanksgiving Day. There will be roller < skating all day and evening'ou Thanksgiving day, in the K. Qf P. building. Friday and Saturday the ha I wi'l Ito rented for other purposes, hid there x* ill be skating again on Saturday evening of this week. You will Im> welcomed any time. Thue Wcovwumi h, Prop.