Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1907 — Page 2

RENSSEI‘ Ci * BFPUBLICAN Office in The Republican Building corner ot w astnugWn and Heston - I street, Rensselaer. Indiana. 1 V 4 ' Issued evepy TUESBAYIaND FRIDAY _■ ' ' v 1 ' "If ~ ' GEORGE E. MARSHALL. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. MARSHALL & HEALEY, rUBLISHEBS. *

MONDAY. Born Sunday, April Tth, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blair, in the east part of town, a won. J. D. Babcock, of Bluffton, iover gathering up a bunch of stock cattle for his farm over there. Young Simon Thompson is having a bad ease oi sickness Irani mumps with complications. Firman Thompson has returned to Chicago to re enter the L’niver sity for the spring term. Mia. Mary Drake returned from Chicago Saturday eveniug, after two months stay with her mottur, who is sick. Lew Robinson and Glen Rayher left for Forsythe Montana, today, where they expect to get good jobs in railroad construction work. Lee Carson, formerly with the Bargain 3tore, now with the Marshall Field store in Chicago, spent Sunday with his parents here Misses Faye and Julia Condo of Monticello visited over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C B.eprogle returning home Monday morning. Mrs. W, J. Hall and family arrived today from Evanston, 1.1.. and wil reside on a farm Mr. Hall has rented iu Jordan tp.,-five miles south oi town.

J. McFarland lias given up for the present the idea ot starting a grocery store at Gary, as there is at this time no chance to procure a suitable room for the purpose. Mrs. J. M. Wasson and Mrs. Henry Wood spent Sun lay at Lee ■with Mrs. Siloma Wood, the venerable mother of Harvey \N ood. She is now 95 yeari3 old. Mrs. S. C. Irwin went to Minnea polis, Minn., today, for a two wee.ks visit with friends in that city. The Squire will harbor at the paternal domicile during her absence. Sunday was a wet and gloomy and disagreeable day, aud with a rainfall of .60 of au inch, when none at all was needed. It will bring muddy roads again and also set back the work of the farmers. Sheriff O'Connor got relieved from his troubles over Clyde Gibbons, the Newton county prisoner whom it was illegal for him to discharge and unlawful for him to hold, by a tardy writ of dismissal from the Thayer justice who sent him down. Mrs. E. F. Mills came from Chicago this morning for a visit of two weeks with here mother, Mrs. Julia A. Healev. Miss Yirgie Crow, who taught the South Meadow school in Newton tp. this year, returned to her home in Williamsport today.

Leonard Hayes, son of F. M. Hayes, of Btrkley tp., went to Marion this morning to enter the normal school. Floyd and Floy Williams, children of Joseph Williams, are also attending the normal at Marion. Firmau Rutherford has bought the old Foster hotel building, so badly damaged by tire more thau a year ago, of a man named Osborn of Wanatah. and is tearlug it down. He (expects to use the lumber in the erection of a residence. The people of Lincolu Towuship, Newton county, in which those two saloon earsed towns, Roselawn and Thayer are situated, are making a grand fight now for a blauket remonstrance and have invited Rev. H. L. Kindig of our city to speak for them at Roselawn tonight, which invitation he has accepted. Frank Hardy, formerly in business here but working for a store at Woodward, Okla., for some time past, has sold hie interests in that place and moved to Alva, in the same state, where he has gone into ' business for himself, under very promising auspices. ‘ Alva is a place of about 3,000 people an i

Expectation and Realization i '■ - , When a hen lays an egg ■ « ■ she expects to hatch it. £ ' '• 4* ... ■ ' , - ’> ? ■ 4- - - ... r- • ' — — ' '■* _ _4*_ 4 HEN A MAN buys a suit he expects J£M 2 ”■ to wear ** When he wears it he ex- , ■ peets it to fit, wear and retain : its ••• - shape, We have in our store THE KAHN TAILORING Line of Samples, of Indi* M anapolis, or “The Kind of Clothes Gentlemen wear,” where you ifr the lit. quality, and workmanship and style all in one. Suits $lB and up. |S» Pants $4.50 and up. llrW If you will step into our store we will show y.)it the finest line of samples and patterns in "—— the world, in blue serges, plain or fancy; gray j - worsteds, in plain or fancy; browns and fancy £ flannels of all descriptions. Get your measure j jjj taken, now is the time. J the Kiho __ * Tailoring Line ] 5 of Clothes once ■ and you will * DUVALL & LUNDY ar £ | Have “The Kind of Clothes Gentlemen Wear.” * * == • 5 ■

considerably larger tliau Wood* ward. Orville, the 5 months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ropp, living near the depot, died Saturday night after a sickness covering several weeks, first ol the throat and later ot the lungs. The funeral was conducted at the house at 10 o'clock this morniug by Rev. Clarke of the Christian church, and burial was in Weston cemetery. George Gorham's new barn was completed Saturday afternoon, or just sis days from the time the other oue burned. So much work was donated by carpenters that he only had to hire a half day’s work, by oue man. The lumbermen also contributed the profits on the ma terial, selling it to him at cost. The people of Rensselaer certainly deserve credit for the way they have helped this unfortunate but deserving family out ot this misfortune. The ruction in the high school at Bloomington which has attracted so much attention the last ,Jwo weeks, is finally settled aud all the rooms resumed work today, with all the old teachers back iu their old places. For this final satisfac tory settlement of the trouble, the careful mauagemeut oi Superintendent Sauders, formerly of our city, no doubt deserves*tbe chief credit, but backed by the over whelming seutimeut of the people. Figures compiled at the office of the bureau of statistics show that 1,122 persous were adjudged iusane iu the year 1906. Iu the year 1905 only 950 persons were declared to be of uusouud mind. ~Tan9os only 950 persous were declared to be of unsound mind. In 1904 the ber was 1,105. Reports to the bureau show that, in 1906 in the courts of the state 27,0 bi civil cases were filed. This is almost 1,000 lees than were filed in 1905. The number of eases disposed of in 1905. The number of cases disposed of in 1906 was 25,602Clerk Warner has his troubles like common people. Thus there is a special demand for copies of the new Indiana laws this year,

and he had p.omised 12S,;the same number he had two years ago, but when his allotment came there only 96 of them, aud how to distri bule 96 books among 12S persons is what is causing his worry. The “how oil is •Ann? - ’ puzzle was easy to this. However j he has written to the secretary of state aud hopes to get au additional supply. The number of copies sent to county clerks for distribution is based ou the vote in the county Jat the last election, aud there having been a large falling off last fall over the vote two years before, caused the big slump in the number of law books seut our way. Dr. Clara Peters is attending the Indianapolis Optical Society's meeting at Indianapolis today.

OVERTAXED

Hundred of Rensselaer Readers Know What It Means. The kidney are overtaxed; Have to much to do. } They tell about it iu many aches and pains— Backache, sideache, headache, Early symptoms of kiduey ills. Urinary troubles. diabetes, Bright’s disease follow. W. D. Hensey, liviug ou George street, near Fourteenth St., Logausport, lud., says: “I was told about Doan's Kiduey pills when my back was in an awful shape aud had beeu for some time. Often h ave been nuableto get my clothing on. I have had to lay off from work doctor up more than a dozen times- I suffered dull grinding pains all through my back aud loius and was completely knocked out. The doctoring did not do me any good and so I began* using Doan’s Kidney Pills. I felt better after the first day’s treatment, and iuside of a week my misery was goue. Yes sir, my back was as stroug as ever and all my pains disappeared. I have not had any reurn of the trouble siuce.’’ For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburu Co., Buffalo New York, sole agents for the United States.' Remember the name-Doan’s-aud take uo other. Dont buy farm implements until you have seen our lar»e aqd complete stock. At the Rensselaer Feed Store. A. L. Branch. V

In the District Cfiurt of the United States.

For the District of Indiana. In the matter of 1 Alfred McCoy, V Xo. 1770 in Bankruptcy. Bankrupt. j To the creditors of Alfred McCoy, of the city of Rensselaer, State and District of Indiana, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that the tiustee of the estate of said bankrupt has tiled his petition for an order authorizing a compromise of all contested questions involved in the objecI tions to and tne allowance of the claim of | Wood Brothers, by which proposed compro- ! mise said trustee shall withdraw his objections I I based upon an alleged preferential partial I payment received by said claimant, and by j which said proposed compromise said trustee ! consents to an allowance of said claim of said . claimant in the sum of $4,000.00, the original amount of which claim tiled was $6,890.55, which said petit'on will come on for hearing |at my office in Hammond, said District, on j the 20th clay of April, 1907, at 10 o’clock, j a. m. Dated this 6th day of April. 1907. JOHN O. BOWERS. Referee.

monruniGivTs. I believe youj would prefer to j buy at home if you can get l the same or better value for your mouey. Let me couvince you that you caui Compare the many from this shop with the few that have been sold by agents from distant shops aud you will be decidely convinced. You can save the agents commission iu ca-ffi or its equivalent iu mouumeutal value Will yon not make a careful investigation before the ageut’s misleading argument are accepted to be regretted. Pneumatic tool lettering if you wish it. The Rensselaer Granite and Marble works. WILLMaCKOT, Prop. •" V w Dr. Landon’s New System Porcelain AkrJgßSL* INLAY TEETH i Cannel be detected from netuUA/AaLLJ ml teeth Expert* in the geo tie isl of pe i uletioeee Ask to See Samples of Re-Enameling KOOrUU Do S.CVmHooI tt Month .or •£ fn CJi FLATS. InUrfor. with Sp*och or Tut*. *3 lO Tb. pricM quntad bolow .r. .hw.lutol. tb. boot opportunity to tot your iwo.. . worth wbicb bu rror bwi offorwl, u W. OM nothin. but tb. two. nntart.li: Set «r Teeth. ... $5. Oil I 22-k Geld Crowns S4.SO Teeth Re-eeanwird 1.10 I Gold Flings to $2 Te Introduce ear werk In ynar county, we will refund milreed fnree te Cbtrer* *p to $3 Wen ell werk smounUnf to life SIS ea end 75 en Urrer amount* W JC - BOSTON DENTAL ft" Writ, fta booblta. !♦« »tata a (—»i Sitot! ’’ICAQO, iMtb Ordered in Heroine Had Suit 'ey.

ROAD TO SUCCESS

PUBLICITY IS THE MAIL-ORDER MAN’S GREAT WEAPON. MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE .: , r: q “Fight Fire with Fire" and the Dol- j lart Now Going Cityward Will Stay in the Home Community. The merchant who'would wage successful warfare against mail-order competition should study mail-order methods. The, same tactics that takes the dollar out of the community will keep it at home. And what are mail-order methods? 1 The keynote of it all may be found In the one word —publicity. The mailorder house advertises. It does not advertise better goods at less money than the home merchant'gives, but it advertises persistently. It puts its proposition before the public constantly. It recognizes no dull season in its campaign for publicity. It never lets “P -7-~ At a gathering in lowa some time ago a mail-order man explained some Of the systetn followed in the campaign of publicity. According to this explanation the mail-order house seeks the line of least resistance in its search for business. Whenever they can find a town in which the merchants are not active advertisers they flood that community with their literature. When they find a town in which the furniture dealer, for example, is afraid to use printer’s ink they pay particular attention to the subject of furniture. They are searching for the weakest link in the chain of home defenses. Somethin of this is explained by the conditions the writer saw in a

Intelligent advertising means “s icing the bulldog power and tenacity of the local press on the competition offered the home merchant by the catalogue houses. Intelligent advortising means the employment of mail-order methods in combating the mail-order evil.

mill town in northern Wisconsin. The local paper carried practically no local advertising when the size of the town was considered, and the stores of the town were but small affairs. In talking to one of the merchants he complained that more than $25,000 was sent from that community to-the Chicago mail-order houses each month. “That is easily twice the amount that is spent In all the stores in this town put together each month,” he explained. “Merchandizing don’t pay in such a place as this.” A few hours later the writer was talking with the publisher of the local paper, and the conversation turned to local advertising, or rather the lack of it. “I was very much tempted to accept a proposition- which I received from one of the Chicago mail-order houses a few days ago,” said the publisher. “I still have the proposition here on my desk. They offer me a cash contract at my regular display rates for 1,500 Inches, tohe used during the year, and In addition to the cash advertising they offer me a small commission on all the new business secured in this county during the life of the contract They say their business in this county durl»g the last 12 months was approximately SB,OOO per month, and I would secure a small percentage on all business done over this amount during the next- 12 months.” - “Have you shown that proposition to the merchants of this .town? 1 ’ I asked. “I have, find it didn’t move them,” he replied. "They simply say it'don’t pay to advertise. I would jump at the offer if it were not for the fact that I cannot bring myself to the point of doing that which I know will help to kill this community." There was an illustration of mailorder methods. The wideawake mailorder man proposed to reap a golden harvest from the flelij the very-much-asleep local merchant would not cultivate.

Does it par to advertise? The more than $200,009,009 that finds Its way to the Chicago mail-order houses each year is garnered by, a campaign of advertising. Yo«v ( Mr. Local Merchant, claim, and rightly, that you can sell the same goods for the same, or less money, than the mail-order houses offer, bat at the same time you complain because the mail-order man gets the business. Why do they get If? Because they advertise. They not only advertise, but they advertise in your field, and they advertise in your field because you do not. They select towns, or special lines where they do not have to meet the competition that is offered by local advertising, and they make advertising pay. We want the people to trade at home; we want them to build up the home community; we want to see the dollars kept in circulation here that one and all of the local people may prosper. We do not want to see the fortunes of the city mail-order man built at the expense of the local community, but we know absolutely the value of publicity, and we know the mail-order houses will capture the dollars If the local merchants will not fight fire with fire; will not show the public what they can buy and at what price. Let us go back to this northern Wisconsin town and see what opportunities the merchants there were sacrificing. It was a mill town, and in no -way an agricultural community. There were not 20 farms within a radius of as many miles. The industry was lumber, and the money to run the mills came from the city. The nearly 1,000 employes were paid in city money, and with a little effort on the part of the merchants in that town this money might have been kept in the town. It might have been made to build a permanent prosperity. But

no, the merchants left a wide field for the mail-order houses which they improved, and the money that might have built a town that would have stood after the lumber interests are gone and the mills are closed has been allowed to return to the city from which it came, and now every lofty pine that falls but drives another nail in the coffin of the town, and all because the merchants did not believe it would pay to advertise. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

Child Turning Purple.

Mary Efghotz, three years old, of New York, is turning purple. The doctor says she is suffering with a disease known as purpura hemorrhagica. The child’s mother first noticed the changing color three weeks ago. While bathing the girl she detected small purple spots on various parts of the body. Alarmed, she applied home remedies, but the spots continued to spread. The child's body presents the appearance of being tattooed. Almost the entire body is covered, with the exception of the face, which thus far has not been affected. While most of the time the blotches are of a mellow purple, they occasionally change to a deep plum color or a dull red. Some blotches are as large as a penny, others are no larger than a pinhead. The disease is probably caused by a rheumatic genn. —:- 1 1

Only Believe.

Be not downcast if difficulties surround you in your heavenly life. They may be purposely placed there by God to train and discipline you for higher developments of faith. If he calls you to "tolling in rowing,” It may be to make you tjie better seaman, and to lead you to a holier trust in Him who has the vessel and Its destinies in hand, and who, amid gathering clouds and darkened horizon, and crested billows, ever murmurs the mild rebuke to our iqisglvings: “Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou ehouldst see the glory of God?"—Rev. John R. Macduff.