Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1907 — Page 2

/re You Interested In a Girl? I A BOOSTER FOB YOUR FRIENDSi The Republican to Inaugurate an Voting Contest for the Ladies of Rensselaer and Jasper County. ’ The Republican has an announcement >if unusual interest to m .e to its great family of readers in Rensselaer and Jasper county ii ic opening of the Splendid Ladies Popular \ oting Contest, for w h plans, on an elaborate scale, are now in progress and will be ft v for the public in a few days. There have been a number of~ n. es recommended lor the Contest and the indications are that once th Contesl is fairly inaugurated, asit-wLU be in a few—days, extraord ry interest will be aroused, and the competition for prizes offered b he Republican, will be constantly at a fever heat. It is the int ion to make this the biggest Contest ever conducted by a newspi -or in this section. Il^r —r LACE SOME LADY FRIEND OK ''YOURS IN NOMIN HON. The Republican sincerely hopes the members ofall t Church, L< .ge or Society members will place the -names of one or _ more of th ir favorite ladies in nomination and help her win one of the handso. ie presents that will be offered. Candidates are-, not restricted to nv ibers. of churches, lodges or societies. Any lady ill Rensselaer an . Jasper county is eligible to enter this contest and earn votes fpi herself. '' The Republican; advocates the thing it believes are good for the pe tple of jasper county and judging from the support it receives, its est >rts are being appreciated. In order to increase ‘its list, as as afford a reward for faith, fu -fforUon the part of the church, lodge and society workers, as well as >thers,*The Republican is impelled to offer many valuable prizes to bi >ted to the ladies—who in the opinion of the people of this city an,, vicinity,'are most entitled to the honor and tokens of esteem. It is the desire of The Republican that every subscriber, and in fa every: one, should have a voiceJn awarding the prizes, and the only regret is that a'similar offer cannot be made for every one deserving of such testimonial. This paper would suggest that the different lodges and societies take up the matter officially as well as all those who have lady friends they are interested in and nominate candidates who will be the unanimous choice Herewith is a nomination blank. Fill in the name of a lady friend and mail or bring it to The Republican office.

POPULARITY VOTING ELECTION. I HEREBY DOMINATE OR SUGGEST * ADDRESS a - As a candidate in your POPULARITY VOTING ELECTION with the distinct understanding and agreement that my name shall not be divulged. This does not obligate me in any way whatever. f SIGNED - . ~ —" - ~~ | ADDRESS Any person desiring additional information regarding the Con te , will please call on or telephone the Contest Manager at this office w will be pleased to render assistance. DIRECTORS » . Parkison, President E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier j, jhn M. Wasson. Vice-President James T. Randle George E. Murray First National Bank \ , North Side Publlo Square, Rensselaer, Indiana jj S Loans Money ; J On all kinds of good security on city property and on e Farm at lowest rates, pays interest on savings, pays 2 • taxes and makes investments for customers and others • andjsolicifs personal interviews with a view to business, g • , promising every favor consistent with safe banking. jj i Farm Loans A SPE6IALTY § T «iinnwwninTHTummiimwnmwimm? ■■ ■■■■'■ - ' '■■■■■ " ' _.. 1 " ■ ,-f'" ■ IV'ONEY TO LOAN loaos on second mortgage real estate, chattel mortgages, and personal •ei urity. Loans on city property made for one, two, and three years, repayable in monthly installments if desired. Sale notes purchased. Mi-ney on hand for above loans, ito delay. Loans on farms negotiated at .1 low rate of interest, without commission. A complete set of Abstract Books Call personally or write. James H. Chapman, The Republican’s Classified Column will supply your wants and sell your surplus articles, j

Classified Column. here. * - ••. ■ FOR SALE—One steel range and one 20th Century soft coal heater. Inquire VFI John C. McColly, Telephone 78. Lost—Small gold locket and chain .initial , “G” on locket. Finder return to this office 1 WANTED—Dining room girl at Makeeve I House. Apply there. FOR SALE—Several white pups', mottled with black and brown. Mother fox terrier, father bull dog. $2 each. Inquire at this office. 1 y - ■ - === FOR SALE—A black horse, sound and j broke in all harness; also a sow . and seven pigs. Inquire of Fred Phillips. FOR SALE—Umpire Estate heating stove, good condition, $6. Also 1 22-caliber Colts repeating rifle, will shoot long or short, $7.50. Everet Brown, Route 1 Phone 514 E. WANTED —Washing or house cleaning to do. Enquire of Mrs. Mary Deer, in the Spitler tenant house, opposite Kresler’s hitch bare, i---:— : —-Tj -• ■ LOST—Pair of gold rimmed spectacles, between here and the Mark Reed farm. Finder return to this office or to Miss Katie Shields, Brook. Ind. . t ' FOR SALE—Two last spring full blood Jersey Duroc boars,, inquire of Marion I Adams, Telephone 339 A. FOR RENT—9 room bouse, three lots, garden, poultry lot. barn, fruit, good water in house; cistern water also in house. In quire of Gus 'Yeoman, R. 3, Rensselaer, Ind. FOR :SALE —Good, solid cabbage for sauer kraut. Price based on quality. Leave orders at Rhoads’grocery or call on li. C. Hoshaw. FOR RENT—Good house of 8 rooms, modern barn, pasture, small f’uit. Inquire of E. Peacock or Attorney G.A. Williams. FOR RENT—A six room dwelling With city water and light, and good out buildings. Possession Nov. Ist. Inquire of J. C. Porter. ——

DITCH NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to the following named persons, to-wSs Marion Albin and wife,Luther Albin,Henry Amsler, Hester Ann Belcher, Margaretta Behles, George Belcher, Ella L. Belcher, Church, Trustees M. E., of Dunnville; Church, Trustees Baptist of Kankakee town-hip; David A. Collins, Nancy B. Dunn, Isaac N. Dupn, Isaac D. Dunn, John C TOickerson, William Fitzgerald, Winifred Finn, John Finn, Rebecca Graves, Leroy S. Gillespie, Eliza M, Gillespie, Nancy Gillespie, Christopher Gi!hranson. Abraham—Gingrich——HenryGingrich. Noah Gingrich. Jessie F. Gerber, La.vina Gray, Oliver H. Gill, Robert Hall, Lawrence Hass, Berryman Jones, Thomas J. Jones, C. C. Jones, Laura M. Jones, Milton A. Jones, Mary E. Lawrence, Samuel Maguire, David Miller, Thomas F. Maloney, Louisa Moss. George B Mueller; Conrad F. Meyer, Hans Nelson, Anna Nelson, GeorgeJE. Price, William Pagel, Charles R. Peregrine, Anna Magdalena Rasmussen, Ida E. Rockwell, George D. Richey, Clarence Stalbaum, Martin V. Sands, Carrie C, Seegrist, Samuel Seegrist, George Stalbaum, John D. Scott. Matilda Schrader, Reinhold Schmidt, Oliver M. Turner, Hannah E. Turner, Joseph Turner, George W. . Turner, Louisa Treichel, Aaron Timmons, Eliz. Vandecar, Elizabeth Vmdecar, J. Vandecar, James ’N" White, deceased, his heirs are: Nativia White, widow; Oliie M. White, Lemuel Ross White, Estella M- White, Milton P. White, George Arthur White. S. White, Warren J. White. Laura May Jones and Jessie F. Gerber; Eliz. VVeinkauf, Elizabeth Wemkauf; August Wills, John E. Wills, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company: Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad Company and Kankakee Civil Township by Charles Stalbaum. Trustee; Geo. C. Cook, George C. Cook, Wm. F. Cook, William F. Cook Leonard Burrows, Mary Finn estate, Ida Hartman, Ella B. Hassack, Fred Heimberg. Fred Hamann. Henry C. Hobbs. G.' D. Lockie, John McWilliams Fred C- Miller, F. C- Miller, McWilliams Land Co., L Marine, W. E. Pinney, M. E. Reeves estate, M. E Reeves, Warren Springer, and Pleasant Civil Township by Trustee. ; , That Fred Hamann and others tiled their petition on November 2, 1907 with the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court for the deepening, straightening and widening of the Kankakee River and for the construction of a ditch to that effect on the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the New Channel of the Kankakee River constructed by thje Kankakee Reclamation Company in the year 1906, on th* line dividing La Porte. Starke, Porter, and Jasper Counties, State of Indiana, where the same intersects the line of survey made by the United States Department of Irrigation and Drainage Investigations in the year99o6, and from there 101-1 1 owing the line of said survey, and the general course of the Kankakee River,' in a southwesterly direction to a point in said river near - the east line of the northwest quarter of section fifteen US), township thirty two ija, north, range five (5 we*, on the line dividing Porter apd Jasper Counties, and near the crossing of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railrbad over the said Kankakee River, where the proposed drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in the proposed new channel of the Kankakee River petitioned for by Horace Marble etal, in the Jasper Circuit Couit, Jasper County, State of Indiana. You ate further notified that >*ld improvement will atfect your lands and that your lands will be assessed for the construction -thereof, being located in said Porter and Jasper Counties, Indiana, and that aid petition is set for docketing under the drainage act of 1907. approved March It, 1907. on Saturday, December 7, 1907 and tha, tin* is to notify you persoiffilly of :he pendency of said petition, the law under which it is-pend-mg and the date of docketing. f Sv Witness the hand and seal of the ■»K \L ' Jasper Circuit Court this second day.of November, 1907. C. C. WARNER, Clerk of the 1 Jasper Circuit Court. , Fred Hamann, et al, . ! , • —•- ' Petitioners. Fiank J. Cook, Foil* & Spitler, Attorneys for Petitioners. Nov. 5-u

HIS TELEPHONE SWEETHEART

By CARRIE GRAHAM

According to the rules and regular tions of the telephone company, an operator has no right to listen to conversations over the wires of her charge, but sometimes Edna could not help overhearing snatches of a conversation when she tested to see Whether some one in one of the booths was still talking. Naturally, too, she became interest; ed in the young man who always called one address uptown. His first name was Frank, that much she knew, and she knew also that he worked in the big office building in which -she operated the public station switchboard. Most offices had their own wires and the work was light, so gradually she began to take especial interest in Frank and bis calls. Her own lonely little life contained no romance, and Bhe entered heart and soul Into this stranger’s love affair. —Every day on hia way in from- lunch and again in the evening he called up “Dearest.” It jvas the only name he ever used, and Edna wished that sometime some one would talk to her like that, whethor it was over the wire or face so face. She hoped it might be some one like Frank, with laughing, brown eyes and a kindly smile that seemed perpetual, and her hungry heart took -to itself the tender,—message—flha_ heard over the Wire when she deliberately cut in. * She had some share of hia visits, for he had always a pleasant smile and a “good afternoon” for her, but she wanted more. She used to whisper very softly her own answers to his tender messages and she was genuinely distressed when, some months later, the messages were discontinued. She still looked for his pleasant greeting as he passed her desk, and wondered that he should take his disappointment so well. She sometimes planned to call up the old number and pretend that it was a mistaken call Just to see if the girl was still there. Then there were other times when she was selfishly glad that the calls had stopped, for She was jealous of his telephone sweetheart and now occasionally he stopped for a word of chat with her. Then, one afternoon there came the call. She recognized the voice instantly and her generous spirit rose superior to her selfish jealousy, and without thinking she laughed into the receiver. • “I’m so glad you’re back,” she cried,” then the voice at the other end recalled her to her duty. For the first time she knew his last name, and the caller asked that Mr. Frank Howard be sent for, and gave the number of his room. Presently he came down in the elevator, his face beaming with gladness, and Edna fought down a desire to listen. She wanted to know that he had won back his telephone sweetheart, and could not bear to learn the fact. Howard came out of the booth with an odd look on his face. There was no one there Beside the girl and he leaned against the desk. “What did you mean by saying that you were glad?” he demanded, curiously. Edna's face grew red. “Did you say that?” she asked. Howard nodded. “She wanted to know' what you were glad about. She thought at first she had the wrong number.” “I was glad that she had come back,” explained the girl. Somehow those brown eyes compelled the truth. “You didn’t call her for so long I knew that you had quarreled and I was glad that you were going to be happy again.” “Been scenting a romance?” he said .-with a smile. “She’s been my sweetheart ever since I was old enough to love anyone. She’s been out of town. Just got hack, and wanted to tell me." “I’ll bet you’re glad. It was not a brilliant remark, but it was the best Edna could do. Howard smiled. “I bet I am,” he agreed. “You see, I don’t go home until late and she’s all alone, so I call her up to cheer her.” “Then you’re married?" asked Edna in dismay. Howard shook his head. “That's my mother,” he said, with a laugh. She's the best sweetheart a man ever had. I want you to meet her some time. The Right law class comes to an end next week, and after that I want to take you up to see her.” “Me? What for?” * "Fve been telling her a lot about you.” explained Howard. “She said before she went away that she wanted to meet you when she came back, and I told her that I would try and get you to come up. Will you come?" “Sure.” said Edna, feeling her conversational limitations, but too startled to give expression to her feelings. “I can tell from her voice that she’s an awfully nice person. Yon learn to tell voices when you hear so many of them otrsr the wire.” “I’m you like her," shid Howard simply, “for I want you to Uka —us .both. Do you think you wilir “You mqpn—” Edna did not complete the sentence, but How r ard understood. “Just that,” he agreed. “I guess I do —now,” confessed the, girl, “because I was awfully jealous of your telephone sweetheart”

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The Starr Pianos In The Starr Building 1 Door West of Post Office. - w . ■ • --- •■■ ~~r : -r—- —■ — : — : r— 8 ft thousand Copies of the Iflcßinley Co.’s music, 10c per copy. Jill the latest popular songs ana music 25c. I Fred A. Phillips RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

' ~ Meals served at all hours. . CIK model, ’T - 1 Short Orders a Specialty. 1 ' • 2 . i have opened up a restaurant and short order eating room in the room formerly occupied by A. Rosenbaum’s saloon,and shall conduct the same with t; an effort to giving the greatest g satisfaction to all of itspatrons. Absolute cleanliness iu all (cooking and personal attention givento thebusiness at all times I Hot or Cold Lunch. 1. .. * „ When hungry try the Model. i lflrs. flutist Rosenbaum,

Nursery Stock Offered for Sale. By the Halleck Nursery. 100,000 two, three and four year old apples; nice thrify trees, 6 to 7 feet high sl2 per hundred. We also keep a general line ot nursery stock and prices right. Halleck Nursery Co., Chas. Halleck, Mngr., Nov. 18 Fair Oaks, Ind. NOTICE. Will pay the bignest cash market price for strictly fresh eggs and good butter. O. E. Ppior. opposite Republican office phone 69. Still Another Rummage Sale. The Women’s Relief Corps have decided to hold a rummage sale and have selected Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22 and 23, as the days and the K. of P. building as the place. They will be able to offer many articles, little worn and of good value at very low prices. Warner Bros, will give away a 1 heating stove on Nov. 16th, aDd.all are invited to come in and register before that time. Come early and avoid the rash.

Letting Contract for Construction. State of Indiana, | County of Jasper f ■ Before the Board of Commraissioners, Jasper County. In the matter of letting contract for construction of the DeMotte and Hebron Grade. Notice is hereby given, that on Saturday the 30th day of November, 1907, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, will, up to the hour of twelve o’clock, noon of said day, receive sealed proposals for the construction of the DeMotte and Hebron Grade according to the profiles and specifications now on file at the Auditor’s office of said county. Each bidder will be required to file with his bid a good and sufficient bond with a penally equal to double the amount of - the bid, and conditioned as the law requires. The Ifcsard of Commissioners reserve the right tc reject any and all bids. • JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. Mre. Goff wishes to annoußce that she has received many articles of saucy work tor the Ohistmas trade, which ehe is prepared to make very reasonable prices on for advance sales, better than for later orders wbon the assortment might not he so good. She also keeps at all times many articles snitable tor wedding presents.* dw6 Register at Warner Bros . it dofi’t cost a cent; and may result in yonr getting a fine heatingjstove for nothing.