Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1908 — Page 3

Get Your ABSTRACTS Prepared and examined s—g5 —g = —r by the u farmers Loan & Abstract Co. B. F. Ferguson Pres. * ' W. R. Lee Secy-Tras.

Rensselaer Markets.

Oats, 44c New com, 40c, Wheat, 85c. Rye, 60c, Butter, 19 to 21c, Eggs, 16 to 170.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Lou Hammond, the wire fence man, is in town on business today. Senior Hopkins has gone to Chicago for a short visit. Mrs. G. W. Goff is just getting Around after an illness of three weeks with pneumonia. • Born, March sth, to Mr. and Mrs. ..Arthur Waymire, of Barkley tp., a son, and their first born. Jud Moore came over from Monon today, and will at once make preparations to. lift his boiler from the river. The terrible school fire at Collinwood, Ohio, may have been of incendiary origin. It ts now supposed that the fire was caused by firing some waste or rubbish under a stairway. Chas. B. Landis, of Delphi, was renominated on the first ballot for congressman from the 9th district.at the Republican congressional convention held at Frankfort yesterday. C. A. Hopkins, of Delphi, who has been visiting with his son, Warner Hopkins, at Momence, 111, stopped off here today to visit with his father, C. D. Hopkins. Uncle Clint is 87 years old today. Judge Hanley heard the notorious case of the State vs. Rose for bootlegging, in the White circuit court while Judge Wason was here Wednesday and Thursday. After a sensational trial the jury failed to come to an agreement.

Today is a fine one in itself, but It is so balmy and pleasant as to j forebode more weather troubles, and it is apt to blow up another rain. ; The strong south and west wind has done much toward drying the streets and practically every vestige of snow has disappeared. ' Bert Goff and family are planning to go to Belle Fourche, South Dakota, 1 the last of this month, where Bert’s ( quarter section claim is situated and ■where they will reside. Bert thinks he has one of the best claims in that section and when he gets ft proved tip it will be worth in the neighborhood of $2,000. Delegates to the district senatorial ■convention will be selected in White and Newton counties omorrow, and in Jasper county Saturday of next week. A data has not yet been set' for choosing the delegates in this county to the representative convention, but to the other conventions the delegates will be selected on Saturday, March 14. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, whose sickness has been of long duration,, died this Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. W. Coen on Mllroy avenue. She was slightly more than 80 years of age and has resided in Jasper county since she was 8 or 10 years of age. The funeral arrangements hare not yet been made and will be deferred until word can be received from one of her daughters, Mrs. Karsner, of Orovllle, California. Both the boys’ and girls’ basket ball teams go to Hammond today te give the Hammond lads and lassies a chase for their money. Our glrlfc should win, but the Hammond boys defeated Montlcello a short time ago and Monti handed Rensselaer a score ■of 61 to 8. Will the boys win. Coach Dean while there will try to arrange a match between Montlcello and Hammond to be played here and thinks he may be successful.. - The water is the highest In history In. the Kankakee valley. The ■C. I. ft L. bridge and tracks at Shelby were washed out by the great floods of water and the wrecking crews and extra gang worked almost all Thursday night repairing

the broken bridge and tracks. Special trains carried cars of Spauls and gravel to the men and the track is solid enough this morning to let. light trains across.

Mr. Ray Adams, of this place, . and Miss Nona Brenner, of Roselawn, sprang a "surprise” on their friends Monday, when they quimarried. The groom is the son of Marion I. Adams, south of town, and the bride is the daughter Of S. C. Brenner, of Roselawn. They,will begin housekeeping at once on the' Cain farm three miles south of town. Ray has already gained a considerable reputation as a farmer and no doubt after the first few weeks {they will make things hum.

Township Asssesor Peter Hordeman, in addition to the assistance of his old time standby, Lucius Strong, has also hired GeO. W. Markin •to assist him in the work of assessing Marion township this spring. Peter has just become a benedict and will probably not care to be away from home so much as on previous years and he has secured the services of Mr. Markin to look after the work in the country parts of the township I where he can not conveniently go j along with his spring farm work, he having sold the farm place just west Of town. Mr. Strong will have charge of the city assessing.

SATURDAY Cloyd Reprogle has gone to Montlcello to spend Sunday. * Miss Viola May Quayle, of Chicago, is visiting with John Holden and family. I MisS|Mary. Wright, of Englewood, is here for a visit with her brother, Jennings Wright. Miss Nora Casey has gone to Chicago to study millinery styles for Miss Mary Meyer. Miss Mary Doyle, of LaSalle, 111., s is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. J. Harmon. v The Christian. Shultz sale went off • nicely yesterday and things brought I the customary high prices. 1 Mrs. Grace Lefler, of Crawfordsville, is visiting her parents and friends here. . Little Margaret, daughter of W. C. I Babcock and wife, is confined at her home with sickness and is threatened with pneumonia. , Joseph Galey—was. in from Jordan township today and renewed his subscription to the Republican and took advantage of our Chicago Inter Ocean | combination. He is just recovering from an attack of the grip.

i The democrats of the county will select their delegates to their coni ventlnn on next Saturday also, their Marion township convention being held in the forenoon. Their county convention will be held Saturday, March 21st

Mike Duffy, of Fowler, was in Rensselaer on business today, having had a security debt, case in this court. ‘‘Yes, I got stung,” he replied, “but then we expect that once in a while.” He was kept happy all the way to Fowler, having got a copy of the Rensselaer Republican on his way to the train.

Clyde Gunyon, son of J. N. Gunyon, of near Parr, is now able to be up most of the time, and seems on the road to recovery. He has had a quite serious tussle with the rheumatism, which he contracted while working on a dredge out in lowa. It is now more than three months since he was first taken sick.

Uncle David Nowels is having a very bad winter and for some weeks has been unable to leave his home and now he is almost altogether helpless and has to be moved by his attendants. His son Riley is caring for him. In addition to the infirmities of age he is now a sufferer from dropsy. It is feared that he can not long survlve. , i , i Father Cavanaugh, president of Notre Dame University, lectured last night to an audience of about 600 people in the Christian church. He took for his subject, “Pope Pius, the Tpnth,” and handled it In a very pleasing manner. The St. Joseph Ltudents and members of the faculty attended the lecture in a body and Father Weyman Introduced the speaker. Sheets ft Simpson, the horse buyers, are here today according to their plans, and will arrange to make frequent trips here in the future. John M. Knapp, at whose sale barn they make their headquarters is very anxious to establish a regular market here and thinks it could easily be done. He says Sheets ft Simpson pay top prices and are the kind of men that will tye able to establish a regular market after the people begin to know them.

Republicans are urged to get out to the conventions next Saturday and to take a hand in selecting delegates to the county, judicial and senatorial conventions. The republican county convention will be held the next Monday, the judicial convention the succeeding Monday and the senatorial convention on Friday,' March 20th. The judicial convention will be at Roselawn, the senatorial at Monticello, and then on April 9th, at Reynolds, will be held the representative convention. The call to elect delegates to the latter convention has not been issued. j

The rain Thursday interfered largely with the Ed Oliver sale, and stopped it in the middle of what would doubtless have been one of the very best sales ever held in northwestern Indiana- There was a great crowd ■ there and they were there for business. Bidding was spirited and prices were high and $3,500 worth had been sold when the drenching rain drove the buyers away. Mr. Oliver has not yet decided whether he will hold another sale in about two or three weeks or whether he will dispose of the balance of his stock at private sale. At the skating ring Friday' after*1 noon Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reynolds gave am exhibition on roHer skates. To music of the Merry Widow waltz, they glided around the room in a perfect reproduction of that famous •lance. They did the most difficult figuring, skating witli perfect ease and Mrs. Reynolds was rather better than Earl. Earl and his wife are with the Parisian Model, now at the Illinois theatre in Chicago, and they do a vaudeville turn there. On account of having shoes unsuited for the work Mrs. Reynolds fell once but did not hurt herself. Ross Benjamin %nd Johi Morgan furnished the music and received almost as much applause as the skaters.

The Republican party was never in a better condition than it is today. The Roosevelt policies are endorsed everywhere, and save for the effort that is always being made to forestall reform in the power of predatory wealth there is practically no criticism of the administration and thinking people are not placing blame for the present financial conditions upon the administration, but are claiming that it was precipitated by plot to discredit the Roosevelt policies and thereby influence the nomination of a candidate favorable to corporation interests. The plot has failed and the nomination of William H. Taft is almost certain to ensue. And this means that this power of false profiting corporations will operate under restrictions. The democratic party on the contrary is at war in almost every sta,te, and the renomination of Bryan means .that the same crowd that have feared his demagogism in previous years will not vote for him. Having entered the national political arena on the money plank silver issue and having since deserted it and embraced imperalism and militarism and seen his fears on these matters groundless, he is claiming attention now on the proposition of doing exactly what Roosevelt has done, except that he proposes td carry it to a point of excess and to include in it a tariff alteration that will put the smoke out of every factory. There is u no rooom for Bryan and his erraticisms, and the people will entrust their welfare to a man of the Roosevelt type. That man is Taft.

MONDAY '1 Frank Haskell has gone to Chicago Ott business. • - Jim Randle has been visiting with his father. Nelson Randle. Mrs. Will Donnelly has gone to Mo- ■ non to be gone several days. Little Mrgaret Babcock now has aj pronounced case of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Terrill, of Franklin, are visiting A. E. Bolser and wife. Miss Irene Mott, of Hammond, is here for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. ] Orlan Grant Geo. Zea has gone to Chicago,where I he expects to find employment with} an advertising agency. Earl Jenkins, who has been employe, on the Sternberg dredge here, has been transferred to a boat in lowa. Delos Coen, who has been here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, has returned to his work in Chicago. Guy Clifton and wife have moved to Chicago, where he has employment as a cartoonist on the Chicago American. Mrs. Kate R. Watson and Dr. Wash burn went to Bloomington Sunday to see her daughter, Myra, who is a university student there. Mrs. John Sullivan is very low and her recovery Is little expected. Cancer of the liver and stomach is gradually reducing her vitality. The funeral of Miss Zula Hopkins will take plaee this afternoon at the

Presbyterian church. Rev. J. C. Parrett conducting the services. C. A. Gundy, of Fair Oaks, will again ask to be .reinstated in jthe i saloon business and his application for a license appears in the Semi-Weekly Republican. Mrs. Purcupile and Mrs. Crowell returned from Chicago Saturday, where they have been studying spring milli-i nery styles and making purchases for the spring trade. ' . I

George, Busch, who recently sold his farm near Newiand to Ed Oliver, has gone to Shelbyville, and 'from .there he expects to join the Jasper county colony at Mitchell, S. D. The Ladise’ Industrial Society of the M. E. church will hold their

monthly social at the home of Mrs. S. C. Irwin Tuesday afternoon, March 10. Everybody cordially invited. The insane Bruce Castor has been taken to Long Cliff and the Jasper county jail for the first time in many months is empty. Shreiff O’Connor wishes that it will continue this way tl'e rest of the year. ' Walter Hopkins, of the coast artillery branch of the regular army, and stationed at Ft. Morgan, Alabama, arrived home Saturday afternoon to attend the funeral of his sister, Zula ;Hopkins. It is his first furlough sine he enlisted a little more than two years ago. He will be home for 30 days. A sewer on. Cedar street has become clogged up and has caused water to back up in the east part of town and to almost flood several residences. The city marshal and assistants spent almost all day Sunday in a vain attempt to locate the trouble and it had not been found yet at noon today. Jerry Healy is able to go back to work at Forsythe’s after being laid up three weeks with a sprained wrist. While off duty he attended the Re-1 publican ninth district convention at I Frankfort and was there the day the temperance forces put Frankfort’s 12 saloons out of business with a blanket remonstrance.

Adam Nagle says the water is a foot higher than it has been since 1883,and that there is every reason to believe that it would not have been so high down his way had not the upper stream been dredged. The water is two miles wide at one place land Mr. Nagle thinks it Will take three weeks for it to get back to the main channel. / Billy Frye has given up his position as chief assistant to Frank Kresler and no longer curls the lash over the head of the prancing steeds on bus number two. Vern Jacks, former night clerk of Hotel Rosey, has taken his place, and “Pappy” Platt has been promoted from chambremaid and now occupies Vern’s place behind the desk at Rosey’s. W. N. Forbis, of Monticello.owner of the Forbis Hotel there, died early early this morning of heart disease. Sunday he is said to have been in his customary health. His son Wil who has been employed on the floor of the national house of representatives for several years, has been a victim of rheumatism for the past ■ eight months. The revival meeting at the M. P. church continues to grow in interest. Mrs. Sebert preached to fine congregations Sunday morning and evening. Great solemnity prevailed in the hearts of the people .while the minister preached the word vt with 1 great power. Many persons asked to be prayed for.. Ten o’clock Monday morning was the time set for the

* - . ’ ■ "; •- 4f .«*• * • jSemi-Annual Suit Opening] I We are pleased to announce that on 1 I Friday and Saturday,! March 13 and 14 j I We will have on display a line of smart new aideli in ladill Hits and Jackets. Exceptional I I lokky creations at Popular Prices. This will afford at exceptional opportunity for tfcai* coatew- | plating the purchase of a suit for Easter. Satisfied enftomers have made oir seml-aiaial silt I • openings looked forward to and awaited ky the laiiea Of this cofcmiaity. You are lltfOdl to at- I I tead. I Friday and Saturday, March 13th ands 14th I ==-■■ ■ ■ ■ •» * ■—■■«*» j | FENDIG’S FAIR, j

Christian people who were present to "offer prayers in behalf of the the above mentioned persona Rev. Bundy and Mrs. Sebert expect to organize a church with a membership of a score or more. The sun is shining brightly again today and it is getting warmer, but it was quite chilly last night. The ‘ small boy with a poke full of “com-mies”-and a chapped crack across his knuckles, has joined forces with the robin in an effort to establish spring and it really commences to look like we might have a quite respectable spring season once again.

In response to a letter of- protest against the Beveridge child labor bill, President Roosevelt has addressed a letter to the Indiana Manufacturess’ Association, in which he places himself in favor of the enactment by congress of a bill regulating Child labor in the District of Columbia and the territories, if the states fail to enact such laws. It is understood that the association is raising a fund to defeat the Beveridge bill. You are not paying 40 to 50 cents a barrel for magazine advertising when you buy Aristos flour, therefore you get a better quality of flour for less money. Try a sack or Aristos under our guarantee. Money returned if it is not the best flour made, Only $1.40 a sack- at John Eger’s.

Fred Longwell, a young lawyer and school teacher from Brook, has decide to enter the race for the republican nomination for, prosecuting attorney and his announcement appears in this issue of the Republican. He is a graduate of the state university and of the Indiana Law School and is said by his Brook friends to be one of the ablest young lawyers in either of the two counties. Herman Rogers, of Morocco, is another high class young Newton county man who would like this nomination, and it is said there may be others from that county. It is possible that our friend John Greve, from Wheatfield, may get the Newton county delegation to decide on him if they get in too lively a scrap over there and John’s years of- experience would make him a first class man to select.

Aristos flour is a new brand of | flour. It has not been on the market but a short-time; it is made by the Southwestern Milling Co. in a new mill claimed by the Modern Miller to be the most perfect modern mill in the world, made under a new pror>Qss that nn'f's the best flour on the market for any purpose that you use flour “for, and I have full instructions from the mill to return the money if the flour is not the best made. Only $1.40 a sack. JOHN EGER.

NOTICE. , On .the 12th, 13th and 14th of this month, March, we will have a full f, mnk of yard samples on display from the Kahr Vailoring Co., of Indianapolis. whkj we will take measures for and we would l»o glad to show everybody the finest of tailoring in the world A PERFECT F T T GUARANTEED. DUVALL ft LUNDY. DR. ROSE REMMEK will be here all this week and persons desiring her services may call on her at P. W. Clarke’s jewelry store. COLLEGIAN CLOTHES for men and young men in all the latest cuts and shades are now at our store at reasonable prices. Take a look at our corner window. DUVALL A LUNDY. Good eating and cooking apples 20 to 30 cents a peck at John Eger’s.

Public Sale.' The undersigned will sell at PubUe Auction at his residence % mile soutb of Stoutsburg, 2% miles east of Kersey, and 3 miles west of Wheatfleld, beginning at 10:30 A. M., on v WEDNESDAY. MARCH 19^A the foil- wing per* rut >• >: e" • 3 heat! cf 6ot*aea: <.:> fay -• 3 ears old, wt. pic; out! so.r.i lx±‘as.

wt. 1200; one light bay colt, 4 yrs. old, wt. 1,000. One milch Cow giving milk. 5 head of Hogs: • One brood sow, will farrow last of April; 4 fat hogs, wt. about 250 pounds each, Thirty bushels of potatoes, 100 bu. good seed oats, about 2,000 feet good Oak Lumber. Farm Implements: One set doable work harness, 1 broad tire wagon, X gang plow, 2 walking plows, 1 cultivator, one steel harrow, 1 self rake grain reaper, l Milwaukee Mower, 1 hay rake, 2 corn planters, 1 Hoosier grain drill, 1 Hapgood seeder, two 20-gallon iron kettles, 1 fanning mill, 1 tree sprayer, cook stove and other articles not here mentioned. TERMS: A credit of 9 months will be given on all sums of over $5 bn approved security, without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 per cent interest from date of sale. A discount of 6 per cent will be given on all sums of over SSOO for cash. All sums of $5.00 and under cash In hand. No property to be removed until settled for. WM- GRUBE, SR. John Greve, Auctioneer. S. D. Clark, Clerk. Hot Lunch served. PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell at Public Auction at his residence 3 miles west of. Rensselaer, on the county form road, commencing at 10 A. M., on "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1908, the following personal property: Eight head of HORSES and MULES One bay mare, 4 years old, wt. 1730 lbs. actual weight, bred to the Hardyhorse; one gray mare, 5 yrs. old, wt. 16,50. bred to Hardy horse; 2 steel, gray mares, 4 years old, wt 2800, both bred to Hardy horse; one bay filly coming 3 years old, wt 1300; 1 roan mare, 5 years old, wt. 1360, bred; 1 team of mules, 9 years old. 50 HEAD OF COWS. Some fresh now, 10 with calves by their sides, others will be fresh soon, 1 yearling Hereford bull, 1 steer, 1 two year old Shorthorn bulk Farm Implements, etc.: 1 Dee ring binder, 1 gang plow, 2 riding cultivators, 2 sets work harness, and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS OF BALE: Sums of $lO and under cash in hand; sums over $-*0 a credit of 10 months will be given without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 .per cent interest from date. 5 per cent discount for cash. No property to be removed until terms are complied with. ELIZUR SAGE. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Chas. Grant, Hot Lunch.

FOR SALE. 13 milch cows: 9 coming two year old steers; 12 coming two year old heifers; 16 coming yearlings; one yearling bull; 24 sjMCiB 2 wagons; 1 disc; 1 cream separator. Maines Bros., 2% miles northwest of Rensselaer; Phone 610 D.