Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XL/ ’

A BUSY DAY POLITICALLY

Gibernatorial Candidates Visit Rensselaer, Either Personally or By Proxy.

Today (Tuesday) was a quite busy day here politically, with one republican candidate for governor, the representatives of two others and one candidate for representative here. Chas. W. Miller, conceded to be the second man at present In the gubernatorial race and a very fine looking and fine appearing man, was here for a few hours. He was introduced to a number ‘of citizens by Attorney C. G. Spitler and made a very ravorable Impression. Edwin P. Thayer, of Greenfield, who mixes politics with soldiery, being colonel of the 3rd regiment of the Indiana National Guard, was here in the interest of "Jim” Watson, who seems to have the lead via the race for the nomination. He held council with some so the Watson clan and found many a 'congenial spirit, for “Jim” has many friends over the state.

O. M. Godfrey, ex-clerk of Bartholomew county, was here a few hours In the Interest of Th. Miller, who is expected to get the nomination if neither Watßon nor Charley Miller is able M secure enough delegates to get the nomination within the first few ballots. The visit of Mr. Godfrey, by the way, should dispel the report sent out that Hugh Miller had withdrawn from the contest. He has received the hearty endorsement of his own district and some scattering votes at other places and is expecting to enter the convention with a good showing. In accordance with our early expression we believe that Hugh Th. Miller would make both the best governor and the best candidate. He is a clean man, not associated with any faction of state politics and with a record as free from any suggestion of serious error aB a man ever had. As both legislator and lieutenant-govern-or h 6 has maintained the confidence of every one with whom he has had any dealings. Not that these qualities do not exist in the other candidates, for it seems that the republican party is blessed with a number of very excellent candidates his year, but the quality is so well defined in Mr. Hugh Miller and all who have had a personal acquaintance with him speak so enthusiastically of them that we are Inclined to think that he would make the strongest candidate. Another candidate that was here was, John G. Brown, of Monon, who took the temperance end of the White county squabble and chme out first best in the .selection of delegates to the representative convention last Saturday. It really seems from all that we can gather from residents of White county that the issue there was on lines of saloons or no saloons and James Brown took the saloon end and the short end and John G. Brown took the other end and won out If these men should expcet the delegates to be selected In this county on the same basis then John G. would probably aIBO get the long end in this county. Mr. Godfrey will return here tomorrow

Wheatfield Will Play Ball Again.

The Wheatfield base ball team has been reorganized fibr the coming season, with last year’s enthusiastic manager again at the head. It Ip Dr. Lucius H. Zeuch, the leading physician of the town, who also plays short stop on the team. W. B. McNeil is to be the captain. They are already lobking for games and have had stationery panted and are all squared away for business with the first sure signs of warm weather. 1 They will probably tackle Bt. Joseph’s College a time or two this spring, and during the summer hope to get a few games with Lowell, as there was a well founded argument be tween these two towns as to which had the rlaht to claim the Northwestern Indiana amateur championship. 1

Christian Church Services.

The subject of the Christian church service Sunday morning will be, "The Open Bible," in the evening, "A Typical Conversion.” Everybody invited. Rev. Q. H. Clarke, pastor. It costs less than 1 cent per barrel to advertise Gold Medal flour in all .the leading magazines of the world. For sale by the Chicago Bargain Store.

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Obituary o f Mrs D. E. Tanner.

Mrs. Tillie Tanner was bom at Kouts, ’ Porter county, Ind., Jan. 17, 1875, and died at her home near Rensselaer, Feb. 28, 1908, at the age of 33 years, 1 month, 11 days. She was the seventh child of August and Pauline Steinke. Her father died when she was but a year old and the following year her mother with the family moved to Jasper county near DeMotte.

July 16, 1892, at DeMotte, she was married (o Daniel Tanner and to this union two children were born, one dying in infancy. She and her husband moved to the Thompson & Lawler ranch near town several years ago and Bhe has nobly assisted her husband' in caring for that great farm. The few short weeks of 1 her sickness she suffered uncomplainingly. She was greatly beloved by all those who knew her and her untimely death was a terrible blow to her relatives and friends. She leaves a mother, a husband, a son, four brothers and two sisters to mourn her loss. /

More Aid for the Monnett Home.

Assistance continues to come to the Monnett Children’s Home and many people are expressing themselves as heartily in sympathy with the movement taken by the Republican in assisting Mrs. Wilson in getting a start in the poultry business and in defending the home against the unjust, inhuman and selfish attack of another newspaper. Sylvester Gray is a late contributor in the sum of one dollar and Mrs. Wilson has received one dollar from each of two women by mail and $5 from another and her brother-in-law, who is a business man in Wisconsin, has sent her a draft for SSO. Fred Phillips, who is alw#s ready to recognize a deserving proposition and who is a neighbor of the home, has given a section of his pigeon house, 52 feet in length, with cement roof and all modern poultry improvements, and J. K. Davis has volunteered to aid in the moving of the same, as also has Firman Rutherford, another neighbor and a practical house mover. Mrs. John Gwin telephoned to the Republican from her home in Union township Tuesday that her class in the Rosebud Sunday school had become interested in tie movement to assist the h'ome and that they would devote Saturday of this week to soliciting chickens in that splendid neighborhood and that Mr. Gwin will collect the chickens either Monday or Tuesday of next week and .bring them in. Mrs. Gwin is quite srfre-that they can get 40 chickens in that neighborhood. This is a practical charity and will put the name of Rosebud well to the front in well doing. Mrs. Wilson called ( at the poultry farm of J. H. HoldfiA 1 and he has promised to asilst her in getting started, and tiTs professional knowledge will be of great value aside from the donation he made in the poultry shower.

The institutions that are maintained by taxation are largely correctional and from the foundlings the little ones are only held until they can be given away and very often they fall into very questionable hands. Irf the aeaconess work the girls are passed from one branch to another as they advance in age and in learning and they are given every advantage of excellent influence, something that they are not apt to acquire in ah institution where the teachers are elected or employed instead of having been given the place because their lives were devoted to rescue work. Rensselaer is very fortunate to have the Monnett Children’s Home in our midst; and it will be proven as time progresses that our people are as willing to aid the needy as aje the people of any community, and there will be no complaining that the home is exempted from taxation.

Marriage Licenses.

March 7, Roy Stephenson, bom Parr In«., June 29. 1883, present residence Parr, occupation farmer, father's name Robert Stephenson, and Bessie Myers, bora A lx, Ind., Nov. 6, 1888, present residence Parr, occupation housekeeper, father’s name Abe Myers, first marriage for each. March 7, Emory H. Long, bora Hebron, Ind., Feb. 82, 1887, present residence Hebron, occupation farmer, and Mabel M. Smith, bom Valparaiso, Feb. 8, 1889, present residence Wheatfield, occupation houskeeper, father’s name J. fl. Smith, first marriage for each.

See the new riding plow for fg and the best walking plow mads lor 910.76, at tha Chicago Bargain Btoro.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1908

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.

Mrs. .Elizabeth Brown, wife of the late George Headley Brown, and daughter of George W. and Rebecca (Lewis) Nichols, was born in Logan county, Ohio, Sept. |3, 1827 Her death occured at the home of her

daughter, Mrs. C. W. Coen, in Rensselaer, Ind., on the morning of March 6, 1908, her age being 80 years, 5 months and 13 days. She came with her parents to Barkley township, this county, at the age of fourteen, that was in 1841. Here she met George Headley Brown, to whom she was married in 1846. The home thus formed was one of the earliest in this section of the state. They were among the pioneers, who by tfieir toil, privations and enterprise carved out for themselves a home in a new country and growing with the country became its most substantial citizenship. Mrs. Brown became the mother of ten children, two of whom were sons, George H. Brown, of Knox, Ind., and Lafayette Brown, who died in infancy. There were eight daughters, five of whom survive, viz. Mrs. Evaline Randle, Mrs. Rebecca Porter, Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, Mrs.. Agnes Coen and Mrs. Minerva Karsnef, the first four residing in Rens-

Adopting a premeditation of some months the first steps were taken on Tuesday for the organisation of a dramatic club, the hope being to make it permanent and to give frequent performances at the opera house. The meeting was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Healey, and was attended by most of those who are to take part in the first entertainment, which will probably be given in about three weeks.

Co-operating with Mayor J. H. S. Ellis, owner of the opera house, who is a member of the club, it is expected that the club will have practical control of the opera house,and if the plays given prove a suffeient attraction it is expected to have them practically the sole attraction at the opera house. Taking advantage of the experience of the Delphi Dramatic Club, which has been brnyfecd for several years, the local club will produce all copyrighted plays, and several of the ones that have been so successfully produced in our neighboring city will be put on here. The first play has been selected and the parts assigned and the cast will Include the following people who have appeared successfully in home talent performances in the past: Mr. and Orlan Grant, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin, MS’. Van Grant, Misses True George, Nellie Drake, Queen Perry, Ethel McCarthy and Myrtle York, and the following young men: Herman Tuteur, Hurley Beam and Harry Eger.

It is expected to vary the cast in the different plays and to endeavor to use the very best talent available in the city. It Is hoped to follow the first performance with a musical comedy and in that to use a large cast, including all the musical talent In the city. Mr. Orlan Grant will have the management of the performance. If the plays are well enough received to Justify the hopes of the promoters it is aimed to increase the membership of the dflb and to pTbvide attractive rehearsal‘quarters and to supply the dub with everything needed to make it permanent.

Extra good eating apples, all sound, down to 16, 20. 25 and 30c per peck, at the Chicago Bargain Store. A FULL LINE OF EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS AT THE MUSIC STORE.

. The finest line of new spring Jackets find ladles' salts ever shown, at the Jfeicsgo Bargain Store.

And The Rensselaer Journal

Mrs. Elizabeth Brown

A Dramatic Club Organized.

selaer and the last named living in Oroville, Cal. Three daughters, Mrs. Caroline Randle, Mrs. Cecelia Mbore and Mrs. Belle Brady have gone on before.

In 1886 Mr, and Mrs. Brown moved to Rensselaer from the farm, and he died here in 1896. Since then she has lived with her daughters. When Lemuel Martin was pastor of the Barkley Christian church she and her husband united with it and for many years were among the leading spirits In that congregation. After coming to Rensselaer they were among those who constituted the charter membership of the Christian church in this. city.

Mrs. Brown leaves an enviable record of large hearted hospitality and Christian charity. Hen doors were always opened to the belated traveler and her hand ready to feed the hungry, while the sick and needy*in her neighborhood shared her benefiMttons. She was profoundly Impressed with the the principles of Christian faith and rejoiced with every advancement In the cause of righteousness, and gave generously to the support of the local work. When the new Christian church wal dedicated she was one of the happiest worshipers, and the window that bears her name linked with that of her husband is a fitting memorial to a long and useful life In the cause of Christianity. While windows may be broken and buildings may crumble away, yet the impressions made by this grand woman will never be effaced. The funeral services were held in the Christian church last Sundafy afternooon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. G. H. Clarke, assisted by Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church. The body was taken to the Brown cemetery and laid to rest by the side of the grave where her husband was buried. The pall bearers at the funeral were four grand sons and the husband of two of the grand daughters. There are living about twenty-five grandchildren and great grand-children.

Great Sale of Hereford Cattle.

F. A. Nave, of Attica, Ind., is probably the greatest breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in the state, and when he announces a sale it draws people from many miles around and wherever a farmer or stock raiser is in the notion of investigating the merit of full blood cattle they make no mistake in taking the time to go to the Nave Hereford sales. Mr. Nave is extremely well known in the northern part of Jasper county .where he has a big Hereford cattle ranch, about 4 or 5 miles northwest of Wheatfield. It is a part of the big tract of land owned by the Northern Indiana Land Co., and is admlriably adapted to the purpose he has put it The stock Mr. Nave has is produced from the very best there is in the country, and is the best breeding and show stock in the country. What he will sell comprises 32 registered breeding annd show bulls and 76 choice registered cows and heifers. The sale will take plabe on Wednesday, March 25th, commencing at 10 o'clock? a. m., at Mr. Nave’s Fairview Stock Farm, near Attica, Ind. He offers to repay the railroad fare of any person who buys cattle in excess of the sum of S3OO,

and in his large bills says of his stock: “Cattle that are better than bonds, stocks or gold.” He then concludes “Entertainment at sale in our mammoth sale pavlllion on second floor of main barn. Hear the opening address. Buy cattle and enrich your land; enriched land is increased wealth. Grand free lunch at noon. Free conveyance between Attica and Fairview Stock Farm. Remember the date. Don’t, miss this opportunity to get good cattle. Catalogue for particulars.” It will be a great sale and if Jasper county people want to get good stock It will pay them to attend the sale.

The people in Rensselaer and surrounding country have never been able to find as fine a line of Collegian clothes as you will find at our store. They are perfect In fit, workmanship, style and all the latest novelties. All at reasonable prices. DUVALL ft LUNDY. See the new samples of farm implements, if saving money Is an object CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

A fall line of the Edison phonograph records at tha music stora

Death of Mrs. John Sullivan.

Death came to Mrs. John Sullivan this Thursday morning at 1 o’clock at the family home on Weson street, after an illness of long duration, the cause of which was cancer of the stomach and liver. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 9 o’clock at the residence and will be conducted by Rev. H. L. Klndig, of the M. E. church. The casket will be open to the view of friends between 8:30 and 9 o’clock and will not be opened after the ceremony, as Immediately after the close the start will be made to the Navoo cemetery, near Lee, where burial will be made.

Mrs. Sullivan was bom in Boone county, Ind., June 4, 1838, being at the time of her death 69 years, 9 months and 8 days of age. Her parents were Hezekiah and Hannah Davisson, and they came to aJsper county, locating in Barkley township, in 1849. In 1857 the deceased was married to Alfred Dart, who is now deceased. To them were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, and all but two sons are still living, and they are according to age, Mrs. Alice Clouse, of Rensselaer; George Dart, of Omaha, Neb.; Frank Dart, of Sheldon, Ill.; Mrs. Laura Moore, of Rensselaer; Alfred Dart, of Canada; and Mrs. May Goble, wife of Ross Goble, and until lecently located at Los Angeles, Cal., but with

whom the family have failed to get Into communication since the sickness of her mother, and it is understood they are % on their way to Omaha, where they were formerly located. Alfred Dart could not be notified but the other children were here at the time of her death. Two brothers, Lewis Davisson, of Rensselaer, and Peyton Davisson, of Francesville, also survive. *»■ Ih 1885 at Francesville she was married to John Sullivan and they have since resided in Rensselaer, and he survives her.

Republicans Attend Convention.

Let every Republican attend the primaries Saturday and help select the delegates to the various conventions. Let us have rousing old time conventions, where everybody turn? out. The. bounty convention is held early/on purpose that it shall not interfere with farm work and it is urged that the conventions be representative ones. Let everything else go Saturday and attend the convention

Report Delegates Selected at Once

Committeemen are urged to send in the names of all. delegates selected as soon as the conventions adjourn. Call up Chairman’Leopold, at the expense of the county committee and report who the delegates are. Be sure you have them right for the different conventions and get the report in as soon as the convention adjourns.

AID TO THE ORPHANS

.11 those who contribute 10 cents store will have their names print* eu in the following list The money can be left at the Republcian office and wttl be given < Saturday evening of this week to Mrs. Wilson, who is in charge of the Monnett Children’s Home. Let your children aid in this worthy charity. Let the list grow each day. Contributions by mail solicited. Republican SI.OO Cash, contributed .50 B. F. Fendig 1-00 A. Leopold 2.00 John M. Knapp J. J, Montgomery 1.00 Samuel Fendig - 1-00 Cash Mrs. Lida Potts -50 R. E. Thornton George E. Sayler -25 $10.75 Ernest Zea . - -25 Wilson Shaeffer Emma Shaeffer .50 G. W. Terwilliger 100 C. E. Prior, 4 settings of thoroughberd eggs as wanted.

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.

When you want shoes of quality &d style combined you will always find the best at lowest prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

Our sprlrig suits are now In and the swellest line of novelties and suitings you ever laid your eyes on at medium prices. Call and see them. DUVALL ft LUNDY..

r ' "ftp it Y AND FRIDAY. THE FRIDAY ISSUE IS THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

Despondent because his divorced wife married again Jerome Richardson, a former resident of Hobart, committed suicide In a hotel at Hammond by shooting himself thru the head. Hunters are flocking to the Kank»> kee river In great numbers. Game reported as plentiful. -Irish are also reported as more numerous than for several years and exceptionally arge. * —’ —• Persons wishing to protect their trees from the ravages of certaiA insects can do so by placing around the trunk of the tree near the ground sticky fly paper or a strip of heavy cotton material. This should be done at once.

Monticello will have a Republican convention Friday, March 20. On that date a joint senator for the counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White will be nominated. Monticello is a town of hospitality. Even “Mose” Leopold, of Rensselaer, regards it as a first class place, and “Mose” is one of the particulars.—lndianapolis News. Laboring under the delusion that the United States Government owes him $40,000,000. Franklin Bradley, 7$ years old, an inmate of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, has been manufacturing counterfeit bank notes with pens and paper for twenty years, the time he has been confined in the institution. Although efforts have been made to prevent It, he has successfully passed dollars.

THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS

Paragraphs , of Up-to-Date Newt Called From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers.

The rural mail carriers out of Shelby; are making their rounds in boats om account of the high water. A Gas City man shook hands m violently with 'a barber acquaintance that the barber’s arm was dlslocated mid a stroke of paralysis followed. The syndicate that has controlled the price of cotton thread >»»ff reduced the price to the jobber, and It will again be possible to sell it at sc. Dr. Wilkinson, the oldest veterinary surgeon in Northern Indiana, is dead at his home in Crown Point He was recognized throughout the state as an authority on the diseases of cattle. |

A Soldier Gives to the Home.

J. M. Bauser, who recently bought the Geo. R. Smith suburban property, fir A quartermaster sergeant in the regular army and is stationed at Fort Washakie, Wyoming, to which place the Republican is sent him through the kindness of a friend. Under date of March 6th he wrote to Mrs. Etta B. Wilson, as follows: Mrs. Etta B. Wilson, Supt. Monnett Children’s Home, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Madam: Enclosed herewith is post office order for $2.00, which please apply for the benefit of the Children’s Home fa any manner you see fit Thru the columns of the Republican I became interested in your commendable work and it is with genuine pleasure I am sending this mite. Wishing you continued success, I am, Very truly yours.

Sale Bill ia a Curiosity.

J. N. Gunyon, of Parr, hands us the i, following copy of an old sale bill which will prove interesting reading for those of the present generation: "State of Missouri, county of Pike. To whom It may concern: The undersigned will on Tuesday, September 26, A. D. 1846, sell at public outcry, for cash, on premises where Coon creek crosses the old mission road, the following chattels to-wlt: Six yoke of oxen with yokes and chains, two wagons with beds, two colored women, four colored men, three colored boys, two prairie plows, twentyfive steel traps, one barrel of picketed cabbage, one hogshead of tobacco, one spinning wheel, one loom, thirteen fox hounds, a lot of coon, mink, and skunk skins, and a lot of other articles. Am gwtne to California.” The newest up-to-date Sterling clothing made for 1908, at one-third less than many other plasm, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

NO. 64

J. M. SAUSER,

U. 8, Army.