Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1908 — Page 3

A General Line of „ FARM IMPLEMENTS Before Buying See VANCE COLLINS I In the Brick Livery Barn. Osborn Binders and Mowers

THE STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER. Corner Washington and Van Rensselaer Streets. OPENED FOR BUSINESS JUNE IST, 1004. ' . DIRECTORS. John Eger. Preeident. Delos Thompson, Cashier, Lucres Strong, Granville Moody, James H. Chapman. — Does General Banking Business. Loans money on all kinds of approved security. Buys notes, pays interest on savings, pays taxes for customers and others. This bank will be glad to extend every favor to its customers consistent with safe banking principles. Telephone 42.

C T- ~. .- '. j I■ ■ M llX“v4' IB And interest has to be paid on it every year I Jk or two or painting cr coating. The principal ijvW* VTAjj / > also has to be paid over acrain in a tew years VaiL ZA go* by buying a new roof. When you buy ~T J-M ASBESTOS ROOFING W t C| all expense stops—as the first cost is the only f cost. The Reason—made of Asbestos, an indestructible mineral—nothing to rot, rust or y ■ wear out. Requires no coating or painting— V A Jwl I no expense for maintenance. Will protect I your buildings from fire. ifl l' T°l /111 ” Asbestoside is an Asbestos Sheathing, and is the most economical, durable and easily F ~~ applied siding known. Ask for samples and prices. k H. W. Johns-Manville Company A Department K 117-231 Cl y bourn St root MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Buggies BUGGIES. Come and look them over. Dandles —everyone of them. Stu- • debaker’i, Page Bros.’, ammerman’s, Binkley. All co good. o eo servicable. You may have some trouble selecting one. My I* < thirty yeans of experience is at your service In assisting you, a • and the price and terms are right, too. Had you noticed that £ z more farmers about Rensselaer use Studebaker wagons than all " < others put together. There Is a reason. Customers like them 5 • and will have no other. McCormick harvesting machines on ’ O sale. Also repairs for all machines. The Grain King Shoveling > 5 boards, positively the beet, is always on sale. With Success m 3 manure spreader you don’t have to guess. It regulates ths « number of loads to the acre. Spreads manure farther than others; that Is why they are so popular. All at ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Indiana. Harvesting Machinery. Shoveling Boards

JOB PRINTING S-iewH little cheaper than the other fellow. Wedding invitations, letter heeds, bill heads, sale bills, statements, dodgers, cards, eta, all receive the same carafnl treatment a little better than seems necessary. Prompt delivery always.

Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Etc. We have the largest stock of wall paper in Jasper county, and can show you patterns of any style and price you may desire. Don’t fail to see it before buying as we are sure to please yon. . A. F. LONG, DRUGGIST Rensselaer, Indiana

Rensselaer Markets.

Oats, 47c. ' * ' ■ Corn, 52 to 55c. Butter, 15 to 18c. Eggs, 12 and 13c. Chickens, hens, B%c; spring, 20c.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Friday " = • W. H. Mackey made a business trip to Delphi yesterday. • Uncle Charley Platt and wife will have been married- 50 years on July 25th and it is probable that the event will be appropriately celebrated. Mrs. W. P. Crowell, of Monticello, and sister, Mrs. W. S. Pierce, ofSeattle, Wash., are spending today in Rensselaer, with the sons of the former, Jesse and Richard Crowell. Al Robinson is moving here from Monon and will occupy the property recently vacated by Dr. A. J. Miller, and which Mrs. Eger, the owner has just greatly improved by the addition of a new porch, cement steps, etc. _ The regular monthly dime social of the ladies of the Presbyterian church' will be held at the home of Mrs. J. Hardman, Wednesday afternoon, June 10th, from 2 to sp. m. Strangers in the city especially invited. . A warrant has been issued for the arrest for Steve Marlin, who lives on the Monnett land down the river. It Is alleged that he whipped and abused a horse until he caused its death. The trial is to occur in Justice Irwin’s court ■ ■ . ' • ! -

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Two dances were given last night, one at Warner’s hall and one at the armory. The armory dances are to be regular Thursday night occurrences hereafter, starting after the band concert*. closes. Ross Benjamin and John Morgan supply the music for it. Mrs. Marion Churchill and little daughter of Randall, Minn., are here for a short visit with her aunt, Mrs. W. S. Coen and family and other relatives. For several weeks she has been visiting her father, Dr. Scott, in White county, who is now in his 87th year. Mrs. A. W. Cleveland remains practically without change since the day she suffered the two strokes of paralysis. The entire right side remains affected and she has no use at all of the right limbs and but little of the left arm, and she is practically helpless. The band concert last night was a splendid success. There was a large crowd out and the evening was pleasantly passed. The music was of good quality and the boys are improving rapidly and it has been affirmatively- demonstrated" that it is better for the boys to get along themselves instead of hiring an outside instructor. Uncle John Groom and Uncle Stott Grant conversed for some time yesterday in front of Eiglesbach’s butcher shop. The former was 84 years of age on March 12th and Uncle Stott was 82 the 25th of last October. Wmle they were talking up stepped Uncle Stewart Hammond, who passed the four score mile stone on the 24th of last October, and all three of these men have spent more than half their years in Jasper county and all are quite hale and hearty.

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A. S. Keene, who for two or three seasons past has raised a large crop of onions at Wheatfield, is not engaged very extensively in the business this year. Last year the crop was not up to expectations and yet Mr. Keene had enough to make a car load, which he shipped to a commission merchant in Chicago. He figured that he would get about S4OO for.the load, and imagine his surprise when a short time later he received a check for $24.1*6. And that was all he ever got out of the shipment. The commission man made the claim that the onions had been frosen en route to Chicago and there was nothing that Mr. Keene could do but feel mad. He suffered about the same kind of a deal the year before and he has practically laid down on the onion business. An unfortunate affair occurred a few days ago at the Hemphill livery stable and doubtless the principles are very sorry it happened. C. W. DuvalJ and Charley Hemphill became engaged in an argument and their talk became personal and Mr. Duvall grabbed Mark Hemphill's cane and struck Charley over the head with it, breaking the cane. Then was a lively mix-up followed, and Hemphill shoved Duvall out of the barn but did not strike him. Later Duvall was arrested for assault and battery and Hemphill for provoke, and the former was fined $1 and coats amounting to $9.20 and then he did not appear against Hemphill and the latter was not fined. The fracas was a most regrettable affair and the

friends of, both parties deplore its happening. And it is certain that each is too self-respecting to bear continued malice. ? SATURDAY Monticello has decided to celebrate the fourth. W. N. Jordan was in from Barkley township yesterday. His recently injured foot is now about well again. Mrs. Chas. ~ Jouvenat returned to Chicago today after a visit of three weeks with, her sister, Mrs. George and family. Members of the Grand Army at Indianapolis are discussing the perpetuation of the order. They want it to Vive after all the veterans have passed away. A careful investigation of the corn crop from every county in the state made by an Indianapolis paper shows prospects for a bumper crop this year to be flattering. The St. Joseph’s baseball team went to Chicago today to play what they expect to b a very stiff game. Their opponents will be the strong DePaul University team. G. N. Sayler, who taught school at Roselawn last winter, is now located at Hartline, Wash. He is well pleased with the country and will probably locate ther permanently. The Monon had a bad freight wreck near Harrisborough; Thursday. Nine Cars left the rails and went into a ditch and a large amount of merchandise was scattered along the ground. George W. Long, of Lafayette, formerly a Monon brakeman who was knocked from a car at Monon last-winter, has been adjudged idsane and will be taken to the Central Asylum for the insane at Indianapolis.

The state board of health has condemned the public school building in Oxford on account of its unsanitary condition and has ordered it closed. A new school building will be necessary and the citizens are up in arms over the ruling. Lona Shigley, whose death at Seattle, Wash., was noted in yesterday’s paper, was a niece of Mrs. Sherman Richards, of Rensselaer, and W. B. Peterson, now of Kansas City, and a granddaughter of Mrs. Mary Richardson, of that city. Dr. J. W. Horton has returned from Indianapolis where he has been attending the fifth anniversary of the State Dental Association. The doctor reports the convention largely attended by representative dentists and lectures and clinics extraordinary.

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Ross Dean decided not to remain at Indiana University, the term being so near at an end, and so after a short visit at the old alma mater h went to Indianapolis, where he was joined by his brother DeLos, and after a short visit there they returned to Rensselaer. At least two of the' Gary saloon keepers can run eleven months yet, having taken out their license only a short time before the anti-license instrument was filed. They will no doubt reap a great harvest after the majority of the 110 saloons are obliged to close.—Lake County Star.

Logansport has had three murders within the past tWO Weeks, On May 11th R. M. Cottingham shot and killed bls employer, James Brown in selfdefense, on May 13th George Hill killed his wife; Sunday two Italians, undei the influence of liquor, quarreled and one was killed by a shot fired from the pistol of his assailant.

The commissioners of Laporte county have informed Sheriff Smutzer thot $50,000 is at his disposal to carry on the work of investigation of the Gunness murder mysteries. Immediately after the decision was made the sheriff, accompanied by his assistants, visited the farm and marked some of the spots to be excavated. Several members of the local militia company went to Monticello yesterday and indulged in some practice on the splendid rifle range there. It was the first time most of the men had ever shot on a range and the first time any of them had ever used the new Springfield rifles and yet the shooting was very satisfactory and sonte creditable scores were made. In adding up the assessment sheets County Assessor Lewis has discovered that there is one more dog in Rensselaer this year than last—or at least one more is given in for taxation. There are in ths county' horses of an average valuation ot $88.20 each. The cattle number ifc,761, assessed at a valuation of $18.40 each. Homer Dobbins got an awful drubbing the other day at baseball Ho pitched a game against Notre Dame and was defeated by the score ot 18

to 2. The stFbng Catholic team took a liking to his slants and lammed themj all over the park. Dobbie was taken out after the third inning. The best of them get an occasional drubbing, and Dobbie has been quite successful in all previous games played.

The People’s United States bank at St. Louis will be opened again as a result of the acquittal of E. C. Lewis in the Federal court, as noted in last week’s papers. This was a postal savings bank, and was closed by a fraud order of the- post-office department two years ago. Mr. Lewis, the head of that institution and the Lewis Publishing Company, has had a hard fight' in this matter and has won out as he should.

The Ladies’ Literary Society held a most enjoyable musicale Friday afternoon at the beautiful new home of Mrs. A. F. Long. The members of the society followed the custom of previous years in closing the year’s meeting for the heated summer term with a musical and literary program and inviting several friends of the members as guests. This year’s program was very Interesting and was enjoyed by the large assemblage of guests.

Uncle Dan Overmyer, the Pulaski county land owner who five years ago advertised for a wife and got neatly four hundred letters from willing women, was in town today conferring with his attorney as to the best means of getting free from the one he got, says the Rochester Sentinel. She wants divorce and SIO,OOO alimony, and Uncle Dan says “actually she wasn’t worth a durn fer anything but to read novels, eat onions and dress up and look purty.” Fire Warden Montgomery has just placed twenty garbage cans on the business streets, into which the public is expected to deposit old paper, banana peels, peanut shells and trash of all kinds. The boxes will be emptied at stated periods and the refuse burned in the furnaces at the city water plant. A strict compliance with this order will be insisted upon as the statute gives the fire, warden the power to prevent the depositing of trash upon the streets.

On the recommendation of Mr. Elam H. Neil, the revenue collector of the tenth district, C. L. Laßue of Hammond was appointed to the position of deputy revenue collotor of the district in the place of J. H. Wilson, of Valparaiso, who recently resigned from the office. The position pays a salary of $2,000 a year and is considered one of the plums of the district. Mr. Laßue lives on the north side in Hammond and has been storekeeper and gauger at the Hammond distillery.

In a frantic effort to brave the wave of temperance now sweeping the country, breweries and “booze” dealers are advocating the manufacture and sale of beer which contains less than one-half of one per cent, of alcohol and which, it is claimed is non-in-toxicating. The formula is a secret and is the property of a German brewer who has experimented extensively with it in Germany, France and England, where it is highly praised by the temperance people. It looks like beer, tastes like beer and resembles very much the celebrated Munich beer which is considered the finest in the world. In fact it is beer with the headache and crooked walk taken out

MONDAY GeorgejA. Lundy spent Sunday in Monticello. ~ ' Mrs. Isabelle Parker, of Frankfort, came this morning to visit relatives. Mrs. John O’Connor returned this morning from a short visit at Wheatfield. «. Major Omar Day arrived home from Purdue this morning for the summer vacation. Homer Guy returned to New Mexico last Saturday after a short visit in Rensselaer Attorney W. H. Parklson and Ed Kirk made a business trip to Hoopeston, 111., today. Mrs. W. H. Parkinson and children returned this morning from a visit with her parents at Attica. Purdue University is now out and about all the Jasper county contingent have returned home. W. P. Gaffield, accompanied by F. A. Bicknel, the lightning rod man, went to Chicago on a business trip this morning.

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Mrs. Frank Sutton left this morning for Hammonton, N. J. F where her husband is how located and where they will stay for the summer. Mrs. S. R. Shreeves returned this morning from Virgie, where she has been assisting in the care of her brother, George Cover's wife, who is in very poor health. Four automobiles from Crown Point loaded with a Jolly crowd were tn

Rensselaer quite awhile Sunday evening, the ‘parties all taking supper at the Makeever hour. Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer returned this morning from Frankfort, where she had visited her parents while he attended the meetings at Indianapolis of the Indiana Dental Association. Mrs. Korah Daniels and little daughter left this afternoon for Chicago Heights to visit her two sisters and to enjoy a longer visit with her brother, Rev. James Abbott, who !• there. 1 J. L. Babcock is reported to be quite broken down physically at hie home near Parr, and it is probable that he will have to have quite a little rest in order to put him back on his feet again. Attorney Frank Foltz is in Remington today looking after some matters in relation to the settlement of the business affairs of G. G. Garrison, whs has practically failed with his big business in that place, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Perry, of Valparaiso, came here this morning for a short visit with her brother, Louie Mustard, and family. From here they will go to Portland, Oreg., where they expect to make their future home.

Harry Kurrle was visited the latter part of last week by his brother, D. Walter Kurrle, of Philadelphia, and Sunday they started in company with Emery Sellers and one or two other Monticello men for Dorset, Minn., for a two weeks’ outing and fishing trip. The Spitler, Ham, Thompson and Jack Montgomery families made another pleasant automobile trip Sunday, going to Fowler and returning by the way of Goodland and Brook, and spending a pleasant hour at the George Ade farm, where the hospitable author showed them about his grounds and made the visit a most enjoyable one.

R. 8. Dwigglns and wife, of Ontario, Calif., arrived here yesterday for a short visit with Mrs. M. E. Thompson and family and his many old friends and acquaintances in Rensselaer. They will remain here but a few days and will go from here to eastern Ohio to visit relatives of Mrs. Dwigglns’. They will return here probably for a longer visit Rue’Parcells, soon got lonesome after his pals, Leland Jessen and Gaylord McFarland came away, and so he procured a three weeks’ layoff from Lis work at Lemay, Utah, and the company gave him a railroad pass to Chicago and return and be arrived here Sunday evening. At Chicago he met an old friend and was offered a position there which be left on the early train to take. It is probable that he will retauro* to Lemay when his three weeks are up. The Bloomington Pickle Co. has done a great thing for tne farmers in the northern part of Jasper county, and has distributed a large amount of money there each year to pickle raisers. The company is a large concern and is thoroughly reliable and the fact that they promptly disposed of the services of their Newland kraut factory superintendent, Ruble, is proof that they are reliable people and are in the business to stay. A contract to raise pickles for them will be fulfilled to the letter, and farmers will make no mistake to raise pickleg for the Bloomington company, «• Stephen Marlin, the man who was arrested for Cruelty to animals, it being alleged that he beat and abused a balky horse he had until he caused its death, was in town Saturday night and had intended to plead guilty but Squire Irwin had gone to his home before Marlin came in. Marlin told the prosecutor that he was a poor man and that he had a very sick baby at his home, and he admitted that he bad killed the horse because it balked, but It is thought that he was sufficiently penitent for the deed and the fact that he is very poor it would work a great hardship on him to have to pay a fine. And then he is out the horse, which was a six year old animal and not a bad horse except for its balking habit. Considerable mystery still surrounds the identity of “Pplly,” the mother of a recently born Infant Barkley township, and whose advent caused suspension of all telephone business in the northeast section last week, except.to convey the information tkat ‘Polly bad a baby.” Charley Moody is supposed to have bad a hand or a mouth in reporting the birth and the party that wrote to the Republican about it promied to call into the office and explain all about It, but so far no explanations have been made. A young Barkley farmer, whose reputation for truthfulness has never been in doubt, says that he heard that Polly was a jlnney and the property of Charley Moody, but the facts of the case are hard to procure. .An explanation is due from some one. D. M. Worland is justly proud of the fine line of baby carriages and go-carts be is displaying. Look them over before you-buy. Try Hack’s ice cream.