Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — Page 4

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN • AND JOURNAL DAILY AKO SEII-WEEKLY Th* Friday issue is the Reflular Weekly Edition. - -r; ■ . Ain ■ ...... HUBSCRIPUON RAT»H DAIL.Y, BY OARRIBR, IO CENTS A WBEK Rf MAIL, *3.78 A YKAH eHMI-WBBK.LT, IX A»tl»ra, YEAR Ol tAO HBALEY & CLARK,PUBLISHERS E. fared at the Portoffice at RonMelaer, Indiana. a< Seoond-CleM Matter.

FROM OVER INDIANA

The Bedford Stone and Construction company of Indianapolis in all probability will receive the contract for the erection of the Bedford public building. This company’s bld of 125,910 was the lowest of seven bids submitted, and the supervising architect has recommended to Acting Secretary Coolidge its acceptance, which recommendation, without doubt, will be followed. = x at . Charles Killen, 22 years of age, met death in a peculiar accident at Lafayette. He was driving a team and, when nearing Purdue university the flynet became unfastened and the driver stopped the team and walked out on the pole of the wagon to repair the break. The horses became frightened and ran away. Killen fell from the pole and the wagon passed over him, crushing his skull. = x =: Secretary Irwin Shephard of the National Educational association has announced that the department of superintendence will meet in Chicago Februray 23, 1909. The meeting was to have been held in Oklahoma City but the destruction of a leading hotel there by fire necessitated a change. Between 1,000 and 1,500 principals, superintendents and college presidents will attend the meeting. = x =

Government detectives have been in Hendricks county the last few days working on alleged counterfeiting cases and a violation of the postal laws. A few nights ago some one tore down the rural mail delivery box of John Kelley on Route No. 5 out of Danville and demolished it? The punishment for this offense is a fine of from |IOO to SI,OOO, to which may be added imprisonment for from one to three years. = x = Papers are being prepaired for the retirement of a large number of veteran railroad men on the Pennsylvania lines next month. Several of the men are shop men and train men who have reached the age limit of seventy years, and it is officially announced that the number of veterans to be retired this year will exceed that of any previous year. There Is a great deal of speculation as to which officials and employes will be given their places, as an unusually large number of promotions are to be made. —♦ — W. W. Phelps, a young farmer living near Noblesville, was perhaps fatally injured in an encounter with a bull. He was working in a field when the animal charged him. Phelps quickly seized a club and struck the animal, but slipped and fell. The bull tossed him twenty feet and was preparing for a second attack, when Phelps’ dog, by barking and snapping, attracted the animal’s attention. Phelps gained his feet and climbed a tree. His left leg was broken and he is injured internally.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP CALL.

The republicans of Newton township are requested to meet at the usual voting place, on Thursday, Sept 10, 1908, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket CHAS. G. HAMMOND, Chairman. E. Wuertimer, Secy.

Balloon Has Trouble.

The balloon was inflated Tuesday afternoon in Milroy Park, and Little Otto undertook to make an ascension, but the big gas bag swayed off to the southeast and dragged the aeronaut into the limbs of a burr oak tree, and so scratched and bruised him up that it was decided not to make another attempt to raise the balloon that evening. It waa proposed to have an additional ascension this Wednesday morning at 11:30, and later it was decided to postpone it until 1 o’clock, but this attempt was also a failure, as the balloon collapsed and fell over ou its side just as they went to release it. The bag is a new one and there seems no good reason why it should not work, and the two owners say the failure today was on account of the high wind. Another effort is to be made at 5 o’clock, and falling in this, a night ascension will be made. The shows are all good, the comedy acrobats, the wire workers and the jubilee singers all being high class. The merry-go-round and other pay attractions are having a good business.

Horse Ran Away.

Attorney E. P. Honan’s family driving horse, Dynamite, became, frightened at an automobile at noon today, and ran from the east side of the court house, around the south and west sides and then west of Washington street The carriage to which the animal was hitched narrowly missed turning over a time or two, but when the horse was captured the rig was uninjured, and the horse had sustained only a few minor bruises.

A Saturday Evening Marriage.

The home of Mrs. R. E. Scott was the scene of a very pretty wedding Saturday evening, the contracting parties being her granddaughter, Miss Blanche McGinnis, and Mr. Frank Wayne. The wedding took place at 8 o’clock, and was performed by Rev. G. H. Clarke, pastor of the Christian j church. The groom is a young fanner and he has rented a farm in Gillam | township and they will at once begin housekeeping thereon.

Elberta Peaches in Newton Township

Sidney Holmes, of 'Newton township, had a fine crop of Elberta peaches this year. ‘The trees in his peach orchard are 21 in number, are only three years old, and he got 22 bushels of the very nicest peaches from them. The trees were never sprayed, but are Wholly free from worm Injury. Mr. Holmes believes that he has found a peach that is going to prove very successful in this county. The Republican came in for a box of fine samples.

Bought the Strickfaden Property.

E. V. Ransford Monday purchased the G. A. Strickfaden property, on Cullen street, paying $3,000 for the same. Mr. Strickfaden was here to make the transfer. The Strickfaden home was one of the good houses of the city and certainly sold at a great bargain. The house has been occupied for some time as a boarding house by Mrs. F. J. Sears. It is Mr. Ransford's intention to occupy it as a residence, and he expects to move his family therein about the first of October.

Reckless Autoist Kills Boy.

Just at the closing of the fair pro- j gram at Valparaiso Friday, and as the large crowd of people were leav- [ ing the grounds, a large automobile ( driven by J. Lowenstein, of Valparaiso, dashed down the street. A little boy, 7 years of age, was running across the street and the auto struck him and one of the wheels passed over him. Louie Muster, of this city, was walking along the side walk and was the first to reach the little chap, and picked him up. His skull was laid wide open, his jaw broken and the flesh torn from part of his face.' He was still alive and Louie carried him over to the side of the street and later into his home, and Louie’s clothing was drenched with blood. The physician who was called said there was no chance for the little fellow’s recovery. His name was Bernhart, and his father is a well known merchant there, as also is Lowenstein. The accident might easily have been averted had Lowenstein exeefced a little caution. It illustrates the danger of reckless automobile driving and it should serve to make the machine owners in this city be very :areful.

Brook Took a Game from Wrens

The Wiens lost their game at Brook Sunday by the score of 8 to 7. It was the first game the Wrens had had for two weeks and they were not in the very bfist form, but Swartzell pitched masterful ball until the latter ' i part of the 9th, when the Newton .county boys connected with the ball | and brought their score up from 4 to 18. Wilcox failed to catch a fly that struck squarely in his hands in the 9th, and this lost the game. Swartzell has been in sdme bad 9th inning mix-ups this year, and Rensselaer has lost two games that should have been won in the tyt inning. | ML Ayr will play here Tuesday I and I’iook will be here Friday. These i games will be played at Riverside , Athletic Park and will be free to the , vrowds attending the home coming. Each game will be for a purse of S6O, divided S3O to the winners S2O to the losers. Dobbins is slated to pitch both games. —s - I Dr. Rose M. Remmek, registered, optician, who has made regular visits to Clarke’s jewelry store for five years, is now permanently located there. Dr. Remmek is fully quail* | fled to accurately measure errors of refraction. This knowledge of the' eye and rays of light enable us to' determine the kind of glasses to prescribe. Our glasses are reasonable' . in price and your sight is priceless I and we want your patronage.

TRIP OVER THE CANADIAN PACIFIC

Mrs. Mary Makeever Gibbon Writes The Republican From Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver, B. C. Editor Republican: Thinking perhaps a description of scenery along the Canadian Pacific R. R. might Interest some of your readers I will endeavor to describe it as viewed from train while passing through. Leaving home at Lewisville, Alta, in the morning and reaching the busy city of Calgary one hundred and fifty miles distant, in the evening of the sajme day. Calgary is the railroad center of Southern Alberta, a city of about thirty-five thousand inhabitants, and headquarters for a large number of wholesale houses, branches of Alberta”, but Edmonton, the capital bee houses. It is a beautiful, thriving city, striving for supremacy as the “First City of Alberta”, but Edmonton, the Capita is unanimously conceded by. all to be “The Winnipeg of the Northwest” which it is truly destined to be. After a stay of several hours in the city, left on flve-wenty p. m. train for the coast, six hundred miles disant The Rocky mountains are about sixty miles west of Calgary, although the foot hills extend thirty miles nearer. About eight o’clock we‘drew up in Banff, Alberta, passing the national park where moose and buffalo were lazily grazing and seemingly contented with their surroundings. From the train one catches but a glimpse of Banff (two miles distant) with its famous sanitarium,splendid hotels,and beautiful scenery, being surrounded by the Selkirk mountains, with only a narrow valley extending to the railroad. It is a far famed health resort and annually visited by tourists from all parts of the world, the hot springs being celebrated for their medicinal properties.

After a stop of about twenty minutes we again started on our westward journey; after rounding curves, climbing ascents, whirling past the smaller mountain villages, (the limited makes no stop at these) the next stop of some minutes was at Laggan, another summer resort, with its celebrated Lake Louise and interesting scenery. At this place the limited tafies on the assisting engine, two engines being required to climb the steep ascent; from this place the trip is slowly made (only twenty-five miles per hour scheduled time for mountain travel) over chasms, through tunnels and rounding curves, passing Field ahd Glacier with their attractive scenes, both noted summer resorts, and at length reaching Bogers Pass, the highest point over which the C. P. Ry. passes, and at this place leaves the assisting engine, then slowly descends the Incline, rounding loops, over mountain streams which come rushing down mountain sides, forming beautiful cataracts in their mad descent. The scenery over the Great Northern in Montana is beautiful, through the Crow’s Nest Pass in Southern Alberta and British Columbia it is still more so, also weird as we pass through Frank, Alberta, scene of the great rock slide a few years ago and where unnumbered victims of that great disaster lie buried beneath forty feet of rock and over them trains are speeding crowded with people who gaze carelessly over the scene of desolation wrought by the great mountain standing threateningly near, with its wide a constant reminder to the people who have built homes above the ruins that at no distant flay may the catstrophe be repeated. It is truly an impressive sight once seen not easily forgotten, and has been vividly impressed on my memory since viewing it about two years ago. The scenery along the Canadian Pacific R. R. in British Columbia, surpasses either of these in my judgment, especially along the Thompson and Fraser rivers, these are large muddy streams with ove>hanging dif-sj

Sues Estate of Dr. Hartsell.

Geo. P. Wood, who for some yean has resided on the Dr. Hartsell farm Just west of Rensselaer, and who for I some years prior to that was in the i employ of the late physician, has , filed a claim for about $1,500 against the estate, for alleged services. The suit is brought for the plaintiff by I Foltz & Spitler. Although Dr. Hartsell died about ’ five months ago, none of his relatives who will be the heirs of the ' large estate have ever visted Rens- , selaer, but it is probable that If ' they come they will agree to a set- I , tlement of Mr. Wood's claim outside of court,

and trees growing on the mountain sides and extending tp the water’s edge. Here the famous salmon canneries obtain their supplies and an annual income of several million dollars is paid the numerous fishing fleets of these parts. The last summer resort worthy of note, before reaching Vancouver, is North Bend, on the banks of Fraser river. Hare the C. R. R. grounds are beautifully kept and a splendid hotel, sparkling fountains, blooming roses, shade trees and fine lawns are a pleasing picture after hours of mountain travel. Vancouver is at length reached and one Is suddenly transformed to the bustle of a flourishing sea-port city of about ninety thousand inhabitants. Here are to be found all nationalities, from the nobility of Europe to the Hindoos with their quaint headdress. Vancouver is the terminous of the Canadian Pacific railroad, but the companty’s steamers are waiting to carry passengers to Uanimo and Victoria, as Uanaimo,Vancouver Islands,Northern Seaport, is only forty miles distant, one steamer, Joan, is sufficient to accommodate the travel to this place. A three and one-half hours run from the time we board the vessel at the wharf on Burrard Iplet, round The Narrows, passing English Bay with its scores of loungers on beach and in bathing, across Georgia Gulf and we find ourselves at Uanaimo, the famed “Coal City” with its fine harbor, asserted to be the best on the Pacific coast Here the coal mines are operated under the city at a depth of six hundred feet or more and is the chief industry of this city of six thousand inhabitants. The Uanaimo and Victoria railroad extends seventy-five miles along the shore and gives one a splendid view of Vancouver Island scenery, with its millions of dollars worth of timber, principally Douglas fir and cedar. I remarked to a gentleman on the train that the ferns (so numerous to view) reminded me of my home in Indiana. “Ferns, I hate the sight of them, they are the worst things that can be to get rid of on land, the roots seem to be nearly a mile long,” was the reply. Forty miles south of Uanaimo is Ladysmith, another city with its valuable coal mines and here a vessel was busy loading for Alaska, Oyster Bay. At this place was at one time a profitable fishing point, but owing to so much coal deposited in water during loading of vessels, the oysters have disappeared and that is now a past industry. Nearing Victoria we again approach mountains and here the scenery resembles the main land, luxuriant vegetation, cataracts, tunnels and chasms, till we reach the' capital city, termed “Victoria the Beautiful” and one has only to view Government street, with its imposing Parliament buildings, and scrupulously clean, wide pavements, to know the term is well applied. Here in the harbor the Canadian Pacific Railroad’s fastest vessel, the luxuiious Princess Victoria, is waiting to carry passengers from the quiet aristocratic capital back over Georgia Gulf with its picturesque isand scenery till we again reach Vancouver, eigthy-five miles distant, and the trip over the Canadian Pacific in British Columbia it at an end. MRS. MARY MAKEEVER GIBBON.

The writer of the above will be remembered in Rensselaer. She was the daughter of Madison Makeever, and, although she has been absent from Jasper county for almost 25 years she has always been a subscriber to the Republican and has a most kindly feeling for her old home. Herself and husband are in business in Lewisville, Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Gibbon is managing the sale of their dairy products at Vanvouver, British Columbia. * -T"

NURSERY STOCK For Sale by the Halleck Nursery Co., Fair Oaks, Ind. Large stock of apples in all sizes, trees 6 to 7 feet high, sls per 100; SO trees at the 100 rate. • Wo also keep a good stock of pears, peaches, plums, cherries, grapes,, currants, gooseberries and small fruit of all kinds, shade trees, evergreens, flowering shrubs and plants, roses, etc. Come and see us or write for price list. OHAJO. HALLECK, feb.lsw. Manager.

Remington

Dr. Emil Besser spent Wednesday of last week In Chicago. Mr* Anna Banes was in Lafayette Wednesday on business. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. James Washburn, Aug. 25th;. a~ daughter. Miss Florence Hawkins left last week for Bay View, Michigan. Mrs. A. P. Hosner and son, Earl, visited Mrs. Terpening the past two weeks. Pearl Anderson, of Rensselaer, visited Chas. Scarlet and family several* days last week. The Misses Verkier and Brookwaiter, of Buckley, 111., visited Miss Elsie Bickel last week. 3?Szel Taylor and mother, of Chalmers, came Thursday to visit John Taylor and family. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Elmore, of Bluffton, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barnett, last week. Mrs. Goss and daughter, Florence, returned last week from a month’s visit with relatives In Canada. Leonard Foster came homo from Cincinnati, Ohio, last week for an extended visit with his mother. Cleve Yeoman was called home from New Orleans last week by the sickness of his father, Ira Yeoman. Mrs. Lydia Minglln returned home to Trafalgar Monday, after a ten days’ visit with Mrs. Roush and other friends. Mrs. Chas. Roush and little daughter returned home Monday to Windfall, after a ‘ two weeks’ visit with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rich, of New Waverly, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Rich, and other relatives several days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Beal find daughter, Ruth, visited relatives and friends at Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and New Richmond last week. Mrs. John Phillips and daughter, Eunice, and mother, Mrs. E. H. Blake, returned to Wabash, after a week’s visit with relatives here. • - Cards are out announcing the wedding of Miss Ethel Crabb and Mr. Frank Pample, to take place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Crabb, on Wednesday evening, Sept. 9th, at eight o’clock. Wm. T. Tribby was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, Nov. 26, 1849, and died at his home Aug. 24, 1908, age 58 years and 9 months- Funeral was held from the Methodist church, of which he was a member, conducted by Rev. R. H. Crowder. Interment in Remington cemetery. He leaves to mourn their loss, a wife, two sons, four daughters, five brothers and one sister.

Mt. Pleasant

Mrs. Clyde Davisson is on- the sick list Elda Clouse has a light attack of malarial fever. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vest’s little daughter is sick with malarial fever. Karah Potts is working for Wesley Price on the William Daniels' farm. Clyde Davisson went to Star City last'week to work on David Yeoman’s dredge. Mr. and Mrs. George Fate, of Kntman, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Clouse Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson took an automobile trip to Fountain Park Thursday. s William Washburn and John Marlatt were in this vicinity on business Wednesday. A good crowd from this vicinity went to the basket meeting at Good ■ Hope Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith and ( daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. George . Cooper Sunday. William Sholtz, wife and daugh- | ter, of Illinois, as visiting her paren s, ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ritter. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker and Misses Alfreds and Minnie Ritter vis- , ited Mr. ahd Mrs. George Daviqson . Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Comer, who. were visiting in various points tn Michigan last week, returned home from Battle Creek Saturday. The one-half mile gap on the gravel road on the Barkley and Union township line is being built this week. When completed will give this vl-, cinity and several miles east gravel roads to Rensselaer. i

TN nearly every business there are many “leaks,” many refurmable policies and 'oo costly systems; but retrenchment should take place in a hundffcd directions before it reaches the advertising campaign, and by the time it gets haff way to that point it will cease tn be so necessary. Often in business there is the wrong kind of economy.

Additional Thursday Locals.

■r_- }v. l|K| .. -y?j. -. of the old Nowels House, and now residing at Francesville, was here yesterday, and probably will be again today. He Is the father of Homer Dobbins, our baseball player. W. C. Milliron and wife, of Denver, Ind., have been 'here all week, visiting relatives and old friends, but have some how escaped previous mention. He is conducting a cone and novelty stand at the corner of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets, his favorite location, and is having a . good business. Wm. Winrick, son of John Winrick, south of Wheatfield, left home two weeks ago to visit in Pleasant Grove. He has not been heard of since. His parents are sadly In need of his help because of an accident to his father in a runaway. He left with his team saying he would be Eack in a. few days, but no word has been received from him. ~ W. W. Watson arrived here yesterday from Greenvlile, Miss., to join his family, and enjoy the home coming. Mrs. Watson and their two daughters had preceded him here, having come down from Chicago a few days before. They will probably make their home in Mississippi this winter, although_tliey may decide to return to Washington, D. C., for the winter. Henry Downing, of Goodland, is here to remain until the last of the home coming. He removed from Renaselaer in 1876, but has lived most of the time since then at either Remington or Goodland, and has been a quite frequent visitor at his old home. Under Harrison’s administration he was postmaster at Goodland, holding the office nine years. He is now engaged in the well drilling business. An error in relationship was made yesterday in mention in the Republican of the visit to Rensselaer of Mrs. Dr. Barnes, of Greenfield, and Mrs. Chas. Pascall, of Corning, N. Y. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter, Mrs. Barnes being Mrs. Alter’s sister, and Mrs. Pascall being the niece of each. The latter was formerly a resident of Rensselaer, and was Miss Lettie Hopkins, daughter of Caleb Hopkins.

W. E. Fidler, of Newman, HL; J. F. Yeoman, of Ami ia; John S. Tharp, of Remington, and Thos. Randle and family, of Hope, Kans., are about the only home comers who are registered that the Republican reporter has not come in- contact with either directly or i hrough their hosts. They are all welcome visitors and we shall be pleased fcr arrange to send the Semi-Weekly Republican to them, and thus keep them in touch with the happenings of their old home. The balloon made a practical failure to ascend yesterday evening, and after the aeronaut had been pulled up a little higher than the trees the balloon began to descend, and after the aeronaut had reached the ground he pulled loose, bis parachute and the balloon again went up, probably a distance of 125 feet This mornin* a fairly good ascension and parachute leap was made at about 11 o’clock. Another will take place this evening at 5 o’clock, if everythin* goes off all right. Joe C. Reynolds made his first trip to Rensselaer yesteiday in the capacity of a traveling salesman for the J. W. Butler Paper Co., of Chicago. He sfrent part of the day with I his mother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols, and ' visited the printing offices, includi Ing the St. Joseph College office, in j the Interest of .his fjrm, and took I away some very good orders. Joe 1 has as his territory a large section lof Indiana and will get into Rensselaer every two weeks or such a matter and will probably make this i city his headquarters. i ■’ / ■ The Rensselaer schools will be , opened next Monday morning, and it is quite certain the attendance will , be greater than during any previous I year. Every house In Rensselaer is occupied and the stone road and river work has brought many families to this city, and there are to be many high school students here from other townships. It is hoped to make this a most successful school year and the changes that \have taken place in the« crops of teacne/s have been so few that it is thought the work Will start out most sucressfully.

House Wives Take Notice! Have you used STOVINK? It is not a polish, but a chemical preparation that blackens the top of your stove in such a way that it will stay black without the work ot shining it Just paint it on. A child can apply IL No work. And not axplosive. All dealers twenty-five cental E. D. Rhoades.