Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — Page 4

TAFT AND WATSON TO ATTEND ADE BARBECUE

Rally to be Held Wednesday, Sept. 23, and Mr. Taft to be There Three Hours

Judge William Howard Taft will be at Hazelden Farm, George Ade’s country place, near Brook, on Wednesday, September 23, to attend the Republican rally at which the Hon. James E. Watson will be the principal speaker. This will be Judge Taft’s first appearance in Indiana. He will come from Cincinnati by way of Danville, 111., arriving at the station at Ade on the Chicago & Inddiana Southern at/ 8:40 a. m. He and the members of his party will be taken to the farm by automobiles, arriving soon after 9 o’clock. He will be compelled to leave the farm at 12:45 to take a special train from Brook for Chicago. Those who wish to see him and hear him should be at the farm before noon. Probably he will speak about 10:30. Hazelden Farm is an easy two miles east of Brook. Visitors arriving by train will be given a free straw ride put to the grounds. There will be plenty of water and ample hitching room for those who drive to the rally. To relieve congestion on the main road, rigs and automobiles finding it convenient to do so may approach from the south across the

WHY REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL IN NEXT ELECTION.

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Under the guidance of Republican legislation the American people have become the richest people in the •world. Today our wealth exceeds that of England and all her colonies. Our wealth exceeds that of France and Germany combined. When the Republican party was bom the total wealth of the United States was sixteen billion dollars, today it has reached the gigantic sum of one hundred and ten billion dollars. This advancement has been made in a single generation. Great Britain has gathered but sixty billion dollars in the last five hundred years. The United States today owns one-fourth of the world’s wealth and makes onefourth of all the manufactured articles. She furnishes coal, the power of all activity; iron, the chief basis •f all industries; cotton, the staple of all fabrics; wheat, corn and all other products that feed mankind. American supremacy is undisputed, and yet her great national wealth has been scarcely touched. We have a vast domain of thirty million square miles literally bursting with the laden treasurer still waiting the magic of American capital and industries to be converted to the practical use of mankind. A country rich in soil and climate with its navigable rivers, its steam and electric railways, its various products of the field, the factory and the forest with the gratitude of God’s beauty. We have experienced the great blessing in the past and through republican management and republican legislation, we have confidence in the future.

POULTRY WANTED FOR JEWISH NEW YEAR.

Owing to the fact that the Jewish New Year begins on the 26th of September, I will guarantee up to the 24th 8% cents per pound for good fat hens and will give you the rise of the market on day of delivery; 11 cents for spring chickens. Get your poultry in soon, as I look for a decline in prices as soon as the Jewish holidays are over.

A lot of trouble can be caused In this world by throwing mud at the hornet’s nest. Some people don’t seem to be happy unless they are trying to get stung!

OHIO FARMERS INSURANCE CO.

Has been doing business for 60 years, writing fire, lightning and cyclone insurance on city, town and farm buildings and live stock; alm hay in stack and bam. It will be to your Interest to see me before you have your insurance writton up. Octlsdsw J. C. Porter, Agent.

BUSINESS COLLEGE.

GEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, Quincy, IIL 20 teachers, 1,400 students, 1100,000 School Building. Shorthand and Typewriting. Bookkeeping, etc. M page Illustrated Catalogue free. D. L. Musselman, Prest, Lock Box 68, Qnlncy, m. dec.l2

W. L. WOOD.

B. S. FENDIG.

farm. There will be a sign to mark the entrance. ' The program will begin about 9:30 a. m. and continue until late in the afternoon. There will be several speeches, also a concert by one of the best military bands in Chicago, a display of Japanese day fireworks, and singing by the Republican Glee Club' from Purdue University. Probably there will be a large crowd and it has been deemed unwise to attempt any barbecue features. The money set aside for the barbecue will be expended for special entertainment features.

Those who bring baskets will find shade, water and pleasant picnic grounds. Those who bring no baskets will find several luncheon tents at which the charges will be very moderate. Special trains on the C. E. & I. from Chicago and Veedersburg will connect with trains on the Chicago & Indiana Southern and the Ban Handle. The railroads will announce the time tables and reduced rates very soon. Every one who wishes to come will be welcome at the rally.

Big Ditch Contract Let.

The contract for the Grover Smith ditch, which will drain a large scope of country around Wheatfield, has been let to Flanders & Putnam, of Valparaiso, at 5.85 cents per yard. A large number of bidders were present at the letting. The contractors will begin work as soon as the bonds are sold.

Kellner Buys Rumley Land.

Cooney Kellner has just closed the purchase through C. J. Dean’s agency of the Rumley land lying just south of the stock farm gravel road and adjoining the Moody property on the east. The tract consisting of 38 acres is in the corporation and is a great bargain at the price paid, $4,100. Mr. Kellner, Intends, we understand, if he can sell his present residence, to build a fine residence on the land. He has already commenced work on a six acre artificial lake on the land across the river for use as an ice pond and expects to succeed in harvesting a crop of good ice next winter. To Insure having pure water during ice making time the water will be pumped into the pond.

Obituary of Mrs. Aley A. Baker

Mrs. Aley A. Baker, the oldest daughter of Willard and Margaret Stockwell, was bora at New Bloomington, Ohio, April 6, 1856, and died at Rensselaer, Ind., Sept. 11, 1908. Her age at her death was 52 years, 5 months and 5 days. Her early life was lived at New Bloomington, Ohio, and later the family moved to Indiana and lived a few years in Laporte, Porter and Lake counties, Ind., and moved to Jasper county in 1876. During her early life and school days she was always the most gentle, loving and honored one and was always at the head of her class. ’ September 2, 1874, she was married ! to J. N. Baker, and to this union was bora eight children, four sons and i four daughters. Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Baker have lived a country life and the entire time in this county. The cause of her death is given as a stroke of apoplexy with a .complication of dropsy of the heart and hemorrhage of the brain. Mrs. Baker has been ill at times for several months with what she thought was dropsy, but of late, and just before her death she appeared in better health than for some time. Mrs. Faker is survived by her mother, a sister and brother living in Tennessee, her husband and all her children. Mr. and Mrs. Baker joined the Protestant Methodist church in 1878 and later she joined the Christian church and remained a faithful Christian until her death, k

CARD OF THANKS.

Mr. J. N. Baker and family wish to thank the relatives and many friends for the kindness extended at the death of their dear wife and mother. No upholsterer ever made a sofa as soft as a bay cock, and no artist ever surrounded that sofa with pictures as beautiful as those. to ba seen from the hay field.

IN CAMP AT FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON

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to attack a position. We are to go out at about 11:30 and will probably get back at 7:00 or 7:30. Each day a new section of this Wooded reservation, with its hills and vales and many different road ways, is be employed in demonstrating ■‘the maneuvers of an army. Advance and rear guard formations occupied our attention Saturday. Today we have some field engineering, tomorrow the formation of outposts and the means of maintaining security and gaining information, involving the throwing up of hasty intrenchmeuts and the sending out of mounted patrols and scouts. =X= . r Thursday is the day selected for the great maneuvers in which all troops, regular and guard are to participate. It will probably involve a bivouac over Friday night, and therefore be in heavy marching order. If the provision trains do not fail us this will be a very pleasant event = X B Fort Benjamin Harrison is becoming an ideal spot, and the army post is composed of beautiful brick structures that two years , ago were scarcely begun. The 10th U. S. infantry is stationed there and it to composed of fine soldiers, officers and men. Other regular ttaopsare here, and some of them are to take up the march back to Fort Sheridan as soon as this camp is completed. They will probably go through Rensselaer, at least the artillery.

= X SI The temporary camp here is paifly composed of the squad* size conical shaped tents. The Indiana guard is supplied with the smaller, four men tents, and these are very nice. Each tors, taking the place of the old filth holes. Thus every particle of dissease breeding offal is burned and the camp sanitation is complete. The Indiana National Guard has adopted a new form of sanitation. Each company has a sanitary sergeant, who gives his constant attention to requiring that nothing is done by a member of his company that might breed disease. No crumb of bread, not a particle of any food stuff is dropped to the ground, and the Sergeant has to speak to an offender but once to let him know that it must not occur again. It would be impossible to imagine a great body of ten to fifteen thousand campers where the entire ground was rarely soitpd by so much as a piece of paper. The water supply is still not the best, being warm because the pipes are near the surface of the ground, but ice barrels are in each company cooking tent and a good supply of water is always available^- —te>-- = x = Clint Colvert and his eooking assistant, Harry Collins, have made all the boys happy by giving them a let of very excellent food, well cooked, and there has not been a cbmplaint from any source. They have been assisted by Grover Wood, a recruit from Fair Oaks, and the cooking equipment is kept polished and everything clean. A monstrous fly covers the cook kitchen this year. New field ranges equipped with all manner of utens'ls

NOTICE OF RESOLUTION FOR SIDEWALK ON COLLEGE AVENUE. “ ... • Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the Clty'of Rensselaer, Ind-, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 14th day of Sept--1908, passed and adopted a resolution for a cement sidewalk along the following route towlt: Commencing on the west side of College avenue, where Washington street and College avenue intersect and running thence south to the corporation line.

Notice is therefore hereby given that the Common Council will meet at the Council Chamber in the Court House at 8 o’clock p. m., on the 12th day of October, 1908, at which time and place all persons whose property may be affected by the construction of said walk may be heard as to the necessity for the same. Witness my hand and the seal of said City this 15th day of October, 1908. CHAS. MORLAN. Sept. 18-25. City Clerk.

The Two Ways of Spending.

The Monticello Journal last evening printed the following which sounds pretty good to us. There are two ways of spending a dollar., You can spend It at home, gain an easy conscience, make - another friend, and perhaps get it back tomorrow. The other method is to send the money out of town, feel that you have sinned, offended the home 'merchant, and forever lost the dollar and blessed influence for good to yourself and neighbor.

is also a fine Improvement A large coffee can and a folding cook table which Clint Colvert had made before leaving home, also help make the product of the kitchen better, and * ground of coffee never gets into the cups when the coffee is served. = X = Lieutenant Woodworth is acting battalion adjutant, being a mounted officer, and with the Major, commanding the four companies of the battalion. The mounted pay is slightly increased but not enough to pay for his horse which costs him $2 a day. Lieutenant Brenner has been suffering some with hay fever and asthma, but’ today he is much better and he commanded the company in battalion drill this morning, it being his first time to go out with the company alone. = x = Fred H. Stell has been a little sick since coming to camp, and spent a quite bad day Sunday. Today he is better but unable to perform any I duty. Corporals Frank A. Crosscup , and Jesse Gray have taken fatherly care of their squads, as has also Corporal Herbert Zea, who is the oldest of the company corporals. Sergeants Earl Chesnut and John Gangloff have also taken graet interest in the company and* their experience and natural soldierly bearing makes them well able to do this. Gangloff is the right guide of the company and Herman Tuteur the left guide. = X = Sunday we. were visited by Mr. and Mrs. Rollings, of Indianapolis, who came particularly to see her brother, Frank E. Biggs. They ate a camp supper with us, consising of hash, bread and butter, cheese, prunes and lemonade. S X B An interesting feature with the writer is the fact that most other companies have a somewhat better percent of attendance, most companies of 50 to 55 men having all but three or four in camp. The pay rolls carry the names of all men enlisted and a notation shows the reason why they are not in camp, if they are .not, and this stands as a record for the man in the office of the adjutantgeneral of the state, and in the war department of the United States. The employer who would discharge a soldier because he attends a camp is a poor patriot, and some day he may be anxious enough to crawl under the protection of the army of the country, whose maintenance furnishes the security to the business he conducts. The soldier in the national guard is .a soldier in the regular army and his record is based upon his conduct during his enlistment. The training and the experience is worth the enlistment of any young man, and if he is studious and ambitious it will place him in a posiiotn in case our country should become involved in war, to be of greater service to the country, to be better able to protect himself, and the organized mllitia is solving a problem of citizen soldiery, that will give the country its great army if the day of nead ever comes. In the meantime the soldier is doing a patriotic service of no small measure. GEORGE H. HEALEY, Captain Co. M, 3rd Infty.

NOTICE OF RESOLUTION FOR SIDEWALK ON CEDAR STREET.*

Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Ind., at a regular meeting thereof, held on Sept 14, 1908, passed and adopted a resolution for a cement sidewalk along the following route to-wlt: On the north side of Cedar street from Milton street to and intersecting Division street walk except where said walk is already built.

Notice is hereby given that the Common Council will meet at theCouncil Chamber in the Court House, at 8 o’clock p. m., on the 12th day of October, 1908, at which time and place all persons whose property will be affected by the construction of said walk may be heard as to the necessity for the same. Witness my hand and the seal of said City this 15th day of September, 1903. CHAS. MORLAN, sep.lß-25. City Clerk.

NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING. Notice is hereby given that on Sat- ' urday, September 26th, 1908, at one o’clock 1). m., at my store in Tefft, Ind., I will let the contract for the construction of the Frank Fenzel ditch, known as ditch cause No. 6148, in the commissioners’ court of Jasper county, Indiana. All according to plans and specifications on file with th* county surveyor. The ditch will be sold in two sections, the dredge work first and then the scraper work. Sealed blds. . C. R. PEREGRINE, Sept. 8-15. Supt of Const ruction.

LIEUT. BRENNER OFFERS TO MAKE ASCENSION

War Balloons Are to Go Up Friday— Company “M” Participates in Sham Battle.

Fort Benjamin Harrison, Sept. 15, ’OB. Well, Rensselaer boys got into a ’ lively sham battle with the Eighth ' Illinois colored regiment yesterday at the conclusion of a good hike that involved maneuvers with the three Indiana infantry regiments, two batteries of artillery, one regiment of West Virginia on one -elde and the 1 1st, 4th and Bth Illinois and one West' 1 Virginia regiment on the other. Our 1 battalion was sent out to reinforce 1 the other battalions in the ravines 1 near Baker’s bridge and Major Har--1 rison ascertained the position of the 1 enemy and so stationed our battalion 1 echeloned by companies that we were [ concealed from the enemy and yet caught them as they attempted to flank the other battalions. Two of ' our companies were sent to the brow 'of a hill and as the section of the enemy consisting of the entire colored regiment bore in upon them they repulsed them sufficiently to turn them to the left and our company acting with G from Columbia City did a rapid flanking movement of almost a mile, much of it at double time, down ravine and up hill at single file, through briars and beneath lowllmbed treeg. , We wer brought up at the top of a hill and just in time to see the darkeys rushing pell mall after our two retreating companies. Talk about a short and relentless fire, M company was right there and cross fired the darkies as they ran. The range was short and there could be but one outcome. Our two companies put the colored regiment out of business and.

Fire in the Laundry Building.

Fire broke out in the Horton cemen building Tuesday evening and did considerable damage before it was got under control. The lower floor of the building is occupied by Hemphill's blacksmith shop and the upper floor by Haas' laundry. In one corner of the laundry is the drying room, in which a fire is kept going In a stove to dry the clothes. The room was closed and the fire was not discovered until it had gained considerable headway. The fire was caused by defective construction of the building, the wood work being built against the chimney, which was not thick enough to retain the heat. The woodwork being full of rosin, caught fire from the heat of the chimney and had burned some time before being discovered. The ceiling and roof were burned through and the roof was also badly damaged by the axes of the firemen. Owing to the stifling smoke the firemen had difficulty in fighting the blaze and a number of them were nearly prostrated by the fumes. The loss to Mr. Horton is about SIOO, with no insurance. Beyond the inconvenience caused by the fire, Mr. Haas’ loss will not exceed $25. The blacksmith shop below was floodwi with water but the damage was slight

HORSESHOEING STOCKS COMPANY ORGANIZED

Local Capitalists Finance Company for Five Thousand Dollars— To be Pushed.

The Hemphill Horse Stocks Company has been organized In Rensselaer under the laws of the state of Indiana, with a capital stock of $5,000 for the purpose of manufacturing the Hemphill horse shoeing stocks, wagons and a wagon coupler. M. L. Hemphill Inventor of ffe stocks, retains half the stock, and the balance is distributed among local capitalists. There are fifty shares of stock of |IOO each. The officers of the company are M. L. Hemphill, president; and Warren Robinson, secretary and. treasurer. Directors: M. L. Hemphill, Warren Robinson, A. F. Long, B. 8. Fendig and Cleve Eger. For the present the stocks will be manufactured In Mr. Hemphill's shop, but it is hoped the business will grow to such an extent as to require larger quarters, in which event a factory build Ing will be erected.

our boys rushed down the emb nkment and captured the colored officers and took them as prisoners, taking their blank revolver ammunition. It was the first real live battle- our boys have had in the past three years and all were much pleased. All got back with the company except John Robinson, Lester Speaks andßay Harrington, who came in with another company, having become sepra&ted from their squads. Friday comes our big al! day maneuvers and Colonel Thayer of our regiment proposes to spring a surprise on the enemy by sending up a war balloon; the Plymouth company trumpeter intending to make the ascension. When Col. Thayer; called for volunteers to the balloon corps, five officers quickly offered services. They were Lieut Glenn Van Auken, Angola, Ind.; Lieut Lester Feagler, Auburn, Ind.; Lieut. James E. Brenner, Rensselaer, Ind.; Lieut Earl Smith, Columbia City, Ind., and Lieut. J. F. Brecker, Peru, Ind. Col. Thayer has not yet made the appointments. All our boys are well. Our company received the second highest sanitary grade in the regiment, thanks to the vigilance of Sanitary Seargeant Herman B. Tuteur. Lieutenant Woodworth is still battalion adjutant, and as I have been detailed as officer of the day for 24 hours beginning this evening at 5:20, Lieutenant Brenner has charge of the company. We had inspection this morning and got through nicely.. CAPT. GEORGE HEALEY.

PEACHES. ; We will have a car load of fancy Michigan peaches and pears on sale ' next Wednesday and Thursday, September 23rd and ,24th. JOHN EGER. NURSERY STOCK For Sale by the Halleck Nursery Co., Fair __ Oaks, Ind. Large stock of apples in all sixes, trees 6 to 7 feet high, sls per 100; 30 trees at the 100 rate. We also keep a good stock of pears, peaches, plums, eherriee, 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. CHAS. HALLECK, feb.lsw. Manager. WILL HULL CLOVER Persons paving clover to hull can secure the services of A. T. Ropp. Drop card or leave word at his farm near Alx, stating number of acres. Gasoline and oil—Home Grocery.

Mr. Hemphill ib the patentee for the Hemphill horse shoeing stocks, which has been before the public for some years, and is already in use in nearly every state in the union and has also been Introduced into Canada, but for lack of capital the business has never been pushed to any extent. It is claimed the stocks is the best one on the market today and la superceding other stocks. The wagon coupler was also invented by Mr. Hemphill and is said to have considerable merit Both patents will be assigned to the new company. • There is no reason for the new company not making a success of the business, aa they have in the horse shoeing stocks an article needed by every horse shoer and the territory Is unlimited, as it is for the sale ot the wagon coupler.