Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1908 — Page 4

Classified Column. WANTED. WANTED —Two fresh cows. Call on M. J. Thornton or telephone 532 K. I s2B-lwp WANTED—Second hand bags and burlap; any kind, any quantity, anywhere; we pay freight RICHMOND RAC CO., Richmond, Va. 0.l FAMILY WASHINGS WANTED—I want this work to do, as I have four small children to support Residence one block east of depot. MOLLIE GOODNER. WANTED—To buy or hire a small ■team dredge. Address Israelite House Of David. Benton Harbor, Mich. Nov.B FOR SALE. For SALE—Two colts; will be three and four years old in spring. W. O. Lutz. 5.26-lwp FOR SALE!—Fine country store, including stock, building and residence at Yirgie, Ind. Coen & Brady. * s26tf FOR SALE —1 thoroughbred Duroc bores, spring pigs. Inquire of M. 0. Sayler, phone 512 G. 0.3 FOR SALE —Have concluded to go to California with my son, and will sell my residence on North Cullen street A bargain if sold at once. Mrs. C. L. Benjamin.' s.23tf «■ ; FOR SALE OR TRADE—I wood heating stove; will take wood, corn, potatoes or chickens. *The King Floral Co., Rensselaer, Ind. 5.23-lwp FOR SALE —Farm of 120 acres, 2 miles west of Rensselaer. Inquire of Mrs. M. E. Corlis, Tel. 342. 22s.tf FOR SALE —Team of horses, milk oows, calves and shoats. Korah Daniels, R. D. 1, Rensselaer, Ind., Phone 513 E. 5.21-lw , FOR SALE —I will sell cheap for cash a 1207 2-cylinder Bulck automobile. This is a five passenger touring car, equipped with top folding glass front extra tire, gas headlights and full set of tools. It is in fine running order, and a stylish looking car. George K. Hollingsworth, 1111—140 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111.

FOR BALK —Car load of 3-year old feeders, one ear of 2-year olds. Phillip Rohm an, 4 miles north and 2 miles east of Francesville. sJS-3w FOR SALE—One coal apd one wood heating stove. Call at Republican office. FOR SALE—2S acres of land, five miles northwest of Rensselaer, in Newton topnship. This is a choice piece of land, improved, located near head of Iroquois dredge, and & baraln at 375 per acre cash price. For tall particulars write to Mrs. J. O. Gibbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada. 78ep.tf. FOR SALE—2OO bushels of blue stem seed wheat at $1 a bushel Phone 6131 Chas. W. Reed, R. D. No. L FOR SALE —125 cords of wood. First class, 4 foot length. Delivered any place in the city. C. Kellner, phone 64. i FOR SALE—Pure bred Shorthorn bulls; one excellent 2-year old and two yearlings. Jesse Eldredge, Phone 32. ts FOR SALE —13 acres, nice ground, Just outside the corporation, four room house, cellar, fencing, large orchard of pears, apples, peaches, grapes and small fruit, good well, on public road. Will accept SSOO in live stock as first payment and givft time on remainder if desired. Also five room house in first class condition, with porch, city water, well and cistern, cement walks inside and out, improved streets, good shade, fruit, on large corner lot, two blocks from court house. For a short time at $950. Sept 21tf G. F. MEYERS

FOUND. FOUND —Cheap watch. Call at Republican office. LOST. LOST —A No. 12 Waterman fountain pen. Finder please return to Miss Martha Parkinson, or leave at this office. Reward. LOST—A child’s signet ring, with the letter V. engraved thereon. Return to Mrs. Frank Kresler. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—T have lust - started the erection of two. more of those nice cottages that are proving so popular with the public. They are located near the court house and will be rented reasonable. Apply to A. f .,. ; . , CLOVER HULLING. CLOVER HULLING Any person wishing clover hulled should inquire of Ohas. Clouse, pt 0. Kellner’s, phone «4.

THE REASONS FOR THE DEFEAT OF HALLECK

> The Republican Investigates and Refutes Some False Charges Against j. Losing Candidate.

The Republican has waited a long time to answer the Jasper County Democrat’s report of the cause of Abraham Hallecks ’ defeat for the state senate at the special election held Thursday,. Sept.. 17th. The delay was occasioned In order that we might ascertain the real cause of Mr. Halleck’s defeat, and in order that we might investigate some of the caue% ascribed by the Democrat. To„ begin with, it should be understood that the Jasper County Democrat has held a most profound hatred for Mr. Halleck and that it has left no stone unturned to do Mr. Halleck injury for many years. This being the case, it is not surprising that the Democrat takes great delight in his defeat and misrepresents the reason for his defeat. There were, in fact, three reasons for Mr. Halleck’s failure to be elected. The first was a lack of concerted and organized effort to get out the republican vote; the second was the fact that the saloon interests demanded the election of a man that would not support a county option measure; and the third was the indisputable fact that Mr. Halleck has some personal enemies in some localities, as every, practicing attorney has. The democrats locally and in Newton county made a very strong effort to get out the democratic vote, those persons who have a grievance against Mr. Halleck working with an especial vim. It Is not true that automobiles in Rensselaer were brought into service to bring out the Republican voters, and it is not true that the inmates of the county asylum were brought out and voted for Mr. Halleck. As a matter of fact the inmates of the Jasper county poor farm were brought in by Edward P. Honan, democrat, in the hack, and while it is not probable that they all voted for Mr. Law, that was the intention of bringing them in. It is an imputation on these unfortunate men to say that they we: e “broug t in and voted.’’ They are men of fair intelligence and able to do their own voting the way they believe. It is a fact that many voters remained at home, attaching but little importance to the election, but they did not remain away because of any indifference toward Mr. Halleck.

It is true that many voters who desire the reinstatement of the saloons voted against Mr. Halleck, not because it was Halleck but because he was pledged to stand on the republican platform and vote for a bill that would let the people of the county decide whether there should be saloons in the county. There was money used and freely used in the saloon towns to influence the frequenters of saloons to vote against Mr. Halleck, and they were told at Lake Village and at other places that if Halleck was elected they could not get a glass of beer In any of the four counties. Life long republicans, men who had never voted the democratic- ticket, voted for Mr. Law, not because they had any objection to Mr. Halleck, but because they favor the reinstatement of saloons and wanted to vote for the party that was pledged in its platform to a proposition that the brewers believe will reinstate them. The Republican has always contended that this was a question that would be settled outside of party lines and has conceded the democratic candidates the votes of the liberal republicans, and has said that the hope of the republican ticket laid in getting the sincere temperance democrats to vote the republican ticket. The liberal republicans, many of them, did vote for Law, but the temperance democrats did not counteract this by voting for Mr. Halleck, in sufficient numbers to make up his losses among the liberal republicans. Any other republican .in the district, who had pledged himEelf to vote for county local option, would have lost the same votes that Mr. Halleck lost in the districts sympathetic to saloons. And the votes that went from Halleck to Law on this account were enough to amount to several times the number by which be was defeated.

And uow we come to the last proposition, the fact that Mr. Halleck lost some rotes because persons were opposed to him. It is a fact that every kind of argument was used against Mr. Halleck to aggravate this feeling. Many malicious stories were started against him, and* many persons were influenced to vote against him by these stories. At Morocco It was told that Mr. Halleck bad been

at Roselawn under the influence of liquor four times within the last month. As a matter of fact Mr. Hal,leck is a teetotaler, using liquor in no form, being a total abstainer in the use of both intoxicating liquor and tobacco. Farmers in Newton township were told that Mr. Halleck was engaged in a scheme to dredge the Kankakee river and that if it succeeded they would be taxed 60 cents an acre to help pay for it. Whereever Mr. Halleck’s connection with the Kankakee drainage plan could be worked to his disadvantage it was done, and yet the persons who used it knew that his Connection with that ditch was wholly in the capacity of an attorney. And they knew also that his connection with the drainage oftte lower Iroquois was wholly as an attorney and that in the latter he represented the remonstrators and in the former the petitioners. • There have been mean things said about Mr. Halleck, plenty of them, but the man who can prove any wrong against him does not exist. And new let us see about Mr. Halleck’s vote where he is best known. During most of his life he resided at DeMotte, in Keener township, and of the 104 votes cast in that township, he received 84, or more than four-fifths. Does this look like he was turned down where he was best known? Those who know Abe Halleck best like him the best, and those who know his true character recognize the real worth of a real man. And here we wish to relate one or two little acts of this man that show his manliness. Last spring Everett Merrill was arrested in this county .':nd taken to Chicago, charged with complicity in the kidnapping of the little Wolfe girl. Mr. Halleck became convinced of Merrill’s innocence and without any pay other than his expenses he appeared in Merrill’s behalf and succeeded with great difficulty in getting him free. He did this solely because he believed Merrill guiltless and did not want to see him sentenced to the penitentiary or possibly to the gallows. Another case that he has taken without prospect of pay and one in which Rensselaer people have a deep interest, is that of defending Mrs. Florence Peacock agains the effort instituted by her husband to procure a divorce. In this too he was successful, and he is still Mrs. Peacock’B attorney.

And there is another charge, a flimsy one, but one that has been frequently used, and that is the argument that Mr. Halleck has a political machine that must be consulted in case any one wants office, and that has dictated who should hold office. There is nothing further from the truth. The present incumbents of office in this county will say that they were hampered by no machine when they sought office, and defeated candidates for nominations will say the same thing. The officers of this county are selected with an equal division from the various townships and there is not now and never has been in the republican party in this county any factionalism. The present county officers, and the Jasper County Democrat has said so itself within the past egiht months, has the very best officials the county has ever had. Ring rule means graft and corruption and there were never a cleaner set of men in any court house than the ones now holding office here. '

Abraham Halleck is a studious, thoughtful, clean and conscientious man, and the falsehocds that have be n told about him by the Jasper County Democrat should cause no republican voter to withdraw his support. If he is sent to the legislature, as he no* doubt will be in November, the district will have no apologies to make for him.

CLEANING AND DYEING

I have arranged with a very reliable Chicago firm to do dry cleaning at reasonable prices. I will receive articles at my store, send them away and have them returned, cleaned and pressed to look like new In one week. All kinds of material from the moet sheer fabrics to heavy wool, lace waists, dresses or curtains, gloves of all kinds cleaned beautifully, also dyeing of suits or ostrich feathers, any shade desired.

MRS. H. PURCUPILE.

FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms near school house. EL L. Clark. FOUND—Box of Eastman’s photo plates. Inquire here.

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

Several people from here attended the Francesville fair last week. Mrs. John K. Smith visited relatives at Indianapolis last week. Trustee Cook is having the coal hauled for the school houses. Miss Mary McDonald returned home Friday evening after a two week’s visit with relatives. D. D. Wuethrich of Eureka, 111., is out to his farm, where Frank Lowery lives. i Mrs. M, Ringelsen has been quite sick for a few days, but was better at this writing. v The girl that swiped the five spot of Mrs John Knopinskl near Rensselaer last week, is harboring in Lee now. V Its quite an old saying with people here that during the Francesville fair we are sure to have a rain, but some how it was different this year. F. J. Herman, of Indianapolis, came up Wednesday morning on the milk train. He is a hay dealer and expected to buy a few car loads here it he could. " r There were two beautiful rainbows Tuesday morning about six o’clock and a little after one was in the south west That is said to be a sure sign of rain, buA we. barely got a sprinkle.

The Indianapolis Star stated Wednesday morning that several nice rains had fallen in Indiana Tuesday evening and night It is hoped that Jasper county will be one bf the lucky spots soon

John Tomilson Is in the neighborhood now with his hay press. It is operated with a gasoline engine, eight horse power, and makes an excellent pressing outfit. This same man has sawed wood here for the past two seasons.

Mrs. Arthur Williamson took their baby to the doctor at Monon Tuesday. It has been sick for several days with some kind of breaking out in its mouth, which the physician is inclined to think is caused by the poison dust.

L. S. Meyer, who has been visiting at Calvin Hunts on the Merica farm, is working for A. E. Stewart. A few days ago a fellow by the name of Bridgewater relieved Mr. Meyer of his ready cash and pulled out, but later was apprehended and promised to pay it all back.

Eigh tickets were sold at McCoysburg Wednesday morning for the Republican rally at George Ade’s farm in Newton county. The parties going were Reed McCoy, Wm. Eldridge, Este Osborne, J. P. Gwin, R. V. Johns, Simon Cook, J H. Montz and Wm. Willits. The bping the only democrat In the bunch, but it is likely he got reinforcement enough at Rensselaer to hold the republicans at bay.

Albert Warner has a nice little Grove of Catalpa trees coming on, the young trees are from three to four feet tall and make a very speedy growth every year. When they are three or four years old they-begin to form quite a comfortable shade. It is claimed also that catalpa trees make good fence posts But as they only grow here when set out for shade none are ever U6ed for fencing purposes.

One of the Monon trains set fire Friday afternoon across the railroad north of J. H. Montz’s, burning across his meadow and oats stubble. The section men and Mr. Montz fought the fire, but it finally got into the locust grove,south of Tom McDonald’s and literally burned it out.* Most damage to the locust grove will be the spoiling of the boy’s rabbit hunting there this winter. Tom McDonald had some ricks of hay near by but succeeded in saving them from the fire. A fire was also set .out the same afternoon further down the track south of the Dave Culp farm that burned over considerable ground, but doing no particular damage.

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 qualified 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 prloelsss and we want your patronage. Those fresh butter crackers at the Home procery are crisp and fine. - *■ - - «.,■ i ,M.A.,.. .... ;y - -fr. “Arlstos” means “The Best.’’ When you buy Arlstos flour we guarantee tbatVou get the beef flour made. It will make more and better bread than any other flour and we will refund your money if you do not find that tfift ls so. Only 11.40 a sack at John Eger’s. .

The King Floral Company Has Bought The Cleveland Greenhouse And is Prepared to Supply FLOWERS BOTH POTTED AIMD OUT For all occasions. Orders taken for Flowers for funerals, and Floral Designs of any kind can be supplied. Also Ferns and Palms for Rent for Weddings, Banquets, Etc. Leave orders at Long’s Drug Store, or Telephone No. 132.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF first national Bank at Rensselaer, Ind., at the close of business, September 23, 1908. • RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts $236,602.80 Capital stock paid In f 60,000.00 Overdrafts, secured and un- Surplus fund 6,000.00 secured 6,129.18 Undivided profits, loss exU. S. Bonds to secure peases and taxes paid 9,700 33 . circulation 16,000.00 National Bank notes outBonds, securities, etc..—„ 11,100.00 standing 15,000.00 Banking house, furniture Due to other National and fixtures - 6,000.00 Other real estate owned 5,320.00 Due to' State and Due from National Banks Bankers 11,885.27 (not reserve agents) 2,496.17 Due to Trust and Due from State Banks and Savings Banks 11,160.76 bankers 18,501.16 Individual deposits subject Due from approved reserve to check 226,271.21 agents ——, 76,656.62 Demand certificates of Checks and other cash items 1,471.43 deposit J. 30,200.42 Notes of other National Time certificates of deBanks / 3,600.00 posit 40,058.00 Fractional paper currency, nickles and cents 102.70 Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: Specie $14,700.00 Legal-tender notes 16,219.00 30,919.00 , Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5% of circulation) 760.00 Total $416,626.06 Total $416,626.06 State of Indiana, County of Jasper, as. I, E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of September, 1908. , GLENN DAY, Notary Public. Correct —Attest: JOHN M. WASSON, JAMES T. RANDLE, GEO. E. MURRAY, —.— Directors.

Automobile Livery Cars for hire at all hours of day or night. Reliable cars and competent drivers. We will make a specialty of carrying to and from parties and dances. Gi*)e Us a Call. Rates Treasonable. Rensselaer Garage

BARGAINS IN LAND.

62 acres on free mail route, school on the place, three miles of good town with all kinds of business. Bank, churches and high school. 60 acres In cultivation, 12 acres timber. Will sell as a whole or will divide into smaller pieces and sell on easy payments at the low price of S2O. Horses or cattle taken as first payment 40 acres of unimproved land on main road, two miles to station, half mile to school, mostly timber land. . Will take cattle or horses as part payment and will sell any part da-' sired at the low pries of sl6 par acre. 80 acres, 12 miles of court house, fid acres black land In cultivation, 20 acres pasture, fair buldlngs, young orchard, good well, gravel road and In good neighborhood. Only SBS. Terms S7OO down, remainder good time at 6 per cent Will accept live stock as first payment 14 acre tract suitable for chicken farm, near station on main road In Dearborn County, Indiana. 40 mils* of Cincinnati. Will trade. Good lots or small property eonadered. Ws have mortgage notes and good clear property to trade for land. For quick results list your bargains with us. Also have s bargain In 180 seres described in another column in this paper. O. F. MEYERS. -r-"'.’fy • - t■ ■■ r - J ‘, t § 1 ; ‘ ■.• V' «

Don’t wear any kind and all kind of glasses and do your ayes harm when you can have your ayaa tested by latest methods, by s permanently located and reliable Optometrist Careful attention given in all examinations and all work guaranteed. Glasses from $2.00 up. Offloe over Lon’s drug store. Appointments made by telephone No. 282. W. A. O. CATT, OPTOMETRIST. Registered and licensed on State Board Examination, also graduate of an Optical College. Bargains in Pasture Land. 280 acres level pasture land 11 w along large ditch, mostly open land, la blue grass, on main road, 34 mile to school, % mils to gravel road leading to oourt house. Will taka half In good town property, merchandise, or other land. Prlos SBO. O. F. METERS, Opposite Court House. OEM CITY BUBI NEBB~OOLLEGB, Quincy, 111. 20 teachers, 1,400 students, $160,000 School Bqllding. Shorthand and Typewriting. Bookkeeping, eta. $8 page Illustrated Catalogue fired. D. L. Mnssalman, Prset, Lock Bos 68, Quincy, HL daoJl