Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1908 — Page 1

TWICE A WEEK

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SOUND ARGUMENT BY DR. G. E. REED

President of Dickenson College Delivers One of the Ablest Political Talks * Ever Heard in Rensselaer.

A large audience of men and w men, packing the armory to i's feating capacity, greeted Dr. George Edward Heed, president of Dickenson College, at Carlisle, Pa., Friday ii.gi.t, and heard one of the be t poll icil arguments ever delivered in this city.- Dr. Reid spoke in an impar.sionu.te manner, treated his political adversaries with the most profound respect, and yet entered into the discusdon of the issues with an enthusiasm that assured a conviction that he was right on all lines of his argument. Mr. Reed rehearsed the Bryan fallacies of previous, years and said “but they tell us it is now » new Bryan; not the man wiio proposed fr e silver and talked of the crown of thorns and the cross of gold, not the man who prophesied all manner of destruction to the fanners and 10 every . American industry if his financial pro gram was not enacted, into law, not the Bryan who feared imperalism, not the Bryan Who said that the impetuous Rossevett would rush the country into ,war, jaot the Bryan who returned?, from, a trip around the w rid and ih a speech at New .York proclaimed that he believed in ihegivownership of rail* oads. They say it is a new Bryan, rieed from ail the fallacies of the past, and now safe, sane, and well balanced. But it tt the ( same Bryan, and he ,1s S;ill the advocate of every danger us propositlun th|it he has promulgate 1, and he has neWr gone back on a single one of his heresies.”

Dr. Heed gave soma attention to the r record T of Pryan in congress, and told his opportunity to propose during those, years of compie'e democratic control, some legislation Le-e----ficial to thp laboring man. But he did not dd.it. Ha told 'hoy the democratic pariy had d the trpst Question in the latter days of the democratic control, aiyl said, that there wag, not a single , on the statute books of . the United Sta'es. there by. a jfepocratic congress. He spoke of the lawpJhat the, republicans have placed there, enumerating the homes ead lafws. the resumption of specie pay- * <** p&rtment of agriculture, the dep rtmept; of labor.,the e'gut all-Cifsses of ,labor employed by foo*iajv, the inspection law, the anti-trust law, an%t*t standard by which the United States maintanis its sovereignty among all the notions of the woild. And then, knowing that the demo- <*»«? m l l wpuid be they , had not ,ha<i .opportunity, he top* the consji iwwfc found the following results: Therd are states bay# republican control demo-

Hanging Grove Couple Harried.

Ai marriage occurred at the M. E. parsonage at 2 o’clock this Saturday afternoon, the contracting parties be* ing Ml-. Floyd Howe Porter add M aa Otace Peregrine, bf Hanging Grove township. They were married by the pastor, Rev. k. L. Klndlg Hie bride Is 19 years of age and the groom Is 20. They will make their home In Hanging Grove township, residing in MaCoyeburg.

Entertained the T. H. D. Girls.

lllss Fannie Porter entertained the T. H. D. girls tor dinner Friday noon. The T. H. D’s. have been in existence since 1900, and originally consisted of a dozen young Igdlea. Just half of the girls are married now and at least half of the remaining half are show- j ing symptoms. But they are still the T, H, D. girls and are as lively when they gat together as they w«* way back in the double cipher era.< - Nine of the docen shared Ml s Porter's hospitality Friday. Fancy Michigan potato, sale. 75c bnshelß off car about October lDtb and 20th. CHICAGO BARGAIN BTORR.

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN

cratic control. The republicans have established labor bureaus in, 23 stat s of the 30; the democrats have established labor bureaus in 7 out; of 16. states. - *", The republicans have provided for factory inspection in 23 out of SO states; the democrats in 6 out of 16. The republicans have provided for boards of arbitration in labor disputes in 18 states; the democrats in 4. The republicans have establish d laws that prohibited the factory employment of children .under 14 years of age ih 23 states; the democrats in 4. ._ The republicans have passed laws restricting the employment of children of school age in factories; the democrats 9. > And the speaker went down a 1 ng list of similar proofs that repub- ' lican action hsd offset tiemocrai.c I promises, and in every respect of equal opportunity exca.d d deno ratic proof as & friend to ti e laboring man. Occasionally he Ulus rated s me p int by a dignified little s-ory that Bet the auditors in an uproar. He told of how the republicans h .d prosecuted the civil war, which destroyed the free labor that was so inimical to the success of paid l>b_r, and how the republicans bad rtpe l.d the Wilaon-Gorman bill, and passed a measure, that had s.obd the t* 4. of a dozen years. He said that he w>a one of those republicans thatgb 1 e ed the tariff should be reformed, but he did not want it dpue under the direction of its enemies, who had made so miserable a botch, of it when Mr. Bryan was in congress. He b. lived that the republicans would d * it right and with the sole object of being fair to the, laboring man, and the manufacturer, * whose prosper! y cr whose deprivations must be mutual. Schooled in the art of pleasing language and perfect gentility. Dr. Reed expounded fact after fact that the thinking man can not get around and hjs speech was well receded by the great audience, many pronouncing it the beat political speech they had tvtr beard in Repseelaet. Dr. Reed was followed by Thomas P. Lit lepag ,atc etary :o i ea. tu Hem n* Ufay, Who spqkjg briefly but fqfpibly and whose lemafks were also well* rci. i .... sport •* drived. « «* if >'••*. -.r.it The Huntington Ladies' Quir ete captivated the audience. Tpey hf d so many clever songs, and executed: ithem bo cleverly the a»di*t*e chew d them lustily. Several of the, songs, were take-offs on demiocratfd>cand?latea and the local pUiis created a gre t laugh. The Hensrelgev Watson Octe t also proved a Splendid of tkej occasion, and' the douuble qnar eite sang several lively campaign eanfcs, that called.for hearty approval. 1 -■ It waa a big meeting and m mighty good onb. * *'* rP?**’ . 1! ‘*'• ; ~

Today, Oct. 10th, la the 77th birthday anniversary of James T. Randle, who has been a resident of Jasper county since 1820. He thought it would be a good time to visit the only older resident of the county now living, vie Uncls David Nowels, and he did. and together (hey weut out buggy riding, Mr. Nowels is in hli 88th year and be came to this county In 1884, just one year before James T. Randle accompanied bis parents to Jasper. Mr. Randle Is in tery excellent henlh for bis age, but UncUl David is not falsing at all well, and be will not pass many more birthdays among us. He was 87 ye trs of age on Sept, 16. Both of these men have been very prosperous In a business way. and their final years are being spent in pleasant homes, assured to them by the Industry and frugality of tVsir younger days You will find that high grade flour le not the only thing that we are selling cheaper thun our competitors You will, find that we sell our complete line of groceries on the same low margin of profits.

Our Two Oldest Citizens.

JOHN EGER.

AND RENSSELAER JOURNAL

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1908.

Looking for Family of Ernest Becker

Sheriff O’Connor is in receipt of a communication from John Becker, "of SW Ureehwbbd Xve~" Harnil tn, Ohio, asking information about Ernest Becker, or his family, who, he says, resided in. or near this cty in 1881. He says that he understood that Mr. Becker was killed by a train, but h does not know for certain. If he was killed John Pecker, who is ills nephew, wants the address of his wife or of any member of his family, and has some important information to impart to them. If any reader of the Republican remembers the family they may be doiug them a kindly service by writing to the nephew.

Asks for $10,000 Damages.

George W. Sharp, formerly of R nsselaer, whose wife and lit le sen weie killed by a stieet car at Denny and Washington stree’s a few we ks ago while the wife was a ; tempting to s*ve the son from an approaching car, rued the Indianapolis T; action and TerminCompany last week for SIO,OOO damages. - The complaint makes the char g that the company’s servants in charge of the car which struck the math r and her child were negligent in tint the car was being run too rapidly. Mrs! Sharp and baby were buried in Weston ceme-ery lr*pt month, and the two remaiiling children are living witji friends here.

High School.

The finance committee of tie Athletic Association met and organized the membership. Almost all were loyal to the, school and joined the association. The class elections have been completed, and their presidents aie: Seniors, Lonzo Healy; Juniors, Forest Morjun; Spphomore?, James EUi ; Freshmen, Don Wright. The Fres: men and S •phemor s h ve had their class paruei, the f rmer at Porters and the latter at Hurda The Sophs- Wjsre not molested much, but the Seuiora and Sopbomor.s tur d out in, a body to annoy the Fieihmen. } A movement is on foot to organize a History Club , similar to the Classical Club of two years ago. Second and'third'year hisory pupils are eligible. There has been a system of excuses introduced for 1 brary work, which, while It seems to be a gr at dehl of “riAd tape," nevertheless a.emi necessary. to kb to the library tfow, a pupil have a statement of tiie teacher sending him. This must be signed by the teacher who has 'period, and by the 'librarian. v , t~ Perry has been training tie sopraoo division of the advmi''qd< t separately. an<J Afpnday spoke, PtflfPk** OrS *WWi a glee <Jub - ! » fllfl D- 8. bljfqry Clasp had bgfn tracing the progrgss. of thq campaign * reat and hps grown, quite lnhr r See the new bread mixer only $1.95. Chicago Bargain *roßte. ‘

Nebraska Will be for Taft.

Sheriff O’Connor received a portal i card the other dur from J. C. Jenkins, who is now/Ilving Ig Nebraska, but Who lylivWat Lake Village 111 Newton 3 ¥he front p&rt of. the postal had a smull picture of *fttft pasted Oh Bind Mr. Jtnklns lad writen op, Jack, let’s you and' I vote fpjrTgft and nntke It unanimous." On the reverse side of the cat d was *rpen, "*fo, thanks, we don’t want any change here. Corn 60 bushes, oats 70, wheat 35, rye 30, speitz 60, potatoes 200, and all combined with good prices. Nebraska for tafl Stand up for Nebraska!" Mr. Jenkins has two'brothers, George and Albert, who reside, In Newton county. And be will fiud that Indiana farmers are going to vote for Taft and stand up for Indiana, and for a iquare deal with no bosh politics that aie. merely formulated to deoeive. We know what the prices of farm products are now, and most of us can remember what they were prior to tt« .election of McKinley twelve yeais a go. At that time Grover Cleveland wag president William Jennings Bryan was" in congress, and he had voted for and aided In the p.iastg*cijf the WilsonGonuan tariff bill. The people of Indiana dou't want any change either. Our positive standing guarantee Is that we will refund your money if Aristos Is not absolutely the beet flour made. Only 11.40 a sack.

JOHN EGER.

William Augustus Churchill.

Wm. Augustus Churchill, eldest son of eight sons born to Wm, H. and "Louisa Churchilij was born in Crawford county, Ohio, on the first day of October, 1862. Moved with family to Jasper county, Indiana, in 1869 and graduated from public school in 1879, Commenced teaching and going to school alternately until he graduated in the Scientific Course at Valparaiso, Ind., In 1886. Then he w nt to Kansas, one term. Then he went to Los Vegas, N. Mex., clerked iu the office of the Santa Fe railway then went to Old Mexico, and from there to San Francisco spending some time at each of said places. Then he went to Seattle, Wash., and with a partner, took up civil engineering. Platting a portion of Seattle and several other towns on the Pacific coast, and also working for the government in its surveys in Washlgton and after about twenty years returned home and has now gone to rest, dying at the St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafayette, Ind., on the sixth of October, 1908, at the age of 46 years and 6 days. - v.

Deceased was a poor talker but a hard worker, both mentally and physically. In politics and religion was leberal and in finance was liberal to a fault, divinding with any one in need his last dollar. .I=--' -I ,v.. His brothers are: Marquis Austin Churchill, Randall, Minn.; Thomas Corwin, Churchill, Siloam Sp ings, Ark.; Fenton Orris Churchill, Rensselaer, Ind ; Luther Ellsworth Church ill, Fremont, Neb.; Marlon A'wood Churchill, Randall, Minn.; Cheney Oscar Churchill, died in Infancy, and Herman Hoyt ChurchPl, R ns el er, ind.

Michael Bernicken Is Dead.

Michael Bernicken, of Whettfield, died Saturday afternoon, after an illness ot sm3 leagh . Although he h:d nos been coufined to h : s bed but a few days he has been failing for some monthp. sor a number of jeais Mike wss engaged in the saloon business at Wheatfield, and retired only about a year ago, by the remons,ran:e route. Ijq was a very kindly man, and had a large number of friends throughout the cpqnty. He leaves a wife and four or rive children. Mr. Bernicken belonged to the local parish of the Catholic Order of , Foresters, and is the fir at mem! er of , that 6rder attached to this punish to die,, As the locai branch of esters was established In I and has maintained a membership averaging almost, 76, it is qul e a re“M!®! record for the ordqr. He carried a sl,oo)l).,msurance polipy with the order. The funeral was held this Monday morntag .at Whf?atfiel<J, and . State Chief Ranger E. P. Honan, of V one *r | drove tp at’end. the funeijal.' , r

Just as Soon be a Camel as Not.

B. N. Fendig received a badge from Frank Meyer, the assistant par-tnaaer at Gary < the other day. It is a 4-mc-cretie badge, given Out in Gary to Influence the votes of men «Aio want shtoons reinstated these. ' ■ The badge: reads "Vote the INDIANA STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET if you Want tb baa CaoteL’t T< e inference to be gathered is "if you want-tor live In a deatrt and gi t' 1 tty dnys w thout a drink vote the lepubllcaa ttate comparison; they would so ot belike ticket.” I And there Is, of course another inference to the effect that "it you want saloons reinstated in Gary you should vote the democratic state ticket” f It Well, there are a lot of people down this way that don’t mind the camel j comparison; they would.suorer be 'lke a camel than fish. The badge la reilly very funny, but It will be better political argument in Gary than it would in Rensselaer.

We will show you special bargains at the Q. EL Murray Co., Cloak Opening. Oct 14th. • For farm loans in a burry, ses A. J. McCormick, of tbs Lafayt te Life. All cloaks and suits delivered at our Cloak and Suit Opening Thursday, Oct 16th. Dent l forget the date. , ' 1 ROWLEB A PARKER. t < • i A fine line of cut roses, red and white. Deliveries. KING FLORAL CO. "Had dyspepsia or indgestlon for years. No appetite, and what I did eat distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood Bitten cured me.’’— J. tt Walker. Sunbury, Ohio.

DRAMATIC FINISH IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cubs Go to New York and Trounce the Giants in the Game That Decides the Pennant. rvrO Thif’ I • ■

There were great demoneti atlc ns cf delight in Chicago Thursday afternoon and night when the telegraph instruments had ticked off the final of the great ball game played in New Yoik city between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants and It was known that the Cubs had won and that the national league pennant was to float over the west side grounds for t : e third successive season. The New York game was made necessary by a decision of the national league magnates upholding a decision by Umpire O'Day that a game played between these two teams at New York on Sept. 23rd was a tie game. Both teams were claiming it, and should it have been awarded to either term: that team would have b.en the winrei' of the old league. As the game w. s called a draw another game was necessary to settle the pennant race, and Chicago went to New York and in the face of discouraging conditions and before many thousands cf. hostile fans, won the game by the score of 4 to 2. ,And the Cubs are! •pitched on the very pinnacle of base- 1 ball tome. • q 4 They are now pitted against the Detroit Tigers, winners of the Amer- j lean league pennant, for a series cf five cr more games to decide the ( world’s champiohship. These garnet’ are to be played as follows: WORLD’S SERIES. Oct. 13—Detroit. Oct. 14—Detroit Oct. 16 —Chicago. Oct. 16(if necessary—To be deta-

Who Mailed B. J. Moore $5?

Contractor B. J.' Mooie received a letter Thursday afternoon that has caused him a great amount cf study and he has not reached any c -n -lupion as to where it came from or wtyy it was Bent. —~~ The envelope was one of t’ e “Home Coming” kind, and the address was type written, as follows: "Judd Moore, Rensselaer, Indiana, Contrac or, personal.” Mr. Moore found upt n opennlg it that M contained a 15 bill, wrapped in a portion of a last Friday's Semi-Weekly Republican. The e was not a thing to indicate fr-m! whence it came, and Mr. Moore read 1 every bit of the newspaper in wbieh \ it was wrapped, thinking tin-tuit might contain some lndlcat ton of; who ] sent it. But there was nothing in' the paper (hat furnished any light on the matter. ' Thinking that possibly the person that sent It bad made a mistake and (nailed him $5 end sent a letter •which it was intended should go to hftn, to some other person, he wants to give the person an opportunity to correct the error and the $6 awaits its owner. '-I * V «■ H There le, however, a strong probability that the person that s nt it tried to disguise his Identity, for Mr. Moore has made a canvas Of die, town to try to find out who had addressed him a letter with a typewriter, but nb one who owns a machine has been found who addressed it. It is possible that the person who I sent It has received $5 some time from Mr. Moore that Wae not dog ; him and that he has become conscience stricken and has tent the money back, concealing his name. The occurrence has caused Mr. Moore a great amount of uneasiness and be can not get It off his mindAny information will be gladly received by him-

SPECIAL NOTICE. On Thursday, October 16th, we will have with us a representative from one of the largest cloak bouses la this country- Any lady thinking of buying coat or suit cannot afford to miss this opportunity. ROWLEB A PARKER. » 4 jj $ ■ We are showing the best Hue of Sterling clothing ever seen In town. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Any lady thinking of buying a ault or coat ought to come here on Thursday. Oct 16th. Bpedal Cloak and Suit Opening, 1 ROWLEB A PARKER.

TUESDAYS—FRIDAYS

ined by commission according to lot*. All games will begin at 2 o’clock. PLAYERS ELIGIBLE. * Chicago—Brown, Chance, Dnrbi*VEvers, Fraser, Howard, Kling, Krob, Lundgren, Morgan, Overall, PfJater, ReulbaeV Sbeckard, Slagle, Schulte, Tinker, Zimmerman. Detroit—Coughlin, Cobb, Crawfordt Downs, Donovan, D. Jones, Jennings Killian, Killifer. Me ntyie. MulL’j*, O’Leary, Rossman, Schmidt, Summa*% 1 Suggs, Schaefer, Thomas, Winter. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Chicago—General admission, fljlO; grandstand, not re erved, $1.60; gram* : stand, reserved, $2 00; box s a‘s, $2Ji«. Detroit—General admission, sloo* pavlUon, $1.50; grandstands, $2.00;. box seats, $?.50. DIVISION OF RECE PTB*> National commtestcn—Ten per Of gross on all games. Players—Sixty per cent of gross off first four games, after share of national commission is deducted; th* players’ share is divided GO per cot to winning team and 40 per cent losing team. Qwnerar-Ralance as er shades tc* players and national commission. Umpirear-O’Dpy and Klein for National league; Sheridan and Connelly for American league. HOW TO SECURE SEAT* Send certified Check to Chicago National League Ball Club, Corn Exchange building, Chicago, or appsgr at box office.

Insurance on Roselawn Building.

I. N. Beet carried f 1,500 insurances on his livery bam and contents, whfcte were burned Tuesday night in tijpw Roselawn fire. He owned the buildb- % jjaßugr pied was leased from Wm. Right, whose salopn occupied the comernext to the 'Jivei* amble. Mr. Right suffered tiie loss of the salopn bußding and most of the content* He he* im insurance on the building and » like amount on the stock. It sterns thgt the hotel bulldinc. had not yet been, frosm Scnrieber to Best and that the lop* w, “, fa !L on - Bcl^ >be f r % The Roselawn Lumber Co, warn owned by non-resident parties, a** thpr had about f S.OOg or $«,000 1) hsuranc* . . , Right’s saloon license does not e*#»W m, % V lo # been granted a license a short tins* the remonstrance from that township was filed. » will prefeam, rebuild aud It U r.poftt* « b. .11l pu, up . wmpowr •‘-C* apd reopen his saloon at once. He hpa, the oply saloon place jit is quite a money maker. . . !, «»f probahm that ( Best «■ also build a livery barn, but not im the land the old bam occupied ant Right ami a,re nqt' on fcsn»di» terms for the reason that teat 'paw Instrumental In circulating the aqwcessful remonstrance against suSoopw there. Mr, *Be#t did not toe on* eg his lively. team* tt had been runted out and although the party that had the team hired had ie’urned tn wm tys drive be had hot yet placed, th* horses in the hern, having hitch them to a rack near Leßue s atone The team that Hon. Zack Sclfrea long was valued at $760.

HoasehgM G««ds for Sale; All of the furniture and h.u.s> hold goods at the Wlldberg hone* will be sold at once. Everything to- eg the best quality and in firs! chum condition. There are surface, base burner, game line and oil stove*, range, 6 IT£» Royal Wilton and Brussel! rugs, sectional book case, dining room taUUe and chairs, Mason A Hamlin upright piano, music cabinet, Motri* chair and rockets, eatlier comb, halt rack, beds, mattresses and springs,. so» box. two fins birda-eye maple dieser* and wash stand, Lcj curtains, dlshxa and cooking ntensils. e’ecfric mrttr, etc. Call early and gel the flm pfdL 3d-lsw, fp ' 2S>; < ife*S* ' 4*

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