Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1908 — Page 1

TWICE A WEEK

VOL. XU.

Corn and Bread Contest

It has been planned to have the Bread and Corn Contest together with the Farmery’ Institute again this year. The institute will be held December 7th and Btb, and it is time that the boys who belong to the club begin to get their best 11 ears of corn together, and the girls to try their hand at baking bread. In the cprn contest any. one who secured seed last spring may enter. They should fasten their corn securely together and label it with their name and township in which they live. All corn should be sent to the place wi eie the institute is held not later than Monday evsping, December 7ih. It may be left at the ofiflce of ‘the County Superintendent before that time. One ear of pach bunch of corn will be carefully scored and the person sending it in may have it .to take home that he may %e wherein it is weak. The corn from each township will be judged and three prizes will be given for the three best lots from each township. The winners from each township will enter a county contest and other prizes will be arranged. In the bread contest all school girls between the ages of 9 and 18 may enter. They must prepare and bdke without help the* loaf of bread which they exhibit, and have it marked with their name, township in which they live and time at which the bread was baked. To this should also be attached a signed statement that they did all the work themselves. Prizes will be arranged In this the same as in the corn content. Alt bread should come in Tuesday morning, Dec. Bth. Girls may be excused from school on Monday in order to bake the bread. AH persons interested in the Farmers’ Institute should take hold Of this plan and help to make it the best possible. <

F. E Lewis Visits Rensselaer.

Frauk E. Lewis, the superintendent of the C. & W. V. railroad (Gifford road), who was so brutally assaulted and robbed two weeks ago Friday night, came to Rensselaer on .the 10:65 train this Saturday morning with his wife and two children, and went from here on the 6:40 train to Monon to remain over Sunday. From there he will go to Indianap lis to attend a meeting of the railroad superintendents of Indiana. Mr. Lewis is far from having recovered from the rough usage 1 e eceived at the hands of the robbeis. His spine was injured by ether t e blowß he received on his head or because he was struck on the back, and this injip;y is giving him t e most trouble, havings caused a p rtial paraTysis of his lower limbs and making it very painful for him to get about. This was his second time out of the house since he wrs assaulted. Nothing has bien found out about the assault, and what dues the officer* had have been about abandoned. Mr. Lewis gave the account of the assault Just as he remembe ed it He was leaving the railroad office and had just reached the door when he was confronted by two men, one small and the other large. Tie small man flashed a dark lantern in his face and covered him with a revolver and at the same time he wrs felled to the ground with what he thinks WM a Wow over the head from a sand bag. A little later he was conscious of crawling Into the of. Ice and remembers that he climbed' up With his bands on his desk, aqd think he was grouping around for the telephone. The instrument is. a woll phone and be succeeded In rea h : ng it and when an answer, to his ring came from Whited’s store he said, "My God, hurry over He dc«3 not recall this but the man at the store skid that is the message that came. He either fell after telephoning or was struck again and he is now inclined to be’ieve that he was hit over the head with a beer bottle, which was afte ward found in the office. 8o violently was he hit the first time that the entire top of his he d was bruised and was so s nsatlve that he suffered in'ense pain. As so much of the surface of tie be id was injured he thinks he must have been struck with a sand bag .The beer bottle had raised letters on it and each of these had made a dent 1& the scalp. When first struck Ms. Lewis had a cap on his head, the rim of the cep being firm, and this had somewhat modified the blow, which might otherwise resulted fatally. It was a very dose call, and Mr. Lewis will probably be e long time ia regaining his former strength.

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

On recent occasions the Jasper County Democrat has frequently referred to Dr. I. M. Wa hbu: n as t, e owner of the Republican. Tills elicits the reply that Dr. Was .bu n has some stock in the concern, but that it is not a contiollng lute e t and that he haß nothing whatever to do with the business or editorial control of_ this paper, and he has vnever by. suggestion or otherwisS lute feied with the policy of the paper. Ti e Republican is a money making business and needs no financial baker. Since the Demcciat take * su.h delight in saying that Dr. Washburn is tbe financial backer of the paper, we feel free to mention that the Jasper County Democrat according to m rtgftges on file at the recorder’s office Is owned by Mrs. May Babcock, the First National Bank of Rensselaer, and the Mermen thaler linotype C 0.,. of Chieqgo. And, as John Jesseu now seems to ba editing the paper, Babcock seem to cui very much of a figure any morn. 70 cents a bushel for potatoes off the car. See Rhoades, the giocer.

Wasps on a Drunk.

Culver Citizen. ' Residents of the west part of town have recently been watching with some amusement the antics of the swarms of wasps which keep themselves In a perpetual* state of Intoxication by imbibing the juice of the fermented apples which, are rotting- In an orchard. The wasps go to the * orchards in legions, suck themgplves full of cider and then start back for their homes with- a jigger on that would be the envy of a crowd of hoboes. Evidently happy as lords, they zig-zag their Mg it this way and that, with sudden, toppling lunges to one side or the other, and all the time keeping up a buzzing that in the wasp language is plainly enough a flow of maudlin screeches and laughter. Soon a portion of them lose their power of locomotion and ; after a few dizzy whirls drop by the way-side and lie helpless, while others, with stronger heads, will surge along for'a time until they bump up against a house where they too drop in a struggling mess to the ground, roll over end are dead to the world. As soon as nature reasserts itself and they lecover consciousness they go back to the orchard and load up again.

Commissioners’ Proceedings.

Larkin C. Logan, gravel to: d, G!l----lam township, contractor allowed 1400. Knowlton stone road, contractor allowed $2,057.76 on estimate of engineer. i - —— " ' ' "T **!■ r ■ The engineer’s certificate of completion on Grace stieet, Clark street. Front street from Washington to Rutson, College Avenue from Washington street to Bouth corporation line, Main and Division streets, from Merritt to railroad, was approved by the boaid.

M. Douglas, petition for highway, viewer’s report approved establishing highway to width of 50 fe t. Lewis Welsh, petition to vacate highway, viewer’s rep or ( approved vacating highway as petitioned for. John R. Lewis, pe ition for ditch. Final report of superintendent of construction examined and approved, and superintendents dl.-charged. Thomas Red gate, petition for doc I ’. No remonstrance on file. The viewer’s report Is approved and asses - meats confirmed and Thomrs G. Redgate is appointed Supe Int nden of Construction. Atto.ney fee of $lO ordered paid. The auditor was d rected to gi e notice for bids for suppl es fir the county farm for quarter ending February 28 th. v. In the matter of the.impiocenunt ol the Jungles ditch petitioned I r by Thomas Davis et al. cause set for trial the 2d day of December term. The board of finance reported interest collected on. county funds as follows: " . ,

First National Bank, Reus el. e - , interest for September, $69.10. First National Bank, Remingt n interest for October, $49.27. State Bank, of Rensselaer, interest for October, $59.49. Jasper Savings and Trust Co., Rensselaer,—interest for Octobe •, $68.49.

Bank of Wheat field, interest for' October, $14.14. The report of the Fiist N. ti n 1 Bank of Rensselaer, for the nuntn It October was not fi.ed.

To Whom the Democrat Belongs.

AND RENSSELAER JOURNAL

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1908.

CHARLES F. BARRETT, Evangelist

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The following - will be Mr. Barrett’s topics for the evening meeti tgs of tbelirst week: Monday—“ The Tree Climbers of Rensselaer.” Tuesday—“ God’s Compound Interest.” Wednesday—“ What This Church Needs.” - Thursday—“ Rensselaer’s Most Popular Sin.” Friday—“A Mighty Narrow Escape.”

NOTICE. ... i It was deemed wise to send to Chicago for Dew singing books tcdry and they will be in use in the mret ng tonight. Male quartette b oks were

Jolly Crowd Will See Rhillips.

* WANTED—A wolf; a leil li e wolf. If one can be procured between now and Tuesday ’evening, Nov. ICtiT, It will be taken to Lafayct e and presented between the acts of "the Wolf’ to Mr. Augustus Phillips, in whose honor the theatre party has been formed. Chas. But sell, the noied wo f, slayer of Hanging Grove township,' was appealed to to procu e a live wolf but Charley sets forth that his ■ game is to kill wolves and not to j capture them, and therefore tie en- j thusiastlcs here who had banked on j Charley to get the w6lf, received quite a jolt. But the woif proport ion has I not been given up and if one can be j procured it will certainly Le taken to i the Lafayette Grand opera house and presented to Gus by Mayor Ellis. Another plan is to have euch cf t v e party wear a ribbon stienmer of red and black, across which will be printed "Sme's Son,” and also the' date of the performance. It will be remembered that during the long I years that Gus has been away fn m Rensselaer he has always kept a keen i interest in the old town and that every time there .was a football game or other events in which Rens eLer was interes'ed, Gus would telegraph some words of encouragement from New York cn tbe morning of the s*me and "the boys” would telegraph him the result. So the boys are going to let him know that they app. e.late him and his interest in tyid they are going to ghe Idm- a splendid ovation. Up *to last night 134 tickets bed been sold. The e seats are all together, so that the Rensselaer crowd will be ull ill the same part of the house. Several unescorted ladies are going with the party and any others that cate Jo do so will be seated with the crowd and have its pro»e‘Lion. This is going to be a Jolly crowd and any persons who have not 'yet arranged to go had better conclude to go along. The trip to Lafayette will be made on the milk train and the round trip will be $1.26. Returning a special train Will ie*ve after the perfoimanc*. It la probable that several other stunts will be pulled off and a fine time is planned, ■< " a^aaM&aii Plenty of nice rooms for rent. Apply at McKay's store, or' phone 452. ;V : -;

also secured and music will be one of the prominent features of rite revival. Be sure and hear tie evarg - list tonight on "The Tiee Climbers of Rensselaer.” .

The Chicago Stock Show.

The Intern tiorial Live Stock Exposition held this year from November 2Sih to Deceml er 10th, is the supreme court of the year’s pr**» winners, justly styled the shew of champions, the show within whose portals the bluest blood of the I>qvine, owine and porcine fern li s struggles for sup: emacy, the exposi- | tion whose educational value cannot be overestimated. * ! Here the foremost breede.s, wjho, *by constant study, mutual contact, I observation and comparison, have ! succeeded in . producing the best*, 1 are giving the world the benefit of ; their labors. Here the breeder and | feeder are shown by actual blo?k .•demonstration by what methods their work can be made more profitable, and the kind of animals the butcher wishes them to supply. These and the many* other object lessons that 1 can only be learned by a visit to • this great exposition make a visit . to the ‘'lnternational” a paying Inv e t l rnent and part of the training of every progressive fa mer, feeder and breeder.

Iroquois Club Gives a Dance.

A new social organization in Rensselaer is the Iroquoiß Club, composed of a number of . young men. They have rented quarters in the Odd Fellows building and have ih. m nicely furnished; every app intment showing excellent, taste. Thursday evening the club members, who are the Beau Brummels of city, gave a dance to several of their lady friends,' the participants numbeiing about fifteen couples. It was a very enjoyable event

New Suit Filed.

James H. Chapmen vs. Tirsah A. Garrison et al. Foreclosure of mortgage.

Earstus Peacock Appeals Cate.

* Erastus Peacock, who was trled and convicted on the charge of wife desertion In the Newton county court at Kentland at this term, having be n fined SIOO, Friday filed an appeal bond and the cave w+H be g*ren~a hearing in the appellate court. Now lets’ down to business.

MARSHALL’S OFFICIAL PLURALITY IS 13,669

Republicans Elect All But Three State Officers, and Democrats Prepare to Contest Elections.

The result of the election In Indiana last week shows that the republicans won all offices but governor, lieutenant-governor and attorney general. The complete returns from all counties wei e compiled Sunday in the ofiice of the secretary of state.

George W. Self led the Republican can ticket, defeating Bert N.w for reporter of the Supreme Court by 1,277. ' :

While many of the Republican candidates won by small pluralities, the complete and official returns set at rest the doubt which existed as to the offices of attorney general and

superintendent of instruction. James Bingham, Republican candidate for attorney general, was defeated by Walter Lotz by a plurality of 901. Lawrence McTurnan (Rep.), won over Robert J. Aley for superintendent of public instruction by a plura l y of 211. John C. Bill! eimer’s plurality for auditor of state over Mnrion Bailey, Democrat, was only 228. The races for the offices of auditor, treasurer, state statistician and superintendent of public ins! ruf tion were very close. Oscar Hadley’s plurality over laenbarger (D m.), for treasurer is 838. J. L. Peetz won the office of state statistic! n over P. J. Kelleher( Dem.) by a plurali.y of 316.

The Republican victory in the races for the Supreme and Appellate Courts was more clearly dcf.cei. Q. A. Myers (Rep.) has a plurality cf 1,041 over M. B. Lairy (Lem.) for judge of the Supreme C>u t, FI tn District. David Mye s (Re;).) _. defeated E. W. Felt (D m.) by 1,165. Marshall’s plurality over W;t‘on was 13,660, Maisnall ;eceivi; g 318 496 votes. The vote for Watson was 334,483.

Frank J. Hall (D m.) won over Freemont Goodwine (Rep.) for lieutenant Governor by a plurality of 154. Fred Sims (Rep) dfaated James F. Cox (Dem.) for se ret ary of state by 997. When the vote was tabulated in the secretary of stale's office it was done in the presence of representatives from, the Democratic state committee, and when it was finished Democratic representatives said that they were satisfied irith the count as it had been tabulated. Concerning the content wlich the Democratic candidates decla e w.il be. instituted the Republicans say

When the New Officers Go In.

Thomas R. Marshall will take office along with the lieutenant governcr. The other state officers elected at Tuesday’s election will take office on the following dates: Seeretaiy of state, November 24; attorney-gen-eral, clerk of the supreme court, state statistician, judge of the supreme court and judge of the appellate cou-t, January 1; sta e treasurer, Februaty

10; superintendent of public instruc j tion, Marcli 15th. Congressman Crurapa' ker will su - ceed himself on Murch 4, 1909. Judge C. W. Han’ey will suceelj himself as Judge of the Newtbn-Jas-per circuit court on Jan. 1, 1909; a. which time Fied Locgwell ail b c me prosecuting attorney, sueteehog R O. Graves, of Morocco. Abraham Halleck, of Ren se.se*, 1 will take his seat as a number cf the state Benale on Jan. Ist, succeeding Algle J. Law, who was ele tel Lr the short term. John G. Brovn will also become the repretentatH e of White and Pulaski counties at t • same time, succeeding Cur is D. Meeker, of Montlceilo. Jesse D. Allman will not conclude his first term as county treasurer until Dec. 31, 1909, and he will then succeed himself for two more years, so that he has still a little over three years to serve. , John W. Tilton will have four yean to serve, his second term as recorder beginning Jan- Ist 1909, Louis P. 9hlrer will succeed John O’Connor M sheriff on Jan. 1, 1909. Jennings Wright will also su ceed

TUESDAYS—FRIDAYS

that even with an additional canvass of the vote the majorities are sufficiently substantial to show a victory for them. “If a contest is instituted,” said Mr. Bims, “I believe it will result in uncovering- some irregularities la Democratic strongholds. I believe that a contest would result in showing that the Republicans have won their offices.” Frank J. Hall of Rushville, elected Lieutenant Governor, was in the e'ty yesterday. He attended the me t- ■ ing of the candidates, and said that Jhe believed that the vote ought o show that the majority of the Demo-

cratic- ticket had been successful. The Democraict candidates who were defeated at the election, according to official figures in the offl e of the secretary of state, announced after a conference in Democratic headquarters yesterday that In all probability a contest will be instituted with the Legislature in order to determine the result* of the vote Veiled charges of iri egularlties in the count in the various counties we e made by lame of the candidates, but they all declined to go into detail of the grounds their contest will be based.

Members of the Democratic state committee worked all day tabulating figures that - have been seat iu from various counties and those th t had been received from the secretary of state. T hey had re e’ved only, a small portion of he offici i figures, however.

The question of the probable effe t of the election of Thomes_R. Marshall on the return to Kentucky of W. S. Taylor and Charles Fin’ey', who have been in this state for eight, years, has been raised amorg t’ e friends of both men. Mr. Taylcr, when seen at his home, declined to l>e interviewed oh the subject, but close' friends of both men have declared that the election of Mr. Marshall will not in any way effe t them.

It has been explained that the e can be no action taken by the Governor of Indiana until some actl n is taken by the Go e nor of Ke - tucky. 11 is generally understood, also that Governor Willson will n t issue a requisition for the return cf the two men unless he can get a promise for a fair trial from fh* prosecution, and this, friends of Taylor and Finley say, can not be done.

himself as coronor, beginning k s new term, Jan. Ist, 1909. County commissioners are elected for three year te. ms, and John FeLet succeed himself on Jan. I, 1909, and Chas. T. Denham on Jan. 1, 1910. The trustees lei ms of office ere !of four years length and begin Jan. 1, 1909.

Sale of Parker Land.

Trustee W. H. Cheadle closed Ue bids on the 70 acres of land known as the Fountain Park land this week. Christian Hensler having filed tb® highest bid $7,500 becomes the owner. This land adjoins Mr. Hensle ’9 homestead and will make a valuable addition to his farm, but be buys >t subject to a 21 year lease to ti e Fountain Park Co. which pro vice* mat it must keep in its present condition subject only to natural wear and decay. Consideiiug (his lec*e which naturally curtails the earning capacity of the land the creditors of tne bank should feel that it was well sold. —Remington Press. Evening Btar Chapter, No. 41, til hold a special meeting Monday evening, Nov. 9tb. Montlceilo and Monon chapters and the Grand Matron will be with us. All membere of bar e chapter are requested to be piecenl. KATE GLAZEBROOK, Secy. Spire! is is the only corset aceompanled by an official coupon, guaranteeing* duplicate ;|l*p In case of break or rust Inside of one year, li has no equal. MRS. a W. GOFF. Ooraetier.

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