Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — Page 2

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FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE

Prevention of Contagion * _____ e We should be as willing at all * times to do as much to protect • our neighbor’s children as we • would demand that our neigh- ♦ bors do to protect ours. • The all important thing to do • in preventing the spread of con- * tagion in a community is to see * to it that sick children are not * allowed to mingle with children • that are well. This means the • exclusion of sick or ailing chil- • dren from th® 'schools and ♦ churches and that they must not ♦ be permitted to mingle with oth- * er children until the depart- ♦ ment of health says it is safe • for them to do so. ♦

HIGH SCHOOL.

Mr. Tillman took the Physical Geography class for a trip Wednesday, looking for stones for class study. This is the end of another six weeks and has brought with it the usual examinations and lamentations. The Junior English classes are reading Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King.”

Miss Perry resumed her duties after her absence on account of sickness. She is training the Girl’s Glee Club to sing at the commencement. A senior class meeting was Monday night to decide on the class-' play. Miss Shedd read “The. Fair CoEd,” the choice of the committee, and it was approved by the class. The Junior German pupils have finished reading “Gluck Auf” and will now read "Kinder und Haus Marchen.” The Science Club met Thursday evening, April 15, in the Library auditorium. The club entertained the freshmen, who will be eligible for membership next year. The following program was rendered: Duet, Helen Murray and Miss Stockbridge. “Flat Lands” , James Ellis “The Twentieth Century Farmer”.... Ralph Hammond “The Science Club in 1950” Miss Shedd Freshman class meeting. Refreshments were then served by the refreshment committee, Lonzo Healy, Blanche Babcock, Wilma Peyton and John Knox.

Don’t Like the Name of The Rensselaer Wrens.

The local fans regard the bird-likc title given them last year, that of the “Wrens,” as a hoodoo, and have determined to change it and give it a name that will have a greater incentive to victory. The lads are convinced that there is something in a name and they say they will not stand for the name (hat followed them with such fatal results last year. The think-tanks of a cjozen ball players have been working over time in an effort to produce a name that is certain to bring and Catcher Wilcox is of the opinion that the "Athletics” Is the most appropriate name. While the Republican was partial tc the name of “Wrens,” the suggestion for that title having eminated from this office, we shall be glad to see them adopt any other name if it will cause them to win.

Dr. Horton Lost $2l; Lee Kepner Found It.

A man Is lucky to have money to lose. He is lucky if he loses it to have It fall into honest hands. Dr. J. W. Horton lost s2l Friday; two tens and a one dollar bill. It had worked its way out of his pocket and fallen on the street. Lee Kepner, who works in Free Wood’s barbershop, found the money. Lee looked in the Evening Republican to see if the owner had advertised it. No ad was there and Lee thought he would advertise ft the next day himself, but early in the morning Dr. Horton dropped into the barbershop and remarked that he had lost the money. Lee pulled it out of his pocket promptly and restored ft to its owner. Dr. Horton gave him <2.60, a very liberal reward. It Is fortunate the money fell Into honest hands.

G. Wood’s Family Quarantined; Another Child Sick.

Further particulars have been received as to the sickness and death of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, who moved to South Dakota a few weeks ago. R. B. Porter, on whose farm Mr. Wood is living, has written a letter giving the particulars of the death. The Woods have been living in a frame house on Mr. Porter’s land. The death of George Alton Was caused by spinal meningitis and pneumonia. Their seven year old daughter, Victorina, also has the same disease. Mrs. Porter waited upon the family during the sickness, and during her presence at the house the officers quarantined the family, and she is now there, and will have to remain with the quarantined family for the present. The family was not allowed to attend the burial of the son, which makes .the grief doubly great. The neighbors are rendering all the assistance possible, but the family being isolated, not much can be done to help them. Certain forms of this disease are contagious, and it is customary' in such cases to establish a quarantine.

Blutstein Skins Weinstein’s Nose; Bernstein a Witness.

Max Weinstein was in town this Friday afternoon having his nose dressed by a local physician and seeking a warrant for assault against Alex Blutstein, another Polish Jew. Mr. Bernstein, another Jew, was here to back up Weinstein, as he was a witness to the assault. Moses Leopold, ex-prosecutor, advised the parties to return home and keep out of court, which they did. Blutstein and Weinstein are farmers in the Gifford region. Weinstein sold a load of hay to Blutstein, but when Weinstein went for his pay, Blutstein claimed he had contracted for two loads and refused to pay for the single load. Weinstein had no more hay to spare and insisted that he wanted his money. Blutstein thereupon became enraged and made for Weinstein with a hatchet, Weinstein alleges, and a skinned nose was the result.

Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Car Makes World’s Record.

The endurance test of 10,000 miles of the Maxwell-Briscoe non-stop car was finished at 4:30 p. m. Monday. Total distance traveled, 10,074 miles. Immediately after the run the car was tried out on Coray Hill, a 22 per cent grade, and found in perfect condition. The gasoline consumption was 679 gallons; average per gallon, 14 8-10 miles. Oil consumption, 429 quarts. Only 4 quarts of water was added to the radiator. The car was turned over to the Technical committee in charge of Prof. Park of the New England Technical Institute. The world’s record for endurance and reliability was firmly established. The Rensselaer Garage has the agency for these popular cars in Rensselaer and would be pleased to demonstrate their merits to any prospective customer.

Editor-Postmaster Martin Is Sued for a Divorce.

A sensational suit for divorce was filed Wednesday in the Laporte circuit court by Mrs. Rose M. Martin, wife of Charles E. Martin, postmaster and newspaper man at Westville. Cruelty is charged and a temporary allowance and permanent alimony are asked. The complaint sets forth that her husband is worth $4,000, that his Income from the Westville Indicator, of which he is the publisher and editor, amounts to >I,OOO a year, while the office of postmaster pays $720 annually.

The couple were married July 16, 1899, and separated the last time on April 12 last. Mrs. Martin is now living in Laporte with her aunt, Mrs. R. H. Saunders. The plaintiff filed her first suit for divorce in 1904, but a reconciliation followed.

The defendant in this suit is quite well known in Rensselaer, being quite prominent in Republican state politics, and having visited here when a candidate for the nomination for a state office.

Werner, the Tailor,

desires to Inform the public that he has completely recovered from his recent illness and is prepared to do your work With promptness as before. He has an elegant display of samples have an elegant display of samples and would like to make you a new spring and summer suit Cleaning and repairing always taken care of at once. Remember his place, over Fendig’s drug store.

ESCAPE FROM FIRE.

Human life has often been thrown away by persons taking the precaution to accustom their minds to dwell on proper methods of acting In emergencies; for want of this many rush into the jaws of death. College girls should know every means of escape should fire break out in the night when they mpst depend almost wholly upon their own wits for escape. Girls in boarding houses, schools or lodging houses of any kind should be very cautious of fire. Often a flaming gas jet courts the flying lace curtains and it takes but an Instant for the Are to make great headway. The most disastrous garment a girl can wear in winter is a nightdress of flannel. Once it is ignited, the flames instantly envelop the entire body. Muslin does not burn so rapidly. Another precaution should be taken in making these garments so as to be easily torn off in case of fire, when the gown is ignited, yet hundreds of girls wear the kind without buttons that are slipped on over the head—winding sheets, nothing more. Naturally the mind is confused if one is awakened in the night from a sound sleep. Doors should be kept closed to prevent a draught. A wet towel thrown over the head and face has prevented many serious burns and also enabled persons to escape through dense smoke. One should value life too dearly to jump from a window until dire necessity would compel such an act A college girl I know carries in her trunk a long con of' rope. She takes it every

place she goes so that, in case of fire in college or any place where she is stopping, she could avail herself of it without the least trouble. It always hangs on a wardrobe hook ready for use. In escaping by means of a rope, a towel should be held in the hands to prevent them from being torn on the coarse rope. The rope should be firmly tied to a heavy piece of furniture. It is a terrible thing to lose one’s belongings in a fire, but clothes can be purchased again and human life cannot, so value life before personal belongings, let them be ever so precious. There are always from eight to ten inches of pure air next to the floor. If one is suffocating with smoke, and can remember to kneel for a breath of fresh air, there is chance for escape. Do not rush toward a hot flame or into dense smoke, the heat causes suffocation as soon as it enters the lungs and one is liable to faint.

The Obnoxious One.

She who accepts a courtesy as a matter cf course, or, if it is not offered, demands it, if not in words, by her sour looks. The woman who forces her personality upon strangers and expresses her opinion even though she knows it is not wanted. The boasting woman who is always parading her important relatives and snubbing those who do not add to her prestige. She who is domineering to her inferiors and cringing to those from whom she has something to gain. She who thinks it too much trouble to say a quiet word of thanks when a seat is offered to her in the street car. The loud-voiced woman and the one who is slangy or tells stories better untold. The woman who is not Interested and does not hesitate to show it regardless of the other person’s feelings. She who goes to concert or lecture solely for the pleasure of hearing her own voice and who looks aggrieved or gets impertinent when irritated neighbors try to hush her.

The woman who takes more than her share of a common belonging. She it is who piles her bundles ostentatiously next the aisle in a crowded car and scowls when the conductor asks her to give up the seat.

She who gushes over a person she dislikes and cannot wait, until that same person’s back is turned to revile her. She who thinks conversation was made to spread scandal and who will tear up her best friend to raise a laugh.

The woman who considers it clever to be cutting and has no thought how much it hurts.

The woman whose God is gold, whose conversation bristles with money and whose vision shuts out all of life that is not convertible into cold coin or its equivalent, pomp.

Soups for Vegetarians.

That good soups cap be made without meat stock, the following recipes will show: Cream of Tapioca—Cover one-third of a cup of tapioca with two cups of cold water and let stand all afternoon. Add one quart fresh milk, a minced onion, two stalks of celery cut fine, and a blade of mace. Season and add one tahlespoonful butter with water to make it the desired consistency. Onion, rice and celery soups may be made by the addition of proper seasoning on a foundation of thickened milk or cream.

Polish for Fire Grates.

Get five cents’ worth of liquid asphalt at the druggists and thin it with turpentine. This makes a black polish much superior to the usual iron or steel vafhishes for fire placet. It can also be used for the sides of a stove, but not the top.

BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE.

Comfort reigned around the little campfire that evening; pipes were smoked and tea was brewed, material accompaniments to chat and cheer. Then some one asked a question; just what, is immaterial; only the answer matters. —r “Boys,” said Puffle seriously, “I thought last winter I was out of it Close call, you ask? Well, pretty close, I had started out from Revelstoke with the usual outfit a 26 foot Peterboro loaded down to about the six-hundred-pound limit with allmy traps. I went away up Canoe River and had been having pretty good luck, when, boys, I played the fool. I got in a hurry. I took overlong hikes and ate cold grub to save time. We fellows don’t dare do that. No man in the winter woods can stand cold grub; he must cook well and take his rest. Then it doesn’t matter if he has to wade creeks and sleep wet and live wet days at a time; he can resist it, he’s got the fuel in him. We have a rule that when we get in a hurry, we must camp a whole day and think it over. When I found myself going, I did camp and think it over, but I guess I was a bit late about it. I dug Oregon grape and princess pine and boiled them down for blood tonic and was lucky enough to find some foxglove for my heart, which had begun to kick too hard when I climbed. Then I hurt my foot before the roots had put me in shape, and when I found a toe black one morning I knew I must pull for down river. I cached my stuff and started. I had to hurry then.

All day I snowshoed, biting hard on a bit of pine to forget the pain. Nights I’d find a hollow cedar log, cut holes in it about ten feat apart tor draft, kindle a fire at the end an d He down on the log. When the fire had burned up to the draft hole at my foot, I moved up another hole. When I couldn’t find a log; I’d dig a pit down in the snow, kindle a brush fire in it and sleep at the edge of the ashes. I reached Smith Creek all right, and by then my whole foot was black. Boys—may I live to forget it —I fell in crossing the creek: fell in over head and ears, in ice water, and nothing between me and Revelstoke to help me. If I stopped, besides the certainty of freezing, I knew my hurt would never let me start again; and I didn’t think I could keep on going. I felt I was gone, but I resolved I’d die hard and play the game through. Off I hiked on the raquettes; awful going it was, the pain killing me by inches and every rag on me frozen solid. Night came; I kept on like a’madman, for I dared not stop a ( second. If 1 drowsed an instant I was dead. I reached White’s cabin; all nature urged me to go in for a rest I had reason enough to know it would be my last rest, so I hit the trail steady with an awful limp. I prayed Kelly might be in his cabin, but it was cold and shut. When I reached Mosquito Landing I was dying, but the thought of only cix miles more kept me going. When I had been hiking steady for 42 hours. I fell into my own door and things swam and went dark. It was three months even to crutches. The sawbones all said I’d die; but didn’t I fool ’em? Going out again next winter! Sure. I’ve got to go back for that cache. A man must live, you know.”— Outing.

DISCORDS.

When there is no garden to make man knows how. Straws and straw (hats show which way the wind blows. Somehow, we seldom hear the poor talking about the blessings ol poverty. There are always a lot of fellows who would like to see the man at the top fall off. Out in lowa a woman had been deaf and dumb for seven years. One day the family mule kicked a dishpan through the kitchen window and the woman said “Drat that mule” and has been . talking ever since. The farmer took the mule to town and traded him for a pound of tobacco and a rabbit’s foot. It beats all how some men are continuously out of luck. *

Sounds Funny to Hear-

A young man who eats peas with his knife express wonder at the dexterity of a Chinaman with chos bticks. The father of six make fun of the father of one when he tells of the wonderful things it does and says. The gentleman who willingly war bles ballads at evening parties on the least provocation, criticise the raucui tones of his neighbor’s phonograph ' The youpg woman who wraps a rag around her finger so she won’t be asked to play commenting on the performance of those who are not sc full of tricks. A hen try to crow, a thin man sing a laughing tong, an old maid talk baby talk, an undertaker tell a joke, a farmer boy using slang for the first time, and a confirmed prevaricator trying to tell the truth. A man once asked Thackeray to lend him five shillings, which he would convert into £20,000. Asked how, he explained that he knew s young woman with £20,000 whom he knew would marry him if he asked her, but he had pawned his teeth, and wanted five shillings to redeem them, in order to propose effectively —T. P.’s Weekly.

ILLINOIS TURTLE FARM.

A mud turtle farm, which will also be devoted to the raising of mushrooms, gold fish and guinea'pigs, is the latest venture of the head of one of the big Western Railroads. President H. I. Miller of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois is the man who has hit upon this novel form of diversified farming as a relief cares, and he intends incidentally to show the formers of the grain belt guinea pigs will pay bigger dividends than even 80 cent corn. The farm is located at Barrington, a suberb of Chicago, and is a tract of rolling timbered -land. Numerous lagoons and roads are being dug at various points on the property and an elaborate system of irrigating ditches will be established. The guinea pig yards will cover several acres and will be the largest, it is expected, in the country. The mushrooms will be allowed to grow wild wherever they will in marshy spots and damp nooks in the woods. With the starting of the farm comes to light some interesting facts about a little known Industry. It is estimated that over 10,000 turtles are consumed annuallly in Chicago restaurants. Some of them are terrapin, but the greater part are mud turtles, soft shells and snappers. The demand for mushrooms is enormous.—Macomb Journal.

How a Platform is Built.

Building a platform at a political convention reminds one of the side show of a circus. While owing its existence to the main show it is separate and distinct from it, and you have to pay a separate price of admission. A good many folks who came to this convention had a chance to take in this side show, because it was held in the parlor of the biggest hotel and was of easy access for the crowds. There were several acts to the platform play, each act consuming almost an entire day. In the first act a procession of strange looking men appeared, each bearing a. plank, tapped on the door and were admitted singly. They left their planks all tagged and came out again. The next act is invisible to the audience. A low rumbling is heard at times from the stage and occasionally there is a loud noise as a heavy plank falls. The audience thrills as it grasps the momentous Importance of these sounds and what, they mean. • Some of the men who carried their own planks into the room now stand around and speculate as to whose plank it was that fell and strain their ’ears for some sound that will reassure them. It is like a scene on a stage, a la Belasco.

The third act is the longest act of all. The low rumble has now become a roar. All of the cast is now engaged. Some of the men who took planks into the room are taken in for the torture of seeing these planks, born amid so much travail, planed and chiselled and sawed up in their sight until little is left, or else broken up for kindling wood. There is a sudden call for typewriters, and a battery of them dashes up. Men appear in an anteroom, place something in one of these machines and stand around while the machine grinds out a brand new plank made of the remnants of several old ones. Amid increasing excitement these planks are all placed in a pile. Then comes the supreme moment. A committee of expert carpenters with skilled hands comes out of the main temple, approach this pile reverently, examine the marks on the different planks and begin building the platform. They must work quickly, for the hour is late. Some of the less expert carpenters stand about and watch the structure as it assumes shape, now and then looking at their watches. At last it is finished, picked up and borne into the inner temple. There is a moment of breathless excitement. Then.the doors of this temple swing open, the high priests walk out slowly as befits their station. The platform has been accepted. The nation has been saved. —New York Sun.

Ballooning as a Fad.

The airship crapk of a year ago is a scientist today. In the rooms of the Aero Club they have a model airship on exhibition. Attached to it is a rubber motor. The machine is made to fly about 20 feet, and there Is always an interesting audience watching the flight. All of which shows that the public is beginning to be Interested in aerial trips. In a tailor’s window nearby is a woman's ballooning suit. The suit is of soft gray cloth, with a smart jacket, fitted over a waistcoat of red silk, and knickerbockers. "This Is the third balloon suit I have made for the wives of rich aeronauts," said the tailor. ‘-They are all knlcker suits. Ballooning is too dangerous to admit of cumbersome and entangling skirts. Pretty and modest rigs they are.”—Pittsburg Dispatch. Insuring forests against destruction by fire is an innovation in the Northwest. One company has 8,000,000 acres under its charge. The forests .are patrolled by rangers to guard against Area Japan has 32 timepiece factories, of which 28 are tn Nagoya, one in TOklo and six In Osaka. The annual output is 209,703 standing clocks, 441,765 hanging clocks, 25,860 watches, representing a value of $794,900.

MT. AYR.

(From The Pilot.) r- r < Miss Jessie Merry, of Chicago, spent Sunday here with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Merry. J. S. Brenner, of Roselawn, was in town a few hours last Sunday shaking hands with old friends. Morocco has decided to celebrate the Fourth. We hope they will do better than they did last year. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hopkins came up from Fdresman Sunday and spent the day with home folks. J. M. Hufty and wife spent the day last Sunday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Yeoman. H. G. Clark spent a couple of days last week fishing at the Kankakee. He. made several fine catches. Dr. Merry was avßensselaer visitor last Sunday afternoon, he accompanying his daughter Jessie to the train at that place. Harris Martin has purchased the Garrity residence property and we understand will move into it as soon as it is vacated by Mr. Garrity. Geo. Peck has severed his connection with the Hufty meat market. It is quite likely that he wilt remain in this locality this summer and play ball with the Mt. Ayr team. J. B. Ashby, our former harness and furniture dealer, has purchased the Garrity saloon building and will join it onto his present furniture room and enlarge his business quite extensively. Miss Jessie Merry, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Merry, has invested in some Texas land, and she is of the opinion that the investnient will prove a good one. Lt is in a fertile spot lying between Houston and Galveston. It is said to be very productive and especially adapted to the growth of oranges. It is hoped that Miss Merry's investment turns out to be as good as it is at present thought to be. Everything at present seems to indicate that Mt. Ayr will have as good, if not better, baseball team this year . than we had last. Some new material will be added, and by those who know it is said that the team ought to be a winner. - Some have expressed approv-

al of the formation of a league composed of several or all of the nearby cities. A league would be all right if all of the towns in this neighborhood could be induced to enter it. The plan of a league as promoted by the Rensselaer Republican seems to' meet with the most general approval.

Joe Zoborowski Drowned in a Pond Near Morocco.

Persons from Newton county who were trading here today brought the news of the death by drowning of Joseph Zoborowskl, a prosperous and well known farmer who lives between Mt. Ayr and Morocco. He was found in a pond not far from Morocco. It is not known whether the drowning was accidental or suicidal. He was about 55 years of age, and owns about 700 acres of land and is the head of a large family.

kotioe or special slectiow. State of Indiana, „ County of Jasper, ss: To the Sheriff of Jasper County, Greeting: Notice is hereby given to the citizens and legal voters of the County of Jasper and State of Indiana, the Schuyler C. Irvyin and 1.41 C others have filed their petition in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, praying the Board of Commissioners of said County for the privilege of determining by ballot whether the sale ot intoxicating liquors as a beverage shall be prohibited within the limits of said County, and. the said Board of Commissioners have ordered that the prayer of said petition be granted, and have fixed upon ■ATUBDAT, THE FIKST DAY OF MAT, 1909, as the day upon which the polls of said County shall be opened for the purpose of taking the votes of the* legal voters of the County upon the question of prohibiting such sale. The ballots to be Voted at said election will be in the following form: ■•■■■Bmssenamssa Shall the sale of Intoxicating Liquors as a beverage be pro- . NO hi bl ted? All votes marked with a cross in the square containing the word “yes” shall be counted in favor of prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors as a bevera£>. and all votes marked with a cross In the square containing the word "no” shall be counted opposed to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Given under my hand and the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said County, this 7th day of April, 190#. JAMES If. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: I, L. P. Shlrer, Sheriff of said County, in said State, hereby give notice that a Special Election will be held In said County on the Ist day of May. 1909, at which timb the question mentioned in the foregoing Auditor’s certificate will voted for. Witness my hand this 7th day of April, 1909. % P. BHIRER, , Sheriff Jasper County. TH-- — r m- »» UaannlillAAn whfin in Homeiiiber liro itrpiiwiroßii wirou »« need of Job printing.