Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN

VOL. ILL

ARTHUR S. VOWELS ON FORESTRY BOARD.

Former Rensselaer Boy Appointed by Governor as Representative of Retail Lumber Dealers. Governor Marshall Tuesday made public several appointments and among others our former townsman, Arthur S. Nowels, now engaged in the lumber business at Columbia City, was appointed on the state forestry board. He is the representative of the Retail Lumber Dealers* Association. He is the son of D. B. Nowels, .formerly of Rensselaer, but now living' at Parsons, Kans., and the son-in-law of Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. He Is a thorough young business man and has been engaged in the lumber business for many years. His appointment will be pleasing news to his many Rensselaer friends. The Accounting Board appointees are William De Hority, of Elwood, chief examiner; John H. Boltz, republican, of Winchester, and William M. Fogarty, of Indianapolis, democratic deputy. The appointees upon the Forestry Board are Samuel Burkholder, Crawfordsville, representing the Hardwood Lumber Dealers’ Association; Arthur S. Nowels, of Columbia City, representing the Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association; Prof. Stanley Coulter, of Purdue University; William Waltman, Bean Blossom, Brown county, for the farmer members, and Charles C. Deem, the secretary, whose appointment was announced previously. The appointees upon the Board for the Registration and Examination of Nurses are Elizabeth Cox, of Elizabethtown, reappointed, and Miss Minnie Hayman, of Indianapolis. There is another vacancy on this board which will be filled later. All the appointments on each of the three boards become effective June Ist.

Little Boy Was Lost and Grandparents Frightened.

Morris Boicourt, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Boicourt, of Wolcott, was the cause of considerable uneasiness for an hour Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Baker, of Weston street, had been to Wolcott to see their daughter, Mrs.. Boicourt, and had brought their two little grandsons home with them. They' reached home about 5 o’clock and the children, 5 and 2% years of age, were allowed to play in the yard. In a few minutes Mrs. Baker looked out and saw only one of the children, the youngest having disappeared. Search was Instituted about the house and yard and when no trace was found the grandparents became very anxious and enlisted the services of several neighbors in the search. Mr. Baker, after a thorough search in the neighborhood, came down town and was about to enlist the services of the officers when the little chap was located. He had decided’ that Rensselaer was not the place for him and had concluded to start for his home. Accordingly he had set out across lots and was looking for' his own home. Finally he reached the residence of Frank King, and Mrs. King stopped him and plied him with questions but he could not answer many of them. He did not know his name but did know that he wanted to go home and that he lived in a house. He wanted Mrs. King to let him go, but she thought it best to hold him and at the same time the grandparents' some three blocks away were scurrying every place for a clew to his whereabouts, Mrs. King was also starting an investigation to find out whose boy she had. Finally John Moore, who was aiding in the search, came to the King home and recognized Morris, and was not long in communicating the information to the now thoroughly distracted grandparents. Mrs. Baker went at once to the residence of Mr. King and took the little fellow home with her. Both she and Mr. Baker were quite overcome, but the boy was none the worse for his experience. For this week enly, our special bargain. Our Fanciest Evaporated California Peaches. Nothing finer, 4 'pounds for 25 cents.

Class Day Program Was Pleasing to Large Audience.

The opera house was crowded Tuesday night to witness the class day exercises, and the large audience was more than pleased with the program. Following a piano duet by Misses Edna Hauter and Madeline Ramp, Ralph Hammond read the class prophecy, which was humorously prepared in rhyme and contained many take-offs on the members of the class. This was followed by an altogether new feature in class day exercises, entitled “Side Lights on Class History.” Very few knew what was coming and were surprised to see magic lantern pictures on the canvas at the rear of the stage, and each picture bearing resemblance to some one of the gradluates and containing some joke or pun at the expense of the graduate. Some of the witticisms were very laughable and there was a sigh of regret when they were completed. The pictures and puns were the production of Lonzo Healy and Ethel Jacks, two of the graduates. Next came the presentation of the class play, “The Frail Co-Ed.” The scene was laid on a college campus, and the plot concerned the effort of Noodles Welch (Ralph Hammond) to procure a legacy of $500,000, which he was to receive whenever he complied with the terms of a will that required him to marry a female graduate of that particular college. The school was not a co-educational one, iand it looked like Noodles would lose the legacy, but with genuine American thrift he decided to have some girl enter the school, hasten through the course, marry him, and thus enable him to get the money. He selected Agnes Wisenglass, daughter of a washerwoman at Monticello, and brought her to school with the avowed intention of getting her through the four years’ course in twelve months. The boys of the school were “dead sore” on the co-ed proposition and joined in a plot with the town girls to capture Noodles and Agnes and give them a ducking in the river. Agnes was played by Roy Gundy, who was made up with a wealth of red hair and played the part very nicely. About the time that the arrangements for the ducking were taking form Miss Eloise Dazzle appeared on the college campus and ran across Noodles the first thing. She confided in him that she had taken a correspondence course in the college and had now come to get her diploma. Noodles saw a chance to get the money without delay and made an instanter proposal to Eloise, who was none other than Walter English, attractively attired in femenine garments Eloise became an easy victim of his pleading, but the plot thickened when Noodles undertook to shake Agnes. She was pacified, however, when Willie Thin (James Jordan), a friend of Noodles, took her in charge and done some real love making on his own account. Noodles opened his heart to his fellow students and told them the reason for his anxiety to graduate some girl through the school. He appeased them by promising the students all a good time at his expense and every one was really college happy and the curtain was rung down as the college boys and town girls were singing a lively chorus, with which the play had been interspersed. Just before the curtain fell Agnes and Eloise coyly raised • the outer skirts and on the lingerie of one was a naught and on the other a figure 9, which of course, meant the class of “’o9.”*. The play was a musical farce with only a few speaking parts but filled with mirth and altogether very pleasing.

May 24—Walter I. Hicks, born Jasper county, Ind., Feb. 27, 1873, present residence Remington, occupation merchant, and Julia V. Meehan, born Remington, Ind., May -2, 1889, present residence Remington, occupation housekeeper. Her first marriage; his second marlage, the first having been dissolved by death in 1901. soon as a man discovers that he isn’t a high-browed genius in any particular line, he becomes a lot more valuable to the community—and more comfortable to his family.

JOHN EGER.

ISSUED TWICE A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. Entered January 1, 1897, as second-class mall matter, at the post-office at Bensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879.

Marriage License.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1909.

No. 35 to Stop Here For Small Theatre Parties.

Agent Beam is in receipt of a letter from the Monon general passenger agent which states that arrangements can be made to have No. 35, the train due here from Chicago at be 10 at night, stop to let off six or more passengers, composing a theatre party. Many have long desired to have this train stop here, and by this arrangement parties cafi go to Chicago on the 6:02 train in the evening, attend ’the theatre and leave Chicago at 1:10 o’clock. As many as six in the party, however, will be necessary to stop thetrain.

Names Off Remonstrance if Fraud Charge is Proven.

Special Judge Hanley, of Rensselaer, who is hearing the Gary remonstrance case at Hammond, Saturday held that if the saloon people could show that names were obtained to the remonstrance by fraud that he wduld strike them off the remonstrance. Judge Gillett immediately filed fifty affidavits signed by parties who alleged that their signatures were secured by fraud. If the court strikes their names off the list this week Gary will be “wet” again.

Monticello Rifle Team to Fire on Parr Range.

It has practically been arranged to have the Monticello rifle team that is to compete with the second battalion teams of the third Indiana regiment meet the Rensselaer team that is to compete in the third battalion tryout at Columbia City. The date has not yet been agreed upon but the two teams will meet in a friendly contest and fire the course prescribed •’for the later competition. Six officers and men will be on each team and the contest should prove very Interesting. The local team will probably consist of Private Garland, Sergeants Gangloff and Chestnut, Lieut. Woodworth, Capt. Healey and Private Warren.

Dam Went Out as Soon As it Was Completed.

What the dam? A contractor would be entitled to one cuss whether he took it or not if he was to build a dam across a river and just after he had finished it, the weight of the water was to wash it out. That is what happened to B. J. Moore Monday afternoon. We haven’t the slightest idea that Jud took advantage of the right to cuss, but there was a huge lump in his throat as he witnessed the result of five days of hard work with a force of men give way and let the water through. The dam was built near the W. S. Grant farm residence west of town. It was completed Monday afternoon and the water had raised about two feet and was about high enough to set his drilling barge afloat up back of the grave yard, when the weight of the water became too great and forced out the entire center of the dam. It will require some more damming of the shovel and wheelbarrow variety to close up the gap.

Union Memorial Services.

The churches In Rensselaer will join in a Union Memorial service at the M. E. church Sunday morning at 10:45. The sermon will be delivered by the Rev.H. L. Kindig. A union choir, directed by Prof. C. E. Pryor, will furnish the music. Evening services will be conducted in. all the churches as usual.

♦ NOTICE TO BRUNER ♦ ♦ TELEPHONE PATRONS. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ As I will be absent. from ♦ ♦ Rensselaer for a month, begin- ♦ ♦ nlng Saturday -evening, May ♦ ♦ 29th, I wish and urge all who ♦ ♦ are Indebted to me to call Frl- ♦ ♦ day or Saturday of this week ♦ ♦ at G. F. Meyers* real estate office ♦ ♦ and adjust their accounts. This ♦ ♦ Is Important to both you and me ♦ ♦ and deserves your Immediate at- ♦ ♦ tention. ♦ ♦ J. F. BRUNER. ♦

Little Monon Ditch Dredge To Do Muck Dredging Here.

E- G. Sternberg, of the firm of Sternberg & Sons, went to Monon today to look after the closing up of the Little, Monon dredging job. The mouth of the Little Monon will be in the Dobbins ditch, which runs through the town of Monon and which has a lower channel than the Big Monon ditch, which is further south and lyidg almost parallel to the Dobbins ditch. The dredge in the Little Mois ready to open the last ground to the Dobbins ditch, but as the Little Monon cuts off from the upper end of the Monon proper, the opening of the ditch into the Dobbins ditch will drain the water out of the Monon ditch to such an extent that not enough water will be left to float the dredge at a height necessary to complete the digging through the high land where it is now in operation. Some of this land requires a channel from 25 to 27 feet in depth. It is provable that the dredge in the Little I Monon will be taken to within some 10 or 15 feet of the Dobbins ditch but not opened through until the big ditch dredge has passed over the high land, which will require two or three weeks yet. As the dredge is to be taken from the Little Monon channel and brought to the Iroquois river within the next few days the obstruction will have to be removed by dynamite and shovel later on. If it is decided to finish the ditch and run the water into the Dobbins ditch a dam will have to be built up near the big Monon to hold the water for floating the big dredge. The building of this dam, Mr. Sternberg fears, would result in an overflow that would ruin many crops. It is quite a puzzle just what to do and Mr. Sternberg had not decided when he left here today how he would decide it. . . The dredge from the Little Monon will be taken overland to the river above the Burk bridge, north of Rensselaer, and the muck will be thrown out for a distance of about three or four miles. This will require the removal of both the Burk and the Pullin bridges. When the digging is completed the dredge will be again torn up and hauled to the Gangloff farm east of Rensselaer where the rock ledge is to be removed and , for which Sternberg & Sons have the contract. They have decided that it will be cheaper to move the dredge in this way than to remove and return the Stackhouse, Halligan and railroad bridges. B. J. Moore will do the drilling and blasting for the removal of the rock ledge.

Obituary of William H. King.

Wm. Henry King was born on the 6th day of January, 1843, at or near Frankfort, Clinton county, and died at Rensselaer, Ind-., Mqy 21, 1909, aged 67 years. He was the third and only son of seven children born to John and Elizabeth King, of which three sisters survive, Mrs. John Wolf, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Mary Ballanger, of Zionsville, Ind., and Mrs. Abe Simpson, of Rensselaer, Ind. He was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Hall December 19, 1861, at Greenfield, Ind. To this union seven children were born, four boys and three girls, of which three girls and three boys survive—Mrs. Alice Mills, of Zionsville, Ind.; Mrs. Martha Warden, of Wabash, Ind.; Wm. H., of Medaryville, Ind.; Benj. E. and Frank H., of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Emma Wolf, of Rensselaer. He united with the Free Will Baptist church about 25 years ago. That Laura Bunn Clark is the legal wife of the Rev. E. E. Davidson, former pastor of the First Christian church at Washington, Ind., was decided Tuesday by Judge Houghton in the Daviess‘county court. Miss Clark, the daughter of a former mayor of Washington, alleged that Davidson and she were secretly married in a St. Louis hotel by a private contract drawn up by the preacher on the back of an envelope. Soon after the publication of the charge Davidson left. He was last heard from at Toronto. He denied Miss Clark was his wife. When you want a bottle of good milk, cream, cottage cheese, skimmed milk, call 510 K. M. J. Thornton, Dairyman.

Large Crowd Attends the Annual Commencement

Another large crowd was assembled at the Christian church Wednesday night, on the occasion of the twentysixth annual commencement of the Rensselaer high school. The graduates were in one of the rear rooms of the church until the large audience was seated and at the rear of the stage the girls who compose the Junior glee club were seated. The graduates .marched in and occupied two rows of chairs across the front of the stage. Other girl members of the high school were seated at the left and the program began with a chorus of about seventy voices. The music was very appropriate and pleasing. * Rev. Parrett invoked Divine blessing and Superintendent Warren introduced Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, president of Armour Institute, Chicago. He at'once entered into his discourse on the life of William E. Gladstone, the famous English statesman and orator. Having come into personal contact with that great man and having visited England to pursue his study of him, he was thoroughly embued with his subject, and yet it was not in the least biographical, but a discussion of the virtues of the man from which conclusions were readily drawn that should Inspire the best efforts of the graduates. The masterful lecture would be worthy a much fuller account than it is possible to give. Following the lecture another song was sung by the chorus and then Principal Bradshaw in a very nice speech presented the -class to the Secretary of the School Board, who accepted the class and presented -each member with a diploma of graduation. The program was concluded by Rev. G. H. Clarke, who pronounced the benediction.

Interesting News Items From Collegeville.

On Saturday the ball team will | journey to Brook to play a game with the local team there. The Varsity will go after the titles of the Mt. Ayr ball team on Monday in the enemy’s territory. The commencement invitations are out, The first exercises will be held on Wednesday morning, June 16th, at 8 o’clock. The Very Reverend Francis C. Kelly, D. D., LL. D., of Chicago, 111., will deliver the baccalaureate address. The literary work of the sixth Enlish class has been brought to a very successful close. It has been for them, indeed, a most strenuous year, as the tasks demanded of them are neither little in quantity nor mean in quality. Their work began with a careful study of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King,” that great and wonderful poetic allegory of man—the soul and the heart. Next they delved deeply into Brother Azarias’ “Philosophy of Literature” which follows strictly the current o* men’s thought from the very beginning to the present time. The dark, obtuse and mysterous Browning was their next exacting task master. Many hours of careful study and consideration were required to find all the pleasant rays that glimmer in his labyrinthian thoughts and phrases in his finding and perfecting of the “new Their attention was then claimed by Cardinal Newman and DeQuincy the two master stylists of the English language. The grand climax was reached in the soul-stirring journey with Dante through the “Inferno”. The students voted it a task, indeed, but one that bears with it its own recompence. Frequent excursions were also made into contemporary literature, and particular attention was bestowed upon periodical writings, that great force in modern civilization and endeavors for righteousness.

Ball.

There will be a ball at Warner’s Hall, Thursday evening. May 27th. Tickets 35c. Music by orchestra.

THOSE WONDERFUL AUTOMOBILE RACES.

It Is Estimated that from 500 to 1,500 Automobiles Will Pass Through Rensselaer. , , The greatest crowd drawing event that has ever been held 1° this P ar * of the earth will be the big automobile races at Crown Point on June 18th and 19th. An agent was in Rensselaer Tuesday offering automobile spaces for sale for viewing the races. He represented several farmers over, near Orchard Grove, and wanted $lO for the privilege of standing an automobile for the two days Inside the fence on the farmer’s land. He did not sell any privileges of that kind here, but it is thought that every) available foot of space along the race course will be taken before the big event takes place. Something like twenty special trains will be run out of New York to accommodate the crowds that wish to attend the races from that city and it is believed there will be 200,000 people come to Chicago from one place and another ta attend the races. Special trains will leave Chicago every 10 minutes for Crown Point. Just what the Monon railroad will do to get its share of the business is not known here but extra trains will probably be run from Indianapolis. Much of the business from the south will come overland in automobiles and practically all the cars will pass through Rensselaer. It Is estimated that from 500 to 1,500 will pass through here the afternoon before the races, which will be Thursday afternoon, June 17th, and it is probable that some 500 people wIH seek lodging accommodations here on the night of the 17th. Many of them will have anticipated the scarcity of preparations to feed them and will have brought food with them, but it is quite probable that Rensselaer hotels, restaurants and lunch counters will be fairly eaten out of house and home. Persons with spare bedrooms can have an opportunity of renting them out at 50 cents for each occupant, two and three in a bed, if the crowd of autoists is as large as many think it will be. Seats in the grand stand are selling at $4 per day and are being rapidly taken. The prospect of many accidents, both at the race track and along the voute to and from the races are good and Rensselaer garage keepers and repair men, and possibly the doctors and nurses, are quite certain to share in the profit caused by the mad rush to see the world’s greatest automobile races. Chas. M. Blue expects to Yun his hamburger stand at or near Lowell and will go up in a few days to make arrangements, and it is probable that other enterprising people here will try to get In for a share of the easy, money that will probably be flowing freely over Lake county. The races will be worth seeing, but whether they will be worth the great cost will be a matter for each individual to determine, and it is probable that most Rensselaer people will see enough automobiles right here to satisfy them. , }

Brook to be Wren Adversaries At Riverside Park Sunday.

The Wrens have undertaken reorganization and will play their first game next Sunday, meeting the Brook team at 2:30 o’clock at Riverside Athletic Park. The make-up of the team has not been altogether determined upon, but Louis G. Bachant, "Who caught the home coming games last fall will be here from Kankakee, 111., to catch, Swartzell, of the old Wrens, will probably pitch, unless Bachant brings a pitcher with him. Will Cooley and Harry McLain, two lively infielders from Brookston, will probably be given a try-out, and Nageleissen and McGurrap, from St. Joe, will also probably be in the game, while Estel Myers, of Parr, will also have on a Wren suit Swartzell, Morgan, Elmer Wilcox, Lloyd Parks, Lee Kepner, and any other aspiring youngsters of the . local bunch, will be given a chance on the team. No organization has yet been effected, but if the bunch that are brought together Sunday look like there is the making of a team In them, it is probable that an association will be formed that will put in and maintain a great team.

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