Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1909 — Page 2

RENSSELAER JjfWCJi DAILY AND Hqp-yEEKLY. rriA wJldjr l *Edition. • HEALEY # XaUUUt, - -fahlbhers. STTBSCKIPTION SATES. 51.50. .m xa-- b . t; —— Tuesday, July 20, 1909.

Another Protest Against the Unjust Competition of P. 0. Department.

The American Envelope Manufacturer’s Association met at Buffalo last week and adopted resolutions protesting emphatically against the United States government entering into competition with its citizens and taxpayers by using the postal service for free advertising, free delivery and free printing of envelopes. During the course of the discussion it was shown that the government’s competition is playing havoc with the commercial end of the envelope trade. Already, it is said, Uncle Sam is putting out between 3,000,000 and 4,000,600 envelopes daily and the federal plant is being worked up gradually to a capacity of 6,000,000 envelopes a day. The resolutions further authorized A, the president of the association to appoint strong committees to confer with several other large national bodies which will hold conventions this summer. The committees will urge other organizations to unite in an effort to influence legislation to regulate the post office department’s competition with envelope manufacturers, printers, lithographers, paper jobbers, stationers and allied lines. Among the bodies which are said to be interested are the United Typotlfetae of America; the National Stationers’ and Manufacturing Association, American Paper Trade Association, State Editorial and Newspaper Associations, and the Inland Daily Press Association. The association adjourned to meet again in New York during s the summer.

Marshall Had No Boar to Make at Lafayette.

Lafayette Democrat. Wallace Marshall couldn’t make his jasper county roar here for, although he was not the lowest bidder, his Lafayette Engineering company got the Contracts from the board of county commissioners on last Saturday afternoon for the following bridges: New bridge over Hog run southeast of Monitor, $1,850; superstructure of new Murphy bridge, mile northwest of Buck Creek, $690; new Hebron bridge to replace old one, $1,562; repairing Marshall bridge on Eliza Marshall road, $540; repairing Widmer bridge, near Number Ten, $824. The Paul, DeLong & Hoffman company got the contract for the substructure of the Murphy ford bridge, the price being S6OO. The National Bridge company submitted bids which in the aggregate were lower than the others, but the commissioners said they considered the style of bridges proposed by the company was too light for safety and durability, so it • a wasn’t necessary for Wallace to do any Jasper county stunt here. He got his’n. Daniel B. Luten, of Indianapolis, who builds the Luten reinforced concrete bridge, had a bid in for $4,400 —about S3OO lower than the Marshall bid and he asked that he be given an opportunity to explain his bridge to the board and its advantages over other bridges, but he was not given the hearing, although he says the promise was given him that he should be heard. Luten says he was not surprised at the action of the board—anybody with half an eye could see that Marshall’s company would land The will of Chester Dutton, who was, until his death in Concordia, Kans., July I', the oldest living graduate of Yale, is written on the reverse side of the diploma which Yale granted him in 1841. As Dutton explained to his lawyer when he drew the instrument, he desired his family to value the piece of parchment as he did. . Mrs v Andrew Ritter is „dead in Huntington from tetanus, resulting from running a splinter into her foot while walking in her yard. The accident took place ten days ago, but only home remedies were used until lockjaw began developing Saturday and Sunday. Her death romltffl Tfiej-

HANGING GROVE.

Arthur of .Chicago, is vis-, .iting \ytth ;E. K. Godshall this week. (Jrandihother Zabel is reported quite sick. She is quite an aged lady. T. E. Johnson and family visited at Charley Stultzs’ Friday. Miss Elsie Smith went up to Mt. Ayr Thursday to help her aunt during the hay making. Oveta Ireland, of Rensselaer, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ireland, near Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Eldridge, of Monon, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Eldridge, of Nauvoo, visited with Nate Eldridge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hooker and son Cecil went to Monon Saturday evening for a visit over Sunday with Ed Rogers and family. Mrs. Wash Lowman’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Cronour, is quite sick at the the home of the former, her sickness is caused by cancer. Mr. and Mrs. John Marnitz and Mrs. Geo. Evans and two sons from south of Pleasant Ridge, visited at P. B. Down’s Sunday. Ray Parker, of Marion, is here visiting relatives for a while and would probably remain for a month or two should he be able to find work. There will be an ice cream social at P. B. Downs Saturday night, July 24th, for benefit of church fund. Plenty of cream. All are invited. Reed McCoy and wife and Vira Lefller were in Chicago Thursday, that same morning the milk train was nearly two hours late, hence their time was quite limited in the city. C. W. Bussell is installing a new pair of Fairbanks-Morse wagon scales at the railroad to take the place of the old ones. They are all steel beams and will be erected on a solid foundation. There were nineteen in attendance at Parker Sunday, more than double the attendance of the Sunday before, and it is hoped more will avail themselves of the opportunity of helping the Sunday school work by Coming out next Sunday, and encouraging the young officers that have been installed, which were as follows: Wilson Bussell, superintendent; Grace Cochran, secretary; Zera Smith, treasurer; Elsie Smith, organist. Mr. Cochran was elected to serve as assistant superintendent and Grace Cochran as assistant organist.

No Pikers Wanted. Prof. Sallow—“I wish to marry your daughter, sir. I have a chair in Johns Hopkins.” Parent—“ And I suppose you will look to me for the rest of the furniture! No, sir, you can't have her until you can furnish a flat.” The Text. A little Coffeen boy attended church a few Sundays ago and when he came home his father, who had stayed at home, asked him if he remembere.l the text. “Sure I do,” said the boy. “Ie was: ‘You cannot serve God and mamma.' ”

Married Sure. Judge—“ Are you married?” Prisoner—“No, sir.” Policeman —“Beg your pardon, Judge, he wrong. When we searched him we found in his pocket a recipe for curing croup, a sample of silk and two letters in a woman’s handwriting, a week old.” Enough Said. Hicks —“Do you know anything about Watkins?” Wicks—“ Yes, but it is always my rule never to speak evil of my neighbors.” At the meeting last Tuesday evening of Phoenix Lodge, Knights of Pythias, in Fort Wayne, it developed that the treasurer, E. N. Detzer, the paying teller of the First National bank, who embezzled $7,800 from the institution, was short SIOO in his accounts. The shortage is covered by a bond. Lagrand C. Bush, of Goshen, has been appointed receiver for the American Recording Lock company, of Elkhart, by Judge James S. Dodge, of Elkhart. Its capital stock is $150,000, of which $128,000 has been issued. Louis _ Beck, of Laporte, was drowned in the Pacific ocean, near San Francisco. He ventured beyond his depth and Bank before assistance couid reach him. rrr. The Republican is headquarters for fine job printing.

MONDAY. r. Frozen —your butter from the Home Grocery. L. H. Hamilton lqft pn a business trip to Albion, Mich., tjrfs morning. Earl Deardurf, of Kansas City, it visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. A. Yates. Miss Pearl Timmons and Miss Florence Moore spent Sunday at Lafayette. Mrs. Malissa Bemendurfer, of Battle Ground, is the guest of Mrs. J. T. Randle. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall will leave tomorrow for a week’s visit in Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mauck left today for Kankakee, 111., to look for a new location.

Miss Jennie Green returned to Danville, 111., today, after a visit with Mrs. Earl Duvall. You can now buy the 2 pound carton H. & E. fine granulated sugar at the Home Grocery. „ Plenty of Red Raspberries, Black Raspberries, and Huckleberries, this week, at John Eger’s. Samuel Remley, of Wheatfield, spent Saturday and Sunday with his son, John, in Rensselaer. Fletcher Monnett and Mrs. H. L. Brown and little daughter went to Evanston, 111., Saturday, for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson spent Sunday in Monon with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Culp. Dr. Shafer, of Lafayette, and Rushli, of New York City, were the guests* of Dr. Washburn yesterday. Miss Jessie Ranton and daughter, Bess, returned to Sheldon, 111., today, after a visit with relatives in this vicinity. Mrs. Ed Ames returned Saturday from Madison, where she was called by the death of her father, Joseph Douglas. Best creamery butter, choice country butter and Swift’s pure butterine always ready for you at the Home Grocery. Henry Smith and Pierre Thompson went to Brook today, near where they have the contract of painting a large residence. Mrs. Burris, who has been visiting her son, Clyde Burris, and daughter Mrs. Clarence Green, returned to her home in Sheridan Sunday.

Mrs. Mary Livingston left for her home in Crown Point, after a visit of some time with her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Pancoast, west of town. Miss Estell Cook, of Forest, returned to her home today, after a week’s visit with her uncles, Wash and Simon Cook, of McCoysburg. Mr. and Mrs. John Donaldson, of Terre Haute, who have been spending a few weeks with their daughter, Mrs. J. B. Martindale, returned home today. The Remington K. of P. ball team will be the attraction at Riverside Park next Tuesday afternoon, when they will make an effort to pluck the “unplucked” Wrens. Lightning struck the barn of Charles Burkland, near Mt. Ayr, dur ing the storm Sunday morning. The farm was occupied by a tenant. The barn was completely destroyed. Ivan Brenner Was home from Bloomington yesterday to spend the day With his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brenner. Ivan is studying medicine at the university and is m his third year. Miss Belle Torbet, of Tusla, Okla., who has been visiting her uncle, Jas. Torbet, and family, of Barkley township, went to Thorntown this morning to visit relatives before refurning to her home. The K. O. K. A.’s will play the Remington ball team on the home ground Thursday afterpoon. Turn out and help the boys pay expenses. They are good players and deserving of a good patronage. Like the Wrens, they have not lost a game this year. D. M. Parry, of Indianapolis, who owns one of the largest buggy tories in the country, has formed a company with a capital stock pf sl,000,000 for the erection of a plant to manufacture automobiles. The factory will be built this summer and will give employment as soon as completed to 2,000 men.

',-See jUie nge |d pf # oß \tT claßal^ d , Pyre count ry'Srcity"iafa, only 12% j cents a pound, At John. Eger’s. Mrs. J 0. ; A Batka aMd Mrs. May Fairchild and son John, of Marfon, are visiting their cousin, Benjamin Sayler, and family. ; C. H. Merger, of near Morocco, 25 years old, is dead from injuries received in a fight at a celebration in Lake Village, July 3rd. The affair is being investigated. The Ladies of the Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church in the first ward, will give a social at the home of A. J. Bellows Tuesday afternoon. All invited. Major Harrison will be here to meet Co. M Wednesday evening. No inspection will be made, but all members are requested to turn out to meet Major Harrison. Isaac Onstott, of Rochester, came today on account of the death of his brother-in-law, J. F. Osborne. He is unable to remain for the funeral, and will return home this evening.

There will be an ice cream social at the residence of P. V. Downs, east of Pleasant Ridge, on Saturday evening, July 24th. Proceeds to go to the Parker M. E. church. All invited. Several of the business men on Ohio street have covered the street in front of their places of business with crude oil which will keep the dust laid for the rest of the season.— Remington Press. Owing to an injury to his horse Comrade Fox will not carry the Pleasant Grove mail this week. Hi: substitute, Tom O’Meara, will take his place. The horse rolled on a broken bottle, cutting a bad gash in its side. The Monon had a bad wreck near Crawfordsville Sunday morning. Norman Burns, engineer, of Lafayette, and Lawrence Austin, fireman, of New Albany, was killed. A half score of passengers were injured. The train jumped the track while going at a high rate of speed around a curve. Miss Virenda Rainer pleasantly entertained a company at dinner last evening at her home, 716 North Sixth street. The guests were members oi the Depauw chapter of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Those present were: Misses Elsie Cotton, Della Wilson, of Paxton, Ill.; Lois Nagle, of Brookston; Georgia Harris, Belle Laßue, of Rensselaer; Alta McCoy, of Lake, Ind., and Eva Sutton, of this city. It was a very charming and enjoyable affair.—Lafayette Courier.

Everything is in readiness for the annual Battle Ground camp meeting which will be opened July 29th with a sermon by Dr. Paul Carnick, of South Bend. Dr. McConnell, De Pauw’s new president, will preach two sermons on Sunday, Aug. Ist, and in the afternoon a temperance rally will be held with the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and W. P. Ferguson, of Chicago, editor of the Voice, as principal speakers. Dr. C. B. Wilcox, of Colorado Springs, will deliver two sermons Sunday, Aug. Bth, and Dr. Elliott, of Chicago, will also speak that day. The camp meeting is a state event. Edward Shannon, an Elkhart man, who six years ago escaped jail in Goshen while under sentence to go to the Jeffersonville reformatory for larceny, but who was later arrested in Milwaukee for assaulting a Chicago policeman and sentenced to the Joliet prison, was released this week. Elkhart county authorities, armed with a commitment for Jeffersonville, went to Joliet, and immediately upon Shannon’s release he was taken to Herman Lindemann and Ella Zistern, of Chicago, who were drowned in South Bend, on July sth, were not victims of a suicide pact, according to the belief of Coroner Clark, of South Bend. He will report their deaths as accidental. Dr. Clark believes Lindemann permitted his skiff to float too close to the edge of the dam where the young people were drowned. Paul, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Webster, of Peru, is dead from tetanus. On July 4th the boy wrestled- with his brother who tried to take a toy pistol from him, and in the scuffie the pistol was discharged, inflicting a wound in Paiii's hand. Blood poison set in last SunUsyr —- T t t "”

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LEE ITEMS. Mrs. Gilmore and Mrs. Clark returned Friday night from a visit at Clyde Clark’s. Mrs. Belle Dodd died at 9:45 Thursday at the home of W. L. Stiers. She was about 60 years old. Frank McCoy, of Indianapolis, who has been visiting relatives here, returned Thursday morning. Charley Jacks, the Rensselaer barber, is now working on the railroad. He moved to Lee Wednesday. Sympathy. It was in the art muse ’.m. “Yes, Mandy,” said Mr. Hardapple, as he referred to his catalogue, “this be a stature of Venus. You see, she hasn’t any arms.’’ “Poor thing!” sighed Mrs. Hardapple. “I was just wondering.” “Wondering v what, my dear?” “vv hy, how in the world she ever carried her shopping bag.” Familiar Expression. The ferry acrosse the Styx was crowded to suffocation. “By jinks,” whispered a new arrival, “I believe at one time old Charon must have a conductor on a street car. “What gave you that idea?" asked another shade. “Why, I just heard him say: “Step lively, please, there is plenty of room up front!’” Up Against It. Pearl—“ Percy Cauliflower is having a hard time with his courtship these days.” Ruby—“lndeed?” Pearl —“Yes, he called on one girl and her father handled him without gloves.” Ruby—“gracious! ” Pearl —“Yes, and then he called on another girl and her brother happened to be a pugilist and handled him with gloves.”

Masculine Trials. Harry, is six years old. “Pa,” he asked one day. “If I get married will I have a wife like ma?” “Very likely/’ replied his father. “And if I don’t ggt married will I have to be an old bachelor like Uncle Tom?” “Very likely.” “Well, pa,” he said, after a moment of deep thought, “it’s a mighty tough world for us men, ain’t it.” —Success. Another Victim. 1 Two country youths were on a visit to London. They went into the British museum and there saw a mummy, over which hung a card on which was printed, “B. C. 87.” They were mystified, and one said, “What do you make of it, Bill?” “Well,” said Bill, “I should say it was the number of the motor car that killed him.” Thought It a Proposal. The pretty girl was soliciting for a charity publication. “I have come,” she exclaimed suddenly, “to take your name.” And the young man remembered it was leap year and jumped two feet. .“To take my name, miss?” he stammered. "Oh, er—tjiat is, this is so sudden.” ( | e A Possibility. “Why I Would Not Marry My Husband Again” is the title of a thoughtful cotnmunlcation in a magazine. One reason she does not bear strongly upon Is that*her husband might not ask her again. A Diagnosis. The Palmist —Your timidity is a bar to your success. You dread dangerous situations. You prefer to keep yourseifraway from the attention of your fellow men. May I ask your business? The Subject—Certainly. I’m a professional airship navigator. Making Literature. “What do you want with this automobile catalogue?” “I propose to write some dialogue for it, and then It will be a minor novel.” For Sale—Good renting property paying good Interest. Bargain If takWo** at this ofljce

NOTICE OF DITCH PETITION. State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss. In the Commissioners’ Court, August Term, 1909. In the Matter of a Petition for Tile Drain by Edward W, Culp .et al. To William T. Watts, Anna Banes, Christian .Ropsch, Martha A. Miller, Albert H. Dickinson, Rob’t. F. Irwin, Charles V. May, Trustee of Carpener Township, Jasper County, Indiana, the County of Jasper in the State of Indiana. You and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners in the above entitled cause have filed their petition in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, and have fixed by written endorsement upon said petition, upon Tuesday, August 3rd, 1909, as the day on which said petition shall be docketed as a cause pending in the Commissioners’ Court in Jasper County, Indiana. You are further notified that said petition prays for the location and construction of a tile drain upon and along the following described route, towit: Commencing at or very hear the southeast coi*ner of the southwest quarter (%) of the southwest quarter (% of Section nine (9) in Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in Jasper county, Indiana, thence running northeasterly to a point about thirty-five (35) rods north of the southeast corner of the northwest quarter (%) of said Section nine (9), thence easterly and northeasterly to a point in the Dobbins Ditch near the north line of the southeast quarter (%) of the northeast quarter (%) of said Section nine (9) where said drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in the Dobbins Ditch, which is an open public ditch. You are further notified that said petition prays for the location and construction of a lateral tile drain upon and along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point about sixty (60) feet west of the east line of the northeast quarter (%) of Section eight (8) in Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (fr) west, and about sixty (60) rods north of the southeast corner of the northeast quarter (%) of salt} Section, Township and Range, and running thence easterly and southeasterly until it intersects the main tile drain herein petitioned for at a point about thirty (30) rods northwest from the southeast corner of the northwest quarter (%) of Section nine (9) in said Township and Range, where it will have a good and sufficient outlet in said main tile drain. You are further notified that main tile drain proposed to be constructed is along and over the route of a drain heretofore constructed hy mutual agreement of a portion of the owners of the lands affected and that it is proposed to appropriate said tile drain heretofore constructed and to use the tile thus obtained, in the construction of the proposed main and lateral tile drains. Your lands are described in said petition as benefltted and said petition will come up for hearing and docketing on Tuesday the 3rd day of August, 1909. EDWARD W. CULP ET AL, Petitioners. James N. Leatherman, Auditor Jasper County. julyl3-20 Mrs. Pearl Unruh-Hewltt, former society girl of Michigan City, who was recently divorced from her husband, Floyd Hgwitt, formerly of South Bend, has returned to her first love and has marribd Roland of Michigan City, who Jived several years ago in South Bend. -