Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY. Th. Erid.y Inn. 1« the Beffular Weekly Edition. HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Sally, by Carrier, 10 Cent* * Week. By Mail, *3.75 a year. Beml-Weekly> la advance, Tear *1.50. Friday, December, 24, 1909.

More About Fredericksburg; What History Says of It.

Probably no article reminiscent of the civil war has been published in the Republican/6f recent years that created so much interest as the one by John C. Kresler, describing the part his division took in the fruitless attempt to capture Fredericksburg. Mr. Kresler’s recollection is very vivid and his article tersely told of the attack and repulse. It will pay any one to read the history of the battle of Fredericksburg. The capture of that city or rather of the fortifications above and beyond that city was a practically impossible feat, at least with the small army that was commanded by General Burnside, and Tie entered into the campaign without the sanction of his advising officers. The dilatory methods of McClellan, however, had brought about so much criticism that General Burnside determined to force the war as rapidly as possible. He placed the Army of the Potomac where Genejal Lee might have completely annihilated it bad he followed up the successful defense of his position by an Stack of the Union forces. Following the defeat of Dec. 13th the Union army took shelter in the partly ruined towh of Fredericksburg and along that side of the Rappahannock, and while General Lee was expecting another attack and planning his defense, General Burnside was trying to get his generals to consent to again lead the brave boys into the slaughter of another attempt to take the hill. After Burnside failed to get them to do this and the retreat was decided upon Lee might have shelled the town and followed the troops in their attempt to cross the river and probably have taken the entire army captive. Providentially he did not find out that the retreat was determined upon and on the night of the 14th of December the troops were marched back across the Rappahannock and when the dawn of the 15th made it possible for the confederates to see the old town ttfere was not a soldier in it and the troops were camped on the very ground where thdy had been on the night of the 10th. The bridges had been destroyed and the chance to follow up the repulse of the Army of the Potomac with a decisiye victory had slipped away. The successful retreat of almost 90,000. soldiers without the loss of a single man is one of the most remarkable events of the civil war.

St. Joseph Collegian Will Be Published Throughout Year.

The Collegian, a very interesting quarterly publication edited by students at St. Joseph College, will continue to be published during the current college year, although it was stated in a slip inserted in the last number that the magazine would suspend.

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HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Russell Willits was in Rensselaer Friday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hooker, Dec. 16th, twin girls. Mrs. Chester Downs has been sick the past few days. Miss Maggie Richmond visited her father at Pleasant Grove Sunday. Miss Bertha Cook took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. 'Sunday. J. Ross bought a brand nW wagon running gear Thursday. Too big a corn.crop is given as the cause. Mrs. J. R. Phillips and son, Harvey, attended the boys’ corn show Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rishling spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willits. Cuma Gwin has been quite poorly for several dM*s with a gathering in her head. Mrs. C. A. Lefler and Miss Myrtle Lewis did shopping in Rensselaer Thursday. , Lon Wood has a horse that is quite lame, from some cause, and he called the veterinary out from Rensselaer to see it Friday. Miss Vera Lefler and Estel Osborne, of Rensselaer, and Ed Cook took dinner with «the former’s parents, C. A. Lefler, and family Sunday.

A party of young folks gathered at R. B. Porter’s Thursday evening and enjoyed the first skating party of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peregrine went to Wolcott Friday to see the latter’s mother, who is quite sick. Julius Taylor and another machinist, of Rensselaer, came to McCoysburg Friday mortiing to give the elevator engine an overhauling. The supervisor elections held Saturday afternoon were- very quiet affairs, in a place or two only a few more than were necessary to constitute a board were present. A. A. Rusk was elected at Parker and J. H. Montz at McCoysburg. The other two districts have not been heard from at this writing.

The next time one of the children catch cold, give it something that will promptly and freely but gently move tne bowels. In that way the cold will at once be driven out of the system. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup moves the bowels promptly and freely, yet gently, and at the same time heals irritation and stops the cough. It is especially good for children. Sold by all druggists.

The Ratless Club- has been organized by a number of young women at Converse- The club met last week at the home of Miss Lora Carmichael and denounced the use of rats in hair dressing. Twelve girls are members of the club and, as they belong to the circle that sets the fashion in Converse, it will not be long before Converse is a ratless town.

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FOB SALE. 120 acres good land, large new house, fair out buildings, and lies close in. Price $75. Owner will take part in clear property. 90 acres, fine soil, tiled, large house, large barn and other out buildings, wind mill, tanks, good orchard and fencing. Not far out. Price SBS. 80 acres, not far out, Newton township, all black soil, in cultivation, thoroughly tiled, good buildings, stone road. Price S9O. Terms $1,500 down. 82 acres, Barkley townslfip, all good land, in cultivation, 4 acres timber, 5 room house, cellar, good barn, tile, and a good fence. Price SSO. Terms $1,200 down. 5 acres on stone road, near corporation limits, this city. Will sell at right price on easy payments. 5 acres at city limits, on stone road, with 7-room house, good barn, well, of fruit, fencing and equipped for poultry’or hog raising, all good dry black land. Buildings and everything about the place in first-class condition. Can sell on terms at $3,500. 80 acres, black soil, good improvements, large ditch and tile, on stone road, eight miles out. Price $65. Terms $1,200 down. Will take clear property as first payment. 20 acres inside the city corporation on College avenue, cement walks, good well and all smooth black land in grass. Will sell altogether or in five acre tracts or more. Is only four blocks from court house. Price right. 280 acres, w*ll located, good level black land. Will sell at a bargain on easy payments or Will accept Jive stock or city property as first payment. If* too large will divide to suit 56 acres, well located in Barkley township, cultivated except a few acres in timber, has large tile through farm for outlet with other smaller tile, five room house, outbuildings, well, orchard, near school and gravel road. Easy terms. Price SSO. 96 acres good land, all clay subsoil, considerable tile with fine outlet, has flwe room house, but buildings, well, orchard, lies near school and gravel road, has now 12 acres In wheat and 15 acres In clover, 10 acres In timothy. This farm lies in Barkley township, not far out, and can be bought at the low price of SSO per acre on very easy terms. . * GEO. F. MEYERS.-’ Try the classified column.

Well Stat-ed.

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Why a Woman Should Be a Member of the School Board.

The ladies of the committee received a letter from Mary E. Nichelson, a member of the school board of Indianapolis, Ind., wlyeh says in part, “It is a great pleasure to know that the women are interested in the welfare of the children outside the home in the school, because women are the natural guardians of the children and if, for no other reason, their influence should be felt on our school boards as well as in the school rooms. A man’s principal objection to this is that woman know little about public finances. If this be true it is a thing which can be learned and will best be learned through ‘experience. I sincerely hope that you will win.” Just a 1 few words from one who is interested in the call for a woman on the school board. In the first place we need more than three members on the school board and one, at least, should be a woman. Why, you ask. Before answering we ask you, why do we allow women to teach our children, to have them to control, to guide them spiritually as well as mentally, to mould their characters, to be responsible for them, six hours in the day, five days out of the week, nine months in the year, or about twothirds of their waking time. Why should you, then, not be willing to have a woman on the school board to use her influence to better the condition for the teacher and the pupil, as only a woman can. She can so indirectly use her influence for the betterment of the conditions so to strengthen the child both morally and physically that the parents will rise up and call her blessed.

A MERE WOMAN.

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Small But interested Audience Heard Rev. Johnson Sunday.

The public meeting of the citizens of the city, held in the Christian church Sunday afternoon, was not attended as well as it no doubt would have been had it been more widely announced. The meeting was for the purpose of hearing Rev. ,D. B. Johnson explain the purposes and work of the Civic Union of the state of Indiana. Rev. Johnson is superintendent of the movement, and in a forceful, plain manner he told of the need of an organized effort against all forms of public evil. Here and there over the state have been organized local unions as the need would arise, and one purpose of Mr. Johnson is to unite these into a state organization, and at the same time to effect like organizations in places where such do not now exist. Judging from the interest manifested by those present the plan was heartily received and endorsed as a workable movement, not against one evil, but against all evils threatening to menace our home, church and public life, life.

NEWLAND.

Mrs. £d Oliver was a Rensselaer visitor Friday. Ace Elliott was in Newland Saturday. Wm. Rees worked for T. M. Callahan last week. Quite a large crowd attended literary at Gifford Friday night. Wm. Rees made a business trip to Kersey Monday to return Tuesday. Mrs. T. made a business trip to Rensselaer Tuesday. Wm. Rees and daughter, Mary, were Pleasant Grove callers Saturday. _ _ • Ed Oliver made a business trip to Chicago last Friday, returning Monday. I’m afraid old Sapja will have to travel in his auto, for there isn’t much snow. Everett Walker and Ernest and Samuel Rees worked for Ed Oliver the latter part of last week. Wm. Kennedy and family spent Saturday night with Edward Kennedy and family.

Ed Kennedy has rented the south “Red Oak” farm, where Wm. Rees now resides, for the coming year. KW. Hammerton is representing a catalogue house in Chicago in this vicinity this week. Charles Walker, of near Gifford, the good old Republican, was elected road supervisor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Newt Kaupkee spent a day or two last week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen, of Newland. Newt Bowman and family, Wm. Kennedy and family, Letha and Mary Rees, George and Sam Bowen and Charley Martin called on E. Kennedy Saturday evening. The battle ship Utah, the largest warship of its class ever built in the United States, will be launched from the yard of the New York shipbuilding company at Camden, N. J., next Thursday. The sponsor will be Miss Mary Alice Spry, of Salt Lake City, daughter of the governor of Utah. Dr. T. D. Scales, chairman of the democratic committee of the First IndianU district, has received a letter from Representative Boehne, in which the congressman says that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for re-nomination and erection. 11l health is given as the reason for declining to make the race again.

PUBLIC SALE. As I have decided to quit farming and will conduct the store as Pleasant Ridge, I will offer at public sStle at the old Lowman farm, 3 miles east and V/ 2 miles north of Rensselaer, on Tuesday, January 4, 1910, The following property: 10 Head of Horses—l grey mare, 8 yrs old.'wt 1,400; 1 grey mare, 10 yrs old, wt 1,400; 1 bay mare, 10 yrs old, wt 1,300; 1 bay mare, *8 yrs old, wt 1,200; 1 bay mare, 5 yrs old, wt 1,500; 1 brown mare, 8 yrs old, wt 1,400. The foregoing 6 mares are all bred to my Black Percheron Horse. 1 yearling colt wt 1,100; 2 suckling colts, good as can be found. Dark Brown Stallion, “Billy Wonder.’’ “Billy” is a sure foal getter and as good a sire as to be found in county. Some of his get will be found on the ground. 10 Head of Cattle— One cow with young calf by side. 2- will be fresh February Ist, the rest freshen spring. 2 yearling calves. Harness, Implements, Etc— 2 good sets of work harness; 2 wagons, 1 with trippie bed, 1 with good new hay rack; 1 good John Deere gang plow; 1 sulky riding plow; 1 John Deere 16-inch walking plow; 1 John Deere riding cultivator; 1 Sattley riding cultivator; 1 good hay rake; 1 Deering binder; 1 3-section flexible harrow; 1 John Deere corn planter with 100 rods of wire; 1 good oats seeder, with cart, and numerous articles not mentioned. uTwo stacks of hay in field. 500 .bushels good corn In crib. Terms —A credit of 12 months will be given on all sums of over $5 with approved security without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per cent will be charged from date Of sale. All sums of $5 and under, cash in hand. 6 per cent off for cash on sums over $5. No property to be removed until settled for. H. E. LOWMAN. Fred Phillips, Auct. C.jfinSpiUer, Clerk. a Hot lunch on ground.

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That Lame Back Means Kidney Disease And to Relieve the Lame and Aching Back," You Must First Relieve the Kidneys

There is no question about that at all—for the lame and aching back is caused by a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder. It is only common sense, any way —that you must cure a condition by removing the cause of the condition. And lame and aching back are not by any means the only symptoms of derangement of the kidneys and bladder. There are a multitude of well-known and unmistakable indications of a more or less dangerous condition. Some of these are, for instance: Extreme and unnatural lassitude and wearl- . Hess, nervous irritability, heart irregularity, “nerves on edge,” sleeplessness and Inability to secure rest, scalding sensation and sediment in the urine, inflammation of the bladder and passages, etc. DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills are an exceptionally meritorious remedy for any and all affections or diseased conditions of these organs. These Pills operate directly and promptly—and their beneficial results are at once felt. They regulate, purify, and effectually heal and restore the kidneys, bladder and liver, to perfect and healthy condition —even in gome of the most advanced oases.

FOB SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

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