Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — Page 1

No. 228.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Born, Sept. 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Critser, a daughter. * Born, Sept. 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. George Kimble, a daughter. Miss Ellen Gwln left yesterday for & visit at Monticello, Frankfort and Lebanon. Henry Childers came over from Delphi yesterday for a short visit with relatives here. Mlsb Alice Shedd, who fs teaching at Otterbein, came this morning for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shedd. The Pythian Sisters initiated Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne last evening and gave a little spread following. A good time is reported. Born, Sept. 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Howe, a daughter. Mrs. Howe is at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Ennis. Miss Selma Leopold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Leopold, and a graduate of the 1910 class of the Rensselaer high school, will start next Friday to Ann Arbor, Mich., to enter college. W, H. and wife and little daughter expect to start back to Longmont, Colo., tomorrow. They have been visiting Rensselaer relatives for some time, he for a month and she for almost three months. Will is in the automobile garage business there and is making good.

At the recent conference of the U. B. church Rev. G. W. Schaeffer was relumed to the Brushwood church on the Parr circuit. Rev. Schaeffer has done good work during his pastorate there, and he thinks this will be one of the strongest churches in the conference, eventually. Mrs. D. E. Burner returned to Normal, 111., today, after spending two weeks here nursing hter daughter, Dr. Ethel L. Burner, an osteopath, who recently suffered a dislocation of one of tier lower limbs while here taking instruction from Dr. Turfler. They have been at the home of A. S. Laßue, on River street. The suit against Marion I. Adams brought by a bank to compel payment of a note given to W. R.'Scudder, the Hamilton Life Insurance man, is being tried today. That Scudder deoeived and defrauded Mr. Adams' there can be no doubt and it will be a misfortun ■» if he has to pay the note, but the bank Is probably an innocent purchaser and Mr. Adams may have it to pay.

Charlie Sprigg is here from Oklahoma City for a short visit with relatives. He is oh his way home from a visit in Michigan. Charlie is in the ornamental tile business in Oklahoma City, and his firm is conducting a prosperous business, doing contract wcork all over that state and also doing work as far away as Texas. He expects to leave for home Sunday or Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McGinnis, of Westville, were at the home, of their son, Frank McGinnis, on the N. J. Burget farm, north of town this week, and also of Mr. and Mrs. Whltsell Lewis. Mr. McGinnis attended the 87th reunion, that being his regiment. Their daughter, Mrs. C. M. Morris, of Chandler, Minn., was also here, and today accompanied her parents to Westville. / ;

G. W. Domback and wife, who have been visiting her brother, J. J. Montgomery and family, left this morning for Oneida. 111., to visit a sister. Their home is in Des Moines, lowa, the official population of which is 86,368, which reads the same forward or backward. This is Mr. Domback’s first visit here, but now that he knows the way and how good a town Rensselaer is, he will probably come again.

The Evening Republican.

Princess tonight PICTURES. The Attack on the Hill. A Short Lived Trfdppfa. . The Eriks. SONG. In My Garden of Golden Dreams, hf Roscoe Wilson.

Colonel Phillips Pleads Guilty to Being 4x11 to Party of Friends.

Colonel Fred Phillips arrived home this Saturday morning from Covington, Ind., and when he arrived at his home for dinner he found an even half hundred friends there to greet him. They had been invited by Mrs. Phillips to remind Fred that he was 44 yearß of age. As a matter of fact he lacked two days of being 44, his birthday being the 26th, which is Monday. The colonel was not aware of the fact that anything was doing until he rounded the corner on College avenue and saw a half dozen automobiles lined up at his home and he did not then anticipate such a big crowd as was there to receive him. He was hustled to a chair on which was Inscribed “44 years or over” and which the guests presented him with, and with his little daughter Grace Augusta on his knee a graphophone was set in motion and a very pretty song, “My Old Arm Chair” was rendered. The colonel is equal to affairs of this kind and when he had a chance to speak he said, “I don’t know what it means, but you’re a damned good looking bunch and all welcome.” Dinner followed and the half hundred men went Into the spread without regard to the high cost of living and Fred was forced to acknowledge that it meant a big hole in his Rhode Island Red stock. Business was urgent for all and there was a hasty getaway after the meal, and Fred was urging all to come back when he was eighty-eight. There is only one thing that exceeds Fred’s hospitality and that * is his wife’s cooking.,

Fred King to Be Married In Warsaw Tuesday, Oct. 4th.

Rensselaer friends of Fred King received announcements that he will be married on October 4th at Warsaw. The name of his bride-to-be is Miss Nell Denzle. Fred is now engaged in the furniture business at Warsaw, having purchased an interest in a store. His many friends here extend congratulations. Jerry Healy, who has been clerking for B. Forsythe at Brook, received a sprained back while assisting in removing the stock to Oxford, and came home yesterday for a short stay. He states that Mr. Forsythe has secured a nice room at Oxford and will resist the payment of any license fee which the town board may attempt to assess against him. The big White auto owned by William M. Hoover came near being destroyed by Are Thursday night. Mr. Hoover had been attending the camp fire and when he reached his home in the country 4ie went to turn off the lights. Some way the gasoline sprang a leak and became ignited and in a second the entire front'end of the car was in flames and it continued to burn until the oil was all consumed. Fortunately none of the frame parts caught fire and aside from being badly scorched in front not much damage resulted, but it will have to undergo some repairs for the sake of appearances. j

Mrs. Josie Dill, of Carthage, Ohio, who was a daughter of John W. Warner, who enlisted in the union army at Rensselaer and who was killed during the war, is here visiting her cousins/ C. P. Wright and Mrs. John Medicus. She was only about 5 years of age at the time her father was killed and her mother died a few weeks later. She was taken away by relatives and this was her first visit here Bince that time, and relatives here did not even know where she was. Her father was supposed to have been killed while out foraging and to have been thrown into a deep well. The writer has heard only meagre accounts of the incident, but would like to polish the story if it can be furnished. Mrs. Dill will probably be here & week or longer.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910..

SIXTY-ONE OF THE 87th GATHER IN ANNUAL REUNION

Regiment of Which Edwin P. Hammond Was Colonel, Had Splendid Gathering in Old Rensselaer.

SIXTY-FOUR OTHERS ALSO REGISTERED «* Bis Dinner By the Ladiee, Rule By Band, Camp Fire and Basiness Meeting, All Helped to Hake Grand Saccos. If the very complimentary resolutions adopted by the 87th Indiana veterans can be taken as a guide, the visiting soldiers were very grateful for the reception and entertainment given them and there was such a chorus of “ayes” when Colonel Hammond put the question, which was amended to include all who had participated in « the entertainment that there was no doubt about the full-heartedness with which the motion was passed. The reunion was a, success from every standpoint. There were 61 members of the regiment here and 64 from other regiments were registered, making a total of 125 old soldiers, varying in age from George Morgan, one of the youngeßt of the surviving soldiers of the civil war to John Scively, who was 87 years of age May 14th. Mr. Scively did not belong to the 87th, however, and tT&e oldest attending member of the regiment was Andrew Young, of Valparaiso, who is 82. He is a small man but a wiry and active one and stated that he expected to be on hand for reunions as long as the. are held. Close to him in age are Jonas Young, of Rochester, and Charles Platt, of Rensselaer, each of whom are past 81. The ages of each member of the 87th was taken at the time of registration and are published herewith.

The dinner Thursday was a splendid success. The ladies compesing the auxiliary orders, the Woman’s Relief Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. R., assisted by a number of other patriotic ladies, all under the leadership of Mrs. Abbie Roberts, had prepared a dinner that would look good any place and one veteran remarked, when he saw the large amount of fried chicken, “By Jinks, they must think we’re all preachers.” The dinner was partaken of not by the 87th alone, but by all the veterans of the civil war who were gathered there, about one hundred and fifteen. Unfortunately the coffee arrangements were not the best and there was not sufficient coffee to go round, but this fact did not seriously mar the dinner and the compliments were frequent and enthusiastic. A huge cake baked by direction of the Woman’s Relief Corps by Mrs. T. W. Haus, was presented to the regiment and turned over to Colonel Hammond. This cake furnished a great amount of interest and gave an opportunity for some friendly punning at the camp fire and also at the business meeting when it put in an appearance and was divided among the members of the regiment, some devouring the" dainty morsel and others wrapping their’s in paper and taking, it back to their homes.

After the dinner was completed and Morris Jones, of Brook, had sung “Marching Through Georgia,” the members of the 87th were gathered together and a photograph taken. These were later placed on sale at SO cents each. The afternoon was spent visiting, little knots of the comrades getting together, some for the first time in many yeare and some who are tegular attendants at the reunions, still finding many incidents of their long service together that it was good to recall and discuss. number of the comrades had in their pockets tin-' type photographs taken at or near the time they entered the service. When another comrade could not recall them from their present appearance, the little tintype would be produced, show-

ing a vigorous young man, in rugged health, the kind of citizenship that made up the wonderful army of the union. The picture would bring back to mind the last time they had met, and there would ensue a rehearsal of the army life. It was no disappointment that there was no program for the afternoon. The boys found plenty to do and It was a hearty and wholesome afternoon. The boys’ band In the evening and practically every member of the 87th was on hand for the camp fire, which was held at the armory. It wag opened by a song by Morris Jones, who had made new words to old music and whose several contributions were received with much hand clapping.

Rev. J. C. Parrett offered prayer and a quartette composed of Dr. H. L. Brown, James Matheson, C. E. Prior and G. B. Porter sang a patriotic song, “Tenting on the Qld Camp Ground.” Then Attorney George A. Williams delivered an address of welcome, assuring the visiting old soldiers that Rensselaer felt honored at their presence and that the welcome was extended heartily by men, women and children, who appreciated the noble work they had done and were < only too glad to‘ have an opportunity to extend a hand of thankful welcome to them. The response was to have been made by Adjutant Molloy, but he was unable to be here, but had prepared and sent to the secretary, D. H. Yeoman, the response, which was read by Capt. Elam, of Valparaiso. The captain’s voice was tremulous and weak and the address could not be heard all over the hall, and it is here printed in full.

Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I appreciate the honor conferred on me of responding to the welcome addresß, which you have Just heard. I wish that some other comrade had been selected for the important duty, but, as my rule in the army was never to shirk, and always to obey, I assume the pleasant task without the least hesitance. It 1b a pleasure to be welcomed to Rensselaer, add by such an able and eloquent speaker as the gentleman chosen for that purpose. It is a great pleasure, I assure you, to be welcomed to Rensselaer; a place which gave us our beloved Colonel Hammond, where he married his estimable wife; where his charming daughters were born; a place which, with the aid of Jasper county, gave us Co. A, with brave Captain Burnham and other gallant comrades. Rensselaer was always true* to the flag and to the Union, and as a comrade of our noble regiment, I have only words -of praise and appreciation for your beautiful, enterprising, progressive, ’ patriotic and hospitable city. Mr. Williams, I thank you most heartily for your splendid welcome, to my comrades and myself. We love to repeat the story of our Nation’s death struggle. The old story is ever new. You need not be afraid that it will ever grow old. It is too comprehensive for that. It is always new, because it is never repeated. I know those who are not soldiers are prone to think so, hut it’s a mistake. It is said that no two persons ever see the same rainbow, so the more than two million of men who composed the armies of the Union with their four million eyes beheld scenes that will never be recorded in history. Is it safe to say that no two witnessed the same scene? It is said that the history of the late war will never be completely written, for the reason that those from whom the information should be obtained either have passed away, cannot be found, or, if found, will not tell the story, or are not possessed of the ability to impart the coveted information. The men who stood in the skirmish line, or in the battle’s front, could well afford to speak of the attractive war scenes through which they passed.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Colder tonight.

The historian obtains his information from the government records. These were furnished by officers, who were, as a general thing, more or less in the rear, and they obtained their information from regimental or company commanders. So at best their information was second hand. By getting it from enlisted men it would be received from first hands. The enlisted men sees war in all its hideous nakedness. If he is in it but a short time, he is there long enough to taste tp the dregs the bitter eup, which, in more than one instance, is pressed to his lips. Many a man sees more service In three months than others do in three years. Men are maimed, or captured, or their health is broken down and never afterwards restored. A soldier who dies today in these piping times of peace may as truly lay down his life for his country as if he forfeited It on the battle field, amid ■the shouts of the combatants, and the thunders of red artillery.

Most of the leaders .whom we followed, “The tread of whose bannered armies shook the world,” have preceded us in death as they led us in life. “They have crossed over the river and are resting in shade.” Next to the grand leaders, the men who covered themselves with honor in war, are the private soldiers, the men whose pay is small, whose food is plain, whose clothing bears no marks of rank, who wear no flashing stars or gilded bars, or dashing plumes, who march in the mud and dust, in rainstorm and scorching sun, who lie upon the cold, damp, bare ground, who carry their own victuals and cook them, too; who stand on the lonely picket post at night, between safety and disaster. * Over the graves of the Union dead the North and Scfath clasp hands, political differences are forgotten, and all sections of a united jo. nd harmonl-

trail - Winter a Opening Cloaks And Sept. 29, 30, !||r WORKSHOP V worth Oct. Ist j We will have on display one of the most elegant lines of Suits and Cloaks ever shown in Rensselaer. \ WE INVITE YOU ALL To combine business with pleasure during Horse-Show Week, and inspect this fine showing of Winter Garments. A very comprehensive line of “Wooltex” Garments in stock. FENDIG’S FAIR.

TONIGHT’S PBOGBAM —♦ PICTURES. The Lady and the Borg^ar. An Eye lor an Eye, a drama. SOHO Like the Bose, You’re the Fairest Flower, by Hiss Ireland.

ous country vie with each other in doing honor to the Union soldiers, living and dead. We may differ about the tariff, about local option, about pensions, and other questions of public interest, but we are a unit in our belief that the men who died tbat the Nation might live, are deserving of the highest tribute of praise a grateful people can bestow. The hand of time is making great havoc with our numbers. Are you aware that of those who returned from the war in 1865, nearly three-fourths have gone to meet “Upon the shining table-lands, to which our God is moon and sun?” And from now on the ratio of mortality will largely increase each year. “The hands we grasped are quiet now. The lips-once eloquent, are dumb; The hearts once warm, are cold and v numb, And dust lies on each marble brow.” Knowing many of our Nation’s dead as I did, I can truthfully testify to their virtues and their deeds. They were tried in a way that tested to the utmost their true manhood. They were equal to every emergency. They had hearts of gold in bodies of Iron. Neither we nor our sacred dead need fear that they have died in vain. The splendid record of their marvelous deeds will preserve their memories for all time. Men such as they did their duty, and see what has come of it, even in this world. The country can’t do enough for we who survive. It has granted us pensions, it has built splendid homes for us; it has dotted the land, with monuments erected to the dead and living soldiers, and everywhere and at all times has made good the promise which adorned the capital at Washington at the time of the grand review in ’65, to the effect that “the only debt the Nation can never pay is the debt it owes the brave soldiers.” I, oftimes, in my dreams, or waking moments, see the war all over again. In imagination, I see the boys in bine at Hampton Roads, Va., participating '

Concluded on page four.

YOL.XIY.