Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1913 — Page 1

No. 299.

JUNIOR ATHLETES AGAIN ORGANIZE

Ministers Assist in Reorganization of the Rensselaer Tiger Club— Adopt Rules. With ‘the assistance of the ministers and Prof. Dean, the Rensselaer Tiger Club has again been organized. The purpose of the organization is set out in the preamble to the constitution herewith published. The boys will have the use of the high school gymnasium every Monday night. The following constitution and rules were adopted: We, the boys of Rensselaer between the ages of 10 and 16, in order /to form a more perfect organization, promote good feeling, strengthen ourselves mentally, spiritually and physically an<| develop a higher and more efflcient-"Oitizenship for Rensselaer in the future, do ordain and establish this constitution. Article 1. The name of this organization shall be the Rensselaer Tiger Club, and the colors maroon and white. Article 2, There shall be a president, secretary and treasurer elected the second Monday in January. 9 Article 3. The officers together with the resident ministers and one person chosen at large shall constitute a board of control. This board shall be the ruling body of the organization. All matters of business shall be settled by this board.

Article 4. Rules. 1. A boy to be eligible to membership must be identified with some church or sabbath school. 2. All boys between the ages of ten and sixteen are eligible to membership. All those over sixteen who wish to become members must present their names to the board of control and if they vote this person a member he shall be admitted to full membership. 3. The gym will be open from 7 to 8:30 on Monday evenings. No one will be admtited before 7. ( 80ys must be ready to leave by 8:30. 4. Only those with gymnasium shoes or tennis shoes are allowed on the floor. No swearing or smoking will be allowed. Any one reported as violating this rule will be called before the board of control and they may expel that member if they desire.

6. While a game is in progress no one is allowed on the floor except the officials and the players. 7. The dues shall be ten cents the first month and after that five cents for each month. Article 5. • Additional rules may be added by a vote of two-thirds of the entire club. Signed—Rev. Winn, Rev. Cumick, Rev. Parrett, Lawrence McLain, Carl Eigelsbach, Paul Beam and C. R. Dean. Adopted Feb. 2, 1913. High School Gymnasium. We wafit to see you before you buy your Christmas candles, nuts and fruit.

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S. LEOPOLD, Manager. Profit Sharing System. The next $5.00 given away will be on on next Wednesday at*B o’clock Everybody comeand bring your coupons.

The Evening Republican.

JOHN EGER.

INDIANA CUTS SOME CAPER IN CHICAGO

Annual Banquet of Indiana Society Presided Over by Former Rensselaer Citizen. ■J . -- The Indiana Society of Chicago held its jiinth annual banquet at the gold room of the Congress hotel last Saturday evening and it not only held up the reputation of the former successes but went them several points better and was acknowledged by all to be the best of all the affairs that social organization has held. Much of the credit for this is due to our former townsman, William B. Austin, who is the president of the society, and who presided at th*e banquet as, toastmaster.

In the brief account here published only a few of the many pleasures of the banquet can be mentioned. There were about 700 at the banquet, the plates being $lO per. At the speakers’ table were the following: Mr. Austin, Father John Cavanaugh, Dr. J. B. Murphy, Governor Stubbs, Dr. Winthrop E. Stone, James E. Watson, Hon. Francis E. Baker, Charles L. Jewett, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, John T. McCutcheon, Hon. John E. Lamb, Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Hon. J. M. Studebaker and Meredith Nicholson. The tables were arranged in the large dining room and about the balconies. The Purdue Glee Club and an orchestra of twentyfive pieces were on the balcony. A passage, elevated half the height of the speakers’ table and partially shielded from view by a low evergreen hedge was used for introducing the courses of the banquet. A girl driving a team of ponies hitched to a dainty market wagon drove through the passage, turned about and drove back. The Wagon was loaded with vegetables and fruit. Preceding a speckled trout course, a barefoot lad with broad brimmed hat, one suspender and his overalls rolled to his knees proceeded to catch a fine string of fish from a basin of water. He used a crooked limb for a pole, a cord for a line and an ordinary hook, while a fisherman clad in corduroy and equipped with jointed pole, reel and spoon hook could not get a bite. The lad sold his string of fish to the man and immediately trout Were served to the banqueters; A mountain moonshiner mounted on a burro and leading another, on the back of which was strapped a keg of whiskey and dangling from the burro’s side were a half dozen jugs of whiskey. Just as the moonshiner arrived in front of the toastmaster’s station he was overtaken by a sheriff and covered with a sixshooter. He threw up his hands to surrender, but a vote of the banqueters sustained the motion to have the moonshiner released and Ills product confiscated.

Another scene admitted a representation of Provisional President Huerta, preceded by a retinue of grotesquely attired attendants and accompanied by his secretary. Huerta weeps when Mexico, is mentioned and after quite a scene is revived by the odor of champaign. With these introductions courses that combined to make a splendid banquet were served. During the banquet the glee club sang and the entire assemblage frequently arose to join in the choruses. Miss Helen Warrum, an Indiana girl whose voice was trained entirely in the United States and who is said to be the only person now singing in grand opera who was not educated abroad, sang an afria from “La Triviata,” and responded to the applause by singing "On the Banks of the Wabash.”

Following the banquet the toast program was carried out, the speakers being John E. Lamb, Charles L. Jwett, James E. Watson arid Joseph G. Cannon. Sparkling wit studded the speeches and Mr. Austin introduced the speakers in a manner that distinguishes him as a toastmaster of ability. Impromptu witticisms by Wilbur D. Nesbitt, Cy Warman, Meredith Nicholson and others aided in inspiring the banqueters to a high pitch ofc merriment and made the affair one of the best banquet events ever held in Chicago. The souvenir was an 18-page newspaper called "The Chicago Daily Hoosier,” and entirely composed of witticisms, good and tolerable, which had been offered from all over the country by Hoosier contributors. The paper boasted of being “the world’s greatest newsfaker,” and filled the claim admirably. , At 1 o’clock Saturday at the University Club Mr. Austin, as president of the Society, entertained about thirty distinguished guests at a luncheon. He had provided for their entertainment several views of old scenes in Jasper county, which had been made irito lantern slides and were thrown on a serene. Among the pictures were the old sawmill that occupied a place at the side of the race just above the Washington street bridge, the old courthouse, the old Milroy home, the old long bridge over the Iroquois at Burk’s and a number of others including some

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PRESIDENT STARTS AN INVESTIGATION

Withdraws From Carabao Order and Objects to Song Which ■ Officers Sang. \ President Wilson has exhibited much disapproval of the incidents that composed a banquet given in Washington by the Order of the Carabaos, composed of U. S. Army and Navy officers. The president was an honorary member of the order but he after the proceedings of the banquet had been reported to him. The things which excited the president’s ire were some ridiculing stunts about Secretary Bryan’s peace program and the singing of a song entitled “Damn, damn, damn the Insurrectos.” The chorus of this sOng is:

Damn, damn, damn the insurrectos, Cross-eyed, kackiack Underneath the starry flag, Civilize ’em witn a Krag, And return us to our own beloved homes. The oncers say that the song has been sung for the past fourteen years and never before aroused any criticism. Since the administration is planning to give greater independence to the Filipinos, however, the president considers that song a slap at the-administration. Secretary Daniels, of the Navy, withdrew from the banquet before it was finished, as he disapproved the singing of the song. After he had gone three miniature battleships were shown, bearing the names U. 8. 8. Friendship, U. 8. 8. Fellowship and U. S. 8. Piffle. This was supposed to have been an attack on the government’s peace policy. Investigation is being made and it is quite probable that courts-martial of high Army and Navy officers may follow.

Drunken Man Fell From Train—Not Even a Scratch.

Lafayette Journal. The saying that you can’t hurt a drunken man was demonstrated early yesterday morning when a hobo giving the name of John McCuen, from an eastern city, fell off the top of a freight car attached to an engine that was moving at the rate of thirty-six miles per hour and alighted on his feet. This remarkable instance happened at Buck Creek and was witnessed by the conductor, who stopped the train and backed up, expecting to find the man dead. The conductor was agreeably surprised, however, to discover the man on his feet, with apiffirently riot even a bruise to show for the nasty tumble. Even a pint bottle half full of whisky was intact. The other half had probably been consumed by McCuen, for he was very much intoxicated. He was brought to Lafayette, met by an officer with the wagon and taken to jail.

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of the more modern buildings and street views. The remarks made by the guests were very interesting, some one having a really funny remark for each picture. Most of the readers of this paper have seen the group- picture of old men taken in Rensselaer some twelve or fifteen years ago. Most of the men wore white beards'and as the picture was shown and Mr. Austin spoke briefly of the pioneers who composed it, some one remarked: “Quite a growth of alfalfa.” Another asked *T>o they innoculate for alfalfa in Jasper county?” And another, “No, it’s indigenous to the soiL” One scene showed the Iroquois during a period of high water and Mr. Austin explained that since the river had been dredged and the channel lowered, thus destraying the scenery in reclaiming the swamp lands. "Hardly enough water left to supply chasers at George Ade’s farm,” said one of the guests. Wilbur D. Nesbit, at Mr. Honan’s request, read James Whitcomb Rileys poem: "Little Brother Jasper,” and then Mr. Austin read James B. Elmore’s marvelous poem about the Monon wreck, illustrating it with a number of pictures. Mr. Elmore is known as the “Bard of Alamo,” and his poetry Is so frightfully bad that it is almost good. The amusing illustrations thrown on the screen made the poem very amusing and the luncheon was a pronounced success.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TuiISDAT, DECEMBER 16, 1913.

A Little Waste That Seems A Pity—Should Be Stopped.

The writer saw a pile of old railroad ties’ burning at the side of the railroad track near the depot one day last week. The fire had been started by the section men in carrying out instructions. There was probably a cord of very good wood in the pile, thus having a valiie of about $4 for fuel and yet it was totally wasted. Inquiry brought out the-reply that the ties are all burned after being taken out because of partial decay, on order of railroad officials»and that all roads follow the same practice. The reason assigned is that if the ties are given away or sold it makes the theft of ties possible and sometimes. thieves might steal the new ties- There were jealousies created,] it fe also claimed, because the ties'j we(e not evenly divided among section hands. These excuses do not seem ach' quate and The Republican belief, it is a crime to destroy the tis|px is contrary to the principal ot com serfration and amounts, no douofit to the waste of thousands of ddytrffl each year. The ties cofiJd be coraed up in piles and sold to the highest bidder or at a fixed, cord price, the sales being made by the railroad agents or the section foremen. Fuel gets scarcer and scarcer each year. Consequently it gets higher and higher in price. Everything done to conserve tNA sui&iy serves to hold the price dowi. It is the small matters <?servation as well as the large orie&that need attenfcion and we but be lie4e that it is a great pity that thii excellent fuel timber is. wonton|y destroyed.

Laurant, the Magician, Coming Wednesday Evening.

Rensselaer people are to have the pleasure of seeing one of the greatest magicians Wednesday evening at the high school auditorium. Laurant has been before the public for many years and is considered by the Redpath Bureau one of their strongest attractions. This is the first liceum number on the course backed by the churches of the city. Heretofore, the courses for the past four years have been under the management of the Epworth league of the Methodist church. This year it was thought best to enlarge the course and make it more of a community enterprise. At present, one can hear the five numbers for one dollar, but if the attendance is good the committee will no doubt give one of two more numbers for the same price.

The committee has decided to hold the first number in the high school auditorium, largely because of the stage. However, the school authorities are desirous of making the high school auditorium more of a place for public meetings. Remember the date, Wednesday evening, December 17th.

Monon Operators Granted Increase in Wage Scale. All telegraph operators on the Monon railroad have been granted an increase in wages of 7% per cent, together with improved working conditions, effective Dec. Ist. In Rensselaer Elmer Wilcox, Dan Morrissey and Ross Q. Hufford will receive*the increase. Harry Zimmerman, of Michigan City, another Rensselaer boy, will come in for the better wage.

Michigan Potatoes at 80 Cents Per Bushel. We will have a carload of fancy sand-grown Michigan potatoes here this week, which I will sell from the car at 80 cents per bushel. Leave your order now. RHOADS’ GROCERY. Dinner Set Given Away. The one hundred piece Dinner Set (on display in our window) will be given away Christmas Eve. TRAUB & SELIG. Never before has there been gathered together In Rensselaer such a large variety of Holiday Goods as we are showing this year. Practical Gifts at Reasonable Prices. TRAUB & SELIG.

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PRINCESS THEATRE I® .Hr- -wßm One Day Only Fri. Dec. 19 Direct from Ziegfeld Theatre, Chicago George Kleine’s Gigantic Spectacle “The Last Days Of Pompeii" In Six Parts Performance lasts labours* The scene of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, is alone worth the price of admission. - The afternoon performances at 2 and 4 p. m. The 4 o’clock show will be a Special School Children’s Matinee Evening Show Begins Promptly at 7 P. IL and 830 P. M. Prices, All Seats, 20 Cents NOTE—Mr. Kleine presented “QuoVadis at the Princess Theatre early in the Fall.

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WEATHER. Fair tonight and Wednesday.

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