Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1914 — Page 1

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THEY ARK FIGHTING ALONG THE FRONTIER

Reports From Abroad Say That - Germany Lost Heavily Whba Belgians Resisted Them. The war involving (the great European -powers is raging and metropolitan papers are eagerly sought telling ors the terrific contest that Is expected (to change the map of the continent. The most inrportanit news of the day was the reported ne- " pulse of the German army with great losses near Liege, Blegium. Germany is accused of violating the neutrality of Belgium by trying to cross through it to reach France. Belgium would not stand ifor it and drove the Germans back with heavy losses. France and England have offered aid to Belgium. The Russian frontier army is said to have penetrated JO miles of German territory. The cutting of the sables between Germany and the United States has, made it impossible to get direct word from that country and all dispatches come from London or Paris and doubtless are very sympathetic to England and Franca The U. S. has authorized our consul* in London to draw on the United States lor $300,000 if needed to protect Americans and to secure for them sale transportation to this country. President Wilson Wednesday sent to each tof the belligerent states an offer to act as an arbitrator to settle their troubles and bring peace to all. It is not probable (that the offer can avail now, when the rulers are in teh throes of animosity. A naval battle is momentarily expected, as the British fleet has instructions to find and defeat the German navy. It is impossible for The Republican” with its limited space and facilities to do more than give a brief of the day’s news. In the cities specials are put out every hour and are eagerly bought by the throngs on the streets. There is something of the mother country™, blood In practically all Americans arid the interest is intense.

MILROY.

Mrs., Ohas. McCashen spent the first of the week with her brother, T. Clark, of Lee. Mrs. T. A. Spencer ,and children, ? Mrs. G. Foil Iks, Miss Gertie Campbell and Mrs. Florence Whitlow assisted Mrs. Minnie Blankenship with threshers Tuesday. Mr. and (Mrs. Walter Whitlow are visiting: Janies Blankenship. Miss Belle Southard visited her sjater, Mrs. Jessie Gilmore, thjs week. - Rev. Wright, of Rensselaer, delivered a . fine sermon here Sunday night and will preach again in two weeks. Wm. Dolfln’s were in MoOoysburg Tuesday. Jack Weaver and family have moved back to Missouri. Mr. DoJfln and family called on G. Foulks Tuesday evening. : Ci. 1 oulks and T. A. Spencer and families autoed to Laifayette and 1 Battle Ground Sunday. Ohas. Wood has a new motorcycle. Martha Clark Is visiting her blother, Clyde Clark and family, near Morocco. Misses Lillian and Juanita Fisher were Wolcott callers Tuesday. James Blankenship’s nieee is making him a visit. MV Vesta Hamilton and daughtejKsre visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gawaber’s this week. Mr. and Mrs. Alva McCashen ate dinner Sunday with Chas. Beaver’s. Mrs. Frank May and Miss Ruth spent Tuesday and Wednesday wiljh Mrs/Mary McCashen and Miss Ft tie. The Misses McDonald called on I. Monday. Preaching Sunday at 3 o’clock. Sunday School at 9:30 a. an. Walter Chapman has been suffer: ing from a very sore hand.

NEWLAND.

Miss Cecilia filiate was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Tafincr and two dhildiren, of near McOoysburg, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tow. Lloyd Tow and Earle Castor, of Scofield, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tow. Miss Reva Rees spent Sunday afternoon with Mis® Letha Reea Mies Cecelia Spate and Miss Augusta Altfellish called on Mia® Julia Oliver Saturday afternoon. Mis® Grace Henley spent Thursday night with Miss Helen PhlMlpa. The young peopled society held « business meeting at F. Henley’s last Tuesday night. Wm Rees and Dal Jones were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Thompson spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blacker. Wm. Kennedy has purchased a Ford auto from Ed Oliver. H. H. Borohers 1® having his hay baled out this week.

The Evening Republican.

COMMISSIONERS LET BRIDGE CONTRACTS

And Transacted Other Business at the Angust Session—Only One Registration Bay. x. Besides letting the contract for the new Work street bridge the county commissioners this week let the following contracts: Bridge in- Newton township to the Rochester Bridge 00., for $3,900; one bridge In Jordan township, to 11. D. McOolly for $947.50; three in Carpenter township to the Elkhart Bridge 00., two at $372 each and one at $530.10. The contractor on the T. F. Mar loney stone road in Kankakee township, was allowed $750; contractor on the Zick .stone road in Walker township was allowed $593.84 on road No. j and $1,969.10 on roa l No. 2. -

J. W. •Spate filed report on the Ed Oliver stone road in Barkley township, showing completion of same, and superintendent was ordered to pay him the balance bn.contract. Joe Thomas was appointed drainage commissioner on the H. F. King ditch in Newton township and the same was referred to drainage commissioners to meet Aug. 10 and report first day of September term. Drainage commissioners were granted additional! time until September term, to report on the Chas. Fib ditdh in Banging Grove township. Jaimes E. Lamson, et al, petition for road iprovement in Jordan township; board appoints Devore Yeoman engineer and Geo. May and W. E. Corah, viewers to meet within ten days and report at next term. .John C. Clausen petition for highway in Barkley township; T. M. Callahan, Ed Oliver and J. W. Spate appointed viewers to meet Aug. 17 ahd report first day of next term. W. H Hershman petition for vacati(,/. of highway In Walker township; John Ryan, B. F. Lafevre and James Toy no appointed viewers to meet Aug. 10 and report first day next ienn Oh as. R. Weiss petition for highway in Newton township; Ed Lane. John Zimmer and Frank Alter appointed viewers to meet Aug. -19 and report/ first day next term.

Contractor allowed $1,320 on the Walter Porter stone road. G. L. Parks, petition for highway in Milroy township; viewers file report Showing Stanton S. Spencer would be damaged $166.26. No remonstrance filed against said highway, and auditor directed to draw warrant to Spencer for above amount. Copy of order to be sent to Auditor of White county and-tci-trustee of Milroy township, the latter directed to certify to Princeton township, White county. Highway ordered opened and expense account of sl7 for viewers ordered paid, auditor to collect ihialf ot aaid amount from auditor of White county.

T. M. Callahan and Harry Gifford file bond to construct the S. C. Irwin stone road in Barkley township with the U. S. Fidelity and Guaran tee Co., as surety. Bond approved. There will be only one registration day for voters in Jasper county. The law provides that a second day may be named if petitioned for by 300 freeholders. A petition was filed but it contained only 175 nanws and the commissioners decided not to throw the expense of an additional registration day on taxpayers. «

Not So Strange After All You may think it strange that so many people are cured of stomach trouble by Chamberlain’s Tablets. You would not, however, if you should give them a trial. They strengthen and Invigorate the stomach and enable it to perform Its functions naturally. Mrs. Rosie Rish, Wabash, Ind., writes, “Nothing did me the least good until I began using Chamberlain’s Tablets. It is decidedly the best medicine for stomach trouble I have ever used.” For sale by all dealers. C L Notice to Oitisena On Streets to Be Treated. Notice Is hereby given that in order to successfully treat the. streets with Tarvla B oil, It will be necessary to have the stretes perfect ly dry In order to allow the t&ryia to penetrate into the road bed. Citizen® Mving on streets to be thus treated will refrain from sprinkling said streets until after the same have been treated and the tarvla set. By Order of the Mayor. Mrs. Albert Sherreil, of Otterbeth, came today to attend a (birthday surprise at, the home of her mother, Mrs. Chas. W. Burns, northwest of town. Mrs Burn® is 63 years of age and the occasion I® being commentorwted by a iblg dinner at her home.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1914.

OCKLEY BALL TEAM ATHLETIC RIVALS

Team That Has Enviable Record oi f Victories Will Be Here For Game Next Sunday. (Oockley will be here next Sunday. The Athletics will have one of the hardest games of the season, lor Qckley has been pftaying great ball all year, winning from such teams as Flora, Frankfort, Logansport and Delphi. There is something about the rivalry between teams from different towns that inspires a fan more than contests against Chicago teams and it is probable the locals will not schedule another game this year vrith a Chicago team.

Harry Mason, of Monon, who is greatly admired here, having played with Monon last season and with Rensselaer the early -part of this year, is the catcher for the Ockley •team and it will be seen by the following line-up that he holds the clean-up position for Ockley. dark 'has always been able to take care of Mason, however, and Rensselaer should be able to take the Ockley lads Into camp. The Ockley line-up follows: Brown, center field; Cloe, second base; Chair, shortstop; Mason, catch; Downey, first base; Swensen, pitch; Beard, left field; difford, right field; Ferguson, third base. Manager Downey closes his letter giving the line-up as follows: “I hope we have a good crowd and a nice day. Yours for sport” The came Is scheduled for 2:30.

Steeplejack Made An Easy $20; That it, Easy for Him.

Edmund von Kaeriel, the steeplejack who is doing a lot off painting at St Joseph's college, slipped into , Rensselaer today and in 45 minutes he painted the flagpole on the courthouse, receiving S2O tor the job. „Of course, this was not all profit, as Mr. von,Kaenel furnished the paint. He used 2 quarts, which' cost him a half dollar and his velvet was only $19.50. Notwithstanding the fat price there was no rivalry tor the job and the pole needed painting ibadly. It is not probable that the board of commissioners will deem It necessary to scale the pole to see whether the job was well done, but the claim #ill be allowed without examination. Mr. von Kaenel is the man who scaled the. pole one day last week and with a $3 Brownie kodak took 18 birdseye views of the city. One was taken straight down the pole and the effect was very peculiar, the pole apparently being smaller at the bottom than at the top, while von Kaenel’s feet were quite conspicuous in the foreground. The other pictures were all splendid, and The Republican will 'have cuts made of two of them, which Show the city business district from the very tip of the flagstaff. it*!? .'

Not in It For Silos; Jasper is Way Ahead.

A paragraph in The Republican items Wednesday stated that a concrete silo, 12x20 feet, on the W. H. Harmon saran near Pine Village, was the largest concrete silo in the United States. The item was clipped from another paper and was published without investigation. The Pine Village silo is not nearly as large as several in Jasper county, and others still larger aTe to be built Michael Jungles has a concrete silo 2fix6o; Chamberlain & Marlatt have one of the same size; Granville Moody has one 20x50; C. C. Moody one 18x50; E. J. Randle has one 16x50. Now J. J. Lawler is having two erected on his north ranch, each 20x62. Roe Yeoman is doing (the iwork, having just re turned from a Silo building trip to Missouri.

* Christian Church. Bible school and adult classes 9:30. AH members of the school are urged to be present as we are in the •process of building up. 10:30 morning service. Sermon “The Living Church.” 6:30 Service on the court house lawn. Sermon by Dr. Curnick. You aTe invited to these services.

' Ransom Sawln came almost being lynched in Missouri. He was working there for Roe Yeoman, building cement sljos and when some of the scaffold was being removed Wednesday a rope caught •him about the neck and he (had visions of paradise. The only injury he sustained was a badly burned neck Where the rope rubbed him. It was enough to make him feel bad, for any fellow who has to crosß to the great beyond by the noose process. •If your stock of engraved calling cards Is running low bring the plate to The Republican and have duplicates made. If you do not have en-. graved cards order them today. _ Order your Calling Cards St The Republican efts

SPREADING TARVIA ON MANY STREETS

Contractor Making Fast Work of It —Should Prove an Excellent Preservative. 1 ' " Contractor Sherman White, of Brook, Who is placing Tarvia B on the residence streets or many of them in Rensselaer, is making fast work of it and College avenue, West Washington, River and South Van Rensselaer streets were cleaned and oiled Tuesday and Wednesday. The very dry condition of the roads has made the sweeping a mighty dusty job, not for the sweeper, but for tpose who live along the streets. A rolller sweeper was procured from Morocco and it does the business, seeding all the dust and loose substances to the gutter line, but dense c|ouds of dust are stirred up and ewe|t to yards and porches and into houses. The sweeping process, however, is a short one and is essential in the tarvia spreading. While it is quite late in the fall to start oiling, it is claimed that this is a gopd time to put on the tarvia, that it will put the roads in good condition for the winter and that the surface will 'be hard in the spring. The streets on which the preparation has been spread are closed for a dhort time, so that the tarvia may harden.

Otterbein Horse Paces a Mile in Two Minutes.

Lafayette Journal. William, the great pacing stallion owned by Earl Van Natta, of Otterbein, yesterday set a new mark for tour-year-olds and lowered his own record two seconds. In the 2:04’ pace at Graiid Rapids, Mich„ William won in three straight heats. His best time was two minutes flat. He started out this season on the grand circuit by making a mark of 2:02, the world’s record tor tour-year-old®. Last year he had established a new world’s record for three-year-olds by making a mile in 2:05. His time yesterday is the fastest that ever has been made by any horse hi a race, and William now bears the proud distinction of being the world’® champion racer. He has been trained and driven in all of hie races by W. Marvin, of this city, who is entitled to great credit tor the splendid work be has done.

The Twenty Tear Test. “Some twenty years ago I used Chamberlan’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,” writes Geo. W. Brock, publisher of the Enterprise, Aberdeen, Md. ‘1 discovered that it was a quick arid safe cure for diarrhoea. Since then no one can sell me anything said to be ‘just as good.’ During all these years .1 have u&ed it and recommended it many times, and it has never disappointed anyone” For sale by all dealers. C F. M- Haskell, the barber, has always taken much pride in caring tor his property on South River street and has kept the grass mowed along the side off his property on Kanilal avenue clear out to the road line. Recently some of the teamster® who axe 'hauling crushed rock started driving along the side of the macadamized road and across the grass, wearing track lines through the gras® which Frank has taken lots of trouble to establish and to keep green. He has given it the same attention that he ha® his yard and a® he occupies a corner property it has meant a lot of work and he was greatly putout because the teams were driven across it when it would have been very easy to have kept to the road, which is smooth and hard. Possibly Mr. Haskell has no legal right to restrict travel along the road aide, b ,t it would be very easy for teamsters to keep to the road and not to efface the grass plot and they wouM thereby contribute to the beautification off the city.

’ How to Cure a Sprain.. A sprain may be cured in about one-third the time required by the usual treatment by applying Chamberlain’s liniment and observing the directions with each bottle For* sale by aH dealers. C RENSSELAER MARKETS Wheat—77c. Corn—6Bc. Oats-^Oe. Butterfat—2Bc. Rye—soe. Spring chickens—lsc to 18e. Hen®—l2c. Eggs—l6c. Mr. and lira. Virgil Hamilton, of Ihdianapofta, came this morning to spend a vacation period with her rather. Hale Warner and wife and ocher relative®.

MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR J. CECIL ALTER

Former Jasper County Boy Is Appointed Assistant Manager of Dry Farming Congress. J. Cecil Alter, who has been for some weeks in 'the selection and preparation of tools, seconds, instruments and other appurtenances of the weather bureau service at Washington, D. C., for the international exposition at San Francisco next year, will postpone this work until Sept? Ist, as he has been appointed assistant manager of the Wichita dry farming congress. He left last Saturday foi a thirty days’ jaunt to Wichita, Denver,- Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, the Dakotas. Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, In quest of photographs of grains, grasses, tools and anything that will help to educate a visitor to the exposition, on how to do dry farming. His expenses are paid and he has an appropriation of $3,000 with which to purchase exhibit materials necessary to put on a good show at Wiehlta in October. He has authority to travel anywhere in the sub-humid regions, ibis means all west of the Mississippi river. He carries twenty government transportation requests and 500 exposures for two cameras. He will probably return to Washington to resume his work there before taking charge of the Wichita exhibit in October.

Get You Coming and Going at Mudlavia Springs.

W. L. Wood, of Parr, is spending a week at Mudiavia Springs and he has found since going there that it is “no place for a 'poor man.” The entire ''works” are owned by one company and they cater to the class iwho are wealthy or imagine they are. Logan writes: “Everything here is higher than a cat’s back and there is considerable graft mixed In. The cheapest room Is S3O a week. Then comes $lO for the doctor’s examination; $1 for a rpbe and another $1 for a blanket, making $42 the very cheapest for a week. A poor man had; better get it out of bis .head that (he has the rheumatism; it’s cheaper. They get you down here as you proceed The price is 50 per cent more than it was five years ago. There Is no competition now.”

Military Camp to Be Held And Company M to Attend.

Company orders are being sent out requiring all members of Company M, Indiana National Guard, to attend the annual camp of instruction to be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison Aug. 16th to 25th. The company will, doubtless take a number of recruits for the outing and officers will go to Saturday evening to enlist several there Any who wish to go may give their names to J. W. Spate at New land and be on hand Saturday evening of this week for enlistment and physical examination. The company will leave Rensselaer Sunday morning, Aug. 16th, a special train being sent here tor the soldiers.

Would Support Hugh Miller.

Muncle Pres®. If Colonel Roosevelt were an Indilanian, he would not hesitate to endorse Hugh T, Miller for U. S. senator. He is of the Hinman type —dean, capable, courageous, and never at any time identified with factionalism or bossism of any sort. In refusing to run for governor, and in endorsing one of the candidates tor the republican gubernatorial nomination, Colonel Roosevelt points but to Senator Beveridge an opportunity that was Iris early In the present year.

Colonel Roosevelt in his attitude riot only admits what everybody else knows to be true—that the cause of his party in the state of New York, as in the state of Indiana, is absolutely hopeless, but he indicates very plainly the direction in Which his political craft is headed. It’s the wise member of the party rank and file who beats the colonel back home In fact, thousands upon thousands have already done thia and thousands more are going to do so. But Colonel Roosevelt’s attitude in denouncing those who put partisanship above citizenship amounts to a stinging rebuke to the Indiana progressive organization for Its uncompromising attitude against cooperation with the foes of the machine in power, and its well-known affiliation with that machine In the common cause of keeping ft In power. . J

All kind® of feed for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. WEATHER FORECAST Local thunderstorm® tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.

WIFE OF PRESIDENT WILSON NEARS DEATH

After Illness of Several Months She Is About to Pass Away— President at Her Side. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, lies at the point of death. Four months of almost unbroken illness, a complication of nervous ailments and bright’s disease, have sapped the vitality of the first lady of the land. The end is regarded as a matter of days, perhaps hours. Her three daughters are at her bedside and relatives have been summoned. Physicians have been in consultation for days, but it was admitted that hope for her recovery had almost vanished. Conscious only at intervals, Mrs. Wilson has been cheerful and has called constantly lor her husband. Every spare moment that could be spared from urgent official duties have been devoted by the president to his wife At the side of his constant helpmate and adviser, he wrote the tender of good offices appealing to the European monarch* to stay their conflict.

For several days it has been known to those in closest touch with the white house that Mrs. Wflsotffewas gravely ill and that hope for her recovery was slight One day last March Mrs. Wilson slipped on a rug at the White house, injuring her spina An operation was necessary and after weeks of convalescence she finally ipse from her bed, put the burden of a winter’s activity, together with charity work in the slums of the city, brought on nervous prostration. She was wcM enough to attend the wedding Of her second daughter, now Mrs. William G. McAdoo, but her recuperative poiwers were not lasting.

Letter From Henry Luers Does Not Mention the War.

Mrs. Henry Lucre received a letter Wednesday from her husband, who is visiting his boyhood home at Veehta, Germany, and about shorn the family has felt considerably worried since the war broke out. His letter was written July 27th, just ten days ago, and he made no mention in it about the war, which at thst time had scarcely begun, but which ha® now reached such magnitude as to involve practically all the nations of Europe, resulted in *the stoppage of the operations of trans-Atlantic cotoomeree and the cutting of cables betwee a Germany and New York and Germany and England. Mr. Luere in all of his letter® from his boyhood home has praised the country highly. He made a trip there 36 years ago and he states that he is delighted with the marvelous improvements that have occurred during that time The roads are fine, the country developed to a high state, fine building Improvements and this year there have been abundant rains and crops are fine. Mr. Luere said nothing in his letter about coming home and it is presumed expected to regain for several weeks yet Whether the war conditions will change bis plans his family are unable to ray. It would probably be impossible now for him to get any word to them or them to him.

Sister of Russell Van Hook Touring on European Continent

Among the many American tourists now on the continent In Europe is a sister of Russell Van Hook, of the Rlveredge Dairy, west of town.. Miss Van Hook, in company with a number of young ladies from Louisville, are probably in Vienna at this time. The last lettar from her was posted in Rome and the party expected to proceed north to Vienna and thence to Berlin. Her brother, Prof. Van Hook, of Codumbi* University, New York City, has sailed to attempt to rescue the party. Father William Hardeman, of Frankfort, brother of the Bordenian brothers In this county and himself a former Rensselaer boy, i® presumed to be at the boyhood home of the older Hordemans in Germany. He has been touring the continent with an ag& unefe from the west and relatives shereTOave received a number of postal cards from him. Nothing ha® been heard since the beginning of hostilities.

CITY TRUE SHOP. ( Notice to Mr. Auto Owner. We do Ml kinds of casing and tube repaying by the Marble Hay wood vulcanizing system- The stoop for service and good work, STOOKWELL A BRADOCK, Over Fred Hemphill's Blacksmith l Shop, 1 ■ Bt.

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