Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1915 — Page 1

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Son of Lafayette Man Killed While Fighting With British.

Lafayette, IndL, Jan. 4. —Joseph Higgs yesterday received a cablegram from the English war office in London informing him of the death of his son, Harry Higgs, which occurred a few days ago, in .France, while his regiment was in action against the Germans. Higgs was 26 year's old and an officer in the British army. His father a few days ago received a letter from theson informing him that he was in good health and in fine spirits. Joseph Higgs has lived in the U. 8. for twenty years and has been employed by several Indiana counties and cities as a tax ferret. Harry Higgs visited his father here several years ago.

The Rensselaer high school basketball teams are being whipped into condition by the old reliable coach, Harry Parker. Last night fourteen men reported for practice and -were put through a two-hour hard grind. Harry English is showing fine form at center. but Casey Hemphill is making him go Some. Bill Eigelsbach and Chuck Rhoades are playing the sure shot part at forwards, while Cumick and Healy are giving them a close race. Capt. Babcock, one of the best guards In this part Of Indiana, is showing work that was never seen before on the gym floor, %nd - his partner, Booster Eigelsbach, is playing the game like a veteran. Walker, Simons, Swain, Moore, Sage, Warren and Walker are showing up in good form and the seven men that will represent the high school at Valparaiso next Friday night will be chosen from these men, and the rest will take care of the Remington aggregation, - on the home floor. Ooach Parker will have a hard job picking the first team, fox the material this jtear is the best in a long time.,

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The Evening Republican.

MYRT B. PRICE APPOINTED SURVEYOR

C. J. Hobbs ResigazAftir Qualify ing and o«^j|issAt*rs C. J. HobbajSSboji wh elected county surveyor $t the fecent election and should have waken his office JanuarjjGlst, qualwfed bes * the commissioners Moncwr and today tendered?MS resignation. Mr. Hobba, at the tine of his nomination, was chief Aglneer on the Gifford railroad, anJprhen this road was by lie Monon, he was givsp the same Asition under the new company, A increased wages, and this is his { reason for deciding hot to accept Hie office of county surveyors Myrt B, Price, -countysurveyor a few years ago, was appointed in his place today. He hasahseady given a surety bond and hss qualified and taken the office. |He is well that will represent the #igh scho 1 pointment will meet with general approval.

Daughter’s Fiancee Must Look For Another Job.

The announcement h«s just been made of the engagement of Miss Helen Dickson Jones, daughter of President Edmund J. Jones, of Illinois University. Her fiancee is Prof. George Enfield Frazier, comptroller of that university. *." When Prof. Frazier psked President Jones for his daughter’s hand in marriage the president said: “I give ray consent but j ?u must resign as a member of m; . faculty, for I am opposed to havpik realtives among my teachers ev n unto the fourth generation.” Prof. Frazier tendered his resignation. Later for publication Mr. Jones said: “Boards of trustees and pdblic school boards should be prapibited by law from appointing -to positions within their gift any tperson connected by blood or Mfrriage with any member of the tePfching or administration staff. Nolnan is a fair judge of the ability orlervice of his own children or other Relatives. He is only liable to overvf|lue~them or to do them an injustice. Nepotism, or the favoring Of omfs own relatives, is in its quality a more subtle and more corrupting influence than either polities or religion directed to the same end, bad |s there are.” Prof. Frazier’s value' in the 'lllinois faculty is well known but President Jones’ told him if he chose his daughter h«? would have to go elsewhere for a job. Representative Gardner, of Mass began yesterday a letter agitation of the of the army and navy with a deeiara tion that the “whole navy has got into a rut. It’s dawdle, dawdle, dawdle all along the lipe from voter to president.”

WEATHER. Unsettled tonight and Wednesday; probably snow or rain; warmer tonight.

RBMSBILABR. INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1915.

STERLING INSURANCE CO PAYS FIRST DIVIDEND

Arrangements Made With the Hart ford Company For Reciprocal Business. The Sterling Fire Insurance Go., organized in Indianapolis about three years ago, will pay Its first dividend in February, which will be welcome news to several here who took stock in the company when It was. first organized. The stock was sold originally at S2O her share and for some time it has been offered on the market around sll per share. The latest developments in the affairs of the company will no doubt cause a raise in the price of the stock. Arrangements have been completed between the Sterling and the Hartford Life Insurance Companies for the reciprocal handling of busi-, ness. According to officials of the. Sterling, they will be strengthened; considerably by the arrangement,! which has also resulted in the declaration oi a 5 per cent dividend, payable in February. The officials of the Sterling Company also say that this arrangement will not affect the business in Indiana and Illinois.

Columbia City Has a Case of Wife Murder.

Noah Davis, aged 55 shot and killed his wife, aged 44, at Columbia City Saturday night just after her return home from attending a, revival meeting at the Free Methodist church. According to Davis his wife left the qhurch in company with Walter Klihgman, aged 34, a laborer. He said the killing/was because of his jealousy of Kllngeman, who disappeared after the shooting. Davis and wife have no children.

Christian Church Revival.

Another goodly audience assembled at the Christian church wvangelistig meeting Monday night. The sermon was entitled: /The Man Who Laughed at God.” Tin, Speak er dwelt upon the life of Belshazzar, King of Babylon and the handwriting on the wall. He sakHin part: '

Belshazzar was not found wanting in his own estimation. He was not wanting in the estimation of his friends for they thought him a good fellow. But God weighs every man in His own balance!. Many a man who thinks himself all right and who may listen to the silly plaudits of his friends may come far short of manhood as God views it. God gives us in His word the balances in which we are to weigh our lives. In Exodus, 20th chapter, they are to be found. Here are a few of them: Thou shalt love the Loyd thy God, etc. 'What is a Man’s ‘God? It may be money or gold. Many a man falls prostrate upon his knees before the altar of gold. He sacrifices honor, life, principle and all that te sacred and holp. Of all dust blown Into the eyes of manhood the most blinding is that of gold dust. Thou shalt keep the Sabbath bay.. There is need to heed this message of God. We Are prone to forget the sacredness and beauty of the Lord’s Day, and to fill It with things that will desecrate. Notions that have crumbled in the dust have been nations which have forgotten God and the Sabbath. You Christian people of Rensselaer, rise up and strike against anything that will rob us of God’s Day. Honor thy tether and thy mother, etc. Oh, how much need there is for this. We speak so lightly of sacred things. Children speak of father and mother as the "old man” and the “old woman.” The greatest man is the man who honors, loves and reveres parenthood. “Thou shalt not swear.” No man has the right to take the name Of his God in vain. Yet go where we will we hear it. A man might just as well speak lightly and disrespectfully of his mother than of his God. Don’t let us make our city a profane eity. The sermon tonight will be on “Sowing Wild Oats.” It will be of special interest to parents- and young' men. Prof. Altbelde will hgve his chorus in fine fettle tonight and musie will be a good featifre.

Women suffragists fighting for a federal constitutional amendment enfranchising their sex will concentrate their campaign upon the White House again Wednesday, when a delegation of democratic women will asa President Wilson to support their movement, ( which is to he taken up |n the house on Tuesday. Jam* J2th.

ANOTHER ELOPEMENT PROBABLY TO MICHIGAN

Miss Floss Smith Loaves Note Tell- —- . ing of Her Plans to Get Married. * f * ,i{T '*

Mrs. Frye: X am running away and when you shall have road this I will bo Mrs. Willard Millspaugh. Gone to Michigan.

The above message written on a card was found by Mrs. William Frye, wife of the busman, when she went downstairs about midnight Monday night to answer a phone call.

The note was written by her domestic, Miss Floss Smyth, daughter of J. W. Smith, of Union township. Miss Smith had been employed by Mrs. Frye for some time. Willard Millspaugh,' nephew of J. R. Millspaugh, of Union township, worked for his uncle last summer, but this winter he has been making his home with his grandparents near Matthews. He appeared here the day after Christmas and has been paying devoted attention to Miss Smith, visiting her nearly every evening. Monday evening he appeared at the Frye residence at an early hour and he and Miss Smith (went down town, returning some time later. About 11 o’clock Mts. Frye heard them leave the house again, and when she went downstairs a little later to answer the phone she found the note.

They were noticed at the depot by the bus driver a little later, and left On the second sounthbound train at 12:13, so they may have changed their minds a-id not gone to Michigan. Miss Smythe is 19 years of age and Mr. Millspaugh is 18, it is understood.

Only One Way for U. S. to Maintain Actual Neutrality.

With the ships of England controlilng every seaport of Europe it would be Impossible for any shipment of contraband to reach Germany ox Austria or any other country that may be opposed to the nations allied with England. This being the case, the United States can not play fair with Germany if it engages in the manufacture and shipment of any articles contraband of war for England. -Germany can not receive unless the United States sends a battleship fleet to deliver. We believe, that Congress should without delay stop the manufacture and shipment of all articles intended for use in the Euorpeah war for all are sent directly to England, France or Russia, while. Germany and Austria are unable to receive because of England’s domination of the seas.

If the true sympathies of our neutral American people could be determined it is quite sure that half or more of our people are hoping that Germany will be successful, at least they are for a square deal for Germany, but they believe the United States is riding rough shod over the neutrality due Germany by manufacturing and shipping to England and the allies foodstuffs, clothing, arms and ammunition, denied to Germany. Patrick H. O’Uonnell, of . Chicago, formerly of Delphi, and who many years ago frequently visited Rensselaer, where his sister, Miss Nell, now the wile of Victor Willey, of Carroll county* attended school, spoke before the house committee on foreign affairs in Washington Monday, in the interest of the Ger-man-Irish alliance of Chicago. He argued ior a complete embargo on all munitions of war in order that our boasted neutrality may be a teet, not a boast. Mr. O’Donnell is right. England has been quite highhanded in its seizing and holding of American shipments to neutral countries -and may be depended upon to be as adroit and evasive as ite highly schooled diplomacy will make possible in its dealing with President Wilson’s note of protest. ' . There is only one way to be neutral and that is to be fair and honNeutrality will never exist so long as the munitions of waT are shipped to the allies.

New Meat Market.

I have opened a meat market in connection with my grocery in the old Hendey stand near the railroad, and solicit, a share of your orders. Goods delivered to any part of the city at any time._ Phone 474. . E, G. BOOTH.

PROPOSED REDUCTION IN P. M. SALARIES

Bill Provides a Reduction of Rensselaer Offlce x From $2,100 to $2)000.

Washington, Jan. 4 —Under a plan of readjusting the salaries of postmasters of the first and second classes proposed by Postmaster General Burleoon, the salaries of many Indiana postmasters would be reduced and the salary of only one—the postmaster of Fort Wayne, would he increased. The salaries of the postmasters of Boonville, Crawfordsville, Danville, Delphi, Garrett, Goshen, Hammond, Montpelier, New Albany, Salem and Terre Haute would remain the same as at present.

The postmasters of Indianapolis, South Bend, Evansville, Lafayette and other larger cities of the state would feel the effects of the pruning knife. The salary of the postmaster at Fort Wayne would be increased from $3,800 to $4,000 a year, owing to the large receipts of that postoffice. The seheme provides for a general readjustment' based wholly on the postoffice receipts. The following salaries are provided: At each postoffice where the receipts are SB,OOO and less than $20,000, the salary shall be $2,000; from $20,000 to $40,000, $2,500; from $40,000 to $160,000, $3,000; from $160,000 to $340,000, $3,500; from $340,000 to $610,000, $4,000; from $610,000 to $1,000,000, $4,500; from $1,000,000 to $1,600,000, $5,000, etc.

The plan has been approved by the house committee on postoffice and postroads aqd incorporated in the postoffice appropriation bill, which is now pending before the house for action. Under the socalled “Holman rule” general legislation is in order on an appropriation bill, provided it would result in a reduction of expenditures. As this is an economy move the parliamentary “sharps” say it is certain to be brought to a vote In the house.

There is, however, strong opposition to the legislation from democratic congressmen who have suc-ceeded-In getting democrats appointed to presideritial postmasterships and who think it would ill become a democratic congress to reduce the salaries of these officials as soon as they get in office. The proposed decieases in salaries of local interest are:

Crown Point, from $2,300 to $2,000. East Chicago, from $2,600 to $2,500. Elkhart, from $3,500 to $3,000. Elwood, from $2,600 to $2,500. Frankfort, from $2,800 to $2,500. Gary, from $3,200 to $3,000. Kokomo, irom $3,300 to $3,000. Lafayette, from $3,300 to $3,000. Laporte, from $3,100 to $3,000. . Logansport from $3,100 to $3,000. Michigan City, from $2,900 to $2,500. i Monticello, from $2,100 to $2,000. Rensselaer, from $2,100 to $2,000. Wabash, from $2,700 to $2,500. Warsaw, from $2,500 to $2,000. Whiting, from $2,300 to $2,000. Winchester, from $2,600 to $2,500. Representative William A. Cullop, ofo Indiana, who has made a record of aggressive opposition of civil service, today came out emphatically against these proposed decreases of postmasters’ salaries. ‘The laborer is worthy of his hire,” said Cullop, “and that rule ought to apply to public officers as well as to private employment”

Ford Motor Squad of Oakland.

To ths equipment of the motor police squad of the city of Oakland, Cal., have just been added three more Ford cars, which gives the Oakland police department a fleet of six hard working Fords. Three years ago the Oakland police department bought three Fords which, in the course of their peacepreserving work, have covered more than 18,000 miles at a cost -of $.0185 per mile. The Oakland poliee Fords now carry two officers and each covers a territory which previously was covered by six officers on foot. The Fords are on duty from eight p. m. to four a. m. Each car is equipped with a first aid service, fire fighting apparatus, repeating shot guns for riot calls and a powerful search light. In this Ford equipment the City of Oakland is following the well; beaten track of other large cities. Practically every American metropolis now has its police and fire departments equipped with from one to ten Ford cars. The low up keep, the reliability and durability of the Ford have universally recommended .it for such official service.

% off of price on every suit and cloak in the Jsokj#: None reserved. FKHDIG’S FAIR.

TONIGHT Christian Church Sowiire Wild Oats Parents Cams Great Singing Welcome

Receiver is Appointed for Winona Assembly.

Finley P. Mount, of Indianapolis, was appointed receiver lately for the Winona Assembly and Summer School Association by Judge A. B. Anderson of the U. 6. district court. His bond was fixed at $5,000. The appointment was made on motion of a creditors’ committee which asked that a receiver be named to run not only-the prpp' rty. but also the summer Chautauqua. The second part of the motion was denied. The complaint set forth thht Sol C. Dickey has been using his position as general manager and business director to further the interests of relatives arid personal friends and has impaired the public confidence in the association. An amehded petition, filed by a separate group of creditors with claims aggregating $21,000, was filed asking that the Winona Assembly and Summer School Association be declared bankrupt. The complaint held that the creditors’ committee had colluded with the bankrupt corporation to transfer and conceal the property, income and assets,'of the corporation with the intefcHt to delay and defraud the creditors who would not sign the agreement. The total indebtedness of the*-, assembly is about $900,000. \

Diver in Kankakee Has Narrow Escape From Death.

Laporte Ind., Jan. 4—George Colbert, of Michigan City, professional diver, employed in the digging of the new wells in the Kankakee river for Laporte’s auxiliary water supply, had a thrilling experience today while in 35 feet of water*One of his hands became caught iqHhe monster suction pipe, fast so that he was unable to reach his life line and give the signal to the men above. For ten minutes he was helpless, while those above continued to pump air to him, but finally by superhuman efforts he w r as able to pull his hand out of his rubber glove and then, be fore the on-rushing water could overcome him, he jerked the life line and was hoisted to the top. Culbert was none the worse for his experience, although it was some time before he was able to resume work.

Col. W. A. McCurtain's Sale Dates.

-Jan. —Opha Bisher. 3 miles east of Lewiston, general farm sale. Jon. 13.—Herman Sehultz, general farm sale. Jan. 19.—Mrs. S. B. Holmes, general farm sale. Jan. 21, Garfield Burgett, general farm oaR with some pure bred Shorthorn cattle, f. Jan. 20, Horatio Ropp, general fgrm sale, Charles Lowman, general farm sale, January 26th. Jan. 27. John Stibbe, general farm sftlc* Feb. 2. Ed Barkley, general sale. Feb. 4 —EH Arnold, Barkley township, general farm sale. Feb. 5, Ed Barkley, general tprm sale Feb. 8, Glenn Baker, general sale. Feb. 17. Charles Pullins. general sale * Frank E. Billings, of Marshall; Mich., aged 70 years, a veteran engineer of the Michigan Central, has been placed on the retired list of pensioners. He entered the employ of the company 47 years ago and during that time he never met with an accident. - ■■■■.• —i. .vfir-r.CrA. »•»

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