Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — Page 1

No. 207.

Toni AT THE Gayety The Celebrated Bailey & McGree Comedy Entertainers Some fun in store for those attending the show at the Gayety this evening. Pictures A-l tonight Band Concert First show 7:45

THOUSANDS WILL SEE “WAR IN INDIANA”

Head of U. S. Navy Aeronautical Department Will Witness Tournament at Speedway. Indianapolis, Sept ,1. —Lieutenant Commander Frank S. McCrary, acting head of the aeronautical department of the United Staes navy, will act as military observer of “War in Indiana” from a captive balloon, the Goodyear, piloted by R. H. Upson, the aeronaut wht won the international balloon trophy contest at Kansas City two years ago. Commander McCrary's purpose is to observe an actual engagement, as is done in Europe every day, both by the Germans and the allies. Balloons are used in the present European war to observe the effct of shell fire and to give instructions to batteries. Their high elevation enables them to do this particularly accurate with the aid of modem high power field glasses. During “War in Indiana,” where a specialty will be made of hidden batteries, firing on the so-called indirect system, which leaves the gunners in ignorance of their target, which is determined for them by officers stationed elsewhere, McCrary will have ample opportunity to indulge in his ballistic researches. In the balloon with McCrary and Upson wili ride Mrs. Upson, who will assume the role of war correspondent. Mrs. Upson is~ a fearless aeronaut, and accompanies her husband on many of her aerial journeys. After “War in Indiana” is over, the balloon will be cut away, and a long distance flight attempted. It is hoped that wdather conditions will be favorable for record breaking. Seats for “War in Indiana” are now on sale, and are going at a Tecord breaking clip, particularly the higher priced boxes, which are reserved. It is confidently predicted by the management that the attendance will be fully equal to that of the speedway races,' which annually attract from 75,000 o 100,000, people. “War in Indiana” is to be the greatest military spectacle the world has ever seen. Small wonder that Hoosiers are paying it tremendous interest.

Strange Man Frightened Mrs. Fred Bruner Tuesday.

(Mrs. Fred Bruner, who lives on the Hill farm in Jordan township, was at home Tuesday afternoon and the men folks were thrashing some distance away. Suddenly a strange man entered the house, offered to shake hands, seated himself in a chair and proceeded to make himself at home. Mrs. Bruner quite naturally became very much alarmed and taking her baby in her arms Started to the nearest house, about a quarter of a mile away. It was the home of Dennis Casto and she informed him of what had happened. Dennis hurried to the Bruner house but the man declined to go and Dennis caught him by the nap of the neck and boosted the old man oUt of the houste, applying a few kicks when he made some insistence. About that time W. A. Davenport and Able Grant came along in an auto and the man was brought to town and lodged in jail, where he remained over night. Deputy Prosecutor Sands conducted an investigation and could learn but little about the old man, who refused to talk. Apparently he was a Swede and Dr. Hansson was called as an interpreter but could learn nothing of importance. The old man said he bad been tramping and had -stayed all night with a farmer about 6 miles from the Bruner home. He said he was from Buffalo and had relatives in Chicago. He was released and promised to leave town*

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EUROPEAN ARTISTS WITH GENTRY BROS.

How Continental Performers Are Engaged ißy This Popular American Institution. ' When the average American is seeking a place near the stove in winter the agents of the big tented shows are working industriously engaging acts for the season which comes with spring. This part of the amusement world is one with which the public is not familiar. A little look into that cranny proves interesting. November marks the close of the season for tented attractions like Gentry Brothers famous shows, which will visit this city next Thursday, Sept. 2. When the last wheel of the trains stop at winter quarters the organisation of the show for the next season begins. Trainers get busy framing new acts. A showman at once goes to Europe. He makes a careful canvass of the music halls and vaudeville theatres. For months he is acquainting himself. After deciding which of the thousands of acts he sees will most delight the American show patron he makes engagements. Many performers, who have pleased royalty, are brought to this coimtry to become a part of Gentry Brothers shows.

Reports On Crop Conditions In South Walker Township.

J. H. Shell, who lives on Dr. Turner's Walker township farm, marketed a load of wheat in Rensselaer Tuesday that was raised on Dr. Turfler's farm in Barkley township, near Gifford. It was a long haul, Mr. Shell driving 19 miles in making the round trip. It was the first wheat he had ever hauled to Rensselaer. The wheat was thrashed about a month ago and was in good condition. The balance of the crop was shipped from Gifford. Mr. Shell thought when in town Tuesday that there had been no frost in South Walker township but later telephoned that the cucumber vines plainly showed that there had been some frost. He thought it was not sufficient, however, to do any damage to com. So far no threshing has been done in that neighborhood and there are about 800 acres to be threshed. Two marines are promised for the near future. He reports that there will be about a fourth of a crop of onions on the Turfler farm. They were never overflowed by water but the water came ,so near to the surface that the onions did not grow very, well. Other crops are generally good.

Violent Break in Foreign Exchange Hits U. S. Trade.

jp " The tremendous export trade of the United States, in which the country leads the world for the first time, was imperiled Tuesday by an alarming drop in foreign exchange rates, notably sterling. At the close of bus'ness the English pound brought only $4.55% in American money. This is a drop from its normal value of 31% cents; from its value August 1, of 20 cents, and a break in the last twenty-four hours of 5% cents, which is without precedence. In the face of this rapid depreciation bankers in New York are wondering how much longer Great Britain will pay the premium and buy goods in this market which She can get elsewhere where the value of her money is greater. The English pound has depreciated, they say, because London has failed to provide a method here of paying the big bills now coming due to American shippers.

IF HAIR IS TURNING GRAY, USE SAGE TEA

Here’s Grandmother’s Recipe to Darken and Beautify Faded Hair. That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brewing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray, streaked and looks dry, wispy and scraggly, just an application or two of Sage and Sulphur enhances its appearance a hundredfold. Don’t bother to prepare the tonic, you can get from any drug store a 50 cent bottle of “Wyeth’s Sage and sulphur Compound”, ready to use. This can always be depended upon to bring back the natural color, thickness and lustre of your hair and remove dandruff, stop scalp itching and falling hair. Everybody uses “Wyeth’s” Sage and Sulphur because it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through the hair, hitting one small strand at a tune. By morning the gray hair has disappeared, and after another application it becomes beautifully dark and appears glossy, lustrous and abundant. Nineteen sixteen Model Maxwell touring car $655; self-starter and aH modern; at the Main Garage. Call and see it

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1915.

FIRE AT STAR CITY RESULTS IN A DEATH

Wife of Dr. Stephens Swoons When She Sees Son Fighting Fire and Does Not Recover. Mrs. Dr. Stephens, of Star City, died this Wednesday morning when she saw her son, who was helping to fight the fire that had consumed the elevator and was burning the Odd Fellows building, with a handkerchief tied about his head. The elevator was totally destroyed by fire and it set fire to the Odd Fellows building, which seemed to be doomed to destruction when W. L. Bott telephoned here about it. Young Stephens was on top of the building and had a handkerchief tied about his head. His mother, who was watching the fire, thought that he had been injured and she fainted. Efforts were made to restore her but they were unavailing and she soon died. She was about €0 years of age. When word reached here that the elevator was on fire, W. L. Bott, of the Jasper County Telephone Co., who came here from Star City, left for there in his automobile and telephoned the particulars back to A. L. Clark. It was not known how the elevator caught fire.

COLLIE FROM ROYAL KENNAL RIDES PONY

Animal Sent to Gentry Brothers Famous Shows is Now An Equestrian Dog. With Gentry Brothers shows, which will visit this city Thursday, the only collie dog ever seen in this section that was bred in royal kennels, will be seen. This beautiful dog was once the property of the Duke of Cornwall. He is now a performing animal. He is the only dog that rides a pony like a high class artist rides the big white Norman horses so common in the circus world. i “Collie”, which is the dog’s name, was sent as a present to Gentry Brothers when their agent was in England three years ago. The agent found time to train four of the dogs from the royal kennels. In return he was given three of the royal collies. One is in New York, another died at sea, and the third aristocratic canine is a rider with Gentry Brothers this season. The Gentry Brothers shows you knew in childhood are as much an epoch in the lives of the children of today as they were in your life a decade or more ago. Gentry Brothers shows will give two performances in this city tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 2nd.

Mrs. Millard Fross Declared Insane and Placed in Jail.

Mrs. Millard Fross, of Hanging Grove township, has been suffering from mental trouble for some time past and occasionally is said to have taken a very dangerous turn and on the statement of neighbors an inquest was conducted by Squire Delos Dean and physicians Monday. It is said that Mrs. Fross resented the visit of the doctors and with a club gave some of them a lively chase. They found her of unsound mind and Tuesday afternoon Constables W. S. Parks and L. A. Harm Son, assisted by Harvey Moore, went after her. She barricaded herself in the house and used a case knife in an effort to beat off the officers after they had forced entrance to the house. Although she is a very small woman she put up a bitter fight and they were forced after overpowering her to place handcuffs on her in order to bring her into town. She came thinly clad and without shoes or Stockings on, but the officers protected her by wrapping a laprobe about her. She struggled all the way to town but after reaching- the jail became quiet. She has refused to eat, however. (Her husband is a good man and is not to be blamed at all for her condition nor for the fact that riie was taken into custody, for he had tried hard to pacify her and keep his home from being broken up. It is the second time she has been taken to the asylum and it is possible that treatment will restore her to better mental condition. There are two children, a son and daughter, aged 14 and 13 years, and they will remain with their father. Peter Hordeman returned this morning from Indianapolis where he went to get repairs for his thrashing machine. To make sure that the repairs arrived without delay he brought them with him. Pete reports a yield of 43 bushels of wheat to the acre on Charley Lakin’s 38 acres. A telegram came yesterday for C. E. Bennett, but no such person is known here and the message could not be delivered. If any one knows of such person they Should report to the Western Union office.

TROUBLE MAKER KILLED IN TEXAS

Noted Mexican General, Aide to Madera and Huerta, Shot Down by Cowboys In Running Fight. Government officials have received reports confirming reports that Gen. Pascual Orozco, prominent military leader during Mexican revolutions in the last five years, had been shot and killed in a fight between Mexicans and an American posse. Civilians and United States cavalry participated in the battle which, according to reports, was fought in the Green River Canyon of the High Lonesome mountains, Culberson county, Texas. After a raid on the Dick Love ranch Monday, Orozco and four companions were pursued into the foothills. The raiders, headed by Orozco, had gone to the Dick Love ranch, where they forced the cook to feed them while one of the ranchers was made to shoe their horses. While they were eating they saw Dick Love and two ranchers coming to the house and began to pursue them, shooting as they rade. Love and his companions delayed only long enough to arouse the neighboring country. A posse was hurriedly formed and kept up a running fight until the last raider was killed Tuesday evening. Four bullet wounds were found in the body of Orozco. Orozco was one of the first to join Francisco Madero when the latter organized his revolt against President Porfirio Diaz in 1910. When Madero became president, Orozco accompanied him to Mexico City, but after a money disagreement abandoned his allegiance. With the fall of Madero he joined Huerta and became one of the most active chiefs of that force. With the arrival in the United States of General Huerta, Orozco joined his chief and accompanied him on his journey to El Paso, which culminated in the arrest of both at Newman, N. M., last June by U. S. officials. After being released on bond he again escaped a few nights later and since that time it is supposed he has been in the vicinity where he was killed.

W. H. Ritchey Reports Crop Conditions Through West.

O. K. and W. H. Ritchey, who went to Little River, Kans., to see their sister, Mrs. T. F. Downing, who was quite sick, have returned, leaving her somewhat better. They say that the best corn near Little River, if the frost stays off will make 75 bushels to the acre. This was on alfalfa ground. The rest will make from 30 to 60 bushels and Wilmotte reports seeing two or three fields that had 1 stalk every 2% feet apart that would go about 55 bushels per acre. Com is worth 93 cents per bushel there. The best wheat is about 37 bushels and the price was sl.lO the day they got there and $1.04 the day they left. A week ago only 5 per cent of the wheat had been thrashed. Charles Snodgrass made a trip of 10 miles to make a report to some official. Wilmotte further says: “We saw a field of wheat on rolling ground uncut. They say the season is about three weeks late. The com is in roasting ears, about as ours is here. From there to Emporia the com began to get smaller and was yellow and from there on through eastern Kansas, Missouri and southern Illinois it was very bad, some fields were entirely gone, others had been replanted and was not over one foot high and the best of it looked as though it could not make over 15 bushels to the acre. Saw two men plowing com that was not over knee high, a strange sight for the last part of August. Through central Illinois the com was extra good until we got to Joliet.”

Redeem Season Ticket Pledges.

All persons are asked to at once redeem their pledges for season tickets for the chautauqua. The solicitors are unable to sell all, especially those living in the country, and ask that those who made pledges during the visit of the chautauqua last year get their tickets at once. They are on sale at the following places: Fendig’s, Long’s and Larsh & Hopkins’ drugstroes. Please obtain them without delay and thus lighten the burden of the committee that is devoting much time to he details of the visit of the chautauqua. Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Condra, of Lafayette, have been visiting his sister, Mrs. C. Barney and family. They were joined today by Earl Yancey and wife, also of Lafayette, and are visiting with Ellison Camby, of Barkley township. Mr. Condra is on the Lafayette police force.

If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg do It. Photic 621

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE TO START NEXT WEEK

Attendance Will Be About 300, Exceeding Last Year By Thirty or More—Gymnasium Done. Students from St. Joseph’s college will begin to arrive next Tuesday, Sept. 7th, the day set for new scholars to register. It is expected that about 85 new scholars will arrive on that day. On the following day the old scholars will come in and school will open on Thursday, Sept. 9th. The attendance this year will readh about 300, being from 30 to 40 more than last year. This is made possible by the accommodations established for caring for an increased number. The completion of the gymnasium will afford great satisfaction to the pupils, who have been denied the advantages of a gym for the past year and a half. The building is practically finished. The new science course will not be started until about the 15th of November. In the gymnasium is one of the finest basketball floors in the State and St. Joe, which has always had a great basketball team, will probably enter training early and develop another fine team. All will be pleased to see the' students arrive and will make things lively at St. Joe after a very quiet summer.

Kenneth Elder Found at Hammond and Returned Home.

Little Kenneth Elder, son of Mrs. Charles Elder, of Parr, who disappeared from his home Monday noon, was found by police officers in. Hammond Tuesday and returned to his home that evening on the milk train. It seems that he and two other small boys of Parr had entered a house there and taken a purse containing about $3 and then lost the money by playing slot machines in Parr. It is said that considerable criticism has been made about the slot machines prior to this time and that they exist in violation of law and it is probable that they will be looked after by the proper authorities. After losing the money Kenneth thought it was unsafe for him to remain about town and he had walked to Fair Oaks and there boarded a freight train and bummed to Thayer. At Thayer he begged a ride with totirist automobilists to Hammond, where the police picked him up. He is a very small boy for 11 years of age and is the most youthful boy tramp that has been started out from Jasper county. Kenneth is a fairly bright little boy, but he had adopted practices while here that Showed him not to be Strictly honest and for his own good it would be a very proper action to send him to the reform school if he again develops any dishonesty. And it will be a very proper thing for* officers to ascertain whether the slot machines operating in Parr are prohibitable and if they are they should be put out of business in short order. “We Print Anything for Anybody.”

RENSSELAER Thursday, September 2 (offls3iis l THE OLDEST AND BEST TRAINED ANIMAL EXHIBITIOIT|| PRE-EMINENTLY ABOVE ALL OTHERS .% U EVERYTHING NEW THIS YEAR BUT THE TITLE | WILL POSITIVELY EXHIBIT TWICE DAILY AT 2 AND 8 P, EL | HORDES AND HERDS OF g ' ■■ TRAINED ANIMALS- ■ -3*TTBII J' ' AMONG THEM:- g WtbwimM Elephants,Horses,Mon- | keys,Mules,Apes,Sheep | WtxSWmmF Goats, Pigs, Cats, Dogs, | WL and Ponies •% .% .*• R iCSdii 'WwKfW ij Gentry Bros. Sole Owners and Managers. )nt Ticket *° "l? I BIS STREET PMUDEI Which POSITIVELY takes place, Rain or Shine, 10:30 A. M., Show Day ■ A SOLID MILE OF GOLD 1 AND GLITTER | BOORS OPEN FOR INSPECTION OF MENAGERIE AT 1 AND 7 P. NN. I PERFORMANCE COMMENCES ONE HOUR LATER. GRAND FREE I EXHIBITION ON SHOW GROUNDS IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARADE. I

BRITAIN TO RELAX BLOCKADE ORDER

Shipments from Neutral Ports of Teutonic Goods Consigned to American Ports Partly Exempted. Washington, Aug. 30.—Assurances that Great Britain will relax the enforcement of her order in council so as to permit shipments from neutral ports of German and Austrian goods contracted for by Americans prior to the effective date of the order was j given the state department today by the British ambassador. The ambassador explained that arrangements would be made for accepting proof of contracts at the embassy here instead of requiring its production in London. Details of the plan will be given later ' in a memorandum from the London ‘ foreign office. Officials are hopeful ! that it will make possible the release | of millions of dollars worth of American owned goods of German or Austrian origin accumulated at neutral European ports, particularly Rotterdam.

Real Estate Transfers.

Abraham Leopold et ux to James H. Carson, July 25, It 13, bl 20, Commercial Club Plat, pt nw 29-29-6, pt ffw 20-29-6, Commercial Club Plat, Marion, SIOO. Mamie D. Woodworth et baron to Maud E. Spitler, March 20, n% sw 26-29-5, 80 acres, Hanging Grove, $2. Maud E. Spitler to Wm. M. Woodworth, March 20, same lands, $2.

Concert Program For Tonight.

March. Overture, Snap Shot. My Bird of Paradise. Auf Wiedersehn, Waltz. Two Step. The Anvil Polka. Bohemian Girl, Selection. March. % ■ .

BICYCLE BARGAINS. I have some fine new and second hand bicycles that are real bargains and boys and girls should get themselves equipped for school. New $25 wheels for $22.50. New $22.50 wheels for $19.80. Good second-hand wheels from $5 to $7. See me'at the old stand on Front street. C. B. STEWARD. Misses’ and children's Bay State rubbers 43 cents at the Columbia Shoe Store.

STORAGE BATTERIES Repaired and Recharged Also Magnetos repaired and magnetos recharged. Also Everything electrical. K. T. RHOADES & CO. Phone 579

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