Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1915 — Page 1

No. 227.

JEMISON SENT TO STATE PENAL FARM

Man Who Was Shot By Constable Says He Will Return to Russia After His Release.

Judge Hanley sentenced Louis Jemison, the man who beat his wife and was shot when he broke away from Officer Childers, to the state penal farm for two months and to pay a fine of $25. Jemison was taken this Friday morning to the farm, which is near Greencastle, . Deputy Sheriff Rice Porter taking him there. Jemison was able to get a shoe on his foot but was not able to lace it up and he walked with a decided limp. He is still suffering some pain as a result of the bullet hole » his,foot, but all danger seems practically past and he is feeling quite good, although he broke down and cried when sentence was passed. Jemison claims to have been a second lieutenant in the Russian army and to have been attached to the heavy artillery and that as soon as he is discharged from the penal farm he will satrt back to Russia to enter the army. He says that he will be given a commission and that he has had an exchange of letters with" the Russian counsel in Chicago and has been told that the great need in is for officers. He says that lfe has served an enlistment in the United States army since he came to America and that he is better equipped to be of service to Russia than he was before he left that country. In the battle of Mukden in the Russian-Japanese war he received a number of painful wounds from a shrapnel explosion. He said they healed up within eight days and he can not understand why his foot has not entirely healed. He says that he will give it all the exercise possible in order to get into condition for active servce when he returns to Russia and that when the spring campaign opens he will be found fighting the Germans, whom he declares will' never capture Petrograd. The Rdssian army is divided into three great armies, the European, the

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The Evening Republican.

RECOGNIZE CARRANZA AND INSPIRE ANARCHY

R. Gonzale Garza Says That Latest Wilson Plan Would Result In Evil Consequences.

The latest plan of the administration to recognize Carranza as the authorative head of Mexico is not calculated to solve the internal difficulties of that troubled country according to R. Gonzale Garza, who is now in Washington to present his views to the president, but instead to create even more widespread anarchy. Garza urges the Pan-American union proceed with its convention with the other leaders and establish a provisional government. He says that next to Huerta there is no more hated or feared man in Mexico than Carranza and he believes that the other factions will resent his recognition and the war will take on a new fury.

Fried Chicken Supper.

The Good Cheer class of the Presbyterian S. S. will serve a fried chicken supper Friday evening, Sept. 24th, at the church basement. The public is invited.

Caucasian and the Asiatic. He beongs to the Caucasian, which in time of peace had some 800,000 soldiers, practically half of the entire Russian army. Now it is vastly largar. Jemison was cheerful and seemed to enter upon his sentence in good spirits. He dames some of his neighbors, whom ; ie says are Germans, for his troubles and he says that his wife is also of German parentage and that the issues of the European war are back of all their troubles, which, however, according to all accounts, had begun some time before the war broke out. Those who know him best do not believe his stories and say that they consider everything he has said as being false. Jemison, however, has some knowledge of military tactics and talks quite intelligently on all topics, being a reader of newspapers and magazines.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915.

Borne Suspicions Concerning Other Cases of Eruption.

Since the counsel of physicians determined that John W. Marlatt, proprietor of the Rensselaer Garage, had smallpox and placed his home under quarantine and vaccinated several who had been in the house, some other cases of skin eruption that had passed as poison have come under suspicion and physicians are giving every case a careful examination with a view to takng such measures as seem advsable for a speedy eradication of the disease.

Especially did one other case appear to be smallpox and it and other cases will be the subjects of a careful study and it is possible that Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, may be called here to pass judgment on the cases. There is no occasion to get alarmed and so far the physicians have not decided to adopt a general vaccination, nor to take any steps to suspend the conduct of public meetings, schools, etc., but should this become necessary it will be the duty of every citizen to fail cheerfully into line and to perform whatever part of the sacrifice falls upon him without complaint, for that is the only way to stamp out what might become a serious epidemic. Mr. Marlat is not very sick at this time, but the breaking out is quite thorough over hs face and body. He is getting along well, however, and is in no danger at all; in fact, smallpox is not now regarded a serious disease.

FRESH FISH.

Halibut, lb 20c Catfish, lb ....18c Yellow Pike lb 20c Herring, lb l^ c Trout, lb 18c OSBORNE FLORAL CO., Phone 439-B.

If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg doit. Phone 621

KENTLAND POSTMASTER ADVISES MUTT AND JEFF

Hume I*. Sammons Gets Third Prize For 1 ' Letter Suggesting Investment In Farm Land.

Bud Fisher, the comic artist who draws “Mutt and Jeff,” receives a yearly salary of $78,000.00. Recently the Chicago Daily News offered prizes for the fourteen best letters telling Mr. Fisher how to invest his money to advantage. The News received 1,361 answers, and among the fourteen selected as the best is one from H. L. Sammons, of this place. Mr. Sammons received third prize and a check for $25.00. His advice to Mr. Fisher should be taken seriously, as Hume ranks as a money maker, and some day his friends will be called in to tell him how to spend his income. At any rate, this is the way Mr. Sammons maps out the expenditure of that $78,000.00:

“Assuming that our friend Bud Fisher’s total income for the year is $78,000, a part of that sum will necessarily have to be set aside for living expenses, home comforts and conveniences, and for such charitable expenditures as to him shall appear just and meet in the premises. On that score he does not need any advice, although his investment in the things that will bring to him good health and contentment are the most important of all. After deducting for the annual budget on his own aocoilnt, it is of the residue, for permanent investment, that we will offer advice.

“Manifestly Mr. Fisher should invest his net savings so that his purchases will bring about, if possible, equal 'benefits to himself and the community where such investments are made. The first impulse might be to say .to him to buy stocks, bonds, mortgages or apartment buildings, as they may be readily procured, but in directing his course we must judge from past expenrience and determine for him safe and sane investments — free from hazard, if such are procurable.

“A dozen years ago the problem confronting Bud Fisher was uppermost in the mind of America’s greatest humorist, George Ade. Like Mr. Fisher, he had gained fame in his connection with newspapers, notably the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Record. Mr. Ade, however, in building his fortune, abandoned journalism for the, at that time, more lucrative business of playwriting. His income had assumed the proportions of that of the creator of Mutt and Jeff. How Mr. Ade came back to the scenes of his boyhood days and invested his money in the lands located in the great com belt of Indiana is told, better than we can tell it, in an article published several months ago in the Gentleman Farmer entitled ‘Keeping Up With Brother Bilb 1 —

“Perhaps Bud Fisher is unfortunate in not having a Brother Bill, but in every community in the com 'belt he will be able to find, without trouble or inconvenience, men of the sterling business of George Ade’s brother Bill. If to him that would appear a difficult task, the man who made ‘Pink Marsh’ and ‘Artie’ famous, his brother Bill or the writer will be pleased to cite him. “Will Ade’s first commission was to purchase a farm for his brother where the latter copld build him a country home. This Was done by buying a tract of 411 acres which is now so well known as Hazelden farm. The purchase was made at SBO an acre. It is now worth, sound value, three times that amount. “In successive years, he added other farms to his holdings, on the advice of Brother Bill, and George Ade now owns two thousand acres of land equal in fertility and productiveness to any in the Hoosier state.

“Every year his lands have had an average increase in value to the extent of $8 an acre, and every year, on the valuation for that year, he has received in addition an average net return of 6 per cent. “His investments have benefited the community, because his tenants are amply provided with commodious buildings, with beautiful surroundings ;they share in the prosperity resultant from the wealth produced and ate a splendid type of citizenship. “Are the opportunities opeif to Bud Fisher? They are. The timeliness for investment in high grade farm lands was never better than now. When the present worldwide crisis is over, the owners of farm lands will prosper as never before, although the prosperity of the farmer, be he landlord or tenant, has exceeded that of any other line of endeayor during the past fifteen years. “So our advice to Bud Fisher is: *Go thou and do likewise.’ Put; your money into the source of all prosperity—the soil. Purchase land in the great corn belt. It can’t burn up and it can’t blow» away. Floods are unknown. If war ever comes to this country, its ravages would be less, felt in the farming district than any other, ; and, when ended, there would be some-

M’CRAY SPEECH HAS RING OF VICTORY

Republicans Will Rally to His Support and Make Him the Next Governor of Indiana.

The speech, in part, of Warren T. McCray, candidate for 'governor, as delivered at the Columbia Club burgoo at the state fair grounds Wednesday, is here published. Every voter in Indiana should read it in full and every voter in this section of the state should take great pride in getting behind the candidacy of a man so certain to direct the .business affairs of the state with the same keen ability that he has used in the management of his own affairs. The Newton County Enterprise published the following part of his speech: “It is indeed a wonderful sight to behold so many forceful and determined men, fired with the enthusiasm of approaching victory, gathered together on this occasion as the guests of this great republican club of Indiana. We are indeed under obligations to them for this magnificent demonstration, and this opportunity to meet each other from all over the state. “It means much for the future welfare of our country and speaks in a voice of thunder of the return of the republican party, reunited and jubilant, marching to victory amid the shouts of The conquering hosts. It has been aptly said that coming events cast their shadows before, and so at this time unless there is some marvelous change, the enthusiasm and earnestness of the present will mean the return of the republican party to positions of trust and power at the next election. The people of this country are tired of misrule and mismanagement, incompetency and inexperience, waste, and extravagance, high taxes and poor results. “It has been clearly demonstrated by our political history that the democratic party is incapable of successfully administering the affairs of this government. The reason for this is not hard to find when we remember that they are fundamentally opposed to the principle of protection to American industries. That principle which is the comer stone of republicanism and which was woven into the warp and woof of our industrial policy by that genius of diplomacy, that matchless statesman, that quiet, unobtrusive and lovable man, William ,McKinley, whose name stands above every other name in the political history of the past fifty years, with the single exception of that of the immortal Lincoln, whose work here on earth entitles his name to be written only a little lower than the lowly Nazarene who first taught the world the doctrine of peace on earth, and good will to all men, and put into practice the sacred teachings of the Golden Rule. “The history of our periods of prosperity and our periods of depression is coincident with the administrations of the republican and democratic parties. The advent of democratic rule.has always been followed by hard times, tight money markets, idleness and misery, and all the ailments to which we have become so accustomed during the present administration. It is hard to understand just why there is any division among our people on this great economical question that is of such vital interest to our permanent welfare. It would seem that we should be so thoroughly committed to this great idea that it would be accepted by all parties just as we accept the constitution of the United States, and subscribe to its tenets, and believe that all men were created equal and were endowed with certain inalienable nights for each subject to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. It sfeems, however, that it is necessary for each succeeding generation to learn this cruel lesson for themselves, and therefore every so often we are determined to have a change, which is usually so severe and so startling that it is not long until the republican party is again called upon to bring order out of chaos, and displace sorrow and failure with prosperity and happiness. “As you have 'been informed I am

thing to go back to- i “Likewise, if a fickle, ever-chang-ing public should transfer its affection from f Mutt and .Jeff,’ or if their untimely end should be brought about from any cause, their creation will have produced an investment that will infallibly bring in returns. The same public, while it may change its food for thought or amusement, never changes when it comes to food for nourishment. The soil will at all times provide that. “But, to Mr. Fisher, a word of warning as well as advice. Good farmers do not make good cartoonists and the contrary is provable. On Mr. Ade’s farms are fine horses, cattle, sheep and hogs—some of the best in the land. They are hot of his selection. Be as prudent as he was—take the advice of Brother Bill.”

Oysters at Fate's College Inn.

GAVE DINNER TO SOME OLD RESIDENTS

C. M. Paxton Entertained Five Whose Total Ages Was 328 Years— Had a Fine Time.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Paxton entertained five aged widows Wednesday at a noon day dinner and four of those who were their guests totaled 328 years of age, an average of 82 years. The oldest was Mrs. Jared Benjamin, aged 91; the second was Mrs. D. L. Richardson, aged 83 ;the third was Mrs. Micha Halstead, aged 78, and the fourth was Mrs. James Yeoman, aged 76. Mrs. John C. Martindale, aged 66, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin, was the other widowed guest. Of the younger set dinner guests were Misses Martha Benjamin, Edith Paxton, Nine Martindale and' H. R. W. Smith. Their ages are not furnished and Mr. Smith, who iA a retired newspaper man, says that he was unable to find out.

Mr. Paxtoon took the guests to his home in his auto and also took them home. The day was enjoyably spent in relating reminiscences of Jasper county and 'as all are very old residents and of very alert minds they recalled with distinctness many interesting events that occurred in the long ago.

CUT FLOWERS. Potted Plants — Ferns, 25c to $1.50 each. Begonias, 10c to 25c each. Geraniums, 10c to 25c each. Special orders for funerals and other occasions furnished on short notice. OSBORNE FLORAL CO., Telephone 439-B. Fate's College Inn has some fine oysters. Quite a number of Rensselaer people are attending the gala week events at Fowler. Today Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coen and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kresler drove over.

in this contest for the great honor of serving the good people of this, the greatest state in the American Union, as its next governor. lam not in this race as an office seeker in the usual acceptance of the term. I have never sought or held public office. I am in this race at the earnest solicitation of my many fniends throughout the state who are kind enough to think that at this particular time, under the peculiar circumstances which now exist, I possess certain qualifications and attributes which, combined, make my candidacy at this time desirable. I know that the task is great, but I realize that the honor and the opportunity to do good is commensurate with the magnitude of the labor. I believe that it is a great apportunity for our party through the administration of the affairs of state to make a wonderful reword. Should Ibe elected I would carry into the office the same energy and business ability that have brought success to me on my farm and in my businesses.

“We are sometimes inclined to become boastful and think we in Indiana have about reached the superlative degree of citizenhsip. This is far rom the fact. There is much yet to be done. We need better road laws and more good roads. There is also a pressing need for general reform in our tax system. We are suffering from too many commissions and too many officials. We need more economy and more sensible, experienced, jroad-guaged business management. I am a very busy man at home and have ample to occupy my time and attention, but I believe that it is sometimes just as patriotic to yield yourself to the holding of office as it is to shoulder arms and march to the front when your country is in need and distress. I am therefore in this race with no pledges to make or promises to record, except, if I am successful and shpuld be nominated and elected, that with the help of Almighty God I will earnestly strive to give the people of this great state a clean, honest, wholesome, economical business administration, one that will reflect credit to the party and to all those who are affiliated with us in this campaign, regardless of former political associations and .preferences. This is my platform and I believe those of you who know me will have no doubt of my inclination or ability to carry it out. “The republican party is again coming into power—the party of executive ability and business capacity, the party of honesty of purpose and with the desire to treat all our vast interests with justice and mercy, the party of progress and conservatism. But in this hour of apparent triumph and in the flush of impending victory, let us not forget the duty we owe to the people for we must not disappoint or abuse the confidence of our constituents if success abide with us and we are securely entrenched in the hearts of our countrymen.”

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