Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1915 — Page 1

No. 302.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEE at THE REX THEATRE Thursday, Friday and Saturday House open at one o’clock Show at 2, 3 and 4 o’clock

CARLISLE QUITS RACE FOR GOVERNOR

Pledges Devoted and Active Service to Amalgamated, Redantsructed Republican Party. A. Carlisle, otf South Bend, has withdrawn from the race for the republican nomination for governor. In doing .so he has sent out the following letter which he asked released today, Bee. 22nd: “To the Republicans of Indiana: “After thoughtful consideration I have concluded to withdraw as a candidate for governor. And in retiring to the ranks, I shall undertake to devote my earnest and active service to the welfare and the best interests of an amalgamated, reconstructed republican party and its candidates who shall serve the wage earner and the taxpayer under the slogan of 'More business and better politics.’ ‘tMy appreciation is loyal and devoted to my party, and to my friends who in a thousand ways have expressed friendship for me. Their tribute will always be a joy and a treasure and I thank them and embrace this opportunity of extending to all my Sincere best wishes for a very happy Christmas and a prosperous, successful ’New Year.” CHARLES A. CARLISLE.”

High School Notes.

The literary meeting which was given Tuesday afternoon at the high school was a very pleasing one. It was a Christmas program. These literary meetings are becoming more and more interesting and the public is to attend. The basketball team is showing great possibilities by the splendid start which they got last Friday evening. They hope to make a bright showing during the season. However, they need and deserve the hearty support of the public and the high school. Come out to these games and help them win. There has been organized among the boys of the high school a Rooters Club. The purpose of the club is to stimulate enthusiasm in athletics and especially in the ensuing basketball season. The boys in a body will occupy a special place in the bleachers, thus making it possible to .get better results from forty persons than otherwise from \ a hundred. While the girls of the high school are invited to assist in the yelling, they are excluded from ■ the organization. The Rooters Club, whale in the embryo, the prospects are encouraging and it has still greater possibilities, such as becoming a boosters club in the high school. Such a club is worthy of note for it promises to become a definite organization and to aid in student activities of every kind Under the able leadership of Floyd Hemphill as yell leader, the club hopes to fulfill its purpose and deserves the hearty support, not only of the school but of the public. The girls have formed a club which might be classed as an auxiliary. They made the armbands which the boys are wearing and in last Friday’s game the club showed much appreciation and enthusiasm. Fancy head or lead lettuce, radishes, cauliflower, celery, cabbage, cranberries, oranges, bananas, and in fact nearly everything for the Xmas dinner. Phone 05. ROWLES 4 PARKER. The finest quality of perfumes, talcum, face powder and creams, at Mrs. Purcupfle’s. Ford Day January 20, at HamOl's.

The Evening Republican.

SHORTY ADAMS GETS PENAL FARM SENTENCE

Fined SSO and Copts and Govern 30Day Sentence —Everet Meade Fined and Given Warning. Mayor Spitler convened court Tuesday evening and issued . some sentences and warnings that should do a great deal of good to the persons affected as well as to society in general. Shorty Adams had some trouble at'the match factory Monday and came down town with hie face covered with blood. He wae intoxicated and could give no coherent account of his trouble. When washed up he was somewhat improved and no serious bruises adorned 'him. In his oompan ywas 'Everet Meade, who has been under the influence of John Barleycorn on a number of occasions since he came here from Chicago about »tWo years ago. On information Deputy Prosecutor Sands filed affidavits against them and Mayor Spitler fined Shorty SSO and costs and sentenced him to thirty days on the penal farm. The costs were <slo and totaled all up Shorty will'have to spend 90 days on the farm. He was taken there today in charge of (Deputy Sheriff John Robinson. It was the third time Shorty had been fined for drunkenness and Mayor Spitler is following a plan employed in other places with characters of this type. Meade was fined $lO and costs, totaling S2O, which he paid. He was svarned that his next arrest would result in a trip to the penal farm. There are some others whose conduct is apt to result in similar sentences unless they reform and they should take warning and get ready to turn over a new leaf on New Year’s day.

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

Next Friday is the Vigil of Christmas, a day of fast and abstinence. Saturday the great important feast of Christmas will be celebrated with splendor in honor of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. Every priest of God on this day celebartes three holy masses in honor of the threefold birth of Jesus Christ; first, in memory of his birth as man from the Blessed Virgin Mary; second, in remembrahce of his birth in the hearts of his followers; third, this mass commemorates his eternal birth from the Father before all ages. The church will be decorated most exquisetely with garlands, cut flowers and the representation of the stable of Bethlehem, the crib in which the sweet child Jesus was bom for our salvation.

The new sanctuary lamp, a most beautiful piece of art. a generous donation of the late beloved member, Martha Donnelly, will be in place. Many may not know the reason why t’light burns continually before tl f tabernacle. In the Old Testament ( ’ commanded that a lamp be filled with the purest oil of olives, should always burn in the Tabernacle of the Testimony without the veil (Exod. XXVII, 20, 21.) The church prescribes that at least one lamp should continually burn before the Tabernacle not only as an ornament of the altar, but for the purpose of worship. It is a mark of honor. It is to remind the faithful of the presence of Christ and is a profession of their love and affection. Mystically it signifies Christ, for by thia material light He is represented who is the “true light which enlighteneth every man" (John 1,9.) For symbolical reasons olive oil is prescribed for the lamp, for it is a symbol of purity, peace and godliness. For this noble gift may the donor be remembered not only on Christmas day by the members in their prayers but frequently in the future.

The first service on Christmas day will be at 5 o’clock, so that like the shepherds in the darkness of the night the faithful may come to the Sweet Babe of Bethlehem to adore Him. The Holy Name Society will receive holy communion in a body at this mass. The second mass will be at 8. Rosary, highmass and sermon at 10, concluding with sacramental benediction. The sacrament of Penance can be received on the following days:' Thursday afternoon and evening; Friday from AO to 12 in the morning and from 2 to 5:30 and from 7 as long as necessary. The annual festival given by the ladies of the parish was a great success. They cleared $629.85. The congregation wishes to thank all members as well as friends who helped to make the affair a success. F. JD. Craig, who some twenty years ago, published The Peoples Pilot in this city, is now engaged in the hotel business on East Washington street, Indianapolis, where he has been for a number of years. John O’Connor saw him on the train the other day and had quite a visit with him. (Mr. Craig was on Ms way to Wisconsin. We never before had as large an assortment of Xmas candies, nuts, layer and package figs, dates and orSmres. " BOWLES & PARKER.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, DEC 22, 11115.

Visited Home of Burbank

Cecil Alter Writes to Sister of Exposition’s Close and of Visit to Home of the Great Naturalist

J. Cecil Alter, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alter, of Union township, who had charge of the government’s weather bureau exhibit at the Pana-ma-Pacific exposition, wrote his sister, Mrs. J. A. Pullin, the following inteersting letter and The Republican is pleased to be'privileged to publish it: San.' Francisco, Cal., 'Dec. 7th. Dear Iva:

I am at the exposition space, surrounded by chaos, mostly boxes, excelsior, papers, and exhibits clogged here and there, on the way to the shipping cases; and thus it is throughout the entire 635 acres of ‘what was once the world .famous Panama-Pacific International Exposition —it is gone. The doors are all closed except two small 'back exits where a throng of laborers push boxes, and jostle each other in search of work, the whole scene managed by a guard who examines every outgoing package for its bill of sale or permit and every incoming person for his authority and passes—one to ■ the grounds and . one to this specific building; the battle ships have left the channel of the Golden Gate (where they have been for 10 months, and the marine, for 11 months mecca for throngs, is a litter of benches and trash, and the millions of sea gulls which used to keep respectable distances away, now perch on the railings, and overturned seats, and the ground, whistling and fluffing their Wings in a melancholy chant—even attempting at times to take one’s lunch from one’s very hands. But what do you care! Mr. Burbank was in this exhibit a few weeks ago with Mr. Edison, and Mr. Ford, Mr. Burbank being a trifle the oldest of the trio, and stooped with bis 65 years or whatever it is; Mr. Ford is stooped much more but his droop is merely the folding of a thin man. So many were striving for a look at them that I did not get to meet them, but was content to be near them half an hour as they wandered here and there rather aimlessly. The gentleman in charge of the Louisiana exhibit down the aisle a little way found an. old man looking through his exhibit one day and asked if he were interested in Louisiana. “No,” said the visitor, “just looking at this corn.” The Louisianan explained that the seed selection was a great feature with them, and that the great advances in crops in that state were due largely to plant breeding and seed selection. The visitor was a willing listener, and heard with great interest how they plant the south end of a corn row with kernels from ear number one, and the north end from ear number two, finishing the south end from ear number one, and alternating across the patch, each with its complete history. Opposite ends of the rows are detasseled before polleniaation, here and there so as to bring out or deveilop certain qualities dn one ear that is possessed by another, the result being a combination of the good qualities of both ears, and an elimination of all .bad qualities; how they do the same yearfrfter year till they get a corn of correct shape, that will come out o a stalk the right height, that will close the ends of the husk tightly, that will droop properly for husking, that will have proper amount of cob, proper color, proper keeping qualities, and so forth, all developed in that soil, climate, and culture. And then the visitor wanted to hug him, and did assure him that the world owed the south a blessing for such modern and such efficient methods of developing their own perfect crops, in such an excellent manner. It is just the way I developed the Burbank Potato 35 years ago, said the visitor—yes, yes, I am Mr. Burbank, of Santa Rosa—l live just across the bay to the north—would be glad to have you visit me some time; and the Louisianan was so astonished he lost the thread of his story. ' I was with the Lousianan, two weeks ago, on a visit With a hundred others in charge of agricultural exhibits here, to Mr. Burbank’s hotme. We crossed the ferry to Sausalito, north and from there took a train to Santa Rosa, about 65 miles north. 22 automobiles supplied by the Santa Rosa commercial club hauled us over the valley, and to a Tittle residence in the midst of the city. The city is about like Rensselaer, for size, maybe a little-larger, but it has the California foliage everywhere, very level and very pretty. TUe place we Stopped was a corner lot, and a new two-story frame house, square, undecorated, except for a long front porch, wfth a palm in the yard, and a new lawn sowed in the front. Our

autos 'filled the streets and the folks filled the yard, and Mr. Burbank was busy showing some new corn, and some turnips. His thin red face made me think of WHnfred Pufllin; and while every time he looked up some camera snapped in his face somewhat discoutreously and unexpectedly, he seemed more or less resigned to them, and with little interruption would continue hds talks; in fact, I made severed snaps of him myself, but haven’t had them developed yet. •I couldn’t (hear what he was telling them, as he was standing in the yard and the crowd was around him, most of the folks being taller than he. Boon he left the crowd for the house, and >1 heard murmerings that he went for some new pears; as he Zame out hovering over an armful of big yellow pears about twice the size of those we buy at five cents each, the first thing he ran into was my camera—it was so sudden I was as much surprised as he, and as he stopped, in sort of pose for me, he grinned a little at our mutual embarrassment, and I snapped and stepped aside and by that time every one had him surrounded and he told them of the pears while I slunk away regretting that I hadn’t had time to get a proper focus on him. I made a view of the house, and of some of the patches nearby, which all had the autumn appearance of the harvest time, and cleaning-up season.

Then he took the crowd across the lot, or across the street rather, to a cornfield, about twenty by thirty feet in size in the middle of the lot, all the corn being very spindling, tall, and apparently unproductive; but it Is a breeding plat, and represents m'any years’ work so far, With nothing to give out yet. One of the most prominent of our men was in charge of the Illinois exhibit, a com state, and he quietly slipped off an ear of com and put it into his pocket. Mr. Burbank saw it;.he saw everything, and was watching all the time, just like a grandfather might watdh a bunch of children; Mr. Burbank said he was sorry but wanted the ear left as it might mean millions to some one some day; not only every ear is being accounted for, he said, but every grain is counted. In proper humility the Sucker state man lodged the ear on the stalk where he found it, and we went on. Meanwhile, one of the commercial club escorts, told us that the gardens had been closed for many years, for that very reason, and that our party was the first to get inside in a dozen years, without great restrictions. Every leaf is numbered, almost, and Mr. Burbank knows everyone including its varying complexions with the weather. His spineless cactuses are in a long patch on one side of the lot, with a few odd-sized beds elsewhere; the spinelessness is less interesting than the cucumber that grow on, and which folks are eating, and which we all had a sample of; *.t is tasteless, and useless—but then, so was the tomato, cucumber, and pumpkin when we first got them. The cactus fruiting body as he calls it, grows out like a stubby smooth cucumber with a slight suggestion of a leaf formation at the end, like a bud. They are about an inch in diameter and 3 inches long usually; they distributed a market basket full to us, as souvenirs.

The Burbank place is a block and a half, the residence Being on one end of the half block, and the opposite whoel block being the gardens, as well as the other end of the residence place. On the corner opposite his place is the office of the corporation organized to market his productions. It is in Ms old original home, all the buildings, including the back houses, beng kept intact. Not a vessel, sails into the Golden Gate from abroad without its distinguished foreigner wh'o wants to see Mr. Burbank. So many in fact have preyed upon his time, for mere curiosity, that ■if you come unannounced, an attendant gives you a card, signed by Mr. Burbank, saying that Ms time is worth a dollar a minute; if you want 15 minutes send in the sls and set a date. There is another small tract used by him about 4 miles over the valley. He Was ridden there once a day for years, in axheid nattley buggy bdhind a honey horse which trots more up and down thhh. straight ahead, and it is on the atntamth of (that dollar-a-minute budineiß that his friends induced him to get a little Ford. As a matter of convenience, and his own comfort, he is nftener seen riding about the street of Santa Rosa on a very antiquated bicycle. A company gave Mm $300,000 fog

MONTICELLO DOINGS OF INTEREST HERE

Paragraphs Clipped or Briefed From The Journal —Free Picture Shaw For the Children. Monticello Red Men are always doing something. This time they are going to give free picture shows to all the Children in Monticello between the ages of 2 and 14 years. The shows will be Friday. The Matthews theatre will be open from 2 to 6 and the Majedtic from 6 until time to go to the Christmas trees. Special attractions have been provided and it is all a Red Men’s treat. A band concert and motion picture show Monday evening for the benefit of the municipal Christmas tree did not draw very well and the receipts were a disappointment. Another entertainment is to be given thus Wednesday evening, for the same purpose. It is by the Precier Concert Co. Hugh Steele and wife, formerly of Monticello, will this month prove up on a 320-acre claim near Glasgow, Mont. Mr. Steele has written back that there are still plenty of homes for gritty people who will come there and stick to the finish. Mrs. Mabel O’Connor and Miss Nina Malone, of Monticello, are now at Miami, Fla., after visiting many interesting points enroute, including the Chicamauga battlefield. Monticello schools will close Thursday evening and reopen Monday, Jan. 3rd. Most of the district schools will close Friday evening and open the 3rd of January. Ed Thacker gets off the following in his “Colyum:”

“Somehow we feel these winter mornings, when the kivers fit around us sntfg and tight, that there is more music in the hum of our neighbor’s lawnmower as-a help to early rising than there is in an alarm clock.”

Maisons Have Elected Officers For Next Year.

The Masons have elected the following officers: Dr. H. L. Brown, W. M.; Devere Yeoman, S. W.; Floyd Spain, J. W.; Sam Fendig, Treas.; H. W. Wood, Jr., Sec. The installation will take place next Monday night, Dec. 27th, and will not be public.

Baptist Church.

Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Christmas program Friday evening at 7:30. Sunday school at 9:30 Sunday morning. Regular preaching services next Sunday. Morning, 10:45, theme “The Magic Christinas Day.” Evening theme, “A Christmas Work!,” at 7 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend all these services. We have a complete line of fruits and vegetables for the Christmas dinner. Oranges, bananas, radishes, head or leaf lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage and cranberries. ROWLES ■& PARKER. The fathers and brothers of the Indian School wish to thank all who turned out Tuesday at the services held for Father Andrew Geitl and to especially thank those of the Holy Name Society and the Scholars of the parochial school who met the funeral concourse at the bridge and accompanied it to the church.

his name a few years ago. They are to market everything he produces. They are using the offices in his old place on the opposite oorner and they pay all his expenses of farming, and would give him a limousine and a chauffeur if he would use them. If he says he wants a certain * tract plowed 12 feet deep, it is done instantly; if he wants a two-foot tree m*oved seven inches they do it —or at least he has only 1» express his desires and it is done for him dn a way to make a millionaire envious. This company has a large seed and plant house on Market Street, here, and Jennie has visited there, though I have not. It is not greatly different from what I imagine amy large seed house in the east would look like. They think the world of him there, and even the children look for a chance to flavor him. A lady who was eternally asking more than she couM possibly remember, asked what that tree was. He said it was a nut tree of some hfind '(I qouldnU hhar wbat), but that it produced something fabulous in amounts; she said “Why don’t you sell them?” “We alerady have an order for eleven million of them at $5 apiece,” said Mr. Burbank. The tree is probably 8 years old, and it will fake some years to fill that order. A walnut tree 4 inches through the base has about ten bushels of walnuts stored under it. “This tree bore all those note this year,” he told us—and even I almost doubted the old fellow's veracity—black walnuts they were, jwft like those at home. He said with al) the simplicity of truth itself, “That tree will produce walnuts in such large quantities as to render it profitable to raise them for fuel alone.” And here is the night and 2 miles to walk. iHbiM,

MEDARYVILLE WAS STARTED IN 1853

Information Gathered By Ada Before Hte Death DtoaHaes InterestMs Facta. The Medaryville Advertiser 4ast week published the following interesting history of that town and it will have especial interest to fortner residents of Gillam township. The article reads: Whiel rumaging through the old files of the Advertiser last week, we came across the following correspondence which was directed to former Editor H. C. Schott, Sept. 1, 1909, by the late John Ade, of Kent land, Ind. The letters found were relative to the early history of Medaryville and its predecessor, the old town of White Post. We heerwith produce a complete list of postmasters for the town of Medaryville since its inception in 1853. We have reproduced the same in the belief that it would interest many of our readers. Kentland, Ind., Sept. 1, 1909. ■H. C. Schott, Medaryville, Ind., Dear Sir: In trying to ascertain some facts in regard to the postoffice named White Post, supposed to be in Jasper county, I found the same to be located in Pulaski county. The one in Jasper county was named White Grove. As the list of postmasters at White Post or Medaryville may be of interest to your people I enclose herewith report from W. L. Lanshe, third assistant postmaster, in regard to the same. If you should consider this .to be of sufficient importance to notice in your paper, be kind enough to send me a copy of your paper containing same. Yours respectfully, John Ade.

Mr. John Ade, Washington, D. C., Dear Sir: By direction of the third assistant postmaster general, who is absent, I transmit herewith a memorandum containing information in regard to a postoffice known as White Post, Indiana, which you requested during your personal call at .this office on the 20th instant. It will be noted that the name of this postoffice was changed to Medaryville on Dec. 22, 1858, by which name it is still known, and is a fourth class postoffice with three rural routes emanating therefrom. Respectfully, A. M. Travess, Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General. Postmasters and dates of appointment follow: Lewis Dawson, May 2, 1838. Moses Cherrie, Dec. 22, 1853. Gabriel Long, Aug. 13, 1857. Lydia G. Story, Feb. 20, 1858. John C. Grouch, April 9, 1861. Enoch S. Brewer, Dec. 6,1861. William B. Nichols, July 19, 1869. Charles A Jones, April 2,1883. Lawson. E. McKinsey, Nov. 6, 1885. Wm. H. H. Smith, Feb. 1, 1889. Robert Abell, April 16, 1889. James R. Linton, July 27,1898. Wm. H. H. Smith, Oct. 3, 1895. James W. Karklow, March 16,1898. Andrew G. Lewark, March 23,1901. Preston M. Querry, July 7, 1904. Sam E. Nichols, 1908. K. B. Clark, 1912.

ROAD TO HEALTH IS THROUGH THE KIDNEYS

No person alive is Stronger than his kidneys. The miritue the kidneys become disarranged or clogged with waste the warning is flashed throughout the entire system. The greater part of all sickness today can be avoided by keeping the kidneys working properly. B. T. Fendig, the popular druggist, can tell you of many well-known people In this city whom Sohrax, the standard kidney remedy, has restored to health, often after they have tried many other methods of treatment with little or no benefit. This remarkable kidney remedy is guaranteed to help the worst case of lazy, sluggish, or doggedup kidneys, or the general headachy, kinkybacked, played-out Condition that afflicts people suffering with kidney trouble. Sol vax does not simply relieve. It aims to cure. No other kidney remedy has made such a- large percentage of cures as Solvax. It is so large that B. F. Fenlig is perfectly safe in standing ready to refund the price to any customer whom it does not help.

Notice Moose. There will be a meeting of special interest to all Thursday, Dee. 28. You are expected to be present. Secretary. RELIABLE PAIN KILLER and' CLOTHES CLEANING COMPOUND You can get these articles at the residence of LYMAN ZEA. Mr. Zea has been sick for « long time and you can assist him by boytngtite above products of him. Do

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