Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Two men at Henderson, Ky., one 18 and the other 31 years of age, took shower baths beneath the eaves of their home on a banter. It was cold and both contracted pneumonia and died Monday. t President Wilson 'is planning to stump the country in real old-fash-ioned manner durihg the summer months; —He will speak in defense of his preparedness program. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig were delayed from making their start for Florida today by the quite severe sickness of one of their children; They will go as soon as the child is sufficiently well to make the trip. Mrs. A. Gangloff and daughter, Miss Tillie, left this morning for St. Augustine, Fla., where they will spend the balance of the winter. Andy Gangloff will leave in a few days for California and expects to spend several months, possibly a year, there and in the Hawaiian Islands.

The house on the farm of Samuel .was destroyed by fire about noon Sunday. The tenant, John Dunn, assisted by neighbors,l was able to get out part of his household effects. Mrs. Dunn was sick in bed and had to be car•ried out on a cot. It was announced in a dispatch Saturady that Russia had let an order to Tour American munition manufacturers for 32,000 machine guns at a • total cost of $32,000,000. Some prosperity, but we don’t see wherein the democratic administration can take any credit for it. If you are thinking of going to “The Girl of the Whispernig Pines” at the Ellis theatre next Saturday, the 22nd, call at the box office, phone 98, now and reserve your tickets. You can, be sure of the seats you want and do not place yourself under any obligation to buy the tickets in case you change your mind. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, accompanied by her sister, whose home is at Greencastle, left Saturday for a month’s visit in the south, where they will divide their time between Mississippi and Florida. F. W. Samules, of Indianapolis, is in charge of the Weste i7i Union office during her absence.

Joe Warbritton, the young man brought here from Fair Oaks on a charge of beating his mother, is now in jail and will be kept there unless someone goes on his bond until Friday, when hes case will be called before Mayor Spitler. Warbirtton was released on good behavior only a week or so ago after Mayor Spitler had fined him SSO for committing a similar act. ■•'• *

G. D. Gregory, of Wheatfield, who some time ago disposedW his wagdn route for the sale of Watkins’ remedies, was in Rensselaer over night on his way home from a business trjp to Crawfordsville, Waveland and Russellville. He is looking up a new location, but will not enter his old line of business. He came near closing a deaf for a hotel property while away. ■ • England is building great plants for making munitions of war and in discussing the use to which they can be put when the war js over it has been agreed there that they can be used in manufacturing articles of various kinds and- at a much cheaper cost than heretofore, even at the low cost of .making the same articles in central Europe, where the labor scale has been very low. This means that American industries will meet in competition the articled thus made unless a tariff is provided to protect American manufacturers and laboring men against the cheapened conditions that are to follow the* war in Europe. This means that it is implace in power the party that favors' protection as a policy and that has—always maintained- a wall of schedules thit made it possible for our labor to live on a plane very much better than that possible in England and the countries of central Europe. ‘