Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — Page 1

No. 17.

THE REX THEATRE * ; ' i ; . A Metro Quality Production ‘SEALED VALLEY’ ... 4 ‘ '■*. ' ; ■ '. ' . a * From the Look by Herbert Footner with the brilliant emotional actress Dorthy Donelly will be seen, at the Rex Theatre, Thursday, Jan. 20th. Afternoon and evening.

Roy Will Hold General Farm Sale Feb. 8. Roy Lewis will hold a general farm sale on. Tuesday, Feb. Bth. _ Charles Schleman will hold a sale on Feb. Ist. Both are having bills printed at The Republican office.

DON’T SUFFER—LAUGH AT STOMACH MISERY

B. F. Fendig Will Return the Money If Mi-o-na Does Not Relieve Dyspepsia. Among all the remedies in B. F. Fendig’s drug store, there are few that he is willing to sell on a guarantee to refund the money if they do not cure. Mi-o-na, the famous dyspepsia remedy, has helped so many of his customers that he says:*“lf this remedy does not relieve you, come back to my store and I will cheerfully return your money.” Anyone who has dyspepsia, indigestion, headaches, dizzy feelings or liver troubles, should take advantage out any risk of spending their money "to no purpose. Mi-o-na will relieve, of this chance to be made well withyou, will regulate the digestion, will enable you to eat what you want. If it does no.t do all this it will not cost; you a cent. B. F. Fendig has sold hundreds of bottles of Mi-o-na and has yet to re ceive the first complaint from any! customer. Sucha record is simply marvelous and speaks volumes for the merit of the remedy. Do riot suffer a day longer with disordered digestion. If Mi-o-na Moes not-give you complete satisfaction you have B. F. Fendig’s personal guarantee to return your money.

Red Lyon Egg Coal. This is the best range coal on the market, regardless of name or price. Sold by J. C. Gwin & Co.

COAL For the range Jackson Hill and Rex Egg., For the furnace, Egg Anthracite, Sovereign Lump and Pocahontas. For the baseburner Scranton Anthracite, Nut and Stove. King Bee, Kentucky Block. Grant-Warner Lumber Co. Phone 458 2

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

O. L. Calkins .. Leo Worland. CALKINS & WORLAND Funeral Directors Parlor? in Novels Block across "from the postoffice. New combination auto ambulance and funeral car. Expert services guaranteed in all cases entrusted to our care. Mr. Calkins is licensed as funeral director and embalm ar in both Indiana and Illinois. ' __ - 1 . *>. Phones 25 or 307

The Evening Republican.

COULD NOT VERIFY REPORTED ACCIDENT

Message From Monticello Inquires About I." W. Monahan, Contractor, Said to Have Been Hurt. A telephone message received here this Thursday morning from Monticello asked for details of an injury reported! to have befallen I. W. Monahan, who was the contractor for the stone road built in ranging Grove’ 1 township last year. The information rthat had reached Monticbllo was that Monahan had been struck by a train at MeCoysburg and suffered severe injuries. Inquiry at MeCoysburg disclosed that Mr. Monahan had not been injured at that place but a report had reached there that he had been hurt at Francesville, and a telephone inquiry there resulted in the information that there had been no accident there. Monahan is a man about 30 years of djfe and his father after hearing the report at Monticello, hastened to MeCoysburg in an automobile. He does not know where his son is at this time. How the rumor started seems a mystery.

"Shoot Villa on sight” is the latest order from Carranza. It might do to. suggest that if you carry a gun openly it would 'be a good idea to be farsighted., . .....•:.._.. ... . " Z.

v Ella Bussell is getting better from her attack of pneumonia but is unable to leave her bed. Born, to Mr. and M rs. O, M. Putt, Monday, Jan. 16, a daughter, and their fourth child. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson : Bussell, of ReVisselaer, stayed all night with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussell Sunday night. W. A. Stephens is still confined to his bed but is making very satisfactory gains and will probably be able to be up some in a few days. There was no school at Fair View on Monday and Tuesday on account of a defective stove. Trustee Poole took the stove from the Moore school over Tuesday to finish out the term with. Miss Ann Peregrine, aged 70 years, of near Lee, died quite suddenly Saturday evening, although she has been poorly for a long time. Burial was made in the cemetery north of McDonald’s Monday at 12:30 o’clock. Owing to the severe cold wind that day only a few .relatives and friends accompanied the remains to the cemetery. The deceased was a sister to Michael, Clare, John and Jim Peregrine. - - - -—— ■

Joe Davisson is slightly improved today from a case of pneumonia which followed the grip. He has 'been confined to his bed since Wednesday of last week and had been suffering from a bad cold and the grip for a few .days before he gave up to go to bed.

Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Sabbath school next Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Preaching Sunday, Jan. 23rd, morning theme* “Christian Toleration,” at 10:45. Evening theme "A Ray-of Heavenly Light,” at 7:00. Every member is urged to attend all these services. All Who have no church home are cordially invited to worship with us. Everybody welcome. “They who would grow in grace, must love the habitation of God’s house. It is those that are planted in the courts of the Lord who shall flourish, and not those that are occasionally there.”—-John A. James.

The Habit of Taking Gild. With many people taking cold is a habit, but fortunately one that is easily broken* Take a cold sponge bath every morning when you first get out of bed —not ice cold, but a temperature of about 90 degrees. Also sleep with your window up. Do this and you will seldom take cold. When you do take cold take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and get rid of it as quickly as possible. Obtainable everywhere. C

HANGING GROVE.

Baptist Church.

F. H. Beard, Pastor.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1916.

HAMILLIZED WITH A FORD AUTOMOBILE

Leo. Worland Awarded Cay—Vast Throng Gathered When Store Gave Machine to Customer. Leo Worland was Hamillized in 3 mighty happy way. today. “ZZZ Z Hamill & Co. gave away a Ford touring car and a vast crowd was gathered in the store, on the sidewalk, across the street and to the walk 'behind. After a great amount of joshing the crowd quietol down until you could have heart! a bee whisper when the numbers were drawn and then a megaphone an-, nounced that Leo Worland was the fortunate individual. The management then announced that next year the company would give away another automobile and also a SIOO Victrola.

ASK. $75,000 FOR DIPLOMACY FUND

Wilson and Lansing Need the Money to Carry on Confidential Work In Europe and Mexico. © 1 IWashington, Jan. 19.—Two million dollars with which to push work on the Alaski rail rdad with the opening of spring, and $75,000 for the confidential diplomatic fund used by the president and the secretary of state are included in an urgent deficiency appropriation bill -favorably reported today to the house.

The measure, carrying in all more than $12,500,000, will be called up for passage tomorrow. It provides for deficiencies in the funds of various , branches Of the government, many of them caused by unlooked-for developments. One item of $300,000 is for the Campaign against the citrus fruit canker. The state department asked for the $75,000 to supplement SIOO,OOO previously spent for special work made necessary by the European war and troubles in Mexico. Construction of the Alaska railroad will begin in earnest in the spring. The commission in charge already has had $2,607,000 placed at its disposal, and the ultimate cost of the project is to be $35,000,000.

COUSIN OF ROSSEVELT MUST PAY WIFE ALIMONY

Court Orders S4OO Monthly Allowance Pending Separation Suit On Cruelty Charge. New York, Jan. 19.—John Ellis Roosevelt, cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, today was ordered to pay his wife, 'Mrs. Edith H. Biscoe Roosevelt, S4OO monthly alimony pending adjudication of her separation suit. She alleges cruel treatment, and said her husband’s annual income was $60,000.

FAIR OAKS.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas'. Eggleston are both on the sick list. Mrs. Fel 1 my, of Rensselaer, is spending the week here. Mrs. Ruth Weaver visited relatives in Rensseloer over Sunday. Isaac Kight is confined to his bed by a severp case of erysipelas. - Mrs. Shehan, of Monon, is here on pccount of the illness of her father and mother. Mrs. Frank Carey was sick this week and was unable to leave until Tuesday. Miss Ola Umphress, who has been in Mt. Ayr for some time, spent Sunday at home. ’ Rev. C. W. Postill will fill his regular appointment at the M. E. church Sunday at 11 o’clock. Mrs. F. R. Erwin, Mrs. A. I. Abell and Mrs. Cottingham went to‘Rensselaer on business the first of the week.

A box social and entertainment will be given at the school house Friday evening, Jan. 21, for the benefit of the library. It is reported that Isaac Kight, former trustee of Union township, is quite sick with erysipelas at his home in Fair Oaks. Mrs. Kight has also been sick with the grip and Mrs. Eggleston, wife of Mr. Kight’s business partner, has also been cbnfined at home with sickness. ■ Gold Medal is one of the best spring wheat flours, and there is more of it sold than any other high grade flour made* When you buy . Gold Medal you are not taking any chances. Every sack guaranteed. Wheat is advancing all the time and you are going to have to pay more for your flour. Get our prices before buying.

Hamilton & Kellner sell the famous Pitt son hard coal. LYCEUM COURSE DATES T ~ January 28—Tahan. * February 15—William Rainer Bennett. ; i— .V -- - . March 29—Columbian Entertainers.

Telephone Hearing Set For Tuesday, Feb. 1st.

Notices have been sent out that the public service commission has set Tuesday, Feb. Ist, at 10 o’clock a. m., as the time for hearing the cause of Lthe Jasper County Telephone Co., whicl} asks the right to charge $1.25 per-month for fuH-metallic service in the city of Rensselaer. Presumably the hearing will take place in the court house.'

JOHN EGER.

FATHER KILLED SON AND SELF

Bert Rich, Elevator Man at Wolcott, Commits Act That Shocks All Who Know Him. ~Y' • , ■ - ’ . _ _ .... ,o _, Special to The Republican: Wolcott, Ind., Jan. 20.—Wolcott is shocked by a tragedy that baffles explanation. At noon today persons who went to the home of Bert Rich found his dead body and that of , his little son, about* 8 years of age. Indications were that the father had murdered the son and then committed suicide. The father was engaged in the elevator business and apparently was prosperous, His wife and another child were away for the. night. There was modomestic trouble so far as is known and those -who knew Mr. Rich well are unable to account for the terrible act unless it was committed while he was temporarily insane.

Rich was an unclq of Lester Rich, who is employed in the Harrington Bros, elevator of this place. He was about 40 years of age. His wife was the daughter of B. F. Tedford, of Goodland. Mr,Rich and Harry Hartley, of this place, were shocked almost beyond expression when they learned of the tragedy.

Miss Cela Anderson Underwent Severe Surgical Operation.

Dr. Clark, the Chicago specialist, assisted by Drs. Loy and Washbum, performed a serious surgical operation on Miss Cela Anderson, teacher of the fifth grade of the Rensselaer public schools at her room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue on River street. The local physician had diagnosed. het trouble ; as ruptured appendictis which had developed peritonitis and Dr. Clark concurred in the diagnosis but it was found upon entering upon the operation that the trouble was an abscess. The operation was .-successfully performed but it is expected that the patient will not be able to resume her school work for two months or more. Mrs. Dean is substituting for her. Miss Anderson’s mother came from Lapel, Ind., Wednesday and will remain with her daughter for some time. Miss Anderson is regarded ye of the most capable grade teachers we have ever had in the Rensselaer schools and her complete recovery is hoped by all her pupils and friends.

Mrs. Mary Coen Suffers Fractured Leg at Alta.

J. W. Coen has gone to Alta, Okla., having received word that his aged mother, Mr.s Mary Coen, had fallen and fractured one of her legs. Mrs. Coen has been living at Alta with her daughter, Miss Bessie. She is about 80 years of age and the accident is expected to go hard with her.

Fresh Fish at Osborne’s Store.

Pickerel .* 15c Halibut 20c Catfish ............ . 18c Trout ..2,.... ... 18c Yellow Pike ........ ....... • 18c We also carry in stock cut flowers, potted plants, candies, etc. Telephone 439.

Presbyterian Church.

9:30 Bible school. A class, a teacher and a welcome for all. 10:45 morning worship and sermon, subject, “The Life That Now Is.” 7, evening worship and sermon. Subject “The Life ThSt is to Come.” The church needs you and you need the church. If you are a stranger or without a church home in Rensselaer, come and worship with us. " 7 Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. The family of Joseph Nagle were notified by telegarm today of the death at Per uof their cousin, Miss Elizabeth Koob, 13 years of age. The girl had visited here last summer. -The cause of.-her~death...JKas.....nofc stated. . , ',v :

THE WEATHER. Rain and warmer tonight; Friday probably fair. '

Plans Being Made to Serve Noon Lunch at School.

An effort is being made to equip a dining room for students who find it more convenient to eat their lunch at the school building at the noon hour. The school authorities have always been opposed to students, who are forced to bring their lunch with them, eating outside of the school building, and it is for this reason that an effort is being made to find a place for them to eat w’ithin the school building. The home economics club of the school is taking charge of the plans to equip the dining room and are asking the co-operation of the citizens. Tables, napkins and water .will be provided free. Soup will be served, a different kind every day of the week, for a few cents. Providing that this proves a success other articles of food will be provided Later. ————

The home economics dub asks that the citizens donate canned tomatoes, corn, navy beans, potatoes, onions, or any other vegetables that they care to. Money-is also asked for to aid m the worthy effort. A shower has been arranged for Saturday, Jan. 22, at Warner’s hardware store, and a generous response from the citizens is expected. Give this undertaking a little thought and arrange to leave something at Warner’s hardware store Saturday, for it is for the .betterment cf our schools.

Grip Causes Blindness Of Rossville Banker’s Son.

Monticello Journal: Many fatalities and complications have been reported resulting from the grip epidemic that has been sweeping over the country, but the saddest case reported in this vicinity comes from Rossville in Clinton county. George "Smith,"the 9-year-old son of, Adrian Smith, cashier of the bank at that place, is totally blind as the result of a case of grip that attacked him several weeks ago, and from which it was thought he had entirely recovered. At the time of his illness the disease affected his brain and acted upon the optic nerve. The Tad is being treated at a Frankfort hospital, where he has been examined by some of the best ooculists in the state. They are of the opinion that the boy will never again recover his sight.

Young Couple Married At Clerk’s Office Wednesday.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was called to the clerk’s office Wednesday to perform the marriage ceremony of Miss Mary Elizabeth Reeder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Reeder, of Virgie, to Mr. Louis Ernest Clemans, son of Mrs. Ettie Clemans Sanders, of near Surrey. The groom was a minor and his mother signed consent to the issue of the license. The marriage was performed at noon. The young couple will reside on a farm.

Farmers Are Organized To Establish Elevator.

Plans are well under way for the organization of a farmers’ elevator and an option has been secured a block west of the new Monon depot. The shares of stock are SSO each and no one can hold more than ten shares. The company is to be called the Rensselaer Farmers’ Grain Co. It expects to incorporate and to do a general grain business.

If You Go to Indianapolis Don’t Spit On Sidewalks.

Indianapolis has begun a campaign against spitting and Wednesday 61 persons were arrested for spitting on the sidewalks of that city. Dr. Herman G. Moran, secretary of the city board of health, started the crusade. He deputized eighteen men to make arrests for violation of the anti-spit-ting ordinance.

Strike Riot In East Chicago Results In Death.

Labor troubles in the plant of the Eiwards Valve Co., at East Chicago, Wednesday, resulted in the killing of a watchman and the wounding of five other persons including a policeman. Sheriff Whittaker was called and with his deputies Jiad the matter well in, hand by night. A dozen arrests were made but the police do not know who fired the shots that killed Watchman John Meehan and wounded the others.

Elwood Voted Dry By Narrow Margin of 21.

Elwood has voted against the saloons by a majority of 21 according to the claims of A. J. Behymer, chairman of the dry committee. The vote stood 1,364 dry and 1,343 wet

Marriage License.

Louis Ernest Clemans, bom near R€nsselaer, Ind., April 3(l i 1895, residence Rensselaer, occupation farmer* and Mary Eliazbeth Reeder, born West Virginia, Aug. 23, 1897, residence Fair Oaks, first marriage for each -- - -

GENERAL WOOD ASKS ARMY OF 210,000

Says Mines and Forts and Submarines Do Not Form Barrier to Foes—Utterly Unprepared. ""“*■*■*“ Major-General Leonard Wood told the senate military committee Wednesday that the United States is utterly unprepared to repel a foreign foe and that the ocean although lined with forts, mifies and submarines, formed little barrier against the aggression of a determined enemy. He said that in our present condition of unpreparedness a force no larger than 150,000 could inflict incalculable damage before we could get organized and equipped to contest its advance. Events of the European war have clearly demonstrated, he said, that the sea is the best medium for the movement of troops and he pointed out that an army of 126,000 troops, fully equipped, had been landed at Gallipoli from a single expedition of 98 ships against submarines, mines and an undersea screen of barbed wire that fringed bvery available landing place.

General Wood said that there w.ould ibe no weakness abroad at the end of this war, that more male children will be bom than are killed in the war and that the United States will have all the gold it won’t do any good unless it is stiffened up with iron. General Wood said that the immediate needs were for a regular army of 210,000. He said that 20,000 should be kept in the Philippines, 20,000 'in Hawaaii, and 15,000 in Panama. He said that 2,000,000 men would be needed in the event of conflict with a foreign power and that at present we have but 700,000 rifles and 300,000 old style ones. The capacity of the plants to produce rifles was only 32,000 a day and England alone wanted 65,000, while France called for two rifles in reserve for every man in the field. He advocated taking the militia entirely over by the government and severing it entirely from the states. If this is not done he advocated that not a dollar of government money be spent upon it Senator Chamberlain asked General Wood: “Could an untrained army have resisted Genriany in France,” General Wood replied: “They never would have known what hit them.”

Cattle Dying In Australia From Excessive Heat.

Mrs. Tom Cox is in receipt of a letter from her brother, Jim Hunt, who is in Kurrie-Kurrie, New South Wales. He writes that cattle have been dying by the thousands in Australia as a result of a long-continued spell of hot weather and drouth. The situation has been relieved a little lately as a result of slight rains. Great Britain depends to a considerable extent on Australia for its meat, the animals being frozen after they are butchered and shipped in, refrigerators to England. . Hunt, who went from England to Australia about eighteen months ago, states that there is great depression in that country. Men have been discharged from positions in an effort to get them to enlist in the army. He says that it is a terrible sight to witness the return home of the wounded soldiers. Hunt could not be accepted in the army owing to physical disability.

Monticello Businessmen Are Joining the Militia.

Monticello Journal: About fifteen new members, among them several businessmen i of the city, joined the local militia at its regular drill last night. The national slogan of preparedness is being emphasized in the militia work over the country and the men here are taking hold earnestly and with enthusiasm. THOJmen are receiving thorough instruction in the drills and it is planned when the weather becomes favorable, to give drills outside in the street. There is no finer exercise than drilling. Nothing more stimulating or beneficial for the tired business or professional man. That is one reason the opportunity to join the company makes such strong appeal to the businessmen of the city.

Bad Habits.

Those who breakfast at 8 o’clock or later, lunch at twelve and have dinner at six are almost certain to be troubled. with indigestion. They do not allow time for one meal to digest before taking another. Not less than five hours should elapse between meals. If you are troubled with indigestion correct your habits and take Chamberlain’s Tablets, and you may reasonably hope tor a guide recovery. These tablets strengthen the stomach and enable it to perform its functions,. natnrally. Obtainable everywhere. C

VOL. XX.