Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — Page 1

■ No. 31.

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Methodist Church.

-...- Dr. J’aul C. Ournick, Pastor. Sunday school 9:30. Public worhsip 10:45, sermon by pastor. Epworth League 6 p. m. 7p. m. Union service at the Christian church, sermon by Rev. Fleming.

Union Service.

The first of the union services will be held at the Christian church Spnday evening at 7 o’clock. The sermon will be preached by Rev. J. Budman Fleming, of the Presbyterian church. Everybody invited. -— _ The collection will be given to the charity board. ,

First Church of Christ.

Bible school 9:30. Communion and sermon 10:45. Union service at 7, subjett “Four Kinds of Soil.’ Rev. J. Budman Fleming of the Presbyterian church will preach the sermon. We are happy to have the people of the city meet in our church for worship Sunady night. It is your Father’s house. We .bid you feel at home in it.

First Presbyterian Church.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 Sunday school. The school is modern with good teachers and equipment for efficient service. 10:45 Morning worship and sermon, subject: “The Two Treasuries.” 7:00 Union service at Christian church. 7:30 Wednesday evening, prayer and fellowship meeting. “O sure it were a seemly thing, While all is still and calm, The praise of God to play and sing, With trumpet and with shalm.”

BAPTIST CHURCH

Sabbath School, Sunday morning, 9:30. Our school is growing, but will grow more rapidly if every member of the church will plan to be with us in this hour for Bible study. There is a welcome, a teacher, a class, a blessing awaiting all who come. Sunday morning worship, subject: “The Enduring Word,” 10:45. Sunday evening this congregation will join the congregations of the other churches in the union meeting to be held in the Christian church, with Rev. Fleming, of the Presbyterian church, preaching at 7:00. Let every one attend this, the initial service of the monthly union meetings. “The Christian Life is now knowing or hearing, but doing.”—F. W. Robertson.

Something Good.

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The Evening Republican.

PHILIPPINE BILL PASSES SENATE ON 52-24 VOTE

Measure Would Authorize President To Grant Islands Absolute Independence Within Four Years. Washington, Feb. 4.—The Philippine bill which would extend to the islands a greater degree of self government and would authorize the president to grant them' absolute independence within four years, passed the senate tonight, 52 to 24. Various democratic senators, led by Chairman Stone of the foreign relations committee, tried unsuccessfully to secure amendment of certain features of the independence clause but in the end the democrats joined‘by six progressive republicans voted solidly for the measure. - It is understood the bill will go to the house with the backing of President Wilson and will be pressed for early passage. There had been little indication of what action the house will take.

Charity Board Plans Work For the Coming Year.

The county council of the Jasper County Sunday .School Association met Friday evening at the First National Bank to make plans for the work of the coming year. The following members were presqpt: J. H. Leatherman, Miss Ethel Perkins, W. L. Bott, C. G. Spitler, Mrs. J. I. Gwin, L. H. Hamilton, Miss Simpson, Mrs. C. C. Warner and Mrs. A. A. Fell. It was planned to work toward the definite goal of keeping the county a toip-notch county, as it has been for the past two years. Every school in the county will be visited by a county officer, who will urge every school to keep up every line of organized work and to contribute their share of good work to maintain the high standard. A representative of the local charity board made a plea for clothing at two of the Sunday schools last Sunday morning. The clothing was to be lef| with Mr. Morlan at the court house, where Hie board has a room»» The response to this request has not been as generous as it should be and this means is taken to again urge the people of this community and Newton township to make an effort to meet this need. The father of the family (who are residents of Newton township) has just had his eye removed and is temporarily incapacitated and after the trustee has helped all the law will allow, there is still much to be done where there is a family of ten young children. The charity board is taking care of an expensive case where a trained nurse and hotel bills are necessary, though the expenses have been greatly lessened by the kindness of the attending physician. Since the organization of the charity board many people are relieved of direct calls for charity, but on that account they are also deprived of the knowledge of the need and are inclined to indifference. We are willing to serve as a channel through which you may work. Hoping you may do your full share, for there is much need, we are, Yours for humanity, MRS. JNO. I. GWIN, M. Charity Board.

Year Without a Summer Was 1816.

The year 1816, which was the birthday of Indiana, the 100th anniversary of which we are going to celebrate in White county in October with a big three day affair, including a pageant, was knowin throughout the United States as a year without a summer. So far there has been a striking resemblance between that year and this, and we are wondering whether or not history is going to repeat. January of 1916 was unusually mild during the greater portion of the month, and January of 1816 was so very mild that most people would have let their furnaces go out had they possessed any. February was only occasionally colder. March and April coaxed the buds and flowers out, and May was a winter month, with ice and snow. By the end of May everything .perishable had been killed by the eold, and the young leaves had been striped from the trees. June was as cold as May. Both snow and ice were common throughout the month -all over the com belt and after having . lanted com two or three times the farmers threw u ptheir hands. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. The following .winter was the hardest the people of the United States had ever known. One had to have a stockade around one’s smokehouse. —Monticello Journal.

DENTAL NOTICE. During my absence in Florida my office will be ‘closed.l expect toreturn about Feb. 2Qth.—H. L. Brown, Dentist Order your coal, feed and wood of Hamilton & Kellner. -,'r hIZ.-2.i_ ' <« . ' • ' ’

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916.

TAKES “BAWL” AND BEATS IT HOME

■Medaryville Official Plays Baby Act and Calls Team Off the Floor. Medaryville high school played Rensselaer at the high school gym Friday night. A lot of people did not know this, for they were under the impression that it was a Guild family reunion, for in the Medaryville lineup there were three players of that name, and the Medaryville official also - went by that name. Besides these Guilds there was also a Gujld on the Rensselaer team who haiis from Medaryville, but pastimes under the colors of ,R. H. S. We don't know who won the game, for it is far beyond us to determine a victor. Any opinion anyone may have had concerning the winner was promptly squashed by the wrangling that ensued following the termination of the game and by the time the argument was over, no one seemed to know any more than they did before they started the argument. Both teams played clever basketball up until the time the game was called. Rensselaershowed a speedy attack and probably would have been returned the victors. When Referee Guild'withdrew his team from the floor near the middle of the second half he perpetrated one of the most babyish acts ever seen on a Rensselaer floor. It was a disgraceful ending to a good game, and such an occurrence never happened before in Rensselaer. A coach should consider such sprocedure a long time before acting in such a manner. At the time the game was called Medary ville was leading 18 to 13. Up until within two minutes of the time the game was called Rensselaer had been leading the Pulaski county quintette throughout the game. It looks as if Referee Guild waited until his team had taken the lead and then decided that he would take his ball and. go home, which he promptly did without warning. The argument that brought about the termination of the game was as follows: Medaryville had a player upon whom three personal fouis had been called. Referee Meyers had warned this individual several times during the game. The rule book states that any player committing four personal fouls shall be ruled out of the game. During a mixup the player in question committed another foul. Referee Meyers called the foul, but the far-sighted Guild, seeing what would happen to the player, stated that it was another one of his players who had committed the foul. Umpire Me vers relented and even called a double foul. Mr. Guild then decided that he had (been grossly insulted and without warning ordered his team off rhe floor, at the same time beating a hasty retreat himself to the dressing room. The players hesitated some time, evidently willing to play the game on out. It is probable the game will be protested by the local athletic association through the state athletic association. The lineup and summary was as follows: Medaryville: M. Guild and Goldsberry, forwards; B. Guild, C; Guild and Comer, guards. Rensselaer: Healy and Cumick, forwards; Gant, C; Eigelsbach and Guild, guards. Field goals, M. Guild 4, B. Guild 3, Goldsberry 1, Healy 1, Cumick 3. Free throws, Healy 5, Goldsberry, M. Guild. Score end of first- half, Rensselaer 12, Medaryville 9.

McCurtain Jailed For Annoying Divorced Wife.

Deputy Sheriff Rice Porter placed John McCurtain under arrest Friday afternoon and he is again in the Rensselaer Several months ago McCurtain was placed under a peace bond not to molest his wife. He did not pay the costs of the proceedings and his arrest is made because of that non-tpayment, but the chief reason for his arrest is the fact that during the past few days and nights he has annoyed his former wife, she having Obtained a divorce since he was placed under bond. Mrs. McCurtain is a good and hard-working woman and deserves protection and should be given it. If John continues to annoy her and there is no law that will give him a trip to the penal farm, then he seems like a fit character to be dealt With by a vigilance committee.

Headquarters For Dodge and Cheviolet

Agencies will henceforth be located at Renselaer garage. Call and see them. „ .... ;

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“HOME PUBLICITY” VERY LOW AT BROOK

Once Thrived and Was Pride of Community But Now Has Fallen From Grace and May Die. Brook Reporter. The .past week has seen one of our oldest and most respected citizens on what appears to be his death bed. He has been ailing for many years and while rallying at times it has always been to sink again into deeper despondency until it looks like the end has come. Two physicialfe, one oliopath and one homeopath, attended him and a few of the old friends are gathered around, one a veterinary surgeon, one a coal merchant and the others are grain men. •. As he has always been closely associated with this office we went to see the old man. It was shocking to see old Home Publicity lying there, a mere skeleton, when we had known him in his prime. “What’s the matter old man,” we said, “can’t you take a brace and get out again?” “Nothing doing,” remarked the old man. “I’ve outlived my time. Once I was a power in this community. When I came here twenty years ago some of these'youngsters were just breaking into the business game and they needed me. I used to occupy fifteen columns in your paper when it printed only four pages at home and half of that was boiler plate. Your circulation was only about 250 and if you had five columns of news, business was humming. After (while they enlarged the business and put in some new presses and the circulation jumped a couple of hundred, and I kept busy. We even put a thousand a year into street fairs and had a few drawing contests. Broke loose and celebrated the 4th occasionally. Why, everybody was on my staff. The banker and barber, the coal man, the lumber merchant, drayman and lawyers and real estate merchants used me and there wasn’t any function in town that didn’t ask for my help. Then they began to drop off. First went the barbers and it was tough to go without a shave. Then the restaurants and my meal ticket. Then the lawyers left me without any legal advice, but I was still hopeful until the banker left me. Bein’ without money ain’t no crime, but associating with a banker gives a man some prestige and loafin’ in there occasionally looks like a man had money in the bank. Then the grocerymen and general merchants began to drop out. Some of ’em have never come back. Baseball died out, and we haven’t had anything doin’ for five years, except band concerts with icq cream cones and ginger ale.” “Ah, cheer up old Pub,” we said. “You ain’t sick, you’re just discouraged.” “I ain’t, ain’t I, well, I’ve had enough in the last three years to make a well man sick. Didn't I have the stomach trouble last summer?” “You mean gastritis?” “No, I mean goffitis, had it there months, and I’d just got over the foot and mouth disease the winter before, and now I’ve got one of them high fevers.” “Pneumonia, you mean,” we suggested. “No, not pneumonia, PINOCHLE, yes, that’s what I mean, PINOCHLE. How’d I get it? Why when I was around tryin’ to drum up trade for the town they told me there wasn’t any in the day time and there was no use in keepin’ open nights and we’d better close and play pinochle of evenings and I haven’t done anything else for six weeks and my temperature’s a hundred and four, and I’ve got six weeks yet to play.” “Wait ’till spring comes, Pub, then business will open up.” “It used to but it don’t any more. They say the farmers are too busy plowin’ and plantin’ to come to town, and when that’s gone they’re too busy riding around in their machines to come to anything but band concerts in the evening. No sir, my business is gone, and you needn't stand there trying to cheer me up. What you got to brag about. You come here bout three years ago and threw a couple of thousand more into that publicity mill and tried to spread your gray matter over eight pages instead of four and today you ain’t got a blooming ad in your paper. Yes, you made a record. I’ve seen this paper run for twenty years and I never seen that before. »

“Course you got a good paper. I wasn’t sayin’ you hadn’t. I heard a business man say last summer you got out the best country paper he ever read, cause he could sit down and read all evening and not be bothered by the advertising. No, it ain’t any use soliciting these fellows. Didn’t I go out last spring and the first one I struck told me he had to go out and play golf and he’d give me an ad next week, and the next , one told me he had to go down and put the new carburetter on his machine and another fellow said he had to see about puttin’ up a silo on the farm, but he’d give me a little editorial on the mail order business as you would like to have that dope.

DISTRICT MEETING OF RED MEN MONDAY

Annual Gathering of I. O. R. M. to Be Held In This City—One Hundred Or More Expected. The Improved Order of Red Men of this district, comprised of several counties in the northwestern part of the state, are to hold the annual district meeting in this city Monday, Feb. 7th, and from one hundred to two hundred delegates are expected. Last year the meeting was ..eld at Delphi and Pink-<a-Mink Tribe, of this city, sent a number there and secured the meeting for Rensselaer. The hall of the Red Men in the I. 0. 0. F. building is too small to take care of all who are expected and the Red Men will probably make arrangements for a larger room for the occasion.

VACCINATION URGED.

Rensselaer, Feb. 5, 1916. In the early part of the winter the Health Department and physicians urged vaccination, especially for the school children. This was only partially complied with, consequently there is now an outcropping among the small children. Vaccination is the only means of preventing a spread of smallpox because there is sure to be some mild case go around unnoticed, the person having it ofen perhaps not realizing that he has a contagious disease and thus spread it about setting at naught strict quarantine. Rensselaer is no exception to a great many other towns in Indiana, which are having the same experience. It may be that an order will be issued in a few days barring all from school who have not been vaccinated. City Health Officer.

TWO-SEVEN-THREE. Call this number for the best range coal.

It was the one where a Swede by the name of Hans Oleson started out in lowa with nothing and finally got 240 acres of Land and was raisin’ 50 bushels of corn an acre and sellin’ it at 60 cents a bushel and thought his land was worth $l5O an acre and when he got to buyin’ his goods of a mail order house found the land was worth only seventy-five. Oh, you needn’t look innocent, you fell for that lowa land ad. I had it offered me by three other merchants that same summer. I suppose some lowa land agent sent it to ’em.” “Hurry up Pub, and get all this out of your system and straighten up the hump in your shoulders and ypuHl get well.” “Straighten up the hump in my shoulders, huh. Do you know how I got that? Well, I’ll tell you. When I had a good meal ticket at the restaurant, credit at the bank, and could go tc the barber shop and get a shave, I used to take my budget of advertising to the postoffice and the postmaster would take off his hat and say what can I do for you Pub. And I’d say here’s a bunch of matter the town wants out right away, somethin’ doifi’ her€ this week. Get these in the boxes and out on the routes. Sure, Mike he’d say. Have a cigar Pub, and tell the Old Man to keep peckin’ away at the demmys or I’ll lose my job. But When I got to goin’ in with stubble on my face and weak from long fastin and my clothes was shabby, he said* git out of my way Pub, we’ve got a lot of mail order catalogues to get out first or we’ll hear from Chicago. One day I backed up arid set down by the wrong door and a big two-fisted drayman unloaded 2,500 pounds of Shears & Sawbucks catalogues on top of me and I’ve had curvture of the spine ever since. No, boss, I ain’t no good any more. I’ve been quiet so long I guess I’ll get a hook and line and go fishin’ when the season opens up, but that makes me sick when I think the people of this section spent $90,0000 advertising the Iroquois river. Excuse me. boss, but here’s something still bein’ advertised in your paper,” and the old man took a Rexall tablet and a dose of Miles nervine and dropped off to sleep.

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ENGLAND’S BOAT, RICE DECLARES

Captured Ship Wil] Likely Become Proper of Germany—British s Minister Asks for Appam. Washington, Feb. 4.—ln the name of the British owners of the steamship Appam, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, today lodged with the state department a formal request that the ship be turned over to the British consul under the terms of the Hague convention. Notice also was served that it would be in violation of international law if the United States permitted the German prize commander of the Appam either to increase the efficiency of that ship; add to her offensive power or recruit his crew. Lieutenant Berg has only twenty-two men in his prize crew at present, a number insufficient to navigate a ship as large as the Appam, a compliance with the British suggestion only on the latter point would effectually prevent the departure of the Appam from Newport News. Although the British government • did not finally ’ ratify tht Hague treaty governing the conduct of neutrals in maritime warfare, it is held that most of that convention and especially the article under which the release of the Appam is demanded is only’a crystalliaztion of principles of international law in existence before fihe conventions were drawn and generally accepted since.

Hicks’ Prediction For February.

A reactionary storm period is central the 4th, sth and 6th. The moon is on the celestial equator on the 6th. A regular storm period is central on the 10th, covering Tuesday the Bth, to Sunday the 13th. During the 9th to about the 11th, these conditions will advance into the great central valleys, breaking into storms or wind and rain. Meanwhile rising barometer and change to snow and colder will appear wetft and north. From the 11th to 13th the storm center will pass from central regions to the Atlantic seaboard, snow and change to much colder, following the storms into the extreme east and the south. A reactionary storm period will run its course on the 15th to the 18th. This period will be affected by the first stages of the March, or Vernal equinox of the earth, by the opening of the mercury equinox, and by the moon’s opposition to earth and sun, near the celestial equator. A regular storm period is central on the 22nd, extending over Sunday, the 20th, to Friday, the 25th. The disturbing periods of Vulcan and Mercury have their centers together on the 22nd. The Mercury period extends from the 17th th the end of the month. Wind, snow and thunder will succeed by snow and sleet and changes to very cold; all these phases touching progressively, during successive day sos the period, in aIL parts of the country. Danger of equinoctial storms in the south should be apprehended during and about this period. A reactionary storm period is central on the last three days of February. As we enter March, general rains, turning to sleet and snow will be disappearing eastward with cold, clearing weather following in their rear.

For a Bilious Attack.

When you have a severe headache, accompanied by a coated tongue, loathing of food, constipation, torpid liver, vomiting of partly digested food and then bile, you, may know that you have a severe bilious attack. While you may be quite sick there is much consolation in knowing that relief may be had by taking three of Chamberlain’s Tablets. They are prompt and effectual. Obtainable —everyi where. C

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

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