Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1916 — Page 1

' No. 93.

At The PRINCES C THEATRE 0 TONIGHT A Red Feather Feature ‘The Sphinx’ in 5 parts Admission 5 and 1 Oc YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League. _ Boston-Philadelphia, rain. New York-Brooklyn, rain. Pittslburg 10; Cincinnati 1. Chicago 5; St. Louis 1. r ' \ \ American League. I St. Louis 5; Chicago 6. Detroit 3; Cleveland 1 (12 innings), Washington 1; Boston 5. Philadelphia-New York, rain.

Let Treasonable Dogs Bark Somewhere Else.

Chicago Examiner. On Sunday night J. B. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, made a speech against preparedness to an audience in Washington Irving High School in New York City. * # After bitterly vituperating American. institutions of every kind Maurer concluded by shouting: “Down with the American flag! To hell with the Stars and Stripes.!” This country is too big, and there are too many of us American men ready to see that the Stars and Stripes do NOT go down, to permit any man of sense to worry .about the silly raving of a lunatic. But we do earnestly and strenuously protest against the use of the public school buildings in any city of this broad land being given to fourmouthed and lying aspersors of the flag, under whose inspiring and glorious folds our fathers and brothers died the death of patriots and heroes, to the end that the land might forever be filled with free schools for the descendants of free citizens. Let these treasonable curs yap elsewhere against the bright emblem that shelters even their base and contemptible lives and persons—but not in the schools.

Mr! anJ Mrs. D A. Leavel left this morning for Bainbridgfe, where they will remain until about the first of the month, when they will go to North Vernon, Jennings county. He traded his iia'nlridge milling property for a farm of 275 acres 4 miles north of North Vernon. Attorney Jesse Wilson was down from Hammond on legal business yesterday. Patron-Teacher Association meeting at the high school Wednesday evening at 7:30. —Z —_— r ——-

M. V. BROWN BUILDING CONTRACTOR Will be glad to figure with you on any kind of work, large or small”, either brick, concrete, ' stucco, frame or any construction whatever. Phone 445

_ if it’s Electrical ■ fat Leo Mecklenburg do It. Phone 621

The Evening Republican.

Ministers Attend InterCounty Bi-Monthly Meeting.

Revs. Paul C. Cumick, J. Budman Fleming and Asa McDaniel, pastors respectively of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches of this city, attended the bi-monthly meeting of the inter-county ministerial association at Wolcott Monday. White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Cas3 and Carroll counties were represented. Rev. Crowder, pastor of the M. 3. church of Monticello, read a paper on “Browning, the Poet’s Lessons of Life.” Rev. Wharton, pastor the Kentland Presbyterian church, read a paper about the educational system of Gary. The ministers entered into a general discussion concerning the war and the religious problems of today. The June meeting will be held at Monticello and will be in the nature of a picnic. The wives of the ministers will also attend the meeting. It is probable that the August meeting will be held in Rensselaer.

Dr. E. M. Shanklin Coming.

Dr. E. M. Shanklin is secretary of the “Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat” section of the Indiana Medical Association. He will be here Wednesday and will examine the grade school. He will speak to the high school in the afternoon and to the ParentTeacher Association at 7:30 in the high school. Every parent in Rensselaer should hear this specialist talk on the conservation of vision. This meeting is for the good of the community ard the public is invited to attend. There is ho charge of any kind. Dr. Shanklin talks in plain language so that all may understand and every paren. and patron should try to hear him.

There will be services Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30. You should attend this preEaster service. They will be short and to the point.

There Can Be No Doubt About the Results in Rensselaer. Results teil the tale. All doubt is removed. The testimony of a Rensselaer citizen can be easily investigated. What better proof can be bad? C. B. Steward, insurance man, 3. Front; & Main Sts., Rensselaer, says: “I get Doan’s Kidney Pills occasionally at A. F. Long’s Drug Store and use them with very good results. I had been subject to serious attacks of kidney disorder before I tried them. My back for a long period was lame and sore and I was hardly ever free from a heavy ache in it. Whenever I feel any signs of my kidneys not being in a good condition, I use a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and they always quickly correct such disorder. In that way, I keep free from the old suffering and in good health.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pill& —the same that Mr. Steward had. JFoSter-Milbum Co., Props., Buffalo, NEhf.

On May 12th ’our plants will be here. A fine lot of geraniums, all sizes, colors and prices. 500 pansy plants grown by a pansy expert and every plant full of bud and bloom. Salvia, coleus, heliotrope, verbenias, rooted cannas and ferns, 12 different kinds of vines some blooming for porch boxes and baskets in fact, almost everything you want, and at prices that will please you. Remember the date, May 12th. Fancy fresh cut flowers for Easter. KING FLORAL CO.

Sherm Parks will make drives to any point. Call Phone 448 for ihim. You will have an opportunity to learn how to conserve the vision of your child at the Parenit-Teacher Association meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 at the high* school. C. C. Somers and M. 0. Stokes, who under the firm name of Somers & Stakes, have engaged in the plumbing and heating business here, have put in a stock of goods in-the former Fred Cissel room and are -etting shaped up to begin business. They are operating considerably at other places and have the contract for the heating and plmribing in the new library building at Winamac and several contracts at other places and some work promised in Brookston yesterday and made a bid on the heating and plumbing for the new library there and missed getting the contract by a narrow margin only. Mr. Somers has rented the house just south ,of Dr. Turfler’s residence.

First Christian Church.

RESULTS TELL

Pansies! Pansies!

AUTO LIVERY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1916.

CHICKEN THIEVES. CAUSE SUNDAY HUNT

Gun Play Was Indulged In and Excited Fyeigners Played Important Part in Game. , Everett Halstead and Randolph Wright were the active agents in the arrest of two foreigners on a charge of chicken stealing. The men are Charley Mose, an Austrian, and Mike Biboli, a Polander. Some uncertainty entails as to whether the men are guilty of chicken stealing and, in fact, Mr. Halstead is so certain that Mose is not implicated in the chicken stealing that he and his brother, David L., for whom Mose has been working, procured his release from jail Mionday afternoon. The two foreigners have been working for D. L. Halstead on his farm across the Newton county line. Chicken stealing has been going qp in Newton township, but the quantities stolen have not been large and until recently not much attention was paid to it. Sunday morning a Russian who lives in Newton township found a number of chickens with their legs tied together in the road. Four chickens were loose and eleven were tied. He reported the find to Everett Halstead and Randolph Wright. The chickens were identified as belonging to Will McKinney. Among them were several setting hens that went at once to their nests when taken to the McKinney homq. A little later the Russian who had lost 18 chickens through theft, reported that when he went to pursue the men whom he thought had stolen the chickens that one of them pointed a gun at him and ordered him to vamoose. He did so, but secured the services of Mr. Halstead, who keeps a supply of artillery on hands and who distributed his small arms among trusty aides and set out to hunt for the supposed thieves. Suspicion rested on Mose and Biboli and the men went to a stack of straw near the shack where the two men keep hatch. They were in hiding at the straw stack and had dozed off to sleep when Mose and Biboli, armed with shotguns, approached them and leveled the guns at them. Everett awakened and got busy with an argument and a retaliatory gun pTay and in a little whilq the foreigners were the prisoners of Halstead et al. Not, however, until there had been mutual accusations that each party was the chicken stealing gang. Mose and Biboli, however, admitted that they had the chickens in their little cave house. They surrendered them without protest! Sheriff Hess, of Newton county,who had been called, arrived and took the two men to Kentland, where they were fined $5 and costs each for aiming guns and the fine and costs in each case totaled $33.05. They were brought to Rensselaer and placed in jail and Monday Mose was released when has fine and costs were staid. It is» possible th&t both the foreigners were bewildered by the phole affair and that neither was implicated in the stealing of the chickens but thought they were helping to locate the chicken thieves. This is quite sure to he the case with Mose, whose conduct has been altogether above reproach. There is said to be some circumstantial evidence against Biboli, hut it is probable that by the time he lays out his $33.05 fine and costs he will have received sufficient education in the way of American civilization ito leave other’s poultry alone and to iforegto using firearms. Mike is stnl in jail and if there is some one who can talk a little Polish they can get his side of the story. It may be interpreted, however, oy the activities of Sunday that chicken stealing in Newton township is very unpopular and that any fellow who tries to get away with jt : s apt to bump into a charge of shot. So if the guilty parties have escaped they can consider themselves mighty lucky and should take steps looking toward reform.

New Tin, Plumbing And Repair Shop Opened. We have opened a shop in the Leopold room on South Van Rensselaer street, and will do all kinds of tin work, plumbing and heating, and all kinds of repair work.*Estimates cheerfully furnished. We solicit a share of your patronage. Satisfaction guaranteed. SOMERS & STOKES, , ' • Phone 57. Safety First With Your Panama Hats Anyone can dean hats. But it takes a practinal hatter to do it correctly. See Nelson, the Hatter, McKay’s Laundry. He guarantees work same as done in any dty. Eighth and last week in your home town, as Mr. Nelson is due to go to the Richardson Hat Works of Logansport, where he is permanently located.

Orange S. Baker Passed Away At His Home Tuesday Morning.

Orange S. Baker died at h's home between twelve and one o’clock Tuesday morning of chronic bronchitis. Mr. Baker had a quite severe attack of pneumonia about a year ago from which he never fully recovered, having been bedfast almost ever since that time. He was 64 years of age. Mr. Baker was the head of rather a large family. Four children by his second marriage and his wife were at his bedside when the last summons oame. The children were Charles, Edward, Dora and Mrs. George Wenrick. Six children by his first wife are living, namely, Frank, of Logiansport; Willi, who is sick in a 1 ospital at Peru; Mrs/Joe Wessinger and Mrs. Joe Graft, of Peru; Mrs. Eugene Goodpasture, of Palmro, N. Dak., and Mrs. Charles Lent,' of Mishawaka. Two brothers, John N., of White county, and Anson, who is in Oregon, survive him. There are 26 grandchildren. The funeral will probably take place Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Baptist church. Definite announcement of the time and place for the funeral will be made in Wednesday s paper. Ralph Sprague made a trip ‘today to Frankfort and Monon. Attorneys Moses Leopold and W. H. Parkinson went to Chicago today to try a law suit. Easter millinery. A large assortment of Gage and Fisk patterns just received at the Paris Hat Shop. William Coffell and wife went to Newland today, tfhere he will work in the onion fields this summer. The Paris Hat Shop is displaying many wonderful French pattern sailors. In fact, every style known to please the fancies of all. John English and daughter, Mrs. L. R. Florence, came from Brooksiton today for a visit of a few days at his farm in Barkley township. Mr. English looks to be in his usual health but says that he is not feeling the best. He is 83 years of age.

At the lightplant Sunday morning Tul Malone scalded his right ankle and the calf of his leg quite Jwidly when he stepped on a soft spot in the ground just over a leaking steam pipe. The bum is healing quite well and it is thought ±at he will suffer no permanent bad effects. The baby bom last Tuesday to Dr. and Mrs. Lowell D. Snorf, of Chicago, lived but one day. Its death was due to congestion of the brain. Burial was made in Chicago. Friends of Mrs. Snorf will regret the misfortune of the baby’s death. E. J. Gamester arrived today from Chicago with his household goods, which were brought Dirough on a large truck owned by rage Bros. The Truck was loaded with furnishings for six rooms including a piano. Mr. Gamester w r ill live on the former Harve Grant place at the north edge of town and will start an astor farm.

Kokomo Man Savs Word’s Fail Him

R. M. Hankins Asserts He is Unable to Speak Full Gratitude for Tanlac Kokomo, Ind., April 17, 1916. “Yes, sir, Tanlac has helped me in every way and I am only too &lad to tell others about it,” said R. M. Hankins, a well known farmer, who lives on Rural Route No. 12, Kokomo, when asked if he was pleased with the new medicine. “I believe I got more good out of my first bottle of Tanlac than I have out of all other medicines—and they are many—that I have taken recently. That’s why I’m back for my second bottle. “I suffered from rheumatism and eczema and was in a run down condition. My food didn’t agree with me and I was constipated. Tanlac helped me from the first few doses. In a few days I noticed a wonderful improvement. Now, the constipation has ibeen relieved, my blood has been purified, driving the rheumatism and eczema from my system, and altogether, I feel like a new man. There’s nothing I could say that would fully express my gratitude.” Thousands of Indiana people are now taking Tanlac with moat beneficial results. Tanlac is excellent for rebuilding run down system* following attacks of pneumonia, la grippe, and the like and is especially , benefl- , cial for stomach, liver .and kidney troubles, rheumatism, catarrhal complaints and the like. Tanlac x is now sold exclusively : n Rensselaer at Larsh & Hopkins' drug store. '

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB ELECTS DIRECTORS

Also Takes Steps For Having a Stag Dinner and Smoker With Several Invited Guests. The annual election of the Van Rensselaer Club was held Monday evening and about forty members were present. C. W. Hanley, G. H. Healey, W. J. Wright, C. M. Sands, and E. M. Laßue were elected directors for the ensuing year. The directors met and organized by electing' Mr. Laßue president, C. E. Garver secretary and D. Delos Dean treasurer. W. I. Spitelr, retiring president, presided at the meeting and appointed two committees to arrange for a smoker and supper. The arrangements committee is composed of Zem, Wright, Van Grant, Earl Ticen, Lon Healy and Clarence Fate. The invitation committee consists of Moses Leopold, C. E. Garver, C. M. Sands, Mike Wagner and George Long. Either a fish or wild game dinner Is probable. It is probable that a number more will be invited to join the club, bringing the membership up to one hundred. Various other social features are contemplated.

Miss Bernice Rhoads and Dr. Asa Davison Married.

The marriage of. Miss Bernice Rhoads, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. E. S. Rhoads, of this city, to Dr. Asa Davison, of Marshall, 111., took place Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Methodist parsonage, Dr. Paul C. Cumick performing the ceremony in the presence of the immediate relatives, including the parents of the bride, also Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Starr and Mrs. W. H. Barkley. Miss Rhoads is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and a very popular and highly esteemed young woman. Dr. Davison has just completed a course in the veterinary college at Terre Haute and will engage in practice at Springfield, 111., where they will make their home.

The Stork Special.

Bom, Tuesday, April 17th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore, of Barkley township, a son, and to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller of Marion townsh’’p, a son. Don’t fail to visit the parlors of the Paris Hat Shop for Easter millinery. Everything new and up to the minute in style.

THE WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness probably fobowed by showers late tonight or Wednesday. Warmer in east and south portions tonight.

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High School Notes.

The boys’ quartet is practicing on songs which will be given at the next literary meeting Thursday afternoon. They promise some splendid music. The color song which was a part of the literary last Thursday afternoon was so enthusiastically received by the students that it was sung twice. The program was well rendered. Several visitors were present. Thursday afternoon, April 20, at 2:45 o’clock, will be the last meeting of the literary. A centennial program will be given by the Webster Society. The program follows: Introductory Speech, “Centennial” Dwight Cumick. History of Jasper County—Charles Halleck. Home Life in the 50's—Marian Meader. Music—Boys’ Quartet. History of Indiana—Maude Elder. Hoosiers—Robert Reeve. State Song—Audience. This is expected to be an exceptionally good program. As this is the last one of the year and there are only two more entertainments, the public is most cordially invited to attend these meetings. The entertainment on Thursday of next week, April 2*7, will be a recital by Mrs. Alice Shedd Randle. The freshman German classes are beginning Storm’s “Imanensee” as practice reading. The senior German class has finished Lessing’s “Minna von Barnhelm.” The collateral reading in the German department is coming along nicely. The report cards will be given out Wednesday. There remains only six weeks of school. The first senior play practice took place fast Monday evening. The play is a comedy entitled “All a Mistake.” The cast is as follows. Sea Captain Carl Eigelsbach His Nepherw Ross Lakin Country Gentleman .... Robert Reeve A Neighbor Elvyn Allman His Nephew’s Wife. Evelyn Freeland A Friend Gwendolyn Kannal Cornelia, the captain’s sister Florence McKay The captain's maid./.... Maud Elder The junior English class expects to begin reading Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The senior English class will soon commence reading a collection of short stories, edited by L. A. PittenPfer. . The chemistry class is beginning the elementary analytical work.

21,000 Bibles and Testaments Sunk In Mediteranean Sea.

Twenty-one thousand Bibles and Testaments went down with the Japanese steamer Ysaka Maru, recently torpedoed arid sunk iri the Mediteranean Sea. The books belonged to the British and Foreign Bible Society and were consigned from London to various points in the east. It is reported that the French have captured'the submarine which torpedoed the Sussex and have made prisoners of the captain and crew.

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