Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Page 1

No. 94.

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Marriage Licenses to Chicago Couples Have Interesting Features.

Chicago couples, particularly in - cases where one or the other party has been divorced, frequently come here for miarriage licenses. The Illinois statute does not permit marriage within a year, but the couples can come over to Indiana and get married the same day. Monday a license was issued to two couples here. The first was to Victor Hugo Henry Grothkopt, a motorman, and Miss Agmes Caroline Gresham, nurse. The record shows some queer international relationships. Grothkopf’s father was a German, his mother was a Norwegian and they named him Victor Hugo, after the French author. Just what the nationality of his first wife was is not shown in the record, but he procured a divorce from her or she from him and this time he married an English girl. It is hoped that no 42-centimeter guns or bomb tossing Zeppelins interfere to destroy the harmony of their lives and that the god of neutrality shall protect them throughout their lives. Another Chicago couple was Jay Cook Barr, an instructor, who married Mellha Mae French, who true to her maiden name, is a musician. The marriage license record shows that neither wtas married oefore and it is hoped neither will be again. Both couples were married at the clerk's office by Rev. W. H. Sayler.

Monticello Pastor Received Censored Letter From Canada.

Monticello Journal. A letter addressed to Rev. Gifford Ernest, mailed at Windsor, Canada, and received yesterday afternoon, is very suggestive of war precautions taken by the Canadian government. The letter had been opened-and read, of course, and then resealed with a strip of paper on which in large Mack type the word “Censored” was printed. Rev. Ernest thinks that the German origin of his name may have led to the censorship. in this particular case, but anyway, the back of that envelope with the black sticker sort o' makes a war shudder go through a person just to look at it.

A number of democrats were assembled here today from over the eounity, evidently getting ready to endorse Tom Toggart for the United States senate. The funeral of Orange S. Baker, who died Tuesdiay, will be held at the Baptist church at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Rev. W. H. Saylor will conduct the service.

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St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

The greatest festival of the church is near at hand. It comes annually to commemorate the resurrection, the greatest fact of Christian religion. Easter is .a glorious dawm following a night of darkness and sorrow. The Lenten period is but a preparation for the glorious awakening of Easter, •on awakening of the soul, a full realization of the surpassing joy at the resurrection. During this week there is great opportunity for obtaining the grace of God in its complete fullness. M every day of Holy Week is observed properly, it is safe to say that the soul thus. Observing it has advanced far on the road to salvation, for plentiful graces of God will strengthen the soul to defend it successfully against the temptations of this troublesome life.

The services during the last three days of Holy Week will ibe as follows: On Maunday Thursday the high mass will be at 9 6’clock. On this day the church commemorates the institution of the Blessed Eucharist. On this day one mass only can be said in the same church and must be a public one. White vestments are worn by the priest, the altar is decorated with flowers and .even the purple veil Which covers the cross during Passiontide, is replaced by one of white. The Celebrant consecrates two hosts, one for the priest who officiates on Good Friday, when there is no consecration. This host is carried in procession bo a place known as the repository or sepulchre, where it remains until the following day. After mass on Maunday Thursday the signs of the mourning proper to Passiontide are resumed. The altar is stripped of its coverings and of ornaments of all kinds, the lights in the sanctuary are extinguished and the door of the empty talbemacle is left open. In Rome the Pope washes the feet of 13 poor persons, all of them priests. On Maunday Thursday the yearly consecration of the holy oils takes place, each bishop consecrating a sufficient quantity of the oils for the wants of his diocese during the ensuing year. These oils are three in number—the oil for the sacarment of extreme unction, that for anointing those who are baptized, and also for anointing the priest’s hands at his ordination, and the fcacred chrism, a mixture of the oil and balsam used in the sacrament of confirmation and at the consecration of bishops. On Good Frida ythe services will be at 9 o’clock.

On this day the church commemorates the Passion of Christ, so that it is the saddest and most solemn day in Holy Week. The officiating clergy appear in black vestments and prostrate themselves before the altar, which is still stripped. No candles are lighted, the organ is not played nor are the bells rung.- The most striking and singular feature of the Good Friday liturgy is the omission of holy mass. In its place is the mass presanctdfied, in which the priest receives in holy communion a host consecrated p on Maunday Thursday. The Blessed 'Sacrament is borne from the repository or chapel where it was placed the previous day, while the choir sings the hymn Vexilla Regis (“The of the King.”) Good Firday is not a holy day of obligation. The church forbids the giving of holy communion to the faithful, except as viaticum to the dying. The ceremonies of Good Friday are most solemn and he who follows them in a true spirit and devout meditation cannot help but realize what our Lord has done for the redemption of mankind. On Holy Saturday the services will begin at 6 o’clock. The ceremonies begin with the blessing of a new fire that has been kindled with a flint and steel. From this a candle with threestems and placed on a reed is lighted and carried up the church -by a deacon who three times chants the words: “Lumen Christe.” The paschal candle is then blessed by the deacon who fixes in it five grains of blessed incense in memory of the wounds of Christ and the precious spices with which he was anointed in the tomb. This candle is afterwards lighted from the triple candle on the reed. The blessing of the Paschal Candle is followed by the reading of the twelve prophecies, after Which th© priest goes in procession to bless the font. The water in the font is scattered toward the four quarters of ,bhe world to indicate the Catholicity of the church and the world-wide efficacy of her sacraments; the priest breathes on the water in the form of a cross end plunges the Paschal Candle into the water, for the Spirit o'? God ii to hallow it and the power .of Christ is te descend on it. Lastly a few drops of the oil of catechimens and the chrism are poured into the font, in order to signify the union of Christ our anointed King with,. His. people. On the way back from the font the Litany of the Saints is begun, and when it is ended the altar is decorated with flowers and the mass is begun in white vestments. The pictures and statues in the church that haYe been veiled since Passion Sunday, are now

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AURIL 19, 1916.

GASOLINE PRICES NOT TO GO DOWN

Experts See Little Hopes For a Re-duction-—The Supply of Crude Oil to Be Exhausted Soon. Washington, April 'lß.—Little ’ ope for a reduction in gasoline pi ices is seen by experts of the bureau of mines, which issued a statement today, declaring that at the present rate of production the country’s supply of crude oil would be exhausted in 27 years. Relief can come, the statement says, only through development of processes for obtaining a large quantity of gasoline from crude oil. Van H. Manning, director of the bureau, pointed out chat oil companies competing to supply the government with' gasoline had quoted a price of 31% cents, and said private consumers probably would have to pay more. The fact that the government quotation was so high, he decalred, showed that no Immediate drop was to be expected. Present indications point for c decreased production of gasoliLe from crude oil for 1916. “We are burning 25 per cent of our petroleum under boilers which is a criminal waste, and we are using another 20 per cent In the manufacture of gas. This gas should be made from coal.”

From Nothing to 45,000 In Ten Years Existence.

Indianapolis Star. The city of Gary, Ind., was ten years old Tuesday. It was on April 18, 1906, that the first carload of cinders was dumped as a beginning of the task of transforming into a great industrial center the lake front tract that had been acquired by the steel corporation. The city which was started from nothing a decade ago boasts a population of 45,000, and is only well under way toward its ultimate importance. Those who conceived the idea of a great manufacturing community in northern Indiana planned carefully and with a view to the future of the steel requirements in this country. Gary was an assured success from the outset. At the end of four years the community was able to show to the federal enumerators a population of 16,802. Its development since has been steady, even if rapid, with no signs of slackening. Some cities that have sprung up recently around munition plants in the east, some mining communities in the west and in Alaska have made more phenomenal development, but theirs has been a mushroom growth with nothing to sustain them after the boom bas subsided. But Gary is a real city with a real future, a lasting monument to the foresight and confidence of those who placed it where it is.

Girl Imprisoned 10 Years Regains Weight and Speech.

Baltimore, April 18.—Grace Marshall, the Talbot county girl who was imprisoned for over ten years by her father in a dingy room until she weighed 57 pounds and could not talk, was taken back from Johns Hopkins hospital. In four months she has regained her speech and weighs 90 pounds. She can also walk. Miss Marshall, who is 28, will testify against her father and mother who are to be tried this month for inhuman treatment. Sentiment among the county people has been bitter against them and their neighbors have ostracized them. , The fact that the girl was alive w r as not known until four months ago. The .adies of the Christian church will give a cafeteria dinner n April 26th.

uncovered. The organ and bells are heard again and the joyful Alleluia is resumed. Why does the church make use of ceremonies in the celebration of her sacred mysteries? That we may serve God not only inwardly with the soul but outwardly with the body by external devotion that we may keep our attention fixed, increase our de votion and edify others; that by thess external things we may be raised to the contemplation of divine inward things. Other services at the St. Augustine’s church are as follows: Wednesday evening 7 rosary and sermon; Thursday at 2:30, Eucharistic Stations and at 7:30 Lenten devotions. Friday fnrnn 2 to. Cross, and at 7:30 Lenten devotion. There will be opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance on the following days: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons and evenings. On Saturday the vigil of Easter’s a day of fast and abstinence.

SARAH HENLEY AND HUFF ARE IN TROUBLE

He is In the Joliet Prison for Burg- „ lary and She Fails in Effort to Collect Damages. Jasper and Newton county people will recall the arrests made at Roselawn several months ago ’or chicken stealing. Two of the parties were Mrs. Sarah Henley and Fred Huff. The Lake County Times has a *tory about them that will revive local interest and also indicate that tha was routed irom Rosolawn when they were arrested. In the superior court at Hammond Tuesday 9 case was called that looked harmless enough. It was Sarah Henley and Fred Huff against the Erie railroad. They asked S3OO for a team of horses alleged „o have been killed at Wilders a year ago last September. Attorney Fred Crum packer appeared for the Erie and he introduced evidence to show that there was a conspiracy to mulch the railroad by a premeditated accident, in other words that,Huff would buy an old team of horses and get them killed on the railroad and .then sue for damages. It was shown that within ight months Huff had “lost” at least "“our teams of horses on crossings of various railroads in the Kankakee valley. In at least two of the tearhs Mrs. Henley had a financial interest. When the evidence was all in and before the cases were argued Judge Reiter ordered a verdict for the defendant company. It developed also during the trial that Huff was serving a .rm of one to twenty years in the Joliet prison for burglary. He procured his release from jail here by giving a SIOO cash bond, which he promptly jumped. Sheriff. McGolly was called to Hammond to testify against Huff, whose picture as a prisoner in Joliet he identified. While there was no positive evidence to show that Mrs. Henley was a party to the effort to. defraud the railroads, there was some indication that she was implicated, at least she has figured with Huff in some other crooked deals and her protestations of innocence are -net given much credence.

3-Year-Old Daughter of John Wiliams and Wife Dies.

Edith, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Williams, who live on the Mansfield farm southeast of town, died Tuesday night at 5 minutes after 12 o’clock at the home of its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore, in Rensselaer. The baby had been ill for about a week with meningitis and before that time had had the grip. It became unconscious about three days ago. The funeral will be held at 1:30 o’clock at the Moore home on Forest street and will be conducted by Dr. Fleming, of the Presbyterian church.

One Charley Let Contract; Another Charley Got Job.

Charley Scott, superintendent of the Callahan stone road, which is something more than four miles long, sold the contract for its building Tuesday to Charley Kane for $15,485. This road runs north from Gifford and when completed will leave only one mile of dirt road between Remsselae? and Wheatfield and Tefft.

Program For the Pre-Easter Service at Christian Church.

What Shall I Do With Jesus—Wednesday. Put That On Mine Account —Thursday. The Model Conversion— Friday. Services begin at 7:30. Will close on or before 8:30. Come and bring your friends.

Patron-Teacher Association Program.

High school auditorium at 7:30. Instrumental music, Victrola. Boys’ quartette, , Address, Dr. E. M. Shanklin. General discussion. Social hour. Come earl yand stay late. Talk the whole matter over with your friends. Get acquainted with the teachers. Help entertain yourself.

Royal Arch Masons.

Important meeting of the chapter Thursday evening; Work in the Past and Most Excellent. C. H. PORTER.

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sAll colors. See them in Hamill’s window,

A nice line of buggies at Scott Brothers.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

President Wilson seems determine! in his decision to cause a break between the United States and Germany. Today he goes before congress to present the final statement concerning Germany's submarine warfare before sending a note to Germany that newspapers say may -e----sult in a severance of all diplomatic relations with that country. He is urging the cause of “humanity” an! gradually bringing the United States to a condition that may make us an involuntary party to the great world war.

We do not believe that President Wilson realizes what he is doing or what it means to the people of the United States. We claim for ourselves entire neutrality, the kind that would take no chances of being involved even in our national sympathies in the oonflict that is raging across the Atlantic. That Is what President Wilson urged from the start was the duty of every American, but we can not believe that President Wilson and his advisers have been true to the course they urged all American citizens to pursue. It is a late hour to say that had our president and his secretary of state been statesmen of far seeing they might early in the foreign war have defined a general policy relating o -the belligerents that would have made the Lusitania incident ‘mpossible, but they did not see and in the absence of and the allies adopted a policy of siezing neutral cargoes and mail rhips and stripping them of everything that international law guarantees to eutral countries. England established a blockade of German ports and established a guardianship of the seas. We protested feebly and continued to ship to England everything needed to prosecute the war. We went further by allowing J. Pierpont Morgan to act as the financial agent of the allies in this country, to float a half billion loan, contract for supplies and see that they were manufactured and shipped, and thus place ourselves in a position that threatened our neutrality and which was gradually destroying the equal and even neutrality we were enjoined to maintain. Truly, there was unquestioned right to ship munitions to the allies and we could, argue that - American citizens had a right under international law to take passage on ships laden with munitions, notwithstanding the fact that Germany in retaliation of the blockade had announced its intention to prosecute a submarine war against its enemies. But is it so important to be a stickler for our rights and the rights of international law with one nation when by a simple sacrifice, that of warning Americans to remain off these vessels, we could have been really neutral and make the only concession since the war to Germany. Every German in the United States who dared to express any sympathy for the Fatherland was branded a hyphenated traitor," but the other day the papers of the country published the names of 500 college professors who had sent a message of sympathy to the allies. .Some American citizen, loyal to the last drop of blood to the American cause, sends $lO to his dear old mother in Germany, thinking that perhaps she needs it, and the money is stolen by England when avessel carrying United States mail is overhauled and then we allow the allies to buy American sympathy by borrowing $500,000,000, parceled throughout our land in small amounts at attractive interest and largely smuggled away from taxation, and we claim to be neutral. And all the time that American citizens are being killed and their properties confiscated and dynamited in Mexico and raiding parties come over to the American side of the international border and kill women and children, we truckh>with *». ban Jit leader like Carranza and refuse to take action to speedily perform the punitive act against a nation of bandits iby a ridiculous pursuit into a place where the gravest dangers threaten after one man who possibly has the protection of the pseudo president we so confidingly trust. And then are led into a diplomatic, controversy of great danger with a nation that wants to be our friend rather than "Issue a simple warning to Ameiican citizens to stay out of the war zone or to travel on neutral vessels if compelled to go. The editor of The Republican has no sympathies in .he foreign war. By birth and ancestry the, writer is an American. No hyphens blind us and no relations of any kind make us partisan. There is but one nation in the final analysis and that is America and we would guard its neutrality so zealously that heaven itself could not discern any favor, for the foreign war dent Wilson be backed up by congress and should' this country eventually be forced into opposition to Germany, as we fear it may by the unneutral acts that have official sanction, there would be none more determined than ithe writer to stand by the United

STEEPLE JACK KING MET DEATH TUESDAY

Edmond von Kaenel, Man Who Took Pictures From Court House Flag Pole Here, Killed in Fall. Edmond von Kaenel, who about two years ago was in Rensselaer and after painting the water tower at the college caused the people in town to stretch their necks when he took kodak pictures from the top of the flag pole on the court house, was killed in a fall from a smokestack in Chicago Tuesday when the tall stack buckled and broke. Von Kaenel was rear the top when the stack broke and he fell almost a hundred feet to the roof of a building. The steeplejack’s wife was passing rear by in an automobile and when she saw the crowd she rushed to the spot, well knowing what had hap pened. Von Kaenel had climbed many flag poles and stacks when they shivered in the wind. He was known everywhere for his daring climbs. About a year ago von Kaenel was given & full page feature write-up iff one of the Chicago papers. The article was entitled “It's a long, long way to Terra Firma.” Another time he was seen in motion pictures. One of the movies had him kissing his wife goodbye before Tie started up, and another showed him teaching the game to “his boy, Buddy.” The stack from which von Kaenel fell was over the Theodore A. Koch barber supplies building..

Remonstrance to Barnard Ditch Found Insufficient.

The Barnard ditch case was called in the circuit court Tuesday and a remonstrance presented. The objection was overruled, however, as the remonstrance lacked the necessary uwo-thirds. The cause wias continued for objections. N. C. Shafer & Co. v C. I. & L. Ry. Sent to Newton county on application of defendant. Ross Ramey v. C. L& L. Ry. Sent to Newton county on application of defendant. Coen & Brady v. Charles Gorman. Judgment for plaintiffs in sum of $75.85. Union Central Life Ins. Co. v Herr. Judgment of $2,304.76 sjnd foreclosure of mortgage. J. J. Hunt appointed receiver. Tribby v Lattimore. Cause continued for term on account of sickneas of one of defendants.

Marriage Licenses.

Asa Harri Son Davison, ibom Marshall, 111., Nov. 11, 1890, present residence Marshall, 111., occupation veterinary surgeon. To Bernice Jeanette Rhoads bom Rensselaer, Jan. 20, i 893, present residence Rensselaer, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Victor Hugo Henry GTothkopf, bom South Chicago, March 14, 1886, present residence 3625 Shefffid Ave., Chicago, occupation motorman, second marriage, the first dissolved by divorce April 15, 1916. To Agnes Caroline Gresham, bom Yorkshire, England, Dec. 6, 1890, present residence 5040 Prairie Ave., Chicago, occupation nurse; first marriage. Jay Cook Barr bom Jessup, la., Nov. 18, 1885, present residence Chicago occupation instructor. To Melba Mae French bom Chicago, March 10, 1894, present residence Chicago, occupation musician; first marriage for each. The Paris Hat Shop is displaying many wonderful French pattern filers. In fact, every style known to please the fancies of all.

States, but now the subject is free for discussion and believing President Wilson is not maintaining the noutrlity he recommended to the people and that his attitude toward Germany is not meeting the approval of our cosmopolitan nation we have pointed out some unneutral happenings and hope that President Wilson will not drag us into the foreign conflict. We feel just as Porter Emerson Browne expressed himself in a recent article in McClure’s. He said that had Roosevelt been the president of the United States and Von Tirpitz had suggested to the Kaiser -the iblowipg up Of the Lusitania the Kaiser would have replied; ’’Look here, Tirp, there ris a guy at the head of the United States who would he over here at a single bound* have his hands in your whiskers and both feet in my bread basket if you start anything of that kind. Yon MfiK-fiSkjSL; here and don’t come back until you have some suggestion that don’t threaten to get him warm under the collar.” Let us be neutral and v® w™ be real Americans, the kind who will he of service should: a crisis come.

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