Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1916 — Page 1

No. 122.

TONIGHT At The GAYETY 3 PEOPLE 3 MB. FRED VELTZEM Master ofthe Marvelous MARIMBAPHONE Exploiting Harmony and Raggedy Tunes TheFamousJohnson Brothers Vocalists •j* . i ' 1 We are running the Pathe pictures, the best regular service obtainable. 5 and 10c. Club women from all parts of the country, representing 2,500,000 women; are arriving in New York for the opening of the biennial of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs which lasts until June Bth. It is expected that 20,000 women will be present. We have an elegant line of buggies and carriages. They will please you. See them.—Hamilton & Kellner.

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The Evening Republican.

Letters Awarded to Students Of High School in Athletics.

To those earning R’s in football, basketball and track, the letters were awarded Friday. Thirteen letters were awarded in football, seven in basketball and three in track. The requirement for a letter in football and basketball is participation in three games. The requirement in track is the winning of five points in a meet. The football letters were awarded by Coach Floyd Meyers. Short talks were given by Captain Carl Eigelsbach, Assistant-Captain Ross Lakin, who also made the all-etate second team, Harry Moore, captain-elect, and Leonard Gourley, who made all-state center on the first team. The letters in basketball and track were awarded by Coach Wass.' Captain Paul Healy, of the basketball team, made a short talk, as did Daniel Guild, captainelect. Captain Ross Lakin, of the track team, also made a short talk. Those who have participated in high school athletics for the last time are Carl Eigelsbach, Ross- Lakin, Orphia Gant, Emmet Hollingsworth, Dwight Curnick and Paul Healy. The letters were awarded as follows: Football— Carl Eigelsbach, captain; Ross Lakin, assistant captain, tackle on allstate second team; Harry Moore, cap-tain-elect; Leonard Gourley, center on all-state first team; Orphia Gant, Emmet Hollingsworth, Dwight Curnick, Ralph Dunlap, Basil Dunlap, Harry McColly, Worth Johnson, Gravel ous Hansson. Basketball— Paul Healy, Captain; Daniel Guild, captain-elect; Carl Eigelsbach, Robert Loy, Dwight Curnick, Orphia Gant, Lawrence McLain. Track— Ross Lakin, Captain, French Crooks, Leonard Swaim.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916.

ATHLETICS LOSE WHEN “LEFTY” WEAKENS

Southpaw is Nicked For Four Solid Blows in Last Frame and St. Takes Opener 10 to 7. Grant’s Athletics started on their 1916 baseball season Sunday afternoon at Riverside park, and it was not a very auspicious start at that, for St. Joseph’s college downed them in a slugging bee 10 to 7. Brunswick was on the hill for the collegians and Clark for the Athletics and both were given a drubbing. Brunswick was touched for nine blows, including a double, triple and homer. Clark was slammed for ten safeties and a pair of free tickets and some errors mixed in accounted for the St. Joe runs. Mulcahey catching for Rensselaer, led the locals with the stick, getting four hits, driving the ball over the garden wall in the last inning. Lyman, the new Athletics thirdbaseman', made a good impression with the fians and looks like a fixture for the far corner for the balance of the season. Quille was at short and had an off day failing to connect with the ball and messing up things considerably. The collegians scored three times in the opening inning, on a hit, pass and two errors. They scored a pair in the fifth, another in the sixth and four in the ninth. The Athletic counters came in the fourth, when two registered, another pair came in the sixth, and one in the seventh knotted the count at six apiece until the big blow off in the ninth. Two or three new faces will be seen in next Sunday’s lineup, and with these .changes, Manager Grant thipks the team Will present a much stronger front. Lowell will be the opposing team next Sunday.

Miss Grace Peyton Writes From Palma Soriano in Cuba.

Palma Soriano, Ote., May 14, 1916. The Republican, Gentlemen: For some time I have intended renewing my subscription with you but have put off doing so until quite late. I sincerely hope I shall not have lost any numbers. We are in the midst of a Cuban “temporal” at present. Hoosiers in Indiana have no idea of what rain is in comparison to this. Can you imagine three and one-half days and three nights during which the rain has not stopped for more than one hour at a time, and enough clouds in the sky for three days more? But quite often these storms last a week or ten days. Soon I shall have finished one year in Cuba, and what a busy, happy year it has been, and a year full of all sorts of experiences and changes. My work in church and school is progressing as well as can be expected under our many perverse circumstances. We have just three more weeks of school; then come three months of language study, preparations for next year, and rest. I expect to divide my time between Palma Soriano and El Cristo, and instead of “resting”, to visit points of beauty and interest in ! this part of the island. Lately I passed a‘convention week in Las Tunas, where I learned much of the Baptist work in Cuba, finding we have a quite extensive work and a corps of. workers, both American and Cuban, of whom our denomination may be Las Tunas was almost entirely destroyed during the Spanish-American war, and even yet has many ruins, which are rapidly being replaced by new structures. Here, too, we saw side by side the old thatched-roofe I huts and the modem brick buildings, the old and the new. f am awlays deeply interested in the news of your columns, and wish now to extend through these same columns regards to my Rensselaer and Jasper county friends. Sincerely,

GRACE PEYTON.

The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the M. E. church will be “at home” to the ladies of the church and their friends Tuesday afternoon, May 23, at the home of Mrs. Judson J. Hunt. A program will be given by girls from Monnett School. 10 cent offering.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE. Boston 2; St. Louis 0. New* York 11; Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 4; Chicago 2. - AMERICAN LEAGUE. , Washington 4;Cleveland*3\ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Indianapolis 4; Toledo 1. Louisville 5; Columbus 1. Kansas City-i Milwaukee, rain. St. Louis-Minneapolis, rain.

SIBLEY’S FORCE NOW ON AMERICAN SIDE

General Funston’s Armies of Nearly 50,000 Men Mark Time, Pending Moves of the Mexicans,

San Antonio, Tex., May 21.—With the arrival on the American side of Colonel Sibley’s little force that rescued Jesse Deemer and Monroe Payne, and chased border raiders 145 miles into Mexico, General Funston’s command of nearly 4 50,000 men tonight awaited developments. That portion of the army under General Pershing in Mexico has become as inactive as the remainder of the border force, and, so far as army officers know, the period of comparative inaction will be unbroken unless the initiative is taken by Mexicans. Colonel Sibley had not reported his troops on this side of the Rio Grande tonight, but his last reported position was so far north that at General Funston’s headquarters his arrival was hourly expected. Steadily, but withfiut haste, general officers have planned to continue this Week the distribution of forces along the border. The Texas militia, mobi’ized here, will be sent forward in a few days and today the Sixth cavalry, which has been in Chihuahua under General Pershing, was moving into the Big Bend district, where additional companies of the coast artillery will be placed if the war department grants General Funston’s request for more men. Reports of contemplated raids at various points along the border continue to reach General Funston today.

Another Interesting Letter From J. P. Green, Now in Massachusetts.

Wnichendon, Mass., May 17. Dear Republican: " My stay in Philadelphia has come to an end and here I sit in the home of my sister in northern Massachusetts, just a. mile from the New Hampshire line. The rain is pelting down so that I can not get out and gives me a little time for writing. —Five" days ago I bade farewell -to the Quaker city on the Delaware and sped northeastward toward the New England hills. I am now three miles from the> nearest town and among the hills. Through the window at my elbow I can look across the valley to the east and see a range of hills five miles away. Towering above these another range ten miles away, and a little to the north still another range, that is twelve miles away; then to the northwest the top of old Mount Monadnock, sixteen miles away, looms up large. This mountain is one mile high and from its summit the city of Boston, 75 miles away, can be seen

with a good spy glass. The town of Winchendon was incorporated in the year 1764. At that time the population of the town consisted of 35 families numbering about 200 persons. Today it has a population of over 5,000. Its chief industries are wooden tub and bucket making and the manufacture of toys, chiefly wooden toys. The place where these are made is said to be the largest toy manufacturing plant in the U. S., and perhaps in the world. These two industries employ a large number of hands and consume immense quantities of lumber, chiefly white pine. To supply the demand for the pine, as soon as a piece of land has been cleared of one crop of pine it is reset with pine saplings that will be ready for the axe in about 20 or 25 years. The surrounding hills and valleys are covered with forests of pine and Breit with small clearings here and there where farming on a small scale is carried on. Farming methods, as compared with Indiana and the west are still somewhat primitive. The all prevailing stones still cover many cultivated fields, making the old hand scythe and cradle necessary to gather the hay and grain. While in some pasture fields the stones are so close together that hogs have a hard time to find rooting space. Farm products bring fair prices and the people are mostly happy and contented, and generations follow each other on many of these old homesteads. Wire fences are seldom seen and the old rail fence has disappeared. The stones are so numerous that, ,in clearing the land, they are used to build walls that mark the boundaries of fields and farms. Some of these walls, are 4 feet high and often as broad on top. So much for Winchendon and its surroundings. Please change the address on my -paper from -Philadelphia- te-27 -River Street, Woonsocket, R. 1., care Henry M. Green, as that will be my next stop.. ~ Yours truly,

We pay the highest, market price for country produce, either cash or o trade.—Home Grocery.

MRS. TOM DAVIS DIED AT HOME IN KNIMAN

After Long. Sickness Death Came As Relief to Sufferings of Well Known Woman. Mrs. Tom Davis, who has been quite sick for the last four months, succumbed at her home in Kniman at about 6 o’clock this Monday morning. Mrs. Davis was the victim of dropsy and was recently taken to Chicago for an operation, which, however, only served as temporary relief, and death came quietly after her long and patient suffering. Mrs. Davis was not only known at Kniman, but in the surrounding country, ds a hard and faithful worker and a good-hearted woman. She was always willing to help those in need of help. Mrs. Davis was 53 years of age and leaves a husband, eight children, two brothers, two sisters and a host of friends to mourn her death. The children are William, James and Ernest, of Kniman; Mrs. Vernon Michaels, of Kniman, Mrs. George Davis, of Brook, Mrs. Frank McColly, of Thayer, Mrs. Clinton Spangler, of Wheatfield, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Steele, N. Dak. All of the children were present when death came except Mrs. Smith, who visited there a few weeks ago. Mrs. Davis’s brothers are William and John Ulyat, of Brook; her sisters are Mrs. Mary Murfitt, of Kniman, and Mrs. Carrie Geesa, of Boise, Idaho. The funeral will be held in Kniman at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning and Rev. Emerick of Wheatfield, will conduct the service. The body will oe taken to Mrs. Davis’s former home in Brook for burial.

George B. Cox, Politician and Theatrical Magnate, is Dead.

George B. Cox, capitalist, theatrical magnate and former republican leader of Cincinnati, died at his home in Clifton, Ohio, Saturday morning. Death was due primarily to a stroke of paralysis, which he suffered after returning from a theatre with his wife. He suffered a slight stroke of paralysis several years ago, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. From boot-black and butcher’s boy, he rose until he became the most powerful man in the government of Ohio, naming mayors, judges, congressmen; governors, and having much to do with the fortunes of presidents. Leave Orders at Once For Street Oiling. M. J. Ehlert, who is here now oiling the streets, will take orders while in the city for oiling streets not included in the present contract at the same price charged on the city contract, at the rate of $2.45 per hundred square yards. Those desiring to have their streets oiled can elave orders at Gallagher’s hitch barn. ,

The Methodist Sunday school attendance was 211. Epworth League attendance 107, in spite of the disagreeable day. . The Sunday school children’s day exercises will be held in the morning of the second Sunday in June. In the evening the choir will give a sacred concert under the leadership of Mrs. J. Dunlap and Mrs. M. D. Gwin.

Republican members of the house caught the democrats napping Friday and knocked out the government ownership provision of the ship purchase bill by a vote of 102 to 87.

J. P. GREEN.

Methodist Notes.

HERE'S Box /U-LJ I Buster Brown for the kids, and for grown-ups, too. Takes a picture 2ix3i inches and S|&< |gj|g|L costs only $2. Other Anscos up 1 to $55. We’d like to show you the entire line. if 1 Our photographic de- „ U partment has established L '■ quite a reputation for JI / developing, printing and j .< , enlarging. Come in, >0 1 won’t you ? . / i A. F. LONG, ® I ' Druggist, W 1 Rensselaer, Indiana. « B 9 ' ft® x-wf ' A I -£a

BIG CONVENTION TICKETS SCARCE

Unprecedented Demand is Making • Life Miserable for Those Suspected of Having the Tickets.

Life is being made very miserable for delegates to the republican national convention, candidates for state office, members of the state organization, and in fact every individual who is suspected of having an extra ticket to the national convention in his possession. Never before did so man/ people desire to attend a national convention. They are clamoring for tickets from Maine to California and from Tampa to Sault Ste Marie. The convention hall will accommodate 14,000 persons and about one person in twenty who desires to gain admittance will have his wishes gratified. The notion that delegates are able to secure tickets at will is an entirely erroneous one. Each, delegate is given one ticket besides his own and no effort on his part will get him any more. Even James F. Goodrich, national committeeman, is finding it difficult to hold the national committee to its promise that Indiana shall have 200 pickets to the convention beginning at Chicago June 6. The nation-wide demand for tickets to the Chicago “show" has become so strong that a situation unusually perplexing confronts the men at the head of the party organization. The number of candidates whose names will be presented for the presidential nomination exceed fifteen. All of them will have delegates, manager and “camp” followers at Chicago demanding tickets that will give them a chance to witness the proceedings. When the subconvention met several weeks ago it was decided that each of the members should have 200 tickets for his state. Goodrich was a member of the subcommittee. In addition to the 200 tickets, Indiana would have sixty for the delegates and alternates. Each delegate is entitled to one ticket besides his own. It is understood that each of the candidates received or will receive twenty tickets for his own use. Chicago alone is to receive more than 2,200 tickets. There will be about 600 press seats. It is understood that the number of tickets promised Goodrich was practically the same as was promised Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. Illinois is to have the largest number. According to a report some members of the committee are demanding that Indiana’s share of the tickets be limited to forty outside of the regular allotment for the delegates and alternAtes. Goodrich is taking the matter up with Chairman Hilles and others. Offers of SSOO have been made for a ticket to tsie convention and Secretary Reynolds has 20,000 applications for seats. It is estimated that over 200,000 people are fighting to get into a hall that only seats 12,000. So what is a poor delegate going to do?

Plenty of good country butter at the Home Grocery.

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

“ ALL A MISTAKE’ - a comedy by the 1916 Seniors ELLIS OPERA HOUSE May 22 and 23 F p. m. U ,• ' y Tickets now on sale at Ellis Box Office. : Prices 25 and 35c.

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