Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1916 — Page 1

No. 144.

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Dixie Highway Will Be a Blaze of Yellow.

I A blaze of yellow from Mackinac to Tampa, Fla., along the Dixie hignway will become a certainty next summer if the flower seeds Viold out. ,Sunflowers, goldenglow and hollyhocks will be the flowers used in Indiana, while other states will plant the yellow flower best adapted to their soils. This will be the work.of the auxiliary to the Dixie Highway Association, branches of which will be established in towns along the highway. '

NOTICE. You are hereby instructed to trim the trees about your property where ever the same extend over the sidewalks. You are also instructed to attend to the cutting of the grass on ail sides of your premises. If this is not done the city will do it at the expense of the property owner.—Vern Robinson, City Marshal. CLEAN UR The Boy Scouts placed about two hundred tags about town Saturday. Within a few days Health Officer Gwin will inspect the places tagged and if they have not been cleaned up you will be instructed to do so at opce.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916.

JACKSON HIGHWAY OFFICIALS COMING

Officials Will Make four of Highway and Will Be Here For Meeting Tuesday Night. As has been mentioned in this paper before, the officials of the Jackson Highway will be here Tuesday evening, June 20, for a pig booster meeting and everyone in the city is expected to attend. They will leave Hammond Tuesday morning and will ba met by Rensselaer boosters who will escort them to our city. They will remain over night here. On Wednesday they will go as far as Indianapolis, stopping at Lafayette at noon to be guests of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. Following is a letter from Mr. D. M. Boyle, vice president of the Jackson Highway: N. C. Shafer, Esq. Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 14th inst. received this morning. I supposed that the ioffice sending out the signs for marking the highway gaVe instructions. The plan is very much the same as you marked the D. A. The background is to be painted white with a black border above and below. On the white background put on with the stencil the letters “J. H. b The arrow points are to be used to indicade the turns in the road and are to be stenciled in black. You do not need to use the stencil only at turns in the road. One arrow at top and bottom, one pointing one way and the other the opposite direction, so that no mistake will be made by the public in travel. This is all there is to it. Hope you will get right away, as you know that on the 20th and 21st our southern parties will be going over our line of road. I have (been in correspondence with Mr. Honan, but he has no doubt been so busy that he may have neglected to- take it up with you and others. The officers of the Jackson Highway, most of them from the southern states, will be in Chicago on next Tuesday morning, June 20th, and will be met there by the Lake county boys, shown over the line of road through Lake county. The arrangements are that" some place on the lake front we will'eat dinner with Lake county. I suppose that Honan is .in St. Louis and will not be home for several days, so it will be up to you, Mayor Spitler and others to take care of matters so far as your county is concerned. It is planned now to inspect the roads in Lake county Tuesday morning and afternoon drive down to your city and spend the night. There will be a dozen in the party. It will be up to you Vq make some provision for their-entertainment. If you can arrange a booster meeting for Tuesday* night, it would Ibe a splendid thing to do. kam not advised as to how these visitors will get down from Lake county to your place, but it may be necessary for you to arrange to bring them down from your north line. I will hear from Roscoe Woods, of Hammnd, tomorrow and will write you again on this point. Tippecanoe county is planning to send one car to Lake county and possibly two cars to your place on Wednesday morning to convey the parties to Lafayette, it is planned to leave -yoqr city Wednesday morning and run to Lafayette for a dinner with the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. It is hoped that many of your citizens can accompany these parties as far as our city and join us in our* little feed here. Please take up this matter immediately and advise if you can furnish cars in sufficient number to bring the guests to your city and what’entertainment you will furnish, etc. Lake county will expect a goodly number of your citizens up there on Tuesday and I hope many of you can go. After thd dinner in Lafayette, the guests will be taken in hand by the Frankfort boys and driven to Indianapolis. This will Complete our part of the line. From this point they will be turned over to the directors of the road south of Indianapolis and run through to Louisville, Ky. Relay forces will be used in the same manner through Kentucky and Tennessee. It was the wish of Mr. Atherton, the president, that a number from Indiana accompany them on the trip to Nashville. It wpuld certainly be a fine trip and if some one or two of your people would like to see southern Indiana, all of Kentucky and part of Tennessee, they- will be glad to take you in as a guest after leaving our own territory. Take this tsp also with the Jasper boys. Now I have written you in detail, as I have other parties in other counties between Indianapolis and Chicago. All are joining in and doing even more than I ask. It is a big proposition, but we are on the right tack and if we can get our road well marked, well established, the travel will go

MONNETT SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

Rev. W. E. McKenzie Made Address To Graduates of the Class of _ Ninteen Sirteen. The commencement exercises of the Monnett School were held at the M. E. church Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Every number of the program, the first number of which was two piano numbers by Miss Waymire, music instructor in the school, was enjoyed by the representative audience present. As the daintily attired school gir’s and their teachers marched down the aisle to the strains of the Processional, played by Mrs. M. D. Gwin, they sang a beautiful evening hymn and , as they sang the selection-“ Praise Ye the Father,” by Gounod, it was evident that their training had been of the best. After the invication by Rev. Paul C. Curnick and two very enjoyable •organ numbers by Mrs. M. D. Gwin, the speaker of the evening, Rev. W. E. McKenzie, D. D., was introduced by Supt. C. R. Dean. The speaker's theme was a very practical one', “The Debt We Owe and How to Pay It.”

He said in part, that we were each greatly in debt and that the person who failed to recognize his indebtedness to the world in' general was a disgusting type. The boy or -man who goes through life with his hands in his pockets and his nose in the air with the thought in mind* that the world owes him an education, a living, and all the other good things of life, would do well to consider what he owes the world and “get busy’ paying his debts. We owe much to our inheritance. We have the advantages of a Christian civilization which has been made for Us.* The economic conditions which are of such advantage to each of us has been brought about by causes outside ourselves. A man maybuy a farm at $35 per acre and improvements in ,the community may raise its value to $175 per acre. He is therefore a great debtor to the community and should recognize this indebtedness and strive to pay the debt by doing all possible for the community. In like manner we owe a great debt for our educational opportunities; first to the paemts who have fed and clothed us while we were securing the education, and second to the state that has furnished the equipment and teachers. A diploma is really a bill of indebtedness and the young persons who receive them should understand that though he may have done much in acquiring his education, he is in reality a great debtor and that if he were to be presented with a bill as he finishes the high school it Would amount to $6,000; from .he university a much larger sum, and from an institution like West Point or Annapolis it would be the amazing sum of $20,000. Our indebtedness is measure! largely by our qualifications. There is little demand of the ignorant, but to the university man the entire community looks for great helpfulness. The great possessor has necessarily had much done for him. He is for that reason the greatest debtor. z lf it be material possessions we see the illustration of this truth when taxpaying time comes. The man who has large possessions is told that, ne is a large debtor to the community, while the man with little gets, off with $2.50. And so with the mafi of fine morals, he is a debtor and is expected to pay by his influence. Our indebtedness is measured too by the -needs existing. If there are starving families, homeless children or destitution in any form, there is a debt which the other members of that community must meet. Schools and churches are the result <vf gnmp one recognizing the apiritual needs and meeting their obligations. The speaker then applied the truth he had been discussing to the occasion by suggesting to the three girl graduates that they could jiay what they owe to the Monnett School by living up to their best teachings and to the audience he presented tlje thougnt that there was a great need for an enlarging of the school and that the people of the community should pay their debts by meeting the need. The girls then sang the discription of June from Lowell’s poem, “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” The dj pl £- mas were presented by Prof. C. R.

our way and when the time comes for permanent improvement of highways, we will be the first to receive the benefits of it. See a number of your boys and get busy on this proposition for next week and let me know in detail just what we may expect from your county. Let me know by Saturday if jpssJlile. , Yours sincerely, D. M. BOYLE, x Vice President Jackson Highway.

Bliss of Companiouship Versus Pain of Blisters.

Senior Editor Huff of the Monon News thus ruminates in the Current issue, removing all doubt about the love’s young dream working a half century ago just the same that it works £oday: « * , “Ed Thacker in his 'Monticello Musings’ in Saturday evening’s Journal, prints some interesting items from the Monticello Herald 40 years ago. We have files of the Herald dating back to 1870, when the senior of this paper had his introduction to White county journalism. Then there were but two papers in the'county— the Constitutionalist by James Me- ’ Ewen, still in the flesh at Rensselaer, | and the Monticello Herald. Mac had' most of th? .legal printing at that] time and according to his own standard, 3 lines of nonpanel constituted a “square.” This was before the pesky law was passed saying three times three lines of then some should be a “square.” The principal occupation of the Herald editor in June, 46 years ago, was row’ing a boat on the Tippecanoe for the joy of certain young damsels who have survived until this present time and are sitting in he twilight of maturity. The palms of the rower’s hands were blistered, but how trivial this irritation when compared with the bliss of ompanionship in shady nooks and babbling brooks. The campaign of 1870 was the most sensational and spectacularever experienced in the county on account of local animosities. When the political cauldron begins to bubble we will tuim to the 'file of that year and! reproduce a scrap from local history that will make present political pyrotechnics look tame.

Dean with a few well chosen remarks and the benediction was pronounced by Rev. A. H. Lawrence, of Winamac. Tuesday evening, June 13, at the Methodist church, the pupils of the Monnett School gave a flower cantata. The pupils showed very careful and thorough training and delighted from the first number to the last the large audience which had assembled to enjoy their entertainment. The prelude was played by Miss Waymire, the able instructor in pianc at the school. The second number was a piano solo by Miss Marcella Eells, a senior and also the most advanced music pupil. This was followed by a Scarl drill by twelve girls using scarfs of yellow, white and pink. The leading parts in the cantata were taken by the three seniors, faiss Madeline Stiles as queen, Miss Marcella Eells as a *and Miss Lucy Gordon as a chryanthejnum. The other girls were dressed to represent violets, buttercups, hollyhocks, mingonettes. Miss Alice Cain sang for the hollyhocks, Miss Wilhemine Traub sang very sweetly for the violets and Miss Velma'Corkerel spoke for the buttercups. Miss Gordon complained, as a chrysanthemum, because they were not Die queen of the flowers, so'* the other flowers try to make her Contented with her lot. The story was carried out in solo, quartets and in recitation, resulting in a splendid entertainment.

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Those Who Know Will Tell Brook Residents of Good “Old Days.” Brook Reporter. Everybody should be interested in the early history of this vicinity. Bennett Lyons; Morris Jones and John Hershman ard better acquainted with it than any men now living, and have consented to tell of their early experiences, at the Welfare Club meeting on Tuesday evening, beginning at 8 o’clock. George Axle, who has charge of part of the centennial work in the state, will talk oh that phase of the subject and give us some idea of the work that is being done and is to be done this year to celebrate the event. / ■ Notice to the Public. The Rensselaer ice cream and candy store, under new management, wishes to announce to the public that our home-made delicious ice cream aod candies are the best in the city. We are experts in the business. Our quality and cleanliness will please you. Athens & Katerones, Props. The young fellows certainly take to those elegant buggies sold by Hamilton & Kellner.

WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably showers tonight in northeast portions.

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

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