Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — Page 1

No. 164.

TONIGHT AT THE GAYETY George Kleine Presents The Celebrated Comedian HOWARD ESTABROOK In the Melodramatic Farce ‘OFFICER 666’ From the Play by Augustin Mac Hugh and by Special Arrangement With George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris. in 5 parts 5 and 10c.

City Council Meets And Transacts Business.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening. Mayor Spitler was absent and Councilman Tobias presided. Councilman Wood was also absent. C. J. Dean et al petitioned for a sidewalk on Front street and the city attorney was instructed to prepare a resolution and the engineer plans and specifications for same from Hemphill Bros.’ shop south to Mrs. Haus’ walk. G. D. Yeiter et al petitioned to have the line of the Dayton Street sewer, now under construction, changed from Oak street north to the end of the sewer in order to miss trees. The petition was granted and the engineer was instructed to change the grade stakes accordingly. The city engineer presented a corrected assessment roll'for the street oiling, which was approved, and the clerk was instructed to certify the same to the city treasurer for collection. ■ The usual number of claims werq allowed.

Girl In Boat On Kankakee, Overcome By Heat and Dies.

Miss Hazel Hall, of- Shelby, was found, floating down the Kankakee river last Sunday in the bottom of a boat, in an unconscious The girl had started out earlier in the day, alone. The particulars of her death have not been learned but it is supposed that she had been overcome by the heat. She was taken to Shelby, where medical attention was given, but she never regained consciousness and died Monday, July 10. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs. Amanda Leach returned to her home at Parr after visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Fay, who has been quite sick. Her grandchildren, Gertrude Fay and Cecil Shultz, went to Parr with her. A. J. Harmon and family, of Mitchell, S. Dak., arrived last evening for a few days’ visit with relatives here and in Illinois. Russell is doing well in the live stock business since moving to the iwest, and reports all of the Jasper county colony, some thirty in number, as prospering. A picnic of former Jasperites is an annual event much enjoyed by all participating. He says crops there are* much better than in Jasper county this year.

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William Lyon, Suffering Mental Derangement, Drowns in Kankakee.

William Lyon, 30 years of age and son of Orpheon Lyon, of Kouts, was drowned in the river at Baums 'bridge either Monday evening or Tuesday night of last week. The body was found floating at the deep hole west of Baums bridge grade and had been in the water probably since last Tuesday. It is said that Lyon was mentally deranged and that some days before the drowning occurred he asked his brother to make an affidavit in order that he might be sent to some institution. The body was found by a Mr. Chrisdom. County Coroner Johnson not being available, Justice John Greve, of DeMotte, took charge of the body and Undertaker Keen took the body to Wheatfield. The body was in such a bad condition that it could not be identified, and many rumors of foul play were circulated and Sheriff McCully and Deputy Prosecutor Sands were notified, and it was decided to hold an autopsy of the body to find out whether the dead man was murdered or drowned. Death from drowning was the verdict returned. The identification of Lyon was made certain by maxks on the body, the clothing and other articles. The remains were taken to the home of the father at Kouts Sunday morning.

Big Revenue Bill Passed In House Monday.

The administration’s omnibus reve-nue-bill, creating a tariff commission imposing a protective tariff on dyestuffs, repealing present stamp taxes and providing for new stamps on income, inheritance and war munitions profits, passed the house late Monday by a vote of 240 to 140. During the closing hours of the debate several amendments providing for elimination of the bankers tax and modyfying the tariff commission section, were adopted over the opposition of the democratic leaders. On the final roll call the democrats voted solidly for the bill and were joined oy 34 republicans, 5 progressive-republi-cans and 1 independent and 1 socialist. Many amendments proposed by the ways and means committee also were adopted including one under which cigarette manufacturers must pay a special tax of three cents for every 10,000 cigarettes.

“Officer 666” Will Be Presented At The Gayety Tonight.

At the Gayety Airdome tonight George Kleine presents the celebrated comedian, Howard Estabrook, in the melodramatic farce, “Officer 666,” from the play by Augustin Mac Hugh, and by special arrangement with George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris. This is a five-reel production and has been presented before large audiences in all the large theatres of the country, where it has been well received. It is easily worth the small price of admission, 5 and 10 cents. The-Gayety is putting on some excellent shows now and are showing ttf large crowds every night.

NOTICE. There will be an important meeting of the Van Rensselaer club at 8 o’clock Thursday evening. Plans for the annual picnic are to be discussed and a full attendance is desired. Orders were issued at Charleston Saturday for the demobilization of the first regiment of West Virginia national guard encamped there. The order came as a complete surprise. The Modern Woodmen of America has announced that the society will pay all death claims of members who lose their lives in accidental military or naval service during a,..clash with Mexico.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916.

Are You a Chautauqua Booster? See What Is Coming to Us.

In a few weeks the chautauqua will be here. A program of unusual strength has been provided and as such merits the interest and support of all classes of citizens. Six big days, twelve unusually complete sessions, with double numbers at every session, and a change of talent each day. To those holding season tickets the cost of a concert or lecture is but eight cents. Note the musical features: Bland’s Chautauqua and Orchestra, in band and grand orchestral concert programs; Baity Strong, with his bagpipes and imitations of Harry Lauder, accompanied by a fine musical comedy; the Arden Company in high-class vocal concert; the Gretna Party, instrumentalists in costume: the Chicago Artists’ Quartet; and the Hampton Court Singers. Then note the ■ exceptional entertainers : Charles Taggart, the best of his type in chautauqua work. Miss McDonald, Canadian entertainer; Miss Wickes, charming reader; the Shakespear comedy, “Taming of the Shrew,” enacted by the Arden Players in costpme, with full state settings, and William Sterling Battis in his portrayal of Dickens characters."

Then turn to the lecturers:, Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson, political leader and statesman. This lecture alone is worth every penny the season ticket costs you; Nels Darling, business man and community expert from Oklahoma, who talks in an entertaining and stimulating way to the merchant and his customer on their mutual relations. Booth Lowrey, full cf southern wit and satire: Mohammad Ali, of India; Mrs. Zehner, of Texas, Who has for years delighted chautauqua audiences with her plain, hard-hitting talk, and Pitt Parker, philosopher, wit, cartoonist and clay modeler. Last, but not least, the young woman junior supervisor will be a revelation to fathers and mothers, showing them the possibilities of mental and moral development through a proper control of the play hours of their children. In all there are fifty-one highly talented people on the big six-day program. This feast of good things, eighteen sessions in all, is yours for s2.oo—the price of the season ticket. You would pay that much for a single theatre ticket in the city. Youths’ tickets, 8 to 15 years, SI.OO. Children under 8, accompanied by their parents free. Tickets are transferable.

Health Office Suggestions On Infantile Paralysis. There seems no doubt now that this disease is spread by direct contact with one having the disease, the contagion coming from the nose or throat. Therefore it seems only reasonable that to avoid having your children acquire the infection the following things should be carried out: Keep the children at home and especially away from gatherings, such as moving picture shows, Sunday school and especially from gatherings in small crowds, as they do every day, to play. In other words, have your children stay on your own premises until the scare is over. Pay especial attention to the condition of the bowels and nose and throat. If you desire, use a douche cup cieasing in nose and a mouth wash. A medicine called “Liquor Anticepticus,” diluted 3 times with water, is good; also, peroxide is fair. Also it seems reasonable that dogs and cats can carry the disease —dogs are a nuisance inside city limits and cats are surely not good playthings. There is no case closer than Lafayette today and it may not attack any of our children, yet it is not unlikely at all—the infant not yet walking, having the disease in a light foim and the slight paralysis not being noticed, is the usual carrier. In case any case does show in Rensselaer a very rigid quarantine will be kept—City Health Officer of Rensselaer. Adv -

LEE.

Miss Thelma Noland called on Mrs. J. F. Eldridge Friday afternoon. A. B. Lewis and wife entertained company Sunday afternoon. Several from here attended the funeral of Mrs. Wood, at Monon Saturday afternoon. Andy Brown and wife went to Monon Sunday evening. Mrs. J. F. Eldridge spent Saturday night with Miss Opal Eldridge and her younger brother and sisters. Sam Jacks and wife and Mrs. May Jacks, Will Stiers and family attended quarterly meeting at Shelby Saturday evening, O. A. Jacks and wife and J. F. Eldridge, wife and daughters, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Elbridge at Monon. Bert Eldridge and wife, of Nauvoo, were also.present. ~ »’■ '

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HEAT CONFRONTS MEN IN MEXICO

High Temperature, With Other Climatic Changes, Must Be Faced by U. S. Troopers.

Campaigning on the Mexican border will be no pleasant picnic for the unacclimated American soldiers from the northern states. Notwithstanding the many discomforts that will be encountered by raw and unseasoned military men, they will find portions of the frontier full of strange and fascinating interest. This is particularly true of the part of the border which extends from the mouth of the Rio Grande along the course of that stream for six hundred miles. There is a marked difference in the summer climate of the various points along the border, due to the varying altitude, the nearness of the ocean and other reasons. Brownsville, situated far down toward the tropics and within 25 miles of the mouth of the Rio Grande, would be a veritable inferno during the hot summer months. Just the reverse of this is true. The climate there in summer is delightful. The towns and military stations of Harlingen, Mercedes, where the Rensselaer troops will be stationed, an ! Rio Grande city are all in the zone that is tempered by the constantly blowing gulf winds. The breeze that usually blows from the mountains of the state of Coahuila arid Tamaulipas has a cooling effect upon the qlimate of the border from Laredo to the edge of the Big Bend country, taking in the towns of Eagle Pass and Del Rio. If there is any one thing that the soldiers from the other states should fervently hope for above all other things, it is that he shall not be sent to the Big Bend country. From now on until November an almost steady temperature of 110 to 120 degrees in the shade can be counted, upon. There is not a tree or shrub to break the terrific rays of the sun. Patrol duty is impossible during the middle of the day. The men and officers who are now down there in that indescribable region of torture seek the shade of the low roofed shelters of the camps during the sun hours and gasp and swelter until the mantle of night is thrown over the seething landscape and the chill of the adjacent mountains bring relief. The Big Bend has a river front of more than 200 miles that must be guarded. It seems to be the breeding place of bandits and outlaws of many kinds and degrees. In apportioning the troops that comprised the Texas National Guard to their stations upon the Mexican border after they had been swprn in to federal service, only the most hardened and climatically immuned were sent into the Big Bend region. If by any chance the Indiana guard or the guard of any other of the northern states shauld be sent to this country, they would probably suffer a great deal from the climatic change. It will be bad enough for them no matter what part of the frontier they may be sent to. The worst part of Mexico is that which borders. on the United States. It is bleak and arid. It has been stated by many medical men that it would be well if the men who are sent to the border or in Mexico should provide themselves with remedy or antidote for rattlesnake bites. These venomous re’ptiles are thick in the chaparral. The departure of the Second Regiment of infantry, commanded by Col. Thomas B. Coulter, left only a single regiment, the First, on the mobilization grounds at Fort Harrison. A card from Lieutenant Healey, received this morning, was postmaiked Mount Pleasant, Texas. - He stated that M Company had about 500 miles further to go.

Sonora Commander Demobilizes Army; No Chance of War.

Douglas, Ariz., July 10.—In a statement issued to the Associated Press tonight General P. Elias Calles, military commander of Sonora, said: “Advices I received today from Mexico City were so satisfactory and made me feel so sure there can be no break between Mexico and the United States, that I have ordered the demobilization of my troops now in the border districts and their discharge from the national service, and ordered the reopening of all public offices along the border. I have also extended an invitation to foreigners to return to Sonora and wall protect them and their property. All of the volunteers who took up arms for their country have been ordered to their homes to plant their fields and aid the government in bringing about a return of normal conditions.”

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Annual Convention of State Bar Association at Lafayette This Week.

Monticello Journal. All arrangements have been completed by the Lafayette committee of the State Bar Association for the 20th annual convention of that organization, which will meet in Lafayette on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.i - It is expected that the convention will bring more than 400 prominent men and their wives to Lafayette. This will be the first time the organization has met in that city in annual convention, although Lafayette has had two state presidents, Edwin P. Hammond and Dan W. Simms. The meetings will be addressed by prominent attorneys from all over the state and members of the appellate and supreme courts will be guests of honor at the meetings. Among the speakers will be Hamilton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, who will deliver th^ annual address. The Wednesday afternoon session will be held at the Country Club and this will be called to order by President Robert W. Mcßride, of Indianapolis. He will speak on “American Citizenship.” Thursday there will be two sessions at the Fowler hotel. The election of new officers will be the closing business of the convention.

A RENSSELAER INTERVIEW.

Mr. Wilcox Tells His Experience. The following brief account of an interview with a Rensselaer man over eight years ago, and its sequel, will be read with keep interest by every citizen. Jacob R. Wilcox, retired farmer, Rensselaer, says: “I suffered from backaches and severe pains across my loins. I couldn’t rest day or night and was tired and worn-out. The kidney secretions were highly colored and contained sediment. Nothing seemed to relieve me until I began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured from B. F. Fendig’s Drug Store. They relieved me of the aches and pains, I could rest better nights and regulated the passage of the kidney secretions, so that I have had no trouble since.” (Statement given May 31, 1907.) On February 29, 1916, Mr. Wilcox said: “I continue recommending Doan’s Kidney Pills as a reliable medicine, because as yet they have never failed to do good work.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same than Mr. Wilcox has twice pubilcly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

The only reliable concern drilling water wells in this part of Jasper county, will drill wells any size and anywhere.—Watson Plumbing Co., Phone 204. Did you know that FIFTY-THREE Deering binders were sold by Hamilton & Kellner in 1916?

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Status of German Submarine Found to Be All Right.

The daring German submarine seaman who brought the submarine merchantman Deutschland across the Atlantic, slept quietly Monday aboard their vessel, which lay moored to a carefully screened pier guarded 'by a strong squad of police. Captain Koenig, the skipper, had delivered his papers to the North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the customs house as a commerce carrier and had presented to a German embassy official a packet of correspondence for Count von Bemstorff. Now the vessel is ready to discharge her million dollar cargo of dyestuff and take on board for the return trip to Germany, metal and rubber needed by the army and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock and the time for leaving port will largely depend on plans for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers waiting outside of the entrance of Chesapeake bay for the reappearance of the vessel. One of Captain Koenig’s first acts after he moved his ship up the harbor from quarantine announced that the Deutschland was but one of several mammoth submarines built or building for the regular trans-Atlantic freight and mail service. He stated that the next to come would ,be the “Bremen,” and that she might be looked for at some port along the coast in the next eight weeks. The German captain, anxious to establish promptly the peaceful character and to forestall investigations sought by diplomatic representatives of the allied powers, submitted his craft to a thorough inspection by the surveyor of the part and an agent of the department of justice. The officers reported shat they found the status of the submarine the same as any other merchantman.

Notice of Change of Location. I have moved my tailor shop from the Odd Fellows building to the remodeled Leopold building on Van Rensselaer street, first door north of Duvall’s clothing store. - I am now better prepared than ever to take care of my trade, especially dry cleaning and repairing. A new line of samples of suitings for men received. I take measures for ladies suitings and rain coats. Call and see me in my new location. JOHN WERNER.

Notice to Muzzle Dogs. On and after July Ist all dogs in the city or coming into the city, must be muzzled. By order of City Health Board. To accommodate our patrons we will keep our place open of evenings until nine o’clock. HAMILTON & KELLNER. THE WEATHER. Generally fair today and Wednesday.

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