Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1916 — Page 1

No. 169.

TONIGHT At The GAYETY Extra Mid Summer entertainment. 4 PEOPLE 4 2 TEAMS 2 We promised a good show last Sat. & the thousand who were there know we fulfiled our promise, We promise a better show to night. 15 and 10c.

Will H. Ade Rejects Governorship Boom of Progressives

Will H. Ade of Kentland, who has been mentioned frequently in connection with the Progressive nomination for governor, declares that he is not and never was a candidate for the office, that he knew his name had been mentioned, but it was without his consent, and that he had given the movement no encouragement whatever. In regard to the remainder of the state he ticket Mr. Ade said that he would support the best man regardless of politics. Mr. Ade added that he believes Charles E. Hughes' as good a progressive as there is in the country and that ho will support him for the presidency. A full ticket was nominated by the Progressives of * Newton county at the March pritnary, but some of the candidates have stated their intentipn of withdrawing from the ticket. '

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Editor Bowie Couldn’t Find Shelby on the Map

Editor John Bowie, of the Kankakee Valley Review furnished a good deal of amusement Tuesday <• at the court house in Kentland. The big Wiliams ditch case was being tried and he as a witness was. asked to show them on the map, “where the water was wet” at high water. He was given a pointer and started to trace the Kankakee river without deciding upon the place. Finally he said “If some one w'll show me where iShelby is on the map, I will show them the district flooded.” The court then laughed long and loud.

Constipation and Indigestion. “I have used Chamberlain’s Tablets and they are the best I have ever used for constipation and indigestion. My wife also used them for indigestion and they did her good,” writes Eugene S. Knight, Wilmington, N. C. Chamberlain’s Tablets are mild and gentle in their action. Give them a trial. You are certain to be pleased with the agreeable laxative effect which they produce. For sale by B. F. Fendig. c

Big Rattler Discovered Near Maj. Healey’s Tent By Mexican.

The first excitement of the third regiment camp cropped out when a Mexican laborer set up a yell and instantly forty more Mexicans all yelling, started in the direction of Major Healey’s tent, near where the man was working. It was soon learned that the Mexicans had discovered a rattlesnake, which was soon dispatched, and had thirteen rattles.

Chamberalin’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Every family without exception should keep this preparation at hand during the hot weather of the summer months. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is worth many times its cost when needed and is almost certain to be needed before the summer is over. It has no superior for the purposes for 'which it k intended. Buy it now. For sale by B. F. Fendig. C

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.

The Evening Republican

FIRST LETTER FROM THE MEXICAN BORDER

Major Healey Writes of the Trip of Company M and of Conditions At Mercedes, Texas. Llano Grande, Mercedes, Tex., July 12, 1916. The Republican: If it was not raining and the old settlers say it had not rained for 14 months until a week ago, I might be able to say that we had as pretty and healthful a camp site as was ever provided for soldiers in the field .with war or near-war conditions. But it is raining, has been raining since noon Tuesday, the day’of our arrival, and it may rain for a month or more tdmost unceasingly. From my tent I view the most desplicable camping conditions almost that one could imagine. The streets are a sea of mud and in the absence of adequate tentage or almost any at all, the soldiers have their little pup tents pitched and are making the best of it. Our arrival was premature in two or three respects. The tentage was not here, the water mains were not completed, and the ice supply was not arranged for. The commissary, however, has kept us amply supplied and there is no grumbling. Khaki-clad soldiers in ponchos are digging ditches to drain off the water and if it ever stops raining so that some system can be established our camp, which is in a grove of mesquite trees, will be a beautiful one. We are told by Texas residents of this part that our location is the most ideal in the state. The ground is high, there is a breeze from the gulf, 30 miles east, and the surrounding country is populated with many thrifty northerners. It is an irrigated trucking 'secHoh is worth or held at S2OO to $250 per acre. The soil is a sandy loam and is covered with mesquite grass, which resembles our blue grass except that it runs along the ground. The small bushes are called mesquite brush and the native are mesquite trees. Mesquite is pronounced “muskeet.” Our railroad station is called Llano Grande, pronounced Yonna Granda. It is about 2% or 3 miles from Mercedes, which is pronounced “Mer-say-dis,” with the pronounciation fairly strong on the “say.” The latter s is the nearest postoffice and unless later orders are issued all mail will be sent to that point. Our trip from Ft. Benjamin Harrison was without notable incident. From East St. Louis we went over the Iron Mountain railroad to the river crossing point at Illmo, north of Cairo. We had dinner last Saturday at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon at Campbell, Mo., on the Cottonbelt railroad. A gentleman approached me there and asked if we happened to be from near Monon. He proved to be T. C. Clayton, a brother of Dr. Clayton, of Monon, and uncle of Mrs. Firman Thompson, of Rensselaer. He is the agent of the Frisco railroad company at Campbell. We had our Sunday breakfast at Texarkana, Tex., having traveled all night in Arkansas. Cottonfields and oleanders began to show up and many fields of com almost past the frost stage. As far back as Campbell, Mo., we had home grown roasting ears and “snap beans” to eat. Ripe watermelons showed up at Texarkana and when we reached Tyler, where we had dinner Sunday at about 4 p. fn., watermelons, fine large ones, sold for 10 cents each. Especially were the citizens ordial at Tyler. Automobiles Were furnished ’free to all who cared to take rides. Our next stop was made at about 10 o’clock Sunday night. The train pulled up alongside Lake Axtell, about 15 miles out from Waco, where the soldiers bathed. About 200 were in the lake at one time. We left the Cotton Belt roan at Waco and came as far as Linton on the San Antonin and Arkansas Pass, called the Soap railroad. We then took passage on the, St. L., B. & M. road. Real tropical conditions began to evidence themselves some 100 miles up state,, when palms, Spanish moss, mesquite growths, etc., began to show up. Another unmistakealble indication that. we were nearing Mexico was the great number of Mexicans. Their habitats were wretched abodes that would make poor woodsheds for Hoosiers or white people any place. Even the huts of the typical negro families are much better than the homes of the Mexicans. Another evidence of the fact that we were nearing the border was the number of Texas rangers, big, cow-boy typed fellows with their pis-, tols, cartridge belts, fancy boots, broad brimmed hats, etc. They are mighty nice fellows and work along with soldiers in a very nice manner. Some have been assigned to troops as guides and scouts. Some are easterners who enjoy the cow-boy life. They ’ hold no courts for Mexicans who

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1916. -

‘Hell on the Rio Grande,’ a Ballad on the Border, Revived for the Rookie Description of the Region Written by an Army Sergeant 30 Years Ago is About What New Soldiers Finds the Place Now Brownsville, Tex., July B.—A ballad descriptive of the Rio Grande 30 years ago has been rerived for the rookie soldiers now getting their first taste of border life. The author was an army sergeant whose name appears to have been forgotten. The ballad was widely quoted by border garrisons at the time it was printed and, in the main, it appears to the rookies encamped at a distance from the irrigated districts to hold good today. The original title was . H Hell on the Rio Grande.” The ballad follows: The devil, .we’re told, in hell was chained. And a thousand years he there remained; He never complained, nor did he groan, But determined to start a hell of his own, Where he could torment the souls of men Without being chained in a prison >pen. So he asked the Lord if He had on hand Anything left when He made the land.’ The Lord said: “Yes, I had plenty on hand, But I left it down on the Rio Grande; The fact is, old boy, the stuff so poor I don’t think you could use it in hell any more.” But the devil went down to look at the truck, And said if it came as a gift he was stuck; For, after examining it carefully and •well, He concluded the place was too dry for hell. So in order to get it off his hands. The Lord promised the devil to water the lands; For He had’some water, or rather some dregs, A regular cathartic that smelled like bad eggs. Hence the deal was closed, and the deed was given, And the Lord went back to His home in Heaven; And the devti then said: “I have all that Is needed To make a good he 1.1,” and hence he succeeded. He began to put thorns on all of the trees. And he mixed the sand with millions of fleas; He scattered tarantulas along dll the roads; Put thorns on the cacti and horns on the toads. He lengthened the horns of the Texas steers, And he put an addition on the jackrabbits’ ears; And h’e put a little devil in the broncho steed, And he poisoned the feet of the centipede. The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion stings, The mosquito delights you with buzzing wings; The Sand burrs prevail and so do the ants, And those who sit down need half soles on their pants. The devil then said that throughout the land He’d managed to keep up the devil’s own brand, And all would be mavericks unless they bore The marks of scratches, bites and thorns by the score. The heat in the summer is a hundred and ten, Too hot for the devil and too hot for men. The wild boar roams through The black chaparral— TVs a hell of a place he has for a hell. Thb red pepper grows upon the banks of the brook; The Mexicans use it in all that they cook. Just dine with a greaser and then you will shout; “I’ve hell on the inside as well as the out.”

make a crooked move. We are only 5% miles from the Rio Grande. The country is occupied largely by Mexican laborers, who get 75 cents per day. Boys 15 or 16 years old get the same wages as men. They are employed in clearing the land for the occupation of troops. They are not trusted but they are not allowed to carry arms and have no manner of communicating with the Mexicans across the river. They live almost altogether on tortilias, a com-bread patty, and on mesquite beans, which grow on the mesquite trees. It is said they live well on 10 cents per day but if you undertake to board them it will cost you $1 per day to do it, for they eat like gourmands when they have a chance. Mercedes has a population o's about 1,200 people. It is somewhat of a boom town, having been started along with the irrigation project. The residences of the white people are largely of the bungalow type, with an occasional mansion of Spanish type. The latter residences are surrounded with palms of various sizes and shapes, while oleander trees, white and pink blossomed, are grown in locations rp make the parking most attractive. We saw oranges, bananas and dates all growing at Mercedes. Cora, some ripe and the stalks as dry as they get in November, and other corn knee high, we saw along the tracks. This is the green bean, lettuce and onion trucking section of Texas, and an accommodating resident informs me that green bean growers last year made as high as S6OO per acre. This year they are growing a great amount of sugar cane, claiming so raise three times as much as can be grown in the cane section of Louisiana. Don P. Warren, who was my ser-geant-major, has been detailed as brigade sergeant major, which *s a big boost for him. The detail is ex-pected-to be permanent. He will receive $65 per month. Earl Chamberlin, who taught school in Rensselaer .last year, is a member of the Monticello company. He has been detailed to me as Orderly. John Robinson is a horse orderly. I There are so many things I might write about that I hardly find a good quitting place. But Ido not want to

tire my readers. One or two more things about our trip and I will be ready to close. Near Waco we passed through a peach orchard of 100,000 acres. Starting north of Kingsville and extending some distance this side we run through the ranch of Mrs. R. M. King, who is 83 years of age. The ranch contains about a million and a half acres. Mrs. King’s home cost $500,000. The general offices of the St. L., B. & M. railroad arc there and the Casa Grande hotel. Magnificent court and school buildings are in each town. Sinton is on the 100,000 acre ranch of Charles P. Taft. It is a boom town with a business district far in excess off its population and covering enough ground to be a 15,000 city, but having actually only about one thousand. It is now noon and Still raining. An old resident told me this morning that is was going to clear up. I’m hoping he knows. MAJ. GEORGE H. HEALEY. P. S. Address all mail to 162nd Indiana Militia, Mercedes, Tex., giving the name of the soldier and the letter of his company. I am entertaining for noon mess, coffee, bacon and bread, "beans, potatoes and biscuit, two Texas ’angers, A. J. Summers and J. J. Busby, who are detailed as scouts with General Parker, and who have been mighty

cordial to us.

Kouts People Angered Over Sheriff’s Tale

Valparaiso Vidette: Kouts people are wrought up over the report of Sheriff McColly and will retaliate,. it is said, with the official autopsy report from ever W. D. Lyons dead body to show that Sheriff McColly is mistaken in his views. Herman Kosanke, who first examined the remains, has the support of scores of influential people in declaring without doubt, Lyon met with foul play.

To accommodate our patrons . we will keep our place open of evenings until nine o’clock. > _ • HAMILTON & KELLNER.

Lincoln Chautauqua Opens Here On August 10th.

The Lincoln Chautauqua will open their engagement In Rensselaer on Thursday, August 10th, in Rensselaer, at Milroy Park. Rensselaer has been fortunate the past few years in securing chautauqua companies of extremely high class, and the one that . to come here this season is no exception, and in fact its numbers probably will be better than any that have ever shown here. The chautauqua will last six days, and they should be the six most entertaining days that Rensselaer people have ever had. The program will open at 10 o’clock on Thursday, and the first number will be known an Youth’ Chautauqua. In the afternoon the Strang-Coleman Company will entertain with musical numbers, and Booth Lowrey, the southern wit, will make an address entitled “Tolerably Good People.” He will make another address in the evening entitled, “Simon Says Wigwag.” On the second day the Arden Company will present vocarnumbers, cartoons, readings and “The Taming of the Shrew.” Nels Darling, of Oklahoma, will give two addresses on “The Home Town” and “The Village Storekeeper.” On the third day the Chicago Artists Quartette will render musical numbers and the opera “Martha,” and Mohammed Ali, a charming Oriental, will lecture on India’s millions. Bland’s Chautauqua Band, featuring Earl Hippie, the wizard of the Xylophone, will be here' on the 4th day, and readings by Miss McDonald. Mrs. A. C. Zehner will lecture on “American Ideals.”

On Monday the Gretna Party will present songs and music of Colonial days, and the Gales will give songs and stories of the Red Men. Pitt Parker, of Boston, the Yankee wit, will entertain twice during the day with crayon drawings. , On the last day of the chautauqua there will be a grand concert both afternoon and evening by the Hampton Court Singers. In the afternoon Charles R. Taggart, “The Man From. Vermont,” will give “The Old Country Fiddler,” and - in the evening an address by Captain Richard Pearson Hobson, an American statesman, on “Our Country,” will close the chautauqua week in Rensselaer. On Sunday there will be special selections from many celebrated oratoribsT' The above week’s program promises chautauqua lovers a chance of hearing the best artists to be found on chautauqua circuits anywhere and the week’s attendance should be a record breaker for the Rensselaer promoters.

NOTICE. One good foreman and four good carpenters wanted at once. —M. V. Brown, Building Contractor. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Johnson went to Lafayette today to spend the ’ay.

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Start Loading Deutschland For Its Return Trip.

Before the last billets of iron used for ballast had been taken from the lower holds of the German submarine merchantman Deutschland Friday afternoon, the loading of the return cargo was begun. Loading was discontinued, however, a few hours later, and at night the stevedores were still taking out their iron billets. Scrap rubber was the first goods put into the submarine. There were strips of only a few pounds to big pieces of 20 and 25 pounds. The rubber had been packed into cases in the warehouse of the Eastern Forwarding Company. While this unloading was proceeding, a gang of men was set to work scraping the sides of the vessel, preparing them for a fresh coat of paint. The force of policemen guarding the pier where the Deutschland is berthed has been increased.

Miss Edna Robinson, of Morocco, came today for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Harve J. Robinson. J— :i in i ■ ■ ii i i ■■ ■ Mrs. H. Weaver and baby, of Shelby, came this morning to visit her grandmother, Mrs. McGlinn. Mrs. Frank Shide and daughter went to Indianapolis today to see their cousin, Mrs. Rosie Lee, who is very sick. Mrs. Sadie Galbraith, who has not < been well for some time, went to Lafayette today to visit her son, Alonzo Kiser.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wartena came yesterday from Indiana Harbor to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Wartena and family. The children of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Ham left today for a three weeks* visit with relatives at Fisher, 111. They made the trip by auto. Mrs. Frank Suher, who has been visiting Mrs. H. O. Johnson for the past two weeks, returned to her home in Indianapolis today. Valparaiso merchants are taking a half holiday once a week during the hot summer months, and declare that it is a success. Lndley N. Johnson, 65, rural mail carrier of Forest, fifteen miles south of Kokomo, was killed when ’ is buggy was struck by an interurban car o® the Frankfort-Kokomo line. C. A. Peck and Dr. Robinson of Remington were among the topnotchers at the Peru trap shoot held this week. Peck made a -emarkable record when he broke 99 out of a possible 100. The Orpet murder case which has been attracting so much attention the past few months, went into the hands of the jury today. Orpet is the young Wisconsin University youth charged with the poisoning of his sweetheart, Marion Lambert.

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