Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — Page 1

No. 177.

Tonight At The GAYETY AIRDOME ‘Life’s Bitter Dress’ “Coals of Fire” ' - w* in I act i . 5 and 10c. Next Friday night the Rensselaer militia preparing for war with Mexico.

Epworth League Institute Lures Throng to Camp.

Scores of people arrived at Battle Ground. Monday to attend the district convention and Epworth League Institute which opened at 2 o’clock Monday. Trains on all roads brougihit delegations from many points in the sitate. More than 500 reservations have 'been made up to date, which was beyond tihe expectation for so early in the week. ■ . , Headquarters for the Grawfordsvdlle and Lafayette districts, which met in convention in the afternoon, were respectively, the tabernacle on the camp ground and the Methodist church at Battle Ground. At these places (registrations were received and business conducted. The districts’ presidents, Rev. W. K. Ingalls, of Colfax, and Rev. W. B. Warrincr, of Remington, were in charge of the business. Repeats for the year from tfae officers and cabinets ware heard and committees appointed.

Offer Big Rewards For Arrest Of Coast Bomb Artist

Sam. Francisco, July 24. —Rewards amounting to $13,000 had been offered today for the arrest and canyuotion of tha perpetrators of the bomb explosion which killed six persons and injured 42 in San Francisco preparedness parade Saturday. Of this sum SI,OOO, the maximum permitted by state laws, was offered ,by Governor Johnson, $5,000 came •from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and SI,OOO from the city board* of supervisors to be counted as a fifth of the $5,000 offered yesterday by Mayor Dolpli. To these donations were added the two individual subscriptions of SI,OOO each. Mayor Rolph said today he would givo the remaining $4,000 of -the sum lie offered yesterday out of his cwn pocket. Charles M. Fickent, district attorney, asserted today that the persons responsible for the explosion are part of a nation-wide movement agamst government .and that their activities are not confined to this city.

HERE’S PROOF

A Rensselaer Citizen I ells of His Experience. You have' i raghft to doubt statements of people living far away but coin you doubt Rensselaer endorsement? Read it: Zalck Campbell, retired fanner, Harrison St.; Rensselaer, says: “I was hardly eyer free from a -steady aching in my back. My back was lame and sore and my work was torture, because every effort to move caused pi eating pains in it. My kidneys acted tioo often. Nligilts, I was kept awake by tihe too frequent passages of the kidney secretions and they were scanty and burned. I never felt fresh and rested, but was always worn-out. I used several boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills and became well and strong and free from all that -trouble. Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t •simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—tihe same that Mr. Campbell had. Foster 00., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

Ice Cream Social.

Th e se will be an ice cream and cake social ait Rosebud church Saturday evening, under the auspices of the Royal Workers. Whenever you /ppend your money for clothes, consider Hilliard & HamrU first. It will pay big.

The Evening Republican.

CLIFFORD SUMNER DIED SUDDENLY

Son of Mrs. Lee Catt, of Detroit, Mich_ Passed Away at Home In Rensselaer. : ’ • *V. • •• Oldffcrd Summer, aoout 23 years of age, passed away this Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock after an illness that lasted but a few days. He was tlie son of Mrs. Lee Catt, of Detroit, Mich., and came to Rensselaer about four years ago, being employed since that time as a mechanic in the Central Garage. Although he has never ueen very strong, his sudden death ‘am« as a great surprise, as he had worked up until last Friday. He took sick while ait wotrk Thrusdiay evening and was forced bo go to his home. He flailed rapidly from that tune on. Death was due to tubercular peritonitis. He was married about three years ago to Miss Mary Knouff, of this city, and to this union two children wore boom, the older of the two being a Ettle over two years of age, whom he leaves to mourn their loss. The funeral arrangements have noe yet been mode. iMr. Sumner during *his short residence here made many friends, and was well liked by everyone, and his death will cause much general sorrow.

Big 6-Day Chautauqua Begins August 10 and Closes August 15.

And you’re invited! It’s to be a great big communaity affair that inc'udes Remington, WlheatfieLd, DeMotte, and incidentally, Rensselaer. And this means every farmer and his family in all this great, rich territory adjacent to the towns of Jasper county. It wilTlre -out in a big tent in a shady spot, Miliroy Park, a location that is easily accessible to everyone. It is to be mainly an afternoon and evening affair. There will be a youths Chautauqua forenoons of each week day, and if you come in this class, get in (touch with the local secretary and find out who is in charge of the boys and girls chautauqua. Music will be a big feature. Music is the thing that puts the throb in the heart-beat and makes life just a little sweeter and a little -more worth while. So we’re going to have a musical festival in this program with an entirely different musical company each day. One will be a band. That will (be on the big fourth day. Don’t forget thiait. Another will be something else and another something else. (Here’s the pro-gram, all in a nutshell. Study the list through, care* fully and then refer to your booklet for the story of the men and women that are listed here:

Lecturers: Booth Lowrey, Nels Darling, Mohammad A-li, Mrs. A. 0. Zehner, Pitt Parker, Capt. Richmond P. Hobbotn. Entertainers and musical numbers : Sitrang-JOoleman Co., Arden Drama Co., Wtm. Sterling Battis, Jetm MacDonald, Gretna Party, Pit Parker, Charles Taggart, The Gales, Chicago Antisits Quartet, Bland’s Band, Hampton Court Singers. The men and women back of this -chautauqua are Local people. You perhaps know everyone of -them. They are men and women who -live right here in this town and community. Most of them are busy people. They are hustling to make this tWLng go, and will get just as much out of it as you have opportunity to get, and n-o more. You will have an opportunity to enjoy a chautauqua program for a few days, to get a bit of wholesome inspiration. Now then if you want to do the right thing by yourself and by these others who are workiiJg for this Chautauqua’s success, buy your tickets today, and let’s make (this chautauqua the bang-up, biggest success that it’s possible to make it. And keep the date in mind, August 10, and the hours for the program, which are given in the booklet, and the location, and the big inspiration and community stimulus and the great good you are going to get out of it, and we’ll see you at the -big tent on the opening afternoon and at each of the eleven sessions to follow. Plan your time so you can come in to this chautauqua. The price of the season ticket is $2 (12 sessions) if you’re over 15. $1 if you're under 15. No charge if you’re under 8.

Notice to Muzzle Dogs. e* i . ■ i On and after July Ist all dogs in the city or coming into the city, must be muzzled. By order of City Health Board. Dr. Leslie Sharrer will be office every afternoon from 1 until 4 o’clock end can be called at any other time of day or night by calling .211, — Dr. C. E. Johnson. Drop in ait Hilliard & Hamill's and play the ViotroJa.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916.

TORRID HEAT OF TEXAS DROPS MEN

600 Troopers of the Illinois First Brigade Fall Before Rays of Broiling Sun. (Between 600 and 700 men of the First Brigade Illinois Infantry, were bowled from the line Monday on the hike to Ten Mile hill. Regular army officers declared it was the worst movement of unopposed troops they ever witnessed. Gen. Fumsttou used the wtond “ghastly” in describing the maneuver.

Almost every bush between Gamp Wilson and Ten Mile hill was doing umbrella service for exhausted militiamen. Twenty-three groups were counted which ware engaged in holding down men, crazed and delirious with heat, in a hurried automobile trip over the route. The hospital corps was insufficient to care for all the men who fell out and whole squads of the Chicago boys were without attention for hours. The Red Cross jitney, organized by Mens. Clegg, did effective service more than the hospital corps could possibly, render. She had two truck loads of ice and two city water sprinklers rushed out to the relief of the Illinois men. iMany aspects of the march had the look of an impossible moving picture. Men struck with heat would spin around as if struck with a bullet, and then drop full length. Usually the column would move on and leave the Straggler to drag himself to the side of the road. The rear guard of the seventh regiment picked up 19 men of the First, which oLst most heavily. The men said their own baggage wagons and ambulances had passed them and shouted (the information that they were instructed to-“let the stragglers pant.”

Entire squads fell out during the march, and as one officer stated “the only thing that prevented mutiny wa3 that I let them go without a kick.” Officers of the First Regiment are accused of trying to make a record. Capt. Charles L. Wagner with Company C, -set a 140 cadence, 140 Steps a minute, at the outset, to carry out -the First’s boast that they would be in the camp ait 11 o’clock. -Gapt. Wagner’s company gained fifty minutes on the rest of the column and incidentally lost 60 per cent of its men. The normal rate for drill marching is 120 cadence, at the rate of 3.4 miles an hour. Army regulations, however, fix the maximum rate for road marching at 2.75 miles per hour, and this for seasoned regulars.

Charles W. Postlil Stone Road Bonds Brings Premium.

Miller & Co., of Indianapolis, were the successful bidders for the $7,500 issue of Charles W. Postal! ct al atone road bonds. Their bid was $7,500 and a premium of $l2O, tihe accrued interest to go to the purchaser. Other ijiddens, all from Indianapolis, were: Fletcher National Bank, $95.50 premium; Breed, Elliott & Harrison, S9O; J. F. Wild & Co., $88; R. L. Bollings Co., $75; E. M. Campbell & Sons, S6O

Protests Against Manner of Construction of Hospital.

Rensselaer, July 25, 1916. A word to the taxpayers of Jasper county informing them that the support under the -hospital now being built by the .taxpayers is insufficient to -support same. A week ago 1 went to one of tihe trustees and'told him about it and he told -me he did not think I need to worry out it. I told him it would not stand five years. Now I want tihe taxpayers to investigate and see for yourselves. Respectfully, J. C. BECKMAN.

Chautauqua Tickets.

Chautauqua -tickets are now on sale at the following .places and in the -hands of tihe following persons, B. F. Fendig’-s drug store, A. F. Long’s drug store, Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store, B. F. Forsythe, E. J. Randle, W. S. Day, Edson- Murray, B. F. Altar, C. M. Sands, C. E. Prior, W. L. Myer, D. Deflos Dean, J. D. Allman J. N. LeOitherman and Rex Dr Warner. Buy your rickets early sci order that the local committee may have some idea of tihe attendance so that they may prepare for seating, etc. Adutt rickets are $2.00; youths, age eight and over SI.OO. This is a community affair backed by tihe -business men of Rensselaer £nd should be patronized by everyone. An excellent program is assured. August 10 to 15 . J. N. Leatiherman, Preside;it. D. D. Doan, Sec.

C. Earl Duvall has broken ground and is now exrawating for the Joasement for a new residence on College Avenue between the residences of George \Long and S. C. Irwin. The residence will be two story square house.

SPEEDERS LASSOED ON MEXICAN BORDER

1 ■■ y \ 0 Deputy Sheriffs Drop Lariat Over Shoulders of Driver Who Is Traveling Too Fast. Mercedes, Tex., July 24.—They have a good way of regulating the traffic and stopping speeders down in this country. As soon as the soldiers camp was established at Llano Grande

every automobile in three counties was put imho jitney service between the camp and Mercedes, with the result that there is a great deal of speeding because the faster the jitneys can make the trip the more money there is in it. Consequently a number of persons have been hurt, one of them being Harry C. Campbell, of Battery B, Lafayette, who is in the hospital at San Antonio. The common council passed an ordinance taxing each jitney SIOO and regulating the speed to eight miles. The jitney owners who Eve in this country can the SIOO at the rate of 50c a day. All outsiders must come through in a lump. Each morning Bill Budhy, whose badge of city marshal is a big Colt swung to his hip, stands at a comer with a book in his hand, collects the 50 cents before the jitney can start on a day’s business. Two deputy sheriffs, oadh with revolvers and repeating rifles, ride up and down the streets regulating the traffic inside the town, and when a machine does not Stop on their order they lasso the machine, and occasionally, when there is no top to interfere, they drop the lariat over the driver's shoulders. That always brings a halt. A general inspection of camp was held Sunday afternoon and Company

M, Walter Myers, captain, was accorded the highest grade in the First regiment. As the more important sanitary work is finished, the Indiana soldiers are taking time to do some landscape gardening along -their company -street. Details -are sent out to the back country and various forms of ornamental desert plants like the cucumber cactus and the Spanish needle are planted along the main drives and at the cross streets. The members -of Co. A, First regiment, are especially ambitious and have erected an arch of plants over the entrance to their street. Lieutenant Stratton, of Company A, signal corps, has invented a filter for the water he uses. It consists of a desert water bag, an empty keg and an infantry cartridge case filled with sand and charcoal. It makes the Rio Grande water pure and cool. Company I, Third regiment, has a short -story writer, Private Charles N. Sims. Private Sims joined the army to get local color for a series of short Stories. WeM, he is getting local color all right, a great deal of it on his nose from the sun. His Delphi friends would not recognize him now.

Thousands Pay Tribute To Dead Poet Riley.

35,000 people passed the casket of James Whitcomb Riley Monday afternoon at his home on Lockerbie street in Indianapolis to gaze for tihi last time upon tihe face of Indiana’s favorite Son. People from all walks of life paid their last respects to this wonderful man. In the crowd were business men, school girls, matrons carrying market baskets, mothers with little children, clergymen, -foreigners, frequently colored men and women, old women Laborers, young men in well cut clothes, farmers and workmen. Each man and woman went forward, eager f-or a glimpse of tihe poet and a chance to toll him goodbye. Hundreds of children were in the crowd. Perhaps Mr. Riley would have been glad -had he known that many of tihe children there Monday made their first acquaintance with death through the man who was always the children’s best friend; the children could have had no better introduction to the great mystery. There was the man whom -they loved and the man who loved them, and who had written so many dear, funny poems for them —-there he was, -peaceful, almost smiling—and not clad in the somber black clothes that make of .death a -dreary .tilling, but in fine white serge, his head pillowed upon white satin, and surrounded by flowers, heaps and masses of beautiful flowers. So the children told him their last good-bye. Some of them were so small that their heads barely came to the top of tihe casket and they had to raise tiheimseivcs on tip-

toe and peer over; others were even smaller and had to be raised upon the arms of policemen who guarded each corner of tihe casket, or in the arms of some relative.

WEATHERGenerally Hair tonight and Wednesday.

Van Rensselaer Club Picnic To Be Held Aug. 17th.

The date for the Van Rensselaer Club piicnic has been definitely decided upon, Thursday, Aog. 17th, having been chosen. It will take place at Cedar Lake. A special coach will be procured for the picnickers, who will leave Rensselaer at 10:36, returning at 11:10 that night. A colored orchestra will be procured to furnish music for the day. A program committee has been appointed, and the picnickers will not want for entertainment during any part of the dav. The transportation committee desires that all members who are going to hand in their names as soon as possible in order that they may know how many to make accommodations for.

City Tennis Tournament To Start This Week.

The work of putting the tennis courts in condition for .the coming tennis touranments has been completed, and Dr. Gwin, who is in charge, states that some of the games of the first round will be played this week. The greater portion of the contests will be played at the Catholic church yard court. Dr. Gwin has also added a girls’ tournament and the bast girl player in the city will be decided by these contests. Many of the young men players of the city are showing excellent form and some great contests are expected Dr. Washburn, Wm. Babcock and Harry English rule favorites to win the city title.

Ward Tyner, Monon Boy, Well Known Here, Is Dead.

Ward Tyner, 21 years of age, a Mjono-n boy, who is well known in Rensselaer, died Monday evening at his home in tihait city. He was a nephew of Mrs. True D. Woodworth, of this city, and mode frequent visit 3 to Rensselaer. His death was due to curvature of tihe spine, witih -which he had been afflicted for a great many years, and which produced -heart failure. The funeral will*be held Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Woodworth left today for Monon. Fire late yesterday afternoon destroyed a com crib on tihe farm of Paid Weiss, two miles southeast of Remington. Witih the crib was burned a hew wagon, a new KLondyke, gang plow, Steel 'harrow and other property. The fire is supposed to have been -started by their little boy. All white footwear reduced, priced to suit your purse. ” The G. E. Murray Co.

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GREAT WAR COPIES CIRCUS METHODS

Warring Euorpean Factions Move All Their Supplies Like a Big Show. When the Carl Hagen beck-Wallace circus was -in Euorpe several yewra ago the Kaiser obtained permission from the management for Gen. Van Bruent and a detail of army officers to travel with the big show for a fortnight, that they might observe the business-like details by which the great institution was moved from place to place. Careful study was made of the manner in which* the ponderous wagons were unloaded from Jflhe oars, of how several thousand meals were served daily in tbe canvas hotels, and they went away declaring they had never witnessed anything so marvelous. Gen. Von Bruent declared that in the past the army officers unloaded thenr commissary wagons over the sides of the core by means of a block and tackcl, instead of rolling them down a runway. The leaders of the European war employed American circus method* in transporting their guns of war and supplies. The circus will come to Rensselaer on Saturday, August sth.

Monday in the Boy Scout Camp.

Three of the boys went on a 14-mile hike as a part of the First Class Scout work. They reported a good time. (Mr. and Mrs. Vem Nowels helped to lower tihe temperature of the camp by furnishing the boys witih a liberal supply of ice cream. AH tihe boys showed their gratitude by the way they devoured tihe frigid refreshments. Many thanks. Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer mid children and Mias Mildred Harris brought their suppers and enjoyed their repast in tih# wild. Dr. Myer showed the boys some fine stunts in swimming and diving. The following boys were added to tihe camp: Billy Grow,-Jack Larsh and Harold Newels spent the night in the camp. The following were visitors: Mr. and M'.w. W. J. Wright and children, Mr. ami Mrs. Ray Thompson, Stewart Moore, Miss Bernice Yeoman, Mrs. Bert Hopkins, Milton Roth, Harold Sharp and W-ayne Tilton. The health of CEe boys is good and (the camp doctor has not boon needed so far.

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