Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1916 — Page 1
No. 180.
Tonight At The GAYETY Harris & Hilliard Harmony and Character singing, yodeling and comedy talking. George Klein’s production in moving pictures. “Kingdom at Stake” 3 Reels “Island of Terrors” 2 Reels 5 & 15c.
Last Day and Night in Boys’ Camp.
Some oif the hoys came out for the week, others came to stay longer, but home duties have called i hem. At the campfire alst night it wias decided to break camp at 2 o’clock today. The boy® have had a good time and a profitable outing. W. J. Wright delighted (tfhe .boy® at the close of the campfire with a liberal supply of ice cream. The boys demonstrated 1 their thanks as usual. Everyone in camp is thankful to the many kind friends who have contributed so liberally to the outing of the boys. . Joe Groom and family have been very kind and hospitable during our stay in their grove. The fresh milk purchased and donated, contributed to the health and pleasure of the campers, saying nothing of the many other things. We extend to them our heartiest thanks. Visitors were: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Parkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- Paricison, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hickman and children, Mr. and Mrs t A. Wallace and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne, Mr. and Mrs- W. J. Wright, Doris Larsh and Elizabeth Yates, Bernice Yeoman, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hopkins and children, Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown and children, V. Nowels and Mr. Calkins.
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. Panamas and Banckoks, cool, snappy hats fbr these blistering hot days. —Hilliard & Hamiill’s.
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The Evening Republican.
New Device Gives Valuable Information to Tourists.
N. L. Perry, representative of the Mileometer company of Chicago, was in Rensselaer this week. Mr. Perry is demonstrator for the mileometer, an automobile guide for motorists. The mileometer is intended to supply a long felt want for automobiles an tour. It makes possible an rbeoLutely safe journey, pointing out all danger points as they are approached, indicating light and left turns in the road ahead and otherwise assuring Hue motorists a safe trip day or night, no matter how unfamiliar they may he with the road.
The present method of guidance consists of maps and printed matter in hook form, which is hard for the average motorist to follow and requires the constant attention of two persons. The mi'eometer overcomes these difficulties. Being mechanical, it will automatically guide the motorist over any given route as accurately as though he had traversed the road frequently. ’
The device, the main feature of which is a tape which by a system of gearing, is graduated so that it moves four inches every time the front wheel of the machine rolls a mile, is attached to die steering column and sets directly beneath the steering Wheel, receiving its action from one of the front wheels through a flexible shaft. The original tapes or routes are made by actually running over the road with an automobile, using a blank tape in the mileometer. There are twenty of these cars in service in the country today. Other features of the device are that it rtot only gives the driver a perfect guidance as to the turns he is to take, but the mileage as to how far he has to go, also informing him which is the best hotel or garage in the town ahead, together with speed laws, regulations and points of interest; dn fact a large supply of information that is of value to the tourist.
Man Arrested at Shelby On a Serious Charge.
Crown Point Star. Officers were called' to the vicinity of Shelby Wednesday morning to arrest a stranger who had attempted to criminally assault a 12-year-old girl, the daughter of a man in the employ of -the Neil Brown ranch. The fellow was brought here and placed in jail and Wednesday evening the father of the girl came and swore out a warrant before Prosecuting Attorney Bremer. From the statements made by the prisoner it is believed that he recently escaped from the Kankakee insane asylum, and is a fact, the court will drop proceedings and the man will be returned to. the institution. According to his statement he escaped from Kankakee and had walked as far as Shelby. The sheriff will make an investigation with the officials of the asylum.
All accounts are payable at my office to Miss Morgan.—Dr. C. E. Johnson.
RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916.
BOYS ALL HAPPY IN COMPANY M
New Tents Have Arrived and Conditions Have Generally Improved. Llano Grande, Tex., July 25,1916. The Republican: •Well, I am writing under conditions much more favorable than I did on previous occasions. The improved conditions prevailing about the camp has had a splendid effect on all. New tents for all the companies in this regiment arrived and have been put up and the camp now has a line appearance. The tents axe the large pyramidal, being comfortable for eight men and possible for sixteen. We have eight in each. The men are evidencing great pride in their arrangement and uniform trenches and tV tidies' along streets and 1 street grading is aiding to remove the depression that enshrouded us when we were damped in mud in the small pup .tents. Mosquito bar has been issued to each soldier and cots are promised but it is said the company can not get them out for some time. An ingenious Texan has been manufacturing a folding cot and selling each for $1.75, but I do not .believe there is 30 cents worth of material and labor in them. They serve a temporary purpose, however, and many have been buying ithem, especially the Nebraska soldiers. We are now getting a fairly suffkaeflvt daily issue of ice and we •have water in pipes at the doors of the company kitchens and we also have shower baths for all and the long walk to the lake is no longer necessary. Aside from the general absence of grass, the ground being bare except in spots, our camp is an improvement over the camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, for the larger mesquite trees have been saved for shade and/ more attention paid to the beautification of the camp. It gets mighty dry down hehe and deep holes that are being dug to catch the water from the shower bath houses do not show any evidence of ever having been moistened. Yesterday a detail
of eight men working in relays of two men at a time on a hole to be 7 feet in diameter and 14 feet deep went only 6 feet deep in seven hours digging. East night some water was run into the hole to soften it up, if possible. The ground is almost like hard pan when two feet below the surface and gets harder as you go deeper. -Five or six feet down there is considerable alkali. The deep -holes are meossialry to dispose of the waste bath water, for if it was drained into the low country it would serve as a breeding place for mosquitoes. All -gieasy waiters from the kitchens are vaporized and all garbage solids are burned'. This has proven a fine way of eliminating flies. Any soldier who diops a particle of food stuff on the galound as made to understand 1 that he is contributing to the spread of disease and the possibility of a general epidemic. There are many soldiers who are receiving their first lessons in hygiene and permanent (benefit will be the result.
It seems that many grape-vine Stories get back home. The one about Dieutertanf Watson’s sickness and death wlas the most glaring. He was sick for only about a day and a half on the train, suffering from a fever that 'hits many when -they enter the south. Emerson Ooen suffered about the same. Each was given good care in a Pullman (berth and each has been
on the job every minutte since coming here. Andther story of purely stockyards origin was the one about “Jonesey” Weimar kiflirg a Mexican burrow or a Texas steer or something else while on guard. Tlhetra was nothing to it and “Jonecey” has been plagued consiideasajbly by the report. He “walked his post in a mid Wary manner” and there was only one thing tfojut he would' have taken a shott at and that was a Mexican bandit. Some changes are taking pi ace here. John Eigeldbach, who came down as company cook, has transferred* to the division bakery at Harlingen arid is well pleased with the change. He visited Company M and informed the hoys that he had lit in a good place. Orpfhia Gant is working with SeWgean/t Spate in the regimental exchange. Albert Dunn has been transferred to the supply company and made a sergeant in charge of horses. Under the new regulations there are iso battalion quartermasters and lieutenant Healey has been transferred to the new machine gun company. HA company was made up from details from each company and will have a Lewis machine gun. The gun is now at Harlingen, where officers and mm will be taken for instruction two or three tunes before the- gun is brought over here. William Clanton, John Robinson, Barry Spate and Leo Lyons are mentioned for transfers to either the machine gun <xr headquarters’ companies. Some of the traasfieas are made with a view to promotion and John Robinson is to he made a sergeant. I just made a trip down Company M street to atifeeataan if there woe any
INDIANA HEAT RECORDS SHATTERED
Entire State Suffers From Great Heat Wave—St. Joseph’s College Reports 169. Never in the history of the state of Indiana has there ever been recorded as high a temperature as there •was Thursday. Suffering from heat Thursday throughout the state was intense and many deaths are reported and scores of prostrations. Practically all lines of business dn the cities were at a standstill, and many firms lot their men work at night instead of during the day. Farm laborers wore forced to abandon the fields. The lake fronts afforded thousands temporary relief. Crops in the middle west are suffering greatly and unless almost immediate relief comes fanners will suffer to the extent of millions of dollars. Very few places in the state of Indiana Thursday reported less .than 100 degrees/, while many reported, above that mark. At Indianapolis the maximum temperature reported for the day was 106.
The cause of this excessive heat is said to be “Bermuda High." Translated from the cryptic language of the weather sharps this means a great Area of high pressure air has been mobilizing on .the great weather drill grounds of the Atlantic off Bermuda for the pest month and now has let go full power of its offensive from the seaboard to the Rtocky Mountains. For weeks it has stood like a solid wall against all currents, trying vainly to move out from the interior of the ocean, and now as it swirls rapidly along, it is gathering heat and moisture from the tropics and sweeping them northward over the continent into the vacuum of so called ‘Tow pressure areas.” Although its greatest intensity has not struck the Pacific ootaat, it is expected to do so within a few days. No relief is paomised from the phenomena which in the east have caused sweltering city dwellers to light fixes in their homes to dry out the humidity. Chief Forecaster FrankemfieM states that the heat .wave has only begun and is certain to continue thmuginout the week. The government .thermometer at St. Joseph's college registered a maximum temperature Thursday of 109 degrees, which was probably the highest temperature recorded in the State for the day. The minimum temperature was given as 71.
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newts for publication but there was rione. lieutenant Watson agugested that it be made plain that Company M whs not the only company that was short of .tentage upon arrival here. There were two battalions, eight companies, in the same fix. Some who sent letters home complaining evidently left the impression that Company M was the only company. Also that there was a deplorable shortage of nations. The officers of Company M ate with their men during the first ben dsiys after arriving here and whatever shortage there was came through poor railroad transportation, insufficient wagon -transportation and a shortage of supplies in the little town of Mercedes, the only trading point, which had suddenly witnessed a growth of buyers from I#oo to almost 10,000. Captain Tuteur, in whose hands the company fund provided by the good people of Rensselaer, was placed, has spent it with the best judgment and none have suffered unnecessary hardships, in fact, the only suffering was that occasioned by the expected accumulation of misfortunes in laying out a new camp in a new country during several severe daily rainstorms. Hunters who have spent several days along the Kankakee river have experience every hardship that the sol driers have had here -and it is regretted that same have beeh influenced by the letters depicting horrors that have never existed.
Jn previous letted* I neglected to return universal thanks to the Pocahontas and other ladies who made <the fever bands for the company. The act was appreciated by aid and much good is expected to result. So far there has not been a serious case of illness in Company M and the men seem to have passed through the early stages of acclimation in the moot approved manner. Before leaving Farit Benjamin Harrison the company was visited by Clyde Comer, of Farmland, who was during has residence at Rensselaer the first sergeant of the company. Clyde still has a military training and he expressed regret that he was not new a member etf the company. After returning to Pfermileiod, where he conducts a store, he sent *o the company a present of a full case of pineapples, 24 cams, as fine ones as I ever ate. Clyde wiH be the subject of praise far same time to come. Letters received the past week from Rev. Asa McDaniel, J. J. Montgomery and others have been welcomed by aM. Write, friends, whenever you can. Maj. GEORGE H. HEALEY.
WILSON WRITES TO WINAMAC MOTHER
Tells Her the Indiana Soldiers Are Being Kept In the South to Protect the Border.] In reply to a complaint from Mrs. Henry Smith, of Winamac, who has a son in the national guard, President Wilson wrote .that the guard was being kept on the Mexican border to protect the country, not for drill, azri the service the men were performing Was an honor to them and a necessity to the United States. The president’s letter follows: “My Dear Madam—Your letter of July 23 distresses me a good deal because it shows that you have not been correctly informed as to the purpose of having the national guard at the border. It is not for the purpose of drill, but for the purpose of protecting the country. The service the men are performing there is an honor to them and a necessity to the United States. I can not believe that the men in the national guard would wish to be excused from it or would lose heart because of the discomfort: and inconvenience of the service. The war department has the camps on the border under the moist careful instructors and is using every means known to make them sanitary and safe against disease. The health of the men on the bonder, both the regulars and the national guard, is exceptionally good. I would not have you (think that I do not sympathize with you in the absence of your adn, but I beg thiat you will take these larger matters into consideration. Sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson.”
Removal of Junk Business. I have rented a business room onehalf block north of Bacock & Hoptins’ elevator, facing the RenaseHaer Lumber Co., where I will hereafter carry on my junk business, paying the highest market price tor rags, paper, iron, rubber and all kinds of metal, copper, brass, zink, aluminum, ead, copper wire, light copper, copper toilers, etc. Bring me yofur junk at my new place of business or if notified I will call and get it in my motor truck. Phone 577. SAM KARNOWSKY.
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WHO IS TO BLAME FOR SO MUCH ICE
Knowing John Robinson As We Do; We Suspect He Plays an Important Part in Its Production. The following is taken from The Indianapoflis News, written by its Staff correspondent on the .border:. “If the folk up around Rensselaer and contiguous territory could just look into the mesa shack of the Second battalion, Third regiment, Major Healey commanding, they would sure fed hungry. It’s as neat and clean as any one’s dining room. Not a fly inside the screen and a 'hand-made refrigerator full of ice contains all the delicacies of this country. Lieutenant Morriman., of Company L, is mess officer. Dave Liggett, of Company I, is head chef, assisted by Harry Bowie, also of I Company, and John E. Robinson, of Company M, fills the important position of head waiter. “It's a prevailing question as to how it happens that the refrigerator in that mess shack always is full of ice at times when there is not another cake of ice in the camp.”
Oats Better In Newton County Than Expected.
Brook Reporter. The local merchants have been obliged to replenish their supply of binder twine several times. Rensselaer was .the closest place where it could •be obtained, Showing that our neighboring .towns ware in about the same condition as we were. While most of the straw is abort there seems to be a thick stand* due no doubt to tike fact that many put in a heavy crop of seed thanking it would not all grow. At any hate we twill have a heavier chop with the increase of the straw.
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