Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — Page 1
No. 195.
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MERCHANTS DECORATE FOR PARADE
American Flags Proclaim Coming of Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson to Rensselaer. Rensselaer merchants decorated their store fronts today in honor of the coming of Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, known as the '‘hero of Santiago." This is the last day of the Lincoln chautauqua in Rensselaer this season and it is the desire o fthe citizens to wind it up in a blaze of glory, with a patriotic parade this evening. The parade will occur at 6:30 o’clock this eyening and will be formed at the west side of the court house square. All owners t>f automobiles are urged to get in the line of procession this evening and to have their automobiles decorated. Those who have no automobiles are asked to join the parade and also to carry a flag. The parade will end at the chautauqua grounds in Milroy Park. The Rensselaer band will help to liven things up with their music. Captain Hobson will deliver an address this evening at 8:30 o’clock and no one should fail to hear him.
Monday’s numbers on the chautauqua program were excellent and were just as good as those of any previous day. Pitt Parker, the Yankee wit, was especially good in his crayon recitals and clay modeling. The other numbers of the day were the Gretna Party, exquisitely costumed, and the 'Gales in the stories of the Redman were also well given. Program This Evening. 7:30 Old English and Irish program, in strikingly attractive period costumning, Hampton Court Singers. 8:30 address, “Our Country,” Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, an American statesman.
Death of Little Virginia Halstead.
Little Virginia Elizabeth Halstead, the year-old daughter of Mil. and Mrs. Everett Halstead, died about midnight Monday night. The little one, who had an alarming sick spell some six weeks ago, seemed to have recovered almost completely. But about 7 o’colck Sunday evening dangerous symptoms of cholera infantum developed, which ended the life Monday night. So serious was her case from the very beginning that Miss Mattie Hemphill, the trained nurse, was caled and given charge and everything possible was done for the little sufferer but all in vain. The funeral will be held today (Wednesday) at the church of God, in Rensselaer, and the interment will be in Weston cemetery.
Mrs. Carrie Baker and two daughters, who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. John Newcome, and family here, returned to their home in Pontiac, 111., toay accompanied by Mrs. Newcome and children, who will vis't her for about a week.
RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
COLLEGE STUDENTS MAY LEAVE BORDER
Order From War Department Provides for Their Muster Out After September First. ■ I Mercedes, Texas, 14.—According to an order from the war department just received by BrigadierGeneral Lewis, commanding general of Llano Grande camp, all organizations of college students can go home to their schools after September 1, provided no situation arises that requires their services here as soldiers. All organizations in Indiana will be sent to Fort Harrison, there mustered out of the service, required to turn over their equipment and make a strict accounting to the federal government. The equipment will be sent to the government arsenal at Rock Island, and the students mustered out no longer will be in the national guard service or receive the aid of ths government. This applies to individuals students, as well as student organizations. Battery B, of the Indiana field artillery, is made up of Purdue university men. Battery B received government aid. If Battery B goes home, it will pass out of existence as a part of the national guard. Federal support will be withdrawn from it. Purdue will receive no mpney to keep up an organization in the national guard but will receive the money paid it by the government for military instructions. That is, the university will get money from the government to pay its teaching of military work but not to keep up an organization in the national guard. The students can not enlist in the regular guard while they are students, but they may enlist after their student work is done.
The order is imperative and explicit. It reads that individual students and student organizations shall be mustered out and so even'should any student desire to remain in the service, he can not do so if he claims his rights as a student. If he does not make the claim to being a student, he may Remain because no one will hunt up evidence that he is a student. So, after all, it is up to the student himself whether he remains or not. All who claim -to be students must go home and be mustered out of the national guard service. Captain Mclvor, of Battery B, said the Purdue students probably will go home in a body. A few of Battery B who are not claiming to be students may rerpain and join one of the other batteries.- This order is one of the worst blows the Indiana national guard has yet received. Every Indiana unit has students among its men and officers and if they claim a student’s right under the order/ they must quit the service, and if they do, the Indiana troops here will be reduced to almost a skelton.
Indiana university has a band in the national guard and one of the compaines in the Second regiment practically is' made up of students. The same law applies to Indiana university that applies to Purdue. Just how many of the students will take but the report hare is that wxzfiflffffi advantage of the law is not known because the order just came and there has not been time for investigation.
Many of the students have said that if there was any reason for ’heir being here, or if there was any prospect of their being called for service, they would remain, but as it appears on the surface to them, there is no need, they say, of their remaining and thus miss the school work. If all the individual students in various commands and in Battery B return home, it' will reduce the Indiana troops by about 600 men. The loss of Battery B woudl break the Indiana battalion of light artillery. Another, battery is being organized at Fort Wayne that will take Battery B’s place, should it leave. The order mustering out the individual students and the student z organizations has caused a great deal of dissatisfaction amohg the Indiana troops. They are not criticising the students for going, but they feel that others are just as mhch entitled to a discharge as a student and it need not be surprising if there are a number of resignations among the officers and a demand for a discharge among the men.
None/ of the Indiana, outfits is up to the regulation in the number of men, and if the recruiting officers can not fill in the quota, there is a possibility that Indiana may lose a regiment. It might be that the men from one regiment may be consolidated into the other two regiments and it is not beyond the possibility that unless the Indiana regiments should be filled, an Indiana regiment might be made pare of an Ohio or a Kentucky o’r a Wisconsin brigade and Indiana thus would lose its identity, it would be a unit in a brigade, instead of a brigade of itself. So it was good news when the men here received the word that politicians who have been ap-
FARMERS SHOULD RAISE SHEEP
Recent Embargo Placed Upon Wool by English Government Will Cause Shortage in United- States. As is the case in many other lines of, industry the price of wool has been sent skyward by the European war. The embargo placed upon wool by the English government has caused a shortage of wool in this country and American manufacturers are facing a most perplexing problem. America’s finest woolens have been obtained from Austrialia in the past years, but with the coming of the European war the English government found: it necessary to place an embargo on wool to other countries needing nearly the entire output of wool for their own use. Next to cotton wool is the most important material in the production of clothing. The quality of wool has been greatly improved in the last few years due to careful breeding and crossing of fine wooled with long woolen breeds. Wools are graded on the basis of length of staple fineness, luster, elasticity, color and etc. In talking to a Rensselaer professional man we are asked why Jasper county farmers did not carry on sheep raising on a greater plane. The gentleman in question is not a farmer, but has made a careful study of the different lines of industries that have been affected by the European war, and ventures an opinion that Jasper county farmers would be well repaid if they would give sheep raising a trial.
A clothing merchant stated that the price of wool was at the present time about 35 cents a pound and that it would probably go considerably higher, and also stated that when people came to buying woolen clothing in the future they would be confronted by higher prices. We are told that a single will produce about 10 pounds of wool in a year, which would net about $3.50 a head to the owrier at the present time, which added to their market value would give the farmer a neat little sum from each sheep produced. The upkeep of these animasl is small, and they require but little attention and we believe that the farmers of Jasper county wil find sheep raising a mighty profitable venture in the future.
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pointed by Adjutant-General Bridges as recruiting officers have been fired by the wAr department and real recruiting officers placed in their stead. There are some vacancies among the officers in the Indiana brigade, and these are to be filled by Bridges and Governor Ralston, but there is a check on them. An army examlng board, made up of regular army officers, has been formed and this board will pass on the ability and qualifications of the appointments made by General Bridges and Governor Ralston and those who can not come up to the requirements of the war department will not get commissions.
Company I, Third regimen};, of Plymouth, carried off the honors >n Major Healey’s battalion yesterday. After an hike it received a perfect score and Captain James H. Cannon, the company commander, who has been assiduous in putting the company into shape, was complimented by all his superior officers. The Plymouth company rapidly is becoming the pride of the Third regiment. When First Lieutenant C. Arthur Tuteur, adjutant of Major Healey’s battalion, Third regimetn, came here longed for his dear old Rensselaer. Now you would hardly know him. He is getting fat, is the picture of health and likes the work immensely. He has a photograph from Madison on his desk and declares it to be his Inspiration.
SHOWED THAT HIS JUDGMENT WAS RIGHT
Pete McDaniels Gives a Demonstration That Was a Surprise Even to Himself. This is not a paid advertisement, which is not saying that it should not be paid for, however. You all know Pete McDaniels. He is a thrifty old soul. In fact his thrift is whht has made him the owner of one of the best 100-acre farms in Wheatfield township. So a few days ago when he got a circular describing the “Speedier,” a device riiich when attached to an automobile, is guaranteed to slave from 20 to 40 per cent of gasoline and which they agreed to send on 33 days’ trial,.with the privilege of returning if not as represented, Pete filled out the card and in due time the “Speedier” came along and he had it attached to his Maxwell. He thought after trying it a few days that it was a gas saver, but was not altogether certain, but was so well satisfied with it that he secured the agency for the sale of the “Speedier.”
In order to fully satisfy himself and other skeptics, at the latters’ suggestion,’ today he arranged a test that would demonstrate one way or another whether the device had any merits. He drained his.gasoline tank at the Central Garage and then placed in the tank a gallon of gasoline, taking along another gallon to put in the tank when the first gallon was used. Taking as passengers the writer, Harry Parker and A. D. Gilson, of the Central Garage, he connected the “Speedier" and started on the Monon road, intending to go as far as the gallon of gasoline would carry the car. At the Monon school building the speedometer registered 20 miles and the car was still going. Keeping straight ahead the car proceeded eastward until it crossed the Big Monon river, when the road turned north towards Buffalo and the car was still going on that gallon of gasoline. After proceeding about a halfmile further thd car stopped, the gasoline having become exhausted. The speedometer showed that the car had traveled 23.9 miles on the single gallon of gasoline. The car was then turned around by hand and another gallon of gasoline put in the tank for the return journey home over the same route. The
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“Speedier” was then detached and the car started under normal .conditions. As on the first trip the car was run at an average speed of about 20 miles an hour. The miles were clipped off with the motor running smoothly and Pete gob shaky in the legs as milts after mile was reeled off and the car began getting nearer home, Pete being afraid that the car would pass right through Rensselaer on the Second gallon. But suddenly it came to a stop, and investigation showed that not a drop of gas remained in the tank. The speedometer showed that on the second gallon a distance of only 15.8 miles had been traveled, or 8.1 miles less on the second gallon than on the first. Pete then broke into a smile, for his judgment was vindicated. He had never before been aJble to get much more than 15 miles to a gallon of gasoline, and here with an investment of $5 he had been able to increase his mileage about 50 per cent. Pete is now going ahead and will sell these little “Speedelrs” to» ail who want them, for he feels he has found a good thing that will help solve the gasoline problem. They sell for $5 under a 30 day trial and fully guaranteed, with no money down until they have ben tried and if not satisfactory they can be returned.
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