Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — Page 1

No. 200.

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FIELD AGENT MAKES ESTIMATE OF CROPS

United States Department of Agriculture Issues Statement for August. Acording to estimates made by Geo. C. Bryant, field agent for Indiana, United States department of agriculture, Newton county this year will produce 60,000 bushels of wheat, 19,000 bushels of rye, 1,927,000 bushels of oats, 2,402,000 bushels of com, and 18,000 tons of hay,, a pretty good showing for one of the smallest counties in the state when reckoned by the number of tillable acres. Continuing further the report says: “The past month has not been all that was desired by the farmers, but taking everything into consideration, there really should be little complaint. It was almost ideal for the harvest; wheat, rye and cats were out and thrashed under the most favorable conditions. Hay too, was put away in fine shape. Generally speaking, the wheat will easily grade No. 2. The oats are light, but the hay crop is the largest in years. “The severe drought prevailing throughout the month has done some damage to the corn, but taking the crop as a whole, it was more benefitted than damaged. Showers have occurred since the first of August in the sections where most needed and now there seems to be no immediate danger of extensive damage. “Buckwheat is not one of the prin-

cipal crops of the state, but it may be interesting to note that a considerable larger acreage is out this year with a very good stand and promising good returns. “Practically all vegetable crops suffered from the extreme heat, but excessive damage was not reported from any particular locality. “The frui#crops are not as good as last year. This is due principally to unseasonable weather in the early part of the season. “The melon crop has made wonderful progress during the month. The hot,- dry weather being just what was needed. Conditions in the melon district are exceptionally good as prespart of the season.

Removal of Junk Business.

I have rented a business room onehalf block north of Bacock & Hopkins’ elevator, facing the Rensselaer Lumiber Co., where I will hereafter carry on my junk business, paying the highest market price for rags, paper, iron, rubber and all kincL of metal, copper, brass, zink, aluminum, lead, copper wire, light copper, copper boilers, etc. Bring me your 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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RUNS PAPER IN TOWN OF ONLY FIFTY PEOPLE

North Dakota Publisher Claims Record for Issuing Weekly in t Smallest Community. Fargo, N. D., Aug. 21.—The question of how big a town must be before it will suport a newspaper cannot be measured until you know the man who is to run the newspaper. S. Th. Westdal has made good in a North Dakota town of 50 people and claims a record in this class. Charlson is about 30 miles from the Great Northern railroad and was settled by white people about 1893. Besides the newspaper it has two banks, a general store, a restaurant and grocery, a doctor and land office. It claims the distinction of being the richest town on earth if bank deposits are to be taken as a criterion, as they stand at $1,997 per capita. The Journal was started in 1907 and was acquired by the present owner in 1911. Its early life was supported by final land proofs, but of late years this feature has grown less and the paper today is a paying proposition on a purely business basis. The subscription price is $1.50 per year and nobody objects to paying it, as M». Westdal makes it worth it. This publisher was bom in Iceland of pure Viking stock in 1873. He has worked in the government printing office, was a Minnesota publisher for a .time and has served one term in the North Dakota legislature.

PLAN HOME COMING AND HORSE SHOW

Mt, Ayr to Have a Two-Day Celebration. —A Grand, Big, Old-Fash-ioned Gala Time. Plans have been laid and arrangements made to hold a good old-fash-ioned home coming and horse show at Mt. Ayr Friday and Saturday, September 22nd and 23rd. A liberal list of premiums have been arranged for the horse show. Some clean, wholesome attractions booked and every effort will be made to make all visitors thoroughly enjoy these two days in Mt. Ayr. Conveniences for rest will be provided in our beautiful park. A band will keep things lively both days, and merchants and business men will put forth every effort to show all visitors that they are as down to the minute in Mt. Ayr as any other place. Visitors and home-comers will find the most loyal, best natured cl,ass of citizens they ever got among when they strike Mt. Ayr. Watch for the programs, hand bills and booster brigade which will appear soon.

Jasper County Germans to Take Part in Celebration.

Lake county’s German-Hungarian Red Cross society will have the societies of Porter and Jasper counties as aids in the celebration of German day, Sunday, August 27, at HammOnd, when Dr. Herman Gerhard, one of the noted speakers of the country, will make the principal address. There will be a street parade, starting at Oakley and State streets, led by three bands. There will be racing and fireworks at Kindel’s grove. The German societies of St. John, Crown Point, Hanover Center, Valparaiso and other places are planning to attend in a body. F. C. Miler, secretary, stated that he expects between 8,000 and 10,000 x people present at the celebration.

W. L. Wood Asked to Speak During Fall Campaign.

W. L. Wood, of Parr, state representative, has been asked to make stump speeches this fttll to aid in the republican national campaign, and has also been invited to attend the Fairbanks day at Indianapolis on the 31st of August when Mr. Fairbanks will be notfied of his nomination on the republican ticket for the vice presidency of the United States. Mr. Wood was in Indianapolis last Thursday and attended the republican banquet and heard James P. Goodrich, republican nominee for governor, in his opening address.

Dental Notice. I will be absent from the city until August 28, and my office will be closed during that time. My patients and those desiring my services will please take notice. DR. W. L.MYER.

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IMPORT NURSES TO FIGHT N. Y. EPIDEMIC

New Educational Campaign Against Dreaded InfantHe Disease Is Inaugurated. New ork, Aug. 22. —The importation of .thirty additional nurses from Canada and the beginning of a new educational campaign gave added evidence that the department of health regards the fight against infantile paralysis as only begun. Fluctuations in the new case list and the death list, now up and now down, mean nothing, department officials declare. Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo notified the department that, in answer to its plea, permission had been obtained for thirty nurses from Canada to enter the country. These nurses were engaged last week but held up by immigration authorities because of the statute barring persons under contract. The urgency of the case impelled the bureau of immigration, a part of Mr. McAdoo’s to waive the law, for the first time in many years. The thirty nurses are expected to be of great aid in the fight. New cases in Greater New York numbered 133, thirty less than on Tuesday, while the deaths numbered 34, five less than a the previous c’hy. Total cases to date 6,655; total deaths, 1,497.

The President’s Apeal.

“The country cannot live if the means of keeping alive its vitality are interfered with. The lives and fortunes of 100,000,000 men, women, and little ones —many of whom may die — depend upon what may be done in this room. “I appeal to you as # one American citizen to another to avert this disaster.” —Woodrow Wilson to the railroad men. Washington, August 21. —President Wilson and the unions, on the one hand, and the railroad executives, on the other, are deadlocked tonight in the railway wage dispute. Events within the next forty-eight hours, it is expected, will determine whether tjiere is to be a general railroad strike on the 225 transportation lines of the country. There remains the feeling that in the end the roads, pressed to the limit, will submit to the president’s dictum. The president called the executives, together with the new arrivals, to the white house this afternoon and uttered an appeal that was as impressive as he could make it to accept the eight hour day settlement plan which he has presented to the carriers with the approval of the unions. “We are both acting as trustees of great interests,” he said. “I am willing to allow this matter to go to the great American jury and let them assess the responsibility.” - 7 “The responsibility of failure, he added defiantly, “will not rest with me.” The railway officials departed from the white house without expressing any opinions to the president and after a protracted conference among themselves issued a public statement which while voicing objections to the terms proposed by the president does not reject them. The executives contend in their statement that public opinion will indorse their stand on the principle of arbitration, which the president has set aside.

Grain Will Rot on the Sidetracks in Event of Strike.

Loss of millions of dollars in crops throughout the U. S. was the main possibility before the administration Monday. Agents of the federal reserve department in the southwest and northwest are beginning to ask for funds for the annual crop moving. A tie-up of the railroads would mean tftat wheat and other products now ready for the mills would be held up indefinitely and possibly rot on the sidetracks if stopped in progress. This angle of the threatened strike was borne home to officials not only by reports from the treasury department but by arrivals of western railroad presidents. More than two score railroad presidents and the six hundred and forty brotherhood representatives held separate meetings to continue discussions of President Wilson’s proposals looking towards peace.

Notice. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and their friends wishing to attend Odd Fellows Day at Fountain Park Friday, August 25, or those who have conveyances and care to take one or more who have no conveyance, call or phone to Geo. E. Collins, No. 429.—Committee on Arrangements.

BREAD COST PROBE DEPENDS ON INQUIRY

Federal Commissioner Seeks Data in Chicago on the Subject. Washington, August 22.—Whether there shall be a federal investigation of the high cost of flour and prospective increases in bread prices depends largely upon the report of Commissioner Hurley, now in Chicago making informal Inquiries for the federal trade commission. The quietness and yet the energy with which the investigation has been carried on by the government officials, indicate their belief that the high price of wheat at present, with the resulting $8.40 a barrel flour, is not due entirely to crop shortage, as the board of trade operators declare. Mr. Hurley went to Chicago particularly to seek definite information at the headquarters of the National Bakers' association concerning statesments during the association’s convcntitn at Salt Lake City that the price of broad soon would be increased. Officials of the commission said, however, that they would look into the general question of flour and bread prices. Copies of a resolution passed by the Master Bakers at Salt Lake City, calling on congress to place an embargo on flour exports, were received by mail by Vice President Marshall and Speaker Clark. They will be presented to both houses later, but there is no prospect of action on them. The constitutionality of import embargoes long has been a moot question.

Guard Will Stay On Duty While Danger Lasts.

The national guard will be retained on the border until it can be Withdrawn without endangering American lives and property. Secretary Baker so declared the administration’s policy Monday in answering a score of letters from many parts of the country complaining that the state troops were being held in service after the emergency for which they were called apparently had passed. In general, the complainants, whose names were withheld, allege that border service was entailing loss financially on militiamen and hardships on their families. The secretary replied to all those seeming to merit attention. By it% presence on the border, he wrote to one, the guard is “winning bloodless victories daily.” He declared that American residents along the international line were enjoying a peace and security they could not know when the military forces were not protecting them. The department appreciates, Mr. Baker said in another letter, the fact that a call for military service upon militia organiaztions must inevitably present causes for hardship. The emergency, however which required this call for militia, was one of a grave character, affecting the safety of lives of citizens of the United States —men, woman and children. So soon as a state of order on the border justifies it these troops will be returned to their homes, he wrote. “In the meantime it is not possible for the department to say how soon a situation may arise, although the Mexicans situation is one of increasing hopefulness.”

Leasing of Pier Indicates That Another Sub-Liner Will Arrive.

Captain Cullison, of the tug Hansa, formerly of the Thomas F. Timmons, stated that it is true that the Eastern Forwarding ompany, to which the cargo of the Deutschland was assigned, has leased a pier at New London, Conn. Previous reports that such a step would be taken, in anticipation of the arrival there of the Bremen, sister ship to the Deutschland, have been denied. It was reported in German circles here today that the Hansa, which conveyed the Deutschland in American waters, would go to New London before the end of the month and that much of the movable property of the Eastern Forwarding Company would be taken there from Baltimore. According to the report the'Bremen left a German port August 14.

Double Funeral Services Held for Automobile Victims.

Joint funeral services of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dobbins were conducted at the Dobbins home in Wolcott this Tuesday morning, and were in charge of Rev. Caldwell, of Crawfordsville, former pastor of the Wolcott Baptist church. Immediately after the services at the home the funeral cortege started for Monticcllo and a double interment was made in Riverview cemtery. ' ,

Property at Public Sale. -i _______ I will sell my property at the north end of Franklin street at public auction on Saturday, August 26th. Anyone wanting to see the property before this , date should call upon Harvey Davisson. —Andrew CoffeL

TELLS OF GREAT TEXAS HURRICANE

Indiana Soldiers Struck By Tail End of Texas Storm—Much Damage Done. Mercedes, Texas, August 20.—The author of the atrocity that it never rains in Texas is an unmitigated falsifier and the truth is not in him. The Indiana troops have been in Texas forty-two days and for thirty-eight of those days the rain fell on them. In addition to the rainstorms, the Hoosters have been lashed by the tail of a hurricane that is a part of Texas life, and it will be good news to the home folk to know that none of the Indiana soldiers got even so much as a scratch. In the forty-two days the Indiana troops have been here they have passed through all the vicissitudes of war except being sick on an army transport or engaged .in an actual battle. They have sweltered in railroad cars and been in railroad wrecks; they have dodged murderous rattlesnakes and have been stung by hideous scorpions; they have chopped down trees and put up buildings; they have fought mosquitoes and gnats, and been bitten by spiders; they have dug ditches and built roads; they have crushed tarantulas and they have swatted flies; they have dared typhoid, malaria, typhus and smallpox, and they have enjoyed the pleasures of dengue fever; they have slept on the damp ground, slumbered on army cots and tossed in army hospitals; they have crunched hard tack and dined on cold boiled potatoes. They have marched in the mud and drilled under the fierceness of a tropical sun; they have been tired and hungry and thirsty; they have been tired and homesick; they have been speared by cactuses and stabbed by Spanish bayonets; they have been kicked by the army mule and ditched by the army truck, and the same spirit that actuated them at Fort Harrison prevails with the great majority of them now. But they never saw such a sudden change from tranquility to tumult as they found in that Texas hurricane. Atmospheric conditions unlike anything they ever experienced prevailed on the morning of the storm. The sky was dark gray, with here and there patches of muddy black and filled with somber clouds tinged with yellow as if reflecting a conflagration.

These clouds floated about on a gentle wind from the northwest in the direction of the gulf and not from the gulf, as one naturally would imagine. The air was cool and pleasant and there seemed to be nothing the matter with the morning except a little sprinkle of rain that must be regarded as part of a perfect day in this part of Texas. A sudden chill appeared to strike the camp and the wind began wailing among the mesquite while the flowers and plants bent to the breeze. The wail became a shriek and the plants bowed to the ground and the clouds idling about the heavens dashed together in one black moss and the water came tumbling down as if from the rip by a great knife. All previous showers that have fallen on the Indiana troops were as sprinkles and all previous winds were gentle zephyrs. There was no thunder, no lightning, but just a hurrying, scurrying mass of clouds riding a gale and emptying an ocean of water on the camp. From across the railroad was heard the weird note of a bugle sounding the artillery recall and through the slanting sheets of water came Battery A, of Indianapolis, mounted on their horses, soldiers every one of them and unmindful of the whistling wind and the flood. They seemed to be a Frederic Remington picture stepped from the canvas into real life. About the camp guy ropes were hauled taut and weights added, tent curtains were dropped and anchored. There was no panic, no excitement, and the line between officer and man had been oblitered by the tempest. The mules, from long experience in the army, stood apart and faced the wind —there is nothing on earth that can beat an army mule sizing up the right situation.

All day, from nine in the morning until after nine at night, the wind bowled along from forty to sixty miles an hour and the rain fell in torrents. The tornado smashed in the windows and tore the shutters from the office of the camp quarters. It tore down a windmill about seventy-five feet from the headquarters of General Lewis, just barely missing crushing two soldiers that were buffeting the elements. * n Trees were lifted out of the ground and many tents were flattened and a few blown across the camp. The bedding and clothing of the soldiers were soaked with water. You have seen the dust' flying through a street on a

BRITISH SEARCH AMERICAN SHIPS

Cargoes Consigned to Blacklisted Firms Are Seized. Washington, August 22.—The state department has been informed that British cruisers in the Pacific have intercepted merchant ships bound for American ports with cargoes owned or believed to be owned by Anna on the British blacklist. This is the first instance reported to the state departmen of the arrest of ships and removal therefrom of goods under the provisions of the blacklist decree. Department officials said the interference with the American commerce occurred in the Pacific ocean and that the vessels were destined to the Philippine islands. They believe it forecasts Great Britain’s intention of extending her practice under the trading with the enemy act to include the seizures of cargoes bound for ports in the United States. It is considered practically certain that -Great Britain’s reply to the American blacklist protest will be a reassertion of its claimed right to war upon American bommeree wherever shat commerce is conducted by firms whose names are on the allies’ blacklist. * It was stated that British cruiesrs are patrolling the waters near Penang, west of the Malay Peninsula, on the. route to the Philippines. It was in these waters that vessels with cargoes consigned to persons in the Philippines were arrested and goods of alleged blacklist connection confiscated. The official who gave this information said: “This new phase of Britain’s conduct is based on two grounds: First, Great Britain has not settled with us with the principle cf the blacklist; second, Great Britain seemingly asserts the right to stop neutral vessels and take off so-called ‘tainted’ cargoes. By the same logic she can stop American ships and take off cargoes consigned to American firms whose names are on the black list. “It is obvious that there is no trading blacklisted firms vessels of any nationality. The gravest issue in this controversy, therefore, is close at hand. It is absolutely certain that whatever we intend to say to Great Britain on the principle of the blacklist must be more to the point ?md more vigorous. “We must demand that she tell us whether or not she proposes to stop by force trading between American ports and the Philippines, which are a part of our own country.”

Band Stank Burns at Crown Point Fair; One Dead.

One of the most shocking accidents that ever occurred in Crown Point occurred on Saturday afternoon, resulting in the fatal burning of Max Kirchman, a small boy, when the band stand at the Lake county fair grounds was completely destroyed by fire. The fire started in a nearby tent containing the remains of the stock of fireworks used in the free exhibitions in the fair program. The fire is suposed to have been started by small boys.

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windy day with scraps of paper whirling and tossing in the air. Well, that was the scene in the camp except that the dust was rain and the whirling objects in the air were chunks of wood, branches of trees, soldiers’ hats and soldiers’ underwear, soldiers’ shoes, soldiers’ shirts. One amber colored shirt soared a good half mile from the camp of the First Indiana and so tiJJeu wren water ■was it that when it plunked cio./n on the mess shack of Battery C it sound-, ed like a Jack Dillon smash oh a punching bag. Several mess shacks were leveled and one in the First Minnesota crumpled with fifteen men inside of it, but no one was hurt. When the storm was over lakes two feet deep covered many parts of-the camp and a rushing stream four feet deep tore along what is called Broadway, where the shows and, concessions are situated.

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