Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1916 — Page 1

No. 204.

GAYETY Tonight ■ *•*';»' ‘ ■. - ■ | LAWRENCE TRIO The Nifty Three Singers, Talkers, Dancers Featuring the latest song hits, also Buck and Wijig and Society Dancing Regular Program of Pictures 5 & 15c.

THE WEATHER. Generally fair today and Saturday.

Nelson, the Hatter.

Operates the best equipped plant for blocking, finishing, renovating and remodeling men’s hats. Firstclass work, reasonable charges. All work done in your home town. Factory at McKay’s Laundry, Rensselaer, Ind. Out of town orders solicited.

School Soon Starts Come to this Sale

Duvall’s Quality Shop , August 26th to September 2nd Now is the chance of a lifetime for the Mothers to purchase the boys’ and youths’ school suits, waists, shirts, stockings, hats, caps. On August 26 we will start this big money saving sale and it will pay every boy in the county to fit himself out from head to foot.

$5.00 Suits for $3.49 $6.00 Suits for $6.50 Suits for $7.00 Suits for - $4.98 $7.50 Suits for $5.49 SB.OO Suits for $5.98 $8.50 Suits for - $6.49 $9.00 Suits for 'slo.oo Suits for - - $6.98 SIO.OO Long Trouser Suits for. $7.00 $12.00 Long Trouser Suits f0r—....58.00 Any Wash Suit or Rompers for 29c

DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP C. EARL DUVALL Phone 411 Rensselaer, Indiana

The Evening Republican.

WHO WILL BE JASPER COUNTY QUEEN?

Queen to Be Selected From Each County in State for County Day in Centennial Celebration. The camical of the counties, scheduled as a feature of the celebration of Indiana’s centennial, in Indianapolis for the 6th day of October, is going to weld Hoosierdom’s ninety-two counties into a genuine brotherhood of happiness. The program for that day, which will be featured by an address by William H. Taft, fonner president of. the United Statesj *t the coliseum, takes on a glow as the days pass. The centennial commission is receiving enthusiastic letter? approving the idea of holding S carnival of the counties in which each of the ninety-two counties can exhibit her fairest daughter, a county queen, and bring all “us folks” together to prove that she indeed is the fairest. The plan is to have each county to

select a queen and send her to Indianapolis to ride in triumph in the carnival of the counties pagent, is going to give each county an opportunity to show the stuff that is in it. The scheme is to have a voting contest for queen in each county, vutes selling at ten cents each. The money derived from the election will be used in providing the queen with a gaily bedecked float, chariot or other conveyance for use as a royal equipage for display. Out of the array, of ninety-two counties comes a queen of Indiana. She will be selected according to the votes registered by her county. The queen receiving the 'highest number of votes according to the population of the county vvill be selected as a queen of Indiana by the centennial commission. That will mean that the young woman who ran second in her county will be the county queen of that county. It is to be hoped that Jasper county does not fail to take an active part in

Big Sale On Boys’ and Youths’ School Suits at

50c Knickerbocker Trousers for 39e 75c Knickerbocker Trousers for 54c SI.OO Knickerbocker Trousers f0r......76c $1.25 Knickerbocker Trousers f0r......89e $1.50 Knickerbocker Trousers for 98c $2.00 Knickerbocker Trousers for $1.37 STOCKINGS FOR THE BOYS 25c Grade for 19e 15c Grade for L_ 11c BOYS’ WAISTS 50c Grade for 39c Boys’ SI.OO Hats for 76c Boys’ $1.50 Hats for _ $1.09 •Boys’ SI.OO Caps for 76c Boys’ 50c Caps for 39c

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916.

Surprise Party Given to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis are today moving to their new home in Union township. Last evening neighbors and friends to the number of fifty came in with well filled baskets, and a delightfulVicnic supper was served in the yard. Many of the neighbors were people who were living in the neighborhood thirty years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Willis moved here. After the supper the rest of the evening was spent in a social way, the older members relating incidents of the earlier days. Mr. Willis for years had a gun shop just south of his’home. Later he moved it up town where he engaged in the repairing of bicycles and automobiles, which occupation he followed until a few years ago. Recently he sold his property "to Miss Katie Shields and has since built a modem five room house on a small tract of ground across the road from his daughter’s home, Mrs. Leslie Alter, in Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have been good neighbors as was indicated by the large number who came out to spend thd evening with them and to wish them a long and happy life in their new home.

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lally Died in Michigan City.

Word has been received here of the death of Miss Belle Lally, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Lally, formerly of Remington, and quite w T ell known in Rensselaer. Miss Lally w r as a niece of Mrs. G. M. Robinson of this city. Miss Lally had been in a sanitarium at Indianapolis for a mental disorder with which she had been afflicted since December. The funeral was held at Michigan City on last Saturday.

this queen business and should send her fairest daught-r to the state capital for a chance at the honor of becoming queen of the state. Get in line Jasper and show Indiana that our daughters rank second to none in the state.

It Will Save You Money at This Sale

HOOSIERS WILL DO RIVER GUARD DUTY

Companies A and B, of Second Regiment, Will Be Stationed at Santa Maria and Mercedes. Mercedes, Texas, August 23.—Unless heavy rains prevents, the Indiana troops will go on river guard duty Thursday morning. The troops detailed for that service are Companies A and B, cf the Second regiment, and Major Dreisbach, of Fort Wayne, will be in command, while Captain Holland, of the Second infantry, will be chief medical officer. The troops, in detachments, will be stationed at San Benita pump, Rabb’s ranch near Santa Maria and at Mercedes pump, while the headquarters will be at Harlingen. The troops will be transported in army trucks, twenty-five soldiers to a truck, and the officers will go in automobiles. The supplies will be transported by truck also. Captain Holland will be required, as chief medical officer, to visit each detachment every day and that means a ride on horseback of twenty miles and a fair target for any Mexican across the river who feels like sniping an American soldier. The soldiers have orders to return any fire if they are shot at, and they may see real life before they get back to Llano Grande. Anyhow, they will have some real soldier life for they will have no shower baths, no ditches and drains, no shelter tents to sleep in and will have to drink river water and eat the army field rations, of which hardtack is a prominent part and cold boiled potatoes, carried in a haversack as desert.

Captain Holland has issued orders that the water they use must be boiled. Major Dreisbach has announced that none of the soldiers when they go swimming must forget and land on the Mexican side. To relieve the monotony, the troops have been supplied with fishing lines , and some of them have small target rifles with which to kill the small game that abounds in this locality. This is the beginning of the guard duty the Indiana troops will do along 4 the border. Each outfit sent will remain two weeks and in time after ail have been hardened to the service, it is expected that the soldiers from Indiana will be placed along the river for at least 100 miles. Some of the officers say that when the river guards get back to Llano Grande they will think the camp a paradise compared with what they will have along the river.

Mercedes and Llano Grande still are outside the line of telegraph communication, and it is said that the wires will not be in working order for at least a week. Many telegrams for Indiana soldiers came here from San Antonio and Houston by delayed mail, and the only way a telegram may be sent from this district is to use a courier and the mail to some telegraph station. Of course, this causes a great deal of annoyance and -not a little anxiety, but the telegraph and railroad companies have an army of men at work trying to open a line of communication with the north.

The Indianapolis ambulance company members are contemplating the printing of a weekly paper, to be called the Cook Shack Gazette, for the purpose of publishing all the rumors that are heard about the camp. Sergeant Baker, of the band, has been suggested as editor, prviate Mntthewson assistant editor, and private Frank Jackson as city editor and reporter. The feeling exists that Baker, Matthewson and Jackson can gather more rumors in ten minutes than the ordinary denizen of Llano Grande can pick up ilf a day’s busy activity. Lieutenant Sidney Miller, of Battery A, did not apply for a commission in the regular army, as had been reported. He is perfectly satisfied with army life as he finds it in the outfit to which he belongs. Private Ferdinand A. Brown, of Battery C, of Lafayette, has been discharged from the national guard under the dependent relative order and will leave today for his home. Geo. Peterson, a mechanic, of Battery C, Lafayette, worked in his bare feet while building a mess shack. The sun burned his feet so he can not get his shoes on and he is laid up for repairs.

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. ' FRESH FISH " Halibut, catfish, yellow pike, herring white fish.—Osborne Floral Co. Phone 439. Anna F. Turfler, Osteopath'.

WILL OF GEORGE E. HOSMER PROBATED

Entire Estate Goes to Nephews and Neice in East.—George Seabury Executor. The last will and testament of the late George E. Hosmer has been filed for probation in the Jasper circuit court. The will was made by Mr. Hosmer on January 12, 1914. Jhe will provides for the entire estate, both real and personal, shall go to George E. Seabury and Samuel Seabury, nephews, and niece formerly Mollie Seabury and Elizabeth Guthrie. The will is as follows: That all just debts and burial expenses be paid out of the estate. He directs that his executors sec that he is buried upon the lot which he owns in Weston cemetery, Rensselaer, Indiana, and not elsewhere. He directs that hi sexecutor procure and have erected at his grave a suitable monument to his memory, but restricts them to an expenditure not exceeding SI,OOO in procuring and placing said monument complete, unless there has been one erected previous to his death. All of the rest, residuo, and remainder of said estate, both real and personal, of whatever kind and wherever situated he v/ills, devise and bequeath to-w'it: An undivided one-half of the same to my namesake George E. Seabury, and to his heirs and assigns forever, { and the other undivided one-half to Samuel Seabury, his nephew, his neice, ' formerly Mollie Seabury and Elizabeth Guthrie, and their heirs and assigns share and share alike. He directs that George E. Seabury, his nephew, be appointed executor of lis last will and testament.

Remington Press Says Neighboring Towns Are Tired of Chautauquas.

The following article taken from the current issue of the Remington Press, commenting on the Chautauqua held in Rensselaer this year: “Rensselaer has about decided that they do not want a Chautauqua again next year. At any rate they are through with the Lincoln combination as are nearly every town around who have had them in the past. The fact is that they have lasted a year longer already than we ever supposed they would.

“There is only one real end to that class of entertainment, and that is to freeze out. They were never intended for anything but a money maker for the promotors and all the towns that took them on got out of it was to guaamtee the bureau something like a thousand dollars, and be obliged to listen to a bunch of has-beens that could be engaged cheap. For instance they featured such talent as Hobson, who had been here years ago, and whom no one cares to see or bear. Battis, one of the former talent, and a number of others who were live men once in the work, but are now relagated to the cheaper ranks. “Rensselaer people, we understand, are rather sore on the class of stuff handed them this year and are talking of renting a tent and buying their own talent next year. Brook, Fowler and Oxford and nearly_all surrounding towns, lost money this year on the chautauquas and are not signing new contracts, and the Lincoln people will have to hunt new fields if they want business.”

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Captain Koenig, of Deutschland, Honored By Germany.

Almost every German building of importance are decked with flags in celebration of the safe return of the sub-liner Deutschland to Germany. The newspapers give the exploit of Captain Koenig the prominent place in the editorial column and discuss the possibility of the empire getting certain needed materials through merchant submarines. Captain Koenig and his crew have-been feted as heroes. The press gives liberal praise to the fair and neutral conduct of the United States while the Deutschland was anchored at the U. S. port. As soon as it was learned about a week ago that the Deutschland was making good progress to Germany the sistership Bremen was allowed to leave the German port. It is expected that the Bremen will arrive in the United States some time in the early part of September.

Monon Section Men to Resume Work September 1st.

The section men at Monon and other places, who have been on a strike for the past several weeks, will return to work at an advance of 15 cents a day over their former pay. The leaders of the walkout at McCoysburg, it is said, after lining up the men at other places and getting them to quit work returned to their own tasks mad since have continued on the job at the old scale of $1.60 a day. This makes the second increase for the section men following the strike.

I sell the Velvet, the perfect ice cream, at 25 cents per quart. Will deliver. Phone 463. —Henry Nevill. I will be in Rensselaer three days of each week to buy all kinds of good horses. CAII or write Padgitt's barn. —Lon Peuler.

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