Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1916 — Page 1

No. 290.

PTHE 0 HINGES u TONIGHT J. Warren Kerrigan IN * “The Gay Lord Waring” Blue Bird 5 Acts. 5 and 10c

Furniture and Piano Repairing.

Since Mr. Green has moved away I have decided to do the kind of work formerly done by him, such as furniture and piano repairing, including revarnishing. Also piano tuning. Let me paint your auto this winter. H. R. LANGE. Phone 566. Two doors north of Rowles & Parker’s.

For the range we have the genuine Jackson Hill and cannel egg coal. — Hamilton & Kellner. t Watch our windows for -Xnias presents for “Him.”—'Hilliard & Hamill. New fall line oi goods are now in. Order that suit today and be prepared for fall. Also do dry cleaning and pressing.—John Werner. • 1

THE WEATHER. Fair Tuesday, slightly cooler south portion. Wednesday fair.

W 5 /Get a Can MKaR I TO-DAY IIEM I From Your / Hardware \ / or Grocery Dealer\

ELLIS OPERA HOUSE John B. Rogers Presents “Fi-Fi OF The Toy Shop” A Musical Fantasy in , Three Acts and Six Scenes Auspices of Charity Board 125 IN CAST 125 Tuneful music, pretty dances, laughs Splendid Orchestra Thursday and Friday Eve December 7 and 8 Tickets may be exchanged for reserved seat tickets at box office o opera house, starting Tuesday from 1 to sp. m. Make Your Reservation Now

MORTGAGE LOANS ' 0 • * rTO INVESTORS —We have for sale a carefully selected list of Mortgage Loans and other securities which will yield the highest rate of income that can be expected from conservative investment. TO BORROWERS —We are prepared to consider applications for Mortgage Loans in any amount, and have every facility for furnishing money on short notice, and on reasonable terms. WILLIAMS & DEAN ' Telephone No. 81 Odd Fellows Building Rensselaer, Indiana.

The Evening Republican.

COUNTY AGENCY STILL HANGS FIRE

Board of Education Still Undecided As to What Action to Take In County Agent Matter. The county board of education had before them the matter of selecting a county agricultural agent. t ' The trustees seem to be pretty much divided. Some are opposed to hiring an agent at all, while others who favor securing a man are onposed to the applicant endorsed by Purdue. The board at one time unanimously named a party for this place, but Purdue University turned him down. This was very much regretted by the'b'oard and they are in no hurry to endorse an applicant recommended by the university. x In face of the fact that the law requires that an appointment be mad' 1 , the question now before the board is to get a suitable man. Prof. Barret, who formerly occupied that position in this county did much to create a sentiment against the law. That he was not a suitable man is proven by the fact that he maed a total failure of his work in Steuben county and has been dismissed. County Superintendent Lamson, by authority of the board, appointed the following committee: Trustees Hammerton, Hopkins, Rush, Stephens and Kolhoff. This committee is to make a thorough investigation and when they find a suitable man they are to call for a meeting of the board to ratify or annul their selection. That a county agent would be a great benefit to the farmers of the county there can bo no question. Great improvement can be made in the quality and quantity of produce on an acre of land. We believe the people should get back of the board and when the appointment is made they should do everything possible to get the very best results. The Republican would be pleased to give space to the sentiment of farmers who desire to express thefmselves in regard to this matter.

LADIES, ATTENTION. For a Xmas present “HE” would surely like a beautiful Keiser necktie—sl, $1.50, s2.—Hilliard & Hamill. £ Hamilton & Kellner have in stock a few high class spreaders they can setl at the old price. See them before it is too late. I. 0. 0. F. Encampment No. 201. All members are requested to be present next Friday evening, Dec; 8, at 7:00 o’clock. Degree work. Refreshments and general good time. — E. W. Hickman, C. P. Watch our windows for Xmas presents for “Him.” —Hilliard & Hamill.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916. > ‘ A-

The New Editor of The Republican

MONEYHUN GIVEN ROAD CONTRACT

I. W. Moneyhun, of Monticello, Successful Bidder On Road to Be Built in Union Township. The contract for the Wood stone road in Union township was let this Tuesday afternoon at the county commissioners’ room in the court house. The lowest bidder was I. W. Moneyhun, of Monticello. His £id was as follows: Section No. 1 $17,426; Section No. 2 $5,399.75; Section 3, $13,204.00; Section 4, $1,345.00; Section 5, $12,149.00; or for the whole system, $48,524.35. . Other bids received were as follows: S. A. Brusnaham, of Union township, Section 4, $1,485; Firman Thompson, Section 3, $13,697; Mel Guild, of Medaryville, Section 5, $12,649; Thomas Callahan, Section 2, $6,003; Section 3, $13,810; Section 4, $1,485; Section 5, $12,303, or the entire system $51,494. Oris Salrin, of Walker township, bid as follows: Section 1, $17,994.50; Section 5, $12,290.80. The contract- provides for twentyfour miles of stone road in Union township. The road was voted on at an election held several weeks ago. The people of the community have long felt the need of a good road in this section and when finished all should be greatly benefited therefrom, as it is on the direct route from Chicago. The bid on this road was below the estimated cost and was very gratifying to the taxpayers of Union township. The estimated cost was in the neighborhood of $52,000.

Commissioners’ Court.

In the matter of the Hebron grade, bids were received as follows: William Brown, $4,475.00; R. H. & G. H. McWilliams, $3,984.00. The contract was let to McWilliams. In the matter of supplies for the county farm the bid of the G. E. Murray Company for dry goods for $53.22 was the only one offered. John Eger’s bid for groceries was the only one received and the amount was for $194.20.

Cold Wave Coming.

Equip your car for cold weather at Auto Equipment Co.

Corset covers and brassieres for Christmas. Jarrette has it. We ask you to share with us our great confidence in Ajax tires, 43 per cent more service. —Auto Equipment Co. If it’s a Xmas present for “HIM,” Hilliard & Hamill have it. Lyceum Dates. Roy Smith, lecturer, Dec. IS. Schildkret, orchestra, Jan. 5. Hagerman, lecturer, Feb. 8. Rob Roys, quartet, March 5. 17 SHOPPING DAYS Until X’mas. PLEASE don’t wait until the last moment. Our stock is now entirely complete and ready for you. Come early, you can now take your leisure and have complete assortments to choose from at Hilliard & Hamill’s. 50 new patterns in ladies’ collars. Splendid Christmas gifts. Jarrette has it

REAL FOOD SHORTAGE SAYS INSPECTOR

State Food Inspector Says That There Is a Real Shortage of Foodstuffs In Indiana. ,

Boycotts are mostly bosh and high food prices are not due to speculation, but to a real shortage in markets, says Harry E. Barnard, state drug and food inspector, who has completed an investigation of the food situation in Indiana. “All the hue and cry which is being heard in behalf of the consumer to- »elease alleged ‘comers’ on the food market is either caused by inaccurate or ill advised statements or by politicians who wish to make capital out of the situation,” he said. There are just 300 cases of eggs in storage in warehouses in Indiana, excluding one large storage plant at Indianapolis, according to reports make by investigators whom Mr. Barnard has sent through the state. This would afford about enough eggs for one breakfast for half the people of Indianapolis. After the first of the year there will be no eggs in cold storage and the egg supply will depend upon the disposition of the hen, and her disposition will be regulated by the-weath-er. If it is warm she will lay eggs. If it is cold she will not. And if she does not, then eggs will cease to exist at almost any price. - “Hens will not lay eggs at the behest of investigating committees; butter is not made from blue sky, or flour from any paged reports,” said Barnard. There may be other reasons for the high cost of living but the fundamental reason is the result of a poor year of production in all lines of food products, Mr. Barnard believes. It is simply a case of not enough supply to meet the demand. The coming of another season, with better harvests, may change the situation, but until that time there is little chance for any decrease in the general cost of living.

Shingle Famine In Rensselaer Broken At Last.

For the past several weeks many building operations have been at a standstill —that is as far as the roofs of the said buildings were concerned, for all of the local lumber dealers have been without singles and it was not until this week that they received any. In the meantime, many of the new buildings in Rensselaer had to go without their shingles.

Foresman Postmaster Sentenced To Atlanta Federal Prison.

Marion Pierson, former postmaster at Foresman, was sentenced to two years* imprisonment in the federal prison at Atlanta. The brief mention of this in today’s Indianapolis Star seys that, the offense was “refusing to remit government funds.” The fact that Pierson comes from one of the very best families in this part of'the state, makes the sentence a very sad one.

Attention Knights.

You are invited and urged to attend the meeting at the K. of P. hall tonight. Elmer L. Fuson, state representative of Endowment Rank; will be present. Be sure to be there. * j..

PRES. KURRIE FAVORS LONGER TERM

President of Monon Thinks President Should Be Elected For One Term of From 6 to 8 Years. The New York World has been conducting an inquiry among business men and railroad presidents, lawyers and as to whether their sentiment is favorable to longer terms for president, an< make their successful candidate ineligible for immediate re-election and lengthening the terms of congressmen from two to three years. Among the railroad presidents, fourteen favored the change and only one opposed it. President H. R. Kurrie, of the Monon »ailroad, says: “I believe the term of the president should be extended to six or eight years, and that he should not be qualified to succeed himself. Often efforts of the presit dent to accomplish something for the general good are defeated or greatly weakened through a feeling that his motive is political. We have a very striking illustration in the recent effort which led to the enactment of the Adamson law. However sincere the president may have been in his efforts a great many people hold the view that the prompting motive was political. «. “I think this high office should be placed on a plane as to avoid any question of motive except the welfare of the whole people, and this will be accomplished Jto a large extent by making him ineligible to succeed himself. “Any extension of the terms of office of the members of the house of representatives is desirable. There is no particular occasion, as things go now, for the disturbance of conditions that we have through election every two years.”

High Cost of Living Main Topic In Congress.

What to do about the high cost of living was the uppermost question in the minds of the congressmen when the sixty-.foui’th congress met for its final session Monday. In response to the outcries of the folks ba/!k home, the legislators introduced bills proposing various schemes for the bringing down of prices and discussed the causes of the present conditions and power of the government to provide remedies. With opinions of both houses overwhelmingly opposed to an embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs, the statesmen appeared to be floundering for a pancea. Sabbath, of Illinois, wants an invest’gation into the advances of of food, clothing, paper and coal and proposes monthly reports from cold storage warehouses.

Van Dyke Resigns As Minister to The Netherlands.

The first resignation from the diplomatic corps, which are expected to be forerunners of others as a consequence of President Wilson’s re-elec-tion and the closing of the first term, were announced today. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, minister to The Netherlands, has resigned and will probably be succeeded by John W. Garrett, of Baltimore, formerly minister to Argentina. Dr. Van Dyke, it was explained, has been concerned over his health for some time and desired to return to his literary work after being abroad nearly four years. The resignation of Thaddeus A. Thompson, minister to Colombia, and Wm. H. Homibrook, minister to Siam, also were announced.

This Should Interest The Male Citizens.

Girl waitresses serve the meals and collect the tips on the dining car of the Monon train which passes through here northbound in the afternoon. Girls as waitresses on dining car e are something new but they promise to be popular and it will probably not be long before other roads are following the example of the Monon. Two girl waitresses have been placed on train No. 38. Monday marked tha innovation of feminine service on dining cars. .

Purdue Short Course Is To Open Next Week.

Local who have been figuring on attending the short courses at Purdue this year, should prepare to leave in about five weeks. The short courses in Purdue will start about January 15th and w’ill last until March 9th. This is the eight weeks’ course. Later in the spring a short two weeks’ probably beheld as usual. The eight weeks’ coures includes instruction in agriculture, animal husbandry, dairying and home economics.

If it’s a Xmas present for “HIM,” Hilliard & Hamill have it. HEAR CARUSOT McCORMACK, MELBA, SCHUMAN-HEINK, PADEREWSKI, Alma, GLUCk, at FENDIG’- REXALL DRUG STORE.,

• JU. PROGRAM : Star Theatre Monday, Dec. 4th—Wallace Reed and Cleo Ridgely in “The Love Mask.” Tuesday, Dec. sth—Muriel Ostriche and Carlyle Blackwell in “Sally in (Siir Alley”. This is one to be remembered. Don’t miss this one. Wednesday, Dec. Cth—Florence Reed in “The Dancing Girl,” also Billy Burke in “Gloria’s Romance.” Thursday, Dec. 7th—Kathlyn Williams in a big special, “The Carpet From Bagdad.” Oriental. Friday, Dec. Bth—Marguerite Clark in “Molly Make Believe.” Saturday, Dec. 9th—Clara Kimball Young in “The Dark Silence.” 10c and sc. AT THE STAR

Indiana Soldiers to Be Given Welcome at the Capitol.

The Third Indiana Infantry, returning from the Mexican border, where it has been in the service of the country since early in July, will be given a rousing welcome on its arrival in Indianapolis. The regiment entrained at Llano Grande Monday and it is expected that they will reach Indianapolis Friday. The train is in two sections and they will return by way of New Orleans. Governor Ralston, appreciative of the service that the boys have rendered and the sacrifices they have made/is promotin gthe movement to have some public recognition given to the returning regiment. He has already arranged with the adjutant general of the state for bronze medals to be given by the state to all Indiana men who have seen service on the border. . >

Human Arsenal Runs Amuck, Wounding Three.

Mike Inik, of Whiting, Ind., a foreigner, ran amuck in the Hammond ' court Monday. Inick had labored under hallucinations that justice had been denied him and forthwith proceeded to shoot up the courtroom. He had on his pefson at the time four new revolvers, a razor-edged cavalry saber, a hatchet, a hammer, a long butcher knife, a heavy iron chain, a strong iron hook, a “jimmy,” a blackjack covered with cloth and studded with pins, 165 revolver bullets, a half loaf of dry bread and an armful of documents referring to his “case.” Under his street clothes Inik wore a crudely fashioned medeiaval armour suit made of sheet iron and stove pipe to cover his short, stocky frame from his neck to the soles of his seer. Altogether he carried about seventyfive pounds of junk about his perosn for offensive and defensive warfare. Wrapped in a separate bundle he had a homemade sheetiron hepd mask. Ten years ago, an employe of the Standard Oil Co., he sustained a fall from a scaffold. C. L. Greenwald, who sits on the bench, Lew Debow, court bailiff, and George Robbins, a juror, were the men, shot by the crank.

Regular Spring Electrical Storm in State Monday.

A regular spring electrical storm with thunder, lightning and hail, which finished with a rainbow’, which is something rare in December, swept through Indiana Monday, breaking records and smashing precedents for the month of December. The southern part of the state was harder hit than the northern, ami severe damage was suffered in some parts. In the vicinity of Cannelton, the damage was estimated at $10,009, caused by a bombardment of hail, which perforated tin roofs, killed rabbits, chickens and birds. The hail fell for nearly an hour, covering the ground to a depth of almost three inches.

Special to Lafayette Next Sunday For Hammond Game.

A special train from Hammond to Lafayette next Sunady will be run, in ordewthat football fans along the line may take advantage of the opportunity of seeing the Hammond ClabbyS in their game with the Pint Village eleven.

It pays to think of the Auto Equipment Co. when you think of auto supplies. School dresses, age 6 to 14, 75r to | |1.09. Jarrette has it., *

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