Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1916 — Page 3

This is the Christmas Store Here You Will Find Gifts for the Entire Family

Why not give: Father Bible Silk Hose in Xmasßox Necktie Humidor, Ash Tray Shaving Set Silk Suspender Sets Mother Fancy China Pictures Scarfs Handkerchiefs Fancy Work Embroideries, Etc. Toilet Sets Ivory Goods Aluminum Ware Fancy Lamp Fancy Glassware Bible

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REMINGTON.

Mrs. Scripter and daughter, Goldie, of Wolcott, were Remington shoppers Saturday. Mrs. Walter Rich, of GoodLanu, spent Saturday with relatives here. Miss Ruth Tribby apent Thursday with Miss Eva Sullivan at Wolcott. Adrian Foster spent several days last weak in Lafayette and Indianapolis. Mrs. Blanchard Elmore entertained the Dorcas club Thursday evening with a Christmas exchange. Mias Marguerite Johnson spent the week end with girl friends at Monticellt. . Miss Alice Walker came home Friday evening after a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. James Bell, at Goodland. IMiss Ethel Harris, who has been spending the week in Indianapolis, returned home Sdturdav. John Pepin returned home from Chicago Thursday after a several weeks’ visit with relatives. The Fortnightly Club met with Mrs. James Washburn Wednesday afternoon, where they held their Xmas exchange. Mrs. Geo. Banes, of Wolcott, spent Thursday with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Si Rice, of Delphi, came, Friday for a few days’ visit with relatives. Claud May is the owner of a new Overland. (Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Schuyler, of Wolcott, spent Saturday in Remington. 'Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom May, of east of town, Thursday, Dec. 14, a son. Chas. Elmore spent several days this week with his little son at Fort Wayne. High cost oTJiving (giving) not in eluded in Barker’s photos.

GLANDO GARGLE The Great Mouth, Nose and Throat Remedy Glando Gargle is a pleasant,- safe and reliable remedy for the, inflamed or congested mucus membrane of the mouth, nose and throat. It quickly relieves sore throat, cold in the lead, catarrhal conditions, and is a preventative for adenoids. Excellent for sore mouth in babies and_ relieves feverish gums in teething. Protect your child from diseases by keeping mouth, nose and throat in a clean, healthy condition. For sale by B. F. Fendig, Druggist. Order your calling card* uera.

Brother ‘Flash Lights American Builders Tinker Toy Sled, Tricycle Games, one of a thousand other games Books, Bibles, Etc. Knife, Hose Handkerchiefs 4 Sister Scarf and Cap Silk Scarf Toilet Set Ivory Goods Box Fancy H’d’k’fs. -Perfume, Vanity Case China, Glassware Picture Games, Toys, Books and Bibles ; •.

St. Joe to Open Basket Season Wednesday Eve.

On Wednesday evening, Dec. 20, at 8 o’clock, St. Joseph’s college will open the basketball season of 1916-17. The Y. M. P. C. team of Lafayette has been booked for the opening game 'the same as last yea.. The Lafayette boys were a strong aggregation last season, and there is every j reason to believe that they are in ! good, if not better, condition how. Otto Ricks, whom many will rememi ber as a one-time St. Joe center, will be with the Y. M. P. C.,, while Lause , and Tremel of 4ast year’s varsity,, and O'Brien, formerly of the well-known C. C. team of Piqua, Ohio, will appear with the St. Joe squad. The visitors are coming ready to put up a stiff fight for victory, but the local boys are prepared tp uphold their part of the game. For some time past they have been undergoing hard ‘training under Coach Me vers, of Rensselaer, and are now in excellent condition. All indications point to a snappy and interesting game.

All Packages Should Be Insured by Sender. Persons sending Christmas or other packages are advrgeS by posters In the postoffice lobby to have them insured. The cost of insurance is not large and in case the package is lost in the mails the sender will receive the full value for it. The cost to insure a package containing $5 worth of goods is three cents, $25 worth of goods sc; SSO worth of goods 10c, and a hundred dollars worth of goods 25c.

Relief Game at Ms *\ v - • • • 1 Father Had Given Up*Hope of Curing Son’s Cough Mr. A. F. Sherer, a machinist of Havilaud, Ohio, says: “My son had a cough for several years. We began to think his case a hopeless one. He could , get no relief until he used Glando Pine'. Three bottles cured him. He is now well, and I believe Glando Pine saved his life.” Glando Pine is made to cure. It ’s excellent for coughs, colds, croup and bronchial affections. By getting three ounces of Qlandq. Pine -you can make one pint of excellent .cough medicine. Full directions with each bottle. Once used, used. r For sale by B. F. Fendig, Druggist. Our want ads supply and our for sale ads dispose.

’ THE EVENING REPtJfcLICAN. RENSSELAER, IND.

THE BABY Rattles, Bells, Chairs, Dolls Cabs, Teddy Bears, Shoo Fly, Animal Toys, Etc., Etc. Remember the Auto Party Saturday 4:30 p. m. Have Your Tickets Here

Kellner & Callahan * C. KELLNER T - M - CALLAHAN Our Specials. COAL Pitson Hal'd Coni—Highest^Grade. . v Genuine Jackson Hill Egg—No other range coal is quite so satisfactory. —— ’ — Island Creek lump and splendid burning coal. Superior Kentucky Lump—'There is no better. Large lumpy Indiana coal, burns to a clean white ash. WOOD - .» \ Split,* Block and Cord Wood delivered promptly. FEED All ki*ds of feed, chop, bran, middlings and etc. IMPLEMENTS Don’t buy your spring equipment until you have seen us. MISCELLANEOUS , I, Get our prices on drain and sewer tile/We have the right nrice, 'best quality, and splendid service. Phone 273

HANGING GROVE.

This seems to be a bad time for autoists these cold days. .Schuyler Robinson, of Gillam, snapped a right front spindle off his Cadillac at Moody Thursday, when attempting to give the road to some loaded wagons. A big car was laid up for repairs at the A. 0. Moore corner Friday with a broken rear axle: Several big cars were pulled out of snow drifts this week. Mrs. Fred Morrison is visiting her at Hamlet a few days. Miss Louise Dunker returned to her home Thursday evening after a two weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Riley Snyder and family. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker have a fine pair of twins. The mother of them is a big brindle cow, the calves are now a week old and all indications point to their getting along fine. E. S. Moon, of Marion, Ohio, who ownss a farm in Milroy, was here on business Friday. Word has been received from all the road districts which held elections Saturday. Georee Johnson, of

district No. 3, received the entire vote cast, which was 16. At Parker no one turned out except the trustee. Where no election is held, the appointment will be made by the trustee. The McCoysburg Sunday school and the teachers will give a Christmas tree Saturday night Washington Cook has kindly volunteered his services to get the tree and help put it up. The Ladies’ Aid will serve lunch at Henry Heck’s sale, Thursday. The annual election of officers of the McCoysburg Sunday school was held Sunday morning.

Extra Service Train For Christmas Shoppers.

Monon trams No. 33 and 31, due in : Rensselaer at 1:57 and 7:31 p. m., ,w$ be run in two sections on Dec. 23, according to the announcement made. The first section will consrist of parlor cars only and ,will pnly a too ; upon request. Persons wishing parlor car accommodations, on these j trains next Saturday should notify , the local station agent by Friday, i Dec. 22. . ;

'AN AGAINST OWNERSHIP BY THE GOVERNMENT

Bins Newlands Committee His Views on Railroad Control. COMPETITION PREFERABLE. Federal Regulation Should Not Be Allowed to Exclude Exercise of State Authority, He Contends—Thinks Railroad Stocks Should Represent Actual Value and Be Stable as Government Bonds. Washington, Deo. 11. - William J. Bryjfn. who startled the country ten years ago by advocating government ownership of railroads, appeared before the Newlands Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce last week,in support of the claim that the states should be allowed to retain authority over the regulation of all transportation lines within their borders. Mr. .Bryan explained that he had long regarded government ownership as inevitable, but only because of railroad opposition to effective regulation.

Against Government Ownership. “Personally I cannot say that I de sire government ownership.” he explained, “because I lean to the indi virtual idea rather than to tiie collective idea; that Is. I believe that government ownership is desirable only where competition is IWipossible.” , Alfred P. Thom, eotfnsel to the Rail wayi_J&Seculives' Advisory Committee, previously had presented before the members of the Newlands Committee as one of his reasons for urging a 1 etter balanced and more systematic t g uiatinn of railroads the argument that this is the only alternative to govern-, ment ownership. Calling attention to the restrictions imposed upon the transportation lines by conflicting state laws’ aiid regulations, to the practical cessation of new construction and to file impossibility under existing conditions of securing the new capital needed for extensions and betterments of railway 4 facilities, he warned the Congressmen that unless they provided a fair and reasonable system of regulation that would enable the railroads to meet the growing needs of the country’s business the national government would be compelled to take over the ownership of the lines with all the evils, attendant upon'such a system. Preservation of Competition.' ' •* Mr, Bryan, on the other hand, holds that the further extension of federal authority over the railroads would be a step in the. direction, of government ownership. ‘ He advanced the view that the centralization of control in the hands of the national government would impose 100 great a burden upon the regulating hotly, would offer strong temptation to railroads to interfere in politics and would encourage the general movement toward centralization of power in the federal government at the expense of the states. lie said that he did hot object to consolidations of railroad linos ;o long as they did not destroy competition, that he knew of no co’upltfh't against great railway systemic because of their size; and that he believed that the preservation of competition*was the test to he applied to all consolidations.

Regulation of Securities. Mr. Bryan declared himself In favor of national regulation of railway stock and bond issues, but added that he saw no reason* why that should exclude the states from acting on the same subject as to state corporations. “I would like to see the stock of a railroad, as long as it is in private hands, made as substantial and as unvarying as the value of a government bond.” he ascerted. He suggested that railroad capitalization be readjusted to equalize it with actual valuation t»f the property represented, making due allowance for equities, and that when this was done the roads should be allowed to earn sufficient income to keep their stock at par and to create a surplus. The latter, be tentatively proposed, might be allowed to amount to 25 per cent of the capital. Railway Earnings Low. This subject of railroad capitalization and the amount of railroad earnings received further attention from the committee during its recent sessions. In answer to questions by Senator Cummins. Mr. Thom submitted figures' showing the net earnings of the roads in recent years. These" figures show that during the five years from '1905 to 1910 the average net earnings were 8.25 per cent of the net capitalization, while for the five years from 1910 to 1915 the average was only' 4.50 per cent. The total earnings on the stock, computed by adding to the net operating income the income from the securities owned and deducting bond interest. were for 1910, 7.09 per cent; for 1911. <5.17 per cent; for 1912, 4.97 for I9I&, 5.94 per cent; for 1914. 4.00 per cent: for 1915, 3.44 per cent, thuk showing an almost continuous decrease throughout this six year period. Itv was announced that Halford Erickson, formerly chairman of the Wisconsin Railroad^Commission, would submit more complete information on this subject to the Committee |4 r a latgr date. .* . . * - - ' ■y*' &

RLOPE RS FIGURE IN DIVORCE SUITS

\ Figure* Complied of Those Who (to to Jeffersonville, Ind. td Wed Louisville, Ky.—Divorce proceeding! fellow about half the couples from this r county who slip away to be married in Jtffersbnville, Ind., across the Ohio river from this city. Only about 10 per cent of the couples residing in this county who marry here find, their way to the divorce court. This is given as om of the discoveries from an inquiry into the Question of marriage and divorce conducted by the Men’n Federation of Louisville. The approximate number of licenses Issued in Jeffersonville each year 1* put by the federation at 2000. Of these the women named in 1050 of them art residents of this county and 450 live in other parts of Kentucky. Of the ay proximateiy 2600 licenses issued annually In this county 60 per cent nama women residents in this county, 20 per cent living in other counties of this state and the balance in various otatea. The Men's Federation points out that the Indiana Jaw permits a girl of 18 to marry without the. consent of parents or guardian, -'vtrfiile in Kentucky this catfhot t»e done until she is 21 years old. , "Another contributing cause,’’ the federation says, *is the desire Itt many instances on the part of coupler of all ages to keep the marringe a se crot; and furthermore for some reason cr other, through the years there haa come to be attached to the idea of going to Jeffersonville, Ind., to be married a sort of romance and many couples particularly from Jefferson coun ty, KyS, go to Jeffersonville to be married for no other reason than on account of the romantic feature that ia attached to such a marriage. “These runaway marriages are often conceived on the spur of the moment and are consummated without the slightest consideration of the seriousness of the step which is being taken. Furthermore, it is often true in guch cases that the parties are not in a condition, financially or otherwise to take upon themselves thq cares and responsibilities of married life.” - -

One of the conclusions reached la that “if. the marriage is opposed by the parents of the female there ia, generally speaking, some good reason therefor, and this reason may be the explanation for the ensuing divorce."

ENGAGEMENT BY MAIL FAILS

Each Had Sent Picture of Movie Btar to Other and Both are Disappoint Hagerstown, Md.- Meeting here as s convenient point in preparation for the marriagd that had been arranged Gaxougij correspondence inaugurated as* a result 'ffifttrlmonial newspaper method, - Miss Esther Gulbranson of Minneapolis, a stenographer, srfß W. Benjamin from a small town In the west, decided that it was a fiftyfifty disappointment, and retdVned to their respective homes. In their exchange of photographs each had had recourse to a picture of a good looking movie star. Benjamin told Miss Gulbranson that he was compelled to leave, in a hurry on a business trip to the east. Then ho paid her hotel bill along with his own ?.nd sent her a telegram expressing regret and promising to see her in the tall- To the hotel clerk Benjamin is said to have confided that Miss Guliranson and the pliotqgraph that had attracted him to Hagerstown "didnt lit" at all and that he wasn’t going t.i marry her. - A Miss Gulbranson did not feel obliged to him in the least for paying her hotel bill, as she had plenty of money fpi all her expenses “No wopder I did not recognize him,” she said, “for It was a picture of a ‘matinee idol’ he sent me. But It was a case of fiftyfifty." . she added with a smile.

HEN LAYS IMAGINARY EGGS

Owner of Geeorgia Fowl Blips Real Eggs under Her and Gets Results Perry, Oa—A white Plymouth Rock ten owned by Mrs. F. M. Culler, who lives a half mile from here, is a model of false pretense. She has gone thru ’he motions of laying for some weeks and has hatched a splendid brood of ’ hicks, yet never has laid an egg. Early last spring the hen invaded a box od the rear porch of the Culler home and about two weeks remained on her imaginary nest for a few minutes, then strutted out into the yard with loud cackling. Search failed to reveal an egg on any of these occasions. Then her henship settled upon the ’nest as If she would turn out a yard full of chicks. By this time Mrs. .Culler had designed to get at least some good from the imaginative hen and cult tly slipped a lot of eggs under her In due course there came forth a splendid hatch, which was mother#! .n approved style. Now th&hen is going thru the make believe laying again.

DOG SAVES HIS MASTER’S LIFE

Hold. Enraged BuM at Bay Until Help £ Arrive# ' "■%- LebanotC Kan. — After an enraged bulk that Bert Jackson had been leading had tossed him over a fifteen foot embankment his faithful dog kept the bull at bay, and by its barking attracted the attention of neighbors, thereby saving the farmer’s life. Jackson wan unconscious, when found and several of bis ribs Bare broken.