Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1916 — Page 1

Now 304.

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Coldest Night of Year; Report Authentic This Time.

Thursday night and this Friday morning were the coldest so far this year, according to the government thermometer at St. Joseph’s, which has reformed and is now telling the absolute truth, as a result of the treatment it received recently. The mercury began to fall early Thursday afternoon and continued to fall rapidly about 10 o’clock. Eleven below is mighty cold for this country and the weather we are experiencing right now is no doubt as cold as we will have all winter. y The weatherman in his forecast today says that the temperature will be higher for Saturday and the local merchants are hoping that this be the case on this day, as it will be the last one before Christmas.

FARMER, NOT BARBER.

The young gentleman who arrived at the home of Frank Haskall is a farmer and not a barber as a great many of Frank’s friends thought. The youngster will call Frank uncle and not daddy. The stork has already been very good to the Haskall's and they have had two calls and therefore have two fine tots of their own. The lad who arrived Thursday to gladden with real Christmas cheer the home on the banks of the Iroquois was the son of Mr. and 'Mrs. Ray Berry. Mrs. Berry is a sister of Mrs. Haskall.

/ * For Christmas Shoppers * SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY ONLY Extra standard Sweet Corn, cap. .10c (We reserve a limit on sweet corn.) 14 lbs. best Sugar for SI.OO Christinas candies, ‘lb. ... 10c, 12c, 15e Fancy Mixed Nuts, lb. # 20c _ We have the largest assortment of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and candies in town—call us early. Phone 41. HOME GROCERY

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The Evening Republican.

TEACHING YOUNG INDIANA A BIG JOB

Millions of Dollars, Thousands of Teachers and Little School Houses. That it takes thousands and thousands of pedagogues, millions of dollars, thousands of little red school houses and heaven knows how many gads to educate young Indianians, has been proven by E. B. Saber, deputy state superintendent of public instruction. Though figures are often said to be tiresome, a study of Mr. Saber’s report will be interesting. According to his figures, there are 774,342 children of school age in Indiana. The total enrollment in public schools last term was 564,252, the figures falling 110,000 'below the enumeration. Not all of these youngsters were playing continuous hookey, however, for there are many parochial and private schools in the state. Also some children of, school age arc not physically capacitated to attend school.

Most of the children are in the township schools, next in order comes the city schools and finally the town schools. The enrollment in the township schools last term was 288,016; in the city schools 227,502, and in the town schools 48,834. White girls numbered 271,937. Colored boys numbered 5,807 and colored girls 6,085. Average daily attendance was 401,875 for the elementary schools and 62,876 for the high schools. , It requires 19,678 teachers to educate the boys and girls. Men teachers number 6,207 find women teachers number 13,441. The township schoosl require 11,122 teachers, the city schools 6,881 and the town schools 1y645. The teaching force for the city schools is little more than half that of the Country schools, although there is but little difference in the number of*pupils taught. There are 25l superintendents, 1,150 supervisors and special teachers, 771 high school principals,- 774 principals of elementary schools, 2,297 teachers qf regular high school subjects and 14,305 teachers of regular elementary school subjects.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 (Bible school. ' 10:46 Morning worship and sermon,' subject: “The Inquiry of the Magi.” t 7 :00 Christmas service by the choir and Sunday school. j There will be no young people's meeting at 6:00, as all are interested in the Christmas service. There will be special Christmas music and all of the services will be tuned to the joy of the coming of the Lord. “Lo! now is come our joyful’st feast! Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbors’ chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bak*t meats choke, And ,all their spits are turning.”

Sunday school at 9:30. The hour will be given over to a Christmas entertainment by the Sunday school, followed by a short Christmas sermon to the children., James school house: Sunday school at 2 p. m. Preaching at 3 p. m. There will be no night service. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7. F. H. Beard, Pastbr.

First Christian Church.

Bible school at 9:30. Bring your gifts for the needy. Make this a “giving Christinas.” Communion and sermon at 10:45, subject “The Spiritual Significance of Christmas.” Preaching at Slaughter school at 3. Preaching at Newland at 3. Christmas program by the Bible school at 7.

NOTICE. r TO THOSE OF OUR CUSTOMERS for whom we are holding gift purchases, if notified, we will endeavor bo deliver all of such. This service is entirely FREE. HILLIARD & HAMILL. You’ll be satisfied with our coke, the best ever.—Grant-Warner Lumber Co.

Presbyterian Church.

Baptist Church.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916.

A New Hotel and Theatre Needed Here.

Editor Republican, Dear Sir: It was with regret that I noticed in your paper the passing of that stupendous historical and educational film, “The Birth of a Nation,” for want of adequate opera house facilities. It is not only to be regretted in this one case 'but the thousands that might have been or are yet to come. There is an educated film and theatrical loving population in this vicinity of about 3,000 persons, old and young, who patronize our movie shows and small theatrical performances which happen this way. But the audiences are discriminating and one has (but "to attend such films' as the “Hoosier School Master,” or any standard writer’s work of stage, film or historical production and you will see an appreciative audience of old and young who have read up on these and who know by experience or reading what they see or the value thereof.

Often, when these great works of are, history, travel science, music or comedy are produced in larger cities many^of our theatre loving population travel thereto at much expense to witness them. I venture to say that if we had a modem theatre of 1,200 or 1,500 capacity, roomy, well heated, lighted and ventilated, and of good stage capacity, that we could reverse that migration* and draw < a full house from our neighboring towns and farms. Many of our residents and rural neighbors who have an abundance of first class literature to draw a good story from, seldom have the opportunity to see it depicted in life upon a stage. This is a progressive age and it is a far step from the primitive cabin of the forest to the palatial home of today. The stage coach and aeroplane, the old lamp lit stage and the mod? em electrically equipped theatre. 'Rensselaer has within the last few years taken on some of this spirit of progress and is building modem homes by modem methods, churches, hospitals, beautiful streets, etc. A hotel was recently talked of and I now ask, why can’t our public spirited citizen or citizens do as other cities are doing, 'by combining both hotel and theatre under one roof, thus being able to heat and light the same by power installed for both. A half dozen sitore rooms on the ground floor would be appreciated by enterprising merchants and would be a constant source of income. Where would we find a better source of advertising our city than by the traveling publ lie? Many a commercial salesman will not stop in a dead town over night if a live one is his next sitop. Our summer tourists and concert crowds would be a great source of revenue for summer vaudeville and films in such a house. Would you not rather know that you are taking your friends, mother, father, wife or children to a comfortable, fire-proof theatre than to run the risk of another Iroquois theatre disaster. Safety first always. There is much local capital lying dormant or at best drawing 3 per cent. \Vould it not ibe best to invest it to double advantage in a venture of this kind ? Our local talent is a credit to us and had we given the recent “Fi-iFi” entertainment in a larger, safer opera house they would have played to capacity houses. Should we not encourage this local talent by better facilities for showing it? I hope this may instil progress on this line in some patriotic promoter. s » —Contributed.

Close Down Ford Plant To Relieve Railway Pressure.

Detroit,' Dec. 21.—Beginning tomorrow the Ford Motor Company will close its plant for seven days in order to relieye the railroad congestion here, that carloads of fo#d and fuel may be handled, it was announced today by Frank L. Klingensmith, vice president. The suspension will mean a production loss of approximately 2,500 cars a day. Klingensmith said that the normal coal consumption of thirteen cars dally will be curtailed to the amount needed to keep the plant above freezing temperature. Forty-two thousand men are made idle by the order, meaning a wage loss for the week of $1,400,000. #

Sooth China .has no roadways. „

TELLS OF VISIT TO AUTO FACTORY

Dr. Hansson Tells of Trip Made Through Overland Factory At Toledo Recently. Dr. J. Hansson, .Willys-Overland dealer in this city, who iB one of the dealers visiting the great Toledo plant in connection with the.immense convention now in progress, recounts his experiences in this entertaining letter to the editor:

Some action! Nothing was ever so impressive as our tour of the great plant that turns out Willys-Overland cars. ' Our Pullmans all parked in the company yards.- There was room enough, for there are seven and threequarter miles of track within the plant. |*. Each man got a card containing a picture of Mr. Willys and an autographed message of welcome from him. Next thing I knew we were lined up on -the steps of the stunning new administration building getting photographed. Elevators shot us to the company's own restaurant on the sixth floor. There we had a corking breakfast. At each plate was a copy of the live new Willys-Overland house organ, “The iStarter.” It mapped our day's 'program. Then started our tour of the plant. Our guides were carefully picked men. They knew the plant from end to end, and the parties were small so that each member of the party could haye his questions answered.'' Nobody ought to try to sell WillysOvei land product without knowing this plant. You can’t grip the immensity of the proposition till you do.

It is no piker business. $25,000,000 fne tied up in land, buildings and machinery, not to say a word about the stock of parts and raw material. From the roof of the wonderful administration building, which stands out like a state capital, you get a great panorama of the plant. You can then readily believe that it occupies 103 acres, with 4,486,680 square feet of floor space in daily use and a production capacity of 1,000 cars per day. You can understand this company’s immense consumption of material 18,000,000 pqmifls annually, 2,500,000 pounds of tin Sand lead for smoldering, 10,000,000* pounds of brass and coppeT and 12,000,000 feet of steel tubing and 125,000 tons of steel.

Mrs. W. H. Beam and Sister Called to Detroit.

A few days ago The Republican announced the serious sickness of William Wright, of Detroit, Mich. Mr. Wright is a brother of Mrs. W. H. Beam, of this city. Today Mrs. Beam received a telegram saying that Mr. Wright was sinking very fast and advised her to come at once. The telegram was sent 'by Mr. Duffy, whose wife, Mrs. Myrtle Wright Duffy, has been visiting here since last Sunday. . Mrs. Bean? and her sister, Mrs. Duffy, left for Detroit on the morning train at 10:36. Don Beam accompanied them to Chicago. •. Mr. Wright was . a man of family and was about years of age, being Mrs. Beam’s youngest brother.

Chiropractors Asking Recognition From the Legislatuer.

_ A petition was forwarded Thursday to legislative members of the state from various chiropractors throughout Indiana asking the legislature soon to convene to support a ball to establish a board of chiropractic examiners. The petition is signed by a, great many citizens from the places from which they are sent, many of whoop are patients and friends of chiropractics, the twenty-year-old science for the promotion of health by spinal adjustments. , The chiropractors of the state want chiropractic recognized as a distinct science and a law established requiring those who would give spinal adjustment to pass an examination that would insure the ptiblic against the practicing of those who are not equal in skill and knowledge to the work they seek to do.

A new electric heater looks much like a desk telephone. This apparatus can be used to heat a room, or it can be so placed as to serve as a foot stove.

C. W. Coen Renews Subscription to Republican.

South Bend, Ind., Dec. 20, 1916. Enclosed find $2.00 for the renewal of my subscription to your paper. I rather liked your debut to the newspaper fraternity and also your bow to your patron.s I some way feel that this will ajFord you an opportunity to achieve some of your ambitions. I wish to congratulate you in advance as I am sure you ■will make a success. The Paxton’s, Chilcote’s, Banes’ and ourselves are all well and happy. With the kindnest regards to all the good people of our acquaintance, I remain, Yours truly, C. W. COEN. Mr. Coen was for a number of years a very much respected resident of Rensselaer. He was for a while the sole own of the Harrington Bros. Co. elevator. Later he sold a half interest in it to Jesse L. Brady and the firm of Coen & Brady did a large business. Mr. Jpoen now has large holdings in the Merchants’ National Bank of (South Bend. He is the cashier of that institution. This bank is doing a large business and has resources to the amount of $1,231,961.93.

Says There is No War Threat in Wilson’s Note.

President Wilson's note to belligerents urging discussion of peace was officially interpreted as not bearing ■any threat that the United States might be forced to enter war because of the continued invasion of its rights by the warring nations on both sides. The interpretation was made late Thursday by Secretary Lansing in a formal statement issued to overtake what were characterized as widespread misconstructions placed on one given out earlier in the day saying that because of the increasingly critical position of the United States as a neutral it was entitled to know exactly what each belligerent seeks in order that it might regulate its conduct in the future ; Secretary Lansing’s final statement formally prepared and issued after he had been called to the white house for a conference with President Wilson, declared that he had not intended to intimate that the United States was considering any change in its policy of neutrality and that the whoie tone and language of the note c ; ont to indicate its purposes without furthti en' his part. Mr. Lansing's first statement, made orally and of which no official copy tions of its language and purpose throughout official Washington. Its most striking phases on the widest speculation was based were that the United States was “drawing nearer the verge of war,” and that the sending of the nate “tfill indicate the possibility of cur being forced into war,” and that neither he nor President Wilson regarded the note “as a peace note.”

Thirty Hogs Dead at Winamac From Peculiar Disease.

Winamac Republican. Frank Bishop, living northeast of Winamac, has lost thirty hogs just ready for the market, by an odd disease that has puzzled veterinary surgeons called on the case. The hog is sick only a few days with a trouble that examination proves affects the lungs seriously, and in a short time the beast loses all fatness and becomes unable to stand. All usual stock remedies fail to chock the disease and a veterinary specialist declared himself unable to diagnose the trouble. He took the diseased lung of one of the victims, for laboratory investigation and promises report to Mr. Bishop if the cause and a remedy can be determined. Mr. Bishop has saved only two bogs out of the large herd. He reports-also that Chas. Davis, of the same neighborhood, lost his herd early in the fall by a similar disease.

TURKEY DINNER. Eat Turkey at the Makcever House Sunday, December 24, 1916., Turkey with many other good things will &e served. V TRAVELING BAGS SELECTED FROM A B r AND NEW lot just received, will be a pleasing Xmas gift.—Hilliard & Hamill.

* TODAY AT THE Star Theatre - - -- - > / Dustin Faraum in the role of the Famous Ancient Actor “David Garrick” A Strong Paramount Production SATURDAY ALICE BRADY IN “ The gilded cage * SURE TO PLEASE YOU , Big Wm. Brady Day Matinee Daily. Admission 5c & 10c AT THE STAR THEATRE /

Rensselaer City Teachers Hie For Their Homes.

The Rensselaer city school* closed Thursday evening for the • holidays and the teachers who are not residents. of Rensselaer will spend their Christmas vacations at their respective homes as follows: Marie Winn at Indianapolis, Lucille Phillips at Monticello, Cela Anderson at Lapel, Grace Stover at Downers Grove, 111., Addie Harris at Mt. Ayr, Worth Stoneburner at Saline City, Ethel English at Wolcott, Richard Rice at Lafayette, Ira J. Coe at Dixon and Sterling, 111., L. Waive Mallory at Toledo, Ohio. Miss Mallory will have as her guest Ethel Perkins, late deputy county clerk. Anna Harmon at- Attica .and L. E. Wass at Greencastle. Superintendent Dean will join his wife at Springfield, Ohio.

PREDICTS WAR. In a speech in New York City last week General Leonard Wood said: War is coming to the United States as sure as there is a God in Heaven and the sun shines in the sky. Since it must come, give our American bqys a sporting chance. Don’t let them be food for powder. We are now wholly unprepared, and there is not a war office in Europe that does not know it” t John Kursner went to Hartford City today. THE BEAUTIFUL WREATH IN Hilliard & Hamill’s window is attracting considerable attention, being the largest ever displayed in Rensselaer.

CORNER CAFE’S • 1. r M . ?. ■ Christmas Specials & ’• . y Heinon Oysters _ • Bulk 45c quart 25c piqt - • . : v Meals and Hot Lunches Served at all Hours

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