Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — Page 1

No. 310.

PTHE 0 RINCESU TONIGHT Wm. Fox Production •in 5 reels , "The Broken Law” featuring Wm. Farnum 5 and 10c

Methodist Church Notes. The pastor's theme for next Sunday will be “The New and the Old. and “Devotion to Christ.” The Sunday school will meet at 9:30 a. m. and the Epworth League devotional meeting will be held at 6 o'clock. A most cordial invitation is extended to all who desire to worship with us. / -- .

Presbyterian Church. ' Rev. J. Budman Flenyng, Minister. 9:30 Bible school. 10:45 Moming'worship and sermon, subject “The Unchangeable Fast.” 6:00 Young people’s meeting, subject “Shut the Door on the Old Year. Text Ephesians 5:15-20. _Miss Elizabeth West, .leader. J7:00 Evening worship and sermon, v subject “Man—Part of a World Machine.” ~ \ First Christian Church. Bible school at 9:30. Communion and preaching at lU:4;>. Preaching at James at 3:00. Evening service at 7:00. - Subjects for the day, “The Verdict of the Year” and “The Sinners Bible.

Nervous Women. When the nervousness is caused by constipation, as is often case, yoa will get quick relief by taking Chamberlain’s Tablets. These tablets also improve the digestion. For sale by B. F. Fendig. Meet me at the poultry show at Rensselaer, January Ist to 6th, inclusive, . Butterfai Wanted. I am still in the market for cream and will pay the highest market prica at all time*. Cream received evei* day. Open evenings.— A. S. Lowman, P*rr. Ind.

Men Wanted! The Columbia furniture Co. wants six young men to begin work Jan. Ist. Steady jobs for the men who are willing to stay with us. Apply at factory. COLUMBIA FURNITURE CO.

Most Important Theatrical Event EIIK npm HOUSE in History of Rensselaer —— MAY STEWART . TWO BIG NIGHTS „d . New T«k U . ' : ■■■ . , ... 7? r TITFSDAY I * WEDNESDAY TUES. and WEDNES, T “ —* JAN. 2 and 3 “Lucrezia 1 “The Sculptor s Because of two nights, . V Drean. prices reduced to 25c. 35, ' 5Qc, Tsc, few SI.OO. v r A laughable comedy by W. S. Gil- < further reduction on best A thrilling and sensational melo author of tJMrtSjmic operas “Pinperformances. drama by Victor Hugo. Special afore” and “Mi^o.” Seat sale starts Monday scenery. $3,000 worth of costumes Curtain Raiser,’ 4 scenes from Macat Opera House. each night. • - , . ' ' V

The Evening Republican.

WILSON FAVORS U. S. BOND ISSUE

Tentatively Agrees Thus to Meet De-ficit-May Exceed $300,000,000 — Storage Tax Possible. -

Washington, Dec. 29.—President Wilson has .tentatively agreed with administration leaders on a bond issue to meet part of the treasury deficit which confronts the government for the year ending June 30, 1918, estimated by Secretary McAdoo in his annual report at $185,583,000. Congressional appropriations committees, however, basing estimates upon actual appropriations, without regard to whether all or part is spent, figure the deficit as $313,269,654. The president believes a bond issue should be used only to meet temporary and emergency expenditures. Many of these have been caused by the Mexican situation. The treasury already has authority to issue Panama bonds, and about $240,000,000 of tjiese, at '3 per cent, are available. Secretary McAdoo and others are studying the advisability of taxing articles of food held in cold storage. It is argued that a graduated tax, based on time of storage, would not •be a burden, and would tend to force products out of storage and thus lower the cost of living. Congress may adopt the tax plan as a means of regulationOther plans for revenue concern the income and inheritance taxes an/I special taxes on internal revenue and imports.

Funeral of Elvyn Allman To Be Held Sunday Afternoon.

The funeral of Jesse Elvyn Allman will be held at the residence of his parents on McCoy Avenue Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. E. W. Strecker will be assisted by Rev. C. W. Postill. Interment will be in Weston cemetery.

To the Friends We . TT Leave Behind Us.

To our friends in Rensselaer, and when we say Rensselaer we mean Jasper county: We take this method of wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Y6ar and peace be with you until we meet again. A fine county, a dandy town and the kind of people you learn to love and never forget. Jf you think half as much of us-as we «o of you, we know we were well liked. There are a million things to say and no words to express them, except that we have*ahvays felt, while living here,' that we belonged you know what I mean —oh well, sortci Home Folks. . .. , Are we coming back to visit: We are, with bells on. This is our home town. , „ Come and see us when m Crown Point. ) , , , With best wishes for the future, we remain, p FAT£ AND FAMILY.

The First Com Exhibition will be held in connection with the poultry show Jan. 1 to 6. NOTICE TO BUILDING & LOAN STOCKHOLDERS.

Annual Meeting. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association of Rensselaer, Indiana, will be held on January 8, 1917, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., in the west court room in Rensselaer, Indiana. Said- meeting is called for the purpose of electing the directors for the year 1917 and for the further purpose of hearing the report of the secretary and the auditing committee relative to the business transacted during the year 1916 and for the further purpose of considering othlr matters of importance relative to the welfare of said association. r p pENDI6, President. D. D. DEAN, Secretary.

RENSgELAEK, INDIANA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916.

CO. M ARRIVED HOME FRIDAY NIGHT

Large flhrong of People Wait at the Monon Depot Until Soldier Boys Arrive at 11 O’clock. S Several hundred people waited at the Monon station for the soldiers to arrive from Ft. Benjamin Harrison Friday night. In this throng were anxious mothers, sisters and sweethearts and a shout of joy filled the air when the special, so long delayed, finally arrived. Rensselaer people are mighty proud of Co. M and they were anxious to give them a rousing reception but the time of the arrival of the soldiers was so uncertain that it to make' suitable preparation until it was definitely known when a formal reception and banquet could be held. Had the boys arrived at 6:30 as was contemplated there would have been more than a thousand people at the depot to greet them. As it was five hundred people waited until nearly midnight for the special train which carried the boys home. Company M received their discharge and left Fort Benjamin Harrison at 3:30 Friday afternoon and should have arrived here at 6:50 p. m. Majot George H. Healey had wired to Resident H. R. Kurrie of the Monon and asked that the special be attached to train No. 30, which leaves Indianapolis at 4 p. m. Prseident Kurrie had telegraphed his consent. • The Big Four railroad, which transferred the troops from Ft. Harrison to the Union station at Indianapolis, treated the boys more like they were a trainload of stock instead of human beings. They were sidetracked and left out in the coal yards and it was 4:30 before they arrived at the Union station. The soldiers’ special was attached to a train leaving Indianapolis at 6:30 p. m. and arriving at Monon at about 10 p. m. From Monon the trip was made in a special which arrived at about 11 p. mi We are informed that Co. M was one of the very best disciplined and drilled companies at Llano Grande. Time and again they received the hignest praise from superior officers. They are a mighty fine looking set of fellows and every one of them seemed to have returned in the pink of health. Company M was called for service on June 19, 1916. It left Rensselaer for Fort Harrison on Saturday, June 24, 1916. On July 7, 1916 it started for the border and arrived at Llano Grande July 11, 1916. On December 4, 1916, the company entrained for Indianapolis and arrived in that city Dec. 8 th.

The company was mustered out of the federal service at Indianapolis, Dec. 29, 1916, and furloughed into the federal reserve and are now.apart of the Indiana National'Guard, under the act of June 6th, 1916. Company M is a part of the 3rd Indiana Infantry, whose headquarters are; at Auburn, Ind., the home of its colonel, Aubrey L. Kuhlman. The Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment is George W. Freyermuth, of South Bend. ... Company M is also* a part of the second battalion. companies of this battalions are Co. C of Monti cello; Co. I of Plymouth and Co. L of Valparaiso. The officers of this battalion are Majopr George H. Healey, First Lieutenant C. Arthur Tuteur, who was also regimental ordnance officer, and Second Lieut. George W. Healey, who was attached to the machine gun company of the regiment. , ~ „ The officers and members of Co. vi are as follows: Captain Herman B. Tuteur. -* First Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland. Second Lieutenant Edward L. Wa„son. ' Sup. Sgt. David J. Warner. Mess Sgt. Lawrence Blacker. Sgt. James W. Spate, Sgt. Ernest C. Moore. Sgt. Grant T. Wynegar. Sgt. Orville J. Bousher. ' Sgt. F#ed H. Steele. Sgt. Don P. Wame. Xorp. Harry S. Spate. Corp. Laban R. Wilcox. Corp. David I. Bums. Corp. James Eldridge. •

Got a Nice Fat Check But Has Wrong Idea.

Remington Press. Charles Parker is a good fellow and we rejoice with him over the Christmas gift of a check for SB6 from the Standard Oil Co., representing ten per cent of his past year’s salary. That is all right, but incidentally with the issuing of the checks to their employes or a short time before, the Standard people raised the price of gas two cents per gallon. Now as we said, Charley is a good fellow all right, but he mustn’t be too all-fired grateful to the Standard Oil Co. for. the check. He must get it out of his head that the company is giving away anything, for they are not ‘built that way, but we, the people who use the gas, are the ones who really put up the coin on that check, .though, without doubt, he would have waited some time for it before the people would haVe donated it in any other way-

Saved Watermelon For Oiristmas. William Strohmeieiy’ of Johnson cdunty, saved his choicest watermelon iii his patch last summer and stored it until Christmas day, when he served it to a big gathering of friends. C. Arthur Tuteur will leave tomorrow for Madison, Ind., to spend th 6 New Year’s vacation with Miss Helen John Son.

Corp. Clinton C. Whitton. Corn. Arthur W. Bissenden. Corn. Chester Wolfe, Co. Clerk. Cookk, Orviell Maxwell, Vess Criswell. <Mech. Henry J. Hurley. Musician, Allen Bousher. Musician, George A. W- Copas. Private Fred J. Ballard. Private Burl Blackman. Private Glen W. Bums. Private Harry E. Beebe. Private James R. Criswell. Private Scott R. Chesnut. Private Floyd E. Elder. j ' Private John H. Eigelsbach. Private Orpha H. Gant. Private William J. B. Gant. Private William G. Gundy. - . Private Sam Kellen'berger. Private Arthur M. Kennedy. Private Thomas B. Kennedy. Private Harold A. Lee. Private Elmore Lutes. ’ Private Ernest E. Maxwell. Private Harry C. Marlin. - Private Lei and A. McClanahan. Private Bernard Mellon. - Private John S. Munrick. Private Dale A. Norris. Private Emmett O’Brien. Private Roscoe Reeder. Private William C. Steele. Private Paul T. Spangle. Private Glenn H. Swaim. Private Harold C. Stiles. Private John C. Smith. Private Hollis Turner. Private Stephen D. Walls. Private Theodore Watkins. Private Peter Winters. Private Frank D. Yeiter. Dr. C. E. Johnson is attached to the Ambulance No. 1. He will leave the border January 5, 1917.

THANK YOU-AND MAY YOUR NEW YEAR BE PROSPEROUS . , ■r'b ■ , • "i: To the people of this community—our customers and friends, we extend our sincere appreciation for the confidence and patronage which has made the past year one of the most successful in our history. To have won the faith and approval of the public is indeed gratifying and we believe is the reward for the conscientious progressive merchandising service which this store, day in and day out strives to give. > ■ „ . *•••>._ • ' ; •'/'l''-. 5 . _ This faith and confidence we treasure as our greatest asset and it naturally inspires us to do our utmost to attain and strengthen it. And as we turn another page in the book of time and see the New Year bright with opportunities, our most earnest wish is that our neighbors—the people of this vicinity, will share substantially in 1917, happiness and prosperity. ROWLES & PARKER

U. S. FINANCES IN BAD CONDITION

Rainey Sees $1,700,000,000 Budget In Salary Grab.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 29. —That the United States will have a $1,700,000,000 budget in 1918 is the prediction of Representative Rainey of Illinois, ranking democratic member of the house committee on • ways and means. In an appeal issued today against the salary grab and “pork” measures which have been introduced in congress and some of which have already passed the house, Mr. Rainey pointed out that the finances of the United States are in a precarious condition. Declaring that incomes are already being taxed to the limit and that the revenue from liquor sources, amounting to millions of dollars annually, must soon be expected to fall off, Representative Rainey asserted that something must be done to co-ordinate the expenses of the government with its income. “Our appropriations for 1918, it is now apparent, will be $280,000,000 ir excess of our revenues from all sources,” Mr. Rainey said. “This does not include payment for the Danish islands, payment to Colombia under our treaty with her, nor the increased expenditures for maintaining our army on the Mexican border which are now in sight. ' “We are also face to face with the greatest salary grab in the history of the nation and not a single newspaper in the United States is protesting against it. This salary grab is to be shared by nearly 500,000 government empolyes and may amount to more' than $60,000,000 per year. It is to be carried through all the supply ‘bills. Members of congress, in preparation for it, increased their own clerical allowance' SSOO per year, and increased the salaries of their political employes 10 per cent.” Asserting that there is no excuse for this raid, since the salaries of government employes were originally fixed far in excess of what they ought to have been at the time the spoils system was flourishing, Mr. Rainey then declared that the Nolan $3 a day minimum wagebill would add another $20,000,000 a year to the federal budget if passed. “In order to meet these enormous expenditures for preparedness and increased salaries which may amount to $400,000,000, the cry always is to cut out ‘pqrk’, which means cut out expenditures for rivers and harbors, $25,000,000 a year; for public buildings, which averages $9,000,000 a year, and for the annual distribution of vegetable seeds,, which costs $250,000 a year.”

Use our classy classified column. It will do the business.

TODAY AT THE Star Theatre Madge Evens, Ethel Clayton and Holbrook Blinn in a Wm. A. Brady five reel production of “The Hidden Scar” Wednesdays Jan. 3rd, Q We will present \ “David Harum^/ A well known story, rich in mirth and Pathos. Don’t forget Wednesday, January 3, at the Star. At 5 and 10 cents ,

Rensselaer Booster Moves to Crown Point'to Enter the Hotel Business.

C. P. Fate and family left today for Crown Point, where they will take charge of the Commercial Hotel at that place Monday, Jan.,l, 1917. The Fates have been residents of Renseclaer for a number of years and they have a host of friends here who are sorry to have them leave but who wish then? success in their new field. Mr. Fate was the owner of the College Inn and had made that place one of the very best in the city. He was very popular with the young people of the city and enjoyed a very -large patronage from them. He was very active in the affairs erf the city and was always a booster. He was a member of the Van Rensselaer Club and took a very great in* terest in that organization. Mr. Fate is the son of Mrs. Laura B. Fate, who has charge of the Male eever hotel of tihs city. We know of no better wish for Clarence than that he may b£ as successful with the Commercial as his mother is with the Makeever hotel.

Miss Ruth Wood has charge of the Christmas Savings Club for the First National Bank. If she has not already called upon you, phone her at the bank or her home, Phone No. 444.

President J. M. Sauser will award a large silver cup to the best breeding pen displayed by axis boy or girl under 18 years of age at the poultry show the first week in January.

HIGHEST PRICES t'AID FOR POULTRY AND VEAL. PHONE 477.

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