Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1917 — Page 1

No. 51.

1 . ; __ • /• . TJUDSON MAXIM, Internationa] authority on * arms and ammunition makes an earnest, patriotic plea in THEBATTLECRY OFPEACE , ' This ca/Z to arms against ioar touches the heart strings of your every emotion. It appeals tc- your sense of honor, your sense of duty as an American. It is an inspired revelation from the pen of J. Stuart Blackton and produced under his personal supervision. It is more than a picture. It is a great national propaganda which deals with the most important problem that has confronted this nation since the Gvil AVar —’the problem of unpreparedness. PRINCESS THEATRE Tuesday, March 6 Prices 25c to all. Afternoon an 1 Evening " VHAGRAPH BLVE RIBBON FEATURE >

— —— P THE Q I HINGES 0 . ■ ■■ . ~ ■ ■» . . . ■ TONIGHT Bluebird Photoplays, Inc., Present RUPERT JULIAN in “The Right to be Happy” A beautiful screen version of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic “A Christmas Carol.” Introducing Farncelia Billington, Harry Carter, Roberta Wilson, and an ideal cast to interpret the quaint Dickens characters. A great , lesson in benevolence— Marketing the milk of human kindness —The reformation of a “grouch.” BENEFIT GLEANERS’ CLASS 5 and 10c

Your Eyes Appreciate the Ease and Comfort That Opr Glasses Will Afford Them. Don’t hesitate to have your eyes tested and fitted to glasses because they are still able to do fairly good service!. Remember “a stitch in time saves nine.” You cannot afford to delay after the first sign of eye trouble makes it: elf known. Come to us at once for consultation and advice. We may save you a life-time of discomfort and distress. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phone 13.

Gleaner’s Class To Give Show At the Princess Tonight,, The Gleaner’s class of the Presbyterian church has rented the Princess of Messrs. Warner and Robinsonfor ’this evening for & benefit performance. The public is asked to buy tickis entitled "The Right to Be Happy.” Adv. _ i * NOTICE We wish to let'the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county know that Are are not responiffbfe for the "peddlers who go through and use the name of Sam Kamofsky.

The Evening Republican .

Youngest Member of Family Called Home.

H. E. Parkison received a telegram this morning announcing the death of Mrs. Joseph Moore-Paxton at South Bend Thursday night. Mrs. Paxton had been in very poor health for a long time. Her ailment was cancer of the liver. Everything . possible had been done to stay the ravaged of this terrible disease but without avail. She was the youngest child of Mr. anil Mrs. W. E. Moore and lived until her marriage with them in this city, where she was greatly loved by all who knew her. Mrs. H. E. Parkison, her sister, was at her bedside at the time of her death, which had been expected for several days. Her death will be a severe shock to her brothers and sisters, but the grief of her devoted husband and only daughted will be almost unbearable. She was about forty-eight years of age, surrounded by almost every condition necessary to happiness, a beautiful home, a charming daughter, happily married and living within calling distance, idolized by a splendid husband and a host of devoted friends. The Republican extends to Mr. Poxton, his daughter, and to the brothers and sisters, our heartfelt sympathy and points them to the noble life of this splendid woman for comfort and consolation. She was a faithful Christian and the editor of this paper remembers her as a young Tady of tremendous influence for the church. , ~ The funeral will be held Sunday, Marcr 4th at 2:30 p. m. at South Bend.

Excise Bill is iKlled In The Senate Thursday.

The excise tax bill, in behalf of Governor Goodrich, appeared both before the joint session of the legislature and also at a public hearing on the bill, was defeated in the senate Thursday 29 to 18.

Brother Bartoo Has Pet Peeve.

The matter of the new garment factory for Rensselaer has not been definitely settled, but the Demtfcrat estates that things look migrty good. Yes, several factories have looked good to Rensselaer for a time but history fails to record their locating there and doing business. We hope this one may see fit to come for the town needs something of the kind, and for that matter, when you observe some of the about half-dressed ladies and girls that promenade in the sunlight, it would seem tliat there are any number of towns that would do well to negotiate for a garment factory of some kind.—Remington Press. Oh well, the crepe on our door is not nearly as heavy as trat which is hanging on Remington’s. .

NOTICE. The Sons of Veterans will meet Friday evening, March 2. Important that all members are present in order to hold charter Ry of Commander. War Prices. War prices will not affect my painting and paperhanging. Let me do your work now. Phone 416. Lee Richards, painter and paper hanging. Last month for nursery stock, ornamental or nursery. See'Gum Pefley.

• RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917.

FARMERS RUSH PLANS TO PLANT BIG CROPS

Greatest Acreage In History Forecast As Result of Prevailing High Prices. Spurred on by the food shortage, with its attendant circumstances in the way of soaring prices, farmers all over the country are preparing to plant a record breaking acreage this spring and harnest the greatest crop l the country has ever produced, if weather conditions permit. B. W. Snow, of the Orange Judd company, states that this coming spring will find farmers planting as big an acreage as possible. Just what the distributions will be, how extensive, will be hard to say, but it will be immense, stated Mr. Snow. Despit* the rail embargo, there, are plenty of implements on, hand—plows and harrows and everything needed for seeding and cultivating. While this long foreglance was being afforded, consumers .were made, more hopeful by further announcements of falling off of prices of. various articles of food.

The recent drop in prices in the wholesale market has had its effect on retail prices. Potatoes, eggs and butter are said to all be dropping some in various sections of the country and the indications that conditions will be-t come nearer normal with the passing of time. The government investigation of the food situation continues, although no figures have been published.

The cause of high prices in foodstuffs is attributed to antique agricultural methods and scarcity of farming labor, by Prof. John Merle Coulter, head of the department of botany in the University of Chicago. There is an increasing disparity between the growth of population and the increase of food supply of the United States, declared Prof. Coulter. Within the past ten years the population of this country has increased 20 per ceht, while the food supply in creased but one per cent. Our problem is nW with the minor products, such as canned goods, but with the fundamental cereals. There are two causes for the falling off of fundamental food products—wheat and corn, said Prof. Coulter. The first is that the city with its economic advantages has attracted the farming population to the munition factories, leaving agriculture handicapped. The second, which is by far the most important, is that the methods used by the average American farmer are antique—far behind the times. The modern farmer will have to learn to work for his living instead of putting the seed in the ground and trusting to Providence to do the rest.

Daughter of Albert Fendig Christened Ship.

Miss Selma Fendig, daughter of Albert Fendig, of Brunswick, Ga., and a niece of Samuel and Ben Fendig, of this city, was chosen to be the sponsor for a new ship recently constructed by the Marine Construction Company of Brunswick. The Rassapeage, the new boat, is said to be the largest ship ever built in the southeast. The following is taken from the Savannah, Ga., Morning New®: “Brunswick, Ga., Feb, 16.—1 n the presence of thousands of residents of Brunswick and many guests from New York, Birmingham, Savannah, Jacksonville and other cities, theschooner Rassapeage will be launched tomorrow afternoon from the yards-of the Brunswick Marine Construction Corporation. Appropriate ceremonies will mark the occasion, which is beginning of a program of construction by this shipyard. The ship will be christened by Miss Selma Fendig, the pretty daughter of Albert Fendig, one of Brunswick’s most public-spirit-ed citizens, who was instrumental in securing this industry for Brunswick, “The ceremonies will consist of an address of welcome by Mayor J. Hunter Hopkins and a short speech on the possibilities of the shipbuilding industry at southern ports by Col. O. P. Goodyear. At the conclusion of these speeches the Rassapeage will slide from the ways into the waters of Oglethorpe Bay. At least seventyfive guests of prominence m business circles of several cities are”expected to attend the launching, a party of twelve or fifteen high officials of the steel companies of Birmingham district coming by special train. “The Rassapeage is the largest vessel ever built on the south Atlantic coast south of Newport News and the second ocean vessel built in Georgia smee the war between the states. Her tonnage is 1,500, length 205 feet, beam 39 feet, depth of hold 5 feet, and in addition to four masts, she will have auxiliary power from 500 horsepower Dissel type engines.

Primary Election On Tuesday, March 6th, 1917.

Every voter in Rensselaer should go to the primaries next Tuesday and cast their vote. The polls will be open from 6 o’clock in the morning until 6 o’clock in the evening. First ward, all south Milroy avenue, Washington and Cedar streets, vote at the Bostwick office. Second ward, all north of Milroy avenue and Washington street up to Cullen street and west of Cullen street, vote at the Worland storage building. Third ward, all north of Washington and Cedar streets and east of Cullen street, vote at the sample room in the Makeever house. i,, -

QUIBBLING CEASES AS WAR THREATENS

U. S. Lawmakers Aroused By Disclosure of Genftkn Conspiracy—Quit Delays and Quibbling. Washington, D. C., March 1. —Count von Bemstorff, former German ambassador, was instructed from Berlin to arrange the dismantlement of German war bound ships in American harbors at the same time he received the Zimmerman note for transmission to Mexico. This added threat in the mess of German intrigue spun around this country while Germany was still protesting friendship was allowed to become known*today, with the inference that full and detailed instructions were sent von Bemstorff from Berlin to make war by tins country impossible. ' - Aroused by the disclosure of Germany’s plot to unite Japan and Mexico with her in a war upon the United States and then convinced by official evidence of its authenticity, congress today abandoned the delays and obstructions which have checked President Wilson’s efforts to be clothed with express authority *o deal with the submarine mena. The house, after n-hour debate, and by an overwhelming majority, passed a bill to empower the president to arm merchant ships and proridingfora hundredmillion dollar bond issue. The bill, however, does not contain the grant of authority to use “other instrumentalities” which the president specifically desires, and

would prevent government war insurance for munitions ships, a prohibition which the president does not approve. When the house bill “is received in the senate tomorrow the senate bill, which the administration fully commends, will be substituted and that is expected finally to be accepted by both houses as the law. ... When the house bill is received in the senate tomorrow the senate bill, which the administration fully commends, 1 will be substituted and that is expected finally to be accepted by both houses as the law. Official announcement was made at the white house today that the administration stands behind the senate ■bill?' first, last and all the time,” with its provision for “other intrumentalities.” In the senate an attempt to ask the president to disclose the government’s 'source of information of the attempted intrigue with Mexico and Japan on the suppositions that it came from one of Germany’s enemies, was defeated after a sharp, and sensational debate. Instead, the senate merely asked for official notice of the authenticity of the dispatch of instructions form German Foreign Minister Zimmerman to German minister von Eckhardt, in Mexico City. The president transmitted it immediately with the statement that it would not be compatible with the public interest to reveal, further details concerning it. Members of both houses of congress, some skeptical of the authenticity of the astounding revelations of Germany’s intrigue, others feeling that it had been permitted to become public for its effect on congress and throughout the country met the situation with mixed emotions which with a few possible exceptions as the day’s developments were unfolded solidified into a decision to stand behind the president.

New County Agent Arrives.

Prof. Stewart Learning is here and has assumed his duties as Jasper county agricultural agent. His household goods are in transit and he will move into the Mary Jane Hopkins property on Park avenue, as soon as trey arrive. Prof. Learning comes to us with excellent qualification and the best of recommendations. He is a native Indianian, having been reared on a large farm still owned and operated by his father and brother near Rumley, Ind. He attended the common school, graduated from the same, graduated from the Rumley high school and from Purdue University and for a number of years has been teaching and doing agricultural work in the state of Minnesota. ; We bespeak for Mr. Learning the rearty co-operation of all citizens interested inhis field of endeavor.

First Christian Church.

i ■ Service begins at 9:30 and closes at 11:15. The unified service is growing *in favor with all. The choir has special music. Come and hear it. Evening service will be the union service in the Methodist church, Rev. F. H. Beard preaching. Newland, Bible school at 2:00 and preacing at 3:00.

Meet Factory Superintendent.

The superintendent of the A. Roth Co., the manufacturers of women’s garments, who will locate in Rensseemployment with them, meet him on Monday, March sth, 1917, at 11 a. m. at the Jarrette Variety Store.—A. Roth Co.

THE WEATHER. Cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably snow. 1

Abundance of Money.

I can loan you all the money .you Iwant on that farm. Myrate is 6 per cent and my limit is SIOO per acre.— P. D. Wells, Morocco, Indiana. ■

A. ROTH COMPANY FACTORY LOCATES HERE

Two Large Trucks With Forty Machines Left Chicago at Five O’clock This Morning. ■ 4 ' L. Barr, sales manager for A. Roth Co., of Chicago, was here Thursday and completed the arrangements for opening a factory in this city. This Friday morning two large trucks left Chicago and srould have arrived in this city at about 11 o’clock. Callahan & Kellner are removing their goods from the building belonging to Maiwjrie Loughridge at the comer of Van Rensselaer and Cullen streets into the Horton airdome. Work of repairing this room will be done at once and early next week the factory will be in operation. A notice appears elsewhere in The Republican asking 1 adies who desire employment to meet the manager of the new factory at tre Jarrette Varietj Store at 11 a. m. Monday, March sth. There is also to be a mass meeting of the citizens of Rensselaer at the court house tonight at 8:10. Everj person interested in the progress of this city should be at this meeting. Put aside everything else and be there. Come filled with enthusiasm and bring your neighbor with you. Our committee has handled this matter splendidly, now let us show our appreciation by attendhig this meeting and push matters along. Be a Booster. Be there.

Thompson Brothers To Hold Big Public Sale.

Finnan and Simon Thompson will hold a big public sale at the residence of the latter % mile north of Rensselaer, on Saturday, March 17. This will probably be the biggest sal e herd in the county this year. It will be a general clean-up sale and probably will be attended by many of the big stock buyers of this section of the country. Cattle, horses, sheep and hogs will be offered. This is all excellent stock and the revenue from the sale should be considerable. The Republican is printing the bills for the sale, which contains a full list, of the stock offered.

RO WEN’S SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Another Special on Oranges ORANGES 17c PER DOZEN EXTRA GOOD COFFEE, 18c LB. APPLES BANANAS CRANBERRIES WHITE GRAPES LETTUCE CELERY CARROTS PARSNIPS RUTABAGA HOME pRO WTT SPANISH ONIONS BOWEN'S GROCERY PHONE 202.

Ladies You Are Invited to visit the MEW MILLINERY PARLORS - ’'■ "'••‘■’i ..w.u „7"\ . ■ : r 1 4, ■ - '■ ' ' ... Second Floor of the Rowles dr Parker Big Corner Department Store. Jill our hats are new and of the very latest style. - ' • ' ■ "i. tA*.- ' a •. ' . 7' 7; f '4. Misses Jones and Briney

Star Theatre TODAY Paramount Feature Cleo Ridgley and Wallace Reid IN The Selfish Woman SATURDAY Clara Kimbal Young in “THE RISE OF SUSAK” — l —— This is one of Clara Kimbal Young’s newest photoplays and we are fortunate in securing it for our patrons at the same time Chicago and the larger cities are showing it. MATINEE EVERY DAY. .

Citizens’ Meeting This Evening.

Citizens meeting this evening at the court house at 8:10 prompt. Every citizen who is interested in the welfare and progress of Rensselaer, put aside any other duty and make it a point to be present at that time.— Bert J. Jarrette. We have some nice sound small onions, suitable for creaming or cooking, at 5c ?. pound or 50c a peck. 81 JOHN EGER.

CoroNA $50.00 Weighs 6 Lbs.—Writes Like Sixtv ’ ! It You can write on this machine even if ; , you never saw a typewriterbefore. ;; Come inand we’ll prove it. I Low Prices on Rebuilt Machines !: OF ALL MAKES • 4 k ! Typewriter Ribbons for all Ma- ;; ' chines. The Best Carbon Paper, Healey & Tuteur ■ Rensselaer - - Indiana

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