Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1917 — Page 1

No. 73.

Pste o RINCES U TONIGHT Dorothy Phillips >n The Place Beyond the Winds Red Feather • • 5 and 10c

HANY PEOPLE are willing to sacrifice themselves and their children to prejudice, or “what will people say?” The Foolish Prejudice Against the Use of Glasses ~ by children with defective eyes often results in the greatest suffering sometimes permanent disability of one who might otherwise become a power in the world. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phone 13.

Doctors Washbum and Kresler and Mr. Speigel, of the Uolumbia Furnituer factory, went to Chicago on the early morning train. White footwear is being worn early this spring and will be very much in evidence all summer. We are prepared with a most complete line in kid and fabric.—(Shoe Dept. G. E. Murray Co. A battery washed out and fitted with new insulation at this time of the year is the best insurance against trouble during the coming season. The Vesta station does this at city prices. We have city equipment.—' Rensselaer Garage. The shoe shown bv the Big City Dealer in your daily paper just suited you, but the price was high. We have it and undersell him. Let U 3 show you early.—Shoe Dept., The G. E. Murray Co. _________ — today to see his sister-i.-law, Mrs. Eldridge, who is very low at th j home of her daughter, Mrs. William Arnott. There is no hope entertained of Mrs. Eldridge’s recovery and her death is expected at any moment. We are now ready to show you all the newest creations in snring shoes and oxfords. It will .be to your interest to select from this shipment, because your size and style is here, and prices are higher with each purchase we make.—Shoe Dept., The G. E. Murray Co. Jacob D. Rich, of Brook, was the > guest this morning of Hartley & Rich, managers of the’Harrington Bros. Co. elevator. From here Mr. Rich went to Frankfort. He reports the death of Mr. Spinney, ex-treasurer of Newton county, and that the funeral will be held at Goodland Thursday.

CONQUERS RHEUMATISM • IN A VERY FEW DAYS

It Is an established fact that onehalf teaspoonful of Rheuma taken once a day has driven the pain and agony from thousands of racked, crippled and despairing rheumatics during the last five years. _ Powerful and sure; quick acting, yet harmless; Rheuma gives blessed relief almost at Once. The magic name has reached every hamlet In the land and there is hardly a druggist anywhere who can not tell you of almost marvelous cures. • . If you want to dissolve every particle of uric acid poison in your, body and- drive it out through the natural channels so that you will be forever fqee from rheumatism, get a'tO-cent bottle of Rheuma today. • *- Genuine Rheuma, with guarantee of •' cure or money refunded, is sold by B. F. Fendig.

The Evening Republican .

Contractors On Big Monon Ditch Troubled With Cave-Ins.

The (Monon News says the contractors on the big Monon ditch hope to complete the work in time for their Christmas dinner. Progress has been slow on account of cave-ins, which have necessitated the third return of thed redge to make the excavation what the specifications call for, a 40* foot iwidth of bottom with a 26-foot depth. So extensive have been these cave-ins that in some places the ditch is 120 feet wide, whereas the blue print width is 90 feet. About a mile and a half remains to reach the finis, and after leaving the tile mill the depth of excavation will lessen to that of six feet and the heavy work will be over. A surface dredge is being used ahead of the boat with a capacity for removing the dirt to a depth of 12 feet. When this mammoth water course is completed a historic stream from the point where the ditch leaves it to the mouth will become a dry run and the fishing haunts in the Big Monon wfllbe only a melanchbly recollection to anglers who have long found it a reservoir for the finny tribe. With the completion of this water iway and its laterals, one of the great drainage systems will have been accomplished. And its cost will by no means ibe secondary in magnitude, as the taxpayers will testify..

The Way to Get Money Orders On Rural Routes.

The postoffice department calls attention to the growing habit on the part of patrons on rural routes of depositing money in their mail boxes for the purchase of money orders. This practice is conducive to theft and consequent loss on the part of the patron, and trouble and expense of investigation on the part of the department. Rural patrons who wqnt money orders should meet the carrier at the box, give him their money and obtain a receipt from him, as provided in the postal laws and regulations. The same practice should be observed in registering a letter or insuring a parcel. In this connection it should not be deposited loose in the box but should be wrapped up, or placed in a small box or other receptable inside the mail box.

What Will Rensselaer Do For Stricken New Albany?

Rensselaer people responded nobly to the call of our sister city, Newcastle. Now another city in our state needs our help. Will it be supplied? We are sure the only thing necessary is to call your attention to this and yoUr offering will be freely and promply made. Make your contribution through any one of the local banks and a list of all such gifts will be published in The Republican. Shoes have shown a tremendous advance in the past three months. We are now receiving shoes purchased before the big advance and actually show you the latest styles at present manufacturing cost.—The G. E. Murray Co. Shoe Dept.

I can losa you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is 5 per cent and my limit is SIOO per acre.— P. D. Wells, Morocco, Indiana.

Mrs. Mary Meyer Healy wishes to announce to her patrons that her big spring millinery opening is now on and that she has all the latest styles on hand for Easter.

Sarah Bowman et ibaron to Dale 0. Bowman, March 20, pt ne 25-27-7, Carpenter, SSOO. K. of P. lodge No. 444, by Sheriff of Jasper county, to Albert Konovsky, March 23, pt It 1, bk 3, DeMotte, $748. Guy C. Meyers et ux to Thomas Inkley, March 22, fraction nw niw, n% sw nw, 18-31-5, €4.41 acres, Walker, $4,000. H. L. Pape et ux to Isaac Shannon, Feb- 19, s% se 4-27-6, niw ne 9-27-6, 120 acres, Carpenter, sl. Harvey Davisson et ux to Josiah Davisson, Jan. 18, lot 10, block 9, Rensselaer, Leopold’s add, $250. Mrs. Simon Thompson entered the hospital this afternoon to be operated on. Born, March 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Ferry Dewey, six miles south of Rcnssealer, a girl. " '

PASTURE FOR RENT. Have pastuer for 250 head of stock near Fair Oaks. Plenty of good water and fine grass. All cattle SI.OO per month. All horses $1.50 per month. For season from May Ist and Nov. Ist Phone James Walter, Mgr. Lawler Ranches. Settle With Hamilton & Kellner. April 1, 1917, we will t.jn over to Healey & Tuteur all book accounts and past due notes for collection. If you do not want to have poor account handled by this collection firm, settle with us before that time. The accounts and notes are at the office of Kellner & Callahan. HAMILTON & KELLNER.

Watch For Fendig’s One Cent Sale, April sth, 6th, 7th.

Abundance of Money.

MILLINERY OPENING,

Real Estate Transfers.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1917.

Indiana Soldiers Rest On Arms Awaiting Orders.

Indianapolis, March 27. —(Companies of .the Second Indiana infantry are resting on their arms tonight in the armories of their various home stations while sealed oaders as to the disposition of the troops, called to the colors in an order issued by the secretary of war yesterday, were awaited by Adjutant General Harry B. Smith. The orders were expected to arrive within a few hours. Newspapers are exercising voluntary censorship as to troop movements and no announcement of the disposition of the Indiana soldiers will be made until the various units have arrived at their destinations. ’ ■ It is believed that the immediate service to be perforthed by the Hoosier guardsmen will be general police and guard duty within the borders or the state, 4heugh-»»ab wrnore will be sent remains a secret. The war department disclosed for publication only the fact that the state troops now (being mobilized will be used to guard government property, munition plants, railroad - terminals and bridges and other properties, vulnerable to attack by hostile organizations and unloyal persons within the United States.

Would Tour State In Autos Seeking Recruits.

Indianapolis, March 27. — A. new plan for obtaining navy recruits in Indiana by means of a squad of twelve or fifteen automobiles to be known as the Old Glory Squadron, was announced today by Lieut. Commander E. F. dement of the local navy ra» cruiting station. The plan confidentially expected to increase navy recruiting to a high degree is for a squadron of automobiles, draped with bunting and carrying the best, public speakers obtainable, to make a tour of the various towns of the state. The machines will be accompanied by a fife and drum corps and at every town visitedJthe speakers will appeal to the young men to do their part toward making up the 40,000 additional men needed to bring the navy to its new war strength.

Mustering Out of the Militiamen Ordered Ended.

Washington, D. C., March 27. —•' Nearly 15,000 men were added today to the national guard force available for federal police duty by a war department order suspending the muster out of all guard organizations still in the federal service. With the men called out during the last few day# this gives the government upwards of guardsmen for employment in their home states'to protect industries and other property. Most of the men affected by today’s order are at their heme mobilization camps preparing to return to civilian life after long stays on the Mexican border. They now will be held at their camps or armories for assignments as conditions require. In all 18,000 men are retained by the order, but several of the units already had been designated for federal service.

U. S. Is the World’s Richest Nation The Banks Show.

New York, March 27.—The United States is able to loan the. allies the staggering sum without noticeably affectmgUie financial situation of this country; an”bfiicial of one of the largest banking institutions today told the United Press. , This country is in a position to loan five times the amount of the national debt in case of war between the United States and Germany. In the gold piled up in this countrv is the power, if this gold were turned loose, to end the war, in the opinion of this banker. Here are some of the things the stupendous sum of five billion dollows would buy: 689 completely equipped Miuperdreadnaughts of the Pennsylvania type; 7,143 fast destroyers and torpedo boats, or it would run the war for Great Britain and France one hundred days.

A ton of coffee on sale at Fendig’s big Rexall one cent sale April 5,6, and 7. . - . ' Mrs. Stewart Hopping i eturned to her home at Lebanon, Ohio, today after an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. J. N. Timmons and other relatives here. t . Wait for our big one cent sale, April 5,6, and 7.—Fendig’s Rexall •Drug Store. ■ [Mrs. E. H. Peterson and children , left today for Peoria, 111., where they will visit realitves <for~ a few days. They will then join Mr. Peterson in their new home at Mount Vernon, S. " 1“.Who said “High Cost of Living?” Wait for Fendig’s big one cent Rexall Sale, April 6,6, and 7. Frank J. Miller, of Oxford, was in Rensselaer today and received Hie supplies and instructions from Edward P. Honan in reference to the oil inspector’s work. Mr. Miller has all the towns which were formerly under Mr. Honan with the exception at Fowler and Rensselaer. These are handled by Mr. Mauzy. Mr. Miller was chief clerk of the Indiana house of representatives in 1907 and he held a similar position in the state senate ih 1909. ;

Chautauqua Co. Proposes Dates Of July 6-11 For Rensselaer.

George H. member of the local chautauqua committee, has received word from the Lincoln Chautauqua people that they have proposed the-dates of July 6 to 11, subject to the approval of the Rensselaer committee, for the assembly this season. People interested in this matter should get in communication with Mr. McLain at once and him their views regarding the dates as proposed by the Lincoln people. The dates as proposed are much earlier than in former years and it would appear as if they were too early. Heretofore the chautauqua has ayrways been held much later in the summer during the months of August and September. In 1916 there was a deficit of SIOO, which means that if the assembly was held in July there would be another deficit this season, probably much greater than that of last year. • -

Space For a Flock.

While it is possible to get along with 25 square feet per bird, a larger space affording more green and insect food is very desirable. For one thing, the ordinary poultry keeper wishes to perpetuate his flock, and the raising of young chickens requires as much land as the keeping of mature hens. After she is two years old, the best laying days of the average hen are over and it usually pays to get rid of her. This means that half the flock must be renewed each year. Since as many cockerels as pullets will be hatched and a certain percentage are certain to die, itiscustomary to hatch each year a few more cnickens than there are hens in the flock. Additional range, with the advantage of a large supply of insect feed for the birds, may sometimes be obtained where a vegetable garden is maintained. At different times in the growing season there are areas in the garden which are either idle ox occupied only by crops that the bens will not touch. The birds, confined to these with the aid of a portabe fence, benefit (without injury to the vegetables. —

The Sowers of Salt.

Chicago Herald. Nothing brings out more clearly the coldly calculated and remorseless character of the detsruction wrought by the withdrawing Germans in northern -France that this simple statement: “They sowed salt at the roots of the vines!” _ It was not enough to destroy noble houses, to cut down fruit trees and tear them from walls. tit did not sufficiently conform to proper ideas of strategy to raze whole villages,, leaving their defenseless inhabitants naked to the winds and rains and storms of heaven. It was not enough to make a desert and call it strategy. Something more was needed to reach the full height of the ideals of a wanton and calculating militarism. A more striking demonstration of its infinite capacity for detail was ca!l6d for to glut its pride in itself. A new evidence of naked brutality was require dto shock the conscience of the civilized world. So they sowed salt at the foots of the vines! There is in those simple words, which represent a mere cabled statement of fact, a biblical and significant ln Gtem-we seem w hear **the- future sitting in judgment and condemning the men and the caste who have done these outrageous things. We catch glimpses through the veil of the years to be of the shadowy figures of great prophets warning peoples against the ideals and deeds that lead to shame and destruction. We can even hear in them the echo of the voice of the German people themselves, who must some day awakn to a full realization of the nature of the militaristic ideals they have too long and too willingly endured. In the days when Hohenzollern and military caste alike are toppled fronp their place of power and pride Germans may write their epitaph in these rememberable words. , The men who gave the orders to sow salt at the roots of the vines ih that district of northern France may have sown it at the roots of other vines they recked not of. Surely it fell at the root of the last surviving vine of possible respect for the ideals and conduct of the German war machine in the world today. Let us hope it also fell on the matted and poisonous roots of militarism itself.

THE WEATHER. Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight, ~ 7 ~

LOCAL GRAIN MARKET. -March Corn $1.12, oats 61c, wheat $1.85, rye $1.40. ONION SET SALE. 30 bushels sprouted sets, red and yellow, 75c per bushel, or 20c for a peck. No less dhan one peck sold. 2 p. m. Friday, March 30th, north end of storage.—B. Forsythe. NOTICE. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. ____ > ... VERN ROBINSON, City Marshal.

FARMERS URGED TO BOOM CROPS

Government Asks Farmers to Join In Agricultural Preparedness Meas---4——r- ures to Prepare For War. Washington, March 27.—-The farmers of America were appealed to by Secretary Houston today to join in agricultural preparedness measures so that the country may not be handicapped by food shortage in its efforts to meet the international crisis. Elimination of .waste, eonseravtion of surplus and attainment of maximum crop returns were outlined as imperative steps for strengthening agricultural resources. Both for economic and patriotic reasons the secretary said in a formal statement the American farmer should strive this year for the highest standard of efficiency in the production and conservation of food. —“Under the conditions in which this country now finds itself it is important that everything practicable be done to increase thf efficiency of agricultural activities during the com’’ season. It is desirable that mrougnout the country farmers confer among themselves on matters affecting the production of needed crops, and that they consult freely with county agents and the department of agriculture.” The secretary’s appeal was part of the campaign undertaken by the department of agriculture to mobilize the nation’s agricultural resources. Mr. Houston urged particularly that as a means of preventing “conspicuous production wastes of important staple cereals proper attention be given to the selection and safeguarding of seed for planting, thepreparation of the land and the care of the crop. ( “Under exi sting condi ti ons,” he said, “every precaution should be taken: (1) To reduce production wastes by testing seed sufficiently in advance to insure against-the planting of dead seed; (2) To.treat with disinfecting dips all seed subject to diseases that can be prevented such as the smuts of wheat, barley, oats and rye, the losses from which are estimated conservatively at $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 in the average year; (3) To prepare especially thoroughly for planting these vitally important cereal crops and to care forbhem as may be necessary during the season,”

Simultaneous Spiritual Campaign.

Still a drop! Why weren’t you there? You certainly missed a blessing by not attending services last evening. The attendance at the three churches was 137. Services ~wltlb£ resumed in the Presbvterian church this evening. Do not forget. Services in the four churches each evening this week excepting Saturday.

Pay Harrington Bros. Co.

Having sold our elevator to The Farmer? Grain Co. aad beang required to give possession very soon, we hereby notify all persons owing us to call and settle on or before April 1, 1917. Harrington Bros. Co. You must see the four-wheel Moline corn planter. It is the acme of sim-plicity.—-Kellner & Call ah

Public ln-Vitea to Attend Our Special Spring and Easter Opening niDAy A/iD SATUMAy March 50 and 51 Every new development in coloring, in materials in thetwists and turns of lines and trimmings may be seen in this line of picked styles. Showing a Special line of FieK. Pattern Hats Fflsscs Jones I'SZ Tlrtney Second Floor of the "Rotules CSL Par Ker "Department Store

Storage Batteries RECHARGED AND REPAIRED Electric Starters, Generators, Ignition Lighting Systems Repaired and Rewired Rensselaer Garage ' Official Service Station for Vesta Double Life Batteries.

Star Theatre TODAY Marguerite Clark IN ‘Gretna Green’ ALSO Billie Burke IN 19 Episode of Gloria’s Romaic* THURSDAY Nell Craig and Bryant Washburn in “The Breakers” WATCH FOR PATRIA

Harry Hartley to Manage Fanners’ Grain Company.

At their meeting held at the court house Tuesday afternoon, the directors selected Harry Hartley as manager of the Farmers’ Grain Company. Six of the seven directors were present, Jay W. Stockton being absent. Ail of those present voted in favor of the selection of Mr. Hartley. x The Farmers’ Grain Company is owned by about one hundred and seventy-five farmers and businessmen. It has contracted for the Harrington Bros. Co. elevator and is to take charge May Ist of this year. Harrington Bros. Co. bought this elevator of Jesse L. Brady, taking possession of the same in July, 1913. Mr. Hartley, assisted by Lester Rich, has been in charge of the business since that time. Mr. Rich will in a short time go to Indianapolis, where he and his father will be engaged in the grain commission business. The selection -of Mr. Hartley as the manager for the new company meets with universal approval. That he and Mr. Rich are thoroughly efficient is proven by the large amount of business that has been handled by the Harrington Bros. Co. Mr. Hartley has had several other very flattering offers. His decision to remain in Rensselaer will be £ood news to his large number of friends, His selection to manage the affairs of the new company assures for them success and in our opinion no better man could have been placed in charge. Mr. Hartley is very popular with the farmers and businessmen, and his wife has a host of friends who will rejoice that she will continue to make Rensselaer her home.

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