Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — Page 1

No. 80.

PTHE Q RINCES 0 TONIGHT Clara McDowell and Roy Stewart in "Mixed • Blood” A five act drama written by Willard Mack 5 and 10c

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NOTICE. Will sell my . household goods at auction next Saturday,' April '2B, at 2 o'clock in front of my residence. Mrs. B. C. Oglesby. FOR SALE Fresh fish. Phone 647. Charles Leave!.

WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday except rain tonight in extreme north portion; cooler in southwest portion tonight.

What you will receive when you buy Kasper’s coffee: More cups per pound and more flavor per cup. Sold exclusively by Rowles & Parker.

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The Evening Republican .

TODAY’S WAR NEWS

British Send Forty German Planes to Ground. Taking advantage of the clear skies yesterday, the British airmen claim to have sent forty German planes crashing to the ground, some of them from a height of more than fifteen thousand feet. This is a new and marvelous record for the British Royal Flying Corps. It is all the more remarkable when it is realized that but two Brjjish machines are missing. The daring of some of the British flyers was truly wonderful and the damage to the Germans was very great. Great Battle of Arras Continues. Realizing that the battle on the west front may be the decisive battle of the war, the Germans are making a desperate stand and effort to stop the advance of the Entente Allies. The German resistance grows more determined but in spite of the addition of reinforcements in large numbers, theßritish are still able to make considerable advancement. The loss of life is dreadful and the Germans seem to be willing to pay any price in the number of men sacrificed in order to hold out.

Mission to Russia. President Wilson has decided that the personnel of the American commission to Russia, it is understood, will be Elihu Root, Charles R. Crane, Professor Harper, of Chicago University, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Oratorical and Declamation Contest Friday.

Music —Helen Parkinson. “That Old Sweetheart of Mine” — Riley—Gladys Arnott. “Peace, the Policy of the- Nation”— Calhoun—Floyd Hemphill. Pyramus and Thidbe—Saxe, Esther Kruse. Americanism —Henry Cabot Lodge, Ray Iliff. "The Name of Old Glory”—Riley, Mamie Bever. Solo—Wilda Littlefield. “The American Flag”—Henry Ward ißeecher, Paul Beam. “The Soul of the >M. Merrill, Alice Witham. —— “The Growth of United States as a World Power”—S. A. Devan, Walter Schultz. “The One-Leeged Goose” —F. H. Smith, Marjorie Vanatta Solo—Thelma 'Martindale. The above program is the one which will be given at the high school oratorical and declamation contest Friday evening at the high school building at eight o’clock. Judges will be present from Lafayette and Lowell. The winners will represent Rensselaer in the contest a week from next Saturday, following the triangular track and field meet between Delphi, Monticello and Rensselaer. An admission of five and ten cents will be charged. There is some very good talent represented on the above program.

Royal Arch Masons.

Special meetings of the Chapter Thursday evening, April 26th, for rehearsal, and iMondav evening, April 30th, for annual inspection. A fu’l attendance necessarv. CHAS. H. PORTER.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRI L 35, 1917.

Interclass Field Meet Will Be Held Friday Afternoon.

In preparation for the annual triangular track and field meet between Delphi, Monticello and Rensselaer, there will be an interclass meet between the high school classes. The seniors of the high school will be pitted against the other three classes. The meet will be staged at the college track and campus and will be for the express purpose of conditioning the men for the fray a week later. The track men of the school are hard at work and are extremelv anxious to make a more creritaible showing this year. The two previous meets have gone to the Cass county school, with Monticello runners up and the local school lagging behind. At least a second place finish will satisfy the supporters of the local school. Medals will be given to the winners of first places in the triangular meet, while first and second place men will be given ribbons. The school winning the meet will receive a silver' loving

The meet on next Friday afternoon will start at about two o’clock and there will be no admission charged.

Many Good Strings of Fish Are Being Caught Now.

Fishing on the Iroquois river at the. present time is very fine, and fishermen are reporting an abundance of the finny tribe and several good strings have been caught within the past few days Th© fish are more plentiful at present than they have been for some time Croppies are reported to be fairing swarming in the stream. Rensselaer has a number of clever fishermen who say it is no trick at all to catch a fine mess of fish in a very short time. • Wheat—May 252, 244, 251-250 3-4. July 216 3-4, 207, 216-215%. Sept. 191, 183, 189%-U. Corn—4Mo(y 14914, 144%, 149 to 148%. July 145, 140, 144 to 143- 3-4. Sept. 136, 132%, 135 3-4. Oats—May 70 5-8, 66 3-4, 69 1-8 to 68. July 67%, 64, 66. Sept. 57%., 55, 56 7-8. Hogs 30,000. sls-80 top. Cattle 11,000. Waek. Sheep 13,000, strong. K. C. reports 1 car No. 2 H. W. sold $3.00 this morning.

Real Estate Transfers.

Daniel S. Makeever et ux to Ida A. Randle, Feb. 27, und % lots 1,2, 3, 10, 11, 12, block 2, Rensselaer, 'South add, $3,250. Moses Leopold to Charles C. Warner, April 17, lots 1,2, block 11, Rensselaer, Newton or Clark’s add, part nw nw 30-29-6, $750. -

LOCAL GRAIN MARKET. April 25 —Com $1.38, oats 64c, Wheat $2.25 and rye $1.75. . ’ Mrs. Daisy Hoshaw is confined to her 'bed with muscular rheumatism. E. L. 'Hollingsworth made a business trip to Chicago today. W, H, Parkispn made a trip to Indianapolis today on legal business. John A. Dunlap is attending to legal matters at (Lafayette today. Tunis Snip, ex-trustee of Keener township, was in Rensselaer today. Ralph Donnelly and Louis Ramp made a business trip to Delphi today. John Bowje, the hustling north end editor, was in Rensselaer today. Peter Nomenson, of Dwight, 111., is here today to look after his large Jasper county land holdings. The two children of Section Fore man Frank Miller and wife are recovering from an attack of measles. Mrs. Frank Tobias was called to Indianapolis on account of the death of a friend, A daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Brown, of Monop, yesterday. Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Bethel Rutherford.

Mrs. John Sanders and son, Raymond, left today for a visit with relatives at Rossville and Frankfort. --* - - Mrs. Delos Thompson left o>n a later train today to join the Rensselaer crowd at the auditorium in Chicago and enjoy the Chicago Musical Festival. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Adams returned from Chicago Tuesday evening, where they spent their- honeymoon , and will make their future residence here. Gideon Kauffman, of north Union, was in Rensselaer today. He reports that his 15-year-old daughter, Maggie, is improving from an attack of pneumonia. Anson Cox has ordered tfie address of his paper changed from Hammond to Chicago, to which city he has moved. Mt. Cox is in the contracting business, , -■ The International Harvester Co. is delivering today through their hustling local agents, Kellner & Callahan, a large gas tractor to J, J, Lawler. The machine will be used on the ranches near Peasant Ridge. Nine young fellows who have been working at the Columbia Furniture Co., are reported to have struck for higher wages today. The company now has at worit twenty-four men and most of them are, it is understood, making very good wages,

Onion King Putting Out Seven Hundred Pounds of Seed.

Alfred Donnelly, onion king of Jasper and many other counties, was a caller at Thf Republican office this morning and as usual the conversation turned to onions. If you want to know anything about onions ask Alf, for if there is anything worth knowing about them he knows it. Mr. Donnelly stated that he has already put out five hundred pounds of onion seed and now has an order in for two hundred more pounds. The seed costs him in the neighborhood of one dollar a pound and he has been planting about one hundred pounds to the acre, which is a little more than he usually does, generally averating about seventy-five pounds to the acre. Mr. Donnelly already has planted four acres and will plant two more acres, making six in all.

Mr. Donnelly has been in the onion business for a great many years and has confined himself to this kind of farming alone and is the most successful onion man in this section and his reputation as a grower of this vegetable extends over a wide area. Years of close study has made him the success that he is in his line. Alf has 208 acres of land in all, the balance of the land not used for onion growing being rented out by him. Recently Alf advertised some onion sets for sale and ,-people from all parts of the county came to get some of these valuable sets and they were soon all gone. It is the belief of the premier onion man that there will be a great amount of this valuable food raised this year and this fall will find them a great deal cheaper. At -the present time they are sellng at wholesale at. eight dollars a bushel, with practically none to be had. Mr. Donnelly had about 300 bushe’s of onion sets this spring' which he disposed of for from $4.50 to $5.75 a bushel, bringing him in the neighborhood of $1,500, which he considers very good. The six acres planted this year are expected to run in the neighborhood of 500 bushels per acre, providing no bad luck is had, and the owner predicts that he will sell them for from $2 to $3 per bushel to the wholesale houses. A meadow of 20 acres! on the Donnelly farm was sown in clover, the seed costing fifty dollars, which took what was made off the oats crop of ‘the same twenty acres for 1916. The crop of clover is already rooted out of the ground and will have to be replanted.

FAN FODDER.

Yesterday’s Scores. National— Qnicago, 8, Cincinnati 4. New York 8, Boston 2. St. Louis 2, Pittaburg 1. Brooklyn-Philadelphia, rain. American— St. Louis 7, Detroit 2. Washington 8, Philadelphia _ New York 2, Boston 1. Chicago 1, Cleveland 0, .Lefty Morgridge, crack young southpaw of the Yankees, held the champion Red Sox hitless, the second time an American League hurler has turned the trick this season. Ed Cicotte, of Chicago, was the other flinger to piteh such a game this season. Boston scored on an error, a pass and two sacrifice hits. St. Louis got to Coveleskie of Detroit in the eighth inning and pounded him off the slab. The crew of Fielder Jones banged out twelve safeties,'while Koob held the Bengals. J. Smith, pinch hitting for Red Ames in the tenth inning, singled with the bases filled, scoring Cruise with the winning run and giving St. Louis a victory over Pittsburg. Grimes was the victim, Vic Aldridge, past Indianapolis hurler, wop oyer Cincinnati for the Cubs after replacing JJemane, who was knocked from the hill by the Redlegs. The Bruins won the game in the fifth en four runs, Kqpf hit the scoreboard for Cincinnati and made the round trip. Scott won oyer Goyeleskie in a hurlers duel, . But two hits were registered off the Cleveland sTafbman. Scott allowed five. Risfoerg’s triple in the ninth, followed by a sacrifice fly by Eddie Collins, sent the bnly marker of the day oyej- the platter. The Sox increased their lead in the pennant due to Boston’s defeat. Coombs of the Brooklyn chib has never lost a game to the New York Giapta, « Zimmerman, of New York, sent three Giant runners over the counting pan during the afternoon. Two Boston hurlers were mauled by McGraw’s staggers, who refuse t© Iqse,

The highest quality pumps and shoes lowest We keep up the quality and keep down the prices. Give us a call- — - • rowibrs A barker. We will have a. large car of the famous Peering Standard twine and would be pleased to have your order now, We guarantee the twine and the price.—Kellner & Callahan., Just received a large supply of nice white clover honey, about the only article that has not advanc'd in price. Sold by weight Instead of ear* ton. Per Jife, life, ROWLES & PARKER. The Industrial Society of the M. E. church will hold an apron sale and market beginning at 10 o’clock Saturday, April 98, in the vacant room in the K, of P, building. Ladles’ kid and patent leather, pumps in several styles, Let tte show you we save you money. ROWLES A PARKER.

WANT U. S. TROOPS TO PLAY ROLE

Distinguished Visitors too Urge Expeditionary Force By America— Great Need For Flyers. Fortress Monroe, Va., April 24. — France’s war commissioners to the United States reached Hampton Roads today and tonight they are bound up Chesapeake Bay for Washington on board the presidential yacht Mayflower. .♦ The mission, of which Rene Viviani, vice premier and minister of justice is the official head, and Marshal Joffre a member, brings no written instructions from the French government, the ministry having decided to give its members unlimited powers to negotiate with the United States on all subjects military, naval and financial. It is prepared to discuss the sending of an American expeditionary force to France. ... Marshal Joffre and other military membqp. will indicate to the American officials with whom they are to confer several important military reasons which they consider renders the sending of such a force advisable. The most important of these reasons is fcund in the moral effect to be had from the presence of American troops and the American flag on the battlefields of France. The French idea of an American expedition calls for a fighting force supported by auxiliary services, such as railroay staffs, railray material, base repair shops, telegraph and telephone lines, automobile transport and a strong aviation section. The French government is ready to offer whatever may be considered necessary to assist in sea operations, including the use for naval purposes of any or all ports in France. The ministry of marine has worked out for submission to the American government a comprehensive plan for overseas transports, for both army and navy purposes and for the provisioning of the civil population. Financially France needs loans of $100,600,000 monthly to be spent in the United States. Details of the informaticn on this subject will be suitmitted to the American government at the conferences to be held in Washington. . M. Viviani, as official head of the commission, during his stay here gave the following stateinent to a staff correspondent of the Associated Press who accompanied the mission from France; " ' “Every American will understand that in deference to the illustrious president of the United States whom I api going to. aee very soon, I reserve first word for him. I will have occasion to see you again and tell the American nation through you ip a more complete manner tilt ©mations with which the representatives of France greet in the name of their country, the first democracy of the warld/with which. France shares the saqie ideals,”

NOTICE. All persons who have subscribe.) for stock in the Fanners’ Grain Co. are requested to call at the Trust ft Savings Bank and pay for same at once. Money must be in the hands of the directors by the first day of May. By order of Board of Directors. Don’t wait ifetl DsW automobile is stolen. Take out insurance now. We write fire, theft, coUimat, property damage and liability- We will insure you against accident We are the Aetpa-iaere for this territory. HEALEY & TUTEUR. Not only better eeffee and more cups to the pound by using Kasper’s coffee, but a valuable coupon in each package, High in quality but not in price, ROWLES & PARKER. 30,000 spring planes. 86 kinds. Home grown, climated, and well rooted. Shrubs should be planted now.— J. H. Holden, Phone 426.

GREAT REJOICING BY RHEUMATIC CRIPPLES If So ( rijplrd Y«u caa’t <r»e 'rm. or Vw RhtllU Will Help You «» Nothin* to Pay. » If you want relief in two day«, swift, certain, gratifying relief, take onehalf teaspoonful of Rhouma once a day.. If you want to dissolve every particle of urlo acid poison in your body and drive It out through the natural ohaauel* so that you win be free ’from rheumatism, get a 50-cent bottle of Kheutna from your druggist today. Rheumatism is a powerful disease strongly entrenched In joints and muscles, in order to conquer it a powerful enemy must be sent against IL Rhenm»!« the enemy of rheumatism—an enemy that conquers it every tlma. r Judge John Barhorst of Ft. Loramle,Ohie knows it. He was walking with erut ones; today hels well. It shouk. do as much for you; it seldom fails. Rheuma is. sold with a guarantee by Jk F. Fendig.

Storage Batteries RECHARGED AND REPAIRED t Electric Starters, Generators, Ignition Lighting Systems Repaired and Rewired Rensselaer Garage ' Official Service Station for Vesta Double Life Batteries. ' - V I , .

SEE BLANCHE SWEET ‘ STOLEN GOODS ’ A Strong Paramount Drama also MRS. VERNON CASTLE In the 4th Episode of that Favorite Serial PATRIA i THURSDAY The Charming Little MARY PICKFORD in THE PRIDE OF THE CLAN One of the sweetest stories ever told by this little favorite. Special school matinee at 5 and 10c. AT NIGHT ALL SEATS 10c. ' » L . ..... - — - 4 T At The Star Theatre

Rensselaer Music Lovers Attend Musical Festival.

Mesdames L. E. Barber, Loren Sage, Bert Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. John I. Gwin went to Chicago this morning to enjoy the Chicago Music Festival at the Auditorium today. The festival is given under the direction of Frederick Stock and tonight's program includes Tschalkorwsky/s “Patheque” Symphony. \ _ —r —ar—r

Pleasant Dance Anticipated At Armory Thursday Eve.

The members of the Van Rensselaer Club are leaving nothing undone to make the dance which they are to give at the armory Thursday evening, the most enjoyable of the entire season. This will probably be the last big dance before netx fall. Invitations have been mailed out and several out of town guests are expected to attend. McKelvey’s orchestra of Chicago will provide the music. . - • —. **

COURT NOTES.

Allis vs Allis. Cause continued. Samuel Price vs Barney Daywitt et al. Cause dismissed. The jury was excused Monday until next Monday, April 29. •

Abundance of Money.

I can loan you all the money you want on Lnat farm. My rate is 5 per cent anu my limit to |IOO per acre.— P. D. Wells. Morocco, Indiana.

NOTICE. All must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON, City Marshal Maxwell Automobiles to Advance In Price. Maxwell cars will advance in price $30.00 on May Ist. Orders wffl be filled as received at present prices. MAIN GARAGE. * ICE FOR RESIDENCES. For this year our price will be 40c per 100 lbs. 1,000 tb. book Mil ?aid in advance; 2,000 lb. book $7.00. /e are now delivering. Phone 104. WHITE & LEE. T . -J NOTICE. The Redmen will have a smoker and degree work on next Monday evening, April 30. All members requested to be present. By order of Sachem. _____

Piano Tuning and Repairing gMOORTMfI Phone 248

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