Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1917 — Page 1

No. 108.

PTHE Q RINCES 0 TONIGHT LILLIAN GISH IN AN INNOCENT MAGDALENE Triangle ADMISSION 5 and 10c.

GLASSES ud GLASSES Some people seem to think that if they only wear glasses it will he all right with their eyes. There would be just as much sense in .prescribing the same medicine for every disease. us. We give examinations that leave no defects undiscovered. CLARE JESSEN __ OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phone 18.

Three asbestos mines have been opened in China, where extensive deposits of the mineral have been found. A Minneapolis inventor’s adjustable road scraper has been designed to serve equally well as a snow plow. - k Notice to Pocahontas. All members are requested to be present Thursday evening at the Pocahontas meeting. Nomination of officers. By order of Pocahontas.

SELL NOW.

Now is the .time to sell your junk, rags, rubber, iron, paper and metal. Highest price will be paid. Will call for same. —Sam Karnowsky, Phone 577.

The Gayety Airdome will be opened Friday Evening, June I High Class MOVING PICTURES Under the management of FRED A. PHILLIPS

DODGE LIVERY SERVICE i I r K. I. RHOADESKARAGE. Pkms 570 er 282. Me Day er Night

The Evening Republican .

John Hemphill Married In Chicago Saturday.

Announcements have been received here of the marriage of John Hemphill and Miss Mary Violette Ash, on Saturday, May 26, at the home of the bride’s parents in Oak Park, 111. Mr. Hemphill is the, son of I. N. Hemphill, of this city. John has been employed by the MontgomeryWard company for the past year cr so as sales manager and has an excellent position. !Mr. Hemphill was a member of the 1912 graduating class of Rensselaer high school. Miss Ash is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Judson Ash, of Oak Park, and is a charming young ladv. iMr. and Mrs. Hemphill will be at home after July 1 at 544 South Park avenue to their friends. The announcement of Mr. Hemp hill’s marriage came as quite a surprise as it was not known that he had such serious intentions. The 'Republican joins in extending to the young people the wishes for a happy and prosperous married lif?.

Local Club Trounces Lowell In 11 to 3 Score.

The local Forester baseball team made a trip to Lowell Sunday for a game and returned home with an easy victory by a score of It to 3. The offerings of the Lowell twirler were rapped hard and the Foresters made scores almost at wilt Feldhouse pitched for Rensselaer and held Lowell easily. The Foresters are putting up pretty igood article of baseball and will play throughout the summer.

THE WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday.

Special prices on bicycle tires for 30 days only.—Watson Plumbing Co.

May 28.—-Grain, corn $1.45, oats 58c. No wheat or rye offered. Poultry, chickens 17c, egigs 30c. Butterfat 43c. ■ '

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

We now have plenty of good pasture for cows and heifers. Same price steers.—James Walter, Manaiger Lawler Ranches.

NOTICE. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON, City Marshal.

The Farmers’ Mutual Co. placed almost $85,000 new insurance on its books during the month of March The Farmers’ State Cyclone placed over $2,000,000 the same month. Average cost of Mutual Fire about 24 cents on the SIOO annually. Average cost of State Cyclone for its ten years service, 10.65 cents for SIOO. Gall on Marion I. Adams, who will write you in either or both companies. Money saved is money made.

LOCAL MARKETS.

Abundance of Money.

PASTURE.

FARMERS’ INSURANCE

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1917.

Tornado Again Deals Out Death and Destruction

Third Tornado of Year Sweeps Over Country Killing Over 150 and Injuring Hundreds. Hundreds are Homeless Following Spasmodic Winds. Millions of Dollars Worth of Property Damage. Farm Implements are Hard Hit.

INDIANA DEATH TOLL 9 Aid is Rushed to Stricken Cities In Indiana and Illinois Following Cry Sent Up For Succor—Many Injured In Lowell, Crown Point, Shelby uad Cedar Lake— Houses Are Razcd~tir ‘ Ground and Telephone and Telegraph Lines Down and Trees Uprooted—Hundreds Live Years As Death Rides By On Wild Gale. KNOWN DEAD. At Hebron: Kenny, Leslie. Pesh, D. B. Pesh, Mrs. D. B. At Kouts: Bessecker, C. J., Ivan, Juma. For the third time within as many months, a tornado of three days, striking Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois and portions of Indiana, dealt out death and destruction in its wake and left a scene of desolation in its path. More than 150 persons are known to have been killed, a thousand or more injured and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed by the tonado. Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements, needed to produce the bumper crop desired this year, was ruined, although the spasmodic wind struck only here and there in its frightful play through the rural regions. Crop damage is said to be not heavy in grains. Ln Indiana at least nine Hoosiers were killed, seven at Hebron and Kouts in this section of the state, and two at Black Hawk, near Terre Haute. The death list in this state may reach twenty. More than two hundred were injured in the Indiana territory swept by the storm and the property damage is estimated at $2,000,000. The heaviest toll of life was taken at Mattoon, 111., a city of 10,000 population in the broom corn country of southern Illinois, where 54 are known to be dead and 500 injured. At Hebron and Kouts five persons are known to be dead, several hundred injured and many houses demolished as a result of the storm early Sunday,, which was perhaps destructive that ever visited this vicinity. Great numbers of live stock lay strewn about the fields of the various farms devastated by the tornado. The towns of Hebron and Kouts lay directly in the path of the storm and the extent of the ravages there is not known as yet, as they are cut off from communication with the outside

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world. It is considered probable that a number of those injured may die. According to the survivors in these two towns the cyclonic eloud seemei to strike the ground a short distance west of Hebron and swept through the buildings on several farms after destroying the entire northwest c rnerofthe city of Hebron. — The tornadowshattered a grain elevator, unroofed the. hotel Gordon and then swept due east to Kouts, where thirty buildings were wrecked, including churches and a big elevator and creamery. Estimates of the property damage, placed the amount at $2,000,000 or more. The towns of Lowell, Cedar Lake, Shelby and the adjoining territory near the Kankakee river were visited by the tornado. The property damage in this region is extensive. Communication in most directions is cut off, but enough is known to place the estimate at forty injured. Hebron, a town of about 1,000 popuialtion, was the city in Indiana which suffered the heaviest. The business section of this city suffered but little, the storm striking on the northwest side where practically every building was razed to the ground. Telephone and telegraph wires are dow nand giant trees uprooted. Practically every tree in the wind-swept territory was a victim of the wind. From Shelby on north for a distance of several miles along the Monon tracks, hundreds of trees were broken down. Live stock and farm implements also suffered heavily. The Pennsylvania depot at Hebron was unroofed and the water tank blown over. There were three fatalities, only one of which was right inside of the city. 59 to 75 houses in the city were blown down.

Little is known as yet concerning the extent of the damage at Kouts. At least thirty buildings are estimated to have been destroyed within the city limits and it is reported that the store belonging to Joseph Luers was among those wrecked. Mr. Luers is also said to haVe had a house destroyed. A call was immediately sent out from the stricken towns for aid and physicians were rushed to the scene of disaster from Valparaiso, Crown Point and Hammond. The hospitals are filled with the injured. Red Cross nurses are actively engaged in helping to relieve the sufferings of the wounded. Visitors streamed into Hebron by automobile throughout the day and all responded liberally to a subscription paper which was passed and nothing was left undone to help the unfortunate town. Police from Valparaiso patrolled the town. J The storm, as usual, committed many freaks. Live stock was pidked up and carried a considerable distance and then gently set down again. A horse hatched to a buggy in Hebron was earned a quarter of a mile and tjien dropped, demolishing the buggy but leaving the horse uninjured. One large house in Hebron was turned completely around on its foundation and another had ,ths, four walls flattened out. Houses in some instances were picked from their foundations and carried a considerable distance, leaving the families uninjured.

Let your man go to war and do his work with a two-row cultivator. With our two-row you can do the work as well as a single row cultivator. —Kellner & Callahan.

Some'of the goods we are still selling you at less than wholesale prices. 2 cans good tender peas for . 25c 2 cans good red beans for ......25c 1 2 lb can good corn for 15c 1 2 lb can string beans for 10c 3 lb can of lye hominy for .10c 3 lb can of apples for ... 10c 1 lb can as apple for 10c 3 lb can of pumpkin for 10c 2 lb can of Van Camp’s spaghetti 15c Hominy flake, 7c ner lb. Cracked hominy, 6c per lb. California black beans, will cook —-and-as good as white ones: 2 lbs for 25c Searchlight matches, per box ....5c Good late Wisconsin Rural potatoes for seed, per bushel $3.50 JOHN EGER

RED LETTER DAY FOR KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

More Than One Thousand People Attend Catholic Celebration . Here Sunday. Sunday was a great day for the Catholic order Knights of Columbus, and St. Joseph’s College was the scene of more than a thousand visitors. It was the largest gathering of any secret order ever held within the confines of Jasper county. Some idea of the doings of Hie day may be gotten from the following program: . Conrad Kellner was marshal of the day. 8:30 a. m. Knights and candidates assembled at armory. 8:45 a. m. Parade from armory to St. Augustine’s church. 9:00 a. m. Solemn high mass. Sermon by Rev. I. A. Wagner, president St. Joseph’s college, .uusic by college band. ”10:00 a. m. until noon, cafeteria lunch served by ladies bf St. Augustine’s parish in school hall. 11XX) a. m. First degree. Grand Knight R. V. Achatz and Lafayette team. 11:50 Assembled on St- Augustine’s school grounds —— 12:15 p. m. Parade from church to St. Joseph’s college headed by United States flag and St. Joseph’s college band. 1:30 p. m. Second degree, Lafayette team. 3:30 p. m. Third degree exemplified by district deputy, Justin H. McCarthy and team of Chicago. 6:00 p. m. Banquet served by St Augustine’s parish sodalities for securing funds for new church. 8:15 Program at college alumni hall.

Bishop Dwenger Council No. 1881, Knights of Columbus, was instituted at St. Joseph’s college May 13, 1917, with the following charter members transferred from other councils: Rev. Christian Daniels, Rev. Ignatius A. Wagner, Edward P. Honan, Alonzo Healy, Thomas M. Callahan, Matthew Worden, Carl Worden, John Healy, Joseph Halligan, Francis J. Putts, Herman Messman, Harvey Messman, Stanley Lane, John E. Murphy, Estel Myers, Francis McAdams, Stanley Brusnahan, Andrew Gangloff, Michael Wagner, Daniel M. Morrissey, James T. Walter, William B. Walter, Conrad Kellner, Clemens R. Gangloff, John H. Ramp, Arthur T. Kanne, William Zink, Prof. Leo Hovorka, Rev. Pius Kanne. After the installation the following officers were chosen: Chaplain, Rev. C. Daniels. Grand Knight, Edward P. Honan. Deputy Grand Knight, Alonzo Healy. Recording Sec., Daniel Morrissey. Financial Sec., William Worden. Treasurer, John H. Ramp. Chancellor, Michael J. Wagner. Advocate, Thos. M. Callahan. Warden, Edward P. Lane. Lecturer, Prof. Leo Hovorka. Inside Guard, Michael J. Kuboske. Outside Guard, Louis Misch. Trustees: Conrad Kellner, Joseph Halligan, Matthew Worden. Delegates to State Council, Edward P. Honan. Alonzo Healy. Alternates, Thomas M. Callahan, Joseph Halligan. The program as given above was carried out in every detail and the school hall at the charge was patronized by all who could be accommodated, the ladies taking in about $l5O. The parade from the church to the college consisted of Marshal Kellner and his assistant, Joseph Halligan, mounted upon horses, followed by the band, the Knights of Columbus and the candidates and a large number of automobiles filled with hundreds of visitors.

After the conclusion of the degree work at the college an elegant five course banquet dinner was served to more than seven hundred people. The program at the college aluipni hall was a patriotic and intellectual feast. Rev. Thomas M. Conroy was in charge and every number on the program was worthy of special and extended notice, but space will not permit/ The main address was made by Hon. Quin O’Brien, an orator of wonderful ability. His main point was the urging of all Catholics to be loya’ and to serve under the flag. That the Catholics are patriotic and loyal co the heart was revealed by this match-.

MILLINERY SALE! UNTRiMMED HAND BLOCKED HATS Thi. week we shall close out 100 beautiful dress and street hats V/TplrdSed May 25 th ot. Ony. rn.nur~t.ntr wh. was overstocked owing to the backward season. Special Reduced Prices on all Ladies’ Trimmed Hats $2.50 hand blocked hemp sailors . .«*• . $2.50 white Milan sailors $2.50 medium, high-crown white hats ................ ■■ ■ A few Panamas at only * si 39 Broad droopnig brims m colors .............• * Children’s Trimmed Hats At 49c, $1.19 and $1.48 Bert Jarrette’s Variety Stores Rtmlaer J

TODAY AT THE STAR BLANCHE SWEET IN ‘THE STORM’ A Five Reel Paramount—Akio a One Reel Travel Picture. TUESDAY Lionel Barrymore in The Quitter Romance and Thrills. WEDNESDAY A Double Program For matinee 1 a. m. to 6 p. m. Elsie Janis in the Caprices of Kittie Also Mrs. Vernon Castle in the ninth Episode of Patria. Change of Program at 6 p. m. Mariam Swayne in the Ist Art Drama Ever Shown Here oF Little Miss Fortune Also Mrs. Vernon in Plenty of Action in This, the 9th episode of Patria. Admission 5c and 10c.

EXPERT WALL PAPER CLEANER J. Scott will be in ; town this week only. ; Leave orders with Free Wood, Phone 570. Lafayette Journal : Sane Paper Sane Price Far price iaqaire of— JESSE BROWN Pheie 44S >M*««<s<M<*M*M<e*eee********e*e*e*

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less address. He insisted that good Catholics take their religious orders from God and Rome and their patriotic orders from government and home. The Knights of Columbus promise to become a great order here and ncrw have a membership of 103.

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