Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — Page 1

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PTHE Q RINCES U TONIGHT WM. FOX PRESENTS THEDA BARA IN East Lynne ADMISSION 5 and 10c.

Big Double Concert Will Take Place This Evening.

The band concert will start this evening at 7:30 instead of 8 o’clock Harmount and Raiser’s band, of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Show, will join the local organization in the concert this evening. The show band js said to be a fine one and the concert (promises to be one of the very best ever given in this city.

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The State Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana has said a number of Liberty Bonds and has increased its subscription to $15,000.00 You can buy these Bonds in denominations as low as $50.00.

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

~ DODGE LIVERY SERVICE K. T. RHOADES GARAGE. Phones 579 or 282. Service Day or Night

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June 2 to 9 Designated As Liberty Loan Week.

Men, women and children in every walk of life are given places for active service in the program for Liberty Loan Week, beginning next Saturday. The program follows: Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3—Liberty Loan in churches. Monday, June 4—Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Liberty Loan Day. Tuesday, June s—Professional and Insurance Men’s Liberty Loan Dav. Wednesday, June 6—Liberty Loan Day and Automobilists’ Liberty Loan Day. , _ Thursday, June 7 —Farmers’ Lioerty Loan Day. Friday, June B—Women’s Liberty Loan Day. , Saturday, June 9—Children’s Liberty Loan Day.

We will be open Wednesday and Saturday nights and other nights by appointment.—C. E. PRIOR.

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1917.

ALLIES CAN HOLD UNTIL AMERICA ENTERS

President Wilson Believes British and French Can Hold Out Until America Gets In. Washington, D. C., May 29. —President' Wilson is convinced that the British and French will be able to stand their ground until the United States can get in with 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 men and help roll the Germans back to the’ Rhine. That will not be this year and possibly not next year, for the administration does not expect to have more than 500,000 American soldiers in France by the beginning of the spring operations in 1918. It does, however, plan to pour 1,000,000 men into Fiance next year and another 1,000,000 the following year, if the war continues that long. The war department issued another emergency call today for 100,000 more volunteers for the regular army to fill up fifty-one new regiments now being foimed. They are wanted at once. •That the United States must save the allies from defeat and that it may tike from three to five years to accomplish the task is now the basis of all calculations on the war program, according to information forthcoming from 1 a high official source today. The collapse of Russia alone as a military factor is reckbned as equivalent to a two year's prolongation of the conflict if Germany is to be vanquished. An understanding is that the British and French will expend every ounce of their available resources to hold Hindenburg in check this year and that next year the United States will take over a large section of the western front. The administration takes the position that despite the perils of the situation, measures conceived in panic and carried out in haste would only invite disaster, and that the wiser plan is to prepare carefully and fully to perform a long and arduous task.

2.000 Cars Averaged Better Than 30 Miles Per Gallon.

Two thousand Maxwell cars averaged better than (thirty miles per gallon in .the National Economy test held recently. The company is so well pleased with the success that they are planning for another contest, which will consume several days. In the recent test $5,000 was the amount in prizes offered. Believing that there are twenty thousand cars in the country that can do as well as the two thousand in th? recent test, the Maxiwell company has decided to give away $50,000 in liberty .bonds, half of this amount to go to the dealers and the other to ths owners of the cars. The test will be from June 16 to 25. Woman drivers will be allowed to enter the contest as well as the men. Details will ibe published later.

More Janesville Balance Gang cultivators have been sold out of Rensselaer for the past years than all other kinds offered here. It is the farmer’s favorite. Sold by 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 foX. ....25c 1 2 lb can good corn for 15c 1 2 lb can string beans for 10c 3 lb can of lye homihy for 10c 3 lb can of apples for 10c 1 lb can as apple sauce for 10c 3 lb can of pumpkin for 10c 2 lb can of Van Camp’s spaghetti 15c Hominy flake, 7c per lb. Cracked hominy, 6c per lb. California black beans, will cook and eat as good as white ones; 2 lbs for 2oc Searchlight matches, per box ....5c Good late Wisconsin Rural potatoes for seed, per bushel $3.50 JOHN EGER

Tess Marshall Stories Are Now Coming Thick and Fast.

Tess Marshall, former Rensselaer boy and now of Medford, Oregon, is steadily gaining fame as a writer and forging to the fore and bids fair to take a place among the meet renowned magazine writers of the country. Several different magazines in the country are using his stories now and jyith his steadily increasing efficiency he is able to turn them out faster and come nearer to supplying the dem ands of the magazine publishers. In the June number of the American magazine, one of the best publications in the United States, Mr. Marshall has a story entitled, “Vagabond or Gentleman,” which is a short story, with illustrations by Booth Hansson. It is a story of a tramp and his dog, in which Mr. Marshall features his own pet dog, Peter, and the latter’s characteristics. In the May 15th Top Notch Tess has a book length novel entitled “Out of the Past,” which is a powerful tale of adventure, concerning sea and shore. In speaking of Mr. Marshall the editor of the American says that he is a new writer secured by that magazine, which is ever on the alert for good ones, and is of the opinion that in securing the Marshall stories his company has made a ten strike. Bootn Tarkington, Jack Lait and Sophie Kerr are eminent writers employed by the American publishing company. Another short story by Tess will appear in the August number of the American.

Fort Thomas, Ky.

Wheatfield Review. The boys at Fort Thomas, Ky., are all in good spirits and feeling fine. The writer made a visit to the fort last week and visited Russell Hickam, Frank Ferguson, Dee Dunn, Richard Bowie, George Williams and Allen Fendig. The writer, when he presented himself to the officers’ headquarters with a request to see our boy, Dick, was shown everv courtesy and the boys were allowed to visit with bhe writer and was shown through all the fine buildings and grounds in this great U. S. army training camp. Fort Thomas is an ideal place as a training station. The sanitary conditions and equipment for the comfort of young men are simply great. The boys from Wheatfield all said they were learning the drill work and commands in a very satisfactory manner and al! spoke highly of the officers and their comrades. The Y. M. C. A. certainly should be commended b'- every person who has relatives and friends in this training camp. The Y. M. C. A. has a large and commodious tent, large enough for a good sized circus, tables and seats for several hundred, free writing material, library, music, games and moving pictures, all free to the boys. I tell you, it does a parent good to see the -work of this grand Christian association which fol-, lows the flag on land or sea. The writer had the honor of witnessing the signal corp, of which Rusty, Frank and Dee are members, get their complete outfit from the different departments to be in readiness to entrain the following morning for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where they expect to train for several months. Allen Fendig has just passed a satisfactory examination, given his first 500 units of fever prevention and Allen enlisted in. the engineering corps with Dick and George, who expect to go to Washington in the near future. The thousands of young men now at the fort in training make a sight well worth seeing and it is simply wonderful to see young men marching in good order and obeying the commands of their officers with only a few weeks’ training.

Band Program May 30.

March—Stars and Stripes Forever. Overture—Songs of the Nation. Polka Pyjicato, Strauss. Overture —Light Cavalry, Suppe. Idyll—Salut d’Amour- Algar. Patrol —Blue and Grey, Dalbey. Overture—Cavalry Charge, Luders. Syncpsio: Morning of the battle.. Infantry is heard approaching with fifes and drums; cavalr- in the distance coming nearer and nearer until they charge upon the enemy; cavalry, infantry and artillery in the melee of battle. Defeht of the enemy pursued in the distance by the cavalrv. Selection —In Camp. Dalbey. Star Spangled Banner. Charles Wolfe, Director.

Commencement at St. Joseph’s.

The twenty-second annual commencement of St. Joseph’s College will be held June 12th and 13th, 1917. Following is the program: Tuesday evening, June 12, at eight o’clock, “Comedy of Errors.” by the Columbian Literary Society. Wednesday morning, June - 13, at 8 o’clock, Baccalaureate address by Rev. Francis W. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, secretary general of the Catholic Educational Association. Awarding of medals and diplomas bv the Ft. Rev. Herman Joseph Alerdirig, D. D., Bishop of Ft. Wayne. Meeting of the Alumni Association.

ICE FOR RESIDENCES.

For this year our price will be 40c per 100 lbs. 1.000 paid in advance; 2,000 lb. book $7.50. We are now delivering. Phone 104. WHITE & LEE.

We have the famous Brown Walker combination and hammock seat riding cultivators. Also the best surface cultivator on the market. See our line before you buy.—Kellner & Ca-.-lahan. , .. ..

ONLY ONE WET SPOT IS LEFT

Wheatfield Township Votes Dry At Option Election Heid Tuesday— Women Decide Issue. Wheatfield Review. 'Hie local option election held here Tuesday, May 29th, to decide whether the sale of intoxicating liquors should be prohibited m Wheatfield township was the most interesting election held in thus part of the state and probably the first and only one of its kind ever held in the state from the fact that the women voted in Wheatfield township the first time in any precinct in the state. The governor had only issued his declaration that the acts of 1917 were in force on the morning of this election and immediately upon the receipt of a telegram at 9 a. m. from Governor Goodrich did the act giving women the right of suffrage .become effective. All the women in the township became active and spread the news to each other and hastened to the ’xjlte to cast their first vote in the state, and after the canvass of the votes was made it was recorded that 203 men had voted, 86 voting “Yes” and 115 voting “No.” Two mutilated ballots cast by the men. 126 women had voted, 103 voting “yes’ ’and 22 voting “No.” One mutilated ballot by the women, leaving a majority of 52 dry votes. The township has one saloon, the license expiring June 4th. The women of the township feel highly elated over the fact that they cast the first vote by women in the state. The local option election held two years ago 4n Wheatfield township gave a wet majority of 47 and several wet votes mutilated. The election was very orderly in every respect.

German People Equally Guilty, Dr. Hill States.

New York, May 29.—Dr. David Jayne Hill, former ambassador to Germany, in an address to the tnistees of the American Defense society here today, warned that Germany is far from defeat and discounted the theory that the Hohenzollems alone are responsible for that country’s imperialistic ambitions. He asserted that the present war is a struggle of political systems. “The people of Germany.” declared Dr. Hill, “are more loyal to the emperor than the democratic party is to Wilson. The president has said that we have no hostility toward the German people, but do not the German people support the imperial German government to a man? Didn” a wave of general rejoicing go through Germany when the Lusitania went down? How many Germans in Germany can you find who are not im-» perialistic? I have never found one.” ‘"This,” added Dr. Hill, “is .going to be a different world if the central powers win the war, and it is by no means certain that they will not. Unless we conscript ourselves for this battle and lay our wealth and our lives at the altar of the defense of our institutions, we will find our descendants in the vortex of world dominating schemes of autocracy.”

If jou want a first class eastern coal try our Carbon Lump. It is a high grade, free burning coal.—The Fanners Grain Company, Phone No. 7.

$10,000.00 THE STATE BANK off Rensselaer, Indiana has subscribed for $10,000.00 United States Government Liberty Bonds. This Bank will accept subscriptions without charge. Bonds can be paid for in installments. , -

UNITED STATES' LIBERTY BONDS We will receive subscriptions and forward same without expense. First National Bank

TONIGHT AT THE STAR MARIAN SWAYNE In a Five Reel Comedy-Drama An Art Picture of Little Miss Fortune Also Mrs. Vernon Castle in the 9th Episode of Patria. • THURSDAY A Semi Western Drama The Heart of Texas '7„7 * Ryan Good Roping, Good Riding. This Will Please All Classes. AT THE STAR THEATRE. Admission 5c and 10c.

MARKET.

The girls of the Gleaner Class of the Presbyterian Sunday school will hold a market at the Warner Bros, hardware store Saturday, June 2, from 9 to 12 a. m.

Bicycle tires, all new stock. Phone 218. Jim Clark. "HATS’ Trimmed and Untrimmed THAT ARE UNIQUE TODAY AND PACE MAKERS TOMORROW We also do dressmjaking. Right styles, at the right time at the right prices. MISSES JONES & BRINEY Second Floor of the Rowles & Parker Department Store

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