Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — Page 1

No. 126.

WILL RECEIVE DIPLOMAS TODAY

WALTER ENGLISH AND VICTOR HOOVER ARE AMONG THE PURDUE II I f ■ _ < > . : ———— Walter English, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. English, and Victor. Hoovson of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Hoover, are two Rensselaer boys who are listed among the Purdue graduates today. Mr. English graduated from the institution three years ago and since that time has been employed by the Monon railroad. Walter took a special course in mechanical engineering this year and receives his degree in that course today. Mr. Hoover graduates as a pharmaceutical chemist, having completed his two years’ course.

First Drawing For Men On July 1.

President Wilson, who now has under consideration the regulations for exemption from military 'service, expects to initiate tne first drawing or names for selective draft about July 1, according to information obtained at the White House Tuesday night. B The regulations governing the entire process of selecting the young men who are to go to the European battlefields will be*issued in a few days and then will follow the appointment of the local and district' exemption boards. With complete returns received from thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia, indications are that the registration will run over 9.,000,000 and may approximate 9,500,000 inasmuch as heavy registrations are looked for in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Indications are that the total number of men registered who have offered themselves without indicating any cause for exemption except for physical causes will approximate 3,000,000. The total registration reported to date is over 7 million. States not yet heard from are Arizona, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wyoming. The showing that has been made is particularly gratifying to thorities, who declare that it amounts to almost a hundred per cent registration.

ON TRACK SOON. Another car extra good quality middlings $2.00 per cwt., at car. Give us your order and we will notify you when car arrives.—■’-Iroquois Roller Mills, Phone 456. The Main Garage received today another carload of Maxwell automobiles.

Careful Service is characteristic of our eye exlaminations. Our tests are unerring and your eyes are safe in our care. ' Let Us Show You that we can relieve that squint, take away those frowns, overcome headaches and relieve much nerve strain. From the wee child to the gray haired sire we offer this careful service. Each Pair of Glasses Fitted Sells Others. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phone IS.

D THE Q I RINCES U TONIGHT Douglas Gerrard Thomas 'Jefferson AND _ Zoe Rae IN POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON Red Feather

The Evening Republican .

REPUBLICAN IN A NEW DRESS

PAPER NOW SET ALMOST ENTIRELY BY MACHINE, INx CLUDING BIG The Republican now appears in a new dress set on a new linotype. Model 14. The Republican was formerly set on a Model 5 machine, which is replaced by the new one. The new machine is almost a complete printing office and enables us to set large type as well as small, the operator having at his instant command seven different styles of type adpated to both newspaper and job work. Narly every line on this page is set on this machine, including the advertisements, and as soon as the operator gets familiar with the machine nearly all the paper will be machine set. *

A New Note Is Struck By Phil osophes.

Homer McKee has struck a new note in the hours of calamity that is assailing the ears of Americans today, and his voice rises Clear and helpful above the dolorous wailing of trfb multitude of writers who feel it incumbent upon themselves to become prophets of evil. The appended paragraphs will give the reader inspiration: “For heaven’s sake let us figure on a net basis. “Afherica is up against a stiff proposition—granted. “We’ll probably lose a couple of hundred thousand men before tais thing is over, and you and the writer may be two of them. What of it, so long as the great principles upon which this government is founded still endure? “But there is absolutely no chance for us to lose the war. And. doesn’t it mean something to Americans to know that at last their hour has struck, and that from today on. we are to be a nation, rich in tradition, a power among world powers, and that the voice of one Uncle Sam is going to be raised in the h t;h councils of the, mighty, not in a tone of arrogance and vaunting egotism, but in the deep-throated tones of one who is right, and who has at last learned to use his big duxes. America is already the world’s one great arbiter —the world’s one great throne of appeal—the world’s chaperon, protector and chief of pblice—all in one—incorruptible, fair and fearless. “I like to say these things because it makes me feel good. It makes me feel my Americanism. It makes me feel my birthright and it sort of justifies the lump I get in my throat when the flag goes by. “God, what a privilege to be an American these days. “What a privilege to know that all of us can spend our money and our time and maybe our blood itself, in behalf of the greatest cause since time began. “It is as if we were permitted to punish all the concentrated crime of the ages, to put the kiss of solace on the wasted cheek of Mother Earth and love her back to life, and to gather the orphans of heroes about our knees and tell them fairy tales of how their fathers died, like the martyr of Galilee —‘that men might live.’ , . ... • This is not a time for tears —it is a time for ecstacy. '. “These are not the pangs of death —they are humanity’s birth pains. America is not going to taste defeat —she is not even going to sip the edge of the cup. . “Here, on the other hand, is what America is going to do: “America is going to throw her weight in the scales of righteousness and end the submarine carnage. “America is going to be in time to save poor, bleeding, heroic, sublime France. * , “America is going to come back into the old Anglo-Saxon family circle and be the big boy who left home and who has won his spurs and made his way in the world. “America is going to have the finest, cleanest and most respected army in the world, and it is to be an army of Christian soldiers —not an army of hate and horror. “The American flag is going to float from the spars of the finest merchant marine on earth. : “Wilson is going down in history as the man who knew his hour and arose to meet it. “Henceforth, when we register from the U. S. A. ,in the hotels of other lands, men will speak gently and women will drop unbidden .tears of gratitude, and children will hush their voices in the presence of a love that no man cart define. “Wherefore all this gloomy neighbors? “Let us throw out our chests, hold up our chins, and thank Divine Providence for the honor of taking the white man’s burden off shoulders that are still strong—but, oh, how weary.” . _

NOTICE. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON, City Marshal. Hopkins’ City Transfer Line. Transfer business formerly operated by Billy Frye. Calls will receive immediate attention. Call Phones 226 or 107 ’ Our CtawMed Column gets rsoulto.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1917. ,

ON THE WAY TO FRANCE

C. A. RADCLIFF, WITH COMMISSION, SAILS FOR SEAT OF WAR. Each day the realities of the European war come nearer home to the people of this community. Tuesday Alfred Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, left for New York and on the sixteenth of June will sail for France. Another man, whose family is now in Rensselaer, iS also making that watery journey. C. A. Radcliff, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.' Rhoades, went to New York the Bth or 9th of June and has since left for the field of battle. Mrs. Radcliff and her three children, ages nine, seven and five, are here with their grandparents. Mr. Radcliff has a fine commission, being captain in the quartermasters reserve department and having in charge a large motor truck squad. Since May sth he had been at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and last week passed through Indianapolis, but on account of the secrecy of the movement of government troops his wife was not advised and she regrets very much that she did not get to see him before his departure.

FIND NEW ORLEANS A VERY DEAD TOWN

Home Seeker* Visit the Crescent City On Sunday and Wish They Hadn’t.

Rex Warner and Earl. Leek returned from their Mississippi trip yesterday. They are well pleased with the country and both may invest in lands there later. The section they visited is badly in lifeed of rain now, and is one of the few .spots in the south which has not had an. excess of rain. The balance of the party have not yet arrived home, but are expected home at any time. Sunday they visited New Orleans but were not pleased with their visit there, as some reformer had been stirring up things there and had forced some of the forgotten blue laws to be put in operation and they could not even buy a post card to be sent home. The streets were deserted on that day, and but few automobiles were seen on the streets. This was in vast contrast to the New Orleans of old, with its population of pleasure seekers and transient population of tourists.

THE WEATHER. Showers and thunder storms this afternoon and tonight; cooler tonight and Thursday probably fair; cooler in east and south portions.

Mrs. John L. Peetz, widow of the former state statistician has filed a petition before Judge Pence at Anderson asking the right to sell real estate owned by her deceased husband. In Mr. Peetz’s will he made no provision for his wife and Judge Pence holds that the will is not the last one. In the will the mother of Peetz, now dead, was named as the beneficiary. Mr. Peetz was the former editor of the Monon News.

Vesta batteries are not turned out, by the thousands every day for the builders of low priced cars. Each battery is built by hand and sold directly to a consumer. Any battery will do for equipment for the new car only carries a 90-day agreement. No battery will outlive the car, but a Vesta will outlive two of any other make, and 50 per cent is somo interest. People buy Vesta batteries for the same reason they buy cord tires. When you say Vesta, that’s “nuff sed.”

THE GAYETY TONIGHT Official pictures oflthe European War, taken on the British Front in France. MAX PLAYS DETECTIVE Featuring Max Linder Luke Wins Ye Lady Faire Featuring Lonesome Luke HEARST-PATHE NEWS THURSDAY HENRY B. WALTHALL IN THE SAINTS ADVENTURE Sc and 10c.

JASPER ASKED TO RAISE $4,200

COMMITTEE SELECTED TO PUT ON CAMPAIGN IN THIS . COUNTY. Of the 3100,000,000 to be raised by the Red Cross of this country as a war fund, $4,200 is to be raised in this county. A meeting was held at the office of Mayor Spitler and Mayor Spitler and the following were selected as a committee to put on this campaign, which will be on next week. Charles Gi Spitler, Chairman. Father Christian Daniels. James H. Chapman. Bert J. Jarrette. B. F. Fendig. A publicity committee consisting of the following was appointed; L. S. Hilliard, chairman. F. E. Babcock. Louis H. Hamilton. There will be a big meeting in the interest of the Red Cross on the court house lawn Sunday evening and movements have been started to make a great success. The Rensselaer band will give a concert and a speaker of national ability will be secured to deliver an address. This should be a great meeting and everybody should be a booster and help to start off this campaign with great earnestness and, enthusiasm.

FORMER RESIDENT IS DANGEROUSLY ILL

O. C. Halstead I* In Critical Condition at Hi* Home In Wyoming. O. C. Halstead, formerly of Newton township, this county, but now a resident of Worland, Wyoming, is in very critical condition and it is feared that he can not recover. His son, Roscoe, left for Worland on the 10:36 train this morning. Mr. Halstead had been sick for a short time but a letter received by his brother, Everett, a day o» so ago in his own hand writing, stated that he was getting along very nicely. Tuesday evening a message was received stating that he had had a relapse and that the worst might be expected. He is afflicted with some kind of fever induced by caring for his brother, Sanford Halstead, who had just recovered from the spotted fever, a disease caused by the bite of a mountain tick.

Abundance of Money.

I can loan you al! the money you want on that farm. My rate la 5 per cent anu my limit is SIOO per acre.— P. D. Wells. Morocco, Indiana.

Mayor Charles G. Spitler, who is chairman of the Jasper county Red Cross chapter, went to Chicago toda to .secure a speaker for the proposed Sunday evning meeting. Christian Teaborg and wife, of Chicago, were here today closing a deal for a 40 acre farm near DeMotte which they purchased from E. L. Hollingsworth. A number of Rensselaer people went to Remington today to confer with the members of the Red Cross at that place. It is understood that the Red Cross is receiving splendid support from our neighboring town. Mrs. W. F. Fellmy, of DePauw, Ind., took the train here this morning for Foresman, where she will visit with the family of Thomas Wright. Mrs. John I. Gwin went to Fair Oaks this morning and spent the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGowan, who live in the northern part of Union township. The governor of Indiana reports the state’s total registration as 255,145, divided as follows: White 230,272; colored 10,073; alien 13,651; alien enemies 1,149; indicated possible exemptions 151,689. State’s estimated eligibles 260,011. McCutcheon’s cartoons in the Chicago Daily Tribune are always good. In today’s paper he has drawn a picture of each of the denominations of the Liberty Loan bond. They are as follows: SIOO,000 Grant; $50,000 McKinley; $5,000 Monroe; SI,OOO Lincoln; SSOO Washington; SIOO Jackson; SSO Jefferson. The hanks here will furnish any of these bonds.

About fifty character witnesses were called to Kentland today to testify in the Stockton perjury trial, which has been occupying the attention of the Newton court during the past two' weeks. A large number of character witnesses testified Tuesday and in all there will probably be 100 such witnesses examined during the present week. It is the opinion of the attorneys involved in the case that it will be the latter part of the week before the case is turned over to the juryBicycle tires, the largest line in the city. AU new stock at the old low prices. Also bicycle repairs and repairings—Main Garage.

RED CROSS DRIVE ON

INDIANA PEOPLE ASKED TO GIVE BIG SUM OF $1,500,000. Indianapolis, June 13.—The big drive for the American Red Cross war relief fund starts on June 18 and within a week it is the intention to raise $100,000,000 in the United States, $1,500,000 of it being apportioned to Indiana. It is the greatest campaign for a relief fund in the history of the world, and it is the greatest movement of the kind in which Indiana has ever been asked to participate. Indiana is to be stormed from lake to river that people from city, town and farm may have opportunity to subscribe to the cause which is going to be of vital importance to Hoosier boys who are sent to the .battle fronts of Europe, or who may later have to defend American soil frqm the threatening invader. The whole force of the American nation is lining up behind the Red Cross, and Indiana people are expected to rally about it as they have the liberty bond and the Y. M.- C. A. war work movements. The campaign in Indiana is headed by a Red Cross- War Fund campaign committee, of which Governor Goodrich is chairman. The management of the campaign is in the hands of A. R. Bentley, state director of the Red Cross, with an organized force of workers in each Congressional district where a secretary is directing the county movements. The leaders in this Red Cross cause say that the people of Indiana must act and give promptly if the state is to take a foremost position in the nation-wide - campaign for funds. But a. more important reason for promptness is that America is in a desperate position and that the Red Cross is one of its mightiest agencies in the critical time. The great fund must be in hand for the protection and comfort of the American armies which are already starting for the blood-soak-ed regions of Europe. The Red Cross fund is to be used to provide war unit hospitals which will follow the American armies wherever they go. Ambulance companies, a branch of the hospital work aS important as the hospitals themselves, are also to be provided out of the fund. Tuberculosis is sweeping the armies of Europe because inadequate defense against the white plague was not provided in the beginning. Part of the Red Cross fund is to go for safeguarding the American soldiers against the ravage of this and other diseases which are to be dreaded as much as enemy bullets.

America is going into the war to break the deadlock which now seems to exist along the east and west fronts of Europe. Americans must win the war now on European soil, or it may have to be fought to the finish on our own soil. Vast as the $100,000,000 Red Cross fund may seem, it is less than two days’ cost of the war as it is now being fought abroad and as it may cost should it be transferred to our own land. So Americans are being anpealed to to support their own interests in every possible way during this critical period—to prepare for war by giving up their sons, and so stand behind tne youth of the country as it goes forth to fight by entrenching the Red Cross as the one mighty relief force ready for all emergencies behind the battle lines. •'There is no limit to the amount which a Hoosier may give to the Red Cross fund, but the gifts must be generous if the state is to reach its apportionment of $1,500,000. Although the actual canvass for funds .does not start until July 18, several gifts of $1,000,000 each have been pledged in New York and large sums are also pledged by Chicago citizens. Every county in Indiana now has a fully organized chapter of the Red Cross and forces of workera are ready to canvass for subscriptions, and in every county too the state committee urges that the appeal for funds be promptly responded to.

F. P. Myer Puts Idiotic Bill to Rout.

F. P. (Dutch) Myer, of Danville, 111., president of the Illinois. Retailers Shoe Association, with his aides has put to rout the idiotic Kirby bill, which was recently passed by the Illinois house. The biU provided for the regulation of the height of the heels on women’s shoes and if passed would have prohibited the sale of shoes by dealers with heels over a certain height. Illinois shoe dealers became alarmed with the passage of the biU by the house, previous to which time little attention had been paid to the measure and Myers was appealed to, to make a sign. against the noisure and file a protest against its passage with the senate. The protest had the desired effect for when the bill came up before the senate Tuesday it was voted down with scarcely a dissenting vote and was treated as a joke by the members of the senate. The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Mens and boys clothing, muslin and knit underwear, rugs, shoes, women's and children s dresses, all kinds of hosiery, dress goods, ginghams, percales, calicoes, etc. —The G. E. Murray Co.

NEW HOSPITAL SUPERINTEND'T

MISS MATTIE HEMPHILL SELECTED TO SUCCEED MISS BRUNNEMAN. The trustees of the Jasper county hospital held a special meeting at the First National Bank Tuesday afternoon. At the meeting Mattie Hemphill was selected to take the place as superintendent beginning July 1, 1917. Miss Hemphill is a graduate nurse and has had a number of years of most successful experience. Her appointment was urged by all the physicians in the county who knew her. She stands very high in this community both as a nurse and a lady of most excellent character. It was also ordered by the board that Miss Harper be continued as surgical nurse and that the employment of Miss Comer and Miss O’Keith be continued. Miss* Brunneman, who has been with the hospital since it opened in January, has by her marked ability placed the institution upon a high plane of efficiency. It is the general opinion of all that this is one of the best equipped and best managed small hospitals they have ever visited. Miss Brunneman handed her resignation to the board at their meeting in May. All who have been acquainted with the splendid service rendered by the hospital during her stay here regret her decision to leave. She is a lady of strong personality and one whose ability placed her in a position to command the very best places offered in her profession.

Wells Receives $4,000 From H. & D. Company.

Fa Im er D. Wells, of Morocco, who filed a suit against the H. & D. Shock Absorber Company for $75,000 some time ago, was awarded a judgment of $4,000 in the Benton circuit court. Wells alleged that the company broke a contract he had with them.

Remington Red Cross is Active.

Two automobile loads of Rensselaer members of the Red Cross work here visited Remington this Wednesday morning and found that they are pushing the Red Cross work there and that they already have over one hundred members. They are very much interested in the campaign to be waged next week and arrangements are being made to hold a big meeting there Sunday afternoon, just preceding the meeting to be held here a little later in the evening. There is a possibilty that our good friends at Remington may out-do us in this great work. Be that as it may, everybody everywhere should get back of this drive and make it a success.

Check On Travelers.

Washington, June 11.—The government today began to tighten restrictions governing travel between the United States and foreign countries. Secretary Redfield directed all steamship companies to accept no passengers for foreign ports, either American citizens or aliens, unless they possess passports from the state department. The department of labor at the same time ordered its agents to be particularly careful in admitting persons into the country. To put a dpuble check on outgoing passengers, Mr. Redfield directed the shipping companies to accept no passports unless advised.

We are compelled in order to raise money to pay our bills, to make a Military Drive Sale of aU our merchandise.—The G. E. Murray Co.

TODAY i. - Little Marguerite Clark nr “THE PRETTY SISTER OF JOSE” Five Reels of Interest „ Also Mrs. Vernon Castle in the 11th Episode of Patria. Full of mystery quick action to the end. Don t miss these. THURSDAY - . " Ann Pennington in The Rainbow Princess In Five Acte. On the order of Polly of the Circus, may be seen at THE STAR THEATRE

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