Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — Page 1

No. 131.

Who Will Be Made Exempt From the Army Service.

Washington, June, 16. —Farmers are not exempt from military service. To dispel the widespread impression that agricultural pursuits are exempt from the .selective draft, Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder today reiterated that only “indispeitsible men” in any industry will be exempted. “Every man that can serve the nation better as a soldier than in the industry or occupation in which he happens to be, will be called to the colors unless it works actual hardship to his dependents. ’ The others—indispensibles—will be exempted. . In a proclamation of exemption regulations to be,issued within a few days by President Wilson, a provision made for determining who are and who are not the indispensable men. Such is the tremendous task con- • fronting the appellate exemption boards. The proclamation places the sole power to pass upon occupational claims for exemption into the hands of these boards. One is created for each federal judicial district in the country. President Wilson’s proclamation will furnish general rules for the guidance of the appellate boards but the power to exempt or refuse is left largely to their discretion.

Miss Clay Nevill Married At Kewannee, Mich., Monday.

Miss Clay Nevill; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nevill, of this city, was united .in marriage Monday at Kewanee, Mich., to Arthur Gosnell, son of Morris Gosnell, also of this city. The couple left Rensselaer Saturday evening or Sunday ■ morning and went direct to Michigan, where their marriage occurred. Their marriage came as a surprise to their relatives and friends, who did not know of it until a telegram from them was received Monday afternoon. The groom is employed by the White & Lee ice company of this city and the bride was a student in the high school of this city. They will no doubt continue to make their residence in this city.

Dan Day Pleads Guilty to Charge Preferred by State.

Dan Day, son of Hiram Day, appeared before Mayor Spitler Saturday evening to answer to a charge-of selling intoxicating liquors. Day pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him, but as yet the court has not taken any action in the matter but the sentence will no doubt be imposed some time this week. Chase Day has not yet been tried. Johnny Rouns, facing the same charge as the Day brothers, pleaded guilty some time ago but no action has been take in his ease as yet either.

Infant Son of Homer A. Thomas Died Monday.

Richard Dalton, the 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Thomas, of Barkley township, passed away Monday afternoon. The cause of death was intestinal trouble. The funeral will be held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning at the house and burial will in Egypt cemetery in Jordan township.

Attention Knights of Pythias.

A large number should be preserit at the meeting tonight as business of importance should be attended to, and there, will be eats. —Charles Grow, C. 0.

Do YOUR Bit Give to the Red Cross. PTHE .0 RINCES 0 TONIGHT Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Features presents Antonio Moreno and 1 Dorothy Kelly ’ ' IN The Supreme Temptation By Arthur Westermayr Powerful influence fails to move a strong man from the path of duty and honor, and he saves from death the woman he had wrqpged.

Do Your Bit—Give to the Red Cross

The Evening Republican.

HONORED PLACE WAITS BELGIUM

PRESIDENT VOWS RAVAGED NATION shall BE RESTORED WHEN PEACE COMES. .Washington, June 18. —In greeting Belgium’s war mission today here President Wilson expressed America’s “solemn determination that on the inevitable day "of victory, Belgium shall be restored to the place she has so-richly won among .the self-respecting and respected nations of the earth.” The commissioners spent the first day in Washington paying official calls. Secretary Lansing accompanied them to the white house, where Baron Moncheur, head of the mission, handed to President Wilson a personal letter from King Albert ana expressed in a short address _Belgium’s gratitude for America’s aid. “Since the first days of the greatest tragedy which has ever befallen humanity,” said the baron, “Belgium has contracted an immense debt of gratitude to the generous American nation. In a magnificent outburst of sympathy for the little country which had chosen to delay a powerful and pitiless enemy rather than to tarnish its honor or foreswear its plighted word, the initiative of American citizens gave to the unfortunate victims of German cruelty in Belgium the most splendid evidence of ' generosity.. Belgium will again take her place among the nations. The enemy brought us massacre and devastation, but there still remains to the Belgium people their soil, made fertile by the toil of their ancestors, there still remains to Belgium an industrious population of unconquerable energy.’ President Wilson, thanking the baron and through'him King Albert, said in reply: . “Your excellency is good enough to -express the thanks of the Belgian people for. the participation of America in feeding the people of your stricken country. This work, in which so many Americans have been engaged, is one which has brought as much of benefit to them as to the innocent civilized population whom it was intended to aid. The American people have been able to understand and glory in the unflinching heroism of the Belgian people ana their sovereign and there is not among us one who does not today welcome the opportunity of expressing to you our heartfelt sympathy and friendship, and our solemn determination that on the inevitable day of victory Belgium shall be restored to the place she has so richly won among the self-respecting and respected nations of the earth.

Soy beans are all the talk in many sections of Indiana, and where uien are not growing them they are watching the fellow who is. In a recent 300-mile tour of eastern Indiana and western Ohio, Edi-tor-Troeger, of Up-to-Date-Frammg, investigated the crop and methods being followed by farmers. Most farmers are sowing the beans m corn with the idea of “hogging” it down. This provides an ideal ration _ for pigs as the beans furnish protein in the most 'satisfactory manner and balance the fat-making elements of corn. / ——— —, Special bean attachments are benig used in a number of communi; ties, which make it possible to govern the sowing. There is < a good deal of guess work where the beans are mixed with earth and sowed through the fertilizer boxes. The bean attachment can be used at the same time that fertilizer and corn are put in. . When sown for hay or seed, the beans are drilled with a wheat drill, using the oats side and plugging up enough holes to plant the beans 28 to 32 inches apart. A farmer who produces a good crop of seed will reap a big profit for there is a great shortage and the beans are increasing fast in popularity. Soy beans improve the soil, also, and with fertilizers going up in price, we need to make use of every crop that we can that Will improve the fertility and physical condition of the soil.

Monnett School Cantata At Church This Evening.

—The girls of the Monnett School will present a cantata at the Methodist church this evening entitled, “Midsummer Eve,*’ as the first of their graduation festivities, The cantata will consist of songs and drills and marches by the girls, who will be dressed in pretty and unique costumes. On Wednesday evening, June 20, the commencement exercises will be held.

notice. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON, , City Marshal. We are doing our best to keep the prices down in our grocery department—The G. E. Murray Co.

Soy Beans a Popular Crop.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917.

Building of Camps MayHold Draft Back.

- Simultaneous construction of sixteen war army cantonments, each to house 40,000 troops, has proved such an enormous task that the officials do not now believe it can be completed ita time to permit mobilization of the first full quota of 650,000 by September 1. Whether any of the men first selected will be called out Until the government is ready to begin training of the entire first quota has not been revealed. The greatest builders, engineers and city planners of the country are working out details for the construction of 3 the cantonments. There will also be 16 great temporary camps occupied by the state troops. They will not need permanent cantonments, for their period of training will be over before cold weather sets in. The men live comfortably in tents. f The contracts for the camps for the draft army are to be let next week. The material is ready, the army of employes is being organized, and the great building drive will open the hour the contracts are signed. One of the cantonments is to be at Rockford and Springfield, 111. In three months more money will be spent than went into the Panama Canal in the course of one year. These camps must have ample water supply and the best of sewerage, streets, a railroad and about 1,000 houses, as now planned.

It’s “National Army.”

Washington, June 18.—The first official reference to the National Army, the designation which will be applied to the forces raised under the selective draft law, appeared today in orders directing several reserve officers of the engineer corps to report to the' commanding officer of “the Second Engineers National Army, at St. Louis, Mo.” The regiment is one of those previously designated as reserve engineers, a name abandoned because officials were convinced that there was only questionable legal authority for organization of such reserve regiments.

Soldier Boy Marries.

Not to avert service, but to do the manly act, Private Elza Paul Swim was married at the county clerk’s office Monday, June 18, 1917, by Attorney D. D. Dean, to Grace Anna Wood. That action on the part of Paul is one deserving of commendation, one his parents and his friends had urged him to do, and having done so he deserves and will have the best wishes of all;

Russia Short of Ambulances.

On the whole 1,000 miles of front held by Russia there are only 6,000 ambulances. Whereas in France on a front of only 400 miles there are 54,000 ambulances. Russia must have immediate relief from the American Red Cross. The government says Jasper county must raise $4,200 this week. DO YOUR BIT.

Concert Program, June 20.

March—Boston Commandry, Carter. Ov—Mignonette, Bauman. Medley Ov.—-Bits of Remick’s Hits, No. 17, Remick. Waltz —Mystic Dreams, Stickey. Potpourri—Grand Sacred, Berry. Ov.—Arcadia, Laurens. Selection —Idealistic, Brooks. Star Spangled Banner.

Abundance of Money.

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

THE GAYETY TONIGHT Essany Presents Henry B. Walthall Jand Mary Charleson in BURNING THE CANDLE S part picture > A WEDNESDAY Government-made pictures of the European War. The Battle of Somme The only pictures of the greatest battle ever fought.

BENEFIT GAME FOR RED CROSS

BASEBALL GAME FRIDAY IN INTEREST OF RED CROSSSTORES TO CLOSE. All roads will lead to Riverside ball park on Friday afternoon, next, for this is the day that has been set aside by the local Red Cross committee as the day when the baseball game in the interest of the Red Cross organization will be played. . Following the suggestion in The Republican that a baseball game be played between two local clubs, the proceeds of which were to be turned over to the Red Cross society, Van R. Grant, formerly the doughty little leader of the Athletics, took up the suggestion with S. P. Hilliard, chairman of the adveritsing committee of the Red Cross in this county, and found the latter greatly enthused about the project. Mr. Hilliard, who has proved to be such a live wire as a member of the Red Cross committee, immediately started completing arrangements for the game and expects by this evening to have everything in readiness. Mr. Hilliard states that he expects to have Rensselaer closed up tight from two o’clock to five o’clock Frir day afternoon, which will permit all to' attend the- game. The game will be widely advertised and no doubt a considerable sum will be raised toward the Jasper county Red Cross fund. An admission price will be charged at the gate and the total should be great, although the expense to each individual will be small. There will be practically no expense attached to the game and the proceeds derived will be clear profit. The Rensselae? band has been secured to furnish music during the afternoon, and Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland, of the local militia company, has been secured to give .an exhibition of target shootings Lieut. Garland is recognized as the most consistent shot in the United States and during the past few years has won a great many prizes, capping his brilliant performances two years ago in Florida, where he won the national individual revolver contest. A squad or so of Captain Tuteur’s khaki-clad soldiers will probably be on hand to give an exhibition drill of the manual of arms. The two clubs will will meet, are the Foresters, piloted by Ed Lane, and a team made up mostly of former Athletics, led by Van Grant. The Foresters have been playing ball for the past two years and have quite a record, while the Athletics have been idle for the past season, but it is figured that the latter are in good enough fettle to give their opponents a lot of trouble. Elmer Wilcox will be behind the platter for the Athletics, and Joe Elder, Jimmy Eldridge, Dad Swartzell, Harold Clark and Sherm Parks will be at their regular posts. Lefty Clark will do the slabbing. Manager Grant may decide to stage a comeback and no doubt will be guarding one of the posts of the inner works during the pasttime. Feldhouse will twirl for the Foresters, and the rest of the lineup will likewise be intact. Hugh Kirk and “Pansy” Tuteur will offiAll in all, it looks like a big afternoon of good, clean entertainment, and since the project is for so worthy a cause a large crowd should be in attendance.

Billy Sunday Ends New York Drive Against Hades.

Possibly the greatest religious meeting of all times and places was just closed by Billy Sunday in New York Sunday, June 17th. The meetings have been.in progress since April Bth. During- this meeting 98,264 persbns hit the sawdust trail and thereby indicated the determination to live better lives. The enormous expense of the meeting had been raised in the collections taken and as is his custom the collection at the last meeting is a free-will offer to Sunday himself. This offering in New York amounted to $144,000. Against unsheaving his critics and showing that every dollar Sunday receives is well spent, he has divided the magnificent sum between the Red Cross and the Young Men’s Christian Association. Ip leaving New York, thousands had gathered at the station to see him off. Sunday broke down and cried like a -child and the people shouted-: “Come again, Bill.”

Germany Told to End War Or Be Bankrupt.

Amsterdam, June $ 18.—A speedy peace is urged on Germany to halt the depreciation of money, but the Socialist paper Vorwaerts. “All other means are nothing but apologies,” is says. “Improvement in the rate of exchange is impossible as long as Germany wages war against a league which alms at her destruction.” If you want dry goods, clothing or shoes, you can save money duringr our Military Drive sale.—The G. E. Murray Co.

Kaiser's Downfall Forecast In Rare Allegory of Monk.

Tiffin, 0., June 12.—A well-known manufacturer in this city has just received from a friend jn Cleveland a translation of a remarkable allegory from a book entitled “Omens of the Great War,” which was written in 1650, at the close of the Thirty Years’ War. The author was a German monk, known as Brother Johannes, and the book is very rare. As translated, it reads as follows: “Toward the year 2000 the Antichrist will manifest himself. His army will surpass in numbers all that can be imagined. There will be Christians among the legions and there will be Mohammedans and savage soldiers amoiig the defenders of the Lamb. “For the first time the Lamb will be all red. There will not be a single spot on the Christian world that will not he red, and the red will be in the ' heavens, earth, the waters and even in tne air, for blood will flow in the domains of the four elements at- once.

“The Black Eagle will throw himself on the Cock, who will lose many feathers, but will strike back heroically with his spurs. He would sobn be lost were it not for the help of the Leopard and his claws. “The Black Eagle will come from the country of Luther, will surprise the Cock from another side, and will invade the country of the Cock up to the middle of it. ‘ The White Eagle coming from the north will surprise the Black Eagle, and the Other Eagle will invade the country of the Cock up to the middle of it. “The Biack Eagle will see himself forced to liberate the Cock in order to fight the White Eagle and the Cock will pursue the Black Eagle into the country of the Antichrist to help the White Eagle. “The battles fought up to then will be. as nothing compared to those which will take place in the country of Luther for the seven angels will

together pour in the fire cf their censers on the impious earth, which signifies that the Lamb will order the extermination of the race of the Antichrist. “When the Beast sees that he is lost he will become furious and for many months the beak of the White Eagle, the claws of the Leopard ana the spurs of the Cock will fiercely strike at him. They will cross rivers over the bodies of the slain, and these in places will change the course of the waters. “They will bury only the men of noble families, the leading commandants and Princes, because to the carnage made by the armies will be joined by the wholesale death, those who will die of hunger or the pest. “The Antichrist will ask many times for peace, but the seven angels who walk in front of the three animals defending the Lamb have declared that victory will only be granted on condition that the Antichrist be crushed like a straw on the barn floor.

“The fight which will take place where the Antichrist forges his arms will not in any way be a human fight. (Essen, the location of the Krupp gun works.) “The three animals defending the Lamb will exterminate the last army of the Antichrist, but they will be forced to erect on the battlefield a pyre as large as a city, for the bodies of the dead will change the aspect of the countryside as there will be mounds of the slain. “The Antichrist will lose his crown and die in solitude and madness. His empire will be divided into 22 states, but none of them will any longer possess fortresses, armies or vessels. (Curiously there Germany now, whereas when this prediction was written the empire was divided into 25 principalities.) “The White Eagle, by the order of St. Michael, will drive the Crescent from Europe and will install himself in Constantinople. Then will begin an era of peace and prosperity fbr the earth and there will be no more wars. Each nation will be governed by its desires and will live according to the rules of justice. There will be no longer Lutherans and Schismatics. “The Lamb will reign and the supreme happiness of humanity will begin. Happy will be those escaping the perils of that period. They will be able to enjoy the fruit of the reign of the Spirit and the purging of humanity, which can only come after the defeat of the Antichrist.”

A. Roth Factory Girls Will Give Benefit Show.

•Buy a ticket of the A. Roth factory girls and attend the show at the Star Friday evening, June 22nd. These girls will call upon you and they should be largely patronized. The show wilT be a good one and every cent of the money the girls receive will be turned over to the Jasper county Red Cross chapter for its war fund.

auction sale. Will sell on the streets of Rensselaer, Saturday, June 23, a five year old driving mare, lady broke. LILLIAN BURNS, Phone 901-G. Col. Fred A. Phillips, Auctioneer.

WEATHER. Fair tonight and W ednesday; slightly cooler north and central portion tonight.

DOCTORS HEAR THE CALL

ARE ASKED HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT OFFERING THEIR SERVICES IN ARMY. The following self-explanatory letter has been received by practically every medical practitioner in the country from Capt. J. R. McNight, U. S. army surgeon, of the Central Department, Chicago; ;=== “The object of this communication is to obtain definite add dependable data regarding the number of medical men available for medical ! service in the army. The practical and satisfactory method is to obtain the data from the individual physician himself. “This letter, therefore, is to call your attention to the privilege and obligation of physicians to meet the present and prospective needs of the government and to ask whether you wish to offer your services. If this is your desire, and you have not already done so, you should at once make application for membership in the Medical Reserve Corps of the army. This you should do at once, not so much because your services are needed immediately, but that the department may know on whom and how many medical men it can depend, whatever exigencies may develop. “It is an important matter that your immediate attention be given so that this survey of the medical profession of the entire country may be quickly completed. Your country needs you if you are physically and professionally qualified.” Accompanying the letter was a card for immediate reply, an application blank for admission to the medical corps and a franked envelope for mailing application. A circular letter containing a summary of the requirements also accompanied the letter.

To Campaign Leaders Red Cross War Fund.

We are now in the beginning of the campaign to raise the $100,000,000 for the American Red Cross. We are more |han anxious that Indiana raises the share assigned to it, and Indiana will if every county does its full duty. sWe would suggest that your executives .meet daily during the campaign to canvass the situation and devise ways of increasing the results of your workers. The daily returns should be posted and published. The thought should be constantly kept in mind by all of us that this is a campaign in which big men of big minds and big resources are securing big contributions from big minds and big resources. —Samuel P. Withrow, Indiana Campaign Leader.

Some Early Reporta of The Rod Crow Work.

Brazil wires: “We raised eight thousand dollars last night and are going to increase our goal to $12,000. Rush county wires that Milroy was asked to take SBOO of the county’s share and raised $2,565. DeKalb county wants to know what to do with the extra money if it gets $15,000 instead of $7,600 asked from it. . Indianapolis has increased its goal to $400,000. w ... Huntington county has already 40 per cent of its apportionment pledged. - Home grown strawberries at Rhoads’ Grocery.

THE STAR THEATRE TODAY A Metro Quality program WEDNESDAY Marguerite Clark in Helene of the North Also Mrs. Vernon Castle in the 12th Episode of Patrip. THURSDAY Geo. Fawcett, Bessie Eyton and - Vivian Reed ; IN Little Lost Sister Star Theatre

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