Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1917 — Page 1

No. 133.

Dr. G. W. Switzer Will Make Gillam Red Cross Address.

The following members of the Jasper county Red Cross chapter were in Gillam township Wednesday, afternoon and conferred with John P. Ryan, chairman of Gillam township. Mr. Ryan is enthusiastic and will see that his township cornea up with its full allotment or more. Mr. Ryan appointed the following to help carry on the war fund campaign in his township: John Selmer, James Stevens, Schuyler Robinson, Perry Deselms and Paris Daugherty. A rousing meeting will be held Monday evening either at the Gillam or Independence church. It will be addressed by Dr. George W. Switzer, who is the secretary for this district of the Red Cross. Dr. Switzer is a very able man and can be depended upon to make a most excellent address. The Rensselaer band and a large number of people from this city will attend the meeting.

DRINK TO THE KAISER.

The Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls will have the exclusive charge of the sales of refreshments at the ball game at Riverside park Friday afternoon. The supplies have been donated and every cent of the money taken in will go to the Red Cross 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. PUBLIC SALE OF LYDON v SPEEDLERS. Iwill sell at public sale at the court house in Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, JUNE 23, at 2 p. m., 26 Lydon Speedier*, the greatest gasoline saver attachment for automobiles ever devised. 30 miles to a gallon of gasoline. Retail price $5. Will be sold to the highest bidder. peter McDaniels. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer.

Base Ball Game MILITIA WILL BE OUT BAND WILL BE THERE EVERYBODY WILL BE THERE YOU Be There Too FRIDAY at 2 P. M. RED CROSS BENEFIT All Stores Closed 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. ♦

PTHE Q RINGES 0 ft . * TONIGHT • * Frank Keenan IN THE DESERTER Supported by an All-Star cast. A powerful tale of the man who deserted the service only to return in the hour of need. Don’t miss this one tonight.

Do Your Bit-Give to the Red Cross n - . J ' . " . ‘ . h f’ ♦

The Evening Republican.

ANOTHER GOOD LADY CALLED

MRS. MARY C. CHESNUT PASSED AWAY AT LANSING, MICH., WEDNESDAY EVENING. Mrs. Mary C. Chesnut, until two years ago a resident of this city, passed away at the home of her son, Earl, in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday evening, according to a telegram received in this city today. About a year ago Mrs. Chesnut suffered a paralytic stroke and her decline since that time has been rapid. At the time of her death she was 74 years of age. Deceased was the widow of Thomas A. Chesnut, a civil war veteran, who passed away in this city about four years ago. Mrs. Chesnut became a member of the Baptist church a great .many years ago andwas always a faithful member and firm believer in the doctrines of the church. Deceased leaxes to mourn their loss, two sons, Earl, of Lansing, and Scott, of Rensselaer, and two stepsons, Charles and Halley. The body will arrive in Rensselaer Friday evening and the funeral services will be held Saturday morning at the Baptist church and will be conducted by Rev. Beard. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery.

MUZZLE YOUR DOG. Orders have been given the city police department to shoot any and all dogs running loose that are not muzzled. By order City Board of Health office NOTICE. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON, City Marshal.

“Phony” Doctors Get $195 For Work With “Radium.”, Two families residing in the neighborhood of Seafiekl were swindled out of $195 by four men representing themselves to be doctors and passing through the country. The swindlers claimed they had $3,500 worth of radium with which they were enabled to cure any disease. Two of the men remained in the auto and two went to the house to administer the treatment. A stop was made at the home of Mrs. Agnes Salla, a sufferer from asthma, and after she had paid them SIOO, the radium treatment was administered to her. Her son, Elmer Salla, who was also ailing, but was not considered by the ’‘doctors” to be in as serious a condition as the mother, was given a treatment for $32.50. Mr. H. Dolick, Who has trouble with her eyes; gave the “doctors” a check for $62.50 after they had promised to remove the “scum” from her eyes. The check was later cashed at the Wolcott bank. After this neat little sum was picked up the four men disappeared completely and no means of identification was left by them. Their victims soon became aware of the fact that they had been swindled, but could not give a description sufficient to apprehend the fugitives, who up „to this time are still at large.

.Jasper county MUST raise $4,200 for American Bed Cross. DO YOUR BIT.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917.

Interesting Letter From Raymond Dixie, Now at Newport News.

Midnight, June 16, 1917. Dear Folks: I am on a 48-hour liberty. All the mail you have gotten has been censored and I have been unable to tell you much about what we are doing. Well, in one way we are preparing for battle. We just finished target practice and worked all night last night taking on stores. We will coal ship Monday and hang around for about a week and then I think we will get in the best condition possible and go across to France. The JI on tana is an armored cruiser with torpedo tubes. On board ship we have four 10-inch guns, sixteen 6-inch guns and sixteen 3-inch guns. lam the division clerk. That is the only work I do in the yoeman branch and 1 have found out that the yoeman branch offers nothing to 'the outside because a man knows very little about bookkeeping in the nayy. Tell dad I talked to some English sailors today who are over here. They are on the H. M. S. Antrim. It also is an armored cruiser. I have seen French, English and Russian cruisers and none of them are as good as the U. S. navy has. People on the outside say that the United States has no fleet. If those wise ducks could only take a look at the fleet they soon would change their mind about that. Well, lam going to bed now and will close for this time. .

RAYMOND DIXIE.

1776—1863 —1917.

If Abraham Lincoln were alive, facing this new crisis in the history of the country he loved so unselfishly, what would be his plea to you, his fellow citizens? He would make-a new speech at Gettysburg. He would say: “Seven score and one years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The most arrogant military power ever organized by craft and efficiency is trying to kill that proposition. We are confronted by the active hatred of a nation conceived in oppression and dedicated to the proposition that might makes right. Against the desperate leaders of that nation we must fight a great war to test whether our nation or any nation conceived in liberty can long endure. On the battle fields'of Europe are the graves of millions of men who have given their lives that freedom may survive. To the peaceful homes of Europe have come gaunt starvation and the death of innocents. The time has come for men and women of America to carry speedy help to the brave souls of Belgium, of France, of Great Britain. For they have been fighting our battles. Let us now be dedicated to the unfinished work so bravely advanced by our fathers in 1776 and 1863. It is for us to take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. Let us now highly resolve that the men who died at Valley Forge and Gettysburg and on all the torn battle fields of Belgium and France shall not have died in vain—that the free nations of the world, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”—George Ade.

The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Men’s 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.

THE GAYETY TONIGHT SHIRLY MASON THE LAW OF THE NORTH K. E. S. E.

GUARD JOINS ARMY JULY 15

U. S. MOVES TO SEND GUARD TO WAR FRONT—EARLY SHIPMENT IN MONTH. Washington, June 20.—Plans of the administration to make immediately available a great army, which will be thrown into the balance against Germany as rapidly as it can be transported to Europe, were revealed today. The entire national guard of the country will have become a constituent part of the regular army within the next forty-five days. Drafting of the guardsmen will be accomplished by three executive orders. The first draft order will be issued July 15, the second July 25, and the third August 5.

President Wilson also issued a proclamation calling for 70,000 recruits to bring the units of the existing regular army to war strength during the next ten days. June 23 to 30 was designated as “recruiting week” for the regular army. The announcement concerning the national guard is an official answer to the question of whether the troops of this class could legally be sent to the battlefields of Europe. The power to draft the guardsmen into the regular army for foreign service was granted by congress last year, when an army was sent to the Mexican border. —.:

The regular army is to be sent to Europe first. The last of the units of this class which can be utilized will bid farewell to American shores at a date near at hand. The federalized national guard will follow. The most definite statement obtainable at the war department is that “none of the national guard will start for a month yet.” President Wilson’s action was taken at the request of army officials, who have been seriously concerned over the slow rate of recruiting for the regular army, despite the fact that the war department’s recruiting agencies over every section of the country and that the men are asked to serve only for the period of the war. It had been hoped that the regular service could be brought to its whole war strength of approximately 300,000 men by June 30. Then the war department could carry out its plan for training all the forces to be raised and also for the dispatch of armies to France. For several days, however, the average daily enrollment has been little more than 1,000 men, instead of the 5,000 or more the department expected. The army is about 70,000 men short of war strength.

$10,000 Damage Suit Filed In Benton Circuit Court.

Fowler, June 20.—A SIO,OOO damage suit was filed in the Benton circuit court today, whereby Leota Cook sues Mary M. Finch for the alienation of her husband, Alpha T. Cook. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant has enticed her husband away and that for the past four months she and her husband have lived apart; that she has been forced to wash for the maintenance of herself and three children and that she has been wronged to the amount of SIO,OOO. Mrs. Finch is the widow of Elmer B. Finch, late of Oxford, and is the mother and guardian of Margaret and Jeannie Finch. Alpha T. Cook is also a resident of Oxford. The case will not be tried before the next term of court.

Obituary.

Jane Crumley, born Aug. 15, 1835, near Tappan, Harrison county, Ohio. Died June 18, 1917, near Westport, Decatur county, Indiana. She was one of’a family of five children. Her two older sisters passed away several years ago, a brother dying in infancy. Mrs. Isabel Worsted, of Verona, Mont., is the only surviving member of the family. She was married to Joseph L. Grben April 8, 1859. They moved to Indiana and settled near Pleasant Ridge, in October, 1882. She was a resident of this community for about twenty years. The last fifteen years was spent with her daughter, Mrs. Joeva Hill, near Westport, Ind. She leaves many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Sh ealways had the interest! and w el a oerfof6loa, t.ashrte est and welfare-of—others at heart. In sickness or distress she was always found ready and willing to do her part. During the last months of her life she suffered much but never complained. All that devoted hands could do was done to make her last hours comfortable. A beautiful life is passed into the- tomb and awaits the requiem of other years.

Church Announcement. There will be English Lutheran services next Sunday evening at 7:45 in St. John’s church, northeast of Parr.—H. F. Krohn, Pastor. Give your bit to the Red Cross. It’s not charity, it’s your duty.

Monnett School Holds Fifth Commencement.

. Six young ladies who had finished a course equal to the eight years of study done by pupils in the common schools were graduated by the Monnett Scho*ol Wednesday evening. The exercises were held at the Methodist church and . the president. Dr. M. Di Gwin, of the board of trustees, presided. Misses Waymire and Keith, deaconists, gave a piano duet. Mrs. M. D. Gwin gave an organ

recital. The Monnett School choir sang two selections. Rev. E. W. Strecker offered prayer and introduced Dr. E. C. Wareing, editor of the Western Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, Ohio., who delivered a most excellent address. His subject was “The University of Heliopolis.” He gave to the girls and the audience many useful and inspiring thoughts. Dr. Wareing is one of Methodism’s big men and his address was in keeping with his high position in that great organization. About twenty-five years ago the doctor was pastor of the Barkley circuit and is remembered by a number of people who were at that time his patrons.

Physical Requirements of a Soldier.

The following are the requirements and the ones a soldier must pass before entering the service of the United States: Height, not less than five feet four, nor more than six feet. Weight, not less than 128 pounds or more than 190. Lungs and heart must be well nigh perfect. Any heart “murmer” disqualifies. Hearing and sight must be good. Color blindness is not necessarily a disqualification. Chronic diseases or mental disorders cause rejection. Loss of fingers, toes or an ear are disqualifications. Flat feet or deformed feet are also causes for rejection. The surgeons examine closely for any affectations of the kidneys or chest. At least four molar teeth are necessary. U-Boat*’ Sinking* Were Bigger La*t Week. London, June 20.—Twenty-seven British ships of more than 1,600 tons have been sunk, according to the weekly British summary given out today. Five British vessels under 1,600 tons also were sent to the bottom. No fishing vessels were destroyed. The foregoing figures of British shipping losses as the result of Germany’s submarine warfare show a larger number of vessels sunk than in any of the six preceding weeks: Over Under 1600 1600 Week ending Tons Tons April 21 ... 40 15 April 28 38 13 May 5 24 22 May 12 .... 18 5 May 19 -J 18 9 May 26 18 1 June 3 15 » 3 I June 10 .22 10 June 20 ..... .. .'■ .. . 27 5

Knights of Columbus Dance.

Rensselaer’s new and virile fraternal organization, the hustling Knights of Columbus, will hold a dance at the armory in this city on Friday evening, June 22nd. The music will be furnished by a Chicago orchestra. The subscription is SI.OO and this money will go to the Red Cross War Fund. The committee having the matter in , charge are Prof. Leo Hovorka, Thomas M. Callahan and Lon Healy.

Lowell Will Celebrate the Fourth.

Our neighbors at Lowell are making preparations to celebrate the Fourth of July and have engaged the Rensselaer band for that date. Preparations are being made to make the celebration so attractive that they will draw a crowd from a very large radius. When they have not had a celebration almost the entire population of that city would come to Rensselaer if we were celebrating. That fact and on account of the interesting program Lowell will, have, undoubtedly a very great number of our people will attend the Lowell celebration.

RED CROSS DATES.

Friday, Hanging Grove and Milroy townships at McCoysburg. Saturday, Union township at Fair Oaks. Sunday, Union township at Parr. All of these meetings will be held in the evening and good speakers will be present.

Abundance of Money.

I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is 5 per cent and my limitw 1100 per acre.—P. D. Wells, Morocco, Ind.

Hopkins' City Transfer Line.

Transfer business formerly operated by Billy Frye. Calls will receive immediate attention. Call Phones 226 or 107.

WEATHER. Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight; cooler tonight; Friday probably fair; cooler in south and east portions.

ALL IS READY FOR BIG GAME

SOLDIERS, BOY SCOUTS, BALL TEAMS, CAMP FIRE GIRLS WILL PARADE. All is in readiness for Friday’s ball game, to be played at Riverside Athletic park between the Foresters and the Militia for the benefit of the local Red Cross fund. S. P. Hilliard, of the- advertising committee, and Van Grant and Ed Lane as managers of the two ball clubs, have completed all arrangements and all that remains now is to await the call of play.

A parade will be formed at the court house square led by the Rensselaer band and>followed by the soldiers of Company M, the two ball teams, the Camp Fire Girls, the Boy Scouts and automobiles. The Camp Fire Girls will have charge of the concesssions during the afternoon. Donations have been received by them and it will be their exclusive privilege to sell refreshments, the proceedings also to go toward the Red Cross fund.

Captain Tuteur will put his squads through a drill before the game and the Boy Scouts will also go through their maneuvers, while the band is playing patriotic airs. Earle Reynolds, world’s greatest roller skater, probably will be seen at third base on one of the clubs. Earle has not played ball for several years but states that he is ready to stage a comeback. The two teams will line up as folows: Militia Foresters Elder LF Healy Eldridge SS Thomas Parks 2B Johnson Myers IB Blue Reynolds 3B Clark McCarthy RF West L. Wilcox CF Hammond Wilcox C Olson Clark P B. Eldridge Umpires: Hugh Kirk and “Pansy” Tuteur. Look them over, fans, and then prepare to attend the game tomorrow, drink pop and eat ice cream cones, watch the soldiers and listen to the band; it’s all for a worthy cause.

Union Township Makes Good Start.

The Red Cross meeting held at Center school house Wednesday evening was well attended and the amount subscribed insures that Union township’s war fund allotment will be over-subscribed. Addresses were made by Rev. Charles W. Postill and Hon. William L. Wood. Rev. F. H. Beard was present and offered prayer.

State Sunday School Association In Session.

The Republican is in receipt of a postal card from Prof. John Donaldson, of Terre Haute, and he has the following to say in reference to the meeting of the State Sunday School Association now in session there: “The State Sunday School Association opened today with a record attendance. Three great sessions in the forenoon. More than twelve hundred had registered at 3:30 p. m., and the registered delegates do not represent more than half of those in attendance. The program is very rare in merit.” • Prof. Donaldson is the father of Mrs. J. D. Martindale, of this city.

VIVIAN REED IN UITLE LOST SISTER Today At The Star Theatre FRIDAY Myrtle Stedman IN THE SOUL OF KURI SAN Also The Ford Educational SATURDAY MATINEE MATINEE NaOHli ChetdrCS in . „ ... THE AUCTION OF VIRTUE At Night Robert Warwick and June Elvidge in THE FAMILY HONOR Matinee Daily A THE STAR THEATR£.

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