Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Page 1

No. ISI.

Col. Freyermuth Visits This City.

Colonel George W. Freyermuth, of South Bend, commanding the Third regiment of the Indiana National Guard, was the guest of Major George H. Healey and Captain H. B. Tuteur Thursday evening. The Colonel is making a visit to all the companies ■ under his command, getting a line on the enrollment, recruiting equipment, etc., preparatory to the call of the regiment to mobilize for federal service on the sth day of August. Colonel Freyermuth states that he has not received any official order relative to the plans for mobilizing the regiment, but feels quite sure that each company will go direct from its home station to the concentration camp. It is probable that Anniston, Ala., will be the spot selected for the Indiana troops, in the opinion of the Colonel. With the exception of Company H, of Warsaw, the company that is nearest to war strength is Company C, of Monticello. Rensselaer is far down the list with 104. The Warsaw company has. 151 men, including the line officers. The total enrollment of regiment is 1593 men.

Wanted, to Hire Tractor.

Wanted, tractor to break ground for wheat. Can go to work any time after August Ist. Land west of Fair Oaks. —James E. Walter, Manager Lawler Ranches, Phone 337.

TO LOWER PRICES.

Freeman Wood, the barber on Cullen street, has decided to lower his price on haircuts to 25c again from 35e. At a meeting of the barbers some time ago it was decided to raise the price of haircuts to 35c. Mr. Wood asks that his customers take notice that he is back to the old price again.—Adv. Clarence Michaels, the young man who ha< been confined in the county jail here for the past few days, was taken before Mayor Spitler this morning by Prosecutor Sands. Michaels was charged wit hthe theft_oi an automobile belonging to Henry Misch, of Wheatfield township, on July 4th. He was caught in Chicago and brought back here by Sheriff McColly, The young fellow pleaded guilty to having taken the car without the consent of the owner. Mayor Spitler has taken his case under consideration and will pass judgment in a short time. Michaels did not make any attempt to cover up his movements after taking the car and it may be that a charge of grand larceny will not be filed against him. He is a young fellow and from all indications is not a criminal at heart. His' father, who lives in Chicago, has been notified and will probably arrive here soon.

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Prejudice Against Glasses Many persons are prejudiced against the wearing of glasses and positively decline to use them, even when they are imperatively needed. They may be sensible persons and display good judgment in other matters, but in this one respect they act most foolishly and without any reason. A contest with nature is hopeless, and it is the part of wisdom to yield gracefully to the first summons to surrender. Let U« Examine Your Eye«. WE DON’T CHARGE FOR CONSULTATION. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phone 13.

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The Evening Republican.

Fighting the Standard Oil

A company, under the leadership of Jay W. Stockton, is being formed Io open a gasoline and auto supply station in the former Mark Schroer garage, and while the company is being organized Mr. Stockton, to hold the trade, has been selling gasoline at a profit of one cent a gallon, the wholesale price of the Standard Oil Co. being 20 cents per gallon. Thursday the underground tank and pump belonging to Mr. Schroer was removed and Mr. Stockton made arrangements with the local manager of the Standard for one of the tank wagons, from which the oil is being retailed. On the wagon is a big sign printed in red ink, reading “Gasoline 21 Cents.” About noon today a representative of the Standard Oil Co. appeared on the scene and ordered the sign torn down, which was done, but when Mr. Stockton told him that the wagon was on his own land and ordered the sign replaced, it was put back, and gas is still being retailed from the wagon at a profit of a cent a gallon and Mr. Stockton says that he is in the fight to a finish and that the public will be supplied with gas at a cent a gallon profit no matter what course the Standard pursues. _ The Standard has had service stations in Indiana in many of the towns and cities for the past two or three years, in which they retailed gas at the wholesale price. Lately an order went out abolishing all these stations and the Standard is no longer in the retail business. Gasoline has been retailing here for 23 and 24 cents, while in Remington, where there was a Standard station, is could be bought for 20 cents. The local dealers claim there is no money in gasoline even at these prices, owing to the shrinkage, and claim that they depend for their profits on repair work and supplies. — - The present fight of Mr. Stockton and the powerful Standard Oil Co. will be watched with interest.

County Agent Notes.

The Newton township farmers’ club will hold its regular meeting at the Blue Grass School house next Tuesday evening, July 17th. One of the principal numbers on the program will be the presentation of the play, “That Awful Aunt,” by the young people of the west Carpenter club. This attraction proved a fine one in its home club and a good time is anticipated. The Kniman farmers club will hold an outdoor meeting next Thursday evening, July 19th. A crowd of young people from South Marion will present their humorous sketch m return for the numbers presented by the Kniman chorus at their last meeting. Everybody is invited, according to the announcement of Chairman Guy Dooley. The Wheatfield farmers’ club will hold their regular meeting at Remley’s hall next Friday evening, July 20th. President C. M. Dewey has sceured several interesting numbers and reports that a good time is expected. A demonstration of the cold pack process of canning fruits and vegetables will be held at the Marion consolidated school hext Tuesday afternoon, July 17th, beginning at 1:30, under the direction of the Jasper County Better Farming Association. The work will be in charge of Miss Helen Murray and Mrs. - Stewart Learning. A cordial invitation is extended to all women of the com- , munity to attend. A similar demonstration will be held at the Kennedy school house at Wheatfield Center next Wednesday afternoon, July 18th, the Virgie school house Thursday afternoon, July 19th, and the home of Mrs. John Guild of Gillam, Friday afternoon, July 20th. Everyone is invited to attend any or all of these demonstrations. A field meeting to show the results of the use of the formaldehyde treatment for the prevention of oats smut will be held on the farm of W. H. Wortley, of Jordan township, on Monday morning, July 16th, at seven o’clock. This meeting will last but a short time and will not seriously interfere with the working day. Very decided results can be shown at this time and it is highly important that every oat grower investigate the matter at this time. A similar field meeting will be held on the farm of Max Coppess, of Gillam township, at 11 o’clock Wednesdaymorning, July 18th. The history and control of the wheat scab which is causing a heavy loss in the county this year will also be taken up at this meeting. This work will be -in charge of County Agent Leaming. Everybody is invited to spend a short time at these meetings.

Just received a car of that famous B B range coal. No netter on the market. Sold exclusively by The Farmers Grain Co., successors to the Harrington Bros. Co., Phone No. 7. J. J. Montgomery, the newsdealer, was the first local party to receive his interim certificates for Liberty bonds. Mr. Montgomery was among the first to subscribe toward the Liberty Loan from this city. The certificates are for SIOO each. These certificates are a receipt and are held by the owner until taken up by the government, when the holder receives his money back with interest from Uncle Sam. The State Bank now has these interim certificates and they may be secured by those who paid in full for their bonds through that bank.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917.

DRAFT PLANS ARE OUTLINED

DRAWING WILL SHOW WHAT MEN ARE TO BE CALLED ' FIRST AND LATER. Washington, July 12.—Drawing of lots for the selective draft not only will determine what men are to be called to the colors in the first war army, but will show in what order the others registered will be liable for service when later armies are organized. r . It was revealed tonight that a plan of drawing will be followed under which a definite place in the waiting lists will be given every one of the millions who registered. Those standing at the head of the list in each county or city district will be called first before the examining boards and then the obligation will pass on down the line as long as men are needed. This does not mean that a separate name or number will be drawn for every one of the country’s 9,800,000 registrants. In fact, every number drawn under the theory of the plan, will represent more than four thousand men, one for each of the registration districts. Details of the system have not been made public, but an outline of its principal features follows: Every registration board has numbered the cards in its possession in red ink, beginning at number one and continuing to a number corresponding with the total in the district. At the drawing numbers will be used ranging from No. 1 up to a number corresponding to the total in the largest district of the country. The first number drawn will determine what man in each district is to be taken first. If it be No. 10, for example, it will mean that the man in each district holding local card No. 10 will be called for examination before any of the other men in that district.

The second number drawn will determine what man in each district is to be taken second, and so on as long as men are needed. Those not needed for the first war army .will retain their positions on the lists, and these positions will determine the order of their liability when they are needed. The drawing will be public and each number will be announced as it is drawn. At the offices of most local exemption boards the red ink numbers of the registrants already are posted, so that registrants may inform themselves beforehand of their respective numbers. If they do, as soon as word of the drawing comes they will know in just what order of liability they stand.

HOSPITAL NOTES.

Martha Grant and Emmet Eger, who are confined to the hospital with typhoid fever, are getting along nicely. Mrs. Ed Reeve, who was operated on Monday is resting easy and her condition is good. Charles Reed, of Barkley township, was operated on this morning for hernia.

The iron market has dropped and I am now paying 50 cents per 100 pounds delivered. Better bring in your iron now as the market is expected to go still lower.—Sam Karnowsky, Phone 577. See Chas. Peftey for trees, vines and shrulbs of all kinds. Guarantee stock to grow or replace free of charge. For fall delivery.

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. .. X—-■—-■...

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Another Marshall Story This Month.

Rarely a month passes now but what there is to be found in some leading magazine of the country a story penned by Edison Marshall, our own Rensselaer boy. The story written by this eminent author this month is entitled “The Man That Was In Him.” It may be found in the American magazine and is a story of a wild ride on top of a runaway freight car. Last month Mr. Marshall delighted the readers of this magazine with his story “Vagabond or Gentleman?” Next month, according to the editor of the American, Tess has a story which will surpass any of his previous attempts, in “Chicago *Charlie Launcelot,” a story of a man, a dog and a girl. Tess Marshall first sprang into widespread prominence in the literary field in the summer of 1917, when his story, “The Missing Seventeen,” appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. This story at the close of the year 1917 was pronounced by the short story critic of America as being one of the best written that year. The present year already finds Mr. Marshall far surpassing his 1917 efforts. His stories are much in demand. Mr. Marshall left Rensselaer some few years ago with his parents, who located at Medford, Oregon, when still a boy in knee trousers. But one desire was uppermost in his mind at that time—to gain fame as a writer on the Pacific coast. The west was his land of dreams and during his school years here never a day passed but what he day-dreamed and talked of the time when he was going to gain fame as a writer on the shores of the Pacific. His elders smiled in a knowing way and listened respectfully, thinking that it was only the golden pictures of the future that lured him on, and that when he became a little older he would forget his boyhood ambitions and fancies and turn his efforts to some other field. But not Tess, for he had lis mind made up from the very first time that he ever read a tale of adventure, to coin stories for the rest of the world and his persistency has won for him. During his school career he generally led his classmates in all subjects until it came to penmanship and in this respect he generally finished absolutely last. The teachers marvelled that anyone could write such a hand. But it mattered little to the subject of this sketch, his one object being to turn out wild, weird stories in the English classes, and he rarely failed in this respect. His imagination and ideas carried him through. Another thing that bothered him but little was punctuation, for the reason that he did not use any, regarding it as an unnecessary item. Evidently his instructors thought the same, being so absorbed by the tales of his creative mind that they failed to note such trivial things as punctuation and misspelled words. But despite his shortcomings in the above mentioned respects during his school years, Mr. Marshall has made up for them by his vivid imagination and the entertaining way in which he deals with his subjects. Probably he is not an Irvin Cobb as yet, but he has at least attained for himself the right to be reckoned as one of the greatest coming writers of the present generation and at the present rate he is going, seems destined to take a place some day on equal footing with the leading fiction writers of the country, as he has not yet reached his twenty-third birthday. Age and'experience will ascend him to the pinnacle in the magazine world that he so richly deserves.

The Barbers Are Also at War.

The Rensselaer barbers are also having thteir troubles and a barber’s war is one of the possibilities of the near future. A few weeks ago the Rensselaer barbers raised the price of hair cuts from 25 to 35 cents. As a result Charlie Jacks opened a shop in the Hotel Makeever building and has been cutting hair at the old price of a quarter. Some of the barbers felt the effect of this and - this week two of the old barbers put the price of hair cuts back to the old price of 25 cents. A meeting of the barbers was held Thursday evening to discuss this new phase of the situation, but the only agreement reached was to let the matter stand as it is for the present and watch developments. . A real war in which ten cent shaves may figure is a possibility of the near The barbers, like many others, have been hard hit with the constantly increasing prices of living -and their paths have not been rosy for some time and they claim they have had hard times to make ends meet and the latest raise was not only justified but was a necessity in order to meet the increased cost of living. Rensselaer has a surplus of barber shops, which makes it hard sledding for all of them. The war has also had its effect upon them, and with the departure of Co. M and those joining the regular army, the effect upon their business will be much more noticeable, for it is the young men who are the best patrons of the barbers. \

Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank the kind friends and neighbors for their many acts and deeds of kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our beloved son. Also for the many beautiful floral tributes.—Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kanne.

To Have New Depot Mail Carrier.

Rensselaer is to have a new carrier of the mails between the postoffice and the Monon depot. About so often the carrier grows tired of his job and resigns. This happened recently when Charles Harvey, the present carrier, tendered his resignation, and the postoffice department advertised for new bids by means of their bulletin board. Harvey filed a new and higher bid, but others wanted the job and two Other Bidders were lower than his new bid, which was higher than the bid by which he secured his present contract. James Swaim’s bid of $530 per annum was the lowest, but the department informed the postmaster here that that was more than the department, could afford to' pay, the limit being fixed at S4BO. Under the circumstances' Mr. Swaim decided to take the job at that figure and he will be given the contract and commence work at an early date. Why the postoffice department is so particular as to what it pays for this work is hard to understand; also how it could help paying what the job is worth if everyone refused to take the job at the department’s figures. Under the present contract Mr. Harvey is carrying the mail for less than the S4BO compensation just fixed by the department, and' many are wondering that if the department failed to find any one to accept their figures if it would compel Harvey to carry the mail for the rest of his life at the figures fixed by the department. The job should pay SI,OOO per year, as the carrier has to be on the job from 5 o’clock in the morning until after 8 o’clock in the evening and also has to keep a horse to assist in the work.

Friday the 13th. Be careful.

Charles E. Harris, of Mt. Ayr, went to Indianapolis today to see about entering the officers’ reserve camp in September.

Storage Batteries RECHARGED AND REPAIRED Electric Starters, Generators, Ignition Lighting Systems Repaired and Rewired Rensselaer Garage Official Service Station for Vesta Double Life Batteries.

Dodge. Oakland B. Harroun. The Three BEST Cars Under a Thousand Dollars M. I. Adams & Son Phone|9o Rensselaer Phone 90

GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY Church Announcement. English Lutheran service will be held on next Sunday evening, July 15, at 7:45 p. m., in the St. John church, southeast of Parr. Theme of sermon: “The Fate of Jerusalem.” Rev. H. F. Krohn. Church of God. Saturday, 7:30 p. m., Bible lesson. Sunday, 9:30 a. m., Bible lesson. 10:45 a. m., sermon. 7:30, p. sermon. — „ S. J. Lindsay, Pastor. —Presbyterian Church. — Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 Bible school. 10:45 Morning worship and sermon, subject: “The Sacrifice of the Body.” 7:00 Union service at court house. 7:30 Thursday, round table and prayer service, subject: “The Sunward Side of Habit,” Rev. 22:11. Methodist Church Notes. 9:30 Sunday school. 10:45 Morning worship and communion service. 6:00 Epworth League, topic, “What I Would Do With a Fortune.” Leader Robert Flatt. 7:00 Union service at the court house. XFloyd Hoover, of Goodland, was here today for a visit with friends.

Would Allow Rural Carriers’ Expenses.

A bill that will interest every rural mail carrier in the country has been introduced recently by Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Penrose proposes that an allowance of from $lO to $25 per month, according to the length of their routes, shall be paid to rural carriers for the maintenance of their equipment. Carriers who have to travel over rough roads and suffer much consequent wear and tear on their vehicles, are frequently put to heavy expense for repairs, and Senator Penrose is convinced that the government should extend the aid contemplated in the bill. The senator’s powerful influence with the postoffice committee of the senate, of which he is the ranking republican member, will insure careful consideration of the proposal, and quite likely result in a favorable report to the senate.

Indiana Doing Fine Work In Gardens.

One out of every ten persons in * Indiana is cultivating a food garden, according to statistics gathered by the National Emergency Food Garden Commission. Preliminary reports on gardening in the Hoosier state from the commission’s field agents and various other sources show that the increase in gardens is 160 per cent as compared with last year’s figures. It is conservatively estimated that at least 200,000 food gardens have been planted in Indiana. “The excellent results obtained in Indiana,’’ declared Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the commission, “greatly exceeded expectations. The people of Indiana are to be congratulated for the unanimous manner in which they arose to help the government in the task of growing more food.” ' Mrs. Everett Potts went to Lafayette today. _ \ L

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