Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1917 — Page 1

No. 208.

Today's Sunday School Program Postponed Until Tonight.

The Sunday school convention program which was to be given this afternoon at 1:30 at the 'Presbyterian church, has been postponed until this evening at 7:30, when both programs for today will be carried out as follows: Roll call of townships. Three minute report from each county officer. Vocal solo, Mrs. Arthur Hopkins. —-Song serviceledbyC. E. Prior. “Building Bigger,” Geo. N. Burnie, state secretary. Vocal solo, Mrs. Edd J. Randle. “Opportunity,” Miss Lemon, state elementary superintendent.

Indiana Suffrage Act Is Hold Invalid.

Indianapolis, Sept. 17.—Suffragists received a severe blow today when the second of the three big laws of the last legislature was held unconstitutional. Judge James Rochford of the Marion superior court held the solons had exceeded their power in passing the “limited woman suffrage law.” His decision hinged on an article in the state constitution Axing the qualifications for voters and limiting suffrage to males. The suffrage law provided that women could vote for offices not created by the constitution, and woman suffrage advocates held that because of this the law did not contravene the provisions of the constitution. The suit was brought by William W. Knight, a lumberman, as a test. The first of the “big three” to be held invalid was the constitutional convention act. The third—the prohibition law—has not yet been attacked in the courts.

SSO REWARD Will be given for evidence to prove identity of the parties who stole three cows from my pasture.—C. T. Otis, Roselawn, Ind. Abundance of Money. I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate r 5 per cent and my limit u SIOO per acre.—P. D. Wells, Morocco, Ind. ■ ' .. George H. Chappell, of Remington, was in Rensselaer today.

THE NEWEST FALL MILLINERY Our formal opening will occur next Friday and Saturday. May we have the pleasure of serving you. Misses Jones & Briney Second Floor Rowles & Parker Department Store

GAYETY TONIGHT Edison Conquest 7 reel Program THE PRINCESS’ NECKLACE * With Shirley Mason. In Old New England. The Blind Fiddler. THE BROOK Visualising the verses by Alfred Lord -h. Tennyson. WEDNESDAY mary McAllister. The Little White Girl THURSDAY Bryant Washburn in SKINNER’S BABY FRIDAY Gladys Leslie in in It Happened to Adele

The Evening Republican .

Prof. Charles Wolfe has s“curad four new recruits for the Rensselaer band. These four reported Monday evening and will have their first rehearsal on Wednesday evening. It is the desire of the professor that he have fifteen members for the beginner’s class. If this number can be secured Rensselaer is certain of having band concerts next summer. The program for Wednesday evening follows : March. Washington Times, White. Ov., Corinthian, Hazel. Walt?, Kiss of Spring. Rolfe. Patrol, Blue and Grey, Dalbey. Medley, Along,the Way to Waikiki; If You Ever Get Lonely; She’s Dixie All the Time, Remick. , — — Intermezzo, Dan Cupid, Bartley. Ov., In Camp, Dalbey. Medley Selection, War Songs of the Boys in Blue, Larendeau. March, Sailin’ Away on the Henry Clay, Remick. Galop—Go, Jewell. Star Spangled Banner.

First Rensselaer Boys Arrive At Southern Training Camp.

Ernest C. Moore, Emil W. Hanley and John Luers were the first Rensselaer boys to arrive at Hattiesburg, Miss., the southern training camp for the Indiana soldiers. These boys are members of the Field Hospital No. 2, of Frankfort, Ind. The train carrying an ambulance company from Indianapolis and the hospital unit, arrived at Hattiesburg Saturday. The train was composed of 22 CATS* Immediately after detraining the men were ordered to mess and the meal was a merry one, for the soldiers were hungry and tired from their long, uneventful trip.

Miss Dorothy Flint, of Pierpont, S. Dak., underwent a major operation today. She is the daughter of E. E. Flint, -formerly assistant in the treasurer’s office here. Ray Wuerthner, son of Erhardt Wuerthner, underwent a major operation this morning. George Lanigan underwent an operatiofi* this morning. All of the patients are reported as getting along very nicely now.

Many Personal Appeals Are Being Made at LaPorte.

From twenty-five to seventy-five persons each day are reported to be going to LaPorte from the twenty counties comprising District No. 1, to appear before the appeal board in support of their claims for exemption. Few of these see any member of the board because under the rules laid down by the government the appeal board decides all cases entirely on the affidavits submitted. The appeal board is making every effort to certify to each local board a sufficient number of men for the quota that goes to Camp Taylor this week.

Virgil Hobson was in from Hanging Grove today. \ He reports that the damage to his com by frost was not great and that he is now assured of a good crop. C. Arthur Tutuer and Lloyd Parks went to Indianapolis today, Mr. Tuteur to attend to some business matters and Mr. Parks to enlist in Company M. O. K. Ritchey brought to this office Monday afternoon a half dozen ears of com. raised on his farm this year by his tenant, R. E. Hopkins. These were all large, well matured ears and indicated that the field from which they were taken was well but of the way of the frost. They also evidence the .fact that, Mr- Ritchey has some splendid ground and that Mt. Hopkins is a most excellent farmer.

Four New Recruits Secured For the Band.

Hospital Notes.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917.

LEITER FROM LT. YEOMAN

DESCRIBING CAMP TAYLOR AND ARRIVAL OF FIRST QUOTA. Camp Taylor, Ky., Sept. 16, 1917. Upon reporting here at Camp Taylor on Sept. 4th, I was much impressed with the rapid progress .of construction of the cantonment for the training of the 84th Division. In a chat with several officers who have had supervision of different sections of work here, I gather that the Mason & Hanger Cb. have established a ■record here on construction work of this kind. No one has any idea of the enormous amount of work in such an undertaking as the erecting of enough hospital buildings, warehouses, sheds, barns, depots and officers’ quarters for a division of 40,000 men. As you know, we have received the five per cent quota of men from three states, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. On Sept. sth I was detailed to assist the division headquarters staff in receiving, checking in, and distributing to the several regiments, the drafted men. Our regiment, the 309th Engineers, furnished 20 lieutenants for this extra work. The men felt that they were unlucky in drawing extra duty. But I was mighty glad of the opportunity to get to see and be in actual touch with these men who are _to make up our army. My impression was ana still is that the drafted men are going to make the best and most efficient fighting force that this country ever had. We had any number of men pass the “chutes,” the place of sorting men and assigning to headquarters those who were well educated, fine specimens of manhood, physically fit for any undertaking requiring vim and push. . I traded reliefs with Lt. Dickie in order that I might be on duty when our Jasper county boys came in but missed them by a few minutes. Lt. Stephenson informed me next morning that he checked them' in shortly after he relieved me. We are on duty three hours and off nine hours, day and night, until the last man called shows up., I fully expect to have the . good luck this next week of checking in the Jasper county boys. If the telegram from the sheriff to headquarters reaches me in time I will work extra to see them pass my station. All telegrams in regard to when certain quotas arrive in Louisville are utrned over to us at the “chute” so we can check up on the time taken by men between points. The camp is about 6 miles out of Louisville to the northeast. No one can enter camp now without a pass, unless, of course, he is a commissioned officer. My regiment drew 82 men from the 5 per cent quota and we have around 80 officers in our engineer regiment. So you can readily see that the first men in have had some very stiff drilling. We take turns drilling the men until after our next quota arrives, when we will all get ousy and real work will commence. Our regiment will have the pick of the 40,000 men as only men of great physical endurance, good habits, fair education, experience and plenty of vim can make good men for so perfect an organization, as a regiment of engineers. I noticed Lt. Frank Hardman’s name on'the list of officers’ names to assist in receiving drafted men. Have not seen Frank as yet but hope to soon. I would like to write to everyone I know and tell them all that is permissable, but time will not allow of that. Will be more than delgihted to hear from you' any time. . ( Alf Thompson’s letter just came m paper clipping. Remarkable experience and well described.

DEVERE YEOMAN.

Prominent Catholic Forester Dead.

Philip McKenna, of Chicago, who was assistant corporation councilor under the Harrison administration in this city, is dead and his funeral will be held in Chicago Wednesday. Mr. McKenna was a very prominent Catholic Forester and was well known to the members of that order in this city. He had often been a guest in the home of his very dear friend, Edward P. Honan, of this city. Mr. Honan regrets that he will be unable to attend the funeral, having been called to Indianapolis Wednesday on account of the serious sickness of his brother in-law, James F. Hemphill.

Now on display, smart models in Autumn Millinery. Misses JONES & BRINEY. WANTED—ANOTHER TRACTOR. We can furnish work for another tractor. Have large amount of ground to be plowed for wheat. Apply at once to James Walter, Manager Lawler Ranches. Now on display, smart models in Autumn Millinery. Misses JONES & BRINEY.

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The Neighborhood Corner.

A Department of Farm WelfajrJ Conducted by County Agent Steward Loaming. J What Shall We Do With the Corn? The frost damaged the corn on the low land of the county to a very great extent. Farmers who have the wheat seeding And in some instances thrashing still on hand, are asking how to proceed with their work. Can they afford to leave their-'wheat to put the frozen corn into the silos? Corn that is badly frozen will lose most of its leaves and much of its feeding value if permitted to remain in the fields for any length of time and the sooner that it is placed in the silo the better. There is still time to seed the wheat crop and if the season is too late after the damaged corn is harvested, the land can be put in some other crop next season. It is usually good policy to save •a crop already raised before attempting ot produce another one. Another Herd of Shorthorn*. Two Jasper county farmers spent a day this week in Benton and Tippecanoe counties visiting Shorthorn herds and wound up the day by purchasing four registered cows, two of which will go to start a new herd. More good livestock of any breed will help out the progress of the county.

The Sheep Club. Wool and mutton prices tend upward each week. The plan *of the Bradley Knitting Company of placing flocks of sheep with boys of the county, to be paid for in five years at five per cent, is something worth considering. A small flock of sheep will return a good profit on almost any farm., —o— Farmer* Club*. The regular meeting of the Newton Farmers’ club will be held at the Grass school house Tuesday evening, Sept. 18. Chairman John Rush reports the following program: Address —“The Relation of the Country to the Town,” Attorney W. H. Parkinson. Sheep Production, James Amsler. Our Schools, Harvey Wood, Jr. Seed Corn Selection, Co. Agent Learning. The Kniman club will meet at the Kniman school next Thursday evening, Sept. 20th. The chorus has prepared several selections and Station Agent Harrington will give a talk on “Railroad Transportation.” The Wheatfield club will meet in the school building next Friday evening, Sept. 21. A full program has been arranged and all are invited to attend.- - The federal land bank at Louisville writes: “We wish to advjse you that a loan may be procured from us for purchasing livestock, provided we are secured by mortgage on farm lands.”

Livestock Shows. Plans for the Rensselaer livestock show on Oct. 12 and 13 are rapidly taking shape. The Wheatfield show committee has been called to meet at the town hall on the evening of Sept. 29th to make plans for the show at that point. Chairman Dewey expects a good show. —o — Herds are Popular. “I expect to see this section of ’lndiana become one of the greatest Hereford centers in the country,” says 0. S. Bell, of Parr. ‘‘Newton and Pulaski counties have excellent herds and we will be able to start a number in Jasper county. I have forty head of splendid heifers located and hope that they can be placed in this county.” Mr. Bell has a good herd of Polled Herefords and invites the public to drop in and see them. There is room for plenty more of the same kind. The Livestock Farmer. “Does livestock fanning pay?” has been one of the questions which has been given special attention in the farm management studies being conducted all over the United States. A farmer’s “labor income” is computed by deducting the expenses, interest on the investment and wages of members of the farmer’s family from the total receipts. In our neighboring county of Starke in 1916 it was found that the average labor income from 12 lightly stocked farms was but six dollars per year, while the average income from 12 heavily stocked farms was $1,039 per year. Did livestock fanning pay?

Toben brothers, of Jordan township, A. P. Rice, of Walker, C. M. Hewett, of Wheatfield, and Amos Daniels, of Keener, are conducting wheat variety tests this season to determine what varieties are best suited to their several communities. Each man will sow eight varieties in addition to wheat used to sow the bulk of the crop. Observation will be made from time to time in order to determine ability, freedom from rust and smut, and vield. Five hybrid varieties and Beardless Winter Fife, Michigan Amber and Red Rock are being used. C. M. Dewey is conducting rye tests, using Mammoth Winter and Wisconsin. sl. Star and Petkus rye. Petkus rye is a promising variety and has supplanted all other strains in any county of this section of the state. It would be well for every farmer to watch these variety tests.

Hopkins’ City fnmefer Line. Transfer business formerly operated by Billy Frye. Calls will receive immediate attention. Call Phones IM or 1«7.

Fort Benjamin Harrison Nows Notes.

We arrived in camp last Monday a little after noon and were soon issued new tentage in addition to what ,we already had and we then pitched our camp, which is the best place we ever have had here at the fort. We are located right along the interurban tracks and anyone making a visit to our camp should get off at a little station called Spring Valley. The rear of our tents run almost up to it. Sunday there were quite a few visitors here. We have been very fortunate so far in the way of health. No sickness at all except a few colds. We have received several compliment on our company already from officers high up, as being one of the best in the regiment. We are the third biggest company in the regiment, Co. C and Co.-H being the only ones larger. Co. M is sorely in need of a good barber, and if some one would get busy and enlist us a good, first class barber, we would be very grateful. If there is anyone who still wants to enlist in a good company like this, they may do so by coming to our camp here. We can enlist a man and have him examined right here in our own regiment, without any red tape whatever. It was pretty frosty the first few nights in camp but we are now used to it and don’t mind it at all. We have been issued new cots and more blankets, so everybody has a pretty good place to sleep. Our cooks are handling their end of the job in fine shape, which is a blessing, for with good eats a man is not only more able but more willing to do the work set out for him. We will be issued new clothing this week. Anyone making a visit to our camp next Sunday will see us all in uniform. Everybody is longing for the time to come when we will be sent to our southern training camp, where we can.enjoy a permanent home. If you have a friend or relative in the company, write to him. We all like to hear from home. There is always a rush when the mail comes in. It only takes a few minutes to write a letter and it helps a lot to fellows away from home to get a word of the old place in some friend’s handwriting. ; _____ There is just a little bit of homesickness, but of course we wouldn’t tell who for anything. Mr. McKay, the laundryman who sells oils and gasoline, has arranged to send Co. M half of his profits. This is a very generous act In Mr. McKay and we appreciate it very much indeed, so if you want to help Co. M, buy your oils and gas of him. We will thank you. Our address is (Name), Co. M, 3rd Ind. Infty., Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.

REMOVAL NOTICE The State Bank of Rensselaer announces that it has removed to its / new location situated second door west of its former location and opposite Fendig’s drug store. The Officers extend an invitation to its patrons, the public and friends to call and see them in their new home.

The State Bank will open in their new home Wednesday morning. Today is their last in the corner building and men were busy today making the transfer. All the banks in the city will soon be in new quarters which they not only occupy but also own. All will have, most excellent banking houses. ' Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier and Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Gwin returned Tuesday evening from an automobile trip through Illinois. Among other places visited was the aviation field at Rantoul and Danville. While in Danville they called upon Frank Meyer, who is one of that city s most progressive and prosperous merv chants. Indianapolis won the American Association pennant Monday when they defeated Milwaukee while St. Paul was losing to Columbus. The Indians were in the lead the entire season, with the exception of twentyfours. A recent slump of the Indianapolis club left the pennant in the balance until the final week. Letters advertised for week ended Sept. 17, 1917: Carl Mattocks, Ira Hurley, Alvin McCurtain, Mrs. Fred Hartman (2), Earl Williams, Frank Wildrick, Jim Johnson, Wm. Meyers, Victor Babcock, H. M. Lamon, Lucy Ruthledge, Effie Denmire, Fred Riffle, Edgar Stewart. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office Oct 1. S*

The Souls of Ton Million Dead.

(Gerard in Public Ledger.) Is it not a shame that the world should have been so disturbed; that peaceful men are compelled to lie out in the mud and filth in the depth of raw winter, shot at and stormed at and shelled, waiting for a chance to murder some other inoffensive fellow creature? Why must the people in old Poland die of hunger, not finding dogs enough to eat in the streets of Lemberg? The long lines of broken peasants in Serbia and in Rumania; the population of Belgium and northern France torn from their homes to work as slaves for the Germans; the poor prisoners of war starving in their huts or working in factories and mines; the cries of the old and the children, wounded by bombs from Zeppelins; the wails of the mothers for their sons; the very rustling of the air as the souls of the ten million dead sweep to another world—why must all these horrors come upon a fair green earth where we believed that love and help and friendship, genius and science and commerce and religion and civilization once ruled? The very bodies of those ten million killed, if placed end to end in two lines, would reach from New York to San Francisco. Think of -traveling this distance between a double line of stamig corpses! It is because in the dark, cold northern plains of German there exists an autocracy, - deceiving a great people, poisoning their minds from one generation to another and preaching the virtue and necessity of war. And until that autocracy is either wiped out or made powerless there can be no peace on earth. The golden dream of conquest was almost accomplished. A little more advance, a few more wagonloads of ammunition and there would have been no battle of the Marne, no Joffre, a modern Martel to hammer beak the invading hordes of barbarism. I have always stated that Germany is possessed yet of immense military power, and in order to win, the nations opposed to Germany must learn to think in a military way. The mere entrance even of a great nation like our own into the war means nothing in a military way unless backed by military power. And there mint be no German peace. The old regime left in control of Germany, of Bulgaria, of Turkey, would only seek a favorable moment to renew the war, to strive again for the mastery of the world. Fortunately America bars the way —America led by a fighting president who will allow no compromise with brutal autocracy. New creations in Fall Millinery that are distinctive and exclusive. Misses JONES & BRINEY.

AT THE STAR THEATRE TODAY Viola Dana •nd Augustus Phillips Will Appear In THE GATES OF EDEN WEDNESDAY—Big special day with Lou Tellegen in VICTORIA CROSS. Also Pearl White in the Bth episode of a thrilling serial, THE FATAL RING. THURSDAY—An excellent Art Drama production with Joan Sothern in A MUTE APPEAL. - FRIDAY—AH admire Pauline Frederick’s acting. She will appear in SAPHO on this day. v ~ SATURDAY—Montague LevwkaA BRAND OF SATAN.

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