Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1917 — Page 1

No. 214.

City Council Proceedings.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening with Councilmen Wood and Kyesler absent. The following business was transacted: City engineer, on motion, was instructed to establish grade on east and north side of block 7, O. P., along property of F. A. Turfier. City marshal instructed to notify property owners to raise walk to new grade. City clerk ordered to give notice son bids on sidewalk along property of C. B. Steward on Cullen street, lot 7, block 13, Weston’s addition. City clerk on motion instructed to notify coaj dealers that council would receive bids for ensuing year on Oct. 8, 1917. The following claims allowed: Vern Robinson, salary ...... $30.00 Frank Critser, same 3000 Chas. Morlan, same ...... 33.33 Rens. Band, concerts Sept. 50.00 J. E. Bentley, floor brush ... 2.00 Hemphill Bros., blacksmithing 31.25 Ellis Thomas, salary 30.00 Gilbert Albin, work on st ... 30.00 Granville Aldrich, same .... 2.60 Hemphill Bros, blacksmithing 13.75 C M Sands, city as 60.00 Hemphill Bros., work 5.00 Chas Collins, wprk 6.25 Tom Cox, same 6.25 C M Sands, pd cont 250.00 Same, Wash. St. sewer .... 50.00 C S Chamberlin, sal 67.50 Dick Hartman, sal 40.00 Dave'' Haste, sal 40.00 T E Malone, sal 40.00 T. J. Hoyes, sal ......... 15.84 Jesse Gates, haul coal .... 33.67 Vandalia Coal Co., 77.27 Hemphill Bros., blksmithing. 8.70 C M Sands, freight pd 61.66 T J Hoyes, sal .......... 24.16 John Richards, wk on main 42.00 Henry Wiseman, same .... 36.00 C M Sands, freight . . *v. .82

Alleged Blind Pig Raided In Newton County Saturday.

According to reports reaching this city today, an alleged blind pig, the property of Dr. Miller, of Colfax township, Newton county, was raided by Kentland officers some time Saturday night. It is stated that the officers sceured four or five barrels of beer, which, it is alleged, Miller had been selling the contents of to eager customers. Miller, it is said, has been in court on several previous occasions, charged with the illegal sale of intoxicants. Dr. Miller saw the officers coming and made his getaway. The officers gave chase but the doctor proved to have the longer legs and out-dis-tanced his pursuers and at last reports he is still at large.

Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson and the former’s mother, of Wheatfield, were in Rensselaer.

Opening Announcement Proclaiming the readiness of a most exclusive exhibition of smart autumn and winter millinery i ■■ M.——, tjr Friday and Saturday September 28 and 29 - MRS. PURCUPILE

GAYETY TONIGHT Edison Conquest 7 Reel Program KIDNAPPED By Robert Louis Stevenson With Joseph Burke In 5 Parts. Quaint Province Towns 2 Friends, Romans- and Leo. With Raymond McKee and William Fables. WEDNESDAY mary McAllister. THE BRIDGE OF FANCY. THURSDAY. Lew Fields, America’s Favorite, in THE BARKER. ~ FRIDAY. t Gl.dr. Hul.tt. b THE LAST OF THE CARNABYS. SATURDAY x Man Linder in MAX WANTS A DIVORCE.

The Evening Republican .

Indianapolis Star. Ft. Wane city officials are considering closing the city’s $200,000 market square because of the high prices charged by fanners who dispose of produce there. The producers, it is said, ask even higher prices than tlfe retail stores. This is a phenomenon that is not peculiar to Ft. Wayne. It has also occurred on the Indianapolis market, although the trouble here is generally believed to be due to monopoly by the middlemen, though not wholly so. The situation suggests a wrong attitude of mind on the part of some farmers as well as middlemen. Of course, the farmer, who takes the time to bring his produce to a public market, stands in the sun all day to dispose of it, and takes t 6 himself the work and the worry of selling his products in small quantities, should have a higher price than he would receive from the middleman. But the price should not be higher than the ordinary retail price, which is often high enough to cover the legitimate cost of handling by, it may be, several middlemen and to include speculator and unjust profits besides. Possibly the farmer’s product is fresher and hence more desirable than that of the retailer, but it should be remmebered that the price charged by the retailer is often artificially set through the operations of middlemen, and is not representative of the real value of the goods. \ The practice of some farmers, noted in cases other than that of Ft. Wayne, is to find out the highest retail price and then charge the customer that price. This course may be nautral, but it is certainly not considerate and is, at this time, unpatriotic. What has the ordinary retail price to do with the price charged by the farmer? The farmer’s price should be the lowest he can charge and obtain a reasonable return on his investment in the labor of producing and selling—not the highest he can squeeze from an already badly squeezed public. Even in - the case of consumers who visit farms, by automobile or other means, farmers often demand city retail prices. Of course, the only effect of persistence in such practices is to discourage direct buying and to play into the hands of the middleman, from whom the farmer must accept lower prices.

The entire stock of clothing and furnishings at the Peoples Store must be closed out this week, as Saturday, Sept. 29, will be the last day. Store will be open each evening this week till 9 p. m. S. LEOPOLD, Mgr.

Sew Club will meet Thursday afternoon of this week with Mrs. Ivan Carson.

A charmingly appointed pink rose dinner was given by the active chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority of Butler College for the “rushees” at the home of Mrs, Hilton U. Brown last evening. The tables were arranged with pink roses and pink shaded candles tied with bows of pink tulle and the guest favors were corsage bouquets of pink roses. Name cards in the design of baskets of roses adorned with the insignia of the sorority marked the covers for seventy-five guests. Miss Arda Knox presided as toastmistress and gave a response on “The Relation of the Fraternity to the College.” Mrs. Walter Krull gave a toast on “What It Means to a'Girl to Go to Butler,” and Mrs. James L. Murray on “What It Means to a Girl to Be a Theta.” After the dinner a playlet, “Scenes From Rushing,” was given by members of the active chapter, Miss Mary Louise Bumpier, who returned home from Whitestown, where she is spending some time, sang a group of songs, and a harpist gave a program. Among the guests were Miss Mary Cellaring and Miss Grace Dudley, of Cincinnati, O.; Miss Phyllis Dean, of RushviUe, Miss Cordelia Higgins, of Lebanon, Miss Margaret Rose and Miss Katherine Burton, of Martinsville, and Miss Marie Hamilton, of Rensselaer. Mias Marjorie. Hall and Miss Berenice Hall were the members of the committee in charge of the affair.——lndianapolis Star, Sept. 25. The nine patients at the hospital are reported to be getting along nicely*

The Ft. Wayne Market.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1917.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY CO. AGENT LEAMING.

Early Selection Means Success. “I have had to replant but two fields of corn since I began farming,” said John Farabee, of Carpenter township, last week. “I have always practiced picking my seed from the standing fields in September and consider that this has more to do with my good results than any other factor.” Mr. Farabee has a highly developed farm at the edge of Remington and produces high yields of all staple crops. The seed com on many farms will be ready for picking within the next ten days and the importance of the weather warrants setting aside all other work until the seed has been placed on the dryers.

o—o Clover For Walker Township. In a talk on clovers before the Kniman farmers’ club last week, Mr. Aaron Rice urged his neighbors to make a greater use of the legumes as soil builders. “If the land of Walker township is to be developed as it should be, we must keep more live stock on our farms. Clover will furnish more hay and pasture' for stock than any other crop that we can grow. I have never failed to get a stand of clover when I used fertilizer on my wheat in the fall and sowed clover seed the next spring.” As a proof of his ability to grow clover in Walker township, Mr. Rice has samples of Mammoth clover plants which are nearly five feet high.

o—o Sheep For Profit. John Eck, of Carpenter township, is a sheep enthusiast, believing that they will return more clean profit than any other form of livestock. “Last year I had six breeding ewes whioh I kept on the waste feed of my farm. They produced nine lambs which I sold for $82.00 when sixty days old. The wool brought me $32.00, making a total of $19.00 per head and I still have my original ewes. Mr. Eck expects to embark in the pure bred Shropshire business this fall. of—o Farmers’ Clubs. The North Marion farmers’ club will meet at the Bowling Green school next Tuesday evening, Sept, 25th. In addition to songs and recitations, the program will consist of talks by W. L. Wood, L. H. Hamiltoir and others. The Wheatfield Center Farmers’ Club will meet at the Kennedy school next Thursday evening, Sept. 27. The usual program will be rendered. The West Carpenter farmers’ club officers have arranged as a special treat for the people of the community an address by Miss Alma L. Garvin, of Purdue, upon the subject “Balancing the Human Ration,” at their meeting to be held Friday evening, Septembre 28th, at the Price school house. . The subject is practical and very timely and a general invitation has been extended for all to be present.

“A farmer can better afford to use a $40.00 ram on a flock of 40 ewes than to have the srevice of a cheaper one for nothing,” was the thought brought out in a paper read by J. W. Amsler before the Newton farmers’ club last week. “Starting with scrub sheep a few years ago I have built up a fine flock by using good rams and have sold my surplus at a dollar a head more than if I had used inferior sires. Twice in that time I used cheaper animals and had to cull out the entire offspring.” Many of the scrub flocks are due to the use of animals under one and orie-half years of age for breeding purposes, is the opinion of Mr. Amsler.

o—o School Makes a Tour. Worth McCarthy, principal of the Marion consolidated school, took his pupils in agriculture out for a halfday field trip last week to make practical observation in connection with their text book work. Inspection of com fields brought out that the average farmers of the district with 70 acres of corn, is losing 27 acres as a result of a poor stand. After noting the effect of lime on sour soils, the class had a lesson in seed corn picking, visited an orchard and an alfalfa field and spent some time judging the heifers which are to be distributed to members of the Shorthorn Club. Mr. McCarthy’s idea is worth while in practically every rural school in the county. Agriculture in the schools can often best be taught by' practical object lessons, o—o

Good Food For Good Livestock. It is poor policy to put good feed into poor livestock. Progressive farmers raalize this clearly and are rapidly replacing their scrub stock with either pure bred or high grade animals. A farm management study in Wabash county last year showed that good stock and careful feeding has much to do with making a farm pay. It was found that on farms where the livestock returned less than $l5O for every SIOO worth of feed, the labor income averaged but $385 per year, where from $l5O to s2l(£,was returned by the stock on slou worth of feed the labor income was $971 per year and on farms where the •stock returned over $216 per SIOO in feed, the average labor income was $1,895 per farm. Blooa will tell in counting up the

LIBRARY WAR FUND DRIVE

WILL BE MADE THURSDAY BY EIGHT TEAMS—S2OO THE GOAL.

There were a large number of* people in attendance at the meeting held Monday evening in the Red Cross headquarters and arrangements were completed to make the campaign to raise S2OO in Rensselaer and Marion township for the Library War Fund. This movement has already received considerable publicity in the columns of The Republican and with the general discussion which has been had it is felt that most people, are quite well advised as to the plans and purposes of this movement. The movement is under the direction of the American Library Association and beside the raising of a large fund this association has received liberal offers from publishers and authors and by this means many more books can be bought through them than should the same amount of money be expended by individuals. That the people of Rensselaer and Marion township will most freely and cheerfully respond to this plan to give our soldiers in the camps and at the fronts in actual war, good wholesome reading matter there can be no doubt. It is not desired that anyone give more than SI.OO. But two hundred people are asked to give that amount. The meeting Monday night in charge of Mrs. Ora T. Ross, who was appointed chairman for the two corporations named. • This unit was selected because it is the same as that from which the public here receives its support by taxation. The work of soliciting is to be done Thursday forenoon. The teams and captains are as follows: 'Marion Township Teams. Precinct No. 1. Worth McCarthy, Captain; J. N. Leatherman, Chauncey Wood, Mrs. Oscar Hauter. Precinct No. 2. H. W. Jackson, Captain; I. N. Warren, C. F. Stackhouse, George A. Williams. Precinct No. 3. Rose Luers, Captain; Mrs. Edd J. Randle, Katharine Luers, Angela Kolhoff. Precinct No. 4. M. L. Sauser, Captain; Stewart Learning, Harry Parker, W. D. Bringle. City of Rensselaer. Precinct No. 1. Mrs. Woodhull I. Spitler, Captain; C. G. Spitler, Mrs. A. J. Bellows, Mrs. Ed Lane. Precinct No. 2. Mrs. Howard Mills, Captain; Mrs. J. J. Hunt, Mrs. E. T. Harris, Ruth Wood. Precinct No. 3. Mrs. George E. Murray, Captain; Mrs. Delos Thompson, Mrs, E. M. Graham, Moses Leopold, Mrs. J. D. Allman. Precinct No. 4. C. Ross Dean, Captain; Mrs. James H. Chapman, Mrs. John Eger, Nettie Price, Charles May, C. E. Prior. Take the matter up with your captain and arrange for your part of the work. If it is absolutely impossible for you to go with your team, advise your captain, giving him the name of some one who has consented to be your substitute. —Trustee Harvey Wr Wood will furnish each team with a description of the route they are to Cover in the township. Captains are to make their report to Judson J. Hunt.

Band Concert Program.

March. Fall in Line, Hall. Ov., Impromptu, Dalbey. Intermezzo, Forest Whispers. Gavotte, Fair Maiden of Seville. Polka, Pijjicato, Strauss. Ov., Arcadia, Hall. Selection, Little Duchess. Caprice, Awakening of the Lion. Medley Ov., Down Where the Black Eyed Susans Grow; Naughty, Naughty, Naughty; Honolulu Way. March, Colonial Queen. Star Spangled Banner.

Goodrich Better Than on Monday.

Indianapolis, Sept. 24.—Physicians attending Gov. James P. Goodrich, ill here of typhoid and bronchial pneumonia, tonight announced his condition showed improvement over yesterday. During the day the governor’s condition at times was critical. .

NOTICE. The Sons of Veterans will meet in the G. A. R. room Friday evening. Sept. 28. All sons, grandsons and their wives, of the veterans of the Civil War invited.

WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight; Wednesday probably showers.

Pocahontas Market. Saturday, Sept. 29th at Rowen s Grocery. Dressed chickens, homemade bread, fresh eggs, pies, cakes, everything good. Herman Lange returned to his home at. LaPorte, Ind., today. Mr. Lange will leave with the second forty per cent of selected men from that county who will go to Camp Taylor early next month. profits and the use of supplemental feeds such as tankage and soy beans, will boost the bank account at the end of the year. .

Public School SavingS Bank.

A public school savings bank is to be stained in connection with the commercial department of the high school. The commercial pupils are preparing pas* books which will be issued to each pupil who makes a deposit. In this new venture the pupils of the commercial department will get some experience in connection with their regular book keeping work and at the same time a valuable lesson in thrift and saving will be taught {he pupils. It is the plan to start with the fourth grade, accepting any amount. Many schools have school banks and have found them a very valuable institution for teaching pupils the habit of saving. This present year is a very opportune time to try such a plan, as it is in keeping with the General movement over the country or conserving our resources. The money deposited will be placed in the local banks. After the pupils have saved a certain amount they are to be encouraged to start a savings account with any of the local banks.

PROCLAMATION. In order that the people of this city may be aroused to a sense of fire dangers that will give effect to the work of fire prevention agencies, I hereby proclaim that Tuesday, the 9th day of October, 1917 . be designated as FIRE PREVENTION DAY and to the end that it may be fittingly observed, I recommend that on that day all property owners and tenants see that their premises are relieved of hazardous conditions, as far as possible; that flues, stoves and furnaces be examined and put in condition to stand the severe use of winter; that rubbish, waste paper and useless combustible materials be removed from cellars, 'stairways, closets and dark rooms; and that the attention of schools and civic organizations be called to the importance, of this subject, in order that this city may receive the greatest possible benefit from knowledge of fire prevention. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Mayor City of Rensselaer. Tobin, Phone 949^1. I have purchased a carload of New York AJberta peaches, to be delivered between Sept. 29th and Oct. sth. No. 1 selected peaches, $2.25; and No. 2 at $2.00, in bushel baskets. This car will not last long and if you are going to want peaclfes leave your order in advance. JOHN EGER. Gage patterns at Mrs. Purcupile’s.

. TEMPORARY QUARTERS of The Trust and Savings Bank in the rear room of the CORNER BANK BUILDING • Come in and see us in our temporary quarters first door south of Washington street on Van Rensselaer street We will remain here until our permanent quarters are completed. THE BANK ON THE CORNER AND ON THE SQUARE

The men who are called to serve in the National Army are being tak- j en to the training camps as rapidly as accommodations for them will permit. The work of preparing and equipping the camps is being rushed j and it will not be long until they willj be ready to care for the full quota. I It is probable that the call will then come for enough men to make up an army of five millions. Many of these men are among us yet, at home and related to us by the common ties of blood and activity. This great army is needed with the armies of the allies to remove a cancer from the body of the world. To do this job this army should be as clean and as keen as the knife of the surgeon. It is part of the business of the church and of every patriotic and lib-erty-loving citizen to make conditions such that the men called from our midst will go with a holy zeal, anxious to get at and destroy the thing that has disturbed and threatened the peace and liberty of the world. It is our duty to fill the atmosphere in which these men live wi,th a Christian patriotism that will know no compromise.—From Presbyterian Church Bulletin. Letters advertised for week ended Sept. 24, 1917: H. W. Ward, Lawrence Reichart, Mr. C. E. Rensselaer, J. C. Welsh, Stewart French, Mrs. Nellie Preston, Mary Williams, These letters will be sent to the dead, letter, office Oet. 8, 1917. t Gage patterns It Mrs. Purcupile's.

Orpheum Star Wears $10,000 Worth of Hate.

Mr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds and daughter closed their engagement at the Orpheum theatre in Peoria Saturday night. The Peoria Journal contains several cuts showing the head dresses worn by Mrs. Reynolds and makes the following comment: “The above cut shows the many head dresses worn by Nellie Donegan of the team of Reynolds and Donegan, who are playing at the Orpheum this week. One of the most striking hats worn by Miss Donegan is » white eigret hat of 3,000 feathers, while two others are greatly admired ,by the women patrons, the black paradise trimmed with lyre bird eigretts. This hat has 4,000 paradise plumes besides 200 lyre bird eigretts, another being the lyre bird hat, the most expensive hat creation in Miss Donegan’s repertoire. Gaby Deslys has wired many times an offer of $2,500 for this hat, it being the only lyre bird hat in America. The lyre bird is now extinct in Tasmania and Austr&li&> “In addition to the artistic and expensive dressing of the act, the many danse creations are most interesting, while the marvelous skating of little Miss Reynolds, Miss Donegan and Mr. Reynolds draw splendid applause from Orpheum patrons. The Reynolds and Donegan engagement closes tonight at the Orpheum.”

Gillam Township Farmers’ Club Program For October.

Secretary J. P. Deselms reports an unusually strong program for the October meeting of the Gillam township farmers’ club, which will be held in the Independence church Wednesday evening, Oct. 3. The program is as follows: Song by choir. Secretary’s report and roll call. Hogging Off Corn, John Ryan. Discussion. j Hoe Drill, six little girls. Reading, Richard McElroy. / The Hessian Fly, Co. Agent: Any new or unfinished business. Song by choir. The club is growing and hopes to take in the whole community. Ci Everyone invited.

New Suits Filed.

No. 8832. J. C. Gwin vs Fred W. Schultz; suit on note; demand $131.00. No. 8833. J. C. and J. I. Gwin vs Fred W. Schultz; action on note. Demand $237.00.

. Frank Hoeferlin and son returned to their home at Buck Creek, Ind., aftre a visit with George Hoeferlin, who lives on the Washburn farm in Jordan township. g»

TODAY AT THE STAR Petrova and a Full Star Cast in the Metro Quality Play EXTRAVAGANCE TOMORROW—WaIIace Reid and Myrtle Stedman in THE PRISON WITHOUT WALLS. Also Pearl White in that thrilling serial, THE FATAL RING. * THURSDAY—An Art Drama Spacial with Jack Sherrell and Edith Talifaro, supported by a large cast IN CONQUEST OF CANAN. FRIDAY—%e Jack Pickford in a 5 reel comedy-drama THE DUMMY. Matinee Daily

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