Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1917 — Page 1

No. 223.

SUPERINTENDENT IS COMMENDED

hospital board is greatly PLEASED WITH PRESENT MANAGEMENT. Trustees Jesse D. Allman, Edward P. Honan and .Louis H. Hamilton, members of the Jasper county hospital board, met in regular monthly session at the hospital Thursday evening. —’. ■ ; " ■ ■ . The report of the superintendent, Miss Mattie Hemphill, for the month of September, was gone over carefully and it was a very g'reat satisfaction to the board to learn that the income, for the 'month had exceeded the expenses. Superintendent Hemphill and those who are working with her are givirig to all under their care the very best of service and splendid attention,, but all are very anxious that the institution shall make the very best showing possible. On account of the very great amount of money that had to be' expended for equipment incident .to the needs of the new Institution, the expenditures have up to this month exceeded the receipts. ' The splendid showing made this month is not only due to the fact that not so much new’ material and supplies did not have to be procured, but also to the x ery careful management of Superintendent Hemphill and her associates. The report for the month of September is as follows: Total receipts $651.68 Total expenditures 599.85 Excess of rect. over exp. . . $ 51.83 No. of patients 25 Operations• -J3 Medical t.x. - J TTTvrrrrr7T7r7777'T Infants 2 Obstetric • • 3 Surgical # 2 The following are now in charge of the management of the hospital: Mattie Hemphill, superintendent. Graceßobertson, surgical nurse. Jennie Comer, nurse. Belle Mcßee, nurse. Elma Brown, nurse. Mrs. Pierre Thomson, maid. Mrs. Charles Replogle, cook. Mrs. John Albertson, laundress.

Pulaski Co. Pure Bred. Assn, to Attend Jasper County Meeting.

Ray D. Thompson received a telephone call from Jos. Hepp, of Winamac, this morning. Mr. Hepp informed Mr. Thompson that both- associations of pure bred live stock of Pulaski county will be here en masse. That county has two large associations, one a Hereford and the other Shorthorn cattle.

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Pleased With the Southern Crops.

Through the kindness of Dr. Washburn, we are enabled to publish the following extracts from a personal letter ’received by him from Omar C. Ritchie, a former resident of Jasper county, but now located in Louisiana near the Mississippi line: My Dear Ira: Your letter received and glad to hear from you again. We did not know whether you had forgotten us, had been sent “to de wah” or had sickened of the climate of Jasper county and had quietly folded your tent and hied away to the more salubrious climate of our neighboring state, Mississippi. Yes, we redd of your having frost on September 11th and of your going with your county demonstration agent to your place to estimate damage. I sure am glad it was so slight. Just at that time we enjoyed cool breezes from the North, and I said to others, “I’ll bet there has been p heavy frost in old Indiana. It just feels like it.” You ask how lam coming on. I am glad to say “I am coming back.” In the first place, my 100 acres of oats yielded 3,800 bushels of the cleanest, finest- quality, weighing 37 pounds to the measured bushel, as they ran from the machine spout. I sold 1,500 bushels of them for seed, to farmers at Crowley, La., on the Gulf coast, a small car load for SI,BOO, or $1.20 per bushel, they paying the big freight. I want to sell about 1,200 bushels more at $1.25 and think I will, as the kind that grow and produce here are scarce, mostly winter killed last winter, and northern oats do no good here. Owing to the long summer drouth, my early planted corn is very light in yield, but good quality. Am gathering and cribbing now. Will have enough so that I will not have to buy next summer. I planted velvet beans in my corn. You should see those beans on those vines. It is a pleasant sight and I’ll try them again. They are said to be the greatest fertilizer known and will

produce as many bushels of beans to the acre, in addition, as corn will make 4e-the acre* -— ~ as= TT’ L ~mi But my cotton is best of all. The drouth that injured the corn so bad, just made the cotton. All my land is making from one-half to one bale per acre v My own individual crop of 27 acres is beating my best “niggfer” tenants, and it bores them, for they thought they knew it all about raising cotton, and the “old man” didn’t know a little bit, but I read up while they talked up, following instructions (without fertilizer) and showed ’em how to do it. It tickled me. That little 5-acre field west of my little pasture lot, was picked over last week and made 6,550 pounds of seed cotton, equal when ginned to four bales of lint cotton worth SSOO and two tons of cotton seed worth $l4O, 1% bales equal to $187.50, 1 ton of cotton seed worth S7O, making a total of $187.50. I will have two more pickings of it which will yield from 1% to 2 bales more of cotton, beside one ton of seed worth S7O. What do you think of that for land that, will not sell for SSO per acre, because the d d fools in the north and west think they can beat it raising corn and wheat on S2OO per acre land. Too silly to talk about. “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise ” But you get wise, Ira, and sell your farm and come down here before these people wake up, and get you some of this good land at one-fourth the cost of yours, that will produce as much, or more You are right. This is a cattle countryand now is the time to get into it. Last Friday I sold off my pasture (which is the poorest I ever saw it, because of the drouth), four yearling steers and five two-year-old steers, fat little chunks, nine in all, and the nine averaged me $56.78 per head and none of them ever had a “nubbin” of corn, silage or anything but a little oats straw and ordinary hay, last winter. Can you beat that on S2OO land? , Only last week, “Weccamo” Plantation, about the size of mine, sold for $50,000, and the big “Whitehall” plantation, about 2,500 acres, two miles below Vidalia, sold to a Delta planter for $140,000. P OMAR C. RITCHIE, L’Aregent, La.

Our car of New York Elberta peaches has been shipped and we expect them to arrive on Thursday or Friday, Oct. 4th or sth. Call us up, Phone 54. JOHN EGER. You can buy “Minnetonna Brand” butter of the following Rensselaer grocers: G. E. Murray Company, Frank Rowen, James Snedeker, J. A. McFarland. If your grocer does not supply you, you can buy direct from us. —-J. C. Harris & Son. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Jasper County Chapter of the American Red Cross will be held in the auditorium of the public library, Rensselaer, Ind., Friday evening, October 12, at 7:30. All members are urgently requested to be present.—lda Milliken, Secy. The final payment of the Red Cross War Pledges made last June, was due October Ist and the of the War Fund would greatly appreciate it if subscribers to this fund will complete their payments. They can be made either to J. H. Chapman, treasurer, at the State Bank, or at the Red Cross headquarters, or by mail with check payable to Red Cross War Fund, William G. McAdoo, Treas.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER S, 1917.

DENOUNCES KAISERISM

GERMAN BITTERLY ARRAIGNS HOHENZOLLERNS AND JUNKERS. The Rev. Christian Sihler, of Cleveland, a native of Ft. Wayne, is the guest of .relatives in that city, and much interest attaches to his visit because of his prominence in the Missouri synod of the German Lutheran church. He was at first intensely pro-German. His father was born in Germany and after coming to this country early in the last century, was one of the founders of the Missouri synod. The family has long been prominent in German-American circles. Mr. Sihler annuonces that he has changed his views about the war. His conclusions are given with anJncisiveness of language that leaves no doubt that his state of mind has changed. “Germany,” he declared in an interview, “is morally bankrupt. Its people do not know, are not allowed to know the real situation, and their war leaders, steeped in blood and crimes so terrible that neutrals and even enemies on this side can not bring themselves to realize their awfulness, have staked their all in the determination to win this war or destroy the world in doing it. It can end in but one way. Human freedom and the rights of peoples to live their own lives will never die. Autocracy must perish, yet when the divine right of kings is thrown into the doctrinal scrapheap and the Hohenzollerns and junkers are forced to make way for the subjects they so miserably represent, I hope to be

able to rally a few friends to the aid of a stricken people. Against the scorn and dirision of the entire world they will need a helping hand to live down the disgrace.” To this purpose Dr. Sihler has come to Ft. Waynetoarouse the “Germans in Allen county to do their dfity toward their kinsmen in the natice land of themselves or their fathers, after the war has demolished the German throne and uplifted the people. Dr. Sihler was born in a family where English was never spoken. He spent many years in Germany and knows German history and literature by close study. But when the reports began to come in about Germany’s ruthless warfare and he was able to grasp what was meant by frightfulness, he began to investigate. He found that the warridden Germany of today is not the Germany he knew in his boyhood when his own father was its exemplar. The Germany of today he says he found it a Germany gone mad with the lust of conquest. “It is my solemn conviction,” he said, “and not only mine, but of thousands of others who deplore the crimes committed by the German autocracy, that the leaders are a well organized robber band. They have dreamed of a world war of conquest and spread that doctrine long before there was a war. The peril has been hanging over the incredulous world for years. The education “of the masses has been along the lines that the action of the nation was supreme as centered in the kaiser, and that no act was a crime which served to further the interests of the war party. The people still rely on their leaders, but the time will come when they will not. Starvation Will bring about a conversion of thought and belief. The wealthier people in Germany today have three ounces of animal fat per day. The common people have hut a half ounce. They will not always stand this, and their fury will hasten the end. We have a division of thought in this country, too, among the thousands of Ger-man-born residents. “There are two the beer Germans and the Bible Gen mans, or if you please, the saloon and the church element. All have lived under the tyranny and military depotism of the old country, they have enjoyed the benefits of this free and wonderful country of ours, yet many have lowered and degraded themselves by lukewarm interest in the public’s welfare, or “else openly, sb far as they dared, made a stand for Kaiserism and the things for which the bloody Germany of today stands for. It is beyond my comprehension, how they can hesitate for one moment in giving their undivided allegiance to a country which welcomed with open arms, many of them as fugitives, escaping from military sejvice and tyrannical treatment.

“The German papers are not aiding in the propaganda. They are playing for the kaiser. This great generous-hearted country, by its lenity, has overlooked the shortcomnigs of this element, in a way that should cause proprietors of newspapers printed in the German language to hang their heads in shame. Thfey stand today for ruthless German atrocities and few if any of them have, changed their attitude since the entrance of America into the war. ' ' . “The German, people across the water are to be pitied. For years they have been taught from children up that the kaiser is the great and deciding factor of this earth. They have been taught to believe that to sin against the government ~ which rules them is the same as a sin against the Holy Ghost. No matter what the rulers may decide upon it must not be questioned. Unconditional obedience is demanded under

For the Good Of the Service.

Camp Shelby, Miss., . Oct. 2,* 1917. Old Company ,M is no more. All the efforts to get a home company that would remain together during the war has gone glimmering and already 43 men have been transferred to the 137th Field Artillery, which was composed in the most part from the former third regiment. It is expected that the balance of the company except the officers and noncommissioned officers will be transferred to some other service. Two others -were today sent to Hattiesburg as military police, namely, Huntington and Deardorff, of Mt. Ayr. Vestal, another Mt. Ayr boy, was transferred to Battery C, Field Artillery, and has been chosen for mounted police. Captain Garland and Lieuts. Watson and Nowels are to be used in training conscripted soldiers, it is understood. They feel vfery badly at having their splendid company thus disintegrated, but realize that all the sentiment is out of the thing and the matter is a cold-blooded proposition and the changes which create a hardship on the individuals are a part of the plan to win thq war and will prove effective. • x x x

Jasper County Corn Outclasses White County Samples.

There are on exhibition in the window of Long & Son’s drug store some samples of this year’s corn. A few«days ago O. K. Rainier, who owns for S4OO per acre land in White coun ty, placed a sample of the very best corn he could find on his farm and thought that he would make every farmer in Jasper county jealous. But Uncle William Hoover, seeing the samples displayed by O. K., brought in some samples from his Marion township farm that make the Rainier samples look like popcorn. Uncle Charles Pullin picked out a few ears and placed them beside the Rainier corn and of course outclassed them. O. K. will let go of that White county farm some of these days and buy a real farm in Jasper county.

Alter Family Has Had a Run of Hard Luck.

A letter was received from Lewis Alter, of Carpenter township, today by The Renublican. Mr. Alter states that the remark in The Republican that he was having his share of hard luck was indeed true, but that he is not complaining. Some of the misfortunes which members of the Alter family have had within the past few months follow: Ii» July Miss Myrtie Alter was operated on for appendicitis, in August Lester Alter severed an artery in his foot and almost bled to death, and is-just able to be about. The latter part of August found John Alter, of South Bend, in bed with typhoid fever, from which he is just recovering. On the 16th of September a fire at the Alter farm destroyed property valued at about SI,OOO, and the last of September found Lacy Alter in the hospital, following burns he received while riding his motorcycle. In addition to these misfortunes, Mrs. Alter has beep sick for the past six weeks. — Certainly a run of hard luck.

SOME SQUASH.

Wolcott Enterprise. John Southard had on exhibition in Lux Bros, window Saturday a squash that he raised on his place 6 miles north of Wolcott that was really some squash. It measured 5 ■feet 8 inches around the long way, and 3 feet 11 inches around the other and weighed 72% pounds. The vine on which this squash grew also had some 20 other squashes. Mr. Southard was in Rensselaer and says that he sold this squash at ten cents a pound and received a total of $7.25. If you have a bigger squash than that le’ts hear from you. Remember, this squash was raised in Jasper county.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Helmuth Z and granddaughter, Susanna Kaufman, returned to their home at Mt. Ayr today after a visit with relatives neap Kokomo, Ind. John Tyler ,of Kersey, returned to his home near Kersey today. He had been transacting" some business here. He arrived here Thursday from Benton Harbor, Mich., where he had been to see his youngest brother, Merle Tyler and family. Merle is now a mail carrier in Benton Harbor, his daughter is the his tory teacher in the Benton Harbor high school, and his son, Bun, is train dispatcher for a railroad about 80 miles out of Benton Harbor. Verne Sayers, a nephew of Mr. Tyler, is now a superintendent of schools in a Florida county.

the doctrine that the king can do no wrong. The moral degradation of Germany is the most awful part of the whole business. It is not necessary to accept English or French testimony, or even that of stricken Belbium. The Bernstorff incident, the shameful betrayal of the trust and confidence of the American government by the accredited representatives ofthe kaiser, the plottings, destruction of lives and property'under the guise of friendship even before the war began, should convince us that there can be no peace, no safety, for established principles of democracy and the Hohenzollern and all they stand for are put where they can no longer constitute a world menace.”

Battle Ground People Don’t Like It a Bit.

i Feeling at Battle Ground is very ’ much wrought up over the fact that Lynn and Charles Van Natta, members of the wealthy Van Natta family, who were passed and, certified for service by the Tippecanoe county conscription board, nrfve "been exempted by the district board on industrial grounds. A number of citizens of the Battle Ground neighborhood whose sons have been called into the service by the draft have gone to Indianapolis to lodge a protest with Jesse Eschbach, state agent. Many other young men made claims for exemption on industrial grounds and were refused. Their relatives say the Yan. no better than the ones who nave been compelled to go and not as much entitled to exemption They are both single and belong to wealthy families, so that there is no claim for dependency whatever. That to allow them immunity from service would be an injustice to those who will have to take their places. Before leaving for Indianapolis, the committee of protest consulted a Lafayette attorney. It is the first protest of the kind so far made in Tippecanoe county.

Monon Train Will Accommodate Foot Ball Players.

William H. Beam, agent of ths Monon railroad at this place, has succeeded in getting train No. 37, due here at 11:18 a. m., to stop at Kirklin Saturday, Oct, 6, and also train No. 30, due here at 6:30 p. m. Thii is done to accommodate the football team and their friends, as neither one of these trains stop at Kirklin on the regular schedule.

Friday Hospital Notes.

Mrs. Joseph Adams has entered the hospital for medical treatment. Mrs. Mary A. Bowers, of Fair Oaks, was brought to the hospital this forenoon for medical attention. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace was taken to her home today. All other patients are reported to be doing nicely.

Attorney Abe Halleck, of Rensselaer, who has been here for the past tep days as one of the many lawyers engaged in the Singleton ditch case, was the guest of honor at a “stag” party at Red Oak island on the Kankakee, Tuesday evening, and Abe is just as good an eater aS a lawyer, and his reputation for the latter stands without question. Halleck’s eating average at the party ’was a thousand per cent and the balance of the members of the company were astounded when the Jasperite announced after devouring several porterhouse steaks, sweet potatoes, and numerous side dishes that he was a little off-fed that evening and would have to be excused from eating his regular meal. Judge Harry B. Nicholson had entire charge of broiling sixteen juicy steaks on a charcoal fire under the blue sky, while August Johnson acted as Bridget, with A. J. Boye as ihaid and dishwasher. Those who attended the party as bystanders without any special mission to perform excepting eating were: Mat J. Brown, George R. Schaaf, James Black, Ray Seeley, Wm. Newman, E. L. Shortridge, Herbert Wheaton, Victor Roberts, of Lowell, John Claussen, Mac Folland and Fred Wheeler. —Crown Point Star. =

Methodist Church Notes. 9:30 a. m- Sunday school. 10:45 a. m. Morning worship and sermon by the pastor. Theme, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ.” 6:30 p. m. Epworth League. Topic, “Korea—A Nation Bom in a Day.” Leader, Nellie Waymire. 7:30 Union service at the Presbyterian church. Sermon by Rev. Asa McDaniels.

Orlie Clouse and Frank Leek went to Chicago this morning. F. D. Burchard came from Camp Taylor, Ky., Thursday. He has a ten day leave of absence. i “Minnetonna Brand” butter is guaranteed to suit you. If it does not prove satisfactory bring it back and we will refund your money.—J. C. Harris & Son. Mrs. Samuel English and daughters, of Canada, arrived Thursday afternoon for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, and other relatives. . Why “not have the best? They are no higher. Victrolas from $17.50 to $200.00. We carry them in stock. No waiting.—Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store. Mayor C. G. Spitler has purchased a Premier “Six.” The car has electric gear shifts and contains all modern improvements which go to make lup the up-to-date automobile. The mayor is mighty proud of his latest "car and has a nght to be.

ot Momt. I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate 5 per cent and my limit is SIOO per aere.—P. D. Well*. Marocco. Ind. v Bicycle tires, the largest line in the city. All new stcok at the old low prices. Also bicycle repairs and repairing.—Main Garage.

WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight and Saturday. -v

Nation Awaits Baseball Onening.

America today awaits the opening of hostilities between Charles Comiskey’s Chicago White Sox, American league flag winners, and John' McGraw’s New York Giants, Gotham’s bestj which begins tomorrow, in what bids fair to be the greatest world’s series classic ever staged. From Vancouver to the Everglades of Florida, from the Barbary coast of California to the northernmost part of Maine, throughout Canada and Alaska, the eyes of the sport loving public will be focused on the score boards awaiting the outcome of the initial battle between the, two best baseball clubs in this Jittie old world. Even in the trenches of France will the American and .Canadian soldiers turn from the more serious work, which they have at hand, to get the reports of th’e great baseball battle being waged back in their own dear country. The National Commission has arranged with the government to cable the reports of the game play by play to our soldier boys in Europe. All arrangements have been completed for sending the reports of the combat' to the boys on the other side and a few hours after the last man has been retired the soldiers will be as well acquainted with the details of the game as the average American. „ The betting on the outcome of the series So far shows that the wiseacres consider the conflict an even, money proposition. Whatever bets at odds have been made, for the most part favor the Chicagoans at ft to 5. But one Rensselaer fan was fortunate enough to obtain a ticket for the series, Carl Somers being the * lucky individual who will get to view the pastime from a reserved seat. Others from here will be in line early tomorrow morning to get into the bleachers. Cicotte probably will open for Chicago, although Rowland may switch to Rujsell, a lefthander, at the. last = moment. Schupp or Sallee, both offsiders, will hurl for McGraw.

Presbyterian Church. Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 Sunday school. 10:45 Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. 7:30 Evening worship and sermon. The monthly union service and Rev. Asa McDaniels the preacher. 7:30 Thursday, round table and prayer service, subject: “Study. Prov. 1:2-6; 1 Tim. 4:13-16; 2 Tim. 2:15; 3:14-17. No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with all, for those who will.— James Russell Lowell. - Baptist Church Notice. Sunday, October 7th. 9:30 a. m. Sunday school. 7:30 p. m. Union service in the Presbyterian church. -Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30. Servifies at Parr: > 10 a. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m. Preaching and observation of the Lord’s Supper. The quarterly business meeting of the church will be held Saturday evening at 7:30. Sunday services at Milroy: 2 p. m. Suhday school. 3 p. m. Preaching. D. C. HILL, Pastor. ~ • First. Christian Church. Sunday school at 9:30. Communion and sermon, 10:45. Union 1 service in the Presbyterian church at ‘ 7:30. ASA . McDANIEL, Pastor. Christian Science. Christian Science services at 11 o’clock Sunday in the auditorium of the library. Public cordially invited.

TODAY STAR THEATRE Myrtle Stedman and Wallace Reid In a Rich Production THE WORLD APART SATURDAY— World-Brady Special with Alice -Brady in THE SELFMADE WIDOW. \ MONDAY —Little Vivian Martin will delight you in a big comedy drama of GIVING BECKY A CHANCE. Also Burton Holmes in a travel picture. ■■■ I I - I" TUESDAY—H. Lockwood and Mae Allison in THE BIG TREMAINE, a big story of southern life. WEDNESDAY—Houhe PeUrs in AS MEN LOVE. Also Pearl White in THE FATAL RING. ■ - • ■ THURSDAY —A big Art Drama picture MISS DECEPTION. ✓

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