Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — Page 1

No. 235.

Remember Our Boys In France On Christmas.

Somewhere “over there” Rensselaer has a number of sons fighting ip the great world war, doing their part toward world democracy. These boys would appreciate a little remembrance from you on Christmas. Anything from back in the states looks good to them and our citizens should see that the are remembered. The postoffice has received notice that in order to insure the delivery of Christmas packages to the boys in the trenches on Christmas all packages must be mailed before November 15. Postmaster Littlefield is anxious to be of service to those who want to send Christmas packages to the soldiers and will assist in any way possible. Under former orders all packages had to be opened in New York City, but now ppstoffice clerks will inspect them and their 0. K. on the contents lets them go directly through without further in-

spection. The main requisite is that all shall be firmly packed so as not to injure itself or any other mail. Candy, toilet soap, and such articles can go in pasteboard boxes, but cake, pudding, etc., must be packed in tin boxes. The x postage is eight cents per pound. In addition to the address of the sender, short messages, as “Meiry Christmas,” “With Best Wishes,” etc., can be placed on the outside of the package without charge. The governmen t urges that the packages be made as small and compact as possible but naturally they are Anxious that the boys at the front be given good cheer for the holidays. Not only should the boys in France be renjembered, but the boys from this county in the various parts of the United States. Of course each individual can not give to each and every boy in the service from this county, but we should try and see that no one is overlooked during the holidays.

Real Estate Transfers.

Fred H. Brown to Maude E. Spitler Oct. 15, nw 11-31-7, 160 acres, $2.00. W. D. George F. Foos et ux to Jasper Guy et ux, Sept. 29, 1917, lot 10, bk 14, Remington, $350. W. D. Coleman W. Merritt et ux to Lansing H. Tyler et ux Oct. 16, 1917, lot 1, Coover & Goldberry’s add, $2,400. W. D. Warren Robinson et ux to John P. Ryan, Oct. 9, 1917, und% w% nw 14-30-5, 80 acres; und% pt e% nw 14-30-5, 54.37 acres, $4,000. W. D. John P. Ryan et ux to Warren Robinson Oct. 9, 1917, und% w% ne ne 10-80-5, and und% w% se 10-30-5, und% se se 10-30-5, SIBO W. D. Frank E. Kay et ux to Henry C. Harris Sept. 24, 1917, se 10-27-7, $20,000. W. D.

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The Evening Republican .

SERVICE OF BOYS AND GIRLS

GEORGE ADE SOUNDS TRUMPET CALL FOR THEIR ENLISTMENT. — - - - - This is a letter to the fortunate ones who, ten years from now, will be enjoying the benefits of what all future histories will call the Great War. You (the girls of sweet sixteen and slightly upward and the boys who are getting ready to vote) will know more about this war when you are plump and middle-ag'ed than anyone can possibly know this year. When the dust has cleared away and the large events of the war can be seen from a distance then you Will understand that the issues involved had to be fought out, that the United States had to take part, that the task we are now undertaking had to- be accomplished. Let us hope that each of you can say, twenty years from now, “I was young at the time but I knew what the war meant, and I helped.” Not all of the heroes are in the trenches.

To prove that brave men remain at home, here am I, a case-hardened bachelor, venturing to give advice to young women, every one of whom knows all about the war or, at least one young man who has marched out to win the war. No need to tell them to knit. They aYe knitting. Why whisper to them to beware of “slackers.” The poor “slacker” already has felt the scorn of their glances. * Perhaps some hints may be tabulated in the methodical style so dear to professors. Efficientcy of soldiers at the front and in the training camps dependent upon: (a) Physical welfare, resulting from comfortable garments and sensible attentions, provided by the young women between 16 and 21. (b) Mental calm, induced by the knowledge that all the girls at home will postpone definite arrangements until tfye soldiers come back. (c) Spiritual exaltation, encouraged by the occasional receipt of letters from young ladies between the ages of 16 and 21. From the above analysis it becomes evident that the successful prosecution of the war is not dependent upon the president and cabinet, or even upon the National Council of Defense, but upon Flora and Elsie and Agnes and Jessie. Don’t let anyone tell you that war is strictly a business proposition. We can’t win the war unless the bands play and the girls wave their handkerchiefs. Every selected man who starts to France must see himself as the hero of the play who steps in between the villain and the persecuted heroine and strikes the brute to the earth, saying, “Take that! and that!” and (then bows to the applauding multitude. The French weep a little and J kiss one another on each cheek and sing the “Marseillaise,” and then they are ready to capture some more trenches. Repressed emotions sometimes turn sour. Don’t be ashamed to let our enthusiasm float publicly to the breeze.

You never saw a football t&am advance the ball unless it was getting encouragement from the girls on the side lines. Now for the boys. Perhaps you have heard of the Working Reserve. It has been carefully organized under government supervision. It has received the official endorsement of the president. The whole plan is working out successfully wherever it is understood. Here is the plan in a nut shell: Thousands of enlisted and selected men have .gone to the training camps. It may be that thousands more will go next year. These men are being called from factories and workshops and farms. Every factory and every farm must continue production if we are to render full service to our faithful allies during the war. How can we fill the places of the young men who have gone away to fight? We must rely upon the boys who are old enough and husky

enough to work, but who are still too young for military service. Ho here is a trumpet call for all city boys and town boys between the ages of 16 and 21. Prove your patriotism and help your country by jumping in and doing the work of a soldier who has gone to the front. You are not asked to work because you need the money. You are asked to work because our country needs your help and relies upon you to chuck aside false pride and join in the team work. If your big brother can dig trenches surely you can

plow corn. Go to the recruiting office and enlist for the Boys’ Working Reserve. Then, when you are called upon, go and make good in the job assigned to you and win your medal and wear it and be proud of it. When the government begaa to organize this voluntary service among boys, so as to meet the inevitable shortage of man-power, the skeptics and fault-finders got busy. They said that boys living in cities and towns never could be induced to work on farms, that farmers didn’t want to have the town boys around because they would prove to be green or' lazy or indifferent, and the whole thing

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1517.

Friend of Kershner Family Writes of Gorman Atrocities.

Herman Ashbaucher, of Bluffton, has written to his mother in that city telling of the atrocities committee by the Germans. Mr. Ashbaucher is now somewhere in France. The Bluffton boy is a friend of the Kerschner family, of south of Rensselaer. The following clipping has been handed us for publication: Somewhere in France, August 28, 1917. My Dear Mother and All:

Nearly a month has elapsed since I wrote you my last letter and in that time I’ve had many experiences, some of* which will be embedded in my memory for some time to come. Today some of the boys received a newspaper from Chicago and the Tribune had the large headline regarding bombing of the American hospitals in France. That night of horror shall never leave my vision or hearing, though our unit was lucky enough to escape any damage. Do you remember, in one of my letters, written around the 31st of July, when I told about the wonderful success of the British forces in Flanders. Then it was that I predicted to you that was only the beginning of a huge struggle and the coming of the end. Well yesterday, the day before, today and tomorrow, and, methniks, for some days to come, you will read of the continued success of the allied armies. If Germany holds out three more months we shall have to finish it in the spring. But I think she is on the verge of collapse. I pray to God she is because the awful

amount of casualties she is having in the field sicken me. The stories of her heaps of dead come to me first hand from, men who have been “up .the line” and “over the top.” These men say that as they cross over No Man’s land and enter the German first, second and third line trenches, what they find is gruesome to the extreme. When will the hand of Him who is supreme stop all this? The lesson of freedom has been a bloody one wherever it has been taught, but Germany is paying for it at far more costly a price than any people before and God grant that no other nation shall ever have to experience the same again. — ~ One of the newest and latest of all the barbarism brought out by the Hun autocracy and Kultur in this era of civilization and which ha’s come under my personal notice is the dropping of candies and sweets with poison on them so they will be picked up by the children who are lucky enough to escape their bombs. Surely dropping bombs on the Geneva Red Cross s bad enough, but when it comes to aking away the lives of young chilIren and other noncombatants in hat manner all exemptions are disqualified and surely a just God will ranish the perpetrators of such war!are.

That the British are respecting the Geneva Red Cross which is really the only remnant of real civilization left on this battle front is shown by the story of a gunner down from the front. He told of a German ambulance drawn by two white horses and though they were working in a district that was very advantageous to the enemy and which could be easily reached by the British guns and that point of enemy defense destroyed, not a British gun was fired in that direction so that the work of giving aid to the poor victims of a dying autocracy was not to be hindered. That is only one of the many stories that show the difference in the aims and the standards of the belligerent armies. On the other hand many of the wounded that come down here are members of the British Royal Army Medical Corps, men who have given their blood to aid the enemy wounded as well as those of their own armies and are paid hhck in this way by a ruthless warfare. This letter has been written with the idea that it may awaken some people back in that dear old state of Indiana and show them the old U. S. A. is really fighting in a war for a just cause against a real enemy of mankind. No sacrifice the people at home can make now or later on shall be as great as those sacrifices which have been made and will he made by their sons at the front. God grant our noble president and those in charge of our nation the power to compel people to make those sacrifices that power may speed the end of this great calamity and bring the dawn of peace. Well, I hear the bugle calling so I must close.

Last call for 20 boys to top onions, Saturday, October 20.—8. Forsythe.

was a fool contraption. Doesn’t your common sense and your knowledge of addition and subtraction tell you that if we suddenly take 1,000,000 or more men right out of the productive industries of this country, we must either find a million men to take their places or else go short on production? Are we going to do as they have done in England——dress the women and girls in men’s garments and put them to cleaning streets and making explosives and wiping up locomotives in round houses and doing all the hard menial tasks? We musn’t come to that—not while we have on banc a whole army of young fellows between 16 and 21, nearly every'one oi. whom has gone in for some kind ol athletic sport and is physically able and would be as mad as a hornet if you told him he was a mama’s pet and not able to do a man’s work. The boys between 16 and 21 can and will supply the shortage of manpower. There will be a load call for then} in 1918 ahd they must answer the call.

Confident Coal Problem Is Near An Adjustment.

■ Despite the fact that the coal short- ' age throughout the country is very serious and that the ‘action of the miners in striking at the present time has periled the entire country, the fuel heads are confident that the tense situation will soon be overcome. In Rensselaer at the present time coal is a very scarce article, especially soft coal. One coal dealer states that there is plenty of hard coal in the city, but not in the hands of the coal dealers. He further stated that the coal bins of the city for the most part were pretty well supplied with hard coal, but that those who were not so fortunate to have in their winter’s supply would have considerable difficulty in getting immediate delivery. Both Fuel Administrator Garfield and President John P. White, of the United Mine Workers, expressed confidence Thursday that the strike of the coal miners in the central corn-' Setitive fields of Ohio, Illinois, Iniana and Pennsylvania would be settled within a short time. President White left Thursday night for his headquarters in Indianapolis, where he will continue in his efforts to induce the men to return to work. Despite reports indicating a spread of strike sentiment among the men, Mr. White was optimistic when he left Washington. At the fuel administration offices it was said that he viewed the strike movement as sporadic and believed that the trouble would be adjusted within a few days by an appeal to the patriotism of the men not to permit the nation’s coal supply to be diminished.

J. P. Morgan Co. Buys $25,000,000 Worth of Bonds.

New York, Oct. 18.—An increase of $85,000,000 in 24 hours in sub-* scriptions to the Liberty loan in the New York federal reserve district brought the unofficial total tonight up to $545,000,000. Thirteen banks, trust and insurance companies and private business firms subscribed $77,000,000. The subscriptions of the thirteen concerns did not go below $1,000,000 and *reached as high as $25,000,000. The latter subscription by J. P. Morgan & Co., was the largest single contribution thus far recorded. It was intimated that the Morgan house would make other subscriptions.

Liberty Loan Meetings.

A Liberty Loan meeting will be leld at the Barkley church in Barkey township at 8 o’clock Saturday evening in an effort to get the citizens of that township to subscribe their allotted share of the loan fund. The speakers of the evening will be Charles G. Spitler, John A. Dunlap, W. L. Wood and Louis H. Hamilton. On Tuesday evening, Oct. 23, a oan meeting will be held at the Union school house in Jordan township. There will be several speakers present to address the meeting, but the committee in charge has not as yet selected them.

Grammar Building Notes.

The pupils of the grammar building were assembled this Friday morning in their regular assembly. Miss larris had charge of the program, which was a patriotic one. The children of her room gave the program, which was as follows: Song, “How Betsy Ross Made the ?lag,"Junior Quartet. The pupils salute Flag and give allegiance to the Flag. Piano Solo, Ethel Ham. Reading, Francie Wood. Reading, Olive McCurtain. Next week has been decided upon as campaign week for the pupils to save their money to deposit in the school bank. The purpose of this is to be more saving and also show what can be saved by trying. Watch the pupils save.

Methodist Church Notes.

9:30 a. m. Sunday school. 10:45 a. m. Morning worship and ■sermon. Theme “The Conservation of Humanity.” m . 6:00 p. m. Epworth League. Topic “The Battle Against Booze.” Leader, Hope Hurley. 7:00 p. m. Evening worship and sermon. The pastor will preach the second of the series on “Life’s Laws.

Presbyterian Church.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 Sunday school. 10:45 Morning worship and sermon, subject: “Food Conservation. 7:00 Evening worship and sermon, subject: “Refrain From Evil — See Good Days.” 7:30 Thursday, round table and prayer service. Subject: “Liberty Bonds.” General discussion. Rom. 13:6.

LATEST WAR NEWS.

(Wagner Wire) The Russian government has decided to move the capital from Petrograd to Moscow. Copenhagen.—The dispatches say that the revolt against the submarine service in Germany, is growing, due to the loss of submarine crews.

Church of God. Saturday, 7:30 p. m. Bible lesson. Sunday, 9:80 a. m. Bible lesson. 10:45 a. m. Sermon. 7 p.m. Sermon. S. J. LINDSAY, Pastor.

Christian Scionce.

Christian Science services at 1: o'clock Sunder in the auditorium of the library. Public cordially invited.

Letters From a French Ambulance Driver at Front.

(Written by Alfred Thompson. September 21, 1917. We are back “in repos” now, out of reach again of the German guns and pretty safe from the miserable, and at the front, continuous bomb raids. We spent four days very near the front doing nothing but just waiting to go “en repos.” While, there I visited the trenches and certainly spent several very interesting hours there. We entered the trenches at the fourth line and walked what seemed to be miles in a never ending bewildering maze of trenches. The trenches branch off continually in every direction, hundreds of them, aIL named like streets,- and they turn and twist like a great snake. Seldom can you see more than fifteen or twenty feet ahead of you on account of a turn. We finally came to the front lines, great deep trenches six or seven feet deep, more in places, reinforced by sand bags, wire grating and so forth. Some of the trenches have board walks in their bottoms; in others we plodded through clay mud. We visited the very deep dugouts that go way down into the earth and are dark all the time, except for a little candle light. In some we found officers, poring

over a map; in others, bunches of men, sleeping or just lying around. The lieutenant that had us in tow was mighty decent to us, showed us everything, explained everything and gave us a taste of some fiery liquor that I suppose they give to the men before they go over the top. We saw machine guns ready to shoot, trench torpedo guns, hand grenades, in short, everything. We went up to several listening posts, only thirty or forty yards from the ’Boche trenches, and could hear the Boche moving around over there. It was very quiet there, no fighting at all for a long time, and the only noises were the screaming shriek now and then of the French 75’s as they passed over our heads and their explosion in the Boche lines a few seconds later.- We peeked out over the parapet and could see the Boche trenches only thirty yards away, but it did not give me half the thrill a l )omb raid does. I was interested, lowever, in “No Man’s Land.” It is the most utterly desolate looking ilace imaginable. A perfectly amazing mass of terrible barb-wire entanglements, a few blackened stubs of trees and here and there a taller one, all completely stripped of every branch and leaf, shattered and torn with shells. It is indeed a desolate sight. “No Man’s Land,” a fitting name, for no man moves there or could hope to move until the artilery had cut and blown that maze of wire to little bits.

The night before we left we had another bomb said that ruined my night’s sleep and made me spend all too long a time in a stuffy little abris, that is a safe shelter from fragments of exploding bombs, but would offer little or no resistance to a direct hit. They make you feel very safe, however, as a direct hit is very unlikely. I saw one bomb light not far away before I sought shelter and the flash and the crash of the explosion that followed added the spur to my movements. Later I went to sed after I thought it was over but onother plane came. I stayed in bed, nevertheless, while he was drop-

ping his bombs but then he let loose with his machine gun, and as it was directly over me, I could stand it no k onger, jumped out of bed and beat* it to the abris. When I finally got to bed, I did not even take off my shoes, as I expected to have to get up, but no more planes appeared, and I slept in all my clothes. While at the front, bomb raids are one of the necessary evils hnd must be endured as such, but they lose all thier flavor when the come every night, and come they do, every single clear night.

Mrs. Wm. Bowsher Died at The Hospital Thursday.

Mrs. Emma Ellen Bowsher, wife of Wm. Bowsher, passed away at the county hospital Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The Bowsher family formerly lived in this city, but a short time ago moved to the Firman Thompson farm, aboift two miles north of Parr. Mrs. Bowsher was about forty yaers of age at the time of her death. She had been in the county hospital for about a week, having been taken there for treatment following childbirth. Deceased was the mother of several children, two sons, Orveil and Allen, being members of the local militia company. One brother, Henry Grey, of this city, survives. Funeral services will be held at the M. E. church in Fair Oaks at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. Asa McDaniel, of the Christian church, will preach the sermon. Burial will be made in the Fair Oaks cemetery.

Now Ho’s the Laughing Stock of Rensselaer.

One of Rensselaer’s most prominent citizens, a man who has spent the greater part of his lifetime here, was a caller at The Republican office recently. The talk as usual drifted to the war, from war to the crop conditions of the county and finally to the happenings about Rensselaer. It while we dwelled upon the latter subject that we discovered, to our horror, that this man did not know that J. J. Montgomery had a new popcorn and peanut machine and was selling the best popcorn and peanuts in the city. Now he’s the laughing stock of the city^—Adv.

Sheridan Hare Tomorrow; Locals Bristling.

Sheridan high school football team, ■ one of the fastest and heaviest of the downstate clubs, will be here Saturday afternoon to face Coach Meyers' charges at Riverside park. Deprived of victory in their only three starts of the year, the locals are bristling and assert that when to morrow's game is history they will have their first pelt of the season. Victory, which has been absent from the ledger since the fall of 1916, has caused anger among the Red and Black and they will take out their revenge when the downstate club appears on the gridiron, so they assert The squad is in pretty fair shape and a few shifts have been made which are expected to strengthen the team considerably.

Friday Hospital Notes.

Mrs. Ross Reed, of Barkley township, entered the hospital today to undergo medical treatment. Mrs. Fred Chapman and baby returned to their home today. Editor Bert Bartoo continues to improve. / • Mrs. Wm. Bowsher passed away at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon.

Good Crop Sugar Beats.

D. W. Johnson, formerly of McCgysburg but now a tenant on the Zack Seifert farm eight miles north and one-mile east of Morocco, was in Rensselaer Thursday. Some of Mr. Johnson's corn was injured by the frost but he has a crop of beats that will bring him splendid returns. He has out thirty acres of sugar beats. The yield will be about fourteen tons to the acre. By his contract he is to receive the price of 100 pounds of sugar for each ton of beats. The price named in the contract was a minimum of >6.00 per ton. He will, however, receive about |7.50 per ton on account of the higher pnce of sugar.

WEATHER. Fair and continued colder tonight with freezing temperature; Saturday partly cloudy and warmer.

Sheridan vs Rensselaer at Riverside Athletic Park Saturday afternoon. Game starts at 3:00 p. m. Sheriff B. DTlfcColly went to Martinsville, Ind., Thursday, where he will take treatment for ten days. Mrs. Michael Kanne, who has been quite sick for the past several weeks, is reported to be improving.

FOOTBALL SATUR.,_OCT. 20 RIVERSIDE PARK SHERIDAN H. S. vs R. H. A Game Called at 3:00 Admission 25c TODAY AT THE STAR

George Beban in a strong caricature picture A ROADSIDE IMPRESARIO 1 - y ~ SATURDAY—Gerda Holme*, Ashley and Edward Langford m a WorldBrady Act, THE IRON RING. MONDAY —House Peters in tse HEIR OF THE AGES. Also Burton Holmes’ Travels. TUESDAY —Mme. Petrova in THE BLACK BUTTERFLY, e o®*W Metro Picture. WEDNESDAY—Sossue Hayalm** in THE BOTTLE IMP. Ako the 13th episode of THE FATAL RING, with Pearl White in a succession of thrill*.

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