Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — Page 1

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FENDIG COAL ADMINISTRATOR

COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE HOLDS IMPORTANT SESSION SATURDAY. , The following members of the county council of defense met in the office of the county clerk Saturday afternoon: Frank Welsh, chairman; Moses Leopold, George H. McLain, Ora T. Ross, J. Budman Fleming, J. M. Sauser, and Stewart Learning. B. F. Fendig was appointed coal administrator for Jasper county. Moses Leopold was appointed his assistant. B. Forsythe was appointed chairman of the food conservation committee. The duties of these men will require considerable time, but they will be able to render to the people of the county most necessary service. In the discharge of their duties they should have the hearty co-operation and support of all. The report of J. M. Sauser on military affairs was examined and approved by the board. Through some error, the impression has been given by seme that Mr. Sauser was receiving pay for his services, with the military company. This is an error. Mr. Sauser is not receiving a cent. Not a cent can be paid to anyone for services rendered. The only claims that can be allowed are those for actual expenses of the members of the county council in the discharge of their duties relating to their respective offices. On motion, the chairmen of all committees were made members of the county council of defense. A quorum for the Council was fixed at seven members. The council is to meet regularly on the first and third Mondays of each month at, 2:80 p. m. in the court house. The chairman of the committee of publicity was directed to publish and explain the purposes for which the money appropriated by the county council for the expenses of the county council of defense can be expended. And that the money so appropriated cannot be spent for salaries to anyone. On motion, SSO was appropriated to be used for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a home economics food demonstration. Chairman Welsh appointed Ora T. Ross, J. Budman Fleming and George H. McLain a committee to act with County Agent Learning in the preparation of the demonstration in cooperation with the Home Economics Club of this city. The following bills were on motion allowed: Jasper County Democrat, printing SI.OO. Moses Leopold, drill register, $6.46. THe board adjourned to meet on Monday, November 5, at 2:30 p. m. in the court house in Rensselaer. FRANK WELSH, Chairman.

WOOD CHOPPERS WANTED. Have an unlimited amount of timber that we want worked up into coni wood at McCoysburg, Rensselaer, Parr and Fair Oaks and want a large force of men at once for this work.—James Walter, Manager Lawler Ranches, Rensselaer, Ind., Phone 337.

Abundaneo ot Money. I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate i* 6 per eent and my limit b SIOO per acre.—P. D. Wells, Morocco, Ind. Anyone wishing to see me will And me in the Trust & Savings-Bank on Saturday afternoons.—H. O. Harris, phone 134.

For Sale One Pullman, 5 passenger, electric lights and starter. ■' zOne 5 passenger RegalUnderslung electric lights. Oakland, 5 passenger, in good order. Bargains if takenat once. * M. I. Mass & Son ■«r

The Evening Republican.

President Puts O. K. On Suffrage—Women Will Vote.

Washington, Oct. 25.—President Wilson today gave full endorsement to woman suffrage as an immediate issue in every state. Addressing a delegation of one hundred leaders;, of the New York State Suffrage party who called at the white house, the president in emphatic terms declared that woman suffrage is one of the freedom questions of democracy whose proper settlement is demanded by the issues of the war. He praised the spirit, capacity and vision of American women in the war. i . “I believe,” he said, “that just because we are quickened by the question of this war, we ought to be quickened to give this question of woman’s suffrage our immediate consideration.” “I perhaps may be touched a little too much by the traditions of our politics—traditions which lay such questions almost entirely upon the states, but I want to see communities declare themselves quickened at this time and show the consequences of the quick.”

From the Bloomington Bulletin we clip the following article and have had several requests to publish it: “Will you allow me a little space in your paper in support of the hired hand, as I see all so far is said by the employer, the hired hand having no voice (so-far) in setting the price of his labor. We have a great many good farm employers who take a reasonable view of all farm prices and are willing to make a reasonable division between what is produced and labor. As about two-thirds of the wealth is'dug out of the soil by hired help, they are certainly entitled to good pay and treatment for their services. Employers who are willing to pay fair wages always have plenty of contented help, the present stringency not excepted. Because of their fairness and liberality they get all the good hands want and everyone is satisfied. On the other land, we have the kicker and tightwad who opposes everything that doesn’t come his way. Now as to the price of corn husking, let me gay a word. When farmers were receiving 45 and 50 cents a bushel they willingly paid 3 to 3 % cents a bushel and board fer corn huskers. Now they will throw up their hands in holy horror if you ask them over five cents a bushel for husking. They forget that everything has raised to about treble what it was before the wan I for one contend that if the lired hand gets justice according to the rise in all prices he will get full nine or ten cents per bushel for husking and board. The farmer says the hand is making too much money. Well, Mr. Farmer, what are you making? Corn at $1.50 and $2.00 per bushel. “I am an old fawner. I know what the man who husks corn has to contend with. He gets up at four o’clock in the morning, cold or warm, wet or dry, faces all kinds of blizzards and yet is not entitled to a rise in wages in proportion to the rise (n other things. As long as three times three makes nine it seems an easy problem to solve. AN OLD FARMER.”

Cope Hanley and Max Kepner, members of the second officers’ training camp, spent Sunday with the home folks. Donald Beam and Donald Wright, members of the naval band at Chicago, were here to attend church services on the Sabbath. Richard Beck, who is a member of the Lily Base Hospital Corps at Indianapolis, was here for a short visit with his relatives. He left for Indianapolis Sunday evening. He expects to make the trip across the pond in a very short time.

I am in business for myself opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store and am ready to meet all cars and all kinds of work. Batteries looked after, generators and ..carters fixed, radiators soldered and vulcanizing. We do expert work for the same price.—M. J. Kuboske, Prop. $lO REWARD Ta anyone giving information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of any person found hunting on my lands without permission. GRANVILLE MOODY. See Chas. Pefley for trees, vines, and shrubs of all kinds. Guarantee stock to growzor replace free of charge. For spring delivery.

:: EYE CARE < > The eye is the most delicate ; ’ and the most sensitive of our ! > senses, yet the most neglected. 1 ► Many headaches and nervous \ ’ come directly from < > muscular troubles of the eye. ’ ’ Properly Fitted Glasses ; relieve muscular strains and 1 > the sooner applied, the better. ; We are on the alert for defec- ! tive eyes. I > We take every precaution. CLARE JESSEN ' > OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler.Phone 1A

Corn Huskers’ Wage.

Soldier Boys Here Sunday.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917.

ITALIANS LOSE 100,000 MEN

BY CAPTURE—ITALIAN DEFENSE CRUMBLES BEFORE TEUTON DRIVE. The Austro-German armies, under the command of Emperor Charles, who has as his chief assistant Field Marshall von Kackensen, are shaking the entire Italian line from the Julian Alps region to the Adriatic sea. Pressing back the Italians at several points on Italian soil, the combined enemy forces now have pushed forward on the Italian left wing and captured Cividale, lying to the northwest of Undine, and are nearing the plains beyond. In addition, the Austrian town of Gorizia, a point of great strategic value on the Isonzo river, has been retaken from the Italians. According to the latest communication, 100,000 have been made prisoners and in* excess Of 700 guns have fallen into Austro-German hands. The second and third Italian armies are declared to be in retreat. Rome admits the falling back of the second army, asserting that cowardice similar to that shown by the Russians in Galicia, was exhibited in the face of the foe, the Italians surrendering are retreating without giving battle, permitting the breaking of the left wing and thereby offering easy access to the town of Cividale. The news of the defeat of the Italians is the most depressing since the outbreak of the war. It is tragedy that involves the welfare of the world. The Hun hordes have routed Italian armies and are pouring onto the plains of northern Italy. Germany is making good her threat to punish Italy for her treachery, as the Kaiser termed it, and the entire Italian frontier from the Julian Alps to the Adriatic is threatened. What has become of the vaurited strength of the Italian army? It was said she could not employ all of ler troops on the Alps and yet the central powers find no difficulty in employing a vastly superior number of troops on the same field, under similar conditions. If perchance Italy is rendered as impotent as Russia, what is to be the fate of the Allied cause? The United States and Japan have vast resources of men and supplies but the matter of transportation appears almost insurmountable. The people of the United States have more to think about today than they have had at any time since our advent into the arena. It is an hour of fortitude and redoubled effort.

Nation Is Observing Food Conservation Week.

Conservation week, to be observed nationally, started Sunday and will be continued until Sunday, Nov. 4th. The primary purpose of Conservation Week is to enroll the housewives of the country in the campaign for food saving. But there will be special days during the week when the people will, by self denial, conserve the precious stocks of meat and flour. There will be two “meatless” days and a “wheatless” day. During the week every home in Jasper county will be reached by personal solicitation and every housewife will be asked to sign a pledge card in which she promises to carry out the advice and direction of the food administration.

Van Rensselaer Club to Hold Smoker Thursday Evening.

The entertainment committee of the Van Rensselaer Club has arranged for a smoker to be held at the club rooms on next Thursday evening. The club boasts a membership in the neighborhood of one hundred and it is hoped that the majority of these cab be present for the occasion. The annual banquet which has always been such a pleasant affair, will not be given this year for patriotic reasons. Several of the members are in the service of the United States and could not be present and the club also wishes to help, .in the* food consrevation movement.

More Rensselaer Boys Will Enlist In the Naval Band.

Thomas Padgitt and Harry Waymire will go to Chicago this evening with Don Beam and Don Wright, where they will enlist in the navy as members of the Grant Park naval band. Should they be accepted, their services will possibly begin at once. This band has been and will'continue to be of invaluable service. There are present at most of the patriotic meetings held in Chicago.

Shipping Fancy Hogs to Georgia.

J. N. Leatherman is shipping twenty-four of his pure bred Hampshire hogs to Macon, Georgia, today. These hogs will be exhibited at the Georgia state fair and then will be offered for sale at the big pure bred hog' sales to be held in Macon November 7th. Claude Williams, of Barkley township, will accompany the shipment to Macon for Mr. Leatherman..

Wallace Faris started for his Idaho home Saturday, Oct 27, 1917, after a very pleasant visit with relatives and friends ih Indiana.

$234,000 IS SUBSCRIBED

JASPER COUNTY EXCEEDS HER QUOTA FOR THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN. ’

At the beginning of the campaign to meet our quota of $190,000 for the Second Liberty Loan, there were none who were so optimistic as to predict that that amount of bonds could be sold in this county. At first the campaign started off very discouragingly, and not until a good organization was perfected was it possible to have an assurance that we could come any ways near our allotment. t James H. Chapman was appointed chairman of the county organization and he at once named a number of helpers in each corporation in the caunty and all went to work in earnest and Saturday night when the reports were made, Jasper county had $44,000 more in pledges than her minimum quota. The bankers of the county took hold of the matters and many of them gave little attention to the regular duties but spent their time selling bonds. The result is that the State Bank of Rensselaer, the First National Bank of Rensselaer, the Trust and Savings Bank of Rensselaer, the State Bank of Remington, and the Bank of Wheatfield at Wheatfield all over-subscribed their quota. The officers of these institutions deserve the very highest commendation for the heroic efforts they made and for the splendid success that crowned their efforts. The banks received much valuable assistance from other men in the county. Ray D. Thompson of the sales committee, did his work splendidly, as did George A. Williams of the publicity committee. However strenuous and efficient the efforts of they men jnight have been, success could only have come from the co-operation of the citizens of the county. Farmers, businessmen, professional artisans and school children all responded with a spirit that make one proud of the fact that they are a Jasperite. So enthusiastic have some of the workers become that they feel that $1,000,000 can be raised in this county. Our people will be called upon for further loans and they are sure to meet the demands, however heavy they may be. Our next great work is that of the conservation of food and fuel. Recent events in Europe have added another year to the possible duration of the war. Food supply may finally be the deciding factor in this great conflict. Let us see that not one bit of food is wasted and that we conserve oiir fuel supply. There is all over Jasper county a great amount of wood that can be used and an especial effort should be made at this time to have it prepared and put on the market. We are not asked to give but to earn and save. The loafer must be put to work. The extravagant must become economical and all must work under the suggestions of those who are planning the most effective means to win the war. The last Liberty loan drive has awakened a wave of enthusiastic patriotism that will make it possible for the good people of the county to know that Jasper county is standing back of the soldier in khaki.

Rensselaer Is Facing A Penny Famine.

Penny, penny, whose got the penny? Just when we are assured that Rensselaer is moderately safe from a coal famine and that a sugar ration is not yet our portion, we are smitten by a penny shortage. Since the price of cigarettes has gone up one or two cents on the package the merchants have needed a larger supply of one cent pieces than usual. Of course cigarettes have gone up all over the country, but those most interested here suspect that the conservation fever has gone to somebody’s head. They have a hunch that there is some one in our midst who thinks they have the ' soaring propensities of potatoes or leather and is consequently hoarding them waiting the rise. The authorities issue a warning to any potential Silas Marner, reminding him that war prices won’t last and that he had just as well shake loose' and spend the coppers for they won’t grow into dollars hoarded in the family napkin. Even in the days of the most frenzied finance the penny has not been the object of such concern as now. But after the manner of Marie Antoinette, when she suggested that the breadless revolutionists eat cake, the Opulent Optimist chortled today, “Thank God, we’ve still got dollars.”

Monday Hospital Notes.

Ralph O’Riley. Jr., the new baker, arrived in this city by the stork route Sunday. He is such a fine fellow that it was decided at once to name him for his father. Mrs. Joseph Francis had her tonsils removed today. Other patients at the hospital are reported to be doing nicely.

You can increase your business by advertising. It will diminish if you do not advarttaax *

CRITICIZES THE GERMAN AIRMEN

FRENCH PRESS COMMENTS ON TERRIBLE DEEDS OF THE GERMAN AIRMEN.

Through the courtesy of Delos Thompson, The Republican is permitted to print an article taken* from a French newspaper, which was sent to him by his son, Alfred, who is in the American Field Ambulance service in France. The press of that country is very bitter in its criticism of the German airmen and cites instances of atrocities committed by the German aviators which would be a disgrace to even an uncivilized nation. The raid of August 20, mentioned in the article below, is the one which Alfred Thompson passed through. The article was in French and was translated by Mrs. Ora T. Ross, as follows: THE ASSASINS. Our Hospital* Knowingly Bombarded. How the German Aviator* Kill Women and Wounded. Our special envoy on the Meuse front described to us some days ago, the fury with which the German planes had attacked the hospital groups around Verdun. Successively, by cannon and by aeroplane bomb, they attacked our hospitals at Dugny, Monthairon, Vadelaincourt and Belrupt, killing forty-three persons, nurses and patients, and wounding fifty-five others. . It was July 14 that, for the first time, the German artillery rained its projectiles upon the hospital at Dugny. It recommenced July 22, and again August 3. From that time, almost every day, the same crime was renewed. On August 18 an enemy shell busting in the middle of the hospital, killed Mlle. Eugenia Pietrowska, who had made as nurse the whole campaign of Maroc and the Dardanelles, and had arrived some time before from Saloniki. The same projectile killed also two other nurses, Mmes. Vostoy and Fischot, widows of officers fallen on the field of honor. The splinters grievously wounded Mlle, de Baye, head nurse of the hospital at Dugny, Mlles. Hartz, Leclerc,Ledue and Paque. nurses in the same lospital. Two days later, August 20, at 11 o’clock at night, a German plane flew over the hospital at Vadelaincourt, and threw an incendiary bomb, which set fire to a dressing room in which Mlle. Vandamme, a nurse, was at. work. She was instantly killed. The fire spread to all the huts. The light of the flames made particularly easy te criminal work undertaken by the enemy aviator, who letting fall a new bomb, reached this time the corner of an operating room where three surgical crews cared for the wounded. Meanwhile the fire gained ground, miking still more visible the red cross of Geneva, painted on the roofs of the buildings. But that did not stop the killing of women. Menaced by the fire, the nurses, patients and wounded fled to the neighboring fields. Descending then to some dozen meters above the earth, the aviator pursued them, firing his machine gun, and thus, making sixtyeight victims, eighteen of whom were to succumb. , The same evening another plane threw upon the chateau of Petit Monthairon, transformed into a hospital, a bomb which traversed a room full of wounded, of whom one only was killed. The same evening the field hospital of Belrupt was struck by a shell which mortally wounded ten soldiers under treatment. The Germans can not argue that it was a mistake and that they believed they were attacking camps or formations of combattants. On one of the enemy machines brought down by us at Mort-Homme, was found a photograph which proves the premeditation of the crime. It is taken from above the military hospital at Vadelaincourt, upon which the croses of Geneva are very apparent in the picture. But our general in chief did not wish to leave without recompense, the devotion of the heroic women who, in spite of the incessant perils, consecrated themselves, there te our wounded. In the presence of the minister of war, and the minister of armament, he has bestowed upon the chief nurse of the hospital at Dugny, Mlle.’ de /Baye, wounded under the circumstances— related above, the cross of tne legion of honor. To Mlle. Hartz, Leclerc, Leduc, and Paque, he has given the cross of war with palm. The families of Mmes. Vostey and Fischot, as well as those of Mlles. Pietrowska and Vandamme, glorious victims of German barbarity, received likewise the cross of war, in memory of those who died heroically there.

Building Extension of Monon Depot Platform.

Ben Smith and his men commenced work on the brick extension on the west end of the platform at the Monon station. The extension will be twelve feet in width and a hundred and thirty feet in length. This is done to accommodate those people who ride in Pullman coaches, which are always at the rear of the train. On account of the long trains being run on the Monon, Pullman coaches are often stopped at a point at which there is no platform.

Rensselaer Business Man To Taka New York Bride.

Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Clinton Marlow announce coming marriage of Miss Margaret Faye Marlow, to Dr. Arthur Galveston Catt, of thia city. The wedding is to take place at the home of the bride's sister in Niagara Falls, N. Y., on Saturday, November 10th, 1917, at 8 o’clock in the evening. The ceremony Will be solemnized in the First Baptist church of that city.

Bowling Green Farmers’ Culb Meeting Tuesday.

The Bowling Green Farmers’ Club meeting will be held at the Bowling Green school house Tuesday evening, Oct. 30th. Mrs. Charles Horsewood reports the following program: Song—Club Members. Dialogues. Talk—-Mr. Learning. Song—Three Girls. Dialogue—“Waiting". Talk, "My Trip to the West”—Orville Lambert. Song. Talk, "Poultry Culture”—Mrs. Horsewood. Discussion—Mrs. Charles Schleman and others. Everyone invited to attend.

Last of Company M.

The old Co. M has gone. The remaining men from the depot brigade were thrown to the winds last Tuesday. They went in several directions. Some were transferred to Battery D and others went to Battery C. A few went to headquarters. Battery C is made up mostly of Monticello and Rensselaer men. There is some complaint on the part of the men, of course, but it apparently can’t-4>e helped. The slogan is “We are here to soldier, and why kick where you soldier?” Lieut. Nowels went to Battery C. I can’t say exactly where Capt. Garand and Lieut. Watson are to go. The thing that hurt the most was eaving the camp we had already built up. It means hard work and ots of it to get a good looking camp constructed and Co. M had all of that. Another thing, too, is to think that Co. M had been infantry for a number of years and had had border service, and then to be transferred into another service that-is entirely foreign. Everyone is satisfied and are not kicking. If there are words that tell us we are in the south they are “you all,” or “Come on, eleven.” They speak “you all” both singular and plural. “Carry” is another word that was confusing to the Indiana boys for a while. They use carry and we use take. For instance: When a person comes along in a car, they say “I will carry you to the station.” One soldier, I remember, was invited to be carried to the station and he said, “Pardon me, but won’t I get heavy before you get me there?”

Community Meeting at Parr School House November 1st.

Program. Song—America. Community Building—L. H. Hamilton. Song. What Practical Benefit Was Learned From the Last Stock Show Held in Rensselaer—O. S. Bell. Song. t- Recitation. ' Food Conservation by the Housewives—Miss Cecil Jordan. Song. Recitation—L. L. McCurtain. Closing Song.

WEATHER. Fain probably turning to snow with much colder tonight; Tuesday fair except snow flurries in extreme north portion; colder.

James Bullis and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rowen went to Monon today. AT THE STAR TODAY The Primary Classes of the Methodist Sunday School will give their benefit today. Matinee and night. Holders of tickets take notice that - ANN PENNINGTON Will Present THE LITTLE BOY SCOUT TUESDAY—JuIius Steger in THE STOLEN TRIUMPH. - - WEDNESDAY George Bohan in THE BOND BETWEEN. Also Pearl White in the 14th episode of the FATAL RING. THURSDAY Anna O’Niiesftn in THE MORAL CODE. FRIDAY—Mae Murray in FIRST SIGHT.

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