Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — Page 1

No. 251.

SMALL VOTE REGISTERED

REPUBLICANS ELECT ALL CITY OFFICERS IN UNINTERESTING CONTEST. —— 1 Owing to the lack of opposition to a number of the men who were candidates for re-election and the splendid character of the republicans who were candidates for places to be filled by new men, there was little activity in the contest here Tuesday and the entire republican ticket was elected. The vote by wards was as follows: Mayor. Ist 2nd 3rd total Spitler, R ....112 95 61 268 Clerk. Morlan, R ...109 96 59 264 Treasurer. Sands, R 106 96 56 258 Councilmen at Large. Kellner, R ... 91 80 42 213 Warner, R .... 82 .88 43 208 Scott, D ..... 58 37 43 138 Herath, D .... 48 36 43 127 Councilman First Ward.* Wood, R 95 95 Eger, D 46 46 Councilman Second Ward. Tobias, R .... 97 97 Councilman Third Ward. Waymire, R. . 50 50 Snedeker, D.. 87 37 For councilman at large, Conrad Kellner leads Rex Warner, his republican running mate, by five votes, and Warner is seventy-one votes ahead of Nathaniel Scott, who received the greatest number of democratic votes for councilman at large. Ray Wood has a majority of fortynine over Cleve Eger for councilman of the first ward. Fredrick Waymire has a lead over his democratic opponent of thirteen votes.

Marriage Licenses.

Nov. 6. Thomas Davis, born in England, Dec. 19,1852, occupation retired farmer, third marriage, other two dissolved by death, and -Anna Putt, born in Illinois, Aug. 9, 1872, residence Jasper county, occupation housekeeper, . second marriage, first dissolved by death. Nov. 7. Albert Parker Walter, born in Jasper county, June 12, 1895, present residence Jasper county, occupation farmer, father Thomas M. Walter, and full Christian and maiden name of mother, Dora A. Stiers, and Mario Logan, born in Gillam township, Jasper county, July 21, 1897, present residence Jasper county, occupation housekeeper, fathefr George F. Logan, full Christian and maiden name of mother, Mary I. Faris. First marriage for each.

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The Evening Republican.

Wants Names of All Who Have Enlisted Since Registration Day.

That preparations are being made at Washington for another soldier draft from the men registered under the conscription law, is apparent. Chairmen of the county conscription boards are in receipt of letters from the war department requesting the names of all men of conscription age who are registered in the county who have enlisted in any branch of the service or who have been commissioned from the officers’ training camps. The county will get credit for every man who has either volunteered or been commissioner since the first conscription day, which was June 10, and it is highly important that these named be secured. Any assistance from any source in furnishing the names of men who have enlisted from the county since the last draft will be appreciated by the board and assistance should be freely rendered, as the county will be entitled to a reduction when the next draft is made, for every man in the service.

County Educational Notes.

The Jasper county board of education met Monday in the office of the county superintendent and transacted the usual business of the regular meetings. AD township trustees were present except Elwood Davis, of Kankakee, and Grant Davisson, of Barkley. The board voted unanimously to dismiss the schools on Friday evening before Christmas and not convene the schools until Wed--nesday following New Years day. Teachers will be allowed compensation for Thanksgiving day but not for the Friday following. Those teachers who dismiss on Thursdayevening over until the following Monday after Thanksgiving will be required to make up for Friday only. The trustees discussed the road supervisor question briefly in connection with their regular business. Harvey Wood was appointed chairman of a committee to examine the road law to take effect after New Years and report at next meeting. The teachers are preparing for a large crowd at the north end institute to be held at Wheatfield next Saturday, Nov. 10. Prof. Moran, of Purdue, will address the meeting in the forenoon and after. He will come to Rensselaer on the early morning train and Mr. Sterrett will take him on to Wheatfield in his machine. Mr. Sterrett was at DeMotte looking after school affairs during the week end of last week. There is an enrollment of about 160 pupils in that school. This is the third largest enrollment in the county. Rensselaer and Remington have larger enrollments than DeMotte. There are seven teachers in the DeMotte schools.

Dr. W. L. Myer wishes his patients to know that he will be out of his office all of next week, on account of the meeting of the State Board of I Dental Examiners. *

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1917.

BIGGER XMAS BOXES ABROAD

WEIGHT LIMIT ON PARCELS TO OUR FIGHTING MEN IN » FRANCE RAISED. Uncle Sam is that all his nephews fighting in France shall have as big Christmas boxes as relatives and friends here want to send them—up to 20 pounds, if mailed early enough. The French government recently gave notice that, because of its inadequate rail facilities, it could not transport any parcels post package weighing over seven pounds. Now the U. S. war department announces that it will handle all Christmas packages for the American expeditionary forces in France, on the lines there which have been built and are being operated by our nine railway regiments. Accordingly the postoffice department has issued a new order under which a Christmas package weighing up to twenty pounds may be sent to a soldier in France, but these regulations must be strictly observed: “I addressing give the name of the soldier, the name of the unit to which he is attached and send it in Care of the Commanding General, Port of Embarkation, Pier J., Hoboken, N. J. The package mu4t comply with the regular postal regulations, and, in addition, the articles sent must be packed in a wooden box not more than two cubic feet in extent. It must be well strapped and should have either a hinged or a screwed top. No perishable foodstuff? may be sent. The box should be marked to indicate it is a Christmas package and should reach Hoboken not later than Dee. 5. The rate of postage is 12 cents a pound.” I To be sure it will get to France in -time, mail your Christmas box before Nov. 15th.

Wets Jump to Fore In Ohio Prohibition Race.

Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 7.—Shortly before one o’clock the anti-prohibi-tion vote took a slight jump, and with 4,346 precincts out of 5,756, they had a majority against prohibition of 8,278, the vote being 384,042 for prohibition and 390,320 against.

Recent Births.

Thursday, Nov. 1. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Davisson, of Chicago. Sunday, Nov. 4. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Mell Haas. Monday, Nov. 5, a boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Tull Malone. Tuesday, Nov. 6. A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wiley, Kniman.

Commissioners November Term.

Charles Welsh, D. S. Makeever and H. W. Marble were present Monday and Tuesday and attended to business of the November term as follows: Bridges. 3047. Bridge in Union township. Contractor Rochester Bridge Co. allowed $2,087, full amount. Cause is dropped. 3048. Bridge in Union township. Contractor Rochester Bridge Co. allowed $2,087, full amount. Cause dropped. 3049. Bridge in Union township. Contractor Rochester Bridge Co. allowed $2,087, full amount. Cause dropped. All other bridge cases continued. Roads. 3012. J. Adams et al, stone road. Bond of Fred Popp, superintendent, approved. 2971. John J. Bdrntrager et al stone road. Contractor R. E. Harriman & Co. allowed $720. 2970. Carey L. Carr et al stone road. Contractor W. V. Porter allowed $712. * 3009. B. W. Ellsworth et al stone road. Contract awarded to A. S. Keen for SII,BOO. Bond examined and approved. B. W. Ellsworth appointed superintendent. P. R. Blue allowed SIOO attorney fees. 3003. B. F. Forsythe et al stone road. Contract awarded to A. H. McCoy for $13,885. Bond approved. B. F. Forsythe appointed superintendent. E. M. Laßue allowed sloo' attorney fee. 3013. William Folger et al stone road. Contractor H. E. Gifford allowed $560.

3014. W. H. Gratner et al stone road. Contractors Johnson & Salrin allowed $744. 2989. Joseph Halligan stone road. Road accepted. Contractors Johnson & Salrin allowed balance in full, $2,399. Moses Leopold allowed S2O attorney fee. 2992. Frank Hoover stone road. Contractor Harry E. Gifford allowed $624. 2991. H. W. Jackson stone road. Contractors Evans & Johnson granted extension of time until July 1, 1918. ' ' 2969. James Lane stone road. Contractor W. V. Porter allowed $304. 2987. Granville Moody stone road. Contractor H. E. Gifford allowed $1,056. 2874. George Nanninga stone road. Contractor A. S. Keen allowed $960. 3006. G. B. Parkison stone road. Contractors Johnson & Salrin allowed S2BO. 3010. John F. Payne stone road. Albert P. Walter appointed superintendent, vice John R. Parkison, resigned. Parkison allowed $4. 2923. J. F. Slight et al stone road. Contractor Geo. Stalbaum allowed $720. Contractor granted extension of time to July 1, 1918. 2990. Fred Tyler et al stone road. Contractor granted extension of time to July 1, 1918. 2988. D. H. Yeoman et al stone road. W. V. Porter, contractor, allowed $2,400. 2928. William L. Wood et al stone road. I. W. Moneyhun & Son, contractors, allowed $3,260. 3015. John R. Phillips et al stone road. Amended report approved. Road ordered established. Moses Leopold allowed SIOO attorney fee. All other road petitions continued.

Ditches. 3057. Curtis M. Dewey drain. Bond of Robert A. Mannan approved. 3058. David Q. Hart drain. Drain established. W. L. Wood appointed superintendent. John A. Dunlap allowed S4O attorney fee. 2693. King-Lawler drain. Supt. H. F. King reports charges of SB,269.79, credits $8,001.61, balance on hand $268.18. W. F. Osborne allowed $89.35 for work. H. F. King services first report $lO allowed. Balance, $143.58, ordered distributed as required by law. Cause continued. , 11167. Edward P. Lane drain. DeVere Yeoman, supt., ordered to file final report by December term. 2861. George M. Meyers drain. John B. Foresman, Jr., W. H. Wortley, Bert Griffin file appeal. Bond approved. 1993. James Newcome . drain. Supt. W. F. Osborne directed to file final report by December term. - 2916. Ernest Scipio et al drain. Charles V. May, treasurer, presents certified copy of sale of bonds to O’Gara, of Lafayette at par vaule, $3,083.38. Approved. 3064. Simon Thompson et al drain. Assessment of James R. McCann onaese 17-30-7, reduced from $132 to JltfO. Ditch established. E. D. Nesmtt appointed supt. E. M. Laßue allowes,sso attorney fee, to be withheld until completion of ditch. 3092 L Harry McGee et al drain. Harry R. Kurrie, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry. Co. and Hiram Day file separate demurrers to petition. Cause docketed. Petitions show proper notices have been given. Cause continued for objections. 3093. Arthur Kresler et al drain. Board finds notices sufficient. Cause docketed.

Miscellaneous. 3039. James C. Anderson, _ application for renewal of liquor license, Nov. 6. Comes now James C. Anderson and files a complaint to review judgment herein. Evidence heard. Board reverses judgment, vacates same. Grants renewal of license to April 2, 1918. Conditioned upon pyament of pro rata fee and furnishing bond as required by law. 3080. Charles B. Steward appointed delgate to'meeting of State Board of Charities and Corrections at Laporte makes report which is approved. 3091. Frank B. Alter appointed drainage commissioner vice C. J. Hobbs, resigned. .

FOOD FOR CONSERVATION

INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, GEORGE ADE CHAIRMAN. Indianapolis, Nov. 7.—Alien enemies who have been distributing proGerman propaganda in Indiana will be made the object of a well organized, intensive drive by th Indiana State Council of Defense, through the county councils of defnse. A determination to “make examples” of some of the more offensive of these traitors was expressed at the regular meeting of the State council and the council went on record as proposing to make an absolutely thorough investigation of incidents reRichmond. Cases at Anderson and in Boone county also will be invstigated. At Albion it was reported the pupils of the public school after securing the enrollment of their mothers in the Hoover food organization in* formed thir teacher that their mothers refused to be made the special targets of German vengeance which they would be if they displayed the window cards. As a result the enrollment in the city was seriously retarded. At Auburn, Mayor Me Clellan stated that farmrs are rushing their brood sows to market because of the insistent report that the federal goverment would fix a price of from $lO to sl2 per hundred weight for the hogs, which in view of the high price of feed would make feeding them unprofitable. At the county council of defense said that traitorous rumors were traveling ahead of the women canvassers and the work is handicapped lyRequests for state troops to guard stock yards, packing, plants, storage houses and other food repositories are coming into the state council of defense and Harry E. Barnard, Indiana food administrator and a special effort will be made to guard against such catastrophies as wiped out the Kansas City stockyards and caused a loss of $5,000,000 on the Baltimore piers. Dr. Barnard reported a delay in the naming of the county food administrators and the state council sent a fourth request to the countycouncils, this time by telegraph, urging them to act promptly in order that the new federal license control law might be enforced promptly upon its promulgation November 1. Evans Woolen a member of the state council and fuel director for Indiana reported a shortage of approximately 3,800,000 tons in the state’s domestic coal supply. The normal consumption he said is 6,000,000 tons and up to this time but 2,200,000 tons nave been distributed. Indiana’s out-state supply which normally is 40 per cent of the total, is complteely cut off, he said, and jobbers have been without coal for three months. He stated that the carful attention of the highest authorities.

At the request of the live stock section of the Committee on Food Production and Conservation of the State Council, the resolutions adopted at a conference of hog breears at Purdue university, urging the United States food administration to fix a ratio between the price of coin and of hogs, will be referred to the attention of Herbert Hoover, at Washington. An effort by State Food Administiator Barnard to effect an increased acreage of sugar beets in order to overcome the world shortage, met with the discouraging statement that Indiana farmers cannot afford to give land to the cultivation of beets in view of the 250 per cent increase in the price of corn and the 50 per cent advance in the price of sugar beets. The only Indiana sugar beet factory tdrns out 13,000,000 pounds of sugar annually and says it cannot exceed this figure. The state council referred to a special committee the suggestion of forming among high school girls a “working reserve” inculding all who will agree to do two hours of patriotic work per week. The suggestion came from Mrs. Southgate, of Michigan City, originator of the plan and organization .of the Michigan City high school girls.

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Tammany Entry Wins in Now York; Jewett at Indianapolis-Other Results

New York, Nov. 6.—Returns for mayor of the city of New York with seventy-two election districts musing are as follows: Jewett, republican, 51,950. Hylan, democrat, 288,435. Hillquit/ socialist, 134,89*0. Mitchell, fusion, 145,459*. New York, Nov. 6.—-John F. Hylan, a county judge of Kings county, was elected mayor of New York today by a plurality of more than 100 r 000. He carried with him the entire democratic city ticket, including Charles L. Craig for comptroller, Alfred E. Smith, now sheriff of New York county, for president of the board of aidermen, and Edward Swann for district attorney. ' The indications are that the democrats will have a majority in the board of estimate which controls the expenditure of the city funds. Indianapolis, Nov. 6.—The republican ticket, headed by Charles W. Jewett, candidate for mayor, was elected in Indianapolis today according to unofficial returns from all precincts. Jewett's vote was larger than that of any other candidate on his ticket. The unofficial returns in the mayoralty race were: Jewett, republican, 21,091; Shank, home rule, 17,154; Miller, democrat, 12,154. Qccupying second place the home rule party will be represented in the next council with three members.

Lafayette.—The entire democratic ticket was elected in Lafayette. Geo. R. Durgan led with a majority of 2,064, with every other democratic candidate coming under the wire with a safe majority. Edward J. Vaughan, present city clerk, led the republican ticket in a race for reelection, but with every one of his running mates was defeated by a heavy majority. Boston, Mass., Nov. 6.—Governor McCall and the rest of the. republican state ticket were re-elected by a, large plurality today. The three proposed constitutional amendments, including one forbidding the appropriation of state funds for private institutions, were adopted. Returns from 400 out of 965 election precincts out of Boston give for governor: Mansfield, D, 32,462; McCall, R, 71,900. iLieut.-Gov., R? 70,936; Hale, D and Pro., 28,575. Muncie—Mayor Rollin H. Bunch, democrat, was re-elected here today over Charles O. Grafton, republican, with an unofficial majority of 2,004. The entire democratic ticket was elected excepting that two republican councilmen out of eight were successful. Valparaiso—With a light vote cast, R. L. Sisson, citizen, was re-elected mayor over A. W. Lytle, republican. Delphi—Republicans elected the en tire city ticket by big majorities; Robinson, mayor; Arnold, clerk; Rinehart, treasurer; Hay, Wells, Unlm, Shaffer, German, Gros, councilmen. Crawfordsville —Kennedy, republican, defeated Canine, democrat, for

mayor by 485 votes. The entire republican ticket was elected. Attica—Jesse Martin, republican, was elected mayor by 224. Mom* Blount, democrat, was elected treasurer by 296. Clint Consman, repubican candidate for clerk, was elected by a majority of 132. The balance of the republican ticket was elected. South Bend—Unofficial figures at a late hour tonight indicated Frank Carson, republican, elected over Rudolph Ackerman, democrat, for mayor by 58 votes. Marion —Elkana Hulley, R, defeated Ora Wylie, socialist, and Wilber Williams, democrat, for mayor. The republicans elected five councilmen and the socialists two, the democrats failing to get a man over. Anderson —Official returns show the re-election of Mayor J. H. Mellett, democrat, by a plurality of 92. Republicans elected four of the five councilmen and the city clerk. Fort Wayne—Twenty-eight precincts out of 31 show that W. S. Cutshall, R, has been elected mayor by an overwhelming majority.

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