Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1917 — Page 1

No. 255

LETTER FROM CAMP SHELBY

TELLING OF DISMEMBERING OF CO. M, AND ASSIGNMENTS OF SEVERAL. Camp Shelby, Miss., Nov. 8, 1917. The Republican, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Friends: It has occurred to me several titnes to write but it is difficult to find anything to write about since the dismemberment of old Company M. Notwithstanding the fact that I have not been with the regiment to whichlCo. M belonged, I kept posted regarding it and was very much disappointed when it was broken up and scattered about to' the four winds. What happened, however, had to happen to some organizations and it came to the Rensselaer company for the sole reason that it of the third battalion instead of part of the first or second. It had the making of a great company. The spirit was right, the men were a fine, intelligent, loyal and willing set and they were determined to give the organization a name to be proud of. It was the wrecking of this purpose that went especially hard with them. But they are now working as individuals to the aid of other organizations and are mostly in the 137th field artillery. It is probable that Lieutenant Edward L. Watson, well known for his efficiency as drill master in infantry, will be transferred to my own regiment, and he is making plans to that end. _

I meet occasional surprises here when some old acquaintance drops in to inform* me that he is a part of Uncle Sam’s big military plans. Just after coming here I met Dr. Ray Clayton, formerly of Monon and Fowler, and well known in Rensselaer. A few days ago I met Dr. Ivan Brenner, of Winchester, son of Jinks and formerly of Rensselaer. His old classmates in high school will remember him and also his wife, formerly Miss Marlhtt, a teacher in high school. He is a "first lieutenant, as also is Dr. Clayton. Both have their wives with them and are living in Hattiesburg. x , When the recent assignment of selectmen from Camp Taylor arrived here my regiment got 1,729 of them and they were placed in the various companies of the organization. In order to make the distribution equal we shuffled up the names and then called them off for the purpose of assignment. The drawing took place on our parade ground and I watched closely for familiar names and faces, but there was only one, that of E. E. Shoemaker, formerly a mechanic in the Main Garage. He had been troubled with his feet and ankles and was unable to drill, so was placed in the headquarters company and will probably be used to drive a motorcycle with a side car. ~ This evening. Ernie Moore ana Emil Hanley called upon me. Ernie is a sergeant and in charge of the dispensary of the 150th field hospital of

DISTRICT MEETING OF THE K. of P.’s AT GOODLAND ON MONDAY, NOV. 19 8 The district Meeting of the 4th District, Grand Domain of Indiana will be held at GOODLAND. MON.. NOV. 19 I Every Knight and ■ Sojourning Brother should attend this meeting, Both Afternoon and Evening. Several Grand Lodge Officers will be present, including Brother Charles L. Pulliam, G. V. C. Many good talks will be made and many questions Brother Charles L. Pulliam will come up. Remember the date and come early. Afternoon session at 2p. m. Evening session 7 p. m. L. B. ELMORE, D. G. C., 4th District Jasper, Newton and Benton Counties BE THERE •

The Evening Republican.

Lieutenant DeVere Yeoman Visits His Family Here.

Lieutenant DeVere Yeoman, of Camp Zachary Taylor, came up from Louisville, Ky., Saturday and returned to that city Sunday. The lieutenant is looking fine and says he is enjoying his work very much. He reports the Jasper county men to be in the best of condition.

Anyone wishing to nee me will find me in the Trust A Savings Bank on Saturday afternoons.—H. O. Hanis, 1>4., __ —— Bicycle tires, the largest line in the prices. Also bicycle repairs, and recity. All new stock at the old low pairing.—Main ‘ Garage.

the 113th sanitary train. He has Emil as an assistant and they are not only very nicely located but are in line of non-commissioned promotion. Both are considering entering the next training camp, which stars Jan. sth, and which is for soldiers particularly. One will be held in this division. John Luers is also in the some field hospital with Ernie and Emil but I have not seen him since I came here. I understand, however, that he is well and getting along nicely. Archie Lee and “Red” Bowsher called on me this evening and I frequently see Sergeants Jimmie Eldridge and Laban Wiicox. They are well but find it hard to adjust themselves to field artillery harness. Earle Reynolds and wife and daqghter Helen are giving their skating act in Hattiesburg this week and are to be my guests tomorrow at an army dinner and he has reserved seats for myself and members of my official family for the Friday night performance. Earle’s act went big at the Orpheum in New Orleans two weeks ago. General E. M. Lewis, commanding the Indiana brigade and during the absence of General Sage, the commander of the entire division, left us today greatly to our regret and has been relieved of the command for ! other duties, a discussion of which i would not be allowable. He had en--1 deared himself to all by his constant ! demands for training and good soldiering and it was a great misfortune to lose him. Today we had arrive in the regiment a number of French and' English officers to give instruction in certain matters of training and we are to have them with us for quite a while. The Frenchmen speak our language quite fluently and we will receive much benefit from their instruction. My letter has been quite gossipy, but I know that friends of all whom I have mentioned will al! be pleased to hear_from them to know that they are well. I also want the parents of the boys now in France to know how much pleasure we had from their letters. Those by Alfred. Thompson were certainly splendid descriptions. I am glad that Bummer Davisson mentioned the wool lined sleeping bag for I will get one as I am not given to sleeping very warm. It is hoped that some of the Rensselaer people get down here before our departure and they will find southern hospitality, so far a# the soldiers are concerned, all that it is traditionally supposed to be. Sincerely, , Lt.-Col. GEORGE H. HEALEY.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1917

SNOOZES ON DYNAMITE BED

OFFICIALS DECLARE AMERICA MUST AWAKEN TO GERMAN SPY SYSTEM. The German spy system in the United States is spreading. Its agents are at work in every city and town in the United States. The rural districts have not been neglected and the shadow of the imperial German throne is over every section. As never before, officials of the department of justice and military establishment are alive to the gravity of the situation. America, they declare, complacently reposes upon dynamite. New and rigid measures now are in progress of development, designed to check the further spread of the German spy system and stamp it out. Officials admit that the country is not fully aroused to the danger lurking everywhere. From official government sources it has been learned that the restrictions governing the activities of alien enemies in the country are to be tightened with a jerk. Enemy aliens are not heeding the admonition of Attorney General Gregory, announced when the United States entered war, to “obey the law and keep your mouth shut.” A new definition-of pro-German is to be written, and that new definition will guide the activities of the federal authorities. Agents of the government realize what the average observant knows—that everywhere in the United States are persons who do not’ keep their mouths shut. Every day persons who profess unadulterated Americanism declare that the government must not be too hard on pro-Germans and pacifists. Every day the praises of Germany are sung in public places, in the streets, on the street cars, in railroad trains. Officials striving to achieve victory for the American people are constantly hampered by criticism. The government today is keenly aware of the variety of invidious pro-German propaganda operating in the United States. It is being conducted by persons chosen by Germany because of their semblance of unquestionable American patriotism Huge sums are being expended by the Germans here to work those evils, money which Germany cannot get out of the country and which ultimately will be seized by the alien property custodian under the trading with the enemy act. Much of this money months ago was removed from the banks and placed in the hands of pro-Germans, who are dispensing it in accordance with orders from Wilhelmstrasse.

We have in stock some very fine lump Indiana coal which is giving our customers splendid satisfaction. This coal burns nicely in the range. Supply limited, and if you want this, the very best coal we are able to get, order at once. —The Farmers Grain Co., Harry Hartley, Manager, Phone 7.

WHEATFIELD TO FIGHT SALOON

ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO ANNUL ACTION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. It is understood that action will be brought at once to stopJJre operation of the saloon whicnwas licensed by the commissioners of this county last week at the close of their November session, at Wheatfield. The legality of this license issued to James Anderson to operate a saloon in the town of Wheatfield will be attacked and an attempt will be made to indict Mr. Anderson for running a blind tiger. It is claimed that under the law the county commissioners are not allowed to review their act when once adjudicated. Anderson was denied a license in a previous session of the county commissioners on the ground that the remonstrance filed against his was sufficient. Among the names on this remonstrance was that of a number of women and since the finding by the commissioners against Anderson the supreme court has declared the suffrage law unconstitutional, and with these names taken off of the remonstrance there would not be a majority of the legal voters as required by law.

Alfred Thompson to Return Home From War Zone.

Delos Thompson received a cablegram from Paris Saturday, from his son, Alfred, stating that he would leave for America within the next few days. Mr. Thompson went to Paris following his discharge from the ambulance service,, when he failed in a physical examination after being taken over by the American government. While in Paris' hemade an attempt to get in another branch of the service, but failed, hence his decision to return to America.

Letter of Appreciation.

U. S. S. Powhatan, Nov. 6, 1917. Dear Madam: - I am writing you these few lines to thank you for woolen kit consisting of sweater, wristlets and skull cap and sure am very grateful to you and many others who do us boys these favors. Perhaps as you know, it is very cold on the water this time of thg year and these three articles are the very things we need. I consider myself lucky to be aboard this ship and receive these articles, as besides mak ing us comfortable, it encourages us also to see that outside people take such an interest in us. I will close this letter, again thanking you, and hope the boys on board this ship have the chance to prove they are worth it. Sincerely yours, 0. W. ALBERT, Care P. M. N. Y., and S. S. Powhatan.

Widow Ofter Only Son.

Mrs. Jennie Gish,'who owns a farm south and east ~6f Rensselaer, has given her consent and her son, who has had full charge of his widowed mother’s farm, has gone in training in a Kentucky aviation camp. It is a great sacrifice for this mother, but she felt that her son was no better than other mothers’ sons and he was anxious to go and she cosnented. Roy is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and is a most capable young man.

THE COMMUNITY AUTOMOBILE CO. of Rensselaer, Indiana, will be open Wednesday, Nov. - 14, 1917, under” the management, of Isaac Glazebrook, of Rensselaer, Ind., who will be pleased to serve you. The'life of this company depends upon your patronage. It will endeavor to serve.you for a small profit. Gasoline will be sold to you for ONE CENT A GALLON PROFIT, and we will sell it to you for what it now costs us, if we are successful in making satisfactory ar rangements. Help us to make a bigger and a better trading place of Rensselaer. Remember 'he place, one door west of The Harris Creamery.

, WEATHER. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; probably rain tonight; cooler tonight extreme south portion.

EYE RESPONSIBILITY We Realize the Responsibility Laid on Us. We realize that the wrong Glasses-might ruin your eyes, while the right Glasses will strengthen and improve. Realizing these things, could we afford to be careless and inaccurate? We—Pride Ourselves On Our Care and Accuracy. We are fully equipped to examine all Eyes and to correct their defects. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jessen the Jeweler. Phono IS.

SPEAKS FOR THE FARMER

B. W. SNOW RESENTS CRITICISM OF FARMERS’ WAR ATTITUDE. The following article from the Chicago Daily Tribune speaks for the farmer from an entirely different viewpoint. B. W. Snow, crop expert and erstwhile seventh ward aiderman, takes exception to much of the recent criticism leveled at the farm community. His acquaintance with rural life in all parts of the country, covering a long period of intimate association with farmers, gives him an insight into the agricultural situation that is not enjoyed by many eity men. “Now that the drive for the second Liberty loan is over and tension of men’s nerves is relieved by its magnificent - success,” says this farmer champion, “and the belated returns are all telling the story of liberal bond purchases outside of the cities, it is time to call, attention to some of the misstatements and positive wrongs which are being, piled UP. against the American farmer. “So grievous have been some of these that certain estimable and wellmeaning gentlemen are due to apol<* gize for strictures, unwarranted, which they have passed against a whole class in epigrammatic statement that ‘the farmer will neither pay taxes, buy bonds, nor fight’. The question of whether the farmers are paying their full share of taxes is one which well can be left to th’ internal revenue department, and which wiU not be settled either pro c. con by epigrammatic dialectics. “One thing is cer'. —a, ho "ever, and that is that there is widespread misinformation in the public, mmd concerning the p ofits which the farmers are making. City consumers under the pressi~re of spar’.ig prices, and entirely in haze as to cc.uses, are inched to trike blindly at the producer. A. 3 a matter-of- " there is no business in this country that pays a smaller percentage of profit up ithe capital inverted than is the case with the general farmer.

‘lt is true that the price of farm products are high, higher in the city markets than elsewhere, but it is equally true that along with the rise in prices has gone equal, if not greater rise, in the cost of producing crops. Hired farm labor has becortie almost entirely extinct, and wages have advanced to figures unheard of in the farm community, without producing any addition supply of labor or indeed maintaining the previous volume of labor. ’ ‘.‘Last spring metropolitan editors who do not know whether Holsteins are a. breed of cattle or of chicken, and lawyers, doctors and successful merchants joined in an anvil chorus demanding that farmers cultivate more land.

“When these self-appointed mentors went through the country last spring, preaching the gospel of more acres, they left the impression intentionally that if the farmers would only seed the crops there would be an army erf city labor available to harvest them. Farmers did seed over their heads, but the labor for cultivation and harvesting never appeared. Indeed, in place of influx of labor to keep the contract, the government called the young men from the farms as well as from the city street corners, and an enormous volume of the youth and muscle of the farm is in the training camps preparing to fight for our ideals in France. “As a result the farm work is woefully backward, crops are not yet gathered in full, potatoes are freezing and rotting in the ground through lack of ability to get them dug, and fall plowing which is the basis of crop results next year, is so backward that unless the season holds open until Christmas the amount of land prepared for next year’s crops will show a decrease instead of the increase demanded. , , , A good increase has been seeded to winter wheat, but unless there - is some change in the labor situation for the rural community before next June, acres of grain will go down and be lost by reason of inability to garner it-* “These men are now struggling to keep production at a normal figure in - spite of the drafts which have been made upon them, and are doing it without articulate complaint. It is because of this added strain upon the "older man who are left on the farms that wheat and oats and farm products generally are not being rushed to the market as rapidly as is desirable. They are not hoarding these crops because, as in the case of wheat, the value is fixed for a year, and in the case of the other crops, the present prices are most attractive. But they are delaying movement simply because they cannot be on the road hauling to the railway and in the field turning the furrowfor next, year’s crop at the same time,. and they are choosing -to do that which is most essential, making sure of next year’s crop while it yet may be done. “In our effort to gather our resources and conserve our strength for the terrible situation that hes ahead of America, we have made a moderate success in bringing about compulsory military service. But. If the men we place in the fields of France are not adequately supported by men placed in the fields of America to feed and clothe them, and to feed and clothe our own people and

Battery C Under Quarantine At Camp Shelby.

Battery C, 137th Field Artillery, has been placed under quarantine at Camp Shelby, following the discovery of an epidemic of measles and have been segregated from the remainder of camp. Quarantine came late last Tuesday afternoon, after a careful examination of every man. Immediately after the noon hour on Tuesday each man was examined by the medical officer of the camp. There were cases from this camp List week but nothing ~csme from that. The following day we were examined and no more cases had developed, but from Saturday until Tuesday there were several men taken sick. The decision of the officers following the examination was to put us off by ourselves, and with three officers and 187 enlisted men we moved to another part of the camp and quarantine guards were placed about our camp. No one is allowed to leave or enter the battery street at present. It was long after 7 o’clock before our camp was established and we had our evening meal. Three officers escaped the quarantine, they being out of camp Tuesday. Captain Gray and Lieuts. Nowels and Hersing were those who were not placed under quarantine. As soon as the new camp becomes organized we will resume our drill and school. Every precaution is being used to keep the disease from spreading to other parts of the camp. Each person will be examined and as fast as possible those who are found to have contracted the disease will be cared for. The examination will last at least 12 days after the last case has been found. “CASEY.”

Oil-Air Burners Are Meeting With Ready Sale. J. J. Casey, agent for the Oil-Air Burner, manufactured at Watseka, 111., states that the burners are meetinr with a ready Sale in Rensselaer and that he has already installed a number of the burners here and expects, during the coming week, to install a great Mr. Casey has his headquarters on South Van Rensselaer where he is making demonstrations to the public. He had expected to remain in our city for only ten. days but if his burners continue to meet with the ready sale which they have so far, he will be compelled to remain for a considerably longer period. Those who have purchased the burners find that they are everything that the agent claimed them to be. The burner- are easy to operate, are a fuel and labor saver and keep a nice, steady even heat. Excellent baking can be done with these .burners. . Three burners have been placed in the furnace of Dr. J. W. Horton, one at the Palace Case, one at the home of Leslie Clark and some in the big range at the Makeever hotel. Housewives should not fail to see a demonstration during the stay of the agent in our city. Adv.

our allies, • our whole effort will be a failure. ~ “What the farmer needs is help, and not abuse, and unless help in the shape of available labor is provided before next spring, our volume-of agricultural production next year will be smaller than this year, and we will lose our battle for human rights through our inability to see those things which lie directly outside our windows.” In answer to the recent accusation that the farmers are failing to do their duty in the buying of Liberty bonds there comes word from Kendall county, through Judge Clarence S. Williams of the probate court and head of the local exemption board, that the farmers of that district have oversubscribed their allotted share in the Liberty loan. The judge also pointed out that out of the 280 men who were examined for the draft, 127 were accepted. Out of the 127 only four appeals for exemption were filed with the board of appeals.

AT THE STAR TODAY Little Vivian Martin in THE FORBIDDEN PATH * Also a Burton Holmes Travel ReeL TUESDAY— Emily Whellen in a five reel presentation of VANITY. WEDNESDAY —Kathlyn Williams in a big character play THE COST OF HATRED? Also Pear! White in Na; 16 of THE FATAL RING. THURSDAY—Remember, MaryPwkford in REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, a six part drama. FRIDAY —Pickford; Roberts and Huff in WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY. Also the Ford Weekly. Admission to AH 10 cents. AT THE STAR THEATRE. .

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