Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1917 — Page 1

No. 269.

AFTER KAISER AND SATAN, TOO

FIFTY METHODIST MEN MAKE SECOND FUEL DRIVETRENCHES FILLED One of Germany’s allies, “Fuel Shortage” was completely routed by stalwart followers of John Wesley this sector, today when fifty of them at the break of day went forward with axes and saws and charged upon the empty fuel bins of the First Methodist church of this city. The large supply of wood on hands was increased by many farmer brethren with wagon load after wagon load. Judson Hunt clothed in his Sweet Orr uniform was the general and his commands were obeyed as faithfully by heavyweight Sylvester Gray as bamtam Charles Battleday. Wave after wave went forth. Fifty men with' shoulde.-s together fought side by side and early in the afternoon thirty cords of wood had been placed in the cellar of this live institution ready to be put in the furnace by Comrade Henry Wood, while the ever loyal Rev. Strecker would continue tc denounce the Kaiser and Satan, too, and not at all particular as to which he gave the heavier bombardment.

At one time during the day the assault on the enemj was suspended and Colmd Hunt marched iiixC warriors into ths dining room of ‘he church and here everyman seer icd the peer of every other. The good ladies who had prepared a most excellent dinner saw their supply of food melt away as if by magic. A careful grading of each man present at this exercise was marked 100 per cent, by the clerk of the brigade, the Rev. Strecker. There was not a slacker present. If the real facts were known to John Eger the food administrator he would have B. F. Fendig, the fuel administrator arrested for allowing such a deep inroad to be made into the available food supply of the community. This move, while not as strategic as that made by General Byng, was however, an excellent one and will accomplish some very desirable results, among which are the supplying of needed fuel from a source that does not in any way lessen the regular market stock, a clear example of the fact that real religion and pure patriotism are one and the same thing, and the splendid fellowship of such an occasion is worth a thousand lectures or sermons on the subject of brotherhood. Rev. Strecker is to be congratulated upon suggesting and his men upon the DOING of so worthy a task.

NOTItE TO THE PUBLIC As I am in business for myself, will repair all makes of cars, take care of all batteries and repair all electric systems, solder radiators, etc. If you are in trouble come in and I will straighten you out. Also handle the best storage battery in the country and other auto supplies. Garage opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store. Telephones—garage 294, residence 141-White.—M. J. KUBOSKE, Prop. FOR RENT —The Barber Shop room, in the Makeever House block, is for rent. Inquire at once of Jay W. Stockton, Rensselaer, Indiana?

The New Princess Th ’atre Opens Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, 2 P. M. Picture* of the Highest Standard. Program complete and balanced. THURSDAY (THANKSGIVING) Matinee 2 P. M. Night 6:45 P. M. Douglas Fairbanks in' IN AGAIN OUT AGAIN Mr. Harry Scott Popular baritone and entertainer. Also Harold Loyd, Comedy Wizard in “BLISS.” Adults 15c. We Pay The War Tax Children 10c. ■ FRIDAY, NOV. 30 Gdldwyn Presents their Ist Great Production—MAE MARSH in POLLY OF THE CIRCUS . ' A 8 Wondrous Acts. 10 and 15c. And worth twice the money. We know we will please you and our attraction will merit a part of your patronage. The ALLEN M. ROBERTSON THEATRE CO., C. B. VIANT, Managing Director— - I ■- I! J 11 1,1

The Evening Republican.

Soft Corn Situation Cannot Be Minimized

Jasper county farmers now begin fully to realize the gravity of the situation presented by the failure to mature of a large portion of the corn crop. Usually the prices of cribbing corn is well advanced, by the close of November, but the end of the month this year will see the task hardly begun. Never before in the history of the county was there as much" soft corn as there is now. The situation is one of the most perplexing Jasper county farmers have ever faced. They know that much of the corn is so soft that it will never be fit to crib. They can not afford to let it waste, for it has a great food value if it could be fed immediately, but many of them have no hogs, or not a sufficient number to consume it. The last week has seen dozens and scores of farmers driving thru the country trying to find young hogs that might be bought and fed out on this soft corn, Most of them have met with no success whatever on these trips. The farmers who have young hogs also have soft corn and are going to keep the hogs to consume the corn. This creates a hard situation for the farmer who has the corn but no hogs. It means that he is threatened with the loss of his soft corn.

The International Live Stock Exposition at Chacago will be a stupendous display of the products so the soil, augmented by the efforts of science. Primitive agriculture is not applicable to modern needs, much less to the requirements of warfare. The International —aims to get maximum results at minimum cost. The day of the scrub steer, the illbred hog and the nondescript sheep has passed, never to return. That kind of live stock never has been profitable and never will be Exhibitors at the International are in every instance men who have made live stock raising pay. A majority have amassed wealth in that sphere of industry. They are the men who feed the land, that it may feed them, and the soil never fails to respond when treated in that manner. The first week of December spent at the International will be a period of combined pleasure and business with inspiration for the year to come. Students at the International a decade ago are the successful live stock growers of today. They are reaping the reward of foresight, observation and judgement. Intelligent observation stimulates inquiry, which means experience. The other fellow’s experience is as valuable to you as your own, provided you can get access to it. And nowhere is this fund of experience on tap as at the International. It is the school in which successful live stock growers are trained. All that is valuable to the seeker after live stock knowledge will be available in the International arena at Chicago during the first week of December, in concentrated and concise form, that “he who runs may read.”

FOR SALE Blooming plants, primroses, cyclamens and cut flowers. Osborne Floral Co. Phone 439. Watch for the announcement of W. H. Ambler’s closing out sale of 100 polled Herefords at Winamac, December 11, 1917.

In Concentrated Form.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28, 1917

FORD TRACTOR IN THRESHING

PROVES SUCCESS AS POWER PLANT FOR DRIVING MACHINERY. ; r Vale! the portable threshing engine. The Ford tractor, hailed as the farmers’ substitute for draft-horses, now proves a probable successor to the portable and traction engine in furnishing power for farm machinery. During this week, under the inspection of experts from Port Huron factory from which the grain separators were purchased, employes of the Henry Ford estate? have been threshing the product of approximately 1,000 acres of wheat harvested, Ford tractors furnishing the motive power for the work. Attachment is simple. After setting the separator, the tractor is anchored by dropping the wheels into the ground, thrown out of gear, the belt attached to a pulley on the driving shaft and to the thresher, and the engine started. The result surprised the experts, who say the tractor supplies a steadier power, permitting of better results than any portable engine they know of, and 100 bushels of grain an hour is not a large task for it. The revolution in threshing may be appreciated by considering the fact that the tractor will operate with a minimum of attendance. Instead of an engineer and fireman to keep it Tn motion, it needs only-be started.

The necessity of waiting to get steam up is avoided. . Turn the starter crank and power develops on the instant. There is no lumbering fuel wagon, no clumsy water to follow the separator over roads and through fields; the tractor carries its own supply-of fuel oil—-enough for the day’s work —with it. There is no more need of “setting” the threshing machinery where the wind will not carry sparks from stack on barn—the danger of fire is practically nil with the tractor humming away. Others advantages will readily occur to the mind that make certain the revolution of this department of farming when the tractor shall have reached the commercial market. Production at the plant is gaining in volume and frequent shipments are being made from Dearborn. Besides, parts are being shipped direct from many accessory factories to Manchester, England, for assembling.

Praises Work of The Y. M. C. A.

Harvey Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Phillips of McCoysburg, is home for a short furlough from Boston, Mass., where he is with the United States Navy. He is now with the Receiving Ship Department but expects upon his return to be assigned to duty on a transport or destroyer. Harvey enlisted last July and so far much of his training is very much the same as that received in the army. It has made a wonderful change in him physically, and he has enjoyed the work very much. At present he receives $36.00 per month and is required by the government to send at least half of this amount home, or if this its not done the government retains it. A large number of the naval boys have bought government bonds. The government insurance of the naval boys as well as the army is a mighty fine thing. Five thousand dollars insurance on each mans life can be carried for $3.20 per month. TJiis policy pays a considerable am--dunt for those who are disabled.

The food is the very best to be had and the supply is always sufficient. Harvey told of two officers visiting his department a few Sundays ago. Each meal, preparations are made for forty men, but on Sundays many are not there. This' particular Sunday there were but twenty present including the two visiting officers. Instead of distributing the food for forty it was dished out for twenty. The feed that was set out to these officers sure made them open their eyes. The bill of fare was as follows: Consomme, Hot roast pork, brown gravy, sweet-potatoes, green peas, cabbage salad, bread, butter, coffee, ice cream and cake. One of the rules which is always enforced is that of cleanliness* The sanitation of their living departments are perfect.

The people of Boston are very hospitable and try to make it as pleasant as possible for the boys. The greatest agency making conditions as home like—-as possible is the Young Men’s Christian Association. Harvey said he did not have words to tell of their great service. The men in this work are everything to the boys. They have charge of-the entertainments, athletic doings, furnish the very best reading material and in every way imaginable comfort and-> help the boys. In other words they offer as a substitute a clean, wholesome environment in place of the hell holes of vice and iniquity often existing in many large cities. This environment will help in no small way to prepare the boys to become effective workers, and will enable them to re turn home, after the work of riding the world of oppression, manly men both physicially and morally.

NOTES FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH

ABSENT EDITOR SENDS SOME INTERESTING NOTES FROM MISSISSIPPI Gloster, Miss., Nov. 25.—Harve J. Robinson, former linotye operator of the Republican, arrived her last evening in company with G. H. Barney, of Gloster, who had been north on a business trip. Harve left for his future home near Liberty at noon today in “Bill’ Porter’s auto and from now on expects to be a full fledged cotton planter. He reported that' he saw ice on much of the way down here, but was surprised on reaching Gloster to find the weather so nice. Before leaving for his new home he visited Mr Barney’s dog kennels and inspected the blooded bull dogs that are raised there. Mr. Barney has promised him one of the dogs to take over to the plantation to look after “Bill’s” hound dog. o—o Last evening a car load of goods and a family of Swedes arrived from the north who expect to make their home on a farm which they have bought near here. o— —-o W. G. Caldwell, of Rensselaer, has written that he will move here in about three weeks and to have the residence ready for his occupancy and to find tenants for the numerous tehant houses. He also wants 0 arrangements made to secure mules -yd horses, cattle, cotton seed, corn, hay, etc. As corn is much higher here than in Jasper county it would be adviseable for him to ship some of the corn raised on his farm there with his car of household goods if he has not already disposed of it.

o—o Mr. Avery, who moved here from near Lafayette this week, met with an unpleasant surprise yesterday when his household goods arrived and he called for them. He had paid the freight amounting to $92 at Lafayette, but he was informed that he still owed $155 on the car. The agent, at Lafayette told him it would be all right to ship his Ford with his household goods if he crated it. But this is not permissible and he was charged the automobile rate on the entire car of goods,which is over double the emigrant rate. He jut the Ford into instant use in lauling the goods out to his new place and his first load had the kitchen range tied onto the running joad, and other freight loaded onto ;he car to balance the range. The oad attracted considerable attenton. O -O Before the saw mill town of Stephenson was founded near here the company quietly bought up all the land on the site of the mill except 80 acres, which was owned by an olcT colored woman. .’ll efforts to buy her home failed. She said she was sure Mr. Stephenson was a good man and she did not object to laving him for a neighbor. The town was built on the plan of of Gary and the company owns all the stores and every business and every house there. The other night the old colored lay’s house burned and the place is now for sale and the' land company will be the purchaser. The whites here generally get what they go after where the negro is concerned and there is more ways than one in accomplishing their desires.

r o—o The company referred to above has purchased 70,000 acres of virgin timber land near here, which it is estimated will take thirty years to cut. They have built railroads through the tract, on which they haul the logs to the mill at Stephenson, which is the most up-to-date mill in the country. They are only cutting the larger trees now. They Ague it will take thirty years to get through the timber and in that timer the timber they left in the first cutting will be of immense size and they can repeat the operation, and in another thirty years they will still have good timber, which will be much more valuable than now. o—-o Mississippi has known prosperity in the past when cotton crops were large and prices high. Usually, though, this flood of money was turned loose only in the Delta, and the poor upland fanner wondered why he hadn’t settled in that fertile section. This year, though, the state is prosperous in every nook and comer, and the tremendous volume of money that has poured into the pockets of the farmers has been just as great in upland sections as in the Delta, Cotton planters are not burdened with money this year, it is true, but diversified- farmers are knowing what it is to pay off all debts, put a large, comfortable sum in theftbafifcr and still have money left to buy a car, with a tank full of gasoline. Food crops—corn, first of all, sorghum, velvet and sow beans, peas, and live stock, are responsible for the unbounded prosperity of the present season. For the first time in the history of the state, com by the hundreds of car loads,has been shipped away. Sorghum and syrup by the thousands of gallons, at from 40 to 75 cents per gallon, has flowed towards the larger cities to be used in the manufacture of jnixed feeds or for human coh-

NO REPUBLICAN THURSDAY. As is the custom of this paper there will be no Evening Republican on Thanksgiving Day and our force will spend the day, possibly Turkeyless, but thankful that there is a short let-up of the daily grind.

Curtain To Fall On Football Activities Tomorrow

South Bend high school football team,"ranked as one of the best elevens in the (state will put in an appearance tomorrow to aid the locals in ringing down the football curtain for the year 1917. The upstate crew has an impressive record for the season, having held the Hammond high school team, champions of northern Indiana, to a draw earlier in the season. One of the greatest Thanksgiving football crowds in the history of Rensselaer is expected to view the final clash of the year. Coach Meyers has his men in trim for the conflict and is expecting a victory over the Benders. A victory is not promising acording to the dope, but the locals assert that they are going to shatter the dope and came under the wire a winner. But very few times in the history of the school has Rensselaer ever lost a Thanksgiving day game and for this reason the Red and Black is more determined than ever that Rensselaer football tradition shall not be shattered. The last time that a South Bend football team appeared in Rensselaer was December 2, 1901, when Pat O’Day and his mates invaded the city for a game to determine the championship of the middle west, The game ended in 0 to 0 draw, Pat was made to look like a sucker by Fred Parcells and Jay Saylers and the Benders were glad to scurry back to their own lair with a draw.

First Christian Church Bible school at 9:30. Communion and sermon at 10:45. Union service in the M. E. church at 7:00. Rev. D. C. Hill will be the preacher.

The Jasper County Minister’s Association will meet in the First Christian church Monday, December 3. Every minister in the county should attend the meeting. Revs. Lilley and Tharpe will have the papers of the day.

the weather Cloudy tonight, probably rain, extreme south portions, Thursday fair slightly warmer north and central.

LET US SAW YOUR WOOD i We have a first class rig and can saw your wood upon very short notice. Prices reasonable CAIN & GRANT Phone,so2B or 930 E. See Chas. Pefiey for trees, vines' and shrubs of all kinds Cuarantestock to grow or replace free '•hare’e For Sorins’ delivery Our butterine sales have increased from 30 to 180 lbs. a week, that speaks for the quality of it, only 30c a pound. We also handle the nut butterine. JOHN EGER

sumption, and has proved one of the most profitable crops ever grown in the state. The 100,000,000 bushel corn crop’s value alone was close to $100,000,000 in round figures, and to this must be added the legumes that were grown in nearly every acre of corn in the state. Added to this the state has shipped live stock in such quantities as surpassed even the most sanguine hopes of the experts who have been fostering the industry during the past five years. One county, Yazoo, will ship close to SIOO,OOO worth of hogs this year, and there are others that will very closely approach this record. Cattle and sheep have gone forward carload after carlooad durin the entire year, and the prices have been good enough to make the feeding of $1.25 corn and $3.50 velvet beans well worth while. Northern and middle western stock-1 men, who have moved into Mississippi by the hundreds during the past two years, reaped a harvest this year, and for the most part are perfectly satisfied with the south as a stock country. Indications are that the next year will see a continuance of this prosperity, with the state making still more rapid strides toward becoming one of the greatest in the union in the production of foods. The dairy industry, for example, meant about a million dollars to the state this year, with 21 creameries in operation. Mississippi made butter cleaned up nearly all the prizes at southern fairs, and dairymen brought -in Holsteins and Jerseys not only by the car ioad but by the trainload during this season. The full effect of these developments will not be felt before 1918. it is estimated that the return from the dairy business alone next year should reach $5,000,000.

COAL ORDERS FOR THE WEEK

REQUESTS FROM COUNTIES IN INDIANA TOTAL 556 CARS. County fuel administrators in Indiana today sent orders for 556 cars of coal to the office of Evans Woollen, state fuel administrator, and all communities have not yet been heard from as to their weekly fuel needs. Allen county led the list with a request for 117 cars. Other counties asking large shipment were Howard, thirty-nine cars; Johnson, twenty-two; Madison, twenty-eight; Grant, - twenty-eight, and Randolph, fifteen. The weekly needs as shown by the early orders are about fifty ears in excess of the orders placed with the state fuel administration ' last week. Fuel conservation in the industrial plants of Indianapolis will be discussed Tuesday evening at a conference at 8 o’clock in the office of the fuel administration in the Federal building. Mr. Woollen has invited the following men to attend the conference: F. M. Ayres, Frank Duffy, Hugh H. Harrison, C. C. Perry, William 1 A. Pickens, H. C. Atkins, W. J. • Griffith, F. N. Smith, J. E. Smith, E. W. Stout, Dr. Henry Jameson, Joseph E. Bell, Charles W. Jewett and E. I. Lewis. George E. Stewart, of Indianapolis, who volunteered his services to the fuel administration, has become chief clerk of the ofl’ce force ’ aporte county, the only county in the state in which no administrator has been appointed, has sent in ' recommendations for George O. Redpath. The coufity council of defense, the Rotary club, and the Chamber of Commerce for Laporte, and the Industrial Association for Michigan City have joined in the recommendation. Mr. Redpath lives in Michigan City. We are prepared to take ere of your wants for your Thanksgiving dinner, in fruits and vegetables. Fancy eating and oookim? apples, oranges, bananas, ranberries, elcery, cabbage, lettuce, dates, figs, citrim and new nuts of all kinds. Open until 10 a. m. Thanksgiving morning. JOHN EGER u

THE COMMUNITY AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY COMPANY of Rensselaer, Ind., will sell you a guaranteed tire for SI.OO profit, each. Any size. Also gasoline at 1 cent per gallon profit. All home print today. Read the inside pages.

Astigmatic Troubles of the Eyes frequently exist without the knowledge of the person directly concerned. As a matter of fact a very large per cent of people have astigmatism. This is a very harmful . defect and should be attended to by a competent specialist. We have special charts for detecting astigmatism and are very successful in detecting ana overcoming it. CONSULTATION FREE.. CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN 'be Jeweler Phone 1>

* T ,THE star TODAY Pauline Frederick in • SLEEPING FIRES Aho Pearl White in Ephod* 18 of THE FATAL RING. THURSDAY—AIma Hanlon and EdWard Ellh in THE LAW THAT FAILED. FRIDAY—See ~ Fannie Ward in THE CRYSTAL GAZER. Aho A 2 reel Arbuckle Comedy, A ROUGH HOUSE. / _ SATURDAY—AIice Brady in BETSY ROSS. Patriotic Ord*ra take notice. Remember BETSY-' ROSS. Aho THE FORD EDUCATIONAL PICTURES. MONDAY—Vivian Martin in a KISS FOR SUSIE. Aho BURTON HOLMES TRAVELS. TUESDAY—EtheI Barrymore in THE WHITE RAVEN. A special Production. REGULAR ADMISSION

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