Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1917 — Page 1

No. 270.

RESIGNS AS STATE CHIEF

SAYS HE CAN’T ACCEPT ARMY COMMISSION, SO HE QUITS. Jesse Eschbach, Indiana conscription officer, has announced that he would resign shortly because of the federal government’s ruling that state conscription agents shall be given commissions as majors. Eschbach stated that, he could not accept a commission because that would place him directly under control of the federal government, giving war officials power to transfer him from one place to another. Eschbaach declared that he was willing to work in Indiana but that his affairs were not in condition to take a position for, civilian duty. The war departmen has called upon Governor Goodrich to Recommend some one to succeed Eschbach.

WOOD CHOPPERS WANTED.

Have an unlimited amount of timber that we want worked up into cord 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 387.

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 de- - tecting astigmatism and are ' very successful in detecting ! and overcoming it. < CONSULTATION FREE. . ' CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN ; *V\ith Jessen the Jeweler. < Phone IS.

EXECUTOR’S SALE Notice i* hereby given that the underaigned, executor of the last will of Mary G. Adams, deceased, will offer for sale at auction on SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1917 SALE WILL BEGIN AT 1 O’CLOCK P.M. at the late residence of the testatrix in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the following personal property, to-wit: One lot of rugs, gasoline range, rocking chairs, dining room chairs, 1 dining room table, 1 folding bed, 1 base burner, 1 sideboard, 1 lot of silverware, dishes and queenswfcre, 3 beds and bedding, 1, graphophone, 1 lot of honey, canned fruit,. 1 lot of lard, linen and various other articles. Most of these articles are io good condition and quite desirable TERMS OF SALE —Sums of five dollars ($5.00) and under,, cash. Over $5.00 a credit of six months will be given by the purchaser giving a note with approved sureties; said notes to be without interest if paid when due and with 8 per cent interest if not paid at maturity. -J Robert McElhoes, Executor Col. V. D. Clyne, auctioneer

NEW PRINCESS THEATRE Pictures that will appeal to the most discriminating lovers of the silent drama. Matinee 2 p. m. Night 6:45. TODAY AND TONIGHT Goldwyn present their great classic of the big top MAE MARSH in TOLLY OF THE CIRCUS’ , 8 acts - .** ■ i SATURDAY, DEC. Ist Artcraft presents George M. Cohn in “BROADWAY JONES” 6 act. From his great stage success ' 10 and 15c. We Pay The War Tax We will offer you the best that’s produced. Your money back if not satisfied. Allen M. Robertson Theatre Co. C. B. Viant, Managing Director.

The Evening Republican.

NEW THEATRE OPENS DOORS

AUSPICIOUS OPENING OF SEASON’S ENTERTAINMENT AT NEW PLAYHOUSE The new Princess Theatre opened its dbors at 1:00 P. M. Thanksgiving day under the new ownership of Allen M. Robertson Theatre Company, with C. B. Viant as managing director. Record crowds stormed the doors for admission all afternoon and late at night. The programme was more than pleasing to the hundreds of patrons. The managers had pushed the work of remodeling the house, day and night in order that they might open on schedule time. They know by the opening reception that their efforts will be repaid by continued large patronage. Douglas Fairbanks was at his best in “In Again, Out Again,” and cheer after cheer greeted the “Smile King’s” splendid production. Harry Scott, popular Chicago club entertainer, kept the audiences roaring with his clever stories in different dialects. His songs were received with continuous applause. The picture “Bliss,” with Harold Loyd, kept the kids screaming with joy and made the old folks giggle all the way through. The big draw-back seemed to be the lack of room. The theatre seats 325 people and hundreds were turned away. It looks as if the attractions the progressive young exhibitors have scheduled will be as good as ever put over outside of a large city. ' . Charles B. Viant, managing director, comes to this city with the reputation of being a first class show man and he has every appearance of making good on that report.

FOR RENT—The Barber Shop room, in the Makeever House block, is for rent. Inquire at once of Jay W. Stockton, Rensselaer. Indiana.

Frederick Poole, Dec. 5. Lotus Company, Feb. 6. Harmony Quartet, Feb. 21.

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.

Comrade John Q. A. Alter Has Bad Fall John Q. A. Alter one of Rensselaer venerable and greatly respected veterans of the civil war fell last Sunday, and was so badly injured and suffering much pain. This news that hfe has been confined to his bed will be sad news to Comrade Alter many friends. ■ c" • De Laval Service Days The De Laval Cream Separator is not only the highest class separator on the market, but it is made by a 1 company which gives the very best possible service. If your machine is in to us on Jan. 2,3, 4, or 5, and we will have it put in A-NO.-1 condition by a competent expert. The firm that stands back of every article it seIIs.—KELLNER & CALLAHAN. V . NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Hereafter the fare on my transfer line, operating between the city and Remington, will be SI.OO each way. I have foud it necessary to advance the price owing to my having to pay a war tax on each fare. “BILLY FRYE.” --’-I i.i ft.;... i.a,■ LET US SAW YOUR WOOD We have a first class rig and can saw your wood upon very short notice. Prices reasonable. CAIN & GRANT/ Phone 5028 or 930 E.

LYCEUM DATES.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1917

NOTES FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH

ABSENT EDITOR SENDS SOME INTERESTING NOTES FROM MISSISSIPPI At the county fair held at Liberty last week, a Northern woman, Mrs. Ida Larned, took the first prize on canned fruits. Mrs. Larned, a widow, came here from Chicago two years ago, where she was running a restaurant, and bought a 336 acre plantation. Like other Northeners who have located here, she has made good. With her youngest son and two young daughters, she is conducting the farm and they have never regretted leaving the windy city on Lake Michigan. The daughters are now making an extended visit in Chicago and Milwaukee, having made enough on cotton of their own raising to defray the expenses of the trip. o—o0 —o Mrs. Dr. Whitfort, is another Illinois woman to take first premium on fancy work at the fair. Dr. and Mrs. Whitfort moved here from St. Elmo, 111., last march and bought a plantation of 1,100 acres. The main residence on the plantation is a large brick house, which was sadly neglected before their advent. As is the custom with Northerners the house has been modernized and they are making good. Dr. and Mrs. Whitfort were both unhealthy and they located here in hopes that they would receive some benefit from the change of climate. Their hopes were realized and they are now in perfect health and their happiness is complete. o—o

In my rounds the other day I ran across a plantation that will be given away to anyone who will spend a night in the house. It is located down near Woodville, La., The residence, which is large and imposing, was built some years ago, by wealthy residence of St. Louis, who used it as a summer home. The story goes that a murder was committed there some years ago. The house was closed for the summer and when the owners returned the next winter, they were scared away by uncanny noises and mysterious doings at night. They left for St. Louis and never returned. The next year they rented the property, but the new tenants only remained a day or two and then left. They claimed the house was haunted. Others tried to live in the house, with the same result. Finally the reputation of the house became known the country over and it remained vacant. Boys took delight in breaking out the windows as they passed in the day time, and the building at this time presents a delapidated appearance. Finally a standing offer was made to deed the place to anyone who would remain in the house over night. Several treid it but remained only a few minutes. The experience" of one was about the same as all the rest. He took a lamp along and he had no sooner retired than the light went out and he began £o hear unearthly noises. The room seemed to be filled with howling cats and they seemed to be crawling all over him, but when he struck at them his fists met only tne air. Then a voice whispered, “there are two of us here,” and he could discern a phosphorescent form moving aronud the room. He grabbed for the visitor but only empty air met his embrace. With a shriek he ran from the building, and as far as is known he is running yet. After several venturesome visitors had had varying experience of this kind, no one could be found to try to win the prize of Uhe plantation, and the offer is still open. o—° 0 —° I notice by the Republican that the elevators at home are only paying around 75 cents per bushel for corn. Here it is bringing $1.25 and it is hard to buy at that price. Turkeys are bringing 30 cents per pound, and they are hard to obtain at that price. The farmers are independent, and will not sell their product unless the notion strikes them. o—o Today I got the deed for an 80 acre farm for myself and Editor-. Hamilton. If any one up home wants to rent a farm in the South, will let me know at once, I will be glad to hold this for him. He will only be expected to pay one-fourth rental, against half up home. (>■■■■ o Max Kepner and his father-in-law, W. E. Leek, have written that will be here next week to look at land. Mr. Kepner has already picked out a place and expects to move here soon, and Mr. Leek also expects to ; spend the winter here if he likes it . Others from Jasper county are also expected here next week. O O • The weather is still delightful here. A little fire is needed at night and early in the morning, but when the sun comes up fire' is no longer needed and the days are spring like.

Sons of Veterans The Sons of Veterans and the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary will meet Friday evening. Important business and eats. AU members are requested to be present.

LESLIE CLARK.

Letter From Camp Shelby Camp Shelby, Miss.

Nov. 13, 1917. Friend Dock:— I thought I would drop you a line after so long a time. This is a very large camp,it covers several hundred acres, and is located in what was once a large pine forest. But a cyclone went through here a few years ago and almost completly demolished this timber. The have been hundreds of men working here for months, clearing away the down timber and blasting the stumps. But this is getting to be a very pretty place now. Their principal crops here is cotton, they also raise rice, sugar cane and a little corn, but not much corn. You can see some very interesting things here, when you get a little ways from camp, such as yokes of oxen and the old fashion two wheel ox cart. They have lots of wild turkey, and a few wild goats here yet, and I understood they have a number of alligators in the small rivers, and marches here. When we first landed here our company was partly bursted up, forty three of our men going to the Field Artillery, and the rest of us were transfered to a training Battalion. < We were suposed to train drafted men for the 151st Infantry. The 151st Infantry is under Colonel Healey. • But about the time the drafted men came, we were again transferred this time, we were scattered all over the camp, a few in a place. We lost all of our officers in this shuffle. They being assigned to different companies and regiments.’ I had the blues pretty bad when o I firrt landed, but I am getting along fine now.

I am what they call a caisson corpral and if I hold my rank, which I think I can I will get to onanage one of the guns. Then all I will have to do is to sit on a seat and set the sites and shoot Dutchman, won’t that be nive? These are three inch guns, and haVe a recoil of in other words a 44 ton ciek, and I have to sit on a seat and shoot the thing, poor me! Our battery has been quarantined and we have been moved off in the back woods to our selves. They will not let us leave the battery street, and will not let anyone come in. I have not sown any signs of the measles. That is what we have been quarantined for. I have had them twice and do not think I will have them again. Our captain got an order the other day to figure on rations per day for men, and horses. That we were going to make a qjove on or about the 15th of December, to parts unknown. This may mean across the pond, and it may not. But I hope it does. I enlisted to see the country, and if I do not get to see it now I will miss a good chance. There is a rumor that we will be sent to the Philippine Islands to relieve the regulars there. But I do not know whether there is any thing to this or not, but there might be. It would be a nice trip but I would like to go to France. Well Dock I do not think of any thing more this time so I will ring off hoping to hear from you soon. I will close for this time. I remain as ever a friend. W. H. GRAYSON, Battery C, 137th, F. A. Camp Shelby, Miss.

Marriage Of Cope Hanley Will Occur Saturday Afternoon

The marriage of Cope J. Hanley, son of Judge and Mrs. C. W. Hanley, of this city and MisS Constance Libbey, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. M. F. Libbey, of Boulder, C/10., will occur at the St. John s Episcopal church at Boulder, at three o’clock Saturday afternoon. Following their marriage the young couple will return to this city for a short visit with the groom’s parents after which they will leave for Camp Travis, Texas, where Mr. Hanley will take up his duties as a lieutenant in the army. Miss Libbey is a graduate of Boulder high school and Colorado University and is a charming young lady and well known to Rensselaer people, as she has made several visits here. Mr. Hanley is a graduate of Rensselaer-high school and Colorado University, where he studied law. He also studied law at the Illinois University, Vanderbilt and Indiana University and was recently admitted to the bar. Following his career in the army, Mr. and Mrs. Hanley will probably locate in Tennessee, where Mr. Hanley will take up the practice of law.

LOWELL AVIATOR, GERMAN CAPTIVE, ESCAPES .v Word' has been received at Lowell, Ind., from Alva O’Brien, who is an aviator in the Canadian army, that he has escaped from the Germans and is now' in England. O’Brien was first reported dead after a flight last August, but later his mother received a card from mm saying that he was a captive in the German army. Nothing had been heard from him since that time un*il the word that he had escaped ’ the Germans and was in London. It was certainlv glad news to his mother that he was again free. ■ _—— ■ NOTICE I have returned from a trip to Florida and will be in my office each day from this date. >*” , " DBL A. G. CATT, Optometrist, Rensselaer, Ini '"' - _

PEACE DEMANDS STARTLE WORLD

MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE STARTLES BRITAIN UNEXPECTED OUTBURST. London, No< 30.—The strongest impetus to a renewal of the heated discussions of the rival schools on the war policy of the allies was provoked today from a most unexpected quarter by the publication of a long letter from the Marquis of Lansdowne, strongly pleading for a revision of the allies’ war aims and an attempt to secure peace before “The prolongation of the war leads to the ruin of the civilized world.” The Marquis’ of Lansdown is a typical representative of the old Tory party He was a member of Asquith’s coalition administration and .was secretary for foreign affairs in Lord Salisbury’s and Mr. Balfour’s ministries. He was viceroy of India and gbvernor general of Canada. He was the last public man to be suspected of pacifist tendencies. His le ter gives formal adhesion to President Wilson’s policy of a league of nations to grasp them?” tinder the caption “Lansdowne's Strange Letter” and the sub-head “The Policy of talking t> the Tiger” the bvcnin? papers strongly demure again t i.u>t-downe’s suggestions on th-? ground that Germany’s w. rd can not be trusted in any matter and that an attempt to argue v ; th her would be ft sheet waste of tie. ; On the other . »• -I the . jers hai? the letter as one of In* nnst remarkabie documents that the var has nrodurud. the Star ing the letter as the most formidable attack yet made on the Lloyd George “knockout blow policy.” The matter has created quite a sensation in the lobbies of parliament and, it is understood, will be the subject of discussion in the house at an early date, probably Monday.

THE WEATHER Cloudy tonight, colder north and central portions, Saturday fair and colder.

If you will tell ua we will tell your friends. Send in your news items. Our phone number is 18 or you can all No 68 from 6 n. m. to t

A Safe Place -• ' • , r ' o To deposit your Liberty Bonds or any other valuable papers is in the Safety Deposit boxes at the First National □ar k The public is invited to avail tlieinselvc> of th? inn veniences of the conference rooms. Also The Bank tenders the use of its large and commodi ous, Directors’ and Stockholders’ room, to the business men of the city and surrounding country.

CANADIAN ADS BIG SUCCESS

GOVERNMENT IS A FIRM BELIEVER IN PAID NEWSPAPER SPACE. William C. Rook of the Canadian Home Journal, spetking last week before the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World in Indianapolis, said the Canadian government is a firm beljever in paid advertising. He said the government had engaged in 29 distinct campaigns and that every one had been successful. The government, he said, had developed into the largest advertiser in the Dominion. He did not criticise the United States government for its failure ta pay for advertising, but contented himself with calling attention to what Canada has accomplished and what she is still doing in the present Victory Loan campaign. Perhaps the most significant remark made by Mr. Rook in connection with government' advertising was found in his peep into the future, when he said: “What advertising has sold during the war it will sell double when the war has ended.”

Going After A Slice Of $400,00 Estate

Charles H. Mitchell, eldest son of Ingram Michtell, who died at Talbot in Benton county, on September 28 last, has brought suit in the Benton circuit court to contest the will of his father, which was probated at Fowler on the fifteenth day of October last. The complaint alleges that the estate is worth over $400,000, consisting of more than 1,200 acres of land in Benton county, 960 acres of land in Kansas, 640 acres of land in North Dakota, and a large amount of personal property, consisting of stock in different corporations, money, grain, life insurance, live stock, etc. The complaint says in his complaint that he is the son and only surviving child of Ingram Mitchell by a former wife who died many years ago; that at the time of her death Ingram Mitchell already owned a large portion of the land that he owned when he died; that after the first wife died he married the present Mrs. Mitchell, who has five children. By the will all the property goes to the widow and her five children, except about $6,000 in property which is willed to the complainant.. Charles H. Mitchell alleges in his complaint that he is practically disinherited; that the will is invalid because at the time of making it his father was of unsound mind and incapable of making a will, and that the will is the result of undue influence and is really not the will of the father.

Places For Democrats Only, Say Party Chiefs

Washington, Nov. 29.—Lemuel T. Osborne, of Mt. Vernon, who has been appointed explosive inspector for Indiana, was recommended for the place by National Committeeman Hoffman and Charles A. Greathouse, chairman of the Indiana Democratic committee. The Democratic national organization is insisting on naming all the state explosive inspectors. The council of national defense, on the other hand, has asked each state council of defense to co-oper-ate with the national council in enforcing the war time explosive law. The national council is not all all pleased with the injection of politics into the appointment of state inspectors.

Our bulk coffees are of very fine quality, 15, 20, 25, 28 and 30c per pound. Home Grocery. See Chas. Pefiey for trees, vines, and shrubs of all kinds. Guarantee nock to grow or replace free of charge For spring deliverv

AT THE STAR TODAY LITTLE FANNIE WARD in THE CRYSTAL GAZER. Aho FATTY ARBUCKLE COMEDY. SATURDAY—ALICE BRADY th BETSY ROSS. PATRIOTIC. Aho THE FORD EDUCATIONAL. .r MONDAY—Soo VIVIAN MARTIN in A KISS FOR SUSIE. Abo HOLMES TRAVELS ABROAD. 1 *'* TUESDAY—ETHEL BARRYMORE in THE WHITE RAVEN. WEDNESDAY—HOUSE PETERS and LOUISE HUFF in THE LONESOME CHAP. Abo PEARL WHITE in FULL ACTION in NO. It OF THE FATAL RING.

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