Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — Page 1

No. 22.

INTERESTING LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR NAVY BOYS

The following letter has been received from Harvey Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips, of McCoysburg, who is a member of the United States navy:— France, U. S. N. Jan. 7, 1918. Dear Mother and All: We arrived safely and were sure glad, to see land. I have taken some big trips, but this is the first time I have ever been out of sight of land for so long. I was sure some seasick the first few days out of New York, but it made me feel fine when I got Over it. We never sighted any submarines and were not sorry. We had a fine time on Xmas day, and I will send you the menu we had for dinner. It was sure some job carrying the things from the gallery. Suppose you also had a fine time, but I doubt if you had any livelier crowd than we “Jackies.” If you could have seen us you would not have though we were in any danger of being blown up. Think of sitting around Xmas or New Year’s Day without any shirt on ! You know we were in the gulf stream and it was sure fine and warm. I slep on the deck without any blanket. I would have written while at sea, but I was not sure that we would land and all my efforts would have been wasted.

I guess we have to help unload the ship. Well, this is Tuesday and I will try and finish. There is so much I could tell you, but can’t, that is what makes it so hard to write. I expect you watched to see if we were sunk. The report came out in papers that the U. S. S. Bridge was sunk, but we arrived all in piece. I can write as often as I wish, as we get free mail service while in foreign service. x No doubt you worried a lot, but there is no need to do that as we are always well protected. It rains, snows, hails and the sun shines all in 20 minutes here. - It is a fine little town and of a morning it sure looks fine to see the sun come peeping over the hills. If it were not for the water it' would look like Washington. Think of it! I met a fellow from Larimore, N. D., the other day. He knows several fellows who were on the ice crew last winter when I was in that town. Seems funny to meet him 7300 miles from where I met his pals. Try and find out the address of Fred Hamilton, Sam Duvall and Vern Davisson. They are over here near where we are going and no doubt I can find them. The hardest thing is not to be able

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The Evening Republican.

ELEGANT WEDDING DINNER SERVED

FORTY GUESTS ATTEND DINNER SERVED TO NEWLY WEDS. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Waymire were the hosts Sunday, February 2, to a large number of relatives and friends who gathered to celebrate the wedding of Delos Hammond Waymire and Miss Katie Summers. Delos Waymire, the bridegroom, is the son of Daniel Waymire. His mother was before her marriage Miss May Hammond, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Steward Hammond. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Summers, of Wheatfield. They were married at the Methodist parsonage in this city by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Strecker, Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. The elegant three course dinner was served at noon Sunday and among those present were the following: Mr. and Mrs. Delos Waymire, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waymire and family, Mr. and Mrs. Omar Waymire, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Waymire and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Miller and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hammond and family, and Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Yates.

The young people were the recipients of a large number of beautiful and valuable presents, including a check for SIOO.OO given by the bridegroom’s father. The bridegroom is a splendid young man and has already taken a very great interest in farming. The bride is a beautiful young lady and both have a host of friends who wish them a most happy and pros-' perous voyage along life’s pathway of usefulness and honor. After March 1, Mr. and Mrs. Waymire will be at home on the farm of the bridegroom’s father in Jordan township.

to understand anyone outside of the fellows I am with. I know a few words and think the rest will come easier. Tell everyone I am having a good time and will be- able to tell them a lot about this country when I get back home. I believe this is about as long as I have been away without writing. » Well, goodbye and look for another letter soon. Don’t worry as we are all O. K. * You son, HARVEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918.

MEETING OF THE LADIES’ LITERARY CLUB

The members of the Ladies’ literary club, and there was a good crowd of them, were amply repaid for braving the winter’s cold and attending the meeting at the library Friday afternoon because we had one of the best meetings of the year. Such an interesting talk was given by Mrs. L. E. Barber on Relation of South America to North America and to Europe. North America and South America are similar in so many ways—in their physical geography; in their .wars of Independence; in History and in other ways and yet the development in' every line, has been greater and more advanced in North America than in South America. The difference in social equality is more pronounced in South America than North America. North America is known as Teutonic America and South America as Latin America. The Monroe Doctrine, while it is hated by the South Americans, yet it has done wonders for them and should play a part in their attitude towards United States in this world’s war.

She dwelt upon South America’s relations with Europe, Spain, Italy, Germany, England and France, and especially on Paris which seems to be the goal of every South American who can get enough money ahead to go to Paris and spend it in its activities and pleasures, and closed her talk by showing South America’s attitude in this world’s war. Mrs. E. P. Honan read an interesting paper on “The Niagaras of North America, South America and Africa.” She gave an interesting description of our own Niagara, its location and its beauties and showed how it has enlisted and in this way may help win the war. Besides helping in making shells, it stands guard over every mile of war carrying railroad track; it shapes and hardens our shells and it comes forward with chlorine which is used to kill germ diseases and is used in all hospitals of France and England to sterilize the wounds of the soldiers. The second Niagara is situated in Africa on the Zambezi river, named Victoria Falls. It was discovered by Livingstone and it is not as well known as the other two. The third one is in South America and is called Ignassu Falls, located on the Ignassu river. It is beautiful and surpasses Niagara Falls of North America in every way except in volumn of water. G. W. Williams interested the ladies very much by giving us a talk on tariff and political parties—their basis for existence, their evils- and advantages and their power. An interesting letter was read from Mrs. George Healey. The responses were “What Do I Want to Study Next Year” and from the suggestions given, the program committee will have no trouble whatever, in making out an excellent program for our next year’s work. XXX

THIRTEEN BELOW.

The weather man has gone to work in earnest to make good the ground hog prediction of six weeks of bad weather. Last night in a drive, equal to that of the Huns, he drove the mercury down to' thirteen below zero. This low temperature together with a brisk wind has made the weather very severe. The continued cold weather is causing an abnormal consumption of fuel, which in connection with the shortage makes the situation quite critical. Should these conditions continue much longer there is to be great suffering here and elsewhere. We have no promise in sight of warmer weather.

WAR SUMMMARY.

Rome reports that fourteen enemy airplanes and a captive balloon were brought down Saturday on the Italian front. Heavy artillery fighting is in progress along the lower Piava river. German strikers ordered to return to work today or face death by court martial. Deputy Dittmann held on high treason charge. Berlin claims the repulse of French and British raids. Paris says German attacks were beaten off at many points. Finland troops closing in on Red Guard rebels. Trotzky, in Helsingfors, offers Finn rebels Russian help. London says German attack near Poelcapelle was beaten off. This is to remind you that the next number of the lecture course will be February 6th. ‘ V ’

Be Fair With The Coal Man

We all think we know all about the other fellow’s business, and we are often quite sure that he is getting the best of us. This seems to be a time when everybody is after everybody else. *»«• Everyone seems to be taking advantage of the situation and getting big prices for their* services or for the goods they are offering for sale. In some instances it seems to be true that we are paying entirely too much for the necessities. However, the attack made on the Rensselaer coal dealers does not seem to be fair. Admitting, as the Democrat quotes, the prices paid for coal and the prices at which it is sold to be correct, is there a profit of $2.00 per ton or SIOO per car. The Democrat does not tell you that much of this coal must be delivered in lots of five hundred pounds each. For this one dealer pays 40c per load for delivery, or $1.60 for a ton of coal. This explains what the coal dealer is able to do with a part of his seeming “Excess Profit.” Every car of soft coal that comes here is from three to nine tons short. The dealer has to pay for the car as weighed at the mines. This takes another good slice out of that SIOO per car profit. In order that proper equipment and men may be ready to make delivery of coal, the dealers must have on their expense and pay rolls a large item, which day after day does not earn them a cent. There is not a coal man in town who would not be delighted to have Mr. Babcock handle the coal business for him now and be willing to give him every cent of profit there is in the business. It is not a fact that Francesville is selling coal a cent cheaper than it is sold in Rensselaer. They did sell a car of slack over there for $4.00 per ton. This would have been sold here for about three dollars.

When we know the extraordinary efforts our coal men- have made to take care of the people here, the added expense of delivery, and the enforced idleness of men and teams, it is easy to explain why it is absolutely necessary for them to have a margin. One of our coal men, in order to try to get more coal, made a trip into the coal fields of southern Indiana at a considerable expense. ’All have done a great amount of telephoning and telegraphing and deserve praise rather than censure. They have attempted to follow strictly the orders of county coal administrator, B. F. Fendig. All have worked together, and thus far the situation has been handled the very best possible for all concerned. It is understood that Mr. Fendig thinks the prices are reasonable and that he feels grateful to the coal dealers of the city for their splendid co-operation in this trying time. Any one who knows personally the. men who are in the coal business |n this city, knpws that they are men of good character and of strictest integrity, and attacks upon their honor will result in the one who attacks them hurting himself rather than them. One should be slow to impugn the honesty of business men and should do so only after all the facts in the case at hand have been carefully investigated.

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ALLIES SPURN TEUTONIC BAIT

SUPREME COUNCIL DECIDES TO BATTLE ON UNTIL AIMS ARE ACHIEVED. The war is to be prosecuted vigorously by the entente allies and the United States until a peace, based on the principles of freedom, justice and respect for international law, is obtained. This is the decision of the supreme war council of the countries in arms against the Teutonic allies. The high sounding phrases in ths recent speeches of the imperial German chancellor and the Austro-Hun-garian foreign minister were enti >ly thrown into the discard by the council it its session at Versailles and it was decided that the war would be vigorously prosecuted until that time comes when there is justification for the hope that a peace niay be realized in accord with the policies laid down by President Wilson and David Lloyd George, the British premier.

“Strafe” American Trencher The Germans, apparently in earnest, began a “strafing” of the American sector in Lorraine Saturday. Late in the afternoon they let down a barrage on the American line on a front of several kilometers, the heaviest in many days, but at last accounts General Pershing’s men were answering them shot for shot. The casualties among the Americans were slight when the report was sent and their marksmanship had been so effective that several German dugouts had been made untenable. Under the strong pressure measures of the military authorities in Germany the general strike continues to diminish in importance, and according to semi-official advices from Berlin the trouble is expected to cease in the early week. Already probably spurred by the threats of, the military authorities if drastic action is taken against them, many workmen throughout the empire and especially in the province of Brandeburg, in which Berlin is situated, again have returned to their duties and even the recalcitrant ones are expected, beginning Monday, to start to work without further loss of time. In Brandenburg the order of the military commander telling the dissatisfied workmen that they must resume their duties was terse aqd sharp and evideritly was intended convey to the strikers the intimation that the government at the present moment requires the full effort of the workers for the further prosecution of the war. “Employes failing to resume work,” said the order, “will be tried by court martial, which is authorized to impose sentence of death, execution to take place within 24 hours of the time the sentence is imposed.”

KOUTS GIRL DEAD AS RESULT OF TABLETS

The terrible death of a child is reported from Kouts, and three year old Gertis F. Glissman is dead as a result of eating tablets. The child had seen her mother put some medical tablets in a cupboard in her bed-room and after the woman had put the child to bed she left the room. Thinking the tablets were candy the child got up, climbed on a chair and got the medicine. Another little sister tried to induce the child to give her some of the tablets but Gertie swallowed fifteen of them and ‘ when the mother returned up stairs, she found the tot in a heap on the floor with her sister crying because Gertie refused to give her any candy. The tablets contained strychnine.

Red Cross Items.

The following articles were completed last week: 18 hospital shirts, 1 comforter, 2 slumber robes, 16 sweaters, 18 pair 60 large gauze compresses, 80 small gauze compresses, 60 gauze strips, 40. gauze sponges, 20 triangle bandages, 20 T bandages, 15 four-tailed bandages, 5 abdominal bandages. The Rensselaer chapter cleared twenty-five dollars from the sale of tea and war cake on Tuesday, the day of the War Conference. Many thanks are due the women who contributed the cakes and those who gave time and labor to the enter- «. . —. prise.

A SEED CORN TEST AT PURDUE OF MUCH VALUE

Tests of seed corn selected at random from the display at the state show at Pardue university January 17. completed yesterday by J/ A. McCarty of the crops and soil department, showed that 82 per cent of the old corn would gferminate and only 42 pei cent of the 1917 crop held as seed would grow. These figures reveal the value of old corn as seed for the 1918 crop and the dependence that must be placed on it. In a few instances the new corn germinated perfectly, a few ears from Sullivan and Clay counties, which had been stored properly after selection last fall, showing 100 per cent. Many ears, however, proved to be “dead” as far as germinating qualities were concerned. These had been selected for seed by the various members of the corn growers’ association who believed they would grow. Several ears from Tippecanoe county tested only 30 per cent. These preliminary tests at the university show the general condition of the seed cbm in Indiana and reveal the importance of the survey on seeds and labor which will be made next week in the state. The county and township councils of defense, co-operating with Federal Agent Bausman are ready for the big drive in this county and the several dozen workers will start the canvass Monday morning.

'Almost Perfect’

With The American Army Tn France, Feb. I.—The French commander of a sausage balloon squadron. who was artillery officer at Verdun during the heaviest firing and in the Somme offensive, declared today that the work of certain American batteries at the front as “almost perfect.” He was particularly pleased with the work done by the Amercian guns in firing on a German position in a wood, which he observed from a balloon.

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AT THE STAR THEATRE TODAY “His Fathers Son” featuring Lionel Barrymore It is a Metro. No Show Tuesday WEDNESDAY—MutuaI Masterpiece with Ann Murdock “The Outcast” Also Bth Episode of THE LOST EXPRESS. THURSDAY Paramount 5 “Iligh Way of Hope” with Kathylin Williams and House Peters ■ - ■■■——• ' ' ■ ■■■ . FRIDAY—“A Fool For Luck” Featuring Taylor Holmes It is a Perfection Picture. SATURDAY— Kitty Gordon “Her “Hour” World Brady Picture.

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