Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — Page 1

No. 32. •

O'BRIEN DARING STIRS MEN TO FLOCK TO ROYAL COLORS

What Lieutenant Patrick O’Brien, hero of daredevil exploits as aviator and later as a fugitive from Germans, has done any wideawake young fellow equally athletic can do. O’Brien said on his flying trip to his old home in Illinois. His modest assertion made a new call for recruits at all depots of the BritishCanadian Recruiting Mission for the Royal Flying Corps has immediate responses. Is there adventure for the cadet successful in Canadian training camps? Ask Flier O’Brien—he has had a whole book full. The opening again of recruiting at BritishCanadian depots found a waiting throng. For many months recruits only have been accepted in NevYork.

A. L. Padgitt. Phone 85. If you have lost any stock, call Bom, Feb. 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Halstead, a girl. Ladies Wanted More Help Is Needed at the Rensselaer Garment Factory Excellent Positions - for Girls and Women Apply in Person at the * Factory at the corner of Van Rensselaer and Cornelia Sts.

AT THE MOVIES NEW PRINCESS THEATRE Matin— Zill Nlflrt 71#O Only the Best in Photoplays. TONIGHT MARY NASH “THE WORLD" AND THE WOMAN” Also Hearst Pathe New! 6 Reels All Sea t¥ 10c. Miss Alice Brady is no longer making pictures for the World Corp, but is appearing under the banner of the Select. In which her productions are of the highest standard. You will see select pictures at the New Princess only. ALICE BRADY “HER SILENT SACRIFICE” From the famous play “The Red Mouse.”

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The Evening Republican.

Roosevelt Sends Telegram of Congratulations to Hays

Three members of the republican national, committe stopped in Indianapolis for a few hours Thursday while returning from the convention at St. Louis for a conference with Will H. Hays, new chairman of the committee. They were John T. King of Connecticut; A. T. Hert, of Kentucky, and James A. Heminway, of Indiana. Senator Boise Penrose, of Pennsylvania, passed through Indianapolis during the afternoon and was joined by Mr. King. Chairman Hays receved hundreds of telgrams of congratulations from Republican leaders in all parts of the country. Among them was one from Colonel Roosevelt, which read: “Your election means more to the country and the Republican party than anything else at this time could have meant.”

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth also sent a telegram of congratulations. At a luncheon attended by Governor Goodrich and the national committeemen and state republican leaders, Chairman Hays expressed his gratitude for the help of his friends at St. Louis, and reiterated his determination to deal ,on the same terms with all representatives of the party. He declared that he did not believe the national organization should support any candidate for the presidential nominaton. Mr. King asserted the Republican party has the greatest opportunity in its history to go before the country with a strong declaration of Americanism and declared that he favored Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as the next Republican candidate for the presidency.

BLUE BIRD STORY A FAKE.

Thomas Cox says that Rev. Chas. W. Postill’s blue bird story will not work as Thomas has been feeding a blue bird around his house all winter Mr. Cox says according to Postill we should be eating homegrown strawberries now.

The National Food Administrator has issued orders to poultrymen to purchase no hens or pullets from February 11 to April 30. These can be sold only to parties for egg producing purposes. So keep your hens and pullets and show your patriotism by bringing eggs to market or raising young chickens.

All Surgical Dressing Workers who wish to enter a class for instruction in the Standard Course, meet at the Red Cross Shop at 7 o’clock Saturday evening for information and arrangements. t*

Our Oleo cannot help but please you. It is difficult to distinguish it from dairy product. Save 15c on a pound on your butter. Buy Oleo of J. A. McFarland. PUBLIC NOTICE. The public library of this city will be opened from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. on all week days. The building will be closed on Sunday and is not to be opened for any purpose. This order effective until further notice. Rensselaer Public Library Board,' Per Judson J. Hunt, Pres. If anyone who hashad the misfortunate to lose stock during the cold spell will notify us, we will be glad to call and get it. A. L. PADGITT, Phone 65. One of the finest coffees on the market. Sold elsewhere for 32c per pound. Buy it of us for 30c. Or you can save 3c a pound on our 28c grade. J. A. McFarland.

Keep Your Hens and Pullets

RED CROSS NOTES

Style in Spectacle Frames is very much a matter of taste. It ia * important, though, that they set properly on the nose and at the right distance from the Eyes; and that the lenses be held perfectly centered before the eyes. How are you to know when some one is guessing? WE NEVER GUESS. “GLASSES RIGHT, , GOOD SIGHT.” CLARE JESSEN OPTICIAN With Jearn the Jawelar. moM «

RENSSELABR, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918.

SAVAGE RETURN HANDED WILSON BY HUN PRESS

As was to be expected, the industrial organs of western Germany savagely commented on President Wilson’s address. The Rheinshe Westfallische Gazette under the caption, “Wilson the Poisoner” says: “They are talking , to save their necks—Wilson, Lloyd George and the toothless tiger in Paris. With lawyers’ trick they are trying to humbug their deluded peoples. It is impossible to take President Wilson seriously.” Assuming naughty contempt the newspaper proceeds to prove to its own satisfaction that President Wilson failed in what it terms his three objects, namely, to hearten the British with tales of .inexhaustible American resources, to try and split Germany and Austria-Hungary and to play off the reichstag majority against the military power. “President Wilson, has had no luck,” the paper continues. “We can tell him that a complete accord has just been arrived at between Germany and ’ Austria-Hungary the effect of which will-become patent before long.” The newspaper concluded by enumerating all the misdeeds of the United States is supposed to have committed against Spain and sundry South American republics.

EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Teachers who took the state teachers examination at Rensselear in Jan., either made a license or reached a condition. This is the one case that stands alone indicating that the state department in either easing on the grading or that the examination was not so difficult. The applicant who occupied seat number 13 and also got number 13 as manuscript number to state made a license without a condition. The first eighth grade diploma examination will be held over the county on the third Saturday in March. Each, trustee will provide a place for the examination in his particular township. Joseph Salrin of Walker will hold his examination at Walker Center. Elwood Davis of Kankakee will hold his at Tefft. Albert Keene, of Wheatfield, will hold his at Wheatfield. Clifford Fairchild of Keener will hold his at DeMotte.

Joseph Salrin dropped into the county superintendent’s officej last Monday. Mr. Salrin reports that Mrs. Salrin has been sick but is improving rapidly since the winter weather has released its grip. Albert Keene, of Wheatfild, came into the office last Thursday. He will take the insurance from his new Kersey school building, which was destroyed last winter by fire and erect another just like the burned one. There are a number of the rural schools in the county teaching on Saturdays. The town schools. at Tefft are now running on Saturdays., The Wheatfield schools began several weeks ago. Mabel Worland substituted for Mrs. Petty at Fair Oaks last Friday. Miss Rosabelle Daugherty has been doing this work this week. Mrs. Petty he been very sick, but she is improving very rapidly. The Remington . schools have requested application blanks preparatory to joining the Junior Red Cross.

THE NEW AGE

When navies are forgotten And fleets are useless things, When the dove shall warm her bosom Beneath the eagle’s wings: When memory of battles At last is strange and old, When nations have one banner And creeds have found one fold; When the Hand that sprinkles midnight With its powdered drift of suns Has hushed this tiny tumtilt Of sects and swords and guns, Then Hate’s last note of discord In all God’s words shall cease, In the conquest which is service, In the victory;which is peace! —Frederick Lawrence Knowles.

Miss Evaline Kenton, of Mitchell, South Dakota, who has been visiting relatives and friends here went to kolcott today where she will vint with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parker, Mrs. Parker being h er* sister. Miss Kenton will return to Rensselaer before leaving for her western home.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY CO. AGENT LEAMING. I **MHMMa* * The Conservation of Farm Manures A paper prepared for the North Union Farmers’ club by R. L. Budd. The American people as a people are so constituted that it is useless to talk to them on the conservation of any substance so long as that substance is plenteous. Not many years ago it was no uncommon sight to see large piles of logs rolled together and burned to get rid of them whereas now everything possible of the trees is saved even to the sawdust for some purpose or other. And the same might be said of hundreds of other industries, objects once considered a nusiance are now saved with great care and have become sources of large revenues. But the American people must be shown, they will not save until there is a vital need for it.

So it must be well at the beginning of my talk to again bring to your attention the value of farm manures in general. Experiments carried on in the state of Indiana show value per ton of manure of from $1.62 to $1.45 for the increase in the crop due to its use. These values were based on the pre-war prices of $.50 and SI.OO for corn and $2.00 for wheat, places a value of from $2.34 to $8.90 per ton. The lower figure is due to the fact that the ground where the manure was applied was much better to begin with than the latter figure. Therefore we would say that one means of conservation would be to place our manure on our poorer ground. Experiments conducted over a period of 20 years in England on a good type of soil show an average increase of 2% bushels of wheat per ton of manure applied, at present prices meaining a value of about $5.00 per ton. Experiments at Purdue show an average of almost 4 bushel of corn per ton of manure applied, at present prices meaning a value of almost S4.OQ. So you can see it is well worth our while to save every bit possible. Now, that we may get a better idea of the ways to save this valuable product, let us see of what it consists, and their relation to the body as a whole. We find that manure is made up of the ten principal constituents that make it a complete plant food. Of these we will mention only three as almost all soils have the other parts in abundance. These three are nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and , potash. The first of these, nitrogen is generally considered the most important as there is nothing that so helps a crop like an abundance of this part and there is nothing so readily removed by cropping and also by poor farm practices, one of which that might be stated here is the practice of farming ground wet. However, nature seems to have given us an ample sufficiency of.-nitrogen for our present needs. Nitrogen is found chiefly -in the liquid part of. the manure. Next comes the phosphoric acid, which is found almost entirely in the dry matter of the manure. Then we have the potash, which being a salt and very soluble is found almost entirely in the liquid. So, to keep the manure at its best proportion, we must keep it thoroughly mixed. * There are several methods in vogue of caring for the farm manures. Probably the oldest method is that of throwing the manure out of the stable window. This method cannot be top much condemned for it does not take many rains to wash out the most valuable parts. One experiment showed a loss of 70 percent of the fertilizing value of manure when stored in an open yard for a period of 12 months. This loss will “be sustained much sooner when the manure is stored under the eayes.

The average manure contains about 11 pounds of potash to the ton and about 10 pounds of this* is soluble with the 14 pounds of nitrogen contained in that same ton is gradually washed away. Another method that has been practiced for many years is to put plenty of bedding in the stables and allow the manure to lay there until hauled to the field- This is one of the best methods known if one his plenty of bedding material. By putting in a thick layer of straw or other material in the stable before turning in the stock, the stock will tramp the bedding down so compactly that none of the liquid will seep through. And also the manure as made will be tramped so as to prevent the entrance of air, which causes heating or so called firing. This process is a very damaging one as it is a chemical change that allows the nitrogen to escape into the air. When this method is used it is best to allow the stock the run of the stables. The dement floor has been of great benefit in the saving of manure, as it prevents leaching through the floor. But Ido not believe there is any f one improvement on the farm more abused than a cement floor.. Far on by far to many farms the fertilizing elements saved by aid of the cement floor are throwed out in a pile to be lost-by both firJ (Continued, on Page Four.)

MANSFIELD WINS KANKAKEE CASE

Hon. Charles F. Mansfield, principal attorney for the state in the trial of Joseph Clarke, of Chicago, for conspiring to burn the Model store on East avenue, Nov. 21, 1917, with David I. Bauer and Arthur Bauer as confederates at Kankakee, 111., succeeded in so handling his case that the defense blew up and all three of the defendants confessed. The prisoners admitted that they had framed up an alibi and that they had lied to their attorneys, Darrow and Smith.

NEW YORK AWAITS APPEARANCE OF O’BRIEN

New York, Feb. 14.—This town is eagerly awaiting the story from his own lips of how Lieut. Pat O’Brien, the aviator of Lake county, Ind., escaped from a German prison camp. The story of the boy, who left the quiet banks of the Kankakee and who in a short time became one of the most brilliant aces in the royal flying corps is known to every one here. Besides the story of the adventure, New" York society awaits Lieut. O’Brien’s story of his fifty minute talk with the King.

WEATHER Fair and colder tonight, Saturday partly cloudy and continued cold, lowest temperature for the past twenty-four hours was twenty above. There is a high wind which will do. a great amount of good in drying* up the mud and water.

Come and See Us in our Elegant New Home THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Capital Stock SIOO,OOO Surplus and undivided profits $12,500 Officers: Charles G. Spitler, President. Edd J. Randle, Vice-President. Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer. C. H. Mills, Assistant Secretary-Treas. The Bank on the Corner and On The Square

SALE DATES. Fc r February. 19 th, E. L. & C. A. Fidler. 20 th, F. L. Ovevrton. 21 st, Harve Pierson and Carr Brothers 21st, Norval Osburn. 23 rd, K. Zillhart. 25th, Clarence Garriott. 26th, James Barber. 26th, Napoleon Budreau. 27th, B T. Lanham and J. U. Iliff. 28th, H. W. Marble. 28th, J. W. Phares arid N. Selby. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. I will offer my household goods at private sale at my house on South Cullen street until February 26. The goods remaining unsold after thjg date will be sold at public auction. MRS. H. PURCUPILE. We have made arrangements by which we can sell you 28c coffee for 25c per pound. .Also 32c coffee for 30c per pound. You cannot buy better coffee for the money. Try and be convinced. J. A. McFarland, Phone 99. WOOD CHOPPERS WANTED We are paying $2 per cord for cutting 4-foot wood. Phone James .E. Walter. Phone 387.

TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION

To The Memory of Horman Aides Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Luers, Born Sept. 7, 1917, died Feb. 11, 1918. Parents dear, you loved your Alden, But dear Jesus loved me too, For you know I was His darling Ere He gave me unto you. He only lent me to your keeping Till my soul was freed from stain Of the sin which barred from heaven. In heaven you'll have your Babe again. Now dear parents I’m so happy With the angels here above. Here I have no pain, no sorrow, Only joy and peace and love. You would not wish me back from heaven To the earth so sad and drear, When you know that here your baby Is with Jesus’ Mother dear. • She will keep me ever near her Till you come with sister too To this home so bright and glorious Where we’ll never bid adieu. So then parents, cease your weeping Since your darling is at rest I am happy, Oh so happy, In this heavenly home so blest

You can buy the best grade of coffee cheaper here than elsewhere. Why not save two or three cents on each pound of coffee? Buy of McFarland, The Grocer, Phone 99. For quick results advertise in The Republican.

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