Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1918 — Page 1

No, 35.

EDITOR LIVING UP TO EARLY REPUTATION

McLeod, Miss. Feb. 3, 1918. Ye Editor Hamilton: I hand you a check to induce you to keep the news coming down this way every little while for another year. I commenced reading The Republican back in the days of Horace James and I don’t want to quit now just because you happen to be the editor, I never suspected such a thing would happen when I commenced to read the paper. The first time I ever saw you was one evening out at the old fair grounds race track, where we were a part of a bunch of bare,footed bullies, who were trying to decide the all important question as to which one in the noisy croiyd could cover the space of 100 yards in the least possible time. I noticed that your face was a new one to me, and, upon inquiry was told that your , name was Hamilton and that some ( one said that the janitor said- you were the meanest kid in the school. ' At that time I was entirely ignorant ( of the fact that mean kids make, good editors?As to your work as an editor, 1 1 will not attempt to hand you either a lemon or a bouquet, I think your. Tyeather entirely too cold for either. I wanted to tell you about our part of the south before I returned, as you requested, but my time was taken up with other matters and I did not get the opportunity. We have had much mud of late and the roads are muddy. The temperature is a little below freezing point every night. • Respectfully yours, M. R. HALSTEAD.

BEST SIGN OF SPRING YET TO BE USHERED FORTH

J. M. Torbet, a prominent farmer of Barkley township, on hearing that bluebirds had already been seen in Rensselaer this year, called us by telephene Saturday evening and informed us that we were much behind the times, , as he saw eight robins in one flock on his farm several. days ago. Mr. Torbet says that the arrival of robins in Indiana in February is the best indication that spring is almost upon us and that he believes he has the best evidence yet. ushered forth, and we quite agree with him.

If you have lost any stock, call A. L. Padgitt, Phone 65.

UNITED STATES CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS ARE A GOOD INVESTMENT PAYABLE IN A FEW MONTHS AND ARE CONVERTIBLE INTO BONDS OF THE NEXT LIBERTY LOAN. WHETHER DUE OR NOT, AND ARE NON TAXAPPLY TO THE STATE BANK | Of Rensselaer For Further Information

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The Evening Republican.

“I’M RAIRIN' TO GO” LATEST SONG HIT

Some few weeks ago when the first batch of questionnaires were being sent out, there emerged from the mountains of Kentucky an amusing story which gained a position on the front pages of the big city dailies throughout the country. A big, raw-boned Kentucky Moun- , taineer, .who had, no doubt, never been out of his native hills since he first saw the light of day, came into the office of the conscription board of a small county seat town in Kentucky one day and inquired if that might be the place where he could get “fixed up” for the war. On being informed that is was, the giant Kentuckian threw an envelope on a table containing the questionnaire which he had received a few days before. The clerk opened the envelope and was surprised to find ! scrawled across the front page of the questionnaire the words: “I’m Rairin’ To Go.” Why, “exclaimed the clerk,” you haven’t filled out your questionnaire at all. “Well,” drawled the mountaineer, “I’d rather go to war than try to fill out this blankety-blank thing.” The wishes of the Kentuckian were gratified and he was recorded as a 1-A man. And, as Shakespeare was want to say, thereby hangs a tale. The above story attracted the attention of Lon Healy and set him to thinking. But he did not think for long and soon the story of the Kentucky fighter was set to words and music under the name of the Rensselaer composer. Lon chose as his title the homely, but forceful words of the subject of the above story.

“I’m Rairin’ To Go,” is a catchy little song and is undoubtedly the best ever composed by Mr. Healy. It is full of rag-time and pep and is bound to be a go whereever it is introduced. The song was used in the home talent play at Remington last Friday and was the hit of the evening and will be used again to night when the play is to be presented again. The. first copies of the song arrived in Rensselaer today and are on sale at Jarrette’s Variety store.

February 21st is the last number of the Lyceum course and, you can’t afford to miss it. .Leonard Wartena went to Chicago today.

The following articles were completed last week by the Red Cross workers: 11 sweaters, 5 helmets, 6 pairs of socks, 16 pairs of wristlets, 2 scarfs, 1 quilt, 12 suits of pajamas, 10/hospital shirts, 4 pairs bed socks, 1 small Oakum pad, 3 large Oakum' pads, 20 triangle bandages, 10 T bandages, 10 4-tajJed bandages, 5 scultetus, 5 abdominal bandages, 240 large compresses, 260 small compresses, 5 three-yard rolls, 1 five-yard roll, 160 sponges, 60 yard strips, 1 waste gauze pad, 3 small waste gauze pads, 1 split irrigation pad. Until further notice the surgical dressing department of the Red Cross shop will be closed to regular workers on Thursday and Saturday evenings of each week. The class for instruction in the standard course will meet at 7 o’clock on Thursday evening «f this week for the first lesson.

C. D. Manufacturing Co. vs. Edward Laymond; suit on note. ~ Frank Haskall will move onto the John Bruner farm in Pulaski county March 1. Mr. Haskall as yet has not been able to dispose of his barber shop in this city. r The shop, however, will remain open after Mr. Haskall’s departure and will be in charge of John Horton.

The Eastern Star chapter will meet this evening.

RED CROSS ITEMS.

NEW SUIT FILED

RENSSELABR, INBIAIM. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1918.

HOUSE OFFER WITHDRAWN

ABSENT EDITOR AGAIN WRITES INTERESTING NOTES OF THE SOUTHLAND. It is always a pleasure to the one so fortunate to leave a country of ice and snow and in 24 hours to land in a country of sunshine and flowers and spring-like weather. This was the experience of the writer, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron, John Werner and B. S. Fendig a few days ago. They left Rensselaer February 10th, with the country buried in ice and snow. At Louisville the snow had nearly all disappeared and at Memphis, which we reached the next morning, there was no sign of snow, but there was a small coat of ice on the water which had formed the night before. From there on the weather grew warmer with every mile traveled and at Vicksburg it was like a summer day. Through the delta the planters were busy plowing and swarms of colored woman and children were in the cotton fields picking cotton. This should have been all done last fall blit the crop was so great that enough help could not be secured to pick it at that time, which resulted in a loss of about ten cents per pound, as the cotton becomes damaged by being exposed to the elements all winter. The cotton picked now is used by the government in making gun cotton and brings 18 cents a pound at the present time. Fortunes are being made every year by the big planters in the delta, many of the plantations containing thousands of acres, with hundreds of negro families on each, and about all that can be seen except the growing cotton is negro cabins scattered over the landscape as far as the eye can reach. Upon our arrival at Gloster we found the weather ideal ffid to the writer it seemed like getting back home. Peach trees were beginning to bloom, flowers were in bloom and it will not be many days now until the country dons its summer clothes. On Wednesday we made up two auto loads and went over to the writer’s plantation near Liberty, visiting a farm which is for sale on the way there, and arrived at the plantation just at noon. But although we came without warning we did not catch the Porter and the Robinson families napping. All were dressed up except Bill and Robert, the colored hand, who had just come in from the field. We were invited to dinner and found the table laden down with things to eat and the dinner was greatly enjoyed by all. Mr. Porter and Harve Robinson, the Republican’s former linotype man, have worked wonders in the place this winter and are two months ahead of the native Southerners in their work. They have plowed nearly a hundred of acres of fields that have lain idle for ten or twelve years and will soon put this in cotton, corn and other crops. The day we were there they were ready to plant an acre of Irish potatoes. They added ten head of sheep to their farm and now have four lambs to add to the flock. Bill and Harve are going to make good with their southern farming and they could not be driven back to the north." Their families are also more than satisfied and all are in good health and fine spirits. They are always overjoyed to entertain their Northern friends when they come down here.

John Q. Lewis, former county-as-essor, is now located here MKrlike all the rest of the Jasper county people,-is more than contented. John has bought seven acres about seven miles out on the Prentice highway and is intending when the highway is finished to start a small country store and a gasoline station to supply the tourists, who are sure to come with the completion of the highway. At odd times John helps as clerk in a store here. B. S F.endig, who came with our party, has joined tris family at New Orleans, after inspecting his small farm here. Ben expects to devote his time to buying early garden stuff in car lots for the Northern market . John Werner, another of opr

party, left Friday, for Mobile, Alabama, after spending a few days here and at Baton Rouge, La., looking at farms. He has an old friend living near Mobile, whom he has not seen for twenty years and will visit her —-him, I mean, for a few days. John is also delighted with the South and may some day locate here. Mr. and Mrs. Milliron left this morning for New Orleans, but will return to Liberty Tuesday and from there will leave New Orleans a day or two later for home. Both are feeling much improved in health as a result of their few days stay here. They will return again in August and May and start a moving picture show at Lib'erty or McComb. They already own a small farm here and they may decide to buy a residence or business property at* Liberty upon their return. We are expecting the Berry families here any day now, as there is mail awaiting them here from home and we understand they left Rensselaer several days ago with their household goods and stock. The Caldwells are well located here and are also busy getting ready for their crops. The first day here we ran across them in town buying seeds and fertilizer. There is just one thing that is worrying them, however. They have so much land that they were accustomed to farming that they hardly know what to do with it.

I was surprised upon my return the other day after an absence of two months to find such a change. The town of Liberty, the county seat, is on a boom. A new paper has just been started there and they were getting out their first issue the day I visited there. The new office is modernly equipped with linotype and power presses and Harve Robinson was called upon by the owners to help them two days in getting the linotype installed. His experience as operator in the Republican office stood him in good play. The same company that is back of the paper is installing an electric light plant and an ice plant and will furnish current for the residences and business houses. Part of the light plant is already running and poles are being erected for street lights and commercial purposes. We also informed that the railroad now there is soon to be extended on westward and may connect Gloster and Liberty, which, would mean much for both places. Liberty has been a sleepy town of 500 for many,years, but with the influx of Northerners it is awakening and with the coming of the electric light plant, there is sure to soon be a moving picture show there along with other enterprises. During my visit to the office of the new paper, the Amite County Tribune, I was introduced to the editor’s wife, Mrs. Grandville Lyon, and was surprised to find that she was a former Wanatah girl, an Indiana town located on the Michigan City division of the Monon. He is from California. While at Baton Rouge this week the writer bought a Maxwell car and drove it back to Gloster, where he has been staying. He will now be able to get from place to place without so much expense and to entertain his Northern friends when they come down here. The car will be left here in storage when he returns home and used on the different occasions when he returns here.

For the benefit of the many who wanted to try for the haunted house over near Woodville I made a further investigation of the offer and find it has been withdrawn. They no doubt heard of the determination of Squire Bussell and several others to make a try for the free plantation and withdrew the offer. A Southerner is easily scared when it comes to ghosts but a Northerner is made of-different stuff and they do not care to try any ghost stuff with them. I am sorry that the offer was withdrawn, as Doc Hansson wanted a try for the free plantation if Squire Bussell failed. The Overland’s dealer’s plan was to take his big dog along when they tried to remain in the haunted house all night and he expected with the assistance of the dog to scare the ghosts away. But speaking of the superstition of the Southerners and the negroes in particular. I learned of another custom here. In looking over a plantation here we came to a de-

LITTLE STORIES OF WASHINGTON STREET.

The Flrtt Of A Series Of Queer and Quaint Happenings to The Merchants on Our Busy Mart. Once upon a time there was a merchant on Washington street who was as wise as the average merchant is today. He was a judicious buyer, as to quality and no traveling man was of a smoothness sufficient to load him up with such articles as would necessitate a wonderful saving sale later on in the season. But in the rear of the store, near the desk, was a pile of big fat books, containing page upon page with names and figures. These were and are known as the charge accounts. This merchant was not as judicious in selling his wares as he was in buying them. He made a comfortable margin on what he sold, provided, he got his money. In some instances he had to wait a long time for his money, and for some of it he is waiting yet. Every merchant on the street no matter what his wares may be, can say amen to that. In addition great gobs' of statements were sent out at regular intervals, when the expense of stationery and postage was added to some otherwise dead accounts. Perhaps they all hope the chance may be worth the taking, that some may be only sleeping. Such statements had been mailed to a creditor who had been delinquent almost two years. The account was considered null and void. “We’ll send him just one more'statement,” said the merchant, “and then we’ll put it in the dead letter office.” So the statement went out. And 10, shortly thereafter appeared the party of the second part, in' the emporium of the long contracted debt. Surprise was in the heart of the purveyor of merchandise on time. Quoth he, who had been in arrears for so long a time, “I’ve come in to settle that little matter of twelve dollars, look it up on the book and I’ll pay as the account stands.” Happiness was now rampant in the heart of the keeper of the big brown books. So he looked in the book and said, “You owe me just twelve dollars and sixty cents.” The arrant one then said “Well George,” George being camoflage for the merchant’s right name, “Give me a blank note and fill it out and I’ll sign it for the amount” Surprise again dominant in the innards of the knight of the charge account. But he got the note and filled it out and the long lost brother signed it with his right name. Then said he, rubbing his hands with the satisfaction of a deed well done, “Thank heaven that’s paid, now George can’t you give a feller a smoke.” Surprise faded into stupefaction and George mechanically went to the cigar case offered a box of cigars and the man who had just paid his account lit it with a flourish, smacked Us lips with evident relish and set sail out the front door, which hasen’t seen him since. That happened almost ten years ago. If the curious reader wants to know if the account was ever settled, as a matter of record the note is outlawed now and has a resting place an the archives where all the bad little notes go.

MEMBERS OF GREAT LAKES BAND NOT TO GO EAST

Mrs. Don Beam received word by telephone Monday evening from her husband that Don Wright, Hany Kerlin and himself would not entrain for New York as were their original orders. The boys with 85 others were to have left by special train this Tuesday morning for New York where they were to be divided into four bands, one going to France, and the other three to be assigned to three scout > cruisers on the Atlantic. Capt. Moffett disliked giving up his bands as he has immediate use for them. He returned from Washington Monday and together with a petition from prominent citizens of Chicago requested the return of the N. N. V. Band to Grant Park. The sailing has been postponed officially for three weeks reconsideration and perhaps altogether.

MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED

John D. Janssen, born at Remington, Ind., October 31, 1893, occupation, farmer, and Peterka Peterson, born in Germany, January 23, 1895, occupation, housekeeper. First marriage for each. • S When a man likes anything he sees another man wearing, he goes and gets one just like it. But it is different with a woman.

serte 1 negro cabin and were informed by the white owner of the farm that a member of the colored family that had been living there had died only p few days before and that the family had moved out He said it was the custom of the negroes to always vacate a house for a short time after a death and then move back. He did not just explain their reason for it but there was some kind of a superstition connected with the custom. LESLIE CLARK. Gloster, Miss., Feb. 16. ‘

TRAIN HITS AUTO; DRIVER KILLED

GUY HAWKINS BURNED TO DEATH IN TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR RAUB, INDIANA. One of the most terrible tragedies that has occurred in Benton county in years took place Monday noon when Guy Hawkins, a distant relative of Mrs. J. D. Allman of this city, was burned to death in the debris of the automobile which he was driving and which was struck by a Big Four freight train. Mrs. M. M. Reed, a traveling saleswoman of Chicago, was terribly injured at the same time and it is feared that she cannot recover. A detailed account of the accident taken fom the Lafayette Journal follows: When east bound Big Four train No. 16 struck the automobile in wUch they were riding at Raub, about noon yesterday, Guy Hawkins, proprietor of an automobile livery at Oxford, was killed, Mrs. M. M. Reed, a traveling saleswoman, of Chicago, was terribly injured, and the automobile completely demolished. When the tram struck the car, the gasoline was set on fire, and Mr. Hawkins’ body was burned to a crisp before he could be freed from the wreckage; and Mrs. Reed was terribly burned about the face, head and arms, and she has two broken ribs on the left side. Mrs. Reed was hurried to this city on the train that struck the machine, and is being attended at St Elizabeth hospital by Dr. Thorp, of Earl Park, and Dr George Beasley, of this city. The accident occured near the Raub station, in sight of a number of people, none of whom could do anything to prevent the tragedy or render aid to Mr. Hawkins. He had driven Mrs. Reed to Fowler, and was on the way to Raub when the accident occurred. Mrs. Reed, who had been selling stock in a poultry concern, was on her way to the Keefe store at Raub, having been there Saturday in the interests of her business and had promised to be back there yesterday. They had left Oxford at 9 o’clock in a closed Ford car, and as they „ approached the railroad track, Mr. Hawkins saw the approaching train, but thought that he had time to cross the tracks before it arrived. The fast train struck the car squarely, piling the debris on top of Hawkins, but throwing Mrs. Reed clear df the wreckage. Mr. Hawkins was 44 years of age, had been in the automobile business at Oxford for the past five years, and was one of the best known men in Benton county. He was born and reared in Benton county, and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. He was a member of the K. of P. lodge. He is survived by his widow and one daughter, three brothers, Ben and Wilbur, of Fowler,- and Clinton, of Chalmers; and one sister, in Wabash county. Howard Shipps, an undertaker at Oxford, took the body to Oxford yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Reed asked that a relative, Mrs. Harriet Jones, of Omaha, Nebraska, be notified of the accident. At a late hour last night she was reported as resting well, and it is thought that unless complications set m she will recover.

WEATHER Rain and colder tonight, Wednesday fair in south, snow flurries innorth portion, colder with a cold fresh wave, possibly strong northwest winds. Fred Schultz announces that ho will hold a public sale on Friday, March 1, 1918.

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