Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — Page 1

No. 36.

DePauw U Adopts Military Rule

Compulsory physical and military training for men has been adopted by the faculty of DePauw University. The rule wag announced from the chapel platform by President Grose yesterday and the actual training will begin in Bowman gymnasium next Monday morning. It was already a compulsory measure < for freshmen and sophomores, but the recent decision includes all the men in college. A mass meeting of jhnior and senior men was held yesterday afternoon in order to assign men to the groups best fitting their schedule of studies. The men will take training twice weekly and the work will be under the direction of Physical Director Fisher, recently of Culver Military Academy, and E. C. Buss, athletic director. - A Thorough course in the manual of arms and drill work and everything possible leading toward muscular co-ordination will be practiced in the various classes. A number z of the men now in school are there solely because they have failed to pass the physical examination for army service. For these ineligibles there will be corrective classes in which an attempt will be made to improve the condition of the men for military duty. There will be no college credit given for this work. It is considered a patriotic and necessary measure by the faculty and the student body is co-operating in an enthusiastic manner.

Game Suffered Severely During The Month of January

Hundreds of quail and other game have been killed by the cold weather which prevailed throughout Indiana during January, according to information reaching Indianapolis from deputies over the state. Cut off from the usual food supplies for weeks by the heavy snow fall and exposed to rigid weather it is certain a large portion perished. Some farmers protected flocks of their places by scattering feed.

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 v Don’t miss the Glee club at the Christian church Thursday night. Bring your friends. WOOD CHOPPERS WANTED We are paying $2 per cord for cutting 4-foot weed. Phone James E. Walter. Phone 387. I will sell at the K. Zillhart sale, to be held Saturday, February 23, six O. I. C. sows. DAVID ZEIGLER.

fw&&] 'WML SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY TH* UNITED STATES government AT THE MOVIES NEW PRINCESS THEATRE Matiaee 2: IS Night 7:00 Only the Beat in Photoplays. TONIGHT “ EXTRA! EXTRA! BIG DOUBLE SHOW MARY PICKFORD “THE LITTLE AMERICAN” and JACK PICKFORD “THE GHOST HOUSE” ISo and lie. Thursday, February 21st. Marc McDermott in ; * ‘THE PRICE OF FAME" “

The Evening Republican.

ATTEND LIBERTY LOAN MEETING

RENSSELAER AND WIVES AT LAFAYETTE MEETING TUESDAY. A large number of representatives from the eight counties of this district met at the Fowler hotel in Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. The purpose of this meeting was to plan for the next big Liberty Loan drive. It is the plan to have a very effective organization perfected not only in every county but in every . road township and every road district in each county. The meeting was presided over by Thomas Bauer, chairman of Tippecanoe county. Will H. Wade, of Indianapolis, vice director of Indiana; Walter S. Greenough, formerly with the Indianapolis News, now publicity director for the Liberty Loan; Geo. H. Duncombe, of Chicago, representing federal reserve banks; R. E. Wisley, organizer of men’s Liberty Loan committees in the state and Secretary of State William Roach.

Lauds Work. Mr. Wade spoke at the opening of the meeting, lauding the work and the thorough organization of Tippecanoe county, and the excellent showing made by all counties in this district. “This war has reached to the homes of everybody. The people are keenly alive to the call of the government and subscription to the next loan will be mope liberal than ever,” he declared emphatically. Prof. George I. Christie, extension director of Purdue University, made a stirring address. “The farmer js just as patriotic as anybody,” he said “and has bought liberally of Liberty Loan bonds, but he with everyone else will have to continue to buy them. His sons and sons of his neighbors who have been called to arms will have to be backed up with Liberty bonds the same as with food.” Farmer* Handicapped Professor Christie told of how Indiana farmers had responded to the appeal of the government for more food last summer and last fall how they purchased more hogs and steers to feed during the winter.' Now many of them are unable to move the corn they have on hands or their live stock because of the car shortage, and regulation of mill feed prices is coming too late to help them any this year. Similar conditions existed in Canada the first year of the war, he said, and many more men were taken from the farms than in the UnitStates, he declared. Wives and daughters helped their husbands, more intensive agriculture and adoption of the most up-to-date labor saving devices increased the food production of the Dominion five per cent last summer. This was done in spite of the serious labor shortage. Professor Christie pledged the support of the Purdue university agricultural force in the loan drive. The keynote of all the other talks was intensive organization for the third loan drive. Mr. Dunscombe told of plans which have been used successfully in the Seventh federal reserve bank district. Mrs. J. C. Riggin, of Indianapolis, told of the plan which the women used there in co-operating with the various men’s teams. She, like the men speakers, voiced praise for the work done by the women in the last drive and declared they would do much more in the coming campaign.

Pledge SupporBrief talks were made by the various county chairmen, which included Mr. Bauer, Tippecanoe county leader; Burt Fleming, West Lebanon, Warren; Dan C. Reed, Attica, Fountain; Warren T. McCray, Kentland, Newton; George Roby, Fowler, Benton; W. K. O’Connell, Monticello, White; Secretary of State Roach, for Carroll; James H. Chapman, Rensselaer, Jasper. All of these men declared their counties were going “over the top” in the coming drive. Walter Ball, local banker, spoke briefly of the work accomplished in this county, and R } E. Wilsey, Chicago, told of the general organization work and of treasury certifiThose representing Jasper county in the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. James H. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Jiidson J. Hunt, James N. Leatherman and Louis H. Hamilton. You can buy some splendid work horses of Fred Schultz at his sale on Monday, March 1, 1918. By that time spring work will be at hand. If you want a first class horse, cow, or a number one piece of farm machinery attend the Fred Schultz sale March 1, 1918.

PUBLIC NOTICE. The public library of this city will ba opened from 10 a. m. until 0 p. m. on all week days- The building will be closed on Sunday and is not to bo opened for any purpose. This order effective until further notice. Rensselaer Public Library Board, Per Judson .J. Hunt, Pres. If you have anything for sale advertise it in the Republican. Advertise in The Republican and get quick results.

RKNSSRLABR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. FEB. 20, 1018.

HOW TO BURN THE INDIANA COAL

Since it looks as if Indiana would be asked to use Indiana coal for another year retail dealers and consumers are showing an unusual interest in the “nature of the animal.” Very little information can be obtained about Indiana coaly there having been no study along this line by the state institutions. For this reason the following from W. D Stuckenberg, president of the Commercial Testing ' and Engineering Company of Chicago, is of unusual interest. In a recent isue of “The Coal Scoop” published by the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants Association, Mr. Stuckenberg said: The coals found in Illinois and Indiana are higher in volatile matter or gases than the Eastern coal. It is these gases or volatile matter that we must learn to handle or better still, burn. Remember, Illinois and Indiana coals have from 35 per cent

to 45 per cent volatile matter in them, hard coal has less than 10 peY cent and Poe shrdlu shrdlu nu nun 18 per cent. When the householder learns how to take care of these gases, the generation of heat, the formation of clinkers, the deposit of soot, the maintaining of the fire, etc., will take care of themselves. The house heating furnace might really be called a gas producer. When the gases are once disposed of the economical operation of such a furnace is a simple matter. The following suggestions if carefully studied will materially assist in operating a small furnace: 1. Wet all soft coal before firing it. 2. Remember, that the smaller the coal is in size (screenings, No. 4 or No. 5 washed nut,) the more surfaces are exposed to the action of heat and, therefore, the gases are given off very rapidly. 3. The larger sizes of coal (lump, egg or nut) have fewer surfaces exposed and the gas is distilled off slowly. 4. Remember that when you throw a shovel full of fine, dry coal onto a redhot fuel bed the gases are driven off so rapidly that an explosion really takes pace and you get a “comeback” by the fire and smoke, coming out of the firing door. 5. Remember that it takes heat —a relatively high temperature to ~bum this volatile matter. 6. Remember you can burn the gases if you do not crowd your fire —don’t smother it—give it a chance to live, it has to have air just like a human being. 7. Fire lightly and often. When using a mixed size, such as mine run, fire part lump and part fine in the same shovelful. Break up all pieces of coal to the size of a cocoanut.

8. Alternate firing (mentioned below) means to fire the coal on part of the fuel bed at a time, green coal on one side or half of the grate so that the hot coals on the other half can ignite, the gases distilled off from the green coal. ' 9. During zero weather your furnace must usually run at full capacity and the alternate method may not do, then fire the green coal along the circumference of the fire pot, leaving the center of the fuel bed a red, glowing mass. This hot, half-burned coal will help materially to burn the gases from the green fuel. 10. Remember that the deposit of soot is caused by the gases not being burned and by their coming in contact with relatively cool surfaces. This causes a decomposition of the gas and a consequent deposit of soot. One-sixteenth-inch deposit of soot on heating surfaces means 25 per cenVloss of coal. One-eighth-inch deposit of soot on heating surfaces means 45 per cent loss of coal.

Three-sixteenth-inch deposit of soot on heating surfaces means 76 per cent loss of coal. Soot is one of the best non-con-ductors of heat known. 11. Remember to keep your equipment clean, your ashpit empty, your fire free from clinker, your dampers regulated so that to admit enough air to the fire, but not too much. 12, Remember if you have been using a base-burner for hard coal and must use soft, do not feed this soft coal through the magazine. The gases will be driven off and fill your house. Fire through the side doors with small, frequent charges. Ludd Clark, of Monon, was in town today on business. a

Jury Disagrees In Bell Trial

! Indianapolis, s Feb. 17.—The jury iin the election conspiracy trial of ! Joseph E. Bell, former mayor, and twenty-nine other Indianapolis men, was discharged in the United States district court here today after it had : reported to the court that it was unable to agree on whether there was a conspiracy. The jury was out twenty hours, during which time it took many ballots, the vote of each being six to six according to the jurors. The case centered about the campaign and election of 1914 when Bell was mayor. The defendants were charged with conspiring to prevent men from voting by fraud, bibery and intimidation. Most of J the defendants were appointees of the Bell city administration. No announcement has been made by the government attorneys whether there will be retrial.

BREWERS WIN IN FIGHT ON NEW DRY LAW

The breweries won the first big point in their effort to have the Indiana prohibition law declared unconstitutional Saturday, when Judge Hostetter of he superior court at Evansville overruled the demurrers of the state to the petition of the breweries for an injunction to prevent enforcement of the law when it goes into effect on Anril 2 Arguments will now be held on the petition itself, but this will be merely perfunctory, as it had been recognized that the argument on the demurrer covered the whole ground. Following a final unfavorable decision Prosecutor Osborn will appeal the case to the supreme court, where he will permit Attorney General Stansbury to represent him. Arguments on the demurrer were made on February 4, an entire day being taken up. The argument for the liquor interest was based on the case of Beeble against the state in 1855, when prohibition was held unconstitutional under the Indiana law. They pointed out twenty-seven instances where the supreme court held similar measures unconstitutional. The plaintiff also contended that the title of the act was not sufficient. They cited eight rulings of th,e supreme court to uphold the contention. The defense replied with a situation claiming that the title of he act need make no more than a general reference to the matter. Judge Hostetter bitterly scored the arguments of prohibitionists. In commenting on the prohibitionists’ argument that the excessive use of alcoholic beverages causes unspeakable misery and distress on mankind, and that the legislature was given police power to prevent this distress Hostetter said: “No evil has grown or can grow from the temporal use of alcoholic liquors, which the law would forbid. “There argument also takes into consideration the enormous and acute misery caused to our race from drunkenness. But this misery can never be compared to the bloody anguish resulting from arrogance and the insidious increases of denials of personal liberty and the multiplying denials of personal rights of citizens. “As the result of this we have had the burning of witches and Quarkers, and it has found its climax in the bloody battlefields of Alexander, Caesar, Atilla and in the thousands of innocent people now being sent to their ruin and death by Hohenzollerism. Of this the bloody St. Bartholomew day massacre and the French revolution will every be an eternal reminder.”

FROM A MONTANA SUBSCRIBER

Phon, Mont. Jan. 29, 1918. Mr. Hamilton: Dear editor: — You will find inclosed $4.00 to pay for the Republican this year and last, should have sent it sooner, but the winter is so fierce and the mail so irregular that we never know when we can send inf we have a little inland postoffice. Hear here the neighbors take tugs aßout going to Jordan, which is 30 miles, to get the mail that is brought out from Miles City by stage 100 miles and as the snow is so deep and the weather so cold, the mail has only been in once in four weeks. I wish I had an aeroplane and a few bombs, I would sure try to find the old Kaiser. Everything is war talk and high prices out here I belong to the Red Cross and we. meet once a week and sew all day, only since the snow has been so deep. Am sending a sweater on this mail to Willie at Camp Shelby, but it is my individual present to him, not made by the Red Cross. Best wishes for your success, as an editor, we are always enxious to get the paper and enjoy the soldiers letters so much. Yours respectfully, . MRS. S. B. HOLMES.

TEACHING OF GERMAN OPPOSED

K OF P.’S TO CIRCULATE PETITION TO ASK REMOVAL OF GERMAN FROM SCHOOLS At a largely attended meeting of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, a committee consisting of Chas. M. Sands, C. Arthur Tuteur and Charles C. Warner was appointed to draft resolutions and to present same to the Rensselaer School Board asking that the teaching of German in the public schools of this city be discontinued at once. This resolution is in keeping with the loyal people of this community and is being further emphasized by petitions which are being circulated and freely signed.

BIG DOUBLE SHOW AT THE PRINCESS TONIGHT. Movie lovers will have a rare chance to see some of the greatest stars of the screen tonight—not one star, but several —for in addition to the regular show scheduled for this evening, Manager Robertson will also present the production “The Little American,” without any additional charge. In this picture Little Mary Pickford will have the leading role —and every one knows what this little star of the silent drama can do. “The Little American” is regarded as one of the best pictures now being shown. “The Ghost House,” anoher late production will see Louise Huff and Jack Pickford enacting the leading roles. The price for tonight’s performance will be 15c and 10c. Adv.

MURDER MYSTERY OF GARY PRIEST CLEARED UP

Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 19. Michael Schramm, of this city, tonight confessed to the murder of the Rev. Father Edmond Kayser, of Gary, Ind., on the night of August 24, 1915. The police say that Schramm made the confession after hours of cross-examination. Schramm is alleged to have admitted that he, with a companion saw Father I Kayser counting money after the charity bazaar and the two men attempted to wrest the money away. It is said the priest fought desperately and Schramm shot him. Father Kayser sank to the ground still holding the money bag in which was more than SI,OOO , . Gary officials are on their way to Bridgeport, it is understood

JOHN EGER, FEDERAL FOOD ADMINISTRATOR

Owing to acute conditions of the wheat situation, notify immediately all retailers to restrict until further noice the sale of flour to basis of one pound per week per capita, and not more than five pounds in city and twelve and onehalf pounds' in the country. Still, adhere to fifty-fifty rule substi tutes. Take immediate census of all stocks, flour in distributers hands, pool stock and redistribute on equal basis. Do not allow flour to leave your county except to individual consumers, without notifying me. Am organizing flour distributing bureau to handle siuation' when ever county organization cannot provide adequate supply. . . Situation very critical, you must handle local problem. BARNARD, Federal Food Administrator For Indiana.

OBITUARY

Luther Ellis, the next oldest son of' Thomas J. and Mary Mathena was botn in Jasper Co., Indiana, Nov. 21, 1873 and departed this Me Feb. 16, 1918. Ellis took great interest in the well business up until a short time ago when he gave up the business to help care for his mother. He posssesed many excellent virtues which will ever endear him to his relatives . and friends. Ellis was a great lover of hjs home and lived in it when off ditty and made life pleasant for his mother and brothers. , He took great interest m the M. W. of A. of which he has been a member for some time. His father and mother, one brother and one sister preceeded him to the other world. He is mourned by a sister, Mrs. Louis Muster of this city; three brothers: James, of Cherokee, Iowa; Elmer and Earl both of Rensselaer besides other relatives and fiends. —Contributed.

OATS AT 84 CENTS.

There is an upward tendency in the markets. It is possible a new price will be set on wheat and this will undoubtedly be 50c in advance of the present price of $2.00. Our local grain dealers report the following prices today: Oats, 84c; wheat, $2; corn, sl, and rye, $1.90.

WEATHER Fair and slightly colder tonight. Thursday continued cold.

ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is i per eent and my limit is SIOO par acre.—P. D. Wells. Morocco, Ind.

ABSENT OFFICIAL REGAINING HEALTH IN THE SOUTH

Houston, Tex., Feb. 16, 1918. Editors Republican: We left Rensselaer February 6 and arrived in Houston the next night at ten o’clock and found my brother at the train to meet us. It is certainly lovely weather here, flowers in bloom, peach trees in bloom. We are having onions every day out of our own garden. Mr. McColly is feeling some better than when we left home and I think he is going to improve right along. He gets out every day in the sunshine and takes miles. He is out now watching an old negro make garden. He says to tell you there are plenty of Democrats and negroes down here. The Rensselaer boys have been in to see us several times. John Moore and Omar Osborne were here last night and spent the evening with us. We are going to try to go out to Camp Logan next Sunday. There is never a day but what aeroplanes are flying over the house. Received a supply of the home papers Tuesday and certainly enjoyed reading them. I am going out into the yard now and pick some violets and send them so you will know that we are having real summer weather. With best regards to all friends, we are. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. McColly, 1315 Harvard St, Houston, Texas.

WHO SOLD JESSE? Amos Frame and William Muster were' at Rensselaer yesterday, where they secured “Jesse,” a race horse with a promising future. Mr. Frame purchased the animal at a good price. He will work him for speed this summer, and next fall will enter him in the fair races around the circuit. The horse has no mark, but is reported to have done a mile in 2:l2.—Valparaiso Vidette. SALE DATES. For February. 19th, E.L 4C. A. Fidler. 20th, F. L. Ovevrton. 21st, Harve Pierson and Carr Brothers 21st, Norval Osburn. 28rd, K. Zillhart. 25th, Clarence Garriott 26th, James Barber. 26th, Napoleon Budreau. 27 th, B T. Lanham and J. U. IM. 28th, H. W. Marble. 28th, J. W. Phares and N. Selby. 28th, Thompson and Hollingsworth. * ~ March: lst,Fred W. Schultz. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express thanks to the friends and relatives, also the Modern Woodman for their kindnesses during the sickness and death of our mother and brother. _ ' MRS? L. M. MUSTER. MATHENA BROS.

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