Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — Page 1

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No. 45.

Send Out Invitations To All Your Friends

They Can Kill Two Birds With One Stone During Trade Week by Making You a Visit and Doing Their Shopping at the Same Time.

The suggestion has been made that The Republican’s Big Co-Oper-ative Sale from Saturday, March 9 to Saturday, March 16, be made a - -$■ homecoming affair as well as a trading event. It will be a splendid opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. People can come to Rensselaer during this big sale and do their shopping and make a visit at the same time. So, let your invitation and slogan be, “Come to Rensselaer to shop and make us a visit. Shout it so loud it can be heard for 20 miles in every direction. Write it in every letter you send to a relative or friend residing within a radius of fifty miles of this city. The suggestion is a good one and The Republican wishes to encourage the movement among all its readers. The special inducements to be offered by the merchants participating in this big trading event will certainly be sufficient to recompense all who take advantage of them. Over 20 of the leading merchants are making special arrangements to show residents of the surrounding territory the advantage of coming here to trade. There is no city in the state where trading can be done more advantageously than in Rensselaer, and in quality, variety and general up-to-dateness of her stores, Rensselaer is superior as a trading center to cities several times her size, Remember the fare of every out-of-town customer who comes here to trade will be refunded. Rural residents who do not travel here via the railroads will have an equivalent of their fares refunded also, so no one will be discriminated against because he does not happen to travel by rail. And remember also you will not have to trade any certain or definite amount at any one store. Trade where you please, with any of the

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merchants on the list, and when you are through present your refunding slip at The Republican office and get the price of your fare. Store* Participating in Sale. Here is a partial list of stores which will participate in the sale and refund fares. Cut it out and send it to your relatives and friends residing outside of Rensselaer. It will give them some idea of the magnitude of the sale and what it will mean to them. The G. E. Murray Co., Dept. Store. Rowles & Parker, Dept. Store. Hilliard & Hamill, Clothing. The Clothing House of Wna Traub C. Earl Duvall, Clothing. Central Garage Co., Ford Dealer*. B. N. Fendig, Shoe*. Fendig’a Fair, Women’* Wear. W. J. Wright, Furniture. Columbia Shoe Store, Shoe* and Millinery. Jone* & Briney, Millinery. P. W. Clarke, Jewelry. G. Jessen, Jewelry. Warner Bro*., Hardware. E. D. Rhoades A Son, Hardware. Kellner A Callahan, Implement* and. Buick Car*. C. A. Robert*, Buggiea & Wagon*. Rensselaer Dry Cleaning Work*. , .Watson Plumbing A Heating Co. New Princess Theatre. Larsh A Hopkins, Drugs. F. J. Rowen, Groceries. B. F. Fendig, Rexall Drug Store. The Home Grocery. A. F. Long A Sons, Drugs. < Long A Hardman, Jewelry. Edward Herath, Implement*.

INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE PUBLICITY

Indianapolis, March 2.—According to applications for boy labor received by the Indiana state council of defens4 and by various county agricultural agents throughout the state, it is estimated that not less than 10,000 Indiana boys between 16 and 21 years of age will be needed on Indiana farms this summer. Recognizing that the majority of these boys will necessarily come from towns and cities and therefore will be inexperienced in farm work, the council of defense has issued a bulletin entitled “Emergency Agriculture Classes,” which outlines a plan for teaching some of the rudiments of agriculture in a practical sort of way. School authorities, agricultural agents, farm implement dealers, agents for tractors, dealers in farm seeds and fertilizers, stock men, retired farmers, active fanners and livery men are all urged to co-operate with each other in . organizing such classes in all communities where boys are available. These boys will be placed on farms through the United States Boys’ Working Reserve, which during the week of March 18th to 23rd will conduct a state-wide campaign simultaneously with all other states in the Union for the purpose of enrolling as many boys as possible who will pledge themselves to substitute for men on farms next summer.

TIPPECANOE COUNTY JURY FIND HORN GUILTY

The jury having under consideration the Clyde M. Horn murder trial at Lafayette, after taking four ballots brought in the following verdict about seven o’clock Friday evening: “We the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and fix his punishment at imprisonment for life” were the startling and unexpected words that fell from the lips of Special Judge Geo. P. Haywood kt 8:10 last night when he read the verdict of the twelve men who had been selected to try Clyde N. Horn for the murder of Peter Mataxas, the Greek shoe shiner, on the morning of Oct 26, 1917.”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918.

POISON FATAL TO 3 PERSONS

THREE OTHERS ARE CRITICALLY ILL AT -DECATUR AND MYSTERY IS UNSOLVED. Decatur, March 1. —Decatur’s poisoning mystery is yet unsolved. Three persons have died from the effects of an unknown poison. The dead are'Russell A. Premer, proprietor of the Madison Hotel, where the victims were poisoned; Miss Veve Burger, waitress at the hotel, and Robert Kilver, 14 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. L A. Kilver. Mrs. Frank Reed, an assistant in the hotel; Mrs. Premer, wife of the landlord and Clark J. Lutz an attorney, are critically ill. Mr. Lutz was taken to a hospital in Fort Wayne today. It is believed Mrs. Premer and Mr. Lutz may be saved. Another woman, Mrs. Royer, of Sturgis, Mich., was also taken, but her condition is not serious.

Four Ft. Wayne specialists and all the physicians in Decatur are working on the case, endeavoring to find the source of the poisoning. Chicago and Washington specialists have been appealed to for aid. The poisoning is believed to have been caused by some disease of meat, as only those who ate of the beef on Friday have been stricken. After the post-mortem on Mr. Premer it was suggested the poisoning might have come from hoof and mouth disease. It is the opinion that the disease is a rare one in this country though common in Germany, where it is known as botullinus or German sausage disease. The symptoms of those afflicted correspond to those who suffer from the German disease. The victims were rendered blind, their throats and nose became paralyzed and they could neither talk nor eat. The analysis of the organs taken to Fort Wayne has not been finished. The whole city is aroused and the sale of meats practically has stopped.

WAR SUMMARY

, American troop* in the sector north of Toul continue to bear their full share of the brunt of the fighting on the western front. Following their unsuccessful attempt to raid the American line* on Thursday, the German* returned to the attack in force on Friday and succeeded in penetrating the American positions, but were driven out in desperate hand-to-hand fighting with losses, leaving many dead. The American losses were considerable. American troops further west on the Aisne front also have received the attention* of the Germans, ten of the Pershing men having been captured in a raid on a FrancoAmerican position, according to Berlin announcement.

Dispatches indicate that the whole* western front is ablaze with battle and that fighting on a large scale is developing. In Russia there are indications that the German ultimatum giving the Bolshevik delegates at BrestLitovsk three days from yesterday to sign a German peace has produced a break in the negotiations. Several dispatches indicate this indirectly. One wireless from Petrograd says that the delegates to the BrestLitovsk party have called for a special train to take them home and have asked for a strong guard. Lenine adds this comment in giving out the message: '

“This most probably signifies that the peace negotiations have been broken off by the Germans. We must be ready for an immediate German advance on Petrograd and all fronts . It is necessary that all the people rise and strengthen the the measures for defense. A late Petrograd dispatch indicates that a body of Russian troops has cut off a part of the, German forces near Minsk. Petrograd is being put in condition for defense, its evacuation by the nonmilitary population having been ordered, it is reported. Japan is to be asked by the allies to intervene to safeguard their interests in the Far East, according to London dispatches. Toldo reports that Japanese intervention is Under discussion in the Imperial Diet and that plans for making it effective are well under way.

Miss Grace Moore is spending the day in Lafayette.

HAYS BRINGS HARMONY TO REPUBLICAN RANKS

. ■ r 1 — „ New York, March I.—“ That Chairman Hays (Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman) is succeeding in his attempt to bring complete harmony to Republican ranks is indicated by reports from Washington,” is the statement published in the New York Sun today. “His enthusiasm, his sincerity and his manifest determination to reconcile all factions have caused Republicans to foresee a new career for the party. “Though no party issues have been definitely decided on yet, it is clear from Mr.’Hays’s attitude that all issues will be formulated with first thought to the successful prosecution of the war.

“The chairman’s strong views on the war have made a deep impression on those with whom he has talked. He favors the dismissal of all pacifists from the Republican ranks. “It is likely that Mr. Hays will make Washington his general headquarters, and spend a great part of time there.”

A Washington dispatch to the Sun today says: “Will H. Hays, Indiana’s ‘little giant’ in politics, selected to manage the affairs of the Republican party at this critical time in the history of the nation, after three days spent conferring with Republicans here, has returned to New York. Mr. Hays goes back to New York and Indiana leaving an encouraged lot of ,Republicans in the national capital who after seeing him believe that his leadership is to invigorate the party. '“Mr. Hays seemed something like an innovation in political leaders to the old war horses of the party whom he met here in his three days’ visit. Exceedingly youthful in appearance, he impressed all of them with his earnestness and sincerity. The upshot of the conferences he has held was described by several Republican statesmen as having put ‘pep’ into Republicans of all shades and stripes. “Not even Color'd Roosevelt’s visit has done so muffi in a sense to bring those of the old and new wings of the party together Mr. days took particular pains to seek out personally Republicans representing all the different shades of thought and feeling, learn their views and put them all down carefully in his note book. He is for pleasing every one of them if he can and he believes he can do it.

“What impressed greatly the senators and representatives with whom Mr. Hays talked was the strong views he holds regarding the position the party should take respecting the war. Mr. Hays, can make a speech on the war at any time that is a hummer, full of fire and feeling and of the most intense loyalty. The war has filled this young Hoosier with,., a burning indignation. “He believes that ‘win the war now’ should be the keynote of the party in the next campaign. He -would have the party eject every pacifist from its ranks. He would have the party demand in every state platform that the war be pressed to a victorious finish.

“The party issues have yet to be definitely shaped, -but if Mr. Hays has his way these issues will be based on this general idea. Another cardinal feature of Mr. Hays’s platform of party management, as he told Republicans here, is the ‘open door.’ He would have the fullest and freest publicity given to the party’s activities.

“ ‘The success of the party,’ he told Republican senators, ‘in the final analysis depends upon public opinion. Its purposes, its activity and its achievements must be open to all. This applies to the management of its affairs, about which the public should be cognizant at al times.’ “Mjr. Hays plans to make Washington the party headquarters. He is in favor of having most of the party conferences here instead of New York or Chicago. The headquarters here will be enlarged an< its activities increased. Mr. Hays himself will spend a good part of his time here.”

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LIQUOR HIGH IN BONE DRY SOUTH

BOOTLEGGERS RESORT TO ALL KINDS OF SCHEMES TO CARRY ON BUSINESS. The Southern states after leaving Kentucky are all dry except Louisiana and it is a hard matter, in fact almost impossible to secure a drink, except in the larger cities, and there liquor can be bought, if one knows how—and has the price, but the price is high, and whiskey sells for from $3 to sl2 per quart, and it is generally of an inferior article. Since the U. S. bone dry law went' into effect bootlegging has been made a dangerous occupation and the illicit dealers in wet goods demand high prices for the risk they take. At Memphis, Tenn., recently, two car loads of whiskey were seized, but not until many cars had been shipped into that city. It is against the law for a railroad to accept shipments of liquor into dry territory. In this case certain railroads and city officials were in collusion with the bootleggers and a big profit was made by all connected with the illegal traffic before their scheme was nipped in the bud by the officers. It was the practice to bill the shipments to Memphis, but the cars were cut off on a switch on the outskirts of the city and the liquor secretly removed at night in automobiles and distributed among the different dealers in the city. All kinds of schemes were used to prevent detection. One car load was shipped in and had the appearance of a load of baled hay, the hay being piled around the sides of the car and the liquor stored in the center. Another car had the appearance of an emigrant car, a few bales of hay being piled next to the door and second land household goods stored in the car helped to carry out the deception. An innocent looking cow was tied near the hay and any chance passer-by seeing the cow munching the hay would have no suspicion that the car was other than it seemed. The liquor was removed that night and the next day the cow was grazing on the commons, -as it was no longer needed. It was only by accident that the officers got onUto the illegal shipments and stopped them. The liquor that was being shipped into Memphis was only six months old and retailed at sl2 per quart.

A favorite method of smuggling whiskey into dry territory is by the suit case route, but this is becoming dangerous and other methods are being adopted. A bootlegger having seven suit cases loaded with whiskey enroute to dry territory was arrested in New Orleans the other day by officers who noticed the weight of the cases and a suspicious clink. Usually the bootlegger has only one case; his capital is limited; generally he is a negro, because such modest smuggling does not offer returns that would tempt a white man. But seret service agents have some of the shrewdest crooks in the country to deal with in whiskey running. For instance, the internal revenue officer has just seized a lot of trunks containing liquor and clothing, and a barrel of sugar with a keg of whiskey placed inside.

Another instance is th> famous case of the shingles that leaked. Certain men in Montgomery, Ala., becoming tired of the suit case route, which meant a long and uncertain time between drinks,, planned to put in a real stock. So they went into wet territory, chartered a car, lined it with shingles, filled the central nest with whiskey, brandy and beer, and covered the whole with another layer of shingles. They billed it all to a fictitious lumber supply company. Everything went all right at first; the loading was done so secretly that not-even the railroad company suspected—shingles take a lower freight than liquor —and in time the car reached, Montgomery. But something had, happened—there had been a fearful : jolt somewhere on the line, and ■ a bundle of shingles had fallen bn some of the botltes. A police officer passing through the yards smelt a familiar odor. Full of hope, he followed it, and found the box car with its lifeblood ebbing away in the form of a trickle of bourbon. To the automobile the whiskey smuggler has been resorting more and more. This is the original joy ■ »'

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IMPORTANT RED CROSS MEETING

Everybody expresses themselves as anxious and willing to help the Red Cross* Prove your interest in this matter by being at the Red Cross room, Monday evening at 7:30. Very important business should receive your nreferred attention.

ride, the father of all joy rides. It was a new method, it was speedy. Sometimes a false tank is put under the floor or back seat and the same driver takes the car the entire distance, though if the haul is a long one, there may be several reliefs. Sometimes again it is relayed through many automobiles, each man simply carrying it through his community. This is where the federal agents have the hardest time getting the evidence, because there is nothing particularly suspicious for Mr. So-and-So to take a little spin, and make 5 , the transfers at schedule places. Much liquor is undoubtedly run into Mississippi by fishing boats. The distances are so short, the craft so numerous, they come and go with much frequency, that it is extremely hard to catch them red-handed. At Natchez, near here, it is no trouble at all to get liquor, if dne has the price, and all one has to do is tc make his wants known, and any colored lad will take your money and soon return with whatever you ordered and there is one place within stone’s throw of police headquarters, where the traffic is carried on openly, but no bartender is/in sight. Inside a high board enclosure is a small opening in which the customer places his money and tells what he wants. The money disappears and in its place appears a bottle of whiskey or beer or whatever the customer has ordered. The police of the city are undoubtedly profiteers in this illegal traffic, for arrests are seldom made. Or one can take the ferry and cross the river over to Vidalia, La., which is wet territory and get his wants supplied at. a lower price, but to carry the purchase back across the river into this state makes him liable and he may have trouble when he leaves the boat to enter dry territory. In the small towns like Gloster liquor is hard to get, although there is some bootlegging carried on among the colored population, but they are often caught and given a fine of SIOO or more, which takes the profit out of the busines. The drug stores in this state are not allowed to handle liquor and make no attempt to do so.

Gloster, Miss.

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