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ASKS PEOPLE OF INDIANA TO GO ON WHEATLESS DIET

Qpunty Food Administrator, John Eger has received the following telegram from H. E.’ Barnard, statte food administrator, which is self-ex-planatory : “I am today asking the people of Indiana to go on a strictly wheatless diet. I ask them to refrain from the use of wheat flour and other wheat products until the next harvest. - I ask this because I know we have lived on corn and can do so again. I know that our wheat situation is even more portentious than Hindenburg’s army in Picardy. I know as Hoover points out this is the most critical hour in our national history since Gettysburg; Indiana patriots do not need a command. They have arisen to every patriotic request made of them to this hodr. They will comply with this request. Their devotion to the cause of world freedom will be equal to the test.” Class parties continue to be the source of trouble among the students of the public schools. The habit of stealing refreshments, cutting hair, etc., is a very old one, but an incident which occqrred the other evening may tend to put a stop to these practices. One young man, who attended a party given by his class, was returning home when he was stopped by three young lads from another class, who informed him that they were going to cut his hair. “You are, are you,” said the young man who was to be the victim of their pranks, whereupon he drew forth a bottle of ammonia which he had concealed about his person and dashed it on his adversaries. The result was that one of the boys received part of the contents in his eyes. At present he is confined to his home, and for a time grave fears were entertained that his eyesight rrlight be permanently impaired. Such foolishness among the students should cease before something serious results, and the school and city authorities should work in conjunction in stamping out the evil.

PICTURES WORTH SEEING NEW PRINCESS THEATRE '—BIGGEST ITABI—IMT PEATS ftM SUvsrwsre Coupon* Inry Bap.

TONKNT , The Eminent Stage Star. Mr. E. H. Southern •The Man of Mystery’ Also Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew In a Comedy. AUb SEATS lOC. TttVBSBAY— Junior Red Cross Benefit iThos. Santchi, Bessie Eyton and Geo. Fawcett in Winston Churchill's masterpiece “The Crisis” 9 great* dots. America’s greatest American story. / lOc and 2 80. FBQIAT— Earl Williams “Apartment 29” Also Good Comedy. AJmXm BEATS 100. SATOBBAY — King of them all *' In Douglas Fairbanks

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YOUNG ROBBERS ARE NIPPED

REX MOORE AND OLEN WISEMAN LAND IN JAIL AS RESULT OF SUNDAY THEFTS. ' Rex Moore, son of Forg Moore, of Hammond, and' Olen Wiseman, son N os Henry Wiseman, of this city, are in the county jail, where they were taken Monday afternoon, as a result of a rtumber of Sunday thefts. The lads are ten years of age. The places visited by the youths during the day were the Van Wood barbershop on McKinley avenue, the G. E. Murray store and the Star theatre. At the Wood barbershop some cigarettes, cigars and keys were obtained. At the Murray store the boys gained an entrance by going to the roof of the building, where they found the skylight open. About five dollars rewarded their efforts at this store, while a few pennies were secured at the Star. The boys will be brought up for a hearing before Judge Hanley within a few days and Will no doubt be sentenced to a term at the state reform school at Plainfield, Ind. This time changing business has the most of our citizens walking in a circle these days. Not that the system is itself so hard to master, but the town clock, knowing the state is to go dry, has chosen this an oppor-j tune moment to go on a “bender.” The city regulator has been “woozyeyed” for the past two or three days and strikes just as often and as many times as it cares to without regard for the feelings of anyone. Unless Custodian Morlan can get the Old Fellow sobered up soon, Rensselaer is going to be inhabited by a race of nervous wrecks.

W2DNEBBAT- . New Paramount Star Series Jack Pickford and Louise Huff “Jack and Jill” Ky v<, A great story for everybody; also The New Mutual Screen telegram—the latest Animated weekly Issued. News from all over the world In pictures. 100 and 180. “Reaching for The Moon”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1918.

RED CROSS BALL TONIGHT

WILL BE MOST ENJOYABLE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF THE SEASON. / Nothing has been left undone to make the Red Cross ball at the arnjory this evening the most enjoyable social affair of the season. The various committees state that everything is in readiness, and that the guests are assured of an evening of solid entertainment The best musical talent of .the county has been secured to aid in the entertainment, which will begin at eight-thirty o'clock. The following musical program will be carried out: Selection—High School Orchestra. Voice—Marjorie Loughridge. Violin Solo—M. J. Wagner. Voice—Alice Thomas. Voice—Mrs. Solon Spiegel. \ Reading—Mrs. Harvey Messman. Talk—John A. Dunlap. Voice-:—Miss Ann Leonard. Musical Reading—Miss Pearl Morris, accompanist, Mfiss Bartoo, of' Remington.. ■ Voice—Mrs. Erret Graham. Piano Trio—Helen Parkison, Linnie Bird Rains, Lenora Carr. Local musicians will furnish .the music for the dance, and will donate their services. The Red Cross ladies will serve a cafeteria luncheon during the everting, for which a small charge will be made. The Red Cross chapter expects to be greatly benefited financially by the dance as practically everything necessary to staging the ball has been donated, and there will be but little expense attached to it. Attend the ball, enjoy an evening of entertainment and aid in a worthy enterprise.

WAR SUMMARY.

The day after the day on which Hindenburg had boasted his army would be in Paris finds the great German wedge in Picardy encased on both sides by walls of granite and its spearhead badly battered on one side while desperately “craning” forward on the other, taking fearful punishment, and evidently preparing to make a new smash at Arras to gain room. The Prussian eagle’s wings are as if tied fast, unable even, to make the slightest fluttering move. They .are in great danger of being momentarily clipped.' Meanwhile the “beak” is desperately hacking away—toward Amiens. The twelfth day of the battle brought the Germans only insignificant gains in this “hacking” movement, but netted them a bloody harvest of losses. With the fatalistic persistency of a losing gambler Hindenburg is hurling man after man into the center on the front between Montdidier and Marcelcave, which has the ominously significant length of some thirteen miles. He pursues, despite the indescribable blood bath in which thousands upon thousands of his best fighting men have suffocated during the ten days of the win-or-lose tussle, the same aims which he set out, but failed to, gain, in violent sweep—-separation of the French and British armies. Paralyzed on both sides, forced to dig on the south, where he had intended to roll up the allied wings, he still hopes to penetrate further and further in the center, reach Amiens, cut the Paris-Calais rail and automatically release his flanks from the grip in which they are now held. In the marshy angle between the Avre river and the Lucebrook he is throwing new divisions into combat as a last desperate chance.

FORT HAMILTON POPULATION TO BE SWELLED.

Seven more Jasper county boys will leave Wednesday morning to go into the service for their Uncle Sam. They will go to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., which is located on Long Island. Herbert Hammond, Michael Wagner, Lloyd Parks and William O. Duvall are four of the boys who are to be in the party, but the remaining three have not been selected by the conscription board as yet .

NEW CASES FILED.

April 1. -i No. 8913.—Martha Ellen Albertson vs. Estate of Nancy Sorger. Suit to collect $2,000 claim disallowed by administrator. April 2. 8914.-—Daniel S. Makeever et al vs. Stella R. Uphoff et al. Suit on note. Demand $4,000.

SEED CORN

Reid’s Yellow Dent, matured early before freezing weather, guarantee satisfaction. Tests 75 to 79 per cent Price $5.00 per bushel. Sacks extra 50 cents. Corn Belt Seed Co., Kentland, Ind.

NOTICE TO MUSIC STUDENTS. I shall finish the course in Normal Piano Methods at Northwestern University school of music the second week in June and should like pupils in piano and theory. Florence Allman. ' Read inside pages. AD home print today. ■

STATE GOES DRY TONIGHT

AFTER BEING WET FOR PAST HUNDRED YEARS—CASE TO SUPREME COURT TOMORROW The state of Indiana will become officially dry at twelve o’clock this Tuesday night, April 2, under a law ’enacted by the legislature in 1917, and which is to be tested in the supreme court. -With the exception of a few months prior to 1855 Indiana has had saloons, breweries and distilleries for more than one hundred years. Two statuatory state-wide prohibition laws have been enacted since the state was admitted to the union in 1816. One of the laws was held unconstitutional in 1855 in the now famous Beebee case. The other is the law that becomes effective today and which will close about forty breweries, hundreds of a number of the largest distilleries in America. The new law is of the bone "dry variety, which has found favor with the prohibitionists. Although enacted more than a year ago the numerous provisions of the law are little understood. But one spot in Jasper county will be affected by the law—DeMotte. where A 1 Konowsky has operated a saloon for the past «:ereval years. However, the liquor forces have not given up hope and are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the test case, which has gone to the Supreme court and which comes to trial in Indianapolis today. The liquor forces contend the law is unconstitutional and are entertaining great hopes of winning a decision over the drys. The case to be argued is the one appealed from Vanderburg county in which brewers of Evansville asked for an injunction against enforcement of the law. The law was declared unconstitutional by the* county court there and was appealed by the prohibitionists. Another case now pending in the Supreme court was appealed from Lake county, where the country court, ruling in the injunction suit of saloon men, of Gary, decided that the law was unconstitutional. Attorneys for the appellants in the Gary case have filed a motion to be allowed to enter their argument and at the same time but thus far the motion has not been ruled upon. Only an immediate decision by the Supreme court, a thing practicably unknowA in the annals of the court, will prevent the carrying out of the law tonight.

MAY NOW EAT MEAT EVERY DAY FOR MONTH

Suspension of the meatless day regulations for thirty days beginning yesterday was ordered last night by the food administration in jnstructjons telegraphed to all state food administrators. Temporary relaxation of the restrictions was decided upon because thousands of hogs now coming into the market has increased the meat supply beyond 1 the country’s shipping and storage capacity. In a statement announcing the order Food Administrator Hoover expressed confidence that the producers would not take the holiday to ask more than fair prices, and that the “packers, and retailers will have sense enough to realize that this is not to be a holiday of high prices.” “The very much overnormal run to markets on hogs due to supplies dammed back, during the winter months car shortage, still continues,” Mr. Hoover said, “and seems likely to go on for another thirty days. After this period the seasonal shortage in marketing will set in. “It is a matter of regret that the extent of our domestic storage capacity, the limited overseas and inland transportation and port facilities do not permit of saving and moving the whole of this temporary and abnormal surplus to the allies for use when this heavy killing season has passed. On the other hand, the larger and cheaper supplies of potatoes and the larger supplies of milk, together with these further relaxed restrictions on meat so that some portion is available each day should facilitate the enlarged saving of bread-stuffs of which we are so much deficient in allied needs. The consumer should not take this announcement as in any way a departure from the general principles of conservation of all foods which the food administration preaches. The need of fo6d on the other side is greater than ever—the need of economy in America greater than ever.”

TONIGHT I WILL BF I THE BIG I EASTER I DANCE. | . GOT YOUR . I TICKET? |

Fair and cooler. Boys Want Stylo I lA ' WE BELIEVE and know that boys \ -frua- * are like young men; they want * style, variety, new ideas; and know- [ J\y \ i this we give it to them. THIS YEAR boys’ styles are very M ll military—we know they’ll like them. iA Khaki and greens predominate in - colors. BQYS SUITS $5.00 TO $15.00 FURNISHINGS CAPS—STOCKINGS—SHOES .' , i Hilliard&Hamil I —Things Boys Like— | J

MANY WANT PUBLIC OFFICE

THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES HAVE FILED WITH THE CIRCUIT CLERK. Township Trustee. Carpenter, Burdett Porter, R. Hanging Grove, S. B. Snedeker, R. Walker, V. M. Peer,.D. Gillam, C. E. Weiss, R. Barkley, Ralph W. Johnson, R. Hanging Grove, W. E. Poole, R. Newton, John Rush, R. Jordan, Julius G. Huff, R. Jordan, John Kolhoff, D. Keener, Henry Swart, R; A. DeKoker, Jr., R; Tunis Snip, R; Clifford Fairchild, R. Milroy, Wm. VanNatta, R; G. L. Parks, R; John Johnson, R; George W. Foulks, R; Charles Wood, D; Roy Culp, D. , , „ Kankakee, Alfred Dugglesby, R. Union, George H. Hammerton, R. Marion, Charles W. Postill, R. WheatfielcU Geo. W. Furgeson, R; Robert A. Mannan. Township Assessor. Milroy, Charles -A. Lytle, R. Keener, John Greve, R; W. C. Hanaway, R. Walker, Charles Scott, R. Gillam, J. W. Marion, R. Hanging Grove, John L. Osborne, R. Barkley, Harry E. Reed, R; O. G. Baker, R. Jordan, James Bullis, R. Union, Frank Goff, R. Marion, L. P. Shirer, R. Carpenter, Robert S. Shearer, R. County Office. - Auditor, S. C. Robinson, R. Clerk, Jesse Nichols, R; R. L. Budd, R. Treasurer, John Biggs, R. Sheriff, John E. Robinson, R; True D. Woodworth, R; L. A. Hannon; R. Gail Michal, R; Vern Jacks, D. Surveyor, Ed. Nesbitt, R. Coronor, W. J. Wright, R; Leo Worland, D. Assessor, G. L. Thornton. Com. 2nd Dist., Bert Amsler. Com 3rd Dist., Will B. Fisher; Charles A. Welsh.

WILL H. HAYS SLATED FOR WESTERN TOUR

Indianapolis, March 31.—Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, will leave here Tuesday midnight on a western trip in the interests of the third Liberty loan, according to plans announced here tonight by Mr. Hays. The trip will take him as far west as San Francisco, and will require a little more than three weeks. “Liberty loan meetings have been arranged in every city where I stop,” said Mr. Hays.

GILLAM FARMERS’ CLUB WAR RALLY APRIL 3, 1918

The Gillam Farmers' club will hold a special war rally at Independence church next Wednesday evening, April 3rd, according to the plans of President J. H. Guild. The main theme of the meeting will be the Government’s War program "for the farmers of America. A number of excellent speakers have been secured, who will deliver addressess on agricultural, patriotic and home demons trational lines. “We want to make April 3rd a big day for Gillam township,” says the Secretary, J. P. Deselms. * “Gillam township has always been right at the front and we expect to keep her there this summer.” Everybody is invited.

If you need a livery car, for long or short drives, call phone 340 or 527 but get your £oat ou before you call.

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$1500.00 IS APPROPRIATED

AMPLE FUNDS PROVIDED THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE. On the special call of County Auditor Joseph P» Hammond, the Jasper county council convened here Monday and made the following additional appropriations for the year 1918: Expense County Auditor, $250. Improvements at county farm, $4,500. Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial clubs, S2OO. . r County Council of Defense, sl,500. Bridges—Carpenter, $350, $250, $750, $350; Jordan, $1,100; Kankakee, $1,250; Walker, $1,250, SI,OOO. The following members of the county council were present: H. W. Jackson and T. J. Prouty, Marion township; Elmer Pullin, Gillam township; Frank Hart, George May, Wester Boudy, Carpenter township. Washington Cook, of Hanging Grove township, was not present.

TUESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

F. M. Haskell underwent an operation for strangulated hernia early this morning. He was brought from his farm near Winamac and was in a very serious condition. Since the operation his condition is very much improved. Mrs. Nelson Fairchild underwent an operation this morning. Her condition is good. The eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rotts was operated on for mastoids this afternoon. Mrs. Ezra Hershman, of Wheatfield, is receiving medical attention. The hospital is a very busy place now and all rooms are occupied. Mrs. J. A. Larsh and baby will go to their home this evening. Mrs. Weighleman, mother of Mrs. Russell Van Kook, is very seriously sick.

A few more onions and sets left for sale, Saturday, April 6th, 2 p. m. B. FORSYTHE. STAR THEATRE Proparly Presenting the Boat tm Photoplays. TODAY RUTH ROLAND and MILTON SILLS ' In “THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY” A big punch picture. An original society photo-drama of distinction, with a groat theme. It’s a Foursquare production. admission 10c. TOMOBBOW — WILLIAM RUSSEL "THE SEA n MASTER” In Five Acts. • A MUTUAL WEEKLY and A GEORGE OVEY COMEDY 7 Reel Program. 10c. A world famous duel Is seen In "The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds.” the new Worid-Pl’cture Brady-Made which on Saturday will be shown at- the Star theatre. This is the duel between : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Bunr in which Hamilton, the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, was shot and killed by Burr. Four stars appear in this picture — Carlyle Blackwell, June El v Wage, Evelyn Greely and Arthur Ashley. The picture is not alone intensely Interesting from a historical viewpoint but is also tremendously entertaining as a drama. i g" * r* t...

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