Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1918 — Page 1

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THE KAISER.

Starving children in many countries! Widowed young women, and old women who never again will see their sons! Millions of soldiers in the last bitter hours of mortal agony! Gnawed skulls in the slimy bottoms of many seas! The Kaiser spares his own sons, yet upon his head is the blood of ten million men. In Dante’s pifcture of hell he has no equal. He is the brutal soul of savage beasts put into human shape, the maddened dog that learned our common speech, the viper standing upright clothed as man. For vanity he set the world aflame. Too long the crown has crazed his festered brain. Why should we not hate? It is time for hate, and sacrifice born of brooding hate! Why wait till the wounded come back? Why wait till the lists of the dead come in? Sometimes, sitting at my table in the night, suddenly I think I can hear the newsboys breaknig the silence with their far away cries of “Extra! Extra!” Something tells me, “They’ve got him!” I listen again. The night is silent. The thing was born of the hope in my brain. But sometime it will be true! Then through all the world will go up a prayer of thanks! And through all eternity, the anguish that he wrought will terrify his outcast soul, as to and fro it wanders trembling through the pits of hell! I the son of a German, who loved his native land but despised its government, write this. MAX EHRMANN, In the New York Sun.

Mrs. Gertie Harding returned to her home in Pontiac, 111., today, after a visit with the family of Mr. Frank Kanne. I

HAS NOT RAISED.

The old relibale McKinley avenue barber shop will continue to serve its patrons at previous prices. Van Wood.

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EDWARD P. LANE MADE A SPEECH

WILL HAVE IMPORTANT PART IN THIRD LIBERTY LOAN BOND. Edward P. Lane, one of the best hustlers in this city, has been appointed to look after the transportation facilities for those who are to attend the Liberty Loan meetings in this county during the campaign beginning Saturday, April 6. Mr. Lane was present at the meeting held at the Christian church Wednesday evening, and when called upon by Chairman Chapman he made an excellent response and assured Mr. Chapman and others present that he would discharge the duties imposed upon him with the very best effort possible. . Mr. Lane’s talk was full of patriotism and had the ring of a fellow who really means business. By the authority vested in him, if you do not offer him your automobile he may conscript your car and take you along with it and when the campaign is over he may sell it and buy a liberty bond with the proceeds. If you had heard his speech you would not fail to offer your car. See Mr. Lane at once and offer your automobile in this important move to, provide ammunition with which to get the Kaiser.

W. C. Babcock went to Chicago this morning. Walter Hopkins arrived in Rensselaer today from Califomia,,Jvhere he has been working for the past several weeks.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1918.

LIBERTY GUARDS AT WHEATFIELD

COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE ENDORSES MOVEMENT AT MEETING. The Jasper county council of defense convened in regular session in the county commissioners’ room in the court house in this city Thursday evening at 2:30, with the following persons present: Mesdames Ora T. Ross and William Bringle, Messrs. John Bowie, W. L. Bott, W. D. Bringle and L. H. Hamilton. County Chairman Welsh apd ViceChairman McLain were absent. W. L. Bott was elected president protem. Minutes of the meeting of March 20th were read and approved. A community club circular letter received from the United States commissioner of education was referred to County Superintendent of Schools M. L. Sterrett. The appointment of Attorney George A. Williams to assist soldiers in making out their insurance papers by Chairman Welsh was approved. Councilman John Bowie, of Wheatfield, asked that a Liberty Guard be organized in his town and he was appointed by M. L. Sauser of the military committee to prepare and circulate the necessary petition and as soon as fifty signers are obtained step will be taken to organize a company at Wheatfield. Chairman" Sauser reported that he haS secured a lease from Mr. Shaffer, the owner of the K. P. building of the armory and the Red Cross room for another period of three months from March 1. W. L. Bott of the local telephone company offers free use of the toll line in the county for the Third Liberty Loan, which was accepted with thanks. Mrs. Ora T. Ross was instructed to purchase a sufficient supply of suitable stationery for the use of the members of the council. After discussion of other matters the board adjourned to meet Thursday, April 18, at 2:30 p. m.

BURKE WALKER CANDIDATE FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE

Burke Walker, of Fowler, was in Rensselaer today. He has announced that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for joint representative from Benton, Jasper and Newton counties. Mr. Walker is a practicing attorney of Fowler and has resided here all his life. He is the son of the late M. H. Walker, one of the pioneer lawyers of Benton county. He is a graduate of the Indiana Law School and for two years immediately after his graduation was a law clerk in the city law department at Indianapolis. Prior to locating in Fowler, Mr. Walker practiced law for a time at Vincennes, Ind. He has a splendid practice in Benton county and was elected county attorney by the board of county commissioners at their first meeting of the year last January. He has always been prominently identified with the affairs of Fowler and Benton county and is now secretary of the Third Liberty Loan committee and is devoting much of his time to the cause. His father was at one time prosecuting attorney of this district.

SEW CLUB LADIES KNIT QUILT; MONEY TO RED CROSS

The members of the Sew club and their husbands enjoyed a pleasant evening Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eger on College avenue. After a luncheon the ladies quilted on a quilt, which will be sold and the money turned over to the Red Cross. After lunch Tuesday at the Red Cross dance, a number of sandwiches, cakes and pies were left, of which some were divided among the needy of the city. The remainder was bought by the Sew club and used at the quilting bee, and $3.50 was collected from the members and turned over to Miss Milliken of the local Red Cross chapter.

GLASS IN BREAD CAUSE OF ALARM AT LAFAYETTE

The finding of glass in bread baked at a Lafayette bakery continues to cause furore in that city. For the past several days various citizens have reported the finding of small particles of glass in bread which they have. Two loaves were turned over to the police Thursday by Mrs. Robert Warner, who bought it from, the bakery wagon. The police are hard at work trying to solve the mystery, and hope to make some arrests soon.

SPECIAL NOTICE. On and after this date a charge will be made for all church and other notices of this nature appearing in The Republican. This step is made necessary owing to the high cost of producing a newspaper. Every line of type that goes into the production of a newsppaer costs money and publishers should not be asked to give their space away, nor can they afffford to do so. CLARK & HAMILTON, Publishers. Mrs. J. K. Smith went to Roselawn today. , i

HELP WIN AN HONOR FLAG

WILL YOUR CORPORATION BE ON THE HONOR ROLL? J. H. Chapman, chairman of the Jasper County Third Liberty Loan Drive, has apportioned to each corporation of the county their quota of the $240,000 to be raised between April 6th and 16th. The total valuation of the assessed property of the county is $15,8141,000. The per centage necessary to raise $240,000 is 1.6 per cent. In other words, if each person in the county will buy bonds to the extent of 1.6 per cent of their assessed valuation the full amount of our quota would be raised. But, we have a large amount of property in the county owned by non-residents, also much of the valuation is represented by railroad assessments. If you want to make sure that your corporation will raise it’s full quota, figure on buying about 5 per cent or more of your assessed valuation. Let the minimum be SIOO, for those who own small farms and $50.00 for those who do not own their homes or a farm. Please study the figures and be advised that if you do not do your part that you are a slacker. Following are the allotments to corporations: # Barkley—Allotment $15,000 Assessed valuation . . . $1,313,000 Carpenter and Remington—Allotment $54,000 Valuation Carpenter ..$1,952,000 Valuation Remington. . . $518,000 Gillam —Allotment . SB,OOO Valuation $771,000 Hanging Grove —Allotment $75,000 Valuation $751,000 Jordan —Allotment $9,000 Valuation $947,000 Kankakee—Allotment $4,800 Valuation $575,000 Keener —Allotment $9,000 Valuation $773,000 Marion and Rensselaer—Allotment Valuation Marion .. . $2,035,000 Valuation Rensselaer f $1,483,000 Milroy—Allotment .../.... $3,500 Valuation $336,000 Newton—Allotment ...... SIO,OOO Valuation $941,000 Union—Allotment $15,000 Valuation $1,356,000 Walker—Allotment $4,800 Valuation $726,000 Wheatfield town and twp.—Allotment $9,400 Valuation town $178,000 Valuation township .... $726,000

WAR SUMMARY.

Three terrific German infantry drives on as many sectors of the twenty-five-mile front between Montdidier and the region west of Albert have opened the second major phase of the Picardy campaign which has now resolved itself into what will be known as the battle of Amiens. Both against the British and the French the Teutons made progress. But the new drive has not nearly the impetuous force of the opening assault on March 21. The attackers pressed the allies back by pushing forward the spearhead of their wedge toward Amiens. On the two flanks, however, the allies retained the upper hand throughout. Terrific fighting still is in progress. With the -renewal of their drive the Germans swung an important part of their shock power against the French front facing Montdidier.More than 100,000 picked troops flung themselves against the French on a front of fifteen kilometers (nine miles) and after ten assaults succeeded in occupying five villages. Field Marshal von Mackensen is reported on the way to the west front. He is Germany’s greatest cavalry general. Hindenburg manifestly is looking for a great battle in the open. Lively firing from the Krupps flared up in the Ypres sector during the day. A German drive there is believed to be scheduled to coincide with the investment of Amiens, upon which the Kaiser’s high command appears to have staked all. One million men are reported to have been collected by the Germans for the second phase of the great drive.

PRO-GERMAN GUEST OF HONOR AT ROPE PARTY

Collinsville, 111., April 4.—Robert P. Praeger, said to be of German parentage, was hanged to a tree one mile south of the city limits tonight by a mob of 350 persons, who dragged him from the basement the city hall, where he had been hiding. Praeger was accused of making disloyal remarks in a recent address to miners at Maryville, 111.

TROOP TRAIN CARRYING LOCAL BOYS WRECKED

Five passengers were slightly hurt Wednesday when a troop train ran into the Pittsburg and New York express on the Pennsylvania railroad while it was taking water near Conemaugh, Pa. The troop train was loaded with drafted men from Indiana and was on its way to Fort Hamilton, N. Y. None of the soldiers was injured.

E. L. Hollingsworth went to Chicago this morning.

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FIGHTING IS RESUMED

BITTER FIGHTING RESUMED ON PICARDY LINE—ALLIES YIELD GAINS. With The- American Army In France, April 4.—American forces are now occupying a sector on the Meuse heights south of Verdun. This announcement was released for publication tonight, simultaneously with a statement that the enemy raided one of the American listening posts in the sector after a heavy bombardment. The raid was made against one of the few positions in this region where it is feasible, because of the terraine, to conduct operations without heavy loss to attacking forces. The enemy first vigorously bombarded the American first line and communication trenches zigzagging up the hillside, and then sent over a raiding party which swarmed about the listening post. The further progress of the enmy was halted by a strong fire from the American first and second lines, and, as a consequence, the enemy can hardly claim success.

Because of the topography of the Meuse heights region, there has been little severe fighting there for many months, and the opposing forces took advantage of the inactivity to construct fine dugouts, many of them 1 being lighted by electricity. Each side enjoys the advantage of excellent observation posts, and shells echo among the surrounding hills, which are covered with spring flowers. The other American sectors were reported quiet today. The Germans sent in few shells in the sector northwest of Toul, but the enemy airplanes were fairly active in patrolling. After several days of comparative inactivity along the battle front in ] Picardy, bitter fighting has been resumed along the western sector of the salient on lines of the entente allies. Attacks by the Germans against the British and French are admitted to have yielded some gains to the invaders in the critical sectors just to the east of the city of Amiens. The fighting, according to latest reports, has been heaviest in the neighborhood of Hamel, where the British were forced back slightly, and in the triangle formed by the rivers Luce and Avre, further to the south, where the French were forced/to give ground.

READ THE LIBERTY LOAN ADVERTISEMENT—PAGE 2.

On page two of today’s issue will be found a powerful appeal from the government urging that all purchase bonds during the Third Liberty Loah drive, which opens on April 6. The advertisement is run free of charge by The Republican and it should be read by every man, woman and child in Jasper county.

Positively last sale of onions, Saturday, April 6th, 2 p. FORSYTHE. ABUNDANCE OF MONEY I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is 5 per cent and my limit is SIOO per acre.—P. D. Wells. Morocco, Ind. NOTICE. I have taken the district agency for the Curtis publications. I will cash and deliver the Ladies Home Journal for 15c. The Saturday Evening Post for 5c and The Country Gentleman for sc. Delivered to your home. Telephone your order. J. J. Montgomery. Phone 351.

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THREE CHARGES FILED AGAINST COL. FREYERMUTH

South Bend, Ind., April 4.—Depositions in the court-martial of Col. George W. Freyermuth of this city, commanding the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Field Artillery at Hattiesburg, Miss., were taken today by George T. Wetzel. Colonel Freyermuth is facing three charges as follows: That he failed to keep a promise to resign if passed by the efficiency board, that he was absent without leave and that he drew pay for two days when not on duty. Colonel Freyermuth denies the first charge. Regarding the second charge he was unable to return to Hattiesburg within the specified time because of the January storm, which tied up railroad traffic. The third charge is purely technical. The depositions . here attest to Colonel Freyermuth’s high standing' in the community. The charges were made by Gen. Whitney.

WEST HAMMOND SALOONS EMPLOY EXTRA BARTENDERS

Tipplers from the cities of Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Whiting and Gary are overrunning West Hammond, 111., following the enforcement of prohibition in Indiana. Interurban cars from the industrial cities of Lake cbunty take crowds of workmen at all hours to West Hammond, who fill the thirtyfour saloons there. Extra bartenders are employed and ait times the saloons are so crowded that throngs of waiting patrons congregate outsider The limited police force is powerless to preserve order. Mill workers claim that in order to stand the heat of blast furnaces that they must have beer. They are grumbling because they are compelled to make the trip to West Hammond to satisfy their thirst. Some threaten to leave.

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.

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