Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1918 — Page 1

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No. 83.

LINOLEUMS . 9 We have just received four new patterns of linoleum ~ 12 feet wide that we will sell at the old price. W. J. WRIGHT

ASKS 600 COLLEGES TO SEND THEIR STUDENTS TO FARMS

Secretary Wilson wrote today to the presidents of 600 colleges, asking them to urge students to spend their vacations on the farms assisting farmers with their crops. Students volunteering will be enrolled "by the public service reserve in each state and will be placed on farms by the United States employment officers in each community.

A PLEASANT SURPRISE.

Last Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Nichols were at church, about fifty of their friend and relatives gathered at their home on Jackson street, and when they returned home to their surprise a bounteous dinner was waiting for them, which had been brought and prepared by the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols were much over come by the surprise but soon regained consciousness and were receiving the guests and making them feel welcome. Mr. Nichols is near his 80th year and served for his country in the civil war. . After doing justice to the bounteous dinner the afternoon was spent in Conservation and at a late hour all returned to their home wishing Mr. and Mrs. Nichols many days of happiness. BY ONE PRESENT.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

WORK ON THE PREPARATION OF THE' NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY IS IN PROGRESS. There has been so many moves and changes that to be sure your number and name is correct call INFORMATION OPERATOR or manager and give any changes or alterations. PARTIES WISHING ADVERTISEMENT SPACE will call MANAGEMENT, or bookkeeper. Do you realize there is no better mode of advertisement than a telephone directory, where it is seen and read by every member of the family, and neighbor, dozens of times each day. Remember that over 6000 persons use these directories. Ask to have things in the way you wish now, and not after in print. JASPER CO. TELEPHONE CO.

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The Evening Republican.

THOMAS COX TO REPORT FOR DUTY MONDAY.

Thomas Cox, of this city, who offered his services as 'a soldier to the English government several weeks ago, has been ordered to report in Chicago next Monday morning, from which place he will be sent to Toronto, Canada, where he will prepare himself for overseas duty. Mr. Cox will report to the Canadian recruiting officers in Chicago apd will be accompanied to the Canadian city by many other volunteers. Some time ago the British government passed a draft bill calling into service all British subjects between the ages of 45 and 50 years, and for this reason Mr. Cox decided to volunteer and not wait to be drafted. Mr. Cox has a wife and three children who will receive in the neighborhood of $67.50 per month during the time he is. in the army. Tom is glad of the opportunity which will permit him to help the Allies in their fight, and has been on the verge of enlisting on several different occasions as he felt that his place was at the front with the brave Englishmen who are now fighting so heroically against the Huns.

KING OF THE FUNMAKERS HAS BEEN DRAFTED.

Los Angeles, Cal., April 15. Charlie Chaplin, motion picture comedian, has been drafted and expects his call in June, it was announced. Although he is an Englishman, Chaplin has waived rights. He is at the present touring the United States selling Liberty bonds. “Bud” Fisher, originator of Mutt and Jeff, has arrived in France, and when Chaplin dons the khaki two of America’s greatest humorists will be leading lives strangely different from former ones.

Neuve EgliseNew Church—the little town three miles to the southeast of the southern slopes of Messines ridge and a little less than six miles slightly northeast of Bailleul. has fallen to the Germans after a fotfr days* battle in which it changed hands several times. The turning menace to the ridge and to Bailleul has thus been increased. Now a fierce battle for Baileul is in progress as well as a thrust north to outflank Messines. But offsetting this reverse to Haig’s troops in the center of the line north of the Lys is' a marked stiffening of British resistance in every other sector of this northern battle, a stiffening which has resulted in bloody checks to the enemy. To the northwest of Merville, for instance, near the pistol-point of the German wedge, seven massed assaults by fresh picked Teuton troops were smothered by the British, whose fire slashed bloody lanes into the enemy ranks. Similar punishment was meted out north of the Lys canal, to the east of Robecq, the farthest point of the German advance, some fifteen miles southwest of Armentieres. In this sector the Teutons were not only beaten back with heavy losses but the British took prisoners, 150 in. number, and several machine guns. The French reinforcements .whose arrival Haig heralded in his famous ordo* of the day, are now reported approaching the Lys battlefield and before many hours have I passed they are expected to be in the thick of the struggle.

A letter from one of the Rensselaer boys at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., today, states that they have a wonderful camp and are seeing many interesting sights. Although their work is tiresome, it is interesting and they ate learning rapidly and by the time they are released from the detention camp they expect to be in splendid physical trim for a vigorous training campaign. Try our Clssstied Column.

WAR SUMMARY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1918.

DISCOVER OASIS IN DESERT

THIRSTY OF THIS VICINITY DISCOVER NEW'PLACE TO QUENCH THIRST. How times do change as the years roll around. A few years ago there were seven or eight saloons in Rensselaer and every little town or village had one or more saloons. Then came the local option law and saloons began getting scarcer and intoxicating liquors harder to secure. When the saloons went out of Rensselaer it was easy to run over to Mt. Ayr and patronize the saloon there. Then came a day that Mt. Ayr took advantage of the local option law and it was necessary to go to Roselawn, Thayer, DeMotte or Wheatfield, and when the law was amended so as to limit saloons to one for every thousand inhabitants in wet territory the saloon at Roselawn was forced to close, leaving the only saloon in Newton county at Thayer. Then 'the thirsty’ inclined were forced to go to DeMotte, Wheatfield, Thayer, Lafayette or points still further away or ship their supply of liquor in by train. But now that Indiana has become bone dry and it is against the law to ship liquor into, the state it is becoming more and more difficult to beat the dry law. But an oasis has been, discovered in the desert for/hose living in this vicinity and it is no longer necessary for those with an unquenchable thirst to travel to Chicago to quench it. Over in Iroquois county, DI., is the little village of Beaverville or perhaps better known as St. Marys. This village is located about twelve miles west of Morocco and the travel in that direction is increasing daily and many tourists from Rensselaer and surrounding towns have made the business of the one saloon keeper there grow to such magnitude that extra bar tenders have been employed and hardly an evening passes without auto loads going from here to the little Illinois town just across the line and no one supposes that the cars come back without a supply of liquor. J . The bone dry law of Indiana does not prevent a person from bringing in a limited supply of liquor for his own use, but it is unlawful for anyone running a hack or other vehicle for hire to carry any liquor into, the state. But the bone dry law of the United States does prohibit any one fr6m bringing liquor into any dry territory and some day the federal agents will probably get busy at the state line between here and Beaverville and take in charge some, of the joy riders who are bringing back a supply of Iqiuor, just as they do in the dry southern states.

REV. W. G. WINN SOON TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE.

Rev. W. .Garnett Winn, former pastor of the Christian church here but now of Chicago, will soon sail for France, according to today’s Tribune. Rev. Winn and eleven other prominent Chicago business men will take up Y. M. C. A. work in the war zone. Rev. Winn in a letter to the Republican editor a short time ago stated that he was thinking seriously of enlisting, and it is presumed that he has already resigned his pastorate and completed all arrangements preparatory to his departure. His family will continue to reside in Chicago during his absence.

WILLIAM W. WOOD

Candidate for Joint Representative. Jasper, Newton and Benton Counties

FIRST: OUR HIGHEST AIM is to win this WAR. Use our best efforts to retain this Government on the basis that our forefathers created it. SECOND: To protect our nation’s dignity, and secure a permanent peace, which can only be had by overpowering the mad, military degenerated Prussian military caste whose highest ambition is to rule and ruin the world. THIRD: To use our best efforts in protecting the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana, by using our efforts to place such laws on the statute books as will safeguard the people, their industries, their educa-' tional institutions and their moral rights. To' conserve our resources, to do the bidding of our constitutents, realizing that we are a servant of the people. On these principles we before the people for their consideration.

BEAUTIFUL POTTED FLOWERS.

Have you seen .those beautiful potted flowers of Holden’s Buy one today for mother. Your wife would appreciate them, too. John H. Holden, Florist, y ,

GERMAN BY BIRTH BUT AMERICAN HEART AND SOUL

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dunker, of Gillam township, were in Rensselaer Monday. While in the city xMt. Dunker called ait this office to renew his subscription. He came tq America from Germany when a lad of twelve years of age. Had father took out his first papers but like many others he failed to take out the other necessary papers and Lewis had to register this spring. Lewis is a loyal American and his heart is with the allies and he greatly appreciates the splendid privileges of being an American citizen. He has been happy and prosperous. When he was married he and his wife had about S2OO. Now they own more than a quarter section of good land. Their children have had the advantages of school and church, and their oldest son will soon be of age and will willingly go to the colors to fight for the grandest nation on earth. * Lewis has taken out his first papers and will complete his full citizenship programme at the earliest possible moment.

DIG UP FOR OUR BOYS.

(Billy Sunday) Some old geezers are strong on prayers for “The brave boys in the trenches and on our battleships,” but their names haven’t appeared on any Liberty Loan subscription list yet Prayers of that kind don’t get high as the gas jet. The country is full of rocking chair patriots who loaf around and talk loud and tell the boys they ought to go over and fight, while they sit around and argue and tell how Pershing, Haig and Petain and Foch ought to do this and that and other, but you try and get them to dig lip some coin to help feed and care for the boys who are doing the fighting, and you’d think they were handcuffed, they can’t get their hands into their pockets. A lot of fellows are saying these days: “Well, I’m too old to go.” “I’m above draft age.” “I wish I could get into it.” You can get into it. Every man of you can get into it. You can do your bit right here. You can help feed and equip, and arm the boys who have gone over and are going over to fight for you. Put every dollar you can rake and scrape into liberty Bonds and help the boys in this war. There’s coming a day when this war will be over. There’s: coming a day when the German nation will be crushed and whipped out of its boots There’s coming a*day when our brave boys who won this war will march with the VICTORIOUS Britishers and Frenchmen and Italians and Belgians down the Unter den Linden singing Yankee Doodle and Dixie and they’ll ' stack their arms in the Kaiser’s front yard and turn Potsdam palace into a barracks for American troops. There’s coming a day when the American boys who woq this war will come home, and, if you have any imagination or vision, try and imagine how the United States will go wild with joy when that time comes. When the boys come back home, all the bells will ring, and all the flags on earth will wave, and all the bands will play, and all the horns will toot, and all the drums will throb, and all the air will vibrate with wild delirious joy. The greatest heroes who ever lived will be the boys in khaki and navy blue with the Kaiser’s scalp at their belts. Will you be able to say: “I helped.” Will you be able to fish out a big bunch of Liberty Bonds and say: “I till it hurt.” In that day will you be able to stand on the curbing as the long lines march past and throw your hat in the air and say: “I dug up (the last dollar to keep those boys in the front lines over there.” Or will you have to slink away and hide and sneak up some alley and go off home and hide your cowardly carcass? The boys who are fighting this war, and the men and women who are paying their way while they are doing it, are together saving the world for Liberty and Justice. And when the war is over the boys who fought and the men and women who kept them at the front are going to run this country. Why, they are going to elect the next five or six presidents of this country. For twenty years they will elect every President and Senator and Congressman and Governor and Legislator and Sheriff and Mayor and Aiderman. The men who saved this country are going to fill every office from Justice of “the Peace to President. And where will you be then if you are a shirker now? You won’t be able to dodge behind the excuse that you were too old, or too near sighted, or the head of a family, or knockkneed, or flatfooted, spavined or got the stringhalt. If you- can’t fight you can do the next best thing—<lig up for the boys who are fighting. Life in America won’t be worth living for the man or woman who didn’t buy a Liberty Bond.

MOUMENTS.

Why pay an agent 15 per cent to 25 per cent on your moument orders, when your home dealer can succeesflly meet any claim or inducements for sending to some distant part of the state for your monument. With no agent’s commissions to pay I can meet any competition.

WILL H. MACKY

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 |IOO per acre.—P. D. Wells. Morocco, Ind.

- - Soft Collars BEAUTIFUL FANCY STRIPES / _ GUARANTEED FAST COLORS These fancy ; silk collars have swept into popular favor, making the biggest “hit” in years. Chicago people wear them—Indianapolis people wear them—and Rensselaer isn’t behind the times. YOU CAN get them where you 1 always go for “NEW THINGS FIRST.” y»' TAKE A PEEP at them fa our west window. Hilliard I I ~~“NEW THINGS FIRST.” |j_ J. Tomorrow’s Wsathse Fair and cooler.

GERMANS GAIN SOME GROUND BUT LOSE MANY MEN

Seven days after the Germans launched their gigantic assault against the British lines between Lens and Ypres, the momentum of their attack has been broken and the waves of the Teutonic forces are recoiling before the rock of the British defense. While the Germans have made gains of ground and have driven a wedge into the allied lines to a considerable depth, they seem to have failed in their attempt to break through or take important railroad junctions. During the last day there have been bitterly fought engagements at four places, all on the northern side of the salient to the south of Ypres. Seven assauts against the British trenches at Merville, near the apex of the triangular dent in the British line, have been hurled back by the British. Neuve Eglise, on the extreme southwestern spur of Messines ridge, has been taken by the Germans after a struggle which will go into history as one of the greatest of the past week. The British, however, have not retired far and it is probable that they will at once organize a counter attack to force the Germans out of the town which, if held, might be a “kicking off” point for an attack which might outflank and make untenable Messines ridges, the key to the British positions about Ypres. Bailleul and Wulverrgehm, between Neuve, Eglise and Merville, also lave been the scenes of hard fighting, but except for Neuve Eglise, the northern side of the salient has stood firm. On the southern side of the salient, according to Berlin fierce struggles have been fought. It has been the German .plan of Campaign since March 21, when the great offensive started, to strike Tard at some particular point, and if that blow war parried, to turn powerfully against some new point. This procedure probably will be followed in the next few days by a new assault somewhere south of Arras. An attack north of Ypres is hardly possible, for the lowlands of Belgium are as yet too waterlogged to permit active operations. An attack on Arras would entail the hurling, of troops agiinst Vimy ridge, the labyrinth and* other formidable military works protecting that city. It may be that the savage fighting reported at Hangard-en-Sante-ree, south of Albert and on the center of the line facing Amiens, may mark the beginning of a new attempt to sweep westward toward Amiens. So far the fighting has brought the Germans only losses in men and ground. Further south near Montdidier, there has been intense artillery firing, but the Germans have not attempted infantry operations in this important sector.

TUESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Howard Green is in a very critical condition. His brother Harold Miller, of Muncie, is here with him. His father who also lives at Muncie is expected to arrive this evening. Mrs. Ed Faye, who is suffering from pneumonia remains very critaC&1« William the aged gentleman from Gillam township, remains about the same. ♦ Mrs. Marie Hopkins’s condition remains about the same. . Mrs. Nelson Fairchild is improvinE Grandmother Robinson is slightly im Ha°ny d Gallagher, of Lansing, HI., came this morning to see Howard Green.

INDIANA DRAFTEES CALLED MAY 1 GO TO FT. THOMAS.

The 842 Indiana draftees who are to be called into service on May 1 are to be sent to Fort Thomas, Ky., according to the orders received by Governor Goodrich from the War Departinent Monday. The government has set 50,000 as the number of men who will be called into the service on this day.

Forest Morlan returned to Chicago this morning. He was given his first degree in masonry Monday night.

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COAL SITUATION IS CAUSING CONSIDERABLE CONFUSION

Washington, . April 15.—-Wide difference of opinion over coal production and distribution questions appeared today between the fuel and railroad administrations in statements given out at their respective headquarters each without the knowledge of the others. The fuel administration, referring to the geological surveys report that bituminous coal production fell off 1,500,000 tons or 14 per cent in the week ending April 6, attributed the condition largely to shortage of cars at mines. Mines are closing because they cannot get cars, and the fuel administration declared it was gravely apprehensive lest this condition result in the complete demoralization of the labor supply and shortage of coal next winter. From the railroad administration came a report showing that more cars were loaded with coal during the first week in April than in the same period last year, and that since January 1, 85,613 more cars had been loaded than last year, despite the shaqs decline fa January because of DSd”* weather and the increased war freight and troop traffic this year. If mines are shutting down, railroad administration officials said informally it is mainly because they have insufficient orders or are short of labor. Railroads hauling 100 per cent coal supply to industries give fuel priority to the fuel administration and war industries board, it was pointed out and this tends to cut car supply to others.

FUNERAL FLOWERS.

We specialize on funeral flowers, cut flowers and floral designs for all occasions. Plants for the lawn, porch boxes and baskets and ferns. Tomato, cabbage—in fact everything for the garden, ready by May 1, and enough for everybody too. Better phone us your order for cut flowers for decoration day and avoid being disappointed. Satsifaction guaranteed. Beautiful flowers are the smiles of God’s goodness. Phone 216-Green. KING FLORAL CO.

Rensselaer was extremely wet Saturday night and part of Sunday, despite the fact that the state is dry. Two automobile trrfcks containing over $4,000 worthy of whiskey was jeing taken to Peoria, 111. One of the trucks met with a mishap at Winamac, which caused considerable delay, and the owners were making frantic efforts to get over the Illinois state line, as the time limit on booze in Indiana ended April 12. AT THE STAR Properly Presenting the Beat fas Photoplays. ~TODAY A Foursquare production presenting An All Star Cast “Who Shall Take My Life?" An unusual dramatic offering, something different. An amazing story with many popular film favorites. A picture yous will enjoy. ''SOwHovim; 10c. , , EXTRA SPECIAL Wednesday, April 17 Little Ann Murdock In her latest production “Please Help Emily” In a succession of amusing tangles—the humorous way in which she unminds them is a delight to behold — Weekly Showing the latest world events. A Good Comedy No advanced sale of tickets. No reserve seats. House open at 6:30 —Starts at p. m.* 2nd show at p. m. Admission 10 and 15c

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