Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — Page 1

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No. 102.

MIRRORS Every Home Can Use An Extra MIRROR See Our Window W. J. WRIGHT

JASPER COUNTY ASSIGNED SEVEN FORDSON TRACTORS

When Henry Ford & Son brought out their first tractors * about three years ago they decided to only place them on sale in England and France on account of the war, thinking they would be needed more in those countries than in the United States. They have now decided to place these on sale in this country under the® direction of the state councils of defense.* One thousand of these tractors have been alloted to Indiana, Jasper county’s - allotment t being seven. The tractors will be sold at exact cost, $750. The Ford dealers here, the Central Garage, will handle the tractors in this county, selling them at cost. The above price is f. o. b., "Dearborn, Mich. A condition of the sale is that the purchaser is to rent or loan the tractor to his neighbors. "The first shipment will be recived here in about fifteen days.

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The Evening Republican

WAR MOTHERS BENEFIT.

Hon. Edward Barrett, state geologist .of Indiana, will give his lecture and picture show on the beauty spots of Indiana at the Gaiety, May 16. Tickets 25c. Come everybody and help-this. worthy cause.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

Our address is 11 Co. 3rd Battalion, Camp Taylor.—Howard B. Clark. ■ . .

We desire to thank our many friends and neighbors for their acts of kindness and sympathy in. the death of our dear wife, mother' and grandmother. MRS. MUNNA FRANCIS, husband, children and grendchildren.

Anyone wishing to see me will find me in the Trust & Savings bank on Saturday afternoons. H. O. Harris, phone 184. «

CARD OF THANKS.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, ' WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918.

THE ROUTE NOW MARKED

MT. AYR-RENSSELAER AUTOMOBILE ROUTE IT THE NEAREST AND BEST. t ■ ■ ■ The Main and Central garages and the Makeever Hotel have placed big signs and other markers on the road leading to Thayer in hopes of diverting the . tourist travel through .Rensselaer. They drove over the route through Morocco, which is now being used extensively by the government motor trucks and toursists. They found this route thirteen miles longer than the Mt. Ayr-Rensselaer route and for four miles of the route through Morocco they found the road tqo narrow for cars to pass and built through muck, which makes that portion of the road dangerous to travel. The road from here to Thayer is in fine condition and is of rock or gravel all the way. It is two miles shorter than the Jackson highway and a much better road. This route will be called to the attention of the government in hopes of having the government designate this as the route to be used in the trucking business.

This is a matter that affects Rensselaer as a whole and everyone should co-operate with the garages and hotel in bringing the matter to the attention of the traveling public.' A recent edition of the Chicago Sunday Examiner has the following to say es the route from Chicago to Indianapolis and favors the shorter route "by way of Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer. The Examiner article follows: “Ever since the Fall of 1909, when* the first speedway in America was opened, motorists have been going into Indianapolis from all directions, and Chicago has contributed more to that city than its hospitality at speedway meeting times warranted. Then, again, Indianapolis is one- of the chief cities on the route from the Middle West to the extreme South, and, being a day’s run from Chicago, naturally is an important stopping place. “It must frankly be admitted that it is a delightful drive of from eight to ten hours to the capital of the Hoosier state, mainly because the roads are hard and smooth-practical-ly every inch of the way, but alse because the route leads through some moderately pretty country. “It is unfortunate, however, that after leaving the neighborhood, of Chicago a drive of 135 milss is required before suitable eatingplaces may be found. The route given herewith is like all others leading’to Indianapolis in .that it is lacking in suitable places- to take care of the inner man.

“Motorists have been in the habit of following beaten trials/ with all their cut up road surfaces and dust accumulations. *The old and familiar route through Virgie and Aix was anything but desirable, owing to the fact that there are two or three stretches of unimproved road and with something like five miles that need not be covered. Another Indianapolis route is by way of Valparaiso, Bass Lake and Logansport, and, while exceedingly good, is not so direct as the one given today. Still another route takes motorists well to the we v st through Morocco and Brook, making a still greater journey and over no better highways. “A portion of the route printed on this page is entirely new, the improvement having just been completed. The route from Chicago to Crown Point and on to Thayer is familiar to practically every motorist who makes any attempt at country driving, but instead of turning east at Thayer and going by way of Virgie and Aix, or continuing south and working westward through Enos and then south through Morocco arid Brooke, Rensselaer is reached by a more direct way, with fewer turns and over ideal roads. “The road continues directly south from Thayer for several and while it is true a small portion jof the new stone highway is yet to receive its top surface, there is nothing to prevent easy going all the way. The top dressing and the road making implements are on the ground now, so that by the time the motorist desides to go to Indianapolis he will find this road complete. There is one stretch of perhaps a half mile that is not of hard surface, but it is on high ground, easily drained by* nature, and at no time of the’year could it become so muddy as to prevent going through. “This route leads directly to the western edge of Rensselaer and then turns south on College Ave., a hard wide highway extending some twelve miles to the northern edge of Remington. Here a turn to the east is made for half a dozen miles into the •little town of Wolcott, and from this place there is a run of some eighteen miles, broken only by a‘ half-mile jog. The route passes Purdue university, goes through Lafayette and over the most direct road through a number of small cities to Frankfort. “The surface of the roadway over this route is for the greater part of graVel, but there are many long stretches of macadam and no dirt except for one little stretch about eighty miles out of Chicago. After leaving Crown—Point there is no point of importance until Rensselaer is reached, but Shelby, just before

WINNERS AT THE PRIMARY

THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES WERE WINNERS IN JASPER COUNTY. For Congressman. William R. Wood, R. George E. Hershman, D. Joint Senator. Will Brown, R., 575 plurality. T. Joseph Sullivan, D. Prosecuting Attorney. James C. Murphy, R. C. Arthur Tuteur, D. - Joint Representative. W. L. Wood, R., 682 majority. Lawrence Burns, D. Clerk. Jesse Nichols, R., 734 majority. A. D. Hershman, D. Auditor. S. C. Robinson, R. B. F. Alter, D. Sheriff. True D. Woodsworth, R., 104 purality. William I. Hoover, D., 215 majority. Coronor. W. J. Wright, R. Leo Worland, D. Assessor. G. L. Thornton, R. George Casey, D. Commissioner —Ist District. Bert Amsler, R. O. K. Rainier, D. Second District. Charles C. Welch, R. W. H. Wortley, D. Councilmen-At-Large. H. W. Jackson, R. G. M. May, R. E. E. Pullins, R. John Farrell, D. '’C. M. Paxton, D. Robert Zick, D. First District. F. M. Hart, R. Second District. Wash Cook, R. Sam Scott, D. Third District. T. J. Prouty, R. Percy Hauter, D. - Fourth District. Webster Browdy, R. C. W. Harness, D. Township Trustees. Barkley. Ralph Johnson, R. Grant Davisson, D. Carpenter. Burl Porter, R. Joseph Graham, D. z , Gillam. B. F. LaFever, R. J. W. Selmer, D. Hanging Grove. W. E. Poole, R. S. B. Snedeker, D. Jordan. Julius Huff, R. John Kolhoff, D. Kankakee. Alfred Duggleby, R. Lee E.. Glazebrodk, D. Keener. , Clifford Fairchild, R. Marion. C. W. Poftill, R. C. F. Stackhouse, D. Milroy. William Van Natta, R. Charles Wood, D. " Newton. John Rush, R. John Lonergan, D. Union. G. H. Hammerton, R. Walter Harrington, D. Walker. . J. F. Pettet, R. j William Stalbaumy D. Wheatfield ~ G.eorge Ferguson, R. ‘ John Bowie, D.

ATTENTION, WAR MOTHERS. t To the War Mothers of Marion township, there will be a meeting at the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, May 11, at 2:00 o’clock, and you are urged to'be present. Miss Faye Crooks, of Neodesha, Kansas, tall render several vocal selections, and there will also be a reader and selections on the pipe organ by Mrs. M. D. Gwin.—Advt.

WEDNESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

We ask those wishing to visit friends at the hospital to please time their calls so as to come during visiting hours. Quite liberal visiting hours have been arranged for and it is necessary that we adhere to them in order to give the care and rest that sick folks come to the hospital for and have the right to expect in behalf of the sick, we kindly ask you to remember this. Hospital superintendent visiting hours, 10 to 11 a. m., 2:00 to.4:00 p. m., and 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. .

crossing the Kankakee river, is supplied with an accommodating garage man and a little restaurant that is by no means half bad. “Rensselaer is a small city with plenty cf garages and few eating places. Lafayette and Frankfort have good hotel accommodations, while all of the towns along the route supply motorists’ needs in the shape of gasoline, oil, tires and repairs. The 200 miles between Chicago and Indianapolis may easily be covered in 4 day without fatigue, and the Indiana capital is well worth a day of exploration, because it has many things of interest and its' roads and streets are all of the peimanent character.”

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THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

LARGEST CLASS IN THE HISTORY OE THE R. H. S. , GRADUATES. The annual commencement exercises were held in the First Christion church Tuesday evening. ' The exercises were as follows: Music “Star Spangled Banner,” Audience. z Invocation, Rev. E. W. Strecker. Cantata “The Village Blacksmith,” Noyes. High school chorus. Piano Trio “March Militaire,” Schubert. • Helen Warner, Ruth Clark, and Cecelia Kellner. Processional, Class 1918.' Prater, Rev. D. C. Hill. Music “Hungarian Dance No. 5, Brahms. High school orchestra. Address, Dr. G. L. Mackintosh. Pjoria Trio “La Chassee da Lion,” C. Rolling. . Linnie Bird Rains, Helen Parkinson, and Lenore Carr. . Presentation of Class, Principal W. p Presentation of Diplomas, George A. Williams. Response for Class, Lenore Carr. Benediction, Rev. J. Budman Fleming. Accompanists, Linnie Bird Rains and Helen Parkinson. •

WILLIAM BROWN WINS.

Latest incomplete returns from the joint senatorial district of Porter, Lake and Newton counties, indicate that Will Brown, of Hebron, has won the Republican nomination. Special telephone mesaage from Gary at 2:30 p. m., reported that Kinder had received in Lake county about 1447 votes and Brown 326. In Porter county Brown received 1500 and Kinder 400 votes. In Jasper county Brown received 749 and Kinder 105 votes. Newton county vote has not been received. This gives Brown a pluralty of over 500 votes.

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THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DRIVE

Another drive is on. The soldiers are weary enough, bedraggled, worn perhaps, bruised and aching and many of the boys have “gone over the top” but these will respond to the new call. The going “over the top” once or twice does not end the war—or any single soldier’s part in the war. He knows that he must “go Over the top” again— and again—and yet again until the fight is finished. And he knows that he has not done his part until he has done his all. And he knows that were he to plead to be excused from going “oyer the top” Again he would be despised by his comrades and probably shot for insubordination. The soldiers are tired—but American soldiers never stop until the work is done. The drive in on to raise in the United States $16,000,000 to continue the great work the Knights of Columbus are doing for the boys at the front until July 1, 1919- That means a quarter of a million in Indiana. And let this be understood—the work that xis being done by the Knights on the front and in the training camps is not confined to the soldiers of the Catholic faith, but extends just as generously to those of the Proste'stant or Jewish faith, as the work of the Y. M. C. A. extends to those who worship in the ancient church. These two organizations jointly are achieving mighty results in sustaining the moral tone of the troops, in furnishing wholesome recreation and pleasures, in projecting into the camps the spirit of the homes. And through their co-opera-tion, the dove tailing of their work, religious differences are yielding to the spirit of national unity, and the realization reaches every dollar that every sect and creed in America has found a common cause.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The county commissioners met in regular session Monday but did not finish up all the business of the term and, as Tuesday was the primary election, the board adjourped until next Monday. • 1 Following are the proceedings at Monday’s session: The East St. Louis Bridge Co., was allowed payment in full for one bridge in Walker township $1,200, and for two bridges in Keener township, $1,090 and $1,575, respectively. I. W. “Moneyhun & Son were allowed $516.95 on the W. L. Wood road contracts in Union township. In the petition of. Joseph Kosta for a gravel rdad in Union township, E. D. Nesbit was appointed engineer and W. V. Porter and S. S. Shedd viewers, to meet May 13. Northern Indiana Land Co.,* petition for highway. Cause continued to June term for filing report. Michael Qyn< petition for high-, way. John Biggs, M. J. Delehpnty and William Middlekamp appointed viewers, to meet May 18. Arthur Kreslef petition for ditch. John J. Lawler files remonstrance. Mary Bartoo petition for ditch. Time extended to first day of June term for filing report. * Interest on county funds for the month of April was $630.43, divided as follows: First National Bank, Rensselaer, $156.67; The Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $145.95; State Bank,' Rensselaer, $141.75; State Bank, Remington, $138.11; Bank of Wheatfield, $47.95.

LIEUT KELLEY WOUNDED.

Yesterdays’ Chicago papers gave an acount of four young Americans receiving highest honors in France for bravery. Among .them was Lieut. Harry Kelley, who lost a leg in an encounter with the Germans. Lieut. Kelley is a graduate of Notre Dame and nephew of Jos. Hallagan, of this city, His home is in Ottawa, Hl.

STAR THEATRE Properly Preseating the Beet fas Photoplays. TODAY Edna Goodrich “The American Maid” A Mutual Masterpiece in five - _ acts. MUTUAL WEEKLY of world events. TOMORROW— Extra Special Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne “Their Compact" A seven act Metre Wonderplay of love and courage. Admission 10 and 15c FRIDAY— Taylor Holmes “Easy Money” Taken from the story by P. G. Woodebouse in the Saturday Evening Post.—Aho . THE NAVAL TRAINING PICTURES.

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