Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — Page 3

Protect Your Family Life Endowment Or monthly income policies that protects your family and yourself. Gary National Life Insurance Co., Gary Theatre Building Wilbur Wynant, Pres. Gary, Indiana. HARVEY DAVISSON GENERAL AGENT. A few. small blocks of stock to be sold in Jasper county.—Ask Davisson.

Jalm ICgwr, President. James H. Chapman, Cashier. Delos Tnonipeon, Vice-President J. W. Tilton, Ass’t Cashier. Cbt State Bank of Rensselaer Report of the condition of The State Bank of Rensselaer, a State bank at Rensselaer, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on May 10, 1918.

It ESQIJRC F S, Loan and Discounts ... .$330,812.09 Overdrafts 766.76 U. S. Bonds 18,674.70 Other bonds and securities 500.00 Banking House and Furniture and Fixtures . . 10,000.00 Due from Banks and Trust Companies .... 81,061.48 Cash on Hand 11,076.14 Cash Items 488.22 Current Expenses .... 9,984.17 Interest Paid 3,108.02 Total $466,471,58

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: L J. W. Tilton, assistant cashier of the State Bank of Rensselaer, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. J. W. TILTON, Asst Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 15th day of May, 1918. Moses Leopold,' Notary Public. My Com. expires April 1, 1921. LOANING POWER. The State Bank, of Rensselaer, has increased its loans approximately $100,000.00 within a year. This was made possible by keeping its assets liqnid. Notwithstanding its purchase and sale of a large amount of Liberty Bonds, The State Bank is prepared to loan money on good bankable security. You are invited to take advantage of this superior service. The same careful attention is given to small accounts that is given to large accounts. JAMES H. CHAPMAN, Cashier.

Charles G. Spitler, President. Judson J. Hunt, Sec’y-Trees. Kdd J. Randle, Vice-President Charles H. Mills, Asst Sec’y-Tr. The Trust & Savings Bank Condensed statement of the condition of THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK of Rensselaer, Indiana at the close of business on May 10, 1918.

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $340,899.26 Overdrafts 2,178.04 Bonds ~.. 174,330.00 U. S. Treasury Certificates 88,000*00 Bank Building 27,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures. 2,456.75 War Savings Stamps .. 1,197.50 Advances to Estates ... 212.94 Due from Banks and Trust Companies .... 54,132.81 Cash on Hand 15,081.61 Cash Items 2,988.82 Current Expenses 3,588.73 Interest Paid 2,028.47 Total $715,088.93

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, .as;— I, Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of The Trust and Savings Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do sole mnly swear that the above statement i» true. JUDSON J. HUNT. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 15th day of May, 1918. Gertrude Hopkins, Notary Public. My commission expires April 1, 1921. Notwithstanding the fact that we have subscribed and fully paid for over $160,000.00 of Third Liberty Loan Bonds and that we have $88,000.00 of United States Treasury Certificates of indebtedness left after completing payment for the bonds, and that we are doing ’ everything that the Government asks of us, we are still making loans consistent with good banking. Our Treasury Certificates will be paid by the government as they mature during the next few weeks thus insuring our reserve and releasing funds for the use of our customers and friends during the summer months. We have strong capital and surplus and in every way we are proud of the abov e statement showing the condition of our bank. If you value happiness, contentment and prosperity you should do business with “THE BANK ON THE CORNER ANt> ON THE SQUARE.” THE TRUST AND SAV INGS BANK. JUDSON J. HUNT, Secretary-Treasurer.

ITEMS OF NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

Signal corps officers yesterday stated that many Caproni biplanes will be made in. this country for the American army in France. Before the end of the year production in quantity of the new machine win be under way. Director General McAdoo yesterday ordered curtailment of transcontinental passenger schedules from Chicago west, effective June 2, to

LIABILITIES. Capital Stock—Paid in.s 80,000.00 Surplus 30,000.00 Undivided profits 4,188.36 Exchange, Discounts and Interest 21,091.68 Demand Deposits 345,530.28 Demand Certificates ... 175.64 Time Certificates 27,160.22 Savings Deposits 5,156.54 Certified Checks . ...... 25.00 Other Liabilities 109.85 Reserved for Taxes .... 3,034.01 Total $466,471.58

LIABILITIES Capital stock .$100,000.00 Surplus 10,000.00 Undivided profits 2,521.69 Interest, discount and Other Earnings 10,707.10 Demand Deposits 517,380.42 Tune Deposits 64,518.15 Savings Deposits 8,513,87 Reserve For Taxes .... 1,447.70 Total $715,088.93

save 11,728,000 train miles a year. The curtailment is expected to save about $18,000,000 a year. Gen.' Gaulers of the French general staff announced yesterday that information showed forty divisions (480,000 men) between the La Bassee canal and Ypres, or six men to every yard. The same ratio, he said, is maintained by the Germans between La Bassee and the Oise.

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DEM TOWN IS ALWAYS SHUNNED

Community With Such a Reputation Suffers as From a Pestilence. s RESTS WITH THE CITIZENS People Can Create and Maintain Prosperity If They Will Keep Their Money at Home in Circulation. (Copyright, 191?, Western Newspaper Union.) “Stay away from that town. It’s a dead one.” Do you want that to be said of your town? Of course you don’t, for you wish, as a matter of local pride, if for no other reason, to have your town stand high in the estimation of the world. But are you sure that you are doing everything in your power to place your town in the position which you wish to occupy? That is the question that every person should ask himself or herself at frequent intervals.* When things are running smoothly, when times are good, and when it is fairly easy to make a good living for the wife and kiddles, it is so easy for a man to forget that these things do not com 6 to a town as a matter of course, but are the result of the right kind of effort on the part of the citizens of the community. It is so easy for a man to grow careless and think that because this condition existed it will continue to exist without any effort on his part or that of the other residents of the community. That is why it is Important for every one to stop and think seriously once in a while about what it would mean to him if the prosperity that makes life worth living for him should take wings and fly away. Nobody Loves a Dead Town.

Nobody likes to live In a dead town. No one even likes to visit a dead town. That is why you sometimes hear that warning, “Stay away from that town. It’s a dead one.” The town which has the reputation of being a dead one suffers as if from a pestilence. Business meh seeking new locations will have none of it. The live traveling salesman, even, will give it a wide berth. Those who live in it will get away if they can. When a town is live and prosperous, local business is good, real estate values are high and stable, labor is in demand and wages are good, the streets are well lighted, the residents and their property are protected from robbery and fire and good schools are maintained for the education of the children. When a town is dead, there is little money in circulation, store buildings stand empty with “For Sale” sign hanging on the front door, there is little employment for the laboring man, the streets are dark, the schools are crippled. What sort of town do you want to live in? There is only one answer to that question. You want to live in the live town and enjoy all the good things that come to the residents of such a community. Answer Easily Found. The only question then is as to how these prosperous conditions can be created or maintained and it is the easiest thing in the world to find the answer to that question. If the people of a community will keep their money at home and keep it in circulation among themselves, they need have no fear of ever being compelled to live in a dead town. If the people will patronize their own business men instead of sending their dollars *to the mail order houses, the prosperity of the community will take care of itself.

The local stores, to a very large extent, make every town. The .taxes paid by the business men of the community are the principal support of the schools and public institutions. It Is the taxes paid by the storekeepers, to a large extent, that make possible the public Improvements, the fire protection, the street lighting and the many other things which make a town worth living in. The mail order house does not pay any taxes ih the town from which it gets its money. It does not help to support the schools or the churches. It does not help light the streets or maintain the fire department. It is the aim of the mail order houses to drive small town merchants out of business, so that the people will be compelled to send to the cities for their merchandise and they are spending thousands of dollars every month to accomplish this purpose. If they should succeed, who would pay the taxes that are now paid by the local merchants? It’s a certainty that the mall order house would not pay them. Issue is Clear Cut Every dollar spent at home helps to make the town a live one. Every dollar sent away from home to the mail order house helps to make the town a dead one. The issue is a clear-cut one and is squarely up to every resident of the community, whether a resident of the town Itself or of the country surrounding it The man who does not care whether he lives in a live or a-dead town, If there is such a man, need waste no thought on the subject, but the man who wants to live In a live town cannot get away from it It is up to him to make his town a live one or a dead one. , '.IIIIJ- ’’J'-

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THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY CO. AGENT LEADING. More Hog Feeding Trials. Alfred Duggleby, of Tefft, will conduct a hog feeding trial this summer to show the influence of the self feeder upon the cost of pork production. Some time in June, neighboring farmers will be invited to appraise the hogs on hand and the pastures which will be allotted to the hogs. Gains will be made on pasture, corn, middlings and tankage. The results will be published from time to time. Mr. Duggleby is also conducting a demonstration of the value of liming sour soils. ... Demonstrations. ’ On Tuesday, May 28th, at 2:00 p. m., a demonstration will be given on use of substitute flours and potatoes at the Blub Grass school. Everyone come and bring pencil, and paper. Food Conservation Reports. Blanks are being handed to your food club township chairman; she is going to pass them on to your lieutenant, who will in turn hand them on to you. On these conservation slips you are to keep a record of how much food, wheat, meat, sugar and fat, you are saving. Other counties in Indiana are showing some good reports. Let us show what Jasper county can do. Child Welfare Campaign. Mrs. J. I. Gwin, who is chairman of the child welfare work in Jasper county council of defense, has commenced her campaign. Two meetings were held in Remington last week by local people and also Mirs. Charles Sewell, of Purdue. In this better babies campaign, every baby (children under 6), will be weighed and measured, followed by an examination for tonsils, weak lungs, adenoids and eyes and ear defects, these examination will be made by local doctors and nurses in the various school districts. Other agencies are co-operating with Uncle Sam to achieve the need desired, and you, as a mother, are urged to co-operate. This isn’t a war of armies; it is a war of resources; a war of food. You are on the firing line, food is ammunition; don’t waste it—shoot! At present there is a large surplus of old potatoes that should be used before the new ones come on the market and the food administration asks that all families use more. Great quanties of potatoes will go to waste unless they are used more freely and in greater variety of ways than is customary in American families.

As a war measure a potato campaign has been launched in the county which is to continue as long as the 1917 crop is available. It is hoped that every housewife in the county will co-operate and feel it is her patriotic duty to serve potatoes in every way possible during this time in order to save all of the wheat for our boys in khaki. Demonstrations are being given over the entire county showing the use of potatoes in place of wheat flour. Potatoes can be cooked in various ways. May be conbined with other foods such as meat, eggs, fish, and other vegetables. Potatoes can also be used in place of wheat flour, particularly in breads. Below are listed some carefully worked out recipes. If more information is deaired as to the use of potatoes, call at my office on the first floor in the court house. Potatoes and Hard Cooked Eggs. 2 cups milk, salt and pepper. 2 tablespoon cornstarch, 2 cup boiled potatoes (diced). 2 tablespoon fat, 1 cup hard cooked eggs (diced). Make a white sauce of the milk, cornstarch and fat, place a layer of eggs, a layer of white sauce, a layer of potatoes, a layer of eggs, a layer of white sauce etc. in a baking dish. Bake until heated through browned on top. » Salmon a la Mode. 2 cups mashed potatoes. % cup milk. 1 egg (beaten). 1 cup salmon (shredded). Combine the 'ingredients and brown in the oven. Potato Yeast Bread. 1 cup mashed potatoes. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 % cups flour. 4 tablespoon water. Makes One Loaf. 2to 4 tablespoon liquid yeast or % cake dry yeast or 1-6 to 1-2 cake compressed yeast. Mix salt, mashed potato (which should be luke warm), add yeast and one (1) cup flour. Stir until smooth, ? ov .® r and set to rise. When sponge is light knead in enough flour to make a rather stiff but elastic dough. Be sure that it is stiffer than ordinary dough. Cover and let rise to double its bulk, knead down, mold. Let rise as ordinary white bread then bake in a moderate oven.

Potato Bistevit*. Take your ordinary recipe and use half as much meshed potatoes, as flour, add salt put in the fat Add enough milk to make a biscuit dough. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Bake all potato breads more slowly than those made o£ flour alone. Chocolate Potato Cake. % cup butter or fat 14 teaspoon salt. % cup sugar of 5-8 cup corn syrup. 1 square chocolate. 2- cup dry mashed potatoes. % cup milk or little less if syrup if used. 3 tablespoon baking powder. 3- cup white flour. Mix in ordinary cake method, adding potatoes before either milk or dry ingredients. Bake 35 minutes in a moderate oven.

HERE’S ANOTHER COAL WARNING

Indianapolis, Ind.,' May 15.—The Indiana public service comission baa issued a warning to everybody to lay in their coal for next winter right now. The commission says that those who delay or wait until later may not get coal. This warning applies not only to domestic consumers but to manufacturing industries, public utilities and every other consumer. - Persons whose bins are too small to hold all the coal they will need next winter are advised to enlarge their bins. Big consumers are advised to store coal at once. Indications are that the coal shortage next winter will be as great as last winter, and the commissioner says that industrial plants and public utilities who fail to store coal now will not be given any, preference in the shipment of coal from the mines next winter. Therefore some of them may be compelled to close down unless they buy in their coal now.

FRANCIESVILLE ITEMS.

, (From the Tribune). The windstorm last Thursday night which was the spent force of a tornado that destroyed towns in lowa, and caused much damage through Illinois, wrecked a few small buildings in this community. Frank Webb in Navoo, had a silo blown over. Bert Eldridge’s barn was badly damaged and a good substantial poultry house on the Nick Axen place had to be rebuilt. The Medaryville State Bank oversold its allotment of $18,300 worth of Liberty bonds before the end of the drive. Eighty-five per cent of the bonds were sold for cash. Only two SSO bonds were sold to people other than their regular customers, and these two were unsolicited. Bonds were sold to 112 purchasers. J. R. Ives, formerly of this place died at his home in Delphi, Sunday, May 4th. The funeral was held on Thursday so that Wade, who is in the west, could reach there in time for the final obsequies. Next Saturday afternoon the Indiana State Normal base ball team will meet the St. Joseph College nine at Rensselaer. Casper Clark of this place is the captain of the Terre Haute aggregation. Several from here have arranged to see the contest and see their favorite son of the national sport clean up a victory near home.

An Otterbein man fired a shotgun at a cat that had stolen a chicken. The charge filled the person of the neighbor, who is now in the hospital with the shot not located.

rhartar No 6651 Roeerve District No. 7. CharUr No * REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE first nationalßank « At Rensselaer, Indiana, At the Close of Business on May 10, 1918. RESOURCES • Loans and discounts (except those shown on 88 ®| 0 j, ’475,488.30 Noto 472,213.30 Overdrafts/ uiEUro d .... ... • • • • ■ • ■ 2 ’ 268M U. S. Bond (other than Liberty Bonds, but including U. S. certificates of indebtedness) , *• U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circulation value) ....» .^s2s, 000.00 U. S. Bonds and certificates of indebtedness pledged to secure postal savings deposits (par value) 7,000.00 32,000.00 Liberty Loan Bonds’ ’ 3 % per cent, unpledged $ Paymente nd actually made on Liberty U 66,938.00 Bonds, securities, etc. (other than U. 3.): Furniture and fixtures ••••• ——6 MO 00 Real estate owned other than banking house 5,000.00 Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank ......... 32,128.03 Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks.... 47,01 Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting - bank (other than item 17) U 1,344.ua Total of Items 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. }*?£££* Cheeks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items; * V LL’ ‘ri’ a Dedemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U.S. War Savings Certificates’ and Thrift Stamps actually owned 304.47 Other assets, if any Total * 703,819.96 LIABILITIES. Lera Currentexpenses, interest, and taxes paid .. .$7,388.06 81,56X59 Amount reserved for taxes accrued Not amount due to banks and tankers• • • • • • • • Total of Items 81 and 82 $1,776.86 Demand deposits subject to Reserve: „ Individual deposits subject to check 3*050 00 Total oi demand depomte (other than bank ject to Reserve, Items 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, subject to Reserve (payable after 3° days, or subject to 30 days or more notice, and postal savings). Certificates of deposits (other than for money borrowed).. 84,088.24 Postal saving deposits • •••• • • * • • • • • * * Total of time deposits subject to Reserve, Items 41,42, 48, 44, and 45 . $89,368.28 United States deposits (other than postal sayings : , . War savings certificate and thrift stamp deposit account Other United States deposits, including deposits of U. S. disbursing officers •• • ••••••• Bills payable, with Federal Reserve Bank Liabilities other than those above stated, War Savings and Thrift Stamps - Total $ 703,819.96 Liabilities for rediscounts, including those with Federal Bank (see Item Id) V'L’X o,Z7&.vv Total liabilities (57 a, b, and c) . ..,. 3,275.00 State of Indiana, County of % L J N. Leatherman, cashier of the above-named bank, ue amemnly swear that the above statement is time to ftataf'g “F ft.nd belief ** W* xmUDIQav Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16ft day 1 PwhHe MJ 29th. 1918. EDD J. RANDLE, / GEO. E. MURRAY, Dbrwten. .

FAIR OAKS.

Cleaning house and making garden seems to be the principal occupations just now. Mrs. Geo. Brouhard and daughter, Lily, also Mrs. Fred Call went this week to visit relatives in Star City, Indiana. Mrs. Effie McConnell, Mrs. Martha Wendell, and Miss Florence McKay took dinner Tuesday with Mrs. Dave Overton and Irene Ballinger east of town. Al Abell made a trip to Chicago Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Martin Clifton returned to her home in Shelby Wednesday. F. R. Erwin is repairing Ms property occupied by Rev. Downey. Memorial day will be observed here on May 30th. Address at the M. E. church at 2:00 p. m. Also Memorial sermon Sunday evening proceeding. Ray Gusten and family, of Streeter, 111., are visiting John Barbers and Roy Hayste and wife. Mrs. Belle Warne is quite poorly again. Prayer meeting at Rev. Downey’s home Wednesday evening. AU invited to attend. B. F. Clevenger is here on business this week. Mrs. Herbert Bozelle received $32, as due her from the government Herbert Bozelle is reported better but still in the hospital. Mrs. Harvey Davisson and daughter, Fern, visited here over Sunday. Orval Abell went to Shelby to work on the Hack dredge boat. Florence McKay is spending a few days with the Flemings, where she boarded last winter, south of Rensselaer. Miss Lola Malatt, of Thayer, visited with the Clifton family several days this week. Can Mandenville went over into Illinois to loek for a location for a jewelry business. Neen Littlefield and family spent the day here Sunday with the Erwin family. A. D. Washburn was here on business this week. Wm. Myers and family have moved from Parr here into the Bringle property.

Carl Rorer and Harry M. Farrell the two men who pleaded guilty before the trial of Mell Guild, in a Chicago court, have been sentenced to three months imprisonment. Harry Raymond, who stood trial has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. Medaryville people will remember the Judge of this court explained to Rofer and Farrell that they need not expect a light sentence on account of their plea, and the turning of state’s evidence. The date for a hearing for a new trial for Mell Guild has been postponed.—Medaryville Journal.