Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — Page 1

No. 125.

RUGS We moved our entire rug stocleto the first floor of our store and sold 36 room size rugs In May. If you are going to need a new rug this spring you should buy now. Rugs will be 50 per cent higher in 3 months. W. J. WRIGHT

GIVES SKIN TO SAVE SON OF MAN WHO SKINNED HIM.

In an Italian field hospital a story is told of a surgeon who called out to the soldiers: 1 “Boys, is there any one among you willing to give a little of his skin to this wounded man?” “That wounded man,” one of them called out, “is the son of the usurer who has always skinned me; but he has fought well and it is only right that I should give him what little cuticle his father has spared.”

ALPINE HERO SEALS ROMANCE WITH HIS HEART’S BLOOD.

A soldier of Italy’s crack Alpine brigades made a shield of his (breast for his lientenant and received a mortal wound from which he died the following day. . “Signor, lieutenant,” his last words were, “Do not weep for me, but accept the only keepsake I have in memory of me—it is the portrait of my sister.” _ The lieutenant accepted the gift and now the pretty sister is his wife.

Patriotic poultrymen will observe Rooster Week and conserve food. —■THE MOVIES— The Best of Pictures. PRINCESS & GAYETY THEATRES PRINCESS ONLY TONIGHT Blue Ribbon Feature. Mary Anderson And Alfred Whitman in "The Divorcee” Also Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew Comedy. All Seats 10c. Wednesday, June sth. AT THE GAYETY Mack Sennett Comedy Bray Cartoon Screen Telegram Son of Democracy 10c and 15c. i i ■* 1 " Wednesday, June Sth. AT THE PRINCESS Charlie Chaplin in “The Count” and Crane Wilbur “The Painted-Lie.” 10c and 15c. SPECIAL—The show at Gayety and Princess will both be shown at the Princess Wednesday, June sth, at 2:30. The double show, 13 reels, for 10c and 15c, only one show. Thursday, June 6th. EXTRA SPECIAL. Mabie Taliaferro “Draft 290” 7 Reels. RED CROSS BENEFIT. Coming—“THE KAISER” TU Roaot of Berlin.

The Evening Republican

TWO Y. M. C. A. SECRETARIES KILLED

New York, June 4. —One hundred huts destroyed, two secretaries killed and two others badly gassed is the toll which the Y. M. C. A. has paid to date in the present German offensive. Halliday Smith, of Nyack, N. Y., and Hadley Cooper, of Piedmont, N. Y., were victims of the intensive bombardment by poisoned gas shells which proceeded the Hun drive toward the Marne. They were overcome while serving the exhausted allied troops and died a few hours afterward in the hospital. More than fifty Y. M. C. A. workers stationed on the French front carried supplies to the poilus during the hottest part of the desperate battle and many of these received minor wounds. The British soldiers destroyed their huts to prevent them from falling into German hands. The stores of food and other supplies which were lost in the destruction of all “Y” huts in the path of the advancing Huns reached an estimated value of more than $500,000. One “Y” hut standing in an advanced portion of the battle line just outside the zone where the enemy made his greatest gains, was destroyed six times by shell fire but each time was hastily repaired in order that the relief work might continue. The two secretaries killed were stationed in this hut.

Can you doubt the evidence of this Rensselaer citizens? You can verify Rensselaer endorsement. Read this: v Landy McGee, fur dealer, says: “I suffered from a lame back and such severe pains across my loins that I could hardly move. I couldn’t rest well and my kidneys were too active. I used several medicines, but nothing seemed to relieve me until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills, at B. F. Fendig’s Drug Store. The backache and pains in my loins soon left and the kidney secretions became natural.” . (Statement given May 31, 1907. , „ On February 22, 1916, Mr. McGee said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills qre still my stand-by. I think they are fine and I am never without them in the house.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mir. McGee had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

June 1. Lawrence Albert Blunk, born in White county,. Ind., Oct. 16, 1893, present occupation, farmer, Jasper county, and, Edna Mabel Houston, born in Champaign Co., Hl., April 11, 1900, present occupation, housekeeper, present residence, Jasper county. First marriage for each. June 1. Charles Anderson England, born in Star City, Ind., April 6, 1897. Present occupation,. farmer, present residence, Remington, Ind., and, Martha Elizabeth Heath, bom in Remington, Ind., Dec. 29, 1897. Present residmjce, Remington, Ind., present occupation, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

On July 10 Director General McAdoo plans to put conductors and brakemen throughout the United States in khaki. It is reported city officials will follow the lead of the railroad director and change the color of police uniforms. The men will save money and. blue wool will be saved for navy uniforms.

I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is 5 per cent and my limit is 3100 per •ere.—P. D, Wells. Morocco, Ind.

A RENSSELAER MAN’S EXPERIENCE

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

MUST DON KHAKI.

ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918.

UNITED STATES SHIPS COMB SEA FOR U-BOATS

BATTLE ROAR HEARD OFF VIRGINIA—TWO THOUSAND NAVY ' FIGHTING CRAFT ON GUARD AT VARIOUS . x ATLANTIC PORTS. Norfolk, Va., June 4.—Apparently authentic reports reaching here indicate that U. S. destroyers haveclashed with German submarines off Virginia. Residents of Virginia Beach reported heavy firing off that point late Monday afternoon. Admiral MteLean,commandant of the fifth naval district, said he had no information. Fi|e undersea craft are said to be operating along the coast from Charleston, S. C., to New Jersey. It is believed that one of these is a supply vessel similar to the Deutschland. A report given considerable credence here declares that two submarine chasers were attacked and shelled by submarines off Cape Henry, ho damage being done. Boston, June 4.—Reports received from Salem, Mass., state that “heavy firing” was heard off the coast late last night. New York, June 4.—Ten— Possibly twelve —American ships have been sunk by the enemy off the Atlantic coast. .... One German submarine, the U-151, is known to have operated in the vicinity of Jersey, and it is believed that two or more torpedo boats are participating in the raid. . Today hundreds of airplanes, dirigibles, submarine chasers and warships are searching the Atlantic for trace of the enemy craft. All th eattacks took place Sunday afternoon and evening, off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts, and all within a radius of 100 miles of New York City. ' ’ , So far only one life has been reported lost. . It is officially stated that no attack has been made on American troop ships. The lost vessels range in size from a small schooner to coastwise passenger carry vessels of 5,500 tons, plying between New York, Boston, Cuba and ports of southern states. The vessels sunk by the German U b °Herbert L. Pratt, steamship, oil tanker, bound from Mexican ports to Philadelphia. Sank off Cape Henlopen, 5,372 net tons. Texel, freighter, bound from Cuba to New York with sugar. Sunk off Atlantic City and crew landed, 3,210 tons gross. Schooner Edward H. Cole, in ballast, Norfolk to Portland, Me., sunk off Barnegat, 1,791 tons. . Schooner Hattie Dunn, Rockland to Charleton, m ballast, sunk off Winter Quarter Shoal lightship, 365 tons. Schooner Isabel B. Wiley, Perth Amboy to Norfolk, sunk m same locality, 799 tons. _ - , ... ooc Schooner Edna, Philadelphia to Havana, sunk m same locality, 325 tOnS Schooner Jacob M. Haskell of Boston, Norfolk to Portland, sunk by shell fire southeast of Barnegat, 1,778 tons. Schooner Hauppaug, sunk off Cape May, N. J. Schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, details and location missing. Steamer Winneconne, 1,151 tons, sunk off Cape May, N. J.

WAR SUMMARY.

The Crown Prince’s drive for Paris, a week and a day old, has entered into the deadlock phase. At some vital points of the new attacking line between Noyon and Chateau Thierry, a front of eighty miles, the eighth day of the great battle saw the French again victoriously on the aggressive. On their left, northwest of Soissons, they recaptured Montchoisy for the fifth time and beat down all German attempts to push . forward between the Oise and the Aisne. In the center, between the Aisne and Ourcq rivers, they held the forest of Villers Cotterets against fur-' ioUS German attempts to penetrate it. “Bloody losses” were inflicted on the enemy here, Paris announces officially. Two miles to the southeast, the poilus recaptured Faverolles, wrested fro mthem the day before. On their right, between the Ourcq and Marne rivers, the French held their own. At Rheiins, which is still firmly held by the allies, the Germans made no progress whatever. The Franco-British held their gains around Champlan, southeast of the Cathedral City. Perhaps the most important success was scored in holding the Teutons at bay west of Soissons, .where the Crown Prince is bending might and main to link the Soissons-Cha-teau Thierry front with the southern leg of the Genqan Picardy wedge. Today there were strong indications that neither side is willing to let things rest with the deadlock,but are determined to fight “this battle for Paris” here and now. The French official night communique reports fresh German forces on the scene of battle. The German war office speaks at length of French reserves arriving from “far distant fronts.” It looks, therefore, as if the “battle of the reserves” was about to begin, if, indeed, it is not already under way. Terrific air fighting marked the last two days’ fighting. Between them the French and British put sev-enty-nine German machines out of action, while Berlin reports the “bagging” -of thirty-one entente planes.

FAIRBANKS NEAR DEATH; DOCTORS GIVE UP HOPE

Indianapolis, Ind., June 4.—Hope for the recovery of Charles Warren Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United States, has been practically given up 'by his attending physicians. Mr. Fairbanks, who has been critically ill for several weeks, has grown steadily weaker for the last two days.

Your dollars will help crush German autocracy—buy War Savings Stamps. The ring of our silver dollars will make the kaiser “holler” —'buy War Savings Stamps. Every , rooster removed from the flock now means more eggs for food this summer. Can the rooster —sell or pen him —and help Indiana produce infertile eggs. Sell or confine every rooster, not only the culls—or fertile eggs will be produced.

THE LITTLE OLD LADY OF PANSY SQUARE

Timidly she entered the Red Cross Bureau and stood just within the doorway. Her poor, dimmed old eyes spoke so eloquently: “I’m friendly, ladies, but a little afraid.’’ Several of us rose, but Mrs. Crawford reached her first and asked her to come In and sit down. “Oh, thank you so much," quavered the old lady as she sat down. “You see, my boy—my grandson—has gone and”—with Spartan fortitude she restrained the tears that glistened In her eyes—"gone with his regiment Now I’m all alone in my little cottage tn Pansy Square. And, oh, ladies, do any of you know the dreary loneliness when there is no one who comes home at night?” We almost hugged the dear old lady, so forlorn, yet so brave. We drew up our chairs closer, and she told us her story. -The tittle old lady owned a vine embowered cottage in Pansy Square. There she kept house for her grandson, who worked in a downtown office. When America took up cudgels for democracy the lad. in patriotic fervor, was among the first to enlist “Ah, how 1 loved him and needed him I” whispered the old lady brokenly. “But my dear country needed him more. So 1 told him to go. ’But what will yon do, granny?* he asked. I told him I had enough, an<| so he went Brave, brave heart I My husband was a soldier, and I have his pension. But it is small. After paying the taxes on my cottage there was little left, and now it is gone. I’m old, but* I'm willing. All I ask is a chance to earn my bread till—till he returns.” Through the Home Service workers of her community the little old lady of Pansy Square has been provided with simple tasks, such as making preserves and delicious cakes and a labor of love for her and an unfailing source of revenue. Some day, please, God. her soldier btxj will come back to the little old lady of Pansy Square, and he will find her as he left her—happy, comfortable aad self reliant

Savings makes better employes, saving makes happier families, saving makes stronger nations. Start saving by investing in War Savings Stamps. Coler* Morbus. This is a very painful and dangerous disease. In almost every neighborhood someone has died from it before medicine could be obtained or a physician summoned. The right way is to have a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house so as to be prepared for it Mrs. Charles Enyeart, Huntington, Ind., writes i “During the summer of 1911 two of my children were taken sick with Cholera morbus. I used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and it gave them immediate relief. C AU men have an equal privilege in buying War Savings Stamps.

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A SUNDAY SURPRISE.

Sunday, June 2, Mrs. T. F. Warne, of Parr, was sixty-three years of age and her relatives and friends gave her a very pleasant suypise. Those present at this happy gathering were, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Babcock and son; Mr. and Mrs. John Alter and -grandson; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diff, two daughters, son-in-law, and grandson; Mrs. Mary Cox; Mr. and Mrs. William Myers; Grandmother Moffett; Mr. and Mrs. Levi Sanders; Mr. and Mrs. Robinson; Mrs. Effie Myers and son; Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton and grandson; Mr. an<f Mrs. John Laldn and two daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Sheffer; Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan; Lottie Nichols and Mrs. Carlin. .

STATE S. S. CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT SOUTH BEND.

The 54th annual state Sunday school convention is to be held at South Bend, June 11, 12, and 13. Among the speakers to address the convention are Dr. E. A. Van Nuys, pastor of the First Presbyterian ; church, of Goshen; Dr. C. W. Brew-: baker, Dayton, Ohio; John L. Alexander, Chicago; L. B. Edgas, Columbus, Ohio, and W. C. Moore, Seattle, Wash. Prof. E. O.' Excell, of Chicago, will be the musical director, with Prof. Alvin W. Roper, of Chicago, at the piano. Miss Nannie Lee Frazer, of I Louisville, Ky., will be in charge of ] the elementary division work. Our feUow townsman, James N. 1 Leatherman, cashier of the First National Bank, is a member of the executive board of this organization and he very much desires that the Sunday schools of Jasper county be largely represented ait the conven- ' tion at South Bend.

LIEUT. YEOMAN GUEST OF HONOR

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB ENTERTAIN RETURNED WARRIOR. Twenty-six members of the Van Rensselaer club enjoyed dinner and a delightful two hours in company with Lieut. DeVere Yeoman at the Makeever Hotel Monday evening. The dinner was very informal and not at all elaborate, the hotel management having but an hour’s notice for preparation. The word was not passed on to all members of the club as time did not permit, but the above number were reached and cheerfully responded, to the opportunity for a short visit with the distinguished member just returned from active service “Over There.” . Lieut. Yeoman gave a vivid description of his trip to the war zone and many of his movements over there. We are not permitted to publish much that he said, but, all present felt sure that he had seen some mighty dangerous service and that he had been alert to find out and learn everything that would help him in his work as a soldier and an engiHe spent some time with Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and he considers the Mlajor a most worthy son of our distinguished ex-president. Lieut Yeoman gave a very interesting talk to the members of the Masonic lodge later in the evening and has been constantly interviewed since his arrival here. He leaves this, Tuesday, evening for Washington, D. C. He will take the message there that he left here and that is perfect faith in the ability of the entente allies to win the war.

PROGRAMME DISTRICT LIBRARY MEETING

Thursday, June 6, 1918. 11:15 a. m. Registration at library. 12 noon. Luncheon. 1:30 p. m. Greeting, J. J. Hunt, president library board. Response, Sanna Denniston, liirarian public library, ® ar^/ Library extension, M. H. HuL ;rustee public library, Francesville. Address, William Hamilton, secretary public library commission, Indianapolis. > Attitude of the library board and of the librarian to the library profession, Elizabeth Claypool Earl, president public library commission, Connersville. Round table.

EDWARD PEREGRINE WOUNDED

Mrs. Oscar Harlow has received a letter from her brother, Edward Peregrine, who is with the Rainbow Division in France, stating that he was in the hospital and had been slightly wounded. The letter was began on May 5 and finished on May 9. Private Peregrine was one of the twelve men, who were taking out of Company M and placed in the Field Artillery in the Rainbow Division.

MRS. A. G. WORK UNDERGOES OPERATION.

Mrs. A. G. Work, who with her husband came here from Detroit, Mich., a few days ago underwent an operation today at the hospital for the removal of her appendix. Mrs. Work is the daughter of Charles P. Moody, of Moody, and a grand-daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkison.

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