Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — Page 1

No. 129.

RUGS We moved our entire rug stock to 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

WAR SUMMARY.

It was not a flash in the pan, that homo hitting blow by the Americans at Chateau-Thierry the other day. The Star-Spangled Baner has come to the Marne to stay until the German hordes are turned back—and out of France. The twelfth day of the great battle, saw the Yankee marines' again dashing forward and carrying a series of brilliant victories.. Three villages— Torcy, Veuilly-La-Poterie and Bouresches —all northwest of Chat-eau-Thierry, at the point where the German loft threatened the Paris road, were recaptured, and to the north of Veuilly they penetrated as ' far as the eastern border of Chexy village. Besides, on the right wing of their attacking frelnt they “appreciably improved their positions,’’ in the words of the French communique, on the Torcy-Bouresches front. Another 200 prisoners were taken in the day’s fray, making a ' total of 300 for two days to the ‘ credit of the marines. They “advanced beyond all their objective, incuding a long strip of the Paris highway,’ cables the International News Service correspond--1 ent with the ‘American army at the Marne, adding that the marines penetrated to a depth of two and one-half miles along a front of nearly six miles. Not a single American feel into German hands. Thus American troops in France are no longer “auxiliary” forces, but consitute the main attacking force, on this front at least, and it is for the moment THE vital front. Every day since they helped the French stop the German onrush at the Marne they have won new successes, first in boating off the infuriated Germans and inflicting heavy losses on them, and then, with ever-increasing ° scope, regaining ground whore every yard counts The American successes constiutod the major infantry action of the day between Noyon and the Marne. On the eastern side of the salient created by the German drive, the British recaptured.Bligny village taken from them yesterday but further to the northwest, astride the Andre I river, southeast of Sarcy village, the Germans claim to have stormed the British lines and taken 300 prisoners. Berlin has not yet admitted a single one of the reverses suffered at the ! hands of the Americans on the Marne, the German was office asserting in its day report that “local attacks’* northwest of Chateau-Thierry , were repulsed. To the east of Rheims, as far as I Verdun and down to Belfort, things are uncannily quiet. Paris, Amiens

THE BIG SHO WS TONIGHT GAYETY AND PRINCESS THEATRES

TONIGHT AT THE PRINCESS Douglas Fairbanks "Headin South” All western with lots of smoke. Aho Bray Cartoon 10c and 15cMonday, June 10th. Bluo Bird Plays. Ella Hall tai “The Charmer” Ate. G—J CcmJ, 10c and 15c.

Next Week-“ The Kaiser”- THE BEAST OF BERL,N

The Evening Republican

FREED FROM PRISON ON PLEA TO JOIN THE ARMY

Muncie, Ind., June 7.—Michael Brumbach, sentenced more thin two years ago to the state prison for manslaughter because he killed Isaac Cox, yesterday afternoon, true to his promise to Governor Goodrich, appeared before a local conscription board and was passed for military service. In filing out his military questionnaire, which was sent to him in prison, he wrote on it that if Governor Goodrich would grant him an absolute pardon he would become a soldier. The local conscription board interceded for him vith the Governor, and the latter, consented to the arrangement. Thursday afternoon, a free man, he entered the conscription office, successfully underwent his physical examination and was placed in class 1-A and will go with the next group of recruits. He said he was proud of the opportunity to “make good” and, was thankful to the Governor and the members of the conscription board who had given him a “chance.” It was shown in his trial that he had not intended to kill Cox.

Paris, June Y.—The French and American troops, operating against the Germans to the northwest of Chateau Thierry, during Friday’s fighting made additional gains of ground and captured the village of Veuilly La Poterie and Bouresches, according to the French communication issued this evening. Washington, June 7.—Sinking of the Norwegian steamship Vinland by a German submarine 65 miles off the Virginia capes at 6 p. m., Wednesday, June 5, was announced tonight by the navy department. The crew was rescued and landed today at Cape May, N. J. The Vinland was sent down nine hours after the . British steamer Harpathian was torpedoed 35 miles farther from the Virginia coast.Until word of her sinking came from Cape May today nothing had been heard of the operations of the enemy raiders since the landing of the Harpathian’s crew yesterday.

and the channel ports are monopolizing the attention of allied military critics. But the new storm that all the world looks for may come on that uncannily quiet southeastern front, in Champagn, Lorraine, or at Verdun.. Evil things are believed to be brewing there.

TONIGHT AT THE GAYETY VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES. Edna Bennett Smtih ‘ Contralto. Stanley & Williams Singing and talking, comedians. PICTURES. Wallace Reid “Nan of Music Mountain” S Act.—Also two good comedies. Two hour show. 10c and 25c.

BULLETIN.

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SEES BIG BOOM IN REAL ESTATE

J. W. FIELDHOUSE DECLARES NOW IS TIME TO BUY, IN TALK BEFORE BOARD MEMBERS. J. W.‘ Fjeldhouse, Elkhart, presii dent of the Indiana Real Estate i Board, in his talk before board mem--1 bers at their weekly meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday, declared that now is the logical time to buy real estate. “Money is plentiful, wages are high, and these conditions will continue long after the war,” said Mr. Fieldhouse. He said that people can afford to go into debt, if necessary, to buy real estate, as realty is due for a rise in price. “Any thing well bought is haff sold,” he said, “and real estate is the last thing to go down and the last thing to go up. Wages and prices have gone up by leaps and bounds, and the logical deduction is that real estate will soon make a corresponding advance?* Mr. Fieldhouse! and C. B. Burton, of Indianapolis, executive secretary of the Indiana association, have been visiting all parts of Indiana to learn the realty conditions, and they find that although building is practically at a standstill, because of high cost of labor and material, vacant lots suitable for homebiulding purposes are selling well and at reasonable prices. Mr. Fieldhouse made the prediction that when the American soldiers return from France they will be eager to get back into peaceful pursuits and ther first thought will be to obtain homes. The demand for real estate thus created will inevitably cause a raise in prices. The speaker contrasted the conditions now existing as against those that obtained at the close of the civil war. “Prices of real estate mounted high after peace was declared,” he said, “and we can look for just such an advance after our boys get home from the battle fields of France.” Mr. Fieldhouse is president of the St. Joseph Valley Bank and the First Trust and Savings Company, Elkhart, and since last October has been president of the West Side Trust Company, Indianapolis.—lndianapolis Star.

Commencement Play The C. L. S. of St. Josephs Presents THE “M ERCHANT of VENICE” A Shakespearian Comedy in Five Acts Wednesday, June 12 at 8:15 p. m. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM— ’ ADMISSION 25 CENTS GRADUATION bIERCISES THURSDAY, J(JNE 13th, At 8 A. M.

RENSSELAER MERCHANT IS NOW FEDERAL OFFICIAL

Mr. Hilliard, of Hilliard & Hamill, was recently recommended by John Eger, Jasper county food administrator, to receive appointment as deputy merchant representative food administrator. Myer, Heller, the state merchant representative food administrator looked upon the recommendation favorably and Mr. Hilliard took the federal oath of office this morning. The Republican considers the appointment an excellent one and the county can be assured that that which the federal government desires will be accomplished.

ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE CLOSES NEXT WEEK

The commencement exercises will be held at St Joseph College next Thursday evening at 8 p. m. On Wednesday evening, June 12, the students will present the “Merchant of Venice,” at the college auditorium. An admission fee of 25c will be charged for this.

NOTES FROM THE SOUTH

ABSENT EDITOR WRITES INTERESTING LETTER FROM LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI. Liberty, Miss., June 5.—-By the time this letter res ches Rensselaer, we will be on our way home. If we stayed longer we would have to pay a third more to get home, as on 'the tenth McAdoo’s new rates of three cents a mile, with an additional half cent a milfe for Pullman’s will be in effect. Ap we are fat from being a millionaire we have decided to cut out visit a few day’s short rather than to pay the extra fare. Our visit here has been a delightful one, without a dull moment. Life on a farm may be considered by the majority of people a lonely one, I but the writer has found it other- • wise, at least in this country. O- ■■■O Yesterday afternoon we went fishing on the Amite river. This is ’ a picturesque stream winding its i way through the timber. It is crook-' £d and the bed of the river is full of logs and fallen trees, with here and thjere a fallen tree spanning the stream, which make foot bridges by which one may cross the steam. This fishing trip was a new experience for the Hoosier taking part, for no bait, poles or lines were carried. Porter and Robinson had both been told how they caught fish in the river here, but Bill was skeptical and thought that the natives were going to treat him to a fishing trip similar to the snipe hunting trips of the north, in which the victim is taken along at | night and left in some lonely place in the woods to hold the sack while the hunters depart to drive the sftipe .into sacks, but never return, and some| hours later in the dead of the night the victim awakes to the fact that he has been the “goat” in a practical joke. But Bill soon found that this was no snipe hunt, but a hunt for cat fish, in which Landy Magee or the late Hank Granger would have given several days of their lives to •have been able to have participated. The manner of fishing without bait, poles or line is»for the fishermen to don old clothes, ’wade in the river

and search for the nesting places of the cat fish. Coming to a hollow log, the fishermen cover the opening in the log, first reaching in with their hands. Sometimes the fish makes a dash for the hand, thinking it to be bait, and if the fishermen is lucky sometimes he is able by holding on to the gills to pull the fish out of the log, but generality it is necessary to tie hooks on the ends of a stick and by prodding around to hook the fish and draw it to the entrance of the log, where a large hook is placed in its gills and it is then drawn forth in triumph. Generally two fish are found in the log, a male and female, and this was the case yesterday. We had not been fishing fifteen minutes before the first two cats were caught and it was well toward evening before two others were found in another submerged log. This constituted the afternoon's catch. The four fish weighed twelve pounds. These are considered small ones here, but for the Iroquois they would be considered large ones. It is no uncommon experience to take cats weighing thirty-live to forty pounds out of the rivet here. The ones caught,

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however, were large enough to make two meals for the Porter and Robinson families and their visitors. o—o ~ The population x of the Clark plantation was increased two last night when twins, two picaninnies, a boy and a girl, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fate Spears, who occupy one of the tenant houses on the plantation. This family already consisted of twelve members, and the new arrivals make fourteen. The twins have been named Willie and Willie Lea, the last name being for the girl. The writer will try to get pic--1 tures of the new arrivals before his departure for home. o—o The writer helped to set out two acres of sweet potato slips this morning. The slips consist of runners taken from vines already growing. They are cut about fifteen inches long and one person goes ahead and lays the slips about two feet apart on the ridge which has been prepared for the crop. Another follows with a stick. He places the end of this about the middle of the slip, pushing it in the ground, leaving the two ends protruding. These soon take root and cover the ground, and other slips can be secured from these in a short time if desired. Sweet potatoes are one of the most profitable crops of the south mnd can be grown on any of the ground here, producing from 200 to 306 bushels per acre. A ready market can always be found for them. But if one prefers he can feed, the potatoes to the hogs. They are very fattening and one bushel used this way is equal to three bushels of corn, and five bushels of the sweet potatoes can be produced to one of corn. There is a farmer living in this section who puts in each year, four thousand acres in sweet potatoes, and also sells the slips all over the United States. It may be accident that he got into the slip business. One day he cut some of the slips and laid them aside in a building and forgot them. He came across them five days later almost as fresh as the day he cut them. This caused him to think of, growing plants for sale and he has built up an immense business and ships plants all over the country. o—o Like in the North at present, the great problem of the fanners here is to secure enough help to run the farm. The war has taken so many able bodied men that there is not sufficient help to go around. Yesterday afternoon, R. W. McAllister, editor of the Tribune, and, five other business men went to the country and spent the day hoeing ih the fields for those who had been called to the war, leaving their places, without sufficient help. An organization is being perfected for this purpose and about fifty business, men will spend much of their time in helping out i those who have enlisted to help out their country and thereby sacrificing their home interests. L_ ; ' ’ O—O The Liberty people are like one big family and finer people were never found anywhere. They are gentlemenly, courteous, accommodating and always greet a stranger with a pleasant word and a smile and try to make their stay pleasant It is a pleasure to visit a town like Liberty, and.it is herd to break away from here when one becomes acquainted. The court house is filled with accommodating officers, who will always go out of their way to accommodate the public. o—o , During our visit here I spent one afternoon bee hunting. Two large pines had been located in which bees had takep up their abode and these were cut and the bee trees robbed of the crop of honey. The bees were transferred into Jasper county hives and have already begun to fill them with choice honey. Bee keeping could be made a profitable line here if one would give the industry proper attention, but like many things here the opportunity is not taken advantage of and where bees are found they are quartered in crude home made hives where the honey cannot be produced in a way in which it can, bemarketed, LESLIE CLARK.

931,000,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT, U. S. FORECAST

Production of 931,000,000 bushels of wheat this year was forecast today by the department of agriculture from June 1 conditions. The winter wheat crop was estimated at 587,000,000 bushels and spring wheat production at 344,000,00 bu. Winter wheat conditions was 83.3 per cent of a normal. Spring wheat condition was 95.2 and the acreage 22,489,000. Winter wheat condition and production forecasts by principal states: Ohio—Conditions, 87; production, 35,816,000 bushels. Indiana—97 and 50,809,000. Illinois—9s and 51,553,000. Missouri—96 and 49,999,000/ Nebraska—7o and 43,049,000. Kansas—7B and 97,114,000. Oklahoma—74 and 32,267,000. Production of oats was forecast at 1,500,000,000 bushels, the acreage 44,475,000 and the condition 93.2. * * Barley production, 235,000,000 bushels; acreage, 9,108,000, and condition, 90.5. Rye production, 81,000,000 bushels and condition 83.6. Hay production, 107,000,00 tons; condition, 89; pasture condition, 92.5. Apple production, 203,000,000 bushels; condition, 69.8. Peach production, 42,900,000 bushejp; condition, 52.

VISIT RENSSELAER SELECTMEN AT CAMP TAYLOR

Friday evening, after an extended trip including a visit to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., At Cap Taylor he saw all of the Rensselaer boys and had Howard Clark and Delos Dean over to Louisville, Ky., for dinner. He says the boys enjoyed the meal immensely. It is understood that Floyd Meyers and E. M. Laßue will be members of the fourth training camp and our prediction is that every one of them will earn commissions. “Lefty” Clark is a member of the baseball team and is making good. He has won the only game he pitched.

SATURDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Frances O’Donnell will leave the hospital today. Charles Eggleston, who underwent an operation, is doing nicely. Mrs. George McElfresh is improving. The two mothers and babies are doing nicely. Mr. Bert Overton remains about the same. *

STAR THEATRE —Thu House of Good Picture. TODAY The Way Out Featuring Carlyle Blackwell June Elvidge And John Bowers THREE SCREEN FAVORITES Also King Baggot Marguerite Snow "THE EAGLE’S EYE” Admission 15 and 15c MONDAY— Ethel Barrymore 4 An American Widow 1 , TUESDAY— ~~ “The Nautahka” Story by Rudard Kipling. Featuring . Antonio Mereno

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