Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — Page 1

No. 141.

. ‘ ri . . . We have been selling THE HOOVER ELECTRIC SL CT lON SWEEPER faster ✓ than we could get them-Today we have three in stock. If you are interested telephone and we will send one out for a demonstration. W. J. WRIGHT

THREE TIMES ACROSS OCEAN

RENSSELAER NAVAL MUSICIAN HOME ON FURLOUGH — LOOKING FINE. Don Beam, son on Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam, of thidlcity, arrived m Rensselaer Friday evening. He is looking fine and saysYthat he enjoys his life with the. dlod ship Von Stuben very much. U The Von Stuben U has carried musician Beam across Vthe Atlantic between New York nCity and a French port tix times. Ut is a second armored crusier. On these trips with Don has been his fellow townsmen, Dowald Wright and Herman Ames. Wiight is a musician and Ames a machine mate. The first two trips Ucross re-quired'-seven days going tind seven days to return. The thinl trip required fourteen days in witch to go over and nine days to return. On the last trip the enlkuntered two submarines but the single shot fired, by them fortunately vAfyt wild of its mark. \\ .. Don says there is a spirit o< optimism among the naval forces, which he has come in contact as to the out come of the war.

Margaret Pettit, of Walker township, spent the day in .Rensselaer.' Mis. Emma Shelton returned to her home in Monticello, after a visit with Mrs. J. K. Smith. | Jefferson Stanley, who has been employed by Nathan Eldridge, returned to his'home in Pleasant Hill, irennessee. \ I WORTHWHILE SEEING I >RINCESS-GAYETY [“THE PRINCESS I TONIGHT t MATINEE AND NIGHT I Select Pictures Presents I Norma Talmadge I in ■ The Ghosts of | Yesterday” 6 acts. 10c and 15c.

I (ONDAY— I BLUE BIRQ PLAYS. FRANKLIN FARNUM ■ in “A STORMY NIGHT” ■'7 Also Comedy. I THE GAYETY TONIGHT ■ 8:00 O’CLOCK SHARP. ■ HEADLINE VAUDEVILLE ■ “Tip” The Dancing Dog ■Emma Howe Novelty Singing . I The M’Avoy’s ■lomedy Sketches, Plenty of Laughs. ■ PICTURES. ■‘Fires of Rebellion” ■treat war picture with all star cast, and Alice Howell K in ■Neptune’s Naughty I. Daughter” K Comedy. .. ■■ 2 hour show. 10c and 25c.

The Evening Republican.

LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR

SUN RISING AT 4:15, OLD TIME, OR 5:15 BY OUR CLOCKS, AND SETTING AT 7:29 OLD TIME, OR 8:29 BY OUR CLOCKS. * Summer is here, but whether it is Ihe earliest or the latest summer Rensselaer has ever had and at what time it arrived you can figure out for yourself. Ordinarily summer arrives precisely at midnight June 22, but you’ll remember we turned our clocks ahead an hour recently, so this will give you an opportunity or figuring that summer really began at 11 p. m. on June 21, and thereby broke all speed records. On the other hand, if you are conservative you will .figure summer really didn’t begin when the hands of the clock pointed to 11, but when they reached 1 a. m., so that old Summer is a laggard, by the clock, at least. Take your pick. Incidentally this is the longest day of the year, the sun rising at 4:15, old time, or 5:15 by our clocks, and setting at 7:29 old time, or 8t29 by our clocks. There’s a chance for some more figuring, and if we ever go back to did time you j can boast of that June day when you saw the sun in the heavens at 8:29 p. m. by a veracious time piece.

POLITICS PUT ONE WOOD UP AND THE OTHER DOWN

Washington, June 21.—Disregarding the recommendation of the chief-of-staff and other military advisers, Secretary Baker has given a commission as colonel to George H. Wood, who recently was discharged from command of the Ohio national guard division. Colonel Wood has been assigned to command a regiment of Ohio guardsmen in France. Wood was adjutant-general o*f the Ohio national guard when he was designated by Governor Cox, of Ohio, as major-general commanding the Ohio national guard division. Later, when called before an army examining board, Wood was found to be without necessary military qualification to command a division and was discharged. Political pressure was brought to bear by Governor Cox and other Ohioans and finally General March recommended that Wood get a captaincy and be assigned to command a* company in a replacement regiment in this country. Secretary Baker overruled the recommendation of his chief-of-staff, and not only gave Wood a colonelcy but assigned him for immediate overseas duty. General staff officers who examined Wood’s record reported to the chief-of-staff that Wood had never served in a higher rank than captain in active service during the Spanish war, and that he had actually never commanded troops in the’field.

William B. Austin, of Chicago, spentthe day in this city. Miss Elizabeth King went to Monticello today to visit Miss Sylvia Eldridge. William Eisle and Miss-Mae Harrington drove up to Chicago today to attend the automobile races. R. T. Upjohn came down from Chicago to spend Sunday with Ms' family, who are visiting at the home of E. L. Hollingsworth. If you have a house for rent, rent it through the Classified column of The Republican.

RENSSELAER, .INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918.

CIRCUS TRAIN IN BIG WRECK

OVER A HUNDRED MEMBERS OF SHOW TROUPE ARE KILLED. Word wu received here today of * fearful wreck between Gary and Hammond in which it is reported' that more than one hundred people lost their lives. The Wallace-HagenbackCircus was on it* way from Gary to Hammond when a fast western bound solid Pullman train on the Michigan Central road ran into the circus train, wrecking four of the coaches in which the show people were sleeping. • It is reported that the engineer on the Pullman train ran by a number of lights and crashed into the curcus train. The circus showed at Michigan City Friday and was to have exhibited at Hammond today. Reports have reached here that the number killed and injured will reach more than two hundred and that the hospitals of Hammond have been filled with the injured. Also that many of the animals belonging to the show had been fre«4 by the wreck.

GEORGE FATE WRITES OF HIS NEW WAR LIFE

To The Republican: Just a few lines to say hello and that I like the army fine. When "I left Crown Point thought I was going to Fort Thomas, Ky., but instead we went to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. There we went through an examination that took 8% hours and without any dinner. We entered the examining barracks in civilians clothes and just 8% hours later we came out of Another door a full fledged soldier ip a khaki uniform. I sure was glad when it was over. The shot did not bother me at all. There were over 1,596 men that passed the examination O. K. the same day I did and out of all those men only 36 fainted from the shot. We staid there one week and three days, then we were shipped to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where I am now located. This is sure some climate. Not very hot in the day time and at night it is just cold enough that you will use every blanket you- can get. Thanks to the Red Cross, Ijhave a knitted sweater that I wear at night. If I didn’t have that I really believe I would freeze. Some of the boys that got two mattresses, sleep on one and put the other one over them. Yesterday we had what they call here,' “A regular dust storm.” I don’t believe I ever saw so much wind and dust in all my life. We had all the windows and doors closed and still the dust got into our barracks. Some people say that the dust is an inch thick. I won’t say that, but it was “almost.” I just came off of a 24 hour guard. I am sure glad that I am in the Medical Corps, for I don’t think that I coujd carry one of those rifles around on my skinny shoulders. Today I have two big red spots on my collar bones from carrying those rifles. We were to leave for Panama, but now it is understood that we are going to Italy. The captain told me while I was working in the clerk’s office that if we went to Italy we would be there only a short time and then we would <be put on the battle field as stretcher bearers. I hope I am put on the field instead of in the hospital as there 'will be more excitement on the field. Well.friends, I will close. Hoping this finds you as well as it finds me, I close. Your very truly, PVT. GEORGE FATE, Panama Ret. No. 2, Camp Merritt, New Jersey.

RECEIVER IS NAMED FOR BURROWS CAMP

Valparaiso Vidette: - Ert Turman, of Pleasant township, was yesterday appoined receiver by Judge Loring, in the circuit court, to take charge of the property at Burrow’s camp, on the Kankakee river. Burrows, by his attorney, F. B. Parks, filed a petition for an injunctio nand appointment of a receiver. The property was sold several years ago by Burrows to Charles Smith. Burrows held a mortgage of $4,000 against the place, and the Rensselaer Lumber company had a mechanic’s lien of S4OO for lumber furnished. When the saloons went out of busines, Smith went away to war and left the property in the keeping of his father, John Smith. The latter began the dismantling of the buildings and hauling them to West Hammond. Four loads were taken away. The buildings comprised a duelling house, store room, dance hall, * and rooming house. Foreclosure proceedings were out of the question on account of the government ruling that no snap judgments can be taken against soldiers in the service, and the appointment of a receiver tp preserve the property during the owner’s absence was next in order.

ONION KING IN LIMELIGHT

CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FEATURES THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. ♦ Col. Edward Oliver is in the limelight again, and this time it is not so pleasant a glare as blazed upon him two yearn ago when the hale Hoosier monarch of onions married Mrs. Warren Springer., To state it as dispatches from Rensselaer, Ind., do, rather bluntly, the onioh colonel seem? to have gone in for sugar on a larger scale than the Jasper county (Indiana) food administrators thought he should, and now he is to have a chance to explain to the county council of defense. Col. Oliver —who denies violation of the law—obtained 500 pounds of sugar from a grocer, making affidavit that the sugar was to be used for preserving, saying that he was part owner.of the Saratoga hotel in Chicago. Now it .is known in Indiana that the succulent onions grown by Col. Oliver are served in nearly every big hotel in the country, but just how 500 pounds of sugar would .fit into this scale could not be determined by the food administrator. Therefore —the 500 pounds of sugar was seized. A special trip to the Oliver onion plantation near Newland, Ind., was madi for the seizure. The last heard from the seat of the disturbance was the colonel vigorously protesting that he had violated no food laws.

Col. Oliver was more or less quiescent before this time until he was married Sept. 2, 1916, to Mrs. Springer. He had 'known her only a short time, becoming acquainted with her when he bought a part of her farm land near his in Indiana. Col. Oliver is reputed to be worth $3,000,000. Mrs. Oliver, through, philanthropic announcements, maintained a prominence from 1901 to the present time. She was sued in Jline, 1915, by Cornelius A. Murphy for $50,000 in a “mystery suit” and a year after J. D. York, an architect, sued for SIO,OOO for the failure of some colony plans. She narrowly escaped capture by Mexican bandits in July, 1915, and in the fall of that year it was reported that she had offered some one $40,000 to keep Italy out of the war. This she denied.

BULLETIN.

Berlin (via London , June 21. Attack* by American troop* northweit of Chateau Thierry and by the French southwest of Noyon were repulsed by the Germanr, according to the German official communication issued today. Both the French and the American* suffered heavy casualties and some prisoner* were taken by the Germans, say* the communication. Paris, June. 21.—The Austrian losses in their offensive on the Italian front exceed 120,000 men, according to to a dispach to LaLiberte from Rome. London, June 21.—Dr. von Seydler, the Austrian premier, left Vienna at midday for the Austrian army headquarter* to submit the resignnation* of hi* cabinet to Emporer Charles, says a dispatch.to the Exchange Telegraph from Zurich. London, June 21.——Dr. Von Seydler, the Austrian premied left Vienna at midday for Austrian headquarters to present the reorganization of his cabinet to Emperor Carl, according to a dispatch from. Zurich. Washington, June 21.—A large part of the Austrian army has been cornered between the flooded Piave and the rapidly advancing Italian troops from the Montello sector to the sea, the British war office rep«rts state. The Italian* have, established their former line* at virtually all point* from the Montello to the sea and are making gain* in the mountain* above the Montello.

London, June 21.—British casualties reported during the week that ended today aggregated 36,620. The losses were divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds—Officers, 235- men, 4,247. Wounded or missing——Officers 1,414; men, 30,724. The hulk of the casulaties now being reported, which still are running between 30,000 and 40,000 weekly, evidently represent accumulations of names from the. intensive operations in which the British were engaged during the heavy attacks of this Spring on the British fronts. *

NEW SUITS FILED.

No. 8936. Harry Watson, vs Mary E. Rush; suit on account. Demand ian of Vera Karp, a minor vs. Walter Hershman; suit for damages. Demand $5,000. ' The complaint alleges that the plaintiff’s ward who is a school teacher, was run over by an automobile driven by plaintiff at San Pierre on April 22, and was permanently injured, in addition to receiving a broken limb and' other bruises. No. 8928. Ella Jones administrator of the estate of John Millman, deceased vs Anna Millman, et al. petition to sell real estate. No. 8939. Arthur A. Laughlin vs Ed Oliver and Marguerite Oliver, suit on note. Demand $2,500.

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REV. GEO. THUS IN THICK OF IT

FORMER RENSSELAER AND SULLIVAN PASTOR RIGHT WHERE Wl/IZZ BANG. Sullivan, Ind., June 20.—1 n a letter written to Sullivan friends, Rev. i George W. Titus, former pastor of the Sullivan Christian church and the First Christian church at Rensselaer, and now a war secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in France, he describes his first impressions of the firing line. The letter was written just before Rev. Mr. Titus was wounded. He says: “After being fitted out by hav-, ing a tin pot put on my head, and being equipped with a hideous false face which looks as if it might scare the devil out of the Germans, I started on my ,way, but I will be honest and say it was not with rejoicing. Off in the distance I could hear the cannon booming and the buzzing of aeroplanes. So it was with fear and trembling but nevertheless, on I went. “If I live to be a thousand years old I will never forget my first night in the trenches. >1 had never heard the crack of a shot before in my life save the crack of a safe hit right off the bat. It seemed that everything the Germans had, and the Americans too, had been waiting for my coming. They sure turned them loose. It appeared that the very mountains on every side of me were tumbling down. lam not overstating it when I say that it seemed that all the thunders of the universe since nature’s morn, had been gathered into one storm. Guns roared, shells whistled and screamed around me, over my head and behind me. Oh, how they barked. Was I scared? Well, I should say I was. No tree ever shook more than I did. You could have heard my bones rattle a hundred yards away. If I had ever got my feet turned away from those crazy Dutchmen that night I never would have stopped until I was safe in Indiana. “Well, in the midst of my fear, I suddenly came to myself, and gathering together my few remaining senses I said ‘look here you spalpeen, it’s time for a pinch hit. You get into the game.’ And I did. After this little scene with myself I was ready for anything. I really believe I could have marched right through to Berlin with nothing more than a pea-shooter in my hand. Since then I have been in the big game nearly every day. After spending about forty days in the trenches with my outfit—the First trench* mortar battalion, we were changed of course to the scene of the world’s mightiest

battle.” “I suppose you are quite anxious to know how the big game over here is going. Well, it looks very much to the men on the ground here that; Kaiser Bill is fanning out He was a hummer for the first six innings but he is weakening in the seventh an d, before many months the allies will be batting him to the tall timbers. It may appear that the game will go ten innings -but if it does it will be all to the allies’ advantage. Our heavy hitters from America will appear and we’ll trim him in the last half of the tenth if we have to wait that long.” Rev. Mr. Titus was pastor of the Sullivan Christian church for two years and went from here to Rensselaer, Ind., and later took up Y. M. C. A. work. Before entering the ministry, he was a professional baseball player in -Canada and’ for a number of years played in the International league as a shortstop.

Floyd Elder went to Monticello today to visit friends. Mts. John Marynell returned today from where she has been to visit her mother.

HARRY HARTLEY TO CONTINUE

PRESENT EFFICIENT MANAGER RE-EMPLOYED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS. " Universal satisfaction is expressed at the action of the board of directors of The Farmers Grain Co. of this city in the re-employment of the present manager, Harry Hartley, for another year. Mr. Hartley is a thorough grainman, very considerate and obliging and one of the popular business men of the city. He has a very large ac- ' quaintance among the farmers of this community by whom he is regarded as absolutely square and honorable in all his dealings. His ability to manage this important business was demonstrated to the satisfaction of the two hundred stockholders by the splendid financial showing he made this past year, when the earnings exceeded the capital stock of the company.

TURN IRON FENCE INTO BULLETS

Now would be an opportune time for the city school board to take down the hideous iron fence around the school house in order that the iron might be used to make bullets with which to put a few Huns to rest. This fence is not only unislghtiy but also dangerous. The sharp iron pickets are a positive menace to the safety of the young people of the city. It was erected years ago when cows - Were allowed to run at large upon commons of the town of Rensselaer. The old stoves in the original building have been replaced by a modern heating and ventilating system. A high school building, thoroughly modern, has been erected and most respects we are up-to-date I in curriculum and a faculty equal to ' the best. Let us remove this relic of the dark ages and use the iron in the unsightly fence in destroying the Huns rather than leaving it here to injure our own lads and lassies.

Mrs. Harry Rea returned from Camp Taylor this morning, where she had been visiting her husband. STAR THEATRE —The Hou— of Good Ptetmw— TODAY A special feature "THE WITCH WOMAN” with ETHEL CLAYTON In the leading role.—Ako MARGUERITE SNOW ’" and KING BAGGOTT

"THE EAGLE’S EYE” Which k a series. Not a serial, and is full of interest and action. Saturday, "The Raid of UBoat,” No. S 3. See it at THE STAR. , MONDAY— ~ Everybody’s Favorite. HAROLD LOCKWOOD is "THE AVENGING TRAIL” A story of unusual interest. TUESDAY—FRANK KENAN "LOADED DICE” Al- PATHE NEWS.

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