Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1918 — Page 1

No. 142.

GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION ON WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

’ WHEREAS: The President of the United States, in a recent proclamation, has urgently set Torth the need of “A National Concentrated Thrift Movement'’ and the lending of our money to the Government through the purchase of War Savings -Stamps; and WHEREAS: The War Savings Committee of the State of Indiana, pursuant to requirements of the Secretary of the Treasury, is preparing to sell War Savings Stamps and to take pledges for subsequent purchases, particularly during the five days ending June 28th; Now, therefore, I, James P. Goodrich, Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby designate Friday, June 28th, between the hours of twelve o’clock noon and ten o’clock P. M., as the time when the citizens of Indiana may either in person or by proxy of previously signed War Savings pledge cards comply with the request of the President of the United States in registering pledges to save and to economize to help win the war; and as immediate and definite fulfillment of such pledges, may purchase or pledge to purchase such specified number of War Savings Stamps during the remaining months of 1918 as, by rigid economy, each one’s means will justify. (Signed) JAMES P. GOODRICH.

Money Invested In War Savings stamps comes back later, with big Interest. Lend it now, while you can, and get it back later when you need it Pro-Germans do not Invest in War Savings stamps. Do you? _ . ,r ' Contributed by W. J. Wright

WAR SUMMARY.

Rome, June 23.—0 n the Piave River front from the Montello to the Adriatic, the defeated AustroHungarian* ' are re-crossing the river in disorder, says the Italian official statement issued today. The enemy is being closely pursued by the Italian troops. The allies are bombarding the whole battle line with intensity. They are maintaining powerful infantry pressure on the Montello and on the Piave. Ten hostile aeroplanes have been brought down. The Austrian retreat as indicated in the above bulletin is on a front of about 35 miles. , London, June 23.—The Austrian statement today says: The fighting on the Piave has been less violent. The Piave is a rushing stream. Communication between the banks is impossible for hours and the greatest difficulty is experienced in the transport of supplies. Our troops, however, have not been impaired, the statement adds. London, June 23.—Italian troops on the western front have won their first victory in France. . By * vicious assault last night tn© Germans gained possession of Bligny Mountain, about eight miles southwest of Rheims. A strong Italian force was brought up by the allied command for the counter attack, and with great dash they swept the Germans from the important height, entirely re-estab-lished the allied line and took prisoners.

Mrs. Elma Brown is now caring for grandmother Fannie Parkison, who seems to be slightly improved. Bert Campbell, the Kellner and Callahan machinist, went to * air Oaks this morning to assemble two new binders sold by his firm to J. J. Lawler. John Kellner went along to assist Mr. Campbell.

PICTURES WORTHWHILE SEEING PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT BLUE BIRD PLAYS. Franklin Farnum - in “A stormy Night” Also Comedy. 6 Reels. 10c and 15c. TUESDAY— Alice Joyce in k “Her Secret” and Sidney Drew Comedy WEDNESDAYSPECIAL FEATURES AT BOTH THE GAYETY AND PRINCESS.

The Evening Republican.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Th'- following teachers from Jasper county have either enlisted or been cnlled to the colors since our schools closed: Arizona Custard, Whea field; William May, Fair Oaks; Russell B. Wooden, Wheatfield. There are a few who have signified their intentions of joining the colors by volunteering before fall. William DeArmond, of Tefft, will not teach in the Tefft school for this reason. Donald Peregrine has some notions of a similar character. He taught at Tefft last year. The following teachers from the county are in school during the summer: Elizabeth Yeoman, Grace Knapp, Mildred Selkirk, Lea Flora, Minnie Waymire, Gertrude MiSch, Effie Wesner, Helen Porter, Martha Parker, Ethel Johnstone, Florence McKay, Gladys Rogers, Jess Duncan, Clyde Duncan, Mrs. Elmer Milton, Mary Luther, Mabel McAhren, Gertrude Jackson, Ada Huff. There are others possibly in school whose names do not appear above. These teachers will bring the latest notions of teaching from the various institutions and they will be able to impress each community wherein they teach with them. In some counties trustees are paying from fifteen to forty cents more on the day for teachers who attend school during the summer vacations. It is certainly an asset that should be reckoned by the trustees when he draws up his contracts the coming fall. The Jordan township commencement will be held at the Union school on Thursday evening of next week, (June 27th). The following pupils will receive diplomas that evening: Irene Iliff, Eleanor Iliff, Martha Maxwell, Bessie Reed, Ralph Shafer, VerNell Woodruff and Bernice Wortley. . . The Barkley-Gillam joint commencement will be held next Friday night at the Barkley church in Barkley township, (June 28th). The following pupils will get their diplomas at that time: Emma Adams, Mary E. Ahern, Elva Adams, Frank Britt, Mary E. Callender, Gladys Elliott, Garfield Folger, Inez Flesher, Henry I. George, Ethel Hilton, Elsie Haniford, Geneva Myers, Anna Morganegg, Leota B. Obenchain, Ellsworth Price, Rachael Peregrine, Alice Sigman, Robert Scott? Mabie Scott, Elvin Schroer, William Snedeker, Roy D. Williams, Mary Williams, Clara Guild, Hilda Onkin and Clarence Hansen. '

The Milroy-Hanging Grove township commencement will be held at the Milroy church in Milroy township on Saturday night, (June 29). The class roll contains the following names: Lulu Anderson, Juno Beoughter, Iva Blankenship, Ivan Blankenship, Carl Beaver, Marian Garvin, Ray Lytle, Thomas McAleer, Elmer McAleer, Arnold Sayers, Okal Spencer, Ora Evelyn Clark, Mildred Macy, Scott Cook, Orville Hague, Katherine Hobson, Josephine Johnson, Naomi Swing, Helen Tyler and Paul Randle. Prof. Louis J. Rettger, of the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute, will give the address at each of these three places. Prof. Nettger is considered one of the best speakers on the platform for purposes of this kind. A large crowd is anticipater at each of these places. Speeia music has also been arranged in each place. I

Mrs. Ellen Moffitt, who hadheen the guest of the family ofFrank Babcock, went to Parr this morning.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918.

NATION-WIDE PROHIBITION

THE FOLLOWING LETTER GIVES VIEWS OF SENATOR WATSON. United States Senate, June 20, 1918. Hon. Charles G. Spitler, Mayor, Rensselaer, Indiana. My Dear Mayor: 4 You have written me such a sensible letter as compared with some I receive on the same subject that I am personally responding to it, though I permit my secretary to answer practically all the others. I voted for nation-wide prohibition because I wanted to destroy the liquor business as a whole from out the entire United States. While I have always voted to make my town dry, and while I werit down to defeat on the county local option in 1908, yet, except as a mere matter of agitation and for the creation of sentiment, I have never been so much concerned with the enactment of local laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic. I have fought for and yotea for many such local laws, simply because they helped to create a sentiment that is necessary to bring about nation-wide prohibition. I believe in this and I am one of the senators that, made the two-thirds majority necessary for its passage. lam assured by the temperance leaders here that it will raise the necessary two-thirds of the legislatures that will make its ratification possible and that this will be done within eighteen months of this time. I think that it will be done within one year of this time and then the whole thing will be ended. I voted last year to discontinue the manufacture of whiskey. The Senate voted to give the President power, to discontinue ” the manufacture of beer and wines. I did not so vote, but preferred to take the responsibility myself. ' It is now up to the President, who has the power, by the stroke of the pen, to discontinue the further manufacture of both beer and wine, and I know of no reason why the temperance people should not bombard him instead of us because we gave him the power. A majority thought that this was the best thing to do at that time because there wa( very great dissatisfaction in the cities, growing out of the war conditions then existing and it was thought best not. to augment that by absolute prohibition. Therefore, the power was given to the President to examine into the question and to come to his own conclusions respecting it. Within a short time we shall have absolute prohibition and I do not believe that what occurs between now and then will be of such overwhelming consequence. I am very glad to hear from you and shall always be pleased to have any communication on the question in which you are interested. Very truly yours, JAMES E. WATSON. Similar letters have been received from Senator Harry S. New and Representative William R. Wood. Those interested .in this matter should urge the president by telegrams or letters to use his authority already granted.

GYPSY CARAVAN FORCED TO STOP AND WORK

Idaville Observer: e The slogan of “Fight or Work’ is bearing good fruits in spots these days and it is more than gratifying to be able to occasionlly report a case wherein some slacker or a gang of them have been rounded up and given the ultimatum to either go to the army or get busy on some good healthy job. We have just been informed of a case of this kind taking place Monday at White Oak. The ultimatum was passed to a bunch of gypsies who came along there traveling in elegant style in motor cars and exhibiting other evidences of leading an idle life. These nomads came along at a leisurely pace and when evening came proceeded to make camp and be comfortable. They were visited by a number of men in that neighborhood and told that they woujd either have to “fight or work” and after parleying over the question awhile and finding that they would not even be allowed to move on to some other camping spot, concluded that they would work. Now as circumstances seemed to play right into the hands of the men who were forcing the edict, it was found that the contractors of a new road now building in that neighborhood, were short on man power, they were furnished the opportunity to do some honest work. They were escorted to the job and the bosses see to it that they do a full day’s work each day.

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SIXTY-TWO BODIES REMOVED

ONLY TWENTY-f OUR HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED—i-OTHERS BEYOND RECOGNITION. Gary, June 23.—Sixty-two bodies of Hagenbaek-Wallace circus employes, who were killed in the wreck six miles west of here on the Michigan Central railroad early Saturlay in temporary morgues here and at Hammond, last night, while circus officers made frantic efforts to compile an accurate list of dead and injured. Only twenty-four of the bodies had been identified. Most of the others were charred and mangled beyond recognition. The revised list of known dead follows:

,J James Conner, baggage superintendent of horses, Bliss, Okla.; Mrs. Verna Conner, Wild West rider, Bliss, Okla.; Arthur Diericks, member “Three Strong Swiss,” Erickton, Md.; Joseph Diericks, member “Three Strong Swiss,” Erickton, Md.; Max Freehand, member “Three Strong Swiss,” Erickton, Md.; “Big Red” Barnum, driver; Jennie Ward, aerolist, Bloomington, Ill.; Eddie Devoe, clown, New York; Mona McDhy, equestrienne, Michigan; Victoria McDhy, equestrienne, Michigan; Virgil Barnett, rider, Bliss, Okla.; Nellie Jewell, animal trainer, tiger hoseback act, Washington, D. C.; Louise Cottrell, equestrienne, London; Mrs. Joseph Coyle, Cincinnati; Joseph Coyle, Jr., 11, Cincinnati; Charles Coyle, 3, Cincinnati; Jeb Cattanacs, electrician, Chicago; Mrs. Bessie Cattanacs, areolist, Chicago; Mrs. George Brown, equestrienne, Denver; Leroy Jessup, usher, Toledo, O.; Henry Miller, animal trainer, New York; Charles Rooney, bareback rider, Chicago; Earl Machiel Berry, Schenectady, N. Y.; Henry Hanson, West Baden, Ind. An attempt to remove Fireman Gustave Klauss from Michigan City to Hammond last night met with failure. Acting Coroner Henry C. Green sent a deputy to summon Klauss but the man returned to report that Klauss had gone to Kalamazoo, Mich., where Engineer Sargent is awaiting summons to the inquest set for today. It is expected that by today circus officials will be able to furnish an authenic list of the missing. The time sheets, it was said, will be available at Beloit, Wis., where the show had been booked to play Tuesday. Edward M. Ballard, general manager of the circus, last night issued a statement saying figures complied indicated that probably eight-five persons had been killed. He said a hasty tabulation of scattered employes showed that sixty are missing in addition to the twenty-four identified dead. Most of the missing were said to be “razor backs,” many of them negroes. F. Whipple railroad trainmaster, also has been given up as dead. Parts of two bodies cremated in the furnace of tangled steel and timbers which was the circus train were dug out tonight. The authorities said if the death list is as great as estimated by circus men, the additional bodies probably were reduced to ashes.

An inquest will be held at Hammond today and Gustave Klauss, fireman of the troop train of empty Pullmans, has been ordered brought to Hammond to testify. “We will have the engineer, Alonzo K. Sargent, present when we are ready for him,” was all Deputy Coroner Green, of Lake .county, would say. Sargent is being held in Kalamazoo, Mich. Neither man was injured. None of the $25,000 in cash, reported by circus officers as being lost in the wreckage was recovered. The list of injured in hospitals last night was reduced, fifty-eight here and twenty in Hammond. Only three or four of these are expected to die. The gruesome task of trying to identify charred corpses continued throughout the day with the influx of relatives of victims. Little progress was made. Pitful scenes were enacted ks women and men passed between rows of bodies retaining such identification marks as bracelets, lavelieres and signet rings. Circus folks, swathed in bandages and many on crutches haunted the morgue in search of relatives and many collapsed when (the bodies were found. .. .. j....•

MONDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Mrs. Sarah Timm, of Medaryville, was brought to the hospital Sunday. She is suffering from injuries resulting from being severely'burned. John Habegger, of Fair Oaks, is in the hospital with a broken leg. Charles Fleming and W. A. McCurtain are improving. All other patients are reported to be doing nicely. „ Superintendent Mattie Hemphill is (taking a two weeks’ vacation. In her 'absence, Miss Luvie Gunyon is in charge.

The suggestion has been made that it would be a splendid idea to place the War Saving Stamps certificates on sale in every business house in Rensselaer. This would undoubtedly be a nexcellenit thing to do. If you have a house for rent, rent it through the Classified column of The Republican.

W The suit that “you” will favor is here. The style “she” will endorse is here. Also the color and pattern “you” like. She knows more about what. is becoming to you than you’ll ever learn in a thousand years. Perhaps she will come in with you; we’d appreciate the honor.

XTO matter how long you have worn clothes of another brand, the quicker you change to Bnrtety Sranti (Elnters the sooner your ideal in style and quality will be reached. Hilliard Hamill • Tomorrow's Weather Fair.

B. F. COEN RECEIVES HIS MASTER’S DEGREE

Prof. B. F. Coen and wife passed through Rensselaer Saturday afternoon enrout from Madison, Wis. to Fort Collins, Colo. The trip was made in a Chevorlet automobile. Mr. Coen had just completed his work in the Wisconsin University necessary for his master’s degree. He will assume his duties in the Colorado University. Mr. Coen is the son of Mrs. Clara Coen, of Cullen street. He is a native of this county, an alunnus of the Rensselaer high school and at one time a member of the high school faculty here. ,

NORTH JUDSON NEWSPAPER MAN GOING OVER THERE

Editor Chester A. McCormick, of the North Judson News, has made application for a secretaryship with the Army Y. M. C. A. and unless his present plans miscarry he will be on his way to France in the next few weeks. His application has the endorsement of Rev. Earl Naftzger, a former North Judson boy, who has been engaged in Y. M> G< A. work in this county and leaves for France this week, and this will doubtless aid Editor McCormick in securing an assignment in active work among the boys at the front. He will be required to take a three weeks’ course of training in the Y. M. C. A. work at Princeton University before going abroad.

FROST NIPS MUCK CORN.

Old Jack Frost got in a few licks Saturday night and took a pretty big bite of the corn planted on the low muck ground. No damage seems to have been done to the corn on the sandy or clay ground nor was anything damaged except the corn on the muck. Crops £>re looking remarkable fine. Wheat is ready for the binder. Corn never looked more promising and while oats are a little j short, due to the dry weather, they are sure to be a good crop.

W. O. Gourley went to Fair Oaks this morning to look after his farm. From there, he expected to continup to his honih in Gary.

OLD RESIDENTS ANSWER CALL

WERE AMONG JASPER COUNTY’S MOST RESPECTED CITIZENS. Stern Fisher Iliff, of Jordan township, died at his late home Sunday, June 23rd. He was born August 30, 1826. The funeral was held thia Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and was conducted by Rev. J. Budman Fleming, John .Newton Price died at his late home in Barkley township, Saturday, June 22. He was born March 7, 1845. Funeral was held this Monday morning at 11:00 o’clock. Interment was in Smith cemetery.

REFUSED ADMISSION IN MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS

, Dr. I. M. Washburn, who served in the Spanish-American war and who has been very anxious to enter in service in the present war as a physician has been denied that privilege. For a time the doctor received a pension on account of disabilities due to exposure in the unfavorable climate in Cuba. The doctor will try again to enter the service and hopes to be successful. The letter denying the doctor's request is here appended: Washington, D. C,, June 20, 1918. Dr. I. M. Washburn, Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Dr. Washburn: I am directed by the Surgeon General to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of June 15th, relative to your application for a commission in the Medical Reserve Corps. The Surgeon General is still of the opinion that the fact that you were on the pension roll for physical disability is prima facie evidence that you are physically incapacitated for service as an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps. He regrets that favorable action cannot be taken upoh your application. Very truly yours, BERT W. CALDWELL, Colonel, Medical Corps, National Army.

MARQUIS PECK WRITES TO HIS MOTHER

U. S. S. Roanoke, May 81, 1918. Dear Folks At Home: Well I am still here and having a good time. 1 received the old tramp letter all 0. K. The insurance policy is safe. Will tell you about it as soon as I get time to write a letter. I have seen William Tilton and several of the other boys that came with us from the west coast. I received five letters from home. One from Guy, one from uncle Frank, and one from a friend who is on the U. S. S. New York now. Have been on liberty three times in Scotland and I think I will go again tonight. Will finish the other letter as soon as possible. My address. MARQUIS PEEK, U. S. S. Roanoke, U. S. Naval Forces, European Waters, U. S. Naval Base 18, care Postmaster, New York City, N. Y.

MOSES CHUPP DIES IN HAMMOND

Mrs. Harry Marlatt and children went to Hammond this Monday looming, having been called there on account of the death of her father, Moses Chupp. Mr. Chupp had been in very poor health for a number of years. He was sent to the tuberculosis hospital in this state, but received no relief. Mrs. Marlatt had not been advised as to the funeral arrangements.

STAR THEATRE —The House of Good Pictures— TODAY HAROLD. LOCKWOOD in “THE AVENGING TRAIL” A story of the great northwest. Admission 10c to all. TUESDAY—- .... FRANK KENAN in “LOADED DICE” Also PATHE NEWS. WEDNESDAYMARY MILES MINTER in “BEAUTY AND THE ROUGE” Also A Billie Rhoades Comedy. THURSDAY — EMILY WEHLEN in’ “THE OUTSIDER” FRIDAY— . > Of course you will DUSTIN FARNUM in “NORTH S 3” Also A Ford Weekly. l SATURDAYALICE BRADY fat “THE TRAP” Also No. 17 of The Eagle’s Eye. U-boat S 3. Notice this strong ] program for the entire week. If you cannot attend all. You may pick your favorite.

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