Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1918 — NOTES FROM THE COUNTY CAPITAL [ARTICLE]

NOTES FROM THE COUNTY CAPITAL

Crown Point, Ind., July 9, 1918. Mr. L. H. Hamilton, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Friend: From out of the turmoil of rising prices, and falling i thermometer I send greetings. And ! will say, “He that hath only a straw hat is indeed out of luck.” Where is that advice to lay in your winter’s supply of coal this summer. We are not only shy the coal, but we are shy the summer. Looks like a plot on the part of the weather man to put the B. V. D.’s out of style. I’m going to join the army and get a sweater. If the coming winter is as cold comparatively as the summer, I can see where I am going to have to put a lot of fillers in the cracks of Crown Point’s leading hotel. And believe me that hotel is long on ventilation. I don’t see why they ever put windows in it; the walls don’t interfere with your vision.

O "‘O See by the Republican that some Brookston boys got in bad. They had the right idea, but not enough road; but it was too long a haul. The bad feature of occasions of this kind is the moral effect. Hardly any one knew that liquor could be had at Beaverville. Now that this information has leaked out or rather spilled out, it might cause the boys to go forth after the King of Auto Wreckers, John Barleycorn. It may be that one can not get liquor at Beaverville unless he has some sort of a stand in, political influence or something equally as good. o -o The banks of Lake county took $588,500 of the first issue of the U. S. certificates of indebtedness. Seems like i lot of money, but then Lake county has thirty-eight banks and most all of them are pretty strong financially. Good thing some one has money, I know I haven’t. The only thing I know about money is what I read in the papers. o— Cf The Lake county registration board is still in session. Good thing the state or county is back of it or it would have been in the hands of a receiver long before this. Doing about as much business as an ice cream maker in Alaska. This government by the people and of the people makes fine Fourth of July speech making, but what I want to figure out is why they don’t do it. If you don’t register you don’t vote. A man will fight and suffer for the privilege of voting and then won’t walk across the street to exercise that privilege. Can you beat it? We are shy just twenty one thousand registrations in this county. And still they drive sixty miles for a bottle of beer. And then maybe not get the original four per cent goods. The only thing I can see from women’s suffrage is more work to get the vote out. There is one thing sure the women won’t be any worse about that than the men. They couldn’t. O 'O What do you think of this small type. Conservation saves ink. Good bye, give my best regards to all my friends. Be sure and print all the news from the boys “over there.” They are our own, everyone is glad to hear from the other fellow’s son, because it carries a message from his own. With very best. I am. Your friend. CLARENCE P. FATE.