Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1918 — Page 1

No. 171.

WE SELL THE NEW HOME Sewing Machine Have in stock needles for . all makes of sewing chinesW. J. WRIGHT

FOUNTAIN PARK TO HAVE BEST PROGRAM IN ITS HISTORY

Charles Peck, of Remington, was in Rensselaer Monday arranging for advertisement for the doming Chautauqua to be held at Fountain Park, August 10 to 25, inclusive. Three very prominent numbers to be given this year are. Tuesday, August 13. THE INNES BAND. 3:00 p. m. Music festival program by the unrivalled Innes orchestral band of forty-two pieces under the personal direction of Mr. Innes, assisted by James Eller, operatic contralto of national fame. 8:00 p. m. Big concert by the Innes orchestral band, featuring the famous young Russian Violin Virtuoso, David Eisen, and Earnest Pechin the greatest cornetist in the world, as well as Jeanne Eller. This is the biggest musical attraction to be found in the market. This band will have the sweetness of a symphony orchestra as it carries many stringed instruments. , Friday, August 16. 8:15. SMILING PAT O’BRIEN, Lieut. R. F. C. Amerincan hero of a hundred air fights, escaped from a German prison. Absolutely the biggest card we have ever had in Remington. With his thrilling story of air fighting, fall of 8,000 feet, treatment in a German hospital and prison camp, and his marvelous escape back to England after 72 days of fugitive fleeing through Germany, and his interview of unprecedented length with King George. Thursday, August 22. 3:00 p. m. u WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN on fundamentals. Bryan never fails to have a large audience when he comes to Fountain Park, nor to charm them anew by the breadth of his vision and his insight into the fundamentals of life’s problems. The board of directors make the following interesting statement in reference to their program: “We are living in the midst of the world’s greatest struggle, and the duty is incumbent upon us to play our best part. The United States at this critical moment, is called upon to become the saviour of the rights of the race and the common man. This is God’s greatest drive for humanity. President Wilson has issued a call to the chautauqua to be a vital factor in helping win, the war for democracy. The chautauqua workers were called to Washington, and for a week were instructed by the government heads on how best to carry

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DEDICATION OF SCHOOL BUILDING

DEDICATION AND COMMENCEMENT v AT FAIR OAKS SATURDAY. The dedication of the new school building at Fair Oaks will take place there Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. The program for the occasion follows: Music—Orchestra. Invocation —Rev. J. C. Downey. Vocal Sold—Miss Amy Bringle. Music—Orchestra. —--- Address of Welcome —Supt M. L. Sterrett.' Music—Orchestra. Dedicatory Address—“ The Philosophy Back of the War—Supt. L. N. Hines. Violin Solo—Miss Essie Helmick. “Community Resources”—Trustee G. H. Hammerton. Music—Orchestra. Benediction —Rev. C. W. Postill. The annual commencement of the township will be held in the new school building in the afternoon. The following is the program: Processional—Orchestra. Invocation—Rev. C. W. Postill. Music—Chorus. Class Address-—Supt. L. N. Hines. Violin Solo—Beatrice Tilton. Music—Orchestra. Presentation of Class—Supt. M. L. Sterrett. < Presentation of Diplomas—Trustee Geo. Hammerton. t Music—Orchestra. Bendiction—Rev. J. C. Downeys

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Piatt of Union township boy twins, July 21. George Royster is spending the day in Chicago.

the message to the people. Our program is therefore constructed on a patriotic plan. The music and en-< tertainment will cheer, hearten and relieve the stress and war speakers will inspire to greater sacrifice, which is real patriotism. The chautauqua will this year render its greatest service.”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1918.

KAISER’S ALLY MAY DESERT

BULGARIA TIRED OF WAR; KING LEAVES TO TAKE A REST. London, July 29.—“ The relations between Germany arid Turkey have been severed, according to direct information from Constantinople.” This announcement is made by the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company. The, excitement against Germany, the advices say further, has been particularly after last week’s events. The Germans recently demanded the Hamidieh, the only .large ship then in possession of Turkey, as compensation for the Breslau, the former Germap cruiser which was destroyed in the Dardanelle while under the Turkish flag. Despite Turkey’s protest, the Hamidieh has departed for Sebastopol with the German flag flying. (The foregoing dispatch is the only one which has been received regarding the reported Turkish-German break. Official confirmation has not been received in Washington.) Washington, D. C., July 29.—An official dispatch from France today says German newspapers report King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has gone to “foreign lands” for some time on account of his health.

According to the Neue Freie Presse, a Bulgarian personage on his way through Vienna admitted that the Bulgarian people were very tired of the war and had prospects of a poor harvest... Amsterdam, July 29.—A resolution declaring in favor of an immediate peace without annexations and indemnities was offered in the Austrian lower house Saturday by Deputy Stanek in behalf of the Czech league. The resolution declared that a continuation of the war is useless from the standpoint of both humanity and political utility. It asserted that all persons should have the right to self-determination and asked that the house demand that Austria oppose the annexationist and imperialistic policy which had gained the upper hand in Germany and try itself to find a way to secure a democratic peace. The house, says a Vienna dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, which reports the incident rejected the’ resolution as inadmissible for submission to a vote.

CASUALTY LIST IN FRANCE.

Washington, July 29.—The army casualty list today shows: Killed in action, 47; died of wounds, 17; died of disease, 4; died of accident and other causes, 11; wounded severely, 93; wounded, degree undetermined, 7; missing, 20. Total, 199. FROM INDIANA. (Tuesday.) Private Mathias J. Hester, North Vernon, killed in action. Private Kim Hudson, Vicksburg, wounded severely.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Piatt, of Union township, boy twins, July 21. *

MISS MARGARET HALL

Miss Margaret Hall Is a graduate dietitian of eight years’ experience in teaching Chautauqua audiences the practical relation of food to health. Her work proves a revelation to housewives and is practical and instructive. Miss Hall comes to the Chautauqua platform this summer with full information direct from the Government concerning the need of Food Conservationand practical suggestions that all should hear and heed. Her lecture will be especially appropriate, will be right up to the minute and replete with helpful information along the lines of f<MXi economy. Miss Hall is on our Chautauqua program.

RENSSELAER, IND., AUG. 6 Te 11.

PLANE’S MERITS ARE CRITICISED

GENERAL PERSHING SUGGESTS CHANGES IN DEHAVILAND * MACHINE. Washington, July 29.—Criticisms by .General Pershing and others of the DeHaviland airplane—now the principal output of American factories —are being investigated simultaneously by Secretary Baker and the senate committee inquiring into aircraft production. After Secretary Baker’s statement last week to senate committee members that Gen. Pershing had sent a cablegram criticizing DeHaviland machines sent him from this country, suggesting changes and disapproving features both of design and construction, the secretary arranged to reopen its hearing tomorrow for further inquiry in the DeHaviland type. Criticisms of the DeHaviland plane, according to senate committeemen who discussed the question with Mr. Baker and General March, chief of staff at their weekly conference last Saturday, have come not only from General Pershing, but from officers prominently identified with the flying service, as well as from American aviators and aeronautical engineers, who • have seen the British design of DeHaviland and the American re-designed type in action. Weakness of the wing fabric, which is said tp have caused several fatal accidents; weakening of structural parts by excess of steel bolts, and deficient fuel capacity are known to be some of the criticisms raised against the American design. According to information given senators by the war secretary 753 DeHaviland machines have been completed in this country up to the (ast report from official sources, of which more than four hundred have been shipped to General Pershing, who, lowever, has reported receipt so far of only sixty-seven. There are no reports from General Pershing that any of the American-built Dehaviands have been used by the American forces on the fighting front.

WAR SUMMARY.

Still the allies continue to press back the hordes of the German Crown Prince in the SoisspnRheims salient. And again American troops have come out of a hard fight .with new glory! The outstanding feature of the past twenty-four hours’ fighting is the smashing defeat inflicted on the fourth division of the Prussian Guard—Germany’s storm troops de luxe —which jammed head-on against the American advance ht Sergy and was smashed to pieces. The little town changed hands nearly a dozen times before the Yankees finally established undisputed possession of it and then advanced 1,500 meters over the top of a ridge with what was left of the crack Prussian division advancing before them in retreat. The German attempt to drive the Yankees back across .the Ourcq ended in a disastrous failure. Meanwhile the Franco-Americans had plunged forward from. Fere-en-Tardenois and pushed their advance within eight miles of .Fresnes, latest dispatches say, while reinforced by Scottish troops, the armies on the west side of the salient, south, of Scissons, also made good progress. An attempted diversion east of Rheims netted the Germans nothing but another failure.

Opinion ~in the allied capital* today is that the Germans will be lucky if they stop their retreat at the Vesle. The belief is growing that the withdrawal will go as far back as the Aisne line. Meanwhile, on every hand is being heard praise of the masterly tactics of Gen. Foch in refusing to allow his troops to plunge ahead after they had forced the Ourcq line. Had they done so, they would have run directly into the German counter attack which the Americans on Monday smashed. It was in refrainjng frpm following up the enemy with undiminished speed at the front where the enemy was weakest and retreating fastest — between Fere-en-Tardenois and Ville-en-Tardenois——that Foch demonstrated that wise restraint that is the prequisite of true generalship. For the Germans an almost ideal situation would have been created by a headlong Franco-American advance between those two rail keys. The pocket would have been swiftly emptied by Germans and filled by French and Americans; the German death trap would have become an allied death trap, for a* long as the German sides field Ludendorff could have set into motion, at the proper moment, one of the most effective pincer movements ever carried out. If the German command . figured upon such a contingency, if misguided perhaps, by the magnificent dash and spirit of the young “inexperienced” Americans it counted upon the intoxication of victory to lure the Yankee* and Foilus Into the heart es the funnel below the Vesle, Foch was prompt to add another disappointment to the long series of disillusionments the Kaiser’s staff has suffered since July 15.

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MARCHING THROUGH GERMANY

Blow the good old bugle, boys, we’re coming right along, Make a great big racket, for we’re many millions strong; Our watchward now is victory and that won’t take us long, While we go marching through GerGermany. CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah; We’re going to Bervlin; Hurrah! Hurrah! They’ve got to let • us in; And what we’D do,to that old town will surely be a sin, While wo gomarehing through Germany. Tell the world that we have got an “army out of sight;” Men who want to meet the boche and show them how to fight; We can do it ’cause we know we’re fighting for the right, While ,we go marching through Germany. We don’t have to stop and kill a wo- , man or a kid, Like the “kultured” kaiser and his “kultured” army did; All we ask is, show us where the devil now is hid. And we’ll go marching through Germany. Haul the fiendish Kaiser out, we want to see him dance; Get a hickory paddle and we’ll pound . him on the pants; Fall in line and take your turn, for all will get a chance, While we go marching through Germany. —Sergt. John Tyler Williams.

RETURNED FROM CAMP TAYLOR

The following selectmen who left here July 23 have failed to pass the physical test and have returned from Camp Taylor. It is understood that others are to return also: Sylvanis Marquie, Isaac Fowler, Elijah Cunningham, Carl Worden, Fred Bachman, Ernest Linback and John A. Switzer. \

TRUCK MECHANIC KILLED IN WRECK

ERWIN CAMERER, OF ROAD- ' HOUSE, ILL., KILLED NEAR MULBERRY. i I Lafayette, Indiana, July 30. • Erwin C. Camerer a member of i Co. B, 113th U. S. A. ammunition train, was the victim of a fatal automobile accident yesterday morning, five miles south of Mulberry on the Jefferson when the truck i to which he was attached fell down : a ten-foot embankment while turn- , ing out of the road to permit another machine to pass. Camerer was a mechanic, and not engaged in driving the car. He was caught beneath the heavy machine 1 and his life was crushed out. Coroner R. C. Johnson, of Clinton county, I viewed the remains, and the body was taken to the Goodwin undertaking parlors at Frankfort to be prepared for burial. Hewill be given a military funeral. The company of.which the unfortunate young man was a member camped on the Tippecanoe county fair ground Sunday night, and left this city at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, the accident occurring at 8:45 o’clock. , When the machine skidded Camerer jumped off the truck and then walked towards it, being caught underneath it when it turned over.

Camerer was 23 years of age, single, and a farmer by occupation. He volunteered for the service on May 30, 1918, and was sent to Camp Shelby, Miss., on June 17, 1918, when he became connected with Comany B of the 113th Ammunition train. He was the soft of Jesse Camerer, who resides near Roadhouse, 111. Harry Hartman, the driver of the truck resides Madison, DI. He stuck t othe wheel and when the machine plunged into a hedge fence and turned over he received painful flesh wounds. The army train was in charge of Captain George F. Whitmore at the time of the accident.' Major Short in charge of the movement of the trains was still in Lafayette when the accident occurred, and when notified of the accident by Superintendent of Police William G. Scherer, Major Short immediately left for Frankfort, to take charge of the young man’s body, which was forwarded to Roadhouse, 111., yesterday afternoon. The young man carried a government insurance policy for $10,600 in fvaor of his parents.

RECORD OF THE PAST.

No Stronger Evidence Can Be Had In Rensselaer. Look well to their record. What* they have done many times in years gone by is. the best guarantee of future results. Anyone witht a bad back; any reader suffering from urinary troubles, from kidney ills, should find comforting words in the following statement. Mrs. Wm. Moore, Elm St., Rensselaer, says: “I suffered from kidney trouble. I had backaches and headaches for a long time, I had no strength or ambition and couldn’t sleep well. I could hardly turn in bed on account of the lameless in my back. I couldn’t do my housework and I knew that my kidneys were weak. Finally I got Doan’s Kidney Pills and they cured me of all those ailments. I have never had an attack since.” (Statement given May 31, 1907.) On February 29, 1916, Mrs. Moore said: “I am never without Doan’s in the house. They are the best kidney medicine I know of.’-’ Price 60c, at all dealers., Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Moore had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

AT THE STAR THEATRE —The House of Good Pictoree TODAY SEE GLADYS HULETTE in “OVER THE HILLS” also The latest war news in A PATHE WEEKLY. This will please all. WEDNESDAYMARY MILES MINTER In an unusually attractive comedy drama “THE POWERS THAT PREY” also BILLIE RHOADES COMEDY. In one reel. THURSDAYBEN WILSON and NEVA GURBER • . in “THE SPINDLE OF LIFE” also A COMEDY ACT. i LIBERTY—ON SATURDAY.

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