Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — Page 1

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No. 184.

We have just received ,by express 2 Hoover Electric Vaccum Sweepers. We have been selling these just as fast as we get them. W. J. WRIGHT

WEATHERMAN PROMISES RELIEF It was very warm Tuesday, the maximum temperature being 98 and the minimum 69. Today it is somewhat moderated and the prediction of thundershowers this afternoon and tonight, and probably showers Thursday, if true it will 'be greatly appreciated. MUSIC. Helen Mills Ranmeier, teacher of sight reading, rythm, time, improvising and musical appreciation. Essa Ellis Perfield, pedagogy, based on inner-feeling, reasoning and drills, through the ear, eye and touch. Inner-Feeling is something within that prompts expression. Reasoning is intelligent analytical observation. Drill is the constructive repetition which makes facility and skill. Information free. Phone Mt. Ayr 88-C. We carry a complete line of accessories. Standard and blemished tires at-50c profit Gas 1c profit. Genuine Ford parts. Do all kinds of lathe work and welding. Open day and night. New and second hand bike and bike tires. Buy and sell second hand cars. Agent for Maxwell and Oakland cars. MAIN GARAGE. Charles Pefley will furnish you trees for fall planting direct from Rochester, N. Y. Every tree guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge. Phone 475. George Knockel, whose home is in Remington, but who left here March 28, this year with the selectmen returned to West Point, where he is a member of the Field Artillery. He had been spending a short furlough at home. - After being out of salt for the last three months, we have just received a car load, 70 lb bags and 280 lb barrels. ‘ EGER’S GROCERY Miss Ruth Wynegar went to South Bend today for a visit with relatives. She made the trip in company with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Reece, who, had been visiting here. The trip was made by automobile.

BEST PICTURES GAYETY AND PRINCESS' THEATRES NEW PARAMOUNT STAR SERIES. TONIGHT AT BOTH THEATRES. Pauline Frederick “Mrs. Danes I Defense” | |.EwU ALSO COMEDY. B ' jJfeiJgjL | t |g||||MK J||||||pl BLUE RIBBON PROGRAM. K B FEATURE AND COMEDY. £ || —FRIDAY SPECIAL— 1 S HERBERT BRENON’S f masterpiece B ~ / “THE LONE WOLF” g By Louis JoooHi V.uae. I people seen this picture and BmIBIII .nVteOmy^fVfatf)l|E lSSol declare it the best dramatic success of the season. —SATURDAY— ' , BILLIE BURKE —COMING—in “OVER THE TOP” “EVE’S DAUGHTER” Ultß ■ ■**■ ALSO MACK SENNETT COMEDY. With SERGT. GUY EMPY.

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i Mrs. C k A. Gundy and Son returned to their home at Fair- Oaks this morning. Nice pickle and dry salt pork, 25c a lb at EGER’S GROCERY ,■ I Attorney P. R. Blue and George Ferguson, of Wheatfield, were in Rensselaer today. x G. J. Hansson went to Toledo, O. from which place he will return with a new Overland automobile. If any of your stock dies be sure and promptly call A. L. Padgett, Phone 65. S. Melvin Haas came down from Gary last evening and today will move his household goods to that city. There will be an ice cream social at Newland Saturday night given by the Young People’s Christian Association. All are invited. Anyone wishing to see me will find me at the Trust & Savings bank on Saturday afternoons. H. O. Harris. Phone 124. Dod Mace has succeeded Gilbert Albin in the employ of the city. It is understood that Mr. Albin expects to be one of the carriers when the free mail delivery system is started here in September. If your stock dies call me at my expense and I will call for it promptly. A. L. Padgett, Phone 65. Quite. a number from here attended the chautauqua at Fountain Park Tuesday evening and heard the famous Innis band. All were greatly pleased and there was a large crowd at the park. 4. M. Robinson, proprietor of the Gayety and Princess here, also the picture shows at Morocco and Lowell, has purchased 7 of Keith Spencer, the Lyric theatre at Remington. WILL CRY BIG ALABAMA SALE. Frederick A. Phillips, who made a decided hit when he cried the big Adams at Demopolis last winter, has been called to cry another big sale there and he left here today for that purpose. He will be away from the city about a week.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918.

AUSTRIAN DRIVE IN ITALY NEAR

SIGNS POINT TO RENEWAL OF OFFENSIVE; THE ITALIANS ARE' READY. Rome, Aug. 14.—Renewed signs of an Austrian offensive against Italy are reported in several Swiss dispatches. The Austro-Swiss frontier has been closed since Saturday. Closing of the Austrian border invariably* precedes an Austrian offensive, in order to mask troop movements. The Austrians are reported to be moving an immense amount of material and great numbers of troops in the direction of Italy. Austrian railway trains running toward the Tyrol are reported crowded with soldiers. No civilian passengers are permitted. It is believed here that recent reports that the German Kaiser appealed to Emperor Charles to open an offensive against Italy in order to relieve the pressure on the western front are verified by the unusual activity of the Austrian army. Fighting was reported yesterday in the upper Zebru Valley, in the Austrian Alps, north of Lake Garda. The Italians stormed Hill 2682, killing part of the garrison and capturing the survivors... Enemy shelters were destroyed. The attacking party returned unharmed to their own lines. Rome views with tranquillity the apparent preparations for another Austrian drive. It is felt here that the reorganized Italian army, supported by British,' French and American detachments, will be more than able to cope with any offensive launched by Emperor Charles.

WAR SUMMARY.

In point of fresh advances, the sixth day of the allied Picardy drive belonged exclusively to Qen. Humbert’s French third army, pushing northward in the Oise and Matz Valleys toward Noyon. • The French smashed their way forward a . mile and a half northward of Cambronne and lost night w«;re only five miles southwest of Noyon itself. Northwest of Gury they took Plessier des Noye and Belval. German resistance are desperate, but failed to hold up the poilus’ steady progress. Lassigny is virtually surrounded and must fall within the next twelve hours. Further north Roye is in the allied dutch. A German retirement to the Peroane-Ham line appears inevitable. Peronne is reported in flames. On the east bank .»f the Oise the German front already has been gavely affected by the French advance west of the river.. The Teutons have begun a withdrawing movement, notably around Bailly. On the British Picardy front there were no major scale actions. Americans north of the Vesle beat off a series of violent German counter attacks in the region of Fismiettes, which they captured late last week and which the Germans are trying vainly to wrest from them.

DEATH OF FRANK O’BRIEN.

Frank O’Brien died this Wednesday morning, after being ill for some time. Frank had been Unable to work for some time and a short time ago he went out to the county farm. He was later brought to the hospital for treatment, but continued to grow worse and the end came about five o’clock this morning. He did not have relatives here, but it is understood that he has an aunt in Peru. He was a member of the Catholic church and the funeral will be held at a time to be selected a little later.

INSTRUCTION BOARD MEETS AT REMINGTON

hTe first meeting under the direction of the Board of Instruction was 'held for the registrants of District No. 4, at Remington Tuesday evening. The meeting quite well attended and the interest and enthusiasm was splendid. The music was in charge of J. D. Allman and Perry Horton.

Dr. H. J. Kannal reports having an airplane which was far up in the air over this city between eleven and twelve o'clock this forenoon. Thomas Porter, of Carpenter township, has a broken right arm, the result of (being kicked tby a Henry Ford tin Lizzy. Mrs. Harry C. Jenkenson returned to her home in Chicago today, after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire. Mrs. G. A. Daugherty, who was quite severely injured a few days ago, is now improving quite satisfactorily. A. O. Moore finished threshing Tuesday. His oats averaged aboot fifty bushels and his wheat thirtythree bushels to the acre. Margarette Norris has as her guest, Miss Mary Baker, of Camdem. Miss Norris and Miss Leia Paulus wiH give a picnic supper in honor of Miss Baker this evening. The three young ladies are Depauw University classmates.

WAR HINTSHELPS DUTIES

COMPLIED AND CONDENSED FOR THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. The food administrator has lifted the ban on macaroni, spaghetti, noodles and vermicelli. He says “the situation in regard to wheat- has eased up,” and he grabs this first chance to show his friendship for the Italians. O 1 o ~ U. S. food clubs have been started in 88 of the 9 counties of Indiana. Their purpose is to secure co-opera-tion between Hoosier citizens and Uncle Sam in safeguarding our food supplies so that we may help generously our friends in Europe. O —o Hereafter 'boys of 15 who weigh 115 pounds or more will have a chance to get into the Working Reserve. The members are to have a distinctive uniform and organize into companies for military drill during the winter. o —o Acting on advice from Washington, the Committee on Food Production will go out for an increase of 17 per cent in the wheat acreage of Indiana in 1919. o o The Red Cross is still asking for graduate nurses over 21 years old to enter active service immediately. The sisters of soldiers and sailors are now permitted to. enroll. The pay has been increased to $75 a month for overseas duty are S6O a month in hospitals at American camps and cantonments. The government provides the nurses with War Risk In* surance.

o ■—o War gardners should save the seeds from the extra good vegetables. Purdue will send you a bulletin on how to store vegetables by the ground pit method. Jf you have walnut trees 12-inches or more in diameter, write to Capt. R. L. Oakley, production division, small arms section, Ordnance Dept., 6th and ~8. streets, Washington. He will tell you where you can sell your walnut for a fair price. Walnut is needed for airplane propellers and gun stocks. O' • "O The fallowing paragraph is from Poultney Bigelow’s “History of the German Struggle for Liberty,” and deals with the Prussian defeat at Jena in 1806: “The most military state of Europe suddenly discovered that in the day of trial soldiers alone, even when led by officers of ‘noble blood,’ are a poor substitute for liberty-loving citizens capable of rapid organization.” 0 1 " -o The news coming from our soldiers at the front is tragic butglorious. The American boys have more than fulfilled our most ardent expectations. Every week they are getting news from this side. Let them know that the “home folks” are backing them up, cheerfully, unitedly and to the limit. Mrs. Laura Hatton went to Joliet, 111. today.

Dr. C. C. Reed, of Denver, Colo., is the guest of Dr. F. A. Turfler. Mrs; J. Taylor, of Milwaukee, Wis., is the guests of her cousins, Mrs. W. C. Milliorn and Mrs. Hale Warner. The depot restaurant served dinner today to twenty threshermen, who were threshing for Frank King oh his farm near this city. L. C Robinson left today for his home in Greenboro, Alabama. He had made the trip here with Ray Adams, in the former’s automobile some two weeks ago. Orie Potts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvie Potts, left Tuesday for Washington, D- C., where he has a good position under a civil service appointment. . Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Walker received a message from .Camp Hill, Virginia, stating that their son, Her, was leaving this Wednesday morning for “over there.” Mr. and Mrs. John I. Gwin left here Saturday for Portland; Oregon, and other western points. They expected to Stop off at Jameston, N. Dak., near which place they own a farm. Born, August 14, a girl to Mr. and Mrs. James Walters, of Wheatfield township. This is their second child, the first being a boy who is now about three yean of age. President H. R. Kurrie met a number of the members of the state council of defense, who came on the 10:36 a. m. train and took to Hazelton, where the council held an important meeting today. Mrs. Frank Geitzenauer went to Louisville, Ky. today for a visit with her hukband, who is at Camp Taylor. It is reported that a number of the Rensselaer boys are to leave Camp Taylor very so< x

; v \»/,z v Stetson Did it ever occur to you how hard it is to Teli what’s right or what’s wrong about a I hat for yourself? Matters of the merest frac- 1 tion of an inch—the height of the crown, the taper, the tilt to the brim, the width of the band. N ow right here is where we make a ten strike. Our salesmen are hat men of experience. Each season we study over the new styles, feature by feature, until we know how they will look with face after face. And here’s*a point that scores with Young Men, our leading hats are Stetsons. There’s a wide range of them this season and they are as smart as a box at the Horse Show. INVITATION! You don’t have to buy, but we want you to tee these new Stetsons. Come try on a dozen. s4.so—ss—s6 Tomorrow’s Weather Probably showers and cooler.

ADJOURNING POLITICS.

Fred S. Bays, of Sullivan, is the democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, and the extent to which his party proposes to adjourn politics is aptly illustrated by the speech which he opened the campaign in Daviess county. Note the following excerpts from his address designed to promote war time solidarity among our people: “The Republican party has had no leader since the day Count Bernstorff was handed his passports and kicked out of the United States. “The Republican party is, and has been, spreading propaganda of the German Kaiser. “The Republicans want to win the war quick by stabbing the President in the back. “Will Hays, Republican National Chairman, was at Lincoln, Neb., but a day or so ago sowing the seed of dissension. “All men were satisfied with the present Congress except the Republican politicians, the Kaiser and the war lords. “The Republican congressmen supported the war measures only after the lash of public opinion had been applied. . . _ “Those who criticise President Wilson’s measures would hurt a poisoned dagger into his breast. “The Republican leaders have their hands stained with the blood of their countrymen and are spreading propaganda of the Kaiser. “I want to go to Congress to fight by the side of Woodrow Wilson. God has been good to us. He gave us Christ to save the world and Wilson to free it.” , . . „ In this connection it might be well to take note of who this man Bays is. To begin with, he is an athlete, thirty-four years of age and a graduate of Culver Military Acodemy. He is rich in his own right and has as well, a wealthy mothes, the Bays family accummulating a fortune on coal lands a few yean ago.

CASUALTY LIST IN FRANCE.

Washington, Aug. 13.—The army , casualty list issued today shows: Killed in action, 14; died of wounds, 3; died of accident and other causes, 1; wounded severely, 52; wounded, degree undetermined, 19; missing in action, 1. .Total, 90. FROM INDIANA. Private George Epmeier, Evansville, wounded severdy. ]

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ANOTHER BEAVERVILLE SPECIAL WRECKED

' A Beaverville special, a Ford tin lizzy, running at a high rate of speed i on the east and west road two miles ' north of Remington collided with a large Stutz automobile from Lafayette about 6:00 p. m. Tuesday and resulted in very badly damaging both cars. Three Remington men were in the Ford and it is reported that there had also been a good supply of booze in the car which was evidenced from the fact that those who approached the scene of the accident thought that they were pearing a brewery or a saloon having a very strong booze odor, and from the bottles scattered upon the ground. The Stutz automobile belonged to I a real estate man by the name of I Hamilton from Lafayette. With him i were his driver and his wife and they I were returning to their home. i His car was so badly damaged t that he had to have a truck take it ' to Lafayette. The Ford car was said to be occupied before the wreck by Bert Blood, Chance McCulley and Mell i Julien, of Remington. One of them was very badly injured having a very bad gash cut in his neck. John Ramp of this city was the first to reach the scene of the accident. He was returning from Goodland with hie mother, who had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Krull, of that town. Directly after Mr. Ramp arrived, a traveling man from Frankfort came along. The traveling man went to Remington for a doctor and other assistance. The Ford car laid by the road yesterday evening late, and looked likeit had been hit by the Twentieth Century Limited while going at the rate of one hundred miles an hour.

LESTER RICH LEAVES FORT SNELLING

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hartley received a letter from their daughter, Mrs. Dr. Strong, of Jackson, Mich., in which she says that Lester Rich, who had been located at Fort Snelling/ Minn, for some time, had passed through Jackson last Monday evening on his way east. Mr. Rich had telegraphed Dr. and Mrs. Strong and they were at the depot when the troop train arrived. The train remained in Jackson for about fifteen minutes. Lester did not know what point in the east was id be his destination.

DAVID HALSTEAD SELLS NEWTON COUNTY FARM

David Halstead, of Newton county, has sold to Jacob Rich, of Brook, his two hundred and eighty acre farm in Newton county. Mr. Halstead takes as part payment, one hundred eleven acres of land belonging to Mr. Rich in Monon township, White county. The farms are exchanged at a 1125.00 per acre basis and Mr. Rich pays the balance in cash. The transaction to be completed within thirty days. Harvey Davisson handled the deal.

HELP PARR RED CROSS.

The Red Cross workers, of Parr, extend a very special invitation to the people of Rensselaer to come to Perr Thursday evening and witness the drilling of the memben of District No. 2 Liberty Guards. The young ladies will serve ice cream and the proceeds will be given to the Red Cross. Come to a good town, see our good boys and spend your money for a good cause.

We have just received another shipmept of Southern Indiana Sorghum. This will, take the place of sugar in making pies, cakes, and in doing all kinds of cooking and baking. It can also be used in making plum and apple butter. $1.20 a gallon when you furnish your own jar to put it in. EGER’S GROCERY

AT THE STAR THEATRE —The Hwm es Good Pietareo— TODAY OLIVE TELL Will appear h» “THE GIRL AND THE JUDGE” also BILLIE RHODES ‘ in A DANCING COMEDY THURSDAY— ' HARRY COREY and EDITH STIRLING is “THE SECRET MAN" also A BIG COMEDY ACT. FRIDAYSONIA MAKOYIA in “THE PAINTED MADONNA” also THE FORD WEEKLY.

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