Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1918 — GEORGE ADE WILL OFFER FARM TO U. S. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE ADE WILL OFFER FARM TO U. S.

George Ade has announced that he will offer “Hazelton farm,” his country home at Brook to the United States government to make use of it for war work purposes. This farm is considered one of the best in the state. Mr. Ade said not only the grounds, but all the modern buildings will be included in the offer, and he will assist in making them suitable for government purposes. The state council of defense met Wednesday at this farm as Mr. Ade’s guests.

Monticello has quit the Lincoln Chautauqua once and for all. The manager insisted on the guarantors squaring up before the last show, and as a penalty for not responding instanter, refused to perform Saturday night and had the tent folded 'by the time an arbiter arrived, too late to remedy the lady’s prank. There were thirty guarantors representing a quarter million—amply good to meet all just demands. Result: The Lincoln people had their talent to pay and their S9OO contract reduced S2OO. This fiasco reminds us of the raw deal attempted by a Lincoln manager here, whereupon we told them to get out and stay out. And notwithstanding this refusal to submit to an imposition, Monon has since managed to get 'by without a chautauqua. The late Mr. Barnum once declared, “the people like to be humbugged,” and he might have added, but they don’t like to have it rubbed in by a student manager clothed with a little brief authority.—'Monon News. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Geitznauer came up from Louisville, Ky., Saturday and were met here by Frank’s mother, Mrs. Mary Geitzenauer, and his sister, Mrs. Nic Smith, and her husband, of East Lynn, IIL, also his other sister, Mrs. 0. P. Donovan, of Isabel, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Geitzenauer returned to Camp Taylor Sunday evening. They report that all of the Jasper county boys except the following have been transferred to other camps, many of them going to Alabama: D. D. Doan, Howard Clark, T. G. Wynegar, Ernest Speaks, Bert Avis, Edson Murray and Frank Geitzenauer. Mrs, E. B. Knickenboker returned this morning to her home in Lowell.