Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — Page 1

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No. 189.

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FRED J. McCOLLY RECEIVES LETTER FROM HIS BROTHER

France, July 10, 1918. Dear Brother:— I received your most welcome letter today, will answer the same today. I haven’t received any mail for two or three months now. I guess it was all sent back to you. I was supposed to come home 'but I refused the discharge and the battery commander didn’t know it and he sent my mail all back to the States. That is. why your mail returned-to you. I have been in nine different hospitals since I have been in FranceI am glad you are all well. I wish I had some of those strawberries. They don’t raise very many in this country and I have not seen a wild one in France. I wish I were there and was able to work at the old trade once more, but I fear I’ll never be able. I guess I will have to sell shoe strings on a corner some where —that is about all that I will be able to do. I hope that father gets well by the time I get home. I am not doing anything now only laying in the hospital, and I don’t know how long I will he here, but ! expect for some time. I can not tell much more than that and that I am feeling fine. • Will have to tell the rest when I get back, if I ever do, which I think I will. I will close for this time. Good-bye, I remain as ever, your loving brother, FORD E. MeCOLLY. France, July 22, 1918. Dear Brother:—

I am glad to say that I received your most welcome letter of June 12.» I have received several of your letters lately but I have received only one from mother. I haven’t received any from Daisy or anybody else. I have written several to Frank but nave received no answer. Well, how are you by this time? Working hard-, I suppose. How is mother and everybody else in town? I am feeling pretty good. I am leav-. ing the hospital tomorrow, but the Dr. says that I shall never see the front any more, but I will if there is any possible chance to get there. After I refused the second discharge he told me that. Well, if I have to stay in the rear I guess I will get home with most of my body. We don’t work very hard over here, only when we are after the enemy, then we make up for Tost time. Well, I guess I will close for this time as it is about dinner time. I remain as ever, your brother. FORD E. MeCOLLY. Chateauroux, Base Hospital No. 9, France.

BEST PICTURES— — PRINCESS THEATRE -TONIGHTAlbert E. Smith .Present* ANITA STUART In "THE MESSAGE OF THE MOUSE” In Six Acts A great story of a diplomatic en- FRIDAY tanglement which occurred just before the outbreak of, the world con- Pershing’s Triumphant Heroes Back' flict. Also DREW COMEDY from the Front. U ’ 10 — 4 ISc - The American Red Cross WEDNESDAY— Presents ■At the Princess Only TEe Hu , oric Fourth „ GEORGE BEBAN y In in Paris, 1918. "ONE MORE AMERICAN” Also Comedy Victorious Troops from Chateau THURSDAY Thierry, and Red Cross Nurses from EXTRA! EXTRA! the Battle Are. WAR PICTURES BRITTANIA’S BULWARKS International Observance of FreeTl. Capture “fJJ— b, tb. Death and destruction follow in the . wake of the damnable Hun. Also ANTONIO MORENO in SATURDAY—"THE ANGEL FACTORY” u 8 Reels. 10 and ISc. MARY PICKFORD

The Evening Republican .

The great battle on the French front is again blazing in all its fury, and both in Picardy and Flanders the Germans are being driven back by the allied armies. The outskirts of both Roye and Lassigny have been entered by Marshal Foch’s troops, while to the south Mangin, hero of Soissons, has driven a two-mile wedge into a ninemile front between the Oise and the Aisne, which spells fresh peril for Gen. Hans von Boehm, the Kaiser’s “retreat specialist.*’ Four towns and hundreds of prisoners have already fallen to Gen. Mangin.. His drive, if pressed forward, will seriously upset the whole German line form Flanders to the Argonne, while the fall of Roye and Lassigny, farther north, which appear certain to be. announced within a few hours, may necessitate a retreat all the way back to the old Hindenburg lineIn Flanders, the British continue ;to press forward on a six-mile front at the apex of the Lys salient, and have captured Merville, reaching the Paradis-Les Puresbucques highway Merville is the keystone of the Ger- . man Flanders salient, and Haig’s victory here srci. .s almo.t certain t-> have far-reaching effects. Little out tide of r utine activity is reported fro mthe sectors held by the American troops. Germans taken prisoner, however, have revealed what is alleged to be a German plan to launch a surprise offensive against the Americans as soon as they are able to mass sufficient men and material. The Americans, it is stated, are prepared to give the Germans a warm reception.

FORMER TEACHERS VISIT FRIENDS HERE

L. Waive Mallory of Missoula, Montana, and Anna Harmon of Attica, are spending a few days here with friends. Both of these ladies we're formerly members of the Rensselaer high school faculty. They resigned last winter to accept promotions offered them in larger schools, to which they expect to continue after their visit here. Miss Mallory has spent ■the summer with friends and relatives in Pennsylvania, and will again -be a member of the high school faculty at Missoula, Montana. Mliss Harmon returns to Superior, Wis., where she will also continue as a high school instructor. Miss Harmon is accompanied by her mother. The ladies are making their trip by automobile.

WAR SUMMARY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918.

COUNCIL MAKES APPROPRIATIONS

ST. JOSEPH PLANS TO EXPEDITE LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE BY PAYING WORKERS. For the very careful consideration of the people of Jafeper county, we give the following: Determined to expedite the distribution of the county’s allotment of the Fourth Liberty loan drive, the county council of St. Joseph county has appropriated $4,950 to defray the expenses of an intensive organization preparatory to the opening of the campaign September 28. Announcement to this effect ha? reached state headquarters of the Liberty loan, and has encouraged the belief on the part of the executive committee that there will be no interruption or delay on the part of St. Joseph county, one of t]ie largest in the state, such as characterized the previous effort, in many counties. The information comes to the state committee that the action of the St. Joseph county council was unanimous, and but little argument was necessary to convince the civil authorities of the county of the wisdom of such action. It is announced that the appropriation will be distributed to meet the expenses of sectional activities. A large sum will be used in the compilation of a permanent record of the financial means and previous subscripting of every man, woman and child in the county. A budget to cover the cost of permanent cabinets, cards, filing devices, typewriters, etc., $7550 FOR ADVERTISING IS INCLUDED IN THE APPROPRIATION.

F. L. Dennis, who will have charge of the Liberty loan clearing house in South Bend, has already employed 22 girls, who are compiling and tabulating the record for the use of bond salesmen. It is expected.the St. Joseph quota of the Fourth Liberty loan will be about six million dollars, and it is the purpose of the organization to have finished all preliminary and educational work so that the subscriptions may be started immediately upon the opening of the drive. The ordinance adopted by the civil county council in making an appropriation states that the sum is set aside “for the defense of the county.” This, the council was advised by the county attorney, complies with the statute which anticipates the exercise of broad and unusual powers in such an emergency.* The amount voted is estimated at onetwelfth of ,1 per tent of the amount of money to be raised. Public sentiment is said to support the action.’

TODAY’S CASUALTY LIST.

Lieut. Laurence E. Johnson, Lowell, wounded severely. Lieut. Charles S. Lewis, Indianapolis, wounded severely. Sergt. Carl J. Amrhein, Greensburg, wounded, degree undetermined. Corp. Floyd Biddle, Mecca, missing in action. Corp. Paul Burns, Indianapolis, killed in accident. Bugler Paul J. Parvis, Muncie, wounded severely. Pvt. Roy Hi Bailey, Liberty, missing in action. Pvt. Stanislau Smichowski, South Bend, missing in action. Pvt. Robert C. Stewart, Evansville, missing in action. Pvt. Gleason Johnson, Mineral City, missing in action. > Pvt. Earl G. Keith, Scottsburg, missing in action. Pvt. Ellis O. Westfall, Vincennes, missing in action. Pvt. Earl Bish, Indianapolis, wounded severely. Pvt. George Ross, Terre Haute, wounded severely. Pvt. Gerald Maddy, Newcastle, died of wounds. Pvt. Raymond Sutphin, Jonesboro, died of disease. Pvt. Cecil Giberson, Indianapolis, killed in action. Pvt. Harold C. Goodrich, Crown Point, killed in action. Pvt. William R. Harley, Indianapolis, missing in action. Pvt. Edward Wildey, Earl Park, wounded severely. Pvt. James H. Curry, Indianapolis, wounded severely. Pvt. Arza Heiny, Noblesville, wounded severely.

HERE AT HOME.

Rensselaer Citizens Glady Testify and Confidently Recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. It is testimony like the following that has placed Doan’s Kidney Pills so far above competitors. . When people right here at home raise their voice in praise there is no room left for doubt. Read the public statement of a Rensselaer citizen: E. M. Parcells, barber, Front St, Rensselaer, says: "1 use Doan’s Kidney Pills now and then and they always give me relief from kidney disorder. For people afflicted with a dull, heavy ache over the kidneys or any other kidney weakness as I had, I feel there is nothing so good as Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Parcells had. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

DIRTY MUD SLINGERS

DEMOCRATIC GANG THAT MET AT HAMMOND WERE UNREGENERATED demagogues. The following are extracts from the report of R. T. Buchanan,, staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News, of the Democratic meeting held in Hammond last Friday: Hammond, 'lnd., Aug. 17.—Insinuations and accusations of disloyalty to the country on the part of Republican leaders of Indiana, including Will R. Wood, representative in the congress from the Tenth Indiana district marked a Democratic state conference for the Tenth district here yesterday. Perhaps the bitterest attack was made by Edwin F. McCabe, of Williamsport, nominee for the Indiana appellate court, who read a speech in which he reviewed the accomplishments of the Wilson administration and said the Republicans “never discovered our unpreparedness until they were out of power.” The speaker critized the Repuublican state platform on the ground that it had no word of censure for the kaiser and was silent about the teaching of German in the public schools.

“So when they profess loyalty and a desire to support the administration,” he said, “we are bound to say ‘The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of EsaU.’ ” Mr. McCabe went on to say that the Republican platform was a “long string of whining, scolding accusations. It is dictated by a spirit of rebellion and, before God, I believe that it originates in the sam’e malignant late of the constituted authorities as animates our enemies abroad.” He asked: “Is this the example set by Washington and the fathers of this republic} or is it the example set by Benedict Arnold?” Frederick Van Nuys, of Indianapolis, state chairman, said the Republicans in 1916 got the “wet” vote and double-crossed it, got the “dry” vote, the church vote, spent $275,000 in the campaign, and yet carried the state by a majority less than what he said was the “nigger” vote of Indiana avenue, Indianapolis. Willis A. Fox, of Angola, candidate for state superintendent of pubic instruction, referred to Watson, Senator New and Governor Goodrich as “near-traitors.” In the same issue is found the following extract: > , New a Liberty Loan Speaker.

Washington, Aug. 17.—Senator New has been invited by George Forrey, chairman of the Indiana Liberty loan speakers’ bureau, to make a series of speeches in the state during the next drive. The senator answered that he would be more than glad to make the speeches if he could arrange his work. Is there a Republican who can stand for such abuse of those named above by the party which he remembers to have contained after the Civil war, without exception, every “Yellowhead’* and “Knight of the Golden Circle” in this country? Is politics dismissed? Are not the Democratic politicians the same old gang that we have been fighting all our lives? The Republican party is the child of loyalty. It was born to save the Union. It has always and will always stand for the best interests of the Republic. Even in the face of Democratic demagoguery and abuse, the face of insult and falsehood, every Republican in office and out of office is doing everything in his power to help win the war. For a Democrat to challenge the patriotism and loyalty of a Republican is like* Judas Iscariot questioning the sincerity of Jesus Christ. The Republicans just as well open their eyes to the fact that it is the same old bunch and that they deserve the same good licking that we administered to them so many, many times in the last fifty years. The call is to stand by the party of quick, decisive and efficient action. The party whose members are 100 per cent loyal in office and out of office.

More Republican soldiers, more Republican service and more Republican dollars are going into this war than the Democrats dare to claim. The Democrats howl “disloyalty” if Republicans dare open their eyes and see the continuation of mistakes and lack of efficiency that has always marked the rule of the Democratic party. . . Indecision and watchful waiting allowed the cause of humanity to suffer such a near defeat that it will cost the lives of thousands of American soldiers and billions of American money to drive back the tide which has become such a flood, but which could have been stilled as a mere ripple. It will take, if not the body, at least the spirit of a Theodore Roosevelt, to make the ending of the war unlike the beginning, a matter of procrastination and watchful waiting. Republicans- will support in every way the War policy of the government. They will continue that loyal patriotic service that has marked every moment of the life of the party. Whether in office or out of office they will stand four-square to every duty. They have, however, a conviction,

4_ Fainted Away! ON SATURDAY A lady came into our store with the request that we show her Bags and Suit Cases. Our salesman arranged the stoch on a show case and itemized the different prices to her.

Learning that she could obtain an All Solid Leather piece of luggage for $8 was such a shock she fainted on the spot’. Ice water was obtained from Nowels’ and she soon revived, leaving the store all smiles and with a beautiful $8 Leather Bag. This isn’t fiction, its the truth. We have more of those Bags and Suit Cases. Tomorrow's Weather Fair

born out of long and varied experience, that the people desire the very highest degree of efficiency in governmental affairs and that efficiency can be had by placing the affairs of the government in the hands of the party of Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, whose birthplaces were in states that have never faltered in their loyalty to the Union and the party that has loved the Stars and Stripe? as they have loved their own souls.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The county institute will be held this year from September 2 to 6. Dr. Stanley Krebs, Mrs. Frances Kelsey and Lena J. Todd are the corps of instructors. Trustee day will be on Monday, Sept. 2. All schools in the county will begin on Monday, Sept. 9, or the Monday following institute. It has been a difficult year for the trustees and school boards to obtain proper high school teachers.. The removal of the legal restrictions during the war was a great relief, without which it would mean discontinuing a number of the high schools or reduce their standards to that of ordinary non-commissioned schools. The situation is not cured yet but it is looking much better than for a long time. The following applicants were ported from the state for success grades on the last teachers’ examination: Irene_ Howard, Remington; Bert Lewellen, DeMotte; R. A. Conn, Brook; Marie A. Neville, Rensselaer; flora Feldmann, DeMotte; Jennie Eib, Rensselaer; Lottie Porter, Remington; Gladys McGlynn, Remington; Thelma Noland, McCoysburg; Lena Williamson, Remington. A. C. Campbell has returned from Hammond to Newland to arrange for moving to Fair Oaks, where he has been selected as principal of the schools.

ENJOYING MODERATE TEMPERATURE

Monday was a very pleasartt day, the highest temperature being 87 and the lowest 57. This is pretty comfortable in comparison with 106 m Oklahoma. Rain was reported at Jacksonville, Rapid City and Spokane.

If your stock dies call me at my expense and I will (All for it promptly. .JL L. Padgett, Phono 65. t • »’

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JAMES ELLIS IS MARRIED

POPULAR YOUNG RENSSELAER CORPORAL MARRIED CHICAGO LADY. In the Chicago Daily News Monday evening appeared the following: “Miss Gwen Gertrude Parsons, daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Parsons, of Chicago, will be married today to James Hervey Stewart Ellis in Tobyhanna, Pa., where Mr. Ellis is in the tank corps.” Mr. Ellis is a son of the late J. H. S. Ellis, whose death occurred a few years ago. The father was one of Rensselaer’s very highly respected citizens, having served as mayor of n the city for a number of terms. His wife and James’ mother was a sister of Mrs. A. H. Hopkins of this city. She preceded her husband in death quite a number of years. Last spring James enlisted in the army and was sent at once to Gettysburg, Pa. Later he was sent to Tobyhanna, where he is a corporal in the 302 Battery, Heavy Tank Service. The Republican joins with a host of admiring friends in extending James and his companion hearty congratulations and very best wishes.

STILL INTERESTED IN GOOD WORK

In renewing their subscription to the Republican, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sayler of Glenwood, Minn., write as follows: “We failed to get our Friday’s Republican and would you kindly send us that copy, as we hate to miss the soldiers’ letters and the story. Then our boy had to miss that copy too, as I mail them all to him. George is stil] at the same camp but his address has been somewhat changed since I wrote to you. His present address is, Private George E. Sayler, C-5 Supply Go., 2nd Regiment F. A. R. D., Gamp Jackson, S. Gar. He likes it fine there, but of course the weather is very warm. We had a good grain crop and the corn looks fine, but we need rain very badly. I am again president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and am working hard to help put Minnesota in the dry column. Yours, MR. AND MRS. J. H. SAYLER.”

HAD TO SEND FOR FATHER.

The following is taken from the Monday Monticello Evening Journal: “Daniel Edward Bordwell of Rensselaer and Alice Frances Hill of Wolcott were married this afternoon by Rev. Kindig at his home on south Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Bordwell will reside at Rensselaer, where he is connected with the Rensselaer Ice company.” It seems that when young Bordwell applied for his license at Monticello, being unknown to the clerk and being required to be identified, that he sent for his father. The laugh seems to be on Dan, as he tried ;o slip away and have the knot- tied before any of his friends here knew what was happening. Word that he had sent a S. O. S. for help was noised about the city here Monday evening. The Republican joins with the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bordwell in extending them best wishes.

Leo Colvert of Indiana Harbor joined his wife here Saturday in a visit with her folks. Leo is a brother of Clinton Colvert, who is with the Wright furniture company. You will often see a girl who has as much hair on her upper lip as she has on heF head. But she never thinks of curling the hair on her upper lip. Rnbacribo for ths Republican. AT THE STAR THEATRE —Ths House of Good Mutumss TODAY FRANK KEENAN in “THE RULER OF THE ROAD” A Railroad Story Also the Pathe News, giving the latest on the Battle Front. WEDNESDAY— See MARY MILES MINTER i The Queen of the Screen, m < “A BIT OF A JADE” f Also BILLIE RHODES In A Comedy Act “MARY’S FINISH” Thursday—violet McMillian in “THE GIRL WHO WON OUT” Also > A Swift Action Comedy. I A

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