Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — Page 1

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No. 193.

Factories, offices and farms all have the most modem machines to save men work and time and do things better than in old fashioned < . ways. Then why not the home? The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet cuts kitchen work nearly in. half. Come in and hear our offer on how to get a Hoosier. z W. J. WRIGHT > ■ . • • • ’ i

DITCH HEARING IN NEWTON COUNTY

The special term of the Newton county circuit court convened Friday, August 23, and on Monday, August 26, hearing of the famous Kankakee vallejr drain, which is a proposition to straighten the Kankakee river, will commence with special Judge Isham on the bench. There are more than one thousand remonstrants against this proposed improvement, and if the case is ever completed and appealed to the supreme court the clerk will have a month’s job making the transcript. This improvement is known as the Williams ditch, and if constructed will be about seven and one-half miles in length. The estimated yardage to be removed is about 1,700,000, and the estimated cost is about $150,000, with estimated benefits of over $260,00(1 Attorney Abraham Halleck of this city is one of the attorneys for the proposed improvement.

HAZELDEN TO BE A RECREATION CAMP

George Ade was in Chicago on Saturday and found Dr. Frank Billings, who has charge of the Physical Recreation Department of the army and is next in authority to Surgeon General Gorgas, in that city. The Doctor suggested at once that Hazelden be made a recreation camp for invalided soldiers, a place where they can have a perfect rest an<j the kind of sports that Hazelden is adapted to. This matter is being taken up with the Red Cross and will likely be taken charge of by them. With the golf links, the golf ball grounds, the beauifud shade, the swimming pool, tubs and shower baths, and club house, pavilion and pleasant summer home, this will make an ideal place for a recreation camp.—Brook Reporter.

ATTENTION KNITTERS.

All finished or unfinished Red Cross socks must eome in at once. ORA T. ROSS.

In this time of war we must have a War Congress to act for victory with a War Administration. Republicans in Congress will act and work for victory and for peace without compromise of

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FORMER JASPERITE IS PROSPERING

Word has been received here that Algie Kaufman, who formerly lived in Gillam township, this county, but who for a few years has been living on a farm near Valparaiso, Porter county, is very prosperous. He is running a dairy and in conjunction with his farm it will clear him about $5,000 this year. Algie was a ’hustler while here and his success will be very gratifying news to his many friends in this county.

HEAVY RAINFALL FRIDAY.

There was a heavy rainfall in this locality Friday afternoon and night, and while the threshing is delayed for a day or so the ground is now in fine condition for fall plowing. The weatherman’s forecast for today is, “Probably showers tonight and Sunday, cooler Sunday. The temperature for the twentyfourhours ending at 6:00 p. m. Friday was, maximum 94, minimum 70.

We confess to utter inability to understand why Mr. Wilson desires Mr. Ford’s election—unless it is to hpve a senator from Michigan who can be counted on to vote-as told. —New York Evening Post.

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.

NOTICE TO SETTLE. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to the undersigned, please call and settle by cash or note by September Ist. Any one having bills receivable will please present same on or before the above date. DR. A. R. KRESLER Anyone wishing to see me will find me at the Trust & Savings bank on Saturday afternoons. H. 0. Harris. Phone 124.

HENRY SIZED UP.

MUSIC.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24* 1918.

TO INCREASE LIBERTY LOAN INTEREST RATE

. Secretary McAdoo has definitely ! announced that the Fourth Liberty Loan bonds will bear 4% per cent interest The secretary has been inaistenT that the government interest rateshould be stabilized at 4% per cent. He points out that a raise in the rate of interest of only one-fourth of one percent on $10,000,000,000 of government bonds would mean an annual increase of $25,000,000 -in interest charges, and that this money would have to be raised by increased taxation and-paid by the people of the country. It would not be paid by one class only, because there are consumption as well as other kinds of taxes, and the consumption taxes reach every class of people. “As an. intelligent people/’ said "Secretary McAdoo during the Third Liberty Loan campaign, “we should' now make a stand for the financing of our government during the period, of this war at a stabilized rate of interest, say at 4% per cent per annum, so that all business and all investments may be adjusted to that' basis, and so that we ourselves may protect ourselves against successively increased rates of interest on government loans.” Neither our patriotism nor our support of the Liberty Loan are measured in fractions of per cent.

SATURDAY WAR SUMMARY

Further progress is reported today for the allies in the terrific fiftymile battle now raging between Arras and Soissons. The French on the right and the British on the left are pressing forward, taking scores of towns and thousands of prisoners. Dispatches from the front describe the defeat of the Germans by the British in Picardy as the worst of the war. In the last twenty-four hours the British have smashed ahead for more than two miles on a wide front and now stand virtually at the gates of Bapaume, while the French have swept across thp Divette between Lassigny and Noyon and have advanced at many important points between the Oisne and the Aisne.” The continued advance of the French seems most likely to spell disaster to the Germans although the successes of the British have been more spectacular. If the French maintain their advance they may split two great German arnties, likely will compel a retreat of the Germans behind the Chemin des Dames and may even press forward to Laon. Reports from the Vesle today tell of increasing signs that the Germans are planning a big retreat there. The enemy again is reported burning stores and supplies behind the lines. Some Paris and London dispatches hint that an American advance on the Vesle line is likely to be ordered within a few hours. Continued absence of reports of American troops being engaged with the French and British in the present great forward movement has stirred sepculati6n in Washington and tlje theory is being expressed that all of our troops, previously brigaded with the French and British, have been withdrawn and are now taking up their places on the American section of the western front under direct command *of General Pershing. The theory is carried still further and some experts in the American capital predict that General Pershing, may soon launch an all-American offensive calculated still further to disrupt the plans of the German high command.

HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE. As I have sold my residence and am breaking up housekeeping, I will dispose of the following goods at private sale: Loung. Single cot. Favorite base burner. Side board. ? ; Dining table and chairs. Bed steads. Wash stands. Morris chair. ' ‘ Rockers. Three dressers. Cook stove. Small heater. Mattresses and springs. Miscellaneous small articles. Pictures and books. Small settee. Hall tree. Lawn swing. MRS. E. L. CLARK. •* North Vanßensselaer Street

Rev. Harry L. Duff, pastor of the Heights, DI., motored here last Wednesday and spent a few days with his cousin, Mrs. A. C. Pancoast, and family; While here he accompaniec Mr. Pancoast and family to Fountain Park and enjoyed a session of the chautauqua there. Frank E. Bell came today to resume his duties as court reporter of the Jasper-Newton circuit. He will take up the Williams ditch petition at Kentland Monday. The first baby brings visions of an intellectual giant who is to make this country forget that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ever lived. But the fifth baby merely brings visions of more biljp and more < sleepless nights. After a woman has been marriec for a while she wonders if there isn’t some mule blood in her husband’s family.

DUPLICATES PAT O’BRIEN’S ACT

JUMPS FROM MOVING TRAIN TO ESCAPE PURSUING OFFICER. One of the most famous and daring acts of Pat O’Brien was duplicated in this city when Charles C. Sanders, of 4755 Evans avenue, Chicago, jumped from the 10:55 Monon passenger train Friday forenoon to escape Marshal Ellis Thomas, who had placed him under arrest. Reports had reached this place that, the colored porters on the Monon trains were bootlegging, and the officers here determined to stop this if possible. City Marshal Ellis Thomas entered the diner on the above train as it stopped and purchased a quart of whiskey of Sanders. As soon as Thomas had secured the whiskey he placed Sanders under arrest. Sanders started for the door of "the coach, going backwards, with Thomas following him. Thomas noticed as he looked back that the other two porters were watching him, and he felt just a little fearful that they might interfere in behalf of their comrade. Thomas had been told that if Sanders was not on the train that the other fellows would supply the liquor. For this reason he thought that possibly they might try to assist Sanders. Just as Sanders was about to step out of the coach Thomas looked back at the two negroes in the other end of the coach, and as he did so Sanders dodged into the toilet and slammed the door in the marshal’s face. Sanders held the door securely until the train had started, when he jumped out of the window. Thomas attempted to have the train stopped, but was unable to do so and was carried to McCoysburg. When he arrived , there he telegraphed back to Agent Beam, who informed J. •J. Montgomery, who went for Thomas. Sam Karnowsky was in McCoysburg and Thonfas started to Rensselaer with him, meeting Montgomery on the way. Marshal Thomas, J. J. Montgomery and Roy Lewis, upon the arrival of Thomas and Montgomery from MlcCoysburg, hurried to the depot where they were informed that the colored porter had been seen by the railroad gateman, James Jordan,, running as fast as he could north through the property of the Harris Home just after the train from which Sanders escaped pulled out of town. Mashal Thomas went to Surrey on the local freight, which was just pulling out, and Montgomery, ■ T. G. Wynegar and Roy Lewis went to Surrey by automobile. Wynegar and Lewis saw the colored porter just north of Surrey, and when within about one hundred rods of him Wynegar fired at him twice, but the colored gentleman did not stop, but dodged into a nearby corn field.

Montgomery went on north a little further and telephoned to Rensselaer for help. In the meantime Montgomery mounted a silo at the Murphy farm north of Surrey where le made an attempt to locate the fleeing fugitive. It appears that the porter had made a start for his Chicago home. He was without coat or hat, but had stopped at the farm house on the Re>ecca Porter farm and had gotten a lat from George Culp, the tenant there. While on his -way to McCoysburg Marshal Thomas had secured Sanders’ coat and grip, in which he found four quart bottles and a half pint jottie full of whiskey. Montgomery’s call for help was soon answered and a number of men from here hurried to supply themselves with revolvers, rifles and shot guns and drove to the Murphy farm. In the meantime Officer Montgomery had received assistance from the farmers in the neighborhood of Surrey and had the corn field watched. Among those to go to the scene of what was supposed to be the battle of Coon Run were Captain A. E. Wallace of the Liberty Guard, Charles M. Sands, Hany Parker, J. C. Harris, Claude Harris, W. H. Parkinson, Frank Ham, Robert Smith, Dr. H. J. Kannal and William Eisele. William Eisele was given the station occupied by Officer Montgomery, and Montgomery and Thomas organized their forces to make a drive through the Surrey sector, which was the corn field of the Lonergan Brothers. During the charge through this sector a heavy rain fell and the Rensselaer army was thoroughly drenched. All were heavily armed with rifles and shot guns and when the colored porter was found a signal consisting of three shots was to be given. The signal was not given, and Captain Wallace, being assured that the Surrey sector was cleared of the eneifiy, called his army together and retired to headquarters, wet to the hide and as tired as fishermen. Through it all there is a comica strain that must be appreciated by all, except it may be by those who were actual combatants. Undoubtedly Sanders will sooner or later fall into the hand of the law, and it will be the iron hand of the U. S. government and not the moderate hand of the State of Indiana. Marshal Thomas and Officer Montgomery and those who assisted in this attempt to punish an offender of the law deserve great praise.

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THE man who has never thought much about his hats ought to try a Stetson HE ought to buy it here,headquarters for Stetsons, with all the wonderful line of Soft and Stiff Stetsons tochoose from. He needs the service of this Store —if only because we serve the most critical men of this city, and know how to suggest to each man the block and color to emphasize his personality. STETSON HATS $5 S' $6 Tomorrow** WBBther Showers and Cooler.

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY IS LOSING MANY OFFICIALS

The following letter, which is selfexplanatory, has been received in the office of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, 147 East Market, street, Indianapolis, and advises of the necessity of keeping up the work of fighting the white plague: “Among the problems by which tuberculosis workers throughout the country are confronted on account of the war, there is one which concerns the efficiency and m some cases the very maintenance of antituberculosis activities in the community at large. This is the Problem presented by the continued withdrawal of executive officers either to take up new war work, largely m Europe, or to enter the army or navy, by draft or enlistment. ’ These inroads have already been serious. By all means let organizations and individuals employed in combating tuberculosis be second to none in answering their country s call to service! But we must also face squarely the question of whether in the end some workers cannot render the most effective service by sticking to their present posts. With at least a million people afflicted with this disease in the United States, an annual death toll exceeding 150,000, and the additional problem of providing for the thousands of men rejected in the draft or discltarged from the army and navy as tuberculous, any relaxation of the tuberculosis campaign will be very costly to. the nation in terms of human waste. The national association urges, therefore, that in the case of executives or other officers whose relation to tuberculosis work is vital, earnest and thorough, consideration be given to the question which the present let-, ter raises. * Very truly yours; CHARLES J. HATFIELD, . Managing Director.

If any of your stock dies be but* and promptly call A. L. Padgett, Phone ts. --

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J. W. RAINS GETS FORD AUTO

LIBERTY GUARDS GIVE AWAY FORD AUTOMOBILE FRIDAY EVENING. Money has been raised with .wHHK to equip the local Liberty Guards with uniforms. The citizens of this community having given the boys something like $1,200. A part of this was expended for an automobile, which was presented to J. W. Rains Friday night at the armory. Mr. Rams presented the car to his son, Ames M. Rains, who lives in Jordan township. Possibly many do not realize the great amount of work some of our men are doing for this great work. It is taking a great amount of the time of a number of men who spend almost every evening of the week, and it must be remembered that this service is rendered without pay. The training of the Liberty Guards and the selectmen is a matter of very great importance. It will be of great value to those who will be called to the army, and to others the physical development will be worth many times the effort required. This organization should have the hearty support and financial backing of the citizens of the entire county. It should be noted that at a meeting of the county council of defense Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Sauser was appointed by that oody to be Major of the Jasper county selectmen.

COUNTY COMMISSIONER MAKEEVER REPORTS BIG CROPS

A fair example of Jasper county prosperity among the farmers is shown by the report from the farms of County Commissioner D. S. Makeever of Newton township. He reports having threshed five thousand • bushels of wheat off of one hundred and fifty acres, and about ten thousand bushels of oats off of one hundred and ninety-five acres. This grain will be marketed and will bring the handsome sum of $17,000.00 er more, as oats are increasing in price almost daily. Besides the above Mr. Makeever has out six hundred acres of corn from which a yield of twenty-four thousand bushels can be expected. This corn he will no doubt feed to cattle and will net him all the way from $1.50 to $2.00 per bushel. It is such success as this which ’ helps a community to db things on a large scale, and when the 28th of September rolls around it is expected that the prosperous farmers of this county will see to it that the Fourth Liberty Loan is over-subscribed during the early hours of that important day.

LEFTY CLARK GREETS FRIENDS.

Sergeant-Major Howard B. Clark arrived here this morning from Camp Taylor and will spend a short leave here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark, and possibly with a very dear friend in Chicago. But for his genial way and good humor one would not recognize the former scoop at the Republica noffice. He is much more erect, has taken on a great amount of weight and looks fit to meet Willard in the prize ring or a dozen Huns out in no-man’s-land. He likes soldiering and has made a great record with the Camp Taylor base ball team. He is in a team with some of the big leaguers from all over the country. Like all of the other red-blooded virile American boys he is anxious to get into it over there.

Lon Healy is enjoying a fifteen days’ vacation from his duties as clerk at the local postoffice. He will spend a part of this time at South Haven, Mich. ' AT THE/ 7 STAR THEATRE -TW Hwm of Good Wctwa ~TODAY SATURDAYJUNE ELVIDGE JOHN BOWERS AND GEORGE Mc- < (. QUERRIE “THE CABERETT” Also MARIE WALCAMP and EDDIE POLO in "LIBERTY” No. 5 EMMY—MONDAY—WHELEN In ‘THE SHELL GAME” TUESDAY — - Sbb “WfRS. SLACKER” Aho THE PATHE NEWS WEDNESDAY—ANN MURDOCK in . . “MY WIFE” i Aho Billy Rhodes in comedy J

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