Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — Page 1

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' ' - .t-i ■ ■ ' ' 5 ' - * Annual Showing Of Japanese Baskets We have just received a shipment of lunch, sewing and novelty baskets. They are on display in our window. W. J. WRIGHT

WHEAT PRICES ASSURED.

The proclamation issued by the President, which guarantees to the farmers of the country the present minimum 'price of $2.20 a bushel for the 1919 wheat drop, should result in an important increase in acreage. Many wheat raisers have delayed making plans for next season because they did not know what to expect. The presidential decree disposes of uncertainty and clears the way for work preliminary to raising the food that is certain to be needed by this country and its allies. The President calls attention to the fact that there is an element of risk involved in a governmental guaranty of the price of wheat. Such an undertaking, he says, might result in a loss of $500,000,000 if there should be an 'early end of the war and Europe should supply its requirements from the stores of cheap grains in the southern, hemisphere. It is well known that Australia has a vast accumulation of wheat that is selling for less than ■$ 1 a bushel, and th® situation in Argentina is somewhat similar. The risk the President fears is not nearly so serious as might be supposed. The reason that Europe is not now supplying its needs from the southern hemisphere, is that the ships are not available. An early termination of the war ivjould not solve the shipping problem in a moment. There is certain to be a shortage of transportation facilities and consequent high, freight rates during many months and even years after the war. That will tend to equalize the difference in wheat prices here and at farther distributing cdurces. Meantime, the farmers of the country have assurance that they will receive at least $2.20 for every bushel of wheat they produce next year, and the price may be higher if conditions next spring warrant an increase. That guaranty should prompt general cooperation in the food administration’s program for a record breaking crop in'l9l9.

At Duvall’s Quality Shop, Stetson hats $5.00, Kingsbury hats $4.00, caps from 75c to $2.00 in cloth. Come and see us.

PICTURES OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD. PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT Blue Ribbon Production ANTONIO MORENO and MARY ANDERSON “BY RIGHT OF POSSESSION” and Drew Comedy 6 Reel*. 10c and 15c. '- T ' ■-- - - - - < - - ----- ■ Paramount Star Series. | VIVIAN MARTIN In “A PETTICOAT PILOT’ | Al.o Comedy THURSDAY— * Rupert Julian’s Masterpiece "THE KAISER, THE BEAST OF BERLIN” jQg jgg ... ... SATURDAY— Douglas Fairbanks 1 1 L “MR. FIXIT” pSßbq . i

The Evening Republican.

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

September 2. Benjamin F. Zellers, born April 27, 1884, present residence Virgie, occupation mechanic, and Minnie King, born November 20, 1894, present residence Medaryville, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for both parties.

John Grey returned today to his home in Hobart. Mrs. O. 'H. McKay and daughter Hafriett returned Monday from Lafayette, where they had visited with friends since last Saturday. Larkin Logan, one of Gillam township’s oldest residents, haying lived there for more than-fifty years, was in Rensselaer today. Mr. Logan is about seventy-seven years of age. Miss Anna Best, of Chicago, is spending a month’s here with her mother, Mrs. George iM. Myers. Miss Best is a commissioned Red Cross nurse, but on account of the important position she holds as instructor in St. Luke’s hospital she will remain in this country. Mrs. Lena M. Todd and two »ons, Dana and George, of Flora, are spending the week with the family of the former’s brother, Dr. W. L. Myer. Mrs. Todd has charge of the music at the teachers’ institute, ..which is being held here this week. Ray Day, son of Mrs. Julia Day, is now in the United States after having spent three years in the Panama canal zone. When Ray wrote he was in New Orleans, but was on route to a southern camp. He is a member of the regular army. His mother expects that he will be furloughed home in the near future.

CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.

Holders of 4 per cent Liberty bonds should promptly avail themselves of the privilege of converting into 4 % per cent bonds by ing their bonds for conversion' to the STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER. This service will be performed without charge.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, IRIS.

STUDENTS TO BE INDUCTED INTO REGULAR ARMY

\ ■ - I Changes of the most sweeping and radical nature in the history of Purdue university, as well as all the other colleges and universities in the country, will come about in the next month, when the new organization set forth by the war department and concurred in hy representatives of the colleges at meetings held last Saturday will be put into effect. President Winthrop E. Stone and Major Frank B. Andrus have just returned from the meeting held at Fort Sheridan Saturday, at which more than three hundred representatives from all the colleges in twentyfive states ip the middle west, having an enrollment of more than 100 male students, from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada were present to receive and discuss the plans of education to be offered the college men who come within the new draft ages. Col. Robert I. Rees, general staff corps, representing the war department, explained the new regulations, and the representatives present manifested a most splendid spint in their concurrence with the plans set forth regarding the status of the colleges and college students given them by the war department. The new regulations provide that all college students will be inducted into military service, will be equipped with uniforms and -placed under the regular army routine, and will receive the regular soldier’s pay of S3O a month. The colleges will make contracts with the war department to house, feed and instruct the men in academic, scientific and technical branches, and a number of military men will be detailed to direct the military training of the students. This means that at Purdue there will be barracks,' kitchens, baths, latrines, and so on erected for the men, who will be in the regular army service, subject to call at any time. The students of draft age will all live in the barracks, and will live according to regular military rules. They will begin their regular routine at 5:30 o’clock in the morning, and will be required to be in their quarters at taps, at 9:30 o’clock in the evening, and there will be the regular army work in drill, guard mounting, and other military exercises.

TUESDAY CASUALTY LIST.

The new casualty list released by the wa* department last night shows: Killed in action, 102; missing in action, ISO; wounded severely, 276; died of wounds, 32; died of disease, 10; wounded, degree undetermined, 235; died of. accident and other causes, 4; prisoner, 1; total, 810. The names of those from Indiana follow: Private Joe Kelly, Madison, wounded severely. Private Mallie Fleetwood, Kurtz, wounded severely. Corporal Isaac L. Godsey, Richmond, wounded, degree undetermined. - Cook Charles Joseph Winter, Elkhart, abounded, degree undetermined. Private Joseph John Kelley, Rochester, wounded, degree undetermined. Private Harry Carney Morris, Peru, wounded, degree undetermined. Private Carl W. Wehmeier, Columbus, wounded, degree undetermined. Private George Omar Cox, Carlos City, missing in action. Corporal Holland D. Eliason, Anderson, wounded severely. Sergeant Talbert N. Frazer, Mooresville, wounded degree undetermined. Private Emmett K. Merriam, Francesville, .wounded, degree undetermined. Private Guy Edward Tallerday, Elkhart, wounded, degree undetermined. Private Earl C. Wilson, South. Milford, wounded, degree undetermined. Private' Howard L. Ford, Fort Wayne, missing in action.

WEATHER. We had quite a heavy rain Monday. This will stop threshing for a few days, but will help very much in the production of good fall pastures and will make the ground in splendid condition for fall plowing. The temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 p. m. Monday was, maximum 76 and minimum 57.

CHEERFUL WORDS.

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If your stock dies eall me at my expense and I will call for it promptly, A- L. Padgett, Phono •*.

MRS. DR. HONAN BURIED HERE.

The funeral of Mrs. Dr. James H. Honan was held in this city Monday afternoon at the residence of E. P. Honan, her brother-in-law. Father Nicholas Grieve, of St. Joseph College, being in charge. Mrs. Honan had not been well since the death of her husband some ten months ago. Her death, which occurred last Friday, was due to a nervous breakdown. She was fiftysix years of age. Interment was in Weston cemetery. •. „ Those in attendance at the funeral from out of the -city were, Joseph McMahon, of Danville, 411., a brother; Mrs. J. W. Sullivan, of Covington, a sister; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lane, Thomas and Anna Honan, of Delphi, cousins; Mrs. Margaret Honan, her son and two daughters, Florence and Mary. > On account of old age and Alness the mother of the deceased was prevented from attending the funeral.

TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Field Marshal Haig’s armies have torn a seven-mile hole in the Wotan line, and today are driving a deep wedge in the ranks of the German armies between the twin bases of Douai and Cambrai. Advance guards already have penetrated eight miles to the canal running north from Cambrai, press dispatches say. Indeed it appears that the British are perilously near (for the Germans) to a break through the enemy lines. If the infantry can follow up the tank and cavalry advance north of Cambrai that city will be flanked, as these units nOW are reported east of a north and south line running through the place. Capture of Cambrai would almost inevitably , involve a German withdrawal at least as far south as St. Quentin and possibly the abandonment of the whole Hindenburg line, which is seriously menaced in the south by the Franco-American advance north of Soissons, which already is well on its way to flanking the Chemin des Dames.

Usually observative critics declare that the Germans yesterday suffered their worst single day reverse of the war in the smashing of the Wotan line, which they had long considered impregnable. It is yet too early to forecast in their entirety the consequences, which ’may be exceedingly far-reaching. In addition to this great victory the cables today bring news of a further British-American advance in Flanders, which may likewise have far-reaching results. Both British and Americans are pushing eastward and rapidly blotting out the salient the Germans drove into the allied line following their Picardy advance last March. In addition, to advancing astride the Lys and north, where the Germans are rapidly retiring, burning towns and villages as they go, the British have penetrated Lens, it is officially announced. The sector held by the Belgians from Ypres to the sea should be watched cbsely for an indication of the German intentions in that direction. If a withdrawal is started there it may well be assumed that the apparently inspired hints of a withdrawal to the Meuse line which have been coming out of Germany of late have basis in fact.

SEPTEMBER JURORS.

Ivan Ellsworth Barkley Will Woodworth. .. .Hanging Grove Lawrence SaylorNewton John Kolhoff Jordan Clyde RandleHanging Grove Henry C. DeKock Keener The grand jury has not been called. The petit jury is called for the third Monday, and is composed of the following: Robert Lefler . Barkley George FergusonWheatfield Jud Adams Barkley Miarion Davis Kankakee Solomon Norman Union G. Hugh Hurley Newton Marion Freeland ...Newton George R. Faris .Gillam Rheinhart Eilts Unibn Elias W. Faris . A .... Gillam Florence E. Marion . Barkley

School suits for the boys and kiddies are here in all the latest patterns and styles. It will pay every boy in the county to make his purchase now. Prices reasonable.— DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. Mrs. William Martin, who is now located in Chicago, was here today looking after some business matters. Mrs. W. C. Major and son returned to their home at Indianapolis today after spending a few days with relatives here. Mrs. Hunt and Mrs. Porter returned to their home at Logansport today after visiting the family of L. A. Harmon. Mrs. Sullivan returned to her home at Covington today after having attended the funeral of her sister* Mrs. Honan. Mrs. Greggory came here on business Monday, and from here joined her daughter at South Bend, who is teaching in the high school there this year. / Seth Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Reed, of Barkley township, returned to Gary this afternoon, where he has an excellent position in the shipping department of the Illinois Steel company..

TT used to be the '■* fashion of boys’ clothing manufacturers to use most mediocre methods of production —to hurridly snip and stitch their suits together, and “let it go at that.” The manufacturers from whom we buy our boys’ clothing saw a new lightsome years ago, and in pursuance thereof are now producing boys* suits and overcoats that rival in workmanship, fabrics and fit, the garments of the best men’s tailors. We are now showing splendid types of the NEW ideas in boys’ clothes. $8 to sls - O' Tomorrow’s Woottor Fair and Cooler.

TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE NOTES.

Instructors and .teachers alike are now getting down to good, hard work in the institute. The session yesterday afternoon was especially good, as was the one this forenoon. Mrs. Kelsey’s work is taking well. Yesterday she discussed whether or not the school is measuring up to the fullest. Some of her important questions were: “Is the school fitting children for life?” “What are the proper standars for measuring the proper standard for measuring forenoon in a very able and interesting way she discussed the “First Day of School.” Mrs. Todd’s work is .very commendable. She shows marked ability as a musical director. She is putting plenty of “pep” into her work and is getting a fine response from the teachers. x Yesterday afternoon and this forenoon Dr. Krebs gave lectures on causes and results of worry. Dr. Krebs is making his work most interesting as well as instructive. In his discussion he gave the causes of worry, as: Mental, physical, ethical or spiritual, and in a masterful way proceeded to explain #nd analyze his subject. Some of his most striking and interesting statements were that, fear and worry are the chief, or rather only, causes of our troubles,” and that the “Bible is as much a book of the body as of the spirit.” This last statement being used as one of the proofs of the dependence of mind on matter. , His morning address was simply a continuation of Iris afternoon address. The work of the instructors, as a whole is well worth the time of anyone, teacher or not.

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WAR DOES NOT AFFECT RAINFALL LOCALLY OR ELSEWHERE

“There is nothing in it,” says the United States Weather Bureau to repeated inquiries as to whether the war affects rainfall or any other popular fallacy, that concussions, explosions, and the liberation of gases, in the European conflicts is having* an effect on the weather, not only over the battlefields, but elsewhere ' on the globe; but it is only a fallacy, say the. weather specialists of the United States department of agriculture, even though it has existed almost since the beginning of historic times. Before gunpowder was used, the ancients had an idea that battles produced rainfall, which was caused by the clash of swords and the sweat of the fighters. Later, the same theory was transferred to the noise produced by musketry and artillery; later, still, to dust particles and smoke from burning powder, upon which the moisture in the air was supposed ito be condensed and to fall as rain, and now to the gases freed by explosions, and liberated in the new chemical warfare. These theories are not combated merely by other theories, but by actual observations made officially by, several of the belligerent governments, and the net result of these careful observations is to refute the idea of any effect of war on weather.

SECOND INSTRUCTION MEETINGS ARE BEING HELD

' Chairman J. Budman Fleming and J. M. Sauser, members of the Board of Instruction for this county, were at Wheatfield Monday evening. They were accompanied by*a number of men from this city. The first week of each month the board holds a meeting in each of the four districts, in which special instructions are given the selectmen of the county. With the meeting of Monday night the board is holding the second meeting of the kind in. the districts. Tonight there will be a meeting at Remington, Thursday night at Parr, and Friday night in this city. There was a large number of the selectmen at Wheatfield Monday night and interest shown in the addresses and singing was very ""‘ factory.

FIRST SELECTMEN GO TO CAMP GRANT

Four selectmen left here today for Camp Grant, *which is located near Rockford, 111. These are the first selectmen from Jasper county to go to the Illinois camp. The men who left today entered the limited service. They were: W. H. Minniear, of Marion township. Christmas Alter, of Carpenter township. ' Charles Hdrr, of Hanging Grove township. Basil Hall, of Gillam township.

MUSICAL CONTEST TO OPEN.

This year the Sisters will open a contest for the music pupils, to begin Sept. 9th, and to close in June, 1919. Two prizes will be awarded. The first, a beautiful gold medal, to be given to the one making the greatest progress during the year; and the second, a silver medal, to be awarded to the next best. At saeh lesson the grade will be placed on the pupil’s report card according to the lesson rendered, and at the close of the contest, the two having the highest averages respectively, will be the prize winners. Beginners as well as advanced pupils have an equal chance to win the prize. All those who wish to enter the contest must register on or before Sept. 9th. For further information call at the Sisters’ Home, or phone Catholic Sisters, No. 40.

C. C. Warner came down from Gary today*. B. D. McColly returned today from a trip to Michigan and Chicago.

AT THE STAR THEATRE —The Hou— of Good Pi staresTODAY BESSIE LOVE Will plea— you in this Comedy Drama “HOW COULD YOU CAROLINE" Al— THE PATHE NEWS If you are interested in the War New* see This WEDNESDAYMARGUERITE FISHER In 'THE PRIMITIVE WOMAN” Also BILLIE RHODES In Comedy THURSDAY— • GRACE CUNARD in , “SOCIETY DRIFTWOOD” Al—- - WESTERN COMEDY FRIDAY— We offer a Big Specialty by VIRGINIA L. CORBIN - and ' FRANCIS CARPENTER In "THE BABES IN THE WOODS” This is for the children and for children of all age*. Remember I “JACK AND THE BEANSTALK” I

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