Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — Page 1

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No. 214.

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All persons indebted to me are reuested to call and settle by cash or lote without delay. lam expecting call to service in a short time and wish to get my accounts in good condition before leaving. Please dont dela? action in this matter. I. M. WASHBURN, M. D.

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The Evening Republican.

5,000 WHITE MEN TO BE MUSTERED FROM STATE

; Five thousand’ white men registered under the selective service draft system and qualified for general military service, are asked to he mustered from Indiana, in a message from the war department received yesterday by Major Robert C.. Baltzell, state conscription agent. The men will be sent to Camp Taylor during a five-day period -beginning October 7. The men*will be taken from class 1 -of the 1917 registration. Where this class has been. exhausted the men will come from class 1 of the first 1918 registration, and in Some cases where the first two classes are exhausted from class 1 of the Aug. 24, 1918, registration—of men who had become 21 since June 5, 1918. ' The war department has ordered that all men who registered in the Aug. 24 draft be classified and examined by Sept. 30,

BROOK MOTHER DEAD FROM PTOMAINE POISONING

I Mrs. Effie Deweese, of near Brook, died this morning at 2 o’clock from the effects of ptomaine poisoning. The occasion of the poison was about a , year ago, when the entire family became ill from eating sardines. The father and one of four children were affected and have Ibeen in the hospital at Rensselaer much during the time, but has recovered sufficiently to be at home now. The wife had not been so ill until Sunday she became very ill and died this morning. The child is improving slowly and it was thought that the mother was at no time in any particular danger until Sunday. Deceased was a sister of Mrs. Leo Hamacher, of this city. They were notified this morning and went to Brook today by auto. The father of Mrs. Deweese and Mrs. Hamacher died a few months ago.—Monticello Evening Journal, Sept. 17.

i North bound Monon freight train pulled by engine 518, had a wreck near Linden yesterday morning shortly after 9 o’clock when five freight cars were» derailed. The “Jumbo” wrecker went to the scene shortly after and soon had the cars on the track. J. D. Rector was conductor on the train and Noah Alvis engineer and Frank Newlin fireman.

If any of ybur stock dies be sure and promptly call A. L. Padgett, Phone 65.

PARAMOUNT STAR SERIES ANN PENNINGTON ' S ' IN “SUNSHINE NAN” ALSO COMEDY

FRIDAYBLUE BIRD PROGRAM CARMEL MEYERS IN “A BROADWAY SCANDAL” Also 2 good comedies MONDAYSELECT PRESENTS ALICE BRADY In “THE WHIRLPOOL” ALSO WEEKLY »\ ’ w •

WRECK ON MONON.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1918.

QUESTIONNAIRES ARE SENT OUT

REGISTRANTS URGED TO RETURN PAPERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The Jasper county conscription board are sending out the first questionnaires to the men who registered on September 12. Ten -per cent of the registrants between the ages of 19 and 36 will receive their papers today. The others of this class will receive the questionnaires, ten per cent following each day until all -have been sent out. The papers are to be returned by the registrants within seven days from the date on which they are mailed. However, the board and Provost Marshal General Crowder are urging that the questionnaires be returned just as promptly as possible. This is going to make a great amount of work and as the members of the bar are to do this, there will 'be but little court held here until the questionnaires of the registrants are all filled but. The local board has received notice that twenty-eight men are to be sent by Jasper county to Camp Taylor in the five-day • period beginning October 7, 1918. Major Robert <O. Baltzell, state conscription agent, has specified that physically qualified registrants of June, 1917, must be exhausted before taking the men of the June, 1918, class. Under this same call the state of Indiana is asked to entrain 5,000 men.

AN APPEAL FOR NURSES.

Jasper county was asked for a small quota of nurses to care for our soldiers during their period of suffering and convalescence. Mulch to my surprise but a very small number responded. We have among us any number of young ladies who are eligible for this training. Why this lack of patriotism? Is it selfishness? Our brothers did not hesitate to meet all the mpst horrible conditions to secure safety for their mothers and sisters here. Why cannot we sacrifice a little? With our boys in danger there is little pleasure for our young ladies here, so why not for a short period of three years (some of our boys have already spent four- years on the battlefield) give over that time in their life to a course of study that wifi be beneficial to them all their lifetime. Sometime after the war and when the services of a urirse are not in such great demand as at present and you do not care to make nursing your life work, think of what you have gained. Knowledge that will be helpful in your home or at any place where emergencies may arise, you will not have to stand around helpless, but will be able tq take the place of the physician until his services can be secured. Life may be saved by you many times. When the boys return it will be the women that have made good that they will seek for their wives. When they think of the noble nurses across the sea, their strength of character, sweetness of disposition, endurance and unselfishness, that type will be their ideal of womanhood. These girls who have remained at home making fancy yokes and embroidery will have to take a back seat. After this war men’s ideals are going to change. Brace up and answer the call of duty. A TRAINED NURSE.

NOT HARD TO ANSWER.

If one million railroad laborers are given an increase by the railroad administration averaging $25 a month, as stated, that would mean an increase of $25,000,000 a month pr $300,000,000 a year in wages that the railroads must pay. The railroads under the first six months of so-called government control lost about $30,000,000 —or was it $300,000,000? (it is getting so hard, these days, to keep track of a few more millions). But if it were only thirty millions, in spite of increased rates, that would be a loss of $60,000,0000 a year to be added to the $300,000,000, or a total of $360,000,000 —a rather tidy’ sum, say we, being as it is something over a third of a billion dollars. Now, not in a spirit of complaining at all, but merely for information and in order to keep the records clear, we should like to ask who is to make up the annual loss of this kind? We pause for a reply.—Muncie Press.

JACKIES BAND HERE OCT. 2.

W. H. Beam has received official notification of the movement of the Jackies’ Naval Band, which will be here on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1918.' This band, consisting of thirty-five pieces, will arrive here from Monti,cello on the 6:50 p. m. train, and will leave here for Lafayette on the 11:10 p. m. train.

GETTING COLDER.

We had more rain this morning. It seems to be getting colder and if the wind should not Wow tonight it may frost. The temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 6:00 p. am. Tuesday was, maximum 71, minimum 39. \

WOUNDED INSIST ON DEFEAT OF GERMANY

Paris, Sept. 17.—“N0! No! No!” That is the reply of American fighting men—who have fought and been wounded and know what they are fighting for—to the Austrian proposa to talk things over. In certain American hospitals more than a score of men who were wounded at St. Mihiel, the Vesle- and at Soissons, were asked what they thought of the Austrian peace move, from the standpoint of men doing the fighting. Of twenty-three men interviewed, all except two said: “Let’s do the job first and talk afterward.” The other two said they' seen a newspaper and didn’t want to make any statement until they knew what it was all about. “I think it’s another peace dodge,” said one rancher from California. “We’ve got to finish this" job while we’re* at it * I live 6,000 miles from here. Now I can’t be coming back here every ten years or so. We’d better finish it now.” Everybody agreed in the position that the Austrian action is inspired by Gerinany, is lacking in sincerity, and is made for its effect on world opinion. k “There’s something tricky about it,” declared a big miner from northern Michigan. “I’m fed up on the war. Its a dirty job, but we’ve got to stick until they talk turkey. We came into the war for a certain purpose. We won’t quit until it is done.”

WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

A fresh gain of at least a mile has been registered in the last twelve hours iby the right wing of the American army in Lorraine. Pershing’s combat patrols at accounts from the front were approaching Vandieres, only little more than a mile from the German border and halfway between Pont-a-Mousson and Pagny-sur-Moselle. Against the American left the Germans have been reaching in the last twenty-spur hours, but with no great vigor and without the slightest success.

A further German retreat in the valley of the Moselle is indicated by burning towns. For the present Pershing is marking time, but all dispatches from the front and the comments of military critics hint at important developments before many days are passed. Meanwhile in point of actual fighting the Macedonian front holds the center of the war stage. Up to last evening the Serbians and French had captured 4,000 prisoners and thirty guns, overrunning part of the Bulgarian third lines and crossing the Gradesnitza. Earlier in the day a Serbian official statement had reported a FrancoSerbian advance of five miles on a twenty-mile front. Many important strategic heights, formidably defended, were captured by the allies, and the advance continpes. The allied Macedonian offensive is likely to upset the, German plan to bring a strohg force of Bulgarian troops to the western front, Where Germanys own man-power has been terrifically cut up by the years campaign, and where Austro-Hungarian troops fight only when forced by the fear of penalty for disobedience with deaths The British made a substantial advance toward St. Quentin. They pushed their lines forward in the neighborhood of Holnon village, which lies only two and a half miles northwest "of the Hindenburg bulwark. Local was made by Haig’s troops’in Flanders.

AMONG THE SICK.

Mrs. Howard Mills was quite sick Tuesday but is reported to be better today. E. P. Honan is improving slowly. Mrs. Maria Hopkins is reported to be slightly improved.

J. E. Miller of Union township was in Rensselaer today. He. reports that his son Wallace who left here with the limited service men who went to Vancouver, Wash., last June, is in New Port, Oregon. Mrs. G. E. May and son Edward were at the Great Lakes Sunday to visit her son William, but found that he was quarantined on account otf his having the influenza. Big fern sale Saturday, Sept. 14 500 only. Must have room for winter plants. Do not miss this sale if you want a fern. 10c, 25c, 35c, 75c, $1.25 and up. The new Rex Begonia and some fine palms will be on sale. Plants f. o. b. greenhouse. Greenhouse two blocks north of cemetery gate. JOHN H. HOLDEN Phono 428 For navigating shallow African rivers an air propelled hydroplane has been built in Fiance. A top which rises into the air and flies as it spins has been patented by a Chicago inventor. Half a dozen bricks instead of two, as usual, are gripped by a wall tie invented by a Scotchman. A new tricycle upon whidh a child stands to ride is propelled by a treadmill that operates gearing. The use of the metric system in place of former weights and measures has been made compulsory in Denmark. ’

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LESS HARD COAL HOISTED BY MINERS’ STRIKE

Reading, Pa., Sept. 17.—There was a reduction of many thousands of tons of anthracite coal in the amount mined in the Schuylkill region due,, to the strike of miners in twenty-six collieries. The men asked for a wage scale equivalent to that of the Bituminous miners. The fuel authorities at Washington have the request under consideration but Director Garfield is reported as having declared that he will not act upon the request while the miners are idle. Yesterday the Reading company loaded about 800 cars at'fhe breakers, but today the number was much less.

ADVERTISED. LETTERS. Letters advertised for the week ending Sept. 16, 1918: Amy Lountner, Bert Edwards, Mrs. J. O. Garastee, Mrs. B. W. Hammones, Mrs. Arthur Putt, John Rutherford, Albert Swartzell, Emery Swim, Susie Edwards, R. S. Frenchman, David E. Hoshaw, Norma Rogers, Mrs. B. W. Woodward, Mrs. Verda Osman, J. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Spencer, Mrs. Jane Levi, J. K. Thomas (2), Martha F. Wedeel, Minnie Heckman, Alice Norton, Mrs. F. Blackman, Mrs. John P. Sounto, Roy Williams, Mary Walter, William Taylor, Mrs. Ella McKinsey, Harold E. Henley, Mrs. Arthur Wortley. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office Sept. 30, 1918. N. LITTLEFIELD, P. M.

NOTICE. After Sept. 28 we will discontinue the serving of lunches, but will continue the business as an ice cream pari lor and candy store. . VERNON NOWELS. About one person in every 50 more than 80 years of age is blind. , ir " '

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HERMAN AMES WRITES PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. ED. AMES

Sept. 9, 1918. Dear Father, Mother and All: y l We arrived in port Saturday even-' i ing at 8. Shoved off a forty-eight hour liberty party, so J rated it and i went ashore, but I came back to the ' ship early. Was rather tired so I ! slept all night and this morning, so i as I feel pretty good now I wiH try and make this as long and as interesting as possible. Well, to start in, we had a fine trip over. Landed our troops O. K., and they were a happy bunch of boys to ; get there safe. Two sections of our ship’s company had liberty over there, but I was out of luck again. Don and Storky got to go ashore, but it was just on concert duty, I guess.

Coming back we brought lots of soldiers and Y. M. C. -A. workers. Some" of the fellows were pretty badly crippled up, but they aH seem to be happy. Mr. Ralph Sayers, Wilson’s son-in-law, was on our ship coming back, and gave several lectures coming across. We hit an awful storm as short ways out of here. It was a njnetymile gale and was sure some rough. Our ship . rolled forty degrees and there were some awful sick boys. We lost three men overboard, while several were badly injured. While the storm was at its wprst I would stand my watches then go to the top side where it was safer.

Here are a few words I had with an army lieutenant who was laying oyer the hand rail feeding the fishes. He was sure a terribly seasick soldier. I said to him, “What’s the matter with you? Want the doctor?” He never said a word only after a while he turned around -and said to me: “Say; sailor, you know we fellows are in the habit of thinking you boys of the navy have a snap, but I will tell the world I would rather be in the first line trenches than to be here now.” I said to him, “Yes, but it isn’t this way all the time.” He said, “Yes, I know, but once is enough for me,” and walked away very unsteady. I did feel awful sorry for him, as your son Herman sat with his head in a bucket for two long trips, but it seems to me a joke now days as I never get sick any more. I sent Howard, Edd Rose and Ted Sell their things. I suppose they have them by this time, and I bet they were a tickled bunch of boys. Now tell these people if there is anything they want to send, to mail it to me and I will (be only too glad to pay the French postage on it and send it on to our boys in No Man’s Land. I have received lots of mail since arriving here and it sure makes a fellow feel good. Had several letters from Dell, you, and other people at home. Oh, yes, and a. fine letter from a little girl I met on the train coming back from New York. You said in a letter that Mr. and Mrs. Markin and Mary were going to send me a kodak album. Well, it will be greatly appreciated, for you know those are the things I care for most. \ I will never forget my few days wt home. Everyone seemed glad to see nie and treated me fine. New York is a great place, but no place like home. Yes, Mam, no doubt you thought I may have been a Jew peddler with my two bags with pasteboard boxes tied on the sides of them, but I didn’t care, for I knew what Was in them and could have whipped a regiment of (Germans to defend them. As I came through New York City peoples’ eyes popped out at them, but I didn’t care again, as it was all for Storky, Don, Howard, Edd Rose and Ted Sell. There was a grand and glorious feed aboard the U. S. S. V. S. that night. Fried squirrel was a treat for the boys, with pickles, cake and candy and all kinds of soft drinks. With many thoughts of home that were expressed. With lots of love to all and everyone. Am out of paper or would write more.

Powdered putty has been invented that can be colored as desired and mixed with water when it is to be used.

AT THE STAR THEATRE —The House of Good Plstwos TODAY --I A Program Extraordinary Charming Little MARY MILES MINTER The Queen of the Screen la “THE SOCIAL BRIARS” Aleo j MISS BILLIE RHODES la A Pleasing Comedy “ FOR ARTS SAKE” --' - _ TOMORROW—FRANCIS FORD “JOHN ERMINE OF YELLOWSTONE” Abo . • A ONE-REEL COMEDY FRIDAY—GEORGE WALSH in “THE PRIDE OF NEW YORK” Abo 1 FORD WEEKLY

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