Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1918 — Page 1

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OBITUARY.

Charles B. Wells was born in Newman, 111., on January 28, 1845, and* departed this life Monday, September 23, 1918. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Wells. His mother’s maiden name was Ora Daniels. He elisted in the Union army at Lincoln’s first call for volunteers at the age of sixteen. He was discharged after three months of service, and re-enlisted -later, serving to the end of the war. He was married to Amanda McCumbers, January 1, 1867, who sqfvives him. To sthis union eight children were born, three girls and five boys. The two oddest girls are not living, one having died when but two years old and the other at the age of thirteen. The remaining daughter, Mrs. Ora Robinson, and two of the sons, Morton find Clifford, live here. P. D. Wells lives at Morocco, Isaac Wells at Attica,, and Simeon Wells at Williamsport. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church in this city at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Interment will be in cemetery. The deceased was of a most pleasant disposition and always looked upon the bright side of life. He lived to be happy and to make others happy. He was a piost considerate husband, a kind and loving father and a generods friend and neighbor. He spent almost a quarter of a century

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POSITIVE PROOF.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1818

PRELIMINARY MEETING HELD

ENTHUSIASM AT FIRST LOAN MEETING INDICATES SUC. CESSFUL CAMPAIGN. About fifty representative citizens attended the meeting held in the court room of the court house Monday afternoon. This meeting had been called by County Chairman Chapman, of the Fourth Liberty loan, and was for preliminary organization and plan. In addressing the meeting the county chairman said that the Fourth campaign would be earned on in very much the same way as the Third, which was so successful and by which Jasper was made the banner county of the state. While'it was the purpose to make this a conscience campaign,' he felt that there would have to be a personal solicitation and also enthusiastic , meetings held in the county. ’ He announced that the organization for this campaign would be the same as in the last. George A. Williams will have charge of the speakers and singers, B. F. Fendig will continue as sales director, Charles M. Sands and publicity chairman, and E. P. Lane will be chairman of transportation. The township organizations will, be the same except that R. E. Davis is appointed chairman of Kankakee township and William Hershman of Walker township. In the Third campaign these townships with Wheatfield township were under the supervision of H. W. Marble, of Wheatfield. George McLain is to have charge of the sales in Marion township, and

all sales are to be reported through him. The blanks this time contain a receipt for the subscriber, a slip for the bank through which the subscription is made and a slip to hand to the chairman. In Marion township these slips are to be handed to Mr. McLain. Mrs. Judson J. Hunt is again to have charge of the women of the county. They will be expected to raise one-fifth of the county’s quota. All subscriptions made by women are to be credited to them. Women are to solicit women. Mr. Chapman said he had not called the workers earlier because all were very busy, but that the campaign should be started in earnest Saturday morning and while it is on every other matter should be put aside. He expected a short but strenuous campaign. , , , A call for all workers of the county to meet in the court room Thursday night will go out. Each township chairman will receive notice of this meeting and he and his workers will be urged to be present. The county chairman will send each a personal invitation and W. L. Bott has volunteered to notify each township chairman by phone. During the campaign we are to have one or more airplanes. The grqund has been prepared and some way will be devised to let the people know when they will arrive. They will alight in the Henry Amsler field just north of the city. Charles G. Spitler, Samuel Fendig and B. J. Jarrette are the committee having this matter in charge. Charles G. Spitler has also been appointed chairman of the Jackies Band committee. The band, thirtyfive strong, will arrive in Rensselaer on the 6:50 p. m. train, October 2,

from Monticello. They will remain here until-11:10 p. m., at which time they will leave for Lafayette. Chairman Chapman, in his -many stirring remarks, . said: “We have just started in the war. We may have two million men in France, we may have three or even five million later. We are just beginning to contend with the ‘bloody beast that walks like a man.’ ” He said he had great faith in the pepole of Jasper county and was sure that they Would come forward in this as they have in every other drive, and that we would meet our quota on a 100 per cent, or even

better basis. He spoke of the singing, and thought that it was a very important part of the campaign, and that thus feature was not only a very pleasant but a very effective part of the last campaign. He wanted it to have an important place in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. . George A. Williams, chairman of the speakers’ bureau, was called upon and explained his plans. He will conduct the campaign very much as he did the Tihrd Libery Loan drive. It is his plan to have meetings in every township in the county some one afternoon or evening. Two speakers are to be present at each meeting. A man to talk to the men and a lady to talk to the ladies. Singing is to be an impbrtant feature of each meeting. He will call a meeting of his workers and have his organization perfected to begin the campaign by Saturday morning, September 28. Mr. Williams agreed with Mr. Chap-

DIES FROM SHOCK.

Zelm» the seventeen-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Williams, of this city, fell into a tub of water Monday evening at 6 o’clock, and died from Hie effects of the shock at 4 a. nt. this Tuesday morning. The child was seen to fall irito the tub by the father and ißas taken out as soon as possible. A physician was called and the child was restored to con-, .sciousness, but later in the night convulsions set in and death came at the hour indicated above. The young parents of the unfortunate child are grief-stricken Parents of both Mr. and Mrs. Williams arried here this forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Williams and son Jesse coming from Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar White, Mrs. Willdam’s parents, from Hebron. Funeral services will be held at, the home at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday.

WILL ENTER THE TANK SERVICE

W. H. Parkinson, William Eigelsbach, SVilliam Eisele and Ross of this city, will enter the tank service in a very short time. They have been examined and will report at Camp Devon, Scranton, N. Cl, in a few days. Mr. Parkinson wil lenter the officers’ training corps at that place. There is stil la nopening for a few me nwho may desire to go with the volunteers to this southern camp. What is wanted is truck drivers. They must be young men, physically fit and with some mechanical experience. Those who have had experience in gafages are especially desired. Any young man interested should take this matter up with Attorney Parkinson. Howard York, who has been at the Great Lakes NavaJ Training station, is home, but will leave Wednesday for Bloomington, where he. will enter the Indiana university as a member of .the Students Army Training corps.

man and thought the solicitation should be more intensive thive. He urged that more subscriptions be made. He said that in the first campaign but 3 per cent, of the 68 counties in the district subscribed, and the subscription averaged $700.00.In the second drive 11 per cent, of the people subscribed and their average subscription was about $250.00. In the Third Liberty Loan 20 per cent, of the people subscribed an average subscription l of about $200.00, and with that Jasper county oversubscribed and stood as the banner count yof the state with a total subscription of some 270 per cent, of her quota. Mrs. Judson J. Hunt, chairman of the Woman’s committee of the county, said that they had their organization perfected and were ready to start off in good shape. She believes that the conscience campaign should be emphasired. At the close of Mrs- Hunt’s remarks Chairman Chapman complimented Mrs. Hunt and the women very highly for the splendid work they did in the last campaign. B. F.. Fendig, director of sales, was very enthusiastic, and hopes to have Jasper county go over the top in the first three days. He urged that an organization meeting be held Friday night and that the drive start in real earnest Saturday morning. Mr. Fendig -is also county fuel administrator and he informed the meeting that the campaign could be carried on Sunday and that automobiles could be used for the purpose of soliciting for the Fourth Liberty Loan. Those who

use their fiars for this purpose Sunday are asked to not use them some day through the week, as the need to conserve gasoline is very urgent. Mr. Fendig indicated that if. it were necessary conscription would be used, for he said Jasper county must meet her full quota. Charles M. Sands, of the publicity committee, said he would have the assistance of the Boy Scouts in distributing the posters and other literature and that he had plans made by which there was to be much publicity in the newspapers of the county. He said that besides the airplanes and the Jackies’ Band, we were to have the War Exhibit train also. The date for this has not been announced.

In closing Mr. Chapman read the poem which must appeal to everyone, and it will be dearer to us aH for many of us will have loved ones who have given their lives on Flander’s field. We give the poem here and urge that it be committed: IN FLANDERS’ FIELD. In Flanders field the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely, singing, fly, Scarce heard amidst the guns below. We are dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe. To you from falling hands we throw The torch;—be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. »

HAVE IT IN FOR THE KAISER

MEN FROM HATTIESBURG, KEEN FOR ACTION, . REACH. CAMP MILLS, N. Y. Camp Mills, N. Y., Sept. 23.—Another big dent is certain to be punched into the German line immediately after thir fighting-mad division of tra ned soldiers from Hattiesburg, including 5,500 enlisted men and officers from .Indiana, reaches the battle front. This division is fighting mad because, for some unexplainable reason, more than a year of this war has passed without it being given a chance at the Huns. Just why it took so long for this division to get away from that Mississippi camp may never be known, but for want of better explanation some of the soldiers have decided that the Kaiser himself shall be hefid responsible and they propose to wreak vengeance on him—to give the devil hisMues —when once they do go into battle. But this Thirty-, eighth Division, if one may judge by its fighting spirit, will fight hard enough when it does get into the great fray to soon make up for that lost year and then some. To mingle With these 27,000 men, feel their spirit and know the grim determination which possesses them as they are about to enter on the great adventure, gives one renewed confidence that this war can end only with America victorious. These men are trained to the minute, they know why America is in the war, they believe in the cause and they are prepared to make any sacrifice required to gain victory. They want the war fought to a finish. They would spurn a compromise.

President Wilson’s recent curt note to Austria in which a few choice words he spurned the Huns suggestion for a peace chat at an unbinding conference was a correct in.terpertation of the soldiers’ feelings on the subject, and President Wilson, with none other than Mrs. Wilson as the messenger, has learned, too, of this division’s strong approval of his stand. Capt. Cleon W. Mount of Tipton, Ind., a company commander of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, was among the Indiana officers permitted to meet Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. * / Mrs. Wilson was in the group of Red Cross canteen workers who met an Indiana troop train when it paused at Washington a few days ago enroute from Hattiesburg to this camp. Capt. Mount seized the opportunity to send direct word to the President th St the Austrian note deserved no other answer than the curt note he gave. “I’ve never voted . for President Wilson and we don’t agree politically, but I wish you would tell him for me and for the other soldiers of this division,” said Capt. Mount |o Mrs. Wilson, “that we all like the way he told the Kaiser to politely go to hades.” Mrs. Wilson smilingly told the Indiana ofiicer that she liked his spirit and that she would be delighted to carry his message to her presidential husband.

This division has been full of spirit and on its toes since it got away from lattiesburg. Before moving orders idd come the men had worked with drooped-spirits because they despaired of getting across but now every man is full of pep and keen for what is ahead. - No intimation, of course, is ever given of the time of departure, but the parents of men will know when several days have passed without letters being received from this camp. The camp is generous with passes and the soldiers are swarming to New York to see the sights of the world’s biggest city. Broadway is new to most of the men, but it is no

less fascinating than to those accustomed to the great white wr.y. After being in Mississippi pine? for a year one may understand the eagerness of these men to seek a bit of recreation in the great city. The theatres have been the special attraction for the soldiers. The soldiers are full of praise for the treatment accorded them in the city. The big hotels give soldiers discounts on their balls, some of the theatres knock off a certain per cent on tickets and citizens in general give them the glad hand. Their treatment here is in striking contrast with that at Hattiesburg, where, they say, everybody was trying to get rich by boosting prices. Colonel George H. Healey, of Rensselaer, Ind., commander of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, is entertaining his daughter, Miss Vera Healey, who came up from Washington, where she is a war worker, to see her soldier father before he goes. Captain Arthur Tuteur, of Rensselaer, who is now Stationed at Washington in the military intelligence ser-

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HOW A PENNILESS TRAMP BOUGHT A LIBERTY BOND

Once upon a time a Hobo was meandering into a town when a Liberty Bond drive was on. He passed leisurely along the strdet until Ms gaze met a big poster in a store window. The picture was that of the infamous M Hun” giving the death strangle to the woman of liberty and it aroused in his bosom a patriotic fervor. His innermost conscience told him that his was a life of liberty perverted, an abuse of the principle of liberty without giving in return the least contribution to the government that gave him protection. His head dropped in meditation, and looking down at his feet he discovered a piece of paper currency, a five dollar bill. Wit ha feeling of delight he crossed the street to the nearest bank and asked the cashier for a Liberty Bond application blank. He read the terms of payment, filled out the blank and after pinning the five dollars to it shoved it through the cashier’s window apd hastily left the building. In the rush of business the application was thrown in a pile with hundreds of other applications for bonds, some calling for half the amount, and others running to ten times the amount and paid in full. These papers were sorted and re-sorted, and finally the day of final and last payment arrived. The cashier was checking over the amounts and giving out the Liberty Bonds to the purchasers as they came in, and as the day neared the close only a few applications remained unredeemed. The names were all familiar to the banker except one; it was signed “Weary Willie, No. P. 0., No Address.” The banker then remembered the visit of the uncouth looking stranger, and it the ndawned upon him that he was only a tramp. “But this application must be kept good,” says he. “The amount has been sold and the government expects the money.” Who wants a SIOO Liberty Bond for $95,” he asked, and there were a half dozen regular patrons of the bank rushed for the window at the same time. The moral of this story is: If you dan finish a Liberty Bond, start it. —Contributed.

TO SERVE THE COLORS.

All accounts owing THE MAIN GARAGE must be settled by Friday, Sept. 27, as I leave on the 28th for the training camp. This is a necessary patriotic duty for you to settle up so that a soldier’s attention may ,e undivided with his country. Please attend to this matter at once. I also wish to thank all of you for all past considerations and ask your kind indulgence until such a time as I may return. And remember not to grant peace until he and his whose fault this is are driven to “Unconditional Surrender.” N. C. SHAFER. Floyd Meyers has landed safely in France. A card to that effect was received a few days ago. ’’

vice, spent the week-end at Camp Mills, visiting his comrades of the Mexican border service. In the border service he was a battalion adjutant of the old Third Indiana Infantry, now converted into artillery. Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, spent a few hours at camp hunting up different Indiana friends, both among the officers and enlisted men. From the beginning Mr. Hays has urged a vigorous prosecution of the war and, after coming in contact with this division, he feels sure the Huns’ finish is in sight.

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