Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — Page 1

No. 241,

Buy ■' ' . _ V Linoleum Now Linoleum should be put down before cold weather. We have one role that we will cut to any size for stove patterns. The price on all linoleums will have to advance in a short time. W. J. W R IG H T

• LuSy Ulm went to Shelby Sunday • to Join, Madeline iKellnler, Cecelia Kellner and Carl Wood, who are enjoying an outing on the banks of the Kankakee. Mr. and Mrs. William Woosley, of Walker township, were called to Camp Sherman, Ohio, Saturday, on account. of the very serious illness of their son, Charles, who was reported to j have pneumonia. Mrs. F. Helfrick, of Monon, came; Saturday for a visits with her daugh-! ter, Mrs. J. M. Johrison, who lives on the Mrs. Ida Pierce farm, just south of this city. Mrs. Fannie Cottingham, of Brookston, was in (Rensselaer Saturday. In | the evening she continued to Mo- ( mence, 111., where she expected to visit her son and family. We have just unloaded another car of salt. It noyr takes about three months to get an order filled for a car of salt. Buy your winter salt now. Eger’s Grocery. E. E. Flint, of Pierpont, S. D., arrived here today. Mr. Flint is a bro-ther-in-law of ex-County Treasurer A. A. Fell and was his assistant during Mr. Fell’s term of office. Mrs. William Dexter and son returned totheir 'home in Chicago Saturday, after a visit with her relatives in Carpenter township. Mrs. Dexter’s husband is at the Officers’ Training Camp at Camp Gordon, Ga. Jesse Fox, formerly of this city but now of Compton, 111., was in Rensselaer a short time Sunday. He had been at Brook to attend the funeral of Mrs. Tillman Watson. Jesse is cashier of the bank at Compton. Luther Watson, who‘had attended the funeral Sunday of the wife of his brother, Tillman Watson, returned (Sunday evening to his home at Lebanon. He reports that the rumor that the younger daughter of Tillman Watson had died .Saturday was an error. The girl was still living Sunday evening and seemed to be slightly improved.

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The Evening Republican.

► Miss Ida Millikin returned to Chicago Saturday, where she is making her home with the family 'of President H. R. Kurrie. She was here to assist Mrs. Dr. Beeler, who ‘has been appointed assistant secretary of the Jasper County Red Cross chapter, and is now in charge of the headquarters in this city. James Babcock returned to his home in Parr this morning from Lafayette, where he had been with his son-in-law, Walter English. Walter has had a very severe attack of pneumonia, but seems to be recovering satisfactorily. MACKEY DAIRY. Having purchased the dairy business of John Duvall, I desire to serve his and all other customers who may need milk. Will you please telephone all orders to me and they will receive prompt attention. William H. Mackey. Phone 408. NOTICE To those who want cabbage, I will be out at the patch all week. Cabbage 3c per pound.—J. J. MILLER. Telephone 168. PEONY ROOTS FOR SALE. John Holden . has received three hundred of the finest variety of peony bulbs, which he is offering for sale. They should be taken at once. W. 11. Parkison and son, Lynn, of Lafa>olte, came to Rensselaer today. Mrs'. M. D. Gwin returned from Indianapolis Sunday, where she had been with her husband, Dr. Gwin, who is stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison. She reports that up to .Sunday night there had been thirteen hundred cases of influenza with one hundred seven deaths. , MONDAY’S LOCAL MARKETS. Oats 60c. Corn 80c. Rye $1.45. Wheat $2.11. Cream 57c. Eggs 45c. Hens 20c. Springs 20c. Old roosters 15c.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 19181

DR. SPARLING AND WIFE LEAVE

Dr. S. E. Sparling ,sjid wife left today in their new Maxwell automobile for their home in Demopolis, Ala. This is delightful weather and if it continues the trip should be •U very enjoyable one. z Dr. Sparling is greatly pleased with the South and thinks there are great possibilities for money making and that his part of the country is sure to be occupied by a splendid class of citizens. There has beep, he says, a very great improvement in the last few years and the price of land is advancing very rapidly.

WILL BE BURIED HERE.

<, Leo Warne, son of Mr. and Mfs. Charles Warne, who formerly lived here but now of Enos, Newton county, died at his home Sunday with influenza. \ The funeral will be. held at the grave in Weston cemetery Tuesday, October 15, at 3:00 p. m., and will be in charge of Rev. Downey, of Fair Ohßsl * The deceased was a member of the Modern Woodmen, and was about eighteen years of age.

THREE AIRPLANES VISIT US.

Three airplanes alighted in Amsler field at 11:45 a. m. today. They were from Rantoul, 111., and were on their way to Battle Creek, Mich. The stop here was for the purpose of gettign gasoline. They remained about two hours, during which time a great crowd of people gathered upon the field.

J. J. Montgomery went to Chicago this forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wolfe returned to their home in Chicago Saturday. Mary Hamilton and daughter Marie are spending the day in Chicago. Marguerite Babcock is home from Madison, Wis., the state university there being closed. Hugh Iliff, who has been so sick at the Great Lakes, is reported to be much improved. Elmer Daniels, who is in training at Fort Benjamlin (Harrison, spent Sunday here with his wife and baby. IM ■ ■! >ll - • Mrs. David Burns returned from Brook Sunday evening, where she had visited relatives of her husband. Delos Thompson, who has been suffering with a severe attack of erysipelas, is reported to be improving. Mrs. Chauncey Huntington returned Sunday evening from a week’s visit with her brothers in Chicago. John Garland, who is employed in a lumber yard at Hammond, spent the week-end here with his family. Mrs. L. V. Markin returned to Fair Oaks Saturday, where she is assisting in caring for the sick. A. C. Campbell’ principal of the Fair Oaks schools, was in Rensselaer Saturday. ' Frank Miller, the foreman on one of the Monon sections here, left Saturday evening for Fisher, Arkansas, where he will visit his aged mother.

Don Seheurich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Seheurich, left Saturday for Saginaw, Mich., where he expected to be employed. Paul Beam,,who is a member of the Student Army Training corps at Indiana university, spent Sunday here with his parents and some ONE else. Addison White, whobq home is in Brook, but who is in training at the Great Lakes, spent Sunday here with the family of Herman Messman. Lorine Warren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Warren, spent Saturday and Sunday here. She is the stenographer for an Attica lawyer. C. H. Gray, who had been visiting with S. L. Gray and family, left this morning for his home in Emmetsburg, lowa. Alco Nut is butter’s only rival. Guaranteed as pure and sweet as the finest creamery butter at about onehalf the price. Bowles & Parker. S. A. Royster, the Monon agent at Delphi, spent a short time hereJSunday evening with his brother, George W. Royster. Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Snorf and daughter, Virginia Ann, returned to their home in Chicago Saturday, after a visit here with relatives. Mrs. E. C. English returned Saturday evening from Lafayette, where she had been with the family of her son, Walter English. Why use high priced butter when you can get the same taste and results with Alco Nut Butter at about one-half the price? Rowles & Parker. L‘ The following boys were down from the Great Lakes Sunday: Baul Healy, William May, Nate Welsh and Waldemar Weiss. The Christian church, of this city, has sent seventy cans of fruit to the orphans’ home of that denomination in St. Louis.

JASPER COUNTY OVER THE TOP

OUR QUOTA OF THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN IS SUBSCRIBED. County Chairman James H. Chapman annoupges that the $450,000.00) Jasper county’s quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan, has been subscribed. The following townships have reached their full quota: Barkley, Carpenter, Hanging Grove, Illarion and Newton. It is thought that every township in the county will subscribe its full quota. f ~ Thirty of the counties of the state were reported today to have met their full allotment thus far and pressure is being brought to bear to have all of the ninety-two counties of the state to go over within the next two days.

MONDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

There are ten cases of influenza at the hospital: Walter McConnell, Carl Scheurich, Charles Mansfield, David Smith, Mrs. Edgar Day and boy, Alfred Leach, Mrs. John R. and son, Russell Lewis and the eight-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Porter. AH seem to be getting along nicely. Julia Thornton, who has typhoid fever, is getting along nicely. Mrs. May Warren, the cook, has influenza.

MONDAY WAR SUMMARY.

The German battle line in France continues to bend under the attacks of the entente allies. But nowhere has it been broken. The enemy almost everywhere is in retreat toward new positions. But his retreat is orderly stnd the British, French and Americans are being compelled to fight their way forward slowly. Highly important strategic positions have been wrested from the enemy by the British and French, while on their sector of the front the Americans have further advanced their line on both sides of the Meuse, obtaining the objectives they sought. The British advance, after days of hard fighting, has brought them at last to the gates of Douai, which long has held back the British from closing in upon the great bend in the line which has Lille as its center and which has been considered by the military experts as the keystone to the German defense system throughout Belgium.

On . the south the French have blotted out both LaFere and Laon and the greater portion of the St, Gobain massif standing in the elbow where the line runs eastward toward the Swiss frontier. Here also the Germans for weeks had stood fighting desperately, realizing that a successful advance by their foes would shatter all their military plans in the south and probably compel swifter retirement. By the successes of the British and the French the entire German line from Rheims to the Belgian frontier is made decidedly more unstable, and with the new advances of the French and the Americans in the Champagne and along both sides of the Meuse northward, seemingly the enemy, for a few days at least, will have to hasten his steps eastward and northward to prevent the great converging maneuver from capturing large numbers of prisoners, especially in the pocket, from the region northwest of Rheims to LaFere. Here, however, the enemy, seeing the ultimate fall of Laon, may have used the great network of railways there and successfully withdrawn a majority of his forces toward Mesieres. Along the Aisne in Champagne the French have forced their way across the Aisne at various places and are almost upon the important railway town of Rethel, whence it is only a step to Mesieres, while north of Vouziers they are continuing to battle their way forward toward Sedan. In the bend of the Aisne more hat six localities have been liberated by the French and several thousand civilians freed from bondage. Since the offensive began 21,567 Germans have been made prisoners, and GOO of their guns captured.

NOTICE. All the suits contesting the will of the late Benjamin J. Gifford, are now disposed of, and I am in position to sell land. I have yet unsold several hundred acres of good land located in Jasper and Lake counties, winch I will sell as Executor on reasonable terms, but cannot take any trade. Call at my office or at the office of T. M. Callahan, at Rensselaer, Indiana, for particulors. GEO. H. GIFFORD, Executor. 'ACCOUNTS TO BE PAID. I promised to keep open office for three months so that accounts due could be settled directly. This I have done at considerable expense. But now I will be too far away for any personal supervision so, from Oct. 15, all accounts not paid by cash or note will be eared for by an attorney. In the meantime my sister will receipt your payments. MERLE D. GWIN.

aaV m O, i In the end, why not now? Quite a few men who began “shopping around” for their clothes have given it up as a bad job. They buy their clothes here now. That isn’t because this is the only store that ever has good clothes. It’s because this store always has good clothes. There’s a difference! All Wool Overcoats anef Suits S3O, $35, S4O /

HANGING GROVE.

Miss Leona Snedeker is visiting relatives at Gaston. Miss Ellen Drake visited her sister, Mrs. Rollin Stewart, and family last week. Ross K. Zard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Zard, ,of Mitchell, S. D., is here for an extended visit with Will Zard and other relatives. Mrs. Chas. Jordan and children returned home Saturday after a visit of several days with relatives at Rockville. Mrs. Paul A. Overton and children, of Mendota, 111., are visiting her parents, Mr, and' Mrs. Chas. Reed, and family. Cora Noland, daughter of S. W. Noland, has recovered sufficiently from her recent attack of pneumonia that the nurse was dismissed Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morrison are both improving slowly. Mrs. Davis, who was assisting in caring for Mr. and • Mrs. Morrison, has taken down with the “flu.” Will Woodworth and family have had their turn of influenza and are now out of the danger period. Charles J. and William, of the Charles Erb family, have each had a round of the epidemic. The engine on the C. & W. V. branch of Monon, was derailed while en route to McCoysburg to get two cars of stock. No one was injured in the accident, which was probably caused by a defective switch. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Willits went to Rensselaer Sunday to see their son, Russell, and family, three of the family being quite sick with influenza. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cook were in Lafayette Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stephens returned home a few days ago from a week’s visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Stephens, at Wingatg. Mr. Stephens’ health remains about the same as when he moved from here.

YOUNG MAN DIES IN MILROY

Ernest Clark, son of Mrs. Elsie Clark, died at his home in Milroy township at 7:45 p. m. Friday, October 11. He was about twenty-one ’ years of age. The funeral was held Sunday and interment was in the Milroy cemetery. It is understood that the cause of his death was pneumonia. » '

MONDAY’S WEATHER.

Pair tnoight and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. We are having delightful weather. The temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock this morning was maximum 66 and minimum 34. -

500 DEAD IN FOREST FIRE

WISCONSIN-MINNESOTA HOLOCAUST SWEEPS WHOLE SECTIONS. * • Duluth, Minn., Oct. 13.—With probably 500 persons dead, thousands homeless and without clothing, and with property damage mounting far into millions of dollars, whole sections of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota timberland, tonight are smoldering, fire stricken frees with only the charred ruins of abandonded, depopulated towns to accentuate the general desolation. The bodies of seventy-five victims lie in Duluth morgues Hundreds more along the roads leading to Duluth and Superior lay where they were overtaken by the fire. Twelve thousand homeless and penniless refugees, all in need, more or less, of medical attention are quartered in hospitals, churches, schools, private homes and in the armory here, while doctors and nurses sent from the surrounding communities attend them, and nearly every able-bodied man in the city has been conscripted to fight the flames, which are now reported to be dying away. Reports that the holocaust resulted from the work of enemy agents were circulated here tonight. Definite confirmation was not available, but incendiaries were driven away from a local shipyard when the fires in Duluth and Superior were burning at their height, according to F. J. Longren, fire marshal, and other city and state officials. Reports reaching here by courier told of widespread destruction, but it was evident that in most eases the fury of the flames was spent. Duluth and Superior are in further danger. Virginia is safe and Brainerd was untouched. However, peat bog fires now are said to menace the latter city. Beinidji reported only a small loss. Greatest loss of life and property damage is believed to have occurred in the Cloquest region, where a number of towns have been destroyed and all semi-rural settlements virtually wiped out. A special train of twenty coaches brought 1,500 refugees from Cloquet and Carleton. They confirmed reports that many persons lost their lives in those towns.

MIDNIGHT FIRE.

Fire did considerable damage at chp home of Firman Thompson Sunday night at 11:30 p. m. Mr. Thompson had been smoking n one of the upstairs bed rooms. He had struck a match on the bottom of the sewing machine drawer. He thinks that this must have started a slow fire. He left the room and a few minutes later the room was in a blaze. There was a large amount of clothing on a bed near the sewing machine. The bed and machine were burned but otherwise the damage was slight. Mr. Thompson succeeded in putting the ire out before the fire company arrived.

CONSERVATION OF FUEL.

Court Reporter Frank E. Bell, of the Jasper-Newton circuit court, reports what he considers the most patriotic act he has witnessed for a long time. This patriotic spirit was manifested along the line of conservation of fuel. Early this morning City Treasurer Charles M. Sands was seen to walk up and down Washington street with a scuttle of coal in the act of warming up. Some one is always taking the joy out of life and a fellow suggests that this was mighty hard on the soles of his shoes.

MICHAEL PEREGRINE DIES.

Michael Peregrine, of Barkley township, died at his home Saturday, October 12, at 10:00 a. m. We have received no particulars and will give a more extended notice later. A short funeral service was held at the heme this Monday forenoon, and interment was made in the Lefler cemetery.

NOTICE. Dr. Rose M. Remmek has returned from Chicago and will be in her office every day. Special attention given to examination of eyes and the fitting of glasses.

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