Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

No. 242. !

Buy 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. Z •■■■■ ' ' ■ ' W. J. WRIGHT »■ * \

UNLOADING We gre unloading a car of fine, white, sand grown potatoes thit week at $1.50 per bushel. , I ——— ,;. s W. R. LEE

TUESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

William Ward had his tonsils removed today. Walter McConnell was able to leave the hospital today. David Wheat, who was working on the dredge, received a head injury arid was brought to the hospital. , Grace Clark, daughter of Jim Clark, underwent a minor operation yesterday. Miss Julia Thornton is improving. The following people are in the hospital with the Spanish influenza: Gorden Myers, Charles Mansfield, David Smith, Mrs. Edgar Day and daughter, Virginia, Albert Teach, Mrs. John R. Lewis, Russell Lewis, Miss Mae Warne.

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.

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RYAN REPORTS GILLAM OVER.

John P. Ryan was down from Gillam township today to see his son, Edward Ryan, off for war service. Mr. Ryan does not only lose his son but also his hired man, Frank Bell, who has also been called to the service. The loss of this help will very seriously cripple Mr. Ryan in the handling of his large stock farm as it seems almost impossible to get farm help. Mr. Ryan is the Fourth Liberty Loan chairman of Gillam township and reports that they have gtone over •the top by the splendid margin of $1,400.00. Their quota was $15,000 and their subscription amount to $16,400.00. , , Through Mr. Ryan we also learn of the death of another of our Jasper county soldier boy. George Fritz, son of Mrs. Trace Fritz, of Walker township, having died at Camp Taylor with the influenza.

THAT bad back.

Do you have a dull, steady ache in the small of the back —sharp, stabbing twinges when stooping or lifting—distressing urinary disorders! For bad back and weakened kidrieys Rensselaer residents recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. . Read this Rensselaer statement. ' Joseph Smith, retired farmer, Van Rensselaer St., says, “I had weak kidneys for years. My back became stiff and sore and I have had to get up and down very carefully, because of the pain. My kidneys have often failed to act right and the secretions have been scanty and. scalding in passage. I have felt weak anq, tired. Doan’s Kidneys Pills have always given me great relief.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don t simply ask for a'Jridney remedyget Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Smith had. FSster-Milbum Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y;

The best in the world. , Farmers, bring me your junk. I am a real unk dealer and will give you the highest wholesale prices for small lots of junk. Samuel Karnowsky. Phone W 7. . If any of your stock dies be sure and promptly call A. L. Padgett. Phone 65.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1918.

DAVID ELDER FAMILY STRICKEN

The following note was received from David A. Elder Monday evening: 441 N. Forest St., Indianapolis, October 10, 1018. Mr. Hamilton: — —r _ As we are having our share of bad luck and are among strangers, I feel ’like writing a line to the place I call home. z , . We just got home from Illinois from burying our son, Omer, whan we received a telegram from Salina, Kansas, where Maude lived, informing us that she was dead and that the body would be sent to Indianapolis. Made was married last December and she and her husband were nicely located at Salina, where he had a splendid position.

DAVID A. ELDER.

VISITS AGED MOTHER.

Mrs. J. Budman Fleming left Monday evening for her girlhood home in Utica, Pa. She will visit her aged mother, Mrs. Julia Deeds, who is eighty-seven years of age. Mrs. Fleming is the only, surviving child of her widowed mother. She and her husband, Dr. Fleming, were born and reared near Utica.

BIG HOG SALE.

Amos Alter returned from Forest, Indiana, Monday, where he had attended the big Duroc hog sale of Alter and Bett. These men sold seventy spring pigs, which averaged $69.00 per head, the entire proceeds of the sale amounting to $4,830.00. Five of the pigs were purchased by Jasper county people. Frank Alter bought two, Henry iGowland two and Mark Hoyes one. Besides the three above who made purchases, the following from here attended the sale: Amos Alter, Stephen Brusnahan and Everett Burns.

Ed. Lane, who has been sick with influenza, is able to be up. ~ Ed. Oliver went to Chicago Monday evening. E. J. Gamester returned to Chicago this morning. Guy Peek went to Danville, 111., to spend a part of his furlough with relatives there. Charles Armold and Bert Sheetz, of Remington, went to Chicago Monday evening. Florence Shriner was called to Wheatfield today on account of the sickness of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Noble York and baby, of Terre Haute, came Monday evening for a visit with relatives.

Mabel Burns, who teaches the Center school in Union township, left Monday for her home in Rockfield. Leonard Gourley returned to his home in Gary Tuesday, after a short visit with friends here. Miss Mabel Atwood went to Indianapolis Monday afternoon, and from there will go to her home in Franklin. Mrs Allie Porter came from Valparaiso today to visit Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Porter. Mrs!’M. Carroll returned to Chicago today after a vsiit with friends here.

Dr. Loy Reports that he has seventeen new cases of influenza in the last three days. The Ladies’ Aid of the Christian church will not meet until, further notice, on account of the influenza epidemic. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Millet returned to Kokomo today after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Helmuth at; Mt. Ayr. Dr. English reports that his son, Walter, is improving from his attack of influenza. * Jim Hoyes is also reported to be getting along nicely. Eugene Lang, while plowing at the Charles Paxtoii\ place near town, was thrown against the fence by his team and received severein juries He has been taken to the hospital « ■ G. E. Myers returned to his home at Payne; Ohio, today, after spending a few days with his son, who is in the hospital here. Mrs. Myers will remain with her son. Mrs. George M. Myers returned today from Chicago, after spending a few days with her daughter, Ella, who has had a very severe attack of Spanish influenza. Dr. C. A. Fidler, of Milwaukee, Wis., came yesterday for a very short visit, and left today for a southern camp, where he will be engaged in the medical corps. He 'has the rank of captain. *

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 awiyf or any personal supervision so, xrom Oct. 15, all accounts not paid by cash or note will be cared for by an attoniey. In the meantime my sister will receipt yoor p.ym.nte- Gwm .

NO GERMAN TEACHING IN GRADED SCHOOLS

Indianapolis, Oct. 14.‘ —Teachers in any of the public schools of Indiana who insist upon teaching German in any of the elementary grades will have their licenses revoked upon the ground of incompetency, according to announcement today by Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction. This announcement was made following the receipt of information that German was taught in a grade school in Adams county. Upon being informed of the matter, M. E; Foley, chairman of the state council of defense, wrote a letter to E. S. Christen, superintendent of schools in Adams county, calling his attention to the resolution adopted by the state council against the teaching of German in the grades.

FORMER STARKE AUDITOR IS HELR FOR PERJURY

Lee M. Ransbottom, former auditor of Starke county, was arrested at Hallock, Minn., and taken to Crawfordsville, where he is being held on a charge of perjury. Ransbottom is to have sold ten gravel road bonds to Grace B. Law, of Crawfordsville, on November 15, 1916, for $5,000, which afterwards are said to have proved worthless. Ransbottom had been in Minnesota about two years, and is said to have gone under the name of Leo Randolph. It is alsa said that Ransbottom is wanted by the federal authbrities on a charge of perjury filed in the federal court at Indianapolis, it being alleged that he swindled the Dime Savings bank, of Toledo, Ohio, out of $6,000. The sheriff .also received word that Ransbottom is alleged to have swindled a woman in Starke county out of about $5,000 in the same manner in which he is said to have obtained the money from Mrs Law at Crawfordsville.

NO PROFITEERING ON CORN HUSKING? PRICES ARE SET

Councils of defense and farmers from a nuniber of counties in this section of the state met at Lafayette MoiMay and decided there would be no profiteering on corn husking this fall by setting a price of from six to eight cents per bushel. The minimum will be six and the maximum will be eight cents. The meeting was held in the office of County Agent Otis Crane and was attended by mien from more than a dozen counties. The text of the resolution setting the price follows: . “Resolved, that it be the sense of this meeting that the price for corn husking should not exceed 8 cents per bushel as a maximum depending on conditions as to condition of the corn, equipment and whether or riot board is furnished; and any persons who vary from these limits without consent of the local council of defense are justly deserving of censure.”

A MOST DELIGHTFUL TRIP.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davisson returned here Saturday, October . 12, from a most delightful trip down into Texas and to the Rio Grande river, the international border between the United States and Mexico. The trip was made from here in company with Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Makeever. The party left here Friday, October 4, and were the guests of the Rio Grande Land Company. From Kansas City the company provided a special train of Pullman sleepers, which served as the home for their guests for seven days! The entire party numbered ninety-four. The first stop was made at Galveston, Texas, where al lenjoyed a plunge into the salt water, a pleasant boat ride’ on the Gulf of Mexico, and an elegant fresh fish and oyster dinner. From here the party went to the Rio Grande valley to a most southern point in the United States, where the land is as fertile as that of the Nile valley in Africa. Irrigation furnished moisture when needed and three and four crops a year are raised. Many buy this land, paying as much as S3OO per acre for it, and realizing this amount fronj the crops in a single year. , This is the only place m the world where you can step from a corn field producing from eighty to one hundred bushels per acre into a grove of orange, grape fruit, lemon and fig trees loaded with the most delicious fruit to be found in the tropics. The gulf breezes make the climate very pleasant the whole year. The expense from Chicago was S4O. This included fare, berths and eats. Mr. and Mrs. Makeever were greatly taken up with the country and they purchased a sixty-acre farm adjoining the city of McAllen, Texas. 'Hiey are also very much interested in a half section three miles out from this city, and they will undoubtedly make this, purchase also.

CALLED ON U. S. PETIT JURY.

Among the names drawn to serve on the jury of the November term of the United States District court, was Charles P. Moody, of this city. Judge Anderson ordered that the members convene at 9 a. m. November 11th.

ATTORNEY PARKINSON ENTERS WAR SERVICE

Attorney W. H. Parkinson left Rensselaer Monday afternoon for Raleigh, N. C., where he will enter the officers’ training camp. He will prepare for the tank service.

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TUESDAY’S WEATHER.

Fair and warmer tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy. The temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 a. m. today was, maximum 64 and minimum 40.

OBITUARY.

Frank Madsen was born in Benton county, Indiana, on March 28,1903, and died October 10, 1918. His age was 15 years, six months and 12 days. He was the only child of Anton and Estella Madsen. Always a frail and delicate child, he was not able to enter into the sports and do the work of other boys. This kept him in the home with his parents, and his love for them was very great. They had known for several months that they could not keep Frank with them very long. However, the summons came very suddenly. He had been playing out in the beautiful sunshine just before death came. He leaves to mourn his early departure a loving father and mother, many relatives and friends, to whom he had endeared himself by his gentle and loving ways. The funeral services were conducted at the home in Union township at 9 o’clock Saturday morning by Rev. Fleming, aQ d he was laid to rest in the Fowler cemetery.

“What is life? ‘Tis but a delicate shell, Thrown up by Eternity’s flow, On Time’s banks of quicksand to dwell, And a moment its loveliness show. Gone back to its element grand, Is the billow that brought it on shore. See! Another in washing the strand, And the beautiful shell is no more.”

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.

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 C. B. Mandeville repairs Watches id clocks and sells same at Fair iks.

OFFICIAL TEXT OF WILSON’S REPLY TO GERMANY’S PEACE PROPOSAL

Washington, Oct. 14.—The text of the President’s answer to Germany s peace proffer follows: Sir:— • t “In reply to the communication of the Gsrroan government dated the 12th instant, which you handed me today, I have the honor to request you to transmit the following answer: “The unqualified acceptance by the German government and by a large majority of the reichstag of the terms laid down by the President of the United States on the Sth of January, 1918, and in his subsequent addresses, justifies the President in making a frank and direct statement of has decision with regard to the communications of the German government of the Bth and 12th of October, 1918. It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of “an armistice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advise of the military advisers of the .government of the United States and the allied government*, and the President feels it his duty to say that no arrangements can be accepted by the government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisiactory safeguards and guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the allies in the field. “He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the allied governments. “The President feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the government of the United States nor, he is quite sure, the governments with which the government of the United States is associated as a belligerent will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhumane practices which they still persist in. “At the very same time that the German government approaches the government of the United States with proposals of peace, its submarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea and not the ships alone but the boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are being stripped not only of all they contain, but often of their very inhabitants. “The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation and desolation are being continued which they justly look upon with horror and with burn- - ing hearts. ’ “It is necessary, also, in order that there may be nd posibility of misunderstanding, that the President should very solemnly call the attention of the government of Germany to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German government has now accepted. It is contained in the address of the President delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July last. “It is as follows: “ ‘The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be permanently destr oped, at least its reduction to virtual impotency.’ “The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The President’s words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The President feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter. It is indispensable that the governments associated against German should know beyond a peradyenture with whom they are dealing. “The President will make a separate reply to the royal and imperial government of Austria-Hungary. “Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration; (Signed) ROBERT LANSING. “Mr. Frederick Oederlin, Charge d’affaires, ad interim, in charge of German interests in the * United States.” •

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