Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — Page 1

No. 251.

... • • Buy Linoleum Now Linoleum should be put down before cold weather. We hare 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. WRIGHT

BRAKEMAN LOSES LIFE

MONON TRAINMAN MET DEATH UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES. Earl Hough, of Mono®, a brakeman on the local freight which left here Thursday evening about o:30 o’clock for Monon, was found dead this morning about 7 o’clock on the railroad track about half way between Pleasant Ridge and McCoysburg. Conductor Fred Ball reports that when they left Pleasant Ridge Thursday evening that Hough was standing on the platform on the reaT of the caboose. Ball had closed the swatch as they were leaving Pleasant Ridge. This is the last he saw of Hough. Hough’s absence was not noticed until Friday morning when the call was made at his home for him to take ns run back to Hammond today. As *e had not returned to his home a Boeder was at once sent north from onon and the body was found beween the rails at the point indicated tbove. _ The remarkable thing about the accident is that seven trains must save passed over the dead brakeman s >ody. The bSdy was badly bruised md mashed, but no members were levered. (When found this morning the body teemed dightly warm, indicating that he unfortunate man had not died intil sometime in the early morning. The deceased waS thirty-six years >f age and leaves an invalid wife. He iad been in the employ of the com»any for sometime and was in line sor conductor. He had made a num>er of trips as a supply in that capacity.

SUGGESTION FOR TIRED BUSINESS MEN

I Drop into the Princess Lunch for ■nilk and cfeam from the pure-bred Bierd of the Riveredge Dairy.

The Evening Republican.

Princess Lunch (Old College Inn) OYSTERS Served any style and for sale in balk REGULAR DINNERS Every Day Short Orders Home Made Pies ~u_. Wo serve pure, bred Jersey milk and cream from the River Edge Dairy Herd and Harris Creamery Butter. Our silverwear and dishes are sterilized.

PARENTS RECEIVED LETTER FROM PAUL DONNELLY

September 26, 1918. Dead Daddy and Mamma:— I wrote you a few letters since I have been in the hospital, but I imagine you like to hear from me every once in a while. T am feeling fine aifd up and around now. I think I will be out of the hospital in about a week or so,,and be back with my outfit. How is everybody in old Rensselaer? Give them all my best regards as it is impossible for me to write to each one in particular. Things look very favorable for the boys to come back to the .States within a short time, that is in a year or so, but not for a year, I hardly think. We are going to have a nice Kttle entertainment here at the hospital this evening. I am going to have my picture taken and send it home but never get around to it, but I will in time, I think. How is Murse? Give him my best and tell him to hang around the sets patch close, because I think when I get home I’ll be as good a sticker as ihe. I have seen about my share of this old world. Maybe when I get back I’ll be ready to take my stand in one place. I have not heard from you since July, but I feel sure you have written to me. I suppose I 'have not received my mail on account of traveling around to so many different places. I have seen a big part of France, but it is not like the States, far from it. We are having nice weather here now, outside of an occasional rain. I suppose all of the boys are cleared out of the locality now, are they not? Has Lewis Trussell gone yet? Where is Gporge A. Donnelly. Well, we have a little spat over here on the front once in-a while but it will be over soon. I’ll close with love and regards to all. I am, as ever, PVT. PAUL C. DONNELLY. Hdqrs. Co. 62, Ammunition Train. C. A. C., American E. F.

FRIDAY’S WEATHER. Fair and cooler tonight with killing frost; Saturday partly cloudy. Probably rain in extreme south portion. Temperature for twenty-four hours ending ait 7 a. m. today was maximum 60, and minimum 48.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA; FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, I*lß.

LODGE AGAINST ANY DISCUSSION

•A 1 1 1 ■" REPUBLICAN LEADER COMMENTS ON WILSON ' REPLY. Washington, October 24.—-Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, Republican leader in the senate, commenting on President Wilson’s reply to Germany, disapproved the President’s course in continuing the discussions with the German government and in transmitting the request for an armistice and peace to the allied governments. “The President,” said Senator Lodge, “says in his last sentence that if we must deal with 'the military masters and autocrats of Germany, we must demand not peace negotiations, but surrender. “With this I am in full accord, as I was with the President’s statement of September 27. In the first paragraph the President says that as the present government, which, as all the world knows, is controlled by the kaiser and the military party, represents through its ministers the majority,of the reiehstag and an overwhelming majority of the German people, he feels that he can not decline to take up with the allied governments the question of an armistice. “With this I am not in accord, for the German government described in the first paragraph and that described in the last sentence are one and the same. ,J My own view is a very simple one. There is no 'German government in existence with which I would discuss anything. I deplore at this stage, when we are advancing steadily to a complete victory, any discussion or exchange of notes with the German government. The only thing now is to demand unconditional surrender. I would leave that to Marshal Foch and the- generals of the armies; When they report that the German army ihas surrendered and ceased to exist as an army in being, then, and not until then, let the allies and the United States meet and agree what terms they will impose on Germany to insure the safety of civilization and mankind.”

WILD RUMORS CARELESSLY STARTED

A number of times we have been informed while upon the street of a supposed death. Just before we went to press we were told by a party that a certain soldier boy was dead at Camp Taylor, the party saying ■that he bad just been informed by a close relatives of the soldier. An investigation proved that there was no foundation whatever for the rumor. Other embarrassing rumors have been started in the city and people who have not been even slightly sick have been reported dead. Some one must be responsible for these reports. Care should be taken in giving out such distressing as well as false information.

FRIDAY WAR SUMMARY.

. i» Important gains in vital sectors of the battle line in France during ifche 'last twenty-four hours forecast quick retirement of the Germans, probably to the Antwerp-Meuse line. That the Germans are hard pressed is evidenced by the fact that they“>rfe launching violent counter attacks in northern Belgium. The Brtish and Americans, an addition to pocketing Valenciennes, have extended the length of the line under attack and have again advanced from two to three miles, taking 7,000 prisoners and more than 100 guns. The whole Escaillon River line was taken and more than a dozen towns and villages were liberated. To the right the western edge of the Mormal forest which protects Meubeuge has been reached. Meanwhile the French on the Oise and between the Oise and the Serre have made important advances. The Oise canal has been crossed near Longchamps. In the Argonne-Meuse sector, General Pershing’s Americans continue their methodical advance both east and west of the Meuse. All these actions indicate that the lines the Germans are holding at present are being broken to pieces and that a quick and wide retreat soon will be necessary. Meanwhile Rome reports the capture of large numbers of prisoners in attacks on the Italan front, indicating that Marshal Foch may believe the time ripe for launching the long expected offensive against Austria.

Mr. and Mrs. WiiKajn Gratner have received a telegram from relatives at Comiskey, Ind., telling of the serious illness of their son, Floyd Gratner, and wife. Mrs. Gratner is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Bare. A letter was received frqm Private George Gratner at Camp Taylor today, in which he says he is improving slowly. We don’t know much. ' But we do know that the fellow who christened them the weaker sex was never married. , u For quiek results advertise in t. . Republics* classified eohmp .

ROOSEVELT HAS OPPOSING VIEWS

WOULD DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER—I 4 PRINCIPLES “MISCHIEVIOUS.” Washington, Oct. 24.—Theodore Roosevelt sent duplicate telegrams tonight to United States Senators Lodge, Poindexter and Johnson, in which he characterized as “thoroughly miscEievious” the fourteen principles enunciated by President Wilson if they are to be made the basis of peace. The telegrams follow: “As an American citizen, I most earnestly hope that the senate oftthe United States, which is part of The treaty making power of the United States, will 'take affirmative action against a negotiated peace with Germany and in favor of a peace based on the unconditional surrender of Germany. - “I also declare against the adoption in their entirety of the fourteen points of- the President’s address of last January as offering a basis for a peace satisfactory to the United States.

“Let us dictate peace by the hammering guns and not Chat about peace to the accompaniment of the clicking of 'typewriters. “The language of the fourteen points and these subsequent statements explaining or qualifying them is neither straightforward nor plain, but if construed in its probable sense many, and possibly most, of these fourteen points are thoroughly mlschievious, and if made the basis of a peace such peace would represent not the unconditional surrender of Germany, but the conditional surrender of the United 'States. Naturally they are entirely satisfactory to Germany and equally naturally they are in this country satisfactory to every pro-German and pacifist and socialist and anti-American, so-called internationalist.

“The only peace offer Which we should consider from Germany at this time is an offer to accept such terms as the allies, without our aid, have Imposed on Bulgaria. We ought to declare war on Turkey without an hour’s, delay. The failure to do so hitherto has caused the talk about making the world’ safe for democracy to look unpleasantly like mere insincere rhetoric. While the Turk is left in Europe and permitted to tyrannize over tbfe subject people the world is thoroughly unsafe for democracy. “Moreover we should find out what the President means by continually referring to this country merely as the associate instead of the ally of the nations with whose troops our own troops are actually brigaded in battle. If be means that we are something less than an ally of France, England, Italy, Belgium and Serbia, then he means that we are something less than an enemy of Germany and Austria. We ought to make it dear to the world that we are neither an untrustworthy friend nor an irresolute foe. Let us clearly show 'that we do not desire to pose as the umpire between our faithful and loyal friends and our treacherous and brutal enemies, but that we are the staunch ally of our friends and the 3taunch foe of our eneirifGs. “When the German people repudiate the Hohenzollerhs, then and not until then will it be time to discriminate between them and their masters. I hope the senate and the house will pass some resolution demanding the unconditional surrender of Germany as our war aim and stating that our peace terms have never yet been formulated or accepted by our people, and that they will be fully discussed wibh our allies and made fully satisfactory to our own people before they are discussed with Germany.”

HAS THREE GRANDSONS IN THE SERVICE

Uncle Isaac Walker was in this office today. It is always very interesting to talk to one of our pioneers, and many interesting events in the history of the county can be obtained from them. The children of these pioneers should put in permanent form before it is too late much of Jasper county’s history. Mr. Walker came to this county in 1852 from Johnson county. - He will be four score years of age rs he lives until his next birthday, which is January 1, 1919. For a man eighty years of age Mr. Walker is very active. He does most of the work on his hundred acre farm. Three of his grandsons are in the army making the fight for democracy. They are Her and Ray Walker and John Groom.

FUNERAL OF MRS. JOHN CALEB BAKER SATURDAY

The funeral of Mrs. John Caleb Baker will be held at Weston cemetery Saturday forenoon, the funeral party ftlgjrving the late home in Mt. Ayr at 10:00 a. m. Mrs. Baker died of pneumonia complicated with other conditions, Thursday, October 24, at about 10:00 4- m. The deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Gish, of Milroy township. She leaves a large family of children, one a baby but a week old.

Miss Edith Woods returned to her home at Martinsville today after a visit with Sanford Foster and family.

We Come Back. When a customer come* in and say* “I want another overcoat about like the last one you sold me,*’ we always feel certain that he has received complete satisfaction. That is but one reason why so many men buy overcoats at this store. All Wool Overcoats S3O to $45 Showers and Cooler.

1516 CASES OF THE “FLU” IN WHITE COUNTY

Monti cello Herald: The influenza epidemic which has been raging in this county has almost become a plague. In -many cases entire families have been victims of the disease and assistance has been necessary from outside sources. Numerous deaths have resulted from the disease and in two families in Monti cello two members have succumbed to the contagion wjthin a few hours. Lieut. E. C. Helwig, assistant surgeon of the United State PubMc Health Service, has closed White county until midnight of. October 30, by direction of the United States Public Health Service and the Indiana State Board of Health. Every precaution must be taken. Prior to Wednesday morning the total number of cases in White county, which have been reported to Dr. H. W. Greist, acting county health commissioner, had reached 1516. Of this number 593 cases were reported from Monticello.

OBITUARY OF HERBERT L. ZEA.

Herbert Leon Zea, second son of Mrs. Lyman Zea, was born in Rensselaer, Indiana, April 2, 1879. He left home eight years ago and has since resided in Hammond, _ Indiana. He was united in marriage with Mrs. Anna Plummer December 24 1913. When a boy of about sixteen years of age he united with the Christian church. He passed into the eternal world October 23, 1918, at St. Margaret’s hospital, succumbing to the malady of Spanish influenza. The deceased is survived by his wife, his mother, three brothers, Chester, of Hammond, Ernest E., of Rensselaer, and George D., of Hammond; one sister, Mrs. Ralph Maibauer, of Medaryville, and many friends.

HAS A RIGHT TO SMILE.

Samuel Kamowsky is all smiles today. He has just returned from Chicago where his wife presented him with a fine big boy on Wednesday, October 23. Sam says he is a dandy and he thinks that his family of two boys and one girl is just about, as good as can be found anywhere.

HAS TIME TO PRAY

YANK SOLDIER WITNESSED ALLIED COMMANDER AT DEVOTIONS ON BATTLE FIELDA California boy—Evans by Hama —with the American forces in France, has recently written a letter to hi* parents at San Bernardino, in which he tells of meeting General Foch at close range, says the Los Angeles, Cal., Times. Evans had gone into an old church to have a look at it and as he stood there with bared head to satisfy hie respectful curiosity, a gray haired man, with the eagles of a general on the collar of his shabby uniform, also entered the church. 'Only one orderly accompanied the quiet gray man. No glittering staff of officers, no entourage of gold laced aids were with him; nobody but just the orderly. Evans paid small attention at first to the gray man,!but was curious to see him kneel in the church, praying. The minutes passed until full threequarters of aU hour had gone by before the gray haired man arose from his knees. Then Evans followed him down the street and was surprised to see soldiers salute tins man in great excitement, and women and children stopping in their tracks with awe struck faces as he passed. It was Foch. And now Evans, of San Bernardino, counts the experience as the greatest in has life. During that three-quarters of an hour that the generalissimo of all the allied armies was on Us knees Id humble supplication in that quiet church ten thousand guns were roaring at his word on a hundred hills that rocked with death. Millions of men crouched in the trenches or rushed across Moodstained earth at his command. Generals and field marshals, artillery, cavalry, engineers, tanks, fought and wrought across the map of Europe absolutely as he commanded them, and in no other manner, as he went into that little church to pray. Nor was it an unusual thing for General Foch to do. There is no day that he does not do the same tiling if there be a church that he can reach. He never fails to spend an hour on his knees every morning that he awakes from sleep, and every night it 5e the same. Moreover, it is not a new thing with him. He has done it all his life.

EXTRA BAN BEYOND SATURDAY MIDNIGHT

Indianapolis, Oct. 24.—-In view of the tontnued virulence of the influenza epidemic in Indiana, the statewide ban on all public gatherings will be extended beyond Saturday midnight. 5 Dr. J. iN. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, anonunced this evening that no other alternative remained. The new date for the tenninaton of the closing order wffi be decided upon at a meeting of the health board tomorrow. Unlees some phase develops, the ban will be extended until midnight, November 2.

FRIDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Mrs. Lawrence Sheetz was able to go home today. Leon Lewis was able to go home today. sfrs. John R. Lews is improving. Mrs. James Parkbon’s condition is not serious.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express our sincere thanks to our neighbors end friends for their kindness shown us during the death of our son and brother,— Mrs.''Stella D. Zea end Children.

PAY DR. WASHBURN.

All persons Indebted to me ere hereby notified that all accounts have been left at the First National Bank of Rensselaer, and you are requested to call at once |utd make/settlement

Dr. I. M. Washburn.

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