Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — Page 4

Tale of the Two Parties ''•>'* * . ’ • i BALANCE IN STATE TREASURY OCT. 1, 1916, UNDER DEMOCRATS WAS 49j756n44 PRESENT BALANCE IN STATE TREASURY UNDER REPUBLICANS IS s3j7oojl 61 -36 I-•*’> ' . . ■ ii ■ •' .. ' . • . _ • . ■ * ’ f . . .. On October 1,1916, when the Democratic party was in power in Indiana there was a balance in the state treasury of $2,149,756.44 ‘ • ’ • * ,• I f • ..* V,. , ' H‘•it .. .. . \ ' '•f *• ' -•' ..v'‘ " : ■ Since that time, under a Republican State Administration, the state revenue tax levy has been reduced from 7 cents on each SIOO to 4 cents and the total state tax levy has been reduced from 40-1 cents on each SIOO to 39.6 cents. Since that time the nation has entered war and the cost of everything has mounted at an alarming rate. V -A V\ 1 * » * ''V ■ ■ " *, s . ‘ ■ _ ' . _• • • _ * * However, at this time, with a Republican State Administration in control, there is a balance of $3,700,161.36 in Indiana’s treasury and in addition the state has a salable supply of binder twine on hand at the Indiana State Prison that will add $600,000 to this handsome balance. ‘'/' ■ ■ _ . • • i • / If the tax payers of Indiana approve this record and want a continuation of this business administration of th.eir affairs the way to get it is to ♦ ' ' * . Vote the Straight Republican Ticket Indiana Bepnblloan State Committee.

Dry Cleaning And Dyeing Will guarantee to return your clothing looking liko new and free from the odor of gasolene. Orders left up to Tuesday noon returned the same week. V John Werner

LEN. SHALL & SONS, Kokakee, Hfaois. will sell at PUBLIC AUCTION ■t Satll't teiideice 1-2 Nile Wert of StiHon Street Win Imported and American Bred 40 Registered Percheron Horses Consisting of &M their breeding stock, headed by their champion stallion Brilliant. Fifteen brood mares with colts by their side. Yearlings and two-year-old fillies and stalHons, including all of their prise winners. « » . A Rare Chance to Secure a Start in This Grand Breed, of Hones. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER BTH ONE P. M. SHARP. - Catalog on Application -

There was a rime when the girls wore their pantallettes ankle length because they were afraid you might get a glimpse of their stockings. But

When a man tips the waiter a dollar he never asks the waiter what in Sam Hill he did with the dollar he gave him last week. But it is different when he rips his wife a dollar, j

TBB RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INDIANA,

LETTER FROM FORD McCOLLY.

Many rum one have been afloat here as to the inhumanities inflicted upon the body of Ford McColly, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McColly, of WheatfieJd. It has been reported that he was captured by the Germans and that his nose and ears were cut off. Another rumor was to the effect that he had lost a leg. The following letter received from Ford by County School Superintendent Sterrett gives but little light upon the matter: Versailles, France, 1 September 27, 1918. Dear Friend:— I received your most welcome letter today and was sure glad to get it. I am certainly very much obliged to you for your words of encouragement, for they were surely that. But, I cannot see where you think I have more grit than any of the other fellows, because I came over here to protect the country and its people. Surely, the other boys did the same. I am very sorry you had such a hard time getting my address, but you shall not have to work hard to get it any more, because I will keep you informed of my movements if I make any. Ido not think that I will move any more until I come home, because I will be a cripple all of my life and I have been put on a farm near Paris, though lam unable to work. 'lt is a nice place but I hope to be coming home soon. I cannot see why they put my letters 5n the papers, my picture on the screens and a silver star in the flag for me. I hope they stop all of that work before I come back. If they think that much of me in that country it is not safe for me to come back alone. I will 'have to wait until some of the other boys get home to protect me from the crowd and all the girls, for lam only cripple, you know. I had been looking for a letter from you for six or seven months, but never got one/so I thought you had never received my letter. I told you I would write you, and I seldom go back on my promise. I faot, I never did, yet. , . . Well, how are your people by now 7 I am pretty well except by knee troubles me all the time. By the way, I’ll bet you would not know me if you could see me now. lam not the same fellow who went to school to you. You could see the difference if you could see irfe as a soldier. Well, good-bye, I remain as ever, Your kind friend, FORD E. McCOLLY. Garden Service No. 1, A. P. O. 702, American E. F.

John Southard and his grandson, John Benson, were here .today for a short visit with Mr. (Southard's daughter, Miss Belle Southard, who is serving as deputy county treasurer. Young Benson is the son of Frank Benson, auditor of White county.

CHECKS AND BALANCES.

The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, summing up the manner in which the government is now conducted, declares that the south, “which has 30 per cent, of the population, 20 per cent, of the wealth, and pays 10 per cent, of, the federal taxes, runs the whole show.” This was generally known because nearly all of the important congressonal committees are headed by southerners and the bulk of the revenue comes from the north. Whenever these truths are uttered the southerners protest, and likewise some of the n orthernsoutherners, because they insist that the issue of sectionalism should not be raised. With this complaint the whole country can agree. There should be no sectionalism, especially at this time, but some of the present leaders an congress have been looking at national issues in a sectional way because they never learned to look at them in any other way. The * country can not be blamed for commenting if the south continues to claim all the plums. President Wilson has been unable to influence some of the southern leaders because they cling to thedr traditions and beliefs, even in the face of urgent appeals from their party chief who speaks to them as such chief and as chief executive as well. There is a demand in congress for a seres of checks and balances where by the south would be entitled to its just deserts, but whereby it would be relieved of the responsibility of running the whole government. —-Indianapolis News.

OBITUARY.

Martha Goff Overton was born January 20, 1884 in Union township, She wa sthe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Goff. Her mother preceded her in death, having passed to the great beyond early in January of this year. The deceased was married to David Overton October 28, 1912. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Irene, three sisters and four brothers. She died in the hospital in this city Thursday, October 17,1918, after a brief sickness with pneumonia complicated with heart trouble. She was buried n Weston cemetery Saturday, October 19, 1918.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express our sincere thanks to our many friends who so kindly assisted us during the illness and since the death of our beloved 'wife and mother.—David Overton, Irene Ballinger.

Once in a while us ornery brutes get a chance to grin, as when the officials of a Society for the Prevention of Vice are caught doing the things they are supposed to prevent.

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Mrs. T. J. Parker went to Monon today. ■■ m "T Ray Foster went to Indianapolis today on business. Miss Glenn Day returned to Anderson today, where she is teaching. Mrs. G. W. Andrus came from Hammond today to visit Mrs. Clara Andrus. Mrs. Everett Schock, of Englewood, and Miss Flora Parke, of Hammond, came today to attend the funeral of Will Shindler, of Mt. Ayr, which will be held at Weston cemetery Saturday. « Sergeant-Major Joseph Reeve came from Camp Taylor, Ky., today tb attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Maria Hopkins. Miss Gladys Reeve came from Chicago to attend the same funeral.

You can save 5c a pound on lard at Eigelsbach & Son’s if yon buy in 10 pound lots. Mrs. Ralph Maibauer, of Medaryville, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Stella Zea. » # Ernie Zea returned from Medaryvalle Wednesday after a visit with relatives. We have two or form-wheeled trailers from one-half to seven tons * capacity. 0. H. McKay & San. ■' ' John Poole went to Hopkins Park, HI., today to look after matters on hs large farm near that place. Vernon Harrington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrington, of Union township, is substituting for Harry B. Murray op rural rotate Mo. 2 out of here. I * * N