Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1918 — Page 1

No. 284.

PICTURE FRAMING • • ■ - ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■■■■■■.. ‘ ' ■ r ‘ "—— | -f ■ ” " " . > " . .. . We always make a great many picture frames for Xmas presents. We would suggest that you bring your pictures in early this year. Don’t wait until the . last few days before Xmas. W. J. WRIGHT

FLU MORE DEADLY THAN WAR; 300,000 DEAD IN U. S. A.

Washington, Dec. 4.—The record of “flu” ravages in the United States this fall is appalling. Since Sept. 16 the deaths from influenza and pneumonia in this country are probably four tunes as many as the total of our soldiers killed in the great war. Between 300,000 and 360,000 deaths from influenza and pneumonia have occurred among the civilian population of the United States .in eighty days, according tp estimates today of the public health service. These calculations were based on reports from cities and states keeping accurate records, and public health officials believe they are conservative. The epidemic stall persists, but deaths are much less numerous, according to reports reaching here. A recrudesence of the disease now is occurring in many communities, but this is believed to be sporadic and not to indicate a general renewal of severe epidemic conditions. Insurance companies have been hard hit by the epidemic, government reports indicate. The government incurred liabilities of more than <170,000,000 in connection with life insurance carried by soldiers in army camps, not including those in Europe. About 20,000 deaths occurred in the camps in the United States, war department records show.

BULLETIN.

Washington, Dec. 4.—The American government has neither been approached nor has it expressed any opinion on the subject of extraditing and punishing William Hohenzoilern, former German kaiser. It is understood the allied premiers will request President Wilson’s views on the proposed punishment of the personages in enemy countries, but it is also understood that President Wilson will remain noncommittal. However, that is expected to be one of the subjects he will consider in Paris. One report is that the President will advise against the extradition. - London’s metropolitan area contains a million houses.

PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT Goldwyn Picture* > / ' MADGE KENNEDY XXvX I* “NEARLY MARRIED” 6 Act* > "ts ■ ' FRIDAY— ■ ; "FATTY” ARBUCKLE I* “MOONSHINE” Thing of it—the nation going dry and "Fatty*' Arbuckle b a moonshin- - X / He ’* ***• funniest guy on earth. Don't mb* thi* joy picture. With thb we have ENID BENNETT . ’ r THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH x " In 5 Acts—7 Act* in All. No Advance in Price. -«• 1 - ■ - - - SATURDAYDOUGLAS FAIRBANKS •SAY YOUNG FELLOW” princess Lunch ™ ESH OYSTE “ FINE REGULAR D ‘ NNERS

The Evening Republican.

Billy Fry was a Chicago goer today. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Sanders went to Monon today for a visit. s . Hiram H. Potter was in Lafayette Wednesday., Miss Prances Schmidt went to Chicago Wednesday to visit a week with her sister. Miss Jane Makeever, of near Mt. ’Ayr, went to Valparaiso today to visit friends. ' Try a ten-cent can of our pure Apple Butter or Apple Sause. Eger’s Grocery. Mrs/Josephine Ward returned to Lafayette today after visiting relatives here. ■ •. . . m num nan i n« ■ hihn-' ’-'V'.'*' Gus Yeoman and Miss Lucy Yeoman went to Chicago today to attend the stock show. W. J. Wright has returned from Mudlavia Springs, where he had 'been "taking ‘for rheumatism If your stocx diec can me at my expense and I will call for it promptly. A. L. Padgett Phone 66. Wallace Miller returned to Vancouver Baracks Wednesday, after spending a fifteen-day furlough with t relatives. i i ii ■ i mi V With butter up to 68c a pound, save money by using our good Butterine and Nut Butter at 86c a pound. Eger’s Grocery. A daughter was born today to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spangle. The father is in France and Mrs. Spangle is living with "her mother in Hammond. Willard and Marshall' Pruett and Mrs. Earl Clinton returned to their homes at Roselawn Wednesday after ' attending the funeral of Mrs. Sarah ’ Pruett at Rockville. Mrs. Joe Long received word that her daughter, Bernice, was very sick at Lafayette, where she is gbing to school, and Mrs. Long went there to-, 1 day to be with. her. ' ' < (

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1818.

GLASS LIKELY TO SUCCEED M’ADOO

CONGRESSMAN SAID TO BE RELUCTANT TO QUIT THE HOUSE. J 1 .1 II I b'*-'-. • ’ -<V Washington. Dec. 4.—Representative Carter Glass, of Virginia, chairman of the house hanking and currency committee, is understood to have been offered the post of secretary of the treasury by President Wilson and his nomination is expected to go to the senate immediately if he decides to accept. MembersJof the house said today that Mr. Glass’ reluctance to surrender the mat in congress to which -he has just been re-elected after eighteen y&rs of service, was the only consideration holding up the appointment ■’ Mr. Glass himself would not talk further than to aay that he was not rbady to make any statement. ''' The understanding both at the Capitol and in official circles generallyjs that President Wilson had the nomination prepared last night after a conference! with Mr. Glass. If Mr. Glass accepts, it will go in, possibly after Secretary Tumulty communicates bywireless with the President aboard tH transport George Washington on his way to France. Secretary McAdoo’s resignation as head of the treasury is to take effect upon the appointment of his successor. He continues as director general of railroads until Jan. 1 or until a successor Is named. The indications now are that a new director general will not be named immediately.

GERMAN EMPIRE AS IT WAS

The German empire was created .in 1871, as J a federation of twenty-six previous governments, when the imr perial dignity was vested in the king of Prussia, by the reichstag of the North German federation, on the initiative of all the reigning princes of Germany. .. Prussia had been ruled for generations under the law of primogeniture, and sb the succession, which was automatic and unvarying, carried With it the imperial title. Power to declare defensive war, to make peace and to enter into treaties, was the emperor’s constitiutionai right. There are two legislative bodies, the bundesrat or federal council, representing the individual' states of 'the empire, and the reichstag or diet of the realm, elected by popular ballot.- In the dundearat are sixtyone members, and in the reichstag 387. * ~~ Creation of the empire brought under imperial rule four kingdoms— Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Wurt-temburg—-six grand duchies, five duchies, seven principalities, three free towns and the reichsland of Al-sace-Lorraine. The total area of Germany, in 1914, was 208,780 square miles, and in June, 1914, the population was estimated at 67,812,000. The area and population of the states, based mostly on the general census of 1910, were as follows: Sq. Mi. Pop. Prussia ..7 .... . 134,616 40,166,219 Bavaria 29,292 6,887,291 Saxony 5,789 4,806,661 Wurttemburg ... 7,534 2,437,574 Baden 5,823 2,142,833 Hesse.... 2,966 1,282,051 Meck’g-Schwerin 5,068 639,958 Oldenburg 2,482 483,042 Brunswick 1,418 -494,339' Saxony (G. D.) .. 1,397 417,149 Meck’g-Strelitz . 1,131 106,442 Saxe-Meiningen . 953 278,762 Anhalt 888 331,128 Saxe-Cob’g-Gotha 764 257,177 Saxe-Altenburg . 511 216,128 Lippe 469 150,937 'Waldeck 433 61,707 SchwarZburgRudersheim . . • 363 SchwarzbuTgSonderburg ... 333 89,917 Reuss (Jr.) .... 819 152,752 Sehaum’g-Lippe \ 131 46,652 Reuss (Sr.) .... 122 72,769 Hamburg 160 1,014,664 Lubeck 115 116,599 Bremen 99 299,526 Alsace-Lorraine . x 5,604 1.874,014

WILL OBSERVE CLUB ANNIVERSARY • > The Ladies’ Literary Club wall meet Friday afternoon, Dec. 6th, at the home of Mrs. Oren F. Parker. This meeting will be an observance of the forty-first anniversary of the club, and a special program will be given. THURSDAY HOSPITAL NOTES. Tonight is the regular monthly meeting of the hospital trustees. ■' The elder Colvin, who was injured in the Thanksgiving auto accident, is improving slowly. The younger Colvin, injured in this mishap, was able to be up town this afternoon. Samuel Baxter, of Remington, entered the hospital Wednesday. His condition is critical. > Mrs. J. C. Gwin and Mrs. Russell Fisher, Miss Jean Jones and Floyd Gratner are improving, X Mirs. Price and Mrs. Alva Potts the quite sick. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hartman is in a critical condition. v -.' Mrs. David Davidson, of Wolcott, is improving.

ia Give Only Se n sible >G i f t s To “Him” This Year! Thats The Kind “He” Likes Best Anyhow! HILLIARD HAMILL

LETTER FROM HARVEY PHILLIPS

U. S. Naval Air Station, L’aber Wrach, France, •November 17, 1918. Dear Mother and AM: — We are enjoying the best of weather since peace was declared. Hasn’t rained since, but it has been cold. Just nice, snappy weather. It’s rather cool riding all day, but it beats rain seven ways. 4 Don’t know when we will be sent home, but expect to leave here about the first of next month. The station will be turned over to the French. I suppose there was one grand time when news of peace reached Ithej States. All work was knocked off and general liberty was granted. AM the church bells rang for two or three days. . In B they had a big time for two days. Bands played and everything lighted at night. They fired the national salute of twenty-one guns to start the whole Show. There is a slight possibility of all the aviation stations being closed and all the sailors in the aviation being returned home before Xmas. At the latest it will be February. We can get no furloughs, so I suppose I will not get to see Paris. We had a big dinner today, baked chicken, celery, baked sweet potatoes, green peas, gravy, apricot pie, bread, butter and coffee. How is that for a war-time feed? Had oranges for breakfast and apples for supper, so all ih all it 'has been a fine day. I suppose most all the work is about done at home. Give my best regards to everyone. Love to ail. Your son,

The compensation of the President, of the United States is fixed by congress, and may not be increased or diminished during the, existing presidential term; that is, any increases or reductions of the salary or endowments of the office can only take effect at the next term. The original salary of the office was $25,000 a year, increased in 1872 to $50,000, and in 1909 to $75,000. 'i-'.

In 1707, .on the union with Scotland, Great Britain became the official name of the British kingdom, and so constituted until the union with Ireland in 1801. Since January 1, .1801, the official name of the kingdom, including England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and the neighboring smaller islands, is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. - Any legislative or lawmaking body may be called a congress or parliament, but different countries have different names. France has a national assembly, with two houses called senate and chamber of deputies; Germany has an upper and lowe rhouse, bundesrath and reichstag; Belgium has senate and chamber of representatives; Spain has a cortes with two houses, senate and congress; Denmark has a rigsdag with upper house called landthing and* lower house folkething; Italy a parliament with senate and camera di deputed, or chamber of deputies; Sweden a diet, with first chamber and second chamber. All the South American Republics, being modeled after the government of the States, have a congress composedof two bodies, senate and chamber of deputies. . Members of the Pennsylvania state industrial board have joined with the federal department of labor in opposing employment of women as street car conductors.

DECEMBER TERM OF COMMISSIONERS' COURT

County Commissioners C. A. Welch, D. S. Makeever and H. W. Marble were present Monday and completed in one day the business of the regular Decern ber term. The following business was tranaacted: BRIDGES. No. 3170—Repairs on Carpenter’s creek. No bids. Cause dropped. All other bridge causes were continued. ROADS. No. 2971—Borntrager stone road. Time-extended until Aug. 1,1919. No. 3014—Gratner stone load. Contractors Johnson and Sahin allowed >496.00. No. 3125—Kosta road improvement. Supplemental report filed and approved. Board find the proposed highway less than three miles in length and connects at one end with an already improved highway and at the other with the township line and should be established and constructed without election. Highway found of public utility and ordered constructed. Auditor directed to advertise for letting of contract, mds to be on file by 2 p. m. first day' of January term, 1919. No. 2969—Lane stone roasL Contractor W. V. Porter allowed 3480.00. No. 2988—Yeoman stone road. Contractor ( W. V. Porter allowed 3320.00., All other road cases were continued. DITCHES. No. 2861—George M. Myers drain. County treasurer reports assessments collected in the sum of 34,382.00, leaving uncollected 32,393.66. Bonds ordered issued as provided by law. Contractor granted extension of time until May 1, 1919. No. 3143—Sargent drain. Report and'profile filed; Expense account allowed as set out in report and ordered paid. All other ditch cases were continued. z MISCELLANEOUS. 4 Contracts for supplies for county farm were awarded as follows: G. E. Murray Co., dry goods. * Eigelsbach & Son, 50 lbs. steak at 35c, and 50 lbs. boil and roast at 28c. Supt. G. M. Wilcox’s report for quarter ending Nov. 30, showed receipts at county farm to be 31,406.80, and expenditures 33,652.58. Sheriff-elect T. D. Woodworth filed bond in the sum of 35,000.00 signed by himself, his father, Ancil Woodworth, W. V. Porter and G. L. Thornton. Bond was approved. County Board of Finance—-Inter-est on public funds for November, 1918, examined and approved as follows: First National Bank, Rensselaer, 3210.35; The Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, 3236.37; State Bank, Rensselaer, 3186.66; State Bank, Remington, 3108.32; Bank of Wheatfield, 301.04.

BUY ALL THE SUGAR YOU WANT

The ban has been removed and the sugar restrictions no longer prevail. You can now sweeten up as much as you desire. Just pay the price for the sweetness. The ban on the shipping of grain has been removed and no restrictions on shipping of hogs now exist. The ban on the shipping of hogs is effective until January 1, 1919. Business is fast coming back to normal and the fellow who gets his share will have to hustle. During the war anything a person had could be sold at any old price. Now there win be competition and the hustler will win out. Much of ithe attention of the reader will now be diverted from war news to the offerings made by enterprising firms in their advertisements in the newspapers of the county. There is no better way to build up and maintain a thriving business than through newspaper advertising.

HARVEY.

THURSDAY’S WEATHER. Forecast: Fair south, cloudy central and north portions tonight and Friday; probably rain, warmer tonight; colder Friday north and central portions.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours nding at 7:00 a. m. on the date December 8 .89 81 December 4 49 22 December 5 ....84 24

THURSDAY’S LOCAL MARKETS.

Oats 68c. Ear corn <1.20. Shelled corn No. 4 <1.23. Rye <1.47. Wheat <2.11. Cream 69c. Eggs 59c. Chickens 18c. Old roosters 14c.

POTTER A SAWYER SEED HOUSE Rensselaer now has a first-dass seed house. The beat grades of all kinds of seeds will be bought and sold. We an in the market now for clover and timothy seed. This firm has had considerable experience in this line and are able to help tbe farmers of the community by raising the grade of seed sown. H. H. POTTER, Phone 7. Mxßa&r. The world’s census of sheep runs io well over 450,000,000. •

needs a bathrobe—so, wh y would it not make a dandy Gift for “Him?” HILLIARD S'HAMILL

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

Sawbuck.—How do wood and coal compare as to fuel value, that is, how much wood does it take to equal a ton of coal?—lnvestigations by the agricultural department show that one standard cord of well seasoned hickory, oak, beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm, locust or cherry wood is approximately equal to one ton (2,000 pounds) of anthracite. A cord and a half of soft maple or two cords of cedar, poplar or basewood are required to give the same amount of heat. One cord of well seasoned mixed wood equals at least one ton of average grade bituminous coal

BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL

The body of Benjamin H. Thomas, a resident of this 'city a numbar of years ago, wap brought here from Richmond, Ind., and buried Wednesday forenoon. He died in a hospital at Richmond from influenza. He leaves a wife, two sisters, father and step-mother to mourn their loan. His mother died about nine years age. He was 30 years, four months and. 21 days old at the time of his death.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Mr. Sauser presented the history department with a Liberty map. He also gave to the school a framed copy of President Wilson’s speech to congress at the opening of the war. The Junior English classes wfll begin to read “Chancers Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” Thursday. The teachers of the school held their first meeting Tuesday evening, Dec. 3, in the high school assembly. These meetings are to be held every month.' The program was as follows: Subject: Activities of School Children Aside from Class Room Instruction; music, Miss O’Brien; report of study made in Indiana, Mr. Kram; Discussion of the Report, Miss Shedd. The high school Red Cross girts are planning an entertainment and play for the near future.

STA B THEATRE —The House of Good Pieter** TODAY ■ OLIVE S THOMAS (MRS. JACK PICKFORD) »b* ' “LIMOUSINE LIFE” A Comedy Reel —# FRIDAYPEGGY HIGHLAND Will be Sw» to Please You “HER DEBT OF HONOR” —— SATURDAY—'s LEWIS STONE And MARGUERITE CLAYTON In Something New in a Patriotic “INSIDE THE LINES” A Six Reel Surprise - Abo MAR|E WALCAMP 1 1 " 1 "■ Matinee 8 p. m. Night 7 p. m. * • y. '