Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1918 — Page 1

No. 291.

Furniture Makes the Best Xmas Gifts of All Aside from its utility and beauty, Furniture has a lasting value that no other article possesses. It is the ideal Xmas present because it is the most enduring and has an intrinsic worth all its own. It may be a davenport, a chair, a rocker, a rug, a book case, or anything of use in the home—its utility or durability is beyond doubt. Our Xmas display of Japanese goods and cedar chests on the first floor should interest you. Only ten more days to buy. W. J. WRIGHT

RETURNS FROM JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

- A. Perry Gwin, so nos Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Gwin, is borne from Jacksonville, Florida, where he had been a member of the officers’ training camp. The school was discontinued' before the course was completed on account of the war ending, Private Gwin bad all arrangements made (to go to France early in the fall as a Y. M. C. A. athletic director, but just about the thne he was ready to sail he was caught in the last registration and this made him ineligible for the work. - Before talcing up the “Y” work, Private Gwin had for a number of years worked in old Mexico and Texas for a large odj concern. He* is undecided a sto the future but may become interested with has father in the lumber business here.

If yoU are invited out for Xmas dinner, see J. H. Holden for your advance card. Now that th’ war’s over th’ government may not find employment ter all th’ comer drug store critics, but they’ll find somethin’ t’ knock. ’Bdut th’ only difference between a dollar a year man an’ a school teacher is that th’ school teacher can’t afford t’ ruhign.—Abe Marti nin the Indianapolis News. Poinsettias, 10 and 12 inch bloom, for Xmas. J. H. Holden. Of men who marry, ten are (bachelors to one widower. ~ There are more than 25,000,000 cats in the United State®. ' A brick is capable of absorbing about one pint of water. One man in every sixty is partly or wholly color blind. The first phonograph was made forty years ago, but its popularity is of more recent date. Argentine women have won their right to all the professions, including engineering and law. Advertise in the Republican daasified column.

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The Evening Republican.

All home print today. Bead the inside pages. By treating them .with certain gases a Frenchman has succeeded in keeping eggs fresh for ten months. A mushroom gathered in Lincolnshire, England, some years ago, measured a yard in circumference. Lloyd Getorge has a salary of $25,000 a year as first lord of the treasury, but is unpaid for services as* prime minister. The battleships of today can in two shots discharge as great a weight of metal as a nentire broadside of Netson’s greatest ship. Water tanks that work successfully are being made in Australia from native days, one of 10,000 gallons capacity having (been constructed. Nearly twenty states tof the Union have what are called bird sanctuaries or laws for the protection of migratory 'birds on their long flights in search of feeding places. • . ■ , - - I When sailors speak of fathoms they do n>ot always mean the same thing. On board a man. of war a fathom means six feet, on board a merchantman 5 % feet, and on board a fishing vessel five feet. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blue have received a letter from their grandson, Corp. Robert Blue, at Fortress Monroe Va. The corporal had checked everything in to the government and expected to be moved to Camp Grant, 81., at once and in a very short time to be mustered out of (the service.

BUCKWHEAT. We pay the highest market >.'ev for good, elean, dry buckwheat Get our price before you sell. Iroquois Roller Mills. Phone 454. The Iroquois Roller Mills has a flour trade of a radius of 30 miles around. They come in autos, wagons, buggies. None have arrived yet in airplanes but possibly may soon. See our flour ad. Iroquois Roller Mills. (

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1918.

SOME “OVER THERE” IMPRESSIONS OF DR. GWIN

Somewhere in France. , Dear Hamil ton:— ■ : In a manner very similar to at Americans, J have gone thru the period of suspicion and even disdain of the English bo the reaction stage of respect and understanding. One cannot appreciate the pure-blood lishman until the environments are considered along with the personality. George Ade, in 1906, visited London and thereafter wrote, “In Pastures New.” I can recall it now with considerable pleasure because* he more vividly depicts the English as one hears it on the streets, in the eating houses and tramways. In his make-believe talk with the true blue continental aristocrat he reveals to you the quiet, seemingly indifferent, take things as a matter of course, and without complaint, attitude better than a volume could. In short a bagger men than at first glance we are apt to think him. He says there is a sign in front of a case in Paris which says, “English understood.” Continental English is hard for us to understand both as to accent and vocabulary. To quote from the letter his fictitious traveler writes home will show the considerable difference dn vocabulary but not the accent. This traveler, put our English or rather Amercan equivalent along to show tfhe home folks what he means.

After the .traveler’s experience with an English Bobby, wherein he claimed he gave him a bit of spoof and a half guinea, he then watched Tommy Atkins with his “doner” (best giri’ promenade, the traveler remarked, clawssy, don’t you know.”- Then he resumed his letter home about hs meals as follows: “For breakfast I had a bowl of porrdge (oatmeal) and a couple of eggs, with a few crumpets (rolls). Accompanying this is always bread, butter and marmalade. Coffee with hot milk to finish. At npon time I ate a snack (light luncheon) in the establishment of a licensed bictualer (caterer) who is also a spirit merchant (liquor dealer).* I saw a great mpny darks (clerks) eating their meat pie and drinking bitter (ale) or else stout (porter). Some of them would eat only a few biscuits (crackers). Ail the street vehicles travel rapidly in London and you are Xfinvied (hurried) at every corner.”

Then when he awoke in the morning he found his boots (shoes) neatly varnished (polished) and “the tub which I had bespoke (ordered) the night before was ready and I had a jolly good splash.’’ But, seriously, these are only surface or environmental differences and the English bear study well. Personally I cannot read the enormous list of killed and wounded and associate with the English officers and men every day and meet some of their women folks without feeling the great manhood and womanhood which* undoubtedly makes England what she is. They are different from.the Americans in superficial ways but I am not the one knowing enough to say one is better than the other. A further study of our French will probably reveal what* we already know, namely, “A man’s a man for a that” —and we are all veneered with our particular environment. The English will continue to drop thedr “H’s” and say “cawnt,” and we will continue to act like cowboys at our football games and speak our minds always, but what of .that? Sincerely, M. D. GWIN.

• A meal for a whole family from one bean is possible now in California. The bean is called the Guinea butterbean, and one offered in the Los Angeles market was almost three feet long and nine inches in circumference. It is said to be excellent eating, similar to the eggplant. In southern Tunisia is a mountain of considerable size called Douirat, which once upon a time was an active volcano. Bubbles of volcanic gases made >it a ven table honeycomb of caves, which in these days are inhabited. In fact, the whole mountain is a city— <ja human anthill, densely populated. ' , ~ '

There are certain hard and fast rules in the English'house of commons governing the donning or doffing of hats at psychological moments of official- procedure. Now Britishers are wondering if these rules will have to he changed or modified to suit the convenience of women members and their hat-pinned headgear. A suitable marker is to be erected in the public Square at Carlisle, Pa., which will contain a complete list of the names of men and women of Cumberland count yin government service durn gthe present war. G. Kasutka, president of the Kasutka Steamship company and member of the house of peers, is planning to build 500 dwelling houses at Nishmada, near Kobe, Japan, intending to lend them to salaried men who are most hard hit by the high cost of living. , Secret service men say that a shiny new quarter that rings "dead” is not necessarily counterfeit. Coins containing minute air holes, invisible to •the eye, sometimes slip part the ini spection tests at the mints; and the slight (imperfection makes the coin | “plunk” like lead. Chicago daily wastes $2,000 worth of milk bottles.

LETTER FROM FRANCE.

The folowing letter was recevied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bailey, of Hanging Grove township, from their eon, Private Bernard Bailey: Somewhere in France, November 8, 1918. Dear Folks:— . Well, it is trying to rain over here today. But I think it will cleat up after while. This Leaves me feeling' fine. I wrote a letter the other day but did not have much time to write so will try and write a little more this time. This sure is some country. They are only about fifty, years behind the tunics. I suppose you have received the. Red Cross card I sent you from England. We came over here by the way of England. I have not seen a field of corn since I landed. But one thing sure they have some fine horses and they only use one horse and a cart and lead the horse at that. Once in a while you will see a team but not very often. They have about four timeaag njany houses on one square as we have at 'home, and all of the houses are made of brick, some with hay roofs; dirt and rocks piled up for a fence. Most of the houses are just little huts. I haven’t seen any hogs at all yet, and just a few cattle. They all go on tffe left of the street instead of the right. They sure make good use of the , dogs. They hitch them to a cart and-make them pull the carts. I have plenty of everything except razor blades and Prince Albert. You should see the trains here; they are narrow and look like those at the stone crusher, and the 'largest car they have here is ten tons; and are dvided so they will hold eight men. Thp tracks are much narrower than ours. The fields are small and the land 'hilly. Well, I guess I will close for this time and write again soon. Give all my address. Well, this leaves me feeling fine. Your Son, PVT. BERNARD BAILEY. Casual Co. A, Tank Corps, A. E. F.

A MOTHER’S LETTER.

Among the seventy-five soldiers’ ebters received here Wednesday was - he following written by Corp. C. A. Battleday to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Battleday. Besides the letter there was attached a very beautii’ul poem entitled “Mother.” Following the letter we give the last stanza of the poem: In Active Service in France, October 25, 1918. Dear Father and Mother:—

* We are back again where there are a few American people besides our own regiment. We are in one of the camps in France, right close to the sea and are a labor unit instead of a fighting unit. We expect to see some pretty hard work from now on. We are living in squad tents, which is pretty nice to what we have been used to. v There are German prsionere by the thousands in this camp. They seem to be well satisfied to be prisoners in American camps. They need only one guar dto one thousand prisoners, so you can see they do not want to get away. We had-a nice train ride down here. We do not ride an chair cars over here, but ride in box cars with a capacity of egiiht horses or forty men, The trains do not make very fast time. Must close for this time. CORP. C. A. BATTLEDAY. Co. B, 309 Engrs, American E. F. MOTHER. \ “My mother, cheer your heart and dry , your tears, J for after while* God willins, I’ll return. . We sacrifice today, that through the years, We may enjoy the peace for which we yearn. Forget all cares, forget all minor things, (Today we labor and tomorrow rest! Wle fight for every mother as she singe Her babe to sleep upon her throbbing breast. battle for the womanhood of earth, For Liberty, for Honor and for Right. Re proud, oh mother dear, that you gave birth • To one who lived to enter such a fight”

In the Indianapolis Star casualty list of this date were the names of Private Waiter Gardner, Delphi, wounded severely, and Private Jesse Presho, Flora, wounded, degree undetermined. In the Herald-Examiner wa sthe name, of Private Howard A. Speaks, Rensselaer, wounded, degree undetermined. Mrs. John Barker, of Fair Oaks, wa sin Rensselaer today. She had not heard from her eon, Fred, who is in the radio service in France, since the war ended, but a Ittter from her son, Ehner, who is at Camp Muy, N. J., written on Dec. 8, said that he expected to 'be home by Christmas. Now is the time to get your supply of salt for winter use. Just received a car of Non-Hardening Barrel Salt. Rowles & Parker. Occident Flour Is used and endorsed by bakers because it is superior to other brands. Guaranteed to be the best flour you ever used or your money back. Rowles & Parker. You can make that relative er friend of youris happy one hundred' and four times if you will make him a Christmas gift of The Rensselaer Republican. Or better still, send the Evening Republican and send joy into his life over three hundred times during the coming year.

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SAD NEWS, INDEED.

Mr. V. D. McGlynn received the sad intelligence Saturday night that his eon, Clarence D. (better known as Dewey McGlynn) who a couple of weeks ago was reported missing in action, was killed in action. The sad message came from the Adjutant General and stated that the young man was reported missing in action on October 15, and was reported killed in action on October 15. This sad message just about broke the family up, coming as it did two weeks after the missing notice, and they had not nor could not cease to believe that Dewey was a prisoner in the German camps and would sooner or later return to them. Dewey was their eldest son, and bore the high respect of all his companions- and acquaintances, which were many. He was an upright and manly young man without bad habits and was beloved by all who knew him. He was one of the first of our local boys to enlist in the country’s service, not waiting for the draft to take him, and was a member of the 19th machine gun battery, but later transferred to the clerical department of the same brigade. He enlisted May 8, 1917, and went overseas in May, 1918. Several letters have been received from him since he landed, the latest one was received by his sister, Mildred, on Sept. 21, since which time nothing has been heard from 'him till the message came announcing his being among the missing two weeks ago. The sorrowing and stricken family have the sincerest sympathy of the whole community in their sad loss.— Remington Press.

FUNERAL OF MRS. BURNS.

The body tof Mrs. Charles W. Burns, who died in South Bend Wednesday, arrived here this forenoon on the 10:55 train, accompanied by Mr. Burns, Mrs. John Price, of Otterbean, and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Matthews, of South Bend. The following out of town relatives met the funeral party at the train: -Mr. and Mirs. A. R. Sherrill and two sons, of Otterbein ; John Price and family, of Otterbein; Mr. and Mrs. William Keener, of Marion; Will Burns and wife, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Williams, and Florence Burns, of Chicago. The funeral party went direct to the M. E. church, where services were held, and interment was then made in Weston cemetery.

LETTER FROM ARCHITECT COEN

The following letter is from Captain A. Wasson Coen, grandson of Mrs. J. M. Wasson, of this city. Captain Coen was the architect of the county hospital building, the First National Bank and the remodeled Tririt & Savings Bank building, also the residence of C. W. Eger on College avenue. *’ France, Nov. 20, 1918. Mt, Louis H. Hamilton, Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Mr. Hamilton:— Have been intending to write a little note to you ever since my arrival in France, but the day’s duties take up considerable <tim§, and you’re usually ready for bed about taps, and the letter writing does not get done. Father forwards the Rensselaer papers to me, and I am quite interested in seeing what goes on thereabouts. I saw where Fred had been wounded, but was doing well in a London hospital. I sincerely hope that he gets through in good shape. He has certainly done more than his share in this little scrap. I hope that he gets a commission in our army before it is over, for he really deserves it. When you write Col. Healey I wish you would tell him that Pm on the same job as he. I can understand the reason for his intense interest in the army for so long. It is certainly very interesting work, and demands the utmost tof every man; but, there is much to be gained. Please remember me very kindly to the men I was associated with in my work at Rensselaer. My regards to you. Very sincerely, CAPTAIN ALBAN W. COEN. Co. L, 809th Pioneer Infantry, A. E. F., via New York.

Harriet Harmon, one of the telephone operatorsHa suffering ’with a severe case of mumps. James D. Babcock, of Petroleum, is spending a few days with rdatvies and friends here. Roe Yeoman and George Mohleman, of the Rensselaer/Cement Products company, returned this morning Alexandria, where they had attends da convention of the cement silo makers of the state. On account of the liberal amount of advertising offered by the merI chants of that place, the Remington [ Pres sthis week had to use two extra pages.

REJOICE TO HEAR FROM SON

FIRST LETTER RECEIVED FROM SON WHO WENT TO , FRANCE IN JUNE. A Rensselaer home was made supremely happy Thursday evening when Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Snow received their first letter from their son, Private Aaa Snow, who left this country early in June, and since which time he had not been heard from. Many efforts were made by the parents of this soldier to get word of his whereabouts. AU kinds tot rumors 'had reached here and his parents Were, of course, greatly worried. They had made inquiry through the adjutant** office at Washington, D. C., the National Red Cross and the Indiana . State Council of Defense, bht were Unable to locate their son. A letter received by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bissenden of this city a few days ago from their son, who went to France with Private Snow, said that the latter had been shell shocked and was in a hospital. This was not defi- ■ nite and the letter received Thursday night and given ibelow was mighty good news to the anxious parents: American Expeditionary Forces, November ,12, 1918. Dear Mother: — A few lines to let you know that I am getting along fine and hope yon are all doing the same. I cannot understand why I have not received any mail from you since lam in France. No doubt you have written to me but the letters have either been lost or gone astray. It sure would make me feel good to receive a letter from you, as I am thinking of ytou always and wondering how you are ail getting along. It looks very good to me to see the war come to a finirfi so I will come back to the .states once more, whichis known as God’s country. * I cannot think of anything to write until I hear from you. Hoping you are all in the best of health, I reamin, Y<mr9 ASA Address, Private Asa F. Snow, 3rd Co., Ist Army Advance Repl. Depot, American E. F., France. The above letter was not in the soldier’s handwriting, so he was possibly not able to write. Private Snow enlisted here with the old Company M, went with them to Fort Benjamin Harrison, later to Camp Shelby, Miss., and across “over there” early in June.

FRIDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Simon Thompson returned to his home today. Granville Moody, Sr., is improving. The Arnold family is doing nicely. Mrs. Alva Potts remains in a critical condition. Mrs. Price is improving. Mrs. Dan Lakin is about the same. Ralph Humes is able to be up. Tillie Gangloff has entered the hospital with influenza. An eight pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Omar Daniels at the hospital Friday, the 13th. Fine ferns'of all kinds for a Xmas gfit. J. H. Holden.

DEATH OF CHASE DAY.

Chase Day died of influenza ih a Hammond hospital at 5 p. m. Thursday. His body was brought here today on the 10:55 a. m. train and taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Julia Day, in the east part of town. His wife and child are also very sick at this time and were unable to accompany the body here, but they came on the 1:57 p. m. train. No arrangements will be made for the funeral until they hear from his brother, Ray, who is at Camp Beauregard, La.

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