Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1918 — Page 1

No. 302.

• V Following Xmas z ■ ' ... I We always sell several nice cedar . chests. These are paid for out of gift money received on Xmas Day. ■? Watch our window. W. J. WRIGHT

MR. AND MRS. A. P. BURTON RETURN

ME and Mrs. A. P. Boston, who have been at Urbana, Hl., for the past two months on account of the sickness and death of Mr. Borton’s sister, returne dto their home Jhere today, ■ the sister having died last Saturday.

WANTS CAR LOAD OF GOOD HORSES

John Gleason, of Liberty, is here and is in the market for a car load of good horses. He will make his headquarters at the Charles Hemphill hitch barn.

GAVE $105 IN.W. S. S. TO PASTOR

On Christmas day the pupils of St. Augustine's parochial school ed their'pastor, Rev, Christian, -Daniel, with $105.00 in W. S. S., thereby adding their quota to the sum required by the state of Indiana. The pastor generously credited- this sum to the i children’s contribution to the neyr c church fund, jvhich raises their pres'efft account to the nice little sum of $420.00, most of which was attained through their own little savings. They wish nevertheless to thank the kind friends who encouraged them by adding their mites. . v -

ATTEND IMPORTANT MEETING

Representative W. L. Wood went to Indianapolis Thursday evening and will attend a meeting of prominent Republicans of 'the state to discuss proposed legislation for the comang meeting of the Indiana State Assembly. County Chairman G. H. McLain left this Friday morning to be present at this meeting also.

NEW SUITS FILED.

No. 8998. Frank Melrose vs. Emil Besse. Action on contract.

NOTICE. There will be a dance and supper at Gundy’s Hall at Fair Oaks Dec. 31st. Everybody invited. Music by Horton Bros.

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The Evening Republican.

Mrs. Guy Meyers, two children and Estel Meyers were able to go to' their homes today. ' Ada Lambert, of Mt. Ayr, entered the hospital Thursday with influenza. Miss Brandt and Miss Shedd are doing nicely. : . Mrs. Wortley is slgihtly improved. Mrs. Saidla is improving. Van Arnold and George Kimble are gettin galong nicely. Mrs. Delos Waymire is improved.

Mrs. J. J, O’Brien and children, with the exception of her daughter, Mr«- David I. Burns, left this forenoon for their future h£>me in Beloit, Wis. Mr. O’Brien had been in that city for sometime and har a good position. Mrs. David I. Burns went to Brookston for a visit with her husband’s parents. \

NOTICE. The* annual meeting of the stockholders of the Repaselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association will be held at the offices of the association in the Odd Fellows’ budding, Rensselaer, Ind., on Jan. 6, 1919, at 7:30 p. m.' » B. F. FENDIG, Prea z D DELOS DEAN, Secy.

We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindnesses and their sympathy in our late bereavement. Wm. Hoover anjd Family.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: . Max. Mm. December 27 ...........25 15

i ■ ■ i ; \. Repair work absorbs about 40 per cent of the labor and machinery of British shipyards.

PRINCESS LUNCH L A GOOD PLACE TO EAT . ; Jh DINNERS / SHORT ORDERS OYSTERS „ QUICK SERVICE i 7 ‘ ' GOOD FOODS STERILIZED DISHES AND SILVERWARE BRICK ICE CREAM ‘ HOME MADE PIES .NEXT WEEK—FISH MARKET ‘ FRIDAY AND SATURDAY a. i .;■■■■, ■■■■■■, . MEAL TICKETS GET ONE AND ONE DOLLAR OUT OF EVERY SIX

FRIDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

MOVE TO WISCONSIN.

CARD OF THANKS.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1218.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

k DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY CO. AGENT LEANING. Shorthorn Hord in Carpenter. Harvey Williams and son have started a pure-bred Shorthorn herd on their farm west of Remington. The foundation sire is a straight Scotch bull secured from the herd of Urban and Ewalt, of Fowler. A Scotch-topped cow with calf was purchased from Kerlin and Snowberg, of Rockfield. Messrs. Williams state that , they have been induced to take up the pure-bred cattle business by a feeling that good cattle are coming soone ror later on every farm and the sooner the herd is established, the better for the farmer. Poultry and Corn Committee Busy. ’Plans for the Annual County Poultry and Corn Shox to be held in Rensselaer January 7th to 11th, are rapidly nearing completion. The Corn Committee, headed by George M. Myers, Henry Paulus and P. H. Hauter, with workers in every township, have been arranging for a number of good exhibits. The new arrangement made this year whereby phemiums are awarded the best ten ears of each white and yellow corn from each township gives every grower an opportunity to receive Recognition for his services. “The exhibit this year is to be strictly educational,” says a member of the show committee. We want "to know the type of corn best adapted to each township and then we want to get back of that and push it.” Mr. C. E. Troyer, of LaFountaine, has been secured as judge, who will grade all 1 corn by the score card method. Corn production is the greatest industry in Jasper county, the crop being produce dthis year being valued at about $3,500,000. It has been demonstrated that a good corn show is a most potent factor in icnreasing interest in this crop, and all farmers are invited to support this effort by 'sending in their exhibits. ' To Cofitrel Bdvine Tuberculosis. A campaign for the eradication of tuberculosis from the pure bred herds of cattle in Jasper county is being launched by the local Better Farming Association. The services of Dr. W. W. Renter, field veterinarian for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, have been secured. Dr. Renter will test any pure bred herds without cost to the owner. Herds which pass two successful annual tests are “accredited” and animals from them may be shipped interstate without special testing. „ Bovie tuberculosis has been a big problem for the cattle breeder in the past and has caused thousands of dollars in losses each year. Its presence may go undetected in untested herds from year to year until the majority of the animals have acquired the disease. The movement on foot to eliminate this disease from the herds should have the full support of every hraeder. Persons desirng the test arrange for it through the County Agent. j. Livestock Breeders’ Association to Meet. / '. The regular annual meeting of the Jasper County Livestock Breeders’ Association will be held at the court house Saturday afternoon, De'.ember\ 28th, at 2 o’clock. At that time a report of, the progress of the organization during the past year wiU be made, the annual election of officers will be held and plans will be made for the coming year. * The secretary reports that the organization has had a remarkably prosperous season. The membership has increased over 300 per* cent and the livestock conditions are' the best in

years, j • - Now Club Organised. A nevd “Make-Over-Garmcnt” club started at Center school in Barkley township, Miss Mildred Rush, teacher/ The membership consists of three girls bdys. We are anxious to see how this club progresses. Does Club Work Pay? Contributions to American food resources have beeir made in large quantities by the boys and girls club work of the extension service. Over 2,000,Q00 boys and girls are enrolled in these clubs. From reports sent in by a comparatively small proportion of the club members in the-North and West; we have for example: 21,736 members of canning dubs reporting 1,569,229 quarts' of fresh vegetables, meat and soups canned, 216,501 jars of jellies and jams, and 2,740 pounds of fruits and vegetables dried; 4,376 members of poultry clubs reporting 106,358 chicks hatched and 35,370 dozen eggs produced; 7,382 members of pig clubs reporting 1,797,196 pounds of pork,produced from 10,583 animals managed; 5,242 members of bread clubs reported 346,698 loaves of Liberty bread baked; 13,165 members of garment mkaing clubs reporting 92,189 garments and pieces of work for home use and for distribution by the Red Cross.

Miss Adelaide Lee returned to Rockfield today after visiting with her sister, Mrs. C. Earl Duvall, and family. 4 •<?

SOMME VETERAN VISITS HERE

CORPORAL JOHN KRATLI VISIT- - ED WITH HIS BROTHER. PROF. KRATLI. / If you want to get a real thrill, have a talk with Corporal John Kratli, who is spending a few days here with the family of his brother, Prof. W. F, Kratli, principal of the local high school. His description of .the fighting during his year or more of active service, ending with a very severe accident caused by being injured in a train wreck while retreating from the savage Hun in their mighty drive last March, is a most vivid one. Corporal Kratli is a veteran of the Spanish-American war and spent seven years in the Panama zone in the service, retiring in 1914, and was engaged in farming until Uncle Sam needed men to defend the cause of humanity. * He enlisted in the 2nd company engineers at St. Louis, Which was converted into the 12th, with whom he saw strenuous service in France. He enlisted June 5, 1917, sailed for France in July, and within a month he was on the active front. He early found out that Sherman was right when he said “War is hell,” and hds company, which had been brigaded with the English on the Oambrai-St. Quentin sector, learned that the general’s expression was entirely too mild. It was not to be expected that soldiers in the engineer corps would be required to do much fighting, but Corporal Kratli and, his comrades were' sobn in the thick of the fiercest of the fray. They were fighting, digging -trenches and putting up wire entanglements and doing everything that could be done by men and the equipments of war to stop the Hun in his drive into the heart of France, and in his almost successful attempt .to crush the soul of Liberty. The regiment with which Corporal Kratli was fighting was. One of the very first Amercan units to get into the battle line. With them it was a fight of life or death, and the latter was greatly preferred to surrender to the Hains. With men of such stamina and love of freedom there were'\sure to be many losses against a foe so strong and fierce. Corporal Kratli saw many of his comrades make the supreme sacrifice while he was allowed to continue to stand against the onslaughts of the Germans. Under the most hellish fire of the war Corporal Kratli remaned unscratched. On November 17, 1917, he was gassed, but was not off duty 16ng. When the Germans made the drive on Amiens last March and it seemed to the brave soldiers that the cause of the allies and humanity was to be lost, Corporal Kratli met with an injury that came very near costing him his life and from which be is still suffering. This occurred on the night of March 26, 1918. He was in charge of a small nar-row-guage train, bringing up ammunition and carrying back the wounded, when one of the cars, . filled with wounded, jumped the track and stopped the train. The night was pitch dark, except for the,, blinding glare of thousands of guns, and no man could say his life was his own. As Ithe train stopped ; Corporal Kratli leaped to the ground, but unfortunately the bottom had dropped out of that partcular spot of the earth and branded on some rock in a 10-foot hole. His comrades rescued him from this uncomfortable position and in due time he brought the train through and made his report. He thought little of his knees at that time and turned in at midnight for.

a few winks of sleep. At 2 the next morning, however, his regiment was ordered to retreat and he marched nearly a hundred males before his knees gave out. He stayed with his company for several weeks and was then ’placed in an English hospital. His treatment here was fine, and late in August he was able to undertake the trip w the old home shores. He landed in this country Aug. 29, and soon thereafter was sent to the post hospital at Fort Des Moines. -John worked and fought with the English troops all the time he was in France and he speaks of their fighting qualities, and especially those of the Canadians, Australians and Scots, in the highest terms of praise. Hqs greatest praise, however, is reserved for the brave, impetuous Yankee boys who helped stem the tide in that great German drive.

NOTICE TO MASONS. There will be installation of officers tonight, and work in the third degree, followed by a big feed. All members are requested to be present. By Order of the Master. Linn Parkinson returned to his home at Lafayette today after visiting relatives and friends here. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the friends and neighbors and the Rebekah lodge for their kindness in the sad bereavement in the death of our beloved wife and daughter, and also for the floral offerings. —Alva Potts, Mr. and Mrs; W. H. Myers. -:"v4

vyrE DO judge NV stranger* by what they wear, by their general appearance and expression. Until we become well acquainted, there is nothing else to do. And that holds good with stores too. Judge them, by their dowsf “Nus Sed” ;

LETTER FROM JOHN WORLAND

France, Nov. 24, 1918. Dear Father and All: Today is “Dad’s letter day,” so I am not going to miss it. I guess you have it coming. The ban on letter writing has been .raised' and how we can write all we know and some things we don’t, if we can only- make you believe it. I have already let you know most all of what I have been doing/but I’ll try to tell you what I couldn’t get by the censor. We have been here at Bourron (Set M) since in June. It is the French and English tank repair station and the largest in the world, no doubt. There are also some French aisplanes repaired here but tanks are the biggest item. From 1000 to 2000 tanks were being sent to the front from this camp every week for three months previous to the signing of the armistice. Not all of them were completely overhauled, but alii of them were repaired and tested. A big per cent of them, however, are torn completely down, not even one thing left untouched. I work in the motor room and we turn out about an 'average of a motor a week, sometimes less. They come in in a terrible shape and every thing is put in new that needs repairing. Sprung crank shafts and flat thros are quite common, scored cylinders and broken connecting rods are expected and we don’t get surprised often. There are several kinds of tanks, but the Renault, a French tank, is considered the best tank ever produced by anyone up to date. It is small compared to the English tanks but is quite capable. It is manned by two men, a driver and a gunner, and is equipped with one of three guns, either a 75 m. (8 in.),, 37 (1% ip.) or a machine gun. It is capable of doing 20 to 25 miles 'an.hour and can turn directly around and retreat an less than its own length and never slow down it® speed; it sure wouH surprise you to see one of them “tarn tail.’.’ They can cHmb a remarkably steep grade. lam enclosing a few photos of this Renault Showing it going through the tests before leaving for the front. Another tank of note, an English tank, is equipped with six machine guns, four 57 m. "guns and carries a crew of twelve, besides it can carry thirty “doughboys” with at (inside) up to an advanced post where they let them out. It is about 30 feet long and real active for it seize. I wouldn’t attempt to guess its weight. The motor alone perhaps weighs two tons. There were a few Ford tanks here; they were mere toys compared to the Englis htanks. Several German tanks were brought here. They were used as targets by the affi-ed tanks. Quite appropriate, I’d say. > These tank* return in all conditions to us. Some are completely salvaged. It is impossible to describe how bad they do look, but I can. form a good idea of how many men return in some of them that meet a “tank shell.” These shells jet the tank on fire, both Hie gasoline and ammunition, and it is not uncommon to see exploded cartridges eight and ten inches deep in a tank

floor. Shortley before the armistice was signed we were working 16 hours a day getting tanks out, but no one ■1 knew how rd winning the war. ig here we were stations, not far from irked there on motorplanes. I liked that nks, but they needed While there I got to twice, taking up some motors and bringing some back not in quite as good condiUoii. It was quite a sight up there but I won’t go into dhtaib about it as yotf have, no doubt, heard more about* {that now than you can believe. There were several French aarI dromes where we were stationed and we got to see some air battles. They are amusing to watch but not nearly

LETTER FROM DORRIS CROOKS

The following ~ extracts a tet- ! ter from Dorris Crooks, who sailed on Ithe California last April, will be of interest tor his many fnends here : “We joined the mine fleet at New--port, R. 1., and came mg-a»flpng across, averaging about 12 miles an hour. We touched as rar south as the Azores and as far north as Jeeland. We came up around the Orkney Isles and down the Moreyfirth to Invernen, Scotland. The fleet operated out’ of there, and it was wr bunch that mined the North Sea. The Yankee mine layers carry about 840 mines and make from 15 to 28 knots per hour. We would lay the whole cargo in three hours by the track launching system. A mine weighs 1600 pounds, and believe, me, it is some sight to see the bunch below deck, stripped to the waist, nothing on but a pair of dingaree pants and sandals, sweating like horses, heaving and pushing ddwn the*4ong decks, dark except a little purple light here and there, up to elevator, throw the lever and up she goes, and then back for another. The fun comes when the sea os rough and old John mine is running away one minute and breaking your back the next when he runs his nose in the air. But I’M tell you all when I’m home. We were the mine layers seven weeks, the non the base stevedore gang awhile, then in the lighter gang. The ships anchored down the Firth and we took mines down ,to them in dummy lighters strung bT ’ hind a tug. It was in this work we were caught in the storm and it took so many hours to rescue us. When we left Scotland we came down to Cardiff, Wales, and were shipped in the “black diamond” channel run between France and'England. Some life, that. Since the armistice was signed I have been oh the U. 8. S. Kermoor. We took our first cargo to Brest. Got the orders mislaML were sent back to Pensanne, turned there and went to Bordeaux and- unloaded our cargo of 6,000 tons of coal, 800 tons of charcoal, twenty three-ton trucks, thirty army wagons and 13,000 big empty gas drums. Some cargo, eh? The singing coons got us unloaded just in time ot be at sea for Thanksgiving, so we had ea&ty ham, canned tomatoes, corn and jam for dinner. It was good, but—you know, mother. But now is the best part. We are undergoing extensive repairs and wTH be ready to sail about Christmas. One' more trip to Brest and then for the States, is how the orders run. I hope it goes through >snd if I am not released I’ll surely ask for a furlough and you can look for your son to blow in about -February. I got the Thanksgiving candy and it was sure fine, what I got to eat. Didn’t know what was in it and there were about twenty nearby—you know the rest. I’ll be more careful of the big Christmas box if I get it. The Kermoor has a daily newspaper; illustrated by Crooks. I’ll save you a copy. Chow is coming. " Devotedly, DORRIS*

so amusing to the pilot that gets shot down in flames. One more thing I wish to tell you w about the depth bombs we dropped for “Jerry” on our way over on the “Vaterland.” We were just in sight of lapd for the first tune, just off the coast of Ireland, when the crew thought they sighted a sob. .There were three depth : bomA>. charges let down but it didn’t bring up any “Jerries.” I was on deck at the time and I thought we had been struck by a sub. The decks were soon filled, only to find that at was our own ammunntion that caused the jar. I could tell you of plenty of itfteresting instances but it would mpke most too long a letter, anyway, I want to save some to tell after I get home. lam back from my furlough now and had a fine time, and also took my first ride in an airplane; it’s

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