Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — Page 1

No.lo.

DO YOU REALIZE ONE THIRD OF YOUR TIME IS SPENT IN BED? Buy a Sealy S The Sealy contains a single 5-foot batt of pure, new long-fibre cotton. No tufts to break the s mooth oval surface-no humps and hollows-no leather tabs to catch di rt. Luxuriously comfortableEconomical. W, J. WRIGHT

TWO SAD DEATHS.

Wheatfield Review: Minnie M. Pickner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clark, was born at Wheatfield, Ind., Feb. 9,1895, and died of influenza Jan. 4, 1919, aged 23 years, 11 months and five days. In 1911 she was married to Fred Pickner. To this union was born two children, Vera Loretta, who passed away the day following her mother’s death, and Jeanette Louise, who is at the Jasper .County hospital very ill with influenza.. Vera Loretta Pickner was born at Wheatfield, Ind., Jan. 23, 1912, and died Of influenza Jani 5, 1919, aged six years, 11 months and 13 days. They leave to mourn their loss the husband and father and the little daughter and sister, many other relatives and a host of friends. The community has lost one who was to all a friend in the true sense o fthe word. The children have lost a loving and faithful schoolmate. The family has the sympathy of the etire community in their sad bereavement. The funeral services for the mother and daughter were held Tuesday afternoon at the home. Interment at the Wheatfield cemetery.

George Knaur went to Chalmers to day to visit his sister a few days. Mrs. John W. Duvall returned to her home in Chicago today after visiting her husband’s parents, C. W. Duvall, and family. Ira Hurley, of the quartermasters corps, returned to his duties at Camp Taylor today after spending a five day furlough with his parents, John Hurley, and family. Conrad Kellner, George and Frank Kanne returned from Indianapolis Friday evening where they attended a meeting of the hardware dealers and implement men of the state. Rev. J. Budman Fleming went to Valparaiso today to fill the pulpit in the Presbyterian church there tomorrow. Rev. J. C. Parrett, of Hammond, will preach at the Presbyterian church in this city.

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The Evening Republican.

JAMES A. CAMERAN PROMOTED

James A. Cameran, who for the past four years has been the blockman for the Rensselaer block of the Kankake’e, 111., division for the International Harvester company, has been given a substantial promotion and a good increase in salary. He is now a special man and has general supervision of the Kankakee district. We are pleased that this good fortune has come to Mr. Cameran, but are mighty sorry to know that his headquarters from now on will be at Kankakee instead of this city. Mr. Cameran went to Chicago this evening and will visit with his brother, who is also occupying a good position with the I. H. Co. Monday Mr. Cameran goes to Kankakee to take up his new work.

SATURDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Rudolph Ritter, Joseph S<?heurich and daughter Mary and Chase Norman leave the hospital today. Mrs. A. S. Lowman, of Parr, was brought to the hospital today to receive medical attention. A two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Walker was brought to the hospital today suffering from the after effects of influenza, and is a very sick child. Mrs. Ernest Lamson is improving slowly. Mrs.. Riley Miller is better today. All other patients are improving.

We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness and for the beautiful floral offerings, during the sickness and death of our beloved mother, wife and daughter.— Edward Jenkins and family, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hurley and family. The funeral of Mrs. Isaac Kepner will be held at the late home of the deceased at 1:30 p. m. Sunday. Isaac Glazebrook slipped and sprained his ankle Friday evening at the filling station and is now going about Wit hthe aid of a crutch.

CARD OF THANKS.

»RNA<FriFiL,niDIAMA.SATURDAY,JANUARY 11, 1919.

RENSSELAER IS REPRESENTED

COMMITTEE ATTENDS HOMECOMING RECEPTION AT INDIANAPOLIS. ... J - ■ Mayor Charles G. Spitler and his committee, consisting of Harry Parker, J. J. Montgomery, Charles W. Rhoades and Louis H. Hamilton, were -the official representatives of Rensse* laer at the rousing reception given at the Indiana capital Friday, January 10. James H. Chapman, who had been appointed a member of this committee, was unable to be present on account of sickness. It was an ideal day and the arrangements by Indiana’s adjutantgeneral, Harry B. Smith, for the reception, of the 2,500 Indiana boys of the 137th and 139th Field Artillery, just returned from overseas, could not have been improved. It was planned that the committees from the twenty cities from over the state that had soldiers in this long parade should have the most prominent part in this reception of “our boys.” The members of these committees met with the adjutant-general in the hall of representatives at 10:30 a. m. Friday, and tickets for admission to the reviewing stand, which had been erected on Meridian street just across from the Board of Trade building, were given out. The stand was occupied by these committees, the members of the legislature. Governor James P. Goodrich and wife, and the members of his staff. Here one of the most thrilling sights to be witnessed in a life time was seen. The two thousand five hundred Indiana boys, every one looking the part of a real soldier, marched by, and how proud each one felt as the boys that belonged to him passed by. The first Rensselaer boy to be recognized was Laban Wilcox. A chorus from the Rensselaer committee rang out, “Hello Laban.” This, of course, was answered by a smile only. But that smile was as bright and cheerful as the noonday sun. Jammie Eldridge was next recognized, and when the fellows cried out “Jammie,” he came very near breaking ranks and coming to the stand. And so thrill after thrill went through the committee as the boys mentioned elsewhere marched by and were recognized, as with a smile almost as effective as a good warm handshake. After the long June of march had passed by, Adjustant General Smith presented those on the reviewling stand with tickets to the Murat theatre. As the soldiers entered this large playhouse the committee was able to grasp their hands, and every one of them came back with a grip that made one know that they were truly glad to greet you. It must be noted that Indianapolis people were not allowed to fill up the theatre, but that the box seats, which were the only seats not occupied by the soldiers, were occupied by the committees from the cities, the members of the legislature, and by not more than twenty people from Indianapolis. Adjutant General Smith was in charge of the program at the theatre and short addresses were made by Governor Goodrich, Mayor- Jewett, Col. Robert L. Moorehead of the 139th Regiment Field Artillery, and Col. Cleveland C. Lansing of the 137th Regiment. Col. Lansing, by the way, is a brother of Secretary of State Lansing, and from the expression from the soldiers when he spoke, he is decidedly popular with his men. After this brief speech making, theatre people from the several playhouses of Indianapolis put on a very interesting progham for the soldiers. Some of the best talent in the country was represented and all did their parts for the entertainment of the boys without pince.A general invitation had been sent out to the Jasper county boys to be the guests of the committe from this county at the Columbia Club for dinner. The following were able to ibe present: Floyd Hemphill, Hollis Turner, James Eldridge, Orphde Gant, Glenn Swaim, William Grayson, William Jenkins and William Holmes. After dinner the boys attended Flo Flo at the English Opera House as the guests of the comnrittee, and the evening was certainly an enjoyable one. Thetboys report that Asa Snow is at the Fort Harrison hospital and that he ha| not yet fully recovered from the shell shock he received in France. All of the boys of the two regiments are expected home during the coming week. Some are to be mustered out Monday and the others Friday. As far as we were able to ascertain the following Jasper county boys are in the two regiments now kt Fort Benjamin Harrison. Lieut. George W. Healey. i Sargt. James Eldridge. , ' Hollis Turner. Corp. Orphie Gant. Glenn Swaim.' V Floyd Hemphill. Will Grayson. . William Holmes. : ' William Jenkins. . _ . . Harvey Myres. Asa Snow. LabanWilcoxT” Glen Burns. George Powers. William Gant. Philip Miller. Allen Bowsher.

WAS KILLED BY A THIEF

MEDARYVILLE JOURNAL GIVES FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF _ THE HENRY TRAGEDY. : -* . ; This whole .community was shocked Wednesday morning when the message went over the telephone wires that Albert Henry had been shot and two miles south of town, where he and his family have lived on the Harve Faulkner farm since last winter. " Chicken thieves had visited the farm early last Monday morning qnd Mr. Henry had frightened them away. Again Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock a disturbance was heard. Mr. Henry quickly dressed, called his son, Zephry, and taking a ,22 calibre rifle and a flash light with him he went to the chicken house. In the meantime Zephry had dressed, with the exception of his shoes, which he carried with him to the backs porch. As he was putting on shoes he heard some one running and then a rifle shot. He called to his father but received no response except a groan. He hurried out to the chicken house, with_onily one shoe on, and found his father lying on the a dying condition. • The rifle was laying some six or eight feet away and the flash light near the body still lighted. Zephry carried his father into the house and phoned for a doctor. At this time he heard a car, which he says was a Ford, running in low speed and which was thrown into high speed when just south of the house, and was going north. ,

The shot is supposed to have been fired from Mr. Henry’s own gun, and entered his chest in a downward direction passing through the lower part of the heart, through the liver and lodged in the outer wall of the 'body just below the ribs on the right side, which leaves the impression with Mr. Henry’s friends and neighbors that he had come in contact with the thieves and a scuffle had ensued in which the rifle was either accidentally discharged or taken away from him and then discharged by the thieves. After daylight in the morning a pasteboard shipping box was found at the corner of the chicken house with holes cut in its ends and two in the top and a rope underneath it, which it is supposed was to be used in tying down the lid. The box contained one of the Henry chickens. Tracks were also found in the snow leading from the barn lot across the corner of the pasture, south of the house, to the public highway just about at a point where a car could be started and gain sufficient speed to be thrown into high at the Henry house. Our newly elected sheriff, Mr. Kopkey, is working on the case and it is felt that with the information contained on the box and the foot prints, etc., that the guilty parties will be overtaken. 1"~A number of the’community have expressed themselves as being will--nate toward the securing of a good detective to take charge of the case. - Mr. Henry was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, later moving to near Champaign, 111. They returned to an Indiana farm in Elkhart county, where they lived until moving into this community ten years ago, as a farmer. About two years ago he purchased the hartiess shop in this place and since then has devoted his time to that business. Mr. Henry leaves a wife and family of four children, two boys, Zephyr, age 20, Emil, age 5; two girls, Theresa, age 17, and Esther, age 10. The funeral was held* Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Hie M. E. church, Rev. Charles Mobley, of Valparaiso, officiating.;

Barnes' Restaurant Chicken with Dressing Roast Beef with Brown Gravy Boiled Tongue with Mustard Mashed Potatoes String Beams Pea Salad Gooseberry Sauee “* Pumpkin Pie &TS ® r _ Apple Pie T„ea T* Coffee Milk M.. V . ; . ■ ■ ' ~ , ! , X « DINNER S© CENTS

A ■* Customers and Cuspidors IJacß is all right in its place, but wlen they get mixed they don’t - vft. — —1 ' 'i- ~ A S.ri&ht Rensselaer sqhoolbpyj. vgrote an essay on “customers.” When his teacher came to read She found; . j- ~ ■■ ■ ' '' r.' “Ctis tamers*are made to spit in." What the rest of the 1 essay was Jmakes no difference. This much sos it reminds us oi the great fchangre that these recent years yhave brought in the attitude of g progressive merchants toward rtheir customers. I The old “public-be-darned” i tude is gone and in 'its place we find the new slogan /"the cus- /■ !; tomer’s best interest is our • > best interest.” ' - % . / > It certainly is a peering thought. —2( V 2(—

HOLD EXAMINATION FOR POSTMASTER

Fame. Haas, of the local post Office,, held an examination here today on which applicants for the Kniman post office were to write. There was but one applicant, and that was Mrs. Gail Michal, formerly Miss Mae Pettet, daughter of exCounty Commissioner Pettet. She is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school

RENSSELAER 66; REYNOLDS 20

The Rensselaer basket bill team is fast developing intd.a great quintet, as could plainly be seen by the way they defeated the Reynolds high school in the gym here last night before a large crowd of high school students and local supporters of the team. From the very start the Rensselaer lads took the ball and played it at their end of the floor continually for twelve minutes of the game, hence it was not until the middle of the first half that the ball went through the ring of the Reynolds basket. Every player of the local five played a star game and made at least one basket. The great team-work displayed by Capt. Lee Collins, Paul Collins, Phegley, Babcock and Tilton was certainly worthy of special mention. The local lads will meet Kentland here next Friday evening, and another interesting game is expected.

DEATH OF MERLE I. SNOW.

Merle I. Snow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Snow, died Jan. B,' 1919, at her home in Mt. Ayr from tuberculosis and a complication of diseases. i She was nine years old at the time of her death. The funeral was held at Mt. Ayr Friday and burial was made at the Brook cemetery.

BENJAMIN GEESE DEAD.

Benjamin Geesa died at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago Wednesday evening, following an operation. The body wash shipped here Thursday evening and taken to his late home north of Mt. Ayr. The funeral will be held at the North Star church Sunday and burial will be made at Morocco cemetery. Mr. Geesa was 86 years of age at the time of his death, and was one of the pioneer residents of this part of Indiana. He is survived by a widow and a number of children.

SATURDAY’S WEATHER. ■ < ■ i. . Forecast: Partly cloudy tonigm and Sunday, colder in north portion tonight.

NOTICE TO BOY SCOUTS. All Boy Scouts are requested to meet Monday evening, Jan. 15. Eats. J. M- SAUSER,Scout Master.

GET A BRICK.

Your boy carrying your Evening Republican will put your paper under a brick if you will provide same and then your paper will not blow away.

FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK

Now is the time to place your order for fruit trees and nursery’ stock. Every tree and plant I sell as absolutely guaranteed in every respect. CHARLES PEFLEY. ’ The women of the, Gant neighborhood in Union township have turned in $13.00 to, the Red Cross, the proceeds of the lunch served at the Hile sale. ’. l/J-l < \ISI J^'T 4 *■ ’“'T**

GILLAM SOLDIER BOY IS DEAD

INFLUENZA CLAIMS ANOTHER OF OUR BRAVE BOYS WHILE IN UNIFORM. Calvin McKinley Maddox, son of Joseph S and Carrie Maddox, wm born April 5, 1896, in Jasper county, Indiana, and departed this life at the Base Hospital, Indianapolis, January 4, 1919, at the age of 22 years, eight months and 29 days. He spent his entire life in Jasper county until he enlisted in the service of his country September 1, 1918. He first entered the technical school on Washington street, Indianapolis, and was*transferred to the technical school located at the Deaf and Dumb Institute in that city. He was finally transferred to Fort Benjamin Harrison and remained there until his death. Beside a host of friends and numerous relative®, he leaves to mourn his loss, a grief-stricken father and mother, four brothers, Charles, Orville, George and Leo; two sisters, Myrtle and Rowena. One baby sister preceded him in death. He was at the technical school at the time of the flu epidemic and help* ed take care of the patients for five v/eeks. He suffered a slight attack of« it himself but recovered. There were between 400 and 500 cases in the hospital and. only three deaths occurred. He suffered an attack of the measles which was followed by bronchial pneumonia, which culminated in his death. So to the grave, at noon from labor cease; - Itest on thy sheaves, thy harvest work — —— iirttone, > Gone from the heat of battle, and in peace, I Soldier, go home; with thee the fight Is won. —Medaryville Journal

GEORGE O. PUMPHREY IS DEAD

A telegram was received here tins Saturday forenoon by Mrs. T. W. Haus, from her daughter, Mrs. Newton Pumphrey, of Columbia City, aa-_ nouncing the death of George O. Pumphrey, formerly of this city but late of Columbia City. The deceased had been sick for sometime but no particulars of his death, which occurred Friday, have been received here. The body of the deceased will arrive on the 5:50 p. m. train from Chicago. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The Freshman English class has started “Parkmans Oregon Trail;” the Sophomores are reading “Ivanhoe,” and the Juniors are beginning “Palgraves Golden Treasury.” The report cards were given out Thursday. The first semester wall end on the 31st of January, making only four weeks in the last term instead of six. The Red Cross play, which was postponed on account of the influenza, will be given Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 15 and 10. There will be a tea room. Bring extra money.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the tcmpeewtare for the twenty-four boon ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: January 10 ...... 23 9 January 11 .41 15

STAY OFF OF ICE POND.

All persons are hereby notified to remain off of the ice on my pond, as we hope to have same ready for harvest soon. H. E. WHITE.

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