Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1919 — Page 1

No. 11.

DO YOU REALIZE ONE THIRD OF YOUR TIME IS SPENT IN BED? Buy a Sealy gg 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 dirt. Luxuriously comfortableEconomical. i WJ WRIGHT

SOUND TAPS FOR SERG.PUMPHREY

VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR IS BURIED BY COMRADES SUNDAY. The funeral of Sergeant George 0. Pumphrey, who died at his home in Friday, January 10, was held at the Methodist Episcopal church in this city Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and was in charge of his comrades, members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Sergeant Pumphrey was until a few years ago a resident of this city . and was known and greatly respected by his comrades and the people of this vicinity. Accompanying the body of the deceased to this city was his wife, Mrs. George 0. Pumphrey, his son, Newton Pumphrey, and wife, and their daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Glen, and Thomas Butler, all of Columbia City, also Mrs. Lilly Gilchrist, of Hammond. The following sketch of the life of the deceased is taken from a history of the 99th Indiana Infantry, and jwas written by Sergeant Pumphrey: Born June 18, 1843, at C onnersville, Ind. His, parents moved to Plymouth in 1848, and to Jasper county, the part now known as Newton county, in 1853, where he was living when at 18 years of age George enlisted in Co. E, serving fifteen months as corporal and the rest of the service as sergeant. He took part in all the campaigns of the regiment from first to last. After the war he returned to NewtOn county, Ind., where he resided until 1893, when he rented his farm and moved to Rensselaer, Ind., , where he has a small suburban fruit place which he cultivates and also makes a specialty of breeding Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and says': “Tell the comrades I forage my milk from a pure Jersey cow but don’t milk it in a canteen.” Hewa s married Nov. 9, 1869, to Isabel Morris, of Rushville, Ind., and they had two sons, but were so unfortunate as to lose the eldest at the age of 29 years about two months ago, April 6, 1900. He ’ was a bright, intelligent man, the

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author knowing him well, and he left behind a wife and two children. His death was sudden and was a sore bereavement to all the family. Comrade Pumphrey always attends the reunions and is n true man and comrade.

M. E. INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY MEETING

The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the Methodist Episcopal church will -meet-atthOhomeof Mrs; H. E. Parkison on North Van Rensselaer street Tuesday,«January 14, at 2:30 p.'m.

DEMOCRATS DECLINED TO GO.

It might cool, at least to a limited degree, the heated, brow of the editor of the Democrat to know that a very prominent Democrat was the first person named on the committee to attend the reception at Indianapolis last Friday but that he failed to go on account of the fact that he was not well enough. Other persons were asked to. serve on the committee who were not Republicans and who had boys in the service. Mayor Spitler was up against the proposition of selecting men who would go down in their jeans and pay their expenses. Charles W. Rhoades was a member of this committee and he has three boys in the service. As to Messrs. Montgomery and Parker, while they deserve to be thoroughly censured for not raising a family and each having thirteen sons in the service, otherwise they are all right. Old Man Parker has been a father to half of the soldier boys who have left this city, and no other man in this county has done more real service in the war than Jack Montgomery. ' “ Ask the boys when they come home what they think of Parker and Montgomery, and you will find out that they. made splendid members of this committee.

NOTICE. All the suits contesting the will of the late Benjamin J. Gifford, are now disposed of, and I am in position to sell land. I have yet unsold several hundred acres of good land located in Jasper and Lake bounties, which I will sell as Executor on reasonable terms, but cannot take any trade. Call at my office or at the office of T. M. Callahan, at Rensselaer, Indiana, for particulon. GEO. H. GIFFORD, Executor.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1919.

SANDS AND DEAN IN LEGISLATURE

FORMER TO SERVE IN HOUSE AND THE LATTER IN THE SENATE. Representative William L . Wood returned to Indianapolis Sunday tobe ready for the reconvening "of the Indiana legislature Monday. Attorneys Charles M. Sands and D. Delos Pean accompanied the representative to the capital city. Both have secured places with that body. Attorney Sands will be roll clerk in the house and Dean will have a place in the senate. Attorney Dean served in the last Indiana state senate. He will possibly remain with the senate during the entire session. Sands’ appointment is for a period of twenty days, which is as long as he can spare from his duties here. He is city treasurer and county attendance officer.

The selection of Mr. Sands to this important position is hot only a compliment to him but is indicative of the standing of our representative, Mr. Wood, in the lower law making branch of the state. Dean made an excellent record for efficiency in the last session of the senate and in an interview with our senator, Will Brown, we were assured that Dean would get a good place - While Mr. Sands is in Indianapolis his office here will be in charge of Private Junior Benjamin, who has just lately been. discharged from army

Statement of the condition of th® z first national Bank z AT RENSSELAER, INDIANA At the close of business on Decemiber 31, 1918, Z RESOURCES z ■ Tand -discounts, including rediscounts, (except those shown in b and c)5475,115.96 $475,115.96 Dodtucts Overdrafts 2,661.65 U. S. bonds dep. to secure circulation (par val.) 25,000.00 U. S. bonds and certificates of indebtedness pledged to secure postal savings dep. (par val.) 7,000.00 U. S. bonds and certificates of indebtedness owned and unpledged • 81,500.00 113,500.0(X Liberty loan bonds, 3%, 4 and 4% pct, unpledged 70,342.55 Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including —— . ... — . stocks owned, unpledged 1,300.00 1,300.00 Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 pct. of sub.) 2,400.00 Value of banking house 28,000.00 28,000.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 6,061.25 Real estate owned other than banking house.... 5,000.00 Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve 8ank..... . 34,206.53 Gash in vaults and net amount due from national banks 23,948.12 Checks on other banks in the same city or town las reporting (bank ... . , .i. ... 3,792.x7 Total of last three items ... ... . 27,740.99 Checks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items 1,945.94 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer . 1,250.00 Interest earned (but not collected—approximate—on notes and bills receivable not past due.. ... - r 11,182.83 Other assets, if any 9,606.14 Total $790,313.84 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $60,000.00 Surplus fund. 20,000.00 Undivided profits . ... . $ 32,956.53 32,956.53 Interest and discount collected or credited, in advance of mat’y and not earned (approximate) 193.45 Circulating notes outstanding 25,000.00 Net amounts due to banks, bankers and trust Co.’s 1,276.36 Total of items 32 and 33 . . . 1,276.36 Demand Deposit* subject to Reserve: Individual deposits subject to check 438,815.42. Certified checks 1,750.00 Dividends unpaid . 3,000.00 Total of demand"deposits, subject to reserve... . 443,565.42 Certificates of, deposit (other than for money borrow’ed). » . ' 111,969.53 Postal savings deposits 4,549.05 Total of time deposits subject to reserve 116,518.58 War loan deposit accduht 13,998.52 13,998.52 Bills payable, other than with -Federal Reserve Bank, including all obligations representing money borrowed, other than rediscounts *’20,000.00 Liabilities other than those stated ab0ve....... . 56,804.98 Total .;. ’ / $790,313.84 I, J. N. Leatherman, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Z J- N. LEATHERMAN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of January, 1919. George A. Williams, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: My commission,expires Aug. 29, 1922. R. A. PARKISON, — K -Z’ Z . ’ • ’ GEO. E. MURRAY, EDD J. RANDLE, ». Directors.

MONDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

’ Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Catt entered the hospital with Jfifluenza. The Doctor is' some better today but Mrs. Catt is very sick. E. E. Smithy the contractor, entered the hospital Sunday with pneumonia following influenza, and is very sick. Mrs. Ernest Lamson is improving and is aible to sit dp a short time each day."'- ■- <5 John Evers, of Fair Oaks, left the hospital, today. • Mrs. Riley Miller, Mrs. Jesse Gwin, Loretta Pickner, Mrs. A. S. Lowman, i Mrs. Floyd Gratner and Baby Clyde • Walker are all 'improving. 2

DEATH ENDS LONG ILLNESS

ANOTHER CIVIL WAR VETERAN DESERTS COMRADS THIN- ' NING RAfiKS

John Q. Alter until three years ago the carrier on rural route three out of this city "died at his home on Park Ave., Sunday, January 12, 1919, at 4:30 p. m. He gave up this work on account of illness and since that time has been in very poor health and was a great sufferer. The last fourteen months of the three years pf suffering he was confined to his bed. His ■illness was the result of a sunstroke in the Civil war and on Thanksgiving day 1917 he had a stroke of paralysis which with complications caused his death. The deceased was born Dec . 28, 1844. He served almost three years in Co. A of the 87th Indiana and was one of the youngest men in the Civil war. Whale he had suffered greatly during his long illness, death came peacefully and he passed away in quiet sleep. He is survived /by his wife, three daughters and on> son. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church Tuesday, January 14, at’ 2:00 p. m. He was a member of the local lodges Grand Army of the Republic and Independent order of Odd Fellows.

The brood sows at Chauncey Huntington’s sale Jan. 15, are good ones and will farrow from April 1 to 15. :zzzzzzz.

We have just unleaded another car of the good old Aristos flour. This is a strictly all-wheat flour, the same as before the war. Aristos is the highest flour made. Eger’s Grocery. »

Private Sylvester Schwage, of St. Mary, Hl., but who. entered the army service from here has received an honorable discharge from the camp at the Deaf Institute at Indianapolis dna has again resumed his work on one of the Lawler ranches here.

Anyone wishing toses mo wfll find ipe at the Trust * Savings bank on Saturday afternoons. H. O. Banis. Phono 124.

Following Poem was received this morning from one of our customers now with the army of occupation in Germany. “Scotty,” I am coming back, Silver threads among the black, As at last the peace talk nears I’ll be home in seven years. “I’ll come in to you for clothes, With white whiskers to my toes; You can hear the censors curse, ‘War is h—, ’ but peace is worse. “When the next war comes around In the front ranks I’ll be found. I’ll rush in at once, pell, mell, Yes, I will, like h—.like h—.” Try it to the tune of ‘ ‘Silver Threads Among the Gold” It works fine!

CARPENTER TOWNSHIP IS OVER THE TOP ON W. S. S.

One year ago the apportionment was made for the sale of War Savings Stamps, the $5 kind, throughout the United States of S2O per capita, including men, women and children. A full year was allowed in which to make these sales, and it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that we are able to announce that the township of Carpenter has, as usual, done herself proud and reached the full quota within the year, and not only so, but has gone over the quota by about SIOO. Postmaster O’Riley gives us the figures on these sales which -ended on December 31st, when he returned to the department all stamps of the 1918 series he had on hand. A new series will be issued to take care of the 1919 buyers of stamps. There are in Carpenter township 1,970 people and there have ibeen sold 7,904 W. S. 5., ( amounting in all to $39,520. -All this business went through the local post office, though the bank working in connection therewith make a part of the sales. People of Carpenter can always be depended upon to do their full share on any worthy service that may be put onto them. They are to be congratulated on this spirit and especially where such a vast sum of money was collected in such little dribs. Postmaster O’Riley also comes in for the heartiest of congratulations for his untiring efforts in getting the township over the top. He was the chairman of the War Savings Stamps Committee. —Remington Press.

DOES NOT LOVE THE KAISER.

Phon, Mont., Jan. 6, 1919. Editor Hamilton. Dear Sir: —Am sending two dollars for subscription renewal, as the time expires the latter part of this month and it takes so long for the mail -to get through as a rule. We don’t want to be delinquent. We miss a paper once in a while anyway, and it is like losing a letter from one of the children. We sure enjoy the letters you publish written by the soldier boys. We are sure thankful there will be as many return to the good old U. S. A. as there will. Wish they could all have been saved and returned unharmed. What gets me is to think that that inhuman murderer, the kaiser, is allowed to still be at large. They only Laid down their arms to save their own country from destruction, but they should have had a dose of their own kind of medicine. They still need to he watched more closely than ever. Wishing you a successful New Year, we are, Yours respectfully, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hohnes.

DAUGHTER OF PATRICK HALLIGAN SERIOUSLY INJURED

Pauline Halligan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Halligan, of Dunkirk, Ind., was very severely injured Sunday in Chicago as she was returning to her home from church- Miss Halligan is employed in a railroad office- in Chicago. - ■ s Joseph Halligan, an uncles of the injured girl, went to Chicago this morning on the early train.

TEMPERATURE. » The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Mis. January 10 ..ri....28 ( 9 January 11 ...41 15 January 12 .AO 14 January 13 .... . .41 34

MONDAY’S WEATHER.

Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Colder Tuesday and in north anfl west portions tonight.

NOTICE TO BOY SCOUTS.

AM Boy Scouts are requested to meet Monday evening, Jan,ls. Eats. J. M. SAU SER, ; Seout Master

LONGHI SKIRTS; FRENCH HEELS

WILL BE PREVAILING STYLES THIS YEAR, SAYS FRANK P. MEYER. ' v Longer and tighter skirts and high styles in America this coming spring, Frank P. Meyer? newly elected Secretary-treasurer of the National Shoe Retailers association, who returned to his home in 'Danville, m.» Thursday from St. Louis, where he attended the convention where shoe styles for the coming year are set. The Danville man, a former Rensselaer boy and son of Mrs. Mary Meyer, of this city, now a member of the shoe firm of Cavanaugh & Meyer, had the second highest honor in the gift of the national association conferred upon him, as he was elected to the second highest office. He was also chosen a director of the national association for three years. T. J. Geutling, of Philadelphia, was elected president. The convention was the greatest ever held by the national association. The delegates adopted a resolution expressing their confidence in President Woodrow Wilson, and their belief that, through him, the coming year will see the greatest business in the history of the country. Optimism, said Mr. Meyer, was the keynote of the convention. The 1920 convention will be held in Boston, Mass. The convention which came to a close at St. Louis Wednesday was attended by 1,900 retail dealers, representing the trade from every section of the United States, and 500 manufacturers. “America will not depend upon Paris for styles this year,” said Mr. Meyer. The latest reports from the style centers of the Frenchmetropolis are that shorter skirts will be worn, but in this country the skirts will be longer, but much tighter than now worn. This will call for high French heels, and for the early spring the popular foot year will be Oxford ties and pumps. The new styles are already in effect in St. Louis, where the national shoe convention was held. In speaking of the new styles, the national secretarytreasurer said: “The well-dressed woman, as seen in St. Louis, hopped along like a grasshopper. Her skirts are so long and tight that it is absolutely necessary for her to be well shod. “For the first time in the history of America,” said Mr. Meyer, “tins country will be independent of Paris in styles, so far as women’s footwear is concerned. Heretofore this country waited for Paris to set the styles, but this year the United States will be independent of Paris, and will adopt styles of our own. This is just one of the effects of the war.”

MILK PRICES RAISED.

On account of the cost of all lands of feed we are compelled to rane the price of milk. Bran is from $55.00 to $60.00 per ton and dairy feeds are $75.00 per ton. Prices of milk from now on will bo as follows: .. Quart, 12 cents. Pint, 7 cents. JOHN DUVALL. EDWARD DUVALL. KELLNER & SON. MRS. WM. MACKEY.

POTTER A SAWYER SEED HOUSE

Now. is the time to sell your timothy and clover seed for the market/ Remember, we buy and eefi all kinds of seed, and also make a specialty of cleaning grain for rnnving. POTTER & SAWYER Phone 7, Rensselaer, Indiana.

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