Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — Page 1

No. 19.

Slightly damaged Odd Dressers in Ivory, Walgreatly reduced prices. gg One Ivory marked to sell $37.50 we offer at $22 . One Walnut marked to sell at $35.00 we offer at $25. - . One Mahogany marked to sell at S2B we offer at $20.00. _ _ : . W, J. WRIGHT

CAFETERIA DINNER.

At the Christian church at 5:30 p. mr Wednesday evening, Jan. 22: Baked ham and horse radish. .. .15 Chicken and biscuits 15 Mashed potatoes 05 Noodles 05 Baked beans ....... .07 Scolloped tomatoes .05 Cabbage salad 05 Potato salad • • • • -07 Pickles .01 Bread 01 Butter 02 Pie 05 Doughnuts .. .............. f • -03 Coffee 05 Tea . , ... . . . . • • .05

FIRST CLASS SHOE REPAIRING SHOP AND RUBBER BOOTS MENDED ' AT THE JOHN WISEMAN WITH THE MILNER TIRE SHOP

FROM EDWARD PEREGRINE.

The following letter was received from Edward Peregrine (this Wednesday a. m. by a friend. Ed was reported killed in action but the fol lowing is proof that this was false: Neuenahr, Germany,. December 22, 1918. Dear Friend• ----- Received your letter of November 11th. Sure was glad to hear from you Well, you can tell the people that I am in Germany, living in town now. Not used to it but guess we will get by all right in a foreign This division is lin very close quarters now, especially the 150 Reg. 1 may get to see Edward Rose now. He is in the H. Q. company. I have not seen him lately but guess he is Ames is in the hospital now. It iyvas reported he had the nu. I don’t know how he is getting along but hope all right. t> . The war is 'over over here 'and we are only waiting for the time to come for us to return. We are very,

princess theatre I, " Y " ““ TONIGHT _,_ —. ‘ a-w «-> »i * i THURSDAY—ENID BENNETT . JEWEL SPECIAL PRODUCTION DOROTHY PHILLIPS , “THE VAMP” “A SOUL FOR SALE” FATTY ARBUCKLE COMEDY ■ Six Act* '' ~ The biggest special attraction o f the aeaaon. Wm. Fox .present* ~ hi* million dollar picture beautiful _ “A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS” With ANTONETTE KELLERMAN Beautiful scene* down in the B ahama Island*, where a . city was built and burned. The world’s most famous diving beauties will be seen in this production, the most s pectacular picture ever made. Ifc and 25c. " _ MARY PICKFORD ; “HOW COULdVqU JEAN" PRINCESS LUNCH A GOOD PLACE TO FRESH OYSTERS^BRICK ICE CREAM. HOME MADE PIES. FRE9H LINE OF ALLRGRETTI’S CANDIES. ■ v; ' - : :

The Evening Republican.

anxious for it to come. But if you knew how we f ought amid the fiercest of the battles, and the strain that has been on us boys you would think that we would ail ibe tired and worn out, but to the last moment we were eager to follow up the Huns. We had many hardships to go through with but now it don’t seem hard. —We are billeted in a very nice town and have everything as handy as one could expect. We have our ~ guns parked by the river and our horses are stabled in glass houses in a park. A hot spring is in the park. —We get wonderful baths, baths that people have paid lots of money to get. It is “hot mineral water.” This place is a summer resort for rich people. Our kitchen us in a hotel, and we have tables to set down to, though we are not used to it. It seems rather strange. See. Neuenahr is about 30 kilometers from Coibling or a few hours walk from the Rhine river. We can see the Rhine from a mountain close by. We are taking care of our horses and doling close order drill every day. The chaplain announced at the Y. last night that we would be on our way home not later than January 10, 1919. It is very encouraging to us. I will dose for this time, hoping you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Tell everybody hello for me. I remain, Your friend, PVT. EWD. PEREGRINE. P. -S.—Here are a couple of powder bags that I got while leaving the front. The Germans left these in the hasty retreat. I empti d the powder out of them. They regulate their charges by putting in or taking out these small bags of powder The armistice was signed Nov. 11 at 5:45. Hostilities ceased at 11 a. m. -

WAR MOTHERS TO ENTERTAIN RETURNED SOLDIERS

The War Mothers of Jasper County will entertain the returned soldiers at the court house Saturday afternoon, January 25. All returned soldiers are extended a very special invitation to attend this mooting and the general public is requested to be present arid assist. There will be eats, music and dancing. Special for this week, 4 cans of good tomato soup for 25c. A can of pure apple sauce or apple butter for 10c. Eger’s Grocery.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1919.

GERMANY MUST PAY HEAVILY

COLONEL GEORGE H. HEALEY SEVERELY CENSURES GERMAN CRUELTY. (Fourth Installment.) I visited the German 34th division headquarters. They must hav# abandoned this very hurriedly for it was left in considerable disorder and there was left behind a vast amount of material. It was fairly well concealed in a dense woods of small trees. The barracks were well built, the store houses convenient. 'There was all sorts of ammunition from the small arms to the 155 cms. There were all sorts of flares and hand grenades and fuse caps and powder sacks. There were tons of nails of various sizes and thousands of feet of lumber. There were German rifles scattered about the woods and many cases of machine gun ammunition. There were canteens, mess outfits, helmets, hammers, wire cutters, saws, axes, picks, shovels, blankets, overcoats, boots, shoes, bayonets, stoves, and-kegs and kegs of bolts and screws. I procured a number of souvenirs but have no idea that I will be able to get many of them home with me. I saw a rifle lying alongside a shell hole and near it a helmet with a 'bullet hoile through it. A German boot protruded from' the ground and one of the officers caught hold of it and found that a partially covered German body was attached. He beat- a hasty retreat; I got the helmet but it was stolen before I got back to Langres. ' • I took a couple of keys from the houses that the Germans had built on the hillside overlooking their camp and the country for many miles around. These 'houses were well built The commanding general had a fiveroom brick house with a porch extending across the front and with a tunnel from the rear into the 'large dugout in the side of the hill. The houses of other officers were along the hillside A duckboard walk extended 'down the hillside some 400 feet and between all the houses of the officers. Five great tanks almost on the 4 crest of the hill furnished water for the entire camp. Observation posts were on the top of the hill commanding a view of the French positions for many miles. The whole camp had been built with the apparent idea that the occupants had come to stay. It was beyond the range of our artillery but some forward buildings had been struck and there were evidences of a hasty departure. A railroad switch ran into the very heart of the camp. The stables for the animals were well built. There were tons of barbed wire. , ,

One gets tired looking at the -shattered buildings, yet each tells the story of war’s relentlessness. Occasionally a tall wall stood alone, supported by only a few stones and looking as though it might tumble over any moment. It marked a sign post of German horror. And when a calm council of the nations that brought the mad rulers of Germany to a halt is gathered to assess the toll I can see no reason' why every stone should not be figured in the cost. I remember saying one day when the United States seemed committed to take a hand in the conflict that there was no such thing as being ankle deep in the war. Some thought we would never send troops to France but they came and fortunate they did. There is no doubt what the result w’ould otherwise have been and with Germany controlling France and England and the seas America

would have been in a sad plight. It has cost heavily but it has saved the world for democracy and there have arisen great new duties and responsibilities. We should take steps to secure for America greater advantages of the sea. We have the future as wel las the present to consider. In fact it is the future with which we should particularly concern ourselves. We have lived too much in the present. The story of the war will gradually unwind. The people at home will have their eyes opened to the needless sacrifices of the war. They will learn at what tremendous cost it was fought. They will learn that even at last we were without artillery, without aeroplanes, without trained officers, without equipment, without sufficient trucks, without hundreds of things that might have been provided had the lessons of the Spanish-America nwar been considered. There will now be a tendency no doubt, with the hope for a world perpetual peace, to forego further preparation. But we should consider that preparation is against war and that in preparedness lies our greatest security. (Concluded tomorrow.)

DONALD BEAM DISCHARGED FROM NAVY

A telegram was received from Donald Beam this morning stating that he had been discharged from the navy and would arrive in Chicago this Wednesday eveninfe at 9:30 o’clock. Mrs , Donald Beam went to Chicago to meet him. jy;. T '

. / —— We have on track a car of high grade clean burning eastern tamp coaL D. E. Grow. 8

RAPS GOVERNOR GOODRICH

DOES NOT LIKE CENTRALIZATION PLANNED BY INDIANA EXECUTIVE. | | _” L . Here is another letter from our odd friend, Clarence Fate, of Crown Point, in which terms not ambiguous are used in reference to Governor Goodrich’s message to the present Indiana legislature: ■• . , Crown Point, Ind., " ""“""Jan. 20, 1919. Mr. Mose Leopold, Rensselaer, Ind. 4 Dear Mose:— I have been reading the Governor’s message to the 71-st Session of the Indiana State Legislature. Some message believe me. 'Say Mose—Conditions have been changing mighty fast, or we have been sending a lot of dummies down there in the past. Why, the way I make-him, everything is wrong-g-ex-' cept the State Boundary Lines, and nothing sure about that. If we need all the changes he suggests—we are in almost as bad shape as Russia, and maybe thats giving Russia a shade the worst of it. We’ve been singing “Indiana,” “The Banks of the Wa'bash” and hollering our heads off what a fine State we have, when we are standing on the ragged edge all the time. Justbecause *we have been squandering all our money—nominating and electing men to the State Offices we wanted them to have. All wrong Mose, all wrong. All we would have had to have done, was to have left it to our Govenors, and went on with our Fall Plowing. Funny thing Mose. Just as soon as a Goven-or signs a Thanksgiving Proclamation, right away, he thinks he is the bird who invented that day and that the office he holds, was handed down to him like the family clock. Of course we have got to have these Govenors, same as a ball game has got to have Umpires. But like the Umpires they are not supposed to make the rules neither do they have any thing to do with the Box Score except to see that the game is played on the Square. You know wjiat I mean—We hav’n’t gone down for the third time, we aren’t gasping for breath. We still have life and sense • enough to hire our own players and arrange the batting order. Ail this Bird wants is Ceritralazation of Power. The Appointing of certain Officers—(Meaning everything except the VUllage Night. Watch. H—’ll Mose that’s all the Kaiser wanted. And we just got through arguing that an proved the Kaiser was wrong. Supposing (that Tom Marshall had been called >on to fill the State Offices, while he was Govenor. Fine. Wouldn’t he have chosen some Heavy Hitters. Why he admits, he wouldn’t have known there was such a man as Theodore Roosevelt, if he hadn’t seen his name in the Telephone Directory, or something Ifike that. Why that bird thinks Washington made good, by being the first to cross the Deleware during the Spring Thaws and Abe Lincoln did nothing but split rails. He’d have given us a fine set of brains. If we draw a blank in our selection of a Governor, it isn’t going to hurt much, the way things are now. We are taking enough chances —why go any /further.

Let me tell you something, Mose, the Men who have hatted five hundred or better in this United States League were selected by the people and not appointed, because they could deliver a certain Ward or County. You want to sort of shy at that Appointment Stuff Mose. Because the Bird who does the Appointing, might decide that the brains are all in his family. You know what I mean —Its awful hard not to give your own folks a shade the best of it. You know Your own Kids are always a lot brighter than your neighbors. With the Czar an also ran, the Kaiser spending the winter in Holland and the Crown Prince looking for a Job on The Section-, jt seems to me that the Patent has run out on that Centeralization of Power Stuff. Now I want you to get me right Mose, I am not sore at govenors because you have to 'have them- And I am not sore at our own, because I think he is alright as Govenors go. You know what I mean. If he hit one over the fence, I think he would make first base—ls he didn’t;, fall down.

But I think we ought to find some scheme, to impress it upon these birds, THAT THEY ARE NOT THE FIRST GOVENOR THIS STATE HAS EVER HAD. That they are working for the People, just Hke a hired hand, only more money and no Chores. And arty time the Hared Hand tries to tell you how to rotate your crops Its time to get a new hand or else sell out to him. Hoping that we will make a seventh inning rally and bat these ideas all over the lot, I am, Your f riend, C. P. FATE.

Oil sardines Bc. Large cans of mustard, tomato or oil sardines 15c. Pink salmon, the large, cans, 20c. John Eger. " •

' ~ ~ ‘ -7 - ♦ - "fTra, . All Wool Best Quality Blue Serge , ~."■■■ Lr'; 7> \. No. \ / T r here must be one..-best \ A of everything. In serge .. \ suits this is our best. And it AJ is the finest product of the I I i tailor’s art. The finest ma- : Okß|B LO]// | terial is as nothing if it has . . I not been made into the f ini' / ished garment by expert I J workmen. This fabric is / the best quality of all wool :.'•:.• / blue serge. Coat is three- ’ Z button with soft pressed laZ pel- Regular pockets with " AZ flaps. Lined with alpaca. / / Trousers are regular style / w ith watch, side and hip 'e. pockets and cuff ft f (bottoms. Priced JU

HEALTH AS A COMMUNITY ASSET

The greatest asset a community can have is healthy citizens. As there are no means of scientifically bringing about this happy condition, it remains for the individual to do the best with his mind and body that he can for his community. Our progressive ladies have invited Mrs. Louise L. Mclntyre to return for a course of health lectures and instructions. . . , . , : It will be remembered that Mirs. Mclntyre was here last summer with the Lincoln Chautauqua, and her lectures aroused so much enthusiasm that many desire her return. It is-not often that any but larger cities can secure such a nationally famous lecturer, and as a matter of civic pride, we urge all who possibly, can do to take advantage of her’ talks, so they may profit by what has been accomplished in various parts of the country by Mrs. Mclntyre.

WILL HOLD PUBLIC SALE ON FEBRUARY 10, 1919 Henry Smith and Cyrus Lohr will hold a public sale on February 10, 1919.1% miles north and 1 3-4 miles east of Brook. I . • ' . BOSTON FERNS. Must have the room. You may have these beautiful Boston ferns, regular price $1.50, for SI.OO as long as they last. F. O. B. Greenhouse. John H. Holden. Phone 426.

FREE HEALTH LECTURE TUESDAY, JANUARY 28TH, AT 7:45 P. M. AT METHODIST CHURCH Subject, “PHYSICAL PREPAREDNESS” Men and Women WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29TH AT 7:45 P. M. AT PRESBYTRIAN CHURCH Subject, “WHAT A WOMAN AND MOTHER SHOULD KNOW” Women Only — BY MRS. LOUISE L McINTYRE

NEAR FATAL POWDER ACCIDENT

Private William H Minniear, who for the past four months has been in he army at several different camps in this country, received his honorable discharge at Gamp Taylor Jan. 17 and is now at home. Private Minniear was in Camp Grant and later at Pennond, Va., in' a powder factory. At the last place he was near an explosion which kilted fifteen men.

START ON FINE TRIP.

Margaret Babcock, daughter\ of Mir. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock, and Gwendolyn' Kannal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ’Harvey'Kananl, left this morning for a fine trip through the southern part of this country. The girls were accompanied to Chicago by Mr. Babcock. They will be met in Chicago today by Helen Leatherman, who is attending Northwestern University, at Evanston, 18. Later in the evening they will leave for Nashville, Tenn. Here they will spend a few days and then will enjoy an outing at Chattanooga. From the latter city they will go to Atlanta, Georgia, for an extended stay. They will also Visit at Greenville, Ga. Returning home they will comet by the way of Washington, D. C.

KILLED RED FOX.

Joseph Norman was in Rensselaer Tuesday exhibiting a large red fox which he had killed near his home close to Fair Oaks. . ' Joe feltr much toward this animal as the Belgians felt toward the Huns as it had been destroying his property. The animal was as large as a half grown shepherd dog and undoubtedly while alive Was able to do considerable damage among the chickens, pigs and lambs. It is understood that there is a bounty of $lO on fox scalps and the hide is worth $20.00 or more.

AIX PIE SOCIAL.

There will be a pie, social at Aix school house Saturday, Jan. 25, 1919. Short program. Girls bring paes . • J

MAYOR GOT SMART.

Miss G. B. Smart, who for sometime had been selling lamps in this community, and whose Overland automobile was burned near Lee sometime ago, was fined SIO.OO and costs by Mayor C. G. Spitler last Sunday for raffling off a phonograph It is reported that the Mayor assessed the minimum fine on condition that the lady would leave town at once. This she thought best to do. Fine and costs amounted to $21.90.

Girls Wanted TO DO SEWING AT THE Rensselaer Garment Factory Time Wages While Learning. RENSSELAER GARMENT FACTORY

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Mm. January 22 54

FAIR OAKS MAN ON A SPREE LOSES HIS CASH

William Baker, of Fair Oaks, Ind., who came to Kankakee Saturday for a spree, was found last night by Night Yardmaster Healey of the Illinois Central lying beside the tracks near the Huckins coal sheds. Baker was badly bruised up, his hip being the worst hurt. Whether he fell from a train or got on the tracks and was bumped off by an engine he does not know. Baker was brought to the police station Where Dr. Smith attended him. All his money was gone. When he recovers the city will buy him a railroad ticket and send him home.— Monday’s Kankakee Gazette.

Star Theatre —The House ot Good Pietwree TODAY Paralta Program BESSIE BARRISCALE “WITHIN THE CUP” ~~ A 7 Reel Foature THURSDAY—“NANCY COMES HOME” Featuring MYRTLE LIND ALSO COMEDY . FRIDAY— ; i GLADYS BROCKWELL —IN ' -■ “HER ONE MISTAKE" SATURDAY— —— “THE ROAD TO FRANCE" A 7 Reel World Special Featuring CARLYLE BLACKWELL Aad EVYLINE GREELEY MURIEL OSTRICHE

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