Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1919 — HAPPENINGS in the CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Gettysburg Sees Something Different From Battle GETTYSBURG, PA. —Can the post office and the schoolhouse be linked 1 together in a successful co-ordination of producers and consumers of foodl The people of Park View district, Washington, D. C., have a flourishing com-

munity ecu LUI'. TII6 ddhflmirilty Stvtetary. is a postal station agent. One of the motortruck routes from Washington leads to Gettysburg, Pa. In this region hundreds of tons of vegetables, fruit, and so forth, have rotted simply for lack of a market. The route passes through Mount Joy township, Adams county, Pa., which is on the edge of the historic battlefield of Gettysburg. The producers gathered in , the Two Tavern schoolhouse and formed the Mount Joy

Community association. The teacher was made the community secretary and a postal agent of 1 the motor transport service of the post office department,. The motortruck stops each morning at the schoolhouse and picks up the crates of eggs, containers of butter, boxes of poultry, etc. These goods are delivered_the same evening at- the Park View schoolhouse in Washington and there distributed to the people of the community. The list of prices Is sent each week by the Mount Joy community secretary to the Park View community secretary. Orders are sent out and the goods shipped as desired. Payment is made by check weekly, and the community secretary at Mount Joy keeps the records of the shipments made by each farmer and makes payments accordingly. It is the first direct communication between rural and urban communities by means of the motor transport service in American history. It is but the beginning, for already the Washington community is demanding more than the entire, output of the township and other organizations are being formed to meet the demand. At-Gettysburg 55years ago was fought the greatest battle on American soil. There, on the site of battle where men went through blood and fire because of disunion and secession, has begun a movement for unity and co-operation. Children and Soldiers in a Red Cross Canteen CHICAGO.— Kenneth, eight years old; Keith Bernard, seven, and Dimples Barbara Hayes, “five and one-half, goin’ on six.” spent a day at the Red Cross canteen, 309 South Michigan avenue. Kenneth and Keith and Dimples

arrived that morning from Montesena, Wash., on their way to join their grandma, Mrs. C. £. Hayes, who lives at Norris, Ky. Just a month ago the three children lost their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hayes, who died of the influenza. Then Aunt Ida, who “didn’t have no other name,” took the three under her wing and gave them a home. A week later she, too, was dead of the malady. Neighbors took counsel and a col-

lection. Kenneth and Keith and Dimples were bundled up in their warmest clothing, tagged through to Norris, given $3, and started on their From the time the big train pulled out of Tacoma, their life was a round>of pleasure. For four days they delighted their felloe passengers, who took up a collection that raised their currency from .$3 to $36. A passenger agent at Union station called up Mrs. Joseph T. Ryerson, who sent her car for the children. In the canteen were soldiers who seemed to be homeless also. Dimples Introduced herself and got ,the history of each one. . * • Kenneth sat still and stately as becomes a man and managed the other two as best he might. Keith’s ulcerated tooth —it didn’t pain much and kept him In the limelight—was lanced. At supper Kenneth said “grace.” When a reporter was assisting the lady in straightening her clothes for a picture she confided in a whisper that her “bloomers was red, too, and they run red water when they was washed.” The children resumed their journey at 9:20 that night, three in a berth. Cupid and Cupidity at Indiana’s Marriage Mill CROWN POINT. IND. —Forty-odd miles south by southeast, as Cupid flies, lies Crown Point, Jnd., famous as a “lovers’ leap,” where marriage is made easy while you wait. Intrenched deeply in the affections of the town is an institution known as the “mar--k ifft * 1 f / ' riage mill” that grinds out the daily bread of a number Point’s I fIGHV Vo? influential citizens. V-Y —' And Crown Point is sore! And k VTxxdß/iV >7 POINT YqR,-} Crown Point is sore at -Chicago. And p | Crow-n Pdinf ‘is Sore" At Chicago" . P uilT I cause the Chicago newspapers have \ jA \ . I published the statement that With the \ ZX »r approval of Governor Goodrich of InZ I nW diana solons of that state were preeye- r<>/V paring to passl a law requiring a residence of one year in the -state on the part of one of the applicants for a marriage license. The repeated declarations of Chicago divorce judges that “quick and easy” marriages cause most matrimonial mismating prompted the proposed action. There were 4,028 marriage licenses issued in Crown Point last year. Practically all of the applicants were wed in the town, and practically all by two justices of the peace. The standard fee Ik $5. Up to November 4, election day. Justice of the Peace Harry B. Nicjiolson had been performing the “Bless you, my children,” act at $5 and up per scene. He was defeated and he to Florida for the winter with his family. He Is declared to have performed 18,000 marriages in office. Village gossip places the number much higher. & Herbert Wheaton, clerk of Lake county, has declared war. “We’ll fight to the finish any attempt to pass a law to stop marrying In Crown Point. I don’t see why Chicago wants to butt in on our affairs. It’s none of Chicago’s business what goes on in Indiana.”

Where Names and Business Fit; It Is to Laugh NEW YORK. —Among the features of this cosmopolitan city that furnish amusement without cost to many observant residents are names over stores and business establishments. The appropriateness of the nomenclature-

to the calling is sometimes startling ~anß generally amusing? Here are a few of the most striking of the names found in singular JtiXtapositlon to -Jmsinossesu-atulJ callings and which seem almost like humorous fiction: Foddb er, hay and "oats ; Vamp, shoemaker; K’ene, laundry; Tieman, haberdasher;Goodman,pastor; Eiseman, optometrist; Piper, orchestra leader; Jim Rub, Chinese laundryman; Berry, undertaker; Lott, real estate; Rapper

& I\lingwell, cjoaks and suits; Holder, trunks and bags; Ketcham, private detective agency; Takhme, photographer; Dire, steeplejack; Sterling, silversmith; Burns, kindling wood'; Tinker, tinsmith; Stitcher, cobbler; Healin, physician; Rickey, liquor dealer; Smokanh, cigar dealer; Black, blacksmith; Korn, chiropodist; Pullerti, dentist; Waver, hairdresser; Waters, milk dealer; Brakehue, stocks and bonds; Swift, expressman; Smashitt, moving electrician; Glem. lamps; Nqyeg, boilermaker; Smith, hoiseshoer; Keys, locksmith; Dyer, cleaning and dyeing; Goodshowe. theatrical manager; Skinner, taxidermist; Snow, ice dealer; Sha-pe. cutlery; Bright, illuminated signs; Pyle, dock builder; Shlpinann, stevedore; Taylor,? tailor; Feeder, restaurant keeper; Kohlers, paints and varnish; Baker,’ baker: Sweetman, confectioner; Penny-packer,/ toy banks; pain, glazier; Hammersmith, hardware; Wright, public stenographer; Fir gers,public ...accountant. .....