Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1919 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

No, 32.

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ST. JOSEPH IN FIRST REVERSE

HEZE CLARK’S GOBS PUT AN END TO WINNING STREAK OF LOCAL FIVE 38 TO 19. The rotund Heze Clark and his undefeated Great Lakes basketball crew slipped quietly into town last night, donned their uniforms, trounced the undefeated St. Joseph five and then took a night rattler for Greencastle, Indiana, where they are to meet the DePauw university quintet tonight in what promises to be one of the most sensational encounters of the season in Indiana basketball circles. . Although the sailors doubled the score on the local five, the contest was fast throughout and the lighter collegians gave Hezekiah and his gang a fine little surprise party and had them considerably worried until well toward the close of the final half, when the Gobs got their bearings and spurted far to the front. Although St. Joseph was always within striking distance of the Chicagoans, it iwas apparent to the average spectator that Clark had his men under wraps'and was content with a slight advantage in the point column that his charges might preserve their strength and energy for the harder tussel this evening. However, Heze did, not hold his opponents too cheaply and did not venture to pull one of his first string men from the fracas. - St. Joseph took the lead when Rose sank the ball through the net after about three minutes of play. The sailors evened up matters quickly and the teams remained on an even footing for several minutes until the Red and Purple sharpshooters netted the ball twice in rapid succession, giving theari a four-point margin. HowevefTthe bulk and better condition of the sailor lads soon told on the collegians and the pistol shot found the Great Laikes five leading at half-time 22 to 14. St. Joseph spurted at the start of the final stanza and came within four points of tying the count. But the strenuous effort weakened them and thereafter the invaders started

PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT . ELSIE- FERGUSON —l> ELI E w ; ~ ;, ; ALSO GOOD COMEDY SATURDAY——CECIL B. DE MILLE —■ “THE WHISPERING CHORUS” - - ..... „■ .~± i—— MONDAY—NORMA TALMADGE \ ' —IN—“THE HEART OF WETONA” TUESDAY—ALICE JOYCE ■ ■ —ln—- . “WOMAN BETWEEN FRIENDS” GOOD COMEDY

ARTHUR FLETCHER MARRIED.

Mrs. Frank Shide has received a letter from her brother, Arthur Fletcher, saying that he was married at Galveston, Texas, on Jan. 13. He is now at Camp Taylor under quarantine, so doesn’t expect to be home before about March 1. Arthur, before going into service, was the moving picture machine operator for W. C. Milliron at the Star Theatre. The Republican joins in wishing the young couple long years of happiness and prosperity.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. / The churches, business men, merchants and a few others in Rensselaer have contributed liberally towards the fund now being raised in Jasper county -for the relief of the starvign people in Asia Minor. The canvas in the business section has been completed, but in the residence sections many people have not had the opportunity to contribute to this worthy cause 'because of the inability of the committee to secure workers, and these people are invited and appealed to to send their contributions direct to the undersigned at the Red Cross room. Members of churches who were handed cards at the churches and who have not yet returned them, are requested to kindly return them to the undersigned, whether filled in or blank. J. M. Sauser, Chairman County Committee, A. & S. Relief.

hitting the basket with monotonous regularity, running their total to 38 for the evening. The work of Von and Tilleson featured the play of the visitors, while Rose was the shining light for the home five. The Lakes five is made up of some of the best athletic timber in the Middle West and every man is a star in his position. St. Joseph need not feel humiliated by their defeat at the hands of such an aggregation. Followers of the locals were pleased with the showing of the Red and Purple and proclaim them to be the fastest and shiftiest crew that has represented the institution in years. “You may say for me,” said Clark after the game, “that I have bee nacquainted with the personnel otf the various St. Joseph fives for the past several years and believe that the club we met last night is the best that has ever represented the sehool.’L

RENSSELAER. INDI AR Y 7, 1919.

OUT OF ARMY INTO GOOD JOB

SON OF PROMINENT RENSSELAER ATTORNEY IS MAKING GOOD. Edward P. Honan received a letter from his son Thursday night. The virile young man writes, “Do not address me as sergeant any more, as I am now just a plain citizen.” The father in answering will undoubtedly address his son- as “Mr. Honan.” Edward, Jr., has been discharged from Camp Funston and is now with a large independent oil refining company in Kansas. He is ■in the chemical department, and the vafue of his service to the company at the start was fixed at f 125 per month. Wq rejoice with Mr. and . Mrs. Honan in the disposition of their son to get busy immediately upon his release from the army and to exhibit in the realm of peace that high quality of citizenship which was so evident in-the conduct and character of the American soldier. The character of young men like Edward Honan, Jr., are the best proof that the Bolsheviki, I. W. W. nor any other lawless gang can destroy that high ideal for Which this government now stands and for which it has ever been ready to fight.

HAS SIX GOLD STRIPES.

(Last installment.) After quite a tramp, taking my time, .as I didnt feel like exerting myself, I came to a French aid station under the side of a steep hill. I had not come straight back so was not behind our division. This was along a main road and it was so crowded with traffic it seemed that nothing was moving at all. Artillery, ammunition trains, trucks, ambulances, British armored cars, cavalry and infantry on bicycles; the-tanks all took to the fields. Finally out of all this German-killing machinery, I espied a flivver all painted up in war colors, but a Ford just the same, and driven by a Yank, too, if he did have a French uniform on. He invited me to take the front seat, he turned around, got some other wounded in the rear, and we made for Villers•Coterets. There was not so much traffic going that way and we got to a castle by 4 o’clock. A French field hospital yas in there. A battery of 6-inch guns was just outsire firing continually, but I was all in and slept just the minute the doctor got through with me. Slept on the grass till 8 o’clock and then inside on some straw. The next morning the Yankee wounded (there were several there were put in trucks, (the ambulances were for stretcher patients) and rode to field hospital 13 once more. Pub of that truck into another, which took me to iSeulis. There were some wounded there; a train load was leaving every hour or two. I got out about eleven that night, and the next day we entrained at French mobile hospital 18, about 35 miles *west of Paris. After one day there, was taken in a French hospital train to Nantes, through LeMans and Chartres. ■Five weeks there and out to St. Aignan again. This time we went east to Dijou, then to Is-sur-Lille. I wrote from there but had to scratch the name of the place out. From Is-sur-Lille we went to Neufchateau, the nthrough Domrimy, birthplace of Joan of Arc, also through Vaucouleurs, where she went to get assistance from Sire Robert of Bandricourt, and, incidentally, where my barracks bag is stored. We got off at Sorcy, on the Meuse, where we had hiked through in January. But things had changed since then. It was an American rail head, there were American box cars; Yankee engineers; and the *' little narrowguage railway which ran up to the front had American engines, cars

and men. This was Sept. 9. We hiked to Cornieville once more, fed with the 18th Inf. supply company, slept on the floor in an old billet, and the next,morning left for Co. G somewhere up near Mont Sec. Well it was easy to see what was up. The forest was so full of artillery and horses, Yank and French, they hardly had room to turn around. There were American hospitals, with nurtes, where a Woman was not allowed last winter. We stopped in the woods with our supply company, had dinner and waited for darkness to camouflage the rest of the journey. After dark we (there were four of us) followed up the supply company wagon, through Roulencourt into Rambucourt, 500 yards from the front line trenches. The town* was so full of men that if Fritz had shelled it, it would have been a bad place to be in. But Fritz didn’t know it. - He’s not so wise as he thought The next morning, the 11th, S I foifnd the company clerks and we looked through the mail sack and found some letters for yours truly, the first since the middle of July. " . I spent the next day hunting up -old friends and enquiring about Those that weren’t there. But again that terrible strain, for I thought I knew what was on the next day, hut

OXFORD BEAT BROOK 34 TO 18

BROOK WANTS CREDIT FOR ADMITTING THAT OXFORD WON. Rensselaer papers are asked to copy the following from the Brook Reporter and this we gladly do. There can, however, be no argument. Brook admits that Oxford took them to a trimming, and when they have finished with Rensselaer, they will have to repeat the humiliating admission. The following is the article from the George Ade City trumpet, which had the Hearst American heading, RENSSELAER PAPERS PLEASE COPY: Brook chartered a train on Tuesday evening and 175 of the fans accompanied the team to Oxford, where they were trimmed by a score of 34 to 18, and for the benefit of our Rensselaer friends we will give the comments of the “unsportsmanlike,” “uncivilized,” “pumpkin buskers,” when beaten by a real ball team.

Prof. Hogg, team trainer: “The dancing floor made ’the going hard for the boys, but the main thing was that they were clearly out-played.” John Lyons, Jr.: “No kick on Oxford. They treated us fine. Gave us a good beating.” John B. Foresman, Jr. d'Tough luck, but ou£ 'boys didn’t have any license to beat them.” Postmaster McMillen: “It was a good game, but they outclassed us. I think the way they played, they could have beaten us on our own floor, but not so bad.” L. C. Lyons: “They out-played us. That’s all.” Fred Snyder: “Nothing to it, except they were too many for us." Members of the team: “The best team won. They out-played us. They were too much for us. It was their game, but we’d like to try it again.” _—_ —’ We would rather back a losing team with that spirit, than a bunch of champions who cried when they were whipped. And so the story goes. And to think of all this from a bunch of fans whom a writer in the Rensselaer Republican characterizes as “uncivilized, unsportsmanlike, pumpkin huskers.”

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.

it was worse this time than before. And again, in the evening, came that order from the top sergeant, “Make your normal packs.” ——.. About 10 o’clock we moved out in single file, across the fields, and at 1:30 were in our “jumping off place” a half hour after the barrage had started. It wasn't rapid firing like the barrage at Soissons, but seemed to be picking out its targets. It was all heavy artillery, putting the “taboo” to Heine’s batteries we hoped, Wei lit did. In the meantime, *we were pretty sleepy and had three hours to wait, so nearly everyone lay down in his place and slept, notwithstanding it was pouring down rain. First relief outside!

Dec. 9.—. Now I’ll finish this time. This is getting pretty long. To resuw: At 5 o'clock the rolling barrage started and we began to move forward. I was in the first wave this time. I think I told you about trying to cross the little stream, Mad River, after advancing through two kilos of trenches, wire and dugouts. There was not a German in the trenches. I noticed £hat the heavy shells from our batteries had fallen in their dugouts and emplacements. They certainly had complete information. Their spy system was outdone, as well as their thoroughness. Mad River was impassable by artillery ibut trucks loaded with the necessary timbers for a bridge, already cut, followed the third wave. Some engineers came up and said they had an hour before the 75’s were to cross that bridge! About three hours later, after I got hit an the leg, I came back over the same ground and the artillery had crossed, made their new positions, and were firing as if they had never moved. It was certainly queer to go down those roads in an ambulance where the day before it would have been suicide to have ventured on foot. . . I wanted to see the north side of Mont Sec, but only got around bo the side of it. That’s the nearest to Germany I’ve\ ever been. Went through field hospital 3 at Rouloncourt, 41 at Sorcy, then by train to base hospital 46, where I had the attack of fever. Fro mthere we came by American hospital train to Bordeaux, through Troyes, Orleans, Tours, Pontiers and Angouleine. I figure I’ve seen enough of France and expect to embark at Bordeaux. (J get my sixth gold stripe next Saturday.) -- , . Now this is already the longest letter I ever wrote, so I’ll close with love to all, front ' Your loving son, CLIFFORD.

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MISS IRWIN GUEST OF HONOR AT EASTERN STAR MEETING

Miss Marguerite Irwin, whose marriage to Mr. Eearl Parsons, of Logansport, Ind., will occur in the near future, was delightfully entertained at the regular meeting of the Eastern Star chapter, of which she is a member, Thursday evening. The evening was spent in music, readings, refreshments and the distributing of valentine favors. The bride-to-be was presented with a set of beautiful table spoons by,her lodge sisters. Miss Irwin has been an active and faithful worker in the lodge for sometime and the members regret exceedingly that she will not continue to make Rensselaer her home.

The new spring ‘‘bonnets” are now in for the men and young men in all the latest shades and blocks. Duvall’s Quality Shop.

Our Saturday Special Our orange sale was a great success but did not have a supply to go around to all our friends so we promised to have another thia Saturday. Oranges 28c Per Dozen 1 gal. can table peaches 60c per gal. 1 gal. can apricots 75c per gal. Pure country lard 30c. AT ROWEN’S GROCERY Phone 202.

ALFRED THOMPSON IMPROVING

E. J*. Hollingsworth returned from Chicago. Thursday evening. In the evening he had seen Mrs. Delos ■Thompson, and she reported that Alfred, who 'had been very low with pneumonia, but had been greatly benefitted by blood transfusion, underwent another operation Thursday for the removal of puss from his lungs. The physician reported this second operation to have been very successful, and that Alfred seems now to be well along the roadto recovery. This will be pleasing news to the many, many friends of Alfred in this city.

HARRY ARNOLD BUYS FARM.

Harry Arnold, son of Elias Arnold, of Barkley township, and like iis father a hustler, has purchased f A. A. Boyer, of Dwight, HL, the eighty acres of land which joins the Elias Arnold farm on the east. This is splendid land and has good new improvements.

MARRIAGE LICENSE.

The county clerk has issued a marriage license to Joseph Leßeau, born in Chicago, 111., Jan. 3, 1892, present residence Wolcott and occupation, farmer, and Marie Theodora Dluzak, born in Remington May 18, 1892, present residence Remington, occupation 'housekeeper. First marriage for both parties. The bride-to-be is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dluzak.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min February 7 ............83 25 > 'FRIDAY’S WEATHER. v' 1 L Forecast for Indiana: Local snows this afternoon or tonight, colder tonight. Saturday fair, colder south portion. . ; .

OFTEN wished that you could buy; really a beautiful soft collar? We’re terribly proudtjf our collar stock it IS a real stock for a town this size too.

SMALL SKIFT OF SNOW.

The ground is almost white with snow, but the temperature is not low. We have had. thus far, but little real winter. Don’t say, “We’ll get it later,” but let us be thankful that a mild winter has made it possible to replenish the shortage of coal and has been a great blessing to the poor people of the land. It is always best to took on the bright side, and there is always a bright ■stde.-7'~"-“- ~ The pessimist and the grouch hates everything and everybody and despises himself. If -they could be colonized what a happy world this would be. Well, some of us are going to be happy anyway. We will not despise the grouch and the pessimist. We will feel just a little sorry for them. We will try. to reduce the space they occupy in dur sphere to the minimum.

FRIDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Mrs. Samuel Wiles, who entered the hospital Thursday with influenza, is about the same. A daughter was born Thursday night to Mr. and Mrs. John Crist. ■Charles Webb’s condition is unchanged. He has a well-developed case of influenza.

Home economy does not mean using inferior goods, but buying to the 'best advantage. Try a 49-R>. sack of Blue Ribbon flour for >2.75 Phone 456. Iroouis Roller Mills.

Star Theatre —Th* House ot Good Pieturae >TODAY PEGGY HYLAND —In—“PEG OF THE PIRATES” - ' ■ SATURDAY—- . 7 MONTAGUE LOVE —IN—“THE GROUCH" ■ ALSO ' “THE HAND OF VENGEANCE” An interesting story of mystery and Revenge , —■ f ; MONDAYVIOLA DANA “OPPORTUNITY” TUESDAYCATHERINE CALVERT * IB “ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD” Written and directed by her husband, the late Paul Armstrong. • *■ '■ - ■ - ■ .

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