Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1919 — Page 1

No. 83.

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MOTHER OF SEVEN DIES

MRS. CLARENCE GREEN AN INFLUENZA VICTIM —HUS- ■ ■ - BAND NEAR DEATH. Mrs. Glarence Green is dead at her home one mile north of Kniman, her ihusband is at the point of death and is not expected to survive many hours and their seven children are seriously ill—all the victims of influenza. Mrs. Green passed away at 4 p. m. Saturday afternoon after an illness which had extended over a period of several weeks. She contracted influenza about ten days prior to her death which turned info pneumonia a few days latesr, resulting in her death. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Burruss, of Atlanta, Ind., and was forty years of age at the time of her death. Mir Green has been battling with the dread disease for several weeks and seems to be slowly losing strength and his death is hourly expected. Mr. Green is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Green, of this city, and is well known to our citizens.

The seven children, ranging in age from two to fifteen years, although all are likely to recover, are by no means out of danger and the most careful medical attention must he given them if they are to get well. The Green family were residnts of Knsselaer for about four years, leaving here about three years ago and moving to a farm near Knknan where they now reside. The funeral o<f Mrs. Green will be held at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery in this city, brief services being held at the grave. Don’t fail to patronize the Presbyterian bazaar in the room south of The Trust & Savings Bank March 8.

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HALF CENTURY WEDDED LIFE

A HALF CENTURY AGO MARCH 4th A LONG AND HAPPY CAREER BEGAN. Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood, of this city. On account of Mrs. Wood having recently undergone an operation and from which she has not sufficiently recovered, no formal occasion was observed. Henry Wood and. Mary Ellen Pierson were married at the home of the bride’s father in Marion township on March 4, 1869, by the Rev. Moses Wood, then pastor of the Rensselaer Methooist church. Among the thirty guests present and still living in this community there are hut four, Harvey W. Wood, Sr., Thomas Crockett? Mrs. John Kresler and Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are the parents of four sons, all living. They are, Frank Wood, in the mercantile business in Billings, Montana; Dr. Aaron Wood, dentist, of Brook; H. R. and Carl Wood, barbers, of this city. Mr. Wood comes from a family many of whom have been ministers in the Methodist dburch -

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood are members of the local Methodist church- and they have each lived a life consistent with the obligation imposed upon the followers of the lowly tNazarine. Their’s has not been a life of great public demonstration nor have they accumulated a great amount of wealth, but they have lived happy, useful lives full of kindly deeds and pure upright living. “"T ■ The writer can speak from experience of the Christian character of this splendid couple. He can testify as to the genuineness in everyday life and living of /Mr. and Mrs. Wood, who, by loving kindness and Quiet

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1919.

HE PREFERS TO SERVE

DECLINES LUCRATIVE STATE JOB AND NEGLECTS PRIVATE AFFAIRS. * The Topeka, Kansas, Daily Capital contains the following very complimentary account of a former Jasperite who puts real service above private business or lucrative public position. Senator Francis C. Price," so justly and highly commended, is a former resident of Carpenter township, this county. His brother, Charles Price, was at one time clerk of the Jasper circuit court and another brother, Myrt B. Price, was county surveyor of this county for a number of years. His sister, Miss Antonnette Price, is the efficient librarian in the public library of this city. The article follows: “To abandon a lucrative private business eighteen months in order to serve on a draft board at small pay Where one made about as many enemies as soldiers and then turn around and decline a fat position on the utilities commission, where both the work and pay are attractive, is a stunt that can only be pulled off by a big man. And Kansas has that man —Senator Francis C. Price, of Clark county. Patriotism prompted him -to take the draft board work. That was one way he could do his bit in the big war. And he did it in an able and conscientious manner. But patriotism did not enteT into the big political job offered him and he felt free to decline it. It seems that about the only political office Senator Price cares to hold is that of state senator. After an apprenticeship in the house he came to the senate in 1889 and since then he has been coming back whenever he wished. Senator Price did service as district judge for eleven years and he was urged to go to congress, but he resigned the judgeship and refused to go to congress. The only office aside from state senator that might possibly appeal to him is that of supreme court justice. Senator Price is never on display in the senate even though he is the chairman of the most important committee and is president pro-tem. He isn’t a flowery speaker. But he is mighty forceful and there is an attentive audience when he does speak. He is a power in the senate and he is decidedly well-liked. Senator Price wafted into Kansas on a iprairie schooner in the early 80’s from Indiana about the time Beveridge and Jesse Overstreet and innumerable other Hoosiers came. Beveridge and Overstreet returned to Indiana and became famous. Senator Price remaifted here and gained just as much distinction. Mrs. Price, who is in Topeka her husband for the session, balks more fluently than Senator Price about certain events. Mrs. Price has heard her husband say that he had something like a dollar when he arrived in Ashland. The hotel was short on bedding and he used sheets of the Ashland Clipper to keep warm. The Clipper was a warm sheet in those days. Senator Price inveigled a charming Ohio girl into becoming his bride in 1-890. Mrs. Price had read Mfcrk Twain’s “Roughing It,” and came on her wedding trip fully prepared for any contingency that might befall a blushing bride in the wild and wooly west.”

SAMUEL DUVALL AND WIFE LEAVE FOR AMERICA

Samuel Duvall, French ambulance driver in the war arena for the past two years and Hun hunter par excellence, is on his way back to America with his little French wife whom he captured a few months ago in France, showing that he was original and versatile in the matter of making captures. , . ~ This news was contained in a cablegram received by Mrs. John Duvall this Tuesday morning from Sam, wi at the time was in Paris. The cablegram not dated and it is not known what day he left France, but it is probable that he will arrive in Rensselaer - about the* 10th of the month. T"TT~ * Sam failed to state whether or not he was bringing his monkey-wrench with him—the one he captured the Hun with. r w -------- i~,ini"i t~ ' ~

•The distillers would do well to invest what they have left in Government bonds instead of in lawsuits. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Imagine a country of habitual ebriates.—Chicago Evening Post-*

acts of charity and mercy have won from this community, ots highest esteem and tenderest love. d Their lives have an asset not marked by puiblic influence or power, nor by financial eminence, but by genuine Christian character, which after all is Ihe most important thing in Kfe. The Republican extends to Mr. and Mrs. 'Wood hearty congratulations, and wish for them and the community many more happy years of the beautiful lives they have so long lived among us.

PLAN DEFEAT OF LEAGUE

LODGE SECURES ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO DEFEAT PRESENT FORM OF LEAGUE. Washington, March 4.—Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, Republican, in an address begun shortly after 2 a. m., urged an immediate extra session of congress, and vigorously criticized President Wilson for failing to consult with the senate in conducting the peace negotiations. “A plain violation of the constitution,’ Mr. LSFofc' lette asserted. Washington, March 3.—Names of thirty-seven Republican members of the new senate, a number sufficient to block ratification of a treaty, were read in the senate tonight by Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, who said they had approved a resolution satting forth that “the constitution of the league of nations in the fsrm now proposed to the peace conference should not be accepted by the United States.” The list was inserted in the record by the Republtcaii leader after Democratic leader Martin and Senator Swanson, of Virginia, had raised simultaneous objection to consideration of the resolution which he had introduced after long conferences with Republican senators and senatorselect who were not an Washington. While opposing the constitution as now drafted, the rsolution set forth that it was the desire of the senate that the nations of the world should unite to promote peace and a general disarmament. It also said it was the sense o £, the senate that “the negotiations on the part of the United States should immediately be directed to the utmost expedition of the urgent businness of negotiating peace terms with Germany,” and that then the league proposal should be taken up for careful and serious consideration.

Lodge’s Resolution. ■“Whereas, under the constitution it is a function of the senate to advise and consent to, or dissent from the ratification of any treaty of the United States, and no such treaty can become operative without the consent of the senate expressed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the senators present, and, “Whereas, owing to the victory of the arms of the United State* and of the nations with whom it is associated, a peace conference was convened and is now in session at Paris for the purpose of settling the terms of peace, and, . “Whereas, a committee of the conference has proposed a constitution for a league of nations §nd the proposal is now before the peace conference for its consideration, “Now, therefore, be it resolved by the senate of the United States in the discharge of its constitutional duty of advice in regard to treaties that it is the sense of the senate that while it is their desire that the nations of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament, the constitution of the league of nations in the form now proposed to the peace conference should not be accepted by the United States. “And be it resolved further, that it is the sense of the senate that the negotiations on the part of tbe United States should immediately be directed to the utmost expedition of the urgent business of negotiating peace terms with Germany; to the United States and the nations with whom the United States is associated m the war against the German government, and to the proposal for a league of nations to insure the permanent peace of the world should be then taken up for careful and serious consideration.”

AIL HOME PRINT TODAY. READ THE INSIDE PAGES. MOVES ON BROTHER’S FARM. - Mr. and Mrs. John Webber have moved on his brother’s, Frank Webber, farm on the Rensselaer-Remdng-ton road five and a half miles south of this city. This farm was formerly occupied by Ames- Rains and family, who have moved to Whiteland. Adolph May and family have moved into Mr. John Webber’s property in the east part of the city. The indemnity will put a crimp in the spy fund. —-Greenville Piedmont. %

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“HEARTS OF THE WORLD”

David Wark Griffith, producer of “Hearts of the World,” which Comes to the Princess Monday, March 10, is the acknowledged wizard of motion piictures and "there are few who do not know his ability in this line. But there are few who know that Griffith is as keen a judge and as great an arranger of music as he is of the, scenes and staging of a drama. Just how much of the effectiveness of motion pictures is due to the impressions received by the ear as well as the eye is ah interesting study. In the better class motion picture houses music plays as important a part of the programme as the picture itself. It matters rogt whether the accompaniment be pipe organ or piano-forte, the music enhances the enjoyment of the pictures, and the mere ability displayed by the players the more the enjoyment of the performance as a whole. D. W. Griffith never alldws a strain of music to accompany one of his subjects, it is said, unless it has received his attention and 'has been sanctioned by his artist ear. Selecting the music for such, a production as “The Birth of a Nation” or “Hearts of the World” : is a task, requiring weeks and sometimes even a month or more if the score does not prove immediately adaptable to the subject of the picture. "“Hearts of the World” has unusually ambitious orchestral accompaniment, and the score is a beautiful

woof of patriotic straamb—selectionsfrom grand opera and bits of symphonies. Two major themes, “Connas tu le pays,” from Mignon, and a popular musical comedy number cfell* ed “It’s Delightful to be Married,” sung by Anna Held several yeprs ago, are used most effectively' m “Hearts of the World,’! just aa£riffith used “The Year of the Jubilee’ in “The Birth of a Natron” and “My Irish Rose” in “Intolerance.” 'Somfi idea of the scope of his calling for “Hearts of the World” may be gathered from a brief mention of the various and sundry fragments which Griffith and his orchestra leader, Carli D. Elinor, have provided for the interpretation and enjoyment of the/picture. From grand opera was gleaned selections from “Lohengrin, “La Tosea,” “La Fanciulla” and “PuccinS.” The Chopin nocturnes are' used but little, but “The Light Cavalry,” the “Marseillaise,” “The Star Spangled Banner,” “America” and other patriotic airs play a splendid part in the showing of the great battle scenes, which were photographed by Griffith during an eighteen months’ stay in France under the auspice-3 of the British government, which commissioned Griffith to secure pictures which would be of a character worthy of preservation in their archives.

ALLMAN IS ALDERMAN.

The city council met in special called session Monday evening and selected Jesse D .Allman,/Of Milroy avenue, as councilman vice Frank Tobias, deceased. Mr. Allman is the assistant cashier of the First National Bank of this city, and is a man of splendid abilityHe was formerly a resident of Remington and came to Rensselaer in 1907, having been elected treasurer of the county: He was re-elected two years later, and at the expiration of his second term he became identified with the First National Bank. He is president of the Jasper county hospital board of trustees and is a prominent church worker, being identified with the FiTst Methodist Episcopal church of this city. From "the standpoint of location ' the selection of Mr. Allman Js a most , fitting one, as he is not only the only ' councilman, but also the only city officer lining west of the Iroqouis river.

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MT. AYR WANTS ELECTRIC POWER

MEETING IS HELD TO DISCUSS GETTING SERVICE FROM THIS CITY. Attorney Moses Leopold, Superintendent C. S. Chamberlain of the cdty light and power plant, and County Commissioner D. S. Makeever attended a meeting of the citizens of Mt. Ayr Monday evening in the interest of providing electric light for that town. l — —— H The meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' building and there were some twenty-five representative citizens of that community present. Walter Lee, the editor and merchant of Mt. Ayr, presided. Attorney Leopold gave a definite statement as to the necessary legal procedure in order to huild a line from the power flflant here to Mt. Ayr. Superintendent Chamberlain estimated that the cost of the line would be from six to eight thousand dollars. This line would have to be constructed at the expense of the citizens of Mt. Ayr and the city of Rensselaer would furnish light and power at a given rate. It is estimated that the line would bring in somehhjgg like one hundred dollars pea* month in revenue. A be made to Mt. Ayr and they in turn could sell this service to the citizens and to people near the line between Rensselaer and that town. Those present seemed to be very much in favor of making this progressive step, and it is altogether probable that the service wiM he established.

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CHICAGO COURTS BLAME CROWN POINT MARRIAGE MILL

“Our laws should be so amended as to prevent the marriage of girls before 18 and boys before 21—and something Should be done to destroy the criminal marriage mills, such as the one at Crown Point,” said Judge William M. Gemmel of the Court of Demestic Rp|at.wina Monday. “For a small fee these scavengers marry children after asking them to sign perjured affidavits as to their age,” added the Judge wrathfully, “and as a result the Chicago courts are continually full of divorce cases. Make your marriage laws uniform in all states and you will have taken a long step toward solving the divorce question,” said Judge Gesnmel.

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AT THE STAR TODAY ANNA LUTHER —IN—“HER MOMENT” A 7 Reel Super Production. WEDNESDAY—HENRY B. WALTHALL ■—lN l r; ■ - "WITH HOOPS OF STEEL” A Western Picture THURSDAY—WILLIAM DESMOND In e> “HONEST MAN” FRIDAY—GLADYS BROCKWELL - In “THE SCARLET ROAD”

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