Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1919 — Page 1

No. 60.

Reduced Price Sale Of Ivory and Blue Enamel Utility Boxes * 4 One cedar lined priced at $13.00 marked to sell at $8.50 One box priced $12.50 marked to sell at SB.OO Two boxes priced SB.OO marked to sell at $6.50. ODD DRESSERS Walnut Dresser priced $35 to sellat $25 Ivory ‘, “ 30 '• “ “ 20 Birds Eye Maple Dressing table $18.50 marked to sell at $ll.OO W. J. WRIGHT

CHRISTIAN CAFETERIA WELL PATRONIZED

The ladies of the First Christiain church served a large number of people at their cafeteria dinner Tuesday evening. The dinner was elegantly prepared and the helpings were generous. The ladies received many compliments. The proceeds amounted- to about $160.00.

RETIRE ALL TUBES AND CASINGS STEAM VULCANIZED AT REASONABLE PRICES. WORK GUARANTEED. SEE ME AT SCOTT BROS.’ HARNESS SHOP. John Braddock.

For Saturday Special—ss.oo allwool jerseys in sweaters, turtle and V neck for $3.45. Be sure and get one. Duvall’s Quality Shop. It might be suggested to Mr. Armour that the public is not interested so much in any plan for government regulation of the packers as it ds in a scale of prices which would make it possible for the average man to have a T-bone steak about once a week.— Nashville Southern Lumberman. One lot of $4.00 hats for Saturday Specials at $1.98. We can fit any head. Duvall’s Quality Shop. ■ ■- 11 11 1 ■ Chauncey Wood has some of the best registered Spotted Poland China hogs listed in his sale March 18th. This sale will positively start at 10:30 a. m. as advertised. New . England towns continue to vote wet whenever given the opportunity, as will be seen from the returns from the eleven Massachusetts towns which voted on the question Tuesday. Weymouth and Hingham, towns which have been dry for a quarter of a century, voted for the saloon. Six other of the eleven towns voted license. Three remained in the dry column. Liquor advocates assert that the result is a protest against the national prohibition amendment while the dry leaders maintain that the results were due to the apathy of the voters. Bunte—leader in the candy world. Flavors that have no rivals—JLJ.. Montgomery..

PRINCESS THEATRE . _ ' , . . J • . • TONIGHT WALLACE REID “The Source” Also Good Two-Reel Comedy DURING THE REMODELING OF THE THEATRE THERE WILL BE NO MATINEES.

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LAFAYETTE PREPARES FOR INVASION OF NET STARS

Lafayette is facing one of the greatest weeks of her history with the invasion of her city by the cream of the Indiana high school basketball teams, twenty-two in number. Heretofore the annual classic has always been staked at Bloomington, the seat of Indiana university, 'but that city has been found too small to care for the hundreds of visitors that flock to the games, as well as the basketball players themselves. Lafayette citizens are leaving no stones unturned in their efforts to entertain and care for the visitors in a manner that will assure them of the retention of the right to stage the tournament in i years to come. All this Wednesday '■ afternoon and Thursday morning the teams will be swarming into the Tippecanoe capital, the games starting at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon and continuing until Saturday the two survivors meet to determine the championship. Dopesters throughout the state are busy trying to figure the chances. of their respective favorites coming through and are making their minds rather resilient in an effort to convince themselves that there is no team like their-own team; ‘ Down Lafayette way they have decided that Jefferson must win the mee t—all this as a result of the improvement of their five during the past three or four weeks. At Crawfordsville you can get yourself in trouble in a minute by even intimating that any team other than Crawfordsville is likely to come through and cop the flag. Anderson laughs when any other club is mentioned as the title winner while Thorntown smiles serenely whenever championships are mentioned. It is the same throughout the state in every city where they have a sectional tournament winner, and you have a hard time convincing the average citizen that his home town five is not the cream of the crop. But it’s the same old story, twenty-one quintets are going to be sadder and wiser soon, while -the twenty-second team is going to say: “I told you so. A Lafayette sport writer has doped Anderson and Jefferson for the -finals. Looks as if he’s half right—the Anderson part of it. We are prepared to fit every man and boy in this county and will guarantee to fit you out from head to foot for less money than any firm in our city and give you better quality. Duvall’s Quality Shop. Mlle. Schoen-Rene, of Berlin, says that “the trouble with modern German music Is too much inbreeding,” which sounds like an almost polite Teutonic way of saying it’s too German. —New York Morning Telegraph.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919.

WILL IMPROVE MAKEEVER HOUSE

OWNER CONTEMPLATES EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR HOTEL. T ~ ■ Jay W. Stockton, owner and now in charge of the Makeever Hotel of this city, is making some temporary repairs, but he plans to make some extensive improvements in the; very near future. If his present plans are carried out an electric elevator will be installed, a number of suites,will be furnished with baths and private toilet. The office is-now being redeeorated and it will also be equipped with up-to-date furniture. Many other changes are to be made all over the building. Hot and cold 7 water will be put into most of the rooms and the house will be made modern and up-to-date. The appearance of the outside of the building is to be improved. Many favorable expressions have already been heard in reference to the* table service being given by the new management. This is a splendid hotel town and Mr. Stockton is very anxious to give the public the very best service possible. He has moved his family into the hotel and will be very ably assisted by his lyife. John Stockton will assist his father in the office. With our hotel made strictly up to the minute, with a brick highway through the county and a fine big coliseum in this city that will furnish a suitable place in which farmers can exhibit their fine stock and in which large and important gatherings can be held, Rensselaer will became a city in fact as well as in name. Let everybody boost. All pull together for the best town underneath heaven’s dome.

17-YEAR LOCUSTS TO VISIT INDIANA BY LAST OF MAY

Washington, March 12.—The department of agriculture sounds the warning—an avalanche of locusts may be expected during the last week in May. The seventeen-year locusts and thirteen-year locusts are all turning over in their shells for a last nap under ground preparatory to combined activity this summer. The seventeen-year locusts, or Brood Ten, as they are scientifically known, are by far the larger family, and the more widely scattered. For seventeen years these locusts, millions of them, have slept peacefully in the ground exactly where they buried themselves. But by the last of May, 1919, the will have completed their seventeen-year growth. They will then burst their shells and come out to try their voices in their wellknown heat song. The seventeen-year locust is not a locust at all; it is a homopterous hemipterous insect, or more popularly, a cicada. Use of the name cicada seems to be confined chiefly to scientists and agriculturists, and that one jesting employe of the department of agriculture cheerfully and unscientifically calls it a “periodical chicadee.” To the laymen, however, the cicades will always be locusts, or sometimes “those infernal locusts.” The cicada bears on his wings a well-defiined letter W. This has been seized upon as a clue by those who attach "a deeper meaning to the sev-enteen-year sleep of the locust than to the shorter nap of the caterpillar. These sages at one time decided that the W stood for war, and ithat the appearance of the swarm of locusts brought woe and distress, even as the days of Pharoh and the plague of the locusts. Possibly the prophets will still maintain that the seventeen-year locust is a forerunner of war. The more cheerful seers will probably associate the W on the 1919 locust with wealth as a portent of national prosperity.

PURDUE GIRLS DECIDE TO BAR MEN AT DANCE

Lafayette, March 12.—A “manless” dance is the latest thing«at Purdue « university. The , Purdue Girls’ Club has announced a ball to be held in the Memorial gymnasium tomorrow evening, men being barred. It is the first time the coeds at Purdue have attempted to hold a social affair of this kind without the co-operation of men and the men students are wondering whether it is the opening skirmish in a war of sex emancipation. No reason is given for the sudden diversion from the usual routine. Heretofore the Purdue girls, when they have arranged their annual ball, have invited the men to be their partners and the men have called for them in customary fashion and escorted them to and from the ballroom. But this year the annual dance is to be purely a girls’ affair.

POLAND CHINA HOG SALE. ■ .1 *■■■ The Perrigo pure bred Poland China hog sale will be held at Mo* rocco Friday, March 14of high grade hogs will be offered and it is expected that the sale will be largely attended by persons interested in this breed of swine. . ■ Nut and fruit flavors in Bunte’s candies at Montgomery’s.

MORE ABOUT THE DEATH OF SWEET LITTLE LOIS PRICE

Lois Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Price, of Otterbein, was known and loved by so many in this community, that her untimely departure causes the deepest sadness. We give below a personal letter, -written by her sistr, Edna Price, which tells so vividly and sweetly of the passing of one of the brightest and happiest little darlings we have ever known: Otterbein, Ind, March 10, 1919. Dear Mr. Hamilton Since we know how deeply interested the people of Rensselaer and community are in the death of our dear little Lois, I will try to tell you in just a brief way of her trouble — posSibly not trouble after all, since we know God has taken care of her. She went to school on Monday and in the evening seemed to have a little fever. Mother immediately began treating her for mumps, and in the night her throat grew worse. Her throat grew rapidly worse but we felt no real alarm until Wednesday evening. Wednesday evening before supper she seemed better, was able to drink water and swallow milk. At 11:30, however, we realized she was growing worse again and called the doctor once more. He came immediately but in spite of all our efforts her little heart fluttered out at just a quarter after twelve. She was conscious until the very end and, Mr. Hamilton, she even smiled at mother and I while we worked with her not more than twenty minutes before she died. Diphtheria with other complications, all causing taxemia, was the cause of her death. We are heart-broken, of course, but it is such a comfort to know we have so many friends who have offered their ready sympathy both in word and deed. The people here have been wonderful to us and so many of our Rensselaer friends have written to us, and if you please, Mr. Hamilton, we would like to express our appreciation of their thoughtfulness through your paper. I am sending you a clipping taken from our paper here, and to. this you may add as much as you wish from my letter. Everyone here seems to be having the mumps. Madeline and I have them now.,, Gwendolyn had them about two weeks ago. We are all well except for this, however, and send our best wishes to you and your family. Sincerely, EDNA PRICE. Lois was born in Rensselaer Noember 11, 1909, and at the time of her death she was in the fourth grade at school. Funeral services were held Friday from the Otterbein home and interment was made in the Pond Grove cemetery.

FUSSY LIKES THE FARM.

The following id from Frank Haskell, formerly of this city but now a prosperous Pulaski county farmer: Winamac, Ind., March 9, 1919. Messrs. Clark & Hamilton, Rensselaer. Ind. • Enclosed find check which you will apply on the good old Republican for another year and oblige. Well, boys, lam doing fine. Have about fifty head of stock and doing first rate. This beats sitting there m Rensselaer waiting for some of you fellows to come in and get scraped. I am feeling pretty good after my spell of about a month ago. Say, can’t you come out, and I will give you fried chicken. We already have 13 little fellows. I tell you we are hustlers here in old Pulaski. We have been cutting brush this winter. I think I will be in Rensselaer soon and I will see you then. Now don’t forget to send the paper as we cannot get along without it. Yours truly, F. M. HASKELL.

WEDNESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Z. L. Swaim, of Union township, entered the hospital today for medical treatment. Mb's. Anderson returned to her home near Mt. Ayr today. Miss Maggie Gleason went to her home this afternoon. The operation she was to have undergone, has been postponed. Baby Worthy was taken to its home today. Ruth Dewees seems to be a little better today.

NOTICE TO DICHARGED SOLDIERS AND BAILORS Discharged soldiers and sailors desiring to apply for the $60.00 bonus pay'recently authorized by the congress should apply for the same through the local Red Cross. Bring vour discharge certificate along. . . .. J. B. FLEMING, Secretary Home Service Section.

If you are sad And your shoes go bad Just go over to Dad And he will make you glad. J. T. WISEMAN

—r “Anxious Seat” Is reserved for all whc take a chance on poor clothing, instead of buying Quality that spells economy for every dollar spent. With us, it’s money bach any old time, if you want it. Suits $25-s4o /f |E=|

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The eighth grade diploma examination will be held all over the county next Saturday, March 15. There are forty more applicants for high school to take this examination than last year. The Marion-Newton joint township institute was considerably enlarged last Saturday by visiting corporations. Jordan, Hanging Grove and the high school teachers from Union were present and took part in the institute work. The institute was so large that more comfortable quarters were demanded for the next institute. The next institute will be open to the' public and held at the city library. Topics of interest were assigned to appeal to the general public as well as to teachers in their special field. Trustees Poole and Postill were present. The date for the last institute was fixed on the first Saturday in April. Miss White favored the institute with a number of vocal solos and will furnish further music for the April institute. She plays her part in the musical program exceptionally well and continues to be the favorite whenever music is suggested in ithe institute. Elizabeth Kanne is substituting for Miss Leah Flora, the regular teacher at Curtis Creek school in Newton township. Miss Flora has taken down with the influenza. Mrs. Lem Houston is substituting for Robert Smalley of the Lane school in Newton township. Mr. Smalley took sick last Sunday after attending institute in Rensselaer* Vivian Jones of the Kersey school in Wheatfield township was married last week and will continue teaching the term out under the acquired name. From now on she will sign her reports Mrs. Jay Delahanty. Frances Davis, of DeMotte, substituted for Vivian Jones during the name changing process. —Mrs. Ruth Schwanke, who‘was secured at Kniman to teach the remainder of Miss Mary Walters’ school, was taken down with influenza shortly after beginning the work.

ARRIVES HOME FROM FLORIDA.

Comrade David H. Yeoman arrived here Tuesday from Miami, Florida, where he had been the guest of his daughter, Mrs. A. R. Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins are enjoying life in the south and do not expect to return here until in June. Mr. Yeoman says the weather in Miami has been very warm. Pressing business matters forced Mr. Yeomon to return at this time. However, Jasper county is furnishing ideal temperature, with bright, clear Weather.

WEDNESDAY’S WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair andwarmer tonight, Thursday cloudy, becoming unsettled by Thursday night. TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. tn. on the date indicated: Max. Mix. March 11 ........ 20 March 12 ~ ..42 .29

BUNTE’S REMARKABLE RECORD Six months of solid experimenting before their article met with their own approval, was the remarkable record made by the Bunte candy manufacturers in producing their new chocolate bar. Try them at Montgomery’s news stand. —Adv. SUPPLY OF ANTHRACITE COAL. We have just received a car of chestnut hard coal and now have a large stock of all sizes of anthracite coal.— THE FARMERS GRAIN COMPANY, phone No. 7.

MOUNT AYR ENTHUSIASTIC

CITIZENS OF THAT TOWN ANXIOUS TO BE SERVED FROM THIS CITY. Some fifteen representative citizens of Mt. Ayr met with the city council here .Tuesday evening and the matter of furnishing electric current to that place from this city was fully discussed. If such service is rendered it will be necessary for the people of Mt. Ayr to build the line. This can be done in two ways. ThetownofMt, Ayr can build .the line or it can be constructed by the citizens of that town forming a stock company. It would possibly be cheaper for Mt. Ayr to get this service from the Public Service Co., which is already serving Kentland, Brook and other nearby towns. However, it is understood that our neighbors have heard of the high class of service being rendered here and are willing to pay more, thinking, possibly, that there is a difference sufficient to warrant the additional expense. There is no disposition on the part of the council of this city to construct this line, but they are willing to furnish the current to be measured 'by a meter located in the plant here. This arrangement, it is understood, is perfectly satisfactory to the people of Mt. Ayr, and without doubt they will make arrangements to handle the proposition either as a part of the Mt. Ayr corporation or as a private stock company. As previously stated, the line will cost something like $8,000.00 There are some sixty or more people who have expressed a desire to install lights. A number of the people along the route are very anxious to install electric lights and will be pleased to assist Mt. Ayr with this progressive movement.

BROTHER HAS ARM AMPUTATED

Lowell Perrigo, brother of Mrs. John M. Ward, of this city, has met with a very sad misfortune. He is located at Fort Riley, Kansas, and some time ago he had his hand severely injured in a hoisting jack. Infection set in with the result that his arm had to be amputated. The soldier’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Perrigo, of Monticello, are with their afflicted son, and his condition is now reported favorable to his recovery.

CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our most sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends who were so kind to us during the sickness and death of our dear husband and father. We also wish to thank the K. of P. lodge, the friends, high school, neighbors and neighborhood boys for the beautiful floral offerings.—Mrs. E. S. Rhoads and Children.

GRAIN MARKET STRONGER.

Oats 57c. Corn $1.28. Rye $1.30. Wheat $2.11.

SUBSTITUTE MAIL CARRIER.

Carl Wood has successfully passed the civil service examination and has received his appointment as substitute mail carrier in this city. He will take up the work, which was being done temporarily by Henry Nevill.

Royal Worcester chocolates in boxes, the latest thing in Bunte’s box candies. Try them at Montgomery’s. AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY SEE GAIL KANE —IN—“THE DAREDEVIL” * DRAMA OF ROMANCE —ALSO—MISS ELLINORE FIELDS —IN— A TOP-NOTCH COMEDY THURSDAY— SWANSON AND J. BARNEY SHERRY —IN—“HER DECISION” FRIDAY—? * ACTION GALORE ' “ WITH GEORGE WALSH IN—THE CLEVER KID Walsh Has No Equal for Speed and Originality

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