Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — Page 1

No. 62.

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UNDERWENT AN OPERATION.

Mrs. O. A. Jacks, of Lee, was’in Rensselaer Friday. She reports that her sister, Mrs. Samuel Jacks, who had been at the hospital in this city and was later taken to the Home" hospital in Lafayette, where she could be under the care of her cousin, who is a specialist, under w6nt an operation. She has rallied from the operation but her condition is considered critical.

Will B. Fisher, of near Wolcott, was in Rensselaer today. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY MARCH 15 1 ■.' l ■ 1 "• 1,1 “ 1 gal. Apricots or Peaches. 69c No. 3 can Tomatoes lßc 6 rolls Toilet Paper 2sc Fancy Head Rice, lb loc Good Broom, 49c, 69c and. 79c Evaporated milk,, large cans, 2 for ......25c Dixey Brand Bacon, lb.. . . 38c 10 bars T.enpx Soap. . . — s3c - JOlbs. granulated sugar. .99c HOME GROCERY Phone 41 ' A. B. Lewis, of Delphi, who had visited his son Roy Lewis and other relatives returned to his home this afternoon.

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VERNE KAUB CONTINUES TO CLIMB NEWSPAPER LADDER

Tiie following article gleaned from the Watertown, Wis., Daily Times, Should prove of interest to Rensselaer people in general; Mr. Kaub is the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Kaub, and was formerly a resident of this city, having graduated front the Rensselaer high school: “V. P. Kaub, who was editor of The Daily Times for two years prior to the change in management which went into effect a month ago, has entered the employ of the Milwaukee Journal as a staff correspondent. He left this morning for Oshkosh and will make that city his headquarters, communicating with the office by mail and wire only. —? ~ —~~ As a district representative of The Journal, he will cover the Fox River valley (from Fond du Lac to Green Bay J, the territory immediately east of Lake Winnebago, including Manitowoc and Sheboygan, and pay occasional visits to cities west of the valley, including Antigo, Stevens Point, Waupaca and Ripon, and be ready to go on a moment’s notice to any point in the northeastern part of the state when big news “breaks.” He will also call on the paper’s special correspondents in this territory, assisting them and speeding up the work, and appointing new correspondents in towns and cities where The Journal is not represented. For the present Mr. Kaub will retain his home here, returning here for week ends, but later Mrs. Kaub will join him in Oshkosh and they will make their home there.”

FRIDAY’S WEATHER. t Forecast for Indiana: Rain toture.

BUNTE’S REMARK- —- ABLE 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. NOTICE TO DICHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS Discharged soldiers and sailors desiring to apply for the $60.00 bonus pay recently authorized by the congress should apply for the tfhne through the local Red Cross. Bring your discharge certificate along. - J. B. FLEMING, Secretary Home Service Section. —__ —— — 7

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919.

FIVE TEAMS JOLTED OUT

OF CHASE FOR STATI| BUNTING ANDERSON FALLS IN TOURNEY FEATURE. RESULTS THIS MORNING. Rochester, 16; Greencastle, 8. Jefferson, 22; Martinsville, 16. Emerson, 33; Kendalville, 13. In the opening round this Friday morning Rochester put Greencastle out of the meet in a slow, listless affair. Jefferson bumped Martinsville, wirtning 22 to 16 and Emerson of Gary slaughtered the Kendallville five 33 to 13. Emerson’s speed and pep startled the critics and the railbirds and iqpny fans are leaning ’toward the Steel City five as a team likely to go to the finals. Thursday’s Scores. Thorntown, 26; Anderson, 23. Bloomington, 16; Richomond, 13. Columbus, 24; South £end, 3. * Huntington, 24; Washington, 13. Manual, 19; Vincennes, 13. Today’s Fusses. 9:oo—Greencastle ys. Rochester. 10:00—Jefferson vs. Martinsville. 11:00 —Emerson vs. Kendallville. 12:00—Crawfordsville vs. Franklin. I:oo—Spiceland vs. Logansport. 2:oo—Brazil vs. Kokomo. 3:oo—Bloomington vs. Manual. 7:3o—Thorntown vs Huntington. B:3o—Columbus vs. Rochester. Five of the twenty-tWo teams in the chase for the state championship basket ball bunting were jolted out of the running during Thursday afternoon and. evening, leaving seventeen teams still not eliminated. The dope of the critics, went wrong for the most part on the opening games. The feature of the ppening day squabbles was the defeat of the Anderson five, named as one of the very strongest teams in the tournament, at the hands of the Thorntown five, by a score of 26 to 23. Thorntown has a classy five and now that they have eliminated a quintet possessing the strength that the Anderson club had, there seems to be nothing to prevent them going to the tourney final. It is too bad that two such strong fives had to meet so early in the fracas. Anderson is out of the tournament but is a far stronger team than the majority of the fives still left in the race. It was simply the working of fate that put them against such a team for their opening game. -- Z Richmond surprised Bloomington and the latter barely managed to win from their rivals. The Richmond five was called an average five by the critics without a very damaging punch and* Bloomington was expecting an easy time of it. Uuless the Monroe county five shows improvement in their coming battles their followers are going to be disappointed. Columbus had little trouble with South Bend. The Benders were able to garner but three points during the entire thirty minutes of play and at no time did they show form that warranted their being in such a classic. Huntington surprisedthe—railbirds again by downing the Washington five with ease, the final result being 24 to 13. Manuel Training of Indianapolis carried a little too stiff a punch for the Vincennes quintet, defeating them by a six-point margin. A full schedule is booked for today, 12 games in all, and some wonderful exhibitions are expected. Owing to the lack of quality of the contending teams yesterday and the small number of games being run off, the number of visitors will be as nothing when compared to the number of today and Saturday. • Today’s interest centers on the Bloomington-Manuel scramble and the Jefferson-Martinsville affair. With the fall of Anderson, critics are selecting Crawfordsville and Thorntown as the teams to fight it out in the tournament final.

IS GERMAN REVOLUTION REAL?

Germany appears to be on the verge of Bolshevism. . Germany is foxy. She plays the game all the time. Don’t forget the past four years. The German militarists, junkers and capitalists, the classes chiefly responsible for the war, are not-en-thusiastic about paying a big indemnity. They are secretly in control of affairs, but are staging a sham battle to make Bolshevism appear triumphant. They could afford to have the allied armies take over and police the country for several years if it would'tire out their foreign creditors and pave the way for a compromise such as an insolvent debtor usually gets in the end after he has proved to be judgment-proof. The junkers prefer a few years of anarchy to a heavy indemnity. Meanwhile, German spies are at work in our country under the disguise of Bolshevists trying to overthrow our government If you are willing to trust a snake, you can trust Germany. Remember Belgium, the Lusitania and the big indemnity Germany boasted she would collect from Uncle Sam. Prussia is still arrogant. She has not repented.

Big Saturday Special—Work Shirts 96c, all kinds and colors* Duvall’s Quality Shop.

SAM AND WIFE CAUSE STIR

GAY BROADWAY CRANES NECK AS RENSSELAER BOY AND FRENCH BRIDE LAND. Word was received here Thursday by Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall from their son, Sam', announcing the arrival of he and his wife in America from France on the steamer “America.” That the French ambulance driver, and his demure little French wife caused a stir along the Gay White Way in New York is seen from the following article, clipped from the Chicago Daily News of Thursday under a New York date line, and which was written by a New York scribe : “A bride who experienced thirty months of captivity as a German prisoner of war and then fell in love with the American soldier who rescued her came to America today as the wife of Samuel O. Duvall, formerly an Oak Park (Ill.) high school boy. Duvall was a student at the University of Indiana, living in Rensselaer, Ind., when the war broke out He joined the French forces in the spring of 1916 as an ambulance driver. —He served eontinuously with the French on every fighting front in France up to the end of the war. He was decorated by the French three times for bravery, twice under fire and once for capturing a German scout, whom he compelled to surrender on the Chateau Thierry front at the point of a monkey wrench. He was tinkering with his ambulance en-. gine when he spotted the German, and, racing after him armed only with the wrench, ordered him to stop. The fugitive threw up his hands and cried: “Don’t shoot!” It was when Noyon fell in February, 1917, that the Oak Park ambulance man found the French refugee who became his wife July 22, 1917. She was hiding in a cave when the French broke the German line and recaptured the city which had fallen into the hands of the enemy the second month of the war. The girl whom fate had destined to be Mrs. Duvall was made a prisoner during the first inrush of Germans into France. She had been acting as interpreter for the English at Noyon, her home, and as the Germans advanced too rapidly to permit the population to escape she fell into the hands of the invaders. “They made me work like a servant in the home of my parents,” she said, relating the story of her imprisonment as she clung bo the side of her big American boy. . She is a slight, dark eyed, dark haired girl who had been raised in luxury until the enemy seized her parents’ home and enslaved her. She was compelled •to wait on German officers, who used her home as a headquarters. She was told it was her punishment for having aided the English as interpreter. She*had been hiding three days and two nights in the cave when Duvall found her.Duvall, who brought home the Belgian war cross in addition to the French decorations and a bride, came on the transport America which came in with 7,012 troops simultaneously with the arrival of the hospital ship Comfort, on which were 403 sick ands wounded American soldiers. Most of the men on the America were of the 27th New York division of the 104th, 105th and 166th field artillery regiments coming complete.” Mr. and Mrs. Duvall are expected to arrive in Rensselaer within a day or so, according to advices received here.

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.

MICKIE SAYS

E. D. Nesbitt, the county surveyor, went to Gary today.

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MONON STONE CRUSHER TO RESUME BUSINESS MAY 1

George H. Balfe, of Lafayette, recently took over the Monon stone crusher and will operate it. He is installing a large amount of machinery and will be ready to deliver stone the first of May. Walter E. Smith, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, a man of large experience in the stone business, who formerly held a position with the Casparis Stone company, will be the superintendent. Both Mr. Balfe and Mr. Smith will move to Monon to reside. They expect to employ about forty-two men during the summer. The Monon crusher has been shut down for fourteen months owing to the failure to get cars to ship the products during the war. During this period of time other quarries operated and were furnished with cars because their stone was softer and could be used in flux in steel plants. The Monon stone is harder than any other stone in this section of Indiana and for that reason is especially adapted to road building. A road built of Monon stone will stand the wear much better than a road built of softer stone.

COUNTY ASSESSORS ATTENDED MEETING AT HAMMOND

The following assessors and County Assessor G. L. Thornton went to Hammond Thursday tended a meeting of the assessors from ovey the state and 1 istened to an address by Fred Sims, state tax commissioner, on the state tax laws: T. P. Shirer, O. G. Baker, J. W. Humes, C. C. Parks and Deputies Gratner and Donnelly. There have been some changes made, the most important being the raising of the mortgage exemption to SI,OOO and the extension to the last tax paying day to file the same, and the dog law from one and three dollars to three and five dollars The law gives the state board full power over the tax law. There cannot be more money raised this year than •last and if property is assessed at true cash value it will not be any hardship on the taxpayer. The rate will have to be lowered, an Mdr. Sims stated that the order of the state board is to assess at true cash value. The law gives the state board power to order a re-asessment of any unit or to dismiss any assessor that does not do his full duty, so it is up to the assessors-elect to do their full duty or be dismissed from the board. When it comes to turning a century in record time Arthur Duffy, Jo Loomis and Jim Thorpe have nothing on W. I. Hoover, local speedster. Mr. Wood was waiting for a Chicago train at the Monon station Wednesday morning, and just as he started to get on it met an old aequaintance whom he stopped to chat with. Mr. Hoover became so interested in his conversation that be failed to notice that the train had started to leave and when he became fully aware of the fact, the train had gained considerable speed. Undaunted; Mr. Hoover set out to catch the government plaything showed the natives gathered about the P la [" form what a pair of shapely heels he possesses, ending his sensational sprinting., performance with a daring leap onto the platform of the rear car pf tbe ~

FRIDAY HOSPITAL NOTES

John Daugherty, who makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. S. L. Thorntown of Surrey, entered the hospital today for medical treatment.

ENTIRE FAMILY IS VICTIM

FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN BURIED IN SAME GRAVE THURSDAY. Last Monday morning a message received here by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nowels announcing the death of Mr. Nowels* neice, Mrs. Laurence Nickel, and. baby daughter, Edith, at Longmont, Colorado, and that Mr. Nickel and another daughter were seriously ill and not expected to live. Thursday morning another message came to the same parties stating that Mr. Nickel had passed away Tuesday and that Virginia, the other daughter, had died Wednesday. Thus was an entire family carried away within a period of three days by the dread disease, influenza. Mrs. Nickel was the daughter of Charles Nowels, a former resident of this city, and was well known by many of our citizens, who will be saddened indeed to leam of her death as well as the other members of her family. Thursday the remains of the little family were buried in, one grave in apretty little cemetery in Longmont.

KURRIE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SUNDAY.

funeral service of Mrs. H. R. Kurrie, who died at her home in Chicago Thursday morning, will be held at the Kurrie residence in this city Sunday afternoon at 2:3Q o’clock. The service will be in charge of Rev. J. Budman Fleming, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city. Interment will be in Weston cemetery. The body of Mrs. Kurrie will be brought to this city from the Chicago home Saturday afternoon on the 1:57 train.

LARGE PARTY LEAVES FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY.

. Charles J. Dean left this morning for the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. The following from here will accompany him out of Chicago Saturday: Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Kellner, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford, Mr. aAd Mrs. W. C. Bibcock, William Bringle, Harry Kresler and E. L. Hollingsworth.

JAILS HANNAH AND HOG CHIEF

Hammond, Ind., March 14.—'Fred Gray, president of Hannah & Hogg, liquor firm in Chicago, who sold Wolf Marcovich, prominent Indiana politician, 1,000 half-pints of whisky, which the buyer brought into this state, was sentenced to-day to ninty days in jail at Indianapolis and fined SIOO by Federal Judge Anderson. Marcovich was sentenced to six months in jail and fined SI,OOO. His son begged Judge Anderson to allow him to serve the sentence for his father, but the court refused permission. Morris Brennan, who assisted in the importation, was also sentenced to jail for six months.

BEARS LOWER GRAIN MARKET.

Local grain dealers are paying the following prices today: Oats 55c. —Corn $1.28. Rye $1.32. Wheat $2.11.

WILL NEED AUTOMOBILES

A large number of friends from Chicago will arrive here on the 1:57 p. m. train, Sunday, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Kurrie. Parties who wish to assist in caring for these friends by furnishing the use of their will please take the matter up with cars will please take the matter up with me, ’ W. J. WRIGHT.

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