Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1919 — Page 1

No. 64.

t “f'.' • ~ f We Are Showing Play Ground Slide / • i . > *• ~ r "~ - ■ v . —:— i —. *— »■■■'- 1 for the children. - - Ask the “kids” to look in our window • - : •f L f ■ i, • s W. J. WRIGHT

ARE THE CHURCHES AND SCHOOL FUNCTIONING FULLY?

A lrttl boy nine years of age in this city has been taken before the judge c' the circuit court, found guilty of stealing money and this not being his first offense, the offended has been sent to an institution designed to care for such criminals. iWhat about the responsibility of the community in this matter? What kind of a chance has the lad had? Why did he steal? Was he hungry? Was- he properly dressed? Did his home and his parents use the means they had to prevent the young boy from stealing? Was there a lack of parental care and attention? If so did the other institutions in this city try to supply the training and care the young boy should but, did not receive at home. This must have been a pretty bright young fellow, for with the handicaps which must have counted tremendously against his progress he was in the third year in school. It is mighty fine to have the bright pupils that come from ideal homes making the best grades and graduating with honor. But the school can serve the state even better if it will make an extraordinary effort in behalf of the lad or lads, whose surroundings are sure to lead to wrong doing. The fine sermons, the classical music, the beautiful, comfortable and commodious church, must be admired. But if the church fails to reach out and help those whose lives are sure to go upoh the rocks without its help and kindly administration has the church fully functioned? = IS thtar'CMHinunity to blame for the wrong doings of this nine year old lad? Has he had a chance? How many boys in Rensselaer would have done the same thing under the same

PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT CONSTANCE TALMADGE “WHO* CARES” , Also Good Two-Reel Comedy _ ' TUESDAY— Lois Weber in “The Scandal Mongers” 3rd Episode of EDDIE POLO "THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS” ’ ~ - WEDNESDAY— Shirley Mason in “Come On In.” “ " THURSDAY—ANNA CASE “Ruling Passions” This is a high school benefit and a picture that we have been asked to run again also comedy. % ” FRIDAY — ■ Priscilla Dean in “The Wildcat of Pans. It’s a picture that’s different from what you’ve seen in years. It will grip you, thrill yau and fascinate you. Be sure and see it. ___ * SATURDAY— ” Charles Ray in “The Law of the North’ Mack Sennett Comedy “Her First Mistake”

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canditioris? We would like to raise this question in all seriousness. We believe that the community with its several institutions failing to function fully is not blameless.

_ Miss Anna Marion is now in charge of the Schlosser Bros. Cream station. The location of this firm business place in this city is the first door south of the Worland Furniture store. Will sell six nice brood sows at my sale March 29th. Bred to registered 0. I. C. boar to farrow first half of April. Thomas Lonergan.

Give Them Help end Many Renaseleer People Will Be Happier. “Throw Out the Life Line"— Weak kidneys need help. They’re often overworked —they don’t get the poison filtered out of the blood. Will you help them? Doan’s Kidney Pills have brought benefit to thousands of kidney sufferers. Rensselaer testimony proves their worth. ' Mrs. J. C. Beckman, Van Rensselaer St., Rensselaer, says: “Judging from my own experience with Doan’s Kidney Pills, I gladly recommend, them as a reliable medicine. Doan’s have always relieved me of backache and other symptoms of kidney disorder.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Beckmau had. FoeterMilburn Co;, MfgrS., Buffalo, N. Y.

Will sell some nice registered 0. I. C. gilts at my 3ale March 29th. Watch for bills. Thomas Lonergan.

THROW OUT THE LINE.

RENSSELAER* INDIANA. MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919.

DOES NOT KNOW YANK SOLDIERS

EDWARD ROSE RESENTS THE FOLLOWING MISM STATEMENT. * d The writer has received a very pleasant note from W. E. Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rose of Barkley township, in which the soldier boys asks us what we think of the following, taken from the Paris edition of the New York Herald, of February 1& We are frank to say that we believe that the opposite of the view taken by this correspondent is true and that the article is an insult to every American soldier. Soldier Rose is with the Supply Co., 150th F. A., E. F., somewhere in the war zone. The following is the article: When first I saw this American captain, he was switching a lorry train around the junction point of four roads, just north of Fere-en-Tardenois, while the Germans stil held the Vesle, and as everyone knows, the junction point of any four roads was. not, in those days, a spot to be sought. Next I encountered him upon the “windward side” of Montfaucon, at a time when the enemy still had much wrathful disappointment to vent. A third meeting was in Coblentz, and then, last night, I found him upon his first leave of eight months, in Paris. Here is what he had to say: “Isn’t is curious what people here in Paris think that the American Army thinks? It is something less than twenty-four hours since I arrived, but from all that I can gather, everyone seems obsessed with the idea that every last American officer and every last doughboy in France to-day has but the single thought of getting home, of being demobilized, of being released permanently from the army and his uniform, just as speedily as possible. One’s friends speak of such a feeling, the newspapers more than hint it, public men offer themselves as champions of the still imprisoned soldiers. From my observation and experience, none of

this is sane nor reasonable nor true. I do not believe that the average American private is particularly anxious to be shunted immediately out of the service. “Why should they be? Take the case of a private. He is clothed, he is fed, he is elaborately and well i cared for, and then, in addition, he has, minus any insurance money, he may pay, his thirty dollars a month with his extra ten percent for overseas service. Those thirty dollars plug wat are they? Pocket money—pocket money, and nothing else. Most boys from most American families —and I am not taking ican families —and I am not taking the smallest account of what an amazing adventure the army of Occupation has offered to thousands of them —most American lads in the army have never before enjoyed such incomes that could be freely smAnt. And none nearly so well as thlmselveß the factf The feeling here in Paris, the feeling which, it appears, must surround even the Peace Conference, coincids with nothing that f met. Of course there are men with wives and children who are eager to be home; of course there are homesick boys; but, merely to take the American Army of Occupation,by and large, I am not at all sure that a very high percentage of them do not look forward to the day of demobilization with an actual degree of dread. Anyhow, just at the moment it is ridiculous to hold a picture of several hundred thousand lads who are passionately protesting that the war is over and that they want to get home and resume the lives that they had before the war. The vast majority are not only happier, but infinitely more prosperous than they ever were before. I wish that that thought could in some way be emphasized to the public.

MONDAY HOSPITAL NOTES

ißuth Dewees, the three year old daughter of Clay Dewees, died at the hospital this morning. She had pneumonia. ' *• John Daugherty, L. H. Potts and Zebe Swain are about the same. ' Joseph Fitzhugh and Edward Swagard are improving. Helen Hill, daughter of John Hill, of near Gifford, entered the hospital today. Mrs. L. G. Francsoviak, of Pleasant Ridge entered the hospital Saturday for medical attention. Jack Stvenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stvenson, of Parr was able to return* to his home Sunday. J Orval Crisler entered the hospital today. He has appendicitis and may have to undergo an operation. iMirs. William Hough has returned to her home.

WEATHER ■ - 7"Rain this afternoon; partly cloudy and colder tonight; Tuesday fair and colder.

Get the best test and the highest price for your cream by taking it to Schlosser Brothers. They are a thoroughly reliable company-and will appreciate your patronage.

LAST RITES FOR MRS. KURRIE

FUNERAL OF MRS. H. R. KURRIE HELD SUNDAY—MANY FROM OUT OF TOWN PRESENT. The remains of Edna Thompson Kurrie, wife of- H. R. Kurrie, president of the Mbnon railroad, were laid to rest in Weston cemetery in this city Sunday afternoon, and the funeral was perhaps the most largely attended of any funeral ever held in this city. Acquaintances of the deceased from Indianapolis, Chicago, Lafayette and other points on the Motion were in attendance as well as the many numerous friends she had in this city. The majority of the out of town guests were high officials of the Monon railroad and their families. The floral tributes were profuse and wonderful and came from all parts of the country. The -gervi ces were conducted by Rev. J. B. Fleming, pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, and were held at the beautiful Kurrie residence. The following acted as pall bearers: - _ Messrs. Zimmerman, Evans, McCart, Weis, O’Mara, Spitler, Hanley and Leopold. «... , tTia -fallowing Monon officials ana their families were here Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. H. R. Kurrie: Chicago—Byron Cassel, treasurer; Perry MoCart, general attorney; H. T. Evans, auditor; C. C. Hine, assistant general attorney; B. Stackhouse; R- R, Oberstob, chief engineer; R. G. Street, auditor; R. S. Lamson, claim agent; W. H. McNeff, assistant general passenger agent; H. B. Crone, secretary to general manager; V. Hewitt, secretary to president. Lafayette-—W. H. Fogg, general superintendent; J. R- Steimn, superintendent; E. A. Esknage, superintendent car service; F. D. Ong, car accountant; J. H. Cole, trainmaster; F. E. Lewis, trainmaster; P. Ferguson, trainmaster; W. English, master mechanic; J. Neary, master car builder; J. Holloway, safety supervisor; J. deist, superintendent shipping; M. Schumann, superintendent of shops; John Priest, traveling passenger agent; H. B. claim. passenger agent; F. Martin, city passenger agent; J. O Mara, chairman order railroad conducters.

FURNISHING SOLDIER BOYS WORK.

Clyde Gunyon, who is the superintendent of the Wisconsin Dredge Co., with headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis., returned to that city Monday. He has the supervision of four large dredges and has arranged to use a number of the returned soldier boys, some of whom were employed by him before the war. Ross Wood, of Fair Oaks, C. Henry, of Hammond and Floyd Sanders, of Parr, accompanied Mr. Gunyon on his trip to Wisconsin.

-Wttfc- SELL FARTMHE&----~ SHIP TRACTOR. In order to settle up a partnership matter we will offer for sale at the James H. Chapman sale TUESDAY, MARCH 25, An Advance-Rumley 12-24 Oil tractor. 'the engine is A-No. 1. condition. FRANK SCHROER.

The light pure bred Hampshire sows that will be offered at the Lewis and Leatherman sale Saturday, March 22, are all bred. They are the cream in quality. NOTICE TO WOODMEN There will be degree wort given on Wednesday night, March 19, and a full attendance is desired. Refreshments will also be served after degree work. Wm. H. Platt, clerk.

MICKIE SAYS

CAMBRIDGE Do you find it difficult to decide on what kind of a suit to get tkis Spring ? Lot m kelp you —we are ready with suggestions 3( V 3(

KEEPING THE CADENCE WITH MIKE IN FRANCE.

The following is an excerpt taken from a letter written by Michael Wagner-,-now -m -America's- army of occupation, to a Rensselaer boy, recently discharged: “Believe me they are sure making a changed boy out of me in this army. Prior to my coming here. I don’t think that I had ever delivered an untruth in my entire lifetime. Then what happens? They decided to hold an inspection one morning, and you know inspections are a bugbear to the veteran campaigner as

well as we fresh “rookies.” The commanding officer comes along, stops, gazes intently at me a moment as I stood at attention blushing like a schoolboy, then says to me: “See that dirt on the floor there by your bunk?” “Yessir, I answered, my knees imitating drum sticks and my voice fal-tering-as I turned around and looked in the direction that his • finger was pointing. I well knew what I was going to say before I ever looked.” “Well, then see that it is cleaned up,” he says. I had told my first falsehood as a members of the American army, for to my eye the floor was as barren of dirt as the Kaiser is of power.”

WHEATFIELD BOY WINNER OF THE D. S. C.

The najne of Private John B. Mitchell, Company G. Sixtieth infantry, appears a/nong others as a winner of the distinguished.JSenaca=£resfc Private Mitchell was awarded the honor for extraordinary heroism near St. Mehiel, France, September 18, 1918. Although severely wounded while carrying a message from his battalion headquarters through an extremely heavy machine gun and artillery fire, .Private Mitchell persevered and successfully delivered the message. The boy thus honored is from Wheatfield, Ind„ the town that boasted of more volunteers than any other town of its. size in the state.

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TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twe*ty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: M«t. Min. March 14 60 31 March 15 .....43 39. March 16 60 57 March 17 .....67 53

ANNOUNCEMENT Wish to announce that I am back from the army and opened up a law office in room 4, Oddfellow bldg., Rensselaer, Ind., phone 142. Office days Friday’s and Saturday’s. W- H. PARKINSON.

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. read THE INSIDE PAGES.

BLOOMINGTON GRABS CROWN

TRI - COUNTY MONOPOLY ON BASKET CHAMPIONSHIPS SMASHED BY BLOOM- — INGTON QUINTET. “ Upsetting the best laid calculations of sport scribes throughout the state, the speedy little five from Bloomington, smashed through the opposing walls of three high class combinations Saturday and grabbed the Indiana high school basket ball crown. In doing so the Monroe five smashed a precedent, for it was the first time since the inauguration of such classics that any team without the boundaries of Tippecanoe, Montgomery and Boone- county has ever been able to slip on the dress of title bearers. Up until the final hours of the tourney play there had been practically no upsets and the teams ran along so monotonously true to form that the glamour and color of the meeting had begun to fade. Then, Zowie! some one rams his foot into the dope bucket and the fireworks started, and in a shoTt time two teams picked as sure things for the final were administered a sleeping potion, their folldwers enveloped in gloom, while the supporters of the winning fives went stark, raving mad. The best laid plans of the sport scribes were knocked into a cocked hat and the little party they had framed was off. The complexion of the situation changed so suddenly that it dazed the immense throng and made, of them silly, gibbering children. Bloomington, a five that had been showing only average basket ball, but who had been managing to win despite the fact, suddenly cast aside their Rip Van Winkle tendencies and trampled Thomtown into insensibility in the first of the semi-finals. The convincing manner with which they won aroused the dropping interest among the spectators who had already picked Thomtown and Crawfordsville as finalists. Then to make the joy of those who are always looking forward to upsets complete the Jefferson quintette of Lafayette got into a jam with the sturdy Crawfordsville five and managed to knot the count at the finish, necessitating an extra five minutes play. le was here that the Lafayetteans showed their fighting qualities for they converted oppor- . tunities into five points while the Athenians were grabbing two. Then you can imagine the rest —Lafayette in Lafayette in the tourney final. The evening affair was well played, both teams standing the £aff well and playing one of the cleanest, fastest games of the entire tournament. The downstate five led at half time, 11 to 7 and Lafayette was able to cut down this margin but by a single point in the final session. Bloomington deserves much credit, for they were much lighter thqn the majority of their opponents, being one of the smallest teams in the clMsic.„.__They, T haxe.JQM^l ball ability and are weUentitlea to wear the crown they have just won.

TAKEN TO THE JULIA WORK HOME.

Sheriff True D. Woodworth took Ernest Jacks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacks, of this city, to the Julia Work Home in Plymouth today: Young Jacks had stolen some money it is alleged, of Ed Herath, the implement man. This was the young lad’s second offense and the judge decided that the best thing to do with the boy was to send him to the institution named above. Another lad was with the Jacks boy at the time: it is alleged that the theft was committed, hut did not have a part in the act.

Subscribe for tho Republican. AT THE -i STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY Katherine Harris Barrymore And . HENRY KOLKER —IN—“THE HOUSE OF MIRTH” A Screen Version of Edith Wharton’s celebrated novel by same name. TUESDAY— G. A- ANDERSON RED BLOOD AND YELLOW —ALSO— A George Ado Fable p- —- WEDNESDAY—BESSIE BARRISCALE “ROSE OF •PARADISE" ' trfl

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