Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Page 1

No. 104.

We have received a shipment of fiber rugs in all sizes. These are the better grade of fiber and include blue, green tan and gray colors. Wk have these in small rugs to match the room size. W. J. WRIGHT

PREDICTIONS OF BUMPER WHEAT CROP THIS YEAR

Washington, May 2.—Prediction of the department of agriculture for x a wheat crop this year even larger than the record breaking crop of 1914, was repeated today by the United States chamber of commerce in a report baseb on statistics t obtained from all sections of the country. The report stated that an acreage never before equalled had been planted and a yield of 900,000,000 bushels was forecasted. “The condition of the winter wheat is so high as to be without precedent or parallel,” the report said. “It is, in fact, a monotone of perfection. The plant came through the winter and the trying month of March unscathed and unhurt. In many sections of the west and southwest it was necessary to pasture it to livestock to keep down its rank growth. “Reports of damage are mostly remarkable by their entire abserfce. More rumors of Hessian fly and some stray predatory insects, but that is all. Unless some climatic catastrophe, or some Egyptian-like and unexpected plague or insects intervene, the yield will probably be 900,000,000 bushels or about 33 per cent more than the great harvest of 1914. The report stated that one interesting sidelight of the situation was that about 25 per cent of the yield would be south of the Mason and Dixon line. Southern states which never before grew winter wheat, this year have large acreages planted, it was said. Reports showed that the seeding of spring wheat had been delayed from ten days to two weeks by excessive rains, and a decrease of acreage as compared with last year was expected.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS NATIONAL New York 14; Philadelphia 2. Chicago 4; Pittsburg 2. iSt. Louis 3; Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 3; Boston 0. AMERICAN Detroit 14; Cleveland 6. v Washington 7; Philadelphia 3. St. Louis 11; Chicago 4. New York 3; Boston 1.

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LAST UNITS OF “RAINBOW” MEN REACH STATES

Washington, May 2.—Only about thirty-five per cent of the more than 22,000 men composing the fortysecond (Rainbow) division, as it returned from France, were members of the original division as organized at Camp Mills, New York, to embark for the front. Practivally all of these men, it was learned today, have been wounded or otherwise incapacitated during the months of service. They had been returned from the hospitals and rest camps to the division and when it received orders for home a special effort was made by the division staff to get together all the original Rainbow personnel who had survived the rigors of the campaign. _ . The intense activity of the division during the fighting is shown by the number of replacement troops which passed through its muster rolls ( during that period. This number is placed by officers of the division at approximately 67,000 men against the full war strength of 27,500. Each time it was withdrawn for rest it was necessary practically to reconstitute 1 the divisions’s personnel because of casualties. Toward the end of the fighting, however, many of the men sent forward in replacements were original members of the Rainbow division, who had recovered and returned to duty. This, officers say, accounted for the percentage of its original rolls which came back with the organization. The last elements of the fortysecond arrived yesterday at Newport News.

About twenty-five members of the Women’s Missionary Society of the First Christian church took advantage of the fact that Mrs. Alex Merica had a birthday at this season to surprise her and show their appreciation of her faithful and efficient leadership as president of the society. In a well carried out surprise, the members went to her home on Friday evening with their own refreshments. A beautiful silver pie knife was presented to Ijer by the society. The evening was spent in a social way after which refreshments, of pie, ice cream and cake were served.

Everything electrical. Phone 113. Babcock Electrical Co.

BIRTHDAY SURPRISE

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919.

APPEAL MADE AS LOAN LAGS

LESS THAN ONE-THIRD OF NATION’S QUOTA SUBSCRIBED TO DATE. The need of the government for funds to bring the war to a successful conclusion will be carried directly to .every person in the United States who can be reached, as a result of the slowness of the public in volunteerirfg subscriptions to the Victory Loan. Latest figures compiled by the government Friday showed $1,497,347,600, less than one-third of the loan quota, subscribed. - Individual subscriptions in nearly every reserve district were said to be running far short of those in previous loans, apparently indicating that the public was not fully awake to the necessity of raising the full $4,500,000,000 asked for in order to bring the men back from overseas and care for those wounded in the service. jPlans were immediately made and telegrams sent to every, state organization in the country to make the last seven working days of the loan campaign productive of sufficient individual subscriptions to put the loan over the top, without calling on the financial institutions and tying up credit. 1

The St. Louis federal reserve district leads the country in having subscribed 59.68 per cent of its quota and two other western districts, Chicago and Minneapolis rank second and third respectively. The southwest, or Dallas district, was at the bottom when the latest tabulation of subscriptions was made. Jasper county is in 'the .Chicago district but has yet to fly the, white flag of victory. No official reports as to the progress being made have been obtainable but it is thought that the county is very close to its loan quota at the present time. $250,000 is thought to be approximately the amount of the subscriptions in the county to date. The quota for Jasper is $275,000, so it is thought that the loan workers will have but little trouble in shoving the county over the top befores the final day. _ Fear is entertained in many quarters that the loan will not go over, but the final seven days will no' doubt show a great change and the workers throughout the entire country assert that they will not fail-in their objective.

REFUSE TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR HOME COMING

The Carroll county commissioners met last Saturday to take some action on the request of the state officials that all counties appropriate money to send returned soldiers to Indianapolis for Welcome Home Day. The commissioners estimated that it would take $2,500 to send the soldiers to Indianapolis and decided not to appropriate funds for the Indianapolis celebration. Carrol county is planning a celebration of her own this year in honor of her returned soldiers and the commissioners decided when the time arrives to use the money that would have been spent for the benefit of the railroads and the city of Indianapolis for the home celebration. Wayne county has also refused to make an appropriation, which in their case would have amounted to several thousand dollars. The county will use the money saved to pay for a celebration of their own at Fort Wayne.

DEPUTY FIRE MARSHALL RAISES NED WITH LOCAL CONDITIONS

A deputy state fire marshal was in Rensselaer Thursday and Friday to ascertain if the fire regulations were being lived up by our citizens. He found that in many cases they were not and proceeded to tell all who were disobeying the rulings what he thought about, as well as issuing sweeping orders. In many ceses he found that gasoline was in to close proximity to stoves. Several garages were ordered to oust the stoves in their places of business and to provide other kinds of heating arrangements. Several owners of buildings were ordered to remodel them at once or have them condemned to be torn down. One or two business men were ordered to vacate the buildings they are occupying as they were, pronounced unsafe. One or two landmarks were condemned as utterly useless and the owners ordered to tear them down.

CANADIAN AUTOMOBILES ARE WANTING GOOD ROAD RULES

Canadian automobilists have obtained co-operation of associations in America apd other countries in the campaign to inteftiationalize road rules. They believe peace and good road projects will result in ' many trans-continental tours and that a standard code of rules will be needed. (British motorists who brought their 1 machines to Canada have had greatest difficulty in keeping on the right 1 hand side of the street, and Cana- ! dian army officers who attempted to pilot maahines in London that the left side- rule kept them in a state bordering on mental collapse. Aviators also are agitating for an international conference to fqrmuI late air rules as well as highway rules. ■•' i

S. S. SHEDD DIES SUDDENLY

RESPECTED CITIZEN SUCCUMBED TO HEART FAILURE FRIDAY AFTERNOON • 11 . , Spaulding S. Shedd, for many years a highly respected citizen and farmer of this community, passed a way suddenly at three p.m., Friday, at his home on Grace street, following an attack of heart trouble which he had been a subject of for several months. His death was entirely unexpected and came as a great shock to the citizens in general. The name of Spaulding S. Shedd has been linked with the progress of Jasper county for the past twentyfive years and has been a familiar one throughout the community. As a farmer, business man, public official and plain citizen he held the esteem of all. His thoroughness, progressiveness, integrity and advocacy of everything that tended for the good of the community in which he resided, stamped his as one of the most honored men among his fellowmen. Mr. Shedd was born in New Hampshire in the year 1845, therefore making him seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. When a young man he moved to Colorado where he lived for a number of years before coming to Jasper county with his family in the year 1895. The greater part of his time as a resident of this county was spent on his farm about three miles west of Rensselaer, where he continued to live until about four years ago when he took up his residence in this city. The deceased had been in good health with the exception of infrequent heart attacks and had visited the city only a very short time before his death occurred. He had contemplated a trip to Alabama to visit his daughter and family, it having benn his intention to leave during the fore part of the present week. The trip was abandoned upon the advice of the family physician. Mr. Shedd had seven brothers, six of whom preceded him in death. John G. Shedd, president of the Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, is the surviving brother. Besides his wife, three daughters survive him, Mrs. E. J. Randle of this city, Mrs. Samuel Sparling, of Demopolis, Ala., and Miss Harriett Shedd, of Rensselaer, and two sons, Harry, of New York, and Arthur, of Demopolis, Ala. Funeral services will be held at three o’clock Monday afternoon at the late residence and will be conducted by the Rev. J. B. Fleming, of the Presbyterian cruch. Burial will be made in the family lot in Weston cemetery.

LUXURY TAXES WENT INTO EFFECT MAY 1

The socalled luxury taxes provided in the new internal revenue law become effective May 1, and affect ice cream, sodas, sundaes and all soft drinks, all bottled beverages made of ceraels or substitutes and containing less than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol, unfermented, grape juice, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop, artificial mineral waters. While not classed particularly as luxuries, carpets, rugs, picture frames, trunks, portable lighting fixtures, umbrellas, fans, women's ind misses’ hats, bonnets and hoods and men’s and. boys’* hats, shoes, neckties, shirts and pajamas also will be taxed. The tax bn ice cream apd soft drinks will be 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the consumer. On bottled beverages the tax is 15 per cent, while on grape juice, gingerale, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop and mineral waters the tax will be 10 per cent. The tax on carpets, rugs, etc., will be 10 per cent of the price paid in excess of a certain fixed which, in the case of women’s hats is sls, and in the case of men’s and boys hats, neckwear, shirts etc., is $5. Before June 30,owners of pleasure boats will be taxed $1.25 and on July 1, a tax of from $1 to $lO, based on the length and power of such craft will be due. If the ladies appear with pale cheeks and lifeless lips on and after May 1, don’t blame it on the flue. It’s the internal revenue bureau at it again. Peter J. Kruyer, collector of internal revenue, calls attention to the fact that on and after May 1, a tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents, or-frac-tion thereof will be levied upon the amount paid for perfumes, essences, extracts, toilet waters, cosmetics, petroleum,’, jellies, hair oils, pomades, hair restoratives, hair dyes, tooth and mouth washes, tooth pastes, aromatic cachous, toilet powders and other soap powders “and other similiar substances and preparations.” "A like tax is imposed on proprietary medicines, “as to which the manufacturer or producer claims to have any private formula, secret or occult and -for making or preparing the same.’ 1

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WHAT ABOUT WILHELM?

Washington, May 3.—The Republican Publicity Association, through its President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., today gave out the following statement from its Washington headquarters. “Is Bill the butcher to get off scot free? Is the muddle which Mr. Wilson is stirring up in Europe to screen the escape of this arch-conspirator against mankind? Is this advance, agent of Antichrist, if not the apocalyptic Beast himself, to find safe refuge beneath the academic skirts of a man whose imperialism was repudiated at the polls last November? It is beginning to look that way. “Of all the lame excuses ever submitted to a disguested world, that efthe American commission to the effect that there is no precedent in international law for the trial and conviction of the head of a state is the most spineless. If a precedent is needed, now is the time to establish it, or the fate meted out to Napoleon should suggest one. '“Did Wilhelm look for a precedent when he overran Belgium? Did he find excuse in international law when he crucified Canadian soldiers, stockaded and outraged Belgian and French women, maimed and disemboweled little children, defiled and destroyed churches, cut the throats of American prisoners, sank unarmed ships without warning, made of Belgium and Northern France a barren waste, and sent his agents by the thousands into neutral states to carry on his infernal propaganda, which continues to this day? Was there

any precedent <to be found in history for this campaign of frightfulness, other than that supplied by Attila the Hun? Napoleon was a clean fighter, at least, and they banished him. Is Wilhelm to be permitted to sojourn undistrubed in princely ease at Amerongen Castle, there to mature his plans for a second trial for world conquest? If so, Mr. Wilson should -be credited with a remarkable victory as counsel for the defense of this international criminal, to judge from reports. “The patience which the President of the United States has exhibited toward Germany, the Germans, and the Kaiser and his court, is of a quality more vicious* than virtuous. So far as is known the records fail to show a single instance of the capital punishment of an enemy spy in this country, yet we have been infested with them. Nominal confinement in comfortable hotels at Government expense, or in more flagrant cases, segregation in commodious stockades, fed to repletion, and provided with pleasant recreations, have spelled the hard lot of these villainous agents. A few months before we got into the war at least one Democratic campaign manager was hob-nobbing with those agents in German beer-halls, and the “kept us out of war” gullery was planted in those German steins. And then we had the note-writing contests between the President and the Kaiser, with the Democratic press deciding the President the winner in each “diplomatic victory”. Finally, when the American public would brook n,o further insult, we went to war and then delayed six months getting in. -a “We have no quarrel with the German people, said Mr. Wilson. Ask the •soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces if that is true. EvI ery soldier who fought against the ' Kaiser’s hosts and who witnessed his diabolical war methods demands his I punishment, and so does every red- ! blooded American who contributed 1 to the defeat which apparently Mr. 1 Wilson seeks to minimize. If Mr. • Wilson’s intervention saves the hide of Butcher Bill, there is but one reply to make to hi? unauthorized, as- ; sertion on behalf of the American ' people, namely, ‘He had no quarrel ’ with the German Kaiser.’ ” Forty-two cars have been entered for the 500 mile Liberty sweepstakes at the Indianapolis Speedway May 31, when entries closed at midnight Wednesday. Drivers who will start include several noted foreign pilots and several American record holders.

NO YANKEES ON FOE SOIL AFTER TREATY SIGNING

Washington, May 2.—Determination of President Wilson, indicated in pressadvices from Paris, that no American troops shall continue on German soil for a longer' period after the signing of the peace treaty than may be necessary to embark for home, is borne out by present plans of the war department, which contemplate” the retun of the entire American expeditionary forces by September. Because of this General March, chief of staff, is making every effort to speed up the demobilization in this country. An official announcement issued today as to the accumulation of surplus clothing for the troops stated that the estimates were based on “troop withdrawal to be completed in September.” The statement also said that “if an army of occupation, is maintained after September, a portion of this surplus will be needed.” This computation was taken to reflect exactly the present information of the department as to future troop movements. The September date represents estimates by embarkation officials as to the maximum possible speed in withdrawing the entire force in Europe, including the troops holding the Coblenz bridgehead sector on the Rhine. If anything, officers anticipate that the movement will be accelerated rathe? than retarded. The schedule has been exceeded recently and in increasing measure from week to week with an indicated monthly movement of 450,000 men, the best predictions of General March and his aides bid far, it was said, to be more than realized.

COUNTY CLERK IS GONE; CHECKS GO UNHONORED

Decatur, Ind., May 2.—William Hammell, clerk of Adams county, is missing, and representatives of the state , board of accounts arrived here today to begin an investigation. The action, taken at the request of John T. Kelley, deputy clerk, followed refusal of a local bank to cash a check signed by Mr. Hammell. When a check was returned a few days ago, marked “not paid for want of funds” surprise was created in the office, as its cash books showed on . deposit $6,786 on Saturday, April 26. The amount included checks, currency and Liberty bonds. Mr. Hammell was absent from his office the greater part of last week, and was at the office only on Monday of this week, when he left, presumably to go to the Fisher bathhouse in Fort Wayne. He has not been found, however, nor has the money, although it may be deposited in other banks than at the one where' he was in the habit of doing business. He has held the office of clerk three years, his term expiring January 1, 1920, when he will be succeeded by Mr. Kelley, the deputy. Mr. Hammell is under SIO,OOO bond with a surety company, of which Walton Johnson is local representative.

GOVERNMENT EXTENDS INSURANCE ON SOLDIERS’ LIVES

Government insurance on the lives of soldiers and sailors will be continued automatically, if in effect for one month after the end of the month in which a man is discharged from the service even if the man does not z pay his premiums, Henry D. Lindsley, director of the war risk insurance bureau announced recently. If a. man dies within that time, the insurance will be paid, but after that time the policy is considered lapsed and will be lost unless application has been made for reinstatement. A lapsed policy will be reinstated if application is madewithin six months.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

W. T. BARBRE, Minister “Patriotism vs Bolshevism” will be the subject of the sermon Sunday morning. In the place of the regular evening service, the monthly union meeting will be held here. Rev. J. Budman Fleming will deliver the sermon. The Bible school will make an offering to the Benevolent Work of our church, for the widow and orphan next Sunday morning.

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