Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — Page 1

No. 110.

We Have At Last Found a Good Strong '♦ . ■ Teeter Board for the •* • ‘2'-’ Children Play Ground . Price $3.50 W. J. WRIGHT • • • **■ 7 7 —’ • ; • ■

G. F. JJeschand and John Marlatt made a trip to Chicago today. Garland left today for Vicksburg, Miss., on a land prospecting trip. (Mrs. J. W. McConahay returned to her home in Pullman, 111., today after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Henry Randle. Wm. Swigard is substituting as third tpck operator at the depot for operator Titus who is visiting with his parents in Mnneapolis, Minn. William Smith returned td his home in Hammond today after a visit with friends here. He was in the service eleven months and was discharged recently at Camp Taylor, Ky. Private Walter Wiseman, who had spent a thirty day furlough here with his parents, Mr. aml Mrs. J. T. Wiseman, left Friday for El Paso, Texas, where he will rejoin his company. iMrs. C. P. Moody, Miss Mae Smith and Ida Davis went to Crown Point Friday afternoon. Mrs. Moody will visit with her son, Clarance, Fate and family, and the two young Indies will be engaged in the Commercial hotel at Crown Point, of which Mr. Fate is the proprietor.

G A S 24 c Standard and Indian Main Garage THE BEST IN RENSSELAER Phone 206

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The Evening Republican.

Victor Hoover went to Chicago Friday afternoon. Mrs.’ W. C. McConnell went to Gary today. e — 1 1 Sunday is to. be Mother’s day. Wear a flower. Electric supplies. Phone 113. Babcock Electric Co. ' The Women’s Home Missionary society of the Methodist church will hold a reception Wednesday, May 14 for the new members. Members and their husbands are asked to be in attendance. Alexander, returned slab star with the Chicago Nationals, made his 1919 debut on the mound against CincinJati Friday. His boot in the eighth rame permitted the Reds to cop a single marker which was enough a? the Mitchels failed to reach the tqt minal. W The ladies of the first ward of the Presbyterian church will hold a social in the church parlors, on ‘Tuesday evening, May 13th, to which everyone is invited. Ice-cream and cake, as well as articles of value from 5c to 25c, will be on sale. ■Mrs.- John Mrller and daughter,” whose home is in California, but who had been visiting relatives in Roan, Ind. came Friday for a visit with Mrs. and Dr. Frank Hemphill. Mrs. Hemphil and Mrs. Miller are sisters. Thomas Hendrix left Friday afternoon for Rochester, Minn., where he will meet his son, Roy, who has been discharged from the army. He may decide to make his home with his son in Rochester. •While playing in the hay loft of his father’s barn Friday, Allen, the six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Al. Kanne, had his left thigh broken when he fell to the cement floor below. He was brought to " Rensselaer and the fractured bone was set by a local physician. It was not found necesfaary to take him to the hospital.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, - SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919.

BROTHER OF O. K. RAINIER DIED AT BROOKSTON TODAY

0. K. Rainier received a message from Brookston this Saturday morning stating that his brother, G. A. Rainier, had died suddenly. * Mr. Rainier was about sixty-two years of age and had spent his entire life time in White county. He leaves a wife and one son; Dr. Rainier, of Remington. .The cause of his death is unknown. He had just finished his morning chores and gone to the house, expiring $ few moments later. , Mr. and Mrs. Rainier, of this city, left for Brokston this morning.

ST. LOUIS FIRST LOAN DISTRICT TO GO OVER

iNearly $1,200,000,000 remains to be subscribed fro the Victory Liberty loan in the single day remaining of the campaign. Sales tabulated last •night buy the treasury showed $3,314,870,000, already. subscribed, or 73.66 per cent of the total subscribed. iThe St. Louis district is the district to subscribe its quota. The Chicago district, of which Jasper county is a part has subscribed 70.1 of it qu#ta.

FARMERS’ SHIPPING ASSOCIATION TO MEET

Members of the Farmers’ Shipping Association are asked- to attend a ■meeting of that organization at the county agent’s office next Saturday evening, May 17, at* 8 p. m. The purpose of the meeting will be to elect a president, and secretary and to take care of any other business which may come up at that time. All members are urged to be in attendance BY ORDER OF DIRECTORS.

Card of Thanks.

We take this means of thanking our friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy shown us during the sickness and following the death of our beloved baby; also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Thuston Otterberg.

Thomas McDonald of near Pleasant Ridge died about noon today. No particulars of his death have been learned.

DID YOU KNOW ! THAT YOU CAN BUY The Very Best Cuts of Beefl ■ f° r 30 and 32 cents * at the Co-operative meat market. Phone 92.

KNIGHTS HELD OPEN HOUSE FRIDAY EVENING

JThe local order of Knights of Pythias held an open house at the lodge hall Friday evening. Many of the members and their families were present, and the event proved to be one of the most enjoyable ever given by that organization. Coffee, sandwiches, apples and cigars were served, and the evening was spent in playing cards. Rev. Barbre, of the. Christian church, gave an address on Pythianism which was one of the finest ever? delivered in the lodge hall.

FORMER SOLDIER VISITS FRIENDS HERE

0. H. Gant came Friday to spend the week-end here with relatives and friends. Orpha has an excellent position with the steel mill at Gary and is suceeding splendidly. Orpha was a member of company M, spent about a year or more at Camp Shelby,-Miss, and just about the time the armistice was signed he landed in France. • He made a most excellent record as a soldier and has in him the qualifications that insure him of a success as a civilian. He speaks very highly of a the conduct of the Mayor in his standing of the bolsheviki movement ■in .Gary. The meeting night pf the Health Culture club has been changed to .Monday night each week. Members 'are notified to meet at the home of Mrs. Fred A. Phillips, Monday, May 12, w at 4 o’clock U. m., with luncheon if weather is favorable. Otherwise at the library at usual hour. PRESIDENT.

Never could figure why a bird will spend eleven dollars over a bar grah- ' bing headache when he could get the same way by beating himself on the dome with a mallet. \ ■ Not only are the wets to be dealt a body blow on July 1, but the Java I hounds as well, for it has been anI npunced that the price of coffee is to take a slump-upward. . >-v '* Dainty Miss May has a grouch on that won’t come off. Cold and rain is" bout all she has 'offered to date. I Electric wiring and supplies. Phone 113. Babcock Electric Co.

STEWART MOORE ACQUITTED OF SERIOUS CHARGE

Stewart Moore was acquitted in Judge Anderson’s court at Indianapolis Friday of a Mhnn act charge lodged against him by Lake county officials in April. Absolute vindication in every way was given him, the judge finding that there was not the faintest trace of evidence to show that he was guilty of the serious charge which was launched against him. John Huber, a Lake county constable, was the only one of the several indicted who was found guilty and was given a two year term in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Moore was working as achauffeur in Hammond, at the time Esther Plunkett, >a seventeen year old Illinois girl, came to Hammond and took up her residence at a boarding house where Stewart was staying. Later she lodged Mann act charges against the landlady, Huber and two other men by the names of Taylor and Thompson. Moore was not named at tlwit time. The four named were taken to Indianapolis and placed in jail, while Moore came to Rensselaer. A week or so later a government official came to Rensselaer and placed Moore under arrest, following his having learned that Moore was a boarder at the place where the Plunkett girl stayed. He was charged with having induced the girl, along with those placed under arrest, to come to Indiana. At the trial Judge Anderson gave the ex-clerk of Lake county a severe tongue lashing when ‘the latter appeared as character vntness for Huber. The judge has become disgusted with the actions of Lake county individuals, as more have appeared before him from that county than from any other county in the state, and anyone sent before him from that county must show mighty good evidence of his inribcence to escape. It appear# that Moore was a victim of circumstantial evidence and that he was in no way guilty of the charge placed against him.

FLOWERS

For Cemetery Flowers and Flower beds See J. H. Holden.

Everything electrical. Phane 113. Babcock Electrical Co.

OBITUARY.

Virginia Ella, little daughter of Paul Norgor, died at the Jasper county hospital, early Monday morning, at the age of 2 years, 4 months and 3 days. Virginia was baptized in the Methodist church, the church of her parents. She leaves to mourn their loss, a loving'father, and grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. George U. May and Mr. and Mrs. James Norgor, her mother having passed away the 11th of last October. Among others who will miss her much are a number of relatives and friends to whom she had endeared herself in her winsome and loving manner.

Card of Thanks.

We desire to thank our many kind friends for their many acts of kindness and words of sympathy given us during the sickness and following the death of our beloved daughter and grand-daughter, Virginia Ellen Norgor also for the floral tributes. PAUL NORGOR, MR AND -MRS. GORGE H. MAY, MR AND MRS JAMES NORGER.

A letter was received today by the editor from Valrie Hill, who is still with the U. S? troops at Camp Gaillard in Panama. He has no idea as to when he will be returned to the states. His address is Co. K, 33rd Inf., Canal Zone, Panama. Mrs. Hettie Nichols and Mrs. Harvey Wood, Sr., returned from Elkhart Friday where they attended the state meeting of the G. A.' R., Thursday and Friday, as delegates of the local chapter. The Rensselaer ladies had the honor W nominating Mrs. Dora Lyons, of Delphi, for Department president, who was later elected to the important position. Mrs. Lyons is a former Rensselaer girl and wds a charter member of the local chapter. She is. a sister of George H. Healey of this city.

e • e e. e • *. • • • • * REMOVAL NOTICE. • 1 have moved my office to * * the rooms over Murray’s De- * " partinent store. Entrance, stair- * * way next to I drug store. * * Telephone 89. E. N. LOY, M-* * D. , •

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VETERAN WARRIORS REACHED RENSSELAER THIS MORNING

It was a mighty happy little crew of heroes which stepped off of an early moriiing north bound train here this Saturday morning after an all night ride from Louisville, Ky., where they were mustered out of the, service Friday. A smile wreathed the face of each stalwart individual as he swung on to the platform at the Monon station for the first time since August of 1917. Their home-coming, unheralded, was a happy one, even though there was no blare of trumpets of throngs to greet them. They had done their part and all they desired was to get back to the place and among the friends who had given them such a wonderful sendoff months bes ore. Just home —that’s all lhey wanted. Months of fierce fighting as members of America’s pioneer troops—the Rainbow division —dampened their ardor not one whdt, and they are now all ready to take up their pre-war occupations and to forget all about the terrible experiences they had in history’s 1 greatest l conflict. It was in August of 1917 that President Wilson called for troops for immediate overseas service to help revive the waning spirits of the allied troops by their presence. Each state was called upon to give so many of her sons that a division, to be known as the Rainbow division, might be formed. Each guard conii pany in the state was called upon for so many of its members, and Rensselaer sent ten to the state capital. Soon the state’s quota was on its way to an eastern port and it was not long after the members embarked for France. A few weeks later found them On active sectors of the battle front where they, remained shia>ughout the war and proved themseWes to be the premier fighting unit of America’s army, Many sacrificed their all but the courage and valor displayed by them was the turning point of the war and they rained blow after blow on the Hun horde, stopping them time and again and throwing them back steadily toward the German frontier. Their task was a trying one but they never flinched and America owes much to her first sons who entered the great conflict. Jasper county shares the pride of a great nation in these troops, as well, as all others troops, which battered the Hun into helplessness, and each and every member of the little band which arrived this morning may. rest assured that their deeds will never be forgotten by “the folk fi*om home.” ? Those who arrived this morning were: Harry Hays, Edward Peregrine, HowArd Ames, Add Clayton William Reed and Edward Rose. ' Other members of the division who were sent from here but who have not yet returned are: Tarmon Clayton, Wesley Hurley, Emory Nixon, Willie Potts and Ford McColly. However, it is expected that they will arrive shortly. ' - •

AMERICA CAN GO TO H-L SAYS GERMAN ENVOY

An American newspaper correspondent in London is to have asked a German envoy to the peace conference for an interview on Germany’s idea of the peace terms. The envoy is said to have denied the newspaper representative an interview but is quoted as having sent the following word to him: “If these are American peace terms, then America can go to H——l.” Well, the Dutch blockhead might have added: “And she can fight like H 4.” '

KUBOSKE-WALTERS

Are going in the garage business. They are planning to - build a fine building soon. 4

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending nt ?:00 a. m. on the date indicated: ‘ / Mav Mir. May 9 ....58 42

VETERAN TAKES EXCEPTION TO INDIFFERENCE OF YOUTH

“The first hundred years are the most nerve-racking," said an old time Rensselaer resident this morning as he stopped pushing the family lawn mower through a bounteous crop of its last years growth, long enough to telFiis it is fifty-two years this month since he became a resident of Jasper county. We suggested to him that he is entitled to join the old settlers association, but with a sigh akin to despair he said: “The old settlers association is all right, lot of good people belong, but there is an awful lot of skeptics among the more ’youthful citizens, who came into this county without a sitch of clothes to their back, reaping the fruits of the pioneer’s toil and hardships. These young scions mean well, but they do not often understand and often question the veracity of the early settler when he takes the time and patience to explain how it was in those days. For instance I told Skile Jones once how it was I hauled poles from the river timber, with which to fence the farm, for thirty days continuously in the month of February, 1869, how I wallowed through snow drif ts and ate my lunch of rabbit ham to do this, and do you know, to this ’ day he contends I didn’t do it?There’» nothing to this old settler business. The people think you are lying about it. Bill was awful handy, could prove most anything by him; but poor Bill is gone and now Skile has moved to another county to be an old settler some time. Maybe he’ll get his’n for doubting me.” And then the old man. mowed on;

LAKE-JASPER REPRESENTATIVES IN ROAD SESSION TODAY

Mayor C. G. Spitler, L. A. Bostwick, Ed. Nesbitt, C, W. Hanley, F. E. Babcock, W. D. Bringle, Ben. McColly and L. H. Hamilton and others went to Crown Point today for the purpose of conferring with representatives of that county on the proposed Indianapolis-Chicago highway. Crown Point is working in conjunction with Jasper county in the matter and hopes to secure the route which will include Rensselaer and that city. Owing to the illness of his wife, W. L. Wood was unable to accompany the local representatives.

J. J. LAWLER DISPOSES OF BEAVER TOWNSHIP LAND

J. J. Lawler, the biggest land owner in this section of the state is rapidly disposing of his holdings and this week disposed of practically all of hi land in Beaver township, Newton county. He has just completed a deal whereby William Raff becomes the owner of land in sections 1,5, 6,7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 31 32 and 36. The exact number of acres has not been given out but the consideration is said to have been $31,452.34.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

W. T. BARBRE, Minister. The pastor will preach Sunday morning on the subject “A Mother’s Crown”. All of the regular services of the church will be held during the day. There/will a baptismal service at the evening service. The Bible school will announce plans for the Children’s day program Sunday morning. The State convention fdr the Ohristion churches of Indiana will be held next week with the Third Christian church in Indianapolis. An extra good progam has been arranged for this year. This church will be represented at the convention.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS NATIONAL Cincinnati 1; Chicago O'. All* other games rain. < AMERICAN All games postponed, rain.

FRUIT TREES AND NURSERY STOCK Now is the time to piaee your order for fruit trees and nursery stc-k. Every tree and plant I sell ig abs ■ lutely guaranteed in every respeCu CHARLES PEFLEY. STAR THEATRE > AT THE -r—‘‘■l ' . * • . - THE HOUSE OF GOOjb PICTURES ■ r,TTODAY JUNE ELVIDGE • AND FRANK MAYO —in— * . ‘The Moral Deadline’ ALSO STH EPISODE OF 4‘HANDS UP” MONDAY—BERT LYTELL »•* Unexepected Places This is a Benfit Show Given by the Queen Esther* TUESDAY—"HELLS END” —ALSO — . A TWO REEI/COMEDY

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