Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — Page 1

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We have another shipment of fibre rugs in blue, gray, tan and green colors. The sizes will run 9x12, 9x9, 7ft. 6 in. x 9 ft., 6x9, 4 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 6 in., 30 in. x6O in. See Them in Our Window. W. J. WRIGHT

AUTO CRANK BREAKS YOUNG MAN’S ARM

Wheatfield Review: While trying to start a Ford motor Wednesday evening, Lowell, the thirteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kemper, received a badly fractured arm. The young man had the spark advanced too far. He attempted to start the motor, when it backfired. The crank caught his arm just above the wrist. Dr. Beecher was called and after a bnief examination and first aid, took the boy to the Jasper county hospital, where the arm was properly taken care of. Lowell returned to his home Thursday morning.

RENSSELAER ROOFING CO.

Will cover your buildings with any kind of asphalt fire-proof roofing or shingles. Gravel roofs laid or “Patched. Our roofing is cheaper than cedar shingles and lasts longer. Laid over shingles or over tight sheeting. With our prices you don’t have to put off fixing your leaky or wornout roofs until fall. Contracting for laying cement blocks or brick chimneys. i Office on Cullen street, first door north of McFarland’s grocery, phone 62.

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

May 13, Will Cars Wood, born Rensselaer, Indiana, May 19, 1882; occupation barber; father’s name, William H. Wood; mother’s maiden name, Mary Pierson, and Madeline C. Kellner, born Rensselaer, Indiana, January 8, 1897; occupation housekeeper; father’s name, Conrad Keener; mother’s maiden name, Mary Wagner. First marriage for each.

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FORMER LOCAL BOY SEEING MUCH OF OLD WORLD

'The following letter is from a former Rensselaer boy, Robert C. Johnson, son of R. P. Johnson, and a grandson of Mrs. E. L. Clark of this city: Frier, Germany, April 23, 1919. Dear Mother: I have been moving so much that I have not had the time to write. At the present time I am in Germany. Tomorrow I leave for a tour of all the battlefields, from Belgium down through Francg, taking in the British, American and French fronts. I am driving a Cadillac limousine for Col. Halstead, who is an instructor in an army school here. The motor section left Bar sur Aube on the 21st for the coast. Someone had to come with the colonel and I decided to go. I wanted to go home and see you and the rest but felt if I did I would have to settle down, so if I am going to see any of the world I will have to see it while I am young, so I told them I would go. It will only be three or four months longer. Coming up here we went to Metz and fro mthere we traveled through the kingdom of Luxemburg, which is a neutral coßtfry. We traveled straight across the center •of it. Well, will close now. Will write and tell you all about the trip to the front. With love, ROBERT.

Mrs. Lillian Wood and two daughters, Gladys and Genevieve spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bailey and family. We still have another soldier, whose name has been overlooked in giving the names of soldiers overseas. He is Private Bernard Bailey, who is still in France. He is well, but is anxious to return home. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bailey of McCoysburg. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wood and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wood and family.

" Any old time you happen to have a half hour to spare do not use it bothering somebody who hasn’t.

McCOYSBURG.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1919,

WHEAT PLAGUE REPORTED TO HAVE STRUCK INDIANA

A serious wheat disease resembli ing the Australian “take-all’* disease • lias made its appearance near Grani ite City, 111. Its presence in Indiana •is suspected, lit is highly desirable to know immediately whether the disease has come into our state and if so, at what points it has established itself. In the fields the disease appears in more or less circular patches varying in size from 5 to 26 feet in diameter, which are conspicuous because of the marked stunting of the <plants which are often only a few inches high when healthy plants are knee-high. In one field visited the disease was j present in such severity that most of the plant were stunted or dead with only an occasional normal plant, giving the field a very ragged appearance. The diseased plants from such fields are characterized by a dark discoloration and soft rotting of the j leaf sheaths which, as the disease i progresses, penetrates to the stem I and finally, causes the latter to rot , off at the crown.. Such plants tend to send out more shoots which re--1 suit in a thick rosette of short shoots, t The diseased plants also have a 1 darker green color than the healthy I ones. I Every farmer in Jasper county should inspect his wheat fields at once and report any suspected trouble to the county agricultural agent. Specimens should be furnished the agent also wherever possible. Immediate action is urged in this important matter.

NOTICE TO VAN RENSSELAER CLUB MEMBERS There will be a “smoker” at the club rooms Thursday evening, May 15. Cards and eats. All members are especially urged to be present at this meeting that plans for the remodeling of the club rooms may be discussed. D. D. DEAN, President MEETING AT LIBRARY AUDITORIUM THIS EVENING * \ There will be a meeting at the library auditorium this evening, May 14, for the purpose of organizing a township teachers’ training association. A meeting of the township Sunday school officers will be held in connection with this meeting.

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN BUY The Very Best Cuts of Beef for 30 and 32 cents at the Co-OPERATIVE MEAT MARKET. Phone 92.

JAMES HAM. FINDS WEST PEEVED AT WASHINGTON.

CHICAGO, May 12.—James Hamilton Lewis, retiring Democratic whip of the Senate, who was defeated for re-election by United States Senator Medill McCormick of Illinios, returned to Chicago yesterday after a Western trip to resume the practice of law. He expressed surprise at sentiment in the Pacific coast and mountain states complaining ‘against everything going on with the administration.’ He said the West and coast demand that the soldiers be brought home at once; that they are against soldiers being sent to Siberia or Germany, and are opposed to any European. alliance. “They are for the United States taking control of Mexican affairs and by force stopping the outrages on Americans and their property,” he continued.. “In this only was there a warlike spirit.” Then, he said he had been “afrightened” by the “boldly inaugurated scheme of those opposed to all orderly government to fill the new army and navy with officers and members who on any order to fight disorder or lawlessness would mutiny and take charge of the government after the manner of the Russian soldiers and navy.’

UNDRGOES SERIOUS OPERATION

Rudolph Ritier, son of Edward Ritter of Barkley township and the (son-in-law of Grant Davisson, the trustee of that township, underwent a major operation at the hospital this Wednesday morning. The operation was performed by’local physicians.

CAR AMOUR STOCK FEED. We have on track another car. of Armour’s Stock Feed. Save per ton by getting this feed off of the car. It is cheaper and better than corn. ' IROQUOIS ROLLER MELLS. Phone 456. in The Republican..

PURDUE STUDENTS OUST FAKE LIEUTENANT

LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 12. Purdue university’s student body deported as “undesirable” this afternoon Harry T. Weinshank, an alleged military slacker. Weinshank was paraded abput the streets with a chain about his neck and a placard on his back, and later put aboard an interurban car jn charge of a committee of students and taken to his home in Indianapolis with a warning never to return to Purdue. Weinshank, who is 22 years old, has been a third year student in engineering. Last fail he was taken into custody at the university on a charge of impersonating an officer. He was wearing a lieutenant’s uniform and threatened with punishment men at Camp Purdue if they failed to salute him. It was asserted investigation showed he had attended a training camp for a few weeks and had been dismissed, and then returned to Purdue as a student.

Last Wednesday, at the state celebration at Indianapolis in honor of returned soldiers, Weinshank again appeared as an officer. He marched in the parade at the head of a company of overseas veterans. Purdue men saw him and a secret meeting of students was called the next day. Weinshank did not return from Indianapolis until today. As soon as he was recognized on the campus student were called from classes and every building was deserted. Weinshank was seized by husky seniors and first ducked in a fountain on the campu. Then came the chain and placard. More than a thousand students formed in line, forcing Weinshank to march ahead, dragging the chain behind him. Ex-Lieut. Edward Warren, a wounded hero from the Argonne, now a senior at Purdue, led the way. “ The Purdue bell, used at celebrations, was tolled as the parade moved to the city, a mile away. Weishank was forced to mount the courthouse step and publicly confess that he was an impostor. An attempt was made to lower him from the Main street bridqe into the Wabash river, but Dean Shumaker of Pordue remonstrated and the plan was abandoned.. , Yellow paint was smeared on Weinshank’s clothing and the crowd moved on with the prisoner to the interurban station, carrying a banner inscribed “Fake Army Lieutanant on His Way Home.’ A body guard went along to see that Weinshank went to Indianapolis.

MILROY

Opal Spencer who is attending high school at Rensselaer, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. ’ Ray, Charles and Vern Culp spent Friday evening with Albert end Charles Wood. Claud Spencer was a. Rensselaer goer Friday. Mrs. W. E. Culp spent Friday evening with Mrs. Roy Culp. . Frank McCurdy and wife were Monon goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lud Clark and daughter Sophia were Lee goers Saturday. Clyde Clark of Morocco visited his sister, Mrs. Roy Culp, Thursday. Charles Culp spent Saturday in Monoh. Everett Clark i the owner of a new Chevrolet automobile. Everett should be able to get his scripture lesson now. . Vergil Johnson made his regular call at the home of James Blankenship Sunday. Clifford and Leona Ogle of Idaville visited friends in Milroy Saturday and Sunday. Everett Clark called upon Marie Scripture Sunday. Preaching services conducted by the Rev. Samsel Saturday night and Sunday were well attended. Grandfather Clark, who had been visiting relatives in Ohio and Pennreturned to his home here unday. Lud Clark and hsi father and Charles Wood were Lafayette visitors Monday. •

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National—<New York 3; Chicago 2. St. Louis 4; Boston 2. Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia 3; Pittsburg 2. American— Cleveland 3; Detroit 5. St. Louis 2; Chicago 1.

About a year after embarking on the sea of matrimony both he and she begin to kind of wish that they had missed the boat.

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WEDDING AT CATHOLIC I CHURCH THIS MORNING The marriage rites of Carl W. Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Wood, and Miss Madeline Kellner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Kellner, were solemnized at the Catholic church in this city at 9:30 o’clock this Wednesday morning, the ceremony being conducted by the Rev. Father Christian Daniel. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wood are well and favorably known among our citizens and have a host of friends who will wish for them a life of happiness and prosperity.

“Left-Handed" Elephants.

Not many people are aware that elephants are “right-handed” and "lefthanded” in using their and that an examination of the tusks of any particular elephant will reveal the class to which the elephant belongs. An elephant uses only one tusk most of the time it is digging for salt earth, uprooting trees or tearing up roots, says a contributor to an English maga.zine. When its working tusk becomes badly broken it turns to the other, just as a man who has Injured his right hand takes to his left. The tusk must be very severely damaged before It will give up using It in preference to the other. The working tusk becomes worn and smooth toward the end—so much worn, in fact, that it is often appreciably shorter than the other, and frequently the tip has been broken off. After that has happened the jagged edge becomes gradually worn smooth, and tn the course of years pointed again, but the working tusk is always blunter than the other.

Presidential Succession.

Members of the cabinet are In line to the succession, if they can comply with the Constitutional requirements, which provide that: “No person ex- ! cept a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president.” What is called the presidential act, passed tn 1886, provides for the succession to the presidency by cabinet officers in the following order: Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, secretary of the Interior, secretary of agriculture, secretary of commerce, secretary of labor. A person not bom in this country may be a member of the president’s cabinet, but he is not eligible to the presidency, being barred by the Constitutional provision quoted above.

Candle Auction.

The candle has been used for many purposes. In the seventeenth century i a candle was the regular method of selling vftires at the .mart of the East India company—a custom which Is still in vogue in various parts of the country, notably at Tatworth near Chard, in Somerset, where the letting of land is annually conducted by this novel method. The thirty or forty people having rights in the land assemble and bid, and It is “knocked down” to the last bidder as the Inch of candle flickers out. In three successive years the candle burned for 35%, 27 and 39% minutes.—London Times. * •

Not Desirable.

*•1 had to ask Flubdub not to oat here any more.” “What’g wrong F “Every time I gQt a pretty waitress he’d try to that she was cut out for a movie career, so 1 told him to take his harsh business sotoawhpiy else.” —Louisville Cuurhr-Juur-nal. ■

96 TODAY; MAKES NO DIFFERENCE

UNCLE JOHN STIVELY PLANTS HIS CORN SAME AS ANY- * - ONE ELSE. “Queer thing how this path of least resistance, of which they speak, never seems to get any easier,” soliloquized the old man Tuesday as he dashed a seed of corn savagely into the tender young earth and covered it up with one of those back-saving hoes. “Yes, sir,” he continued, “seems as if something is alway coming up to prevent one doing what he mot desires. Here I was already to go fishing today, had the bait dug and everything, when they said if I wanted any roasting ears this summer I had better get busy and put the seed in the ground,” eyeing me aggressively as he spoke. “Does beat all how they’re always spoiling a young fellow’s time. Well,” he added, resignedly, “I’ll soon have my first hundred years finished and then I’ll bet I have a good time; they say the first century is the hardest, you know.” And the old man planted on, dreaming all the while of a shady nook along the river bank and the new fishing pole, the fat angleworms and the brilliantly colored “bobber” which were hidden in the wood-shed. The speaker was “Uncle” Johnny Stively, father of Mrs. Joseph Sharpe of this city, who reached his ninetysixth milestone today, May 14. There is not a cloud in the sky today for Mr. Stively, for the vexatious problems of yesterday have passed and he is free to go and do as he chooses. Mr. Stively wa born near Canton, Ohio, May 14 in the year 1823, which makes him the oldest person in Jasper county. The greater part of his fife was spent in Yelverton, Ohio, from which place he came to Rensselaer seventeen years ago to make his residence with his daughter. “Uncle” Johnny recalls many his-tory-making events and remembers them as well as if they had occurred only yesterday. It was his privilege to live during some of the most trying days of the nation. He recalls the election of some of the nation’s most nosed presidents and was a personal friend of many of the greatest statesmen of the early days. As a member of an Ohio company, he served his cause well during the Civil War days, being almost forty years of age at the time his country called. He took part in some of the greatest battles of the war and vividly recalls many interesting incidents of his soldier days. Despite his advanced age, Mr. Stively is able to speak fluently on many subjects and keeps himself well posted on the leading events qf the day. He is enjoying splendid health and is almost as active as a , man of fifty. His vision is clear and he finds that spectacles are only a handicap to him. He is pleasant and I affable and likes nothing better than to engage his juniors in a debate on the leading questions. And it must be a mighty well posted man who defeats him on any subject. Mr. Stively is the father of three living children, a son residing in Sandusky, Ohio; one daughter, a resident of Yelverton, Ohio, and Mrs. Joseph Sharpe of this city. The aged man attributes his longevity to the fact that he has for the most part lived an outdoor life, has had clean habits and has always remained loyal to the Democratic party. His many friends hope that he will live to, celebrate many more anniversaries sueh as he is celebrating today.

Now is the time to get your Pine gpples for canning. Medium sized 15-cts. and large sized 20 cts. each or $5.25 a crate. Eger’s Grocery.

FLOWERS

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

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