Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1919 — Page 1

No. 118.

1 ' ; “ - RUGS AND LINOLEUM • ■’ ' ■ * We have four new roll, of 12 ft Linoleum that were put ont the rack, today. . Naw ia the time to buy Linoleum a. the weather u warm enough that it will not crack and the price ha. been reduce . We al.o have about 20 new patterns in 9x12 Axminster and Velvet rig.- Some of the.e are new and have been brought out. •ince the war. The price, are .omewhat lower and the quality better than la.t year. PORCH SWINGS Our line of wood porch .wing, are on display in 4,5, and 8 ftlength.. COUCH HAMMOCKS Our line of couch hammock, include, .everal P a * le ™ •triped covering*. A couch hammock can be u.ed a. a .umme sleeping bed a. they have link spring.. We have ju.t received another .hipment of curtain .tretcher.. W. J. WRIGHT -

SPECIAL Taint Guaranteed $2.90 Per Gallon At LONG’S

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sprague went to Louisville, Ky., today where Mr. Sprague will spend the remainder of the week attending a millers’ convention which is being held in that city. Practically all of the smaller mill dealers in the country will be in attendance as there is considerable importance attached to the meeting both for the millers and for the farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague will visit with the latter’s sister in New Albany Sunday before returning home. Robert Smith, Richard Potts and Sidney Peters went to Indianapolis Monday evening to drive back three new Ford cars for the Central garage.

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The Evening Republican.

FATE OF HAWKER, INTERNATIONAL FLYER, UNKNOWN

Loftdon, May 19.—London spent the day in tense excitement and suspense waiting the result of Harry Hawker’s bold attempt to fly across the Atlantic and, after a day of anxious inquiries and unverified rumors and speculation, the fate of the pilot and his navigator, Mackenzie Grieve, is still unkown. "■ A Sopwith machine supposed to be Hawker’s according to an admiralty wireless report descended to the surface of the ocean forty miles west of the Shannon. Later admiralty reports said that this information was mot considered reliable.,Eral unverified reports were that the Sopwith machine encountered a scale which reduced its speed to forty miles an hour and finally compelled it to descend, owing to exhaustion of gasoline. . , Crowds of people waited the day long at the Brooklands airdome where Hawker learned to fly, believing that the aviatqr would make his landing there, although experts had expressed the opinion that Hawkers would unlikely be able to fly there* The fate of Hawkers and Grieve cannot be definitely stated and tonight it is impossible even to assert that the machine found at sea is Hawl The weather off the coa . st ’ Monday was boisterous, with rain an The a admiralty has sent out all available ships to search for the aviators.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mills took their daughter Dortha to Lafayette Monday, and today the latter underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils. After the operation word was received here that Dortha has passed through the ordeal very lyFriends here received a telephone message Monday from James H. Cameron, formerly of this city but now of Kankakee, 111., stating that his son had arrived from overseas. Before entering the war service young Cameron was with the International Harvester Company at Helena, Montana.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY2O, 1919.

VERNE DAVISSON ARRIVED IN RENSSELAER TODAY

Verne Davission, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davission, one of Rensselaer’s veterans of veterans in the great conflict, arrived in Rensselaer this Tuesday morning from Camp Shennan, Ohio, where he received his honorable discharge from the service Saturday. . * • It was a great home-coming for the Rensselaer boy who saw many months of service ,as French ambulance driver on many fronts. In company with SamUel Duvall he left Rensselaer in July of 1917, arriving in the front in August of the same year. The months which followed his entering the active arena were filled with many exciting and varied experiences, and his work kept him in constant danger. Verne is looking fine, even though having been in a hospital in this country since his arrival from overseas. Sure, Sam Duvall was there to meet him.

Class Night will be held for the 1919 gradautes of Rensselaer high school at the high school auditorium this evening. All efforts to keep France from getting what ’she deserves is an effort to keep the Hun from getting what he deserves. —Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont. ~ Delegates from Boone, Tippecanoe, Lake and White counties will be in Rensselaer Wednesday for the purpose of conferring with the local committee on the proposed hard surface highway between Indianapolis and Chicago.

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN BUY The Very Best Cuts of Beef for 30 and 32 cents at the Co-operative meat market. J Phone 92.

ATTENTION CAR OWNERS

I am prepared to half-sole your tires with Gates Ha If-Soles on tires of all sizes. These are puncture proof and guaranteed 3,500 miles. Cost only one-half as much as you pay for standard tires. Tire and tube repairing at reasonable prices. Also handle 'Gates’ tested tubes in all sizes. Ford Special Oil, lubricating oil and grease. Free air and water. Come to see how Gates’ Half-Sole tires ard put one. All work will, be given careful attention. Phone 109. JOHN J. EDDY.

FLOWERS

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

ANNOUNCEMENT We wish to call the atention of the public to the fact that we have purchased the E. S. Rhoades grocery store and will operate the same in an up-to-date manner, carrying only the best in groceries. We feel that our experience in the business will enable us to accommodate you in a satisfactory manner and ask your patronage. At the present time we are decorating the interior of our store but will be able to give you prompt service just the same. Phone 71 for your groeuiGL „ RAMEY & MURPHY.

ALUMNI BANQUET RENSSELAER HIGH SCHOOL AT ARMORY FRIDAY. MAY 23. 1919. at 6:30 P. M. BE PURCHASED OF ROSE LUERS, TREASURER AT FIRST NATIONAL BANK. OR OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ALUMNI: GEORGE COLLINS HAZEL REEVE MARY WAGNER REX WARNER ORABELLE DUVALL 8 ' AGNES PLATT J A ADMISSION TO DANCE FOLLOWING 1 BANQUET WILL BE BY BANQUET TICKET ONLY. SALE OF TICKETS WILL BE CLOSED AT NOON, MAY 23. y ‘ n T MUSIC BY NADEL ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO PRICE $1.50 PER TICKET. s ; » * « ’

EX-SOLDIER TO MAKE SALVATION ARMY DRIVE

The Salvation Army Home Service Fund campaign opened throughout the United States Monday, and Chairman C. G. Spitler of this county is organizing his forces for the drive in Jasper county. -He has selected ex-soldiers to make the drive and is confident that the county will have no trouble in reaching the $2,000 apportionment assigned to her. Marion township has been called upon for S7OO with Cope J. Hanley as township chairman. Solicitors will soon start making a tour in each township and every one should be prepared to pledge an amount, no matter how small, to this worthy cause. The money is payable in monthly installments commencing in June. The Salvation Army proved to be one of the most worthy organizations aiding in the war work and its farreaching effect should make everyone want to see that it is kept alive.

Mrs. Leota Jomes of Chicago, who is visiting her-son Charles, Chamberlin and family here, accompanied by her granddaughter, Charlotte Chamberlin went to Monticello today for a visit with Aunt Mary Jane Hopkins. Mrs. C. W. Duvall went to Grand Rapids, Mich., to visit with her new granddaughter, who arrived at the home of her son, Carl, Monday. NOTICE Better give us your order this week and we will have them for you. Cut flowers will be hard to get for Memorial day. KING FLORAL COMPANY, Phone 216, Green.

LIEUT SPITLER LEAVES RUSSIA FOR ENGLAND

An Archangel, Russia, report under date of May 19, carried mighty good news for at least two Rensselaer households —those of Mrs. Woodhull I. Spitler and C. G. Spitler, for it told of the decision of the war department to move the 339th American infantry from Russia to England within ten days. The 339th is a unit composed of Michigan men and the one to which Lieut. Woodhull Spitler belongs. It is probable that this move on the part of the war department means that the division will be sent home as soon as possible after reaching England, which will be good news to the Lieutepant’s many friends m this city.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS NATIONAL Cincinnati 6; New York 4. Chicago 3; Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 10; St. Louis 3. Boston 2; Pittsburg 1. AMERICAN New York 7; Cleveland 0. , Detroit 6; Washington 0. Other games postponed, rain.

Elias Arnold went to Peru this afternoon.

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HINTED PERSHING WILL RETURN IN JULY

■Army officers arriving in Washington from American headquarters in France are of the opinion that General Pershing will return to the United States in July. While no specific statement has been made of the commander in chief's, plans, it is said to be a general impression at Chaumont that he and his personal staff will sail in six to eight weeks.

PROSPECTS ARE GOOD FOR OIL AT DELPHI

E. T. Williams, who for the past several weeks has been securing lease* from the land owners here for drilling oil wells, has announced that at last he has secured as much land as he requires, and that the prospects for erecting an oil derrick there are extremely good. The terms erf the leases provide that wells shall be .drilled within one year. z

OBITUARY

Cecil Harold Chamerlain was born April 9, 1915 at Francesville, Indiana. The little life x went out May 17, 1919 at twelve thirty o’clock, at the age of four years, one month and eight days. • . He leaves father, mother, sister Esther and brothers Homer, Moms and Raymond. One brother proceeded him into the great beyond m 1903. His grand-parents and many other relatives survive.

CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our heartfelt appreciation for the many deeds of loving kindness shown us by our many friends and neighbors during the sickness and since the death ot our beloved son. We appreciate more than we are able to express the beautiful floral offerings. CHARLIE CHAMBERLAIN and family.

TOLD IN RENSSELAER.

A Resident Known to all Our Reader. Relates an Experience. Readers of the Republican have been told agan and again of the merits of that reliable, time-proved kidney remedy—Doan’s Kidney Pills. The experiences told are not those of unknown persons, living far away. The cases are Rensselaer cases, told by Rensselaer people. C B. Steward, insurance agent, B. Front and Main Sts., Rensselaer, says: “I had been subject to senous attacks of kidney disorder. My back for a long time was lame and sore and I was hardly ever free from backache. Whenever I feel any signs of that trouble now, or my kidneys don’t act right, I get a box of Doan s Kidney Pills at Long’s Drug Store. They quickly fix me U P rgiht. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simly ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Steward had. Foster-Milburn

WEATHER Fair tonight. Wednesday fair. Slightly warmer.

NOTICE TO THE RED CROSS 'The flat irons loaned to the surgical dressing department of the Jasper county Red Cross are no longer needed and t)ie owners would confer a favor upon the chapter by calling for the same this week. Jasper County Red Cross. A man won’t believe it. But his political opinions are lees important than the way he does his work. Any old time you happen to have a half hour to spare do not use it bothering somebody who hasn’t

OH, MINERVA! HEADACHES THIS WOULD PRODUCE

177,000 gallons of whiskey—count ’em—each and every one carrying a dozen headaches —are lying in the government warehouses at Hammond. And while a flock of government agents arebovering about it, night and day, representing all of the taxing organism in the country are burning the proverbial midnight oil, seeking a solution to the problem it .presents. It would appear the government has out-taxed itself. The problem is this: The whiskey was distilled by the Hammond Distilling company, one of the largest in the middle west, prior to the series of blows recently sustained by John Barleycorn. . The company met the first tax of $2.20 per gallon. Then it sold the whiskey to the various saloonkeepers throughout the country at thirty cents per gallon plus the $3.20 tax. The wet goods were stored in the warehouse, pending delivery, but before this could be affected the dry legislation was enacted and another tax of $3.20 imposed. The dry legislation caused many of the purchasers to go out of business. Others facing the July 1 closing order, as well as the additional tax, failed to ask delivery. Thus the liquor remained in bond and was found there some time ago by Lake county assessors. They promptly pounced upon the company for an assessment. They figured out the tidy sum of nearly $1,000,000, as the valuation of the wet goods, upon the bapis of $6.70 per gallon. But the company showed it had received only 30 cents a gallon of the sales and further, that it no longer owned the liquor. The county applied for abjudication of the matter to the state board of tax assessors commissions. This body Tuesday summoned Arthur Wise, treasurer of the company and Jesse E. Wilson, its attorney. After much argument the commission decided the tax should be levied upon the purchasers of the liquor. But in order to determine their sales receipts were necessary. And these, company officials declare, are lost. Hence, 177,000 gallons of whiskey, valued at $6.70 per gallon, is waiting in the government warehouse while officials figure out who shall be taxed Federal authorities have prohibited its removal qntil the additional tax has been paid.

Frank Wolfe, of Michigan City, was here today. E. G. Sternberg, of Chicago, was in Rensselaer this afternoon. 'Dr. John Ellis and wife, of Chicago, are here for a visit with relatives and friends. George Smith made a business trip to Chicago today. Mrs. Firman Rutherford and daughter, Mrs. Daisy Hoshaw went to Chicago on the early morning train. J. W. Coen, district deputy of Jasper county and John Norman, representative of the local Oddfellows lodge went to Indianapolis this afternoon to attend the semi-annual meeting of the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Oddfellows.

DR. C. E. JOHNSON After a year and a half spent in the medical department of the Amer'ican army, during much of which time I was at the front in France, I have returned to my home and have again taken up the practice of' medicine. My office is in the Stockton building over the former Makeever bank room. DR. C. E. JOHNSON, Phone 211.

STAR THEATRE AT THE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY ALMA RUEBENS in “FALSE AMBITION” ALSO 1 A TWO REEL COMEDY “HER CIRCUS KNIGHT” — WEDNESDAY — NAZIMOVA THE INCOMPARABLE in a ’ * 7-PART SUPER FEATURE “TOYS OF FATE” Rensselaer’s chance to see for the first time this Great Russian Actress —famous —brilliant; — wonderful. Pictures now showing in all the big cities. Don’t miss it 1 PRICE 10 and 20c

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