Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — Page 1

No. 134.

Today we have the following damaged and second hand furniture. One lot of rug border at yard $2.50 20 yds. blue and white linoleum at per yard - - .75 One piece linoleum 7 5-9 yds. $4.50 One pitcher pump SI.OO One new couch hammock damaged - $6.00 One new couch hammock, damaged at - a>3.50 Two new kitchen tables, damaged, each at - $2.75 One new davenport, marked to sell at S4O, seat damaged, $25.00 One 6x9 wool fiber rug at $5 ft® One iron bed at - ~ 4 jj® One metal spring for wood bed - 1.00 One gas pipe spring for wood bed 4.50 One side board . • • - 12.00 8 new oak hall trees each . . . • c *so One wood bed and springs . , “.Oft W. J. WRIGHT

SURE We will deliver your meat promptly, as we make our own deliveries. Quality meats at lowest prices. If you do not want to pay abnormal prices for your meats, continue to trade with the C o-o p e r a t i v e Meat Market. Phone 92.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Generally fair tonight and Sunday... Probably showers Sunday.

DEAR AT ANY PRICE.

Dear Editor: I Accept, air, my renewed subscription for your dear paper. In case any of your friends are still “herd- ! ing” old cars, tell ’em they can sit in the seat and drive an Oldsmobile. Hugh Kirk.

AWARDED MEAT CONTRACT.

Ait their June session the county commissioners having advertised for । fifty pounds of roast and fifty pounds of steak for the county farm for the next quarter, awarded the contract to Roth Brothers at 26 cents for the roast and 30 cents for the steak. The Co-Operative Meat Market bid 25 cents on the roast and 30 cents for the round steak, 32 cents for the loin steak and 28 cents for the shoulder steak. The board considered Roth Brothers to be two cents lower on the steak and but one cent higher on the roast. This would make their bid 50 cents lower than that of the Co-Operative Meat market. Both bids were lower than those received three months ago.

SATURDAY GRAIN MARKET IS LOWER.

Oats, 63c. Corn, $1.66. Rye, $1.35. Wheat, $2.30.

Chester Dexter, of Remingtpn, went to Chicago today.

PRINCESS THEATRE tonight Charles Ray " —lN—* ' ■ “String Beans” And A DREW COMEDY —: MONDAY— Marion Davies , > —lN—“Getting Mary Married” ALSO x- UNIVERSAL CURRENT EVENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD —— TUESDAY Violet Mesereau —IN— V > “Together” —ALSO I — ALSO EDDIE POLO IN THE 17TH EPISODE OF “THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS”

The Evening Republican.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. Try going to church for recreation and it might fill a need as well as the movies. A new proverb: “What doth it profit a woman to know where to find the locals in the “Republican;” the society news in the “Democrat;” Fendig’s “ad,” also the want “ads” and the marriage notices, but she knoweth' not Whether Corinthians is a book or a new kind of soap?

9:30 o’clock, Sunday school; 10:45, morning worship and sermon. The pastor’s theme will be “Pillows or Pillars.” Any member who does not want his faults dealt with in the ’Sermon had best not attend this service. 7 o’clock, Epworth league; topic, “Why Go to College?” 8 o’clock, evening worship and sermon by the pastor; theme, “Conquering Evil With Good.”

An inter-dhurdh movement of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ of America makes Pentecost Sunday (next Sunday) a special day in which the subject of Christian unity will be discussed. This church will observe the day next Sunday and the pastor will apeak on the subject “Movements Toward Christian Unity.” The choir will furnish special music at this service. , The Bible school will give its Children’s day program at night. The classes will make their offering at the Bible school in the morning. This offering will be the largest ever made by this school. Some classes have gone far “over .the top” one thousand per cent. Children’s Day Program. Hymn, “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus.” “The Bible Lesson,” j , umo r boys; prayer, M. Leatherman; The Ring of Friendship,” primary department; “The Sewing Class,” junior girls; duet, “Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd,” Miss Loughridge and Mrs. Nowels; “The Find Out Club,” intermediate boys;"hymn, “Faith of Our Fathers,” choir; “Oh, Lady, Make Us Like These,” intermediate girls; recitation, “The Masters Touch,” Marjorie iMerica; pageant and processional; song, “Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand,” choir; benediction.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7,4919.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

COVENANT TO BE PART OF THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY. (Louis H. Hamilton.) In presenting the conclusion of the text of the covenant of the League of Nations we desire to call your attention to the facts that both great political parties are pledged to some kind of an international court. The Republican party, in its na-' tional platform adopted at Chicago June 9, 1916, contained the following: “We believe in the pacific settlement of international disputes and favor the establishment of a world court for that purpose.” In the democratic platform, adopt-, ed at St. Louis June 16, 1916, we find the following: “We hold that it is the duty of the United States to hold its power not’ alone to make itself safe at home, but to secure just interests throughout the world, both for this end and in the interest of humanity, to assist the world in securing settled peace and justice. ' “We believe that every people has the right to choose the sovereign under which it shalb live; that the small states of the world have a right to enjoy from other nations the same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity that great and powerful nations expect and insist upon; that the world has a right te be free from every disturbance of its peace that has its origin in aggression or disregard of the rights of peoples and nations and we believe that the tiime has come when it is the duty of the United States to join with the' other nations of the world in any FEASIBLE ASSOCIATION that will effectively serve these principles to maintain inviolate the right of the highway of the seas for the common and unhindered use of all nations.” That great statesman, Theodore Roosevelt, whose vision was so clear, said in his last article written for the Kansas City Star: ... “The United States canriot again completely withdraw into its shell. We need not mix in all European quarrels or assume all spheres of interest everywhere to. be ours, but we ought to join with other nations of the world in some scheme that in a time of great stress would offer a likelihood of obtaining just settlements that

will avert war.” Article XXXX. To those colonies and territories which as a conseqence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the states which formerly governed • them and which are inhabited hy peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous condi-, tions of the modern world, there shoiuid be applied the principle that the 'Well being and development of such form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the perform ance of this trust should be embodied! in this

covenant. The best method of giving practicable effect to this principle is Vthat the tutelage of such people be iyltrusted to advanced nations who, by - reasons of their resources, their experience or their geographical best undertake this responsib 1 ’v nr iJ&nd who are willing to accept it, 1 that this tutelage should be ex*COUl(*d by them as mandataries on mrse/f of the league. .The charaj Jof the mandate must differ accor/ er 7to the stage of the development lifejche people, its economic condition an i' other similar* circumst ft Certain c immunities formerly belonging to the ' irurkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as 7 independent nations can.be provisionally recognized, subject to the rendering Jof administrative advice ana assistances by a mandatary until sucn time as ythey are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must

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SHE ECONOMY 1 GROCERY RAMEY AND MURPHY. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Fruit and Vegetables Strawberries Pineapples Lemons Oranges Asparagus Celery New Potatoes y Green Beans

BRINGS SUIT FOR $50,000

J. W. STOCKTON IN COUNTERACTION AGAINST D. S. MAKEEVER. Once again will the wheels of justice start grinding in the Jasper-New-ton circuit court in another legal battle between two of the most prominent citizens of the county—J. W. Stockton, proprietor of the Makeever hotel and large land owner, and D. S. Miakeever, county commissioner and wealthy farmer, when court convenes at the September term—the outgrowth of the trouble and ill-feeling existing between the two parties since the year 1916. Through his attorneys, J. W. Stockton on Friday filed a counteraction against Mr. Makeever, asking damages of the defendant to the extent of $50,000, Which sum, according to the plaintiff, is demanded as reparation for his injured reputation and financial loss. A brief resume of the trouble between Stockton and Makeever, and Which the suit just filed is the re-

sult, follows: At the solicitation of Mr. Stockton, the state board of accounts accountants to Rensselaer in Febzniary, 1916, to investigate charges against Makeever and Jesse Nichols, the Vatter being the superintendent of tref county farm in 1915, who were charged with having hauled corp from the county farm to the Makeever farm, and of not paying the county for same. Following the investigation, the accountants exonerated Makeever and Nichols. , r At the April term of the grp-nd jury, in the same year, Stockton Ernest Morlan were indicted, z the jury finding that they had perjured themselves in their statements to- the accountants about Makeever ' and Nichols. /

The trials of Stockton and Morlan were set for the September te’rm of court in 1916, Morlan being/'found guilty and given a fine of SKOO and costs, and a suspended sentience of from two to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary. Stockton’s (trial was continued until the spring term of court in 1917. The was venued to White county, late r being venued back to Jasper coupty upon motion of the plaintiff. 'Afterward the prosecution was ven’ued to Newton county, where oni the 14th day of June, 1917,,‘‘rihe defendant was acquitted the charges made against him. / ’ Stcjckton’s present action is the results of his acquittal in the Newton circuit court, and he seeks to show ‘chat Makeever’s action was uncalled for and that he has since found it to be a source of great injury to him.

The complaint, as filed Friday by Stockton, reads as follows: The plaintiff complains of the defendant, and says: That on the 29th day of April, 1916, the said defendant, falsely and maliciously, and without probable cause, procured the plaintiff to be indicted by the grand jury of the county of Jasper, state of Indiana, for the crime of perjury. That by reason thereof, the plaintiff was arrested and was compelled to give bail to avoid being confined in the county Jail, and the defendant caused said indictment to be prosecuted, and the venue of the case was changed to the White circuit court, where, upon the motion of the plaintiff, said indictment was quashed, and the plaintiff was by the

White circuit court held under bond to appear and "plead further prosecution in the Jasper circuit court for said offense. , . » That afterward, on the 12th day of February, 1917, the defandant falsely and maliciously, and without probable cause procured an affidavit to be filed against the plaintiff in the Jasper circuit court charging the plaintiff with having committed the crime of perjury in said county, by reason given whereof plaintiff was re-arrested and compelled to give further bail to procure his release from confinement in the Jasper county jail- . J _. That afterward, said prosecution was venued to the Newton circuit court, where the defendant caused the same to be prosecuted, and at the trial thereof in said Newton circuit court the plaintiff was, on the 14th day of June, 1917, acquitted of said charge and discharged, and said prosecution was terminated. By reason whereof the plaintiff has been greatly injured in his reputation and credit, and was compelled to and did pay out a large sum of money, to-wit: $5,000 for attorneys fees, hotel bills, traveling expenses, the takipg 6f depositions of witnesses and other necessary expenses, all of which expenditure was ecessary for the proper preparation and presentation of plaintiff’s defense in said prosecution. , , Whereby, plaintiff was damaged in I the sum of fifty thousand (150,000) I dollars, for which he demands judgment. W. W. Lowrey, A, Halleck, Attorneys for Plaintiff No doubt the trial will be bitterly contested, as have the former ones, ' and the general puHic will watch ; with much interest the entire pro-

Oh $3 to $8.50 - —-—■ ■ =“’■ -- • • .

WILL VISIT MANY EASTERN POINTS IN AUTOMOBILE.

iMr. and Mrs. J. J. Montgomery will leave in their automobile Sunday morning for a three weeks’ trip during which time they will visit many large cities and other points of interest in the east. Leaving Rensselaer they will go to Indianapolis; from Indianapolis to Columbus, 0., after which they will visit the following cities in the order named: Wheeling, W. Va., Washington, D. C., Norfolk, Va., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Niagara Falls and Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery will also make several side trips, taking a boat at Washington, D. C., for a trip down the Potomac river to Chesapeake Bay; also paying a visit to the Berkshire hills in Massachusetts, and expect to visit Atlantic City and the Gettysburg battlefield.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at :7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Mm. June 6 |4 52 June 7 •• 84 62

ATTENTION, RETURNED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS!

Tho War Mothers of Jasper county invite the returned soldiers and sailors to come to the court house tonight at 8 o’clock to participate in the welcome home reception that they have prepared for you.

ATTENTION, REDMEN!

All Redmen are requested to be present Monday evening, June 9, nomination and election of officers.

NOTICE. I have moved my office into the Stockton building over the Burchard store. DR. L M. WASHBURN. Mrs. Lucy Gayer, Clarence Ruggles and Mabel Parmley, of Hamlet, came today for a visit with Samuel Lowery and family. Mr and Mrs. Charles Grow brought Mrs. Charles Steward from Monon this afternoon. The top was made in Mr.‘Grow’s automobile. Mrs. Steward seems slightly improved. Mrs. Thomas Crocket, who has been ill for about six months, is now somewhat improved. Her daughter, Mrs. E. G. Perrigo, will return to her home near Donovan, 111., in a day or such a matter. The remains of Dr. J. H. Honari, brother of Edward P. Honan, of this 'City,.were disinterred a»t An Atlanta, Ga., cemetery this week and shipped to this city, arriving here Friday, where they were laid to rest beside of his wife in Weston cemetery. . ’ Rev. Fred Longweli, of Monon, was taken suddenly ill at the Hand,ley pharmacy last week at that town. His condition was alarming for a time and the attending physician attributed the attack to heat prostration. Mr. Longweli suffered a sun stroke several years ago while delivering an address, making him susceptible to the sun’s rays. Key. Longweli was formerly the ing, attorney of the Jasper-Newton

ceedings when the case is over Ho the court. Both Mr. Stockton and Mr. Makeever _* re inenof wealth and prommencein tins community .nd e»eh b« by a great army of legal taiem.

RETURNED WESTERNER IS MARRIED IN CHICAGO FRIDAY.

George M. Wilcox, just returned ' from Marshfield, Ore., to this city, received a telegram today from his son, Jay G. Wilcox, stating that he and Miss Blanche Conway, formerly of Parr, were married; in Chicago Friday. The newly married couple expect to visit with relatives in this city next week. Mrs. Donna Fisher left today for her home in Springfield, HI., being accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Harmon, who have spent the winter in this city.

DON’T MISS THIS! I have a 1915 Elgin five-passenger touring car in perfect mechanical- order, with brand-ndw cord tires, end she’s going cheap. I stole this one. Hugh Kirk. G. D. Naur went to Lafayette this morning. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Potter are visiting with his parents at Converse. Mrs. Marion Freeland went to Lafayette today. 7B. D. McColly went to Monticello today. The Health Culture club will meet with Mrs. W. O. Rowles Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock.' 11 ' ■* “J Dr. P. T. Leighly and James Erwin, of Demotte, were in Rensselaer Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schlemaa, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lambert, Charles Paxton and Mrs. Alta Parkison returned from Texas this forenoon.

The doctor who “missed his calling” is only wishing you good health. Giving electrical service without the proper equipment is merely a good intention. We “endorse” every job we turn out. Rensselaer Electric Co. Morton Murray arrived here this Saturday afternoon from Waukegan, 111., where he had been in a hospital for some 'time for the treatment of his foot in which he had a very serious attack of blood poisoning. He is getting along very nicely and was able to make the trip home by himself. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Picker returned to their home Friday evening in Indianapolis. . Mr. Picker assisted J. H. O’Neal in examining the public records of this county, including all county, township, town and city officers’ records. Mr.' Picker complimented very highly the efficiency of our public officials and the splendid financial ability of the county, saying that it is one of the very best in the state.

BUY YOUR COAL NOW DO YOUR PART IN PREVENTING A COAL FAMINE NEXT FALL BY BUYING YOUR WINTER COAL NOW. “Buy your coal now, buy it early, ’ is the advice given by Dr. Garfield, national fuel administrator. “Railroads moving crops, factories returning to natural conditions and the usual winter demand for coal will swamp the operators if they cannot meet the demand by a large summer production. Consumers should order bituminous coal at once to enable the producers to hire their labor and to work their mines full blast.” If it can be hauled from the car to your bin there will be a saving of an extra handling for which you pay if you wait until later. ' ’Phone 6. J. C. Gwin & Co.

AT THE STAR THEATER THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY Carlyle Blackwell AND Evelyn Greely IN—--1 “Hit or Miss'’ Also Episode No. 9_ of "HANDS UP” • ■ v T".’ MONDAY May Allison ’ • —IN— '■ W “The Testing of Mildred Vane" TUESDAY Gloria Swanson i —‘—lN—“Shifting Sands” ALSO A COMEDY -

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