Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — Page 1

No. 14S.

Porch Swings Wo have just received another shipment of wood porch furniture, including porch swings in 4, 5, and 6 foot lengths, with chairs and rockers to match. The demand for porch furniture has been extra heavy this summer and it is almost impossible to get shipments. If you need a swing or extra chair, you should see our line this week. * W.J. WRIGHT

JAMES HEMPHILL MARRIED IN CHICAGO TUESDAY.

The marriage of James Hemphill, of this city, and Mrs. Harriett A. D. Leo, of Malta, Montana, occurred at the home 'of the, pastor of the First Congregational church of Chicago at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. They arrived in Rensselaer Tuesday evening and will make this city their permanent home. The bride until recently conducted a hotel in thje Montana city, where she was a popular and welt known business woman. iMt. Hemphill is the son of Luther Hemphill, of this city, and has been a lifetime resident here, being engaged in the blacksmiithing trade.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Cincinnati, 4; Philadelphia, 1, New York, 7; St. Louis, 1. Brooklyn, 4; Chicago, 1. Pittsburg, 6; Boston, 5. American League. Philadelphia, 2; Detroit, 1. Cleveland, 4; New York, 3. Boston, 2; St. Louis, 1. Chicago, 6; Washington, 4. CHURCH OF GOD. Bible lesson at 8 o'clock p. m. Saturday evening subject, third chapter of Romans. Sunday, 9:30 a. m., Bible lesson. Sumday, 10:45 a. m., sermon. Sunday, 8 p. m., sermon. Elder L. E. Conner will conduct these services.

ELECTRIC FANS Electric and City Wiring DELCO-LIGHT The completelight and Power Plant SAM OOSTSMUKAS, Phono 294.

PRINCESS THEATRE TONIGHT Elsie Ferguson IN --- • "■' - >~-"~ ~ '. / \ v _ ___ « . , » . ; “Under the Greenwood Tree”

SATURDAY “Sporting Life” . also drew comedy MONDAY Alice Brady —IN—“Red Head” \ . —ALSO—UNIVERSAL CURRENT EVENTS

The Evening Republican.

ARMY WORMS SWEEPING CROPS OF THE STATE.

The army worm is making its appearance in many counties in Indiana and vast damage to crops is resulting. After a visitation of armyworms nothing is left in a field that is of the least value. Whoever named the army worm must have had a vision of the German army at work in Belgium and northern France. One is about as destructive as the other. The army worm is about the most industrious pest known to man. They have been known to totally destroy the crop on a forty-acre field in one night. The earth becomes literally carpeted with them, from 250 to 400 worms ito the square foot of ground not being unusual. When they are in motion the ground appears to have taken on agentle, undulating movement—'there are literally waves of worms. No other living thing appears to have such a voracious appetite, as a matter of fact, an army worm is appetite and onetenth storage capacity. Fortunately, the lives of these insects are short and apparently there is but one successful method of dealing with them.- That is to dig a trench a foot or more deep around the fields that it is sought to protect. If the wills of the trench are reasonably straight and the bottom of the trench is filled with pulverized soil, the worms are unable to climb out, although they crawl and "tumble in by the million. In order to insure their destruction many farmers hitch ,a horse to a log or pole, which is dragged the length of the trench and which is said to curb the ambition and end the activity of the worms that happen to be in the trench at the time.

It isn’t difficult to guess which way they are going, for they move' straight ahead until they encounter some" unsurmountahle Barrier. An army worm was never known to die of old age. They all succumb to indigestion within a very short time. Night is the favored time for the activity on the part of these foragers. During the day they seek shelter from the heat, 1 but when evening comes they are up and doing and through the night they pursue their work of destruction with an enthusiasm worthy of a better cause.

TUESDAY MACK SENNETT COMEDIES “Yankee Doodle in Berlin” Five Reel* Mack Sennett’s “Bathing Girls” v —Also— Alto Seventeenth Episode of EDDIE POLO . —IN—THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS”

WEDNESDAY VIVIAN MARTIN —lN—“Jane Goes AWooing”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919.

PUREBREDS GROW IN FAVOR

SUPPLY IN INDIANA SO LARSE AND THE DEMAND NEVER SO HEAVY. . I-...; v .. - V —7-- —^ The herd books of the breeding i associations show that thousands of ■ Indiana swine breeders are turning from mongrels to pure breds, and the movement to place a pure bred sire at the head of every herd is rapidly gaining ground. The demand from county banks, breeding associations, and others which are promoting boys’ and girls’ pig clubs has this year been so heavy that the number of pure bred gilts has fallen short of the demand, while some of these promoters have gone .out of Indiana into other states to find the stock they desired. In point of number, there are more Hampshire swine of pure blood reared in Indiana than any other breed. E. C. Stone, secretary of the ' American Hampshire Swine Record association, has on his records the names of 2,496 breeders in Indiana who own registered Hampshire sows, not including the large number of feeders who own only registered Hampshire boars. Mr. Stone estimates that 561,000 Hampshire pigs, all pure bred and eligible to record in the association’s books, were farrowed on Indiana ! farms this last spring. The 2,496 l Hoosier owners of registered sows ; have six or more of these animals on j their farms. Soipe of the breeders have 300 registered sows. The six ; largest herds in Indiana are those of I John R. Lewis, of Rensselaer; Willie j Essig, Tipton; Seth T. Hadley, Hadley; Claire Rhode, Pine Village; M. S. Gardiner, "Idaville; J. Crouch & j Son, Lafayette, who own registered sows in lots of 100 to 300. There I are in Indiana, Mr. Stone said, 1,000 j Hampshire breeders whose herds of ! sows number from twenty to fifty head, and there are 1,000 more breeders who have from five to fifteen registered sows, making an average ownership of twenty-five sows on Hoosier farms which specialize in Hampshires of highest Weeding. Prices on Indiana Hampshires have ruled high this year and give no sign of becoming lower. Hampshire pigs eight weeks old and small enough to slip into a cup, have sold from the least known breeding farms at $25 each, while breeders who are good, advertisers have received SSO for a pig at weaning time.

The choicest September boars and gilts of the ’TSampshire blood have this season commanded SIOO to SSOO a head, while a few older and show boars have sold from SI,OOO to $4,000 a head, but none -of these boars was Hioosier bred. Seth T. Hadley sold a. number of sows early in the spring at more than. SI,OOO a head. Willie Essig sold a sow for $l,lOO. Claire Rhode sold a ten-months-old gilt for $1,200 and he bought two herd boars for about SI,OOO each. But John R. Lewis holds the record price for a Hampshire sow in the state, selling one early in the spring to Willie Essig for $1,550. Through the spring season, Mr. Stone said, Hampshires have averaged $336 a head in the auction sales.

Spotted Poland China prices have been on, the rise and are now at the highest level in the history of the breed. A first-class yearling boar readily sells for SSOO. Mr. Obenchain sold a two-year-old boar in May to George W. Reeve; of Rushville, for SI,OOO. At their spring sale, Clawson Bros. & Lairy, of Lafayette, sold a yearling sow to Shaver & Fry, of Kalona, la., for $1,500; B. J. Southard, of Fishers, sold a sow to James Owens, of Noblesville, for $1,050; Lilly Bros., of Tipton, sold a sow to Dunk & Ehrsman, of Mulberry, Ind., for $1,030; Clyde Jones, of Stuart, la., bought a boar of Youkey Bros., Thomtown, for sl,275, and a sow for SBIO. The largest herd of Spotted Poland Chinas in the National Breeding association is owned by Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad, who operates a farm of 5,000 acres in Newton county. She began specializing in the black and white swine years ago and while her herds produce many hundreds of pigs a year, she has difficulty in meeting the orders for breeding farms over the United States for pigs, gilts and older animals. Mrs. Conrad has 150 cows on her farm Which supply milk for her pigs and Aberdeen-Angus calves. . . -

G. G. Carter, of Fairmont, says there are 300 Indiana breeders of Duroc Jerseys who have 4,500 hogs recorded on the books of the breeding association, the number not including all of the boars or sows that are eligible to the records. The range of prices for Duroc boars has through the spring sales in this state been from, SIOO to $2,000. ' A. M. Brown, of Winchester, Ind., secretary of the National Poland China Record association, said that for some years about 10,000 hogs of this breed have been registered from this state. The year in Poland Chinas has been marked by very high prices, the range for boats being from $75 to $10,200. Silver Brook farm, at Muncie, sold a boar to E. E. Farver, an lowa breeder, for $5,000. J. L. Davis, of LaFontaine, sold Kramer i Kind to T- E. Thompson & Sons, of Franklin, for $5,600. This sow early in the spring farrowed ten pigs, nyie of them sows, all of which are being

NEW FACTORY AT MONTICELLO

PRACTICALLY ALL MACHINES ARE SET UP IN READINESS FOR OPENING HERE. Practically all of the machines have been set up at the Attire Manufacturing company at their rooms «n South Main street, in Monticello, and everything will be in readiness to begin work at that place Monday morning. About forty machines * have been set up, fourteen of which are on the second floor. Only about ten of the machines will be used Monday or until a few of the girls become accustomed to the work. This work is practically new to the “people of Monticello and the work will go slowly until the employes become familiar with it. The machines consist of one button hole machine, one machine to sew on buttons and another to hemstitch goods and about half of the machines set up are double needle machines on which an attachment is fixed which turns on both sides at once. The rest of the machines are single needle ones like the ones used in the home. These machines are set on both sides of a long table and are run by electricity. The company has with them fifteen machines which it will be unable to set up because of the lack of space. Among these there is a fiveneedle machine which will probably not be set up until the concern gets in its new factory in the south end of town, which is at the present time Deing constructed. An experienced cutter arrived on Thursday afternoon frtxm Chicago to operate the electric cutting machine. To cut the garments a number of layers are laid, usually about a hundred and twenty and about thirtyeight feet long, the garments are then marked out on the top layer, the cutter cutting through the entire thickness. About 720 garments are cut at one laying by this method* The first garments which the concern will make will be children’s flannellette night shirts and athletic underwear. Ladies’ petticoats will be made, but the company will not begin on overalls for some time. None of these garments will be sold in Monticello, the entire output of the factory being contracted for 'by a Chicago firm.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature.

Sergeant York wound up by Showing himself to be a conscientious objector to the Huns.—Boston Globe. —SOAP—--8 Bars 8 25c. Rowles & Parker#’ Saturday.

raised. So much improvement has been made in Berkshires in recent years that the breed is rapidly spreading in favor and the number of these hogs on Indiana farms is increasing every year. In its earlier years the Berkshire was small and fine in ■ quality, but with passing time it has been taking on size. One of the last auctions of Berkshires held in Indiana this year was that of E. J. Barker, of Thorn town, who sold fifty-one head for a total of $12,935, an average of $261, these figures showing about the range of prices for Indiana of the breed this year. Piping Brook farm, of Greenwich, Conn., bought five animals at the Barker sale, paying from $290 to 1,000 for them, Grand Leader 2d bringing SI,OOO. Breeders from Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia and Ohio came to this sale and took home with them Hoosier-bred animals with which to enrich the blood of their herds.

To increase interest among breeders, as well as to increase the number of breeders and the size of the herds, all of the swine associations of Indiana are giving much attention to the promotion of boys’ and girls’ pig clubs. As a result there are many thousand members in these juvenile organizations in this state. Banks in county seat and smaller towns are financing these movements and the clubs are under the general supervision of county farm agents or experienced members of the adult associations. Some of the clubs have been operating long enough to get on a* substantial footing, and in most of the counties of Indiana, to be the champion pig raiser is the goal of the ambitious members of the clubs, and these county champions aspire to state leadership. The breeding associations are broadening the activities of the juvenile clubs. The great show of pigs raised by club members will concentrate in September at the state fair, when five hundred or more pigs, which have wofi county honors in their breeds, will be in a battle royal” for the state championships. About 2,500 in prize* will be awarded in the different breeding contests ait the coming state fair, the Chester White association being one organization which will give SSOO in prizes for the best pigs of that breed. LANNES McPHETRIDGE.

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WELL KNOWN REMINGTON YOUNG MAN IS DEAD.

In the race for life, death won out again Wednesday, when Ernest Rawlings passed away at 'his home near the Christian church at 11 a. m. “Dick,” as he was familiarly known to his associates and the public in general, had been in a gradual decline for the past six months, and of late the failure has been very rapid. Physicians and specialists alike have been unable to cape with the disease, which was in the nature of a kidney trouble, together with enlargement of the heart. (For several years the deceased has conducted the news and cigar store near the postoffice, coming here from Wolcott. Having been a resident here most all of his life, he was known to nearly everyone in this vicinity, who counted him as their friend, and whose sympathy goes out to the sorrowing widow and the two orphaned children. ‘ The funeral will be held this Pndaiy afternoon at 2:30 o clock at the Presbyterian church and burial will be made in the Remington cemetery.

SOLDIER TO TAKE BRIDE.

Fred Hamilton sends the following clipping from the Fresno (Cal.) Republican : Among the interesting evetns of the week was the reunion of the Normal members of the Yale Club of 1918 and 1919 held at the Yale apartments. The climax of a very enjoyable evening was reached which was (Cleverly announced at the buffet luncheon, the double engagement of Miss Bess L. McCarty, of Fellows, and J. Walter Watson, of Redlands, and Miss Jewell A. McCarty, of Fellows, and Fred Hamilton, m. m., of Taft, whose marriages are to take .place in the near future. The Misses McCarty are graduates of the hresno Normal and both Mr. Watson and Mr. Hamilton have just returned from overseas service. Among those present were: Mrs. H. A. Conklin, Misses Irette Forbes, Ina Crouch, Iva Crouch, Margaret Hopkins, Mildred Hopkins, Pauline Brackett, Marian Brackett,/ Enid Elam, Eura Andrews, Osee Chivers, Lucy Tayk> r > Louise Turecek, Edwinna Grahg, Gladys Ensign, arid Retiha Clotfelter.

YOU GOT DAM RAISINS?

When we come to the end of our perf (hie) day. The end of the “rickey” and “high,” and we say goodbye to the, cool frappe and the rollicking rock and rye. Then we ll search the globe for a *booz em friend or a glimpse of the great white way. Oh, pity the pain of a drinking Tain at the end of a perf(hic) day. , , , Buy an Oakland and forget it.

Sheer *hirt wai*U and white waih skirt* sure specialties this week at Rowles St Parkers’. ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS! I am prepared to half-sole your tires with Gates Half-Soles on tires of all sizes. These a^ e _ P unc^ proof and guaranteed 3,500 miles. Cost only one-half as much as yot pay for standard tires. Tire and tube repairing at reasonable prices Also handle Gatgf’ tested tubes in all sizes. Ford Special Oil, lubricating oil and grease. Free air and watej Come and see how Gates Half-Sol® tires are put on. All wort wiil bt *"» e * K,UI "“'“jOHN J EDDY 0

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JASPER COUNTY PIONEER DIES

DEATH RELIEVED LONG SUFFERING OF WILLIAM E. JACKS THURSDAY. Had he lived thirty-six hours longer, William Edward Jacks, of southeast of Rensselaer, would have attained the age of sixty-two years, death occurring at 11 o'clock p. m., Thursday, June 19. The deceased was bora in Hanging Grove township June 21, 1857. He was married to Matilda E. Bussell i nFebruary, 1880. He had been a sufferer from internal cancer for more than two years, and for a long time previous to his death had been in a very critical condition. Mr. Jacks was considered a most excellent citizen and a progressive farmer. Mr. Jacks is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. Clara M. Rodgers, of Wolcott; Mrs. Mary E. Luers, Hazel and Vilas Jacks, all of Marion township. Seven grandchildren also survive, arid two brothers, Samuel and Alfred, of Lee; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Lefler and Mrs. Joseph Clark, of Lee. The deceased was a member of the order of Modem Woodmen, and (the members of the lodge will attend the funeral services in a body. Funeral services wild be held at the late home in Marion township at 2 p. m., Sunday and will be in charge of the Rev. William T. Barbre, pastor of the First Christian church of this city, of which Mr. Jacks was a member. Interment will be made in the OSbome cemetery in Hanging Grove township.

I PLACED A CAR IN HEAVEN.

Not the public heaven you all know about, but a little private heaven, where the flowers bloom and the birds sing and landscape invites you to come and rest. The only difference between the real thing and Bill Rowles’ private garden is that he don’t dose the “gates” When yooi enter and instead of using wings, Bill 'has decided on an Oldsmobile. A beautiful car and a beautiful place to roll and park her.

FAMOUS STAGE SUCCESS.

The great photoplay, “Sporting Life,” produced by Maurice Tourneur, which is being shown at the Princess theatre this week, is a superb Paramount-Artcraft special picture. It is an adaptation of the famous Drury Lane melodrama and (there isn’t a dull moment from start to finish. The scenes of the prize fight in the National Sporting club of London and the Derby are much admired, while the story is thrilling and heart appealing.

NOTICE. We will not deliver ice cream after 6:30 o’clock on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday nights. WRIGHT BROS. This hot weather makes you wish for cool togs such as sport shirts, crash clothing, Panama Hats and short underwear. We have them. Rowlea St Parker. Fred James, who has been overseas for some time, returned home this Thursday morning, much to the delight of his invalid mother. —Remington Press. Cool clothes for hot weather at Rowles St Parkers’. Mrs. L. B. Humphries returned to her home at Rockville today after a visit with Rev. BarbYe and wife.

AT THE STAR - THEATER THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURE* TODAY IN • HARRY MOREY "A Bachelor’s Children” SATURDAY LOUISE HUFF IN * «The Little Intruder” Eleventh Episode of "HANDS UP”

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HUGH KIRK.