Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1919 — Page 1

No, 153.

Porch Shades We have just received a shipment of porch shades in 3 sizes and 2 colors, green and tan’. Prices and sizes as follows: Width Drop -- 6 ft. 6 ft. 8 in. $3.75 7 ft. 3 in. 6 ft. 8 in. $5 50 8 ft. 6 ft. 8 in. x $6.50 These sh a( je s can down to fit any size opening. PICTURE FRAMES At last we have caught up with our picture framing and as some of these pictures have been here for several months shall be very glad to have the owners call for them. W. J. WRIGHT.

FIVE YEARS AGO SATURDAY FIRST WAR SHOT WAS FIRED.

Five years ago Saturday, Francis Ferdinand, Austrian archduke, was assassinated at Sarajevo. His death furnished the excuse for the world war, Which ended Saturday with the signing of the treaty of peace. 4 The shots which led to the war were fired by Gaviro Prinsip, a student. He leaped out from a crowd watching the archduke and his wife as they drove by in a carriage on June 28, 1914, and poured a stream of bullets at them from an automatic pistol. . . Shortly afterward Austria made deinands on Serbia for a hand in Prinsip’s trial. These deinands resulted in international complications —and the war. Prinsip died in jail.

GERMAN PEACE TREATY SIGNERS BACK IN BERLIN.

Berlin, June 30.—-Hermann Mueller and Dr. Johannes Bell, the German peace treaty signatories, arrived here at 4 o’clock this morning. Members of'the party said that just -before arriving at Compeigne occupants of the dining car were startled by a stone or a piece of fireworks thrown' into the car through an open window from the direction .of a crowd celebrating the beginning of peace.

NOTICE TO VAN RENSSELAER CLUB MEMBERS.

During the remodeling of the club rooms the club will occupy temporary quarters in the Leopold room over the Hilliard & Hamill store, formerly occupied by Dr. I. M. Washburn. It is planned to have them ready for occupancy this Tuesday evening. „ _ 9 D. D. DEAN, Pres.

Mrs. Charles Welch returned to this city from Chicago Monday evening, where she was met by her husband, County Commissioner Welch. Mirs. Welch had been with her daughter, Winona, who had undergone an operation at the Columbia hospital in Chicago for the removal of her appendix. Mrs. Welch reported that the daughter was getting along very nicely.

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT— Marie Walcamp —lN—"Tongues of Flame” ALSO EIGHTEENTH EPISODE OF EDDIE POLO —IN—“THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS”

WEDNESDAY Elsie Ferguson —in—- “ His Parisian Wife” Two-Reel Elko Comedy > " "" THURSDAY Fred Stone x —in—- “ Hinder the Top”

The Evening Republican.

AT YOUR FAVORITE BAR TODAY ARE SOFT DRINKS ONLY.

Here is how the leading hotels, saloons, and summer gardens will be lined up today. AU will later serve beer and light wines if investigation shows that it will be permitted: Auditorium —'Soft drinks, no dancing. - . . Atlantic—Soft drinks, -no dancing. Brevoort—Soft-drinks, dancing. De Jonghe—Soft drinks, no dancing. Great Northern —Soft drinks, no dancing. Morrison—Soft drinks, performances as usual at Terrace * Gardens, no dancing. Stratford— Soft drinks, dancing. Hotel Sherman —Soft drinks, entertainment and .dancing. Hotel La -Salle—Soft drinks, entertainment and dancing. Green Mill Gardens —Soft drinks, ice cream, dancing, and entertainment. Richmeier’s —Soft drinks, candy—ice cream soon. Vogelsang’s—'Soft drinks, no entertainment. . iWhite 'City drinks, ice cream soda and entertainment. Dow B. Lewis—Soft drinks. Pat O’Malley—Flowers. Quincy No. 9 —Closed. Hinky Dink’s —Closed.

TWO-CENT STAMP COMES BACK TO STAY.

While most of the war prices display a tendency to remain with us indefinitely, postage is about to return to the rates of the days before 'the war. Letter postage was one J<of the last commodities to go up, ! and is one of the first to be reduced to a pre-war basis. After July 1 the purple physiogomy of George Washington will give place on the bulk of our letters to the cheaper pink engraving of the first president. Purple stamps have become familiar to the country in the past year and a half. Billions of them have been printed and used jin that time, and there is left over in -the bureau of engraving and printing 300,000,000, which is quite enough to last two years When the two-cent stamp is the standard of letter postage.

. • FRIDAY. Charles Ray > “The Girl Dodger” Current Events From AH Over the World.. Two-reel Comedy. SATURDAY . William S. Hart "The Breed of Man” /■ Drew Comedy “The Last of Saxon” 500-Mile Auto Race

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1919.

LIEUTENATN SPITLER IN NEW YORK—HOME SOON.

Mrs. Woodhull Spitler, of this city, received a telephone message from New York City Monday evening from her husband, Lieut. Spitler, who had just arrived from Russia on the Von Steuben with the 339th infantry, with which he left Oatmp Custer, Mich., early in 1918. Morning papers carried an account of the arrival of the 339th, and Mrs. Spitler was greatly relieved to learn of his arrival, having begun to fear that he had 'been detained in Europe when no word came from him during the day. Lieutenant Spitler spent many months in Russia fighting the Bolsheviki and perhaps had the most varied career of any soldier who left Jasper county. Recently he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for bravery shown in action. He stated to Mrs. Spitler that he would arrive in Camp Custer July 4th and that he expected to be discharged atf that cantonment within a very short time following his arrival. . , The following extract is taken from a New York dispatch telling of the arrival of the 339th: Most of the British soldiers who were in Russia before the armistice were unfit for front Ijne duty. They were either wounded veterans or limited service men. The result was that the lone regiment of Yanks had to bear the brunt of the fighting whale the majority of the British, Russians and French were in the rear. To make matters worse, according to the men, they were underfed. Major Nichols said the food was sufficient to maintain health, but that the men were hungry most of the time. The rations were up to the British standards, but far under American. The .British daily rations as supplied consisted of one pound can of a mixture of vegetables and meat, or a can of “bully beef,” six hard tack cakes, one-half ounce of tea, two ounces of rice or meal, four ounces of salt pork and a thimbleful of lime juice. There were no fresh meats or vegetables, and the men assert that dried vegetables were often spoiled and the rice and the meal moldy. They brought back samples of the canned meat and hardtack. The latter looked like crumbled stones in ruined French villages. It was tasteless and impossible to masticate until soaked. The canned meat was far inferior to American varieties. The same ration was issued to the British soldiers, but the company quartermasters in. the English regiments had a fund for foraging the surrounding country and they Purchased chickens and game. The British also received a daily ration of rum and ale. Americans weren’t allowed liquor because of the order against taking intoxicating drinks into any American army camp. With the temperature half a century below zero, combined with the long rides in unseated boxcars from billets to the front lines, the soldiers felt a little grog would not have hurt them. Oh, yes, these imen who came ibalck are going to have a lot more things to say whdn they get back into civvies. In the meantime, the night is dragging while they wait for dawn,- deck and the soil of God s country again. Ever since .September 5, 191», they had been fighting in Russia against .the Reds. T>vo hundred of their pals are burned under the snow and swatnps; hundreds of others were wounded or suffered the agonies of frozen hands and feet. The temperature was often 50 below

Sixty per cent of the men who won’t come? 'back were killed after the armistice was signed. Every one of the returning men seemed to feel that he had been used to pull British chestnuts out of the fire. - . . . .j They didn’t have the faintest idea what they were fighting for. (Neither did Maj. J. Brooks Nichols, Detroit millionaire, who returned in command of the detachment on the Von Steuben. Apparently Col. Stewart didn’t know, either, for he wasn’t able to the reason when the trotops prottesti ed weeks ago against being sent back into the line again. Scores who crowded around announced that they ask Senator Hiram Johnson, who has championed their cause, to demand a full investigation of the entire Russian situation. Hundreds of the men who came back tonight are victims of trench feet, and will never be the men they were when they wept overseas to fight Germans, as they thought.

ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS!

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C. Pyke and Mrs. Shill, of Lafayette, are the guests of Mrs. George P. Ketchum. _

REVELERS HOLD SERVICE O’ER REMAINS OF J. BARLEYCORN.

New York, June 80.—Mourned by one of the greatest crowds of “high livers” that ever struggled its way into cases, hotels and plain thirst quenching emporiums, hard liquor retired from public life in New York at midnight. The 'popular restaurants and cases on Broadway were aglitter with Tights and filled to capacity with gay crowds that rivalled those that have attended the city’s traditional New Year’s celebrations or even the armistice night outburst. Tables in the large hotels which had arranged “farewell” celebrations, had been sold out more than a week in advance of the event, and belated celebrators, who had not made reservations, stood in lines before the doors hoping that some of the guests would be “carried out” in order to make room for them. Score* of “Wake*.” Scores of wakes were held in honor of John, but at all of these the “corpse” was the liveliest member of the party. In the Bronx four thousand men and women marched in a “funeral” procession behind a hearse, Which contained a large demijohn of “remains” in a black casket. Hymn* for Dead. “'Funeral” services were conductieA at the Schnofer Club over a fined effigy of hard liquor, at which an organist played all of the hymns for-the dead that could be found in a large collection of hymn books. The passing of strong drink had its pathetic as well as its mock-seri-ous and its purely hilarious sides. Saloon* Swamped. Lined before the doors of closely jammed “family liquor tsores and other saloons in the poorer sidestreets were hundreds of liquor addicts, seeking to add further to the meagre supplies they had been able to lay in for the “lean’’ season, before which they hoped gradually to “drop the shackles.” Before many saloons, the crowds became so dense that the police were obliged to establish waiting lines. Up to midnight only fourteen persons had been arraigned in court on charges of intoxication and all were given suspended sentences.

MRS. LEN GRIGGS DIED THIS TUESDAY NOON.

Mrs. Len Griggs died this Tuesday noon at her 'home on North Franklin street, following a lingering illness, death being due to tuberculosis, with which the deceased had been suffering for the past several months. Mrs. Griggs was about fifty-four years of age at the time of her death and was the mother of ten children, all of whom survive her, as does her husband. The funeral arrangements have not been completed, but the services -will probably be held Thursday. Announcement of the time will be made later.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Cincinnati, 4-2; Chicago, 1-1. New York, 7; Boston, 4. FittSburg, 4; St. Louis, 1* American League. Chicago, 5; Cleveland, 2. New York, 7-4; Boston, 4-2. —Phfladelphia, 4; Washington, 3. Detroit, 6; St. Louis, 1.

Mrs. Harold Johnson, of Morocco, and Cecelia Zimmer, the 8-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Anthony Zimmer, underwent operations at the Jasper county hospital for ap* pendicitis Monday.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer in extreme northeast 'portion tonight.

DON’TS FOR FORDS

Don’t use cheap oil. Insist on Mobiloil. It may cost more each time, but it is Cheaper in the End.

CENTRAL GARAGE CO. ’Phone 319. Rensselaer, Ind.

We put “Pa” in Pajamas. “Ma,’/ don’t wear ’em! sl2 to $3

SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE STARTING.

Berlin, June 29.—Some of the Berlin newspapers, announcing the signing of the treaty, appear in black borders, with captions on their Versailles articles such as: “Germany’s Fate Sealed.” “Peace and annihilation.” The Tages Zeitung, in closing an editorial, says: “Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson and their accessories have sown dragon’s teeth of eternal enmity.” The whole German press writes in the strain of pessimism. The Taeglibche Rundschau says: “What we need is a despot to compel the nation to work. If we are unable to install him, our enemies will send him.” Dr. Dernberg, in the Tageblatt, says: “The cup is drained to the dregs. There is no sense in continuing the controversy. It is better. to endeavor quickly to find our feet. The concessions made to us are not without value, and open the way to certain alleviations.” The Freiheit, Lokal Anzetger and Vorwaerts, all protest against the idea of revenge. General Count Max Mojitgelas, writing in the Tageblatt, says: “There is no choice but to observe the ‘treaty to the extreme limit of what is possible. Absolute candor must form the lode star of (Germany’s foreign policy.”

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Rensselaer Commercial club to G. B. Porter, September 16, 1918, lots 2 and 3, commercial club plat. S2OO. W. D. . t , . Rensselaer Commercial club to G. B. Porter, June 14, 1919, part se sw, 30-29-6, 15 acres, $3,000. W. D Earl E. Adams to Frank Hoover, June 19, 1919, e% se, 7-28-6, and se ne, 7-28-6, 120 acres, $9,000. W. George Morin et ux to Katie Worden, March 22, 1919, w part block 3, part 8, Remington, S9OO. Part s% s% ne 25-32-6, 7.80 acres, $3,850. W. D. H. A. Walters et ux to Lafayette Loan and Trust company, June 24, 1919, se se, 8-28-6, $3,600. W. D. Augusta Sternberg et al to George A. Williams, May 26, * part s% nw, 12-28-7, 163 acres, $22,820. W. D.

FRANCESVILLE TO HAVE AIR FLIGHTS JULY 4TH—LET’S GO.

The Francesville business men have arranged to give the P u^ c a real celebration July 4th. There will be a grand parade at 8 o clock. The first air flight will be made at 9 a. m.; second at 5:30 p. m. These exhibitions will be given by flyers from the Wabash Service Aviation and Transportation company. The ball games will be at Kopka park, . where Francesville, Medaryville, Kewanna or Wheatfield will contest for the SIOO prize. The crowds will also be entertained by the famous Walcott band and Guinn & Co,, acrobatic artists. There will .be other athletic sports such as, bi- ' cycle races, auto barrel nee, foot races, fat man’s race, ladies foot i race, old men’s walking race, egg race, tug-o’-war, sack wee, etc. ! These event all carry prizes. Everything as advertised. Lets go!

TO THE PUBLIC.

TO ine. . We will close our place of business from 10 a. m., to 6 • 4th. No lunches served after 10 a. No deliveries during the day. WHght Bros.’ Confectionery..

S. K. Karnosky and daughter, Eva, went to Chicago today.

PETITIONS CALL FOR FIFTY MILES

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER PROPOSED HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS. The commissioners of Jasper county were in special session Monday for consideration of the petitions filed for the building of a large number of highways in the county under the county unit law. All matters in this line were continued for further consideration at * the regular term, which convenes next Monday. Petitions have been filed for the improvement of more than fifty miles of roads located in the various townships of the county. If built they will be paid for by the issuing of county bonds which in turn are to be paid for by taxes levied upon the entire county. The county unit law provides that bonds can be issued for this purpose up to 2 per cent of the taxable value of the county. The 1919 valuation of—the county will be about $40,000,000. To. build the fifty miles for which petitions have been filed would require about $300,000, estimating the cost per mile to be about $6,000. When the commissioners have passed upon these petitions the matter will then have to be considered by the county council. If the county council sanctions the improvements or any part of them the matter of issuing bonds must be submitted to the state board of tax commissioners. This is a mattery of the most vital importance and undoubtedly the county commissioners and the county council will consider the same carefully and decide what they believe is to be for the very best interests of the taxpayers of the county. There is a strong sentiment everywhere for better roads. These cannot be built without money and money cannot be gotten without taxation. The raising of the taxable valuation and the lowering of the rate of taxation will not lessen taxes. It will take just as many dollars to pay for a mile of road, whatever the valuation or the rate may be. Rates may be lowered and yet the individual taxpayer may have more money to pay. The 1919 valuation may be mbre equable than in previous years, but the number of dollars which an improvement will cost will not be effected by the amount of taxable value or the rate per cent. If the people of the county want these highways improved they will expect to pay for them and in doing so they must expect to pay more taxes. They will understand also that the mileage must be properly distributed and that the roads most needed are built first. The individual members of either board will undoubtedly put aside any personal interests that they may have in these roads and look to the good of the county as a whole. They will attempt to serve the greatest ■number of taxpayers, realizing that they are the servants of all the people of the county. If carefully and properly administered, the county unit law is undoubtedly a good one. If abused by selfishness and prejudice and by the careless expenditure of excessive sums of money, thereby increasing unreasonably the tax burden, it win be decidedly unpopular and much complaint and criticism may be exiThe task of those in public office whose duties require them to act in this matter is a very difficult one and will undoubtedly have whatit deserves —the most careful consideration.

AT THE STAR THEATRE -TONIGHTTHE HOUSt OF GOOD PICTURES Claire Anderson “The Mask” ——ALSO— — Ford Sterling IN “A Maiden’s Trust”

WEDNESDAY Harold Lockwood ? . —lN—“Shadows of Suspicion” —i4 , —————- - ' ■ ■U7 ■ - x THURSDAY William Desmond “Closing In” 'Aho a Mack Sennett Comedy

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