Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

No. 168.

The Two Things A Housewife Needs This Hot Weather is a Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet and a Hoover Electric - Sweeper W. J. WRIGHT. - - -•—-——— - - - . ■-

RANTOUL AERIAL SQUADRON SENT TO MEXICAN BORDER.

The 166th Aerial Bombardment Squadron, which has been at Chanute field for the past two weeks, received orders Monday afternoon to entrain for Houston, Tex. Lieut. Gordon St. Clair will be assigned .to patrol duty along the Mexican border. There was consternation among the officers at *Chanute field today when the war <department sent notice that all reserve officers must be discharged by September 30. This will affect •all officers except the commandant, Col. Ira Longanecker. Benton County Review.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. July 18 .. 91 60

Miss Nell Drake, who has been quite sick, is improving nicely.

ORANGES 24c A Dozen SATURDAY Thin Skinned, Ripe and Juicy. LOOK OVER OUR LINE OF PRIME FRESH FRUITS. Rowles & Paker

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT— Cecile B. DeMille’s Production "Don’t Change Your

Which »• the worst, a wife's uncombed hair or t a husband’s unshaven face ? Which would you rather see, a faded kimono or a coatless, bedraggled man ? Cecile B. DeMille “»tripped the four walls from married life” in SATURDAY Marian Davies -—in ■■■ "The Burden of ---.J Proof”

PROHIBITIONISTS MEET EVERY ATTACK OF WETS.

Washington, July 17.—Prohibition forces voted down in the house today every attempt to eliminate drastic provisions of the general enforcement bill, and while in full and absolute control shut off debate on the word of their leader, despite the violent protest of the minority. When they had raced through the war time enforcement portion of the three-part bill and got into the constitutional prohibition measure proper there were sixty-eight members on the floor and so much confusion that a speaker could not make himself heard. It was 7 o’clock tonight when the long roll call to obtain a quorum was started, and members then had gone home, after declaring there was no good reason for trying to force through a bill to take care of a situation that would not arise until January. Before the house got into a snarl, however, the prohibition faction had fought off every attack on their bill. An amendment to strike out the minimum fine for those convicted of violating the war time act, was fought over and defeated, 68 to 57.

ICE SOLD HERE GRADES 100 PER CENT PURE.

State House, Indianapolis, Ind., | It is hereby certified that an analysis of a sample of ice sold under the name of natural ice by H. E. White at Rensselaer, Ind., shows that the water to be of a quality acceptable to the Indiana State Beard of Health and in conformity with chapter 166, Acts of 1919, an act requiring an analysis of public drinking water, bottled. water and mineral water. । The ice sold by Mr. White graded 100 per cent pure. \

J. H. BERNARD.

CHURCH OF GOD. L. E. Conner will hold the following services: Saturday evening, Bible lesson, fourth chapter of Romans, 8 o’clock. Sunday, 9:30 a. m., Bible lesson; 10:45 a. m., sermon; 8 p. m., at union meeting, Christian church. MEET ME AT RAMEY’S. i Wanted—A number of onion toppers Saturday morning. Meet me at Ramey’s store at 6:30 a. m.— BARNEY KOLHOFF. The " Alabama senate Thursday refused to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment. G ■

“Old Wives for New.” He’s at it again, but thia time the husband “gets him.” The man who “trimmed the market” wouldn’t trim his beard —and it cost him his wife. Don’t neglect this great domestic drama. - _ 1— COMING “Thb Woman Thou Gavest Me”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919.

SHIPPERS MEET THE COMMISSION

EXAMPLES OF RATE DISCRIMINATION TO BE PROVIDED. Manufacturers and shippers from many cities in Indiana Thursday gathered at the state house in Indianapolis to present to the public service commission specific examples of the discrimination under which they operate in competition with Illinois shippers and manufacturers because of the lower freight rates in Illinois. Information obtained by the commission will be submitted to the interstate commerce commission at Chicago Monday, when Hoosier shippers, supported by the Indiana commission, the state chamber of commerce, Indianapolis chamber of Commerce, Ft. Wayne chamber of commerce and many other Indiana organizations, will appear to make a case against the Illinois rates. Present Illinois rates and classifications are below the Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and interstate rates, and therefore Illinois shippers have an advantage over most shippers in other states east of 1 Illinois when it comes to supplying Illinois trade. Hoosier shippers wish to have the federal railroad administration raise the Illinois rates to conform to the interstate rate and classificatio nschedule prevailing in the Central Freight association territory. It is expected that E. I. Lewis, chairman of the Indiana commission, and John W. McCardle, commissioner, will accompany 0. P. Gothlin, the commission’s freight rate expert, to Chicago for the opening of the case. Mr. Gothlin likely will make the opening address for the Hoosier commission. Some Indiana men interested in the case believe that it may continue for ten days.

FINAL PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD APPROVED.

Washington, D. C., July 17.—The final’ plans for the reorganization of the national guard on the sixteen division basis, with divisional areas following the same limits as did those from which guard divisions were organized for service against Germany, were approved yesterday by Secretary Baker. Maj. Gen. Jess Mcl. Carter, chief of the bureau of militia affairs, immediately sent notifications to the various adjutant generals of the units allotted to their states and of the readiness of the federal government to extend recognition after the required inspection had been made. The organization table announced yesterday provides for forty-seven regiments and eighteen battalions of infantry; six regiments, seventeen squadrons and nineteen troops of cavalry; ten regiments, twenty battalions and seven batteries of field artillery and seventy-four coajst artillery companies. There will be additional forces of engineers, sanitary and signal corps. A maximum expansion to about 440,000 men, or 800 per senator and congressman, is provided for, but the units for the time being are to fee organized on the basis of sixtyfive men per company of infantry, as appropriations for the national guard for the fiscal year 1920 permit only the organization of the guard on the basis of 200 men for each senator and representative, giving an aggregate strength of about 106,000.

CHARGES AGAINST WORK SCHOOL CAUSE SENSATION.

As a result of the charges made against the Julia A. Work school at Plymouth, Ind., by Probation Officer C. M. Sands and Sheriff Woodworth, of this county, Indiana authorities have been aroused to action and many county boards of commissioners have started investigations. The charges have caused a sensation and Chicago and Indiana dailies are carrying accounts of the charges made by the Jasper county officials. Mrs. Work is said to be greatly incensed over the charges and asserts that she will file charges against those responsible for the statements, and terms them as “ridiculous.”

SOLDIER SENDS WIFE A RADIO MESSAGE.

Mts. Arthur Battleday received a radio message today from her husband, who was enroute from overseas to this country. He was on the U. S. S. Ohioan and expected to arrive in Hoboken this Friday evening. Mr. Battleday served with the 309th engineer? and went overseas about a year ago. Leslie Clark has/sold his building lot on South Weston street to Korah Daniels. Mr. Daniels is expecting to build on the lot this fall. The consideration was $550.

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. READ THE INSIDE PAGES.

THEY’RE TO BE SHORTER, ACCORDING TO BUYERS.

• Skirts will 'be shorter w tfcis fall, even if the pockets have to be moved north. Tighter or skinnier—much, much skinnier. The dress fabric buyers, meeting at New York, are one in saying it has to be done, for there isn’t going to be enough cloth to go round. If someone insists on eight-yard scenery, they say somebody else must stay home. And all this because: 1. The silkworms have joined the Bolsheviki. 2. Planters are growing watermelons, or something, instead of cotton. I 3. Wooly lambs are breaking alti-1 tude records. 4. He who toils is getting to be i an uncertain commodity. * But this only scratches the surface for it was flatly predicted by manufacturers that there will not be enough material for five years. Fur men, also at New York for the $1,000,000 auction, are less pessi-, mistic, fortunately. The fur mar- > ket is strong, they say, with everything from weasles to silver foxes in demand.

BEG PARDON, MR. KUPPERS, ALSO MR. ATTORNEY.

The people of this locality cannot let your recent article go entirely unchallenged. Will you tell us, Mr. Kuppers, what standard the Jasper County Land company has set? It seems to be hitting the men of this community pretty hard, as very few men who reside here have ibeen retained in the employ of the company. Other years there seemed to be plenty of work and just as good prospects for crops. This year there seems to be just a chosen few around here working. The rest are men brought from Purdue and Indianapolis. We have nothing whatever personally against these men, but it looks to us if the said company wanted permanent assets to the community, it would employ men from near here at least, not men who will be here during the busy season and then go no one knows where. You commenced wrong, Mr. Kuppers, in condemning the people of this community before you were known around here. Now it will take some time to get into their good graces and you absolutely cannot accomplish that by sending out such a challenge as your article of recent date. Mr. Kuppers, there are lots of honest, industrious men in this locality who need the work of the- company and who ought to have it. We, as the people of Newland and vicinity, are ready to extend the glad hand to anyone who seems to want to be friendly and just, but just glance over your article in the Republican and you will acknowledge you have been neither friendly nor just, and if you are fair to us will say you certainly laid it on pretty thick. Again we ask your pardon if we have said anything which should have remained unsaid. Respectfully, The People of Newland and Vicinity.

BOY, PAGE MR. CHAMBERLAIN!

Now that we have had band concerts and a tennis court and aerial taxis, why not illuminate the court house square by a powerful flood light mounted on the flag pole? I can think of a dozen reasons why that would be a public asset. But, do your own thinking, it hurts me. Now it would be a great idea at that if electricity would only run up hill. This lil town is sure meeting reconstruction in a wise manner. -Everybody’s tradin’ for Oaklands. Too bad we can’t get ’em faster. —Hugh Kirk.

HAVE CLOSETS CLEANED NOW. Health orders require that all outside closets be kept in good condition. We are here to do your scavanger work. Leave orders at the Free Wood barber shop.

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<?W' Definition of ‘Put it Over’ WellJust look at the new Fall Clothes displayed in . our windows. $27,50 to $35 ■ 11111 U

PERSHING HOME IN AUGUST; HOUSE TO PLAN RECEPTION.

Washington, D. C., July 17. —Gen. Pershing will return to the United bStates in August, Representative Caldwell, democrat, New York, told the house rules committee today, urging early action on his resolution setting aside a day of joint congressional session to welcome home the American commander. “Congress is as anxious to honor General Pershing as the English, the French and the Belgians have been,” declared Mr. Galdwell. Action was deferred by the rules committee.

APOLOGY WAS NOT A DE LUX TRAIN.

The loss of the “train de lux” on the Apology is going to be a serious setback to the company. ' A good bunch of cash is represented in a sixteen wheel, 120 ton, compound passenger locomotive, a solid steel train, equipped with electric lights, sleeper, dining car, parlor cars and all modern conveniences—but that [wasn’t on the Apology. Instead —it 'was a decrepit old engine whose last repair worhjfindicates the early nineties, more decrept day coach, number 13 on the list, which might fail to pieces any old time, a smoker not fit to haul niggers and a combination mail and baggage coach of the same class. But the company can go into the iboneyard and pick out some more equally as good, and fit out another train for the run. Oh, yes, it was some train de lux, all right.—Remington Press,

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. New York, 2; Chicago, 1. Cincinnati, 5; Brooklyn, 1. Philadelphia, 1; St. Louis, 0. Pittsburg-Boston, street car strike. American League. Cleveland, 4; Boston, 0. Detroit, 5; Philadelphia, 4. Washington, 9; Chicago, 4. St. Louis, 7; New York, 6. (17 innings.)

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair tonight and probably Saturday. Not much change in temperature.

F. M. Goff, of Fair Oaks, was in Rensselaer today.

SHORTAGE OF 1,000,000 HOMES IN UNITED STATES.

Washington, D. <X, July 17.—1 tis asserted there are today more houseless people than at any time since man ceased to live in caves and huts of brush and made for himself the hearth and home that became the temples of civilization. At the recent convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, held in Atlantic City, it was stated that there is a shortage of 1,000,000 homes in the United States. New York city needs 100,000 apartments. Secretary Redfield, of the department of commerce, said in December England, France and Belgium will need (building material, and equipment for more than 1,000,000 houses. Of course, all this comes from the war. Where the plowshare of destruction passed over the land, as in France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Austria, Serbia, Roumania, Montenegro, and parts of Turkey, millions of buildings of all kinds, but principally homes, were laid in ruins. France and Belgium doubtless suffered most. Rheims, Verdun, Arras, St. Quentin, Lens and hundreds of small towns and villages in France were demolished by artillery fire and bombing. Lens was the wellknown center of the French coal mining industry. In all these countries, belligerent and neutral, as in the United States, there were causes which operated against the construction of the houses which the natural growth of the papulation rendered necessary. It was not alone Secretary McAdoo's appeal for the restriction of building operations to the lowest practicable minimum during the war that caused so general a cessation of building operations in this country; That had its effect, but there were added to it the scarcity and high wages of labor, the scarcity and high cost of all materials, and the duty of investing much of which would otherwise have gone into homes, business blocks and factories. These, or similar causes, operate throughout the civilized world. iNor have some of them lost their effect since ptface has come. Materials are almost as scarce, and in some cases even more costly than they were during the struggle. Whatever the reduction of wages in some of the countries may 'be, there is none in the United States, and little, if any, in Great Britain. * In most of the European belligerent countries the war decimated the ranks of labor, and the youngest and strongest and most capable are gone. Without going into that sad phase of the matter, however, the question of materials requires con- • sideration. Take the matter of lumber alone. The British ministry of reconstruction, investigating the timber supply of Europe, says: “The timber immediately available from all sources, we understand, is not more than sufficient to meet half the annual demand of all European countries. It follows, therefore, that if the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is to have its proportion of the available supply, it will receive only 1,000,000 standards (six months’ normal supply). In this connection it must be remembered that certain countries, particularly Belgium and France and other theatres of war, will have special claims for timber for reconstruction.”

PINE VILLAGE HAS A FIRE.

An entire business block in Pine Village was destroyed by fire at an early hour Sunday morning. Included in the buildings destroyed, most of which were old and of little value, was the old hotel building which went under the name of “Our House” for many years, and was erected in 1853. For several years the hotel building had been used aa a private residence.

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - TONIGHT - Alice Joyce “The Triumph of the Weak” SATURDAY Violet Palmer aad Garrett Hughes “GINGER” Also the Last Episode of “HANDS UP” MONDAY Bert Lytell “The Spender” —■ . 1 ‘ • ■.

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