Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — Page 1

No. 184.

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GEORGE-GIFFORD NUPTIALS.

Gerald 'Edwin Gifford, son of Mr. and Mire. Harry Gifford, of this city, and. Lora M. George, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William George, of Union (township, were married at the home of the latter this Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. Ade, pastor of the United Brethren church at Aix. The Republican joins the many friends of these splendid young people in hearty congratulations and very (best (wishes.

MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED.

August 5, Gerald Edwin Gifford, born in Jasper county, August 28, 1896, occupation farmer, residence Rensselaer, and Lora May George, born in Jasper county, March 30, 1898, occupation housekeeper, residence Union township.

PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, August 9, I will offer at public auction at my home on Grace street, Saturday, August, 9, 2:30 p. m., my household goods including: 1 solid (black walnut book case. 1 solid black walnut table-desk. 1 solid black walnut dresser. 2 oak bedroom sets—dresser and commode. 1 birch (bedroom set—dresser and commode. • 2 iron beds, with springs and mattresses. 1 wooden bed, with springs and mattress. 1 davenport. 1 oak sideboard. 6 dining room chairs. 2 Morris chairs. - —_ 3 rocking chairs. 2 parlor tables. 1 gallon glass churn. 1 2-gallon stone churn. Stove, jars and jugs. Wheelbarrow, rugs, hand garden plow and seeder combined. 1 Maxwell automobile, 1917 model, good condition. Mrs. S. S. Shedd. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk.

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT— Lina Cavalieri "The Two Brides” She thought he was trying to buy her like so much dry-goods because she was an artist’s model. But he wasn’t. To convince her was the job, thoughl He had a predicament to get out of! Can you suggest any better method than he used? Perhaps you can after you see "The Two Brides.’’ GOOD COMEDY

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, ONE OF Babie Marie . Osborne’s LATEST PICTURES ALSO A COMEDY - SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, Famous Players-Laslcy Corp. Presents “The Silver King” Also Mack Sennett Comedy “The Village Smithy”

The Evening Republican.

COLD STORAGE PLANTS PLAY PART IN THE H. C. OF L.

Food economists are quite aware that the prime reason for the continued high prices for edible products is the high development of the cold storage and salvage processes, meaning canning, dehydration and similar methods. Instead of salvaging the surplus crops, as intended, they have gone to the point of locking up a large proportion of the normal supply, remarks the Cincinnati Enquirer. As a matter of fact, the American people are now unconsciously living upon rations. ___ Those who have recognized this fundamental truth have urged the enactment of laws regulating storage and salvaging, and in some states have succeeded in procuring statutes Which the food dealers promptly set aside through various devices, the most common of which is the shipment outside the jurisdiction of the state of the food that has remained the prescribed time in storage. Recent federal market department figures show that there are 210,000,000 dozen eggs in cold storage in the United States, the largest amount in history. Side iby side is the market Statement that eggs are advancing because of the hot weather. Butter is also rising in price, though there is more than 56,000,000 pounds safely locked away from the consumer, or about 29,000,000 more pounds than last year at this time when the dealers had the war as’ an excuse for their marvelously high prices. Thepe startling statistics serve only to Confirm the earlier judgment of the investigators that science, through the misdirected invention of the refrigerating machine and the hermetically sealed cap, has positively injured humanity. It is next to useless to implore the legislative intelligence of the country to address itself to this perfectly simple matter. Repeated requests have resulted only in the application of palliatives and crude I and inoperable remedies. What is needed is a national, all-embracing law .taking out of prison every year the food abstracted from the general supply and the placing of it on the market under severe penalties for concealment or suppression.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, Mitchell Lewis "Jacques of the Silver North” She was white; he was a halfbreed, but he loved her with a wild, impassioned love. The result was not as disastrous as might have been expected. See "Jacques of the Silver North.” Smiling Bill Parsons Comedy.,

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919.

FARMERS OF STATE RESENT RAILROADERS’ THREAT.

Indianapolis, August s.—ln a telegram to President Wilson today, the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations, representing more than 100,000 Indiana farmers, condemned “veiled threats of a revolution” and declared that if the railroad strike 'continues it seriously considers advising all its members to hold all farm product suntil the strike ends. The message to the presa den t, signed by Lewis Taylor, general secretary of the association, follows: “'The Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations, a great conservative body, condemns veiled threats of a revolution. If the railroad strike continues we seriously contemplate advising all of our members to hold farm products until the strike ends. We believe in such arbitration as .will result in justice and fairness to all concerned, with /work to be resumed pending a decision in the matter.”

SAD HEARTS WEEP AT BIER

MANY PAY LIVING TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED MOTHER. The funeral of Mrs. W. H. Beam, who died at the hospital in this city Monday morning at 6:45 o’clock following an operation for an obstructed intestine, was held at the late home on Elm street Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock. Short services were conducted by (the Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor of the Trinity M. E. church of this city. There was a large attendance, testifying to the love and esteem in which this mother was held by the people of the community. The pall-bearers were W. C. Babcock, J. N. Leatherman, Able Grant, C. A. Ross, Frank King and Samuel Roth. The floral offerings were very profuse and most (beautiful. One of the most beautiful wreaths was presented by the felllbw railroad employes of Mr. Beam’s son-in-law, Frank Busha, of Lafayette. The funeral was indeed a sad one, nlot only flor the bereaved husband, children, sister and other relatives, but for the many friends of the departed. The following obituary was read by Dr. Strecker: Catharine May Wright, born in Charlestown, 111., September 1, 1865, (died Aug. 4, 1919._ She was united in marriage to W. ’H. Beam October 7, 1882. To this union six children survive: Mrs. Merle Wilcox, Springfield, O.; Mrs. Madge Busha, Lafayette; Hurley W. Beam, Chicago; Don Beam, M onion; Mrs. Gladys Merica, Chicago, and Paul Beam, of this city. Mrs. Beam’s parents moved to Caro, Midh., when she was quite young, she living there until her marriage to Mr. Beam, thirty-six year ago. She was a loving mother, a good and faithful 'helpmate, whose greatest object in life was the rearing of her family and keeping the home fires burning at all times for the husband and the little flock, one of the noblest traits of a wife and mother and one which her family certainly appreciated to the utmost and one which renders her loss the harder to bear.

REPUBLICAN YANK WINS IN KENTUCKY, IST IN 25 YEARS.

Louisville, Ky., August 4.—Election of King Swope, rpeublican, a returned soldier, in. the Eighth Kentucky district, to congress, in connection with Saturday’s primary, continued today to be a live topic in Kentucky political circles. It was the first time in twenty-five years a republican had been elected in that district. The seat was left vacant by the death of Harvey Helm, democrat. In the contest for the nomination of state officers today’s figures show a plurality of approximately 17,000 for Governor James D. Black, democratic incumbent, with the probability that it might reach 20,000.

COLONEL HEALEY ARRIVED FROM OVERSEAS TODAY.

God. George H. Healey stated in a message to Mrs. Healey this Wednesday morning that he had arrived in New York City from overseas and that he would leave at once for Camp Dix, where he expects to be mustered out of the service within a short time. From Camp Dix he twill go to Washington for a short stay, after which he will return to this city.

LOST OR STOLEN—Auto No. 348, formerly the property of Doc Yak. Notify the express office. Andy Guihp.

NO DELIVERIES OF LESS THAN A GALLON

On account of the advance in price of ice cream we will make no deliveries of'leea than one gallon. We are going to keep the price at the old schedule- WRIGHT BROTHERS.

LABOR DEMANDS U. S. OWNERSHIP

OF ALL INDUSTRIES^—STARTS FIGHT FOR NATIONALIZATION. Washington ,August s.—Nationalization of ail essential industry in the United States is the objective of the American Federation of Labor. This will be made clear tomorrow at the hearing before the house interstate commerce committee to consider the Plumb proposal that private capital be retired from railroad operation and that there be substituted a trpiartite control of the railroad properties by the public, the operating management and the employes. The proposal of organized labor is confined for the present to the control and operation of the railroads. But it is not the intention that it shall end .there. On the contrary, the support of the American Federation for'’ the Plumb plan to have the railroads owned (by the government and operated by the railway workers on a profit-sharing basis was secured upon the pledge that if this plan should achieve success, through the support of all organized labor, the railway workers would stand with the workers in the other essential industries in bringing about nationalization of new industries under similar conditions. The mine workers, for instance, have had under consideration for two months the British mine workers’ plan for the nationalization of the mines of the United Kingdom, although that plan, as I am informed, has not yet been made public in Great Britain. In considering this plan for the nationalization of the coal mines, it was found that the problem presented difficulties and complications which do not exist in relation to government ownership of the railroads. The (railroads, even under private ownership, have had a quasi-public character. A railroad is a public highway and as such is subject to regulations of the state. Coal mines have no quasi-pUblic character and the only regulations to which they are subjected by law is such as is necessary for the safety, the comfort and health of their workers. After general consultation among the leaders of labor, it was agreed, therefore, that the nationalization of the railroads was the easiest approach to public ownership. If that did not succeed, it was not likely itihat the nationalization of the mines or any other essential industry could succeed.

CONCERT PROGRAM FOR THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING.

March —Northumbria--J. E. Miller Fox Trot—Arabian Knights _Wm. Hewitt Reverie —Nature’s Adoration Ellis Brooks Waltz— Blowing Bubbles Kellett Overture —Operatic Mingle E. W. Berry Fox’ Harold Weeks Blue and Gray Patrol—C. W. Dalbey Waltz—Southern Roses Johann Strauss Fox" "Trot—Sweet Siamese----March —King of the Air—------J. C. Schultz

WEDNESDAY’S LOCAL GRAIN MARKET.

Oats, 64c. Corn, $1.70. Rye, $1.30. Wheat, No. 1, $2.11. No. 2, $2.08. No. 3, $2.04.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Showers and thunderstorms probable tonight and Thursday. Cooler in north portion Thursday.

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FOOD SALE TO BEGIN AUG. 18

SUPPLIES TO BE SOLD DIRECT TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH PARCELS POST. Sale of all surplus war department food direct to the public through the parcels post will begin Munday, August 18, the war departmen announced. The necessary forms and blanks for use by the 58,000 postmasters now are being provided by the war department. The announcement said the sales would be made in case or carton lots only, and that purchasers would have to add the cost of delivery by parcels post from the storage points where the food is now held. Millions of pounds of meat, beans, pumpkins, squashes and other commodities will be offered. Prices for the food were quoted as follows: Meats: Corned beef—No. 1 can, 30 cents; No. 2 can, 58 cents; sixpound can, $2. Roast lheef —No. 1 can, 29 cents; one-pound, can, 41 cento; two-pound can, 66 cents; sixpound can, $2.20. Corned beef hash—One-pound can, 23 cents; twopound can, 40 cents. Bacon—ln -crates, 34 cento a .pound; in twelvepound tins, 26 cents a pound. Vegetables: Baked beans, No. 1 can, 7 cents; No. 2 can, 13 cents; No. 3 can, 18 cento. .Stringless (bean? —No. 2 can, 11 cents, No. 10 can, 48 cents. Corn—No. 2 can, 12 cents. Peas—No. 2 can, 11 cents. Tomatoes—No. 2 can, 11 cents; No. 2 1-2 can, 13 cents; No. 3 can, 15 cento; No. 10 can, 45 cents. Pumpkin—No. 2, can, 6 cento; No. 3 can, 9 cents; No. 10 can, 24 cents. Squash—No. 2 can, 6 cents.

The number of cans available for sale in each commodity range from 22,030,325 of the No. 3 cans of tomatoes to 1,025 cans No. 10 size of pumpkin. The largest amounts otherwise are 15,000,000 No. 1 cans and 19,000,000 No. 2 cans of corned beef, 12,000,000 each of the one and two-pound cans of roast beef, 11,000,000 each of the one and twopound cans of corned beef hash, 13,000,000 cans of No. 3 size baked beans; 18,000,000 No. 2 cans of corn; 10,000,000 pounds of crated bacon and 6,000,000 of bacon in twelve-pound tins. The sale, the war department said, will be “the largest direct sale to the American people ever attempted” The prices were declared to be “materially lower” than those prevailing in the commercial market and the food was described as being in excellent condition. “All of the commodities,” the statement continued, “were government inspected and prepared in accordance with the army specifications.”

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank our many friends for their acts of kindness and Words of condolence extended us during the sickness and following the death of our beloved wife and mother, and for the many beautiful floral tributes. —W. H. Beam and Children. z

COAL FROM GERMANY TO MEET SHORTAGE.

Coal will be taken from Germany this winter to relieve the acute Shortage in central Europe and reduce ' shipments from the United States, if the plans land before the supreme economic council materialize. The council agreed that a committee will meet with the reparations copimission to evolve a plan by which immediate coal production will be inade attractive to Germany. In the opinion of the council’s members this would mean a lessening of the reparation strain on Germany through other channels. In order to facilitate the delivery of coal the council even considered special inducements of clothing and food to the German miners to get them to work. This pten superseded that of a central Europe control, discussed yesterday. The council is likely to meet next at Brussels at a date not yet fixed.

LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY HELD FOR WOMAN’S DEATH.

Edgar G. Collins, 45, Lafayette lawyer and real estate owner, was arrested Tuesday, accused by a police affidavit of having, with premeditated mailice, caused the death of Mrs. Clifford Long, 29, whose •body was found early Monday at ,the foot of a stairway in the Lafayette Loan & Trust building, where Collins has offices on the fifth floor. Collins’, attorneys said Collins admitted drinking with the woman in his office late Sunday night. They became intoxicated, the (lawyer’s statement said, and the woman left the office first. Collins left later, descending in a small, automatic elevator used only when the main elevator is not running. Collins says Mrs. Long tried to make her way down the stairs and plunged over the railing. Collins was married several years ago to a Chicago young woman, who Was divorced from him two years ago. He denies having had a quarrel with Mrs. Long, his attorneys slay, but admits being in her company many times.

ROSEBUD ENTERTAINMENT.

On Sunday, August 10th, at the Rosebud church in Union township there wil Ibe held an ajll-day outing and entertainment Bring your lunch and take dinner in the leafy grove. A double program will be given at the church consisting of unique recitations in church and Sunday school work, patriotic drills, declarations, essays, readings, solos and duets, both vocal and instrumental. The programs will begin at 10:30 a. m., and 2:30 p. m. No fees; no charges. Come and spend the day with us.—John E. Alter, director.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Boston, 3; Chicago, 1. St. Louis, 6; New York, 2. Cincinnati, 7; Brooklyn, 2. Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburg, 0. American League. Detroit, 2; Washington, 1. v Boston, 7; Cleveland, 5. Ghicago-PhiladeJplhia, rain. New York-St. Louis, rain.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the remperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. August 5 -101 71 August 6 __ 82 66

NOTICE. Trespassing and swimming upon my property will not be allowed. Violations will be prosecuted. CONRAD KELLNER.

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - TONIGHT - J. Warren Kerrigan “Prisoners of the Pines” THURSDAY Frances McDonald “Tony America” Also a Good Comedy FRIDAY Gladys Leslie “The Soap GM" _ COMING WEDNESDAY Nazimova “Outofthe Fog"

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