Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1919 — Page 1

No. 191.

BEDDIHG Mattresses of all grades and sizes in :: plain and fancy ticking. jj Pads for davenports. \\ Pads for sanitary cots. ' : Pads for cots of all sizes. | Pads for baby beds. | Pillows all grades in plain and § fancy ticking. | In fact the most complete line of: bedding ever shown in tne city. t W. J. WRIGHT jj

Tires To REME BEB For This WeekOnly We are holding KASPER’S DESERT CHIEF COFFEE At 40c the' pound. Fresh coffee at an old price—and the coit is up. Occident Flour is still the best in town Our Line of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables is Complete For Saturday _ , • •' ■; i ROWLES & PARKER

BARTENDERS CAN SECURE EMPLOYMNT AS AIR COPS.

iLondon, Aug. 13.—Flying i bicycles are <tihe latest an aerial fashions. Gabriel Poulain, noted French cyclist, has succeeded in perfecting an aerocycle which he is aible to raise into the air and propel for a distance of twelve yards, attaining a speed of 25 miles an hour. Poulain will demonstrate the raaiehine ibefore the French Aero club shortly! French and British enthusiasts forsee the day when the aerocycle will be as common as the bi■cycle. - Greatt muscular effort is necessary 'to lift the machine from the ground, but once in the air propulsion is easy.

Orders now being taken for fall delivery from the Guaranteed Nursery company. Stock failing to live replaced free. Charles Pefley.

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT— Baby Marie Osborne “Tholfoice of Destiny”

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, Dorothy Gish —in—- “ Boots” SMILING BILL PARSONS COMEDY "Bill's Predicament” COMING Monday, August 18, "Auction Of, Souls”

The Evening Republican.

RING LARDNER GUEST AT FAREWELL LNCHEON.

/Chicago newspaper associates of Ring Lardner and thirty other invited guests ibid the author of “You know me, Al” farewell at a luncheon given at the Woodland Bards' clubrooms at Gomdskey Park yesterday. Lardner is going to New York, where he has been engaged to write short stories."” He will continue his work for the Saturday Evening Post and other publications. „

SOCIETY BRAND PLANE WAS RIGHT ON HAND.

The Society Brand aeroplane, booked for arrival in this city at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday with a consignment of clothing for a Rensselaer merchant, arrived only a trifle behind its scheduled time, due to ifts being forced to push its nose against a high wind. The landing was made in the Amsler field north of the city and a very large crowd was on hand to greet the first aeroexpress ever to come to the city. The plane traveled 125 miles before reaching here, as it made Wat?, seka, 111., and Morocco before coming here. After a short flight about the city the plane returned to Chicago.

Dr. I. M. Washburn, of this city, and Dr. A. P. Rainier, of Remington, attended the Tenth District ; Medical society’s meeting at Gary ! this Thursday afternoon. Both of | these physicians took part in the meeting. nDt. Washburn read a paper on “The Preparation far • the Laparotomy.” ! The meeting was held qt the public library. A (banquet will be given by the Gary physicians at the Y. M. C. A. case at Bp. m. Mayor Hodges will he ome of the speakers at the dinner. i

! That |2,000,000 worth of leather the government has to sell will probably make its appearance later as $20,000,000 worth of shoes.—Des Moines Register.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, Helen Eddy ——in*— “The Turn in the Road” A wholesome »t*>ry touching the passions and virtues of a clean cut group of people. Presents problems and offers cheering sdfUtions, likely to remain | stamped upon the minds of every, i audience. This is a Christian Scientists picture. Charley Chaplin* “Theßank” Adults 20c, was tax 2c, 22c ,Cluldran \loc, war tax lc, Ilc

ATTEND MEDICAL MEETING.

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. READ THE INSIDE PAGES.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WEL FARE CONDUCTED BY COUN TY AGENT LEAMING. : >• County Fanners’ Meeting Is Being Arranged. Joseph Kosta, of Union township, has been busy arranging for a meeting of the farmers of Jasper county with representatives of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations to be held in the near future. The meeting will give the officials of the state organization an opportunity to explain the purposes of the federation and the means being used to carry out its ideas.. It will give the farmers an opportunity to 'inform themselves fully upon the policies that the organization expects to pursue and an opportunity to judge the benefits that will accrue from membership. 'Mr. Kosta has received word that this meeting will be held at Rensselaer in the near future and asks all interested to watch the papers for more definite announcement. More Hessian Fly Expected. A gradual increase in damage from the Hessian fly the next few years is the prediction of James Troop, entomologist of the experiment station, in a statement issued last week. “The time is fast approaching when the Hessian fly pendulum widT swing back towards a maximum crop in the future. I have received some complaints this summer. There will undoubtedly be more next year. Your farmers should therefore take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.” Quite a little fly infestation was noticed in various ,parts of the county this year. According to Mr. Troop, this will be worse' each year for several years. The fly free dates recommended for this part of the state are from September 23 to October 3. Experienced wheat growers of this locality like to get the wheat in early and give it a good start 'before winter. Sowing on the 'earliest fly free date and the use of enough commercial fertilizer or manure to put the wheat in good condition for the winter is a practice which will doubtless prove most profitable over a series of years. University Exhibit to Be Shown This Fall.

G. M. Frier, head of the department of short courses and exhibits at Purdue university, was in ithe county recently arranging for space for an exhibit that the. university expects to make in connection with the livestock show this fall. According to Mr. Frier, the exhibits being prepared this year at .the university are more elaborate and complete than they have ever been before and embody more new features than have / been used for several seasons. For example, one of these from the poultry department, shows the culling of farm flocks. Two hens are shown, one of which produces fifty eggs per year and one one hundred and fifty eggs. How to detect the poor layer and weed her out as an unprofitable bird is shown in ithe material on exhibition. Another example if* the animal husbandry work is the exhibit showing how much cheaper it is to produce pork by corn, tankage and pasture than by corn alone. These and similar striking features will make a valuable addition to the show.

Barley for Hog Feed. Farmers of this locality who have been growing a little (barley ea,c(h year for early hog feed will be interested in the- results obtained by C. M;. Vestal in studying the value of barley for hogs. He draws the following conclusions: “Barley is an efficient feed for fattening hogs. » “It is about 90 per cent as efficient as corn. “Hogs fed barley and tankage m self feeders .will eat more tankage than if fed tankage and corn. ‘ ‘Combinations of corn, barley and tankage have excellent feeding values. “If barley is cheaper per cwt. than <?orn a reduction in costs of grain can be secured by forcing hogs to ea| more barley by mixing it with the corn and tankage.” The results indicate that our hog raisers might make a more general use of barley for early hog feed. Corn and Poultry Association to

Meat. A meeting of the members of the County Corn and Poultry association will be held at the court house Thursday evening, August 21, at 9 o’clock, according to the announcement of Jesse Snyder, president of the organization. The purpose of the meeting 14 to make plans for the annual exnibit this season. Among other arrangements the time and place will receive consideration as well as the selection of judges and the adoption of a premium list. The meeting is open to the public.

Three-One-Nine. Films, hand developed, 10 cents a Toll. Better work, lower prices. It makes a difference. —Larsh & Hopkins.

NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISE TO BE LAUNCHED IN CITY.

Rensselaer is soon to have a new business enterprise in the way of a (bottling works, which will be op- 1 erated by Vernon Nowels in the j (building just east of the Washing- , ton street bridge which he purchased ' of Zem and Don Wright. Mr. Nowels will manufacture soft drinks for which he has already been promised a readyffeale by dealers in this and nearby cities. Mr. Nowels will undoubtedly make a success of has new venture just as he ddd with the restaurant business in which he was engaged here for a period of twelve years.

Three-One-Nine.

FARMERS ARE ORGANIZING TO PROTECT INTERESTS.

Indianapolis, Aug. 13.—“ An organization of the farmers, by the farmers to protect the interests of the farmers, and (by education, legislation and other honorable means, to promote the largest good for all the people.” This is the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations, by its own description. The federation, with members all over the state, begins this week a campaign to organize ithe farmers more closely for their own protection and to subscribe a $200,000 guarantee fund. The campaign will be handled by ten district chairmen and ninety-two county chairmen, and it is (hoped the work can be accomplished by September 20. Officers of the federation are confident that many counties will go over the top with their money and membership quotas long before that date. •

SOCIETY LEADERS PAID $lO TO SEE “AUCTION OF SOULS” America’s leading society people and leaders in sociological and political thought were the first to see “Auction of Souls,” the unprecedented screen epoch to be shown at the Princess theatre Monday, August 18. Before 'being shown publicly in motion, picture theatres it was exhibited privately in the larger cities of the east and west, where distinguished audiences looked at it in amazement. In the Plaza Hotel, New York, one of, the greatest centers of distinction in the country, “Auction of Souls” had a private showing under the supervision of Mrs. Oliver Harriman, chairman of the National Motion Picture committee, and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, chairman of the New York committee. This exhibition lasted a week, in which time 7,000 of New York’s leaders in society and uplift paid $lO to see the picture. Besides the New York exhibition, the picture was seen in Los Angeles, where the leading society people of the western coast reviewed it. It was also shown in Bellevue-Strat-ford, where large audiences paid to see the picture. Of course, in each instance, this money went as a benefit to the cause of the Committee for Relief of the Near East. The fact that this committee took “Auction of Souls” ibefbre the leaders of the country to drive home to their minds the need for sending relief to the Armenians bespeaks the portrayal of what happened when the Turks (began the slaughter of thousands of Armenians. —Advt.

To accommodate the many who were unable to get peaches from our first car, we will have another car Saturday and Monday, August 16 and 18, at $3.50 and $3.75 per ‘bushel.—EGER'S GROCERY.

THURSDAY GRAIN MARKET.

Oats, 70c. Com, $1.93. Rye, $1.40. Wheat, No. 1, $2.11. No. 2, SB.OB. No. 3, $2.04.

THE WEATHER. , Forecast for Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight. Friday partly cloudy and prqfoalbly showers and thunderstorms in north portion; warmer.

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Another big shipment rec’d yesterday $1 to $3 (Pli -.

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13. — While the administration was seeking nearly $3,000,000 emergency funds from congress to fight the -H. C. L., Attorney General Palmer ordered the exposure of the alleged vast hoards of foods (held by the packers and speculators in the great coil'd storage warehouses, chiefly in Chicago. He instructed his investigators to make public the names of the persons and the amount of their hoardings for higher prices. He thought the publicity would result in release of large quantities of food upon the market, but also promised prosecution of the hoarders and asked congress to provide a penalty for the offense. The Bremen, Germany’s great merchant submarine, was sunk by Lieut. Langley of the British navy, according to Representative King, of Illinois. Langley, he said, was first complimented by the British admiralty for the deed and then rebuked for sinking an unarmed merchant ship. Because the act was viewed as discreditable the news was suppressed and this accounts, Mr. King thinks, for the fate of the Bremen becoming a mystery. Immediate action on the peace treaty was demanded by the administration in default of which Senator Hitchcock said he would move to discharge the foreign relations committee. Chairman Lodge, feeling that the president had (bottled up all the information desired by (the committee, said he was ready to proceed to the revision of the treaty and covenant at once, but his. hand was stayed by Senators Borah, Johnson, Brandegee and Fall, who -demanded that Col. House, Gen. Bliss, and Henry White, the other peace commissioners, be sumbloned from Europe to appear before the committee. Legislation to make railroad strikes unlawful was urged before the house committee on interstate and foreign commence by Stephen C. Mason, president of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, Who declared that provision should be made for the appointment of wage adjustment commissions by the president. He favored return of the raproads to private owners and the creation of a transportation board.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. Cincinnati, 4-2; New York, 3-1. Chicago, 4-2; Brooklyn, 3-3. Pittsburg, 3; Boston, 2. St. Louis-Philadelphia, rain. American League. Open date.

CHURH OF GOD.

JBlder L. E. Conner will be here for the usual services over Sunday. 'xj *

TEMPERATURE, The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending; at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min [August 12 —— August IS 86 August 14 -81 ,69

THURSDAY PRODUCE MARKET.

Cream, 64c. Eggs, 39c. ' Hens and fries, 25c. Cocks, 13c.

M’GUFF OFFERS H. C. L. REMEDY

CITY SEALER THINKS WEIGHT % SYSTEM WOULD HELP DEFEAT PROFITEERS, rgj Edward McGuff, city sealer of weights’ and measures of Indianap- | olis, believes that the elimination of the term “bushel” in buying and selling commodities and the substitution of a 100-pound .basis of trade would be a decided factor in the war against profiteering. Mr. Mic Guff cites the fact that produce is sold an various places in baskets that resemble a bushel, but in reality only contain from forty to fifty pounds. The innocent purchaser, however, (buys the basket believing that a bargain was obtained* J “Just so long as dry commodities, such as beans, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, peaches, pears, etc., are quoted and offered for sale at so much a bushel instead of by the pound the housewife and other consumers will always be in trouble,” said Mr. McGuff. Weights by the Bushel. Mr. McGuff declared that few persons are familiar with what a (bushel of any particular commodity should weigh. He gave the follow- f ing list of commodities with their weight by the bushel: Wheat, 60 lbs.; oats, 32 lbs.; buckwheat, 50 lbs.; popcorn, 56 lbs.; commeal, 50 lbs.; com in ear to Dec. 1, 70 lbs.; corn in ear after Dec. 1, 68 lbs.; rye, 56 lbs.; barley, 48 lbs.; malt rye, 35 lbs.; flax seed, 56 lbs.; Kaffir rice, 45 lbs.; rough rice, 45 lbs.; beans, 60 lbs.; cow peas, 60 lbs.; soy soja beans, 60 lbs.; clover seed, 60 lbs.; hemp seed, £4 lbs.; sorghum seed, -50 lbs.; cranberries, 33 lbs.; gooseberries, 40 jj lbs.; hickory nuts, 50 lbs.; walnuts, 50 lbs.; coarse salt, 50 lbs.; fine salt, 55 lbs.; bluegrass seed, 14 Hxs.; orchard grass seed, 14 lbs.; timothy seed, 45 lbs.; millet, 50 lbs.; herd grass seed, 45 lbs.; rape seed, 50 dibs.; red top grass seed, 60 lbs.; al- " salsa seed, %0 lbs.; peaches, 48 Bbs.; S dried peaches, 33 lbs.; apples, 48 ;; lbs.; dried apples, 25 lbs.; quinces, 48 lbs.; pears, 50 lbs.; onions, 57 lbs.; beets, 60 lbs.; carrots, 50 lbs.; parsnips, 55 lbs.; turnips, 55 lbs.; tomatoes, 60 lbs.; cucumbers, 48 H>s.; ... potatoes, 60 lbs.; sweet potatoes, 50 lbs.; middlings (coarse), 30 lbs.; bran, 20 lbs.; coal (mineral) 80 lbs.; charcoal, 20 lbs, and coke, 40 lbs.

Three-One-Nine.

WANT RENSSELAER ARTISTS FOR OLD SETTLERS’ DAY.

Says the Monticello Journal, in commenting on the plans for the * coming Old Settlers’ day celebration to be held in that city Saturday, August 30: “Another added* attraction which it is hoped can be secured for this day is that of the (world famous skaters, .Mr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds is related to numerous local people and was bora near the vicinity of Chalmers. However, it is not known if they will come (here as W. E. Reynolds, president of the Old Settlers’ association, has just written to them asking if they will come. They have . been playing in New York and are perhaps the finest skaters in the country, but are expected in Rensselaer soon, where they own a large home and where they wiH spend their vacation, and it is hoped that ; they will come here for that day. There is nothing definite as to their coming as yet, but it is hoped that their services can be secured.”

Three-One-Nine. AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - TONIGHT - Belle Bennett and' Barney Sherry ■ “Reckoning Day” Also Keystona Comady “Ruined by a Dumb Waiter” FRIDAY Earl Williams “The GirMn His House” SATURDAY Evelyn Greenley “Phil for Short” Also 4th Episod. of Raider"'"* ' Foaturing Pearl White

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