Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — Page 1

No. 193.

Reduced Prices On Porch Furniture We will offer the following pieces of j: porch furniture at these reduced :: prices. | One couch hammock marked to sell | at $12.50 for SB.OO. | One couch hammock at $6.50 for $4. t One wood porch swing marked to sell | at $8.50 for $6.00. 5-ft. swing. | One wood porch rocker at $5 for $3.50 | One wood porch rocker at $3.75 for | $2.50 I One wood porch rocker at $4.75 for? $3.50. | One wood straight chair at $5.50 for $4 | W. J. WRIGHT {

MADE DEFENDANT IN U. S. COURT

MRS. ALDA PARKISON SUED BY TEXAS LAND COMPANY FOR $12,000 AND INTEREST. Mrs. Alda F. Parkison, of this city, has been made defendant in a $12,000 suit whidh was lodged against her toy a Kansas City security company in the federal court at Hammond Friday, and is the result of a deal Which Mrs. Parkison made for some Texas land recently. The 'Hammond Times ! has the following to say anent the suit: Another Texas land case has been filed in the United States district court at Hammond for Judge Anderson to untangle. The suit just filed with Clerk Charles Surprise is brought by the Fidelity Loan Securities Co., of Kansas City, Mo., against Mrs. A. F. Parkison, of Rensselaer, Ind. The complaint states that on January 9, 1919, Mrs. Parkison entered into a contract with the 'Rio Grande Valley Land corporation to buy a tract of land in Hidalgo county, Texas. She was to pay $24,500 for the., land, paying $12,000 to the com* pany and assuming $12,000 incumbrance against the property. According to the agreement she was to pay $2,000 annually beginning January 1, 1921, and the interest was to be paid semi-annually beginning July 19, 1919. Failure to meet any part of it was to mature the whole sum. . It is alleged that Mrs. Parkison did not make her first interest payment last month, so the company is demanding the entire $12,000 with interest up to the time the matter is settled. W. F. Zumbrum, of KjvnaAH City is attorney for the plaintiff. .

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TO BE KNOWN AS THE DEWEY C. BIGGS POST.

At a meeting held in the west court room at the court 'house Friday evening by soldiers of the late world war for the purpose of organizing an American Legion chapter in this county, it was decided to name the order the Dewey C. Biggs post in honor of the first soldier from this county to make the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France that civilization might live, and it is a fitting tribute which will forever cause his name to remain fresh in the minds of all. A petition, bearing the following names, has been sent to Indianapolis asking that a charter be granted the local order: Cope J. Hanley, Emil W. Hanley, HeifoeTt C. Hammond, Howard Clark, Clarence E. Garver, •W. I. Spitler, Floyd Meyers, H. E. English, Paul H. Worland, E. M. Laßue, C. E. Johnson, D. Delos Dean, Chas. M. Sands, D. J. Babcock, R. D. Wangefin, V. C. Davisson, I. M. Washburn, George H. Healey, H. D. Pefley, W. H. Tilton, Loralh P. Hess, and Edward L. Watson. The charter is expected to arrive within two weeks. Coße J. Hanley has been instrumental in getting the organization under way and expects that the names of many soldiers will be added to the above list within a short time.

ROAD IMPROVEMENT MOVING FAST.

'Contractor Ben D. McColly has four trucks and all the teams he can secure hauling Stone from the Mon'on railroad to the Carey L. Carr et al road in Newton township. The haul is about five miles, but Mr. MjcColly is getting the stone hauled as fast as possible. 1 Friday the trucks and teams succeeded in getting seventy-six yeards from the railroad to the highway.

Just unloaded another carload of Dorts.—Kuboake & Walter.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, Ethel Clayton “Maggie Pepped” Two-Reel L. K. 0. Comedy THURSDAY, AUG. 21, All-Star Cast “When a Woman Strikes”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919.

WILSON'S VETO STIRS FARMERS

SAY THEY WILL MAKE IT AN ISSUE OF NEXT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. Washington, Aug. 15.—Farmers, disappointed by .the president’s second veto today of the measure to repeal the daylight saving law, declared this afernoton .that they will carry a fight against the daylight act into the next political campaign until the act has been abolished. Among farmers who spoke with feeling on the subject were John R. Brown, president of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations, and J. R. Howard, president of the ! lowa Farm Bureau federation, who, | together with farmers of Illinois, ; Ohio and Nebraska, called on President Wilson only yesterday to urge ! that he sign the repeal measure passed by congress. In that interview the president said that he was undecided on the subject, but they came away feeling that he would see the farmers’ point of view and act . accordingly. “We will make that obnoxious daylight act an issue of the next campaign. That law is such a big handicap- to the farmer in its bearing on farm labor that we must keep up a fight until the law is ! abolished,” said Mr. Howard em- ' phiatically, “I predict that public i sentiment on this question will be Iso strong that political parties will mention daylight saving in their •platforms.” Mr. Brown, of Indiana, also expressed disappointment in the president’s action. He predicted that the Wilson veto of this repeal measure will cost* the Democratic party the support of democratic farmers. Mr. Brown, who is an independent republican, voted in the last election for the democratic national ticket and the republican state ticket. “There is nothing we can do now but fight all (the 'harder for the repeal of this daylight law. We will make it an issue in the next campaign, and in my opinion farmers wjll Ibe united on this proposition without regard to their usual party affiliation.

“I am sorry that President Wilson does not have a good understanding of the farmers’ problems. We endeavored to give him our point of view, and while he was apparently a sympathetic listener he has acted against us. His veto will be disappointing to farmers every-: where. 1 'have talked to many city men about this daylight law and I find that they really have little interest in it. But it affects farm labpr ■so adversely that we will not be satisfied until the law is dead.” The president in his veto measure said that he returned the bill without approval with “the utmost reluctate” because he realized “the very considerable and in some respects very serious inconveniences to which the daylight saving law subjects the farmers of the country.” He expressed the belief that there is a pressing need for increased production in industries and .that daylight saving means industrial economies. The republicans will again attempt to pass the repeal measure over the president’s veto, (but they probably will fail to muster a twothirds vote because the democratic members of congress feel obliged to stand iby the president. The Indiana members with the exception of Representative Moores have been voting against the daylight act. The president’s message vetoing the bill

is as follows: “I return this 'bill, H. R. 3854, ‘An adt for the repeal of the daylight saving law,’ without my signature, but do so with the utmost reluctance. I realize the very considerable and in some , respects very serious inconveniences to which the daylight saving laiw subjects the farmers of the country, to whom we owe the' greatest consideration and who have distinguished themselves during these recent years of war and want by patriotic endeavors worthy of all praise. But I have been obliged to balance one set of disadvantages against another and toi venture a judgment as to which were the more serious for the country. The immediate and pressing need of the country is production, increased and increasing , production,

in all lines of industry. “The disorganization and dislocation caused by the war have told nowhere so heavily as at the industrial centers —in manufacture «and in the many industries to which the country and the whole world must look, to supply needs which can not be ignored or postponed. It is to these that the daylight saving law is of most service. It ministers to economy and to efficiency. And the interest of the farmer is not in, ail re-! ' spects separated from these inter-. 1 eats. He needs what the factories j j produce along with the rest of the ■ j world. He as profited by the pros- j • perity which their success brings .'about. His own life and method*. I are more easily adjusted, 1 venture to think, than those of the manufac--1 turer and the merchant. “These are the considerations {which have led me to withhold my signature from- this repeal. I hope that they are considerations which will appeal to the thoughtful judg-

ALL HARMONY IN THIS CASE

BANDITS DECIDED THAT THEY NEEDED CAR WORSE THAN OWNER—TOOK IT. “We want that car,” growled a vicious looking individual, as- he poked a 20th century Colts towards the spot where Pete Merritt, of Remington, wears his heart. “Take it,” replied the agreeable Peter.

In less time than it takes to put it into Webster, Mr# Merritt and his companion, James Woods, vacated Henry Ford’s leading product and gave up all earthly claim they had to it, the title of ownership passing from their hands into those of the rough looking individual and his four companions, who had come out of an adjacent cornfield so unexpectedly to take charge of the car. The scene occurred on the road south of Remington about 10 o’clock Tuesday night and was enacted sp quickly that Mr. Merritt and his companion were quite a spell in grasping the new turn of events. A short time later telephone calls were made from Remington to the authorities of neighboring towns asking that they be on the lookout for the bandits and the car. Today the net was spread even further and it is thought that the automobile at least will be located before night.

All day Thursday and Friday the authorities* of Goodland and Remington kept a suspicious eye cast on the .actions of several strangers who made frequent trips bock and forth between the two towns in a new automobile. Their idleness aroused the suspicions of the police officers, who felt that they were bent on mischief of some sort. Apparently the bandits were aware that they had excited the suspicion of the police and had decided that it was a poor place to atempt to carry out whatever mischief they had in their minds and that it was a good time to hike to more fertile fields. Earlier in the evening Mr. Merritt had come to Rensselaer, accompanied by his wife and a neighbor lady to get his mother, who had been visiting here with John Merritt apd family. After taking his mother home, Mr. Merrit drove to Remington and met James Woods. The two of them decided to take a ride into the country and had gone but a short way when they were halted by the desperadoes and ordered to vacate the car. The new car, driven by the gang, has not (been seen in Remington since the robbery occurred and it is presumed that the stolen Ford has (been abandoned and that the entire hand has reunited and is now well without the clutches of the law.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Cincinnati, 4-4; New York, 3-0. Boston, 5-3; Pittsburg, 3-2. St. Louis, 2-7; Philadelphia, 7-2. Brooklyn, 3;, Chicago, 1. American League. Chicago, 6; Boston, 5. Washington, 3; Cleveland, 2. , Detroit, 7; New York, 0. St. Louis, 8; Philadelphia, 2.

CHURH OF GOD.

Elder L. E. Conner will be here for the usual services over Sunday.

ment of the house and in the long run to the thoughtful judgment of the farmers of the country, who have always shown an admirable pulbHc spirit.”

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CALL MADE TO GOVERNOR

FOR TROOPS OF STATE MILITIA TO QUELL HAMMOND RIOTS. Following riotous demonstrations today, which the city police were unable to control, Sheriff Lew Barnes of Lake county, wired Gov. Goodrich at noon to hold companies of militia in readiness to come to Hammond to take change of the threatening situation. News of the determination of the authorities to send for troops (had . salutary effect, and conferences are 'being held tonight to prevent a recurrence of rioting. (Standard Steel Car company strikers defied the federal courts here today after injunctions against picketing had been granted. In trying to force a passage through the mob Officer Thomas F. Flanagan was shot by a rioter. He caught the man, but the crowd rescued him. Capt. George Hanlon was 'hit over the head with a club and badly hurt. Officer Henry Hesterman was struck with a rubber hose filled with shot and had his nose broken. The big touring car in which Maj. George Vincett, the works - manager, was being driven to the plant was wrecked, and John Morse, his chauffeur, was hit "with a brickThreats were made (by the strikers that they would fix certain officers if they had to ldli a dozen men to do it. Hundreds of foreign born women proved the most dangerous of the rioters. Their entrance into the strike is due to the fact that East Hammond grocers, who had been providing food on credit to the strikers, shut off supplies. One woman with four children reported to the police that they had nothing to eat. Strikers refused to let anyone enter the gates, and have barricaded some of the streets so that all passageway is impeded. Even girl stenographers were not permitted to enter the plant this morning. Many of the men are armed with revolvers and clubs,, and the women have clubs, umbrellas and red pepper which they use with r tellingeffect. In making two arrelts Of- strikers this morning the police could only do so by drawing their revolvers.

O, SKINNAY, C’MON OVER!

Got some good news, August 27 and 28 axe the dates of St. Augustine’s big lawn —clowns, bands, gypsy fortune tellers, Hoosier pie-eatTers, balloons, confeti, i n’everything—iC’mon, I’ll tell you all about it.

We will have another car of fancy Alberta peaches on sale Saturday and Monday, August 16 and. 18. These peaches will be extra fancy. Price $3.50 to $3.75 per bushel. Leave your orders now.—eger’s Grocery. ATTENTION, LAND BUYERS! 1 am making regular trips to South Bend and woul be pleased to have persons interested in buying land in that part of the state accompany me.—HARRY SWARTZELL, ’phone 947-L

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. - read THE INSIDE * PAGES.

TREATY MAY BE RATIFIED

TWENTY REPUBLICANS SAID TO FAVOR PACT WITH RESERVATIONS. Washington, Aug. 15.—Negotiations between democratic and republican senators, looking to ratification of the peace treaty with reservations, reached a more definite stage today while President Wilson and the foreign relations committee were getting together on unprecedented measures to give the public all the details of- their discussion of the treaty next Tuesday at the white house. Democratic leaders, feeling out sentiment on the republican side, were told that the treaty could never be ratified without qualification, but that more than twenty republicans desired to see it accepted in the near future with reservations along the line of those agreed on by seven senators of that party some days ago. This information came from members otf the group of seven after completion of a poll begun Wednesday on receipt of the first democratic overtures. The twenty needed by the democrats to make the necessary ratification majority of sixty-four had not accepted the proposed reservation, program in exact form, it was asserted, 'but had given their assent to its general provisions.

Afterward Senator Hitchcock, the democratic leader, went to the white house and is understood to have laid the whole senate situation before the president. He made no formal announcement after the conference, but indicated that the administration stand for unreserved ratification remained unchanged. Some of the seven reservation republicans, however, insist that they (have had information assuring democratic assent to their program. A new draft of reservations was shown to several republicans during the day by Senator Lodge, the republican leader. It is understood to cover the four points embraced in the program agreed on by the seven senators and to include also a provision that the appointment of the American representative on the league council must have senate approval. The other four provisions relate to the Monroe doctrine, withdrawal from membership, jurisdiction over purely domestic questions and the right of congress to declare war under article 10 of the league covenant. Although it began discussion of proposed amendment to the treaty today, the committee decided to vote on none of them until it had talked with the president. There will (be no meeting tomorrow and most of next week probably will be devoted to hearing the five additional witnesses summoned yesterday. The question of how soon the committee would report to the senate, was one of the subjects most earnestly discussed in the many conferences held among senators during the day. While the_deanocratic leaders said they believed twenty republicans would exert their influence for early committee action, it was made clear by the reservation republicans that they had not promised any republican votes for a motion to take the treaty out of the committee’s hands. After his white house conference Senator Hitchcock mid the committee might report within ten days or two weeks. He made it clear that getting the treaty into the senate as soon as practicable was the present concern of the administration.

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - TONIGHTEvelyn Greenley "Phil for Short” A World Special Full of humorous situations and romance. . Also 4th Episode 0 f ' ' “The Lightning Raider” Featuring Pearl White 8 Big Reek 10 and 15c. MOiNDAY Edith Storey "As the Sun Went Down” Yon who like a western story will enjoy this as Miss Storey appears at her bast in

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