Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1919 — Page 1

No. 231.

DAVENPORTS We now have in stock a line of large overstuffed davenports in Tapestry. • fi W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer Indiana

VISIT RELATIVES IN FULTON COUNTY.

Dr. and Mrs. Frank McCarthy, Worth McCarthy and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy, motored to Rochester today (Wednesday)for a visit with Mr. and Mrs,. Russell Sage. Mrs. Sage is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy. The Sages are living on a 148-acre farm near Rochester. The farm was given to them by Mr. Sage’s father, Elizur Sage. Dr. and Mrs. McCarthy and Worth will return to Terre Haute from Rochester and Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy will visit with their daughter, Mrs. Sage, for a few weeks. r

WANTED! A No. 1 Clerk in Ideal Grocery

WILL ERECT TWO NEW RESIDENCES AT HARRIS HOME.

The trustees of the Harris home in this city will have two new cottages erected this fall. The -ground for the first building has already been broken. These buildings will contain four of five rooms. When these two buildings are completed homes will be provided for five families. ,

CONCERT PROGRAM FOR THIS EVENING.

“■Gentry’s Triumphal” “Light Cavalry,” overture. “By the Camp Fire,” (Garotte) “National Emblem.” “Bohemian Girl,” overture. “Arabian Nights,” one-step. “Down on the Farm,” two-step. “Larrus Trombone.” “.Stars and Stripes Forever,” march.

PRINCESS THEATRE Matinee—2:ls. Slight— 7 : 15. —TONIGHT— 7 • - * Mabel Normand e • “Peek's”Bad Girl” . Also Smiling Bill Parson , “Bill’s Fortune”

THURSDAY If you have seen these they are worth seeing again, Douglas Fairbanks “Wild and"Wooßy” A Western comedyabnbbling over -, with hearty langhs punctuated by ' typical Fairbanks thrills. Fatty Arbuckle “A Reckless Romeo” SATURDAY Jack Pickford “Bill Apperson’s Boy" Smiling Bill’ Parsons Comedy - r “Bill’s Fortune”

The Evening Republican.

VOCAL MUSIC AND ELOCUTION.

Eleanor Stevens Peckham, of Boston, temporarily a resident of Rensselaer, offers lessons and courses in vocal music and in speaking. Mrs. Peckham has had an unusual experience covering a period of several years in the cultivation of the voice, 'both for singing and speaking, and in the restoration of impaired voices. She possesses a rare insight into the needs of her pupils and inspires a desire for artistic advancement. The work' she does is artistic in the truest sense, for she imparts a knowledge of universal principles as well as the most approved technique. " ~ Mrs., Peckham had charge of., the school of music in Lombard university for three years and later founded a school of music and elocution in Boston, where some very remarkable work wits done. , Since Mrs. Pedkham’s stay in Rensselaer is limited probably to a few weeks, pupils should apply at once for appointments, terms, etc. Voices will 'be tried and inquiries answered without charge at the Trinity Methodist church parlors from 10 to 12 and from 3 to 4:30, excepting Wednesdays and Saturdays. Residence ’phone 456.

THE OLD TOWN’S TAKING ON A BIT OF COLOR.

Washington street is brightening up a bit under the touch of the painter’s brush. The Trust & Savings bank building is taking on a drab appearance; Gurney Jessen’s jewelry store has gone a flaming yellow.; the Central Garage the symbol" of purity with the addition of a coat of white paint, while William Traub is content to drift along with a bit o’ green as his offering.

[lndianapolis News.] Th’ Slaty Holler Debatin’ Club met last night an’ resolved that, you should begin all over after reachin’ th’ end o’ th’ line on a roastin’ ear an’ not attempt t* double back. There’s ever’thing in a nick-name.

FRIDAY Dorothy Gish “Peppy Polly” She was jnst itching to get into jail and wear stripes “and everything.” So she heaved a brick through the nearest jewelry store window and the “cops” obliged her by givistg her three years. That*i; where the fan starts, and her sweet-' heart comes in—in jail. There’s a story that will warm the cockles of your heart; pathos that will tickle your throat, and fun—! Why! You’ll chuckle for a week after yon see “Peppy Polly V* Current Events a*d 1-Reel Comedy

ABE MARTIN.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1919.

ARE THEY ALL ACCOUNTED FOR?

FRENCH BOY * WRITES LETTER TO SISTER TELLING OF TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. A government report recently released states that all but two of the American soldiers sent overseas to battle the Huns have been accounted for. Perhaps the elasticity used in making the survey accounts in a great measure for such an imposing record. However, one is reluctant to accept the report as absolutely correct upon reading the letter of a fifteen-year-old French boy, Charles Benoist by name, who has written his sister, Mrs. Samuel Duvall, of this city, telling of the terrible and amazing sights of utter disregard shown for the remains of soldiers killed in action on the battlefields of his country. The French lad’s letter, under date of August 20, and written at his home in Noyon, France, follows: My Dear Sister: I hope you received my last letter. The life here begins to get on my nerves, and I can’t find any wbrk. I had the idea of going into the electrical business, but I see there isn’t any work of that kind here. For the past three months we have been living like independent gentlemen, but without money, and that would like very much to come to America and be with you, but the folks don’t approve of my going now. Anyway, I wont’ give up hope. I send you here a few pictures of Noyon. Nearly every Sunday we, go to Vic-sur-Aisne to see our aunt, who lives in a nice little cottage given her by the government. Last Sunday we went 70 kilometers past Vic-sur-Aisne with our bicycles. We left at 5 o’clock in the morning and visited the front line from Chaunny to Soissons—Carlegont, Ribecourt, the farm Attache, etc. We went into a big stone quarry that had been used as a hospital. There we saw lots of French and American soldiers who had not even been buried. They had all of their clothes on and the beasts in the night came to eat them. It was awful to see and we left the place in a hurry 'because of the flies. We were afraid of getting the plague, but anyhow the scenery is still very beautiful about the great battlefields. Everything is as still as the day of the armistice. We found lots of interesting souvenirs and took home all kinds of trophies, German helmets, bayonets, rifles, etc. I found another nice German bayonet. I went further and saw a lot more dead soldiers. Beside them was a pile of khaki overcoats and inside one was the arm of a human being. * Here we are harvesting, but that won’t last very long as only a few fields are under cultivation. How many cows have yous We have all kinds of farming implements and many big tractors that belong to the government which they use to clear up flielfields. We are-now making cider and putting it in bottler. I hope you and the family are all in good health. Good-bye, my dear, sister. I hope to come and see you soon. ._ _ OHARLE S.

WAY ABOVE PAR.

When the assessor comes around, a man runs his car down to Helen Thensome’s. When I try to trade the same car in, he runs it up to Fair. Oaks. I’ve seen rich men buy poor cars just because it looked like they were getting more for their old one. If these “enthusiastic suffragettes” get their franchise —Oldsmobile stock will go almost to Roselawn. —Hugh Kirk.

GRAINS HIGHER WEDNESDAY.

Local grain dealers boosted prices today and were paying for oats 63c; for corn $1.40, and for rye $1.30.

DAIRY BUSINESS TO CONTINUE.

I wish to. announce that I have taken over the dairy business of my father, John Duvall, and will continue the service as heretofore. It is my desire to retain all of the old customers of the route and also to add many new ones. Prompt and efficient service assured. No change In prices.—Samuel Duvall.

JASPER COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.

The annual convention of the Jasper County Sunday School association will be held in Rensselaer on Tuesday, September 30. s , _ * A good program is promised with an efficient state worker. Make your arrangements now to attend this important convention. A I detailed program will appear later.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. September 23 85 46 September 24 s -$2 50 ' ' j 7.

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 23. Both houses of congress gave attention to the strike in the steel mills, and the senate instructed the committee on labor to begin an investigation at once into “causes and reasons” for the conflict. E. H. Gary, of the steel corporation, and Johp Fitzpatrick, of the steel workers, have been summoned to appear before the committee Tuesday. In the house Representative Cooper, of Ohio, uttered a warning: against the= danger of organized labor 'being misled by such a. “revolutionary agitator” as William -Z. Foster. President Gompers, of the A. F. of L„ before the senate interstate commerce committee,. denounced the anti-strike provision of the Cummins railroad 'bill, which he said .would “disband organized labor.”

Administration forces sustained a defeat today in the first vote on the peace treaty fight when the opposition in the senate, challenged by Senator Hitchcock, voted to defer action on the Fall amendments for one week. The vote was 43 to 40. ■Senator Johnson returned , today from his speaking tour and is planning to force action on his amendment to increase America’s representation in the league of nations assembly. Secretary Baker admitted before the house committee on military affairs that his views on the proper size of the army in the future were indefinite. He said an army much smaller than 500,000 might be sufficient, but that if there is no league of nations this nation would have to be “armed to the teeth.” John T. Pratt and Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, representing the national budget committee, urged an executive budget prepared by a bureau of experts "before the special house budget committee. . They favored the appointment of budget experts foT a period of years. Mexico was pictured as a 'bankrupt nation, the effect of years of terror and revolt, before the senate investigating committee by Thomas R. Lill, who, with Henry Bruere, made a study of Mexico’s financial condition at the request of Luis Cabrera, Carranza’s minister of finance. The funded debt of Mexico now approaches- 700,000,000 pesos, on which 175,000,000 pesos of interest is due. Mr. Lill said that Mexico could not assume the payment of this vast sum.

QUICK JUSTICE METED OUT TO CHILD SLAYER.

Thomas R. Fitzgerald must pay the pentlay on the gallows for the murder of little Janet Wilkinson. ■Chief Justice Robert E. Crowe, of the criminal court, so decreed yesterday when he sentenced him-to hang in the county jail October 17. Fitzgerald pleaded “guilty” when arraigned. Attorney John E. Northrup, appointed by the court to defend the confessed slayer, made a valiant fight for life .imprisonment, but his appeal fell on deaf ears. Assistant State’s Attorney James C. O’Brien both in his opening and closing address after dence insisted there was but one punishment that fitted the revolting crime, and that was death. A deep hush fell over the court room as be concluded. Judge Crowe instructed the bailiffs to take into custody any person making a demonstration when he prepared to pass sentence. The judge’s face was grimly set. “Thomas R, Fitzgerald, have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced?” he asked, looking keenly at the huddled form in the defendant’s chair. Fitzgerald faltered as he rose and walked toward the bench. He regained his stoicism, but his head hung on his chest. Finally he found words. -. r '7§;- v ■■■_ = 1 “I’m sorry,” he said in a voice scarcely above a whisper. “I ask forgiveness of the parents and throw myself upon the mercy of the court.” ... • . ' —r— —-

“Is there anything further you desire to say?” the court continued. Fitzgerald didn’t speak for fully a minute. The crowd of spectators craned their necks to take in every bit of the proceedings. Slowly, almost a drawl, he spoke falteringly: “I-I-J ask God to forgive me. I ask forgiveness of all those that have injured me and to forgive me for all I have injured. That’s all.” “It is the judgment of this court,” Judge Crowe then went on, “that you are guilty of murder as charged in the indictment on- your plea of guilty. “It is further the 1 judgment of the court that you shall he taken to the building commonly known as the county jail and there safely kept by the sheriff of Cook county until October 27, when you shall be taken therefrom and between the hoin-3 of sunrise and sunsit hanged by thp neck untQ dead. May the Lori have mercy on your soul.” Two faint sobs from opposite sides of the court room broke the silence that had been mtalntained by the spectators. One was from Mrs. Catherine Wilkinson, the distracted mother of the: slain child. Tlie other from Mts. Martha Fitzgerald, j wife in name only of the condemned man. I . • •- v ~. ' ' . I *’ H V4*|

SkUtel Another Big Shipment Came in This morning. $2.50 to $4

GOODRICH MAKES GOOD.

The total tax duplicate for the state of Indiana will be increased from $2,405,391,661 to $6,028,588,491, or 150 per cent, according to the preliminary compilations of the In other words, the duplicate this year is almost exactly two and onehalf times the duplicate of last year. In accordance with the provisions of the new tax law, the tax rate for the state as a whole cannot exceed two-fifths of the rate new prevailing. There will be some changes in the valuation of property and the two-fifths rate will not apply specifically in every local jurisdiction. The rate will be higher in some municipalities, especially where more revenue is necessary on account of loss of liquor license fees and other losses in revenue. Nevertheless, considering the state as a whole, the rate may not exceed twofifths of the rate last year except by special permission of the state board of tax commissioners. The preliminary compilations of the state board indicate an increase in the assessment of real estate and improvements from $1,500,892,290 in 1918 to $3,687,699,250 in 1919, or an increase of 145 per cent. Real estate and improvements, outside incorporated cities and towns, increased from $1,008,940,615 in 1918 to $2,323,114,380 in 1919, or 130 per cent. At the same tune real estate and improvements within incorporated cities and towns increased from $^91,951,675 in 1918 to $1,364,584,870 in 1919, or 177 per cent. These preliminary* figures show conclusively that there is a real estate and improvements within incorporated cities and towns than in the country. In the former, the increased assessment amounted to 177 per cent and in the latter, 130 per cent. * Assessments of real estate were made early in the present year. Since that date, there has been a tremendous increase in the values of all real estate and improvements both rural and city. It is probable that farm real estate has increased in value from $25 to $75 an acre since March 1. Similar increases have also been realized in the values of city real estate. Even though the state tax board has insisted upon the assessment of real estate and improvements at its full value, it is certain to go upon the fa* duplicate a considerably less than its value at. the present time and especially when taxes on the 1919

assessment are collected. The largest percentage increase m the valuation of property as shown in the preliminary figures of the state board applies to property assessed by the state board of tax commissioners directly. The state tax board assesses directly interurbans, railroads, sleeping car lines, telephone and telegraph companies, banks and trust companies and public utilities. In this group, the assessment was increased from t-4S, 422,777 in 1918 to $880,220,499 in 1919, or an increase of 192 per cent. The smallest increase in valuation is shown in the assessments of personal property, increased from $65 5,056,594 in 1918 to $1,360,668,792 in 1919, or 107 per cent. The state board of tax commissioners has already called attention to the fact that real estate and improvements which comprised 64.68 per cent of the total duplicate last year will comprise less than 60 per cent of the duplicate this year. These preliminary compilations support the statements made by Governor Goodrich in his campaign for nomination and election to the office of governor. It was the governor's theory then that a’ fmr assessment of all property would result in decreasing the burden uppn, real estate. If the pending constttu-

OLIVER LOSES; FARMS CO. WINS

JUDGE HANLEY DENIES APPLICATION FOR APPOINT. MENT OF RECEIVER. In the case in which the title and right of possession of the Ed Oliver lands was at issue, the circuit court has been engaged in an effort to unravel the tangle foT nearly a week. At the conclusion of the evidence on Tuesday the court rendered a decision in favor of the Jasper County Farms company, which now holds the title to the land comprising about 2,200 acres and including all the former holdings of Mr. Oliver. The case was originally instituted by A. R. Jones, of Chicago, who sought to enforce a contract made with Oliver in 1917, under which Jones undertook to finance the proposition and assume the management of the property. The Jones complaint asked that the deeds by which, Oliver parted with the legal title be set aside and that the land be made subject to his claim for services. Oliver filed a cross-complaint in which he made the Central Bond and Mortgage company, Eugene L. Garey and Jasper County Farms company parties arid asked that a receiver be. appointed to take charge of the real estate and personal property; f that the deeds to Garey and from Garey to the farms company he set aside on the ground of fraud and that a contract under which Garey assumed the management of the property be cancelled. It was charged that there ha# been gross waste and mismanagement of the lands and other property; that only a small portion of the land had been put in cultivation and that. crops were planted too late to mature; that muck fires had carelessly 'been permitted to burn over laTge tracts and that over $30,000 had been wasted in useless

experiments. On the question' as to the appointment of a receiver the court found for the farms company and denied the application. The main question as to setting aside the deeds and the determination of the Jones interests will be heard in November. Mr. Oliver claims that he was to have one-fourth of the stock in the Jasper County Farms company, which was to be capitalized at $200,000. But, he alleges, that after the organization of the company and the conveyance of the land to them $550,000 of stock was issued and he was given only $60,000 of same. The mortgages and other claims against the property amount to approximately $250,000, but with the recent advance in values- of farm lands and the improvement in the drainage system which will result from the completion of the Oliver ditch, the lands will probably sell for more than double the amount of the claims. Should the Ryan ditch toe constructed there are <five or siathundred acres on the east indc of unis land, the value of which can hardly be placed too high.

The Sew club will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. J. Wright.

tional amendment carries and the general assembly is permitted to classify property for taxation a great volume of intangible should be brought upon the duplicate and the burden upon real estate and all other property materially reduced.

AT THE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURE! - TONIOMT - Baby Marie Osborne Little Black Snowball "Milady of the Beanstalk” A rip-roaring comedy drama that ia-. sure to; meet your approval. A high-price production at the regular price of admission. Don’t fail to lee Milady today. .- ■ THURSDAY Triangle Feature and Comedy D*y with Miss Clare Anderson A High Class Society Drama "Crowned Jewels" Also two r—it ef\fall djlSt l ** FRIDAY NeH Shipman “A Gentleman’s Agreement" An err"«*»g drama of the highest ~ j|wlily ‘

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