Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1919 — Page 1

No. 234.

BED ROOM FURNITURE • - - ----- '• - . - - • •. ■-■■■.. f We have just received another shipment of bed room furniture in Walnut and Mahogany. These bed-room suites come in three pieces, bed, dresser and dressing table and chiffonier. W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer Indiana

MAY REVISE INDIANA SCHOOL BOOK LAW.

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 26.—A legislative committee to revise the jaws relative to the distribution of books and present a bill at the special session of the legislature proposed for this fall, will be appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction. This was decided at a special meeting of the state board of education today after reports had been reviewed from county superintendents showing a general shortage of texts. . - -i-- —- a W. B. Conkey, president of a Hammond publishing company, <me of the publishers called before the board, declared that 90 per cent of the school books, most of which are printed at his establishment, had been delivered and he promised early delivery op the remainder. Labor troubles were blamed for the delay. The board decided not to cancel existing book contracts.

300 MILES OF NEW STATE ROADS PLANNED.

Indianapolis, Sept. 26.—Plans and specifications for approximately 300 miles of additional state roads are being prepared by officials of the division of construction of the state highway commission. While no definite date has been set .for letting the contracts for the construction of the sections of roadway, it is expected that this action •will be taken between January 1 and March 1, 1920. The highways constitute the construction program of the commission for next year. Three surveying parties are now in the field completing surveys for mileage not already surveyed.

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 ti> add many new Ones. Prompt and efficient service assured. No change in prices.—Samuel Duvall.

Try a can of our fancy early June peas. Nice, sweet and tender 15c a can. Two large cans of pork and beans in tomato sauce for 25c. Red beans, 10c a can. Try them and you will buy more.—Eger s Grocery.

PRINCESS THEATRE M.ti.,-2.18. Ni,ht-7:15. T —TONIGHT—SATURDAY" Jack Pickford “Bill Apperson’s Boy"

Dot into the world Be went, turning his back on his home and father, because he could not hoar- to soo Ids dead mother’s place taken. by another woman. Away from the home nest he faced the world of stern facts—suffered from hatred

MONDAY Priscilla Dean Kill” L U TUESDAY Shirley Mason

The Evening Republican.

MRS. M’RAE, DEAN OF WOMEN AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY, DIES.

Mrs. Emma Mont Mcßae, for many years professor of' English literature and dean of women at Purdue university, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. Hardy Mitchell* of Newton, Mass., at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. She was one of the best known and best loved women in Indiana, she having been for more than fifty years a teacher, prominent club woman and public lecturer. Mrs. Mcßae’s first visit to Delphi was in May, 1899, when she talked before the graduating class of the Delphi high school. She often lectured here in later years. The funeral services were held Tuesday in Muncie from the home of Miss Elizabeth Willard, a girlhood friend of Mrs. Mcßae. The services were very simple in accordance with her desire. President Stone paid her a beautiful tribute at the services, speaking of her life, work and influence during the years she was connected with the university. Interment was made in the Muncie cemetery beside her husband, Hamilton S. Mcßae. President W. E. Stone and Dean Carolyn Shoemaker were among the Purdue representatives at the funeral.—Delphi Citizen-Times. —Mrs. Mcßae was well and favorably known to the teachers of Jasper county. She was an instructor at several of the county teachers’ institutes of this county.

SINCE WHEN DID ART BECOME A BANKER?

guished guests at the ReynoldsDonegan performance given iortnQ banking kings of Indiana at Keith s theatre last Wednesday evening appears that of C. Arthur Tuteur, Rensselaer, Ind.

Mrs. C. Ramey and son, Theodore, went to Chicago on the early morning train.

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. READ THE INSIDE PAGES.

and envy, fought them with young enthusiasm and cam# at las* to manhood's realisation of Uf®. Smiling Bill Parsons Comedy “Bill’s Fortune”

WEDNESDAY Tom Moore “Just for Tonight” j ~ THURSDAY ! Constance Talmadge “Happiness a la Mode”

■BMMBI AEI, INDIANA, SATURDAY* SEPT. 27, 1919.

“I’M AS PURE AS A LILY,” SAYS JOHN; TO FIGHT CHARGE.

1 John Burris, arrested in Danville, 111., Thursday, was piloted to town Friday evening by Sheriff True' D. Woodworth and lodged in jail to await a preliminary hearing on the charge of having committed a criminal assault on the person of Edith Smith about two weeks ago. | Burris did not fight extradition 1 and was ready to start back to when Sheriff Woodworth ! arrived in Danville. Bums asserts jthat the charge filed against him is | ridiculous and that he is as innocent as a new-born babe. I “Why,” quoth John, “you can see I was not trying to run away, for | wasn’t I moving my household goods ito Danville to make that city my ’permanent residence? Had a good 1 position over there and that was my | only motive in leaving Rensselaer. ’I am ready to face my accusers and have it. over with* I haven’t the slightest fear of the outcome,” he added. . It is probable that the preliminary hearing will be held some time today and the prisonerr given a chance to provide bail.

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL.

New York, Sept. 25.—William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, announced today that a two-reel moving picture, entitled “Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt’s Friends,” has been produced by that organization and is ready to be shown in theatres throughout the country. This film has been made under the direction of Hermann Hagedorn, a member of the executive* committeg. It is the belief of the officers of the Roosevelt Memorial association that this moving picture feature will be a valuable adjunct of the campaign which is to be conducted by that organization in~the week of October 20-27 for the purpdse of obtaining members. . . „ For a considerable time following Colonel Roosevelt’s death, Mr. Hagedorn was in North Dakota going over the country where the former president lived as a ranchman. Mr. Hagedorn also visited the colonel’s favorite hunting ground in Montana and Wyoming. ' Using letters of introduction which Colonel Roosevelt gave him a year before his death, Mr. Hagedorn had the opportunity of meeting all of Mr. Roosevelt’s, associates who still suryi ve> These friends and neighbors of Theodore Roosevelt in his ranching days appear in the picture. Joe Ferris, who took Roosevelt on his first hunt for buffalo, appears. So does his brother, Sylvane Ferns, who became Roosevelt’s ranch partner and companion of many hunts. Mrs. Margaret Roberts, whom Roosevelt called “the most wonderful woman in the bad lands,” is in the picture, as well as the Eaton brothers, who kept a “dude ranch’ near one of Roosevelt’s properties, and Jack Reuter, known as ’’Dutch Wan-

nigan,” who was the indirect cause of a French Marquis challenging Roosevelt to a duel. The duel was never fought; incidentally, because Roosevelt, having weapons, called for Winchester at twelve paces. The Marquis hastened to explain that he had never meant to challenge Roosevelt at all. As a background to these picturesque figures, the film shows the “bad lands” along the Little Missouri river, where Mr. Roosevelt s ranches were situated, the Chimney Butte” and the “Elkhorn,” and the seenec of the round-up, the trail and the hunt. There are views of Medora, “the toughest little town between the Canadian border and the Gulf of Mexico,” where Roosevelt made his quarters, as well as of the Kootenai mountains along ihe north fork of the Flathead river in northwestern Montana and the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming. The picture reveals, as no printed word could, the life which Theodore Roosevelt led in the years he spent in the west. “Whatever happens to me,” he said, when he returned to Medora as a candidate for the vicepresidency, “I thank God that I lave toiled and lived with men! This film shows how he lived and how he toiled. -

HARDER TO START IN THE MORNINGS.

Sleep may be an illusion, butigetting up in the morning is no joke. It may be old age or just the season of the year—but it’s a fact, it s getting harder to get started. A few people have mentioned thaTtheiriars are acting that way. If you are lucky enough to be driving one of our cars, drop around and let our service man make a few eold weather adjustments. Oldsmobile “personality” makes friends everywhere; Oldsmohile “service gives you that money-in-the-bank feeling.—Hugh Kirk.

"KATCHA-KOO.”

The& costumes for “Katcha-Koo,” i the Oriental-American f antastique which is to he given at the Gayety j next Thursday and Fridajr, are very effective. The four wives of the Maharaja of Hunga will wear creations that will cause the feminine contingent in the audience to gasp with envy and admiration.

QUALIFIES FOR OLIVE BRANCH AS THE KING OF CRANKS.

Crawfordsville, Sept. 26.—Just to see that the thing is properly done, and to watch up the ministerial comment personally, James H. Houser, an aged farmer living west of this city, is going to hold his own funeral, while he can still attend it other than as the “mortal remains.” Mr. Houser has set Saturday afternoon as the date for the event, and has picked Union Center church near his home, as the place. He has exercised the further Unusual privilege of selecting his own minister and seeing that no one switches on him, and has personally fixed up all the other little details of making the service a success. * Plans were made by Houser for the funeral some time ago, and he has only recently chosen the date. He has expressed the wish that no funeral services be held at the time of his death. _____—_____—___

WILSON’S WORK IN PARIS MADE MANY ENEMIES.

Washington, Sept. 26.—When President Wilson ended his work at the Paris peace conference, “the United States had not a friend in Europe, Asia or Africa, and our brilliant service in the war was almost forgotten in the storm of protests which followed him as he sailed for home}" Senator Cummins, republican, lowa, declared today in an address in the senate attacking the league of nations covenant. “The only thing the president brought with him which was joyfully received in America by multitudes of good people,” Senator Cummins said, “was a covenant for a league of nations and this only because these people believed, many of them without inquiry, that the league would bring peace to a warweary world and would maintain it in all the years to come. Gradually they are beginning to see the tremendous burdens we are asked to assume and gradually they are understanding that there are some provisions in the covenant which must inevitably provoke war.” Senator Cummins contended that when the war was ended “our exit should have been as speedy and complete as possible.”

NEW REASON FOR STRIKE.

In his testimony yesterday before the senate committee, Mr. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the strikers’ committee, said that President Wilson had tried to get for the union committee a conference with Judge Gary, but had failed. When asked by Senator Kenyon whether the president had told him so “in so many words,” Fitzpatrick said: “We saw him, and he convinced us that he had tried, and that his efforts had been fruitless.” This is merely preliminary to the following statement:

—“We feel that thia strike is necessary to sustain the authority of the President of the United States. He asked for a conference, and the head of the company which was maintaining Jin armed force in the United StatA, refused. So the men in the mills saw it was necessary to the president’s prestige,” That* ®f comae, puts an entirely new face on the situation. It nadhitherto been supposed that the only reason for the strike was Gary’s refusal to confer with Fitzpatrick, Foster and others. Now it appears that the men struck because of the insult to the president involved in Gary’s refusal. Yet Foster does not believe that there ought to be any president or government, any law or morals as we now understand them. “Prestige” would do Mr. Wilson precious little good if he were chased out of the white house by a mob bent on seizing «■ the amassed wealth” that it contained. Nor should it be forgotten, that Fitzpatrick declined to comply with the request of the president that the strike be postponed until after the conference of October 6. Surely here was a blow at the president s “prestige.” We doubt whether Mr. Wilson will appreciate the efforts of these men to “sustain” his ‘ authority.” Mr. Fitzpatrick showed an almost total ignorance of conditions in the steel industry. He confessed that he was not familiar with the scale of wages, did not know the rates of pay or the wages received T6y the various classes of workmen, had never been in the mills. He objected to the twelvehour day, though he admitted that a few of the skilled men*tfV£rk eight hours. Some of these, he confessed, may get *2O, S4O or even S6O a day, though he thought that this was “a mere pittance” considering “the way they have to earn it.” We guess it is nearer the truth to say that the strike is to “sustain the president’s prestige” than to say that ft is for the redress of grievances. —Jndianapolis News. -

HERE’S ONE MAN STRIKE.

H. B. Tuteur is preparing to go on a strike. At the present time the dandy little dry cleaner is acting aB president, conductor of the mechanical department, footman, and stenographer of the Rensselaer Dry [ Cleaning Works. During his spare moments he acts as engineer for the washing machine in the dry cleaning (department and in appeasing the anger of customers whose work hap ; been delayed. H. B. wantß shorter boors and more help.

r- •' " • • •'ft Stiff Hats saS|R£ popular in Chinj cago and we are going to make them popular in Rensselaer. THAT’S the reason we’re talking about them in this ad. ’ — - $3.50 up

CHARGES FILED AGAINST JASPER COUNTY OFFICIAL.

Charges aggregating $12,000 were submitted to Governor Goodrich yesterday by Jesse E. Escbbach, state examiner of the board of accounts, for collection by the attorney general's department from thirty-three public officials, former officials and contractors. Seventeen counties are involved in the charges, which in several instances are for amounts ranging from SI,OOO to $2,250. Among the officials involved are Clifford Fairchild, township trustee, Jasper county, $65.31,' alleged excess expenditures; Egbert S. Hess, sheriff, Newton county, 1916, sl7, alleged held illegally; Nelson V. Zeller, sheriff, Pulaski county, 1917 and 1918, $527, alleged fees held illegally; C. -Barnett,-M. L. Kistler and J. M. Nye, former officials of Winamac, charged for amounts paid out as premiums on surety bonds and said to have been paid out of the town's revenue.

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 26. Wholesale dischages and resignations from the navy and slackness of recruiting have seriously disorganized and reduced effectiveness of the nation’s sea defense. Inadequacy of navy pay has driven thousands of- enlisted men back to civil life, and officers are clamoring to get out. Both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets are undermanned and neither could fight a "battle as they stand equipped today. President Wilson is urging congress to give him authority to send troops to Armenia to maintain peace there, being convinced that it is-of “immediate humane necessity” for the United States to send troops there to prevent extermination of the Armenian race. Tomorrow the senate foreign relations committee will begin consideration of Senator Williams’ resolution authorizing the president to use troops for this purpose, and also to consider America’s policy relative to accepting a mandate for Armenia. In a letter to former Governor Stubbs of Kansas, Attorney General Palmer said that complaints of livestock men had served to confirm his judgment that the “big five” packers were combined in a restraint of trade. If permitted to continue, he declared, the packers would obtain such a grip on production and distribution as to cause serious losses to all the people. ; '

Senator Johnson, in a forensic clash with Senator John Sharp Williams, who suggested that the Californian was going home to “mend his political fences,” declared he was going not only to California but to every state he possibly could ‘to preach the gospel of Americanism. The Californian said it would be a good thing for the senate- to adjourn for a while and get out to the country to learn what the people think about the league of nations.

The following city teachers went to their homes Friday: Jowphine, Odell to Delphi, Geraldine Wallace and Okal Heivie to l4>gansport and Anna Young to Chalmers.

TUBERCULOSIS ORGANIZATION SOLIDIFIED AT lOWA MEETING.

There were 605 registered delegates at the Mississippi Valley conference on tuberculosis held at Des Moines, la., September 22-24. These delegates weTe gathered from twelve states and represented many vocations. Gov. W. L. Harding made the address _ ,of - welcome and expressed a deep interest in the fight waged against this deadly foe of humanity. He said he had just returned from an automobile trip of several days ~ through lowa visiting schools and he believed that the time had come when no governor could be a success in his job and stay in his office. The morale of the volunteers in this anti-tubercu-losis army runs high. They recognize the fact that the fight is a long and hard one for general ignorance an dcorporal filth die hard and until human values are held as high as property values the necessary equipment cannot be secured. There is a confidence and a determination to go over the top and win, put the bayonet through ignorance superstition and indifference and bring about the time when if a man goes to a doctor’s office sick the rest of the family will be ordered in to learn what is wrong in the home.

JASPER COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.

Following is the program for the Jasper county Sunday school convention to be held at the Presbyterian church in Rensselaer Tuesday, September 30, 1919: MORNING. 10:00—Song. Prayer Rev. Fleming 10:15—President's annual address Mrs. J. N. Leatherman 11:10—Children’s division Miss Myrtle Huckleberry 10:30—“Hitting the Mark” - Uy tfffl 11:50-—Appointment of committees. AFTERNOON. I:3o—Song. Prayer Rev. Rbind I:4o—Reports. 2:oo—“Stopping the Leak"---- - - Mr. Hill 2:4s—Children’s division Miss Myrtle Huckleberry 3:3o—Reports of committees. Election of officers. 3:4 6—Children’s division Miss Myrtle Huckleberry” conference and social gathering. EVENING. 7:3o—Song. Prayer Rev. Bartbre Vocal solo 7:4s —Children’s division Miss Myrtle Huckleberry Mrs. E. J. Randle B:l6—“Challenge of Adolescence” Mr. Hill

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair tonight; cooler northwest portion. Sunday fair and cooler.

ABE MARTIN.

[lndianapolis News.] Th’ trouble with -bein’ thrifty is that when you do have t’ spend a dollar it nearly kills you. Tell Binkley says he wishes he’d learned a trade so he could affud t’ lay off when he felt like it.

TEMPERATURE; The following is the temperature for.,the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. September 26 72 36 September 27 62 45

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - -TONIGHTWorld Special _ „ “Dust of Desire” Featuring Ruby De Remere And an All-Star Cast Pearl White “The Lightning , Raider" Full Action in Thi« Episode—Don’t Mi— it! “““ MONDAY Hale Hamiito^ The Breezy Comedy Drama “That’s Good” An Exceptional Offering TUESDAY Pauline Frederic ” “Zaza" Highly Sensational : • WEDNESDAY J. Warren Karrigan “Three-X Gordon”^

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