Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — Page 1

No. 258.

Watch our window this week for— SMOKING STANDS - - ■- ! ti" 2L'. 1 , , T" • •■.T*!!" l '■ - —TT ...kM*.This week we are showing « complete new line of smoking stands in golden oak, fumed and mahogany finish. The tobacco and cigar containers on these stands are in blue ware and are very attract! ve. ' MATTING BOXES We have just received a shipment of matting boxes in four sizes. JARDINIERS We are also showing some brass jardiniers and umbrella stands. W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer Indiana

SUICIDE SQUAD IS PREPARING

FOR DASH UP GOLDEN STAIRS TO THE STRAINS OF THE HARP SUNDAY. Autumnal Reverie*. McGregor, Fareells and Barry, “Jersey” Huxton and Johnny Lowe Drifting- gQiosts of men i< >r y Blown out from long ago; McFarland, Gwin, Hopkins and Groom, Are they only built of dreams? As the new formed legions loom; Gee—how long ago it seems! Saylor, Wood worth, Dobbins, Wright, Yeoman, Ellis, Porter, Still their ancient glory flames Into autumnal glow; Hershman, Brenner, Beam, Stars of yet r<-n:emhere<i teams Once they hold the autumnal peaks— Gee—how long ago it seems! — Parks, Babcock, Eiglesbach, Loy, Whirling in against the foe; Each a phantom "Attaboy,” Blown from out of long ago. Kirk, Thompson, Hemphill and Crooks, Waiting where a far light gleams, As we take a backward look, Gee Tidw"TOTTg-ago it— seems. _o Simon Thompson’s suicide squad, composed of past star performers of high school elevens, are to place themselves- on the altar of sacrifice when they assort themselves over a chalk-lined field to stay the march of the Red and Purple of St. Jo- . iron Sunday afternoon in what will he the initial combat of the season to represent this city in football during the remainder of the fall. “The Tornadoes,” is the fear-in-spiring name that the home eleven has crowned themselves with; and if the name ev'er fails in its allotted duty, then it’s time to start playing the harp and open wide the doors leading up the golden stairs. Years of absence from the gridiron certainly have not added to the strength of those who are to offer themselves that the honor of the city may be saved and the owners of stocks of Sloan’s Ltd. will see a panic* on the market early Monday

PRINCESS'THEATRE MATINEE —2:15 NIGHT —7:00 S> - —TONIGHT—WM. S. HART —*n—“THE MONEY CORRAL” j watch- them —someone who could «hoot the They overpowered the new watch * dim e mid . air< The man, battered in the huge door and came> but “Big Bitt” didn’t thought the coa«t W*« clear. But need tbem —finished the job before when they tried to touch the money they got there. Come and see that found COMEDY “A VILLAGE VENUS”

MONDAY Priscilla Dean X IN—“A Silk Lined * Burglar” INTERNATIONAL CURRENT EVENTS TUESDAY Charles Ray • • FORD WEEKLY

The Evening Republican.

“Coaeir - Thompson is hauling out his wheelhorses, greasing them up "and hopesto have—them—Lb— gucte shape that they will not step on their own beards as they start on their funeral march down the Walter Camp designed meadow. Many mourners have signified their intention of attending the last sad rites, and to just what/ extent' the great fall pastime has come back will be told by the . following the home pets have on the Sabbath afternoon. Opposed to the home club will be the wrecking crew of St. Joseph, hardened, sturdy young warriors, conditioned to the minute and well able to stand the gaff throughout a warm October afternoon. ’Tis sad to think of, matey. Perhaps the old fighting spirit of years gone by will save the Red and Black, and since Cincinnati won a pennant, showing that the age of miracles has not passed, it might.be that they will be returned a winner when the gasping referee toots his whistle for the cessation of play—but it is too much to think of. Suits of assorted colors will lend a rainbow effect to the men of Thompson’s squad, and when the wind quits blowing and the umpire blows his trumpet for the start of the game they will be scattered about something like this: Miller, left end. Thompson, left tackle. Littlefield, left guard. Beam, center. Hickman, right guard. Babcock, right tackle. Collins, right end. —Eiglesbach, quarterback- — ===;== York, left halfback. afc 77 *****^^ - ♦Clinton Colvert, general utility man extraordinary. ♦[Editor’s note] .* This man will be ■held" in reserve and used only in case of any extreme emergency.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. October 24 65 52 October 25 -15 62

WEDNESDAY Tom Moore aWeek” Bill Parsons Comedy “The Pink Pajamas” THURSDAY Kitty Gordon “Adele”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCT. 25, 1919.

INDIANA AS SEEN BY GREELEY, 1853

STORY OF FAMOUS VISIT TO HOOSIER STATE RESURRECTED. An article in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star concerning Horace Greeley tells of the condition of the country in this community during his time and will be of interest to Jasper county people. Horace Greeley came to Indiana in October, 1853, to deliver a lecture at the state fair, the second fair of the kind held under the auspices of the state board of agriculture, the first having been held in Indianapolis in 1852. Mr.. Grpeley at this time was 42 years old and widely known, and twelve years before had founded the New York Tribune. The talk at the state fair over, Mr. Greeley returned to Indianapolis, through which city he had passed enroute to Lafayette and there lectured. Of his adventures on leaving Indianapolis to go to LaPorte, where he was also called to lecture, he has left an interesting account in a letter written from South Bend on October 18, 1853, as follows-:

—“1 left New York bn Monday morning of last week, reached Lafayette via Erie railroad," Buffalo City, .the steamboat ‘Queen of the West’ to Cleveland, and the railroad thence to Galion, Bellefontaine, and Indianapolis, at noon Wednesday. Having given the residue -of that day and all the next to the state agricultural fair and fulfilled the engagements that drew me to Indiana, I returned to Indianapolis on" Friday morning, spoke there in the evening and started back via Lafayette on Saturday morning, to fulfill a promise to speak on the evening of that day at LaPorte, where I should reach the Northern Indiana and South Michigan road, and set my face homeward. How we were delayed on our way back to Lafayette, and how, on reaching that smart"young village, I was misled, by the kind guidance of a zealous friend, into waiting for the northern cars at a place half a mile distant from wheije they then actually were; how I at last broke over all assurances that they always started from this point, and must come here before leaving, and made (for their out-of-the-way station just in time to be too late—it were a fruitless vexation to recall. “Suffice it that at noon I stood on the platform where I might and should have been twenty minutes before, just in time to see the line of smoke hovering over the rapidly receding train. to realize that any seasonable fulfillment of my promise to LaPorte was now impossible and to learn that the next regular train would leave on Monday, and take me to LaPorte just two days after I should have been there. I wandered back to the village, in no enviable mood, to telegraph my mishap to LaPorte, and had the privilege of cooling my heels for an hour and a quarter on the steps of the while the ; operators " Were leisurely discussing and digesting their dinner. They came at last, just too late to enable me to stop the sending of a carriage eleven miles from LaPorte to meet me at Westville; and I retraced my steps to the out-of-town depot, to see what chance remained or might turn up. “As quite a number had been deceived and, left as I was, owing to the recent change in railroad arrangements, the agent said he would send out an extra train that afternoon if he could procure an engine; but none came in that could be spared, and at 4 o’clock our extra train was adjourned to next morn- : , the telegraph office to appra iso La Porte that I would speak there for temperance the next (Sunday) evening, and then walked over-to the Bramble House and laid in a stock of sleep for future contingencies. “I was at the depot in ample season next morning; but the train that was to start at 10 did not actually leave till noon, and then with a body entirely disproportioned to its head. Five cars closely packed with live hogs, five ditto with wheat, two ditto with lumber, three or four with livestock—returning from the fair, and two or three cattle cars containing passengers, formed entirely too heavy a load for our asthmatie —engine, which—had obviously seen its best days in the service of other roads, before that from New Albany to Michigan City was constructed. Still, we went ahead, crossed the Wabash, passed the Tippecanoe battle ground; ran our engine partly off the track and got it back again; and by 3 had reached Brookston, a station fourteenmiles from Lafayette-with a fair prospect of traversing our whole ninety-odd miles by the dawn of Monday morning. “But here we came to a long halt. The engine was in want of both wood and water and neither was accessible. So our engine was detached and ran ahead some five miles for water and still farther for wood, and a weary two hours were tediously whiled away before, its "It came at last, hitched op and - ——*

MANLINESS OF SOLDIERS APPEALS TO CITIZENS.

Many expressions of praise have been heard of the manner in which the members of the hospital trSop train, which is here for a few days’ visit, have conducted themselves during their stay in our city. They have conducted themselves in such a quiet, gentlemanly manner that one is almost unaware of their presence. They have been polite and unobtrusive and visitors to their camp have been treated with the ut-. most respect and consideration, and* they are a credit to the country whose uniform thfy are wearing. Their eamp is a model of cleanliness and it will be with much regret on the part of our citizens that they take their leave Monday morning.

FORMER SAILOR IS MARRIED AT MONTICELLO.

Jack Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Miller, of this, city, was married this (Saturday) afternoon at Monticello to Miss Blanche Miller, of Monon. Jack served in the United States navy during the war. He is jonly nineteen years of age and his father accompanied him to the White county capital, to assist in procuring the necessary license.

started us, but before it had moved us another half mile the discharge -cock—of the boiler—blew out, letting off all our wateF an~d~steaiß' and rendering us hopelessly immovable for -hours to come. _ “We got out to takean .observation. The village of Brookston consists of three" hQUsefL_and nobarnF with a welL.(almost dry) for the use of the railroad; but neither of the houses is a tavern, nor more than one story high; and their aggregate of accommodation fell far short of the needs of the hungry crowd so unexpectedly thrown upon their hospitality. Two or three more houses of like or inferior caliber were gleaming in the rays of the setting ■un at various distances on the prairies ; but these were already surfeited with railroad hands as boarders, not to speak of sick women and children in nearly every one; for disease has been very rife this season on these prairies. Still, a friend found an old acquaintance in one of the nearest residents, whose sick wife spread a generous table forthwith for as many of us as could sit around it; and, having supped, we turned out on the prairie to make room for a family party, including two women, one of them quite sick. Our conductor had started a handcar back to Lafayette in quest of the only engine there —a weak old one needing some repairs before it could be used. It was calculated that this engine would be up about 11 o’clock and would then drag us back to Lafayette to spend the remainder of the night, and take a fair start in the morning. This, I, for one, had resolved not to submit to, though the only altefhative was a camp fire on the prairie. “But now a bright thought struck the engineer, for which I think he was indebted to my good angel. He “recollected that a good engine was stationed at a point named Culverton, forty-three miles ahead, andhe decided to take a hand car and make for this, .so-Wat "OTf bow" should have two strings to it. The handcar was dragged over the rough prairie around our long train and launched—l following with my carpet bags, on the lookout for chances. In a trice it was duly manned; I had coaxed my way to a seat upon it, and we were off. “The full moon rose bright over the eastern woods, as, with the north star straight ahead, we bade adieu to the embryo city of Brookston.” The rest of his letter tells of their adventures on the handcar. Their course lay across the east end of Grand Prairie. The ground traversed was nearly level, often marshy and for the most part clear of wood. He finally reached Culverton, -ana f rbin Were wiW the use of handcar finally reached Westville and from there journeyed to LaPorte,, where he delivered his lecture.

THE UNIVERSAI Business: Usual During Alterations gTo enter our service station and shop please use Washing ton street entrance. CENTRAL GARAGE CO. Phone Three-One-Nine.

’ T .'.'7“ mmfc THERE is real satisfaction in buying cravats that you know will please Zier. The appropiateness and' true worth of. Hillard Sf' Hamill Cravats find hearty approval- " with the woman who knows good cravats. ~ We have a supply re"ptete with attractive

MOTOR CONVOY TO DEPART MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH.

The officers and enlisted men of the motor recruiting convoy are unanimous in their praise for this city and wish at this time to thank the public for the most cordial treatment received and the interest displayed during their short visit, particularly the various organizations and officials of the city whose assistance was much appreciated by the personnel of the train. The kitchen, mess, quarters, as well as the exhibit tents, have been visited by hundreds of people eager to view the field life of the soldier at close range, and many expressions of surprise have been made regarding the completeness as well as the compactness of the motor train. Visitors with chronic enlargement of the heart, old fractures and deformities of bones of the body, gun shot wounds with foreign bodies in scar tissue, have had the opportunity of viewing then) under the flourescopic. The friends and relatives of old /service men have inspected the hospital ward with more than passing interest'. Here’theyhavehcttially seen the beds, splints, dressings and appliances for treatment of fractures and gun shot wounds as they have been used .in the army hospitals, and have learned through talks by Lieut. R. C. Wolfe, the convoy surgeon, the methods used in treating particular cases. This is the first medical convoy ever. sent overland on recruiting duty and brings the public in close contact with the actual workings of the medical department. The train will leave Monday, October 27th, for Watseka, 111.

BIG TEN [?] TODAY.

Northwestern vs. Chicago. Wiscbnstn vs. "Illinois. - lowa vs. Minnesota. —. — Ohio vs. Michigan. ‘

STAR THEATRE TONIGHT! ARTHUR ASHLEY —IN—“THE PRAISE AGENT” MONDAY VIOLA DANA THE PETER PAN OF THE SCREEN . “FALSE EVIDENCE” - TUESDAY MARGUERITE CLARK —“—-i n——— “WILDFLOWER” ALSO A POPULAR SONG REVUE of Latest Popular Songs SPECIAL MUSIC SaxapKone, Piano, Drum E. B. ALLEN, Manager. ■

PEACE EFFORTS FAIL; MINES CLOSE NOV. 1.

Washington, Oct 24.—The last government effort to avert the coal I strike--set- for NdVeirfber 1, failed utterly tonight, and half a million ; miners will quit work on the very I eve of winter, with the nation’s bins running dangerously low. , Even an appeal from President Wilson, sick in bed at the white house was not enough to bring peace to a conference that was torn and on the breaking point half a—dozen times during the day. Charge* and counter-charges flew thick and fast as the group of operators and miners filed out of the meeting, which began somewhat hopefully four days ago. While the operators announced that they had accepted the president’s offer to wipe the slate clean and negotiate a new wage agreement, the miners charged that the operators had -bolted without' the consent of Secretary of Labor Wilson, the storm center of an* extraordinary fight to save the country untold distress and suffering. Surrounded by a score of miners, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, hurried out of the hall and halted long enough to announce that the strike order stood and that the miners would walk out after a full day’s work on the closing day of the present month. The final breaking up of the conference, Lewis said, meant that official notice of the failure would be sent forthwith to the unions everywhere to order the men out of the mines at the appointed hour. The president’s appeal was made through Secretary Wilson after the latter had exhausted everypos*ible effort and had pleaded until his throat ached. It pointed out what a strike meant and urged the two sides to get together, negotiate their differences, resorting to arbitration only in the event that negotiations failed. The important point in the proposal, however, was that the mines be kept open and that the miners remain at work. The miners and operators had left the conference room and . Secretary Wilson, the tears springing to his eyes, was gathering up his papers, when he announced that his efforts and the president’s efforts had fallen down and that the conference had adjourned for good. He briefly explained the status, but refused to be drawn into charges of bad faith.

JUSTICE IRWIN MARRIES DISCHARGED SOLDIER.

The clerk of tlje circuit court issued a marriage license on Thursday, October 23, to Albert Franklin Kerns, born in Wheatfield January 22, 1892, occupation fanner, present residence Gifford, and Hattie Lelah Graham, bom in Jasper county June 19, 1902, present residence Kniman, occupation, housekeeper. First marriage for both parties. The groom was a soldier in the great war. The wedding ceremony was performed by Justice Schuyler XL Irwin. .

ABE MARTIN.

[lndianapolis News.] Where ther’s so much coal ther’s allusaiittlefire——water. Rev. by C hristinas. - - „ .

WATCHES GO BACK SUNDAY MORNING. Turn back your watches and clocks one hour next Sunday (tomorrow) morning, October 26, at 2 a. m., if you are up at that hour. The railroad administration issued this request to the public Friday. Regular train schedules will be held to conform with the change of time beginning Sunday. No, dearie, when a man tries to kiss you it is not always “just to see if he can;” it may sometimes be just tQ see if he wantfetfir— - You may not believe it, but tL* woman who is “inclined to embonpoint” Weighs just as much as the woman who is simplyfat.

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