Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — Page 1

No. 265.

Mattresses Now is the time of year to buy bedding. The cold weather is coming and you will need a new mattress. r ,J ' -• J. Our mattress stock was all purchased last spring and we are still holding those prices. All cotton goods are advancing and it cannot be many weeks until we will have to advance our prices. T ere isn't anything you buy and use around the house that gives you any more for your money than a mattress. Yon spend a third of your time in bed and a good felt mattress will last for years. We also have pads for cots and sanitory cots, children's beds and ftr folding davenports. REMEMBER THE HOME COMING, TUESDAY, NOV. 11 W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer Indiana a—’ ' •

MONDAY COURT HOUSE NOTES.

This is the last week of the pres-. ent term of the Newton county circuit court at Kentland. ( The Jasper circuit court will open > for the next term on Monday, November 10. The county CQmmissioners and j township trustees were in session I today. New suits filed: No. 9120. J. T. Hameton, adm. of John C. Baker estate, vs. George Hugh Baker et> al; petition to sell real estate. No. 9121. Mabel V. Garvin vs. Frank A. Garvin; action for separate maintenance. — —-• ■No. 9122. Joseph Hallagan vs. C., I. & L. Railroad company; action for damages. The complaint alleges that on Nov. 15, 1917, plaintiff had gone to the station of said road in Rensselaer to take the early morning train at 4:30 o’clock for Hammond; that the platform was not properly lighted and a heavy baggage truck had been left on said platform and plaintiff stumbled over same, caught his foot under handle or tongue of said truck and was violently thrown upon brick platform; that the tendons and ligaments of plaintiff’s left ankle and instep were sprained and torn loose and one small bone of ankle fractured; that plaintiff was compelled to seer .e the services of a physician and surgeon to care for and treat said ankle and that he lost the entire use of same for 6 nionths; that the ankle is still weak and he frequently suffers pain as a result; that he expended SIOO in doctor bills, etc. j Damages in the amount of $5,000 are asked. . . /- f< ■

WILL OPEN MITE BOXES.

The Woman’s Home Missionary society of the M. E. church will meet Tuesday, November 4th, in the church parlor at 7:30 o’clock. This will be a meeting of unusual importance. .It is the annual mite box opening. The families of the members and all holding mite boxes jare invited. A splendid program has been prepared. Refreshments will be served.

WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Qasooelli' ’leather,. thefi6 is some probability of occasional rains during the second half of the week; nearly normal temperature. -- --

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—2s 15 NIGHT—7:OO ' —TONIGHT— Harry Carey "A Fight for Life” International Current Evant* Folk*, here’* a treat! A peach lightful out-door romapce that will of a picture! Whimsical, human, grip you with thrill* and fill you reclcle**, loveable, punchul Harry with chuckle*. It* < name i* "A Carey, greateat of all weatern char- Fight for Love,” and it’* juat aplenacter portrayer*, in a perfectly de- did.

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MANY FARMERS TO ATTEND MEETING.

Indianapolis, Ind., November 3. Chief interest among farmers for the coming week centers in the fall meeting of the board of directors and officers of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations to be held in this city on Tuesday. Problems of organization, proposed constitutional changes, and many other matters to be brought before the state convention of the federation, to be held in Indianapolis on November 18 and 19, are among the things to be discussed at the board meeting.

representatives irom tne ten districts of the federation who will attend this important session are: J. A. Warren, Kouts; H. M. Widney, St. Joe; C. W. Hickman, Lafayette; H. T. Walker, Montpelier; Oscar W. Larm, Oxford; F. P. Mullens, Alexandria; V. D. Sexson, Switz City; L. M. Volger, Hope; J. J. Brown, Rockport, and J. G. Klein, North Vernon, all district directors; John G. Brown, Monon, president; W. H. Hickman, Montpelier, vice-president; E. E. Reynolds, Lafayette, second vice-president; Lewis Taylor, Indianapolis, general secretary; C. E. Chester, Hobart, treasurer, and William Bosson, Indianapolis, special treasurer of the guaranty fund. Developments of the past week as shown at a number of the county meetings leads to the general prediction that at the coming state convention of the farmers a resolution will be passed favoring a ten-hour working day as opposed to the .six and dirht-hour working basis. rUffieers of the state organization maintain that the agriculturists are selling their products on a ten, twelve and fourteen-hour basis and buying things they need on an basis. Reports which have reached the headquarters of the farmers in this city are to the effect that aside from the official delegates fropi the sev-enty-five organized counties many of ithe members of the county associations expect to send large delegations to the state convention. It has been announced that all of the sessions will be open tfo the farmers of the state, regardless of their affiliation with the parent body. ■ 1 ““Capitarand labor arebne!” shouts an economist. But he fails to designate which one.—Savannah News.

THURSDAY Earle Williams —in—- " Highest Triumph” FRIDAY f Fred Stone . / —in—- " Johnny Get Your Gun”

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, NOV. 3, 1919.

RECEIVES MILITARY MEDAL.

A military medal was received Saturday, Nov. 1, by Louis H. Hamilton for his son, Fred H. Hamilton, from the Canadian government. The following letter accompanied the medal: MILITARY AND DEFENCE Ottawa, Oct.-24, 1919. From'the Deputy Minister, Military and Defence. ’— To Fred H. Hamilton, Esq., Rensselaer, Ind,, U. S. A. MILITARY MEDAL Sir:—

I have the honour, by direction, to enclose herewith a Military Medal which His Majesty the king has been pleased to award to you for bravery in ’ the field. « The Honourable the minister desires me to extend his congratulations upon the honour thus conferred and the gallant action for which you were commended. Please , acknowledge receipt of the enclosed. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, CUZ FUSIT, Major General, Deputy Minister. The medal is considerably .larger than a dollar and is made of silver. On one side is the likeness in relief of the king and the inscription, “Georgius V. Brittican Rex etlndT

Imp.” ■ On the other side is a laurel wreath with the king’s monogram and the inscription, “For bravery in the field of battle.” Fred H. Hamilton enlisted in the Canadian army in Winnipeg in May, 1916. He took a course of instruction as a motor machine gunman. In the fall of that year he was sent to England and during the holidays sent to France. He participated in the following (rjo+f-l pq • Viaiy Ridge, April 9, 1917. Pemple, April 10,1917. Fresnoy, May 2 and 3, 1917. Souel French June, 1917. Loos-Hill 70, July and Aug., 1917. Paschendale, Oct.-Nov., 1917. Somme, UarctT and April, 1918., Oppey Wood, July, 1918. Arras, Aug., 1918. Cambra, Sept. 1918. In the last battle, early in September, Fred was twice wounded. While in charge of an armored motor car he was hit by shrapnel in the forenoon but insisted in remaining with his car. In the afternoon of _ the same day while in the van of the infantry and leading the attack his car stopped and Fred got out to crank it when he was hit in the right jaw" with a machine gun bullet fired bjr a Hun and was so severely wounded that he was sent to a facial injury hpspital in London, where he remained until early in February, when he was sent home.

His jaw bone was badly torn, but the splendid skill of the English physicians overcame the wound and it is with difficulty that the mark of the entering bullet can be seen. Fred suffered from gas early in 1917 and waSjHn a hospital for some time in france. He returned to Canada early last teen-day leave .to visit home. He then continued to Victoria, B. C., where he was discharged. He went from Victoria to Taft, California, for a visit with his aunt, Mrs. Hala Landrum, and his uncle, Marion Robinson. < He was offered a good position with the Union Oil company, which he accepted. He receives excellent wages and likes his work very much. On account of the fact tha£ his lung had not entirely healed from the, effect of the gas he decided to remain in California for another year. He will be married Christmas day to a California school teacher. When Fred returns he will be placed in charge of his father’s interests in either the Frankfort Crescent-News or the Rensselaer Republican. Fred’s parents are very proud of his record in the great war and also the success he is having with the western oil firm.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. October. 26 __76 46 October 27 69 ' 49 October 28 36 October 29 .-64 28 October 30 52 46 October _3l —74 62 November I~_ ? -72 45 November 2 —64 37 November 3 , 50 36

TEACHERS HANG UP NEW RECORD

MORE THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEDAGOGUES ATTEND ANNUAL CONVENTION. The sixty-sixth annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ association, held in Indianapolis •‘last I Thursday, Friday and Saturday, was ' the largest in the history of that or- ' ganization, a mark of over 15,000 being reached. I A very large number of the teachi ers of Jasper county were in attendI ance, including County School SuI perintendent M. L. Sterrett and Superintendent C. Ross Dean, of the Rensselaer city schools. In_the resolutions adopted Saturday was one opposing the proposal of the appointment of the state superintendent of public instruction and another resolution adopted urged the governor to call a special session of the legislature to ratify the national suffrage amendment. Mrs. E. E. Olcott, of the Danville Normal school, was elected president of the association for the coming year. Mrs. Olcott is well and favorably known by the teachers of this county, she having been an instructor in the Jasper county teachers’ institute a number of times. She is one of the state’s leading educators and thoroughly worthy of the high honor so bestowed upon a woman. She was not long ago appointed by Governor Goodrich to a place on the state board of education. ■ The attempt to displace Charles W. Williams, permanent secretarytreasurer, was not successful. Kate Anderson, of Seymour; was elected recording secretary. The report of the committee on necrology paid tribute to the following prominent Indiana educators who died in the last two years: Emma Mont Mcßae, formerly dean of women at Purdue university; Howard Sandison, formerly vice-president of the Indiana State Normal school at Terre Haute; Abram Shortridge, of Indianapolis; J. F. Nuner and William T. Scott. Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, made the closing address.

SATURDAY WAS ANNIVERSARY OF THE PURDUE WRECK.

Saturday, November 1, was the sixteenth anniversary of the Big Four wreck at Indianapolis in which nine Purdue football players were injured and three hundred other persons seriously injured. The train had left | Lafayette carrying the Purdue team and its followers to Indianapolis, where the Purdue team was to meet Indiana university in the annual ‘game between the two institutions. The wreck occurred just as the train reached the suburban section of Indianapolis. In rounding a curve the train ran into a. train of coal cars. 1 The wreck was tone of the worst tragedies that ever .occurred in the history of the state and will well be remembered by Rensselaer people.

RAT FAMILY NUMBERS, 48,319,698,843,030,344,720 IN 10 YEARS

London, Nov. 1. —In ten years the descendants of a single pair of rats, if allowed to multiply undisturbed, would number 48,319,698,843,030,344,720, according to figures prepared for the board of agriculture by a well known scientist. This calculation is an incident of the coun-try-wide campaign being waged against rats, which are said to do a yearly damage in the United Kingdom amounting to $200,000,000.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank the general public for their appreciation and kind words concerning our numerous sons and daughters that are in the farm service in Jasper county. We especially call the attention of the said public to the convention of a portion of our female relatives at the Hemphill barns on Saturday afternoon. Any courtesy shown these classy females will be duly appreciated by the undersigned: BOULDER’S DUKE, 37039 RENSSELAER DUDIE, 35709 CAPTAIN LOOKOUT, 58583 BOULDER’S LADDIE, 50729 ' GENERAL ALLEN, 18177 MOSE MESSENGER, 15627.

PURE GUESSWORK.

Let A represent the Hampshire sow “Evening Star,” conservatively valued in August at SSOO. Let B represent the -same sow on November Bth, with ten pigs, seven of them females, all nicely marked and offered to the highest bidder at public auction c on Saturday. Let X represent the last bid that will buy them. What will this bid be? You are cordially invited, to see them sell, even if you are not interested in uncooked pork.—R. V. H - The Eastern Star chapter will meet at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening at the hall.

mi jLfcJkLdS : -■ : * When you buy an H H Suit or Overcoat your money is not spent--it is • invested

ORATOR STIRS AUDIENCE

DR. BREWSTER MAKES FORCEFUL ADDRESS FOR GREAT American mother. The campaign is on to enroll everybody as members of the sed Cross to help that organization carry on its peace time service. If those who were present at the Presbyterian church Sunday night had acted upon the inspiration received from the great lecture delivered by Dr. Brewster, of Cleveland, 0., they would want to make their subscription many times the amount of the membership fee. Dr. Brewster is a man of broad culture, having traveled extensively, and he is an orator of splendid ability. He had a great message and he delivered it with such power and force that his audience was moved

with emotion. He pictured vividly the awfulness of the great war, but said that we were fast forgetting the lessons that it taught us. . The point in his address was that there was as much need of the work of the Red Cross-now as there w»s during the war. , He talked plainly about the white plague and the awfulness of the transmissable diseases afflicting the American people and the need of ridding the country of these curses. This the Red Cross, orthe Great American Mother, proposed to do by |he work planned for its peace time program. This among other things will be done by the visiting nurses. He spoke of the large number of babies that died when very young and the high death rates caused entirely by transmissable and preventable diseases. He urged the people of Indiana to work for the enactment of a law in Indiana requiring a health certificate for all applicants for marriage licenses.

RED CROSS NOTES.

Teachers of the rural schools, attention! Send children home with sore throats or bad colds. Remember the discharges from the nose and throat are like poison. Bury the common drinking- cup. Each child should have his own cup. Watch the ventilation, have plenty of warm, fresh air, free from drafts, coal smoke or gas. „ Rubbers and rubber boots should not be worn in a warm room. Tell the children that a nurse will visit them some time this winter and she expects to find every child to have a elean head, clean teeth, and have had a bath within a week. Newland, Kennadfly and Gifford primary have been examined and reports will be printed later. Work in. the Rensselaer schqols continues this week. NETTIE B. JORDAN, American Red Cross Nurse for Jasper county.

GOOD FARM FOR SALE.

240 acres of productive land, well improved, located horth of Rensselaer, being the e% se% section 35, and the sw% section 36, township 30 north, range 7 west, Jasper county, to close the estate of the late Albert Whitaker. ’ Negotiate Wi J h L. BEESLEY, Administrator, Francesville, Ind.

ELECTION TESTS IN FOUR STATES

GOVERNORS TO BE ELECTED AND NATIONAL ISSUES „ INVOLVED. Elections for governor will be held in several eastern states on Tuesday. The national issues are involved in most. The contests are: In Maryland. Harry W. Nice, district attorney of Baltimore county, is the repubcandidate against Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie, democrat. The state is regarded as democratic and the republicans hope to win it over. In Kentucky. James D. Black, democrat, had a hard fight to hold the state in the democratic column against Edwin H. Morrow, a young and popular republican, who came within 472 votes of beating A. O. Stanley in 1915 for the governorship. National issues have been freely injected into the campaign. • In Masiachusetts. Governor Coolidge, barring entirely unexpected developments, ought to be re-elected as a republican against Richard H.’ Long, democrat, who has made the issue the reinstatement of the striking policemen discharged after they had walked out from duty in Boston. In New Jersey. Prohibition is the outstanding issue of the governorship race between Edward I. Edwards, democrat, and Newton A. K. Bugbee, republican. Edwards is opposed to the prohibition amendment, and Bugbee favors its enforcement. New Jersey refused the ratify the prohibition amendment and the democrats are hopeful of winning the state house back from the republicans on the issue.

PETIT JURY.

The following have been drawn for jury service for the November term of court which convenes on November 24: John McGlynn, Marion. Chester Halstead, Newton. Joe Branson, Marion. Charles Walker, Walker. Jesse E. Dunn, Jordan. Louis E. Harrington, Union. Thomas McAjeer, Milroy. Peter Nofziger, Jordan. Frank Morton, Hanging Grove. Louis Fritz, Walker. Albert Courtwright, Carpenter. Ed Goetz, Barkley.

I ; r The following from here visited Mrs. A. A. Fell at her home in Carpenter township Sunday afternoon: Mrs. Judson J. Hunt, Mrs. Martha Wasson, John and Sara Hunt, Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Strecker. They found Mrs. Fell in as good a condition as they had expected. '.I HSave money and your wife’sNback It jpakes work easy and coal bills light. A lot of Reds, who spend their time declaring war on organized society, always seem to be pained and surprised when organized society takes up the challenge.—-New York Evening Sun.

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