Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1919 — Page 1

No. 272.

Overstaffed Davenports It will d«v anyone who i« interested in living room furniture to visit our store and see our line of over-stuffed davenports. These are built with soft cushions; part of them have springs in the arjn». We have several with chairs and rockers to match. The order for these davenports was placed last April and we have been getting them in in small’ shipments for the last six weeks. We are pricing them a great deal less than today’s market. It is going to be almost, impossible to get shipment on upholstered furniture in the next six or eight monthr." Now is the time to buy, as the prices will have to advance in the next few months. ( < * S'. Bed Davenports ’ We are showing a very complete line of bed davenports in tapestry and imitation leather finished in fumed and golden oak and mahogany. A bed davenport is the economical piece to buy . i for the living room as it gives seating room for four people and' will always make an extra bed. i W. J. WRIGHT ' Rensselaer ' Indiana

How Many Please? An extraordinary entertainment course has been arranged for our community. FIVE BIG NUMBERS 1. COLLEGIAN QUARTETTE, a male organization in vocal and instrumental renditions. Price 50 cents. 2. NG POON CHEW, a Chinese Statesman and Journalist, much wit and humor lecture. Price 50 cents. 3. KRYL’S ORCHESTRAL SEXTETTE, eight people, a rare musical treat. ► Price 75 cents. 4. HOME TALENT MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. Price 50 cents. 5. LOU J. BEAUCHAMP, the Original Humorous Philosopher. Price 50 cents. Total single admission price, $2.75. Season Tickets: Adults, $1.50; school pupils, $ .75. Tickets on sale Thursday. ‘‘Opportunity knocks but once.” How many, please?

COUNTY CONFERENCE.

The Christian churches of Jasper county will meet in the annual conference at the Christian church next Friday. There will be three sessions.

How many, please?

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—2:IS " NIGHT—7:OO —TONIGHT— ' 7 Mary McLaren “An Amazing Wife” She stood between the man she an hour of tensest dramatic thrill bad claimed as husband and the one you’ll have one many times tenser who knew she was not a wife. She when you see the tremendous situabegged both to keep her pitiful tions pile up and up and up in this secret till she could escape. Yet her up-to-the-minute romance of a beauonly sin had been the assumption of tiful, penniless, friendless woman a dead man’s name.> If ever you had and her white sin. Charlie Chaplin . —i n — - -w “Shanghaied” WEDNESDAY Madge Kennedy : “A Perfect Lady” A two-track girl captures a one- bells. The performer and reformer horse town. How a merry model it out> True love lurks betrapped the scandal mongers. She • « A p erfect Lady,” in a class all her own and proves itl A scandal that tang the wedding she admits it, and proves it. r Smiling Bill Parsons —* —— “The 7eTly Fish”

The Evening Republican.

NOW READY TO SERVE YOUR GROCERY WANTS.

'X. . . . I have opened my new grocery store on N. McKinley avenue and am now ready to serve you at all times in anything you desire in the grocery line. My stock is new and strictly fresh and my prices right. Fresh shipments twice weekly from the city. S. M. HAAS. .

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 1919.

“A Year Ago Today”

Washington, Nov. 10.—President Wilson tonight gave to the nation this Armistice day statement: - . “To My Fe^ow i “A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half. With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, maiterial and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought. “Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and in the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men. To us in America, the reflections of Armistice day will be. filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service, and with gratitude for the victory both because of the thing from which it has freed us, and becausg, of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations. “WOODROW WILSON.”

CITY PUTS ON NATION’S DRESS

FAIR WEATHER ATTRACTS A LARGE CROWD ON FIRST ARMISTICE DAY. TODAY’S LINEUP: Hickman, left end Thompson, left tackle Putts, left guard Beam, center Porter, right end Simons, right tackle Meyers, right guard Eigelsbach, quarterback Parks, left halfback Kirk, right halfback Babcock, full back._ The dreary rain which sifted from the clouds throughout most of the day Monday, gave way early in the evening and a high, drying wind came in its stead, bringing with it cool weather and lending a great deal of assurance to those who were hoping that the first armistice day to be celebrated in the land would see fair weather prevailing. Their hopes were realized this Tuesday morning when Old Sol stepped from behind the clouds and drove the chill of last night from the earth. At this hour of the day there seems nothing to prevent the largest crowd in the history of Rensselaer from attending the day set aside -inhonor of the soldiers from Jasper county and those who gave their

lives in the great world war just closed. At an early hour there was a stir on the streets of the city and flags and bunting were being copiously spent with the nation’s dress of red, white and blue and each heart 'beat a little faster as it was thrilled with the sight of the ocolrs. Uniformed soldiers lent a military aspect to the picture and the sight of the uniform brought back to the minds of all the true meaning of

the day. . ■ “ ~, The committees m charge of the celebration promise that there will be something of interest to all throughout the day, and the programs which are being distributed substantiate their statements. The feature event of the afternoon will be the football game between Morocco and Rensselaer and a great crowd is expected. It is understood that every business house in Morocco has been closed and that the fans of that city will follow the team here.

How many, please? There are the capitalist groups and the -labor groups. The rest of us are the goops.—Chicago Tribune.

Board ofT rade Wire Strike Off Today

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 10. The government, through Attorney General Palmer, today declared that organized labor or any other group of citizens is not greater than the law of the land and replying sternly to the defiant statement yesiterday of the American Federation of Labor in support of the illegal coal strike, gave warning that the law would be enforced. The attorney general accepted the challenge of organized labor to a finish fight, if necessary, but expressed the hope that the enjoined miners would obey Judge Anderson’s mandate and that the miners and operators would get together. ! . . o—- ' The house, 'by a vote of 309 to 1, voted to exclude from membership [Victor L. Berger, of Wisconsin, on the ground of ineligibility because he “had given aid and comfort to the enemy in the war with Germany.” Berger made a bitter speech ! on the floor before the vote, declaring that he took back nothing he had said for which he was convicted, assailing congress, the courts, and President Wilson. —o—l~The Russian problem, it is learned here, is to be referred for solution to the league of hations, and is to constitute the first great test of the powers in the league. It is proposed that the league should give mandates to the various powers over different elements in non-Bolshevik Russia, each power to confine itself to assisting the particular element assigned to it.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following letters remain uncalled for at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana: Pvt. John R. Gwin I Mrs. M. Miller Walter L. Hartley i Prairie Farmer Pun Co. FGeo. E. Schopmeyer ' - Geo. L. Sawyer Arnell Stepp. The above letters, if not called for, will be sent to the dead letter office on November 24. N. LITTLEFIELD, Postmaster.

AFTER EIGHT YEARS

Rensselaer Testimony Remains Unshaken. Time is the best test of truth. Here is a Rensselaer story that has stood the test of time. It is a story with a point which will come straight home to many of us. Landy McGee, fur dealer, Rensselaer, says: “I suffered from a lame back and such severe pains across my loins that I could hardly move.I couldn’t rest well and my kidneys were too active. I used several medicines, but nothing seemed to relieve ms until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills at Fendig’s drug store. The backache and pains in <ny loins soon left and the kidney secretions became natural.” OVER EIGHT YEARS LATER, Mr. McGee said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills are still my stand-by. I think they are fine and I am never without them in the house.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don c simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. McGee had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. November 11 —6O 31

L. E.- Barber, who travels for a wholesale shoe firm, returned to his home here Monday evening and will remain until early in February. I Senator Walsh is right in saying that the country is in strong need of Americanization. And none need ■jt' more than some native-born, «ocalled Americans.-7-Boston Transcript. ,

N §o4* ARRIVED AT St. Ignace- - ■ -■ Pretty cold up here. They hit me $25 for a license. Storhy Wright wants to know how Green Ri vends selling? ■ -

INDIANA’S STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION MAKING RECORDS.

After years of agitation and effort, Indiana was given by its legislators at the 1919 session of the general assembly, a highway law based on the principle that good roads are in the interest of all of the people and not in any sense a local proposition. By virtue of the new law, which became operative on March 10, 1919, immediately after the govenror signed the bill creating the state highway department, plans were put into effect to complete the organization proposed under the act. As a result, Indiana has a highway commission which is doing things. There is a state director appointed .by, and responsible to, the commission, and ample revenue has been provided for the conduct of the commission’s work. After this year, all automobile license fees will go to the state commission instead of to the several counties. The new highway law measures up fully to federal requirements. As a result, Indiana is getting her share of federal aid.

Jj. H. Wright, formerly of Columbus, , was the unanimous choice of the commission for the important position of director. Mr. Wright has been very active in the interest of good roads and in the efforts that led to the formation of the state highway department and the organization to handle the state’s road building program since its inception. He is well known by the farmer taxpayers of the state, having been affiliated with various farm organizations for a number of years. The second important appointment of the commission was that of chief engineer, otherwise known as chief of the division of construction. The.'law provides that this appointee shall be a competent civil engineer, experienced and skilled in highway and bridge construction and improvement, and under the director, shall have supervision of all matters pertaining thereto. Immediately following Mr. Wright’s appointment as director, he chose H. K. Bishop, graduate of Cornell university, as chief engineer. Mr. Bishop has spent 26 years in highway and general engineering work of a public nature. Twelve years of this time, in periods of 3 years each, were devoted to municipal work, enlargement of deepening of the Erie canal, and as superintendent of engineering and executive head of public works at Hudson, N. Y. About a year was spent on municipal work in Cuba? FdY • 6 Yeats* Mr: was connected with the New York state highway department and during the last two of this period, was first deputy commissioner. Follow-

ing three years of engineering in Hawaii, Mr. Bishop engaged in private practice for three yeafs in New York, from where he went to the U. S. bureau of public roads, as district engineer and served in this capacity for a period of two years in charge of federal aid in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. He resigned this connection to accept the appointment of chief engineer, Indiana state highway commission. Through the combined efforts oi Director Wright and Chief Engineer Bishop, rapid and very satisfactory progress has been made in highway work this year in Indiana, as evidenced by the 134 miles of pavet highways already placed under contract.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair and colder tonight; Wednesday fair.

John Garland came down from Hammond to spend a few days with his family. CoL George H. Healey came Monday evening to participate in the home coming. /

REPUBLICANS TO MEET HERE

TENTH CONGRESSIONAL MEETING TO BE HELD HERE THURSDAY. f&litical meetings are being held by the two political parties in the congressional districts of the state. The meeting of the republicans of the tenth district will be held in Rensselaer on next Thursday, biginning at 11:00 a. m. ' This meeting will mark a new epoch in politics in that it will be the first time that women voters have been called upon to take an active part in the party organization work. The republican national committee, in announcing the adoption of the plan for the participation of the women in party affairs, issued a statement which read in part as follows: “It is the very earnest purpose of the republican national organization to do all that can possibly be done to make certain the full participation by the republican women of the country in the party’s affairs. “The republican women, coming more and more into the rights of their full citizenship, are most important factors • in the situation. They are part of the party membership, not as women, but as voters entitled to participate and participating, insofar as the' present legal limitations permit, just as other voters. Their activity is not supplementary, ancillary or secondary at all. They are not to be separated or segregated, but assimilated and amalgamated with just and full consideration due every working member of the party, and the republican national committee is sure that the republican women will come into the party’s activities with that sense of responsibility necessarily consequent upon these activities and will aid, through the party, in the solution of the problems facing the country.”

COLLEGIANS COMING.

Four young men, filled with college spirit, and possessing extraordinary ability, are coming to Rensselaer very soon to give our people a wholesome evening of entertainment. If “variety is the spice of life,” then this entertainment will be spicy. It will consist of vocal numbers, of solos, duets and quartettes, of readings and a bass quartette. A good male quartette is always one of the most popular forms of entertainment. This is only one number of a course of five evening programs. Because a few publicspirited people, representing the religious, educational and social organizations of the community, have united their efforts this is made possible. You can purchase your tickets Thursday of the person who comes to the door. The question they will ask is: “How many, please?” This program will come (November 19 th.

Shantung is too star Yom for easy optimism.—Boston Herald. The Red army is approaching the other end of the spectrum.—Columjia Record. As a national hero, our nearest approach to D’Annunzio probably is Charley Chaplin.—Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. The same willingness to work that won the war would soon banish the ill effects of the war.—Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. How many, please?

--AT THE STAR THF4TRE TONIGHT! SOLDIERS FREE TODAY Victor Moore —in- : i -“Snobs” 9 A Very Good Comedy-Dram*— Will Ple<»e You All. .n.— ■ 1 " v— * -y WEDNESDAY J. Warren Kerrigan “Drifters” A Beautiful Drama of the North Woods Abo BURTON HOLMES’ TRAVELS

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