Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — Page 1

No. 296.

-- ....... .. r— •; > ■ The Hoover Electric Suction Sweeper It Beats as It Sweeps as It Cleans .... * • .4,. 2 - . - ---- - , < There is a reason why we have sold over 50 of these sweepers in the last few months ■■■■■■■!■■■■■■■■■■■MNHHBNBHiaßMMMHN■■M THE REAL XMAS PRESENT. - • - W. J. WRIGHT

W»>r yr: WMKT IMT »■*m m iC ' >l|Hb CATTY SELLARS HERE The world famed organist, Gatty Sellars, of the Queen’s Hall, London, England, concerts, arrived in the city this morning for his recital at the Presbyterian church tonight, when a crowded auditorium is anticipated. No music lover should miss the opportunity of hearing this world renowned artist. MAKEEVER SPECIAL SUPPER TONIGHT. — Breaded veal cutlets, potatoes, baked or fried, and hot tea biscuits, 45c. Watch for the special each evening, MAKEEVER HOTEL. XMAS ELECTRIC DELICACIES. Grill stoves, toasters, irons, hot pads, flashlights, batteries, reading arid desk lamps. T. Rhoades Electric Shop and Garage. ’Phone 579.

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT— Madge Kennedy "Day Dreams” -* Bill Parsons "Have Another” 0?

The girl, the man—and the dream that came true! A girl find* true lore in a house of glass. All the world lores a lorer—and she was lored by all! A lore story as sweet

THURSDAY pharles Ray "The Busher” tr—• FRIDAY ' Z Elmo Lincoln' In the Second Episode of "Elmo the Mighty” Adults, 20c-2c—22c. Children, lOc-lc—llc.

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CHRISTMAS ADVERTISEMENTS ARE THOROUGHLY READ.

The spirit of Christmas is felt in the newspaper columns long before the holiday. At no time in the year is the advertising so interesting. The ad writers realize that the public wants to know what the stores are doing for Christmas. The advertising begins to sound more like a news story, with its accounts of the new things that have come into the store. Stores that advertise in a rather routine way a good deal of the time, wake up to the fact that a good live notice about Christmas stuff is going to get a lot of readers. They begin to do what they should do every week in the year, and that is to describe their stuff and tell at what prices it is offered. Many people don’t know what to give their friends for Christmas. They have made certain standard presents year after year, and don’t want to buy just the same kind of a gift. Reading of the Christmas advertising helps a great many people to decide what to give. They pick up the newspapers in a spirit of inquiry, anxious to know what is being offered. A merchant who does not announce some of his most attractive things, must seem out of the game altogether. The long line of Christmas articles answer many questions, ' and among the suggestions everyone finds something that will be just what is wanted. Christmas advertising has enormously helped the “Buy Early” campaign. People apparently believe in this idea, but you have to appeal to their own self interest to get them to act on it. When the newspapers begin advertising Christmas stuff, the public begins to get interested. The result is to distribute trade more evenly, to do it more efficiently, comfortably and economically. It saves human wear and tea ‘rthat is a damage to any business. The unusual conditions that have been created this year as a result of the coal shortage have made it imperative for people to shop early, not only early in the season, but early in the day as well. Rensselaer store are making special efforts to accommodate the public, but it will require co-operation if the plan is to be successful.

as the days of childhood; A smile and a kiss—and little Mis* Primrose heard the wedding bells. The ups and downs of the Cupid & Co., Inc. The story of a girl’s faith and a man** l3 courage.

SATURDAY* "When Bearcat Went Dry” Rainbow Comedy "Romeos and Jolly Juliets” Featuring Myrtle Sterling Also Prisma Subject "The Model Girls” A glimpse beauties of the shops and shop windows in Nature’s colors. Adults, 20c-2c—22c. Children, lOe-le—lie. „

KKNSSELAEK, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1919. '

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 9. All hope of immediate reduction of the war taxes has vanished in the face of a three billion dollar deficit in government revenue in the next year and a half. Representative Good,- of lowa, chairman of the appropriations committee, appealed to the house today to limit appropriations for the fiscal year 1920-*2l to $4,000,000,000 in addition to the railroad deficit Government officials agree that if the miners at Indianapolis refuse President Wilson’s proposal to end the strike there is no hope for anything but a fight to a finish between the government and organized labor. . —o — Fall, of New Mexico, in a telegram to a friend, said that he is not seeking to bring armed intervention in Mexico, but a condition which will make war between the two countriees impossible. —o— the republican national convention practically assured for Chicago, St. Louis contenders are angry. They are threatening to make a fight in the committee 1 meeting, but Fred W. Upham, chairman of the Chicago convention committee, says that Chicago need not worry. —o— Secretary of the Navy Daniels listened with “sympathetic interest” to a proposal by the Mississippi Vailey association for the establishment of a summer training camp for high school students next year at the Great Lakes Naval Training station. —o►— Continuation of the shipping board for a period not to exceed ten years was recommended in resolutions adopted by the Mississippi Valley association. —o — Retention of government operation of the railroads beyond the end of the calendar year is expected in the event of failure of congress to enact legislation before that time. Notwithstanding the repeated declarations of the intention to turn the roads back it is believed a delay is in prospect if a bill is not passed.

ECLIPSED RECORD MADE BY CHRISTIAN CHURCH CHOPPERS

Rev. E. W. Strecker assembled the men members of his Methodist church flock Tuesday and took them to the Harvey Wood, Sr., farm six miles west of town, where they were given axes and instructed to see what they could do in the way of relieving the present fuel shortage and in replenishing the church’s fast dwindling supply of coal. The men responded surprisingly well, their day’s work showing twenty-five oads of fine wood, eight of which were brought to the city in the afternoon. The wood will be “buzzed some time the latter part of the present week, and will make a supply that will last during the remainder of winter. The record made by the choppers of the M. E. church exceeds by far that made by the Christain church wood cutters a few days ago. The members of Rev. W. T. Barbre’s congregation turned in but fifteen loads, and those under adverse conditions, due to the fact that no organized effort had been made to round up all of the wood choppers.

RENSSELAER BOY PURCHASES MOROCCO DRUG STORE.

Ernest Moore, of Lowell, a son of Thomas Moore, of this city, in connection with his father-in-law, P. W. Clarke, has closed a deal whereby he and the latter become the owners of. the A. E. Purkey drug store at Morocco. Mr. Moore is now in possession, and started to invoice the stock last Monday. The store will be under the management of Mr. Moore, who is an experienced druggist, having graduated from the school of pharmacy at Purdue university. He also was in the employ of the A. F. Long drug store in this city many years. The store just purchased by Messrs. Moore and Clark is said to be a fine one and, situated as it is in a town with the hustle and bustle of Morocco, there can be no doubt that the new owners will meet with splendid success.

CHRISTMAS CANTATA.

The pupils of the Monnett school under the direction of Mrs. Ralph Schaupp will give a cantata, “The Spirit of Christmas,” with an orchestra accompaniment at the high school auditorium Wednesday evening, December 17th, at 8 o’clock. Admission 35c and 20c.

WOOD BUZZING POSTPONED.

The annual wood buzzing by the Methodist men will not take place on Thursday, December 11, as had been planned. Watch for a later announcement.

MAKEEVER SPECIAL SUPPER TONIGHT.

Breaded veal cutlets, potatoes, baked or fried, and hot tea biscuits, 45c. Watch for the special each evening. MAKEEVER HOTEL. The largest showing of jewelry ever to-be made an this section of the state on December 13th at Jessen’s 6 jewelry ; store, Rensselaer, Ind. See advertisement in this paper. >

COLD WAVE SWEEPS NATION; 40 BELOW IS REGISTERED.

Chicago, Dec. 9.—Frigid weather, accompanied by heavy snow, continues tonight to cripple train service and to aggravate the situation caused by the scarcity of coal in the states west of the Mississippi river. , The lowest temperature reported officially today was at Billings, Mont., where the mercury dropped to '36 below zero. Denver was Shivering in the coldest weather since 1913 with the temperature standing at 12 below. Unofficial reports from Newcastle and Wyoming, Nebraska, declared the thermometers stood at forty below zero. Suffering was reported in some states and in Kansas, where roads have been made impassible by drifting snow, fences and small buildings were torn down to get fuel. In the southwest the temperature ranged from 20 degrees below zero in northwestern Kansas to a few degrees above in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. r San Francisco reported heavy storms off the northern Pacific tonight and storm warnings were displayed up and down the coast. Vessels remained in the harbor tonight. Snow plows had cleared some of the tracks in Nebraska and Colorado and trains were running on part schedule. The wave was eastward bound tonight and Chicago was promised a five below temperature by tomorrow morning.

“HARDBOILED” SMITH HAS RIVAL IN HOOSIER OFFICER.

New York, Dec. 9.—Another court martial involving charges of brutal treatment accorded members of, the American expeditionary forces will begin tomorrow at Governor’s Island, in which Captain Karl W. Detzer, former Fort Wayne, Ind., newspaper man, will be the defendant. Evidence, it is declared, will eclipse even the sensational developments at the trial of Lieut. “Hardboiled” Smith. Detzer was attached to the 308th military police company and had charge under provost marshal, of all criminal investigation in the Le Mans area, the largest American concentration center in France, through which more than 1,000,000 soldiers passed. It is charged that by various methods of “torture” he sought to extort confessions from prisoners in order that he might win favor in the eyes of his superiors by the number of convictions he obtained. Special investigation of the charges was ordered by Secretary of War Baker and the case was handled Sy Major General Frank Mclntyre, assistant chief of staff. More than one hundred witnesses have been brought here from France and virtually all the states in the union, and officers directing the prosecution estimated today that not less than $26,000 had been expended. Methods which Detzer and his subordinates are alleged to have employed to wring “confessions” from their prisoners resulted, it is alleged, in sending many men to the hospital for a period of several weeks. Officers of the judge advocate’s department admitted that many of the men they had handled were “desperate characters,” often with long criminal records. The methods are said to have included orders to stand at attention for 36 hours, ten minutes on and five minutes off; withholding food and drink from prisoners until they acknowledged their “guilt;” pulling prisoners to their feet by the hair, striking them in the face and threatening them with pistols. It also is charged that once Detzer compelled Private Marcello Gonzales to swallow a lighted cigarette which he was smoking against orders. In all, Detzer faces 28 specifications under charges of assault and conduct unbecoming an officer, and general charges. If convicted on all counts, Major William E. of New York, judge advocate, declared he faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The offenses with which Detzer is charged are alleged to have been committed over a period of several months, beginning last February.

PRESENT LIVING COST BREAKS ALL RECORDS.

New York, Dec. 9.-—The cost of living, as based on 96 staple commodities, advanced 1.3 per cent during the last month and now stands, at 131 per cent above the pre-war level,' or the highest ever known, according- to figures made public today by Bradstreet’s. Textiles, provisions and- groceries constitute the bulk of the commodities. There were increases from November 1 to December 1, last, in fortysix of the commodities. Building materials reached new high price levels on December 1. Price advances in England have been much greater than those in the United States, however, for at the close of November they were 2.8 per cent above those for the end of October, 12.4 per cent above those of a year ago and 172 per cent above August 1, 1914;

THE WEATHER. Forecast,, for Indiana: Fair and continued. cbld tonight. Thursday fait and not so cold.

$50,000 worth of the very latest in. the jewelry line on display at Jessen’s jewelry store in Rensselaer, Ind., on December 13th. See advertisement in this paper.

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HERE ARE WILSON’S TERMS FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT.

Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 9. —The president’s proposal for settlement of the coal strike, which w&i told exclusively in Monday’s Herald and Examiner, was announced officially today as follows: 1. Immediate retura- te warkwith 14 per cent increase in wages. 2. No change in working conditions as they existed at the time the strike was called. (The forty-eight hour week.) 3. A complete investigation by a commission of three men into the entire coal situation, and their de-: cision as to the Tinal award, price'* of coal, profits of operators and other minor matters to govern the coal industry in the future. I 4. Any retroaction in the time j.the new wage scale—|f above 14 per cent—to be left tq the commission. 5. The miners to have one representative on the commission, the operators one, and the third nym to be selected by the president. 6. No increase in the present price of fuel. The proposal outlines a sixty-day investigation, at' the end of which the commission is to report. Asked if their findings would supersede rulings of the present fuel administration, Attorney o General Palmer said the commission’s word would be final. ' f' j Mr. and Mrs, C. P. ! Roy Hermansen and Mra : xeppe , Hanson, of Gillam township, were in Rensselaer. C. P. Hermansen, who was in the hospita »»»“ . the summer, is getting along fairly well, but feels a little discouraged because he is not able to be at work again.

MOST SWEEPING REDUCTION IN NATION’S HISTORY.

Washington, Dec. 9.—Railroad travellers were brought face to face today with the most severe curtailment in passenger gervice that the nation ever has known. While on many of the eastern roads service was reduced sharply yesterday, it was not until today that the orders of the railroad administration began to be felt in other parte of the country. In still other sections many trains made their last trips tonight. Railroad administration officials estimated from informal reports Received from regional directors that approximately 200,000 train miles will have been cut from the passenger schedules each day before the end of the week. The saving of fuel, based on this esthete reduction in service, was placed at about 15,000 tons a day. All of this reduction is necessary, officials said, to check the drain on the nation’s rapidly dwindling' coal reserves. When the strike began the railroad administration’s central coal committee had supervision over approximately 22,000,000 tons of coal. In the meantime, however, production has not reached fifty percent of normal on any day. The railroads’ needs have been supplied, as have the so-called “essential industries, from which it may be determined that officials consider that the reserve stock is running low. An independent basket ball team from the city played the high school team at the school gymnasium Tuesday evening and were rewarded for their trOubJe with a 28 to 17 defeat. . , - - -

FXBST BAFHM 1 OTTUBCM. Sunday school and Bible study. at 9?30 a. m. Mornlftg worship and Sermon at 10:45 o’clock. Wa expect .to continue thia regular morning service.

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