Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — Page 1

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FARM WAGES HIGHEST IN HISTORY OF U. S.

Farm wages were the highest in the history of the United States last year, the department of agriculture anounces. For labor hired by the month with board, the average for the country as a whole was $39.82, without board it was $56.29. Harvest wages a day with board reached the figure of $4.48 in the north central states west of the Mississippi river. The lowest farm wages are in the south Atlantic states, with the south central states next lowest. Monthly wages with? board were highest in the western states, including the mountain and Pacific states where the average was $62.96, while without -board it was $87.12. Farming operations of 1919 produced crops, that had a value at the farm was 11.8 per cent above 1918, and animal products 9.9 per cent avove, but the gain in wages of farm labor was relatively greater. Wages by the month with board increased 14 per cent, without board 15.3 per cent, and day wages in harvest, 18.9 per cent. These figures indicate, says the department of agriculture, “that the ground he lost, relatively, early in the rapid upward movement of prices of farm products after 1915. The wage recovery was evident in 1918 as well as in 1919, but full recovery has not yet been accomplished.”

DEATHS CALLS REMINGTON PEOPLE TO IOWA

Mr. and Mrs. James Skinner and daughter, Lola, of Remington, were called to Otto, Iowa, Friday, on account of the death of Mrs. Skinner’s sister. This death was caused by influenza followed by pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner received the message of the death in Iowa while they were attending the funeral of their brother-in-law, E. H. Blake in Wabash. There is still much sickness in the community. yet not so much as a few days ago. Among those who are steadily improving are Dr. C. E. Triplett, George Gay, A. D. Peck, Albert Eickmann and John Hunter. Smallpox is reported in the home of L. A. Brunton, east of town, but is said to be well Under control. — Morocco Courier. -

TEMPERATURE The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending st 7 a. m. on the data indicated: Max. Min. February 21 36 30

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—2xIB NIGHT—7xOO . —TONIGHT—w* DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN When the Clouds Roll By

From start to finish “When the Clones Roll By” b a typical Fairbanks pictara, splendid in its every detail. The story has a lot of action, heaps of love interest, suspense palore and that ever looked far ultimate justification, or in other words happy seding. To wm Ms point "Doug” b compelled to go

The Evening Republican.

POPULATION CENTER IS SAVED FOR INDIANA

The center of population of the United States is saved for Indiana and probably for Monroe county. This, at least, is the opinion of C. S. Sloane, chief geographer of the censug bureau, ’ who is supposed to know more about centers of population and such things than any other person ,in the United States. Some time ago Mr. Sloane said at the National Press Clu'b at Washington, that the center of population probably would move eastward this year and fears were entertained by all the loyal Indianaians that posibly Ohio or some such outside state might get the coveted honor. In fact, so fearful were Indianaians that the state was to lose out that they did not even go to the census bureau to find out where the center of population, in its perambulations would hesitate and stop. But Mr. Sloane has said although the center wil probably move eastward, it will only move a small distance, and will undoubtedly remain in Monroe county, but at the fartherest could get no more to the east than Brown county, the home of Abe .Martin.

BURI ES FATHER AND MOTHER IN A WEEK

Mrs. Frank Geitzenauer returned Friday evening from Peoria, Ill., where she had been called on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Henry Avis. Mrs. Geitzenauer went to Pontiac last Monday. She reached the home of her parents just a short time before file death of her mother which occured Monday evening. The mother was' buried Wednesday afternoon and the death of the father occured Wednesday at midnight. The mother had influenza which developed pneumonia and the father had influenza complicated with heart trouble. Mr. Avis had been afflicted with heart trouble . for a number of years. There were three children living at home in the Avis family. Mrs. Geitzenauer’s oldest sister accompanied here to Rensselaer and will two children will be cared for in make her home here. The other the home of their half-brother in Pontiac.

A letter from John Bertsch of Wauzeka, Wis., states that he and his family are just recovering from the influenza.

. — Abo . - Prisma Subject ‘THE GRAND CANYON” . ./ — HARRY . -- —- ; THE ACE OF" THE SADDLE”

through no end of hazardous stunts of the most exceptional order; keeping his followers op the edge all the time. Not too much credit can be given him for the enormity of Ms settings, and no one will ever forgot the wonderful scenes of the flooding little town, aH of wMch was constructed for the ocCASiOMo

RRNSSKLAKR. INDIANA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE KENTLAND DEMOCRAT

February 19th, 1920 Kentland Democrat, Kentland, Indiana. Gentlemen:— It has recently come to my knowledge that you have put yourself to some trouble to mention my name in a certain publication, in connection with the Messman-McCray case. Being unaccustomed to favors of the great I scarcely know how to receive this honor, and in what terms to answer. . ; The complaint that was filed in this case of Messman vs. McCray, contained many of - the statements of the answer heretofore prepared and filed by Senator Sellers, of Monticello, Indiana, wherein he answered the complaint of Mr. MlcCray, wherein McCray sought to foreclose a mortgage against Messman. MeCray did not go to trial upon that answer. Let me say in fairness to McCray that since I filed this complaint that he informs me, and I have every reason to believe his statement true, that he knew nothing of the filing of this answer. Sometime ago the writer asked of Mr. McCray, the privilege of examining his books, to this Mr. McCray consented, but Mr. McCray and myself could not agree upon any one to make the examination. I suggested the name of James Chapman, of Rensselaer. Mr. McCray would not agree to Mr. Chap-

man at the time, but afterwards in his examination taken in the case of Messman vs. McCray, stated that he was willing that Chapman or any one else make an examination of his books. Upon' that statement Mr. J. H. O’Neal was employed. I employed Mr. O’Neal because I knew him to be square and competent. I did not know, and did not care to know his politics, but knew he would be absolutely fair to both sides. When Mr. O’Neal arrived at Kentland to examine these books, I was informed by long distance telephone, that he was not permitted to examine these books. I immediately called up Judge Darroch, Mr. McCray’s attorney, (and by the way a good Democrat) and expressed surprise that Mr. O’Neal was not permitted to examine these books. I stated to Darroch that I knew of no more honest and competent man than O’Neal. < Mr. Darroch acted with his usual courtesy and fairness and got in touch with Mr. O’Neal and permitted him to examine the books. Now here is the NUB to the whole proposition: Mr. Messman claimed all along that Mr. McCray’s books would show that McCray was in the wrong. _ Mr. McCray, on the other hand, had just as strongly contended-that his books were accurate and square and WOULD EXONERATE HIM. I said to Judge Darroch, and Mr. Leopold, who was also an attorney for Mr. McCray, and also to Judge Hanley, that the examination of these books would/decide this lawsuit, and that I was willing to make a frank statement of the case to the newspapers after the examination had been made,- if it exonerated McCray. This statement will appear later. The imputation that the newspaper report waspublishedbefore the case was filed is an error. The record speaks for itself. Well, as to the charge that I was not sick. Did you ever have the “flu”? You can tell the public that I was not sick, but you can’t tell that to my wife. Well, as to the implication that I made a demand on Mr. McCray for money is another mistake. I demanded a recision of the deed and offered to pay McCray money. That demand is in writing and the exact terms can be ascertained. Let me say right now, that the examination of, the books of McCray, and report of Mr. J. H. O’Neal, who I considered one of the most competent, honest and fair-minded men, and known to the residents of Jasper and Newton counties, DOES, COMPLETELY EXONERATE MR. McCRAY AND I AM FOR HIM FOR GOVERNOR. He will be nominated and elected hands down.

I was against Mr. McCray when I believed him wrong, but now I am for him since I know he is right I am for Mr. McCray because I believe him free from entangling alliances; because he is a farmer, a stockman, a grain merchant, a ■banker, a business man, a friend of labor, blended together to form that sturdy type necessary to guide us in /the perilous times of reconstruction. __ Does the Democrat from Newton county believe that by drawing me into this controversy, that I shall say something to injure McCray, or the G. O. P, or that would be the cause of the president putting over his league Of notions without reservations? Far be it from me. Nay! -Nay! My Democratic friend, let me say that this is not your funeral. Your party has had MANY but none in comparison to the ONE GRAND FUNERAL that awaits you newt fall. ' ” In the immortal words of Art Tuteur, the democratic funeral to come, is no more to be compared to the ONES you have had, than, the ponderous head of a Roman gladiator, is to be compared to the puny pate of a Peruvian Prince, Let me see, what was it my democratic friend from Newton wanted, and did not get? Thanking you for former cour-

ADMIRAL PEARY, ARCTIC EXPLORER, DEAD

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, died at his home Friday after a two year’s illness of pernicious anemia, during which 35 blood transfusions had been of no avail. Sailors, attaches of the naval hospitals and many former service men gave their life’s blood during that period in the vain effort to prolong the life of the country’s foremost explorer. It had been known to the explorfamily for weeks, but kept from the" public, that his life was despaired of, but no one thought the end so near, and his sudden death was unexpected. He probably will be buried in Arlington National cemetery. Admiral Peary was 64 years old and entered the navy as a civil engineer in 1881, and his, first trip to the arctic regions was made 34 years ago. It was on hte afternoon of September 6, 1909, that the following few words reported to the civilized world for the first time this crowning achievement of three centuries of effort: “Indiana Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F„ September 6—To the Associated Press, New York: “Stars and Stripes nailed to north pole. Peary.” Peary’s actual attainment of the pole had been made just five months before. April 6, 1909. When the dispatch came, the world was, quite unknown to Peary, already praising Dr. Frederick A. Cook as the discoverer. Only four days previous to the Peary an-

nouncement, Cook, who was op his way back to Copenhagen on board a Danish steamer, had telegraphed the claim that he had reached the pole on April 21, 1908, nearly a year ahead of Peary. While Dr. Cook’s claim did not go unquestioned from the first, he had for four days at least been widely acclaimed as the discoverer of the pole. With Peary’s message there arose one of the greatest controversies of all ages over the honor of actual first discovery. There can be no one who has forgotten the dispute. Peary's assertions were not seriously questioned, but among newspaper readers there came to be two great camps, for and against Cook. Peary with his record of seven successful trips to the arctic regions -has official standing in the United States navy and in scientific circles easily held the commanding position in the controversy. But it was only after the scientific bodies one by one had sifted the evidence and pronounced Cook’s claim unfounded that Peary s title as discoverer of the pole was really won. . The bitternes of this episode is only one item in the price which Peary paid for the immortal fame that is now acknowledged to be his. He spent practically all he had in money, gave all that was in him for hard work, and suffered all that the human fame could endure from hunger, cold and disappointment. -He made eight journeys into the arctic, spent upwards of half a million of dollars and barely escaped death several times which in various forms had been the fate of more than 700 explorers before him. ' \

INDIANA LEADING NATION IN ROADS NOW IMPROVED

With 42 per cent of the 74,000 miles of roads in Indiana improved, this state leads all others in the country in the number of miles of improved roads, according to data compiled by the civil engineering department of Purdue unl^ere^One other state, * Massachusetts, leads in the percentage 45%, but that state has only 18,000. miles of roads, a fourth of the number of the Hoosier state. Michigan, with practically the same mileage as Indiana, has on y 10% per cent of its roads surfaced. Ilinois, with 96,000 .n»Ues, has but 12 ner cent surfaced; Kentucky, with 58,000 miles has 21% per cent improved; Ohio, with 86,000, has 35 per cent improved. Estimates of the United States department of gooiL roads m-1914 showed 2,500,000 miles of roads m the United States. Recent gathered from statistical reports hy Prof. O. C. Albright, of the engineering staff, show that 450,000 miles Should be improved, but atthe present rate this work is being done, it would take thirty years to complete the job, whwh is less than one-half as rapidly as the work should be done in order to take care of the ever increasing traffic properly.

ADD FINE SIRE TO HAMPSHIRE HERD

~~' — —, * - ~ — James N. Leatherman received one of the finest Hampshire sires ever brought to W eounty Friday. £ purchased this herdl boar of JL W. Lynch of Peoria, Hl., the pr Prietor of the Deer Park Farm. The sire is named Deer Park King. He • three vears old and while not frt yet he will weight about seven hundred fifty pounds. 1

I will offer for sale at the Robert Overton sale on 34, several head of young bred to registered Shropshire buck, J, W* flumes.

tesys, I beg to remain. ~

TAXES DUE MAR. 1 Money on hand when the assessor calls is a liability. PREFERRED STOCK IN THE RENSSELAER MFG. CO. is Non-Taxable Tax-Exempt Non-Assessable and pays 8 PER CENT INVEST in Rensselaer Manufacturing Co. 8 per cent, non taxable Preferred Stock before March first.

SCHAUPP’S NETSHAKERS ANNEX 33 TO 13 VICTORY

In a game which lagged throughout and which was utterly devoid of the sensational, Rensselaer annexed a victory over the Wolcott five Friday night in what was the most listess affair of the season. Wolcott was hurriedly substituted to take the place of the Chalmers team which was prevented from filling their date on account of the prevalence of small pox in that town. The final score was 33 to 18, and the first period closed with Rensselaer in the lead 11 to 10. The Wolcott lads are a sturdy set and gave the home five all kind of trouble in the opening session and presented a 'hard rough attack which kept them on a par with the Red and Black throughout the first twenty minutes of play. In the second half Tilton and Crooks were injected into the fray and the former took his mates from the danger zone in a hurry scoring 14 points during the time he was in the game. Both teams displayed poor pass work and when Wolcott began to drop behind they resorted to football tactics which availed them nothing. . One or two more games may be played by the home five before the opening of the sectional tournament at Valparaiso on March 5.

MONDAY A LEGAL HOLIDAY.

George Washington, “First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” was Jbqrn : on the Wakefield Farm, in Westmoreland county, Va., on February 22,. 1732. February 22 being Sunday, the day following, February 23, is by law made a national holiday and the banks will 'be closed and the rural mail carriers will not serve their patrons. The rest of our ordinary mortals will be on the job.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Rensselaer Christian Science Society hold regular services every Sunday morning at 10:45. Sunday school at 9:45; Wednesday evening at 7:30. „ . Subject Sunday, February 22nd, “Mind.” Public invited.

STAR THEATRE —TODAY— A Feature for Every American Citizen Harry Raver’s Presentation of Augustus-Thomas’ “THE VOLCANO” STARRING * Leah Baird With a Cast of Two Thousand Persons, Including GOV. ALFRED E. SMITH OF NEW YORK The Volcano is a story of American lifeunder Rm menace <rf Red Flag. It reveals how a horde of rabid propagandists J* 0 ® 1 : ’ darkened byways of Moscow and Petrograd weave their in «■ humble homes of New York’s poorer folks, while sons sag, women they seek to corrupt are pouring back from the nganng FRANCE on every incoming transport. ■ EVERY AMERICAN StjOULD SEE IT . i IT IS A STIRRING DRAMA OF THE YOU’LL BE STANDING UP BEFORE IT ISOVER ' «■ uLi&i —

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WEATHER. Rain in south and central portions. Snow in extreme north portion tonight Sunday, unsettled and colder.

ABE MARTIN.

(Indianapolis News.) We wonder how many auto owners make $1.25 an hour? Th’ weddin’ at th’ Moots borne, last night, hardly paid expenses.

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