Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — Page 1

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' jVortfifieCd ~ y> k ■ ■ ■■'/ w ■ We have a bed davenport like the above cut with rockers to match covered in brown imitation leather and finished in either fumed or golden 'oak. This is only one of several styles of davenports that we have the rockers to match. The bed davenport is the economical piece of furniture to buy for the living room as you pan seat four people and have an extra bod. x If you will buy a good twenty-five pound felt mattress the bed will be comfortable. , V/. J. WRIGHT RENSSELAER, INDIANA

fe "We ought to make a hit” ) / AND why not? Never were fine tobaccos ■/ so skillfully blendedl ~ F Chesterfields bring you the best of Turkish and Domestic leaf, blended F| *° ou * new dez ! I lights of flavor. I I

ABE MARTIN.

(Indianapolis News). Some self-made people are mighty / careful' not t’ mention it. Ike Lark dug up a Indian hatchet t’day while ■ prospectin' fer sassafras.

CARD OF THANKS.

We wish, through the Republican, to express our sincere thanks to the kind neighbors and friends for words of sympathy and acts of helpfulness during the illness,'death and burial of our beloved wife, mother atnd sister. We especially thank the minister for his comforting words and the musicians for their 'beautiful songs at the funeral service.. BOWMAN SWITZER x"T.

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Friday. Continued cold tonight. Slowly rising temperature Friday.

If you have anything to sell try our Classified Columns.

X PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—!«!»• NIGHT—TtOO ■ - '■ 1 • —TONIGHT—LILA LEE ' in • “Ths Heart of Youth”

In their romance of love and smouldered for years, then the youth, .what did they care for heart of youth thumped and pound* flude? What though the Whipple* ed with adventure., and Prendergast* shot on sight and A picture filled with laugh* and j made the mountain* ring widt thair thrill* with rugged strength of the •ong* of hate?, fie on their feud! hill* and the charm of young love So said love. But when Cupid in *pring>time v ' fanned the flame* of hate that had FORD EDUCATIONAL WEEKLY

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27TH MARY PICKFORD ------— . . "THE HEART OF THE HILLS” : ~ " * - j' x. ■" ■■ - ■ < ■ . - w — . " -

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BOX SOCIAL. ‘'There will be a box social and free moving picture show at the South Marion Consolidated School, Wednesday, March 3, 1920. Bring boxes and money and be there by 7:30 p. m. Proceeds go to pay for new victrolau Teachers: MINNIE WAYMIRE, / ADA HUFF.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, ATTENTION!

Special meeting after Lenten devotions Friday evening. Important business.

There will be a dance alt Fair Oaks Saturday evening, March 6. A good time is assured to-all. Music by Horton brothers. You are invited. M. E. McKAY.

Andrew Lewark of Roselawn was in Rensselaer today.

DANCE AT FAIR OAKS.

smHI iM INDIANA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920

TEACHERS’ WEEK MARCH 7 TO 14

STATE EDUCATIONAL BOARD ASKS PUBLIC TO BECOME INTERESTED. • ; II ■ ■ The state board of education has designated the week of March 7-14 as “Teachers’ Week,” and have asked all school superintendents to get, in touch with divic bodies, fraternal orders, churches, and in fact all bodies and to have them put forth the cause of the teachers as much as it is possible to do so. The teaching situation has become acute in Indiana and the state educational board feels that the public should be correctly informed as to the cause, which is principally believed'to be the small salaries offered to competent men and women. , In calling for a state “Teachers’ Week” they hope to have the cause and remedies for all difficulties pertaining in any way to the school system, thoroughly discussed and commented upon by the public. Many of the teachers of the state have left their books and have gone into other walks of life simply because in the fact of present high prices they have found it impossible for them to continue teaching at the present rate of pay. In the state there now exists a shortage of 3,000 teachers, according to reliable information. ' z

HENRY GILBRANSON SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY

was the birthday of our good fellow, Henry Gilbranson, and friends and neighbors were not willing for the eVfent to pass unnoticed With well filled baskets they gathered in the Gilbransen home a short time before Henry was scheduled to arrive. Upon his arrival. Henry was thoroughly surprised but at once took in the situation and with the large crowd of friends enjoyed an evening of real delight. Having disposed of the eats, and they were some eats, the evening was spent in a good old-fashioned dance. The music was furnished by three artists on the viotliri. The old time tunes were played and the dance was enjoyed beyond the possibility of the formal dance with the present colored jazz noise. . The members of the trio violin orchestra were Joseph Pullin, M. Tudor and James Newcome.

OF COURSE

we’re just poor automobile salesmen. Get me right. Not only POOR salesmen but poor SALESMEN. We’re not supposed to think of anything but gear and grease and seldom do, but just what has become of the airoplane invented in America a few years ago? At the armistice America had 30,000 aviators trained at a cost of $15,000 per man, and 34,000 more in training camps who later completed the work. We had millions invested in planes and equipment. It looked as if the things had come to stay and we really thought by this summer they would be as common as “Henry’s percolators.” For some reason they have dropped completely off the screen. What’s the answer? It’s rough on rich to be forced to get around another year in such low down transportation as an automobile, but it wasn’t us that suppressed the airoplane, even tho we do have the finest cars in the world iWe have just added the Cadillac and Hupmobile in hopes to overcome the shortage. For years women have been slaves to dress. I notice they are fast freeing themselves. In these new backless j*owns, Til say they are almost emancipated. THOMPSON AND KIRK.

ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS!

All members are urged to be present this evening. Work in the first degree, short talks, visitors from other lodges will be present, eats. Be there.

A cottage prayer meeting will be held Friday at the Thome of Ed Herath at 2:30. This meeting will be held in the interest of the special meetings to be held at the Methodist church.

For Sale YEARLING MULE will be offered at the Ed Ritter Sale THURS., MAR. 4 " ' • Tom: Same as sale. 0. G. BAKER -

CUPID’S DART STRIKES AGAIN; COUNTY THE LOSER

The marriage of George Bernhardt, of Remington, and Miss Agnes Mary Platt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Platt, of this city, occurred at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. E. W. Strecker, at eight o’clock Wednesday evening. . The wedding was a quiet one and there were no witnesses. Mr. Bernhardt is a prosperous young farmer of near Remington and served overseas during the 'late war as a soldier from Jasper county. The bride is a graduatfe of Rensselaer high school of the class of 1911. For the past few years she has been employed as an assistant in the county auditor’s office where her efficiency and courtesy to the public won her many friends. The young couple will reside on a farm near Remington, and the best wishes of their many friends in this city go with them.

BID DEPARTING NEIGHBORS AN AFFECTIONATE FAREWELL

The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Smith gathered at the Smith home, six miles west of this city Tuesday evening, for the purpose of expressing to their departing neighbors an affectionate farewell. For almost half a century Mr. and Mrs." Smith have lived upon tha farm they are soon to desert. The farm has been sold and the Newton township pioneers will move to this city and will occupy- a on North Webster street, .which they purchased of John Kresler. It is hot easy to sever the ties of love and friendship that halve been made during forty-five years of continuous residence in a single neighborhood. The occasion Tuesday evening was a happy one not unmixed with sorrow. The good>things to eat which had been bounteously supplied by the neighbors and the happiness of the evening will ever be remembered by all present. The evening was marked by good fellowship and informality which exists in the American rural district where *rtlficiality gives way to genuine friendship.

NEW CASES FILED.

February 25. Premier Stock Farms Association vs. Joseph Seitler. Ejectment. DwnJor v« \nsrles Kidos. XyDanes Dunutr vo. vnanvo foreclosure of mortgage. __ Fred Bender vs. Charles Bibos. Foreclosure of mortgage.

J. M. Osborn returned to Indianapolis today.

Your Last Chance! Buy eight per-cent nontaxable Rensselaer M’s g, Co. Preferred Stock The Tax man will call on you Monday

Bp That * BlacK WHEN your son comes home with that black ye you’re really as proud of it as he is; means he’s made of the right stuff. Of course, it’s hard on his * clothes. Get him one of our suits; they - stapd that sort of thing. Exceptional values G at :ylo • ■- * a 11BIM

COURT FINDS FOR THE DEFENDANT

An action in replevin brought by Harry Walters against R. E. HopMeins was heard by Judge C. W. Hanley and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Seventeen head of Walters’ cattle had been • taken up by Hopkins after they had broken through the fence and gotten onto the Hopkins farm. Walters claimed that the fence was the part which Hopkins should have kept repaired. There had been an agreement betweefi Harry Walters and his father, Thomas Walters, in reference to the fence. The part of the fence through which the cattle had broken When they entered upon) the land of: Hopkins was the part which'Walters thought Hopkins was under • obliga-. tibn to keep repaired. . It developed during the trial that 1 the agreement between Walters and his father had not been put in writing and was unknown to Hopkins, who had purchased the Thomas Walter farm, and being different for the legal requirement in reference to the keeping up of fences was not therefore binding upon Hopkins. The judge therefore found for Hopkins.

FLEMING-EHMAN NUPTIAL.

Sebo H. Ehman, of Melvin, 111., and Miss Ethel M. Fleming, daughter of Jasper Fleming, of this city, occurred at the Methodist church parsonage Wednesday afternoon at two-thirty o’clock; The ceremony was witnessed iby Mr. Wallace Miller and Miss Nina Thuriough, of this city, friends of the young couple. The young couple will make their future home on a farm near Melvin. The Republican jodnsxj their friends in extending congratinations.

THURSDAY LOCAL GRAIN MARKET

Oats _j —B2c Corn .______s!.3s Rye —51.36 Wheat __ $2.20

STAR THEATRE —2-TODAY— A FEATURE CHARLES RAY The Clodhopper His Greatest Success A study of homespun, of silk, of calicoes. A breath of new mown hay. - ■ A breeze from Broadway. A story of tears and cheers. STOP! THINK! What would you do if you were suddenly thrown into the midst of a bevy of Broadway chorus girbTr • SEE IT! . T Abo A GOOD COMEDY With Lots of Laughs ADMISSION—AduIts M 3—Sts. Children, IG—l—ll*. —FRIDAY— William Fo* Present. > WILLIAM FARNUM ■■

LEAP YEAR BRINGS THE SUNDAY INTO PROMINENCE

Many legal holidays fall on Sunday this year as well as several other dates which Americans are accustomed to look forward to "as important ocasions. George Washihgton’s birthday is the first on the list. It comes on Sunday, Fob. 22. The next will be Memorial day, op Sunday, May 30. Independence day also falls on Sunday this year. Sunday will be robed in the splerwb'i of springtime when Easter arrives, April 4. Then again we are reminded that Sunday, March 21, is the first day of spring. And the extra day in February this year—the 29th, that cames not oftener than every four years and sometimes less frequently—is a Sunday. Last, but not least, from the juvenile viewpoint ,is Hallowe’en day, which also comes bn Sunday this year, the date being Oct 81. Thus it is that leap year brings Sunday into more than usual prominence, although it will not deprive workers of their customary holiday rest, for in the ease of the national holidays the observance will be on the day following. r ,

INDIANA HISTORY OF THE WAR

Several weeks, ago blanks were distributed among the former service men in every township in the county, by the local representatives of the Indiana Historical Commission. The Gold Star Records, those of the men who died in service, have been forwarded to State Headquarters and are now being rapidly assorted and indexed ’in permanent form. _ This ~ commission is . the official State Historical Commission designated by the governor to compile and edit a permanent history of the activities of the .state during the war arid of the soldiers from this state who served during the war. In order that the work may be expedited and the history completed as soon as possible, it is essential that ■ eagh soldier in the county fill in the blanks which were sent out and return them to Mrs. C. W. Hanley, who will forward them to the State Commission If there are any former service men who have not received the blanks they may apply for them and Mrs. Hanley will forward one immediately.

MARKETS BY WIRE.

(Furnished by The Farmers Grain Market, H. H. Potter, Mgr-) Hogs—Receipts, 23,000; carry over, 5,400; higher, 25c; top, sls. Cattle—Receipts, 9,000. Sheep—Receipts, 14,000. May oats opened at .80% to %; closed at .80% to 3-8. July oafts opened at .72 5-8 and 3-4; closed at .72% and 5-8. May corn opened at 1.86 1-8 and 1.35 5-8; closed at 1.87%. July corn opened at 1.81% and 1.31 3-4; closed at 1.31 5-8 and 3-4. 2 Sept corn opened at 1.275-8 and 1-4; closed at 1.28 1-8. .

WILL ADDRESS GRAIN DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION

H. H. Potter, manager of the Farmers Grain Company of this city went. to Lafayette this Thursday morning /where he will attend the fourth annual convention of the farmers’ grain dealers’ association which is being held in that city. 'On Friday Mr. Potter will address the convention on the subject, “The Cost of Handling Grain and Sidelines.”,_ / J

F. C. Teach and Charles Weiss went to Chicago this forenoon. Lucille Morrill and Mrs. Ebner Farmer went to Delphi today. B. B. Baker, Frank U. Baker and L. C. Harris, of Monticello were lin Rensselaer today.

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