Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1920 — Page 1

No. 138.

Porch Swings On account of the embargo on the railroads we have sure had a lot of trouble getting a shipment of wob<T porch swings. We finally had a shipment go to Delphi by traction and brought them overland by truck. They come in 2,4, 5 rnd 6 foot lengths with settee, rocker and chair to match. - J . • ............ ■ . .. . , . W. J. WEIGHT Rensselaer, Indiana

CLUB PICNIC DATE SET BACK TO JULY 18

At a meeting of the board of directors of the Van Rensselaer club Monday evening it was decided to change the date of the annual club picnic from June 20, the date originally agreed upon, to Sunday, July 18. The picnic will be held at Lake Maxinkiickee. The above action was taken for several reasons, the chief among them being the general opinion among the that the picnic should not be held until the summer is further advanced, that the bathers may take to the lake with greater comfort. It has also been learned that Culver Military Academy will not open up for the summer term until June 29, and it was the desire of the members to visit the Academy in the evening and witness the drill. Another reason for waiting until a later'date is to give the spring fries a better chance to get themselves in condition for the skillet. By postponing the picnic one month it will give the various committees much more time to prepare, thus insuring the success of the event.

Targa clean rags wanted at the Republican office.

Extra Another Big Reduction in Woolens Come and see me before buying that suit of clothes. , JOHN WERNER The Tailor bver Post Office.

«. PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—3I3O NIGHT—7:IS —TONIGHT— V * ' Joseph J. Downing and Betty Compson "The Miracle Man” A Paramout Artcraft Picture

From the play by George M. Oohau Based on the story by F. L. Paobard "Such a simple old boob!” He with his child’s hoar* and his boundless faith in mon. What rich pickings for this “sweet young chicken” and her crooks from Chinatown! So the crooks thought—-until he

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. Metro Screen Classics Present ALICE LAKE “SHOULD A WOMAN TEEL" Was truth the prion of lore? That she could not decide. Then swept over Mota lite roaKgation of Albert’s ideal of her. Bpt - . ■

The Evening Republican.

COUNTERFEITERS’ OUTFIT FOUND AT LAFAYETTE

Lafayette, June 5.—A counterfieiter’s outfit, which was unearthed this week at West Point in this county by workmen engaged in razing an old building to make way for a new bank structure/ has been identified by Thomas E. Halls\ of the United States secret service at Indianapolis, as property that belonged to George Hamy a counterfeiter, who operated in this part of the state thirty-three years ago. Ham was arrested at West Point in 1887 and several dies were confiscated at the time. Not all of the outfit, however, was found at that time. The die for making dollars of the date of 1881 had been hidden in the walls of the building at West Point and it was this which was found this week by the workmen. The die has been turned over to the secret service authorities.

THREE HURT IN ACCIDENT AT WOLCOTT

Three young women on their way from Lowell to the Gala week festivities at Purdue University were injured at Wolcott Sunday when their automobile skidded, upset and rolled down an embankment. Julia Nelson, of Lowell, a member of the senior class at Pursue, was badly bruised and perhaps injured internally. Emily Nelson, her sister, who was graduated from Purdue a year ago, suffered a broken arm and Glenn Pletcher, another graduate of Purdue, class of 1919, was severely bruised and cut. They were taken to their homes >in Lowell.

M’CRAY’S CAMPAIGN LISTED AT $31,368

Kentland, June 7.—Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, successful candidate for the republican nomination for governor of Indiana in primaries held May 4, ‘spent $31,368.82 in his campaign, according to his report filed here with the Newton county clerk. The sum, according to Mr. McCray, includes the expenses of Fred B. Robinson, Lawrence E. Lyons and other political agents.

believed in THEM! And when at lest he left them with the tears running down their cheek*— See the sum of the human soul’s adventures in a crowded hour of unalloyed delight. Admission: Adults, 25c 3c 38c. Children, lOe 3c lie

she had reckoned with the strength of her conscience. Confronted with this intensely dramatic problem, she acted. What she did and what came of it is shown graphically, compellingly in "Should a Woman Tell?” A tense drama of a woman’s love for a man at grips with her love for truth. Also CHRISTIE TWO-REEL COMEDY

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SWFI ar* INDIANA, TUESDAY* JUNE 8, 1920.

JUNE TERM OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The county commissioners completed their June term Monday transacting the following business: BRIDGES Two bridges over the Nesius Ditch in Jordan township, Contractor Roe E. Yeoman was allowed contract price in full, SIO3B and $772. Near Virgie, Union township, Contractor William DcArmond allowed $821.50, contract price in full. Over Oliver Ditch in Barkley township. New plans ordered prepared. Ben D. McColly was awarded the contract for two’ bridges over Wasson ditch at $1345 and $1135 and bridge over the Schatzley ditch, 1537. Hodge Ditch, Wheatfield township. John Bowie awarded contract to repair same at SSOO. Winamac Construction Co. was awarded bridges over Oliver Ditch in Barkley, Boyle Ditch in Union and Hobbs Ditch in Wheatfield townships at $5890, $1879 and $487 respectively. Roe E. Yeoman was awarded the' contract for bride v over the Thompson ditch in Union township at SBOO. Charles Stalbaum was awarded the contract for bridge over the David ditch in Kankakee township at $1395. ROADS. Barlow road. Contractor allowed $3,205.60, W. E. Cain, S. D. Clark, C. M. Dewey, John O’Connor and Alfred Duggleby roads. Viewers reports examined and approved. ’ Expense accounts allowed. B. W. Ellsworth road. Contractor allowed $2,040. Felix R. Erwin road. Twenty bonds to the amount of $15,200 ordered issued. Emil Herre road. No bids received. Auditor directed to re-ad-vertise. A. D. Hershman and Jacob Johnson roads. Contracts let to Jacob Johnson at SB,OOO and $8,260 respective. A. D. Hershman appointed superintendent of the Hershman and William Salrin superintendent of the Johnson road. Attorney John A. Dunlap allowed SIOO fees in the former and $125 in the latter. J. R. Phillips road. Contractor paid $2,577.60 in full. Road accepted as part of the county system. , t W. C. Rose road. Contract let to Ben D. McColly for $3,017.50. Stephen Freeman appointed superintendent. John H. Rusk road. Contractor allowed $4,160. W. W. Sage road. Time extended. ! Joseph E. Thomas road. Bond of Joseph E. Thomas, superintendent, approved. Twenty bonds for' $18,200 to be issued. ■ | Edgar S. Thornton .road. Bond of Joseph E. Thomas, superintendent, approved. Wm. L. Wood road. Contractor allowed $1,620. Frank Corbin road. Election commissioners report 57 vote for and 105 against. Cause dropped at petitioners’ expense. Simon Groet road. W. D. Meyers appointed viewer in place of George W. Ferguson, removed from the county. Joseph W. Brown and Isaac Kight roads. Edgar Nesbitt appointed engineer. F. M. Hart and C. O. Spender, viewers. Arthur L. Waymire and Frank H. Henley road. Notice sufficient Edgar Nesbitt appointed engineer, W. V. Porter and J. S. L. Gray viewers. _ . „ F. M. Hart road. R. A. Mannon appointed engineer, M. J. Delahanty and E. Jensen viewers. Elmore Barce road. Edgar -Nesbitt appointed engineer,—Franhd Welsh and William Morris viewers. DITCHES Amanda B. Reece ditch. Referred to Edgar Nesbitt, B. Frank Alter and John F. Pettet. F. S. Tyler ditch. Contractor allowed $2,865.60. Eck and Stack Ditch. Petation to clean. Continued for objections. May ditch. Assessment sheet filed and approved. Last date for payment, October 25, 1920. MISCELLANEOUS Report of interest due from banks approved as follows; First National Bank, Renselaer, $235.96. _ Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $253,51. State Bank, Rensselaer, $228.98. Farmers and Merchants National Bank, Renselaer, $188.97. State Bank of Remington, $200.07 Farmers National, Remington, $41.21. — Bafik of Wheatfield, $71.23. J Lawrence McLain was awarded scholarship to Purdue University. Trustee of Wheatfield township authorized to grant additional aid to Mary Rrcher. Warren E. Poole, truste of Hanging Grove township presented his resignation as trustee to take effect July 1, 1920. George Parker was appointed in his place.

ATTENTION, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS!

The rank of Knight will be conferred by the local lodge Knights of Pythias tonight. After work has been given there will be eats and a social time. All Knights toll please give this notice preferred attention and be present if possible. The Women’s Missionary society of the Presbyterian church Will iheet with Mrs. B. F. Fendig Wednesday afternoon at three o’clock.

AMENDMENT NOW A LAW

SUPREME COURT KNOCKS ALL THE PROPS FROM UNDER THE “WETS.” Washington, June 7.—The United State Supreme court today upheld constitutional prohibition. The eighteenth amendment to the constitution was held to. be valid. In the same decision the. court held that the Volstead enforcement act is also void. While attorneys for the interests attacking the two measures were granted permission to file motions for re-hearings, the decision Was regarded generally as striking a death blow to the hopes of the wets. The court’s opinion, -rendered by Justice Van Deventer, was sweeping. It held that the amendment not only came within the amending power conferred by the federal constitution, but was legally proposed and now was the law of the land. While recognizing that congress has limitations in respect to the enforcement of laws regarding beverages, the court held those limits were not transcended in the enactment of the enforcement act restricting alcoholic content of intoxicants to' one-half of one percent. While New York, New Jersey and'Wisconsin acts permitting manufacture and sale of beverages of more than one-half of one per cent alcoholic content were not directly involved, the decision was interpreted as invalidating them. The court said the first section of the amendment of its own force “invalidates any legislative act —whether by congress or by a state legislature, or by a territorial assembly —which authorizes or sanctions what the section prohibits.” Concurrent powers granted by the amendment to federal and state government to enforce prohibition, the court further held “does not enable congress or the several states to defeat or thwart prohibition, but only to enforce it by appropriate means.” The decision of the court was set forth in eleven conclusions covering seven separate proceedings. These proceedings included original suits brought by the state of Rhode Island directly attacking the constitutionality of the amendment. While agreeing as to validity of the amendment and enforcement act, Justices McKenna and Clarke dissented from the majority interpretation of the concurrent power of federal and state governments to enforce prohibition. Chief Justice White held that the court should set forth the reasoning for its decision. He did this in a supplemental opinion. . . Justice Mcßeynolds, in a brief statement, declared he was of the opinion that it was impossible to say at this time what construction should be given to the amendment He added that “because of the bewilderment which the amendment creates” he preferred to remain free to consider the multitude of questions which will “inevitably arise and demand solution.” The decision set at rest contentions proviously laid before the court that the amendment could not affect alcoholic liquors manufactured prior to January 16, when the amendment became effective. The court held that the amendment applied to such liquors the same as any produce after that time. - Regarding arguments to the effect that a state having constitutional —referendum provisions could not have been said to have ratified the amendment until it had been submitted to the voters, the court cited its opinion rendered last Monday in the Ohid referendum case in which it held that such provisions do not apply to federal amendments.. . . Only one prohibition case of importance remains undecided. It is an appeal from New York involving the constitutionality of portions of the enforcement act prohibiting storage in warehouses of intoxicating liquors designed for use. This case was argued this spring but with the court's, adjournment today for the summer cannot be decided before October at the earliest.

ENGLAND NOW FORBIDS

No sugar of any kind is being shipped to America from England since the end of December, when all export of sugar was prohibited. England’s purchases of sugar m Cuba have not been sufficient for its needs, and still .it is looking Abroad for new supplies. The export license department of the board of trade has found nature the reports that sugar was being sent out of the country by prof iteers. There were until the last month a few tran-shipments in English ports of sugar which was being shipped from Cuba to America via England by American interests. There is not much seeking higher pnces abroad, bugar |is selling in England for 21 to 23 cents a pound. Reduction in price on all silks in stock. This includes Messahnes, Taffetas, Satins, Georgette, Crepe de Chine, etc. A beautiful selection. Fendig's Fair. '-.-■L ' ‘ ' •' 11 9 . ' : -V- .'.Vf- .'-.- UP!-

/X COLONIALS i X Ties 1 I _ \ X. I The only way to have \ f lower prices is to lower yH \ them? Thus at the beO 4 \ ginning of the season, \ \ we are giving a substan- \ tial cut on women’s low x. shoes. Three of our best . • styles are: Black Sbede Colonial, or one Tie Pump, with covered (bQ 7ft Louis heel, were $12.50 O Patent One Tie Pump, or Patent Kid Colonial, with 45 7 Qft covered Louis heel, sold at SIO.OO • ••JO Beaver Brown Kid Lace Oxford, leather Louis heel, 47 QC hand turned sole, a SIO.OO value V • MURRAY’S • W ■ FOR GOOD SHOES

CONVENTIONALITIES.

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Don’t miss this. Going on all the time. Never out and never over. The big show.” And the band blares. The Congress arid Auditorium hotels bring back memories of that sort of thing, the good old country fair, the greatest show on earth, and carrying water to the elephants. Along Michigan avenue in front of the hotels where the candidates have their headquarters, the hawkers have taken up their stations and their festive cries mingle with the nasal whistlings emanating from musical ball-rooms. Also we have here for sale cow bells, feather ticklers and other devices reminiscent of New Years Eve. Inside the assorted headquarters are all dressed up to attract the passing throngs. A slow moving column of tired spectators, filling the corridors from wall to wall plods from one exhibit to another — looking ’em over. Sometimes the candidates themselves may be seen and the throng surges forward for a look with squeals of delight, cries of “there he is.” Some folk holding up the youngsters to see over the heads of those in front. If you’re lucky you may get a glimpse of Johnson,. Wood, Butler, Harding and other celebrities, all in the space of a few minutes. —3 —— __ The folks tramp along get loaded down with souvenirs—feathers, sheet music, miniature airplanes, California poppies and roses, campaign buttons of near-gold with tassels and other gee-gaws that put to blush Hie old-fashioned celluloid of previous presidential years. The walls are plastered with huge posters of candidates and their names glare in electric lights from above the thronged entrance ways, and the Coliseum smells of sawdust and has an indefinable circus air—the greatest show ori earth.

Senator Lodge and Murray Crane led the procession of the Massachusetts delegation up Michigan avenue when.it arrived. Johnson holds the hand-shaking record—6s men and women in eight minutes. The senator has a hard swing in his right arm, with considerable impact and a firm gnp, •with a hearty “glad to see you.” Among Sunday sermons convention visitors did not hear was one entitled “God’s choice of candidates for the presidency” by a fashionable South Side minister. Another Sunday item: George W. Sunday, son of the famous Billy Sunday, evangelist, worked all day Sunday at Wood beadquarters. One of the chief consumers of lead pencils around the convention is .George Hart, Virginia, official signer. With five assistants, George will write every word uttered in the Coliseum this week. Window dressers with unanimous originality all agree that elephants should be the chief display during convention week. They range in size from ivory miniatures half an inch high to one that fills a large window. There are candy one for the kids.

PAPER SHORTAGE CAUSES ELWOOD PAPER TO SUSPEND

Elwood, Ind., June 7.—The Evening Post, a Democratic daily newspaper, published by Claude M. Ogle and Joseph B. O’Neill,* suspended publication with the issue of Saturday, giving as the cause the shortage of print paper. The printing plant is owned by D. W. Callahan, of. Urbana, O., formerly of Winchester, and was leased four months ago by the publishers, who were newspaper men employed at Muncie. It was formerly the Daily Record, published by A. D. Moffett and later sold by his widow to Callahan.

WILLIAM ROACH OF DELPHI PASSES AWAY

Delphi, Ind., June 7.—William Roach, one of Delphi’s leading business men, died Saturday evening of cancer. He was one of the proprietors of the Roach & Rothenbarger flour mills and was the father of W. A. Roach, former secretary of state, who died last year. Mr. Roach, who was born in Canada in 1846, had lived in Delphi fifty years. For thirty years he and Levi Rothen berger had been partners in the milling business. Mr. Roach was a prominent Miason and Odd Fellow and a member of the Methodist church. He was twice married, his first wife dying in 1882. His' second wife survives, together with one daughter by his first wife, Mrs. E. L. Cox, and a son, Harry, and a daughter, Mrs. Luther Grantham, by the second marriage. He also leaves a step-daughter, Mrs. Vern Brook, in Texas, and two grandchildren. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, Rev. R. O. Kimberlin officiating.

BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ON EXHIBITION IN COLORADO

The Colorado State Museum has a new exhibit that is being viewed with longing eyes and watery lips. It is a bottle of champagne of ancient vintage. ' ■ _ .3 Along with relics of Colorado “cave dwellers” and pagan collections from the old world, the bottle of sparkling beverage is carefully guarded. The champagne. is a souvenir of pioneer days, having been brought across the plains in . a prairie schooner for- a banquet given by Denver citizens to members of the 1868 Territorial Legislate. It is the lone survivor of many bottles of rare wine served to on that occasion, and was presented to the museum by C. M. McLaughlin, speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1868.

N. Y. TRIBUNE SUED BY MAYOR THOMPSON

Mayor William Hale Thompson, of Chicago, has filed summons at New York in the county clerk’s office, preparatory to bringing suit against the New York Tribune, Inc., for libel. The suit is the result of a recent Tribune editorial which the plaintiff asserts reflected on his Americanism during the war.

MARKETS BY WIRE.

(Furnished by The 'Farmers Grain Market, H. H. Potter, Mgr.) Chicago, June 8, 1920. Livs Stock Market. Hogs, receipts, 33,000; top, 14.55. Cattle, receipts, 8,000. Sheep, receipts, 5,000. • . ' . . Indianapolis Hogs, 12,000; top, 514.60. Markets. July oats opened at .96%; closed at .97 and .96 7-8. Sept, oats opened at .78 3-4 and 1-4; closed at .78 7-8. । July corn opened at 1.71 and 1.70 3-4; closed at 1.70 3-4 and 5-8. । Sept, corn opened at 1.56 3-4 and 1-4; closed at 1.57 1-2. ,

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The folowing letters remain unclaimed at the post office at Rensselaer, Ind. Week ending June 5. Ira Brown, Add Clayton, Beulah Evans, Nell Fitzgibbon, Chas. Kellar, Ralph S. Stark. . The above letters if not called for will be sent to Hie Dead Letter office on June 21; N. LITTLEFIELD, P. M.

— - -'J —... Lloyd George says the Versailles Treaty must be executed. Germany would like to be the executioner. —Arkansas Gazette. ( . in ■ — " " ~ " 20 per cent discount on all Ladies’ and children’s low shoes, . All high grade shoes. Fendig’s Fair.

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