Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — Page 1

No. 153.

■SATURDAY SPECIAL • \ J Floor mop and one quart of Golden Star polish and cleaner. Both for $1.39 Golden Star polish is the best. W. J. WRIGHT

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

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—StM NIGHT—7:IS —TONIGHT— 4 Dorothy Gish " . “ —lN—“Turning the Tables” Mack Sennett-Keystone Comedy • SATURDAY, JUNE 26 y Adolf Zukor Presents Marguerite Clark —IN— The Widow by Proxy

Honest to goodness I Criss-cross your heart and hope to diol It’s no fun wearier widow’s woods and weeping for a dear departed who never existed. And as for being a »feh«” widow when you want to be a real wife to a man who “simplg loathes shams” —well, believe the lase" with the veil. Marquerite Clark, is some little flabbergaster in “Widow by Proxy.”

STAR THEATRE f TTP —SATURDAY—- ’ . SOME FEATURE T WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS WILLIAM FARNUM : ' fa “THE ADVENTURER” arai Sound, don’t fail to see this picture. ALSO “TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS” NO. 11. ADMISSION—ADULTS 25c-3e, Me- CHILDREN lOc-le, Ik - J

The Evening Republican.

POPULATION ON UNITED STATES NOW 105,000,000 Washington, June 24.—The populationof continental United States under the 1920 census enumeration is approximately 105,000,000, according to an estimate worked out today by Dr. George Josiah Hill, chief statistician of the buereau of census revision and results. Under this estimate the increase over 1910 is 13,000,000 in round numbers, or approximately 14 per cent. The population in 1910 was 91,972,-266. Dr. Hill uses in his estimates the figures in complete returns announced up to June 26, or 1,406 cities and towns which have an aggregate population of 41,029,354. NOTICE. R. E. Davis, the piano tuner and player adjuster, is here. . your orders at the Rensselaer Hotel, phone 167. Expert on all makes of player pianos. Work guaranteed.

EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION Ben Turpin, Charles Murray, Mane Prevost, Ford Sterling, Phyllis Haver and Louise Fazenda in A Paramount Mack Sennett Comedy “SALOME VS. SHENANDOAH” Does the old man approve of the show? He does. Then why did he buy a front seat? (Silence). You won’t disapprove but you’ll laugh till you’re ill. Admission—Adults, 2Se"'--3c" -28 c; Children, 10c—1c—11c

—MWHUMANA. FRIDAY, JUNE 25. 1920.

HAMMOND LUMBER PRICES ARE DECLINING

. The Lake County Times of Hammond says that the prices of building materials, particularity lumber, have suffered a decline to lower levels. Dealers there are out after business now while six months ago the business came to them without solicitation. - The Times gave the following interview with W. G. Paxton one of the leading Hammond lumber dealers and also well known in this city. “For the purpose of encouraging building the Paxton Lumber Company is prepared to make substantion reductions on all bills it figures from now on.” . “I understand that the school city is ready and willing to go ahead with its large building program providing it is a sthe members of the building trades are. willing to talk business. for ourselves, I am prepared to state that we will furnish lumber at a figure that should encourage such a program as the school contemplates. And this applies to the small purchaser as well as the big ones.” Contractors, who have been going into the labor situation state that while no wage reductions are contemplated there is an evident purpose on the part of the various craftsmen to boost production and give a fair days work for the big days pay their are receiving. This is important as the wage increases were never so serious in the eyes of the investor, the builder and the contractor, the builder and the contractor as the slogan, “ make the job last” which was partly re-, sponsible for the demoralized condition of the building business not only in Hammond but in all parts of the country as well.

ROUNDUP OF BIG OIL PROMOTERS

New York, June 24.—With the breaking of seals today on indictments charging fourteen concerM and fifty individuals with fraud, government agents let it become known that they had begun a na-tion-wide roundup of alleged wildcat oil company promoters who are said to have swindled the public out of millions within the last few months. The defendants, oil companies, brokerage concerns and their officers and salesmen —are charged wiw having used the mails to defraud. They are alleged to have made gross misrepresentations and to have in some cases paid impressive dividends out of receipt? on stock sales. In one casf, the indictments charged, salesmen disposing of stock of the Crown Oil company falsely represented that a son of former President Roosevelt was an officer of the company, which it was claimed would soon rival the Standard Oil company in volume of business. . Shares of this company, according to one of the indictments, were sold to investors in Chicago at >2.25 a share, and to “evade the western blue sky law” lated was disposed of here at $3, after costing grokers only 7% cents a share.

1,350,000 GERMANS KILLED IN WAR

Geneva, June 24.—(8y Associated Press.)—Recent statistics published in Germany on that country s war losses, state that 1,350,000 men were killed. There are today 520,000 war widows, 1,130,000 war orphans and 500,000 manned or consumptives supported mostly by charity.

BURIAL IN ILLINOIS

The body of the late Elizur Sage was taken to- Channahon, 111., this Friday, leaving here on the milk train and going by the way of Chicago. Channahon is the old Sage home where Mr. Sage was born and lived until coming to this county twenty-four years ago. It is a little inland town about ten miles from Joliet. M In the funeral party were Mrs. Elizur Sage; son Kermit, daughter Mrs. David Zeigler and Mr. Zeigler; Mrs. Russell Sage, Russell was unable to go on account of sickness; Russell Chadwick, of Joliet, who was a nephew of the late Mr. Sage, and had been here sometime during his late Mrs. Charles W. Rhoades, of this city. Funeral services for the departed was held at the Makeever house parlors Thursday afternoon _ and were conducted by the Rev. W.• T. Barbre, pastor of the First Christian church of this city.

ROB FRANKFORT STORE

Rich haul Of clothing was made bv burgulars who entered the Flora and CrS store at Frankfort Thursday and obtained dry goods worth expensive suits, several boxes of silk hose, and four traveling hags were among the loot taken by the thieves. • . "Entrance was gained to the store by smashing a rear* window. Blood stains show that one ofthe thieves must have injured himself.

TRACTION FARES ARE RAISED

The Public Service Commission had granted an increase in passenger fares on Indiana tractor hu® B from -2 3-4 cents to 3 cents, the same is now received by steam reads. \

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DEPAUW GIFTS AMOUNT TO $411,041

Dr. George Grouse, president of DePauw University at Greencastle announces gifts to that institution of $411,045. The donors are Edward Rector of Chicago for a permanent endowment of the Edward Rector scholarship foundation, $375,000; for library and books, $100; for loan for students, SIOO. Scholarships of SIOO each from J. B. Rubel of LaPorte; Mrs. Gertrude Garry Sutcliffe, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howes, of Chicago. The Methodist districts of the Indiana conference, including Mtmcie, Ft. Wayne, Richmond, Klokomo, Crawfordsville, Seymour, and Indianapolis have each contributed scholarships pf SIOO. The Y. M. C. A. gave scholarships amounting to 189. The 63rd artillery, through Col. R. L. Moorehead gave SSOO for a loan fund for students. The board o fhome missions and church extention of the Methodist Episcopal church gave a war emergency scholarships for the returned soldiers students which amounts to $6,356. Mr. and Mrs. Ira B. Blackstock, of Springfield, 111., gave $25,000 for a new atthletic field, which by a vote of the trustees is -to be named Blackstone Athletic field. Mrs. Emma Pattern Weaver, widow of Col. James Riley Weaver, contributed to the university books from the private library of Col. Weaver, including several volumes formerly belonging to Bishop Matthew Simpson. John T. Wingate, of Wingate, gave a complete set of autographed works of James Whitcomb Riley and auso an autographed set of''the works of Gen. Lew Wallace. President Grouse also announces that the canvass for the retired teachers’ fund of SIOO,OOO had been completed by a subscription of $104,000, the money being subscribed by four hundred different persons.

REVERSE DECISION OF WHITE COUNTY COURT

Indianapolis, Ind., June 24.—Telegraph messages which pass over lines outside of Indiana are not subject to the laws of the state concerning no-delivery of telegrams, according to a decision of the appellate court. The court reversed the judgment of the White circuit court in the case of Will S. Bushnell, against the Western Union Telegraph company in which damages were awarded the plaintiff on account of the failure of the company to deliver a message sent from Monticello to Gary. It was shown that the message was delayed through the Chicago office of the company and thus passed outside the state.

ICE CREAM MAKERS NEAR PROSECUTION

Indianapolis, June 24. —Investithat many manufacturers of ice gations by the state food and drug cream in Indiana are hovering close to the illegal limit for starch adulteration of their produc. The adulteration may not legally exceed, one per cent for gelatin of vegetable gums or starch, according to . L. Miller, state food and drug commissioner.

TARDILY INFORMED

We have just been informed of three births that should have Men announced several days ago. These were a. daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Jacks, born two weeks ago, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Moore last week and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David A. Yeoman also last week.

temperatureThe following is tae temperatun for the twenty-four hours ending • T a. m. on the data indicated: Max. Miu June 25 84 55

WONDERFUL CROP IF HELP CAN BE SECURED

Chicago, June 24.—America's farmers are the one great • group that does not register a slump in individual output during the post-war srag. No diminished man-hour efficiency herei With crops coming along abooming, the supply of hired farm labor is 12 per cent less than :n 1919 and 28 per cent less than before the war, according to the latest estimates. The agricultural regions are rhr.eking louder than ever before for worker;., while to keep the country’s bread basket filled the farmers are turning right into day by aid of searchlights end are combatting the labor shortage by putting in longer hours themselves. - In Dekaltj, Peoria, and other Illinois counties tractors are kept going all night long. According to reports received by the Illinois Agricultural association, many a husbandman for weeks past has been makihg an eighteen or twenty hour day of it for himself. The fight to keep America’s larder stocked this year seems to be an even more epic struggle than it was in 1917 and 1918. Meanwhile the park benches in some cities are getting more occupants. The slowing down of some industrial lines because of reduced supplies and impeded transportation facilities is backing a tide of labor westward. For weeks, for example, Detroit’s parks have held many unemployed, due to reduced forces in the automobile industry. The jobless have been floating back to Chicago and points still further west. For a week contractors in the building trade, which is one of the best barometers, have reported plenty of labor. . In many lines there is a decreasing demand for men because of depleted supplies and an increasing supply of men, due to the influx from other municipalities. Many authorities believe that between the two tendencies the labor market situation has about come to a balance; that for every job available there is a‘ man somewhere to fill it. The automobile industry, one of the great enigmas of the perplexing economic situation, by all reportsis being tuned down as a factor. The connection between bread * and gas engines shows how closely the industrial body is knit. The phenomenal growth of the automobile factories drew men from the farms and from other -industries, including the railroads. It was one of many factors in the breakdown of transportation, which, in turn, slowed down movement of materials and caused plants to slow down. The transportation trouble likewise caused last year’s wheat to pile up in the elevators. The loans to finance it were, consequently, strung out, and to get money to move the coming crop the federal reserve banks began to cut down on loans to less essential industries. Two distinct developments are reported within recent weeks *in the automobile industry. One is a falling off in demand for both used and new cars. The other is the prompter deliveries offered by many makers Improved deliveries are attributed to the use of motor transportation. The federal reserve banks, by urging seasonal liquidation of paper based on automobile purchases, have apparently halted temporarily the absorption of capital, labor, and materials in pleasure car manufacturing.

BRYAN’S DICTUM ON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

W. J. Bryan, in this week’s issue of his paper, the Commoner, discusses the possible Democratic candidates for the presidency, and the platform also. His opinions, briefly summarized, are as follows: CANDIDATES. Too Wot. Governor Edwards, of New Jersey. Gov. Cox, of Ohio. Too Moist. Vice President Marshall. Too Much Wilson. President Wilson. William G. McAdoo. Not Mentioned. William J. Bryan. Casual Mention. Champ Clark. James W. Gerard. > Unavailable. Herbert Hoover. A Mitchell Palmer. These Are O. K. Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma. Edwin T. Meredith of lowa, secretary of agriculture. PLATFORM. Must: Be dry. Indorse peace treaty with reservations. Declare against profiteers, private monopoly, and universal military training; and in favor es man suffrage and toilers’ right to equal treatment. 7~

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. New York, 3; Chicago, 1. Cincinnati, 5; Philadelphia, 3. St. Louis, 7; Boston, 4. Brooklyn, 6; Pittsburg, 2. t ' American* Detroit, 5; St. Louis, 0.

Friday local grain prices were, oats, 31.08; corn, $1.67; rye, >190; and wheat, 32.70. This is a decided decline in corn. - Mrs. Charles G. Spitler and Misa Maude Spitler were in Wheatfield today. .

A Broom A good fearsewed parlor broom for 65c ] 01 SATURDAY while the last at MURRAY’S |

BAPTISTS QUIT “INTERCHURCH” MAY BE END

Buffalo, N. Y., June 24.—The Northern Baptist convention ' after what was said to be the most stormy debate in its history, voted by an overwhelming majority to withdraw wholly from the mterchurch world movement. The “divorce decree” takes effect next Wednesday, the day after this convention adjourns. It closed the doors to any possible further participation in the movement. The Northern Baptists voted to pay so much of the >2,500,000 for which it underwrote the interchurch as shall seem their “just share” but it did not provide any money for helping the movement in the future. This is going much farther than did the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Philadelphia just a month ago. The Presbyterians withdrew from the interchurch, arranged to pay the >1,000,000 for which it underwrote the movement, but voted to maintain an “advisory relation” to it for one more year, and, if it re-organized with certain reforms to pay >IOO,OOO toward its expenses. . The Baptists in their resolutions of today distinctly stated that under no circumstances was the sum to be handed over to exceed the >2,500,000* for which it had already assumed responsibility. The belief expressed freely here is that the interohurch is dead, buried, and can never be resurrected, now that both the northern Baptist and Presbyterian denominations have quit it. _ , , Irish Resolution Piss outed There was not a moment of the day which did not have a thrill, but the greatest uproar came when the Rev. Dr. A. C. Dickson, now of Los Angeles, but for about a decade pastor of a large Congregational church in London, England, offered a resolution which was taken deal with the “Irish republic.

BILLS FOR SESSION WILL BE DRAWN IN ADVANCE

Indianapolis, June 24.—AD bills that will be acted upon at the special session of the Indiana legislature, which Governor James P. Goodrich has announced he will call, will be drafted for the session is issued, it was saw today at the governor’s office. This plan has been said, with a view to expeditingthe work of the session ana making it o brief as possible; The governor has made no announcement ing the date of the special but it is believed now sembly will not be convened next week.

MARKETS BY WIRE.

(Furnished by The F arme £J{ 1 ’ >,n Market, H. H. Pott® 1 . Chicago, June 25, 1920. Ii„ Stock Market. Hogs, receipts, 30,000; top, * Gattie, receipta, SheeP. July oats opened at 1.02 1-2 and 1-4; closed at , Sept, oats opened at .84 3-4 ana 1-2; closed at .85 1-8. July corn opened at 1-2, closed at 1.75 . - Sept, com opened M 1.07 ana 1.67 3-4; closed at 1.68. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Royster ana children of Lafayette are the goes® of the formers BL Boyster and family. Mr. «s one of the Monon tramdwpatcneni at Lafayette. Other guestaat the Royster home jwrt west w ox ww city Friday were Mr. and Mrs-MM-ton Greaves and daughter, Jwnei, of Morocco and Mrs.Dolhe Bell and two daughters of Galveston. * Jack Murphy and A. E. W allace returned from Chicago this afternoon. -

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