Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — Page 3

THAYER.

Mr. and Mn Joe Weisburg have moved back to Chicago. George Cummings of Chicago vac a Sunday visitor here. Mrs. Edith Campbell returned from Wheatfield last Sunday. Chas. Amstein of Chicago visited here Sunday with his parents. A party of relatives from Chicago visited Peter Sommer here SunJack and Milt and Charlie Jansen attended the ball game at Wheatfield last Sunday. Born, on July 15, 1920, a girl, to George S. Freeman and wife. Dr. Tate attending physician. Grandma Wm. Gundy of Roy lawn visited here Sunday with the family of Henry DeFries. Mrs. Amy Montgomery and , daughter, Gladys, of Jacksonville, Florida, are here this week visiting friends. • . t , Francis Luchene, wife and twins of Hammond visited here Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ock Cyphers. , Two children of Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Petry of Lowell returned home Monday from a visit here with Mrs. Frank Fuller.

ROSELAWN.

Mrs. Ella Myers is reported on the sick list Grandma Gundy visited relatives at Thayer Sunday. The largest attendance at the church here for many a day Sunday evening. _ , . „ The Mulder family motored Sunday to- Hanna and visited Fred Stoltz and family. Mr. Stoltz was formerly a resident of Roselawn. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wilder also made the trip and visited Dr. Ed Crawford and family.

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WHEATFIELD.

Jean Bowie visited relatives at Shelby Monday. Mrs. John Myers was taken suddenly ill last Saturday. Miss Irene Keen is visiting relatives at Goodland and vicinity. Mrs. George Williams went to South Bend Saturday evening. J. W. Ott of Crown Point is here for his annual harvest workout. Bert and Frank Mitchell of Gary spent Sunday here with home folks. Born on Sunday, July 18, 1920, a boy to Charles Jensen and wife. Albert Dunn and Fred Pickner of Gary visited here over Sunday. I Mn. Albert Stembel and son visited last week with relatives at Rensselaer. Bill Mac went Thursday evening to Cincinnati to drive back another new Ford Sedan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers motored to Valparaiso last Sunday and visited relatives. Miss Beula Brooks of Danville returned home after a two weeks’ visit with friends here. County Treasurer John Biggs, George Nees and Fred Thomas were county seat visitors Saturday. The new Wheatfiteld telephone exchange is open for business. Automatic phones and modern equipment. Mrs. Guy Meyers is in charge of the exchange. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Seegrist and son, Walter, Mrs. Alfred Duggleby and Mrs. John Duggleby motored here Monday to see the sights and get' a dish of good ice cream. D. S. Makeever, Ed Randle of Rensselaer; Dr. L. A. Salisbury,. of Crown Point, attended the meeting of the directors of the Bank of Wheatfield here last Thursday. Mrs. Simon Fendig and son Allen, motored to the Jasper County Hospital last Saturday to see her mother, Mrs. Allen, who is improving so. much that she will be brought home this week. Biss Mac relates some exciting experiences driving a Ford Sedan from Cincinnati last week. Bill said some of the hills were so steep that he had to back up them in order to get the gas into the carburetor and when going down some of the hills he had to go sideways. Uncle Bill McNeil has been all spruced up the past week and everybody has been asking our reporter all kinds of questions. “Where’s Bill going.” “Where’s he been,” etc., and did you notice the new silk ribbon he had on for a hat band and some hinted that he had visited the beauty parlor. Now the reason was that Mrs. McNeil and Miss Maria Biggs went to Denver, Colo., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Alva McNeil.

WALKER TOWNSHIP.

M. Zufall and wife called at F. M. Lilly’s Wednesday evening. Mrs. F. M. Lilly spent the day with Miss Alice Meyers Wednesday. Mrs. Joe Sahin and son, John, called at Henry Meyers’ Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington were callers in Francesville Wednesday. Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson and son. Will, called at Ernest Tomlinson’s Wednesday. A threshing meeting was held at the home of Will Clinton Wednesday evening. _ . , , Miss Catherine Wennck went Sunday to visit her niece, Mrs. Gus Shultz, of Kouts. _ , Gail Michaels and family, Ernest Tomlinson and family called at Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson’s Sunday. Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson and Mrs. A. P. Huntington spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. F. M. Lilly. Tom Inkley of Rensselaer was transacting business around Virgie and Walker Center Thursday. Catherine, Junior and Mildred Pettet spent Wednesday visiting their sister, Mrs. Ernest Tomlinson. Mr. and Mrs. Oryis Salrm of Inj diana Harbor, visited his parents Sunday and his sisters, Eva and F«r£ returned with them for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Pettet were Valparaiso callers Wednesday where they bought a new piano. It was delivered Thursday by Huntington, of Lowenstein’s store. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bridge man and Albert Owens, of Monom who have been visiting at Mr. Bridgeman’s, spent and Sunday at the home of Alvin Dunn, , Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington spent Sunday with Mr. Huntingtons anther, of Mt Ayr, who was recently hurt quite seriously in an automobile accident at Remington in which she had her . right collar bone broken and was badly shaken up.

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SALAMANDERS OF GREAT SIZE

Frsof That Speclee Long Extinct, Sometimes Attained a Length of Five Foot. In Europe, some time ago. bones were dug up of some newts which in life bad been about five feet long. Every boy is familiar with newts, which he calls “salamanders," commonly found in brooks and ponds. A specimen five Inches long is a big one. But five feet —they must have been monsters. ..-1Xi......... -■ Of course these giant newts were of long-extinct species. It would have been Interesting to live in those days, when so many queer monsters (mostly of aquatic habits) swarmed the earth. They seem to have been among nature’s earliest experiments, abandoned later. There were no mammals then; and the supposition is that ail mammals of today, including man, were originally derived from a reptilian ancestry. We cannot say for certain that this queer reptile (which lived about 7,000,000 years ago) was not actually an ancestor of our own. It was dug up tn Texas, and has' been named Dlmetrodon. About eight feet long, the most curious thing about It was the enormous fin It carried on its back —the ribs of the fin being a series of bones extending from the vertebrae. Of what use was this fin? Perhaps it was merely ornamental. Or It may be that it was a means of defense.

MISTAKES ABOUT SEA WAVES

Really They Are Not Nearly as High as Some Voyagers Have Asserted. Voyagers on stormy seas come safely ashore and tell their friends of waves that rose mountains high and at times threatened to overwhelm the vessel on which they braved the deep. The untrained eyes of the amateur seafarer generally exaggerate the height of the waves, and when the statement is made that the water rose at least 100 feet above the vessel It Is seldom that ...any of the auditors can disprove it. Exhaustive observations made by scientists give the maximum height attained by waves at not more than sixty feet, and then only when the wind has been of hurricane force. The average height of waves in a strong gale is about thirty feet, in a whole gale about thirty-seven feet, and in a storm about forty-five feet The scientists further state that if waves travel as fast as the average velocity of the strongest winds and if there be swifter waves produced directly or Indirectly by action of the wind upon the sea they do not attain sufficient height to form noticeable breakers.

Moros Skilled Iron Workers.

Bolos, huge, heavy and keen-edged knives that are swung with both hands or may be used for thrusting, were effective weapons used by Filipino soldiers in their rebellion against the United States at the expense of American lives. Their merits were appreciated by the Americans, and, at the advice of Gen. Leonard Wood, were adopted and are in use today as a supplementary arm for the United States troops In the Philippines. The finest and most elaborate bolos, of many different patterns and shapes, are used by the Mores of Mindanao and the Sulu islands, who make them themselves. The Moros am skilled workers in iron, although savages. They know how to get the metal from its ores, and the production of good steel is no mystery to them. They are said to have learned these arts originally from the Arabs.

Polson Gas Born by Accident.

Some yean ago a disastrous fire followed a chemical explosion at Greishelm, near Frenkfort-on-the-Maln. in Germany. Fire engines mme rushing up, but as they approached the men wore seen to fall from their seats. Spectators running after them dropped as if shot, and meanwhile the blase increased, involving fresh buildings, and even crossing the river into the village of Schwanheim. What had happened was this: The sudden mixture of vats of different chemicals under intense heat bad filled the air with a gas of so terribly poisonous a nature that these who came within its deadly influence were suffocated at once. Fiftyeve dead, and three times that number inlured, was the result of that terrible fire. This accident led to the use of poison gas in warfare.

Spilling the Chestnuts.

One Sunday in the late fall I task my sweetheart to the country to call ou one of her cousins, who owned a farm on which were some chestnut trees. During the afternoon, we gathered chestnuts, filling everything that would hold chestnuts, even to my overcoat pockets. That night wo all drove to a neighboring village to church. I was holding say overcoat on my lap whoa the andleimeoreea during the prayer service. The preacher had just begun Ma prayer when a noise like a Lewis machine gun broke upon our ears. la arising, I had taken held of the overcoat, turning It upside down and spilling the chestnuts, which rolled towvußj r tho pulpit amid the giggles ad the younger couples, and to my attar horror. Is it any wonder I was afterwardr called “Chestnuts’’ in that es»> munltyl—Chicago Tribune.

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TEFFT.

Harry Lane says he would sooner be in the army than try to cut wheat. Such a mess. Grandpa Bill Davis is wearing a smile at George’s new arrivel. A boy. Everybody’s fine, too. Luther Albin and part of his family have left for the west and don’t expect to be back till fall. The ball game between Tefft and English Lake ended up with a rough house and never finished the game. The hail storm Saturday night cleaned up two fields of corn for Henry Floers. Just a narrow strip. If the weather stays fine the threshing crew will . start in on Thursday on rye, which is a good crop. John Finn, who is going to stump the township for Cox soon, might get cold feet after finding out how Harding stands. J. B. DeArmond is enjoying the road now with his new auto, but you couldn’t follow 'him on a bet. The steering wheel is loose. _ Martha Swing and Catherine Cullen got up early Monday morning and took the early train to where—someone will have to ask them to find out. Tokyo and Verna Duggleby went to Valparaiso Saturday morning with Chas. Stalbaum and brought Bertha back for over Sunday. Oh, them new shoes. ... - Walter Seegrist is feeling fine over his wheat crop, which is as good and better than lots of it. Good for Walter, as this is his first of Streator, is visiting Andy Kerr’s for a few weeks and also helping take care of that new arrival, who is a lively bird, they say. „ • , Fourteen of the Dugglebys and Miss Ribbands motored to Culver Sunday and it was surely worth while. Also several cars from Rensselaer were there. The water was fi “stanley Duggleby. a city boy who wanted the job of eggs, couldn’t find the eggs until they hatched out, and then couldn’t catch them. A joke on the city Jumber, who is Mrs. aunt, came out to visit the Ashers and took a stroke of paralysis and not any better at tins writing. She is over eighty and Jefferies and the rest of the neighbors are helping take care of the old lady.

DEMOTTE.

Mrs. Nick went to Chicago over Sunday. ’. _ ' JI Miss Ethel Hoekney of Hammond, visited home folks overSundaj. Helen Curtin and Chatty Erwin are having a ‘ whooping* time these 4a Srs. Fred Koester and children of Lansing, DL, are visiting friends here this week. A Geo. Marr received word that h»

mother is seriously ill at her home in Wolcottville, Ind. m Mrs. E. Erwin, Mrs. C. M. Wolff and Miss Sadie Fairchild, were Rensselaer goers Friday. “Billy” Swart is the owner of a new Touring car, the Cleveland — some classy boat, top. Mrs. Blick and daughter, of Holland, Mich., are visiting at John Ruisaard’s this week. Mrs. D. E. Collins, of Chicago, 111., came Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sigler. Art Lagaveen and “Billy* Swart are trading homes this week, Billy having bought the Lagaveen home. Mrs. C. 0. Gambel and two children of Canton, Ohio, are visiting this week at the home of Dr. Hewitt’s. George Hockney does not do his

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