Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1920 — Page 1

No. 192.

\ ' l!» ’ i*" J gg ~ " ~ ~ " v ■ ■■ ——— Wa have these cane-backed parlor suites covered in both Mulberry and Blue Velour. The straight chairs come In two different sizes and patterns. W. J. WRIGHT

DARING HOLD-UP OF TRAIN IN CHICAGO SUBURBS

Chicago, Aug. 9.—Four armed men tonight held uj the 'New YorkChicago day express train on the Pennsylvania railroad near Englewood station in the Chicago suburbs. A dining car steward, who resisted one of the bandits, was shot and wounded in the jaw. The bandits are believed to have boarded the train at the Englewood station and to have obtained a large amount of money and valuables from passengers. The train, which is due to arrive in Chicago at 10:30 p. m., was delayed about thirty minutes. The wounded steward was taken to a hospital at Englewood. ' The robbers jumped from the train between the Englewood and downtown stations and escaped.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National. Brooklyn, 6- Chicago, 5. New York, 9; Pittsburg, 0. St. Louis, 12; Philadelphia, 10. Cincinnati, 10-8; Boston, 5-2. American. Detroit, 5; Philadelphia, 2. New York, 6; Cleveland, 3. Boston, 5; St. Louis, 4. Chicago, 3-5; Washington, 2-4. v

John Moore of North Culley street fell this forenoon and broke his left arm. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. Mrs. Mell Griffin entered the hospital Monday evening for medical attention.

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—II3O NIGHT—7:IS ,—TODAY— Cosmopolitan Production “The Cinema Murder” with » • . Marion Davies

She was beautiful and talented. She had two suitors—one a rich and powerful man of affairs, the other a young and ambitious play* weight. One educated her for a career. The other could offer only his youth and devotion. of the suitors were perfect. One had come perilously near to a moral wrong; the other to a criminal

—WEDNESDAY— Thomas H. .nee Presents Dorothy Dalton* = —IN—- ■ :i r 4 a H J • “His Wife’s Friend”

Her husband neglected her because ho w** terribly fond of playing chess. And spent a vary lonely life. But an, old sweetheart of hers called to seo her and her husband suspected his love for her. He had been away in India but had been suspected of a crud crime. Ho loved his wife but became suspicious of her when ho saw her former sweetheart call* to see her.

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NORTH CAROLINA MAY RATIFY AMENDMENT

Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 9.—While the North Carolina legislature will meet in special session tomorrow to consider taxation reforms and the federal suffrage amendment, it appeared tonight that the latter subject would not come before the body until late in the week. At the governor’s office today it was said he would suomit the federal suffrage amendment probably Thursday together with a special message advocating ratification. Preliminary polls of, the legislators are said to indicate a close fight on the question of ratification wth the odds in favor of the suffragists in the senate and slightly against them in the house.

MADE $400,000, HANLEY’S WIDOW LEFT ONLY $16,000

An estate of $16,000 was left by J. Frank Hanley, former governor of Indiana, recently killed in an automobile accident at 'Dennison, O. Hanly earned over $400,000 on the lecture platform and in Chautauquas, but he spent most of his earnings in, behalf of prohibition interests, according to Harry R. Garma’n, a son-in-law. The widow received the bulk of the $16,000 estate.

We are now located in the office rooms formerly occupied by Dr. M. D. Gwin in the G. E. Murray Company building. G. F. MEYERS & SON, Real Estate Dealers.

act. Both loved her. How did she decide? See "The Cinema Murder,” with beautiful Marion Davies as the star. A picture made from E. Phillip’s Oppenheim’s powerful story of the same name. WEEKLY, Admission: Adults, 15c—2c—17c; Children, 10©—1c—Ue

And then -dm invited him to play a game of diess and was never seen ave«wi Did thfe former sweetheart commit the See "His Wife's Friend” with Dorothy Dalton as the star. Christie Comedy "SAVE ME. SADIE” Admission —Adults, 25c—3c —28c;

NOTICE.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1020.

COUNTY BOARD OF REVIEW CUTS OUT RAISE

The Jasper county board of review has certified to the state tax board the assessment as fixed by the local board in their -regular session last year. The total amount of this valuation was $35,128,410. The state tax board by horizontal raises made the total $43,529,995. This was done by raising the land valuation in all townships 10 per cent. No raise was made in Wheatfield town and the Remington land was raised 20 per cent. The personal property was also raised by the state board. The raise in Gillam, Remington and Rensselaer was 40 per cent and in all other corporations the raise of personal property was 30 per cent. The board in its special session Monday and Tuesday recertified to the state tax board the figures they had made last year. In other words they refused to grant any of the horizontal raise imposed by the state board upon Jasper county. It is nqw up to the state tax board. Whatever raises they make will have to be county wide. It is possible that the state board will raise the land and improvements in the county 10 per cent and the personal property 30 per cent which will total about the same amount as the horizontal raise imposed last fall.

DIRT CHEAP HAS LOST MEANING

Gary, Ind., Aug. 9.—“ Dirt cheap” has long lost its meaning in Gary, where the cost of covering the native sand with soil is estimated to date at $1,000,000. When home building started in Gary around 1906 and 1907, the cactus flourished. It has taken a mountain of dirt to drown out the sand and to make the parks, lawns and occasional gardens of today’s city. Approximately 500,000 cubic yards of earth have been brought in here, according to recent estimates. Low lands adjacent to the city have contributed generously but for years it has been necessary to cross the Illinois state line to bring dirt by rail from Joliet and Plainfield. The price of dirt is an item seriously considered by the prospective home builders here. Black loam has risen to $3 a cubic yard and the average cost of surfacing a lot is around S2OO. Sometimes a poor batch of material has been brought in from marshes and spread over thin by an economical householder, to find that in the hot summer suns his front yard is burning up. A fire department has been called out on more than one occasion to put out a fire in a man’s dirt.

PURDUE ENROLLMENT TO BE GREATER THAN EVER

Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 9.—lt is expected that the Purdue university enrollment for the year 1920-1921 will exceed matriculation in any previous year. It was announced today that twice as many applications for admission to the freshman class have been received at the registrar’s office up to the present time as ’had been received last year at this time. The number of students re-entering is also much larger than last year. Last year's freshman class, the largest in history, numbered about 1,200, and if a fair proportion of those who have applied for admission this year enroll the 1920 freshman class may reach the 2,000 mark or even go beyond it. _ The total attendance at the university this year may run close to 4,000, including the winter students, who come later in the college year. The total attendance for the year 1919-1921, including winter course students, was 3,000. The problem of finding room for students has been intrusted to the Purdue Y. M C. A. and an earnest e t ffort is to be made by that organization to compile a list of available rooming places both on the West side and in Lafayette.

SENATOR JOHNSON PLANS SWING THROUGH STATE

Senator Hiram Johnson of California will make several national campaign speeches in Indiana this fall, according to state , republicans, who are already discussing places in Indiana where Johnson speeches would accomplish the most good. Gary, Evansville, Manon, Indianapolis and Terre Haute are certain of hearing Johnson and other state industrial centers will probably claim the remaining dates. > Alter' reading Senator Harding’s speech, accepting the nomination for president, Senator Johnson made a statement showing his belief that Harding’s position was the same as taken by him . m the primary campaign.

Abraham Simpson, who his eightieth birthday Monday, was as pleased as a school boy Monday afternoon when a larga angel food cake arrived at his home, a present from the Bever Letters and numerals, made from the cake frosting, gave Mr. Simpson’s name, age and the year of his I birth. The gift was highly appre- ’ ciated by Mr. Simpson.

s WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Probably local showers m south portion. Not much change m temperature. ‘

WHY COAL IS SCARCE AND HIGH

(By Representative W. L. Wood.) During the special session of the legislature, we placed a law on the statute books that will help the consumer of coal throughout the state. It is our opinion that as soon as the new increased freight rates go into effect coal will begin to move. The new rates make it a criminal offense, punishable by fine and* imprisonment to collect unreasonable profits or withhold from the public coal or other necessities of life. The following is what other states think of the work of the special session of the Indiana legislature : . Fair Price for Coal. (Ohio State Jornal) '■ - Soft coal is being sold to the state of Indiana for use in the state institutions at $2.95 for slack and $3.50 for lump coal. TheSe figures are most interesting at this time. They show what coal may be sold for and a reasonable profit secured for the producer. They put the stamp of unreasonableness on many prices that have been quoted in other states. Private consumers will not be able to secure such low figures because they do not take so much as the state requires, and their contracts would not be continuous, as is that of the state. But what shall be said of prices up to sls per ton for soft coal that have been quoted? If coal may be sold at a profit to the state of Indiana for $3.50, what is it but shameless profiteering when consumers/ are facing prices four times that' figure? There is no possible justification for some of the coal drice ß that are being quoted in the market. Unreasonable profits are being sought somewhere along the line from the mine to the consumer.

THREE WHEATFIELD MEN INJURED BY LIGHTNING

Edd J. -Randle and D. S. Makeever report that there" was a severe electrical storm in the vicinity of Wheatfield Monday afternoon and that three men, James Anderson, Floyd Clark and John Morehouse were badly injured when lightning struck the corn crib to which they had gone when the rain started falling. The men were members of a threshing crew at the Salisbury farm. When the lightning struck the three men were knocked. down and were in an unconscious condition for some time. For a time it was thought that they had been killed. Prompt treatment was given the men and all will recover. Anderson also received an injured foot, caused by a horse, which was struck ay the lightning, falling on him. The animal died. Several other members of the threshing run received slight shocks.

17 IN JAIL AT CHICAGO WAITING TO BE HANGED

Chicago, August 7. —Richard Wilson, a safeblower, today was sentenced to be hanged October 15 for the murder of Thomas O’Donnell, a factory watchman. . Wilson’s conviction bnngs the nuber of murderers waiting to be hanged in the county jail to seventeen. Eight are under sentence to die October Lfe As there only is room in the jail for a double gallows, the men will be hanged in. relays. Wilson’s companion in the crime, Harry Andrae, is to be hanged October 15. Andrae was convicted of shooting the watchman when the latter found him and Wilson preparing to blow a factory safe.' Wilson was convicted as an accessory.

SIMON THOMPSON JOINS TODAY’S SLOGANERS

Simon Thompson is the first from this vicinity to send a contribution to the Chicago Tribune’s HardingCox slogan column. Prizes are being offered by the Tribune for the snappiest slogans, and Mr. Thompson’s contribution appears to. have every 'other slogan offered in today’s column bested. It follows: “Hail, Harding, happy land, bust the league and the liquor can.” After reading the slogan one might gain the impression that Mr. Thompson is a Republican—also that-er-er- he is a trifle moist.

CITY EMPLOYS ARCHITECT.

At the regular meeting Monday evening of the city council with the mayor and ’all councilmen present. Architect John A. Brook of Kentland was employed to draft plans and specifications for a new city special session of the council will be” held as soon as the plans and specifications are ready and the building will be erected just as soon as possible under the conditions imposed by law. '-The petition of John McFarland and others for a sewer on Washington street beginning about the middle of the block between CulK and Weston, to Weston street, south on Weston street to Harrison street, was presented and the city engineer ordered to prepare specifications for the same. L. W. Muster and others, petition for cement walk on Kannal avenue, was granted. Light committee’s recommendation for light on south side of Grace street east of Scott was concurred in. 4 Report of finance committee was approved.

GOOD GRACIOUS - ■ » .But we have got in a big, early shipment of Ladies’ Fall Shoes from SeJbys. In browns and black, for street and for drew, light kids and heavy Brogues, anything a lady could hope to,find. t And Kreider Kickers for Kids—for school and for play, for Sunday and everyday. We are going to sell a lot of these right out of the cases they were shipped in, our shelves won’t hold all of them. MURRAY’S " " ■ GOOD SHOES

WILL NOT VOTE FOR FEW DAYS

Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 9.-—The Tennessee legislature meeting in extraordinary session to act on tlw federal suffrage amendment, today heard Governor Roberts urge prompt ratification and then adjourned until tomorrow without introduction of the ratification resolutions. Neither house was in session more than an hour. Ratification resolutions leaders said tonight, will be offered tomorrow and referred to committees which may conduct hearings. A vote is not regarded as probable in either house before the end of the Week at the earliest. Both advocates and opponents of ratification in statements issued after the initial session expressed confidahce in the outcome of the fight to make Tennessee the thirty-sixth state to ratify and thereby enfranchise the women of the nation in time to permit them to vote in pie November elections. Anti-suffragists । claimed there were enough members opposed to the suffrage to defeat the ratification resolution while Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the national woman suffrage association, declared that if members pledged to Ratification stood by their pledges, suffrage would win. I

COX MUST RENIG.

It is a serious thing to find Gov. Cox in his speech of acceptance repeating a significant misstatement of facts which was first used in the Democratic national platform and afterwards exposed. The governor might have been misimformed it there had been no previous misuse of the facts, but inasmuch as there has been a refutation, Mr. Coxs position is made the less innocent. The Democratic national platform said that Senator Lodge, senate leader for Republican reseryations to the covenant, had written in an article printed in the December issue of the Forum, 1918, the following: , “We cannot make peace except in company with our allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us if weundertake to make a separate peace. The Democratic platform used tins quotation, giving December, , as the date of the article, to substantiate a charge that the Republicans were animated by unpatnottic and dishonorable partisanship in opposing the covenant as it stood, and later in undertaking to peace with Germany without adopt-

ing the covenant. If the leader of the Republicans had said that we were dishonorable unless we made peace, in company with our allies, which is by accept-] ing the covenant, he and the Republicans knew they, were dishonorable. It was a serious charge to make, and the Democrats evidently thought it was an effective one. Gov. Cox repeats it: No less authority than Senator Lodge said, before the heat of controversy, that to make peace except in with our allies would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring rum to US? ” _ X w • waa not

Senator Lodge’s article was not printed in the December number of the Forum, 1918. H. was pnnted in the June number* 1918. It pro ably was written two or three months prior to that, but J? printed in June and not in Decern In Junb we were at war. had made* a separate peace which might have ruined the allied cause. In June the last German ■ was beine made, and the question was whetfer the United States could ’get in with force sufficient to save the situation and P r ® v ® nt Then Lodge said J®. separate peace would brand with everlasting dishonor. s « wan • Democrats in their platform statement changed the date of this

EXPRESS COMPANY EMPLOYES HEAR FINE NEWS

Chicago, Aug. 9.—Eighty thousand employees of the American Railway Express company will be awarded increased wages in a decision to be handed down at 8:80 o’clock tomorrow morning by the United States Railway labor board, which has heard their claims. All employes of the express company, with the exception of 2,500 shopmen who were benefitted by the 13 cent increase granted July 20 in the $600,000,000 award to the 2,000,000 railway workers will be affected by tomorrow’s decision. The award is the second to be made by । the railway labor board, which was created by the Esch-Cummins transportation act. The express increase, it was learned tonight is to be on a flat baste to all classes of express employes, including messengers, clerks, drivers, chauffeurs, stablemen and oth- ' ers. While it was indicated that 'the award will not be all the men 'asked, it was stated on reliable authority that the amount would exceed that granted to the majority of the railroad workers. The beard maintains that the express employes, as a class, were not so well paid as the average railroad man.

CIGARETS NEARLY. RUIN JIMMY COX

Washington, Aug. 9.-—One member of Governor Cox’s family is off smoking for life. He is James M. Cox, Jr., the eldest son of the presidential candidate, who failed to graduate from Culver Military Academy this summer because one cigaret was found in his room by the inspection officer. ■ “Jimmy” Cox took his punishment with good grace when Rear Admiral Ross, commandment of the school, sent him home to Trail’s End.

DRY CLEANER PUT ON HIS MOURNING GOWN TODAY

'Twas but a year ago today, August 10, that the burning of Herman B. . Tuteur’s Chevrolet automobile occurred—■an incident which will • long live in the memory of Rensselaer citizens. Expressions of sympathy and loving remembrances poured in from all sides on Dry Cleaner today. It will be remembered that Herman and his playmates were attending a lawn sociable near the college grounds when the tragedy occurred.

utterance. They gave it as December, after the armistice had been i signed and after the victory had been won. The persons on t»e resolutions committee might say that they made a mistake. You could believe that or not. The quotation was useless unless the date was changed. Lodge did not say, as the Democrats imply, that it would dishonor us to make separate peace when we were toe only nation remaining at war wim trickery of this deception was quickly exposed. ous enough to have a political party distort facts and change a date in such fashion, but it is more senous when a candidate for president, after the truth has been repeats the statement with all «s innuendos and implications. If Mr. Cox has been imposed up; on the quicker he relieves himself of responsibility the better it will be for his reputation. Such ani act is not consistent with the qualities of character which any man seeding the office of president, .Uh candidate of a major party, ought to have. should d' *it and with it al? th? Mgun^l^ha 1 based upon it. His case will be weaker than it is, but that is better than to have his dignity lowered

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