Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1920 — Page 1

No. 195.

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AMERICANS ARE RATED AS “FAIR GAME TO KILL”

Johannisburg, East Prussia, Aug. 11.—Reports that Mlawa, an important city on the Warsaw-Danzig railway was taken by the Russian bplshevik on Tuesday and that soviet cavalry was within rifle shot of Warsaw, the fall of which was expected Thursday or Friday, were brought here today by a correspondent of the Koenigsborg Allegemeine Zeitung. There have beenno official dispatches indicating the soviet-armies have taken Mlawa and most recent advices from the fighting area have shown the bolsheviki to be some 30 miles from the Polish capital. 1 Americans, British and French who are lighting with the Poles against the bolsheviki are considered “fair game to kill” by the common soldiers of the soviet army. The. correspondent, who spent some time along the bolshevik front said he had been given most courteous consideration. Bolsheviki cavjMry, he said, is excellently equipped with machine guns which are operated from the saddles.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National. Philadelphia, 6; St. Louis, 1. Chicago, 8; Brooklyn, 4. Pittsburg, 2- New York, 0. Cincinnati, 6; Boston, 5. American. New York, 5; Cleveland, L Chicago, 7; Washington, 2. Philadelphia, 3; Detroit, 1.

Mary McConahay went to Indianapolis today for a visit with relatives.

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—3I3O ' NIGHT—7:IB —TOMiV—; ” ' x Adolf Zukor Presents h Marguoripte Clark / “A Girl Named Mary”

There I* soma justice apd balance in the old world after all. On one hand wo have the H. C. L., •trike* and other affliction* to worry «•» and on the other we are giran joybringing folk* like Marguerite Clark to main u* forget our trouble*. Mi»* Clark has bean displaying her charming talents on the screen for soreral years now in a wide variety off roles. Lately sho has boon con-

—SATURDAY—k - * Jesse L. Laskey Presents WALLACE REED “Hawthorss of the 0. 8. A."

When one young American broke the bank at Unto Carlo be made history. Ha continued his tour through Europe by motoring across tabloid kingdoms until Ms cap Mew off his head, as it were. For when, he vaulted a garden wall ' to retrieve th* cap he mot a princess and lost his heart.- About this time some plotters stirred up fir revolution against the king and the young American joined the revolutionists-. You seo he didn't know the changing young girl he met over the garden wall was a prince**. But when bo did find out he just naturally

The Evening Republican.

SMALLER ARE HIT

School officials were informed Wednesday by L. N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, that schools-having an average daily attendance of twelve pupils dr less during the last year can not receive state deficiency funds next year. The order is intended to close a number of small schools for which state officials feel there is no necessity. ' . . „ Mr. Hines has made provision for local officials to make application to the state department to secure the approval of the opening of such schools where transportation of children to other schools is impractical. A portion of the letter of Mr. Hines follows: “To avoid the unnecessary recurrence of this situation and to safe- > guard the state aid fund so that it may be applied in accordance with the evident purpose measure of good may be accomplished by the use of it, the department wishes to advise that hereafter no school will be giv-. en state aid where the average daily attendance for the preceding year was twelve or less, except in emer-~ egncy cases where, because of conditions regarding roads, streams and bridges, the department, upon investigation, has ’ approved the opening of ,the school.”

HAVING FINE AUTO TRIP.

The Republican has received a postal dated Aug. 11 and postmarked Marinette, Wis., reading as follows: Just pasing through here today. Scenery beautiful. Hope to reach our destination tonight. John and Ethel Braddock.

fining her efforts to light romantic comedy. If “A Girl Named Mary,” her latest offering, which comes to the Princess Friday, is any" criterion, our personal vote is that Mis* Clark' continue to appear in this type, of drama the rest of her movie life. Two-Reel Western Serios with MARIE WALCAMP Admission 11c and 17c.

“butted” the revolutionists all to 'pieces. And the old king in gratitude declared and abolished the titles and such thing*. This made it possible for the hero- and heroine to marry. All this and more in Wallace Reid's Paramount-Artcraft picture coming hero. Saturday. Also Al St John \ " A Paramount St. John Comedy “SHIP AHO Y ” Admission—Adults, 250—3c—28c; Children, 10c—lo—11c

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920.

ALL PROPERTY INCREASED

STATE BOARD RAISES LAND AND IMPROVEMENT 11% PERSONAL 25%.. County Auditor Schuyler C. Robinson has received notice from the state tax board that the 1919 assessment as fixed by the Jasper county board of Equalization in. their session last year and their' special session held last Monday and Tuesday had been raised as follows: The land and improvements, county Wide increase of 11% and also a county wide increase in valuation of 25% on all personal property -including Moneys. This will make an endless task for tfie auditor and one. that will be next to' impossible for him to performi Why, the state board should not have had some reasonable consideration for the county auditor is more than we can understand. If the., property X of the county should have been raised it could ,have been done and almost the same amount of tax realized by raising the land 10% and the per-sonal-property 30% and in this way the assessments and the extensions of taxes on the duplicates in the auditor’s office would not need to be changed except in a very few corporations of. the county. If there is any way in which the order can be set aside it. should be done. It will require SI,OOO worth of work by the auditor, for which bub $175 has been provided.' Whether the increase is gr. not we are not capable of judging but we are sure that the most unsatisfactory plan has been . adopted to correct the matter upon the tax duplicates. It looks very much like the state board were offended at the county board for not adopting its horizontal raises, and for failing to do so had taken their spite out on the county auditor.

RECORD BREAKING CROP FORECAST

A three billion bushel corn crop for the third time in the history of the country was forecast yesterday by the department of agriculture on the basis of conditions existing August 1. Inasmuch as August is the critical month for the crop in the great corn belt of the middle west it is uncertain whether the promise of a crop almost equal to the enormous ones of 1912 and 1917 will be fulfilled. Improvement was reported during July in the important; corn states with the exception of Illinois and as a result a crop forecast 224,000,000 bushels larger than that predicted July 1 was issued. , ' Spring wheat was adversely affected during July, principally by rust and the production forecast of the crop was reduced 29,000,000 bushels from a month ago or*a total of 262,000,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate of jwi“ter wheat production was -15,000,000 bushels larger thhn forecast in July, making the combined crop of winter and spring wheat only 14,000,000 bushels smaller, than estimated a month .ago. The total of 795,000,000 bushels was predicted in todays report. There was improvement in the potato crop and indications are that the crop will exceed J 00,000,000 bushels for the fourth time m the country’s history.

MRS. SADIE KEARNS DIED AT GIFFORD THURSDAY

Mrs. Sadi© Kearns died at the home of her son, Zachariah, at Gifford, at about four o’clock - Thursday morning, her death following a brief illness. Mrs. Kearns was eighty-six years of age at the time of her death and had been a resident of the county for many years. The deceased is a sister of Mrs. Margaret Clouse and William McElf resh of this city, and is survived by three sons, Zachariah, Philip end Albert, and one daughter, Mrs. Ella Creighton. Her husband, two sons and one daughter preceded her to the grave. . ' The funeral service will be neia at the Brushwood church at nine o’clock Saturday morning and interment win be made in the Smith cemetery beside the grave of her husband.

William E. Marion on the J. J. Lawler farm, southeast of this city threshed 4,000 bushels of oats, his field-averaging, better than 70 bushel* to the acre. His wheat averaged 24 bushels, weighed 61 pounds to the bushel and is of such excellent quality that he will hold it and it for seed. I have 20 acres of melons that will be ready for market August 18. Same will be for sale at the field, 2 miles and a half east of Fair Oaks, Ind., in ear load tots if desired. No sales on Sunday. ALBERT WARNE, , Fair Oaks, Ind.

WEATHER. • Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight. Somewhat cooler tonight. Saturday probably fair.

CLARENCE FATE GETS HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPER

Clarence Fate, formerly proprietor of the Makeever hotel in this city and later owner of the College Inn restaurant, seems to have awakened Crown Point from her Sleepy Hollow attitude, judging from an article which appears in the Thursday Hammond Times along with his picture. Clarence is the President of the Crown Point,Chamber of Commerce and they do say that he it- the best president the Chamber has ever had in that city. Rensselaer’s loss appears to have been Crown Point’s gain. The article as it appears in the Times follows: ' Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 12«-That the very lively Seat of the capitol. of Lake county is fast getting away from its long .established titles of “the classic cojinty seat” and Sleepy Hollow and developing into one of the regular places between Indianapolis and Chicago, and -between ‘Frisco and New York is shown by the fact that a, fine new four or five, story ho|el fpr Crown Point is at last going to become a reality instead of a dream. One of the chaps who is doing most to liven up the hub. is Clarence Fate, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Clarence is a li/e booster and gets the other fellows to boost with him. That was one reason he was' elected president of the chamber. The other reason was CroWn ' Point’s need of a new hotel. Unless Fate can put that over they will mark him down as a failure end he realizes it. For that reason thb hotel is bound to go through. Imother words, Crown Point will have a hotel “sure as fate.” “Any one has not lived in Crown Point, has not lived,” is the he' expresses his faith in his home town. When Fate starts to tell about the things is doing he never* mentions himself; he always says Crown Point or “Chamber of Commerce.” In talking over the things that have been done and things planned for the future today he said: “The good that any civic organization does to its town is just so mpch and as much as its members put forth effort, for without effort there is no result.” He told how the chamber has caused to be established and marked three highways through the county seat—the Jackson Highway, the Huntington - Manatau - Culver route, and the Yellowstone Trail. The travel over these highways is immense.

Fate once heard Billy Sunday and got the revival idea. He proceeded to pull a civic revival through the Chamber of Commerce which lasted five days and nights, set the business men back S7OO in money but ahead many thousands in spirit and aggressiveness. The Thursday night band concerts by\ the Gary Municipal band are drawing crowds every week that tax the capacity of the public square and are without question the best thing the commerce body has done. Another big stunt was the Fourth of July celebration this 'year. Fifteen thousand people came from within a radius of 50 miles and spent the day as guests of the Chamber of Commerce; Everything was free. No other town of its size or larger ever did such a thing in Indiana before. -“We are the axis of 550 miles of macadam roads connecting with all of the hard surfaced highways of the nation,” said Mr. Fate. “And then look at this,” he added as he handed over h list of “What Crown Point has.” Here it is:

Two good railroads and an interurban electric line; the most productive farming country and most progressive farmers in America; makes the best feed grinder and three-row - cultivator on the market and which is shipped to all parts of the world; makes the best incubators, piston rings and overalls; has three large greenhouses which do wholesale business only; retail stores that snake mail order houses cut Crown Point off their lists; three banks able and willing to finance these industries and others that may care to come to the city, and last, but not least, THE FINEST BUNCH OF THE GREATEST BOOSTERS EVER. Incidentally when Fate isn’t boosting new roads, state highways and other Chamber of Commerce ideas, he writes letters to Mose, which have a sling and kick which geta them copied, writes life, fire and burglary insurance and of course is randlord of the county’s ancient landmark, the Commercial Hotel. The new hotel already has ite store rooms rented at a big income and has an honest-to-goodness bomlace to run it, and before Easter Clarence Fate’s big smile will be seen back of the desk of the Lake county’s finest hostelry.

MOSES LEOPOLD JOINS THE GAY SLOGANERS

1 “* K ' Attorney Mooes Leopold of this city got his Mme in the Chicago Tribune this Friday morning, the result of his having joined the ranks of the Harding-Cox sloganew Moses in .his attempt to win a prize has the following to offer: ‘‘Give us a real Roosevelt, not a make believe.” x f ’Atta boy, Moses. -

William Holme® received three fine pare bred O. L C. hogs this morning by express, from the L. B. Silver Co., of Salem, O.

'' 1 — —■— -— - : "* a ■ *•' YOUNG MEN WANT STYLE • • THE new fall Suite are full of style. ’ The newest for young men is the 2 button coat, considerably cut ' away with low opening and long notched lapels. • * ’ '”■ • Trousers, bell bottom without cuff. Shown first in H. S. A M. Varsity models. , MURRAY’S I • -

ABE MARTIN.

. (IndiariapnH« Nma.) It’s jest about got so it’s unpop’lar t’ be right. Who wouldn’ surrender fer a bottle o’ cognac.

The White • Sox gained another lap on the Cleveland club Thursday by defeating Washington while New York was bumping Cleveland, leaving the pale hose but one game from the top. In the National league Cincinnati took the lead from Brooklyn when the latter club was defeated by Chicago while Cincy was beating Boston.

Job printing at the Republican

ANNOUNCEMENT WE are now located in our new quarters on the northwest corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. _ x * " ■ '■ a Everybody is invited to call and inspect our New Home. THE FARMERS AND MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK

Saturday Specials SUGAR-,. All You Want at 22c Pound. Morning Cup Coffee - -46 c pound Monarch Coffee, 47c pound, or 3-pound Carton - - $1.39 Daylight Soap, II bars -50 c: FRUITS Bananas, Melons, Canteloupes, Oranges, ; ___ Celery, Plums and Grapes. . > . ’ . a ilmm The Haas-Newby Company DMAMiS*' Zlft -

NEW CASE FILED.

Attorney Moses Leopold has Sled for his client. The Farmers and Merchants Deposit Co., a corpora-, tion, suit against Richard E. Davis and William A. Will,. for the collection of a note alleged to be doe said corporation.. Date of filing, Aug. 11. ’

GILLAM HOME COBBING.

Don’t forget the Gillam Home Coming, August 29th, at the Independence church. Come and enjoy the day. COMMITTEE.

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