Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — Page 1

No. 208.

SIMMONS BEDS Built For Sleep AT LAST—THERE ARE METAL BEDS DESERVING OF A PLACE IN ANY BEDROOM ■ that, even oldfashioned metal beds were sanitary. The thing that jarred her sensibilities was the way they looked in a room. Until recently the general run of metal bed designs have not kept pace with interior decoration. Now, Simmons Beds are in accord with the accepted ideals of line, form ' and composition. W. J-WRIGHT ■. * " » • x v

NEW PASSENGER RATES ARE NOW IN EFFECT

The new interstate passenger rates are now in effect. A twenty per cent increase was added to all fares for points without the state of Indiana. The increase dbes not apply to points within the itate. In Indiana the fares will remain the same as they have been since the last increase some time ago. Pullman fares are advanced sharply, the new rate being practically 5 per cent increase. Excursion rates too have been advanced.

LEE-RICHARDS NUPTIALS.

Ira Washburn Richards, formerly of this city, was united in marriage with Miss Vera Lee at the home of the bride’s parents in Akron, 0., August 21. The ring ceremony was used by the officiating minister, the Rev. J. C. Fulton, pastor of the MethoTheHoride and groom were stolen from weir guests and given an Akron welcome, which was a very rough joy ride through the streets of Akron and sufrounding country. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are very popular in Akron. A silver shower was given for them on August 26, by their Sunday school class and Mr. Richards has a fine position with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber' Company and has been with that firm three years. We are unloading a car of 88, 39 and 48-inch fencing. J. C. Gwin Lumber Company.-'

PRINCESS THEATRE - MATINEE—B:BO NIGHT—7:IS —TODAY— Joseph M. Schenck presents Norma Talmadge —IN— Arthur Goodrich’* Celebrated Play “Yes or No” * COMEDY. z z PBIOTM *BO 30 Me; Itolo U*. * A ; . : WOTIOX On and after August 30th, afternoon'show, a:3oi Wight, all shows start at 7:00 sharp. MONDAY, AUGUST 30 Harry Carey “Overland Red” Here’s one of the moat enjoyable from poverty to riches with vigphotodramae you’we ever laughed orous, humorous Harry Carey keepand thrilled through—the rollicking ing you chuckling all the time. The romance of a happ*go-hicky knight surest tonic for the blues that you of the road who passes suddenly ever took. International Current Events STARTHEATRE Samuel Goldwyn presents Geradine Farrar and Thomas Stanche In “THE HELL CAT” | x Abt Fatty Arbackle ia “A Caaatry Hera”

The Evening Republican.

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

August 26. .Alfred Eugene Murray, born Lake county, Ind., February 27, 1893; occupation, farmer: present residence, Wheatfield, and Clara Loretta Myers, born Vigo county. Ind., September 11, 1899; occupation, housekeeper; present residence, Tefft. First marriage for each. Married at clerk’s office by tne J. B. Fleming. August 27. WiHiam Joseph Deno, born Fowler, Ind., July 21, 1897; occupation, farmer; present residence, Remington, and Marie Cora Edwards, born Benton county, Ind., December 18, 1896; occupation, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

The amusement loving people of Rensselaer will be pleased to learn what the Woods-Holland Players will play a three nights* engagement in Rensselaer, starting Monday, Aug. 30th. The opening play will be “The Girl from Kilarney 1 ’ a comedy drama in four acts. Our feature play for the second night will be ‘A Dangerous Woman’ from the pen of Morrie B. Streeter. This play was written especially for this company, there is an abundance of good wholesome comedy and a very interesting story. “At Circle C Ranch,” a breezy western play will lose the engagement. Feature singing and dancing specialties will be introduced each night - Prices ’ including war tax will be 26c for children and 60c for adults. Doors opens at 7:30. Curtain, 8:15. Tent located on the corner of Rutsen and Van Rensselaer Sts.

WOODS-HOLLAND PLAYERS.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1920.

LOG OF TRIP TO YOSEMITE

WRITTEN BY JOHN WALKER, FORMER REPORTER OF THIS CIRCUIT. The following article from the pen of our former court reporter and very popular former fellow townsman is taken from the Tucson Citizen, published at Tucson, Ariz. The article will appear in installment of which the following is the third: x Must Climb Glacier Point. “The persbq going to the Yosemite and not climbing to Glacier Point is considered- not to have been there. This point is reached by three different trails. The first is the 'Ledge Trail, two miles in lenth, but this two miles consist of straight climbing, most of the sway being over the rude steps one above the other for hundreds of feet. These steps have been hewn out of the solid rock in many places, other places rocks have been thrown in and a crude step formed on the side of a mountain. that would have otherwise been impassible. Think of mounting-steps about feet apart until some hundred and fifty of them have been, mounted. It is a'heart breaking climb, but when once up, all your efforts have been fully repaid by the first glimpse of the valley. There is a large hotel oh the top, surrounded by giant redwoods and pine. From this point, the entire valley is at your feet. ‘lt seems that one almost throw a stone across the Vernal - Falls, and with a little more effort throw one into the Nevada Falls, but these falls are some seven miles away. From this point theYosemite Falls seem only a short distance, and the stream carrying the water away from the first drop and to the second can be seen, which is impossible from the valley proper. Half Dome and North Dome seem only a stone’s throw away, and, in fact all the points of interest in the valley are here clearly shown at one time, A walk of a few hundred feet brings one to Balanced Rock on ' the point, and. to get out on this rock and look down is breath-taking in its immensity. The tip of the rock projects some fifty feet from the mother rook, and below it is 3254 feet of atmosphere. Standing on the point of Balanced Rock and dropping a stone before it has fallen but a few hundred feet, it is out of sight seemingly going underneath the point where you are standing, and only the sounds of it hitting rocks and bouncing from one to the other as it nears the bottom can be heard. The horse trail to the point is a much easier road and is 9 miles in length. Many places along this trail are exceedingly steep, but nothing to compare with the climb up the Ledge Trad. The longest trail is around by the Vernal ana Nevada Falls, which is some 15 nfiles in length. Automobiles can

go to Glacier Point, by going out of the valley and getting on the Wawona road, and thence to the point. This is a trip of some fifty miles, but can easily be made in a day. This trip also takes the traveler through the Mariposa Big Trees, which is also a sight worth seeing. „ ( Two Beautiful Falls. “Another pretty trip, and well worth the effort, is the tnp up the Merced river to Vernal _and Nevada Falls. Vernal Falls is about three miles up the canyon, and Nevada about that distance further. The Vernal Falls is a beautiful falls, but not so high as the Yosemite. In going up to the Nevada Falls, one must pass very close to the Vernal, in fact, for some half a mile, the trip is in the spray of the falls, and then the path leads upward until it comes out on top of the falls, and it is possible to go down to the edge and watch .the water plunge over, and the «ght from above is well worth going to see. From there to the Nevada Falls, the trail is steep but good. At these falls it is possible to go around and climb to the top of toem, and see its waters plunge off down upon the rocks hundreds feet below. A nature loving person could stay in the Yosemite for weeks, and find some new wonder each day, and at the same time, see some new grandeur in the old W °“Coming out of the valley, the same road must be used as going m. An hour is given to go from JM Capitan control to the control at the top, and if your machine gets too hot, or for some other reason you can’t make it, in the hour given, you must get off of the road on one of the passing pointe and wait until the next control starts up. lo meet a machine on this road would be disaster. After leaving the last control, we proceeded over the same road used coming in until we reached Carl Inn, where we took the Tioga Pass road. This road was not officially open to the public. However, we fotnd it an exceptionally good mountain road. After leaving Carl Inn it was a steady climb up through the big timber all day? but the scenery was beautfut Much of the time we would go through snow. Late in the afternoon we reached a h<h point on the mountain and looked down on a

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COX AND HIS CHARGES.

The opinion indulged in these columns shortly after the San Franciscb convention—that Harding would prove the more dignified candidate and Cox the more vivacious one—is borne out by recent utterances on both sides, especially by the excited and ill-considered charges which the Democratic nominee is hurling in all directions. His method is spectacular and bis substance will not bear examination. Mr. Cox recurs to the cheap and unworthy accusation that employers are seeking through the Republican party to utilize the “bayonet” as a weapon of force in controversies with labor. The bayonet is not whit more anachronistic in warfare than this charge is in politics. It can only be prompted by some sort of demagogic purpose toward the labor vote. It can excite nothing but contempt in well ordered minds. It is a day of enormous expenditure in campaign, as well as in every other field of human activity Neither the amount of money a man makes nor the amount he spends for any purpose whatever can be accounted the measure of his guilt in its acquisition or his integrity in its disbursal. If we suppose that the Republican campaign fund were $15,000,000 and the. Democratic $5,000,000, we should know from that fact nothing whatever of the good or evil uses to which the money had been devoted or the motives which animated the contributors. ... Yet the Democratic nominee, witn the campaign fund as yet in its beginnings on both sides, does not hesitate to stigmatize the Republican offerings as an attempt to buy the presidency” and calls them a corruption fund.’’ If the presidency is to be bought, then the American people are for sale; if we have here a corruption fund, then tne electorate or subject to purchase. Such talk is not only unjust, but it comes perilously near to nonsense. One party is no more righteous than the other. Men must not be too quick to impute dishonesty to others in their some line of life- , Yet those with reasonably good memories can take a measure of comfort in the thought that some of those Republicans who are squirming most uncomfortably under the Cox charges are the very same who a few short weeks ago were strutting around in virtuous wrath, attacking the contributions of the Wood and, Lowden campaigns for the nomination and vowing that nobody could “buy the presidency. It is a curious thing to have this petty bit of spite recoil now upon their own heads. Their fight upon Wood succeeded, and . it is not strange, accordingly, that Governor Cox fancies he can employ the same tactics successfully now. On the League jai Nations the nominee acquits himself with adroitness, but not. very gonvincely. He is evidently troubled similarly with Harding to hold his party together; for while the senator occasionally throws out a sop to the Republican friends of the league, the Governor is alert to promise frequently a reasonable compliance with desires for reservations that will preserve the integrity of the It looks very much as if both will be rewarded in this -respect. Hardly any prominent men of either side have yet announced unwillingness to follow their nominee, much as they may differ from "his views on this important question. However public men and self-re-specting newspapers may. appeals for them to abdicate their reason and intelligence, they are almost without exception coming to realize that for the purposes of the campaign the league serves as a mere doormat for the welcome of party allegiance. This great i ßß u®» with all its world-wide meaning and possibilities, takes its place along With other regulation Properties of the political stage as. a thing to juggle around with in the quest for votes. The spectacle is a melancholy one, but such is the nature of die battle and such its commanders. “No more supermen is the cry. Well, we haven’t one on either side, and will simply .have to make the best of it.-Indianapohs Star. -

MARKETS BY WIRE.

.Furnished by The Grain Market, H. Potter, Mgr.) Chicago, Aug. 28, 1920. Live' Stock Market. Hogs, receipts, 2,500; top, $15.85. Cattle, receipts, 2,500. Sheep, receipts, 4,000. Grain Market. March" wheat opened at 2.32 and 2.33; closed at 2.32 3-8. Dec. wheat opened at 2.37 ami 2.88; closed at 2.36 3-4 and 2.8 . Sept, oats opened at 67%, closed at Dec. oats opened at .67 and 1-8; closed at .67 1-8 and 1-4. Sept, com opened at 1.48 1-2 and 7-8; closed at *nd L 43 7-8. Dec. corn opened at 1.20 and 1 19 1-2; closed at 1.20 and 1.19 1-8. ' - Saturday local grain prices were: Oats, 60c; corn, sl.4<U.rye, sl-70 and wheat $2.25. ———— ■ I A Co-operative cqwwsny has been ‘organized at Medaryvdle which has been capitalized at $50,000.

Showers and thunderstorms prob- , ably tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature.

PETER HORDEMAN.

Peter Hordeman, Sr., this life on Friday morning, Aug. 20, 1920, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Conrad Hildebrand, New Buffalo, Mich., with whom he was spending the summer. .. He was born in Westphalia, Germany, 'where he served his apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. At the age of eighteen he came to America and worked at his trade in New York City. He was of a savlhg disposition and with the earnings he had accumulated he came to Indiana shortly after the Civil war. He purchased of Daniel Grant a farm one mile west of Rensselaer. Here he lived for a half century. He was married to Josephine Miller, a native of Westphalia, Germany, and they were the parents of eleven children. Two died in infancy and nine grew to mature manhood and womanhood. The mother passed to her reward seventeen years ago. A son, John and daughter, Mary, died a few years ago, another son, Joseph, coula not be located. The other children, the Rev. William Hordeman, pastor of the Catholic church at Frankfort; Mrs. Rose Hildebrand, of New Buffalo, Mich., Peter, Jr., of Union township, Herman- and Henry of Marion township and Mrs. Anna Scallon of Frankfort, were present at the funeral services which were held at St. Augustine church on Monday, August 23 at 9:00 a. m. The services were conducted by the pastor, Father L. J. Schirack with a solemn high mass by Father Hordeman, chief celebrant, assisted by priests from the St. Joseph College and an • appropriate sermon by Rev. Father Ttrull of the Indian School. Besides the children mentioned above the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lambert of Brooklyn,'N. Y., and two brothers William Hordeman of Idaho and . Cephus 'Hordeman of Waterford, Wis., also twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren. While never physically strong, his health was generally good during his declining years. • His last illness was but two days in duration, when he received the last sacrament of the church and passed away painlessly and peacefully to the life beyond at the age of 89’ years."* He was one of those stalwart characters which have contributed so largely to the. development of this nation. Those from a distance and not mentioned above, who attended the funeral were a grandson, Leonard Skellen of Frankfort, Conrad Hilderbrand of New Buffalo, Mich., William Hoppe of Burlington, Wis., and Mr. and Mrs Mehring of Waterford, Wis.

MICHAEL KANNE.

Michael Kanne was bom Nov. 6, 1848 at Joliet, Hl. He was the third of five children,'all of whom are now deceased, except the oldest, Mrs. Joseph Gerharz of Lamont, 11lOn March 28, 1869, he was united in marriage with Margaret Leiser, of Lockport, 111. For almost fifty years they fought life’s battle together through sunshine and sorrow and reached a degree of success financially which comes only to those who have toiled and saved. They also contributed largely to the progress and upbuilding of the communities in which they lived. She was a devoted mother and he was a man of sterling character, known for his straight forwardness and rugged honesty. She preceded him to the great beyond, having departed this life on August 8, 1918. They were the'parents of twelve children, ten sons and two daughters. Their oldest and youngest children were daughters; the former, Mrs. Stephen, Kohley, who lives with her husband and upon their farm south and east of this city, the latter, Mrs. Gaylord McFarland, of Barberton, O. One of the children preceded their parents in death. The other followed the mother in just one year. The first died at the tender age of seven months and the second, Augustus Kanne, died at the age of forty-one years, on July 8, 1919, his death being caused by an automobile accident. ' - . After operating a wheat market in Lamont, 81., for a short terne, Mr. Kanne farmed in Iroquois county, 111., until 1894, when he brought his family to a farm near Francesville. In 1900 he bought a farm near Campus, 81. He liyed ( there until 1906,' when he purchased the James Babcock farm along the river just west of Rensselaer and moved upon the same “find had been a resident of this county since mat time. He retired from active farming in 1907. He built a home just at the west edge of this city, but in 1914 moved into the residence he had erected at the northwest corner of Weston and Cornelia streets. This was his home the tame of his death, which occurred suddenly while at his- farm two miles west and two north of Medaryville, on Monday, August 23. , Funeral services which Thursday morning at St. Augustine church in this city at 9JW were very largely by™?* tives and friends here «nd fjw his former Illinois - home. was made in Mt. Calvary Mr The following children of Mr. Kanne live “P°" * JosS city: ®®rs. Stephen Kohl y, <>«» KT Kanne, George E. Kanne, Frank Kanne Anthony F. Kanne, AlpnonOne H so^“"hn a M d berton, O. . .

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WILL R. WOOD IN HAPPY MOOD

1 Representative Will R. Wood, of. the Tenth Congressional district, is in a happy mood, according to the following information contained in a recent Washington, D. C., dispatch: . I “Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana writes that the republicans are going to win hands down out in his state and that he will be bock on the job in Congress, as usual, this year. He predicts this because he says folks are taking him a Mt more seriously as a representative than they did as a lawyer when ho first started to practice, and adds this tale: “While at Jiome on my first vacation from law school a man living in our town concluded that he would break up housekeeping and. undertook to do it very precipitately. EEs loaded up with corn juice, went down to the house occupied by himself* and wife and commenced throwing the furniture out of the window. The wife screamed, attracting the attention of some of the neighbors who came in and arrested him. “The offender had no lawyer so the old justice of the peace before whom the case was to be tried, suggested that it would be good praetice for me. I tendered my services to the defendant and they were readily accepted. The hour came for the trial. The little office was crowded, most of the spectators being my companions, who were anmour to see an exhibition of my legal ability. The defendant was .pry*; ing up. and ddwn in about six feet of space at one side of the table, at one end of which I was aittmff and the justice of the peace at tip other end, and the wife immediately across the table from him. We wer* waiting for the prosecutor, who was delayed. The defendant would my glare at his wife, then at the JUMM* of the peace, and then look suspmously at me. He kept this up for quite a little time and I could not understand its meaning, but soon I found out when my dient,after assuming a dramatic pose, yelled at the top of his voice: “‘Bill Wood; I discharge you from this case. I will be nIMUM if I will have any man Mt as lawyer who sits here and winks apd blinks at my wife.” *

ABE MARTIN

Th’ scarcity o* homes don’t Ma t’ be throwin’ any women out 1 employment. Thor’s plenty o’ money in th’ country. Go an* git it. Advertise in the Republican,

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