Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1920 — Page 1

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LAY LINOLEUM While the Weather Warm. ■ ■ . • I .inoleum will get brittle and crack after it begins to freeze. We Have Eight Rolls in the Twelve Foot Width. a _ , rj . - ■ - W. J. WRIGHT

FARMER’S ASSOCIATION BUSY.

The various townships in the county have recently formed Farmers’ Associations and are co-operat-ing to aid in defeating the RalstonNolan tax bill. This bill, if passed, will fix a federal tax of about a dollar an, acre on land and will release unjustly from a billion dollars a year in federal tax. Mr. Masterson, the Hancock county Fanners’ Association President, who has been speaking in this county, will speak as fallows: . - Independence school house, Thursday night, Sepk. 28; Independence church in Gillam township, Friday evening, September 24; Walker Center school, Monday September 27; Tefft school, in Kankakee township, Tuesday evening, September 28; Wheatfield Center school, Wednesday evening, September 29, at DeMotte, Keener township. H» speaking tour of the county will be concluded Friday evening, October 1, with an address in thia city at ten a. m. At. this time he will discuss “The County and Township Program of Worn?’ Officers for the county association will be elected at the meeting in this city. r . It is of great importance that you: hear the addresses and all farmers of Jasper county should be present at the meeting in this city Friday, as matters of great importance are to be considered.

Charles R. Peregrine and. son, Donald, of Tefft were in Rensselaer today. Don had returned prematurely from Michigan where he had S>ne to get relief from hay fever. e will enter Valparaiso university next week.

PRINCESS THEATRE Metro Screen Classics Presents BERT LYTELL —m—- " Alias Jimmy Valentine”

“As long as we are both alive I’ll be following you,” said Doyle, the detective, to Jimmy Valentine. He had failed to get the goods on the master cracksman. Did Ko mail him? “Red” Jocelyn, yeggman, decided to reform, but he didn’t know

Alao' Special Sporting Extra “BABE RUTH”

H»w he knock* Us home runs. Photographed in action .with the Now York “Yanks” and Cleveland “Indian*” in actaqj 1920 game.

lie and 22c FRIDAY. Alto. ; Rob*rt*on Cot* Presents GEORGES CARPENTIER • ■ • A. * ' — "Th* Wonder Man”

The man with the million-dollar I smile in a million-dollar prodoetidn. A|| the world loves a lovo^—and a ImBVOo W BMkA fa in a society drama of intrigue and wfat millions of Ac public on the scretn. MMrgw 1 C<iT>dMßtSdßr—-ths *an who carries the pancVinto the

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AMERICAN LEGION NOTES.

x Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23.—A committee to investigate the work of the federal vocational training board among Hoosier disabled * exservice men ,Kas been appointed by the Indiana department executive committee of the American Legion. This' committee is composed of Gideon W. Blaine, IndianapolisArthur Stone, Evansville,- and Ben Rogers, Frankfort. ‘The committee will not only investigate complaints of ex-service men, but will also offer its co-operation to the federal vocational officers in removing causes for dissatisfaction. The executive committee' has also appointed a state finance committee composed of -S. A. Switzer, Seymour, state treasurer, chairman: Charles Hunt, Jeffersonville, and Philip Stapp, Greensburg. A committee consisting of L. Russell Newgent, department adjutant. Frank W. Abbott, Goshen, and Mr. Switzer, has been appointed to prepare a standard set of books for local posts. A committee to nominate a department war risk insurance ficer has been appointed, composed of Dr. T. Victor Keene, national committeeman from Indiana, chairman; G. Frank Holland,. Bloomington and Paul Haimbafigh, Muncie.

MOORE TAXI SERVICE.

My taxi line headquarters is now at the Community Filling Station, and anyone desiring taxi service should see me there or telephone 47. Drives made to any distance, at any time. Your continued patronage solicited. „ .Jjr HARVEY MOORE.

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where he could got a job. “Come with me, Red,” said Jimmie Valentine, master safecracker, and I’ll make you watchman in >a nationalbank.” This is only one of the grimly humorous situations In the tremendous crook story.

Slow Motion Camera. Shelve in clear analysis” the swing that made Um famous. ,

———“♦ ■ I ring and onto the screen—in an American society drama o€ heart interest and thrill.. They called Um a quitter, but he flashed a wished punch and proved “The Wonder Man.” Mack Sennett Cwdy z GOLLY**

RENSSBLAtC INDIANA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920

FORD BACK TO PRE-WAR PRICES

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER BLAZES TRAIL TO NOR. MAL PRICES. The 'Ford Motor company 'on Sept. 21st announced a reduction in the price of its ears “to the pre-war level.” In announcing a reduction in the prices of Ford. cars, trucks, and tractors, Henry Ford says: t. “'Rie war is over and it is time war prices were over. There is no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artificial standard of values. For the best interests of all it is time that a real, practical move was made to bring the business of the country and the life of the county down to normal. “Inflated prices always retard progress. We had to stand it during the war, although it wasn’t right, so the Ford Motor company will make the prices of its products the same as they were before the war. Means Temporary Loes. “This, in face of the fact that we have unfilled orders for immediate delivery of 146,065 cart and tractors. “We must of course, take a temporary loss because of the stock of materials on hand, bought at inflated prices, and until we use that

stock up we will have to submit to a less, but we take it willingly in order to bring about a going state of business throughout the country. “There is a lull in general business; we are touched by the waiting period, that always precedes a reaction; people in every walk of life are waiting for prices to become lower. They realize that it is an unwholesome, unnatural, unrighteous condition of affairs' produced by the war. It is -one of the p'enalties civilization pays a for war. In every line of activities there is a growing idleness because the demand is not there. Blames “Greed of Profiteers.” “Raw materials are being stored; manufactured goods are being stored, because the volume of consumption is growing less through the selfdenial of the people, many of whom could not, afford to pay the high prices because they felt the injustice of the situation. Manufacturing plants are being shut down all over the country. Labor is being ! thrown out of employment. Yet the cost of living has seen very little reduction. - “Our country is rich beyond measure in natural resources; rich, in all the material things that go to make a nation great, and yet its progress is being* held practically at a standstill because of the greed of the profiteers. “Now is the time to.call a halt on war methods, war prices, war profiteering and war greed. It may be necessary for everybody to stand a little secrifice, but it will be most profitable after all, because the sooner we get the business of the country back to a pre-war condi-* tion the sooner the lives of our people become more natural—progress prosperity and contentment will occupy the attention of our people.” “There .will be no change in wages.” Rival* Slow to Comment. Manufacturers were reluctant to discuss the decreases announced by Mr. Ford, several of them saying ' they would require time before making a statement. Here and there . one was found who said Ford’s action was impossible on account of the present cost of material and labor. The old and new prices follow: Stripped chassis, from $525 to 3360; runabout from 3550 to $895, with, starllr from $625 to $465: touring car, from $575 to $440, with starter from $650 to sslo* truck chassis, from $640 to $545, including demountable rims and pneumatic tires; coupe from SBSO to $745, including starting system and demountable rims; sedan, from $975 to $795, including starting system and demountable rims; Fordson tractor from SBSO to $790. '

THURSDAY’S HOSPITAL NOTES.

Mrs. Merle Hughes of Remington entered the hospital Wednesday and underwent a tonsilectomy operation. Mrs. Paul Parkinson returned to her home Wednesday. Mae Johnson, of Morocco, Charles and Edna Kosta, of norHi of town, underwent tonsilectomies z Wednesday. Mrs. Jesse Gwin returned to her home Wednesday. Mrs. Verns Wilson, Mrs. Mel Griffin, Mrs. W. J. Wright and son, Mrs. Albert Bell, Mrs. Milo Michaels, Ella Beebe, Nellie Dowell, George Antcliffe and Carl Russell are all improving nicely. Mrs. Cnauneey Huntington has not been quite so well the last two days. ■ • . - *

’ I .■■■■■■■ . w J Mn ’i ta D - d fr a <S Kankakee, HL, Wednesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy Kurtz of Front street. They proceeded to Wheatfield today for a few days’ visit with relatives. Mr. Wood is foreman of the Kankakee Daily Republican, Len Small's new* paper, and reports one of the hottest campaigns in the history of the newspaper. .

NEVER AGAIN WILL HERBY REMOVE HIS COAT

. Herbert Hammond, secretary of the Bona Manufacturing Company, removed his coat this Thursday morning, and thereby hangs a . tale. Herby didn’t divest himself of his bennie because he had suddenly become smitten with ambition — quite the contrary. The 92 degrees Fahrenheit was responsible for tihe shedding of the outer raimnent. At this juncture there entered the portals of the furniture factory, two African golf players, members of the “Hello Jazzbo” troupe which « laved at the new Ellis theatre Wednesday evening. Herby, ever bowing and smiling as the head waiter at the Ritz-Carlton, invited the dusky gentlemen for a tour through the factory, and the dusky gents, flattered by the attention of their host, readily accepted the invitation. The tour completed, the ebony-hued guests thanked Mr. Hammond for his hospitality in no uncertain tones and departed for their private car which stood on the Monon siding near the factory. * Unsuspecting Herbert was not aware as they departed that he had received his. first baptism from city slickers. . - * * But Herby discovered the awful truth when a few moments later he again donned his coat for a trip to the city proper. No self-respecting gentleman would appear on the streets improperly clad. - Ohce inside his raiment the private secretary of the Bona Manufacturing Company placed his hand in his inside coat pocket to see if ris pocketbook was safe? and then it was that he learned that it might be safe, but if so, it was safe in hands other than his I The dusky gents from darkest Africa had taken the pocketbook and the fifteen eagle-staknbed dollars which . reposed inside. Immediately Herby was all action and a few moments later was pouring forth his troubles to a minion of the law. However, by the time the said minion had disposed of his morning cakes the Jazzbo Duo had departed for greener fields. And now as Herby beats his typewriter the very keys seem to mock him, their click-click blending harmonious with the African golf balls which might have been seen catapaulting arouiM a green-clothed table on a “Hello Jazzbo” private coach as it drew steadily away from Rensselaer, in their mad endeavor to secure clear title to the fifteen dollars which once were the property of the private secretary of the Bona Manufacturing Company.

PROMINENT BARKLEY TOWNSHIP FARMER MARRIED

Glenn Baker, one of Barkley township’s leading farmers and Esther Wiseman, a very popular young lady of Union township were united in marriage at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman, at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday, was performed r b/ the Rev. W. T. Barbre, pastor- of the First Christian church of this wedding dinner was served after the marriage to the guests present after which thfe. happy neW" weds left for an automobile tnp to Niagara Falls and other interesting points in the east. The Republican joins the many friends of these young P® o ? 1 ® ™ wishing them a most happy wedding trip and that their joys may be extended over long, useful lives full of bliss and blessings.

Markets by wire.

(Furnished by The Farmers Grain Market, H. H. Better, Mgr.) —-Chicago, Sept. 23, 1920. Live Stock Market. Hogs, receipts, 18,000; top, 417.40. ’ Cattle, receipts, 10,000. Sheep, receipts, 15,000. Grain Market. Mar. wheat opened at 2.28% and 2.27; closed at 2.27 and %* * Dec. wheat opened at 2.35% and 2.85; closed at 2.36% Mar. oats opened at .64 and 54, closed at .61 5-8. , Sept, oats opened at .56 7-8 ana .57; closed at .54 34 tni 8 and Dec. oats opened at .59 7-8 ana .60 closed at .57 3-4. . Mar. corn opened at I.Vo and 1.04 3-8; closed at 1.00 and "sept, corn opened at 1.33 and 1.32; closed at 1-27%. Dec. corn opened at 1.04 81.03 8-4- closed at .99% and %.

THURSDAY LOCAL rain

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THURSDAY’S PRODUCE MARKET

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* M”* £ Duvall in their new home in San Diego, Calif?, and fpund them epfeM; didly located, both as to home and business. Mr Hollingswordi arrived here Mrs. Hollingsworth went, to Michigan until the weather here changes favorably for persons afflicted with hayfever.

Autumn 1920 The style notes for fall are go* ing to bo a joy to modern practical • • women. Freak models are passe. / ) Dame Fashion, who takes orderi //\x \ from women of taste in dress, has ( "MM ♦ seen the advantages of conservative, > becoming and serviceable attire, 4 I r realising in this that beauty aad l[ J j artistry are more evident than ever " .1 I before. • /fB I I 111 SUIT ILLUSTRATED IS A BEAU* M fiJW TIFUL GRAY MIXED SILVER* V 1/ her TONE, PRICED AT 959 Others $22.50 Up. MURRAY’S READY-TO-WEAR . *

REPUBLICAN MEETINGS FOR COUNTY

The following is a schedule of county Republican meetings for men and women for the coming week: Virgie, September 24. Wheatfield, September 27. Tefft, September 28. Kniman, September 29. McGoysburg, September 30; Gillam Center School House, September 30. - Independence School Barkley, October 1.

BANK AND MONEY MISSING.

Someone entered the home of Mrs. L. V. Martin of Lincoln avenue Tuesday afternoon while she was away from home and took her small bank*containing from SSO to S6O. This is a very severe loss for Mrs. Martin, as her means are limited and she works vary hard to support herself and family. So far no clue to the robbery has been found, but it is reported that some small boys were seen to enter/the Martin home while she, was away from home.

STANDARD OIL CO. TO ERECT FILLING STATION

The Standard Oil Company have stakes driven for the new filling station to be located on the northeast corner of Cornelia and Cullen This is the site forineriy occupied by the Norger hitch barn.

INSTALLS LARGE electric SKIN

T. M. Callahan, the Cornelia street automobile and implement dealer, has installed a very large electric . display sign. This sign is about four feet in diameter and displays very vividly by night and day the authorized Bpidm service station.

COME AND SEE TRE.

I have Baldwin pianos and other makes, phonographs, several makes, including the Ampliphone. Au makes of roeords. CHARLES B. STEWARD, , South Side West Washington BL

NEW GARAGE WENS.

We have opened a garage in the building formerly occupied by the North JSide Garage, opposite Babcock elevator, and will be prepared to give you high class service at all times. Prices and high grade workmanship guaranteed. BATTLEDAY A GIFFORD.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hour*, ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: May. Mtn Sept. 17 78 48 Sept. 22 . 92 60 Sept. 23 92 68 ,

Prayer meeting will be held at the Presbyterian church this Thursday evening. Everyone welcome.

For PROMPT Bus or Taxi Service r CALL THE MAKEEVER HOTEL We Do Day or Night Livery V Our Rat** Ar* R*a*onable JAY W. STOCKTON & SON Phone 107 - ■- ■ -

REXALL POLL STRONGLY REPUBLICAN

A prominent Rensselaer Republican was in Brook, Morocco, Kentland and Goodland this week.. The Rexall stores of those places are taking a political poll of the people who visit their stores. The result of this poll is very gratifying to The Republicans as the report* sent, into the Rej&ll headquarters and those received for the same run about three to one in favor of the Republican nominee, Senator Harding of Ohio. A significant feature of tins poll is the large majority of women favorable to Senator Harding. The proportion of women favorable to the Republican nominee being even greater than the men.

DEATH OF BELOVED MOTHER.

Mrs. Elizabeth Shields died at her home on College avenue Wednesday, September 22, at 11:00 p. m., after an illness Of many months. She was born in Johnson county, Indiana, on September 5, 1841. Her husband preceded her in death, having passed into the Great many years ago. > The deceased is survived by five children, David W., of Manchester, Tenn., Harley Ch, of Alberta, Canada; Mrs. Lucy Malone, of Monticello; John M. and Kathryn of this city. Funeral services will be held at the late residence on Saturday, September 25, at 3:00 p. m.

LEAVE ON EASTERN AUTOMOBILE TOUR

Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bringle left this Thursday morning for an automobile tour of the east. They will visit with Mr. and Mts. John Knapp of New York. The trip is being made in Mr. Moore’s Oakland Sedan with Robert Smith of the Central Sales Co. at the wheel.

NOTICE TO SHIFFERS. ■s. ——' All parties* having sheep to ship are requested to call Joseph Kohloff, manager of the Jasper County Shippers’ Association, not later than Saturday evening, September 25, as will ship not later, than first of the week. . ■ .. । ■ —

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National* New York, 7; Chicago, 2. Pittsburg, 2-3; Cincinnati, 0-1. Brooklyn, 3; Boston, 1» St. l-ouis, 4; Philadelphia, 2. - American. , i No games scheduled.

The following went W Chicago today: Mrs* E. Day, Mrs. C. Troyer, Mrs. George Hemphill and son, John. .

WEATHER. , . Unsettled weother with Probably showers tonight and Friday. Somewhat lower temperature Friday.

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