The Republic from Columbus, Indiana • Page 1

AVERAGE CIRCULATION aj KVRNTNG Republican The AVERAGE CIRCULATION Year of 1914, 3,004 January, 1915. 2,939 COLUMBUS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915. PRICE TWO CENTS. ESTABLISHED 1S77. LOCAL HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

BOY PROBLEM IS UP TO THE CLUB GIRLS AND BOYS TO HAVE PRIZES PASS SUFFRAGE BILL TO SURPRISE OF ALL Commercial Club Will Try and Provide Place for Young Men of This City. Fair Association Arranging to Conduct Numerous Contests for Them Here. GUT i SENATE ADOPTS JONES BILL MAY PASS SENATE MEASURE TODAY COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION COUNTY AGENT HAS PLAN WHICH DIRECTORS LIKED MAY FESTIVAL PLAN TO HAVE A At Least That is the Determination of the Recognized Senate Leader. Gives Women Right to Vote on All Offices Except Constitutional Ones. HIS SUGGESTIONS AT FRIDAY AFTERNOON MEETING WERE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD STREET CAR LINE EXTENSION IS PROPOSED.

8TOCK COMPANY MANAGE BUSINESS END OF AFFAIR APPROVED BY COMMERCIAL CLUB DIRECTORS. at- JETwlT'r'fc jJlflflRW EXCITEMENT IS OVER STATE-WIDE PRIMARY REPRESENTATIVES ARE EXPECTED TO PASS IT To do something for the boys ot Columbus. That is the present aim of the Commercial Club and plans were made by the directors, at their meeting Thursday night, to start the wheels A comprehensive plan for the work of the hoys and girls at the Bartholomew county fair was submitted to the directors at their meeting Friday afternoon in the Commercial Club turning in that direction. As rooms, by I. B.

county agent. J. the TO PASS BILL, HOWEVER, SENATE MUST ACCOMPLISH IT WITH OUT AID OF REPUBLICANS PLATFORM MEASURE IS THE REASON. GOVERNOR HAS SAID HE WOULD SIGN BILL IF PASSED AND IF IT GETS THROUGH THE HOUSE INDIANA WOMEN HAVE RIGHT TO VOTE. Lehman expressed the matter, Another proposition discussed at the tMm AiMl 1 1a it rl irn meeting was relative to an extension 1 i mote the general welfare of the resi- of the local street car line to the fair ground on Twentyflfth street.

A com- dents of thls clt as rauch 38 18 mittee was named to interview to secure new stories. Just now the hoy promem is consmerea LATtfj-pS 5 A-ATU ft. street railway management to see if there is any possibility of securing an (By United Press. Indianapolis, Feb. 20.

The John R. Jones state-wide primary bill will pass I more pertinent than anything else the iclub can undertake. nvtnncttnn V. Un In tn thin This fSlOv-iCi To 5 But ji to Qoc ro "FflSS Tf EL Mr. Lehman made the plea on be- the Senate if the recognized leader of year's fair.

half of the boys. He pointed out that Still another matter discussed was the Senate holds to the view and in tention that he held today. relative to having domestic science the young fellaws of thls have lectures at the fair, of mornings, for no Place to when come down (By United Preu.) Indianapolis, Feb. 20. The Indiana Senate today passed, 37 to 3, the limited women's suffrage measure, giving women the right to vote for all offices not mentioned in the state constitution.

The bill was made a democratic party measure and the action was taken under suspension of the rules. The bill goes to the House where it "The House will not play football with me any longer. Ill see that this i i town, iiinoris nave Deen maae in me past to secure a Y. M. C.

A. for this primary law passes the Senate," he said. the benefit of the women of the county. It is thought Purdue University will be willing to send some domestic science experts here at nominal cost and th is matter will be investigated further. The head of each department will city and they have failed.

Now, he proposes to have an auxiliary to the Commercial Club whereby young men and boys may.be admitted to limited membership at a lesser fee than When the Senate democrats went into their conference at 9:30 o'clock this morning it was generally understood probably will be passed. Gov. Ralston has stated he will sign riiiUn nn mr i rv im lii the measure. the chap if he had whined he would have killed him, but that he had found he was a man even though a German. "Bartlett Bonnell, of Brooklyn, was confer with the county agent about ailu 111 the premium list between now and De iven tne Privilege of playing AMERICANS FIGHT WITH THE FRENCH FRENCH DENYING GERMAN CLAIMS Those voting against the bill games and using the pool and billiard that the action of the House yesterday in passing the Jones primary bill 65 to 30 would be the main subject discussed.

What decision the majority would make was a debatable question, according to many of the democrats. Democrats, who had not heard the were Senators Kinder and Re- ser, republicans, and Zaring, democrat. killed by a shell while I was near him. I He told me he to the war because his girl had told him to gb out into the world and accomplish some Prior to the caucus action several leader's remark were "up in the air democratic leaders had expressed War Office Flatly ContradiCtS over the action of the House. There doubt whether the Supreme Court next meeting and their decision relative to the premiums will be taken as final by the board.

For the girls' department at the fair no entry fee will be charged and the competition will be restricted to residents of the county. The entries close May 1. Application for entry must be made to the county agent and articles entered in this- department can not be entered in any other -department. Each contestant must do tables in the club rooms, under proper supervision. Mr.

Lehman argued to the board that it was useless to tell a boy to behave and then give him no place to spend his idle time except in a saloon or a pool room. He urges that something be done to give the boys a place where they may congregate and be made to feel at hime; where they may be under the eyes of their elders was a feeling that the House demo Chicago Journalist Artist and Soldier Back on Furlough From Trenches. would hold the law constitutional. Today nothing was. said on that point.

Claims of Success in the North. crats are "passin' the buck," and quite a number of Senate members were thing. I don't know who the girl was, but'she lost the Quietest and bravest man in the legion. "Another American is from St. L.ouisT John Street, an evangelist.

He grew very hopeful that a reconcilia The Maston bill, which Is modeled free in saying so. With the Senate hav alter the Illinois law, would give wom ing assumed the responsibility of killing direct primary measures, the House felt it could go ahead, live up en the right to vote for presidential electors, judge of the Appellate Court, tion was coming during the Christmas! r- a i truce when we smoked, walked arm DEVELOPMENTS FAVOR all the work on any article exhibited "1U VIVID WORD PICTURES OF SCENES AT FRONT chief of the bureau of statistics, re gooa associations. THE ALLIES, INSTEAD10 the letter of the primary pledge in ithe platform and leave it to the Senate porter of the Supreme Court, attorney general, judges of superior, criminal, to use the ax, as one member- ex- pressed it. probate and juvenile courts, county council, township trustee, township ad The board of directors took favorable action on Mr. Lehman's plan and Charles S.

Way, president of the club, appointed a committee to investigate and see what can be done in the immediate future. This committee is composed of T. F. Fitzgibbon, Tho fact (hat tho House democrats visory board, township assessor, offices AMERICANS UNDER TRI-COLOR FROM EVERY PART OF THE UNITED STATES AND PRAC without any assistance from any one else. Each contestant, at the time of entering the exhiblL must also present a written record, showing the recipes used, the methods of procedure and the time required to make the various articles.

Suitable record blanks will be furnished by the fair management not later than the first of July. 1 is for girls between the ages voted unanimously for the primary and that all the leaders without ex PARIS SAYS BERLIN IS MAKING SWEEPING CLAIMS OF VICTORY TO INFLUENCE PARLIAMENT TO MAINTAIN NEUTRALITY. in arm and played with the Germans The following day Street got out or his trench in the early morning ant1 waved his hand to a German frienc in a trench fifty feet distant. A bulle'i went through his head and he dropped dead. "George llllard, a Galveston negro, was our cook and a fine one.

He was the best singer for hundreds of feet on both lines Of trenches and the German loved his songs. He taught them to sing "Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay," but one day a shell blew Ul- TICALLY FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. Mayor H. K. Volland, Louis J.

Scheldt, ception said they voted thus because of the platform pledge, made it more difficult for the majority in the Senate to kill the Jones bill, it was believed. T. E. Otto and the Rev. E.

L. Birchby. The plan to have a stock company formed to look after the business end of twolve mid flftppn years. A first When asked what he thought the end second prize will be given in this of the Ma mcal festival here, was (By dgL. Keen, U.

P. Staff Cor.) London, Feb. 20. Always ready for a feast or a frolic and the greatest Senate would do, Senator Van Aukcn one of the leaders, said: (By United Prcss.l Paris, Feb. 20.

Flat contradiction 'o the German claims of successes in the north in the Argonnes and in the approved by the board of directors and the proposition was referred to class for the best loaf of white bread; tho hpttt mmrt nf pnnnod annlps- thr i lard's trench-to pieces and he was kill is "WTe'll do the same thing to the hst onnrt tnmatne-' thithe next membership meeting for the fighting unit in the French army Champagne district came today from jones bill wo did to the Rinear bill best gingham apron; the best speci- PPval or disapproval of the entire the description applied to the Frenchmen of mending and the best specimen I membership. Frank N. Richman and American foreign legmn by one of its "Are you sure?" he was asked of cities and towns, members of school boards elected by the people and all other officers not provided for in the constitution of Indiana, whose office or offices have been or may be created by the Legislature. It would give women the right to vote on all questions submitted to the voters, except constitutional amendments. It would give them the right to vote in local option elections.

The bill been promoted by the legislative Council of Indiana women. It" became known today that the organization forces decided at the last moment in party caucus to take this action, after the House, by a sweeping democratic vote, passed the Statewide primary measure, which had been defeated in the Senate. A plan earlier formulated to tack to the suffrage hill a referendum clause was abandoft'r-d. The action today was beyond the "No, I'm nbt sure of anything except ed. Next day the German yelled to us to have George sing.

When we told them that he was dead they yelled back that they were sorry, as all of the riflemen in the trenches had agreed not to shoot the cheerful black i uynn enring were auuea to me numuers, run namu, jouiiitti- death and taxes," he said. Senator Clarke, a moving spirit May Festival committee. President Way has appointed officials to have charge of the annual elec- ist, artist and soldier. Back oh a furlough from the trenches where sometimes waist deep in water the troops among the Senate democrats said: tion of directors. Edward H.

Godfrey i hide from the terrific rain of artillery "To be frank with you, my judgment is that the Jones bill will not pass the is inspector and B. H. Fettig and E. Lindsay are judges. Senate." man who sang so well." Rader was mentioned in dispatches for destroying a straw stack in which four German machine had been hidden.

Rader and two companions fastened beet leaves to a gunny sack the war office. Reviewing the operations of the past ten days it was stated that everywhere the developments had favored the allies. Twf- German claims of sweeping successes are made deliberately and with the expectation that they will aid in influencing the Italian parliament, now in session, to continue the policy of neutrality, it is charged. The weather conditions all along the battle line have been abomnible, but in spite of this fact the have continued to make notable gains. Part of this is due to the superiority of the French artillery which is becoming fire, the Chicagoan today painted an intimate word picture of the type of men Who have adopted the tri-color as their flag in the present titanic war.

To pass the Jones bill, the Senate majority will have to work without of darning. To the girl having the best collection of the articles named, together with the best written report, the fair management will give a free trip to the short course at Purdue University. Class 2 is for girls between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years. First and second prizes will be given for the best loaf of white bread; the best pound of dairy butter; the best collection of three, canned fruits (one quart of each variety the best collection of two canned vegetables (one quart of each variety), and the best house dress. The girl having the best collection of these articles, together with the best written report, will also be "There are Americans in the service Ithe aid of the Senate republicans This was learned today on good au from every part of the United States and doning as disguises crawled and from everv walk of life," said to the straw stack through a beet fielo When the Rinear bill was hopes entertained by the.

most ardent thority. and set fire to it. For forty-seven das, Rader says, he was in trenches filled with water and mud. Baker today. "I think the most interesting of the whole lot I met was Eugene Jacobs, whose wife is running his butcher shop in Pawtucket, R.

while he fights for France. Both he "I've got some new ideas about so-j George Zeigler Died Suddenly. George Zeigler, aged 80 years, died at the home of his nephew, George Zeigler, near Taylorsville, about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. He had not felt very well for the past day or two. Friday afternon he complained of feeling ill and about 2 o'clock he lay down on the bed without removing his cloth ing.

A physician was called frbm Edin-burg, but before he arrived Mr. Zeigler was dead. Dr. L. E.

Bracken, county coroner, was called from this city. Heheld an autopsy Friday night and determined that strangulated hernia and peritoni- more effective as the German artillery loses its power. called bravery now," he explained. "It suffragist when the session opened. Such a bill was not thought of.

The plan to introduce the bill was announced exclusively by United Press papers on January 25. "The feeling in the caucus was that we should do something to get the support of the progressive element," said a democrat. and his wife were born in Belgium, is all a matter of nerves and experi-When the Germans raided that coun- ence. The fellow wtio is quietest and try his wife wouldn't let him go to the perhaps the most scared on his first war even when she learned that the day in the trenches often proves to WASHINGTON TO STAND FIRM FOR PROTECTION killed, six of the seven republican sen-. ators voted against the motion killing the bill, but they did this to force it to third reading.

They will, it is said, vote nearly as a unit against the Jones bill under the theory that the primary is a democratic platform measure, and if it becomes a law the democrats should be responsible for it. Should these six votes be lost it would be hard to overcome by the primary friends unless the leaders of the party swung into line behind the bill. Senator Neal has said that he voted with the majority to kill the Rinear I bill, but that because of hoarseness given a free trip to the Purdue short i course. Relative to the house dresses to bej made by the girls in Class 2, the rules provide that in making this dress the little village that was her birthplace had been burned. But the next day when the word came that his own former home had also been destroyed Jacob told his wife that he could stand girl "will have a chance to use her tis were the causes of death.

That is. Insist That Germany Harm Not American Property and Lives in "Death Zone." individuality more than in other arti-; ho the best soldier in the end. The fellow who comes in with a great hallaba-loo of noise often breaks down. An English socialist came into our trenches one day and shouted as he began firing: 'This is what my hands and heart have longed Our colonel told us to watch hinf, saying that the reaction would soon set in. Sure enough it did.

The newcomer, after cle. The choice as to color, material and style is left to the girl. The ma The recent adoption by the Senate of the Stetsenburg suffrage amendment, which retains the present provision, limiting suffrage to male voters, does not affect the bill passed today. The Stotsenburg amendment applies only to constitutional offices and the bill passed today applies only! to offices not mentioned in the constitution. Mrs.

Nancy J. Pittman Dead. Mrs. Nancy Jane Pittman, aged 69 terial used must be gingham or per it no longer. He took a boat, came over and enlisted.

Jacob is the most fervent German hater that I know of. Even during the The cost of the material must V- wife of Alexander Pittman, died cale his voice was not heard. Senator Jack- (Bv United Press.) not be more than 92 and this must tbeir nome' 639 HeRe avenut- ast Columbus, about midnight Friday Christmas truce he refused to lay his Washington, Feb. 20. This govern-! son was not present, but has said he ment intends to stand firm in insist- would have voted to kill the Rinear ing that Germany not harm American bill.

commerce or lives in the "death zone" The vofe asainMt the Rinear bill was feelings aside and just before we left nrin steadily for an hour, began to BEL RIDGE IN TOW. our trenches to meet the Germans and complaint of cold and was soon sniver night. The funeral will be held from the residence Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will be in the Garland Brook cemetery. ii 1 1 it.

elude cloth, pattern, thread, buttons, hooks, eyes, etc." No entry fee will be charged in the boys' department. All boys who enter must be residents of the county and between the ages of twelve and eighteen years. mg wun a nervous emu. sic around tne British Isles, according to 2 exchange cigars and greetings he fix with 21 for it. Add the votes of tor tour days and we naa many sum- official intimations today.

lar cases. It is the so-called 'rotter' Tne official Tiew was that the na- Neal and Jackson and the six republicans, and the bill would be defeated ed his bayonet and declared that if we brought a single German into the trenche he would kill him. And all dav that makes the best soldier. The men "Illustrated Columbus" Will soon be off the uress and readv I i A. 1 1 I Tkn first in In the hnva' rionart i for dehverv.

There will only be a ment will be a colt show. Application few copies DVer and order8 for Christmas he sulked. Then later, onefwno somenow aoni se-ni io auit- lo day a German who was drunk wan fit into society become cool, calm and dered intoW trenches and insulted I steady when they come under fire, us. We all respected his braverv and "The thins that impressed me most Steamer That Was Torpedoed in Mid-Channel Enroute to London. Bjr United Press.) Dover.

Feb. 20. The stesmer which was torpedoed in mid-channel by a German submarine yesterday, left the-Downs today in charge of tugs for London, where she will be dry-docked: While tugs tow her others will remain alongside with their pumps going to 'prevent her foundering en route. tion can pursue no other course than unieSs the organization democrats who to insist on its rights. have stood for a referendum should One of the highest government offi- get behind the bill.

cials admitted rel danger lies in the! fact that the United States may be- The merchant who sacrifices a por-come involved in the argument be- tion of his usual profits in order to tween the two countries. (save money to vou is earning, your in- i for entry in mat aepartment must be made to the county agent by noon of same should be with the Republican office at once if you wish to get a copy. in the trenches is now human nature admired him. But not Jacob. He and August 10.

Colts entered must not be, more than seven months of age. These colts must be brought in by Friday, Anthracite coal or coke: Columbus the German had a hell of a fist fight in Decomes stronger man mu.iarv ruie. the trench, but afterward they shook In the railroad yard near our trenches hands and became friends. Jacob toldj (Continued on Page Four.) i terest and allegiance. Read today's Read the classified ads for profit.

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