Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1919 — Page 3

NEW LAW THAT MUCH TO THE FARMERS.

It is probable that few of the farmers of Jasper county know that the last state legislature passed amendments to the workmen’s compensation act, which make fanners and others liable for compensation to employes of onctractors who do not carry workmen’s compensation insurance on their employes. Great importance attaches to these amendments to the farmers, not only of Jasper county, but of the state as a whole right now, when the threshing season is opening The is a contractor. If he does not carry compensation insurance on his crew and an accident overtakes them, then the farmer who has contracted with the threshermaa and on whose premises the accident occurs, becomes liable for the compensation to the injured persons. This being true, the only way .the farmer can protect himself against possible expenses is to require of the thresherman that the latter carry compensation insurance on This employes, That this is so, is revealed by the following excerpt from one of the amendments, to which allusion has been made: “Any person contracting for the performance of any work without exacting from the contractor a certificate from the industrial board showing that such contractor has complied with section sixty-eight of thd& act, dhall be liable 'to the same extent as the contractor for compensation, physician’s fees, hospital and nurse’s fees, burial expenses on account of the injury or death of any employes of such contractor due to an accident arising out of and in Ithe course of the performance of the work covered by such contract.” ‘ It would seem that the foregoing lamendment makes it absolutely clear that the farmer who engages a thresherman who does not cany compensation insurance on his employes, takes the risK of haying to selbtle for any personal injury m helping thresh that farmer’s gram. That it is the duty of threshermen to carry such insurance, being contractors within the perview of the law, is clearly indicated by the fallowing excerpt from the compensation adt: ... -“Every employer under .this act shall either insure or keep insured ihis liability heretinder in some corporation, association or organization authorized to transact business of workmen’s compensation insurance in this state or shall furnish to the industrial board satisfactory proof of his fiancial ability to pay direct the compensation in the amount and manner and when due as provided for id this act.” A statement has been sent to.tne farmers of Indiana by the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations urging them to make sure that the owners of threshing machines who have the contracts for threshing on their farms comply with the terms of the workmen’s compensation act. By this act, unless the farmer exacts from the contractor a certificate from the industrial board showing that he has complied with the act, the farmer will be liable to the same extent as the contractor for compensation, physician’s *®es and hospital fees as a result of injury or death of the employes of the contractor while at work on the land owned by the farmer.

NEED FOR COMMON COUNSEL.

This is not a one-man country; it never has been, and unless there is a radical and wholly unimaginable change in the American character, it never will be. AU the beginning of President Willson’s first term, he announced, if recollection serves correctly, that his office door would be open and that he would be ready for consultation and counsel with all comers. Whether such an arrangement is feasible for a man who is holding as big a job as the presidency may be doubted; at any rate the door did not remain open. When it was closed the president was not only shut away from the public and his federal associates, but, as time passed, more and more remotely so, until, as further tune passed, his frequently announced .policy of taking common counsel became little more than a mem--orHoweverrHowever great may be Mr. Wilson’s confidence in the Wsdom ot his foresight and the understanding of his duties and his ability to perform them without suggestion or advice from others, he should not forget that this is a government of three co-ordinate branches, that it is the expectation that these coordinate branches shall co-ordinate, and that any .failure to do so leads neither to the best results nor to confidence in such -results as are attained. For a long time Mr. Wilson has not only not taken advice at Washington, but he has seldom listened to it, and he has apparently forgotten how to ask for it, as a president, as evidenced by the very structure of our government, is expected to ask for it. That he had not always such ideas of exclusive j administration, but that they have grown on him with his service, is evidenced by a lecture that he delivered at Columbia university long before— presumably—he i ever had any idea of becoming president. Among other things, he said m that le °There is anothercourse which the president may fpllow, and which one or two presidents °f political sagacity have with the satisfactory results that were to have been expected. He, may himself be less stiff and offish, | Say himself act in the true spirit of the constitution, and establish relations of confidence with the Lnate on hrs own initiative, carrying Ms plans to completion and, then tpying them in final form before the senate, to be accepted er

rejected, but keeping himself in confidential communication with : the leaders of the senate while his plans are in course, where this advice will be of service to him, and his information of the greatest service to them, in order that there may be a veritable counsel and a real accommodation of views, instead of a final challenge and contest. The .policy which has made rivals of the president and senate has shown itself in the president as often as in the senate, and if the constitution did indeed intend that the senate should in such matters be an executive council, it is not only the privilege of the president to treat it as such, it is also his best policy and his plain duty. As the treaty situation stands now— with the president about to start on a speech-making tour, in which he is expected to demajid the ratification of the treaty without modification —it looks very much like “a final challenge and contest”; but perhaps matters have not gone too far for amelioration, perhaps there could be a “veritable counsel and a real accommodation of views.” If there could be it would be to the distinct advantage of the country.— The Indianapolis News.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to .take this means to thank our many hind friends and neighbors for their words of sympathy and many acts of kindness shown us following the death of our beloved daughter and sister. —-David Line, Brothers and Sisters.

We have the Sun-Kist line of peaches, apricots, pineapple and asparagus tips—nothing better put up in cans. Try them at Ramey & Murphey’s. ’Phone 71. If the new congress is as efficient in reconstruction as it bids fair to be' in investigation, it will be a memorable assemblage. If Germany is admitted to the league, she should take the cellar position, or at least remain in the second division for the remainder of the season. —Brooklyn Eagle. It strikes us it is going to be pretty tough on the milkman when the increased demand for water reaches the proportions it is bound to—Philadelphia Inquirer. Apparently if Germany and Austria had been entrusted with the job, they could have fixed up peace terms that would have suited them exactly.—Kansas City Star. Pershing has officially thanked the' city of Paris, which leads us to believe that Pershing didn’t do any retail shopping on his own account while there. —New York Morning Telegraph.

The League of Nations covenant has flaws in plenty, but we should like to see the document Senators Lodge, Borah, Johnson, Reed and Sherman could agree on.—Syracuse Post-Standard. As the hot summer weather begins, the young woman breathes reverently: “Thank God for organdy!” '

TEMPERATURE. - The] following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. July 11 .....87 48

NOTICE. All the suits contesting the will of the late Benjamin J. Gifford, are now disposed of, and I am in a position to sell land. I have yet unsold several hundred acres of good land located in Jasper and Lake counties, which I will sell as executor on reasonable terms, but cannot take any trade. Call at my office or at the office of T. M. Callahan, at Rensselaer, Indiana, for particulars. GEO. H. GIFFORD, Executor.

SHERIFF’S SALE. I will offer at public auction on Saturday, July 12, at 2 p. m., a complete laundry equipment; consisting of: Shirit ironer Gasoline engine, 2 % Hp. Rotary wringer Washer Ironing machine 50 ft. shafting Five pulleys Table desk • Stove Typewriter Two oil tanks ■Compression tank And various articles, In addition to the above, I will offer a number of> automobile supplies. Sheriff sales on writ of attachment of O. H. McKay & Son. TRUE D. WOODWORTH, Sheriff Jasper County.

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RENSSELAER - REMINGTON BUS LINE r TWO ROUND TRIPS DAILY j LEAVE Rensselaer ... .8100 a. «n.! Rensselaer 3:45 p. m. Remingt0n.......... V... 5:30 a. m. Remington . . 5:15 p. m. FARE 51.00 • i War Ta> Bc. FRANK G. KRESLER. Proprietor.

TH® EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

JULY TERM OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT.

County Commissioners D. S. Makeever, Charles Welch and H. W. Marble met in regular session in their room in the court house Monday, July 7, and attended to the following county business: Bridges. Bids for the construction of six-teen-bridges were received and contracts were made for the same with the lowest bidders, as follows: No. 3238. Oliver ditch, Winamac Bridge C0.,55,300; Rochester Bridge Co., 15,600; East St. Louis Bridge Co., $5,560. No. 3239. Oliver ditch, Roe Yeoman, S9BB. No. 3240. Oliver ditch, W. S. DeArmond, $1,900; Roe Yeoman, $1,998. No. 3241. Iroquois river, B. D. McColly, $595. No. 3242. Nessius ditch, Roe Yeoman, $738. No. 3243. Nessius ditch, Roe Yeoman, $1,038. No. 3244. Mosquito Creek, Roe Yeoman, S6OO. No. 3245. Bice ditch, Roe Yeoman, $l5O. No. 3246. Nessius ditch, Roe Yeoman, $772. No. 4347. Keener township, W. S. DeArmond, $821.50; East St. Louis Bridge Co., $834; B. D. McColly, $847; Winamac Bridge Co., $849; Rochester Bridge Co., SBSO. No. 3248. Hebron grade, W. S. DeArmond, $3,102; Rochester Bridge Co., $3,154; East St. Louis Bridge Co., $3,190; Winamac Bridge Co., $3,237. No. 3249. Hebron grade, East St. Louis Bridge Co., $6,598; Rochester Bridge Co., $6,899; Winamac Bridge Co., $6,947. No. 8250. —Zimmer ditch, Rochester Bridge Co., $3,079; Winamac Bridge Co., $3,089; East St. Louis Bridge Co., $3,094. No. 3251. Davisson ditch, B. D. McColly, $1,070; Rochester Bridge Co., $1,090; Winamac Bridge Co.s $1,093; East St. Louis Bridge Co., $1,172. No. 3252. Union township, B. D. McColly, $590; Roe Yeoman, S6BB. No. 3253. Davisson ditch, B. D. McColly, $590; Roe Yeoman, S6BB. Road*.

Slight Stone Road —Contract for completion let to E. M. Hibbs for $3,421.62. Harry Stalbaum bid $3,999. Hitching Stone Road—‘Contract let to William Stalbaum for $13,170. No other bids received. Carr Stone Road —Contract for completion let to B. D. McColly for $10,470. No other bids received. Wood Stone Road —Bids for completion were received as follows: No. 8, Johnson and Hindsley bid $17,888. Awarded contract. Same party bid $2,741 on road No. 4. Awarded contract. Same party bid $20,120 on road No. 5. Bid rej (j , No. 2993. Amsler Stone Road — Contractor O. D. Salrin files petition for cancellation of contract. Cause set for hearing August 4. No. 2971. John J. Borntrager Stone Road —Contractor A. E. Harriman allowed $946.40. No. 3194. Bertis C. Eldridge Stone Road —Notice found sufficient and cause is continued for objections. . , _ No. 2717. Frank Fenwick Stone Road —Notice for re-estimate filed and auditor is directed to advertise for sale of contract. No. 2716. Maurice Gorman Stone Road—Bond of W. D. Bringle, superintendent, approved. Contractor William Stalbaum allowed $492. No. 2800. Julius Hine Stone Road —Re-estimate filed. Notice found sufficient. No. 2992. Frank Hoover Stone Road—No bids received. Auditor directed to re-advertise for sale of contract. No. 2991. H. W. Jackson Stone Road and No. 2990, Fred Tyler Stone Road —Contractors, Evans & Vannatta, refile petition to cancel contracts. No. 8258. Eugene Kirk Stone Road—Petition under county unit law found to be in due form-and sufficient. Referred to county commissioners and E. D. Nesbitt. No. 3125. Joseph Kosta Stone Road—Johnson and Hindsley allowed S9OB. County Treasurer C. V. May filed certificate of sale of bonds. No. 3085. Jacob May Stone Road—Notice found sufficient and auditor is directed to advertise for sale of contract ; No. 3260. Alex Menca Stone Road—Petition under county unit law found to be in due form and sufficient. County commissioners and E. D. Nesbitt appointed viewers to report August 4. No. 2987. Granville Moody Stone Road —Auditor directed to advertise for sale of Contract for August. No. 2929. W. O. Rowles Stone Road —Contractor A. S. Keene files petition to have contract cancelled. Cause set for hearing for August 4. Superintendent Thomas Lowe resigned and John W. Nowels appointed to succeed him. No. 8222. Claude Spencer Stone Road—Expense acebunt allowed. No. 8259. John Stack Stone Road—Notice found to be sufficient. Proposed improvement found to be (less than three miles in length and a general election not necessary. ;B. D. McColly and Harry Kresler appointed viewers and E. D. Nesbitt,

engineer, to report August 4. No. 2972. Robert J. Yeoman Stone Road —Notice found sufficient. All other road matters were continued. Ditches. No.- 3057. Curtis M. Dewey Drain—Report referred to E. D. Nesbitt, B. Frank Alter and Robert Mannan to re-assess benefits. No. 2940. William Folger Drain —Report hot according to taw. Referred to E. D. Nesbitt, B. Frank Alter and Elias Arnold. They are to report on August 4. No. 3117. Milton Roth Drain— County treasurer files certificate of

sale of bonds. No. 2832. Russell Van Hook Drain—Report continued for objections. Expense account allowed. Attorney S. C. Irwin allowed $26. No. 1398. Mrs. J. M. Wasson Drain—Report and assessments approved. Expense account allowed. E. D. Nesbitt appointed superintendent of construction. No. 3233. A. K. Yeoman Drain —Time extended for making report to August 4. All cither ditch matters continued. Miscellaneous. . County officers filed reports of fees collected for the quarter ending June 30, as follows: J. P. Hammond, auditor, $45.50; Jesse Nichols, clerk, docket fees, S3O, clerk’s fees, $300; George W. Scott, recorder, $513.10; True D. Woodworth, sheriff, $41.45. No. 8265. Mary Kearney. In the matter of losing Maurice Gorman bonds. Having filed a good and sufficient bond, auditor is ordered to issue duplicate of bonds lost No. 3265. FnrmipTt’ National Bank of Remington. Petition filed to become a depository for county funds. Personal bond approved and petition granted. No. 3266. In the matter of assessing. County Auditor Hammond instructed to appear before the state tax board with County Assessor G. L. Thornton. His expenses for this service to be allowed at sls. County Board of Finance. The reports of interest due from the banks as per below were examined and approved: First National Bank, Rensselaer, $237.66; Trust and Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $263.81; State Bank of Rensselaer, $226.09; State Bank of Remington, $240.55; Bank of Wheatfield, $75.82. ——~——

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The Jasper county board of education met in regular session in the office of the county superintendent last Monday. The Leonard Supply company was awarded the contract to furnish 2,000 semi-annual manuscripts for use next year in the rural schools of the county. There were several competitive bids. They were as follows: T. M. Woodburn Co., 5 cents each; Kiger & Co., 4.68 cents each; D. H. Goble Printing Co., 5.25 cents each; Leonard Supply Co., 4.25 cents each. A general resume of the teaching force in all townships already employed was taken. The situation showed a lack of experienced teachers, but an over stock of prospective teachers asking for schools for their first year. Mildred Gifford, who taught for Warren Poole in Hanging Grove township last year, has been employed by Mr. Rush to teach in Newton township. Jessie White, who taught for Mr. Bowie in Wheatfield township last year, will also teach for Mr. Rush. Mildred McGlynn, of Remington, who taught for Mr. Rush last year, -will teach for Mr. Porter, of,Carpenter township. Robert Rayle, Who taught for Mr. LeFevre in Gillam township, will teach for Mr. Rush in Newton. Oka Pancoast, who taught for Mr. Rush last year, will teach for Mr. Postill in Marion township next year. Nellie Johnstone, who taught for Mr. Davisson in Barkley, will teach for Mr. Huff, of Jordan. Mr. Lewellyn, who taught for Mr. Fairchild, will teach for Mr. Bowie in Wheatfield township. Zona Custard, who has been in the service, will return to teach in Wheatfield township next year. C. M. Blue, who has been principal of a ward school at Highland for two years, will teach in Union township next year. Gladys McGlynn, who has been teaching in Hanging Grove township, will teach for Mr. Wood in Milroy. Dott Porter, who taught for Mr. Postill in Marion, will be in school all next year at Terre Haute. Rosabel Daugherty, who taught for Mr. Davisson in Barkley, will attend school ali of next year. Mildred Rush, who taught for Mr. Davisson last year, will teach in Newton the coming year. Grace Knapp, who taught in Barkley, will teach for Mr. Fairchild in Keener next year. Lila Delehanty, who taught for Mr. Davisson, of Barkley, will teach the coming year for Mr. Duggleby, of Kankakee. Martha Parker, who taught for Mr. Porter, of Carpenter, will teach in the town schools at Remington next year. Marie Nevill, who taught for Mr. Postill in Marion, is in school at Terre Haute working on her senior work at that school. John D. Matt, who taught at Tefft, will teach at DeMotte next year. Anna Hunsicker will attend school at Indiana university next year. The brief survey in today’s board meeting revealed numerous changes not here recorded. It was noted that men were deserting the teaching and that those who were

attracted to the profession were paid a strong wage. Trustee Bowie, of Wheatfield, has employed three men in his township, instead of two, as was noted in former school notes. The junior high school has been legalized in Indiana by the last legislature. Teachers who have seventh and eighth grade pupils will need license themselves in junior high school subjects in order to give the rural pupils competent teachers so that the diploma examination may be dispensed with in the country schools if the present trend continues. This seems to be the next revolutionary step in Indiana. Jas-i per county teachers should prepare • for this forthcoming requirement. ■ Oka Pancoast has the honor of mak-' ing the first junior high school li- J cense in Jasper county on the June examination. The law requires the applicant to make a grade of 7 5 per j cent or more on high school scaence of education and on junior high school English. Then such applicant, can license herself in as many sub-' jects as she pleases to lie incorporated in this junior high school license. No greater examination stimulus has ever been devised in Indi-

Charles G. Spitler, President. Judson J. Hunt, Sec’y-Treas. Edd J. Randle, Vice-President Charles H. Mills, Asst Sac'y-Tr. The Trust & Savings Bank - -— —.- . ."’SM === Z'ZZZ:Z: Condensed statement of the condition of THE TRUST A SAVINGS BANK of Rensselaer, Indiana at tbs close of business June 30th, 1919. - o

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. . .$563,433.45 Overdrafts 2,264.72 Bonds and Stocks (including U. S. Bonds and war savings stamps 121,710.00 U. S. Certificates. .... 186,650.00 Bank Building 36,000.00 Furniture and fixtures.. 2,863.64 Advances to Estates. ... 212.94 Due from Banks and Trust companies 81,699.56 Cash on Hand 10,236.89 Cash Items 3,158.30 Interest Paid 4,035.97 Expense 4,802.67 Total Resources ..$1,017,068.14

State of Indiana, County of Jasper., ss:— I, Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of The Trust and Savings Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. JUDSON J. HUNT. Secretary-Treasurer. Subscribed and sworn to befor e me, this 7th day of July, 1919. GERTRUDE HOPKINS, Notary Public. My commission expires April 1, 1921.

am to give efficiency and encouragement to the teachers. It anticipates growth to remain in the schools where patrons demand efficient teachers. A rural teacher who supplements the regular common school and primary licenses with a junior high school license would 'be in demand in preference to a teacher who held a lower grade license only. The regular junior high school questions will appear on the high school questions next July. Each teacher should get acquainted with this new kind of license.

Harmbunt's big scenic production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is deservedly popular. It is hard to find a person who has not seen it, of doesn’t intend to. It is patronized and endorsed by the clergymen and religious press, as delightful, instructive, and strictly moral. At Rensselaer, Saturday, July 12.

ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS!

I am prepared to half-sole your tires with Gates Half-Soles on tires of all sizes. These are puncture proof and guaranteed 3,500 miles. Cost only one-half as much as you pay for standard tires. Tire and tube repairing at reasonable prices. Also handle Gates’ tested tubes in all sizes. Ford Special Oil, lubricating, oil and grease. Free air and water. Come and see how Gates’ Half-Sole tires are put on. AU work will be given careful attention. ’Phone 109. JOHN J. EDDY.

Orders now being taken for fall delivery from the Guaranteed Nursery company. Stock failing to live replaced free. Charles Pefley. The local elevators are paying 69 cents for oats today. The prices of other grains are the same as Thursday. Delena Coovert, of Mt. Ayr, went to Valparaiso for a visit with a friend. Her cousin, Perry Stueber, of Mt. Ayr, accompanied ‘her to this city. Mrs. George Thompson/ of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. William Strawbridge, of Chicago, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner and A. F. Long and wife. Mrs. R. QuaUdnbudh, of Monon, spent the day here. <r« ’Hi* Repuhßeaa

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LIABILITIES Capital Stock .$100,000.00 Surplus 10,000.00 Undivided Profits 3,566.09 Dividends unpaid 25.00 Interesrt, Discount and Other Earnings 18,072.59 Deposits 883,679.89 Reserve for Taxes 1,724.57 Total Liabilities ...$1,017,068.14

BIG “UNCLE TOM” SHOW”

Can you imagine being able to sit in a nice comfortable seat ina tent and seeing what appears to be an actual snow storm? Harmount has obtained these results through electrical effects in his world’s largest production of Unde Tom’s Cabin. These machines are also used in producing the floating cakes of ice on the Ohio river by moonlight, and a grand electrical display for little Eva’s transformation and the Heavenly realms. At Rensselaer, Saturday, July 12.

It has been a source of speculation to us whether a soldier has to run all around himself in order to 'Mercy! but geese and ducks would put on airs if they knew that members of their family Were selling for S6O each in Budapest.

JUDGE C. W. HANLEY BUYS CITY LOTS.

Judge C. W. Hanley has purchased of Bertha Wildberg, of Peoria, HL, lots 1 and 2 in block 19 in the original town (now city) of Rensselaer. These lots are located just a half block north Of the judge’s home. They are eighty-seven feet front and one -hundred feet deep and face on Gorhelid street and are in the first block west of McKinley avenue. It is understood that the judge will erect two fine modern bungalows upon these lots, one to be occupied by his son, Attorney Cope J. Hanley, and wife. The other is to be rented for a while, after which it too, may be occupied by his son, Emil.

(Mrs. Ira J. Coe and little son, John I. Coe, of Chicago, are the guests of her sister, Mrs. Jay Stockton, and other relatives at the Makeover hotel. Mrs. Coe was formerly Miss Ethel Perkins and served as deputy clerk of the Jasper circuit court for a number of years. Her father, Judson E. Perkinte, was serving ate clerk at <the time of his death. Her husband was at one time principal of the Rensselaer high school. t —: —~ Nicaragua has appealed to us for help against Costa Rica. Boy, page Sergeant York.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.