Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Page 8

■: Country Correspondence BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

CURTIS CREEK. Warner Hough was in Goodland Friday. A fine rain fell Monday night and it was needed»very badly. Roscoe Halstead got one of his fingers badly hurt the other day. Mrs. Harvey Pierson called on Mrs. Chas. Weiss Friday afternoon. Walter Kelley took dinner Thursday with Sidney Holme? gnd family. Miss Pearl Graff of lowa is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Goetz, and other relatives. Miss Hazel Jacks and Miss Hazel Jones spent a few days with the Holmes family last week. Miss Grimes has gone on an extended visit with relatives in the central part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Werner and Porter Litha. the Indian boy, were in Brook Sunday afternoon. William Kenton of Mitchell, So. Dak., visited his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Parker for a couple days. Threshing was finished in this run Saturday night, but there is still a great deal to do in other runs. Mrs. Erhardt Wuerthner, Sr., was taken Ito- Longcliff again this week for treatment. The three little children should be placed in a good -home or instiution somewhere.

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WHEATFIELD. Severity-seven tickets were sold from here for Michigan City Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Schultz of Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Meteer. W. S. McConnell of Fair Oaks visited his sister, Mrs. M. B. Fyfe, Monday. Tom Jensen of Rensselaer spent Tuesday and Wednesday here with hds parents and others. W. S. Walton, a former resident of this place, came over from Beardstown, Saturday. Mrs. Nora Mattock and child of Kankakee are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller, Sr. Mrs. George Turner and son of Tefft were the guests of Mrs. Wm. Turner and family Wednesday. Mrs. Bernice Clark went to Kankakee, 111., Wednesday for a fewdays visit with her cousin, Mrs Ed Adams. H. W. Marble, W. B. McNeil, John Bowie, and Malcolm Clark, returned Saturday from their Niagara Falls trip. Miss Laura Anderson of Gosport accompanied F. H. Scott home Saturday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. F. H. Scott. Miss Minnie Tinkham. who has been teaching at Angola for the past two years, is home for her vacation now, having arrived Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Helmick and daughter Essie of Groveton, Texas, came Friday for a visit with their parents’, the Scotts and John M. Helmick. MrsS Blanche Steel, who has been visiting friends near Rensselaer returned home Saturday. Her father, Cyrl Steel, who Works near Rensselaer, spent Sunday at home. Mrs. Roy Williams; and children of Rensselaer returned home Monday from a visit with the Williams families. Miss Edna Williams went with her sister-in-law for a short visit. , ’ •Misses Lena Gilbranson, whose home is in northern Wisconsin ant Mabie Larson of Chicago came Tuesday for a visit at the home oi the former's brother. Henry Gilbranson. Miss Viola Rayher of Rensselaer visited over Sunday witty her sister, Mrs. J. A. Stump, returning home Wednesday. Mrs. Stump accompanied her home for a fewdays visit.

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FAIR OAKS. Mrs. Cottingham is on the sick ? Jfct. ■ Mrs. Anna Gilmore was Quite ” again last week, but is some better this week. Mtw. Jessie Cedarwall and children nsdted her uncle, Abe Bringle’s, ihraday for a few hours. Chas. Gundy and Newt McKay igtsre ot home from Gibson with UMr tamflies over Sunday. MH Vtaaren got home Monday (

from Wisconsin,* where she had -been for about 10 days attending Burning Bush meetings. Dan Lintner and family of Wheatfield partly moved back here Wednesday, and live in Ed Kesler’s house at present. Earl Leech of Rensselaer was a visitor at Tom Mallatt’s from Sunday until Monday. Wonder what is the attraction? Several of the gravel road people took a few days leave of absence the latter part of last week and the first of this. We were informed Monday that George Geesa, who has been down for several weeks with typhoid fever, is not making any improvement.;/ Dora Cottingham was overcome Tuesday with the heat while picking pickles, and at present is feeling pretty badly, but is slowly recovering. Rev. Rarden and wife and Amos Alter and wife of Rosebud came up in the latter’s auto Sunday , and had a pleasant visit with the writer and family. We are still wanting rain. Corn in lots of places will be cut short if it Should not rain soon, while in other places the drouth hasn’t affected it yet. Jessie Garriott has been installed as substitute carrier on the railroad out of this place to succeed Ben ZeHers, who made one trip and then jumped the job. It is reported that Uncle Joe Burns is to take unto himself a ne w wife in the near future. That’s right, Joe, improve your opportunity while you are young. Mrs. Kight returned Tuesday evening from the campmeeting at Battle Ground. Her grand-daughter Beula Shein of Lafayette, came home with her for a visit of a week or more.

We got a fine rain Monday night which will be a great benefit to growing crops, but it shopped the threshing machine a day or so. There is about a week’s work in these parts yet. The gravel road contractors have two more miles to build and then the contract will .be completed. Then they will begin on a four nr'le job from the county line w-est and to within two miles of Roselawn.

Fred Williams, the painter, and his assistant, Leslie Warren, went to Henry C. Pierson's, nera Pullins’ bridge, this week, to paint his house and Several other buildings. A good workman never wants for a job, and he surely is one of them. While driving through the country down at North Star in Newton county, we run across our old time friend,. Ira Sayler, witty a paint brush, with which he was making the school house take on a better appearance. We had a short talk with him. The sight of his good natured and pleasant Countenance would bring back to memory many childhood days when we were boys together, but now our heads are very much streaked with gray.

Pickle harvest is getting along nicely now F. M. Goff, the manager, here, informs us I that they expect to take in and pickle about 2,000 bushels of onions this fall, and if the farmers will take hold and raise cabbage and tomatoes and sweet corn, they will build a canning factory here next year. We feel that the proposition is onfe worth considering as it would no doubt bring lots of money into this vicinity, which would be distributed among the people at a good time of the year.

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NORTH UNION. ' Al Keener spent Sunday with Geo. Casey’s. ’ We had another fine shower Monday night. ■' ” Miss Tona Schultz is home on a short visit. Steve Comer bought a. fat hog of J. W. Fay lor Wednesday. Gertrude Faylor was on the sick list the first of the week. John Price and son Will are putting up hay on the marsh. Paul Schultz is the proud father of a fine boy, born last. Friday. Jack Reeder and family spent Sunday with D. Hahn„ and family. J. W. Faylor and wife called on Geo. Cover and family Sunday. Will Faylor and wife called oh I. F. Meader and family Sunday. A sister of Mrs. Andy Myers helped her cook for threshers Wednesday. - • r "

Mrs. Todd Millspaugh and ' Mrs. J. W. Faylor were Rensselaer goers Monday. '* ■-’ Quite a number from this Vicin-

tty were 1 in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Millspaugh spent Sunday with A. Ropp and family east of Aix. Miss Olive Austin, who was visiting her uncle’s family, returned home last Friday. Mrs. Todd» and Mrs. Millspaugh and Mrs. J. W. Fay lor were Rensselaer goers Monday. . Miss Ora Austin returned to her home near Fulton Friday after visiting with her uncles, J. W. and W. C. Faylor and families the past ten days. August Schultz had relatives of Hammond visiting them the past week. They returned home Wednesday. Miss Lena Schultz returned with them for a visit. Wheat in this part of the county turned out an average of better than 20 bushels to the acre. Oats run from 30 to 50 bushels and better. Rye is good. Everyone is going to put out wheat this fall around here.

Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Faylor gave a party last Tuesday evening in honor of their neice, Miss Ora Austin. Many games were enjoyed by the young people until at a late hour, when refreshments were served and the guests departed, all declaring that they had had a fine time. Those present were Josie and Chauncey Dexter, Anna and John Reed, Wallace and Lew r is Miller. Fred Kullas and Helen Meader.

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LEE. i The blind musicians have bought a new piano. Rev. Kuonen and family took dinner Sunday at Obe Noland’s. Mr. Carrothers’ are leaving their farm and moving to Monticello this week. Mass Mary Jacks of near Rensselaer visited relatives here during the past week. “ Walter Gilmore attended campmeeting at Battle Ground Saturdaynight and Sunday. O. A. Jacks is tearing dow-n his barn and rebuilding it making a good livery and feed barn. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore attended church Sunday and then took dinner with Fred Stiers and wife. Miss Myrtle Lewis went to Indianapolis Sunday to make a couple weeks visit with her aunt and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Osborne of Kankakee, 111., came to visit her parents, this week, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiers. Grandpa and Grandma Williamson and daughter and family of Hamilton county, came Wednesday to make a visit. Mrs. Overton and daughter Hattie of Rensselaer visited her son Frank and family of this place the first of the week. They were threshing Monday at T. P. Jacks’ and he was overcome by the heat. A doctor was called and he is now- iAi proving nicely; Charley Jacks and family of Rensselaer visited his parents -here the first of the week, his father, L. M. Jacks being sick, but is better now-. Mrs. Holeman w-as called to Monticello Sunday evening to ta-ke care of her new grandson, which was recently born to her son. Geo. and wife. Served as coffee, the substitute known to grocers everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee, will trick even a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee in it either. Pure healthful toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc. have been sb cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is “made in a minute” too. No tedious 20 to 30 minutes boiling. John Eger.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Live Stock. Hogs- Receipts 16.000 Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice heavy, [email protected] choice . light, [email protected] heavy packing and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 7,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice to prime steers. $4.400 5.75 good to choice beef cows, $5.500 6.50 good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $4.25 @4.75 good to choice s'ockers, sß.oo@ 8.35 good to choice calves. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts 20,000. Quotations ranged at $6.25@6;75 good to choice lambs, [email protected] good tn choice yearlings, [email protected] good to choice wethers, [email protected] good to choice ewes. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 20c; chickens, fowls, 13c; broilers. 16c; roosters, 9c; geese. Sc; spring geese, 12%c; ducks, 14c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning * Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 2 cars; market slow;. Hogs— Receipts 10 cars; market steady; heavy. $8.90 @9.00; Yorkers, [email protected];\ pigs, >9.50. Sheep—Receipts 5 cars; market slow; best lambs, $6.65; yearlings, $5.00 @5.50; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves [email protected].

IN THE WORLD OF SPOUT

Larned, One Athlete Who Could Come Back. • -U--.-.- J,- . . ' ' i

Jim Jeffries tried hard, but could not come back. Many other athletes have also had it proved to them that they could not keep at the top all the time or retain the title after remaining idle for some time. But William A. Larned, the five time national lawn tennis champion, has shown that he can come back. On June 22. when Larned was scheduled to play Gustave Touchard. he was unable to fill his engagement because of a strained tendon, but rather than win the match by default Touchard agreed to postpone his match with Larned until the latter was physically able to play. It was a good act of sportsnianship on the part of T uchard, but resulted rather disastrov sly for him, as the match was prayed recently, and Larned won with ridiculous ease. also showed his class later by defeating Maurice E. McLoughlin, the nlneteen-year-old Californian, who was picked to win the Metropolitan handicap. This victory gave Larned permanent possession of his third Longwood trophy. For twenty years he has been in the game, and today at forty we And him as the best lawn tennis player in America.

Leach a Great Ball Player.

Tommy Leach., the Cleveland boy playing the outfield for the world’s champion Pirates, is the greatest of all ball players, past or present, in the opinion of George L. Moreland, Pittsburg baseball statistician. George has been figuring major league batting and fielding averages for thirty years and has seen all the big players. “You can talk of your Wagners, Lajoies. Cobbs. Mathewsons, Josses, Walshes and Youngs, but I think Tommy Leach is the greatest ball player that ever lived.” says Moreland. “Looking at his work from every angle. you can’t find a single weak point His fielding is remarkable, he uses rare judgment in running the bases and a more timely batter never stepped to the plate. “Above all. Leach knows how to do it and when to do it on the ball field. . “There’s no wasted motion. He’s always looking for and seeing an opportunity to help his team.” Blind Baseball Fan Knows Game. The most enthusiastic baseball fan in Kansas is C. Gish of Abilene, a piano tuner, who is totally blind. He attends all the ball games at Abilene and is well acquainted with the names of the players and the merit of each on the field. Mr. Gish can tell you how many balls or strikes there are on a batter and how many outs on the side at bat. After the game he can tell the features of the game and enjoys talking over the play with his friends. “How can I enjoy a ball game when I cannot see a play?” said Mr. Gish recently. “Well. I listen to what the people about me are saying. I can tell every play that is made provided there is not too much noise.’’ Would Use Compressed Air Bats. There is a member of the Kansas City team who is experimenting with bats loaded with compressed air. It has been proved that an ordinary hitter can knock a ball loaded with compressed air to great distances, so this player believes a bat loaded the same way would act in the same manner. Howell to Be Ump. Harry Howell, the famous pitcher of the St. Louis Americans, will be appointed a big league umpire. Kerin, who has been ill. which compelled the single umpiring system, may not return to the game. So the president of the American league Is scouting for umpires.

BEST BREEDS FOR MUTTON ANO LAMB.

Discussing 1 the value of the “Down” breeds and their crosses for the production of mutton and lamb, J. P. Ross says in Farm and Fireside: Tbe breeds we treat of are the Southdowns, Hampshires and Dorsets, the strictly “Down” breeds, so called because of their origin in the general region of the downs or low rolling hills of tbe south of England Of these breeds the best for our purpose is probably the Shropshire. These sheep have taken the firmest hold of any of the mutton breeds in this country and Canada. Tbe high quality of their meat, the amount of high grade wool they will produce—tbe ram’s fleece constantly running to twelve pounds and the ewe’s to eight—their hardiness and ability to thrive in almost any climate and at any altitude. and their good, early and prolific motherhood commend them most highly to the grower of winter and spring lambs as well as of muttou generally. Souihdowns are well represented on this side of the water, though not nearly so numerously as are the Shrops. The Southdown is the smallest of the Down breeds, the rams seldom going over 200 pounds or the ewes over jap. In < <>lor the face and legs are more of a brown than a black. They are credited here with being the hardiest and least subject to disease of any of the Down breeds, but with what truth I cannot say from experience. They are good grazers, good breeders and mothers, but not disposed to breed quite us early as the Shrops. Their meat and wool are both of good quality, but tbe rams rarely fleece over eight or the ewes over six pounds. In districts where they abound the farmer who has a special liking for them will do well to admit his ewes to one or. still better, to two crosses of Dorset or Oxford for the sake of the early breeding tendency, and in the case of the Oxford also for the increase of size and weight Hampshires are. 1 think, hardly as widely distributed as tbe Shrops or Southdowns in this country, though they are very popular in tbe English colonies. They run to great weights and their meat is held in high esteem, but the fact of their wool being often somewhat coarse and small in amount rather works against their popularity. They are prolific, but not early breeders. good milkers and good mothers. The lambs grow very vapidly, but their meat hardly equals in quality that of the other Down lambs. To obtain the

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best results in early lambs from a flock of Hampshires one or two crosses with a Dorset ram are desirable. The Dorsets— horned, with white faces—are mostly valued for their tendency to early breeding, and for that reason the use of the rams on other breeds has become very generaL The Dorset ram will Impart this characteristic very surely on'almost any breed, even on scrubs, but it must be remembered that this quality does not become fully developed in the ewes of any other breed until the cross is repeated in the second generation. To obtain this advantage it is not neces sary. therefore, to start up a flock of Dorset ewes: it is not even desirable, because it implies the loss of the black points, and the crossbred ewes are generally the hardiest. The Oxford Downs also have this peculiar faculty, though not so fully developed, and their coarseness makes them less desirable as sires.

For Itching Skin of Horses.

In case of itching skin have the horse clipped and ent the grain ration down a half Do not feed corn. That animal will do best on oats, bran and hay. Green grass often leads to itchiness of the skin. After clipping apply to khe itching parts as required a mixture of one dram each of diluted sulphuric acid and carbolic acid in a pint of water. A little menthol added is effective where itching is excessive. Wash the affected parts before the first application of medicine is made. If the trouble continues give a tablespoonful twice daily of a mixture of equal parts of powdered wood charcoal and granular byposnlphate of soda.

Rest For the Milk Maker.

Whenever a cow has been so bred as to produce milk continuously when fairly well fed it is Itetter for ttye cow to feed her well and continue to milk her up to time of calving. But it must be remembered that such cows are phenomenal cows and do not represent the common run ; rof good mot bad) dairy cows. Hence, as a rule, it is better to allow the average cow six weeks' rest between the milking period and the freshening. ■;

Farm Sanitation.

Pigpens and stables should be kept sanitary. When not prevented’ flies will breed in stables and pigpens and cause much trouble Keep them clean This will bo to the interest of rhe animals. as well as for the health of the family.

WEATHER EVERYWHERE Latest observations of the United States weather bureau taken at Washington: Temp. Weather. New York ~..72 Cloudy Albany ...J...7C Cloudy Atlantic City.. 72 Cloudy. Boston .......68 Cloudy Buffalo ....... 66 Cloudy New Orleans.. 84 Clear St. Lcuis 78 Cloudy Washington ..76 Clear Philadelphia ..74 Cloudy The Weather. Illinois and .Indiana —Fair today, fair and warmer tomorrow, variable winds. ■ Ar-'’ ■<

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HORSE COLLARS SHOULD FIT.

Neglect In This Matter Often Results In Sore Shoulders. The first thing of importance to consider in the draft horse is the collar, says an expert horse breeder. Most of the injured shoulders are the result of poorly fitting collars, and the fault usually lies in a collar being too large. It is a good idea to have a harness maker fit the collars to the horses. Heavy collar pads are to be avoided if possible. Dirty collars are probably as responsible for sore shoulders as ill fitting ones. The ordinary farm hand feels his duty is done if he scrapes the dirt from the collar with the back of his jackknife. This method, however, is not an especially good one for the leather of the collar, and a smooth surface is not left A damp sponge used in the evening as soon as the collar is taken off will in one or two minutes remove the dirt This may be followed by an oiled rag. If this is done tne collar in the morning should be soft and smooth. Careless driving, jerking a horse out of the furrow and into it again, allowing him to work with his head around on one side—all tend to produce sore shoulders. Of course the first precaution to take is not to ask the colt to do a full day's work until' he learns something about his job and ceases to fret The shoulder will then gradually become toughened. It is a good idea to sponge the shoulders with cold water —just plain cold water. Alum water has been used to good advantage; also weak solutions of tannic acid. Alcohol tends to toughen the skin. The injuries to the top of the neck very frequently terminate m fistula, etc. A blister near the point of the shoulder is likely to become a callous and form what is known as a cold abscess. 11l fitting collars and poor drivers are equally responsible for a condition known as sweeny.

The Care of the Separator. Quite a few separators are not satisfactory because they are not properly cared for. Lubrication is very important, yet many separators are seen that are dry in the bearings and pitched with grease everywhere else. Only the best separator oil should be used, and about every month all gear and bearing parts should be completely cleaned with kerosene. Some machines are self oiling, others must be oiled every time you start them, but all need careful looking after to be sure all bearings are well lubricated. Unless a machine is well oiled it will run hard and wear fast. The machine must be set level and be fastened firmly 'to the foundation. Almost plumb and nearly fast will make a poor machine eut of a good one. The crank must be turned with regularity, yet hardly one out of ten does it . When Selecting a Cow. A nervous cow is preferable to a stolid one. The chances are that she would give more and better milk than her dull, mopish sister. There are degrees of mental development even among cows. Intelligence often accompanies profitableness as a milk yielder.