Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — Page 1

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WHEAT CROP IS A FAILURE

Almost Completely Wiped Out in Gillam Township HESSIAN FLY DOING DAMAGE Farmers Suffer Heavy Loss by Ravages of this Pest—Many Are Plowing up Fields and Sowing Com. Former township trustee John P. Ryan was down from Gillam tp., Wednesday. Corn is looking fine up there, the oats fairly good, and a medium crop of hay will be cut. But the wheat is practically all ruined by ravages of the Hessian fly. For several years Gillam has been raising considerable wheat, increasing its acreage each year as it had done well and was the best paying crop grown. Last year a big crop was raised and the farmers nearly all doubled their acreage last fall. Mr. Ryan says he the average put in last fall was about 40 acres to the farm, many farmers having double that amount Almost every acre of this has been completely killed by the fly, and where the farmers are in shape to 'handle it they ar plowing up the fields and putting it into corn. It means a great loss, both in seed and labor, and as most of the farmers had out about all the corn th could tend they are not in shape to put all the wheat ground into corn at this late dav. They fly is working all through that section, Mr. Ryan says, and over in east of Medaryville, in Pulaski county,; and he thinks will get about all of it. In his own his case, Mr. Ryan states, he took the advice of the Purdue University experts and sowed late, but the fly is now at work in it and he thinks will get it all. So far as learned no damage has been done in this section of the county, perhaps because the farmers down here have not been growing wheat for so long a time as those in Gillam.

YEGGS BLOW SAFE

At Shoals—Used Three Charges of Nitro—Got About SI,OOO in Money and Stamps. Shoals, Ind., June I.—The safe in the postoffice was blown about 2:00 o’clock this morning, and money and stamps to the value of about SI,OOO was take. The safe was equipped with a burglar proof chest, on which three charges of nitroglycerin were used. The outside f door of the safe was blown off with the first charge and the safe completely wrecked. The explosion was heard by persons near the postoffice, but no attention was paid to it.

ONLY ONE KILLED

At Big Auto Races Tuesday— Hundred Thousand People Disappointed. One hundred thousand people saw the auto races at Indianapolis Tuesday, and there was the largest number of strangers in the city that Indianapolis ever entertained. The races, while good, were not as exciting as anticipated, only one Person being killed and about a dozen injured. Roy Harroun, driving a Marmon car, won the 500 mile race in six hours, forty-one minutes and eight seconds, making an * average of about seventy-five miles an hour.

SPECIAL MEETING

: Of the City Council Held Wednesday Evening Order Drain Extensions. The city council held a special meeting Wednesday evening at which time the sewer committee was authorized and instructed to extend the Melville, Scott and Division street sewers and the Makemself sewer to the new channel of the river.

REPRESENTATIVE BROWN

Honored with ten Appointment on a Legislative Commission. Representative John G. Brown has been appointed by Gov. Marshall a member of the commission of seven provided for by the last legislature to investigate the needs for and the methods of industrial and agricultural education. The purpose of the commission is to ascertain how far the needs of industrial and agricultural education are met by existing institutions in this state and consider what new forms of effort may be advisable along these” lines. The commission is to hold hearings in at least five communities of the state and make a report to the Governor for transmission to the legislature of 1913. The members are to serve without pay except actual expenses and such compensation for the secretary as the commission may determine. The other members of the commission are State Senator Will A. Yarling of Shelbyville, the father of the measure, Frank Duffy of Indianapolis, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; John L. Ketcham, Indianapolis, of the BrownKetcham iron works; T. F. Fitzgibbons, Columbus, superintendents of the Bartholomew county schools; F. D. McElroy, Hammond, superintendent of the Hammond city schools, and Professor U. G. Weatherly, a sociologist of Indiana Uinversity.— Monticello Herald.

EDITOR WAS ASLEEP

And Got Carried By His Station About a Hundred Miles —So HE Says. Editor McCullough of Remington was in the city a few hours Wednesday on his way home from Hammond. He attended the auto races—not at Hammond, but the Indianapolis races. He took a sleeper home on the Monon Tuesday night and intended to get off at Monticello. But the porter was unable to raise the tired newspaper man at the White county capital, and when he was finally released from the arms of Morpheus the train had reached the Hammond yards. He returned to Rensselaer on the next train and ’phoned over to Remington for an auto to come over and transport him home. Of course if a republican editor had such a mishap we would know what the trouble was, but John is a democrat and never dfinks anything stronger than ginger ale—-not ginger ale highballs, we don't mean, but the plain stuff without the highball ingredient—but if his; wife had been with him we’ll bet it wouldn’t have happened.

STRIKES MILEAGE GRAFT.

Bill Introduced to Pay the Army Officers Actual Traveling Expenses Only. ‘ Washington, May 31.—1 f the bill introduced today by Representative Cox of Indiana, is acted on favorably the so-called “graft” in the mileage accounts of army officers will be eliminated. It provides for payment of actual traveling expenses of the officers instead of a flat 10 cents a mile exclusive of subsistence which they get under the present law. Mr. Cox will call the amtter to the attention of the committee on the expenditures in the war department and ask for an inquiry into the practice.

“OLD MAN” ATTENDS

Meeting of the Democratic State Editorial Association—ls Now in Penitentiary. The editor and wife left Thursday morning to attend the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association mid-summer meeting. The “Old Man” said before leaving, that if wanted by the force on anything important, his address Thursday night would be the Oliver Hotel, South Bend ; Friday in care of the Laporte Argus-Bulletin, Laporte, and Saturday the state prison at Michigan City. That is certainly going down the line at a Pretty swift pace.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the' Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. The county commissioners will meet in regular session Monday. —o—— The election of a county superintendent will be held next week by the thrteen township trustees. ~ —° — Eight marriage licenses were issued for the month of May against five for April and ten for May, 1910. —o — This is the last week of the Newton circuit court, and there will be no more court in that county until October. —o— J. F. Bruner has filed a bond and qualified for the office of justice of the peace, to which he was-appointed some time ago. —o —• .The county board of education will meet in regular session Monday. At this meeting the election of a county superintendent will come up, and the six candidates whom it is alleged will seek the place, will know what fate has in store for them. —o — The adjourned term of the April term of court will convene next Thursday, when the Marble ditch case will come up for hearr ing before Geo. F. Marvin of Monticello as special judge. As notice has been given, any unfinished business can be taken Op.

WALLACE MURRAY DIES

At the Residence of His Daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, Thursday Evening. Uncle Wallace Murray, who had been spending the summers here with his daughter, Mrs. Frank' Donnelly, and the winters with relatives in Carnegie, Okla., for the past few years, and who accompanied the remains of his aged wife here last December from Oklahoma, and had since been making his home with Mrs. Donnelly, died at the latter’s residence on Front street Thursday evening at 6:15 o’clock, aged s3* years. had been in poor health for the past six months, ever since returning to Rensselaer last December and gradually became worse until death overtook him. Mr. Murray was a civil war veteran. Deceased leaves three sons and two daughters, H. B. Murray, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, of Rensselaer; William Murray, of McCoysburg; Mrs. Jennie English, of Drinkwater, Canada; Charles W. Murray, of Crosbyton, Texas. The funeral will be held today at 3 p. m., at the Barkley M. E. church, conducted by Rev. J. C. Parrett of Rensselaer, and interment made in the church cemetery.

MEMORIAL CEREMONIES

Are Attended by Large Crowd —Milroy Circle Furnishes Fine Feed. There was a large crowd out to the Decoration day Tuesday. The procession headed by the band formed at the public square and marched to Weston cemetery, where Rev. J. P. Green delivered' the address. On returning from the cemteery the Milroy Circle served a fine luncheon to the old soldiers at the G. A. R. Post rooms in the court house. . The ranks of the old veterans are thinning fast and it will be but a few years more until their place in the procession on occasions of this kind will be conspicuous by almost their entire absence. 1

PITIES THE SONS.

-Samuel W. Allerton’s Sorrow All for Wealthy Boys—Makes Servants Save. Pasadena, Cal., May 31.—“ My bpys, are to inherit wealth, but titty will be sadder for it. They are missing the real blood training of self-making.” Samuel W. Allerton of Chicago and Pasadena, a packer, economist, .champion of woman suffrage, is sorry that his sons are not to have the hard knocks in climbing to fortune which he suffered. Talking on the benefit of battling with the world, he said: “The boy who is up against making his own way is by far the most self-reliant. The scions of the wealthy are satisfied, for the most part, to be nonentities. “If every man and woman in the world* does his and her duty every child will be taught to save. They will thus be taught to build character and credit. If the wealthy do their duty by their servants they will give them every opportunity to save. My wife and I have taught our servants to save. They all have from $2,000 to $5,000 invested in stockyards stock, which pays 6 per cent.”

IN BAD CONDITION.

Is the Smith Cemetery In Barkley Tp., Says Uncle John Casey. Uncle John Casey of Fair Oaks was visiting in Barkley tp. the first of the week and inspected the Smith cemetery. He found it in a very bad condition, he says. The brush, grass, weeds, sassafras and wild grape vines, with the old undergrowth of grass, makes its condition disgraceful. Many wealthy families have relatives buried there, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, daughters and wives. There seems to be a lack of interest to clean it up and keep the cemetery in good condition. Ground hogs are devastating graves, they are numerous in that locality, too. Arrangements should made to clean up this cemetery and build a tight woven-wire fence about it as soon as possible, in ordei to protect the graves from utter c’est’uction by ground hogs, Mr. Casey says.

AUTO JUMPS OVER BANK.

Woman Dies of Injuries Received When Auto Makes 75-foot Plunge in Ravine. Bldomirigton, Ind., May 31. — Mrs. John Harrell, age forty, of Harrodsburg, died this morning of injuries received Tuesday evening when an automobile went over a seventy-five-foot embankment near Harrodsburg. Miss Lillie Deckard suffered a broken arm and Mr. Harrell, Fred Deckard and Miss Lora Johnson escaped “with painful bruises and cuts. Mr. Harrell attempted to reduce his speed to let a wagon pass, but reversed his machine and shot over the bank. The auto turned over five times and crashed into a large tree. Mrs. Harrell suffered from concussion of the brain and internal injuries. She never regained consciousness.

GIGANTIC CATFISH

Caught at Logansport—Fishermen Jump in River After It—Weighed 37% lbs. Logansport, Ind., May 31. Billy Moore and Frank Tam, Logansport men w r ho are camping along the Wabash river, five miles west of the city, caught a Mississippi catfish which weighed 37% pounds. The fish was on their trot line, and both young men plunged into the water, which was only about three feet deep, and grappled with the fish. They struggled in the water for ten minutes, but the men finally pulled the fish to' shore.

COX IS A CANDIDATE.

Editor of Hartford City Times Wants to be the Supreme • Court Reporter. Word has been received at the statehouse that E. E. Cox,Editor of the Hartford City Times of Hartford City, will be a candidate for the nomination on the Democratic ticket next year for reporter of the supreme court. Mr. Cox is now chairman of the Eleventh congressional district.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearly Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. A Lifetime at Quincy—Horrors! Quincy, Mass., May 30.—Miss Julia Underwood, who claims to hold the country’s teaching record, has resigned after completing 56 years of service in the local public schools. Miss Underwood taught in one school 54 years, the same school in which slje herself received her early education. She was born and always lived in Quincy. Easy Pickin’ in the Street. Indianapolis, Ind., May 31. While asleep on the lawn around the Monument at an early hour this morning, Harry E. Arrick was robbed of a gold watch and chain valued at SSO, and Charles Hendrickson, of Monticello, his friend, wasrobbed of $5. Both young men had spent yesterday at the speedway, and while awaiting the hour for their train to leave for Monticello, they went to sleep.

Too Many Women—Chloroform. Talladega, Ala., May 30. Four women, from as many states, claim Charles Burtpn, who committed suicide here today, as their husband. He was in jail on the charge of bigamy. Burton made two attempts to end his life since Sunday. His first effort, with morphine, was frustrated by physicians. Today another dose of the poison, 50 grains, caused death. In a note found in his cell he says women were the bane of his life. -Vo Wedding Bells for Her. New York, May 30.—Rather than wed a man whom she did not love, eighteen-year-old Rebecca Boltman hurled herself from a third-floor window of her home shortly before midnight and sustained injuries from which she will probably die. The young man had followed her from Hungary, she told the police, and had enlisted her parents’ aid in his persistent wooing. For three years she had withstood their urging, and at last, when he continued insistent, decided to end her life. Walloped With Rolling Pin. Pittsburg, May 31.—An ailment, the result of being hit over the head with a rolling pin wielded by an irate wife, is the affliction of a foreigner who is know at the McKeesport Hospital in a serious condition. The medicos have diagnosed his case as “concussion of the vocal cords,” and the patient is speechless. The unfortunate lives in the coal mining region of Jacobs Creek, in the Youghiogheny valley. There was a family quarrel and the man was vanquished by his better half and her trusty weapon.

Bridal Couple Fear Ghosts? Nix. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 31. —On a high bluff overlooking the Chippewa river is a big residence that in the nine years it Las been Macant has been given a wide berth by superstitious tramps.. The “haunted house” is to be occupied when renovated by A. E. Walruth of this city, a wealthy land man and bachelor, who at the age of fifty-seven has become a benedict. His bride was formerly Miss Alice Wilson of Menomonie, and Mr. Walruth declares she fully shares his belief that there is no foundation for the ghost stories.

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LAFAYETTE LAIR.

Its Organization to Be Feature of the U. S. W. V. Encampment. Lafayette, Ind., May'3l.—At a meeting yesterday afternoon of the executive committee of the annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans of Indiana the program for the encampment in this city on June 5 and 6 was fully arranged. The two days program is full of interesting features. One of the leading attractions is the institution of a Lafayette lair of the Military Order of the Serpent. A class of several hundred candidates will be initiated. All of the posts of the organization in the state will send large delegations to the Lafayette meeting. Ft. Wayne’s delegation will make a determined effort to elect William F. Ranke of that city department commander. He is now senior vice-commander of the Indiana department. Department Commander Thomas J. Louden of Bloomington; Department Adjutant William M. Lowden, of Bloomington; Judge- Advocate W ilbur Ryman, of Muncie; Past Commander-in-Chief William E. English, of Indianapolis; Past Department Command* er Russell 8.. Harrison, of Indianapolis; Past Department Commander Frank C. Kibbe, of Richmond, and many other leaders of the organization will be here for the meeting.

PARACHUTE LEAPER HURT

Strikes Tree and Falls From Trapeze as Balloon Ascends. Marion, Ind., May 31. —Frank Crawford, twenty-eight years old, of Anderson, an aeronauL Who, for two seasons, has been making balloon ascensions and parachute leaps at Goldwaite park, suffered serious injury last evening, when scraped from the trapeze of his balloon by a tree just as he was beginning an ascension from the park. He fell about sixty feet, alighting on his hands and knees and the left side of his face. In making an ascension at Goldthwaite park Sunday afternoon the balloon overturned soon after Crawford had cut loose the parachute, and the gas bag, traevling faster downward than the opened parachute, shot past the latter, missing Crawford by a few feet. Before he started yesterday he expressed fear of an accident.

BRYAN CHANCE SPEAKER.

Left Train at Warsaw and Was Induced to Make Memorial Address, Warsaw, Ind., May 31.—W. J. Bryan delivered the Memorial address in this city. This was not a part of the prepared program, but was the rseult of a chance visit made by the to this city. He left the train here for lunch while on the way from Harrisburg, Pa., to Elkhart, where he was to make an address in the evening. Word of his arrival in the city soon spread and he was invited to take part in the exercises. He. accepted, and he rode to the cemetery in an automobile, which was a part of the parade, and there delivered an eloquent address.

HAND ON THROTTLE

Engineer Fell Dead and Heavy Freight Ran on For Several Minutes. Marshalltown, lowa, May 30. —With his hand on the throttle of his engine on the lowa Central, pulling a heavy freight train into Pickering early today, A. E. Ede, aged 55 of Qskaloosa, lowa, suddenly expired. His fireman noticed that he did not appear to be watching signals and found that the engineer had been dead, several minutes.

DIVORCEE SEEKS DEATH

In Front of Former Husband’s Home When Denied Admittance. Fostoria, Ohio, May 30.—Miss Beatrice Copeland of Cleveland swallowed chloroform in front of the home of her divorced husband, John Burke, after trying in vain to gain an entrance. She was found unconscious in the street and taken to the hospital. Her condition* is serious.