Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Page 8

Y IkT i £ k.W df hem* of Interest News JMotes oi tit X 1 owns 1 ersely 1 old. Nearby Towns (®) penings in the Territory y Adjacent to the Jasper As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents County Metropolis

I FAIR OAKS. | _ | ;; ; ■_—- - ,—-I Will Warren went to Thayer -Tuesday after a load of hard coal. Cold, did you say? Yes, we are surely hdving cold weather nowadays. ' ' Owing to “the severe cold weat'ier the trains on the jMonon have been late for-nearly a week. Miss Amy Bringle was a. guest of Miss Carat Miles in the country west of here Saturday and Sunday. Milt Gundy finished filling his icehouse Sunday, and'Cottingham filled his Tuesday, The Lee was of pretty good quality. Fred McKay, who has been working With the Interlock Block gang down about Frankfort, returned home Wednesday. Willard Kiev And family, who .bad. been vj.-zirg his parents here since X m as. re: urn ed t o the i r hoihe. •i n JK’arren " Uncle Joe, Gains'. who - has been Roy Ui-ew's sick for some time, " - laughter's. Mrs; Al Htlss s. Virgie Tues-r-The;:. . ■ . ‘ >r .a:. ‘ *wAs k- '. •.■• k aryo ’iads week. -?r -A-a::-rz nave to shovel ;- -- Fish: .dW'Wr.-returned home a tew days':ag: a :er about a week's vis:: at ■Rensselaer and vicinity and while awaw he bargained for the store at Aix. He will take charge about March 1. Miss Hannah Culp is not making very progress toward recovery from her injury she received from, a fall some time. ago. Cottage prayer meeting, was held at, her house Wednesday "evening.

We were informed last week that Mr. Teach, who built the gravel road in .these parts last year, had secured the contract for building the 13 miles of stone road in Jackson tp., Newton county, in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr. Jake Spitzer, who has been employed at Davenport, la., for several years, returned to Fair Oaks last week .to visit his mother and others for about a month. His sister, Mrs. Joe Winslow, who has been living near Bud Hammond’s in North Dakota, for nearly two years, arrived here Monday to visit her mother also for a few weeks.

The report came up from Mt. Ayr a few days ago that old' John Barleycorn got pretty well stirred up in that little peaceful town. The story runs about like this: A farmer drove into town last week one of those cold, stormy days, and bitched the team to a post. Then he joined a couple of more booze-histers and they proceeded to get spewed. The team stood at the post all day when a citizen who had some feeling for the dumb animals ordered the town marshal to put them in a barn which he did with the assistance of a couple of other men and about that Mme old John Barley corn got hot a\ul the trio charged on the iparshal and his assistants. After a little skirmishing and a few bouts a couple of them got a few wounds about the head, and the marshal and his force fled. It is said alter the battle was over there were axes, pitchforks, .-pades and numerous other weapons left on the battlefield, but no dead soldiers:

Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a reliable family medicine. Give it to. your children, and take it yourself when you feel a cold coming on. It checks and cures coughs and colds and croup and prevents bronchitis and pneumonia.—A. F. Long.

I „ LEE. 1 —| i We are having genuine winter weather now. Thursday and Friday was examination at our school. Horton & Mosley shipiaul a car load of cattle from here Monday. Jan. 8, born to Mr. and Mrs. Widner of this' place, a daughter? Bruce Brown and Charles Ward shipped two carloads of hogs from here Wednesday evening. Hollis Jacks did not go to school \ to 'Monon Tuesday but visited the Lee school in the afternoon. j J. H. Culp and family and Elnfer Gilmore and family took dinner Sunday at Mrs. C. A. Holeman’s. Elzie Webb was in our village Tuesday getting teams to haul shelled corn for his landlord, Mr. Kimes.

Do not allow ' your /kidney and bladder trouble to develop beyond the reach of medicine. Take Foley Kidney Pills. They give quick results and stop irregularities with surprising promptness.

PINE GROVE.

Curtis Gifford spent Saturday with Charles Torbet. Everett -McCleary called on James Britt Sunday morning. Bessie and Hattie McCurtain called on Bernice and Lucy Walker . Sunday evening. Bluford Torbet and wife spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Sarah McCleary. Katie and Eva Morgenegg and Lucy Walker spent Sunday with Chloae and Creola Torbet. Irving Peregrine and John Torbet attended Sunday school and

church at Brushwood last Sabbath morning. " I Chloae and John Torbet attend-’ ed the Leap Year party at the JordanT home nea* Newland, ,and repotted /a fine time. J i Mr. and Mrs. Roy Torbet and Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet at? .oysters with their brother-in-law, Harry Beck,_ and family Saturday night. . j Ed Ropp and Gertie Radamacher of Chicago returned td their home Saturday after a few weeks visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ropp. I ~ - . r Mrs. Ethel Cragun and daughter Celine returned to their home in Indianapolis Saturday- after a two w-eeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet.

The Danger of Jai Grippe j .is its fatal tendency to pneumonia.! To cure your la grippe coughs take Foldy's Honey and Tar Compoupd. R. E;. Fisher. Washington, v Kas.. says: was troubled with a severe attack of-la grippe that threatened pneumonia. A friend advised Foley's. Honey and Tar Compound end I gst relief after taking the first: tew dose- 1 took three bot-, ties and my la gripe was cured.”, Get the genuine, in the yellow package.—A. F. Long. ——— : j

- —i—- I. I SOUTH NEWTON. j j —' I-- i Health generally good in this vicinity at this writing. i Earl Leek and wife were Mt. Ayr visitors Wednesday. | Philip Paulus was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday and Thursday. j Fred Waling helped Arthur Powell with his butchering Wednesday. Clarence Pruett and wife spent Sunday afternoon with Arthur May-! hew’s family. Arthur Mayhew went to.-Lowell Thursday to attend the poultry show, at that place. Nearly every family has lost their | canned fruit from freezing during this cold spell. No, thank you! We don’t want; to go to Dakota. Jasper county is cold enough for us. Don’t forget the box supper and spelling, school at No. 6, Newton' tp., tonight. Everybody welcome. | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Doan and; daughter Celestia Wilds, were call- 1 ed to Lafayette Friday by the death of the former’s nephew. . j The farmers in this vicinity are trying to shred their fodder, but owing to so much snow and such cold weather they don’t make much headway.

Charles Durham, Lovington, 111., has succeeded in finding a positive cure for bed wetting. “My little boy wet the bed every night . clear thro’ on the floor. 1 tried several kinds t>f kidney medicine and I was in the drug store looking for something different to help him when I heard of Foley Kidney Pills. After he hau taken them two days we ■could see a change and when he had taken two-thirds of a bottle he was cured. That is about six weeks ago and be has not wet in bed since.” ■ A. F. Long.

] | THE NORTHSIDE. I _ I. F. Meader was a Parr goer Wednesday. Lewis Todd is’ busy rabbit shooting these days. Jack ReedeY was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mr. Peek's called on Jack Reeder Tuesday evening. Roscoe Reeder is busy hunting rabbits nowadays. (Ralph and Will Weston and Esta Keener hauled .hogs to Parr Wednesday. . Miss Marie Coiner spent the last week -at Purdue, taking a short course in butter-making. Everybody’s busy nowadays putting wood in the stove, thawing pumps, and driving the chickens to water.

I. F. Meader went to Lowell Thursday to attend the poultry show and put some f of his own birds on exhibition. Robert Ott helped haul ice for the Parr Creamery Wednesday. Pretty cold job that; would be more welcome next summer. There will be a literary at Virgie Saturday night, Jan. 27. The principal feature will be a debate. The subject to be debated on is, Resolved, “That, Education Is Better than Money.” Everybody come.

If You Are a Trifle Sensitive about the size of your shoes, it’s some satisfaction to known that many people can weir shoes a size smaler by shaking Alien’s Foot-Ease into. them. Just the thing for Patient Leather Shoes, and > for.breaking in New Shoes. Sold Everywhere, 25d. Sample FREE. Address, Allen. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Foley Kidney Pills always give . satisfaction because they always do the work. J. T. Shelnut, Bremen, Ga., says: “I have used Foley Kidney Pils with great satisfaction and found more relief from their use than from any other kidney medicine, and I’ve tried almost all kinds. , I can cheerfully recommend th,em to all sufferers for kidney and bladder trouble."—A. F Long.

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—Two of the greatest in waterway construction have marked the year of 1911 abanner one for the United States engineers. Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, considered one of the greatest strategic points in the world by army and navy j officials, was * opened recently when , the channel upon which dredging began ten years ago, was completed. The battleship California, with Rear Admiral C. Thomas in command, was the first ship to enter the harbor. The opening was celebrated by the residents and natives of Honolulu, including a banquet of officials, at which exQueen Liliuokalani was present. Construction of the Laguna dam over the quicksands of Colorado river in Arizona is the second feat. The dam and its headgates, weigh 600,000 tons. A canal is to be constructed from the dam and, according to the plans, will pass under the Colorado river near I Yuma in a siphon 1,000 feet long and, fifteen feet it diameter.

WASHINGTON—The U. S. navy .department may appeal to congress to modify the liability act of 1908 on the ground that the navy yard workmen persist in disregarding the measures taken by the authorities for their protection against injury. It is said that although 200 pairs of protective goggles were provided at the Mare Island navy yard to save the eyes of the workers in the furnace shops, inspectors lately could not find a pair in use. Nearly 10,000 navey yard employed were treated last year by the naval surgeons for various injuries and there is some complaint that the generosity of the government has been abused. It is suggested that the existing act be amended so as to make sure that the employes are physically fit before going to work and to provide that they shall receive only 60 per cent, instead of full pay, during disability.

, WASHINGJ .I—Some radical reductions in duties are looked for in the Democratic steel tariff schedule, which the house ways and means committee probably will have ready for submission about the middle of this month. It is stated that in many instances the Payne law rates will be cut in half and that the highest rates of duty allowed on any product of steel or iron will not be more than 35 per cent ad valoiem. The greatest fight probably will be over the duty on tin plate, which, it is understood, is to be cut from $1.20 to 75 cents a hundred pm ds. Iron ore is expected to go on the iree list along with all manufactures of steel and Iron that wer made duty free in the farmers’ free list of the extra session. I ; ■’ ■ ■ RAWLINS, WYO.—An entire family consisting of the two parents and four children, was caught in a blizzard several miles from here and remained on the open prairie a night and a day before they were rescued. The father’s feet were frozen rind the mother and the children were nearly dead. When the family became lost and one of its horses had given out. the oldest sori started on horseback to try to find a ranch house. He reached here, after wandering about in the blinding snow, almost frozen. A four , horse team was sent to the family s relief. ' NEW YORK —During the year of 1911 the New York police were called to the aid of families from which some member had disappeared exactly 3,500 times. During this same time approximately 1,000 women, most of them young girls ranging In age from fourteen to twenty years, have utterly disappeared. Nor does this number cover all the young women who drop out |of the world of their acquaintances suddenly. The police say that not more than half the actual disappearances are formally reported.

WASHINGTON—The continued decrease in the number of men teachers , In the public schools of the country is deplored by Dr. Fletcher B. Dressier i of the United States bureau of tion in a report on the work of the last decade along educational lines. “There is no doubt,” he says, “that it is unwise to intrust so important a matter as the teaching of boys and girls so largely to women, but the facts are known and have been for many years, and yet the noped-for change does not come.”

NESS CITY, KAN.—-The mournful howling O|f a dog led to the discovery near this City of the body of E. Taylor, a farmer, who had fallen from his wagon on the way to market and was frozen to death by the roadside. A searching party come upon Taylor’s dog shivering beside the snowcovered body of his master. Taylor leaves a widow and five small children. At least four persons are known to have frozen to death in this section of western Kansas since the snow and cold wave came.

WINNIPEG, MAN.—A fierce fire destroyed the Excelsior Motor works garage, twenty-five automobiles, a ten house terrace and several small stores and other buildings located in the southern part of the city, entailing a loss estimated at $200,000.

HAMMOND, IND.—Three city firemen were injured and the lives of 160 school children imperiled in East Chicago, when the parochial school and Romdn Catholic church were wiped out in a fire of unknown origin.

Egyptian Costume

Photo, Copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. This striking costume was made for a fashionable fancy dress function this winter.

IN NUN’S VEILING.

For this costume, nun’s veiling in a soft shade of gray is used; a front fastening is simulated, but the actual fastening is at back. The vest of tucked spotted net fills in the opening of front, then the joint is covered by a strap of silk carried down a little to the left; buttons and cord loops form a finish; five small tucks are made on the shoulders. The wristbands are also tucked. Materials required: 1% yards 40 inches wide, 6 buttons, % yard net 18 Inches wide.

Simple Frocks for Girls.

Embroidery plays an important role in some of the chic little evening frocks, but it is most often in selfcolor and has no touch of gorgeousness such as is shown in many of the embroideries for older folk. A little crystal or gold or silver is admissible, but nothing striking or elaborate. A delightful little frock jof the palest of pink tulle was made up over a pink silk foundation. The tulle was sprinkled with crystal dewdrops. The only trimming was ruches of tulle trimming the lace fichu and bands of lace trimming which edges ..the ruffle on the sWrt. At the right side of the frock at the waist line there was a large black bow edged with a plaited frill.

Vogue of Polka Dots.

Unless the fancy is killed by the passing of the present reason, we are going back to polka dots of all kinds and descriptions for next year, Just now one sees disks and dots sprinkling and powdering everything from velvet to cotton. But the big dots that are almost full moons are the most favored of the minute.

NEW FROCKS FROM WORTH’S.

This Great Maker Caters to the Taste of tho Grande Dame, Not to the Actress. Among designers of costumes Worth stands apart. He caters to crowned heads and the grande dames and not to the stage.. At a display of his gowns recently few changes in style were noticed. Waists are worn rather high, skirts are still straight and most of the bodices are collarless. Two pale blue dinner gowns were marvels of beauty. Each had a narrow pointed train and white lace trimmed the bodices. One had a folded fichu of the lace, which was most effective. Several; afternoon gowns were especially lovely. One of these had a narrow straight skirt, made to.touch, and with a high waist line. The bodice was of black silk veiled with chiffon and had a deep band of gold embroidery across the front. It was cut rather low at the neck and had sleeves which came slightly below the elbow. Another frock was of moleskin chiffon velvet, made In virtually the same style. It had a band of colored embroidery instead of the gold. A third, of iron-gray velvet, was trimmed with folds of soft silk and embroidereckwlth silver. Sets of furs were on display suiting the costumes to perfection. Regal sets of sable and ermine, worth a king’s ransom, were worn by the models. Scarfs are extremely* wide and shp.wl-like, and muffs larger than ever.

To Renovate Velvet.

A velvet dress may be renovated by hanging it up in a bathroom filled with Steam from the hot water faucet. Stop up the doors and windows so that the steam will not escape, and spread out the garment over a dress hanger suspended from the celling so that the steam can reach it on all side's, and the velvet will not be pressed against anything. Let it dry in the same position. It should not be touched in any way until it is absolutely dry. The steam should be turned off and the windows opened when it is ready for drying.

Gown Fastenings.

A noticeable feature of the fall and winter dresses has been the’centerfront fastening or the trimming applied in a manner to, indicate this closing. Street dresses have double rows Of buttons from the yoke line to the skirt bottom, and evening dresses have crystal buttons or simulated ones made of beads and rhinestones down the center of the waist and tunic.

TRAP NEST IS A MONEY MAKER

Keeps Records of Hens and Helps Eliminate "Star Boarders” ~■ Conserves Valuable Breeders. s ; The conversion of a flock that barely pays for the feed it eats into one which will lift the mortgage from the home farm is largely a matter of elimination of the “star boarder,” and the conservation of the 200-egg-a-year hens. Those who have made special study of this subject are firm believers in the trap 1 nest. To discover the best egg producers one must use the trap nest, or some method of keeping a record of eggs laid by individual hens. The trap nest is about the best thing that has been discovered in the poultry business.

There will be but slow Improvement in breeding without an egg record for each hen in the flock. The objection to the trap nest is that it requires too much labor for the farmer., That is true in the majority of cases. Not many farmers can give the necessary time. It is here that the state or experiment station should and can be a great aid. There should be a breeding station or several in every state, where the farmers and poultry raisers ll could secure at a fair price cockerels of good egg-laying pedigree to mate with their flocks,. It would not take so very long to furnish those farmers who had improvement of their flocks in view with a male bird whose an-, cestry for two generations had an egg record of 150 eggs a year or more. It is the hen of vigor that lays; without constitutional vitality she will not lay. That is undoubtedly true. A hen may have egg-laying capacity, but without vigor she will not produce eggs. On the other hand, the hen may have vigor without egg-laying capacity. She may have constitutional vitality and lay less than 20 eggs a year. The point is that by selecting vigor alone will not make rapid progress in breeding up a strain of heavy layers. Although vigor is one of the main things, we must select both vigor and egg capacity. The trap nest enables us to do this. The hen that lays 200 eggs a year has good vitality, so that a good egg record is an indication of high vitality. It is possible that the 200-egg hen will not produce chicks of good vigor. It is also possible that her eggs may not be fertile. This is also possible in the poor layer. It is also possible that heavy laying may injure her breeding qualities. That is a debatable point, but the fact remains that the hen that lays 150 eggs or more a year has good vitality, and it is such hens that one must depend upon to Increase egg production and make poultry keeping more profitable.

A high egg record indicates constitutional vitality and stamina. The trap nest, therefore, selects for vigor as well as egg-laying capacity. If each state would take hold of this in a practical way, without doubt in a few years it would add millions of dollars to the profits of poultry keepers, and at the same time help solve the nation’s food supply.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office Big Public Sale. As I have decided to quit farming and move to Missouri, I will sell at public sale at my residence, 1 mile west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 o’clock a. jn., on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1912, 9 Head of Mules and Horses:—Consisting of 1 span Black Mules coming 4 and 6 years old, wt. 2550, extra good ones; 1 span Bay Mules coming 4 and 6 years old, wt. 2500; 1 span of Brown Mules 4 years old, wt. 2000; 1 Brown Mule coming 2

years old; I—Gray Mule coming 2 years old; 1 road Mare 3 years old, broke to work, and in foal. 34 Head pf' Cattle—Consisting of 10 Milch Cows, ages 3 to 9 years, 3 now fresh; 1 red cow 3 years old with calf by side; others will be fresh in February, March ahd April, some giving milk; 4 coming 2-year-old Heifers, 1 fresh in February and others in May; 2 yearling heifers; 3 yearling steers; 10 spring Calves, 3 steers, 7 heifers; 3 fall Calves; 1 registered Hereford Bull, 2 years old. Most of the above stock is Hereford. „ 15 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 15 head of Du roc-jersey Sows, i bred tq full-blood Duroc-Jerspy boar, will—. farrow in March and April. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consistjng of 1 Deering Com Picker; 1 Deering Corn Binder; 1 6-ft. McCormick Binder; 1 John Deere Planter; 1 8-foot Disc; 1 16-inch Walking Plow; 1 Rock Island -two ? row Cultivator, used one season; 1 Avery Walking Cultivator; 1 Cook Stove; 1 set Dining Room Chairs, Stand; Washing Machine; Lard Pi;ess; 1 22-caliber Rifle, and other articles of minor importance. A credit of 11 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. Gk-vj. L. MAINES. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Grounds.