Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Page 8

Tk T XT 4 A k/S MIT en)l of Interest JN cws IN otcs oi tt from Sunaunding Towns Tersely Told Nearby Towns I P«nings in the Territory \f Adjacent to the Jasper As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents County Metropolis.

THE NORTHSIDE. j John G. Eilts called on Dexter’s Thursday morning. Marie Comer took the miljr train for Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Chauncey Dexter has a friend visiting him this week from Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Comer called on Wm. Florence's Wednesday afternoon. ' ■ A Chauncey Dexter and Marie Comer attended chunch at Parr Sunday evening. A large crowd attended the skating party over near Thomas Florenece's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Millspaugh called on Jack Reeder and family Sunday evening. . Some warmer now, and most everybody thinks spring is coming. Don’t be too sure. ’ The affirmative side won in the debate at Center Saturday night. A good program was rendered and a large crowd was in attendance. The next Literary will be at Virgie Feb. 24. The question to be debated on is, Resolved: That a Poor Man Has as Much Pleasure as a Rich Man; Everybody is welcome.

An Epidemic of Coughing

is sweeping over the town. Old and young alike are affected, and the strain is particularly hard on little children and on elderly people. Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound is a quick, safe and reliable cure for all coughs and colds. Contains no opiates.—A. F. Long.

I LEE. I -f Korah Eldridge will move in one of Mr. Gilmore’s houses sobn. Grandfather Williamson is still very poorfly. . 1 Ira tyilliamson and wife moved Wednesday to a farm near Reynolds. Vern Culp has gone to Valparaiso to take a course in wireless telegraphy. The Ladies’ Home Missionary Society met Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Cora Stfens. Mr. and Mrs. E. Gilmore have rented property in Monon and will move there soon. Obe Noland’s are having a new well drilled at the house, the old one having played out. " The Ladies’ Aid serve dinner next Wednesday at Mr. Fisher’s sale, just east of town. Several young lady friends from Renssleaer visited here Saturday night with Miss Ethel Jacks. I ncle David Culp is improving and the doctor has quit coming to see him, but he is not able to do his work yet. The Ladies’ Aid, 18 in number, met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Cora Stiers’ and sewed oar pet rags for Mrs. Branson Clark. '^ = “ - Ray .Hole-man of near Reynolds moved some of his machinery to the Wm. Large farm, near here, where he is going to move in the near future. Miss Lural Anderson, who was exposed to the mumps, dismissed her school—and came home and now she has ’em, but is getting along nicely. The pupils and teacher had a \alentine box and refreshments of pop-corn, candy, peanuts and apples. Their visitors were Misses Ethel Jacks, Verda Lewis, Una ,Jack< Minnie and Lena Zable. Alvin Clarkf our hardware man, has recently bought the hardware building of J. H. Culp. He has been in our town the past three years and has built a nice residence property, has a good hardware business, and owns the building now in which hiis store is located.

If You Are a Trifle Sensitive about the size of your shoes, it’s some satisfaction to known that many people can wear shoes a size smaler by shaking Allen’s Foot-Ease into them. Just the thing for Patent Leather Shoes, and for breaking in New Shoes. Sold Everywhere 25c. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.

I IROQUOIS VALLEY. Grandma Lowery is failing fast. Mrs. Isaac Walker is on the sick . list. Mirman Tudor is hauling saw logs. Addie Warren is working for J 'W. Marlatt. % Joe Pullins attended the McCurtain sale Tuesday. Mrs. E. Pullins waa a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Jack Hoyes and wife were in our , Vicinity Tuesday eve.

«H-H-1 1 ii H-n in f-h-hih- • • fl We are paying for : <: Butter fat this week : 33c : Iklft-. - —L.-y/.... * ; WILLIAM EL DEXTER : Renaaelaer, Indiana 1 l-»M I !<■+♦ <I 11 Ii I H-l 111 lb

Floyd Griggs is working for Emmet Pullins at present. Beck Green called on, Mrs. J. W. Marlaq, Wednesday. Louie Zillhart spent Sunday with Alpha and Will McEl.fr esh. Gladys Grooms and Raymond Tudor are on the sick list. I’hilip Durant and Louis Heferline are sawing lumber now. Ethel Marlatt visited the Burns school Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Chas. Pullins spent Wednesday with Mrs. Sam Lowery, Uncle John Grooms, who has been seriously ill, is slowly improving. Emmet Pullins and family visited Sunday with Isaac Saidla and family. J. W. Marlatt and John Moorfe attended the Sullenberger sale Wednesday. - Beck Green and Mrs. Geo. McElfresh called on Mrs. Sam Lowery Tuesday, Chas. Grant and father-in-law, H. M. Shiipman, were Rens-elaer goers' Tuesday. Wm. Green and daughter Lulu visited Wednesday with Clarence JJreen and family. Elmer Brown, who has been visiting in Tennessee since Xmas, returned home . Monday. Lester Schriener of south of Rensselaer spent Tuesday night with George McElfresh and family.

Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound “Cures In Every Cased’ ( Mr. Jas. MoCaffery, Mgr., of the Schiltz Hotel, Omaha, Neb., recommends Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, because) it cures in, every case. “I havp used it myself and I have recommended it to many others who have since told me' of its great curative power in diseases of the throat and lungs. T ’ For all coughs and colds it is speedily effective.— A. F. Long. 6

FAIR OAKS. ] I. J. Mallatt was in Rensselaer on business Monday. Cottage prayer meeting wars, held at Will Warren’s Wednesday eve. Miss Coral Miles of west of town visited with Amy Bringle Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Mike Shehan and ton of Lafayette came up and visited her parents there Sunday. Tom Florence of near Virgie took the train here Saturday for Lafayette, returning Mbnday eve. Lou Moffitt is the owner of a brand-new Edison graphophone since last week, and it is a dandy. Rumor it that Warren Zellers and woe-win begin/housekeeping in the near future over at Aix. I ncle Dave Yeoman of Rensselaer was in Fair Oaks -Monday between trains on his wq.y, home from the farm.

Walter McConnell sold this automobile last week,'which he bought in the fall, to a' party near Deni otte. Lawnence Halleck, who has. been working lor ,the Interlock company at Dyer, quit the job and returned home Friday. Harry Keller went to Missouri last week to fire on one of Mr. Sternberg's dredges- the one his mother is cook on. Mns. Joe Winslow, who has been visiting i relatives here' for about three weeks, left Monday for her home near Lisbon, No. Dak. The box supper pulled off by the ladies of the M. E. Aid at .the school house Saturday eve was tiuite a success in a financial way. They took in about S2O. J. J. Lawler had several carloads of cedar posts unloaded here and hauled out to the ranch last week, pneparatory to having a lot of woven wire fence’ made in the spring.

Our winter weather has , been fine for some time, up to the present It has moderated considerably and Wednesday it was warm enough to thaw quite a bit, the first for some time. Mrs. Ed Fauley and little girl, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. Price, over on Nubbin Ridge for about a week, returned home the fiifct of the week. Rev. Downey filled his regular appointment here in the M. E. church Sunday afternoon, die announced that there would be an entertainment in the church of illustrated biblical views Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Admission free.

It is reported that chicken thieves have begun operations in Farr Oaks. They visited Mrs. Cottingham’s henroost Saturday night and took four of her nice big white Brahmas. They had better be a little careful how they sneak around as there are a good many shot guns in town and somebody is liable to get a dose of sfhot.

Walter McConnell, our genial hay dealer, returned from a prospectting trlip in Saginaw Co., Mich., last week, and while there he closed a deal for a half section of hay Hand, all underlaid with good black loam, with a clay subsoil. It lays in the midst of a large tract . y lan( i> and along a rivet that is navigable for steamboats, and is four miles from a railroad. He will go up to take charge in late spring. He 'has A. D. Washburn s land near here rented for another year, and will leave a man here to take charge and put up the hay. ' '-7

The report reached us recently that Ben Darrocih of Morocco, who for several years kept a 'hotel at Roselawn, and by the way is a brother of Judge Darnoch of Kentland, has, ip his latter days, devel-; oped into an elocutionist, and is endeavoring to have his name enrolled with the foremost elocutionists and magazine writers of our country. He has asked the assistance of ex-editor of the Morocco Courier, Sid Schanlaub, get his name and reputation in the Indianapolis newspapers. He has done well in securing Sid, as the latter can, no doubt, get up a pretty smooth write-up.

The , Trials of a Traveler. “I am a traveling salesman,” writes E. E. Youngs, E. Berkshire,! Vt., “and was often troubled with! constipation and indigestion till l! began to use Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which I have found an excellent remedy.” For all stomach, liver or kidney troubles they are unequaled. Only 25 Cents at A. F. Long’s. «

POULTRY

TO KEEP LICE FROM POULTRY One of Most Difficult Problems That Confronts Chicken Fancier— Proper Proceedure. (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE,) One of the most difficult problems •which the poultry keeper has to meet is that of keeping his poultry houses and stock reasonably free from lice, mites and other external parasites. In keeping a poultry plant free from lice there are two points of attack: One, the birds themselves; the other, the houses, nest boxes, roosting boards, etc. „ In using any kind of lice powder on the birds themselves, it should always be remembered that, a single application of powder is not sufficient. Whtsn there are lice present on a bird there are always unhatched eggs of lice (“nits*’) present, too. The proper procedure is to follow up a first application of powder with a second at-an Interval of four days to a week. If the birds are. badly infested at the beginning it may be necessary to make still a third application. To clean the cracks and crevices of the woodwork

First Prize Black Cochin.

of houses and nests of lice and vermin a liquid spray or paint is probably the most desirable form of application. A splendid lice powder may be made at a cost of only a few cents, a pound in the following way: Take three parts of gasoline and one part of crude carbolic acid; mix these together and add gradually with stirring, enough plaster of Paris to take up all the moisture. The liquid and the dry plaster should be thoroughly mixed and stirred so that the liquid will be uniformly distributed through the mass of plaster. When enough plaster has been added the resulting mixture should be a dry, pinkish brpwn powder having a fairly strong carbolic odor and a rather less pronounced gasoline odor. Do not use more plaster In mixing than is necessary to blot up<the liquid. This ponder is to be worked into the feathers of the birds affected with vermin. The bulk of the application should be in the fluff around the vent and on the ventral side of the body and in the fluff under the wings. Its efflci'encyj which is greater than that of any other lice powder known to the writer, can be very easily demonstrated by anyone to his own satisfaction. Take a bird that is covered with lice and apply the powder in the manner just described. After a lapse of about a minute, shake the bird, loosening its feathers with the fingers at the same time, over a clean piece of paper. Dead and dying lice will drop on the paper in great numbers. Anyone who will try this experiment will have no further doubt of the wonderfql efficiency and value of this powder.

For a spray or paint to be applied to roosting boards, nest boxes or walls and floor of the hen houses the following preparation is used:—3 parts of kerosene and 1 part crude carbolic acid. This is stirred up when used and may be applied with any of the hand spray pumps or with a brush. In both of these formulae it is highly important that cruder carbolic acid be used instead of the purified product. Be sure and insist to the druggist on getting crude carbolic acid. It is a dark brown, dirty looking liquid, and its value depends on the fact that it contains tar oil and tar bases in addition to the pure phenol (carbolic acid).

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

SOUTH BEND The prosecution here of Stanley J. Drejer on a charge of embezzlement and a suit against the United States Fidelity and Guarantee company of Baltimore, Md., to recover Drejer’s bond of $15,000 are expected developments in the tangled financial affairs of the ‘Kosciusko Building and Loan association. The developments have been promised' as a result of a meeting of the stockholders, when an offer to settle the alleged $24,000 shortage, which is laid to Drejer, was rejected. The bonding company offered to pay $7,500, onehalf of the amount of Drejer’s bond. The stockholders rejected the offer, on the belief that the entire amount of the bond can be secured by a suit in court. ■

MUNCIE A motion for a new trial has been filed in the case of •Charles McGalliard, Jr., the young painter and decorator who several ’ weeks ago was found guilty of murder i ! n the second degree for the killing on last Halloween night of his sweetI heai t, Alta Haworth. McGilliard shot i the girl during a dance after she had ■ refused to leave the hall apd go home . with him. Attorneys charge the court erred in instructions to the jury and in permitting the state to introduce certain evidence. The attorneys have J alleged that if granted a new trial they ; will show that McGilliard did hot fire the shot which killed the girl. ihe motion likely will be argued this week.

BLOOMINGTON —At an early hour in the morning the beautiful home of J. H. Nolan, a stone operator, was damaged by fire, the blaze having its origin from a defective flue. The cold weather caused the firemen to suffer considerably, and to show his gratitude Mr. Nolan entertained them after their work with hot coffee and lunch. In the explosion Flory was thrown across the cellar, but was able to escape and call the fire department. The firemen could not extinguish the blaze until the gas company had sent men to dig down to a frozen valve in the street to turn off the gas. The residence was practically gutted. Flory’s injuries were not serious.

EVANSVILLE Noble Stallings, living at New Harmony, has a dog that imitates the crowing of a rooster so closely that it is hard to detect the difference. When tjie dog was only a few weeks old he began to take notice of the crowing of the roosters in the morning and> began to imitate them. It is not uncommon to see Mr. Stallings’ dog go into the barnyard and rear back on his hind legs and, pawing the air with his front feet, make a noise like a rooster. One passing by the house and not seeing the dog would think it was a real rooster crowing. Mr. Stallings says his dog is a Democrat.

RENSSEALER A small stone which lay on the pavement in the street in front of the Republican office, of this city, was caught by the chain on the rear wheel of an automo«bi’e and thrown backward with such force that it crashed through a window at the entrance of the Republican office, scattering the glass over Warren Robinson, who occupied a chair near the .damaged window. At first the publishers of the paper thought some one had shot through the window, but a hasty investigation left no doubt that the stone had been cast by a rear wheel of the automobile.

NEW ALBANY Two men held UP the little town of Creenville, Ind., in the most approved wild western style during the afternoon, and for two hours not a citizen showed himself out of doors while Charles Lee and Louis Morgan passed up and down the length of the main street with drawn revolvers, uttering threats and whoops of defiance. Sheriff Anthony Fisher arrived in answer to telephone calls and put the men under arrest. They offered no resistance to the officer, who brought them here and put them in the county jail.

PRINCETON Lucius Armstrong was attacked and dangerously injured by a vicious bulldog at his home near Hazleton. The animal attacked him in the house and Armstrong, being crippled in the right arm from a recent Injury, was unable to defend himself. Mrs. Armstrong came to his recue with a club, but the dog refused to release Its grip until It was beaten into insensibility. Armstrong suffered severe lacerations about the body, but it is believed will recover.

SHELBYVILLE Harry H. Whitcomb, sixty-seven years old, one of this city’s wealthiest residents, died at his home here, the result of a stroke of paralysis. He leaves a 5500,000 estate to his widow and son, David', twen-ty-four years old. Mr. Whitcomb was one of the trustees of DePauw university and was one of the most prominent Methodist laymen in the state. He has given freely to DePauw university, and at one time maintained a missionary in China.

LOGANSPORT When a water pipe In an upper story of her home burst, Mrs. Frank Bender ran out into the street and called the first man she saw to come to her assists ance. The nian was D. M. Flory, a‘ .farmer. Armed with a hand lamp Flory, to be accommodating, went to the cellar to turn off the water. By mistake he got hold of a gas connection and opened the valve at the end of a pipe.

ATTENTION, STOCKMEN! Rawleigh’s Dip and Disinfectant Best and Cheapest by analytical test Guarantee to the Gov’t on every can Try it for Spring Dipping and Disinfecting It is being used by the leading stockmen of Jasper county and gives complete satisfaction for stock and poultry. Unusually low prices on bulk orders. Get my prices and Guarantee before you buy O. N. HILE The Rawleigh Man Phone 464 Rensselaer, Ind.

MAKES PRETTY CAPE

IDEA FOR THOSE WHO ARE FOND OF CROCHET WORK. Comfortable Wrap for Invalids, as It Has Many Advantages Over the Shawl—Full Directions for Making. Ik The cape for which we give directions here may be worked in any good wool of medium thickness, with a bone hook. It is a very comfortable wrap, fitting better than a shawl, and fcr invalids or elderly ladies who like a little warm wrap in the house, is decidedly to be recommended in preference to a shawl. Commence with 74 chain stitches worked loosely. First Row—Pass over 4 chain, 1 treble Into each of the next chain to end of row; turn. Second Row—Four chain, 1 treble into each of the three first stitches of last row, then 2 into the next, continue with 1 into each till within fourth stitch of end of row, work 2 trebles into next, 1 into each of the three next. • Third Row —Four chain to turn, 1 treble into every stitch to end of row. Fourth Row—Four chain to turn, work 1 treble ihto each of five trebles, 2 into the next, repeat to end of row, working 2 into each sixth stitch. Fifth Row —Four chain to turn, 2 treble into first treble, 1 treble into each stitch until the last; in this work 2. Sixth Row—Four chain to turn, 1 treble into first stitch, 2 into next, then 2 in every sixth stitch, and one

Crochet Cape.

In each of the others to end of row, 2 into last treble but one. Seventh Row —Four chain to turn, 2 trebles in each sixth stitch, and one in all the others to end of row. Eighth chain to turn, 2 trebles together at beginning and end of row, and 2 into every sixth stitch. Ninth Row—Four chain, 1 treble in each stitch to end of row; no increase. Tenth Row—Four chain, trebles to end of row, working 2 together in every sixth stitch. Eleventh Row—Four chain, trebles to end of row without Increase. Twelfth Row—Four chain, trebles to end of row, working 2 Into every sixth stitch. Thirteenth Row*—Four chain, trebles to end of row wlthput increase. Fourteenth Row Like twelfth row.

Fifteenth to Eighteenth Rows—Like thirteenth row without increase, i Nineteenth Row—tffcur chain, trebles throughout, working 2 together in every sixth stitch. Twenty to Twenty-sixth Rows— Trebles without Increase. To form neck-band, work 1 treble into first stitch of 74 chain, 6 chain, miss 2, 1 treble In next, •, 2 chain* miss 2, 1 treble In next; repeat from ♦ to end of row. Ribbon or a crochet cord with tasseled ends can be threaded through this row. border: 1 1 First Row—One double into corner stitch, 3 chain, miss 3, 1 double into next all round cape. Second Row—One double into a space, 1 chain, 2 trebles into next space 8 chain, 2 more trebles into same space,’ 1 chain, 1 double into next space, repeat all round.

Third Row—Form an edge of 8 chain loops and 1 double worked evenly all round. The increases coming evenly one above the other, give a very pretty effect to the work. The cape may, of course, be made larger by working a longer foundation chain, and more rows in depth before commencing the edge.

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON —The evidenceo at’ tacking James Wilson, secretary of agriculture; Was offered in the investigation into the Florida everglades scandal by the house committee on expenditures in Mr. Wilson’s department. Representative Clark, of Florida, whose charges against Secretary Wilson precipitated the investigation, made public a letter from Arthur E. Morgan of Memphis, Tenn., president of the Morgan Engineering company, formerly supervising engineer of United States drainage investigations, but now a special drainage engineer in the department of agriculture, charging that the dismissals of C. G. Elliott and A. D. Morehouse were due directly to the everglades controversy and that the men were being ! “sacrificed to shield Secretary Wilson.”

ST. LOUIS, MO. —The cross-exacina-tion of John B. Swinney was completed in the Kimmel case in the United States court, in which the Identity of Andrew J. White, a former convict, who says he is George A. Kimmel, and Kimmel’s life insurance are involved. His redirect examination followed. • Meantime, R. M. Snyder, Jr., of Kansas City, son of the deceased capitalist, whose name was connected with the Kimmel mystery by Swinney’s testimony, arrived to be a witness for the defense. The insurance company expects to prove by him that R. M. Snyder was in New York at the time Swinney testified Snyder was in Oregon on a gold-hunting expedition, in which Kimmel was killed. 4

LISBON, PORTUGAL—Most serious floods are reported from all parts of Portugal and the loss -of life is large. Many rivers and, smaller streams have overflowed their banks, inundating entire villiages. All communication by rail, water or highway is interrup’ed and this fact is preventing the dispatch of help to the stricken towns. The number of victims of the floods In Portugal is not yet known, but it w'ill be large. Large numbers of injured are being cared for in hospitals in the flooded districts. <

WASHINGTON—CharIes M. Schwab, the wealthy steel magnate of Bethlehem, Pa.,' testified before the senate committee in protest against the house Democratic steel bill. He said the Underwood rates on larger steel products would be of a most serious consequence to the industry; without protection he would want no financial interest in the steel business, and wmuld regard as wasted the $35,000,000 which recently had been invested in his business.

BELFAST, IRE.—Winston Churchill has come and gone, with every bone in his body intact after making his advertised home rule speech in a tent on the football field to an enthusiastia crowd. There were no-hostile elemenis in this assemblaze except a few suffragettes, whose interruptions, on account of their personal dislike to Mr. Churchill, were suppressed by the police. .

MINNEAPOLIS, MlNN.—Victims of poisoned candy plot, three-year-old Bennie Reedy and Simon O'Malley, fifty years old; a hackman, are dead from eating arsenic sweets placed at the door at the O’Malley home. Louis Spencer, who also ate the candy, is at death’s door at the city hospital, while Clara Grates, who also tasted the sweets, is unharmed. • LINCOLN, NEB. —Deputy Warden Davis of the state penitentiary is dying as the result of a murderous attack made upon him in the prison chapel by Albert Prince, a negro convict. Davis was slashed six times in the abdomen and body and once on the cheek. The doctors say he has practically no chance for life. WASHINGTON— The Sherwood socalled “dollar a day” pension bill was rejected by the senate committee on pensions, and another measure, which would involve an annual expenditure of $24,000,000, proposed as a substitute by Senator Smoot of Utah, was adopted.

The best farm machinery made is what the Jasper county farmer wants. See Hamilton & Kefllner for first class goods. /■’