Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Page 7

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With the right tools you can build a fence quicker and easier . v • . A DD to this good materials and your fence will last long- ’*• er, look better and need fewer repairs. We know as well as you do that no further argument is necessary for jjood tools and good materials. The one question is whether We make good on our claims. You know it would not pay us to put an article in our store window that we do not have on sale inside. Neither would it pay us to mark somethihg in our window at one figure, and sell it at a different price when you come in to buy. It would be just as foolish for us to exaggerate in our advertising. We are spending more now than we ever have before, simply because we can serve your interests better than we ever could before. Come into our store just once and let us prove it.

Eger’s Hardware Store Rensselaer, Indiana

Notice of Changing Place of Holding Elections in Walker Tp., Jasper County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that on petition of voters of Walker Township, Jasper County, Indiana, the place of holding elections in said' Township was changed by order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, at the February Term, 1912, from Kniman to the Center school house, located on the Southwest Quarter of Section Seven (7), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Hange Six (6) West, and hereafter elections will be held at said last tamed school house. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, ‘ Auditor Jasper County. Notice of bridge letting. Cause No. 1923. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 6th, 1912, the Board pf Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the repair of a' Steel Bridge in Newton Township, over the Curtis Creek in Section 33, Township 28 North. Range 7 West. Said repairs to be made according to plans and specifications on file in the office of the Auditor. All bids to be accompanied by bond and aifidavit as required by law, and to be on file by 1 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the' right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE of bridge letting. Cause No. 1941. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 6th, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a Steel Bridge in Union Township over the Otis Ditch between sections 21 and 22, Township 31, North Range 7 West. Said Bridge to be about 30 feet long and 16 feet roadway and to be built according to plans and Specifications on file in the office of of the Auditor. ' All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law, and to be or file by 1 o’clock Of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners' of Jasner County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Ja.sper County.

FARMERS’ MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Of Benton, White and ' Jasper,Counties Represented by MARION I. ADAMS Rensselaer, Indiana - CYCLONE INSURANCE Am also agent for the State Mutual, which insures against cyclones, wind and hail.

Glasses flitted by DR. A. G. C ATT Optometrist Rensselaer, ’ Indiana. Office over Long's Drug Store. Phone No. 232.

DISPERSION SALE Of Holstein Cows and O. I. C. Hogs On the Sparling farm, 1 mile south of Rensselaer, on Thursday, April 11, 1912, the following property will be offered at public »sale: Horses, Mules— Consisting of 1 pair of good-sized mules, 2 mares, bred to Gabon; 1 bay mare 8 years old, and a 3-year-old gelding; 1 brown mare 9 years old, wt. 1300; 1 2-year-old and 2 yearling fillies; 1 suckling colt. Cows— Consisting of 3 registered Holstein cows; a Dekol and a Mercedes of unusual’milking qualities; 20 high-grade Holstein cows; 1 Jersey, 1 Hereford, 1 Angus cow. ' With one exception these cows are all young, just entering their second or third milking periods. The average tor the entire herd last yeir was nearly 6,000 pounds per cow, which is exceptional for so young a herd. The majjority <of these cows are now fresh and remainder will be rresh shortly. Some exceptional milkers among them. Several will give from 8,000 to 11,000 pounds of milk during the present milking period. A rare opportunity to secure some splendid individual of this great dairy herd. Heifers and Calves— Consisting of 20 high-grade and pure-bred calves, ranging in age from a few months to heifers bred to fresh in early fall. Bulls— Consisting of 1 excellent registered 4-year-oid Holstein bull, imported from New York state. Several good bull calves. Hogs—Consisting of over 300 head of hogs of all sizes, as follows: 35 pure-bred young Q. I. C. sows, with litters at side or bred for May farrow. Remainder are shoats, ranging in wt. from 50 to 125 pounds. TheuxJ will be grouped in bunches of tr each.

Sheep—Consisting of 75 Shropshire ewes and 3 pure-bred Shropshire rams. Poultry—-Consisting of several dozen chickens, principally pure-, bred R. I. Reds and Plymouth Rocks. These will be grouped in pens of 12 each. Farm Implements and Household of farm implements, among the Goods—Consisting of the usual lines more important of which are the following: new 6-foot Standard; mower; new Papec ensilage cutter, with blowpipe and distributor; 1 wagon, with box; one wagon, with hayrack and 2 sets of wheels; a Janney triple-feed grinder, and a smaller power grinder; 2 corn binders, 1 Deering, 1 McCormick; 2 Deering grain harvesters; Pebria disc drill; Lowdown seeder; 2 corn planters, each with 80 rods of wire; 2 14-inch gang plows; walking plows, sulky harrow, disc harrow, 3-eection harrow, 1-horse 5-shovel cultivator, 2 Tower surface cultivators, 1 weeder, Avery cultivator, Oliver cultivator, endgate seeder, fanning mill, 3-horsepower International gasoline engine, with shafting; Rude manure spreader, hay rake, Hoosier tank heater, single buggy, 3 sets of harness, box of topis t incubator, Cole hot-blast cooking stove, Majestic range, dining table, dresser®, chairs, bedsteads, gasoline stove, oil stove, new U. S. 7'50-pound separator, Babcock tester, milk cans, etc. Three tons of baled timothy hay. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; U per cent off for cash. SAMUEL E. SPARLING. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. j Ladies of the Catholic church will serve a home-made dinner. ' m3oa3-7

In yarding sheep/ don’t forget a constant supply of good fresh water and rock-salt are a necessity; also, plenty of good fresh bedding, and always a dry lair. After farrowing when the digestive system of the sow has a normal condition her ration should be gradually increased until she is getting all she can eat. Ewes will suffer less and have fewer spoiled udders if they are confined to small lots or inclosures, with dry feed, for a few days after they have been robbed of their lambs. Never buy a horse, If you can avoid it, with a narrow or shallow chest, or whose forelegs are close together. Such an animal lacks room adequate for the lung capacity to bp longwinded. A piece of tarred paper or wire netting should be fastened around the stem of all spring and fall planted trees. Tie the tarred paper closely at the bottom and at the top. This will prevent field mice and rabbits gnawing tne tender bark of the trees when deep snows cover the ground. Peach trees can be planted any time between last ana first frost; the earlier in the winter they are planted the better. A queen bee lives from two to five years, workers from forty-five days to six months, and drones seldom more than five weeks. c. Some breeders claim that six or seven weeks is long enough for the pigs to remain with the sow, but this, I think, is extreme. The pig is merely a meat-producing machine and the more he is fed — with good judgment, of course—the more meat he will turn over. All living plants have definite needs every day during their growth, and if these needs are not supplied fully or regularly bad results must follow. While the orchard is coming into bearing try vegetable growing as a side line. This makes one of the surest and best resources of income. It -will pay to buy wheat bran to mix with the barley or corn meal for feeding cows. Bran and barley meal half and half makes good meal for milk. The best roosting-place for young turkeys is on branches of trees. They will not suffer from exposure, and the open life will make them strong and healthy. Exceptional. "The boast of the west is that one can rise there very rapidly.” “Yes, but often on the end of a rope.”

Ke oiDiicn Mill. State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper.) = In the Commissioners’ Court, to May Term, 1912. In the Matter of the Ditch Petition of Albert C. Swing, et al., for Drain in Hanging Grove Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Cause No. 1932. Notice of the Filing, Pendency, and Docketing of said Petition. Notice is hereby given that a ditch petition signed by Albert C. Swing and S. B. Snedeker was placed on file in the Auditor’s office of Jasper County, Indiana, and that the petitioners have fixed the 7th day of May, 1912, as the day set for the docketing thereof. Therefore this noticfe is given to George W. Parker, Trustee of Hanging Grove Township, Jasper County, Alexander Merica; Mary B. Ellis, landowners, that your lands are described in said petition as affected by the proposed drainage. Tnat the route of the proposed drain is upon and along the following line, described in the petition tc-wit: Commencing on the land of Alexander Merica in , Section 24-29-5 west, at a point 40 rods easterly of the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of daid section 24-29-5 at the outlet of a present existing tile drain and running thence southwesterly and upon and along the line of a present existing open ditch known as ——: Ditch,, across the northwest part of the west half of the southwest quarter of said section 24-29-5 and thence continuing in a southwesterly direction along the line of said open ditch across the southeast, cornet of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section| 23-29-5; thence southwesterly in and upon the line of said open ditch across the northwesterly portion of the northeast quarter of section 26-29-5 to a "point in isaid open ditch where said open ditch intersects a public highway running north and south through the center of said section 26, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet in said Ditch. That the 7th day of May, 1912, is the day set for docketing of said petition. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, a 7 Attorney for Petitioners.

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WHY ADVERTISING SHOULD BE STEADY

By Wm. C. Freeman.

There is a great difference of opinion on the question as to whether a company should advertise or not when business is at high tide. Hugh Chalmers was recently asked by his associates why he<continued to advertise when his company’s output for a year ahead was provided for. He said: “When my company faced the fact that we were far oversold and I still desired to keep up an aggressive advertising campaign, I was asked why in the world I considered it necessary to advertise. I told my company that we were not in business for today only —we were in business to stay, and that tomorrow and the day after were very real factors in our permanent business success. If we Intended to keep our business as active as it is today, I told then* that advertising was a prime essential.” In every community the advertising representative meets the merchant who says: “I am doing all the business I possibly can, so there is no need fdr me to advertise.” I recall an experience of ray own with a merchant who was on the crest of the wave. He had been spending SIOO,OOO or thereabouts in advertising, and his business was going along swimmingly. lie suddenly decided that advertising was an expense, so he commenced to cut It dow'n and down, and then used irregular copy In the newspapers. After a period of about six months the business commenced to showsigns of falling off. His managers protested about the non-advertising policy, but the merchant was very stubborn, and stuck to it. He said that he had been In business a gw-at many years; that all the people In the community knew all about him—that It was the fault of the managers that the business was not going forward and not because the advertising was stopped. He changed managers from time to time, but the business has grown steadily less unti» now the total is less than $1,000,000 annually, whereas I recall the time when it was nearly $4,000,000 a year, and it is just hang Ing on by its eyelids. A merchant cannot afford to stop advertising, even after he has established a big business.

Honest advertising is the only kind that pays in the long run. Once you lose the confidence of the purchasing public through misrepresentation in your printed messages to that public, you have lost something that is more valuable to you than your stock, your building and the ground upon which it is located.

FARM SALE ADVERTISING

Money Invested in Newspaper Publicity Is Sure to Bring Good Returns. Not more than one-third of the rural public sales are properly advertised. Did'you ever calculate the amount of money lost every year by the owners failing to carry on an extensive advertising campaign for their sales? A few dollars more spent for newspaper space would give large returns. The averag city effort made by the average man eager to sell out is weak. He has a few sale bills printed, and he runs the same copy in the local That ends the campaign. That is poor management. The more extended the publicity the larger will be the crowd —and the prices usually vary with the size of the crowd. A farmer, especially a live stock man, would drive 20 miles to attend a sale where stock that he needed was to be sold. Hence it is obvious that extended newspaper advertising Is important. Never, spend less than S2O in newspaper space, and if the sale is a large one It will pay to spend a larger amount. If you are a specialist, and handle some special line, such as tine hogs or cattle, newspaper advertising is absolutely necessary to success. And den t make the mistake of advertising only when you have something foi sale. If you handle Duroc-Jersey hogs, and have no hogs for sale now tut will have in the spring, put a card in your paper and tell the people rbout it. If you don’t, they win look up the hog breeders in the classified columns of their farm paper and send off to the man in the other end of the state who ibelieves in publicity. It you have something to sell, don’t Idt the people forget. It won’t pay. Newspaper advertising, when figured on the basis of the number ot persons you can reach and the results you can get, is cheap. Money spent in this line will bring greater results tffan any other form of advertising.

Advertising and Cost of Living. It is a fallacy to say that advertising increases the cost of living. Advertising lowers the cost ot living in that larger sales decrease the cost oi production. Advertising In its original form of salesmanship tends in the long run to the coSt of living more reasonable for the average human being. Advertising enables the manufacturer to give a better quality of goods at a lower price than he could if his advertising had not lifted him out of the rut of ruinous competition and standardized" his articles of merchandise.

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.

India was the original home of the bungalow, the native name for this type of house being bangla, which signifies a country house of one floor only. On account of the increasing popularity of the bungalow style of building in our own country it will be of interest to note some of the special characteristics associated with these structures in the land of their origin. In India it is the Europeans who live In the bungalows, which are built in’ all sizes and styles, according to the taste and wealth of the owner. The single ground-floor plan is frequently departed from by the addition of rooms utilizing the under-roof space on the second floor. Invariably, however, the bungalow is surrounded with a veranda, the roof of which affords a shelter from the sun, though in America the veranda is often confined to one end of the house or run only part of the way around. In the chief cities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay some of the bungalows assume the proportions of palatial residences, but In the smaller towns they are of more modest pretensions. In general, they are provided with exterior offices or buildings to accommodate the large retinue of servants common *ii Indian life. Resides private bungalows, there are military bungalows on a large scale

for accommodating troops in the military divisions; also public bungalows maintained by the government for the accommodation of travelers, in which are blended the features of an English roadside inn and an eastern caravansary. These bungalows, though they vary greatly in actual comfort, are all built on the same plan. They are quadrangular in shape, one story high, with roofs projecting so as to form porticos and verandas. Along the trunk roads they are located an Indian’s day journey—l 2or 15 miles — apart. They are divided into suites of two, three, or four rooms, provided with bedsteads, tables and chairs, glass windows, and framed glass doors. Off each room is a bathroom, with standing jar of cool water. Travelers are expected to bring their serv-

ants, bedding, cooking apparatus, etc„ with them, though tableware, condiments, and sometimes even food and liquors, with cooking service, are supplied. At each travelers’ bungalow is stationed a government peon, who acts as watchman, and who is bound to help travelers’ servants in procuring food and fuel in the nearest village. The regular charge for the use of the bungalow is one rupee, or about half a dollar, a day. Natives seldom stop at these public bungalows, which are patronized almost exclusively by Europeans. It is the artistic possibilities anc low cost combined with available con venience of arrangement and lighten Ing of the work—the housewife havln; practically no stair climbing to tin her out —which hare commended th*

IDEAS FOR HOME BUILDERS

WM.A. RADFORD.

bungalow type of bouse so strongly tm American home builders. Especially* in the suburbs or outlying districts ofi our cities, where busy workers of thl day seek rest amid surroundings like* those of the country, and where even those of moderate means find it impossible to call their home their own, the bungalow is in constantly increasing; evidence. In the accompanying perspective view and floor plan we show a very neat and attractive five room cottage of the bungalow type, which can be built anywhere tor about $1,700. It la. 24 feet 6 Inches wide and 46 feet 6 inches long. The spacious porch, across the entire front affords a. shady outdoor retreat, where, we think, very much of the “living" will be done by the family at every opportunity in fair weather. Entering the house we find ourselvfes in a large, vitlng living room, also extending the full width of the house, with a seat along the left end, and a large fireplace at the right end, flanked by bookcases for the little library that should be found in every home. Straight down the center of the house runs a hallway, on each side of which opens off a commodious bedroom with ample closets, the latter being supplemented by two additional closets opening directly off the hall. Back of the bedrooms He, on one side, the bathroom, entered from the hall, with still another closet (for linen, etc.), and on the other side, the welllighted pantry opening directly off the kitchen. At the very end of the halt, a door opens into the dining room, which is directly connected with the amply lighted kitchen. From the latter a door opens to the cellar stairway, and another door to the book

porch. The cellar or basement caa be built of any size desired, and <* lighted by windows in the underphy nlng or the foundation walls. Every inch of space in this house is put to advantageous use, and the entire layout is convenient and adapted to th* modern requirements of good lighting, heat and ventilation.

Four Paintings Sold for $75,000.

Of interest to the world of art I*. the recent sale of four paintings by English, French and American pain* ers to American collectors for an aggregate sum of more than $75,000. These pictures, obtained for American collectors, Include a Romney and * Whistler, a Dupre and an Innes. A notable three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. John Blackburns, by George Romney, the eminent English portrait painter, has Just been purchased by E. J. Berwind through th* Blakeslee galleries for the sum of $42,000, which is considered a good prie* for portraits of the English school. Announcement is also made of th* sale of “Twilight,” a characterise* landscape by Jules Dupre, to * Brooklyn collector through the Ralston galleries for $20,000. "A Nocturne,” a marine by Whistler, has bee* acquired by William H. Sage of Albany, the purchase being made from, the Victor G. Fisher galleries. Th* nocturne is said to be rendered I* Whistler’s best manner.

Origin of Clerk.

A clerk, we have had occasion to point but, says the London Chronicle, is so called because he can read and write. The full etymological story connected with that is a striking example of the adaptability of words. For the source of "clerk,” “clerical” and “clergy” is a word that has nothing to do, necessarily, with either rcholarship or priesthood—the Greek. • “kleroc,” a lot, There are various views as to the manner in which “clericus” was derived from this, some holding that the service of God was regarded as the lot or portion of the priests, others that they were themselves the portion of the Lord, and .others that original choice of them by lot may be the explanation. The later developments of "clerk” are more fa miliar; our modem “clerk” comes from the fact that at one time the clergy alone could write. And so It is that a “clerical error” can be committed by any layman.

Appropriate, Anyhow.

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