Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Page 3

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

I LEE. Miss Stella Widner) came home Wednesday for a visit. Miss Edna Lefler has been helping Mrs. S. M. Jacks clean house. Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore of Monon is here this week visiting her children. S. W. Noland has purchased a new organ for his little daughter Cora. Asa Holeman and Frank Overtoil and families visited at Ray Holeman’s. ' Miss Edna Brock is working for Mrs. Ord Yeoman near Pleasant Ridge. Leroy Noland went to Indianapolis about four weeks ago and entered a hospital to have a cancer removed from his face. He returned home last week apparently cured. His many friends wish it a complete cure.

Porto Rico’s New Wonder. From far away Porto Rico come reports of a wonderful new discovery that is believed will vastly benefit the people. Roman T. Macchan of Barceloneta, writes: “Dr. King’s New Discovery is doing splendid work here. It cured me about five times of terrible coughs and colds, also my brother of a severe cold in his chest and more than 20 others, who used it on my advice. We hope this great medicine will yet be sold in every drug store in Porto Rico.” For throat and lung troubles it has no equal. A trial will convince you of its merit. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A. F. Long.

TEFFT Mrs. Miles is very low at this writing. Assessor Lambert Collins is very busy these days. About fifty-three voters registered last Thursday. The Gengrich brothers have sold their farm east of Tefft. t Charles Stalbaum is hauling another carload of tile tb his farm. Miss Jessie White of Wheatfield is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Nativia White a fe\V days. Supervisor Marion Albin is busy repairing bridges and washouts caused by recent heavy rains. Mrs. J. Nelson and children went to visit friends and relatives'at Wilders and LaCross Saturday. Mrs. Nativia White who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Gerber, end family for the past week, has returned home.

Mrs. J. M. Henshaw, 235 So. 14th St., Richmond, had a severe pain in her back and other indications of kidney trouble. She heard of the curative qualities of Foley Kidney Pills and took them. She says: “I was entirely relieved from the backache, my kidney action improved, and I am now all over my trouble. I gladly recommend Foley Kidney Pills.”—A. F. Long.

I ‘ 1 — IROQUOIS VALLEY. Lew McCay called on Wm. Green Ihu bday. Lt q Kolho f was a Rensselaer goer v-mday. Wil'liam Green was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Wil'liam Whittaker was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Chris Morganegg hauled hogs to Rensselaer Tuesday. William Green sold a horse to A. L. Padgett Friday. Alex Hurley and children spent Thursday in Rensselaer. Alex Hurley bought a cow of Werner Miller Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant were Renseelaer goers Saturday. -Mrs. Flora Pullins called on Mrs. Landis one day this week.

Opal Schreiner spent Tuesday evening with Lue and Beck Green. Mrs. Emmet Pullins and family were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Luella Green spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. George McElfresh. Grover Mackey is doing some papering for J. W. Marlatt this week. Mra. Chris Morganegg and daughter, Anna, were in Rensselaer Friday. Mrs. Parkison of Rensselaer visited her farm in this vicinity this week. . ’ ' ■ Margaret Hurley spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Addie Warren at Parr. Perry Marlatt, of Rensselaer visited has farm in ohr vicinity a few days ago. Mrs. Chris Morganegg spent Thursday with M;rs. Fred Schreiner and family.

fl We are paying for Butterfat this week 31c WILLIAM H. DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana ;. . A

l.esier Schreiiie-* m’ family spent Moni ay night with. Chris Morganegg and family. Mr. Tudor is breaking ground on the old Grooms farm preparatory to planting cornu Joe Pullins and James Gilmore are working the roads in our vicinity this week. i EE Arnold is having some lumber sawed preparatory t > building an audition to cis home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant assisted the former’s brother, Garland, saw weed Tuesday. Fred Schreiner Went to Valina Tuesday, near w'here he will do carpentering for Mr. Barkley. Bert Edwards of Remington sipent Wednesday night with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant. George McElfresh and sons and Frank Brown spent Sunday with Lester Schreiner and family. Miss Dorothea Schreiner is visiting with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morganegg, this week. Ike Marlatt, who makes his home at the north Marlatt farm, spent Sunday with his brother, John, and family.

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j FAIR. OAKS. j Fred Williams the painter, was in town Wednesday. Health is generally good with few exceptions this week in Fair Oaks. Floyd Baxter and- Milt Gundy were at Mt. Ayr Tuesday on business. Mrs. Al Moore of Lafayette was here a couple days last week on business. M. I. Gundy is building a new wood house and summer kitchen this week. Mr. Allen is having cement blocks made this week for the foundation of his hotel. The heavy rain of Saturday and Sunday put farming another notch or two behind. Mrs. N. A. McKay returned last week from her visit of about ten days at Kirklin. Ben Zellers has now got his feed mill rigged up and is prepared to grind all kinds of feed. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Miss Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening with a good attendance. Mrs. Warren w T ent down to Rosebud Tuesday to talk carbide lighting systems to a few’ of her friends. It is reported that the old lady Kesler, with her little granddaughter, is keeping house for Eli Hooper in the north part of town. Ho! Ho! Look out for the Fair Oaks reporter. He is liable to run over you, for he is going to buy a set of new batteries for his auto. x

Trustee Kight was over a few days ago and gathered up the remains of the Wild Lilly school house which was demolished by the cyclone some time ago. Chas. Halleck and crew came home from their campaign of fruit tree delivery Tuesday eve. They are now transplanting a lot of shrubbery in his nursery. G-. H. Hillis unloaded four span of mules from a car here Wednesday that had been shipped from about Greencastle. They are using mostly mules on his ranch now. F. R. Enwin’s father, who has been in Dakota 'holding down and proving up a claim, dropped in town Tuesday eve, looking fine, although he is getting aged. But he is full of ambition. ’ Reason Dunn was up to Roselawn a few days ago and closed a deal for the Defries soft drink and lunch shop. He will take possession June 1 and will move his family up there soon.

We feel like complimenting Taylor Wood, the new supervisor of the Parr road district. By his movements he makes us believe they have a man at last that will do his duty and given all roads their just share of work. Mr. Lane’s wife, who moved here a short time ago, has been seriously ill for about a week with something like appendicitis. Dr. Rice of Roselawn is the attending physician. At this writing she is reported a little better. ' Arvel Bringle, who has a position in a lestaurant at Lafayette, came up and spent a few days with home folks. He went to Rensselaer Monday eve and attended the Salvation Army meeting. He and his parents took a drive over into Newton county Tuesday evening and then he returned to Lafayette on the milk train.

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Polly’s Pancakes

By Dorothy Blackmore

(Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press) “It does seem too bad that some nice man doesn’t find Polly,” remarked Mrs. Earlington. “She is destined for an old maid, my dear; I told you that long ago,” her husband answered consolingly. “And the sooner she accepts the Inevitable and stops struggling, the better.” “You’re absolutely heartless, Frank, and Polly Is the best friend either you or I have in the world, and you know it.” Mrs. Earlington’s eyes filled with tears as she bent over her crocheting. She was a sympathetic little woman, and every time she thought of the difficult and lonely life of her dearest friend* Pauline Bates, her heart overflowed with compassion for the girl. Pauline —Polly, they called her —did tutoring In and about the small vty lage of Glenville, and most of her tricorne was sent back home to support her widowed mother and two younger sisters. She was a wholesome, womanly. attractive girl, well out of her teens, and although every one, men and women, liked her, no man who was worth while seemed to have fallen in love with her. And yet there was pot a girl in the little circle of young people in Glenville who would have made so admirable a wife. Mrs. Earlington had known her for years, and- the cozv home of the Earlingtons was always open to Pauline. In fact, as Mrs. Earlington frequently remarked, she didn’t know how - they could keep house without Pauline to call on. If the nurse were out, or ill, Pauline always man aged to be on hand to help with the children. If the cook left, Pauline never failed to drop in to help prepare the meals. If Frank had to be out of town, Pauline came to stay with Mrs. Earlington. If the Earlingtons entertained, Pauline was the

ever ready helper, for she played the piano, made a chafing dish supper, or did mere parlor tricks better than either the host or hostess. “Frank, I want you to listen to me,” began Mrs. Earlington, opening thesubject again. Her husband looked up from his rural journal. He was deep In the mysteries of how to prune fruit trees, but he suppressed a sigh and looked across the reading table toward hls wife. “I’m serious about Polly—we must find a husband for her.” “Did she say so?” asked the man, blandly. Mrs. Earlington withered him with a look. "Does Pauline ever say anything foolish?" she asked. “Not often enough—that’s one of her faults.” "Her principal fault, so far as I can see, is being entirely too good and conscientious and capable for any mere man. No one appreciates her,” retorted Mrs. Earlington. Her husband rolled hls precious magazine into a tube and frowned. “Well? What can we do? I can’t go around the world dragging .men out here to meet her and extolling her virtues. You know how a man takes to the sort of girl you have to do that for.” “Of course not—but there must be subtle ways of getting at It,” Mrs. Earlington said vaguely. "You’ll have to do anything subtle that’s done In our family, dear. I’m as far from being subtle as—as a blow on the head.”

Hls wife did not hear him; she was thinking. Suddenly a smile flashed across her face. “Polly is a grand cook!” she said. “But who knows it?* asked Frank. "No one but you and me, and —her family, perhaps. Most of Polly’s charms—ls cooking may be called a charm—are hidden under the proverbial bushel,” sighed Mrs Earlington. Her husband agreed with her. a “And I think—oh, Frank, couldn’t you Invite the boys and men of the choir of St. Paul’s to a—we’ll say, a pancake supper, and we’ll have Polly make the pancakes?” Mrs. Earlington’s eyes fairly danced at the prospect .‘l—could,” Frank said, half-heart-edly. "You could very well. As a member of the vestry. It would be only

natural that you show a little attention to the choir—especially before Christmas, when they are doing such good work.” , Very well, dear —it’s your party. I’m wilting. And what then?" j Vou goose—Polly will make such delicious pancakes—it’s one of her very best stunts —that the men will—- . well, you know a man when some- > thing appeals to his inner self.” I “Yes—it isn’t every wife who can make good pancakes or teach her , cook to do likewise,” admitted the man. “And I’m to ask the choir to a pancake supper-—here—to eat Polly’s pancakes?” he asked. “Not at all—say nothing about : Polly. That woulld spoil it all. Merei ly ask them to a pancake supper next i Wednesday night,” In due form the choir of St. Paul’s was invited to the Earlington' home Ito eat pancakes and almost4n a body lit accepted. The small boys and the i men were always glad of an oppor- , tunity to spend an evening in thia hospitable little home. I Mrs. Earlington and Pauline were busy preparing the batter for the feast and a pile of hot plates was already on the top of the great range when the telephone bell rang long and loudly. «> “Won’t you answer, Polly, dear?” asked Mrs. Earlington. Polly ryshed to the ’phone, a glad . liglt in her eyes. Her heart beat quickly as she took up the receiver. I “Could it be he?” she asked herself, over and over. i For a few minutes she talked earn- , estly over the wire and when she rei turned to the kitchen a bright spot of red burned in each cheek. Mrs. .Earlington thought she had never i seen the girl so pretty. To herself, ■ she commented that the combination Of polly’s pancakes and her oeauty ought to bring some one of the halfdozen unmarried men in the house to her feet tonight. i “I took the liberty of Asking an 1 old friend who has just come to town from back home—here tonight,” Polly said. Mrs. Earlington looked at her earnestly. “Why, of course, dear. Who is it?” “Arthur Fisher —a boy I used to play with when I was little and —” “And what, Polly? Why do you hesitate?” “Well, when we were—oh, dreadfully young—I quarreled with him because he wanted me to marry him and settle down in that little town and keep house. I was ambitious and wanted to do something else in I the world —then, I told him I couldn’t keep house and wouldn’t cook and—” “And you blush because he’s going to find you baking pancakes for a whole regiment of hungry men now? Oh, Polly, why didn’t you tell me of this Arthur before?” “I thought he had forgotten me until I had a letter from him the other day saying he would be in this neighborhood tonight. I wrote him that I would be here tonight and that if he came he might call me up. It would seem so good to see some one from home,” she ended lamely. “I think he’s more than ’some one,* Polly,” said Mrs. Earlington, pointedly. “Perhaps—but we-must get these pancakes on the table. Isn’t that enough to start on? I don’t know how they are—l did not try them and I mixed the batter hastily,” Polly said as she hurried into the diningroom with a platter full of round, hot griddle cakes. She placed them before Mr. Earlington, whose wife had just supplied him with a pile of hot plates, and then—the doorbell rang. Without ceremony,’Polly rushed to answer it herself. “You found the way?” was all Mrs. Earlington heard, and then, for a long minute there was silence. Mrs. Earlington hurried to the kitchen, where she and the cook kept the griddle hot and tried to make pancakes enough to supply the hungry men. Presently Polly returned to the kitchen—she had stopped to introduce Mr. Fisher to her host. “Did—you need me?” asked PoDy. innocently. “Oh, no," Mrs. Earlington said, “the pancakes are of no consequence —now,” she said, with a meaning that was discernible only to herself.

Clean Paint and Good Health. Great care should always be take* Sn the cleaning of paintwork and baths, especially as this is often neglected on account of the trouble and danger of discoloration and wearing the paint which Is caused by the use of strong soaps and unnecessarily hard scrubbing. There is an excellent cleaner now on the market specially made for saving labor, which at the same time preserves the paint, and should prove to be a great boon to a woman whose greatest aim in life is to see her house clean and the paint always spotless. It is also highly efficient for cleaning silver and plated ware, and answers a double use, end should always be in the store-cup-board.

Making a Guess.

Hard Looking Customer (slinking into pawnshop)—Say, how much can I get on this gold watch? Plain Clothes Policeman (suddenly appearing)—Let me see it H’m —my friend, I think you’ll get about a year on that

Smaller Tips.

First Waiter —This paper says the wrist contains eight bones, the palm five and the fingers fourteen. Second Walter —Well, I never found ®ve *bones’ in my palm.**

NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM

By Willam Pitt

Mark layers with leg bands. Incubators are always on the Job. Be sure there are no lice on the hogs. All farmers should keep pure-bfed poultry, Duck feathers may also be made a source of profit. Normal churning temperature Is around 62 degrees. A special inspection should be made of the stables. ■ The hen which lays an egg and does not cackle is a—turkey. It costs no more to take good care of a good fowl than a poor one.

Gibwing pigs should receive, where it Is possible, some buttermilk. long-headed farmer is the one who has hay to sell in the spring. Whether for eggs or meat, skimmilk Is one of the best and cheapest foods. In fitting horses for hard work increase the grain ration, but not the hay. Chickens hatched in an incubator can be reared either with hens or with a brooder. Open pails of water and swill have caught more, than any rat that ever lived. Two parts oats and one of bran make a well-balanced ration.for pregnant ewes. On the average, eleven pounds of cheese can be made from 200 pounds of skimmilk. r

Look out drafts under and through the floors. They are about the worst kind. A news item says that 12,000 dairies are used to supply London and its suburbs with milk. Feed the ewes carefully at first, and increase the ration as the lamb requires more milk There are usually some ewes that have served their days of usefulness and better be discarded. Breeding for a special purpose tends to develop an animal that will be in harmony with her function. See if the entrance to the hives Is choked with dead bees. Rake them out but do not disturb the live ones. Much of the illness and loss in the first and second weeks of the chicken dfe is due to carelessness the first 48 lours. Cows that are well cared for and well protected are not seriously affected in their yield by the cold weather. Dairying is rapidly becoming a science. It is' being Studied more extensively than almost any other line of farming. ' i ' Dust young turkeys and their mother once every two weeks with Insect powder until they are at least six weeks old. Corn stalks are plowed under with no harm to succeeding crops—provided the stalks are first thoroughly cut by double disking. Pure bred poultry consumes less Teed, produces more eggs and is worth at least one-fourth more to the farmer than mongrel stock.

In growing a heifer for the dairy muscular vitality is wanted rather than fat and this is obtained very largely from the skim-milk portion of its diet Among the essentials of the successful care and management of a farm flock of mutton sheep are that we treat them in a manner adapted to their nature. Use medicine and very moderately among your chickens. Remember, true strength and recuperation come from the digestion of nutritious food, and can come from no sther source. Everybody recognizes that cream is’ a perishable product but with a great many their knov'ri? o of the subject ’tops riebt *»•>♦:- ■ -

Naturally Surprised.

An old German furniture dealer had a woman customer who was a great talker. Nobody could get away from her when she started in. One day he sent a clerk to the lady’s house to try to collect a bill. When the clerk returned empty handed the old German said: :>. ’ ' “Veil! Vat did the lady say?” “She did not say anything, sir. She was mute,” replied the clerk. "Vat!" exclaimed thS surprised German; “vas she dead?”

Men Behind Roosevelt.

We have no idea that the thirds, term candidate can be nominated. He pretends to be fighting for the people: and yet he is making a pro-convention campaign, the like of which was never seen in this country. It is said that already a million dollars has been spent in his behalf. No one has denied that Perkins, the steel trust and the harvester trust, are furnishing a large part of the money that Is being used to foist this man on the people. And this will be remembered at the polls if it becomes necessary.

WANTED TO KNOW.

Hank Hayrick (the village pesemaster) —Ten trains runs into this' yere town every day! The Stranger—And how many run out?

WHAT DID HE MEAN?

The Candidate for Office—Do yog think the married men and bachelors in this ward will approve of my stand on this home question? Patrick Reilly—Yis, avery single Wan of thim, sorr.

BEN LEVEY No. 38717. Standard Bred and Registered Description and Pedigree: BEN LEVEY is 15% hands' high. Black, with good mane and tail, weighs 1150 pounds. He has been duly registered as Standard Bred, under Rule 1, Volume XVI, of the American Trotting Register. He by Barrios No. 18437, record 2:24%. He by Vicker, No. 1843. Dam Ceriei, Vol. XV, record 2:17, by Tacks, No. • 4664; Granddam Beatrice by Mf-mbrien Patchen, No. 8, Stands for season of 1912—Monday at Coon’s livery barn. Brook. Tuesday arid Wednesday, at Harrington’s stallion barn. Goodland. Thursday and Saturday afternoon at home bam, Mt. Ayr. At Leek’s hitch bam. Rensselaer, Friday and till Saturday noon. Terms.—sls to insure, colt to stand and suck providing owner takes proper care of mare and colt. $12.50 to insure mare to be in foal. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but I will not be responsible should any occur. Money due when owner parts with mare or moves from the courity. Colts held good for service. No breeding done for horse traders. ORSON PECK. Owner and Manager. Phone 63. Mt. Ayr.

Notice of Letting Contract for County Farm; Supplies. Notice is hereby given that the Board of . County Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will on Monday, June 3d, 1912, receive sealed bids up bo 2 o'clock p. m., for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meat for the use of County Poor Asylum. All blds to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all blds. ■... ' By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Oownty. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. ' All the news in The Democrat