Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Page 8

News Notes of Nearby Towns

At Furnished by Out Regular Correspondents

| PINE GROVE. Plowing corn is the order of the day for farmers. Mrs. James Akers called on Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and family Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Adam Flesher spent Tuesday afternoon with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Shroyer and family. The ice-cream social at Brushwood Saturday night was well attended and all report a fine time. Roy Torbet and family spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shroyer and family. J. M. Torbet and family and the former’s sister. Mrs. Bell Dickey, were guests of Clint Beck and family Sunday. Several from this vicinity attended the funeral of John Cooper of Fair Oaks at the Brushwood church Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet, W. H. Hess of Warsaw’ and Harry Beck and family spent Sunday with Bert Hale and family.

Could Shout for Joy. "1 want to thank you from the bottom of my heart,” wrote C. B. Rader of Lewisburg, W. Va., “for the wonderful double benefit I got from Electric Bitters, in curing me of both a severe case of stomach trouble and of rheumatism, from •which I had been an almost helpless sufferer for ten years. It suited my case as though made just for me.” For dyipapsia. indigestion, jaundice, and to rid the system of kidney poisons that cause rheumatism, Electric Bitters have no equal. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed t<r satisfy. Only 50 cents at A. F. Long’s.

MILItOY. —I I Abe Woo ley is working for T. A. Spencer, Mr. Howell and family attended ehu rch here Su n day evening. Revs. Telto and Whittaker took dinner Sunday at Mr. Ahersol’s. T. A. Spencer shipped a carload of cattle to Chicago . the first of the week. TfaoS. Johnson, who has been working tor Mr. Gifford at McCojsburg, was home this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lud Clark and daughter Sophia attended the children’s day exercises at the Baptist church at Palestine Sunday afternoon. Chas. Beaver and wife were around soliciting money Monday for the new steps and walk at the church, and met with a liberal response. , | Several of the neighbors met Tuesday and hauled rock and gravel for the cement steps and walk at the church, and if possible the work will be finished this week. The series of meetings closed Sunday evening with what good accomplished God knoweth, but we are glad to say that many were strengthened and encouraged, and possibly the ministers may come again. Rev. Telto will go this week to Texas to hold a series of meetings.

Mrs, Lela Love, wife of Wiley Lpve, a farmer living near Covena, Ga., says: “I have taken Foley Kidney Pills and find them to be all you claim for them. They gave me almost instant relief when my kidneys were sluggish and inactive. I can cheerfully recommend them to all sufferers from kidney troubles.” —A. F. Long.

| UNION. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steward were autoihg near Virgie Sunday. J. J. Eiglesbach of the City meat market purchased a cow of A. R. Schultz this week. Mrs. Louis Schreeg of Parr is considered the champion strawberry picker of the county. Wm. Cooper has sold his farm north of Virgie, but we did not learn the purchaser’s name. J. WV Fay lor to the Windy City Tuesday and hadn’t got back at this writing (Wednesday). Todd and Mrs. Millspaugh have friepds visiting them from their old home town this week, i The farmers are busy plowing corn, the recent rains making the weeds thrive. Last year this time the land was very dry. Firman Rutherford of Rensselaer, with some helpers, are straightening A. C. Schultz’s barn that was damaged by the cyclone in April. A. C. Schultz had a colt killed by lightning Saturday night. He received SSO insurance. It was only about a month and a half old Roscoe Reeder who has been at home for a week or more, expecting to have the mumps, returned to work near Remingtob this week, much dissappoin{ed.

The Wafer o Plumbing Go. Soils tbs SandwichPERKIHS WINDMILLS PfclM 204, Rensselaer, Ind.

Mat Petty is going to move back to Virgie soon. They are going to live in their house when Wm. Petty vacates, and about that time there will be something else doing. Get your cowbells ready.

Foils a Foul Plot. When a shameful plot exists between liver and bowels to cause distress by refusing to act, take Dr. King’s New Life Pills, and end such abuse of your system. They gently compel right aqtion of stomach, liver and bowels, and restore your health and all good feelings. 25c at A. F. Long’s.

_j j—j IROQUOIS VALLEY. I “J i Grace Daugherty is on the sick list. Vilas Price has bought a new phonograph. Lucy Morgenegg spent Monday after with Bessie McElfresh. K. 'Zillhart went to Chicago Sunday, returning Tuesday evening. Mrs. K. Zillhart spent Sunday with Fred Schreiner and family: Rebecca Green spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Geo. McElfresh. Fred Schreiner is doing some carpenter work for Barney Kolhoff. Perry Marlatt of Rensselaer spent Wednesday at his farm in this vL cinity. Joe Pullins and family attended the picnic at the McColly grove Sunday. Ethel Marlatt, Bessie and Jennie .McElfresh spent Sunday with Gladys Grooms.

Walter Brown, w’ho is working in our vicinity, spent Sunday with home folks. Walter Smith and wife of Wheatfield spent Sunday with friends in our vicinity. Win. Gordon went to Chicago Sunday and has not returned at this writing. . Barney Kolhoff and children attended church a* Rensselater Wednesday morning, Mrs. Chas. Pullin- spent Sunday with her daughter. Mrs. A. Shook, north of Gifford. Mr and Mrs. Chris Morgenegg spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Lester Schreiner. Misses Margaret and Nora Daugerty and brother Will spent Wednesday afternoon with Ethel Marlatt. The farmers in our locality are sitting around watching the weeds grow, it being too wet to work in the fields. Geo. McElfresh and son Will are spending the latter part of., this week with Lester Schreiner, west ot Rensselaer.

The KITCHEN GABINET

■bndr V, •9E \ iKjWsV Let my advj.ee on your friendship glimmer— Print all his faults In nonpareil But publish his virtues In big long primer. —Robt. Burdette. V MEMORY JOGS. Plain walls are best for a small room and a good background for pictures. Dates stuffed with left-over icing flavored with lemon juice, are a most acceptable sweetmeat. Good for the lunch box. i If you have a faded paper, with no red or runny colors, a coat of calcimine over it will make a fresh wall decoration. Plain white cheesecloth with a strip of some color to harmonize with the room makes most dainty curtains for a bedroom. Left-overs cannot he carelessly seasoned and be at all palatable. They need more careful seasoning than do the fresh dishes. If you have an unsightly fence or building, cover it with the wild cucumber vine. It will grow in sun or shade, and is a graceful vine, adding beauty to any place. Don’t throw away' a little left-over boiled frosting, as It can be kept soft If set In hot water. A few nuts and' raisins chopped added to It and drop on wafers, bake to a light brown, and you have a nice little cake to serve with a cup of tea. Pid you ever notice that we usually do the things we want very much to do? We are bound to find time for them. Are you house-cleaning and the violets In bloom? Just keep in mind that dirt we always have with us, but violets come but once a year. Keep an eye out for the delicious mushroom, learn a few and have a dainty dish served at least once a week. Early in May the bonny little caps appear with their frills of pink and lavender, and they last until the freezing frosts of the autumn.

Job printing of the better class ~ type* ink and typography in harmony—The t , Democrat office.

a fIT [tens of Interes Til frcm Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

Rules Jefferson Lived By

The hundred and 6ixty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson was celebrated with a big banquet ip Indianapolis April 13. In this connection Jefferson’s ten rules of life, which follow, will be of interest: 1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend money before you have It 4. Never buy what you do not want because it 1b cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things away by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten becore you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Here are some of the great principles of government advocated by Mr. Jefferson in his first inaugural address, March 4, 1801: Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state of persuasion, religious of political. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. The support of the state governments in all their rights as the most

Grave of the Author of the Declaration of Independence.

competent administrations for our domestic eoncerrfs and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies. The preservation of the general government In its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad. A jealous’‘care of the right of election by the people. A mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; Absolute acquiescence decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force the vital principle and immediate pareilt of despotism. A well disciplined militia, our best reliance and for the first moments of war until regulars may relieve them. The supremacy of the civil over the military authority—economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened. The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith. The diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus. Trial by juries Impartially elected. “These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment; they should be the creed of our political faith; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the service of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.”

“The Fourth." “A century and more has passed, and as the foundations of this government are more firmly settled, as the Structure reared by the fathers now spans the continent from ocean to ocean; and has victoriously established Its right to be, political liberty has ceased to be the mere dream of the enthusiast, and has become the everyday fact of the men of thought and action in the world. This was the first ;Btep, and we are here to glory in it, and to boast of those ancestors vhc suffered and toiled and fought tc compllsh If—David J. Bre -r.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. KNABE CASE IS REOPENED Detective Asserts He Has Evidence That Will Lead to Indictment of Murder of Indianapolis doctor. Indianapolis, June 20.—Acting on a report of Harry C. Webster of the Webster Detective agency the Marion county grand jury reopened the inves tigation of the death of Dr. Helene Knabe, whose body, with the throat cut was found in her apartment in the Delaware flats on the morning of October 24, 1911. Webster asserted be had evidence to submit to the grand jury which would result in the indictment of the murderer of Doctor Knabe. He refuses to disclose the identity of the alleged murderer. John W. Holtzman has been employed as attorney by the local council of women which employed Webster, and will assist the grand jury in the investigation and the state in prosecuting the case if an indictment is returned. The statement of Webster that he has evidence which he believes will convict a murderer in the case comes after many months during which the mysterious death of Doctor Knabe has remained a much discussed topic. State Alleges Big Shortage. Xoblesville, June 20.—The state of Indiana, through the board of commissioners of Hamilton county, has brought suit in the circuit court against former County Treasurer George Stevenson, demanding SI,BOO. The suit is' the outcome of an alleged shortage while he was in office from 1906 to 1908. It is alleged that the defendant retained fees and taxes to the amount of $1,222.43, never accounted for. The state is also asking 6 per cent interest and a penalty of 10 per cent for collection. The American Bonding company of Baltimore, which was on Stevenson's bond while he was in office, is made a party defendant. The suit was brought on the strength of a report made by the. state beard of accounts. Boy Kills His Playmate. Lawrenceburg. June 20. —Charles J. House, age eight, accidentally shot and killed his nephew. John W. Eggleston, Jr., age eight. In the Eggleston homestead, about three miles south of this city. Eggleston s father had fired several shots from his revolver at a chicken hawk, and after reloading the weapon, placed it in & dresser drawer, and left the house. The boys got the revolver and after playing with it for some time, young House shot at Eggleston's head. The heavy ball entered his right eye, passed through his head and lodged in the casing of a dcor and he died instantly. Mrs. Eggleston is a sister of the House boy, and she is prostrated with grief. Hangs Himself With Scarf. Anderson. June 20.—With one end of a necktie looped securely about his neck and the other end attached to a bedpost, John Garrison, ftfty-flve years old, ended his life at his home here. Mrs. Garrison heard the noise of a falling body in her husband’s room and on entering the room found her husband lying on the floor dead. Mr. Garrison was widely known In this city and vicinity. Relatives can assign no reason for the suicide. He is survived by his widow and two children.

Admiral Cowden Sues Wife. Laporte, Ind., June 20. —Admiral Cowden, formerly of Washington, D. C., now living in retirement In Michigan City, brought action in the Laporte circuit court for divorce, alleging abandonment- Mrs. Cowden is living in Washington where she is prominent In society. Admiral Cowden petitions the court to make allowances of alimony to support Mrs. Cowden. Grand Jury to Probe Fire. Frankfort, June 2ft.—The Clinton county grand Jury was called in special session to Investigate the disastrous fire at Ro6svllle, May 16. Since the $40,000 fire stories have been rife that the blaze was of incendiary origin. Insurance companies have refused to make settlement on policies until the Investigation is completed by the grand jury. Eats Rough on Rats; Lives. Columbus, June 20.—Estal Everroad, twenty-five years old, and married, of Hartsville is In a critical condition from rough on rats, which he ate with suicidal intent. Everroad and his young wife but recently moved To Hartsville from Anderson and the husband is said to have quarrelled with his wife before taking the poison. Found Guilty of Murder. Evansville, June 20. —George- Wilson, who killed George Kemp last April at a dance, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a jury In the circuit court His punishment was fixed at life Imprisonment. The killing was without provocation, Kemp acting as a peacemaker at the danc*. Wilson was intoxicated.

ONCE IS ENOUGH TO BUILD A SILO All, in all, we believe that so much has been said, done and proved, about silos that practically every progressive farmer is planning to put up a silo or has one up now. There isn’t a thing in the world that should delay the farmer who has no sifb. There is nothing more important—nothing means so much to you in actual cash yearly profits, increased money-making possibilities and increased realty value of the land itself. It will even pay you, if absolutely necessary, to borrow the money—just tdget the silo up. How the Ideal Silo is Made In the manufacture of the Ideal Silo no expense has been spared in the way of machinery and materials. Our special machines used exclusively for the manufacture of the staves, permit of no inaccuracies whatsoever. The fundamental principle ot the silo is that it must be absolutely air-tight. You will, therefore, appreciate that the staves must be accurately made, dressed on both sides, tongued and grooved and beveled to conform to the circle of the silo. -When siloe are of such length that it is necessary to use staves in two lengths, we use the self-draining beveled joint and spline. TIE RODS So much depends on the tie rods or hoops that no silo maker can afford to skimp on them. We make the tie rods and hoops of three quarter inch round iron, close grained, with machine cat threads. Tie rods should not be less than three quarters of an inch in diameter because they are under considerable strain, and if less than three quarters of an inch they are apt to stretch in their length thus allowing the staves of the silo to become loose, permitting moisture to ooze out and air to enter- —perhaps spoiling an entire silo full of silage. Our • tie rods are made in three lengths, that is, there are three self-adjusting, automatic take-ups in each of the tie rods around the silo. HINGE DOORS The doors of the Ideal Silo are fitted with special malleable iron galvanized hinges, one near the top and one near, the bottom of the door. These hinges permit the door swinging inwardly entirely out of the way, out of the weather, and in position to close instantly when desired. FOR SALE BY J. W. FAYLOR, ""SSS."'

ADVERTISING AS AID TO SALESMANSHIP

By FRANK M. DU NOYER.

The day is dawning when the publishers of magazines and newspapers, one and all, who are given to exploiting inflated circulations will be extremely unfashionable in the advertising world, and it will be the same with those unscrupulous and Incompetent advertising agents whose only stock in trade is being able to arrange for placing accounts with inferior publications. An enthusiastic man will create enthusiasm in others—not only by word of mouth but by means of the written word. It is so with a commonplace news item dressed up by a live man who has an imagination, and equally so with ad writers. Enthusiasm will take you right through to the customer. The subject of clerk hire is always interesting to an advertising man, for though his ads have the pulling power to fill a merchant’s store, unless the clerks are well posted on the merchandise that is featured from day to day; unless they are courteous, alert, painstaking and obliging it is obvious that results will not be satisfactory. I have asked why indifferent and Incompetent clerks are so often found In Important positions. Sometimes the answer is that this is a mill town and efficient help can command big pay in the mills. Now, that answer would not satisfy you if you were an advertising man with your heart and soul in your work, for you know from observation that one good clerk Is worth more to a merchant than four Incompetents. But conditions in that respect are rapidly changing, and we are all studying efficiency and how to gtet the best results for the money expended. There are many things that people must buy somewhere, and they are apt to buy most of these things through persuasive ads. And there are many more things they would buy if they were properly waited upon. There is always a reason for everything whether It be success of failure. The great success of John Wanamaker Of course is not due to any one particularly good Idea that emanated from that brilliant mind, hut there is one rule In his big Philadelphia store that surely has helped toward thait end —It is that no clerk must see a customer stand waiting if it is possible to excuse himself from the customer he is waiting on and approach the one waiting with a remark something like the following: "I will be pleased to wait on you very soon;” and this must be said pleasantly; In fact the clerks must be pleasant and agreeable at all times under all circumstances to customers. The text of an ad may be ever so well written, but if It is not attraotlvely illustrated or displayed it will not arrest the attention —and is lost This is a technical feature of advertlsinc and I will pass on to the text. The text of an ad should always contain the facts. But Just plain facts Is not enough. Unless the ad contains that spark of life that Is born of enthusiasm—unless the writer Is really interested in this work and is able by what he says to hold the Interest that has been awakened by the illustration or display, the ad will surely fail of Its purpose. This principle is well known to local news writers. The enthusiastic local scribe who Is able to embellish a commonplace news item with a lively Imagination will get it past that city editor, unless It Is a big day for news, without a mark on it —because it Is readable and has human interest When a concern has been doing business the old way, without advertising. for several years, and has been

successful, it requires patience", perseverance and much persuasion to get them to look toward the light. I have in mind the very trying experience of an advertising man with the head of a very old and conservative business concern. A young man just through college secured the assistance of the advertising man and they undertook to show the father the new and better way to do business. Of course there was some objection on the start, and the ad man was subjected to the Indignity of being referred to in uncomplimentary terms very often. But the ardent young college man said we must not mind father —the ad man must bear with him until the turning of the tide—when results began to show he would be on our side. One fine day the ad man called the young fellow in and told him be didn't think he could stand any more jolts like the one he received from his father that day. Among other things he said that the bill for advertising last month was outrageous and asked If he had come up that day to blow In the remainder of the plant. The son admitted that was pretty tough treatment, and said he wouldn’t care to be present when the next month’s bill arrived—about four times as much as the last one. Well, about this’ tipie results from the advertising began to show, and the life of that ad man was more fit to live. But that same man had the satisfaction at the end of four years of being told that the output of that concern had been multiplied by three, and that it was due in large part to judicious advertising.

Honesty In Advertising. Honesty In advertising as a policy la well as moral necessity was the theme of an address delivered to the Springfield Ad Men’s olub by Andrew N'. Fox of Chicago. “There is only one better way to incur a man’s enmity than by calling him a fool,” Mr. Fox said, “and that is by treating him like a fool on the surmise that he doesn’t recognize the treatment. You can’t fool the people in advertising.”

FOR THE SIX-YEAR TERM

Chicago Journal Brings Forward Some Arguments That Appear to Have Weight. The proposed constitutional amendment providing for a six-year term for our presidents, and no re-election, ought to be entitled: “An amendment to restore the dignity of the presidential offioe, and to permit presidents to attend to public business.” If that amendment ever runs the gauntlet of congress and gets to the people of the United States, it will pass. The argument now raised against it, that it will deprive the nation of the services of some proven great men in time of crisis, is too silly to be answered. The proven great man can be useful without being president Washington was not president when he held the fort at Valley Forge. With the exception of Lincoln, the fate pt this country haß never rested on a single man since the constitution was adapted. A single six-year term would have kept Lincoln in office nearly two years after the close of the war. This country is not going to be destroyed by second-term candidates, nor even by third-term candidates. But this country is profoundly disgusted with a situation which a former president 1b making attacks on a present president, and the present president is obliged to drop his real duties to answer and slang back at the former president The single-term amendment will Pans by a big majority if it ever gets to the people.—Chicago Journal,