Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS

KNIMAN. A. K. Moore and W. A. Lake were Demotte goers 'Thursday. Alice Myers is staying with her incle, John Myers, nowadays. Moving is the order of the day. Mrs. Robert Michael was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Well, we had a good program at the M. E. church Monday night, no matter if the crowd was small. The first of the week was quite blustery, the trains being several hours late on account of being snowbound. Mr. and Mrs. Carlock returned to Goodland last Saturday after visiting Mrs. Carlock’s parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen. There was no church last Saturday night on account of protracted meetings at Wheatfield. Don’t know just how soon our minister can be with us, but will state the next preaching time later.

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McCOYSBURG. James Wood, of this place, is quite sick. Wash Lowman has moved to the farm. Moving is the order of the day around here. ' ♦ Mrs. Charles Ferguson is on the sick list at this writing. Rev. and Mrs. Sutton spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Charles Ferguson. Gifford Mars, of Lee, and Clarence Meesenger were Gifford goers yesterday. Bert Messenger and Harry Shirey went over to Illinois for an extended visit. Miss Ethel Ferguson spent Sunday with Pearl Ross. Pearl returned home with her. There was a crowd at the school house last eve to hear Mr. O’Connor talk about his trip around the world. The shower given for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stephens was well attended. They received many nice presents and all reported a fine time. Dr. F. H. Hemphill and Charles Reinmeck. of Rensselaer. ate supper with Charles Stultz and family. They had to leave the auto near the Ridge and walk.

We had quite a snow storm here, the roads being blockaded, but it is moderating quite a bit. The section men had to shovel snow at Pleasant Ridge this week. Mrs. C. H. Stultz, whose sickness has been mentioned before, has been at the stand-still the last two weeks. It 1b hoped by all the neighbors and friends she will sdon improve.

Buying to Save Money. Buying Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound saves money because Just a few doses stops the cough and cold and one bottle lasts a long time. It quickly heals raw and inflamed surfaces, stops tickling throat, harsh, rasping coughs, croup, hoarseness, bronchial and la grippe coughs —A. F. LONG.

LEE. Miss Vena La Mar, of Francesville, was here this week visiting relatives. Glenn Culp hauled a load of hard coal from .Monon Thursday for H. C. Anderson. John Widner is moving this week near Monoh, and Wm. Wall is moving in the house vacated by Widner. Mrs. C. A. Holeman has returned from her visit in Indianapolis and moved in her new home this week. Mrs. Peterson, of Michigan, came here Tuesday to visit Mrs. S. W. Noland, who used to live neighbor to her. Our supervisor, Frank Eldridge, had a bunch of men out Tuesday and Wednesday clearing the snow drifts out of the roads along the mail route in his district. Asa Holeman is getting his hauling pretty well done to Where he is going to move on the Anna Warner farm, as soon as he can get possession of the house. O. A. and S. M. Jacks went' to Brookston to attend the funeral, Monday, of their cousin, Mr. Kelly.’ The roads were drifted so they could not get to the cemetery. They

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came home Tuesday morning, and the burial party would try to get to the cemetery that day. Tuesday evening 55 neighbors of Wm. Rishling and wife met at their home and surprised them. They spent a very enjoyable evening. There was a bountiful lap supper served of fruit and cake. Mr. and Mrs. Rishling are moving to a farm near Crawfordsville, Ind.

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POSSUM RUN. Several in this neighborhood are on the sick list. Thomas Parker and sons were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Marlatt were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Orpha Parker called on Hattie McCurtain Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hurley called on Mrs. Greeley Comer Wednesday afternoon. Remember the next literary at Independence, next Thursday, March sth. John Hurley and Jasper Cover were Gifford callers Monday evening. Myrtle and Lemuel Stockwell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. ® Jennie Openchain, who has been on the sick list, is getting along nicely now. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Caldwell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Braddock. Mr. and Mrs Jim Pierson have moved into the house in which Jess Stinson lived.

Mr. Marion and son, Estel, hauled hay last week from the place where James Davis lived. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Caldwell called, on Mr and Mrs. John Price Wednesday afternoon. Arnie and Hazel Brown, of Gifford, called on Jennie and Leota Openchain Saturday. Mrs, Thomas Parker called on Mrs. Joe Davis and Mrs. James Davis Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs. Thomas Parker and daughter. Myrtle, called on Mrs. Openchain Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Greeley Comer called on Mrs Thomas Parker and Mrs. Will ♦shultz Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill returned home Thursday from a .several weeks’ visit iri Boone county. The house where John McCurtain lives cought fire Thursday evening and burned some of their clothing. Monday seemed to be the coldest day. J. H. froze his fingers, and it is said his nose also, but is better now. Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Comer and family spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker and family. Several young folks from Possum Run attended the literary at Independence, which proved to be quite a success.

Colds, constipation and headache are three common afflictions and relieving the constipation helps the cold and stops the headache. Use Foley Cathartic Tablets because they are very prompt and thoroughly cleansing, with absolutely no unpleasant effects. A whole bottle full for 25 cents.—A .F. LONG.

COLFAX TP. NEWTON CO. Jake Marquis is cutting wood for Will Thomas. ' Will Thomas transacted business in Mt. Ayr Tuesday. Dorothy Butts took dinner with Ethel Thomas Tuesday. Will Thomas is getting ready to move away the first of next"week. Sam Butts and wife took Sunday dinner with Will Thomas and family. Mrs. James Elijah called on Mrs. Schuyler Williams Saturday afternoon. Curt Pollock is helping his father move his household goods down by Gifford. v Albert Wilson wasi around in the neighborhood putting up sale bills Wednesday. Mrs. Will Thomas and son, Dannie, took dinner with Mrs. John Wildrick Tuesday. Dave MteWherter is packing his goods and is expecting to leave for lowa Wednesday. Say. Dorothy, don’t let it snow every Sunday or that fellow of your’s will get snowed under.

Eli Miller and family moved on Galiger Barker’s farm, which Dave McWherter vacated, Thursday. There was a large crowd gathered at Bert Sullivan’s Saturday night. All seemed to have a good time. Nelson Wlldrick returned home Tuesday afternoon from “Smily” Dewey’s, where he has been visiting the past week. What people say about us behind our backs wouldn’t hurt us if some kind friend didn’t come and tell us what they’ve said. . Carl Wooton and son, Schuyler Williams and son and John Schneider spent Wednesday eve with Sam Butts, the latter staying all night.

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

Columbus. —William Jolliffe, twen-ty-four years old, a barber of this city, is recovering from a surgU cal operation performed at the city hospital here and in which a part of one of his shin bones was removed and grafted oh his spine, which is tubercular. Kendallville.—John A. Douglas ot Bejlplaln, Kan., aged seventy-three, and Miss Harriet Ramsby, aged seventy-three, procured a marriage license at Lagrange. It is the first matrimonial venture for the bride and the third for the bridegroom. Bloomington.—Eleven cars of freight train No. 750, on the Indianapolis division of the Illinois Central railroad, were wrecked at Helmsburg. No one was injured. A broken brake beam on one of the cars caused the wreck. Traffic was delayed for several hours. Hartford City.—Six members of the Emshwiller family, living east of the city, are seriously ill from ptomaine poisoning caused from eating candy. The mother and five children are affected, and a physician, called early, had a hard time to save their lives.

Hammond.—Four people narrowly •scaped death in East Chicago when an east-bound Wabash railroad flyer struck the automobile in which they were riding and demolished it Two women were carried on the engine pilot, one of whom was prevented from falling under the locomotive by her husband, who was dragged 100 feet at the wheel of the shattered car. Connersville. George Hicks of Richmond is in trouble because a coon skin, said to have been stolen by him and sold at Connersville, was Identified at Rushville as the one missing from Nolan’s Fork clubhouse, near Catnbridge City. The coon skin was identified by members of Nolan’s Fork club because it had 46 nail holes in the edge of it. A revolver, two shotguns and other property were taken from the clubhouse. Hicks is under arrest.

Lafayette.—A dozen children were burned, one seriously, when gasoline in a school hack caught fire on the road between here and Dayton. The team became frightened and ran away. A can of gasoline on the seat beside the driver was upset and the fluid ran to the little stove in the hack. Instantly the interior was a mass of flames. The children sprang for the back, where Harvey Mills, an older boy, and his brother, Roscoe, assisted them to the ground. Indianapolis.—The public service commission, in making its second award as a board of arbitration, declined to grant an increase in v?ages to the 55 trainmen employed by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction company, which operates two lines out of Indianapolis, one to Greensburg and the other to Rushville. The men had asked for a flat scale of 35 cents an hour. Their present wages are based on a graduated scale, ranging from 21 to 80 cents an hour.

Marlon. Wesley Draper, motorman of the Goldthewalte Park car, hi collision with an M., B. & E. Interurban in which four people were killed and 70 Injured July 7, 1912, filed »ult in circuit court here against the Union Savings company of Bluffton, receiver for the Marion & Eastern Traction company, demanding $25,000 damages for personal injuries received In the wreck. Draper alleges the wreck was due to faulty air brakes, which he had reported to the train dispatcher, who ordered him to continue running the car. Indianapolis.—The Indiana State Poultry association now has fully organized and adopted its constitution. A feature of the organization will be the Interest it will take in the breeders of'utility stock. The officers elected are: S. A. Nortfzger, North Manchester, president; A. G. Phillips, Lafayette, vice-president; C. E. Spaugh, Rugby, second vice-president; Lloyd C. Mishler, North Manchester, secretary-treasurer; executive committee, Harry A. Axtell, Bloomington; U. R. Fishel, Hope; B. O. Swain, Zionsville; L. J. Demberger, Stewartsville; Ben H. Scranton, Rising Sun; D. D. Sheerin, Culver.

Noblesville.—Citizens of this city at a mass meeting took Initial steps toward the formation of a commercial club. Addresses were made by Judge Vestal, C. B. Jenkins, Revs. L. C. Howe, Frink Miller and F. A. Hall and by F. H. Lewis, secretary of the Indianapolis chamber. The following directors were chosen to organize the club: C. B. Jenkins, George Deck, E. E. Cloe, R. H. Lawlor, Jesse Hussey, E. M. Hare, George Evans, Will Hayes and Dr. H. H. Thompson. Two hundred citizens signed the lists as members. Judge Vestal announced that the Masonic lodge had voted to build a $25,000 temple next summer. <

Kokomo—The plant of the Greentown Canning company was completely destroyed by fire with a loss to building and stock estimated at $20,000. The company carried SIO,OOO Insurance. The fire started from an overheated stove and was discovered by a man passing the building. An adjoining Ice plant owned by the same company was saved by velunteer firemen. Shelbyville. here that Verne Riser and Miss Pearl Gordon, prominent young people of this city, were married secretly at Indianapolis November 2, 1913.

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country «nd Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington Criticisms of Postmaster General Burleson’s action in abolishing the 50mile parcel poet sones and ext ending the service’s low rates to territory within the 150-mile zones blocked passage of the postofflce appropriation bill in the senate at Washington. Senators Bryan and led the attack Food manufacturers and miller* throughout the country won a decisive victory over the government when the Supreme court at Washington held that federal Inspectors could not condemn under the pure food law “bleached flour” unless they proved that the flour contained enough poisonous ingredients to injure health.

• • • The sentences imposed on Charles Wilson, alias Charles Willard, and Catherine Wilson, alias "Zoe" Willard, who were convicted In Chicago of violating the Mann white slave act, were affirmed by the Supreme court of the United States at Washington. • • • America is on the threshold of all that Is the best In a nation’s life and her development will go on in the future as It has In the past, declared Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, in an address at the Washington birthday celebration of the Union League club at Chicago. Secretary Daniels decried partisanship in politics. * Fortification of the Panama" canal will be completed with an additional $2,500,000 which Secretary Garrison, Colonel Goethals, Major General Wood and Brigadier General Crozier urged the house appropriations committee at Washington to provide.

• « ♦ President Wilson crossed the icejammed Potomac in the naval yacht Sylph, and from a glass-inclosed stand reviewed a civic and military parade in Alexandria, Va., which marched tjjrough a frigid snowstorm in honor of the first president of the United States. Vice-President Marshall lard a wreath on the tomb of Washingtonlat Mount Vernon. • • • Without any amendment whatever to limit their scope the senate at Washington by more than a two-thirds vote ratified general arbitration treaties between the United States and Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland. • • • Domestic The body of Orrawell Williams, former superintendent of the money order division of the Salt Lake City post office, was found In the swimming pool of a Salt Lake City bathhouse. Williams, who had been employed at the post office 20 years, was suspended January 5 for alleged irregularities In handling funds.

• * * The Cuban government purchased 3,000 horses at the St. Louis National stock yards for an aggnegate price of 1500,000. • • • When the coroner opened the casket containing the body of William Lebarger of Balovar, N. Y., who died at Manningsport, La., It was found that the dead man had 16 bullet holes in his head. Nothing was known here by the authorities or relatives of the manner in which he met death. • • • Primary elections held In a number of towns In Illinois, appear to have held little Interest, especially for the newly enfranchised women voters. Reports from several towns show that in most Instances the women declined to take a hand In nominating candidates for city and township offices. • • • Detectives have been unable to get any trace of the thief who stole two valuable diamond rings from a Southern railway train arriving In Jacksonville, Fla. The two rings, valued at I4JOO, the property of Mrs. L. M. Thomas of New York, were stolen from the Pullman oar Arenaae. v* * • The Illinois laborers' compensation law was denounced as being inadequate for state conditions in the annual report of Duncan McDonald, sec-retary-treasurer of district No. 12, United Mine Workers of America, at the convention held at Peoria, 111. • * • Although the state board of health and local authorities declare that the scarlet fever situation at the University of Illinois is well In hand, 800 students fled from Urbana, lU., to their homes. Miss Ona Reno, a young nurse, died a martyr to her work. • • * The supreme court of Georgia refused to grant a rehearing on the unsuccessful appeal for a new trial for Leo M. Frank of Brooklyn, N. Y., under death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan at Atlanta.

For the first time In the history of Chicago women are party nominees for aidermen. Seven women, three under the Progressive banner and four Socialists, were nominated at the primary election. All were without opposition. Two, both of whom sought Democratic nominations, were defeated. More than two-thlrds of the women remained away from the polls. • • • Investigation of the official conduct of A. G. Dayton, United States judge for the Northern district of West Virginia, was asked in a petition transmitted to the department of justice at Washington from the White House. The petition may be referred to congress, where proceedings must Initiate. • • • Charles Becker, the ex-lieutenant of poMce, now In the death house at Sing Sing, under sentence to be electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, was granted a new trial by the state court of appeals. The four gunmen sentences to death for the same crime were refused a new trial and will die In the electric chair. • • • With a loss of probably more than $4,500,000 and a toll of seven lives, southern California began to recover from the effects of the worst storm In Its history. • • • Snow In Mississippi was given official recognition by the legislature. A resolution giving the pages holiday was adopted. • • • Mexican Revolt Fear of an European combination formed for the purpose of restoring peace In Mexico Is responsible for the Importance attached by the administration to the death of William 8. Benton, the British subject, at the hands of Villa. This fact was admitted by Bryan In his conference with the senate foreign relations committee at Washington.

• • • Secretary Bryan made a new demand for the body of a man executed by Mexicans. This time, however, It was for the body of Clemente Vergara, an American citizen, who had been hanged by Huerta’s federal forces. The secretary also made a fresh demand on Villa for the body of W. S. Benton, British subject, but got no reply. • • • ..' ■ The Mexican federal gunboat Tampico, with crew\ voluntarily surrendered to the constitutionalist officials at Topol obampo. • • • Foreign Out of the 225,000 miners in the coal fields of southern France 40,000 are on strike in response to the call of their leaders, as a protest against the elimination by the senate of certain clauses of the underground workers’ pension bill. • • • It was announced in Rome that the Italian government intends to appoint Ernest Nathan, formerly mayor of Rome, as commissioner to the Paaa-ma-Paciflc exposition at San Francisco. • • • , Senator Davllmar Theodore, rebel leader, and members of his staff fled from Cape Haltien, which was later occupied by the federal troops. The rebel army was routed. The streets of the city are patrolled by American marines and sailors. • • • Personal W. S. West of Waldosta, former president of the Georgia state senate, was appointed United States senator to Washington from Georgia.

• • • Gen. George Barnett assumed his duties as major general commandant es the United States marine corps, succeeding Maj. Gen. William P. Biddle, retired. • • • Representative William G. Sharp of Elyria, 0., Is uppermost in the mind of President Wilson at present for appointment as ambassador to Russia; • • • Mrs. Pearl Sutherland, who Is known professionally as Pearl White, a star for a moving picture corporation, started a supreme court action at New York for divorce against Victor Sutherland. Another woman was named. • • • William Sulser instituted legal proceedings before Justice Alden Chester of the supreme court at Albany, N. Y, to regain the governorship from which he was removed last October. • • ♦ The child held at Springdale, Ark., as Catherine Winters, the kidnaped daughter of Dr. W. A. Winters of New Castle, Ind., was declared by the dentist not to be his child. • • • George H. Williamson was sentenced to serve not more than five years and three months in Auburn prison, New York, for the killing of Mrs. E. T. Miller In October last by bls automobile. • * • Sam Petty, a negro, who shot and killed Charles W. Kirkland, a deputy sheriff, was bound and then shot to death by a mob at Leland, Miss. • • • Louis A Frothingham, Charles A Wed and Charles P. Jopp were appointed trustees for the Henry Seigel company of Boston. According to counsel for the creditors, the liabilities of the Boston store are $2,783,000. The receiver estimates that the assets will bring $2,360,000 If disposed of conservatively and $921,000 If disposed of by forced sale.

BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE-STUDY-ON

“WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS." Luke 12:13-34 March 1. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” —V. H was surrounded by a mul4 titude of Jews, one of whom re ■ quested that Jesus admonish his brother to give him a share of the family inheritance. Jesus declined, saying that He was not a judge or a divider, and backing His refusal with a caution against covetousness. This implies that the man who addressed Jesus was coveting what legally belonged to his brother. Jesus would have him, and all, see that abundance of earthly possessions is ot the sum of life. The basis of happine. s Is measured by the soul’s relationship to God and hope in Him.

God’s promise to Israel was that if they would keep the Law, they would inherit the Promise made to Abraham, and be used as God’s Kingdom to bless the world. Their

difficulty was that they were unable to keep the Divine requirements. Nevertheless, the Kingdom hope was ever uppermost in their minds. Jesus came into the world to give Himself a “Ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2,6). and to begin the work of calling

“Israelites indeed,” to constitute His associates in the Kingdom. He kept the Law perfectly, and, additionally, laid down His life sacriflclally for Adam and his race. This sacrifice enabled Him to make good for\he unintentional shortcomings of all “Israelites indeed.” While they could not keep the Law and thus obtain the Kingdom, they could by accepting Christ have the righteousness of the Law imputed to them and be acceptable to God. Hence Jesus’ preaching was wholly along Kingdom lines, to the people who for centuries had striven to constitute that Kingdom. The first opportunity for membership in that Kingdom was granted Israel: and only in proportion as they rejected the favor did it pass to the Gentiles, as St Paul said. (Acts 13:46). In view of these facts we see that Jesus’ teachings were not addressed to the world, but to the people of God.

“Soul, Take Thine Ease.” Our Lord gave a parable illustrating the comparative folly of all earthly ambitions in contrast with the ongreat possibility of the Kingdom. The parable tells of a rich farmer who built greater barns and storehouses, with the thought of thenceforth taking his ease. But ere long he died. Many read into this parable things which it does not contain. They Infer that the rich man went to eternal tor ment; but nothing in the Lord's words so intimates. The expression. “This night shall thy soul be required of thee.” signifies. This night you shall die in poverty. Earthly riches will be of no account in the future. The lesson is that spiritual riches should be laid up instead.

That rich man might have consecrated his life to God through Christ, and then faithfully laid down time, talent, opportunities, wealth, sacriflcially. Thus he would have laid up treasures in Heaven, and in the resurrection would have been received of the Lord as a member of His Kingdom class, commissioned to scatter Divine blessings for a thousand years to all the families of the earth. That rich man, having missed his opportunities, will nevertheless come forth during Christ’s Millennial King-

Beart on Earthly Riches.

> character; or. refusing to do so. he will be cut off in the Second Death. “Seek First the Kingdom.” Jesus did not mean that we are to look amongst the kingdoms of earth hoping to find one of them His Kingdom. On the contrary, He informs us that His Kingdom is future: “My Kingdom is not of this world"-thls order of things. We hope, we wait, we pray, we prepare for that King, dom. seeking it in the sense of doing those things which shall make us “meet for the inheritance of the saints in light” \ For those who vould be heirs of the Kingdom there is one definite proce- ’ dure: (1» They must recognize themselves as sinners, unworthy of Divine notice- , <2i They must recognize Jesus as “the Lamb of God. which taketh away the sin of the world;” ■ (3» They must realize that-while His sacrifice is the basis of the world's reconciliation to God. nevertheless that work is to be accomplished by Him during His Millennial Regn; ' (4» They are to hear the Lord’s declaration that He is now seeking the Kingdom class—those whose saintship will endure fiery trials in respect to their love mid loyalty to God and the brethren, even unto death.

Jesus' Reproof of Coveting.

dom; for all in the graves shall heu. the voice of the Son of God and come forth. His resurrection will be that described as the Resurrection of Judgment. (John 5:29. R. V.) He will come forth to shame and contempt. which will continue until he shall form a better