Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — Page 8

Decoration day Specials All Week at The Dissolution SaIe.—TRAUB & SELI6.

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PINE GROVE. Fraartue Britt spent Sunday with Floyd Shook. Mr. and Mrs. Kstel George, of near Newland, spent Sunday with Harry Gifford and family. Elsie Belirn returned to her work at John .Moore's Sunday, after a week's, stay at home on account of a sore hand. Those that spent Sunday with John Torbet and wife were: Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet and baby, Mr. and Mrs. (Tint Beck and family, Mrs. Thomas Gibbs and son, I lurch el, and Mr. and Mrs. John Bale and family.

Holy's Kidney and Bladder Trouble —Everybody Satisfied. Everywhere people ore taking Foley Kidney Bills, and are so satisfied they urge others to take them also. A T. Kelly, Mclntosh, Ala,, says: "! recommend them to all who Suffer from kidney troubles and backache, for they are tine.” Best thing you can take for backache, ■ ■ .: End riu I mutism. —A. F. LONG.

POSSUM RUN. Mrs. Hurley was a Parr goer Monday morning. Asa Snow spent Saturday night with Charley Britt. Orpha and Myrtle Parker spent Sunday with Nile Britt. Levie Cunningham is spending a few weeks with relatives and friends. Mrs. Thomas Parker and Mrs. "Greeley Comer were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Levie Cunningham spent Monday and Tuesday with Thomas Parker and family. •William Steel, of Gifford spent Sunday night with Charley and Everett Parker.

Most Children's Diseases Start With a Cold. Restlessness, feverishness, an inflamed throat and spasmodic cough may be whooping cough is starting in. Give Foley’s Honey and Tar promptly’. It helps the children so very much, and Mrs. Shipps, Raymondsville, Mo., says: “I got fine Tesults from it and it is a great medicine for whooping cough.”—A IF. LONG.

LEE. Oscar Jacks spent Saturday night with Marion Spencer. We had a nice rain this week, which we were in need of. Mrs. Leßoy Noland, who has been

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sick so long, is still very poorly. There will be an all day’s Children's Day exercise here June 21. MissA Bollie Jacks and DeLena Lefler were at Joseph Clark's Sunday. (). A. Jacks and wife took Sunday dinner with Harold LaMar and family. John Osborne and Wife’spent Sunday With their children iutr:h of Rensselaer. Next Sunday the probationers' class will be taken in full communion with the church. Mr.s, Mable Uishlirig. of near Crawfordsville, was here one day last week .ailing on friends. Rev. (din Stewart and family were here last week visiting his parents, Joseph Stewart and wife. Ray and Orval Holeman and thier families, and Elmer Gilmore and family visited at Asa Holeman s Sunday. Torn (Valter and wife and two little sons, of Barkley tp., spent Sunday here with' their relatives, the Stiers’. Mrs. George Conaway, of Virginia, "Minn., came last Sunday to see her parents, Uncle David Culp and wife, who are both quife poorly. Mrs. C. A. Holeman, who was called to Indianapolis last week on account of W. R. Shoemaker’s serious sickness, returned this week, leaving him slightly improved.

Keep Bowel Movement Regular. Dr. King’s New Life Pills keep stomach, liver and kidneys in healthy condition. Rid the body of poisons and waste. Improve your complexion by flushing the liver and kidneys. ‘‘l got more relief from one box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills than any medicine I ever tried,” says C. E. Hatfield, of Chicago, 111. 25c. Recommended by A. F. LONG.

LAURA. Flossie Cavinder took Sunday dinner with Marguerite Pettet. Several front around here attended church at Gifford Sunday night. Guy Barnard, of Fowler, called on O. P. Braddock Friday evening. Mrs. Julia Spriggs spent Sundav afternoon w ith Mrs. O. P. Braddock. Marguerite Pettet called on Mrs. Aug. Britenbauh Monday afternoon. Mrs. Ed Myers’ folks, of Fair Oaks, took dinner with them Sunday. j Mrs. Wm. Braddock spent Mondav with her brother, Oscar Gordon, anQ wife. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cavinder took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Myers. Carl Willmington, of Tefft, has been assisting his father in farming the past week. Myrtie Kerns is still unable to be out much after her sickness of three of four weeks. Mrs. Jim Cavinder and daughter. Flossie, did house cleaning for Mrs. John Cavinder Monday. Nellie Fleming went home with her uncle, Dave Fleming, to spend a few days with her cousins. John Pettet and family and Dave Fleming and family visited Sundav with Art Fleming and family. Ivan Sayler and Oliver Campbell, of Kninian, attended Sunday school here Sunday and to see about preparing the program for the Sunday

~chobi convention, which is to he held there June 14. Dave Fleming and family, of Meciaryville, spent Saturday night with j is sister, Mrs, John Pettet, and famThere were quite a few at Sunday school Sunday, Also some new attendants. Come again, you are all welcome. The young folks of this vicinity amended a party given at Mr. Shell's Friday night ,and report a good; time.: •C ' C Miss Lottie Wallace, of Gary, is taking a vacation of two or three weeks at home. She is taking a nurse’s training course in Gary.

Indigestion? Can’t Eat? No Appetite? A treatment of Electric Bitters increases your appetite; stops indigestioii: you can eat everything. A real spring tonic for liver, kidney and stomach troubles. Cleanses your whole system and you feel fine. Electric B.itters did more for Mr. T. D. Peeble’s stomach troubles than any medicine he ever tried. Get a bottle today. 50c and SI.OO. Recommended by A. F. LONG.

COLFAX TP. NEWTON CO. We had a fine shower Tuesday night, also some hail. Walter Wooton is working for 1 henry Dear duff this week. Sam Butts and wife spent Sunday with Fred Dewey and family. Carl Wooton is working for Earl Kennedy, also I-evert Barker. Mrs. Earl Kennedy and half sister. Erma McComb, went to Brook Wednesday. Mrs. McComb went to see her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Sullivan, where she will speihd the week. We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. James Wildrick ate intending to move to Mt. Ayr in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Young, of the Hamilton dredge, was visiting relatives and friends Saturday night and Sunday. Misses Ida and Katie Miller were around selling garden seeds Wednesday. A little bit late for “seeds, isnt it, girls? Karl Kennedy, Levert Barker, Alva Call and Carl Wooton and wife spent Sunday evening with the latter's parents, Sam Butts’ 1 .

Relieves Bladder Distress and Weakness. Irregular, painful bladder weakness disappear when the kidneys are strong and healthfully active. Take Foley Kidney Pills for that burning, scalding sensation-irregu-lar, painful action, heavy, sore feeling and blddder distress. You will like their tonic restorative effect—the relief from pain—quick, good results. Contain no drugs. Try them —A. F. LONG.

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Willow Creek, Mont., May 19, ’l4. F. E. Babcock, Editor, Dear Sir: Enclosed please find $2.25 for your "Best offer.” I guess we could riot keep house without The Democrat We are having quite a lot of rain now but crops look fine, and there is promise of a bumper fruit crop, gardens are fine. We all have the best of health. Yours CHAS. D. XORMAX. Wellston, Mich., May 23, 1914. Mr. Babcock. Dear Sir: —We are all well arid hope that everybody there is the same. What crops that are growing now are looking fine, such as wheat, rye, oats, clover and timothy. Some people planted corn this week, and most of it will be planted next week. They do not plant potatoes up here unti'l the latter part of June or the first of July. We have been having forest fires for over a week, but the rain Thursday night put them out. It burned the saw-mill south of us and all the lumber and buildings. It was so hot that it melted the stoves up liKe so much lead. There was not much wind when it went through here, and we managed to save everything. Yours truly, MATT MOOSEMIDLER.

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SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington Thousands of persons greeted Col. Theodore Roosevelt on his visit to Washington. The colonel called on President Wilson, told of his adventures in South America and the discovery of a new river at a dinner given by the Geographic society at the capital, and told Progressive leaders that he would aid their party. * * * The American university at Washington was formally opened by President Wilson, many distinguished men attending the ceremonies. :• * * The foreign trade convention, a new organization, which seeks expanded markets for American manufacturers, met in Washington and was addressed by Secretary of Commerce Redfleld. * * * President Wilson at Washington nominated Post Wheeler of Washington to be secretary of the embassy rit Tokyo, Japan; John L. Caldwell of Fort Scott. Kan., to be minister to Persia, and the following postmaster: Pennsylvania—Cornelius P. Relng, Mahanoy City. * * * Practically nothing may be recovered by those who lost relatives or baggage in the Titanic disaster, ascording to a decision madd by the United States Supreme court at Washington. ' • • * The next railroad to be investigated by the Interstate commerce commission at Washington will be the Rock Island. This investigation will go into the subject of the road’s financing and relations. An inquiry also will be made into Its methods oC4sookkeeping and filing Its reports. • • • Domestic Theodore Roosevelt aB president was ready to take measures "equivalent to action in time of war,” to end the great strike In the anthracite mines In 1902. Mr. Roosevelt so testified before a referee in New York city in the suit of Alexander T. Wales against John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, for fees he alleges are due him. • • • Because J. P. Morgan, Jr., informed the interstate commerce commission at Washington that he “would be pleased to allow them to examine all of the books of Morgan & Co., as well as his personal acounts and those of his father,” Commissioner McChord adjourned the New Haven hearing until June 3. In the > meantime representatives of the commission will go to New York and examine all the available recorde of the Morgan family. • * * One man was killed and more than $500,000 damage was done by a severe storm which swept Superior, Wls., and surrounding country. * • • Fred R. Hlnman, chief of police at Galesburg. 111., was shot and seriously injured by a Mexican section hand whom he was a%‘empttng to arrest. * • • Peter Rebacci, who Is condemned to die In the electric chair, at Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison June 22 for the murder of “Tony” Marro, has ended his hyinger etrlke, begun a week ago. • • • The Law and Order league of Denver, Colo., started a petition for the recall of Judge Ben B. Lindsey because of his attitude In the strike situation. An interview he is said to have given in Chicago, coupled with his representations to President Wilson, forms the basis of the proposed recall. *i • * J. P. Morgan of New York characterized as untrue the testimony of Charles 8. Mellen. former head of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, before the interstate commerce commission In Washington, that J. Pierpont Morgan concealed from Mr. Mellen facts regarding the New Haven road which Mr. Mellen should have known. • • • Floyd E. Jacobs, prosecuting attorney at Kansas City, Mo., declares he will not insist upon the death penalty for Dr. W. T. Elam, the Bt. Joseph (Mo.) physician, on trial here charged with the murder of W. Putnam Cramer of Chicago.

The annual national conference of tjhe Dunkards of the United States began at Frankfort, Ind. From ten to fifteen thousand Dunkards will be In attendance. Nijw laws are to be made this year. * * * Announcement was made at Sterling, 111., that Miss Nettie Yoeard hu.d given SIO,OOO to the Methodist Episcopal church foreign missionary work. Miss Yoeard earned the money as a seamstress. m m * Captain Eberle of the United States cruiser Washington has given President Bordas of Santo Domingo final warning that artillery fire into the town of Puerto Plata, held by rebels, must cease. * • • J % L. C. Jenkins of Trpon, Scotland, won the British amateur golf championship by beating C. L- Hazlet of Potrush, Ireland, by 3 up and 2 to play, in the final round of 36 holes at Sandwich, England. * * • Reports received at Paris, France, from Liege, Belgium, indicate that Sarah Bernhardt, who Is there with her company on a tour of Europe, is seriously ill. * * * The British government finally decided not to participate in the PanamaPacific exposition at San Francisco. * * * The home rule for Ireland bill wag passed’ln the house of commons iq London on the third and final reading by a vote of 351 to 274, a government majority of 77. The annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association opened in New York with Stuart W. Cramer of Charlotte, N. C., presiding. • • • While John D. Rockefeller was giving five women an automobile ride his car collided with another automobile at the top of Elmeford hill in Tarrytown, N. Y., and a serious accident wss narrowly averted. No one was Injured, but Mr. Rockefeller’s car was slightly damaged. * • ;• Mexican War American and Mexican delegates at Niagara Falls, Ont., have reached a full agreement on all points In connection with the pacification of Mexico. The plan has been telegraphed to President Wilson and General Huerta for their approval. The details of the agrement are as follows: A provisional government will be established, which will provide for a fair election under reforms proposed; a recommendation for reform of land laws will be made to the provisional government; Huerta will hand over government; American troops will be withdrawn from Vera Cruz. In addition the U. S. will recognize new government. The mediators have saved the United States from war. ’ * * * Mexicans arriving at Vera Cruz from Mexico City reported that Jose Maria Lozano, former minister of communications in Huerta’s cabinet, and Querido Moheno, formerly foreign minister but now supposed to be holding the portfolio of commerce and industry, are missing. Some circles in the capital credit rumors that the tw o ministers have been 6hot to death. • • • By order of General Funston the steamship Bavaria has been held at Vera Crux since Sunday, when it arrived without manifest. The captain admitted landing about one million eight hundred rounds of ammunition at Puerto Mexico. The captain of the Bavaria Is liable to a fine. • • * General Huerta left Mexico City at three o'clock in the mornlng-and is en route to Puerto Mexico, according to information received at Vera Cruz. The statement comes from a man who occupies a high position in Mexico City. • • • A plan to kill General Huerta as he entered the Case Colon, a restaurant In the Pasco de la Reforma, in Mexico City, is said to have been discovered by secret service men. As a result Huerta became enraged at Gen. Manuel Guasque, Inspector general of the police, and ordered his dismissal and his arrest. • • * A naval hydroaeroplane, with Lieutenant Ballinger operating it and Ensign Stolz as observer, was fired on near Vera Cruz during two flights in the morning. The scene of the firing was just beyond the northern American outpost, near Vegara. The first time about 25 shots were fired; the second time six shots were fired. None of the shots struck the machine. • • * Personal Sir Frederick Burd Black of Franklin, Pa., was nominated for warden of the grand comm&ndery, Knights Templar of Pennsylvania. • * # Jacob Rlis, the author and sociolo-

gist, died at Barre, Mass., arter a iong ' illness. i * * * Commander Lazarus Reamy, U. S. N., retired, Is dead. The body was taken from Washington to New York city for burial. * * • » The will of Charles W. Post of Battle Creek, Mich., who died at Santa Barbara, Cal., May 9, filed at Washington for probate, leaves the bulk of an estate estimated at $20,000,000 to the widow, Mrs. Leila Y. Post, and a daughter, Marjorie Post Close. • * ♦ Robert Cowan, an eighteen-year-old aeronaut, was drowned in the Mississippi at Alton, 111., when the balloon in which he was soaring dropped into the stream. * • • Foreign Ada Rice, supposed to be a militant suffragette, was arrested on the Epsom Downs after she had discharged a pistol loaded with blank cartridges at a policeman. The Derby was won by an American horse, Herman B. Duryea's Durbar 11.

ROUND THE WORLD

There are 12,272 donkeys in Spain. Cleveland will soon run street cars on Euclid avenue. *. i There are more islands in Lake Huron than in any other known lake. One playground in New York city occupies a site valued at $1,800,000. Trinity church corporation, New York, now has assets valued at $16,204,512. Austria's eight universities and two independent theological schools have 31.G4G students. In Asiatic Russia there is considerable consumption of the meat of donkeys and camels. In Great Britain the percentage of Insanity is increasing faster than the of population. It will require 20,000 horsepower of eWtrical energy daily to run the Pan-aEKi-Pacific exposition. More than $100,000,000 has been spent in bringing and keeping the port of Liverpool up to date. M omen and girls who pass through Chicago alone will hereafter have the assistance of policewomen. Dr. Pactel of Paris says he has found a paralytic running an engine on one of the French government railroads. Gerhardt Klausen was recently sentenced at Barmen, Prussia, on three separate counts to terms of imprisonment totaling 175 years. The first electric plant within the arctic circle will be erected at a mission at Point Hope, Alaska, the power being supplied by a windmill. An English aviator has equipped his machine with an acetylene flare, which would burst into flame and form a signal should he fall into the sea. At the beginning of last year there were in this country in actual operation 7,397 national banks, representing a paid in capital of $1,046,012,580. In the city of Manila there is noted a rapid spread of public dance halls and their increasing patronage by soldiers and by sailors from visiting warships. For reading directories printed In small type there has been invented a magnifying glass that obscures all but the line that is being read, to prevent confusion. The oyster beds of California are located chiefly in San Francisco bay; those of Oregon In Yaquina bay; those of Washington in Willapa bay and Gray’s harbor. In the; British house of commons there are only seven members betweeh twenty-one and thirty, only three between eighty and ninety and only one more than ninety. In the north Padifie ocean a new volcanic island has appeared in the Bonin group, three miles east by south of Iwojlma island. It is five miles in circumference and attains a height of 1,000 feet. Lord Kitchener, the British consul general for Egypt, purposes to construct a comprehensive scheme of drainage in the delta of the Nile. Eventually about 400,000 acres will be reclaimed. Following an annual custom, a Philadelphia firm is giving away, wltbqjit any strings attached, fifty pianos to families in which there are people of musical ability but'unable to buy the instruments. Katmai volcano’s dust cloud, which caused a general haziness of the atmosphere over much of the northern hemisphere. reaching a marked maximum in August, 1912. appears to have now practically disappeared. The long proposed Crocodile river (South Africa) irrigation scheme is likely to be realized, the cost being estimated at not less than $3,310,000. The area brought into condition for cultivation will be 66,000 acres. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.