Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — Page 1

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Return From Enjoyable Auto Trip.

Joseph Nagle and children, John, Loretta, Walter and Regina, and Mi;s. Carl Buffert, left via auto Friday morning for a visit with relatives in Wabash and Peru. They went via Francesville, Winamac, Star City, Royal Center and Logansport; returning by Logansport, Deer Creek, Delphi and Monticello, reaching home Sunday evening. They report a splendid trip with good roads practically all of the way, the worst found any place being between Remington and Rensselaer. The rain Saturday night seemed very general and extended all through the section visited. They saw some fine corn Over in Wabash county and also in southwest of Logansport, but in between Logansport and Peru and in about Delphi and Monticello, also in Pulaski county, they saw a great deal of corn that was badly damaged by the drought.

Lots of Good Com in Benton County.

The editor and family autoed to Remington, Goodland and Fowler Sunday afternoon. The big rain Saturday night extended all through that section. From Goodland south to Fowler there is lots of mighty good corn, most of it already out of the way of frost, and many of the ears are dry and hard, with the husks exposing the ends of the ears, which are well filled out and much better than we expected to see. The poorest corn seen anywhere on the trip was over near Remington, on the range line road. The black ground over in Benton county seems to have stood the drought very well indeed, and there's going to be lots of corn harvested in Benton county this year.

Leave on Auto Trip to Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. A. s. Laßue left yesterday in their Ford automobile for Greenville, Ohio, to attend a big family reunion of Mr. Laßue’s mother’s people, the Leckliders. This reunion is held each year and is quite a big affair, being held on the fair grounds at Greenville. They will pick up their daughter, Miss Belle Laßue, at Marion, Ind., where she is visiting friends, and she will accompany them to Greenville. They expect to also visit Piqua and Dayton while away, and will return via Conner6vllle and Indianapolis. S. M. Laßue and wife had intended to accompany them but Mr. Laßue was unable to secure anyone to take his place in his store at Roselawn, consequently they had to give up going. Later—Mr. and Mrs. Mel Abbott accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Laßue on their trip. i

City Schools Open Monday With an Enrollment of 544.

The Rensselaer schools opened Monday with the largest enrollment for the first day in its history, 182 of the 54 4 enrolled being in the high school. The enrollment by grades was as follows: First, 45; second, 54; third, 60; fourth, 51; fifth, 44; sixth, 40; seventh, 38, eighth, 30; high school, 182.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From The Several County Offices.

Seven marriage licenses were issued last month, against nine for the preceeding month and seven for the corresponding month of 1913.

Most of the township trustees and quite a number of others from the out townships were in .Monday attending the county board of education meeting and looking after matters in commissioners' court.

Arthur Goff of Fair Oaks, who was paroled some time ago from the insane asylum at Longcliff, was taken violently insane again last Friday evening and the sheriff was sent for to take him in charge. He made matters quite lively for a time, but was brought here and placed in jail and soon became quiet again. He will be returned to the asylum as soon as word is received from there.

Xew suits filed: No. 8273. Walter S. McConnell vs. The Chicago & Eastern Railway Co.; action for S4OO damages for burning hay and grass of plaintiff, which is alleged to have started from a locomotive on defendant’s road.

No. 8274. William C. Kinney vs. Alnion L. Clark; suit on judgment secured in the Newton circuit court on May 29, 1910. Demand S3OO. No. 5275. Edwin Harris vs. Joseph and Johfa Mildrick; ‘suit on promissory notes. Demand $lO5 and S6O respectively.

Three prisoners, James Chamberlain, charged with the murder of Frank Leanian of Hamlet, and Frank Buck and John Gall, two tramps charged with burglarizing a house in Knox, made their escape front the jail at Knox last Friday night. Chamberlain was caught Wednesday morning at the home of Henry Xorntan, near Davis station, and wps returned to jail, but at this writing the other two are still at liberty. Chamberlain claimed he was homesick and only accompanied the others because he wished to visit his mother, and that he had attempted to telegraph the sheriff where he was next morning.

The county commissioners met in regular session Monday and were still in session yesterday. Following Cs a report of the first day’s proceedings: Everett Halstead gravel road; DeYere Yeoman, engineer, and A. M. Yeoman, Supt. of construction, file sworn statements of completion of road according to plans and specifications. and report is approved and road accepted as part of county system. T. F. Maloney stone road: contractor allowed $1,839.76 on contract. Yeppe Hansen stone road; B. J. Moore, contractor, allowed $4,440.80 on contract. Lewis Zick stone road, contractor allowed $2,969.20 on Road No. 1. Frank Hill stone road; contractors allowed $3,380.55 on contract. Lewis W. Hunt stone road in Carpenter tp.; contract awarded Gifford & Callahan of Jasper countv at sll - 995.00. ’ Walter V. Porter stone road; contractor allowed $1,262.05. J. B. DeArmond petition for highway; report of viewers showing no damages, etc., and road being less than 3 miles in length and connecting at each end with free gravel road already established, report is accepted and auditor directed to give notice of letting on first day October term; John Eck stone road; bond of John L. Jay with Wester Bowdv and Henry Deno accepted. Charles R. Weise et al, petition for highway; viewers file report, which is approved and road ordered vacated and opened as petitioned for. William Hershman petition for vacation of highway: report of viewers approved and road ordered narrowed to 40 feet. Supt. files final report in John J. Borntrager ditch, and is discharged. contract for Supplies for poor farm awarded as follows: Roth Bros., 200 pounds of beef, $32; John Eger groceries, $173.58: VanArsdel & Co.) dry goods, $47 90. Interest on county funds reported for month of August as follows: First Nat. Bk., Rensselaer.. $1 55.41 Trust & Savings Bk„ Rens. . 50.69 State Bank, Rensselaer .. . , 60.51 State Bank, Remington 45.34

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1914.

Bank of Wheatfield.. 12.60 The quarterly report of the poor farm superintendent showed the inventory of stock, grain, farm equipment, etc., to be $5,625 of which there are 1 2 horses, and colts; 7 cows, 6 calves, 4 3 hogs (15 sold since last report). 40 tons of hay, 20. tons of straw, 160 bushels of corn, 1,800 bushels of oats, 15 dozen chickens, 1,000 quarts of fruit, 200 pounus of meat, wagons, tools, etc. The receipts for the quarter from 46S bushels of wheat sold at 71c, 15 hogs, hay, corn and cream, the later were given at $735.90, and expenses, including salary of supt. at $996.27. There are 12 inmates of the poor asylum, 9 males and 3 females.

Court Convenes Next Monday.

The September term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday. While the grand jury was drawn, as usual, it has not been called. The petit jury is called for' the third Monday. Following are the names and places of residence of both the grand and petit jurors: GRAND JURORS Augustus A. Yeoman...... Newton Homer A. Lambert Carpenter Henry Paulus Marion W. C. Culp Milroy Will C. lliff. Jordan Herbert Faris . . .Gillam PETIT JURORS. Robert Shearer ........ Remington Henry J. Gowland. . Marion Schuyler C. Robinson. ...... .Gillam C. R. W eiss Newton Henry C. Gilbransen. - . . . Wheatfleld Asa A. Brown. . . . . .... . . Walker Watson iHumes .Union George Bond Barkley Henry C. DeKok. . Keener James Bicknell Jordan A. O. Moore. ..... .Hanging Grove John Xesius .Milroy H*. W. Jackson Marion Charles P, Moody. . ..... ... Barkley S. T. Hackley Remington

Carnival Showing in Rochester This Week.

The carnival drew a good crowd again Saturday afternoon and night, especially at night. The shows all packed up Sunday morning and pulled out for Rochester, Ind., where they are showing at the fair there this week. Some of the stands and the restaurants did a very good business as a whole during the carnival, but to other lines of business it was a damage, as usual.

If we must have carnivals in the future, let them be run on some vacant lots or at one side of town, and not blockade our principal streets with them. We believe that the shows would do an even better business if this were done, where they could all be close together, and the restaurants would do practically as well as though they were on our main thoroughfares, and we know that all the general lines of business would be fhuch benefited by taking them off the streets.

This carnival company was probably one of the best and cleanest that we ever had here, but where they are of any general benefit to a town or a community is beyond our comprehension. If we must be afflicted with them in the future, let's insist on their being run on private grounds.

South Shore Motorcycle Club on Indurance Run to Indianapolis.

Twenty-five members of the South Shore Motorcycle Club passed through Rensselaer Sunday on an indurance run from Chicago to Indianapolis. Fifty machines were to start, but when the time came only thirty-four showed up. Of this number nine had dropped out from one cause or another before reaching Rensselaer, mostly, it is said, from having got on the wrong road after reaching Crown Point and turned ba~k because the road was so bad. il. B. Tuteur was the official scorer ior Rensselaer, and twenty-four of the number registered here with him, the twenty-fifth rider going through without registering. The best time made from Chicago to Rensselaer was two hoiirs and 45 minutes. ’ The motorcylists on their return trip Monday strung along through Rensselaer from 10 to 3 o’clock.

Willian McNeil and Miss Mildred Vanderburg Married.

Wi 11 ia.ni McNeil, a well known business mfn of Wheatfield, and Miss Mildred \ anderburg, a former teacher in the Wheatfield schools, but who for the past two years taught in the Rensselaer schools, were married on Thursday of last week at Rock Island, 111., and will make their home in Wheatfield. Mrs. McNeil’s home was in Moline, 111., and Mr. McNeil went there last week and the couple went over to the county seat and were married. The many friends of the young couple, both in Rensselaer and Jasper county, will join The Democrat in extending hearty congratulations.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country.

SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Barn Burned Near Monticello. The barn on the farm of Mrs. Wm, Daugherty north of town, was struck by lightning Saturday night and burned to the ground. Osdar Phegley, the tenant and his wife, were absent on a visit to Rensselaer and no one was home but their two boys who were powerless to fight the rapid spread of the flames. There were six horses in the barn and only three escaped. The other three together with the hay and grain stored in the barn and the farm machinery were burned. The horses were insured for $450 and the barn for S4OO, making a total insurance of SBSO. This does not begin to cover the entire loss.Monticello Journal.

Newton Prohibitionists Name Full County Ticket.

Ihe prohibitionists of Newton county held their county convention at Morocco last Friday, and nominated the following ticket: Clerk, Marvin Archibald of Morocco; treasurer, George M. Murphy of Morocco; recorder. Warren linger of Kentland ; sheriff, Harry L. Sell of Brook; surveyor, Kenneth Deardruff of Morocco; assessor, Isaac Sell of Brook; coroner, Dr. F. L. Moorebouse of Morocco; commissioner for second district, John W. Sage of Goodland; commissioner for third district, W. C. Smart of Morocco; county couneil-men-ot-large, Elbert Kessler of Morocco, John Cochran of Goodland and W - T. Thompson of Morocco. Dr. Morehouse was elected county chairman and W O. Thompson secretary,—Kentland Democrat,

Purchases 800 Acres of Former Morris Ranch.

Quite a large real estate deal was finally closed here Monday, when George Helman purchased from E. E. Burkhart 800 acres of the former Nelson Morris ranch in Jasper countv, located northwest of Vyheatfield. Mr. Helman paid $75 per acre and as hart payment 125 acres of his land south of Franccsville was put in at $225 per acre. He retains the 320 acres west of the macadam road where he is now building a new set of up-to-date improvements. The new tract purchased by Mr. Helman is to be all black soil with clay subsoil and the corn on it will average better than 60 bushels per acre this year. The improvements are first class. The deal was made by H. A. Ames of this place, and W. H. Poisel and G. D. Prevo of Medaryville. Mr. Helman sees great possibilities in the development of this body of land, and he will proceed to make a firstclass stock farm of it. He has been one of the prime factors in the subduetion and improvement of the Franoesville prairie in recent years, and he anticipates a great future for the Kankakee river valley.—Francesville Tribune.

Lightning Saturday Night Did Considerable Damage.

The lightning during the storm Saturday night did considerable damage at different places, burning a barn on the Ringeisen farm near McCoysburg; killing two horses of ( harles Rowen near Parr; one horse for Frank Stover near Fair Oaks; two cows for Mr. Bierly near Surrey, and burning a stack of hay on the Barber farm, 10 miles north of Rensselaer. A report or the Ringeisen can be found in our McCoysburg items.

Special Sale of Farm. To close up an estate of the late Mrs. Ed Stahl we will , sell at private sale a good farm of ejghty (80) acres near Mt. Ayr. This* farm must be sold in September. A chance for some one to obtain a good home at a reasonable price. For particulars call on EVERETT HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, or William Darroch, Kentland, s-9-12

THOUSANDS OF FARMERS ARE LEAVING CANADA

Southern Altn-rta Did Not Produce Enough Feed for the Stock— Many Hike Out in Covered Wagons-^— Coming Rack to the States.

Walter Bond has returned from a visit to Edmonton and other points in Alberta. Mr. Bond says that conditions are very critical in southern Alberta from the drouth. Thousands of farmers are getting out of the country the. best way they can. Some ;ie shipping their effects and othei s ire leaving with covered wagons. Most of them are coming back to tile States, having learned a very dear lesson. They did not raise enough feed for their stock and have gotten ltd of it at a sacrifice.

Mr. Bond says the Canadians are excited over the war. At Edmonton bulletins are posted and they are always favorable to the allied forces. If a German opens his mouth, Ijalf a dozen husky Englishmen pounce upon him, beat him, and he usually winds 11 P in the calaboose. Many Germans are leaving Canada and others remaining have learned to keep very quiet.—Ward County (South Dakota) Independent.

Margaret Hill McCarter.

Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter was the speaker of the evening, and the committee In charge of the exercise has been receiving the thanks of the people for securing her for this occasion. Mrs. McCarter is at least as good a speaker as she is a writer, and that is saying. a great deul. Her address was scholarly, but so well expressed that even the little boys who were gathered about the library steps from which she spoke, could understand and paid close attention throughout her remarks, while oldei* people enjoyed every moment of her address,—Burlington, (Kansas) Tribune, Dedication of Carnegie library.

Big Hay Barn Burned On Adams Plantation in Alabama.

Marion I. Adams has received word Iron) his son, Ray, who is living on the Adams plantation near Demopolis, Ala., stating that the big new hay barn which they built there last season, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday of last week, and that there was ho insurance. The barn contained five carloads of hay, but whether any other property, Ray did not state. The insurance rates down there are almost prohibitive, which accounts for there being no insurance on same.

Republicans Nominate Ticket in Union Township.

J he republicans of Union tp., nominated tlie following ticket at Parr Saturday: Trustee, George 11. Uamnierton of Parr; assessor, F. M. Goff of Fair Oaks; justice of the peace, Thomas Fay; constables, William Roudebush, Calvin Hums; advisory board, H. C. Pierson, Leslie Alter, O. A. Kesainger; road supervisors, Thomas Florence, Barney DeWitt, Taylor Wood. Will R. Wood, republican candidate for congress, was present and addressed the meeting.

New Wheat Mill in Operation.

We have our new wheat mill in operation; manufacture both hard and soft wheat flour. In order to introduce our flour, we will retail flour it wholesale prices for ten days only. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS Phone 4 56.

Birth Announcements.

Sept. 8, to Dr. and Mrs. Loy, a son. Sept, l, to ,Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Ward of near Xewland, a son. Sept. 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Luther low of near Xewland, a daughter.

To Our Fanner Trade.

We give 38 lbs. of our best patent flour in exchange for one bushel 0 r v/heat. Your patronage solicited.—, IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS Phone 456.

City Tire Shop.

Our repairs are good; others are worse. Use good judgment— safety first.—STOCK WELL & BRADOOK, Prop.

If you have friends visiting you or are going away on a visit, or have any other item of news, call up No. 315 and tell The Democrat about It. We are always glad to get the news and will appreciate very much your phoning in any Item you may have.

Lincoln Chautauqua at Rensselaer, Sept. 12 to 17, inclusive.

Vol. XVII. No. 45,

IMPERIAL GUARDS OF GERMAN ARMY ARE ANNIHILATED

Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm May Have Been Slain by British.

TEUTONS ATTACKED IN REAR'

Allied Armies Haras* Invaders’ March on Paris and Advance Body la Cut Off—l,Booooo Germans Ready to Invade Capital.

London, Bept. B. Both flanks of the German army operating against Paris have been turned—on the east by French troops under General Joffre. the French commander-in chief, and on the west by the British under Field Marshal Sir John French —according to unofficial dispatches received here.

lamdon, Sept 8. The strained relations between Italy and her former allley In the triple alliance has been greatly aggravated during the last three days, and the addition of Italy and Spain to the enemies of the kaiser is expected momentarily, according to a- Bordeaux dispatch to the Chronicle.

Ixmdou, Sept. B.—The Imperial guard of the German army has been annihilated and there Is a possibility that Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm haa been slain by the British In an engagement at Precy Bur Oise, according to a Boulogne dispatch to the Central News.

News of the engagement was contained In a telegram from General Pau which said that the British troops under command of Sir John French and the French under General I)A made had met with a signal success In an important engagement. According to the telegram the allies were drawn across a north line with the center at Precy, tho English on the left and the French on the right and were successful on both wings. The imperial guard, General Pau said, was annihilated by the British troops after they had refused a demand that they surrender. The crown prince Is reported to have been In their midst. Precy is about 2G miles north of Paris. Although the British war office has as yet received no official confirmation of the news, It Is regarded as confirmatory of the earlier dispatches which announced that the allies had succeeded In piercing the German center. 3,000,000 Engaged In Battle. The general action which was started on the allies’ left when the pursuit of the retreating Germans was taken up was vigorous from ‘the beginning and soon the full force of the united armies of the allies was thrown into the conflict. These number 1,400,000 men, making the number of those engaged on both sides about three million. ]

From time to time as the Germans continued to retire they were forced to turn and engage the French, who were hard upon them in their rear. British Land Another Army. The allies occupy the strongest position they have taken up since the war started. Should thp great battle now in progress result in defeat for the Germans the latter would be routed towards Luxembourg; should they have the advantage they could continue to the southwest in their ad--Bays Germans Are Retreating. The official press bureau of the war office issued the following statement: “General Joffre’s plans are being steadily carried out. The allied forces, acting on the offensive, have been successful In checking and forcing back In a northeast direction the German forces opposed to them." Amsterdam sends word that General Joffre has turned the German flank In Belgium, the Germans consequently retreating precipitately from Lille. And the Belgians are reported to have driven the Germans in disorder from Vllvoerde, 1,000 Teutonic dead being left on the field. German Harassed by Artillery. The Germans have , been forced around so that they are now fighting with their backs toward Paris. The vanguard, It is said, has been cut off fi;om the main body and now is trying to effect a juncture with Bavarian army, which is seeking to invade France from Alsace. The German vanguard Is In retreat from Paris, and is harassed by French artillery and cavalry, re-enforced by French Infantry on the rear. Sheila from the French guns, It Is declared, are playing havoc with the rear ranks of the invaders. y . This retreat does not affect the entire German army, however, for a general engagement Is In progress along a line extending from KanteuU

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