Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — All Over The County [ARTICLE]

All Over The County

BAUM’S BRIDGE. Wm. Muffley visited at the Vanderear home Sunday. Miss Hazel Custard visited with Mrs. Vandercar last Friday. Earl Custard has rented the James farm, for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atwood were at Kouts last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Austin White were callers at Hebron last Friday. The Misses May and Allie Morehouse visited friends in Porter county Saturday. Quite a stew there attended class meeting at the Wheattield Christian church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy White departed last Monday for the vicinity of Lacross, to husk corn. Walter Wiseman, Jr., who is husking corn south of Kouts, visited home folks here last Sunday. Miss Cora Miller of Wheattield, visited school here last Monday. Her sister is the teacher at this place. W. R. Custard departed for Warren, Ind., a few days ago to look after his landed interests there and to visit friends and relatives. The official dog killer evidently made a bad mistake a few weeks ago, as depredations are still in tune. An investigation into the wherefores is evidently in line.

MILROY. Miss Louise Marchand visited home folks Sunday. Creighton Clark and family ate dinner Sunday with George Foulks'. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie spent Sunday with John and Laura' Clark. James Wood and Charles Culp visited Banner school Tuesday afternoon. Pearl and Dora Clark attended the social at Queen City Sathrdav evening. ~ Mrs. Vesta Hamilton and little daughter, Velma, are visiting rela-j tives in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hamilton and children visited his parents, Mr. anu Mrs. Isaac Hamilton. Sunday. Mrs. Nelson Anderson, after a few weeks visit here wjjth friends and relatives, returned to her home in Michigan Monday. Miss Marie Fisher announced her box social for Lone Star for Saturda yevening, Dec. stfi. Don’t forget the date. Ladies bring boxes. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Clark and son, T. R. Clark and family, Mabel English and Earl Foulks were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCashen. Dont forget Sunday school at 10 a. m., Sunday, Nov. 22, and possibly Rev. Wright will preach but will preach in the evening at 7:30 after young peoples meeting. Be present at each service. The box social at Queen City was a success. A good program and a large attendance. 29 boxes sold fairly well. Sarah Martin was given the hox of handkerchiefs and James Wood the tie.

FAIR OAKS. Health is generally quite good in these parts. Edgar Stewart of near Mt. Ayr, was a caller in our town Wednesday evening. Ralph Orwig of .Lefayette, was a visitor at Miss Wilma Peyton’s school Monday. James Clifton has a job of carpenter work out on the farm where Bark Crawford lives. It is reported that hog cholera has broken out at Frank Garriott’s and John Leachty's east of town. George Brouhard and Grant Stahl went down to Pearidge a few days ago to cut saw-logs for Zellers' sawmill. Mr. Kilshauser, who lives on the Spang farm, has about 25 or 30 acres of beans which he expects to begin threshing soon. There was no preaching at the M, E- church Sunday, as Rev. Postill was called away to preach a funeral sermon. Lawrence Halleck got in a carload of coal the latter part of the week, and has been delivering to the needy this week. An officer was here Wednesday and gathered in Peck . McConnell’s auto, which is said to be one of the many stolen cars from Chicago. Sam CrawTord, who came back from the west a few weeks ago on account of discouraging health, is holding his own quite well, it is said. Merrit Strain, who had been ditching for J. J. Lawler over in Newton county the past t.wo weeks, got through and returned home Saturday. Yes, we got quite a taste of winter weather Monday, when the temperature got down towards zero. It continued to grow colder until Tuesday morning, and it still continues to get quite cold of nights. Walter McConnell, F. R. Erwin, Mr. Allen and Jake Spitzer were at Wheatfieid Monday to attend court in a damage case wherein W. S. McConnell was plaintiff and the C. & E. I. Ry. Co., was defendant. The report now is that Warren Zellers, who had thought of going into the merchandise business at Conrad, has changed his mind and will open up in John Reed’s room, in Virgie. If he gets up there “Un 7 cle" Charlie, Harrington will have to give up the mayorship of the totwu.

It Really Does Relieve Rheumatism. Everybody who is afflcted with rheumatism in any form should by all means keep a bottle of Sloan’s Liniment on hand. The minute you feel pain or soreness in a joint or muscle, bathe it with Sloan’s Liniment. Do not rub it. Sloan’s penetrates almost immediately right to the seat of pain, relieving the hot, tender, swoolen feeling and making the part easy and comfortable. Get a bottle of Sloan’s Liniment for 25 cents at any druggist and have it in the house-—against colds, sore and swollen joints, rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica and like ailments. Your money back if not satisfied, but it does ghe almost instant relief.—Advt ODDS AND ENDS. The n rerage age of an ostrich is thirty years, and the annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes. On the Spanish Mediterranean melons are kept through the entire winter by tying them with esparto'strings to the celling.of a dark room. The president of Brazil sees the salvation of his country ln the special cultivation of cotton and ln the develop ment of cattle raising and iron mining There are two opera houses ln Antwerp, Belgium, subsidized by the municipality. One produces opera in French, the other in Flemish and German. ... . There is a plan to safeguard Manila against the longest possible dry season by building high up on the Moutalban watershed a 2.000,000,000 gallon reservoir. Battles iu human blood between white corpuscles and disease germs have been photographed with the motion picture camera by two French scientists. A European inventor believes he can destroy hostile dirigible balloons by dragging a specially designed bomb against them with a rope carried behind an aeroplane flying above them. The German government plans to send technical attaches to Its principal diplomatic jmsts to report on inven tions and progress along any important line in the countries in which they are stationed. , Twenty-one million dozen eggs w ere exported from the United States ln the fiscal year 1013. The a'verage price at which eggs were exported was 21V 2 cents a dozen, and the average Import price was 13 cents a dozen. i Half of the food of the catbird consists of cnltlvated fruits, such as cher ries, straw tarries, raspberries and blackbeiries Beetles, ants, crickets and gras.sbopjK*rs are the most important Items of its animal food. in these days of domestic science and uianuul training ills interesting to know that sewing and knitting were taught In the first frame schoolbouse erected In Farmington, Me., more than a century and a quarter ago. Wheat and wheat flour consumption annually an inhabitant is estimated at 202.7 pounds in Germany, 580 pounds in France and 650 J pounds in the United States. German consumption of rye flonr is about as much as tha;t of wheat flour.Within six years the American Red Cross has expended approximately $730,000, including the value of donated supplies. In trying to afford some measure of relief for hundreds of thou sands of inhabitants of the famine re gipn of central China.

PINE GROVE. Andrew Ropp is shredding in this vicinity this week. John Dale and Fremont Brown were Rensselaer goers Friday. Mrs. Harry Gifford called bn Mrs. John Dale Wednesday afternoon. Fremont Brown spent Sunday and Sunday night with his best girl. Miss Margaret Swengel of Clark county, is teaching the Independence school. ■’

Mr. and Mrs. rtorace Daniels of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with Geo. Daniels. We wonder what's the attraction over east, as Ira Daniels is seen going that way quite often? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shroyer spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Roy Torbet, and family. Mr. and Mrs. William Florence and family of Rosebud, spent Sunday with Ad Shook and family. Would like to know who the boy was that brought his girl’s groceries home with him and had to deliver them tlie next evening? The Brushwood Ladies’ Aid met at Mrs. James Torbet’s Wednesday. There were several present, also two visitors, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Pierson, of Kansas. Mr. and Mts. Roy Torbet and family returned to their home Thursday after a two weeks' stay at her parents, Mr. I and Mrs. Charles Shroyer, on account of sickness. Those that spent Sunday with Janies Torbet and family were: Mr. and Mrs. John Dale and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Torbet, r rankle Britt and Miss Margaret Swengel.

LEE Walter Gilmore went to lowa Wednesday on business. Wm. Stiers and family entertained friends' from Rensselaer Sunday. Wm. Wall moved Tuesday to a farm three miles north of Francesville. H. C. Anderson and wife and Miss Lural spent Sunday at Robert Jordan’s. Miss Marne Stevens of McCoysbnrg, was the Sunday guest of Miss Delena Lefler. The Sunday school is going to have a Chriv»mas entertainment here at the church. . w We had a spell of winter this week which caused the * people to put up their base burners. ■ Frank Overton’s mother and sister spent the latter part of last week here with him and family. Twenty-two members of the

i Ladies’ Aid met at the home of#Mm. I t . A. Letter and did work for her | Wednesday. Joseph Stewart and wile, Orval Holeman and Elmer Gilmore and their families, ate Sunday dinner at .1. H. Culp’s.

McCOYSBURG. Mrs. Levi Herr continues quite poorly. Roy Bussell’s spent Sundav with Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDonald. The Ladies’ Aid met with Mrs. Jake Ray Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Wash Lowman called on Josie Stultz Wednesday afternoon. Esther Johnson called on her sister, Mrs. Grant! Monday afternoon. I / ‘ Husking cbm seems to still be the order of today. Everybody’s busy it seems. Mrs. J. R. Phillips called on her daughter, Mrs. Paul Stephens Thursday afternoon. Alice Stevenson, Mrs. Charles Fergusdn and Janies Jeffries are still on the sick list. Mrs. R. V. Johns received quite a se Ws£ accidental bum on her arm TlfiPMay morning. R. L. Bussell and family spent W ednesday afternoon with Jake Ray and family, helping butcher. Mrs. Wm. McDonald, Miss Mary Miles and mother and Dora Platte spent Saturday evening with Mrs. Charles Stultz.

NORTH JASPER LAND OWNERS iMtcrc-tcd in Reversal of Kankakee 1 River Levee Case. A person owning land on the opposite side of a stream along which a levee is proposed to be constructed has a right to intervene and be heard before a court orders the construction of such levee as a public enterprise, if the building of the levee will increase the overflow on the petitioner's land to his damage. This was decided Tuesday by the supreme court in reversing the Lake superior court in refusing to heat the protest of the Northern Indiana Land Company in a proceeding wherein a levee was ordered constructed along the Kankakee river in Lake county.

The proceeding was by petition of residents of Lake county to construct a levee in Lake county. Neither the report of the viewers nor any other of the proceedings named the<Northern Indiana Land Company as in any way affected by the work. However, the land company filed an intervening petition showing that the proposed levee was along the north bank of the rivet 1 , while the company owned the land for fifteen miles on the south side of the rivqr, opposite the proposed levee. It was further shown that the channel of the river was shallow, with little 1 all, and during high water the river spread over the land on both sides, if the levee . should he constructed all of the excess water not carried by the channel would have to flow over the company’s land to its great damage. Fite trial court refused to con sider the protest of the land company, but the supreme court reversed it for this holding and says that neither a private individual nor the public has a right to create barriers to protect certain property from flood to the damage of other propet ty without responding in damages. The case is reversed, with instructions to the trial court to hear tin land company’s protest and determine whether or not its lands are damaged by the construction of the levee. ‘ .