Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — Page 8

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FAIR OAKS. Health continues quite good in our town. The Rev. Van Ornion of Shelby, will begin meetings in the Christian church next Sunday. V. G. Boyle has been cutting and sawing stove wood on the Stahl land and now has 25 or 30 cords for sale. The new owner of the Ed Fawley lots 'was here a few days ago and looked over and sized up his new property. The photo drama of Creation was pulled off at the Gundy Hall as advertised, and furnished quite a bit of interest. Charley Vondersmith. who has been batching out on his new farm and cutting wood, went down home to Brook the first of the week. Frank Hooper, who has lived on Joe Gaines farm south of Mt. Ayr, the past two years, has moved over near Virgie, on the Hopkins farm, for the coming season. • " It is reported that Walter Wiseman, who is associated with the International Bible School of Chicago, was married to a lady up about Wheatfield Tuesday. They stayed Tuesday night at T! J. Marlatt’s. The rains and moderated .weather of the firsts of the week took about all of the snow and ice off the ground, but Wednesday afternoon we were visited with another snow storm and gave us about three inches more snow. •

It seems as» if the new president of the Monon route, is going to make it hard hoeing for the employes on their road. Many in these parts are looking at it as a politicaFTrameup. They say there is a freight train runs about every hour over this division. Just notice the political calamity here? P Jack Umphrees, Jr., had a pretty exciting experience a few days ago while driving Walter Downes’ horse and buggy to Roselawn. The horse became frightened at an automobile, and whirled around in the road and upset the buggy, throwing Jack out and ran away. Jack wasn’t hurt but the buggy was a complete wreck. '• T. W. Johnston, with a couple of other students from the Moody Institute, closed their series of meetings at the school house Saturday night, and it was the most successful meeting that has been held in Fair Oaks for a number of years. There were twenty-two came forward and claimed conversion. The Lord can work and none can hinder. The meetings at Will Warne’s closed Tuesday evening with twelve or fourteen conversions.

Five Cents Proves It. A generous offer. Cut out this ad, enclose with 5 cents to Foley & Co., Chicago, Hl., and receive a free trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial and lagrlppe coughs; Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. For sale in J’our town by A. F. LONG.

Mrs. Cora Stiers was sick during the past week with tonsilitis. Mr. and Mrs. Warren spent Sunday with Wm. Walker and wife. Mrs. Win. Culp and son, True, •were at Uncle David Culp’s Wednesday. O. A. Jacks and wife spent Sunday in Monon with his sister, Mrs C E Tyner. Miss Cora Noland goes each Tuesday to> Rensselaer to have dental work done. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiers have returned from a visit with their daughter in Kankakee, 111. We are proud of our church and Sunday school. There were 22 young men in their class last Sunday. George Hoult and wife and Asa (Holeman and family went fxnm church Sunday to Mrs. C. A. Holeman’s for dinner. Miss Irene Gray, the teacher, wassick Monday, and a lady from Monon taught -in her place, but Irene was able to come Tuesday. Rev. Olin Stewart of Montmorenci, and brother, Rollin, of near Lafayette, were here Sunday with their parents, their mother being very poorly.

What She Wanted.

"I want to stop my baby’s cough,’’ said a young mother Tuesday, "but I won’t give him any harmful drugs.” She bought Foley’s Honey and Tar Compounds It;loosens the cough quickly, stimulates the mucus membranes and helps throw off the choking secretions, eases pain and gives the child normal rest.—A. F. LONG.

POSSUM RUN.

Alfred McCoy is hauling poles this week. Roy Armstrong called on Thomas

THE EUROPEAN WAR • IN BIBLE PROPHECY.

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| Parker and sons Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William .Pollock Joseph Polleck. * Miss Hattie McCurtain spent Sunday with home folks. Miss Alvina Ritter is working for j Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Ritter. Mr. and .Mrs, Greeley Comer were Rensselaer goers Friday. Several from this' vicinity attended the show at Gifford Friday evening, \ , Mrs. Rex Ott and son called on Orpna and Myrtle Parker Mondav Mr. and Mrs. William Polleck called on Mr. and Mrs. James Myers Wednesday. .Mr. and Mrs. John Price spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker. Ihe house in which Jim Pierson lived was destroyed by fire about nine o’clock Saturday evening. Bessie and Hattie McCurtain and Orpiia and Myrtle Parker attended Sunday school at Gifford Sunday afternoon. •Mrs. John McCurtain and children and Mrs. Rex Ott and son spent Thursday with Mrs. Cad Caldwell and family..

Life Insurance Refused. Ever notice how closely life insurance examiners look for symptoms of kidney diseases? They do so because weakened kidneys lead to many forms of dreadful life-shortening afflictions. If you have any symptoms like pain in the back, frequent, scanty or painful action, tired feeling, aches and Pams, get Foley Kidney Pills today —A. F. LONG,

REMINGTON. [From The Press.] REMINGTON R. R. TIME TABLE v°' 51? East bound 7:38 a.m No. 331 Westbound 9:01a.m. Xo. 340 East bound 5:09 p.m. No. 319 | West bound 5:33 p.m.

Mrs. D. A. Bickel visited in Logansport Saturday. Frank Rich and Mr. and Mrs.” W. E. Rich spent. Sunday here. Tom O’Conhor of Terre Haute, was a Remington visitor last week. Dudley Dingle of Winipeg, Can.,l spent a couple of days with H. H. Walker and wife. Tom Porter and L. H. Hunt shipped a good load of red hogs to Indianapolis last week. John Phillips of Wabash spent part of last week with friends here, returning home Monday. D. W. Brewer of Greenwood, Ind., came Friday night to spend a few days with his cousin, G. D. Gaunt., and family. Mrs. W. E. Peck accompanied by her brother-in-law, Isaac Peck, started this Thursday morning for her home at Ashville, N. Y. Thomas Parks of Mentone, 111., has been spending a week with his son-in-law, Horace Hoover, and family, returning home Tuesday. Mrs. Jessie Campbell of Frankfort, spent several days last with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Townsend, and attended the of her cousin, W. E. Peck. Homer 11. Roades, who is working in an electric plant in the west located at Chino, Calif., met with an accident a week or so ago, which broke or splintered one of the bones in his arm. Mrs. J. S. Persise and Miss Ellen Lockwood of Salem, Ind., and Max Price and wife of Middleboro, Ky., who were here to attend the Peck funeral, returned to their homes Monday, via Rensselaer. Will Ott moved’Tuesday into the Wingert property on Indiana street, and Tom Thurstonr moved Wednesday into the one vacated by Mr. Ott. Wm. Irgang will move into the old Zea property made vacant by the removal of Mr. Thurston. Bert Kyle, who has been in Chicago the past two weeks, speaks of seeing many sad and dreary sights around the hospital, but says the saddest thing he had heard wa§ when the news of Mr. Peck’s death reached him. Miss Martha Kyle desires us to thank the many friends and acquaintances who remembered her with flowers, cards and letters while she lay sick at the hospital, and says that it takes those things to maki life endurable in a dreary place like that. She states that she will be at home again on Sunday, Jan. 24. Miss Effie Richardson, formerly milliner partner in Stryker & Rich- | ardson’s shop at this place, but ! lately conducting a millinery store 'at Boswell, was married to Mr. James Pemberton of Wolcott, at the M. E. parsonage in Fowler, on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 20. They will live at, Wolcott, where the groom is town marshal. The bride is well and j favorably known to nearly all our people. j Details of W. E. Peck’s Sudden Death i Details of the death of our former townsman were scarce last week. We are told now, however, by relatives that Mr.. Peck had been about in his usual health up to and including the night of his death. On the day Preceding his death he had been up as usual and was making plans for the coming spring work, that ne fully expected to be able to help do. He retired as usual on a couch in the sitting room near the stove. It was his custom to get up between eleven am] twelve o’clock and take some medicine that was prepared for him. Mrs. Peck slept in a room above

where she could occasionally speak to him when she heard him up. All the family slept* sound that night and when Isaac got up he fixed the fire but did not notice anything wreng with his brother. A little later Mrs. Peck passed through the room and smarted breakfast proceedings. She a/gain visited the room for something and noticed that he was lying In a J perfectly natural position, but also noticed that he had failed tc take his medicine as usual. She then at'tempted to awaken him but found he had passed quietly away, without even disturbing the? covering over him. He had probably been dead some hours. William Edwin Peck was born at Salem, Ind., January 12, 1,866. Died January 12, 1915,. at his home near Ashville, N. Y., aged 49. He came with his parents to Remington in April 1 8 75. He was. married in RemLott a T. (Mover, June 1, 1 893, and to this union were born five children. He is survived by his wife, Lott a E., his children, Helefa E. Swift, Walter 8., Geo. C., Harry D., and Katherine E.; his brothers, Charles H., Frank L., Isaac L., James 1., Maurice 8., all of Remington, and his sister, Mary E. Price, of Middlesborough, Ky. He Was for several years connected with the various grain firms in Remington until 1 898, at which time he was appointed postmaster at Remington by President McKinley, and held that position until April, 1914, a period of 16 years. During this period he was president for one term of the Indiana Postmasters’ Association. He always took an active interest in the government of the city of Remington and in all public enterprises. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in Remington several years ago. He was one of the charter members of Remington Lodge Knights of Pythias No. and has always been prominent in the work of that order, having held the positions of District •Deputy and Grand Trustee. He was also, a Mason, being a member of Remington Lodge No. 351, and was equally interested and prominent in that order. He removed with his family to Ashville, N. Y., last October, \vhere he had purchased a farm, expecting to make that place his future home.

Demand for the Efficient.

Alert, keen, clear headed, healthy men and women are in demand. Modern business cannot use in office, factory or on the road, persons who are dull, lifeless, inert, half si"k or tirfed. Keep in trim. Be in a condition that wards off disease. Foley Cathartic Tablets clean the system, keep the stomach sweet, liver active apd the bowels regular.—A. F. LONG.

Notice of Special Meeting of County Council. Notice is hereby given that the County Council of Jasper County, Indiana, will meet in special session, Monday, February 1, 1915, at 1 o’clock p. m., in the Commissioners’ Court Room, to transact sU<Sh business as may be properly brought before them for consideration. - JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, \ Auditor Jasper County.

Real Estate Transfers.

H Thomas M Callahan to Frank H Henley, Jan. 19, pt ne, 19-30-5, 5.62 acres, Barkley, $8 43. John W Paxton et ux to William C Babcock et al, Jan. 15,‘Its 5,6, 7, 8, bl 32, Rensselaer, Weston’s add, $250. Firman Thompson, guardian of Mary F Thompson, to Ben D McColly, Nov. 20, 1914, Rensselaer, pt nw se, 30-29-6, Marion, SSOO. Guard deed. Ben D McCblly et ux“to Joseph Frances et ux, Nov. 30, Rensselaer,. Pt nw se, 30-29-6, Marion, $1,400. Thomas Harris to Minerva J JJa-r----ris, Jan. 5, Its 3,4, 5, bl 2* Remington, Stratton’s add, SSOO. Ben D McColly, sheriff to Newton Co Loan & Savings Association, Jan. 18,. out It 1 Remington, east of block 10, S2BB. Sheriff’s deed.

Pointed Paragraphs.

Timely advice: Commence saving for your next Christmas shopping. In this country we "shoot the |schutes” and over the way they “shoot the shooters.” \\ hen a young blood contracts an 'inflated case of the swelled head he is about as Useful to the community as ice cream is to a polar bear. “Man’s job is to make friends out of enemies, good people out of bad people, and saints out of sinners,’ says an Illinois ■ Solomon. True enough, but there'are few of us on the job. r- •,

Sgr’ S® 8 t?:®" 1 gou are rcspctituUp infaiteb to eaU * t c: l c office for tije purpose of examining rttipteg anti taking prices of Cm grabeb Calling Carbs, Snbitations, etc. CZ>ur Work tfje best, styles tje latest anb prices tfje lotoest.

BOWSER’S BARGAIN

He Buys a Hammock at 20 Per Cent Discount. AND INTENDS SLEEPING IN IT But a Complication of Affairs Spoils the Proposed Siesta—Mr. B. Discovers That the Night Air Is Full of a Number of Things.

By M. QUAD.

[Copyright, 1514, by Associated Literary - Press.]’ was no red lantern as a H danger signal. JhL There was no raven to croak. There was no warning in the evening breeze. But as suddenly as a workman quits when the Whistle blows the- Bowser doorbell was yanked. ’ The cook took her hands out of the dishwater to rim upstairs and answer the summons and received a bundle which she bore to the sitting room. “There must be some mistake,” said Mrs. Bowser. “I have ordered nothing sent up today.” "There is no mistake about it,” replied Mr. Bowser. "This is a hammock I bought this afternoon at 20 per cent off, because it was late in the season,” "But we have no place for a hammock.” “Haven’t we got a back yard?” “Yes, but there is no shady spot for a hammock.” Bowser Does Not Seek Ease. “I am not looking for shady spots, Mrs. Bowser. I want you to talk sensibly for once in your life. Do you know that I have got to harden myself up for the coming dog days or

THE BOWSER CAT AND THE INTERLOPER COLLIDED.

run a terrible risk of a physical collapse with tbe advent of the first real hot wave?” “No, I didn’t know it I thought you were in splendid health. Only last night I heard you telling Brown”— "Never mind what I told Brown. A man may be at death’s door and yet not like to have people talking about it and sympathizing. 1 may look well and have a good appetite, but the fact remains that a puff would blow out the flame of life. I have kept this fact from you for weeks and weeks, but I feel you ought to know it” “And the hammock is going to save you from being puffed out?” she asked asthefamily cat came out from under the piano to take a hand in the game. “I hope and trust it is. Acting under the advice of one of the best doctors in town, I am going to try to harden myself up before the hot weather becomes too oppressive. I shall put that hammock up in the back yard this evening.” “And that will harden you?” Adam Is His Hero.

“And 1 shall pass the night in the hammock—many nights. The doctor says I must have a free circulation of air and that instead of avoiding the night dews I must revel in them, so to say. - Man was never born to sleep in a bed as we do. Adam rested at night under a tree. So did all the other men for hundreds of years. Whenever you find the hardiest men you find men who keep in tbe open air by day and night. I have coddled myself up too much.” “Well, when you have a sore throat, a cold in'the bead and are aching with from head to heel, perhaps you’ll keep on coddling!” she answered. "Any doctor who told you such stuff for truth is an idiot!” “There you go!” exclaimed Mr. Bowiser as he began to pace up and down the room, followed by/he cat, “1 might have known you wouldn't talk sense. I never start in to better my health but you oppose the idea. If you are hoping 1 may collapse on the street and be brought home as dead as a doornail, why don’t you say so and have done with it?”

Mrs. Bowser Scents Trouble Again. “Go ahead with your hammock cure,” she quietly replied. “If the doctor said it would harden you up then of course it will. Don’t put the blame off on me, however.” “Blame? Blame? How can 1 blame you?” “I don’t know, but you probaMs will.” “I’ll probably do nothing of the kind. By George, but I wonder if there is

another such aggravating woman on the face of the earth!” Mrs Bowser had nothing more to say. Mr. Bowser kicked things out of his way as he walked, and the cat rubbed against a leg of the piano and saw fun ahead. Half an hour later the hammock was slung between two of the clothesline posts. It was a fairly dark evening, and Mrrßowser congratulated himself that noue of the neighbors had g3t on to his little scheme. At 1 o’clock lie was ready to try the cure. He tried to draw Mrs. Bowser into an argument about it, but she kept clear and went upstairs as he started out. Bareheaded and with coat and vest off, he fell into the hammock with a grunt of satisfaction and began counting the stars in the vault above. Unnoticed by him, the cat had followed at his heels. The night cure was nothing new to her, and she went wandering about the yard in search of summer novelties. Ten minutes had ! passed, and Mr. Bowser had just indulged in a sneeze which, set the mock swinging when the head of a neighbor’s cat appeared above the fence. For a few brief seconds the Bowser cat and the intertoper exchanging glances of hate and ; distrust and defiance, and then on top of the fence they collided. “By the great horn spoon!” ejaculated Mr. Bowser as he rolled about and finally fell out of the hammock. By the time he had hit the earth the interloper was a licked feline and was heard scrambling over a fence three yards below. Enter a Canine Intruder.,

,It was evident that the cure had a few drawbacks, but after cussing softly to himself for a minute the patient climbed back into the hammock and tried to make himself believe that he already felt better. He shut his eyes tightly, determined to sleep, and the of a second sneeze was being faintly felt when there was a yell and a hiss, and the cat went up the fence and over it like a flash, and a dog was left whining and growling within ten feet of the hammock. The canine had crept under the. alley fence, and the Bowser cat hadn’t waited to ask any questions. “By thunder! Can’t a man find five minutes’ peace in his own back yard?” shouted Mr. Bowser as he rolled out and looked for a clothes prop as a weapon of offense. He ran that dog three times across the yard before the animal could find the hole he came in at and get out again, and when he returned to the hammock the romance of the night was gone. If he hadn’t caught sight of Mrs. Bowser peering from one of the back windows he might have decided to call things off until the next night That settled matters, however. He dropped into the hammock and huddled himself up, and the cat came back and sat on the fence and looked down upon him with guardian eyes. Ten minutes stole quietly away, and the crickets had begun to sing low and drowsily, when something fell from the sky with a great slash and clatter and missed Mr. Bowser and his hammock by only a few inches. “Something” Was an Old Bucket. “By the club footed king, but who did that?” he demanded as he rolled out to find that the “something” was an old pail. He had scarcely uttered the word when an Early Rose potato whizzed by his ear and struck the fence with a bang, and it was followed by a Florida, cabbage stalk, which emitted a moaning sound as it grazed the top of his head. The cat realized that she wasn’t in it and took a skip, but Mr. Bowser wasn’t to be bluffed.

“Yoq reptiles, I’ll have you jugged for this!” he shouted as he looked around and failed to locate any one. “Do you know”— Then there were missiles which he believed to be onions and tomatoes and green corn cobs and ancient lemons, and all he could do was to jump up aud down and demand that his hidden foes stand forth and be slaughtered. He thought he caught sight of some one on the alley fence, and he made a wild charge, but he had no sooner reached it than the ' heavens rained tin cans, bottles, old hats and shoes, and he was compelled to turn and flee for his life. Mrs. Bowser came downstairs to find him in the sitting room, white faced, big eyed and panting, and after a look at him she said: • “Have you got hardened up for the hot wave as quick as this?” A “Woman, how dare you look me In the face?” he demanded as he turned on her. “Don’t you suppose I know all about your little, plot to have me killed, murdered, assassinated in my own back yard? I say, dare you”— “You’d better eqme to bed,” she quietly replied, and she went upstairs, and he slowly followed and hadn’t another word to say.

Certainly Not.

Patience—l thought you said you’d scream if he kissed you? Patrice—l did scream. “Nobody heard you.” “Oh, well, I didn’t scream as loud as that!”—Yonkers Statesman.

The Weapon

“This letter plainly envenomed my father’s mind against me. How do you suppose the writer did it?” “I suppose, to be in the fashion, he used a poisoned pen.” Baltimore American.

Lacks Glitter.

“Consistency is a jewel.” “That’s all right, but you can’t work it off on the girl instead of a diamond ring.”—California Outlook.

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Ad Wolgast, Best Money Maker of Lightweights.

Photo by American Press Association.

Ad Wolgast, who vainly tried to regain his title from Freddie Welsh several weeks ago, has earned more money in the ring than any other light-’ weight in the history of the game. Since he adopted boxing as a profession seven years ago Adolph has amassed a fortune The largest lump sum Wolgast ever received for a single battle was $47,000. This he won in his battle with Joe Rivers at Vernon. Cal., July 4, two years ago. Rivers was knocked out in thirteen rounds Wolgast received $20,09? as his end of the receipts and $27,000 for his moving picture rights. Adolph has engaged in no fewer than eleven fights in which the receipts aggregated over $25,000. Wolgast has never suffered the ignominy of a knockout? and has been floored but twice in his ring career,, once when he won the title from Nel - son and the other time when he lost the premier honors to Ritchie. It was Wolgast’s - custom to back himself heavily for a fight. In his championship battle with Nelson Wolgast backed himself to the extent of $5,400,. which he won, and he lost $7,000 in wagers when he lost the title to Ritchie. Soldier Kearns Quits Fighting. Soldier Kearns, who looks more like Tom Sharkey than any other man In the ring before or since the tar was good, has retired from the glove game. Big and powerful, with a muscular development that always made Sharkey green with envy, poor Kearns never got very far up the pugilistic ladder. With all bis bulk he had a glass jaw, and hardly a night went by that some one didn’t bump him off to sleep. “I’ve decided to chuck it up for something soft,” says the soldier. “I’m going back to my old trade—blacksmithing.”

Federal Pitchers Easy. That the pitching in the Federal league last season Was not near as hard as in the majors the year before is proved by the pitching records of the hdv league. Among the first ten twirlers in the league nine are former big league twirlers, Watson, who ran fifth, being the only real Fed product. These former big leaguers are Ford, Rankin Johnson, Hendrix, Bill Lange. Krapp, Falkenberg, Cullop, Quinn and Lafitte, and about 75 per cent of these failed tg make good in fast company.

A Game Tank Town. If Bruning, Neb., has its way it will be the smallest town in the country in organized baseball. With a grain elevator, a railroad water tank and a population of only 353—a1l riproaring fans—it has applied for a franchise in the Nebraska State league, whose towns average over 10,000 in population. As it costs about SIO,OOO to maintain a club during a season it will cost each map, woman and child about S3O to have league baseball. ; Poor Year For Pennsylvania. Baseball proved a losing venture for the University of Pennsylvania last season. Basketball and football were the only sports that made money for’ the athletic association. Football receipts were far below the normal because of conflicts with Princeton.

t Mack Won on Collins. It has been pointed out that Eddie Collins cost Connie Mack $2.75. He sold him for $50,000, according to report. That shows a net profit of $49.-, 997.25, which is a fair margin. Besides, Collins was quite a help to the Mackmen in the past four years. Champion Travers a Broker. Jerome D. Travers, amateur golf champion of America, is going to mix golf with cotton He has filed an application for admission to the New York Cotton exchange and expects to be a regular cotton broker. Chicago n Good Billiard Town. There are said to be 1,218 billiard .tables in Chicago and nearly 3.000,000 players in the United States. It has been figured out that 100,000 play the game daily and nightly In Chicago.