Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — Page 3

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William Traub went to Chatsworth, 111., on business yesterday; We have a few bargains in buggies on hand.—HAMILTON & KELLNER. The Van Rensselaer orchestra gave a charity ball last evening in the old armory room. r E. P. Honan went to Indianapolis on business Saturday afternoon, returning Monday afternoon. Mrs. Arthur Spinney of Goodland, was the guest last Thursday and Friday of Mrs. George W. Hopkins. Gerald Jarretts, u ho. has been serving in the, U. S. navy for the past couple of yens. recently purchased his discharge and returned home.

Dumont Peck, formerly of Goodland, has been placed on the Wabash college athletic board. Mr. Peck has been engaged in business at Crawfordsville for several years now. Fay Clarke, who has been attending college at Madison, Wis., where he was taking a post-graduate course in agriculture, has returned home and will remain here for the present. Here you . are, our old line of Goodrich and Diamond tires, reduced to the consumer over 25 per cent. Call and get the new prices. These brands always in stock.—MAlN GARAGE. ' f-15 On account of bad w’eather Saturday afternoon, J. W. Ward postponed his public sale of a gasoline engine and Ford touring car until next Saturday afternoon. See advertisement in our want ad column.

C. S. Smith, U. S. District Attorney at Salem, Ohio, came down from Chicago Saturday afternoon where he had business in the federal court, and spent until Sunday evening with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith. Call in and see our correspondence cards at 25c, 30c and 35c per box, the latter a gilt edge card. In correspondence paper we have almost everything you could think of and at prices ranging from 15c to 50c per box. Benton Review: Ed Randall of Rensselaer, one of Jasper county’s big land owners, was here last Friday and purchased 30 head of cattle from Joe Windier. The cattle were driven through to Mr. Randall's ranch 14 miles northeast of Rensselaer, a distance of 50 miles from Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hollister, who have been spending the winter with their son, Spencer Hollister, at Miles City, Mont., returned home Saturday. Their property here is now occupied by David Alter, who will give up same March 1. Until that time Mr. and Mrs. Hollister will stay with their daughter, Mrs. Ray Wood. John O’Connor raised “Old Glory” to half-mast Saturday in honor of William Hoile, formerly of Kniman, who was buried Saturday afternoon near North Manchester. Mr. O’Connor thinks an old soldier who did his duty is as much entitled to honor as a, general, in that he did his part in upholding the unity of the states.

The Democrat was wrongly informed about the house in Hanging Grove tp., to which Mr. Baker and family of Frankfort were to move, being on the Lawler lands, as stated in Saturday’s Democrat. The house is just across the road from one of the Lawler farms, and is not owned by Mr. Lawler. Mr. Baker has purchased a tract of timber of Mr. Lawler and comes here to clear off same. Miss Grace StoVer, music instructor in the city schools, spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother at Downers Grove, Hl. Miss Ethel Dyer, domestic science teacher, spent Saturday in Chicago. Two other of the lady “peds” spent Saturday afternoon in “Greencastle,” and nearly got stranded in the snowbanks at Monon when coming to the station to take the “Hoosier” home that evening: A. S.. Laßue came up-from Greenfield, Ind., Sunday morning, and reports that Saturday’s snow was equally as heavy there as here. They had some 14 inches of snow on the ground there before this last storm came. Rensselaer people who were in Chicago Saturday afternoon report that the storm there was about the same as Here, so it must have been quite general throughout this section of the country.

Buy your typewriter ribbons and carbon papers at The Democrat office. Do not buy a corn planter until you Save SeentheßTack TSagle.HAMILTON & KELLNER. H. J. Bartoo, editor of the Remington Press, was in the city a short time Monday while enroute to Chicago on. business. Joe Reeve, who is attending a commercial school in Chicago, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reeve. The John Deere is the simplest manure spreader on the market. It has the beater on the axle. See it at HAMILTON & KELLNER’S. Parker Overton of Hammond, came down Friday and visited until Saturday with his sister, Mrs. J. W. Childers, and looked after business matters here. ■ —w-- ; ./■' -■ Mrs. Alton Meek returned to West Lafayette Sunday after a- few days’ visit here with her mother, Mrs. A. E. Brown, and sister, Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, of west of town. Miss Irene Banta, daughter of Reed Banta, formerly of Jasper county, but now of Mitchell, S. Dak., is visiting here with Mrs. L. H. Hamilton and Mrs. John Morgan. Let The Democrat supply you with typewriter ribbons and carbon papers. We have ribbons for all ipakes of standard-typewriters, and handle the very grade of carbon papers.

Mr. and Mrs. George Horsewood of Ligonier, who have been visiting with his brothers, Frank and Charles, of near Rensselaer, went to Mt. Ayr, Monday to visit relatives there. Elvin Bussell, a son of C. W. Bussell of Hanging Gtove tp., returned Saturday from a couple of weeks’ visit with his sister, Mrs. James Lefler and husband, near Marienette, Wis. Mrs. Grace Grant Francis of Newton tp., desires to thank the many friends Who so kindly remembered her last week by sending her postcards. Her husband, Allie Francis, arranged the Shower, and Mrs. Francis was the recipient of 132 cards. The big water tank at the city water works was drained of its 100;000 gallons of water Saturday morning, it taking five hours for the water to run out. The draining of the big tank was necessary to permit the replacing of the pipe from the pumps to the tank. The European war, by cutting off exports greatly, has no doubt had some effect on the onion prices this winter, and they are not nearly so good as expected. T. M. Callahan sold a carload last week for $1.25 per cwt., f. o. b. Newland, and Alf Donnelly is reported to have sold a carload delivered at Louisville, Ky., at the same figure. There are between 75,000 and 100,000 bushels yet in store at Newland. Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Baughman of Oklahoma City, Okla., formerly of Rensselaer, sent a handsome box of. mistletoe to the Rensselaer public library and also to the Monon library, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Baughman resided at Monon before moving to Rensselaer, but have lived in Oklahoma City for the past several years. Their gifts to these libraries show that they have not forgotten their old homes in Indiana. John F. Bruner and George M. Meyers were the only progressives from Rensselaer who attended the big progressive banquet at Indianapolis last Friday evening. William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind., was the principal speaker. The banquet was largely attended by progressives from all sections of the state and there was much enthusiasm. The unanimous sentiment of those in attendance was to stand by their colors. , Mike Kuboski, who has been confined to his home for the past three weeks with blood poisoning and pneumonia, is still in quite a serious condition. He has recovered from the pneumonia, but is still being treated for the infection, which started from a small scratch on one of his fingers and extended up his arm and formed a puss sack under his right arm, near the breast, which has had to be lanced several times and the puss drawn off. It was open ed again Sunday, by the doctors and considerable puss removed. His recovery is thought assured, although | it will be somewhat slow.

Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 71c; oats, 54c; wheaU--ryey-$D Ross Porter is sick;/with quinsy, at the home of his father, ( Walter Porter, in Rensselaer. Friday, Feb. 26, E. E. Burkhart, 5 miles northwest of Wheatfield, will have a general farm sale. f-16 Edson Murray and William Bab,cock are home from Wisconsin University for a few days’ vacation. * E. E. Burkhart of near Wheatfield, stopped off here yesterday for a few hours while on his way home from a business trip to Indianapolis. .D, J. Babcock came up from Lafayette Saturday evening to remain until Sunday afternoon, when he returned to his work as linotype operator on the Lafayete Journal. J, L. Babcock of Parr,- went to Lafayette Saturday to meet his daughter, Miss Edna Babcock," who was returning home,' sick, fpom Jacksonville, 111., where she has been attending college.

The Eight o’Clock Card Clug will be entertained this evening by Mr. and Mrs, Walter Feldhouse at the E. P. Lane home on Forest street. Hr. and Mrs. Ralph Donnelly entertained the club last Thursday evening. Former American express agent, Harrison Timmons, who has been working for a railroad company a, Benton Harbor, Mich., came home a few days ago and will endeavor to dispose of his property here and move to Michigan. A barn on T. M. Callahan’s farm near Newland was destroyed by fire about midnight Friday night. The farm is occupied by William Kennedy, who lost a horse and an automobile. There was $350 insurance on the latter. The origin of the fire is unknown. Roy Scott, who has been at Rochester,. Minn., for several weeks taking treatment for a cancer of the lip, returned liome last Thursday and will remain here for a few weeks for the wound to heal, before returning to the hospital again, The Democrat is informed. He is reported to be doing as well as could be expected. Word was received here last week of the marriage at Plenty Wood, Mont., on Jan. 20, of Miss Flora B. Harrison, daughter of Mrs. Anna M. Harrison, both formerly pf Rensselaer, to Mr. H. L. Jordan. They will reside at 'Raymond, Mont. Mrs. Harrison and daughter left Rensselaer some ten or twelve years ago and took up claims in the west.

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Value of a Quart of Milk.

When you sell a quart of milk for seven cents you are giving more food for the money than the buyer can get in most other forms. It is twice as cheap as mutton or fresh fish, six times as cheap as dried beef, nearly three times as cheap as beef chuck, 40 per cent cheaper than pork loin, three times as cheap as eggs. The staples that cost less in proportion to food value than milk are such things as potatoes, rice, dates, corn meal, prunes, cheese, wheat bread and beans. The above figures will hold good in the average interior region of the nation.—Farm and Fireside.

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LIVING ON OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.

How many people of this community are riving- on their own money? If the question was put; to each person individually he unquestionably would answer that he is living on his own funds. And he doubtless would be entirely sincere in his statement. "* But ar e we really living on our own money? Let’s dig down under the surface and see What-wo find. For the sake of argument we will assume that you are running an account with the grocer, and the butcher, and possibly other merchants. You pay, of course, but perhaps you make settlement only every sixty or ninety days. Some even pay their bills only twice a year. Now was it your money that paid the wholesaler for the goods you are using and for which you have not paid, or was it the merchant’s? ' And if it was the merchant’s, and you have not paid him, is it your money you are living on- until Settlement day, or is it his? Perhaps fully one-half the people are living from day to day on other people’s money, and by doing so they are themselves directly contributing to the present High cost of living. Now control your rising anger for a moment, and we will humbly endeavor to show you why you are keeping prices up., The average mercantile stock costs several thousands of dollars, and it must He paid for in cash or the merchant must obtain a line of credit from the wholesaler. And when he buys his goods on credit he pays a higher price for them. In turn you buy your goods from the merchant on credit, and he in self defense must add an additional “Safety” profit. In other words, he must charge more than a cash price in order to protect himself from the certainty of ’oss consequent upon slow collections, bad debts and other annoyanges. Thus two “safety” profits are added to the original selling prices of the article. Do you see how it works—how the price is boosted? If every customer paid spot cash for his goods the merchant in turn could do the same thing with the wholesaler, thereby securing from the latter a discount for cash of possibly li/ 2 to 10 per cent. And then the merchant > himself would not be required to add the “safety profit” to his goods, which would mean another substantial reduction in the price of th§ article, and all because of the simple expediency of handing the cash over the counter. Now doesn’t it look as though this practice of living on other people’s money is costing us considerably more than we are justified in paying for such a doubtful privilege? It might require some slight inconvenience and a little temporary retrenchment in order to change over to a cash system, but if a merchant made you a flat offer of a fifteen or twenty per cent discount for cash you would jump at the opportunity. Doesn’t it appear to be to the advantage of everybody to wipe out the baneful credit system and buy and sell for cash? It certainly looks that way to us. How does it appear to you?

FACTS ABOUT CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Interesting Incidents Relating .to Presidents and Vice-Presidents. Possibly you have forgotten some of these incidents relating to presidents and vice-presidents of the United States: Washington was the* one president to be elected unanimously.' The only president or vice-presi-dent to resign was John C. Calhoun, Who gave up the vice-presidency to become a United States senator. J. Q.. Adams refused to ride to the capitoi with Andrew Jackson and left town when “Old Hickory” took the oath of-office. Jefferson and the second Adams were the only presidents who were

(elected by_-tho house of representatives, neither having had a majority of electoral votes. William Henry Harrison served the shortest time as president, having caught a fatal cold the day he was inaugurated and died exactly one month later. Impeachment was tried against but one president or vice-president and failed by one vote even in the case of Andrew Johnson. Johnson was a tailor and could not read until his wife taught him how.

“Are you not President Harrison?” inquired a gushing woman some time after this son of Indiana had left the White House. “No, madame, I'm Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis. Grover Cleveland is the only president of the United States." The senate elected only one vicepresident, Richard M. Johnson in 1537 having failed’to receive a majority of electoral votes. Five vice presidents became president by the death of the president Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur ano Roosevelt. No physician, preacher or journal Ist has become president. Grant and Roosevelt are the only two who sought three terms. Cleveland was the only president to have some one else sandwiched between his two terms, Benjamin Harrison being the sandwich. John Adams was not only the oldest of ex-presidents when he died, being’more than 90, but he lived the longest after leaving office, about2s years.

Relatively, Washington was the richest president, but his private income was hardly equal to that of Roosevelt. < Colonel Roosevelt was the only vice president to attain the presidency by another’s death and then be honored by a re-election. ! There have been four ex-presidents living at one time—Adams, Jefferson, Madison ap’d Monroe. After Washington’s death, during Adams’ term, the country had no ex-presi-dent. JNow we have two, but they don’t speak to each other. Buchanan went through his term a bachelor. Woodrow Wilson and James A. Garfield were college presidents and Jefferson founded the University of Virginia after he retired from the White House. * Washington, Monroe, Jackson, the two Harrisons, Taylor, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Hayes, McKinley and Roosevelt were soldiers. Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech and Washington’s farewell address are quoted far more frequently than any other presidential utterances. Cleveland’s “Public office is a public trust,” Grant’s “Let us have peace,” Jackson’s “By the Eternal,” and Roosevelt’s “Malefactors of great wealth” became universal catchwords.

Of cabinet officers, the luckiest in a presidential way were secretaries of state. Grant and Taft were secretary of war, but there has been no secretary o-f the navy in the White House. Washington and Lincoln were the tallest presidents, Cleveland and Taft the heaviest. When Buchanan was a young man in Lancaster county, some one told him if he should change his politics he might become president. He did both. Grant had always been a democrat until after the war, when the repub licans elected him president. The only president to turn his coat after election was Tyler. Elected by the Whigs on the “Tippecanoe and Tyler/too” slogan, he went over to the democrats when he had climbed into the presidency over the coffin of Harrison.

When the chancellor of New York administered the oath to Washington he ended with this: “Long live George Washington, president of the United States." That form was never repeated. One president was Inaugurated in New York, two in Philadelphia, and all the others in Washington. At first the salary of the president was $25‘,000, and that of the vicepresident $5,000. Now, the president receives $75,000. Alexander Hamilton proposed that a president should be elected for life. Others in the constitutional convention favored two or three presidents instead of one. The official salute for the president is 21 guns. I heard a salute of 101 guns fired for King Edward when the proclamation was read. When the body of Napoleon was brought back from St. Helena and arrived in the river Seine, a salute of 1,000 guns was fired. —Philadelphia Ledger.

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“Don’t you think these mountain climbing stories are mostly fakes?” “Well, how could a mountain climbing stofy be on the level?”-r-Baltimore American, While advocating eugenic marriages, we might go a step farther and demand eugenic minds in office holders.

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RESUMES SLAUGHTER.

State Live Stock Board Renews Fight on the Hoof and Mouth Disease. Chicago, Jan. 30. Slaughter of live stock, infected or exposed to the hoof and mouth disease, will proceed "legally,” beginning today. Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veterinarian, at the annual meeting of the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association' at- Springfield yesterday, announced that the killing would be resumed. He said it Would be undertaken “under the law” by the state board of live stock commissioners. A week ago Judge Irwin, who issued the injunction restraining the state veterinarian from proceeding “illegally,” together witii Attorney General Lucey and Charles J. O'Connor, representing the petitioners for the restraining order, advised the ■ public that the slaughter of- animals could be undertaken legally by the state live stock commission under the restraining order. Until yesterday Dr. Dyson had protested that the injunction f “bound him hand and foot,” and that it was responsible for the rapid spread of the disease. Other developments in the situation yesterday were: . Thirty-two thousand gallons of raw milk were found to have been cut off from Chicago’s daily supply by Gov. Dunne’s

recent proclamation quarantining fifteen counties. Health Commissioner Young sent a telegram to the governor asking that raw milk be allowed to come into Chicago in sealed cans to dealers who have pasteurizing establishments. Owners of the $2,500,000 prize dairy show herd officially announced their 700 animals are cured of the plague and asked the authorities to experiment to determine whether the animals are non-carrlers of infection. Col. ■ George Fabyan, ip an- ’ swer to a request from the 111nols Live Stock Breeders’ Association asking that he have the pending -injunction dissolved, declared he deemed it best to have the injunction stand until the legislature enacts amendments to the present law.

Kane county dairymen, who feel the brunt Of the embargo shutting off the shipment of raw milk to Chicago, declared the governor’s proclamation is a retaliatory measure by the state for the injunction which limited the right to slaughter to the live stock commissioners. Its effect is practically to put out of business a number of small dealers in Chicago, as well as end shipments by small farmers, a majority of whom do not have pasteurization plants. Dr. Dyson caused a sensation at the meeting by admitting that the fight against the plague could have been in progress in the last two weeks, instead,, of being practically aboridoned. He admitted many mistakes had been made in handling the disease and said he “assumed responsibility.”

Our Prices of Shoes. 4 new shoes, common, $1.50; 4 hew shoes, steel plugged, $2.25; 4 new never-slip shoes, $2.75; 4 old shoes sl. All shoes over No. 5 are 25 cents extra.—HEMPHILL BROS. Lyceum Course Dates. February 25.—The Boyds. March 17.—Weathetwax Bros. April 7.—-Bargelt & Co. If you want result* from such advertising, try The Democrat's want adß * / MILaM