Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — Page 8

McCO YSBURG. Mrs. Johns called on Mrs. Rogers Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Frank Ringheisen spent Monday with Mrs. Paul Stephens. Several of. the lady patrons visited the school last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Jeffers called on Mrs. Johns Wednesday afternoon. Grandma Robinson ail'd Mrs. Phillips spent Monday evening with Mrs. Stultz. Simon and Sam Cook shipped a earloard of hogs from here Wednesday evening. , Owen Barker of Zadock, was calling on old friends here the- latter part of this week, Mrs, Ross of Seafield.' and .Mrs.' Folk of this place, took dinner with' Mrs. Stultz Monday. Win. Thompson of Crown Point, was calling on old friends here" Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Willitt and Mrs. Dora Stephens called on Mrs. Win, McDonald Wodnesday a fternoon. . Felix Parker, of Illinois, was. here for a few. days' visit, with his broth- j er, George, and family. '

Mis. C-aylord 1 'ark or and child'.''.-:) and Mrs. Don Maninfn and children took dinm-r with Mrs. it. D. Bussell Monday. ,r. The V\'illitt-Parker com hi nation sale was well attended Monday and everything, sold went well, and especially the hot lunch. Charles Ferguson and family were called to Reynolds Sunday to .attend his father's funeral Monday, returning home Tuesday morning, Mr. Morris Jacks of Lee, and Miss Ethel Parker were married last Sunday at the bride's home. They left Monday for Mitchell, S. D., for a visit. Dan Robinson and son, Ralph, of -'Rensselaer, spent Monday with his mother, Grandma Robinson, and his sister, Mrs. Phillips, and also attended the sale. >►■ Phillips, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Albright, Mrs. P. Stephens and Misses Irene Banta and Hazel Kenton caiieu p° Mrs. Beck Saturday afternoon. and Mrs. ?31il Stephens and sister. Mkyme, Eva Johns and Harry Phillips autoed to Monticello Sunday to see Mr. and Mrs. Roy McDonald and Grandma Phillips. * Misses Hazel Kenton and Irene Banta of Mitchell, S. D., spent a few days here with friends and relatives. They went from here to Roselawn for a visit Sunday morning. The Ladies’ Aid will give a box social at the school house Saturday evening, Feb. 27, with a short program. Girls, bring boxes; boys, come with well-filled pocketbooks.

1 T LEE C. A. Lefler has been real poorly during the past week. T. R. Clark and family spent. Sunday at George Foulks. J. H. Culp and Wm. Zable made a business trip to Monticello Thursday. Mrs. Beekey Jacks and daughter have moved back here in their prop* erty. S. M. Jacks went to Remington Sunday to see his uncle, Edward Culp. ; - Mrs. Kl/.ie Webb spent Wednesday here with her mother, Mrs'. C. A. Holeman. • Harley Clark, who has been so sick with erysipelas, is recovering nicely now. Ephriam Gilmore, and son, Walter, went to lowa on business during the past week. The Ladies’ Aid met and did sewing on Thursday atternoon at Mrs. C. A. Letter's. . Harry-Rishling and family have moved in here with “Uncle” David Culp and wife. Ed Peregrine has gone to near Crawfordsville to work' for J. W. Rishling again this summer. Isaac Parcels and wife and twin babies of Rensselaer, were here during the past week visiting Simon Parcels’. Sunday, February 1 4, at High noon occurred the marriage of Miss Ethel Parker of Hanging Grove tp., to Mr. Morris Jacks of this place, at the home of the bride’s parents. They left Monday on an extended visit with relatives at Mitchell, S. Dak., after which they will be at home in Lee, to their many 1 friends. Their many friends extend congratulations and wish them a very happy married life.

PINE GROVE. Mrs. Chas_ Shroyer was shopping in Rensselaer Monday. Andy Ropp and Vern Odle were Rensselaer goers Thutsday. - - Creola Torbet has been working for Curtis Polleck’s the past week. Chloae and' Charley Torbet took dinner with John Torbet and wife Sunday. - y-\ Mrs. Edward Ritter and daughter, Vinna. called on Mrs. Rudolph Ritter Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beck §pent Friday and Friday night with John Torbet and family. Mrs. Rudolph Ritter spent Thursday with her mother-in-law", Mrs. Edward Ritter, and fafnlly.. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Polleck are the , proud parents of a ten pound boy. Mother and babe are doing fine. ! The surprise given in honor of James Britt, Sr., Sunday, was well attended, and all repotted a fine time. They were entertained with i games and music. Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet were 1

called to Thorntown Friday by the death of his brother-in-law, Wirt ■.Ham.mil. of that placet They returned home - Monday. . .i ; • Ghlpae and Creola Torbet gave a farewell surprise party on Mr. and Mrs, John Torbet Friday night at the latter's home. There were about fifty-seven present. The evening' was pleasantly spent in playing games, outing popcorn and apples.

POSSUM RUN. Hattie McCurtain spent Sunday with home folks. -Mrs. E. A. Merrill called on Mi's. John Price Wednesday evening. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Guy Zook is very sick at this writing. Almira Ritter spent Tuesday night With her sister, Mrs. Thomas Murphy. -Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. Parker Called on Mr. and Mrs.. Guy Zook Wednesday .evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Price, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. William Pollock.

COURT NEWS

Judge Hanley changed the petit jury call as first made, for the third Monday, and called the jury in Wednesday to sit in the Ward vs. Vernon case. The jury was impaneled Wednesday to begin grinding Thursday morning, hut when court convened it was announced that the case had been compromised, and the jury was therefore excused until Monday. This Ward vs, Vernon, et al.-case grew out of a real estate transaction ot Thomas W. Ward, formerly of Jasper county, trading land here for a tile making plant at Aledo, 111.

Trial Calendar, Feb. 22, State vs. Charles Fox. State vs. Henry McColly. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. vs. Granger. Feb. 23, State Vs. Daniel Waymire. . Feb.. 24—White vs. Miller. Feb. 25—Mclllwrath vs. Konovsky. James W. Gilbert vs. J. Luce Bartoo. Feb. 26 —Gwin et al vs. Medlanu et al. March 1, James and Joseph Lane vs. Edward Lane. March 2—Wolcott Brick & Tile Co. vs. Thompson ot al. Gaines vs. Johnson. March 3, Norris vs. Warren et al. Linton vs. Eichelberger. Binford vb. Eichelberger. March 4—McConnell vs. Herr. Judy vs. Brown. March s—Callahan vs, Burkhart. Progress Grocery Co. vs. Granger et al. State vs. Edward Casey. : *

Items p. frcfm the circuit court docket: ' . Two state? cases against Edward Fawley, formerly of Fair Oaks, that had been on the docket for a long 1 time, were dismissed Monday. Solomon Rees was granted a divorce from D%cy M. Rees and Was also given the custody of the children, Edith May Rees, i 4 years old, and Charles Russell Rees, aged 7 years. . . . ■ Thomas Ward vs. Thomas A, Vernon et al: plaintiff files affidavit for change of venue from the court which, is granted, and William Darroch of Kentland, was agreed upon to hear said cause. Taken up Wednesday afternoon before court and jury, but compromised before trial. John Herr vs. Edward S. Moon et a]; motion of State Bank of Rensselaer for a judgment on garnishment is overruled. Cause set for trial on fourth Monday of term, same being March 1. C.rant-Warner Lumber Co. vs. Elsie Washburn et al; process ordered returnable March 4. Julia R Slauson et al vs. Cora A. Mason et al; George A. Williams, commissioner, files report of sale of the no 1-4 of the se 1-4, 32-32-4, west, in Starke county, to Bertha Olericli for $1,120 cash. Sale approved, deed examined and approved and commissioner charged with proceeds of sale. Cause continued for further sale of real estate.

FOWLER NURSERY

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Col. W. A. McCurtain’s Sale Dates. Feb. 2?,. William I. Hoover, general farm sale. "I . / \ Feb. 23, Louis Whicker, general farm salei Feb. 24, Harvey Austin, general farm sale. Feb. 26, Thomas Davis; stock sale. Subscribe for. The Democrat.

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Ponto’s Fatal Mistake.

One of the few American war correspondents who really saw something of the European war in its first stages was coming home on the Lusitania not many trips ago. He sat at the purser’s table, and the purser one evening told a truthful nature tale of having been on a ship that ence passed through a school of whales in midocean. “All of them were sound asleep,” said the purser with a wink to an accomplice, “and all of them were snoring. The noise wap deafening.” ‘‘lt must have been,” said the correspondent; “but when I was a boy out in Cincinnati, Ohio, there used to be a whistling whale that lived in the ocean just in front of my father’s house. His name was Ponto and he would answer to it—answer by whistling. You see, his blow hole was clogged with barnacles and every lime he spouted he made a sound like a siren on afire boat. Ponto was a great pet with all the ships that traded in and out of Cincinnati. The pilots got to know him, and when they were entering port and Ponto cruising about in the channel they would signal him and he would signal back, always giving the correct number of blasts. But lie’s dead now—-poor old Ponto! ‘‘One day there was a freighter coming in from Covington, Ky., and Ponto tried to pass l her, headed opt. B it he got confused and gave the whistle for going to the port side when he meant starboard, and the freighter ran him down and stove in four of liis compartments, and he sank in nine minutes, whistling for help to the very last.” After which a great silence befell at, the purser’s table.—Saturday Evening Post.

World’s Largest Gun.

The “king of guns,” a huge and highly ornamental cannon, stands in front of the main facade of the Kremlin barracks .in Moscow. It is one .of 20 old-fashioned cannon. The Czar’s cannon was cast in the reign of Theodoro Ivanoviteh (1586) by Tehokhov. It weighs 38 % tons and is of too large caliber and toG weak metal ever to haye been used as a weapon. The -cannon is 17% feet long. Its bore is about 40 inches and the ball weighs nearly two tons. This cannon lias always been considered . highly ornamental Jby the Russian people, and when, after the battle of Narva, Peter I. ordered old cannon and churCli bells to be cast iiito new ordinance this cannon was spared. In point- of size it outranks even the terrible 4 2-centimeter howitzers of the Geripans.—Kansas City Star.

Curse of Inebriety.

“Drink is bound to ruin a man’s capacity.” “Yes, Jinks can’t stand half as much as he could when he first started drinking.”— Philadelphia Ledger.

Berlin Unyielding, But Note Friendly

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Fsr fWehdy-four hours it has been under consideration. A draft of the president’s reply now is in course of preparation—the administration is moving rapidly because of the interruption of American commence with the British Isles as a result of the fear of destruction aroused by the German decree —and it will be considered by the "cabinet at a meeting today. The communication as finally approved will be cabled tonight to Ambassador Gerard for immediate presentation to Herr von Jagow, minister for foreign affairs.

The Haven Argument.

Every immigration debate rings the changes on Ipujr traditional policy of opening a haven of refuge to the oppressed of every land. Of course that is not our traditional policy. Probably in no land is there more oppression than in China, and the Japanese are the most heavily taxed people; but we are very decidedly not inviting the oppressed of those lands to swarm over to our haven. We have never hestitated to exclude immigration that seemed unprofitable to us. If our only duty with regard to immigration is to provide a haven, then obviously we ought to welcome the halt, the blind and the beggared most of all. St. Francis would have sore doubts about an eleemosynary institution that shut out, the most helpless. There are those who hold the fine and brave idea that we should keep an open door to all healthy, well intentioned white immigration, because, in the long run, that is best for us, best for humanity, and most nearly corresponds with the true democratic • ideal. Then there are those who want no restriction on the supply of cheap unskilled labor, because that is the raw material of their business. Again, there are those who believe that unrestricted immigration acts as a constant weight on the condition of labor in this country and has already reached undigestible proportions, so that, instead of quickly blending with the mass, it tends to stagnate in alien pools. Free immigration is the finer idea; but a million aliens a year, mainly from southern and eastern Europe, raise a very practical problem that can not be brushed aside by empty phrases.—Saturday Evening Post.

Chinese Story of the War.

We are indebted to L’Echo de Chine, the Shanghai journal which represents French interests in the Far East, for this very lucid account of the causes of the war. It is-thq work of a young Chinaman “with a limited knowledge of English.” ‘‘Now there is a great battle in Europe. This began because the Prince of Austria went to Serbia with his wife. * One man of Serbia killed* them. Austria was angry, and so fight Serbia. Germany write a letter to Austria, I will help you. Russia write a letter to Serbia, T will help you. France did not want to fight, but they got ready then soldiers. Germany write a letter to France. You don’t get ready or will I fight you in nine hours. Germany to fight them pass Belgium. Belgium say Tam a country. I am not a road, and Belgium write a letter to England about Germany to them. So England help Belgium.” In spite of his limited knowledge of English he gets home very neatly twice. “You don’t get ready or I will fight you in nine hours^ 1 crystallizes the mobilization terror of continental nations; and “i am a country, I am not a road,” is worthy of the most brilliant'of British epi-grammists-—although the phrase is solid truth, as few epigrams are.— Glasgow (Scotland) Herald.

Was Some Traveler.

He was a college professor, greatly beloved because of his kind heart, hut with the common scholastic failing of being very absent-minded. He visited his married niece and listened to her praise of her first born. When she paused for breatth the professor felt that he must say something. 6 “Can the little fellow Walk?” he asked, with every appearance of interest. “Walk?” cried the mother, indignantly. “Why, he’s been walking now for five months.” “Dear me!” exclaimed the prolessor, again relapsing into abstraction. “What a long way he must have gone!”—Chicago News.

Wholesale Ventilation.

A few days ago I was in^ downtown building in which one of the largest corporations in the country has its offices. The hall on that floor was crowded with men anu girls, chiefly the latter, without theii hats and outside wraps. “What is going on,” I asked the elevator man, “a fife or a strike?” “Neither,” he replied. “The company turns all its employees out of the offices for five minutes each hour of the day and opens all the windows to ventilate the rooms.”— Boston Record.

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News Text of British government’s reply to the American protest against British interference with the American commerce made public at Washington. Britain refuses all claims made by United States. Prize court will hear all protests. Civil war cases cited in reply by Sir Edward Grey. Refuse to accept responsibility for situation of American commercial and industrial interests. j. * * * Ambassador Gerard transmitted to Washington complete reply of Germany to recent note sent by United States inquiring as to what precautions Germany would take for neutral shipping in its submarine warfare against England.

The German blockade of the British Isles is on. The war zone established by the kaiser’s government became officially effective at midnight, February 17. * * * British steamer collier Dulwich, was torpedoed by a German submarine 20 miles northwest of Cape de la Heve. All but two of the Dulwich’s crew of ,31 were saved. ♦ * * German submarine 1G sank French steamer Ville de Lille off Cherbourg. The crew was saved. * * * Emperor William will apologize personally to James W. Gerard, the American ambassador to Germany, for the hostile demonstration which occurred at a Berlin theater on the evening of February 9, according to a telegram received from Berlin. ,* * * Ffench war office announces at Paris: “Our aviators have bombarded the railway station of Freiburg Im Breißgau.” This German capital is in Baden, ten miles from the Rhine. * * * The correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken reports that a Zeppelin dirigible exploded over the Danish Island of Fanoe, off the west coast of Jutland. • * * Captain Erdman, commander of the German cruiser Bluecher, who was among those rescued during the battle between British and German squadrons in the North sea January 25, died at Edinburgh of pneumonia. * * *

The total losses of the Russians in the Dubla pass battles in the Carpathians, reports from Berlin say, were at, least 50,000 killed. * * * Official statement from Berlin says Plock and Biesk are said to have been captured and 1,000 of the enemy taken prosoners. • * * Forty British and French a|p craft raided Belgian towns now used by Germans as army bases; damage to positions reported. * * * ’ Germany has notified the United States government, throiigh. Ambassador Gerard, that a stafe of “Strained relations” exists between the two nations. United States, in a note, requested assurances from Germany that American citizens and their vessels will not be molested by the naval forces of Germany around the British isles. Germany has declined to grant those assurances and reiterated the danger from submarines and floating mines to neutrals traversing the “war zone.”

Russians claim to have checked the troops of kaiser advancing from Lyck and have inflicted heavy losses upon them. In addition, it is asserted, Russian successes in the Carpathians have more than offset the temporary gains of Germans in North. Petrograd says $13,000 Austro-Germans were captured. * * * Domestic m The woman suffrage national amendment passed the house of the Massachusetts legislature by a vote of 196 to 33. It will now go to Governor Walsh for his signature. * -* * Increased demand for iron resulted in another blast furnace being lighted at the works of the Illinois Steel company at Gary, Ind. * * * An analysis of official export records issued at New York by the national automobile chamber' of commerce asserted that exportation of motor trucks in 1914 increased more than 4*12 per cent in value over 1913. Valued at $28,507,464. * * * The bill for a six months’ residence for divorcees passOd the Nevada senate, 12 to 10. , ■ * * * Eastern Ohio coal operators decided at Cleveland, 0., to open their mines under qn “open shop” system. v.* ' * [7 The senate of the New Jersey legislature passed the woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, 17 to 4. Question will be submitted to voters for acceptance or rejection in September, *

Six persons are dead and ten severely injured in a Are which destroyed the boarding house of the C. A. Smith Xumber company at Marshfield, Ore- .. v- ■ • * Seven men %ere killed and nine ethers seriously burned in a gas explosion in the Prospect colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Wilkesbarre, Pa. * * * Rev. James Morrison Darnell, former Kenosha “marrying pastor,” was arrested by federal operatives at Chicago on a charge of white slavery—violating the Mann act. Charge was transportation of Miss Ruth Soper from Owatonna, Minn., her home and his former pastorate, to Chicago, and then to Kenosha. Darnell had obtained a license in Crown Point to marry Miss Soper. * * * Three men were instantly killed by' a boiler explosion in an electric light plant at Menlo, la. The dead are: Erma Willey, M. A. Beaman and Frank Fay. \„• * * * As a result of a fight which took place at Panama, in which several Panamaian policemen and American soldiers were killed and many persons wounded, Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards sent a report to Major General Wood. Report recommends disarming of Panamaian T»oltce’and the polking, of zone with troops. Foreign

A British prize crew was placed onboard American steamer Wilhelmina. at Falmouth, England. Wilhelmina is loaded with foodstuffs bound for Germany. * * * China rejected demands of Japan twenty-one in number, and told her far eastern neighbor that she must take by force w r hat she -wants if she gets it at all. In the event of trouble the Peking government will turn to the United States for aid. * * * The Spanish government at Madrid has made applications to the powers in order to obtain joint action to end what is termed to be a state of anarchy in Mexico. Jose Caro, the minister of Spain to Mexico, is an involuntary fugitive on board the American battleship Delaware, in the harbor of Vera Cruz. Expello£ from the country by General Carranza. ♦ * * Mexican Revolt Virtually all foreign diplomats ins Mexico City have been instructed by their governments to use their own discretion about leaving the capital. Such was an announcement made by Secretary Bryan at Washington.

Sporting Joe Sherman of Memphis had at. shade on Tommy Gary of Chicago at the conclusion of ten rounds of savage slugging in a ten-round whirl at Kenosha, Wis. * * * Jimmy Anderson of Indianapolis failed to connect in his bout at Grand Rapids, Mich., with Freddie the champion. Andefson lasted through the six rounds by constant holding. * * * Bantamweight (Champion Kid Williams easily outpointed Jimmy Murray in a -six-round go at Philadelphia. * * * Personal Raymond Dupy was promoted tc the vice-presidency of the Virginian, railway, according to reports received at New .York. Francis B. Sayre of Williamstown, Mass., son-in-law of President Wilson,' is under consideration by the manager of the University of Wisconsin to succeed Dr. H. Bumpus, now president of Tufts college.

Washington There is no shortage of wheat in. the United States and no danger of s. wheat famine, according to an official; statement issued by the department of agriculture at Washington. * * * The government ship purchase bill was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 215 to 121. The measure will now go to the senate. Nineteen Democrats voted against the bill, 'Measure limits experiment to a period terminating two years after the close of the European war and provides that no ships of belligerent nations shall be purchased under circumstances which would “disturb the conditions of neutrality.” * * * * Representative Cooper of Wisconsin introduced in the house at Washington a bill appropriating $500,000 to reimburse cattle owners for expenditures caused by the quarantining of cattle at the National Dairy show in Chicago. *• * ( The Palmer bill to bar products of child labor from interstate commerce was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 232 to 44. The bill now goes to the senate. * * * Foot-and-mouth disease quarantine regulations were extended by the department of agriculture at Washington so as to include all the territory east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee in a restricted area out of which no shipments of live stock, evcept for slaughter within 48 hours, will be permitted to the south or west. * * * United States, in effect, intimated to Great Britain that Wilhelmina’s cargo ought to be released, presenting evidence it was food intended for German non-combatants.