Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Page 8

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FAIR OAKS. Health is quite good in our town, except for a few colds. Ira Bozell is visiting relatives down about Edinburg this week. C, B. Stewart of Rensselaer, was in our town Thursday on business. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Sam Potts’ residence Wednesday evening, with a good turnout. W. S. McConnell has a hunch of men at work building a corn crib, hog shed, hen houses, etc., on bis farm east of town. Rev. Postill delivered another one of his all-convjncing sermons in the M. E. church Sunday, and took into the church three new members. Carl Carpenter purchased and moved into Grandma Brouhard’s property this week: She will- go to live with a daughter down about Sheridan.

The report oarne a few days ago from Longeliff that Miss Fawn Casey, ■Who was taken there some time ago, ihad undergone a surgical operation and since then had much improved and was on the road to recovery. That sounds good. The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. Hillis, of the Hillis ranch, died Wednesday morning of a complication of diseases. It was but three or four months old. They took it to Greencastle Thursday for interment. There was a large crowd of sympathizing friends gathered In and: followed the remains of William Man Cleve to the depot Sunday. A large turnout of Odd Fellows from Parr led the procession. The body was shipped to -Sheridan for burial'. Floyd Baxter, who has been living on section 22 'on Ahe Otis ranch for several years, will move in a few days' to the Otis home ranch near Roselawn. John Walstra Will occupy the place which Baxter vacates. Monday night, while it was raining, a fellow by the name of Myers ■who had worked for G. H. Hillis, on the ranch a year ago, slipped into -Mr. Hillis’ barn and stole two heavy draft horses, one driver, four sets of harness and a buggy. When the;v discovered it in the morning, they 1 got busy with telephones and Mr. Hillis and Will Odell pressed the latter’s runabout into service. They tracked him away out between Hopkins Park and Momence, where they overtook him. They took possession of the stuff and hiked Myers off to Kentland to be taken care of.

LEE ’•* C. A. Better lost a good two-year-

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old colt a short time ago very suddenly; Alvin Clark and family spent Sunday at Charley McCashen’s. A. B. and family of Remington, were here last Sunday, calling on relatives. - The young people did choir practice Wednesday- evening at Miss Chloe Overton's. The Ledies’ Aid did quite well serving dinner at Kelley and Miller’s sale Wednesday. Leona Snedeker visited during the past week with her grandfather Miller and family of Medaryville. Brooks Snedeker and family and Fred Stiers and wife went from Sunday school to H. C. Anderson’s for dinner. , Frank Overton was called to Walnut, lowa, to attend the funeral of his grandmother Overton, during the past week. G. A. Jacks and wife and his sisters, Mrs. C. A. Lefler and Mrs. Jos-eph-Clark, and his neice, Mrs. Gifford Mars, went in the former’s auto to Remington last Sunday afternoon to see their uncle, Edward Gulp, who has very poor health.

McCOYSBURG. Moving is the order of the day. Miss Dora Platt spent Thursdaynight with Josie Stultz. Josie Stultz spent Wednesday afternoon with Sadie and Grace Herr. The Ladies’ Aid met with Mrs. Frank Ringeisen Wednesday afternoon and did sewing. Grandma Robinson spent Wednesday afternoon with her granddaughter. Mrs, Paul Stephens. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barker, and* family of Zadoc, are moving in with Levi Herr at this writing. The surprise given for Cletus Ray last Friday night was well attended and all enjoyed a fine time. Mr, And Mrs. Wash Lowman and family have moved oil til? farm recently occupied by Russell WilletS. Mrs. 0. E. Hitchings, Mrs. R. L. Bussell and Mrs. R. c. McDonald spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs, Wm. McDonald. t Mrs, Owen Barker and children and Mrs. Charles Ferguson and children spent Thursday evening with ivTt-s. Charles Stultz. Mrs. J. R. Phillips and mother, and Mrs. Jake Ray-, Mrs. Paul Stephens and baby and Mrs. T. B. Stevenson and daughter spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Charles Stultz.

Go No Farther The Evidence Is At Your Door. Rensselaer proof is what you want and the statement of this highly respected resident will banish all doubt. Charles Malchow, Harvey street., Rensselaer, says: “Kidney complaint and backache kept me in misery for years. The pain from miy back extended through ray shoulders and wen into my neck. The kidney secretions annoyed me by their irregularity in passage and proved that mv kidneys were at fault. I got Doan’s Kidney Pills at Fendig’s drug store and alter taking a few doses, I knew that I had at last found the medicine 1 needed. My kidneys were strengthened and the pains in my back were removed. I have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills since then, when having similar attacks and I have never failed to get relief.” Price 50e, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—-get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Malchow had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, X. Y.—Advt.

Mrs. Wm. McDonald, Misses Miles, Dora Platt, Alice Stevenson,, Sadie and Gracie Herr and Josie Stultz called on Mrs. D. W. Johnson and bid her a farewell Sunday afternoon.

POSSUM RUN. Warmer weather, please. Mrs. G. H. Comer is on the sick list this week; Mr. and Mrs. William Polleck were Rensselaer callers Tuesday. Orpha Parker called on Mrs. William Polleck Monday morning. Charley Parker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker of Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker spent Sunday with .Mr .and Mrs. John McCurtain. Mr. and Mrs. John McCurtain called on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. George Heil spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Comer and family.

FOUR CORNERS. The dredge people are building two more boats to use on their river contract. Mrs. F. W. Fisher returned home Thursday from a week’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Lee Noland, of near Lee, White COUhiy.

why the stars twinkle.

The Light of the Heavenly Bodies Is Bent in Its Passage Through t,he Atmosphere. The question of childhood: “What makes the stars twinkle?” was answered probably by a bit of verse- or poetic fancy. But men asking the same question sought a scientific explanation and found it. Although we live upon its surface, we are not outside of the earth, but at the bottom of a sea of air which forms the earth’s outermost layer and extends above our heads to a height of many miles. We cannot see the stars save as we look through this atmosphere, and the light which comes through it is bent and oftentimes distorted so as to present serious obstacles to any- accurate telescopic study of the heavenly bodies. Frequently this disturbance is visible to the naked eye, and the stars are said to twinkle, i. e., to quiver and change color many times a second, solely in consequence of a disturbed condition of the air and not from anything which goes on in the star.

This effect is more marked low down in the sky than near the zenith. It is worth nothing that the planets show very little of it because the light they send to earth comes from a disk of sensible area, while a star, being much smaller and farther from the earth, has its disk reduced practically to a mere point whose light is more easily affected by local disturbances in the atmosphere than is the broader beam which comes from the planet’s disk. At all times, whether the stars twinkle or not, their light is bent in its passage through the atmosphere so that the stars hppear to stand higher up in the sky than their true positions. To the atmosphere with its suspended dust and vapor is due, also, that lengthening of day that we call twilight. Have you ever seen the twilight arch rise up in the eastern sky. just after sunset? Look for it from a hilltop or some other place with an open view to the east. —Wisconsin Bulletin.

Doing His Best.

A line of ragged little boys was ranged down the-center of the school for exercise. "Toe the line!” commanded the master. A shuffling indicated obedience. The master inspected the line approvingly until his eye rested on an urchin so far behind the others as to be almost out of sight. “Price,” he shouted, “why don’t you toe the line?” “Pleath, thir, I am toein’ it,” lisped the boy, ‘but I got dad’th boot’th on!”—Chicago Journal. '

Our Prices of Shoes.

4 new shoes, common, $1.50; 4 new 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 BEOS.

POST OFFICE AT LADOGA ROBBED

S6OO Worth of Stamps Are Obtained by Safe Blowers. V EXPLOSION AROUSES CITIZENS Charge of Nitroglycerin Blows Off; Outer Door of Safe, but Inner Compartment Was Not Opened —No Money Taken. Ladoga. Safe blowers obtained S6OO worth of stamps when they wrecked the safe in the post office here. Citizens aroused by the explosion, which damaged the building, arrived too late to capture the yeggs. The charge of nitroglycerine blew off the outer door of the safe but the inner compartment, where the money was kept, was not opened. The post office has been robbed twice in five months.

; Swindlers Visit Laporte. Laporte.—Two swindlers who gave their names as George Bennett and H. N. Stegman came to this city, and after renting one of the best houses in the city on representation that their families would arrive later, made extensive purchases of furniture and other expensive household equipment and merchants were busy delivering the goods at the supposed home of the new families. The two men paid for their purchases with checks which in each case exceeded the amount of the purchase,-the balance being paid them in cash. When the banks opened the checks were found to be worthless, w’hile the swindlers had safely gotten out of town. Reports to the police indicate that the same men v r orked the swindle in a number of Illinois, Ohio gnd Indiana cities and towns.

Rob Wabash Passenger Depot. Lafayette.—-Burglars entered ( the of the Wabash passenger depot while the agent was out and carried away more than S2OO in currency. The police of Lafayette, Delphi, Logansport and Danville are searching for the robber. It is the opinion of the local police that an organized gang has been working in this vicinity for months. Ten passenger stations have been robbed within a radius of 50 miles of Lafayette in the past three months.

Conference palled for Auburn Session. Laporte.—The North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was called to meet at Auburn, beginning April 7 and continuing for five days. Bishop W. F. McDowell of Chicago will preside at the sessions of the clergymen, while George Morgan of Lagrange will preside at the meeting of laymen. Three hundred clergymen will attend, while an equal number of laymen from nearly 300 churches, which form the conference, will participate. ‘ : Thrown in Front of Auto; Killed. Bedford. —Charles Iluskens, ag six-ty-eight, of Mitchell, was killed when he was run down by an automobile driven by John Stipp, a colored chauffer for Mrs. A. C. Voris. Huskens was driving a mule and when the animal became frightened at the approach of the automobile, he got out of his buggy, going to the mule's head. The animal suddenly lunged across the road, throwing Huskens in front of the machine. He leaves a widow

Farmer Killed by Train. Rochester.—Frank Anderson, six-ty-four years old, a farmer living near 'Rochester, was instantly killed when the wagon in -which he Was riding was struck by a Lake Erie passenger train. The team was also killed, the train dragging the wagon more than 300 feet. Three children were riding in a buggy, which was tied on behind the wagon. They were not injured. s> Memorial for Late Judge Powers. Angola.—Memorial services for the late Frank M. Powers, Indiana appellate judge, were held in the Steuben circuit court. Circuit Judge Dan M. Link, the successor of Mr. Powers on the local bench, presented resolutions extolling the late Judge Powers. John G. Yeagley of South Bend, former law partner of Mr. Powers, delivered the principal address. Wife-Slayer Tries Suicide. Washington. Clifton H. Baum, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife, was started to the stfate prison by Sheriff Harmon. Baum was still 111 from the effects of an attempt at suicide, when he swallowed nearly a pint of disinfectant used to kill insects in the jail. Prompt medical attention saved his life. J Electrician Killed In Mine, Sullivan. —William F. Theiling of Covington, Ky., an expert electrician employed by a Chicago manufacturing concern, was Instantly killed at the Paxton mine of the Woolery Coal company, near here, when In dodging two motor cars he stepped In front of a cut of mine cars. Baby Is Scalded to Death. Peru. —The infant son of ML and Mrs. Frank Ellers of McGrawsville fell into a bucket of boiling chicken feed and was scalded to death.

INDIANA BREVITIES

South Bend. —Charles Patterson, thirty years old, of Battle Creek, Mich., a salesman, was killed here by a New York Central train. South Bend. —Fire caused about SI,OOO damage to the Majestic theater in the downtown district The blaze was the second serious one in the /theater in the last year. The Eagles’ cflub room was damaged slightly. * Kokomo.—Leslie M. Hall, pastor of the Methodist church at West Middleton, was instantly killed and his wife fatally injured when a cut of freight cars struck their buggy in the southwestern part of the city.

Terre Haute—Michael O’Callahan, fifty years old, a traveling salesman from Boston, Mass., fell dead in the lobby of the Albert hotel. Death was due to an overdose of headache powders. Relatives living in South Charleston, a Boston suburb, will come for the body. Terre Haute.—Rev. George Darsie tendered his resignation as minister of the Central Christian Church to accept a call to the pulpit of the First Christian church of Portland, Ore. Mr. Darsie came to Terre Haute five years ago and built up one of the strongest congregations in the city.

Alexandria.—Five or six hundred laymen and ministers will attend the district conference of the Methodist church in this city March 1, 2 and 3. The program includes some of the best speakers of the Methodist church, including Bishop William F. McDowell, Bishop William F. Oldham and Dr. Edgar Blake. ' * Hammond.—Clinton C. Young, aged thirty-one, was/mysteriously shot to death at Clymers, east of Crown Point, at the crossing of the Pan Handle and Vandalia. Young was found in the caboose of a freight train, shot through the breast by a switchman. The Only iaowp motive for the shooting is robbery. Washington. Clifton Baum, who killed his wife by firing two shots into her back, will plead insanity when his trial begins. Arthur H. Greenwood, whom the court appointed to defend Baum, filed a special plea of insanity in the case, contending that Baum was insane when he sho| his wife. Baum was adjudged insane here seweral years ago and sent to the hospital for the insane at Evansville, but he says he escaped from that institution.

Franklin. —The annual meeting of the Knights of Pythias of the Fifteenth district will be held in this city Friday. An address will be made by James E. Watson of Rushville, supreme representative, on “The Age of Fraternity.” Talks will be made by J. B. Lemasters of Greenwood, deputy grand chancellor; Robert A. Brown, grand chancellor, and Charles F. Remy of . Columbus, grand vice-chancellor. Hesperian lodge, No. 12, will confer the rank of Knight. There are 27 lodges in this district. Lafayette.—Crazed, it is said, by repeated abuse and persecution to which she is said to have been subjected by her tuisband, Mrs. Anna Ward, age thirty, living at Norway, White county, saturated her clothing with oil and then set fire to it. Before the flames could be extinguished she was terribly burned. There is no hope of her recovery. She has been twice married, her former venture also being an unhappy one. It is charged that her husband, while intoxicated, beat her, and wrenched one of her arms out of place.

Bloomington—Dr. Charles Scribner, fifty-eight years ofd, for thirty years a practicing physician of Louisville, Ky., died here while on a visit to his brother George Scribner, formerly of Indianapolis. Death was due to Bright’s disease. Dr. Scribner was a native of New Albany and a graduate of the Louisville Medical college. Before taking up the practice of medicine ke was proprietor of the City Hall pharmacy .at Louisville. He is survived by his brother George and two sisters. Miss Mary Scribner of Chicago and Mrs. Harry Middleton of Baltimore, Md.

Connersville.—Paul Atkins, twentynine, who had been released from a penitentiary In Kentucky for wife desertion, is under arrest, here on a warrant charging him with forging a check for sl2 on Thomas O’Brien, a saloonkeeper of Connersville, in 1912. A grand jury indictment was returned against him soon after the passing of the check, but he never wat tried at Connersville on that charge. Frank M. Edwards, prosecutor here, has been advised by relatives of Atkitas in Kentucky to prosecute him on the old charge of wife desertion. After deserting his wife at Richmond he married a woman living in this city. At the time the indictment was returned against him here he was wanted in Kentucky on the wife desertion charge. Lafayette.—Thirty-seven dogs were killed in the town of Dayton, east of here, on account of an epidemic of rabies there. Word was received from the state laboratory at Indianapolis that the dog belonging to Rev. J. W. Hanger, the Methodißt minister, was suffering' with rabies. The animal several days ago attacked Mrs. Hanger, then bit two boys and also a number of dogs in the village. The wholesale slaughter of dogs was the result of this occurrence. It is feafied that several persons have been affect T ed, and three are undergoing the Pasteur treatment.

JAPAN WAIVES TERMS

REPORTED DROPPING “FORPRESENT” CHIEF DEMANDS ON CIINA. * Conferees of Two Powers Apear Near Adjustment of All Differences. Peking, .Feb. 26. —Distinct impovement in the outlook for adjustmen of the differences between China aid Japan was disclosed. The conferences between representatives of the tTo nations apparently were progressing toward a compromise. It was revealed that the Japanese government had given indications, regarded as definite, that it would nob insist, for the present on the group of 1 general demands which it presented. These included the chiefs points on. which China based her resistance to the representations from Tokio. Notwithstanding this prospect of an, agreement, official press dispatches say that excitement continues in various parts of the country. The Japanese garrison at Hankow is reported to have erected intreiMdunents.. about its barracks.

FRENCH MOW DOWN FOES

Report Inflicting Heavy Loss on Germans Near Mesnil, Where Allies Capture Teuton Work. London, Feb. 2G.—Fresh successes* are reported in the battle report issued A)y the French war office. “We have captured a German work north of Mesnil,” says the statement, “Inflicted heavy losses on and dispersed by our fire a column on the march southeast of Tahure, silenced the fire of a hostile battery and blown up several caissons. “Between the Argonne and the Meuse, in the Cheppy wood, we made further progress. Our heavy artillery destroyed armored shelters. “In the region of Souain and Beausejour operations continue under conditions favorable fdr us.” The official report by wireless front Berlin gives the German claims as follows: “In Champagne the enemy continued his desperate efforts, which, in spite of the strong forces engaged, . were again without success.”

9,898,000 Men in German Army.

London, Feb. 26.—Germany’s total army of trained and untrained men. consists of 9,898,000 soldiers, according to an announcement made by Under Secretary of State for War Tennant in parliament.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Feb. 26. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. May 1.55-55% 1.57% 1.53 1.53% July 1.27%-2S 1.29% 1.24% 1.25% CornMay ....74%-%- .75% .72% .72% July 76%-% .77% .74% .74%-% Oats— May ..57%-% .58%-% .56%-% .56% July 53%-% .55% .53% .53%-%-. FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $7.80 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patent, $7.20®>7.50; jute, straight, [email protected]; first clears, jute,. [email protected]; low grade. Jute, [email protected]; soft, wheat, patents, [email protected]; jute, rye flour, white, patents, [email protected]; dark, [email protected]. HAY—Market steady; choice timothy,. [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No.. 2 and No. 1 mixed, [email protected]; No. 3 and:. No. 2 mixed. [email protected]; thrashed timothy, [email protected]; clover, [email protected]; heated and' no grade, [email protected]; alfalfa, choice, slß.oo® 18.50; alfalfa. No. 2, [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery, extra, 29%c; extra, firsts, 25%@29c; firsts. 26@27c; seconds, 24® " 25C; packing stock, 18%@19c; fadles, 20c. EGGS —Miscellaneous lots, cases included, 20@22c; cases returned, 19%@21%c; ordinary firsts, 21@21%c; firsts, 22%c; extras* 26c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, l»c per lb.; chickens, fowls, 14c; springs, 15%c; srtaggy and spurs, 12%c; roosters, 10%c; ducksi IST ©l6c; geese, U@lsc. DRESSED POULTRY—Dressed turkeys; 17%c; chickens, fowls, ll@14c; springs, 11®# 14c; roosters, ll@12c; ducks, 12%@15c; geese* 10@12%c. POTATOES—Wisconsin, white stock, 3% @43e; red, 37@40c; Michigan, white. 40@42cr. red, 37@40c. New York, Feb. 25. FLOUR—Market steady. WHEAT—Spot flrtn; No. 2 red, $1.62 and? No. 2 hard, $1.66, all rail c. 1. f. track export; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.58, and No. 1 northern Manitoba, $1.65% c. i. f. Buffalo. Futures 'firmer; May, $1.62. CORN—Spot firm; No. 2 yellow, 84%c c.. 1. f. to arrive. OATS—Spot steady. Live Stock. Chicago, Feb. 25. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, $7.00© • 8.75: yearlings, good to choice, [email protected] Inferior steers, [email protected]; medium to good, beef cows, [email protected]»; fair to choice [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $6.00@*.75; bolognas, $6.00©. 6.00; good to choice calves. [email protected]; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, $6.76©6.90;' fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 250@270 lbs., $6.66© 6.85; prime heavy butchers, 270©340 lbs.* $6.60®*.75; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, $6.50®6.65: pigs, fair to good, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 25. CALVES—Market active; cull to choice, 1 [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS -Market active*. lambs 25c higher; choice lambs, $9.50©10.00; cull to fa.tr, $5.00®9.00; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep. [email protected]. HOGS—Market slow; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $7.50©)7.60; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, [email protected]; stags, $4.50© 5.00. 7 Omaha, Feb. 25. HOGS—Market Steady; heavy, $6.60©6.60* light, $6-450)6.57%; pigs, [email protected]; bulk. [email protected]. CATTLE—Market steady; native beef steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $5.00© 7.00; 1 western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; tows and heifers, $4.76© 6.50; calves, [email protected]. SHEEP—Market steady; yearlings, $7.50 @8.25: wethers. $6.50@7,25; lambs. $3.25©9.00.