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HE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT JA BABCOCK, EDITOR ADD PUBLISRER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1915

Chicago; one of the worst infected labor union cities in the world, is just- now •'enjoying" another big strike. This time it is the 16,000 carpenters who go otif, throwing about 1 20,000 other laboring men of allied trades, out of employment and tying up building improvements aggregating $20,66 0,0611, The .carpenters wanted an increase of pay of 5c per hour. They are now receiving 65c and wanted 70c. The empioying contractors offered them an increase of 2%c per hour, but no, it' haust. be the whole loaf or none, and I the employers are now determined j to fight them to- a finish. Labor unionism has certainly "gone to' seed" and public sentiment is no longer with these organizations. in spcaifng of the upvyurd tendency of business, the Benton Reviews says: w The New York .Stock Exchange had an exciting time last Saturday, speculation on industrial stocks being rife. The Bethlahem Steel Co., who opposed the Underwood tariff last year lead the way, going, to $1.62 from a standing start of 88c within a week or two liy a showing that it had made 30 per cent profit last year. General .Motors Co. uiaas 3 7.6 per cent on Preferred, and! has advanced by leaps and bounds. W iik ys-Overland Co. claim a profit of 2 3 per cent on Common and. 104 per cent on, Preferred. Studebaker claims 12 per cent on Common, and -36.4 on Preferred and .Maxwell 12 per cent on Preferred. As these are; the only automobile stocks ''sold on the New York Board of Trade the:y are only quofed as. an indication that other companies selling automobiles besides the Ford are

BARGAINS IN SECOND-HAND Autos i * <> 2 Ford Touring Cars, 2 Buick 5-passenger, 2cylinder cars, 1 Regal 5passenger, all in good ■ running order. Will trade ’ for live stock or sell on time with approved security. RENSSELAER GARAGE : J. W. MARLATT, Prop. j -•• —♦—♦ —♦—♦ —•—•—♦ —♦ —»

enthusiastic about ‘‘good times” in prosjiering. The Buick are very their house magazine and are no doubt making dividends like the rest of them, as they have 1,000 extra men at work.

The federal report of the investigation of taxation shows that the rise in Indiana in the last decade has been as great as in the preceding forty years. The report covers a period of fifty years, and shows that the average tax rate per SIOO of assessed valuation in Indiana was 00c in 1 SCO; $1.63 in 1870 ; $1.64 >i. 1880; $1.82 in 1800; $1.90 in 1002, and $2.40 in 1012, the last year covered by the report. In 1014, according to the state reports, the rate was practically $3.00. And yet there are some people who want to boost the rate still higher in certain localities and give the money to I rivafe corporations. ihe farmers of Gilboa held an- : i her meeting last Friday night to dismiss the schopl house question. The sentiment seemed to be opposed to the tearing down of the present building but a majority were laVorable to adding rooms to the present structure or erecting a separate building of two rooms. Some were against. a high school of any description and after discussing the matter thoroughly a committee was appointed to meet with the township officers and county superintend ent Saturday afternoon, with authorI ity to act as they saw fit. The meeti ing was held but nothing was accomplished and we understand that the township officials will go- ahead and erect a modern four-room building instead of an eight-room one as at first proposed. The building to cost about $15,000, —Benton Review.

Big Four and Monon Roads Clash Over Right of W ay.

I Lafayette, hid., April 18.—A ; i tenuous legal battle is promised i here, between the .Monon and the • Big Four Railroad Companies over J the control of the right of way of the old Wabash and Erie canal lowpath. For several days the Monon has been extending its tracks north and has reached a point where it is necessary to cross the Big Four tracks before further progress can be made. To prevent a crossing by the Monon, the Big Four has spotted strings of more than thirty cars along the track. Officials of the Big Four said that they expected an attempt to cross the right of way would be made in the near future and that they were prepared for it. Ten years ago the same roads were in a conflict over a similar question when the Monon made a Sunday morning attempt to lay a track down and were stopped when the men employed in the work, about 200 in number, were placed under arrest. • ] The Monon officials say that a survey has been made of the towpath line and that they were trying to run a switch to the packinghouse | and the strawboard plants and! other industrial plants on the river. Representative Will R. Wood has been engaged by the Monon to fight case against the Big Four Company.

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

BROOK. [From Th* Reporter.) ( —Miss Madeline Ramp spent the week-end at her home in Rensselaer. 7 Fred Phillips, the genial auction eer of Rensselaer, was in town on Wednesday. Mrs. T. L. Davis and Mrs. Ben Leopold were Chicago visitors on Wednesday. * ‘ Mrs. George Battleday visited Friday and Saturday With her daughter and husband in Attica, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Waling visited from Sunday until Tuesday with relatives near Rensselaer. Mrs. Clara La Fountain left the first of the week for Princeton, ill., where she will make her home. Miss Ethel Best of Goodland, was the guest of her cousin, Miss Madeline Ramp on Thursday and Friday. Jacob D. Rich and Rev. MacDonald have been spending the week in Scott county, where they have a fruit farm. R. G. Hough and family movfeer i-0 Morocco this week, where they will have charge of a hotel they recently purchased. Mrs. Henry Stansell returned to her home in Delphi on Tuesday after a few days’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. Hatfield. While in the south Jacob D. Rich and Rev. MacDonald traded their Scott county farm for one of 106 acres near New Albany. Mr. Ploutz returned to his home in Goodland the first of the week after a few days’ visit with his daughter, Mrs. E. Janies. * Mrs. Nealy Wilson and littre daughter returned on Monday from a week’s visit with, relatives An Rensselaer and Remington. The Misses Grace and Cecil Lyons returned from Medaryville the last of the week, where they had been attending the wedding of a cousin. Mr. and Mrs. Thorp Beagley returned on Saturday from Chicago, where they have been spending the past week with their daughter, Mrs Albert Ohman and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Janies Mauck of Kentland visited Saturday with their daughter, Mrs. Norval Corbett. Mr. and Mrs. Corbett accompanied them home on Saturday evening returning on Monday. On Wednesday J. W. Pruett and wife started for their new home In Phillips, Wis. They have a halfsection of land there which they Will improve. We are sorry to see them leave Brook but wish them success in their new home. Five auto loads of the degree team of the Itebekah lodge went to Kentland on Tuesday night to confer the Ivork on several candidates of the lodge at that place. They report. an excellent time and werro.vally entertained. Among those who will visit the Panama Exposition from Brook fills, summer are Mr, and Mrs. John Law rence and Mrs. Fred and Mrs. L. E. Lyons, They will start about the first of May and besides seeing the exp os it to n th ey will take in the general places of interest on the trip, jifhey will spend about six weeks in California. ; y. Dr. Johnson and wife will leave for their new home at Frankfort about the twentieth of this month. They have been in Brook about two years and have made many friends While here. The doctor was quite successful in his profession and leaves only because he desires to take up the work of liis father’s office in Frankfort. We wish them success in their new home. medaryville. TFrom The Advertiser.! Mrs. Jake Lizenby returned Thursday from a several days’ visit in Chicago. Twins, a boy and girl, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Linbach In Jefferson tp., April 10. L. B. Ranger and little daughter spent several days of this week in Chicago and Crown Point. J. W. Burl on and Mrs, Norma Brophey and daughter of West Point, were guests at the L. G. Baughman borne Sunday and Monday. T,he Jlonou has "taken off" the ‘‘Blue Bird” since last Sunday and passengers are hereafter allowed to ride on the freight trains, Theo. Bremer, wife and son, Harold, spent several days last week at the home of the former’s brother, Fred Bremen, of Chicago. WOLCOTT LFrom The Enterprise.] Eighteen from Wolcott attended the dance at Remington Wednesday evening. A good time was reported. Mrs. Dan Taylor went to Remington Wednesday to attend the closing day of Miss Anna Downing’s school, near there.

Mr. and Mrs. George Capes of Idaville, and Miss Greta Dunn of Remington, spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. James Pemberton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Croft went to Chicago Thursday morning to visit Mrs. Croft’s mother, Mrs. Ceofi Lanie, who is in a hospital at that place. Mrs. Croft will spend' several days there. Mrs. Fred Johnson went to Logansport Tuesday evening, where she will enter the Plummer Sanitarium for treatment for sciatic rheumatism. Mrs. Frank Seifert accompanied her to Logansport, returning home Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. iK. Delzell and daughter, Fleta, Mrs. John Dunn and Miss Berta McDonald autoed to Logansport Thursday. Miss Berta goes from there to Hartford City, to visit her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Dunn, and to Butler, Ind., to

visit friends before returning home. J. C. Dixon and Harry Kerlin or this place, and Dr. Besser and Chas. Brand of Remington, wefe in Lafayette Tuesday, conferring with Mr. Cuppy of the Lafayette exchange, with the view of improving the service here and at Remington. Eight gentlemen from Morocco, five of them the town board, and three of them water works Shard of that town, were here Tuesday inspecting our water plant. Morocco is considering the putting in of a similar system and the gentlemen were favorably impressed with the Wolcott plant. GOOULAND. [From The Herald.] Born, ro Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Weiger Friday, April 9, a ninepound girl. Mrs. Into Lewis will leave this Saturday for Edna Mills, fad., to make her home with a sister at that place. Frank Conway, who has been ill :or the past few days, was taken to the Presbyterian hospital Thursday "or an examination by Dr. Lewis. .Miss Frances Shand, teacher in the local schools, was called Roselawn Tuesday by the serious illness of her aunt, Mrs. 11. Barber. ; Mrs. Fred Williams and little daughter returned to their home in Park Ridge, 111., this week after several weeks’ visit : here with her i a rents, _ Mr. and Mrs. E, A. Perkins. John W. Keen has presented A. D. Babcock with a set of bullet moulds that were found on his farm north of the grave yard. Mr. Babcock has added this curiosity to the Goodland museum. Mrs. W. W. Evans passed away at. fer home in Fowler Tuesday. The funeral was held Thursday. The Evans, Van Xatta & Gilman stone road builders suspended work until alter the funeral; Dr. C. C. Bassett and daughter, Kathryne, in company with Mrs. Helen Galbraith left last Saturday for California, where the former will take in the big fair and the latter will visit with her; daughter, Mrs. W. C. Shekels, and husband at San Gabriel. » Word was received Thursday morning, April Bth, that Hiram Burgess, a former resident of this place, had died that morning at his late come at 917 W. 36th street in LosAngeles, Cali., following a stroke of paralysis. He was 83 years of age. Funeral services were held Saturday. Tire local Pythian Sisters’ Lodge will entertain the lodges district at a convention Friday, May 28th. A fine program is being prepared and several state officers will be here and some beautiful degree work will be given by the several visiting teams from neighboring lodges. The opera house has been secured for the night of the 28th and it will be elaborately decorated for the occasion, and a large number are expected to be present. ROSELAWN. F. M. Gephart was doing trading in Roselawn Monday. Joseph Adams of Chicago, was a Roselawn visitor Monday. Mrs. Humphrey Barbour is slowly improving from her recent berious illness. Mrs. Ed Gilvin, who lias been ill so long, is still alive, 'but very low at this time. Mr. Smith and Mr. Daizey of Chicago, were visiting their families here Sunday. ' Mary Jane Phillips spent Monday night on the farm with Miss Ethel Studer, south of town. .J. W. Crooks was a Rensselaer visitor Sunday evening with his family, returning Monday morning. F. M. Makeever of near Mt. Ayr, was a visitor at the home of his niece, Airs. Otis Phillips, Saturday. Mr. Mulder has put. down a well in the yard between his house and store and installed a new kerosene engine for the purpose of spraying liis flowers, strawberries and lawn.

Wm. Overmayer is breaking some new ground 0 n Wm'. Boyle’s farm this week. “Bill” wants to bet all the money he makes on the job that the Cubs win the pennant this year, hut when you mention the White Sox and the ejty series to him. lie ar once declares all bets off. Wednesday, April 14, .Mrs. Lavvark, mother of Jack and Wm. Lewark of Roselawn, was 73 years old, and she was very much surprised upon being ' called over to the home of her son, William, to find a dozen or more of her’ Mends and neighbors assembled there to greet her and spend the evening and wish her many more birthdays. The farmers are all busy getting plowing done,- and we will soon hear the click of the corn planter. It has been a good spring so far to get ahead with farm work around here, but we are in need of more rain. There is very little moisture in the ground and the pastures and oats are not growing as they should at this time of year. The social help by the ladies of the M. E. church Saturday evening, was a success both socially and financially. The musical program was enjoyed by all present, but the treat of the evening was the reading by Miss Vera Bess, who read from the life of Jean Valjean. This was the first occasion peaple have had of hearing Miss Bess and the ladies of the church wish to express their gratitude to her for her splendia service so willingly rendered. Proceeds of the evening, $23.00. |

Ileal Estate. Transfers. George W. Casey et ux to James H. Myers, April 17, pt 2 y z sw, 28 28-7, 20 acres, Jordan, $2,000. John W. Smith to Bertha Smith, July 10, 1913, It 2, bl 8, Rensselaer, Weston’s-2d add, s2.^, Alexander Hurley et al to John Daniels, Dec. 17, it 1, bl 12, Rensselaer, SSOO.

CERTIFICATE OF ENROLLMENT. Sound PURE BREED Stallion No. 17. (Standard Bred.) (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter, 28) The pedigree of the stallion BEN LEVEY, No. 38717 American. Owned by Orson Peck, P. 0., Mt. Ayr, Ind., County Newton, described as follows: Color and marks: Black, white left hind foot. Breed: Standard bred. Foaled in the year 1901, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby certified that the said sthllion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in the American Trotting Register Stud Book. The above Stallion has been examined by Dr. J. N. McPhail, Morocco, Ind., a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit. to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. CHARLES W. HICKMAN, President.

FOR SALE For Sale—Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18 tj 45 bushels, followed by a crop of cow peas which makes from $25 to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hag flesh as an acre of c,qrn. Go there and see if we have told the truth; If we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly improved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location and improvements. Terms:. Onethird down, balance on time at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of the finest farming country in the world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi county comprises 265,000 acres of fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and In fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for general neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has great thrift and enterprise, Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants own their own homes. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons. They have the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 475., Rensselaer, Ind. . For Sale—White Holland turkey eggs from prize-winning strain.— MRS. F. P. MORTON, Monon, Ind., R-18. For Sale—2,o 00 white oak posts, SB.OO per hundred.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, phone Mt. Ayr, 54-C. t s For Sale—Second-hand top buggy in good condition, will be sold cheap. -—LEO WORLAND, phone 307. For Sale—Good work team, good in all harness; also set of heavy work harness, good as new.—C. W. DUVALL, phone 147. a-26 For Sale—White graded seed corn, $2. * p per ■ bushel, 5 % -miles south and i/ 2 mile west of Rensselaer CHARLES GUTTRICH, phone 928-J. For Sale'—Barred Rock eggs from three grand yards containing my Ist prize cockerel, Ist hen, Ist, 2d, 3d pullets, Ist pen at the Logansport Fanciers’ show.—MßS. D. A. BICKEL, Remington, Ind. For Sale—2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, chicken house and park, good well and cistern, all kinds of fruit, cheap for quick sale.—Enquire at HEMPHILL BROS.’S BLACKSMITH SHOP. For Sale—Eggs from pure bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1.50 per 15; $4.50 Per 50; $8 per 100. These are from all good quality pullets, headed by show birds. Eggs from pure bred Mammoth Pekin ducks, $1 per 11.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. m _2 lor Sale—36o acres good corn and grain land, 20 acres timber, rest in cultivation and pasture; 7-room b arns > cribs and other outbuildings; good drilled well; orchard; 1 mile west and 5 miles south oE Tefft, y 2 mile of new stone road, R. F. D., i mile from school, l h miles fj-om two churches. Reason for selling, too old to farm longer. Free of incumbrance. Terms o°a T T )Urf, baser.— CHRISTOPHER I SALRIN, Tefft, Ind., R-l, Box 58.! m-12 i F u r J? a,e Cheap—Owing to my 1 husbands long continued sicknessi

C. M. McCONNELL, Vice-President. (SEAL) Not good unless countersigned by D. O. THOMPSON, Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 12th day of January, 1914. Renewed January 18, 1915. Void after January l, 1916. Stand for 1915. Mondays—At Koons’ brick livery barn in Brook. Tuesdays and Wednesdays—At James Bartholmew’s hitch barn, Morocco. Thursdays—At Mt. Ayr. Friday and Saturdays—At Hemphill’s Stallion Barn, Rensselaer. Terms—sls.oo to insure colt to stand and suck; $12.50 to insure mare to be in foal. Moving from county or disposing of mare, service fee become due and payable at once. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. ORSON PECK, OwneT and Mgr. Subscribe for The Democrat.

we wish to sell our residence property on Forest street, lot 71%xl80; 7-room house, electric lights, cellar, cistern, splendid drilled well, barn, 2 hen houses and parks, all in good condition; fruit and strawberries.— See MRS. J. W. KING, or J. C. Passons, phone 132. Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidieb brand, also caibon papers of the same make, on sale at The Democrat office. For Sale—Clover and timothy seed, stovewood, cordwood, oak lumber and bridge pIank.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, phone 37-K Mt. Ayr. a -19 For Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not billy and is easy to work. House recently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y. WANTED Wanted—Your lawn mowers to sharpen, at the jail.—LEN GRIGGS, phone 509 or 533. Wanted—Work at gardening, house cleaning, etc.—J. T. HUSTON phone 133. Wanted—Girl for general house-work.—-Phone 409 or address Lock Box 693, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted—Experienced girl for general housework. No laundry MRS. H. R. KITRRIE, phone 286.’

Wanted—To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent Interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office, FOR RENT 1-or Rent—My house on River street.—MAßY JANE HOPKINS. MISCELLANEOUS Estray Taken Up—Came to my Place in Newton tp., about Feb 1, a yearling calf. Owner may have same by paying charges and proving ownership.—CAS COX, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 21-D Mt. Ayr. i Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Painting Wanted—l am again prepared to do painting either by joo or day, and in town or country Have my own means of conveyance. —C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensselaer - a-6 Auto Livery—“Frenchy” Deschand, A new car just purchased. Will drive any where at any time. Phone 319, FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance—Fire and lighter 11 ?’ -^ lso state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—l can procure you a nve-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans—-Money to loan os *^ r n m ftftA r ° P^ ty ln any wmi HP to slo,ooo.—e, p. Honan. Farm Loans—l am making fans loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ? ——-‘: „ • • . I flftt thnl wlthout Dtela3r * if HI HIP Without Com mis* on, .«-P.U!. I Without Charges sos II UtV Maklng or Recording 111 Hill Tn9trum ents. IIIUIIL I W. H. PARKDTBOS 1