Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1915 — Page 2

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1 JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F.!. BABCOCK, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Glass Mail Matter June 8,190 S, at the postoffiee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. . Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915

THE ROBERTS IMPEACHMENT

Bv a vote of 7 to H the council ot Terre Haute voted that Roberts was guilty on thirteen charges, and removed him, from office. Councilman Monninger asked a Roberts attorney whether he thought that "a city of fid, oo, i inhabitants should be governe;! ,jy a man who is serving sentence in prison on conviction of a! felony," and said further, "we are' «*?t kicking Roberts out of. offieeJ tlie Caited district court didj that." The only question—and this is largely technical—is whether Tni-j peachment was necessary in order: to vacate the office. The. governor j of the state apparently thinks not, t; for Saturday he appointed a successor to Tommy Smith, late judge of! the Terre Haute city court, who has not been impeached. Governor Ralston is said to hold that as Smith was a municipal officer, his conviction in the federal court automatically removed him .from office. He certainly has, in appointing a successor, acted on that theory. Nevertheless, it is greatly to the credit of Terre Haute and its council that the Roberts case was so promptly dealt with. No community could submit to the shame of having its government administered from a prison cell. Not only that, hut it would not consent even to have it suspected that it approved such a thing. So the vote of the council of Terre Haute will do much to set the city and its people right with the world. Of course, Roberts was never fit "to be mayor. The evidence given

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during the recent trial only served to show hoiv terribly unfit he was. But it should never be forgotten tHat the system of which he was the inspiration will always work out into substantially the same results.That must be utterly destroyed and rcoted out if we are ever in this country to have anything approaching decent municipal government. But for that system Roberts could not have maintained himself for twenty-four hours. Jt was that, indeed, that made it impossible to (leal wrh him in the local courts. Mid necessitated an appeal to the federal authority. But for Judge Anderson and District Attorney Dailey, Roberts would still, as far as any one can see, lie mayor of Terre Haute. But now, a- we have said before, the city has i s chance. It can clean itself up if it cares to do so. A UO> d beginning has been made in the impeachment of Roberts. The >.ew mayor promises well. We trust that he will live up to his promises, ■ nd that the people will sustain him. 7 lie ground has been cleared. It is for the people to say whether they will build thereon. It ’is possible low to make Terre Haute as decent as it lias heretofore been shameless. If is at least rid of Donii Roberts.— Indianapolis News.

WALT MASON

Tlie Poet Philosopher. The balmy spring should stir up all men to labors sane, but over there in Yurrnp they’re planting men, not grain. The plow’s unused and dusty, with rust the hoe is red; the cultivator trusty stands idle in the shed. Red is the stream that j washes its pathway to (he sea; I they re planting men, not squashes —-what shall the harvest be? They’re planting men, not pumpkins, bej heath the bright spring sky; they’re j sowing poor -dead bumpkins who | fought and knew not why; they’re j planting men in iarrows, among the clods and stones, and there the gopher harrows among the soldiers’ hones. Oh, what a foolish sowing, I.uropc s sodden plain, while here the crops are growing in sun and wind and rain! In this fair land the farmer is sowing wheat with drills; o'er there the gents in armor are planting men in hills; they plant, the peasant’s yard in, the victims of their biffs, the common or the garden variety of stiffs. Oh, Europe, old and hoary, you ought to have more sense; your agriculture gory, that’s now in evidence, is wicked, vain and foolish; the seed is out of style; the tools you use are ghoulish, the crops you’ll raise are vile.

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The republican editors of the Tenth district held a love feast at Alary Saturday night. The Premier Motor Manufacturing Gpmpany’s plant in Indianapolis was practically destroyed by fire Saturday night, ; The "wets" were victorious in an election held at Elkhart Monday by the" small majority of ios votes. A total of .7,088 votes Were cast. Elkha: t has 22 saloons. | Cyrus Rice of Remington, wnose dirst. Wife obtained a divorce from' f fin at the present term of the Jasper circuit court, was married last week . in Illinois, to Miss Maggie Mehin, : also pi’ fir m:; •-■ton. ~ - The sale of auto licenses-in the' office of the secretary of state has' already exceeded in number the total ! sales for last year. The mark of GO, 300 licenses issued last year was J exceeded last week and the secretary! believes that this year will see many: thousands of licenses issued abovelast yearle total. - John Burn;", the famous ‘‘movie” comedian, died at his home in Brooklyn, .Monday. He had been ill for about three weeks of a complication of diseases. He was 52 years old. Mr. Bunny will be missed by the “movie" patrons as his antics always created a laugh when he appeared oh the screen. Governor Ralston has appointed R. V. Newton to succeed Judge Thomas Smith as city judge of Terre Haute, and the attorney general has tiled impeachment proceedings in the supreme court to oust circuit judge Eli Redman. Roth Smith and icedman are sojourning at Ft. Leavenworth with Donn M. Roberts. By a vote of 7 to 3 the Terre Haute city council voted to oust Bonn M. Roberts as mayor Saturday iL the impeachment trial that lasted two days. Roberts, who is now in federal prison at Ft. Leaven-1 worth serving a six years sentence for election conspiracies, was found guilty by the Council on thirteen charges. The su jsidy election held in Jackson and Beaver ‘ o’whs-hip?, - Newton county, Saturday, to vote a bonus to the I. a layette & Nor: h western ra:!road, was carried in both townships. Jackson tp., in whicb is located Gte town of .Ml. Ayr, returned i a majority of 30 for, out 220 votes mis; ; Beaver tp., including the town Oi Morocco, gave a majority of 257 j for the project out of a total of j 127 votes cast. | Bert Everrnan, formerly manager I of the county farm, deserted his wife and three young children on March H last, and his whereabouts were unknown until last week when Mrs. Hverman received a letter from him saving that he had left for good. A warrant was issued for his arrest last Thursday and deputy sheriff 1 lodine brought him back to Fowler Friday. He was working on a farm in Posey county. Saturday he was released under SSOO bond, furnished by Bert Sheetz and Walter Iloffine, for his appearance in the circuit court on a charge of wife desertion The ; ease will come up the next term of court. He returned to Posey county Saturday afternoon.— Benton Review. ■ ■

J. Cecil Alter Writes of Air Craft Stunts. •I. Cecil Alter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Alter of Union tp., Jasper county, who has been in the IT. S. weather bureau service at Salt Lake City for many years and is now in charge of the bureau’s exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition, writes his parents regarding Lincoln Peachy, the noted aviator who was recently killed while giving an exhibition at the fair, and of his successor, Art Smith, which letter The Democrat is permitted to publish, and same follows below: San Francisco, Cal., April 5, ’ls. Dear Ones at Home: Yes, we were well acquainted with Lincoln Beachy and his work; we had seen him fly at a hundred horizontal miles an hour, just like a bullet; we had seen him go so high his motor no longer roared—which usually made more noise at forty rods than a threshing separator to a man lying underneath—and we had seen him in all his wonderful loops; terrible thrills they were at first, but later we came to be unmoved by them and many a time I have stopped talking weather bureau and told my hearers that the noise they heard was Beachy, flying above the exhibit palaces; one' or two loops was all our fluttering hearts could stand at first, but later we became

hardened just as he did, and we ceased to shudder until he had made his sixth or seventh loop in succession and started on another. However, his earthward glides were ever thrilling, and ever will be, no matter who does it, nor how often it is done. When he started falling toward the soil from three or four thousand feet and with his motor still, and not a sound but the whirr of the air through his wired frame, we all held our breath, every time! He fell like a rock, faster and faster and faster until just as the blood was filling our eyes and faces in amazement, the apparently breathless Beachy would suddenly “bank’ his machine against the air, by tipping the tail pieces a trifle, and glide horizontally to a running .stop on the grass' on his large-tired, rubber wheels,: IJe never fell straight down, but affc-r starting vertical, would invariably take a backward slant, so that a person directly beneath him could read the big letters “BEACH Y” printed across the top of , the top •■■’plane. That was wonderful: That he could, comet three . thousand feet at probably 150 miles an hour downward and get ,his breath was also a marvel; that he was not benumbed. or beside himself and thus forget to “bank’’ for the horizontal turn at the proper timewas also wonderful—a predecessor lost his presence of mind in Texas one time, and dived two feet Into the hard soil. • . ' - And still another marvel was how that boy—he was less than thirty i should judge from his face—could hit La Marina, a grass sward So rods long and ten rods wide—but he hit it square im the middle, at one end every time, no matter how high he was when he let go aloft. I shall never forget his wonderful feats, nor his kind, modest manners and the matter of fact way in which lie attended to matters. No shinj tights for him, he dressed in a business suit like anybody; wore a cap, and got ; into the machine just that way; on Iy. no olie ever prepared to get easy for craning his neck till Beachy took his cap carefully in both hands and placed-the peak to the back and pulled it far down over his ears. Then he was off instantly. He. would leave the ground in from 20 to 50 feet and when a hundred yards away, and 50 to 100 feet up, he always let go and waved both hands wildly, just to show that matters were O. K. with him, and that lie would soon be back. • Xo. I never met him, I didn’t mean to infer that when I say we knew him-—I have been no nearer him than a hundred feet or so, but we always watched his actions so closely that we felt as if we knew him personally. But here is what made me think of it; we had a new one today—a new aviator thrill—by Art Smith, and he is some aviator too. He can hover fly prettier than Beachy, and never can do the death drop better, but today when Smith was about TOOO. or 3,500 feet in the air, in a thirty mile wind, in which we on the earth had to hold our hats firmly, Smith ducked slightly, as did Beachy, ’Prior, to making the vertical climb in his loop, and let go a smoking fire brand at one end of his machine;; and He looped, the smoke tail following ever so pretty. He was carried put of the vertical several times by the wind,, but didn’t seem 1<) mind it, then, beginning at the fifth lobp, blessed if he wasn't whirling ’round and: round in a horizontal circle, one pair of planes pointing directly to earth and the other pair in the zenith, and round and‘round he went falling slowly till he* had completed about twelve loops. When we realized through our tear filled, wind blown eyes that he had a smoky spiral a thousand feet long following him, thrown in twelve pretty loops or spirals, giving a map °f the route as it were for verification of our bewildered senses, showing that he really did start looping vertical loops arid finished with about half a dozen horizontal spirals. Well, we thought that was some nerve, especially in that wind, when suddenly, not more than 500 feet up, he ducked, rose to the verticals threw only one wing of the tail, and careened sharply over to the left, flying back down and' at right angles to his start, then s’ help me, if that Art Smith didn’t turn over and,over three times with first the right planes on top and then the left on top, (l think you see what 1 mean, il i had him in my hand at arms length I would turn my hand over and over from top-right, if it wouldn’t twist off, down through, left, nrhtil he had made three times over. Xow it, takes some imagination to see this for he had to keep going into the wind some, since his propeller was roaring like the tide all the time, but he did it by throwing one of his two tail fans up, and the other down; how in the world he remembered at the right time which was “down” is a marvel. Then he roamed around the house tops in a flight that was absolutely crazy, utterly devoid of all system, tangling himself up in the tightest knots, it would seem, and that inexhaustible stream of white smoke still trailing him—it was a perfect vision, Then he shut off the motor at about 300 feet up—an unheard of procedure—they always do it in making the drop, but then the speed gives the control—here he was almost still (horizontally) when he >gt go the motor and the fan stopped, while ascending sharply: then he ducked, at 200 feet he righted by means of the tail fans, just like a sea gull; then dived to about 100 feet, when he righted again just to check his fall, and thus he worked his tail piece and landed with almost no horizontal movement, though the final alighting was a glide, of course, when the wheels took the sod, and he rolled up to within six feet of his starting hole. Well, even I put my papers he tween my knees and clapped my hands till they were warm. He certainly is a bird with human brains; but we will not go back on Beachy’s memory, for he did it first; that is he beat the birds first though he never whirled over and over like a

H ruler this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the firstinsertion, 1 -2-cept-pcr-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No; noci nee accepted for less than twenty-five cents,, but short notices coming within the above rate, will Be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage Will be charged lor forwarding such replies to the adverts er.] ■ \ FOR SALE ■ ■•' " j I" or Hale—-Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops -from the same land in the same year. Corn fioin 4 0 to ao~bushels. Wheat from! 18 to 45 bushels; followed by a crop Of cow peas which makes from $25; to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to C cuttings and pays from ,SSO to SBS : per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hog flesh as an acre of corn. 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 I seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, i and is situated in the heart of the j finest farming country in the world, i Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Missis- j sippi county comprises 265,000 acres ; of fine black alluvial soil which ? grows in abundance corn, wheat, al-! salsa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of; beautiful homes, churches (all de-' nominations) 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 wood- ! en ware enterprises. The farm prod- ! ucts marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the gen-; eral 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 1 saloons. They have the finest water. 1 A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.— J-OHX O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of : Jasper county, L. B. 4 75;, Rensse- ; laer, Ind. j

For Sale—-2,000 white oak posts, SB.OO per hundred.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, li-R-3, phone Mt. Ayr, 54-0. ts For Sale—Second-hand top buggy in good condition, will be sold cheap. —LEO WORLAXD, phone 307. For Sale-—Hand picked cow peas. ' mile south of Kniman.—GEOßGE LAMPHIER, Fair Oaks, Ind. For Sale—White graded seed corn, $2.75 per bushel, 5% miles south and y 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, 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.—Eriquire 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 4 ducks, $1 per 11,—A. D. 11ERS1IMAX, Medaryviile, Ind. . m-2 For Sale—36o acres good corn and syain land, 20 acres timber, rest in cultivation and pasture; 7-room house, barns, cribs and other out-

falling kite without a tail. The motor seems to serve as propellor to keep the planes fitting snugly against the air in all positions, and also serves as a gyroscope to prevent anything happening suddenly; every move was a graceful one. CECIL. If you want result* from such advertising, try The Democrat’s want ads. 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 stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in the American Trotting Register Stud Book. The above Stallion has been ex-

buildings; good drilled well; orchard; l mile west and 5 miles south of Tefft, i/ 2 mile of new stone road, It. F. D., 1 mile from school, ’ E miles from two churches. Reason for selling, too old to farm longer. Free of incumbrance. Terms to suit purchaser—CHRISTOPHER' ‘"ALRIX, Tefft, Ind;, R-l, Box 58. iri-12 ■ ' ior Sale Cheap—Owing to my husband’s long continued sickness we wish to sell our residence property on Forest street, lot 71%xl80; . -room house, electric lights, cellar' ristern, splendid drilled wen, barn/ 2 hen houses and parks, all in good | condition; fruit and strawberries.— [ See MRS. J. W. KIXG, or J. C. Pas- ! sons, phone 132. Typewriter Ribbons—For all the ! standard makes of machines, the j celebrated Xeidich brand, also cai. bon papers of the same make, on , sale at The Democrat office. For Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, x. 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 hilly 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 evap- [ orator and sap buckets goes with ; far m, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y. WANTED 1 M anted—Your lawn mowers to sharpen, at the jail.—LEX GRIGGS, phone 509 or 533. 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 lor Rent—My house on River I street.—MAßY JAXE HOPKIXS.

MISCELLANEOUS Painting Wanted—l am again prepared to do painting either by jon 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, prop. A new car just purchased. H ill drive any where at any time. Phone 319. Flowers—-jgall Phone 439 for cut flowers, potfti! plants, fruit, candv, bulbs, garden seed, onion sets, seed potatoes, cabbage and tomato plants. We carry at all times a nice lot of strictly fresh caught fish. We deliver to any place in the citv. - OSBORNE I- LORAL COMPAXY. ts FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance —Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. F’arm Loans —l can procure you a five-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 oa farm property In any sum* ap te SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans— l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of Interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. r fin |nl w ithout D*.lay, If I IP tllout Commisp ot UU III) Without Charges for n Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSOR

amined 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. 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 i, 1916. Stand for 1915. Mondays—At Koons’ ybrick livery barn in Brook. Tuesdays and Wednesdays—At James Bartholmew’s hitch barn, Morocco. Thursdays—At Mt. Ayr. Friday and Saturdays—At Hemp- »•' hill’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 shonld any occur. ORSON PECK, Owner and Mgr.