Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — Page 3

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Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig and two children were Chicago visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hammond and son, Morris, visited relatives of Mrs. Hammond in Wheatfield Sunday. Sunday was a splendid day for automobile riding, and everyone pos- • sessing a car was out to enjoy it. H. R. Lange and son went to Laporte Sunday to look after some business matters there for a few days.

Piano Tuning and Repairing—All work guaranteed, at the music store, north of Rowles & Parker’s store, or phone 566.—H. R. LAXGE & SOX. ts Miss Alta Shusy of Montjtcello, was a guest of Miss Maurine Tuteur Monday. She had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Oscar Sehanlaub, at Mt. Ayr. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McCollough of Terre Haute, came Sunday to see their daughter, Mrs. Charles Clift, who has been quite sick for the past week. We have in stock and will sell on time, gasoline and kerosene engines, cream separators, corn shellers and grinders.—WATSON PLUMBING CO. Phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind. Kenneth Allman, who recently graduated from a pharmacy school in Chicago, went to Indianapolis Monday where he will be employed by the Eli Lilly Co., wholesale druggists.

Rev. O. E. Miller of Burnettsville, came over Monday to attend a committee meeting of the Baptist church, and remained over until yesterday with his mother, Mrs. J. H. Perkins, and Mr. Perkins. Mrs. C. A. Radcliff and children of Louisville, Ky., accompanied by Mrs. G. M. Horton and son, Lawrence, of Cincinnati, Ohio, came Saturday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. Ensign A. H. W. Graf of Des Moines, la., who graduated at Annapolis naval academy June 4, stopped off here over Saturday and Sunday while on his Way home, for a brief visit with his uncle, William Bringle and wife. J. P. Hammond got a long distance telephone call Sunday evening from Joliet, 111., stating that his daughter, Mrs. Leo Colvert, was critically ill from ptomaine poisoning, caused from eating canned salmon. Mrs. Hammond went to see her .Monday morning.

The Bishop’s jl Candlesticks 1111 jl and Pyramus 1 and Thisbe will be presented by the Columbian Literary Society in the new \ COLLEGE AUDITORIUM Tuesday, June 15, 1915 EIGHT O'CLOCK, P. M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS

W. D, Hanley of Mondn, was a business visitor here Monday. Joseph Myers and little son were in Chicago Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. F. D. Burchard and little daughter went to Redkey Monday to visit relatives. . Mrs, I. F. Meader of Union tp., returned Saturday from a couple of days’ visit to Chicago. C. W. Rhoades returned the last of the week from a couple of weeks’ sojourn at Martinsville. Junior Benjamin and Forest Morlan were down from Chicago to spend Sunday with home" folks. —H —~—, Mr. and Airs. C. \y. Coen and Mrs. Rebecca Porter motored down from South Bend Saturday to visit old friends here.

T. J. Prouty of northwest of town, was called to Manhattan, 111., Saturday by the death or a a old friend, Andrew Murdy. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Foncannon of Waueson, Ohio, came Saturday to visit their daughter, Mrs. G. H. Mclain, and family. Newland and Kniman baseball teams clossed bats at the latter place Sunday. The former suffered defeat by a score of 9 to 6. Full line of McCormick machinery for sale. Will also buy produce at the highest market price. New phone Xo. 4 61. —EDWARD HERATH. j-22

Felix T. McWhirter of Indianapolis, died Saturday, aged 62 years; Mr. McWhirter was a prominent prohibitionist and has held high positions in that party. He was a native of Tennessee. Carl Clift, who has been working at Sedalia, Clinton county, came home Friday because of the illness of his mother. He returned to his work Monday, his mother being considerably better. I'he Rensselaer Alumni Association has elected the following corps of officers for the ensuing year: President, Emmet Laßue; Vice-Pres-ident, Eva Moore; Secretary, Rose Luers; Treasurer, Clare Jessen. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Meyer and baby and Mrs. Meyer’s mother, Mrs. Brady, accompanied by Leo Kane, drove up from Danville, 111., in Frank’s big Cole automobile Sunday for a brief visit with his Rensselaer relatives. They returned home yesr terday, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy, who will visit them for two or three days.

W. T. Elmore was over from Remington oa business Friday afternoon. The Pythian Club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. W. F. Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Kiser visited relatives in Danville and other points in Illinois last week. Children’s day exercises will be held at the Barkley M. E. church next Sunday morning. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 66c; oats, -44 c. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 66c; oats, C6e. We drill water wens anywhere and any size.—WATSOX PIiUMBIXG CO., phone 204, Rensselaer. Ind.'- . . ' ts ’ C. A. Tuteur and Ted Watson went to Indanapolis Saturday to take examination for officers of the local militia company. The annual commencement of the Barkley township schools will be held at the Barkley M. E. church on Saturday evening, June 19, Captain H. B. Tuteur and some of the other officers of the local militia company went to Indianapolis Sunday for a week's instruction at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

Failure of the St. Phillips baseball club of Chicago to put in an appearance Sunday, the game to have been played between St. Joe and the Chicago club had to be called off. A couple of the college teams played instead. John Gorman of Leßoy, Minn., who was called here recently by the sickness and death of his mother, Mrs. Maurice Gorman, of Jordan tp., remained for a short visit with old friends but will return home this week. He has been in the northwest about twenty years. Quite a large number of Rensselaer people accepted the invitation of W. L. Gumm, the Remington hardware merchant, and visited his beautiful peony field at Mr. Gumm’s fine home in the southeast part of Remington. This is probably one of the largest, if not the largest peony field in Indiana, and it presents a beautiful appearance at this season of the year.

Advertised letters: Wm. T. Kight, Earl W. Sedwell, Jas. T. Stanley, Manville Barnes, Mrs. Lena Lakin Mrs. Henry Sanders, Mr. Henry Sanders, Rose Cavinder, John W. Garno, Joe Gaines, Mrs. Oscar Cox, Mrs. Susey Geordan, Mrs. Ethe Sanders, Goldie Turner, Millie Zabel and John Ward. Same will be sent to the dead letter office, if not called for, June 21. .. The twentieth annual commencement of St. Joseph’s college will be held June 15 and 16. Tuesday, June 15, at 8 p. m., the Columbian literary society will present “The Bishop’s Candlesticks’’ and “Pramus and Thisbe.” Wednesday, June 16, at 8 a. m., baccalaureate address by Mr. Anthony Matre, K. S. T., of Chicago, national secretary of American Federation of Catholic Societies. Awarding of medals ana diplomas by the Rt. Rev. Herman J. Alerding, D. D., bishop of Ft. Wayne, Ind.

C. A. Tindall, who had charge of the commercial department of the Rensselaer schools the pasi year, has stored his household goods on the third flour of The Democrat building and left with his wife Friday afternoon for their former home at Shelbvville. Mr. Tindall will teach in an Indijanapolis business college during the summer and wdll then go to Fairbury, 111., where he will teach the next school year at a larger salary, it is said, than he received here. Miss Ethel Dyer, who taught domestic science here for the past two years, is another teacher who will not return next year. She will teach at Carlisle, Sullivan county, a town about one-fourth the size of Rensselaer, but also will receive a larger salary, it is said, than she got here. And These “Democratic Hard Times,” Too. A letter from Rev. R. W. Wood of Griffin, to Ed Melby says, “My lambs sold in Chicago for $10.40 per cwt., and with the wool brought $9 per head. I cleared $1,000.” Pretty good for a farmer-preacher. Rev. Wood has certainly heard the call, “Feed thy lambs.” He is a live w r ire on the farm. —Momence Progress. CASTOR Ik For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears .—0 •

PAPER RAILROAD MAX. _ S "* i Eugene Purtelle, n Traction Wallingford, in Trouble. Eugene Purtelle, who several years ago loomed large on the northern Indiana traction horizon as the promoter of a $5,000,000 interurban system that was to run from Hammond to Monticello and ultimately to form a link in an Indianapolis-Chi-cago line, and who “blew u p” and subsequently promoted other “paper railroads’’ in various parts of the Hoosier state, is once more in trouble—this time in Chicago where he was arrested on the charge of beating the Sherman house out of a S6O hotel bill. Previous to this he had been indicted in Chicago on the charge of operating a confidence game in connection with one of his many traction venttires.

"• A. Miller, a Chicago lawyer, appeared as the complainant in the latter charge against Purtelle—Miller caused the arrest of Purtelle April S last. Purtelle, he asserted, had represented himself as president of the Tipton'-Frankfort Traction Company and had sold him stock: on' the representation the money was, to be used for buying equipment" The lawyer said he traveled between Tipton, Ind., and Frankfort, Ind., without finding any trace of the supposed connecting line before he swore out a warrant.

Judge Prindiville held Purtelle to the grand jury in $2,000 bail. He was indicted a week ago and the grand jury ordered the bond raised to $3,000. It was on this order Purtelle was taken into custody yesterday.

Purtelle, now in his early thirties, has lived a life full of thrills not only for himself but for others. In 1902, beardless but businesslike, he was Milwaukee manager for “Red Letter’’ Sullivan, then operating a string of bucket shops stretching from coast to coast. The next year, after serving as general manager in Chicago for the Sullivan organization—which let him out of a job by failing—he returned to Milwaukee as representative of the E. E. Jones company, another Chicago firm patterned after Sullivan’s. In 1909 Purtelle blossomed forth as president of Purtelle & Co., stock and bond brokers, at 222 South La Salle street. One year later his hox in the Chicago Safe Deposit Company’s vault was forced and $5,000 was taken to satisfy a judgment obtained by John G. Keith, an insurance broker, Purtelle subsequently filed the praecipe of a $50,000 damage suit against Keith.

Nat long afterwards, Purtelle, still buoyant, exploited the Northwestern Indiana Traction Company, a $5,000,000 paper interurban line supposed to link Monticello and Hammond. The chief accomplishments of the company were the running up of an SB,OOO labor bill and the successful defending of the suit of a hotelkeeper at Dyer, who demanded S6OO for boarding a party of surveyors. Just why Purtelle never tried to work in Lafayette is a twentieth century mystery. He could probably have done as well here as the Columbian Casualty Co., or the Tishimingo Tie & Concrete Co. did.—Lafayette Sunday Record.

Newton Township Sunday School Convention. The Newton township Sunday school convention, children’s day exercises and basket dinner, will be held at H. L. Wortley’s grove, Sunday, June 13. The program is as follows: 10:00 a. m., Sunday school; 1:00 to 2:00 p, m„ children's exercises; 2:00 to , 4:00-p. m., township convention. Several county Sunday school officers will be at the Sunday school and convention. Special music by Johnson Bros. H. L. WORTLEY, Tp. Pres. Short Career of a Big Gun. In a lecture on modern artillery at the Royal Institution, recently, Lieutenant Colonel Hadcock, of Elswick, contrasted the life of big guns with that of a butterfly. In the case of the latter he supposed that 24 hours would be an ol(J>ege. The big gun, on the other hand, looked everlasting, but it only lived when it was being fired, and if an incessant stream of projectiles could be poured out from it its active life in tha4 sense would be only 12 seconds. —London Times. Five different grades of legal size typewriter paper kept in stock in Th« Democrat’s stationery department Also abstract and legal document backs, printed or blank. Don’t pay fancy prices for your typewriter paper when you can buy it here of as good or better quality for much less money. Our typewriter paper la put up in boxes of 500 sheets, but will be sold in smaller quantities if desired.

Clay W. Metsger of Plymouth, has been appointed by Governor Ralston as trustee of the state tuberculosis hospital <to succeed Dr. O. V. Sehuman of Columbia City, whose term has expired. The Lafayette Sunday Record says that Caldwell & Drake Contracting Co. has purchased the Col. R. P. DeHart property on Fifth street in that city, directly across from the Monon depot, and will erect a sixapartment fiat thereon. $4,500 was paid for the property and $20,000 will be expended in the improvement. At a called meeting of the directors of the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company last Thursday, the resignations of D. W. Biddle, president, and" Frank Fisher, secretary, were accepted and the board appointed Mr. Fisher president and Mr. Biddle secretary. The change in the offices was made necessary on account of Mr. Fisher leaving this week for a three months’ trip to California and other western points. He left Wednesday accompanied by liis wife and niece, Miss Bond. —Benton Review. Birth Announcements, June 4, to Air. and Airs. V, M Peer of Walker tp., a son. June 4, to Mr. and Airs. John Dale of Barkley tp., a daughter.' June 6, to Mr. and Airs. Earl Parker of Gifford, a daughter. June 6, to Air. and Airs. Edgar Day, a still born babe. Where Is Your Girl Tonight. Ruin is no respector of persons. Your girl is as liable to be met by it as the girl of your neighbor. Ruin, it should be kept in mind, does not overtake any one, for it is not behind, but before. There are two highways plainly marked, and it is only those who travel by the road that leads to ruin who ever reach it. They must go out to meet the destructive thing or they will not find it. So it is not impertinent to ask parents where their daughters are tonight. The news reports have lately been filled with accounts of the doings of a daughter of the rich and a daughter of the poor. One was motherless and the other fatherless, but if the rightful guardian had known where each was every night and seen to it that she was in a safe place, there would have been peace and content In two homes where there is now something very different. A girl i. one of the most precious possessions in the world, and she should be guarded as the king’s chamberlain guards the crown jewels. Those baubles are not sent !|parkling alone upon the streets at night, nor left unprotected in dance halls where greedy fingers may filch them.—Philadelphia Ledger. Buy envelopes at The Democrat office. A large number of sizes, styles and colors, both bond and plain finish, to select from, at 5c per bunch of 25. Call In and see them. Subscribe for The Democrat.

Moose-Moose Moose Lodge will be Organized at the Armory Hall, Thursday Night, June 10,7:45 p. m. Go in now with large class and save $20.00; after Charter closes Initiation Fee will be raised to $25.00. Moose pays the following benefits: SIOO for death of member, per week sick or accident, and gives to member and entire family the service -of a physician free of charge. Dues are Q3j4c per month. No '» assessments. J. W. MANGES, Oreanizsr MAKEEVER HOTEL

SOLDIERS DREAM OXLY OF WAR Pictures of Home and Former Scenes Seldom Appear to Sleeping Warrior, It Is Said. The popular idea of the soldier’s dream, as represented by the colored supplements of our weekly periodicals, would appear, from the statements of men who have come home fromjtlie front, to be as fallacious as it is delightful. The soldier’s dream, according to the supplement artist, is a dream of home. He sees his old mother and father, hale in their longevity, comfortably ensconced on either side of the fireplace (with or Without fire); he sees his sweetheart, (or is it his sister?) clad in plain pinj, setting the knives and forks for dinner; and he sees himself coming in at the door, bronzed and handsome. The dream varies, of course, with the supplement, but it is always a dream of home, a dream rooted in the sentiment that would appear to go hand-in-hand with the threecolor process. That is just where the editors and artists who are responsible for these heartstring pullers make the mistake. The soldier in action very rarely dreams of home—far more rarely than he could wish. His sleeping hours, like liis waking hours, are crowded with thoughts of war and war’s alarms. It appears that one of the commonest dreams is that of a sudden call to arms. The dreamer imagines that lie has been suddenly awakened from liis sleep and that all his comrades are busy pulling on their clothes. He follows suit—but he cannot find his gun, or else some article of attire. He begins to search for it, while the others drift away. He goes on searching for it, suffering a mental agony more and more intense as every moment flies by, hut can find ii nowhere. At last ho is left alone, still searching, searching. * * * Thai is a real soldier’s dream. It is not a good subject for a supplement. 1 1 brings home to one too vividly the harassing anxieties of war. Another common dream is concerned with live shells, The dreamer sees a shell hurling through the air, or he finds it in his bed. For some reason he is unable to move. All he can do is to stare and wait—wait for the shell to burst, as it will clearly burst, before another second has gone by, and send him to the land of Kingdom Come. It must not be thought that it Is only the nervous and neurotic soldiers who are given to these terrifying dreams. Apparently the bravest are , subject to them. Sometimes they become somnambulists and w ander about in search of their regi meats. For one of the greatest fears by which a soldier is haunted is that he may lose contact with his regiment. He imagines that he is all alone, that he is stealing through some forest in an attempt to rejoin his comrades, or that he is wandering through a wildering and intricate network of deserted trenches, as complicated and baffling as the maze at Hampton Court. —London Globe. Do You Want Lightning Protection? I have been in the lightning rod business for 15 years and during that time have never lost a building by lightning. A five-year guarantee with all rods. If Interested call and see me or phone 568. —FRANK A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Ind. ts