Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — Page 3

;UUiXD S"''n X WEEK’S J

T. M. Callahan was in Chicago on business Friday. See us before buying your threshing coaI.—HARRINGTON BROS. CO. Dr. Turfler returned Monday from a, business trip to Bloomington, 111. Crops are fine over in that locality. We drill water wens anywhere and any size.—WATSON PLUMBING CO., phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind. ts Mrs. Albert Alter and three daughters, Helen, Pauline and Dorothy, of Forest, Ind., came Thursday for a visit with B. F. Alter and wife. Delos Dean is at Hartford City this week with one of the Lincoln Chautauqua butfits, which he is traveling with as platform manager. Piano Tuning and Repairing—All work guaranteed, at the music store, north of Rowles & Parker’s store, or phone 566.—H. R. LANGE & SON. ts Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sever and daughter, Ellen and son, Hoper of Milford, 111., spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue and family. Mrs. Roy Stevenson of Bonesteel, S. D„ and Mrs. J. H. Sayler of Mitchell, s. D., are here for a few weeks’ visit with their mother, Mrs. Eleanor Adams. H. E. Randle and wife, who have been living near Menomonie, Wis., for several months, have moved back here with their goods and Mr. Randle is at this writing seeking a house tc rent in Rensselaer. Mason Kenton, in renewing his subscription, writes from Mitchell, S. D., and says: “We are always glad to get The Democrat. We are having entirely too much rain, but never saw the small grain look so fine. We are all well.” Leo Tuteur of Indianapolis, stopped off here Sunday morning and remained until Monday with his aunt, Mrs. Anna Tuteur and family, while on his way to Detroit, Mich., where his wife has been visiting and who will return home with him. Mr. and Mrs. William Rees, Mr. and Mrs. James Rees and Samuel Rees and son, all of Barkley tp., were called to Lebanon Friday to attend the funeral next day of the aged father of the gentlemen, who had died there Wednesday night after a long illness following a stroke of paralysis. His age was f 9 years. The Associated Charities, for the purpose of raising funds, have decided to hold a Saturday market for one month, in Warner’s hardware store. The people of the town and country are urgently requested to make unsolicited donations each Saturday morning of dressed chickens, salads, baked beans, cottage cheese, candies, home baking, and other culinary articles. Donations of money will also be thankfully received.—Advt. Grove Meeting July 25. There will be an all day grove basket meeting held in John E. Alter’s grove near the Rosebud church, in Union township, on July 25th. Bring your baskets and we will furnish the tables. Everybody invited. Baptismal service in the afternoon. —COMMITTEE.

Teeth and Breathing Have you formed the bad habit of breathing through your mouth? If so, you will ruin your teeth and guips. This *may be your present trouble. See Dr. J. W. Horton He will explain wherein the danger lies; will fix your teeth at a reasonable charge and start you off with better habits.

W. J. Wright was in Lafayette on business Monday. Engineers recommend our threshing coaI.—HARRINGTON BROS CO. We sell the best threshing coal for the least money.—HARRINGTON BROS. CO. The carpenters have up the frame for Cleve Eger’s fine new residence on College avenue. Mrs. J. E. Deleoust and sister, Miss Maggie Hallagan, went to Fairmount Monday to visit relatives. Big reduction on all summer footwear at FENDIG’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE, Opera House Block.

W. L. Hatton, who was called here by the death of his father, Sylvester Hatton, left Monday for his home at Whittier, Cal.

Mr. and Mrs. John Macey and daughter, Margaret, of Indianapolis, are spending a few days with the former’s mother, Mrs. John Makeever.

C. P. Moody, one of the progressive farmers of “Wall street,” in Barkley tp., has oiled the roadway for a few hundred feet in front of his residence.

Our special reductions on summer footwear give you the best footwear at the price of the poorest.—• FENDIG EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE, Opera House Block.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hopping and little son of Loveland, Ohio, returned home Monday_after a couple of weeks’ visit here with Mrs. Hopping’s mother, Mrs. John Timmons.

Advertised letters: Mrs. G. L. Parks, Miss Mabie White, James White, Mrs. Milyra White, George Platt, W. W. Coe, Jr., George Coffman, Paul Hobson and Fred Oxley. Same will be sent to the dead letter office August 2, if not called for.

Mr. and Airs. John Healy, daughters, Lucy and Marie, and son, John, went to South Haven, Mich., Monday for a visit with the S. E. Overton family. Mr. Healy will return home tomorrow', but Mrs. Healy and children will remain for a several weeks’ visit.

George W. Casey w r as down from Lowell Saturday. He stated that the dredge ditches on the Brown ranch, between Shelby and Lowell, were all overflowed and water covered thousands of acres of land in that section, ruining a vast Amount of corn, wheat and other crops.

L. H. Hamilton returned Sunday from a business trip to Lincoln, Neb., to purchase some engines especialy adapted for pulling grain binders over wet ground. The firm manufacturing them were swamped with orders and he could only purchase three, of which number Firman Thompson gets one and W. C. Babcock and Floyd Amsler the other two.

Mrs. J. P. Hammond, who had been up at Joliet, 111., with her stepdaughter, Mrs. Leo Colvert, for the past week, returned home Saturday evening by rail, bringing Mrs. Colvert’s youngest child with her and she will keep it here until the mother is able to look after it. Mrs. Colvert, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, is reported to be doing as well as could be expected.

The Democrat is in receipt of a notice from B. M. Randall oY Marinette, Wis., secretary of the Marinette County Indiana-Settlers, Association, saying that the fourth annual picnic of such association will be held on Thursday, August 19, at the Wisconsin' state experiment farm at Crivitz, Marinette county, Wis. The agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin will make August 19 the. annual farm demonstration day, as well as the date of the picnic, and demonstrations of value to all farmers and their families, as well as the social features, insures a day of profit and pleasure, says the secretary.

Warner Bros, have sold 12 grain cradles in the past week.

The most economical threshing coal at HARRINGTON BROS. CO.’S yards.

Mrs. Grant Warner is still improving slowly from her recent operation. \

Thompson Ross of Chicago, visited over Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Ora T. Ross.

John Duvall of Chicago, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall.

The protestant Sunday schools of Rensselaer will hold a union picnic at the Kanne grove on Thursday, July 29.

Mrs. Ruby Wilson of Independence, Kan., came Monday to visit her aunt, Mrs. James Keister, of Jordan tp.

Mrs. Barbara Hoshaw, has been suffering severely with rheumatism, went to Dayton, Ohio, Monday to visit her sisters for awhile.

Mr. and Mrs. Elias Arnold and daughters, Mrs. Arthur Waymire and Miss Marie Arnold, went to Rossville Saturday to attend a Dunkard meeting.

Yesterday's markets: Corn, 72c; oats, 32c; wheat, 90c to 95c; rye, SOc. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 65 c; oats, 29c; wheat, 71c; rye, 50c.

Every low shoe in our store at reduced prices. Many discontinued lines at less than half price.—FENG’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE, Opera House Block.

C. E. Lohr, of The Democrat’s mechanical force, has been laid up since Saturday noon from an operation for hemorrhoids, but expects to be on duty again today.

Mrs. Walter Nelson and little daughter, who have been visiting for a couple of weeks with Mrs. Osa Ritchey, Jr., of southeast of town, returned to Chicago Monday.

Mrs. B. L. Sayler of Marion ,0., who has been visiting her son, Jesse Sayler and fami(y, at Mitchell, S.. D., came Monday accompanied by her daughter-in-law and child.

Mrs. H. F. Parker spent yesterday in Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Cleve Eger, who was operated on Saturday, for the jjemoval of her tonsils, at the Augustina hospital.

Mrs. John Burris, the alleged victim of a criminal assault by a farmer near Kankakee, 111., recently, for whom the Burris’ worked, went to that place Monday, accompanied by her brother, Laurie Hess.

W. B. Austin and Elliott Durand of Chicago, drove down Saturday evening in their automobile, expecting to spend Sunday on the Ade golf links near Brook, but the ground was no doubt too soft for golfing.

Miss Mary Flora and Mr. Herbert Boulder came up from Frankfort Sunday by auto and visited Miss Maria Hamilton. The former is to come the latter part of the week for a longer visit with Miss Hamilton.

Mrs. J. Q. Alter returned Monday from a couple of weeks’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Frits, at Delphi. Mrs. Frits, who recently suffered the fracture of one of her arms as the result of a fall, with her daughter, accompanied her home.

Since Sunday noon we hawe been having very nice weather indeed, and everyone hopes that it may continue at least until after the grain and hay crops are harvested. The mercury is several degrees lower than last week and the indications are quite good as we go to press for a continuation of decent w’eather.

Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler were up from Lafayette yesterday in their automobile, looking after their farm northeast of town. Len returned Saturday from his trip to Jamestown, N. Y., and vicinity, and was quite favorably impressed with the possibilities of that section of the country. Should he dispose of his interests here it is possible that he will buy a farm and locate in New York states

CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears th » /z Signature of

Notice to Auto Drivers. There are a few drivers of automobiles in this city who have no regard for the law of the state nor the lives of its citizens, and I hereby request all law-abiding citizens to assist the officers in quenching this evil practice by filing an affidavit against any one who they know to be violating section 1047 c R. S. Ind., revision of 1914. It should not be a license for an industrious man with a family to jeopardise the lives of other industrious men with families. Done this nineteenth day of Julv 1915. CHARLES G. SPITLER.” [SEAL] Mayor. A Prolific Season for Garden Truck. Perhaps no one ever remembers a more prolific season for all kinds of garden truck than the present one. The unfortunate flat dweller in the city who doesn’t know what fresh vegetables are, would go into ecstasies over the splendid truck gardens we have in Rensselaer this sumer. Everyone having a little patch of ground planted to truck has been supplied with the finest vegetables one ever saw. and had a surplus. Lettuce, onions, radishes, beets, peas, beans, etc., have been so plentiful that the grocers could find no customers for any from their stores. Early potatoes were also a great crop, but nearly all have now been ruined in the last ten days by the excessive rains. Roasting ears are now on the market, and they too, where not damaged by the high water, are a prolific crop.

Notice to Delinquent Debtors. A large number of small accounts due The Democrat for subscription and job printing and from which we have gotten no replies to the numerous statements sent, will be placed in the hands of a collecting agency on August 1, if not paid prior thereto. Statements will be sent to all these debtors once more before placing them in hands for collection, but if responses are not received to this last request for settlement, the accounts will be turned over for collections as above stated. "While the accounts individually are small, in the aggregate they foot up to SI,OOO or more, and mean considerable to us. We hope the number that it will be. necessary to enforce the collection of will be very small.

Barkley M. E. Church Notice. Sunday, July 25, is the third quarterly conference of the church and will be observed by holding meetings all day and evening, making it a home-coming day, and holding a basket dinner. District Supt. A." Wood, Rev. P. C. Curnjck of Rensselaer, and Rev. Dunn of Medaryville, will assist Rev. Petty in the meetings. A special invitation is extended to all to attend.

Deep Wells.

Upper Silesia, in the German empire, has the deepest Well in the world. It is a diamond drill hole in a coal field and measures 7,350 feet. A well in the United States that may go deeper, according to the United States geological survey, is four miles northwest of McDonald, Pa., and about fifteen miles west of Pittsburg. This well, which is being sunk to the Medina sandstone—a bed that elsewhere contains oil and gas —is now 7,147 feet deep. Some gas and oil were struck in the upper part of the well. Between the depths of 6,830 and 7,100 feet rocks bearing rock salt and salt water were encountered. These are regarded as of salina age, the same as those carrying rock salt in western New York. The temperatures in this well at the depth of 6,775 feet, as recently determined with great accuracy, is 145.8 degress Fahrenheit; At Derrick City, McKean county, Penn., near Bradford, there is a well 5,820 feet deep, which is probably the second deepest well in the United States. Another well is on Slaughter creek, Kanawha county, W. Va.; it is 5,595 feet deep. It penetrates a sandstone at 5,030 to 5,050 feet, and from this depth to the bottom, a distance of 545 feet, the well is in limestone. Near West Elizabeth, Pa., there is another well 5,575 feet beneath the surface, penetrating into a black shale. Another well being drilled at Gaines, Pa., has reached a depth of 5,500 feet. Deep well drillers in this country, of course, employ the most improved dnd effective rigs, but one of the most remarkable of wells, reaching a depth of 3,600 feet, was drilled for petroleum in western China by means of such crude appliances as a cable made of twisted strands of rattan.

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 ssß. —FRANK A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Ind. ts

JULY EXTRA SPECIALS For IVlfm f a * r Shoes and Oxwere $5.00 and $4.00 Now $2.00 For Women Oxfords, were $3.50 &$3 NOW s<■ V For Boys and Girls IX Oxfords Shoes and Pumps, were $2.50 and $2 NOW 91-00 Liberal Reduction On All Summer Footwear Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store Opera House B|ock

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

With the mercury at 100 degrees, Mrs. Cynthia E. Davis of Goshen, celebrated her seventy-ninth birthday by riding a bicycle last Friday to New Paris and return, a distance of twelve miles. The best business block in West Lebanon was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon, causing a loss of over $40,000. The Farmers’ Rank, the F. & A. M., Eastern Stars, Cooley's harness shop and Ira Crask’s garage were the principal sufferers. Leo M. Frank, whose sentence to death tor the alleged murder of a factory girl in Georgia was recently commuted to life imprisonutt nt, was perhaps fatally stabbed in the neck by a fellow convict Saturday night while asleep in his cot at the Geprgia state prison, a big butcher knife* being used. Officials scent a plot trom the outside to kill Frank, and a complete investigation is being made. Kentland Democrat: M. C. Coover and son. Hartley, of Remington, were in Kentland on business Saturday.... County Clerk Charles M. Daniel has secured a suite of rooms in the Mrs. A. G. Clinger home and will move in from Goodiand in a few days.... Clerk Daniel on Tins day issued marriage licenses to Richard A.,Conn and .Miss Mabel A. Bair, both of Brook, and John J. McDermott, of Chicago, and Miss Julia Agnes McGraw, of Goodland ... . Emmett Boatman and family of Remington, were guests of relatives here Sunday.

The Rock of Gibralter.

The rock of Gibraltar, taking into consideration the far-carrying guns that are now being cast, will be even of greater importance because of its commanding position at the mouth of the Mediterranean, where that sea is little more than 20 miles wide about as wide as from Calais to Dover. Gibraltar was captured by the British, July 24, 1704, and from that day has not been out of British hands. At first little Was thought of the importance of this stronghold. For the succeeding nine years the Spaniards made repeated attempts to recapture it. On one occasion they nearly succeeded. A French and Spanish force having been collected on the isthmus that joins the rock to the mainland, a goat herder offered to show them a path up the shoping sides of the rock, which he had reason to belive was unknown to the British. This offer was accepted. Five hundred troops ascended quietly one night and took shelter in a hollow called by the Spaniards “the little chair.” At daybreak next morning they ascended higher, took the signal station, killed the guard and anxiously looked for expected re-en-forcements. The re-enforcements failed to arrive. The armed garrison sailed out and drove the invaders down the rock. The “little chair” was filled up and the place made stronger than ever. All subsequent attempts to capture the rock have failed. One of them was a seige by Spain and France, beginning in 1779, and not terminating until September, 1783. —Chicago Journal.

There were, in March, 87,216 old age pensions in operation in Australia, out of a total of 120,301 granted up to that date. HUGH KIRK PUBLIC CHAUFFEUR Motor Troubles —• Car Washing with M. J. Schroer. PHONE 78

Skin Salaries.

It is not a generally known historical fact that from 1774 to 1784 the territory now known as Tennessee formed a part of North Carolina, and that in 1775 the Tennesseeans, becoming dissatisfied with their government, organized a state government under the name of “Frankland,” which was maintained for some years. The state thus organized was afterward disbanded and territorial Tennessee was again annexed to North Carolina, says a recent writer on the subject. In 1838, in a speech by Daniel Webster on the currency, he gave the following as among the laws passed by the legislature of the state of Frankland: ’’Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Frankland, and is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that from January 1. 1 780, the salaries of this commonwealth be as follows: "His excellency, the governor, per annum, 1,000 deerskins. "His honor, the chief justice, per annum, 500 deerskins. "The secretary to his excellency, the governor, per annum, 500 raccoon skins. "The treasurer of the state, 450 raccoon skins. "Each county clerk, 500 beaver skins. ■ . "Clerk of house of commons, 300 raccoon skins. ’Members of the assembly, per diem, three raccoon skins. "Justice's fees for signing a warrant, one muskrat skin. To the constable for serving a warrant. one mink skin.”—-United Mine Workers’ Journal. Ready to Risk It, "Mr. Jones wants a windy pane twelve inches be fourteen,” remarked young Patrick Mulrooney, entering the glazier’s shop. In the shop was a smart young assistant who wanted to have a joke with Pat. "Haven’’t any that size,” he replied gravely. "Will one fourteen inches by twelve do?” Pat looked thoughtful for a minute, Then he repied: "He’s wantin’ it at once, and this is the only shop in town. Give me wan o’ thim. P’haps if we put it In sideways no one will notice.”—London Answers.

Real Estate Transfers.

Milton May to Mary A Kemp, June 24, se nw, 28-32-6, 40 acres, Wheatfield, $2,700. John Jerome Robart et ux to Jesse K Adams, June 26, pt n % nw, 15-31-6, Walker, $7,500. Harrison B Riley ct ux to William J Louderback, June 19, se nw, 12-31-7, e 12-31-7, 360 acres, Keener, sl. q. c. d. William J Louderback et ux to Josiah Davisson, June 25, se nw, 12-31-7, e 12-31-7, 360 acres, Keener, SIO,BOO. Josiah Davisson et ux to Delos Thompson, July 10, se nw, 1.2-31-7, e 12-31-7, 360 acres, Keener, $2. Charles G Spitler et ux to FranCls A Turfler, March 4, pt w %, 31-30-6, 91.98 acres, Marion, $13,797. Ruby A Sternberg to William F Sternberg, July 2, ne, 12-28-7, pt s % nw, 12-28-7, 163 acres, Marion, sl. q. c. d. Sadie Chappel et al to Trustees Remington and Carpenter Tp. public library, June 7, p.t It 7,8, bl 3, Remington, S2OO. / Mrs Dessie Daily et baron to Mrs Elma Jones, July 14, It 1,2, bl 4. Remington, $1,400. i Josiah Davisson et ux to Lee G Baughman, July 16, nw nw, 13-31-5, 40 acres, Walker, $1,200, Jennie Groet to Peter Swart et al, July 8, pt out It 25, north Demotte, pt sw nw, 26-32-7, Keener, $450. Peter Swart et al to Robert Oosten et al, July 16, pt out It 25, north Demotte, pt sw nw, 26-32-7, Keener. SSOO. Delos Thompson et al to William W Dunlap, July 17, pt sw, 36-29-6, 71.64 acres, Marion, $3,940.

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