Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

LEE i Miss Lural Anderson did shopping in Lafayette Saturday. Several from here attended the corn festival at Monticello Saturday. Alex Mann and family of Kankakee, 111., are here this week visiting relatives. : Miss Flossie Holeman of Monticello, was here Saturday night and Sunday visiting relatives. Mrs. F. W. Fisher, of near Wheatfield, is here now visiting her parents, Leroy Noland and wife. There was quite a number from here attended the funeral Tuesday of Henry Randle at Rensselaer. Mrs. Alvin Clark was spending a few days this week with her daugh-> ter, Mrs. Charles McCashen, and family. Miss Helena Lefler and Lonnie Noland spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Estel Osborne, north of Rensselaer.

Mrs. G. A. Jacks went to Lafayette on Friday of last week. Her husband drove down Sunday and they returned home in the evening. Leroy Noland, Frank Eldridge, Ray Holeman and J. H. Culp went to Logansport Wednesday to attend a rally day of the Ancient Order of Gleaners. Lewis Anderson, who has been here visiting his brother, H. C. Anderson and family for the past month, started for his home at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday.

POSSUM RUN.

Well, Possum Run is still alive. Cad Caldwell and family visited the Merril home Sunday. Zeb Swim visited with Albert Hurley at Laura Tuesday morning. Essie Comer called on Orpha and Myrtle Parker Saturday afternoon. Charley Parker is spending the week with S. L, Johnson and family. Lillie Stump of near Zadoc, visited her sister, .Mrs. Jasper Cover, last week. ■ Emory Coiner, of Owen county, spent last week with his son, Greeley Comer. Mrs. G. H. Comer and son called on Mrs. Frances Marion Monday afternoon. O. M. Thomas spent Saturday Light and Sunday with T. J. Parker and ■ sons. - O. M, Thomas of Lima, Ohio, was looking after his farm interests here this week. We wonder how Gifford is getting along this week? Have not seen anything of her. Mr. and Mrs. Will Polleck visited relatives near Morocco Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Helen Flora spent Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Rosco Garriott and family. Sam Wiles and wife of Hanging Grove tp„ visited with Henry Doan and wife Sunday. Mrs. G. H. Comer visited Mrs. Pete Wolf and daughter, of near Virgie, Thursday afternoon. ' Curtis Steel, who has been spending a few weeks with relatives, returned home Thursday. Mrs. Roy Beaver returned home Sunday, after assisting her parents a week in sorghum making. James -Blankenship and son, Claude, of near Wolcott, were over Sunday guests of G. H. Comer and family. Mrs. Frances Marion had the misfortune to step qn a ,rusty nail last week, but at this writing is able to be about again.

S. L. Johnson and family of Monon, Earl Parker and family of Kersey, and O. M. Thomas of Lima, 0., were among those that attended the birthday dinner at the Parker home. Friends and relatives, to the number Of 62 gathered with well filled baskets at the home of T. .1. Parker Sunday to remind Mrs. Parker of her 52<\ bi r t ifilay anniversary. Everybody had a k fine time and left at a late hour, wishing Mrs. Parker many more such happy birthdays.

Ohio To Vote On Four Constitutional Amendments.

The state of Ohio will vote Nov. 2 on four constitutional amendments, as follows: Prohibition of the sale and manufacture ~ for sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage. To fix the terms of all county officers at four years, to provide for their election quadrennially, and applying the amendment to incumbents. To exempt bonds issued on or after January 1, 1916, of’the State of Ohio or any subdivision or district thereof authorized to issue bonds, from taxation. To limit elections on twice defeated constitutional proposals to prevent abuse of the Initiative and Referendum. ,

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LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Letter From Dau Hopkins, Now of Wabash County. Laketon, Ind., Oct. 20. Editor Democrat: Thought I would write a line to you. We have a pretty fair crop of corn this fall. I ant on my father-in-law's place: myself and my brother-in-law are farming together. We have 65 or 70 acres of corn we feed or ruff cattle, own 60 head and need lots of feed, so we cut all of our corn this year. There was two of us all the time and about two-thirds of the time there was three of us cutting. We were two days over three weeks cutting the corn, which could bo better but I guess we have some that will make 60 bushels or better. The most -of it is pretty good, but I believe most of the farmers will be disappointed when they get to cribbing. An 8 pound daughter, Alma Laura Hopkins, was born lo us on the 18th of October. Will close by sending regrads to all Rensselaer friends.—DANlEL H. HOPKINS.

Kerosene An Extinguisher.

What would you think if you got a hurry-up call for kerosene to put out a fire? Probably yen would request a repetition of the order, thinking you had not heard aright, and when it was repeated without change you would feel justified in concluding, that some one was mentally off balance or attempting a practical joke. But that would be because you never lived in Calexico,!

Cali., the metropolis of Imperial i Valley, and by the same token knew nothing about cotton in the bale. Exaactly such a rush order as this under discussion recently went out fiom the cotton yard at Calexico to Hi > Standard Oil Company staticn at. the same place. NoW, the Standard man in charge knew a lot about kerosene, and something about cotton, so he saw to it that the order was filled with all possible speed Due to a poor market the Calexico cotton yard at the time of the fire contained a big part of the season’s crop, which had been stacked there in the form of 500-pound bales, so the extinguishing of the fire was a vital matter to many of the valley growers.

Now a cotton bale has been subjected to a very heavy pressure; water will penetrate it but an inch or so, whereas kerosene will go clear to the center; a fire in a cotton bale does not blaze, simply smolders and eats its way into the bale. At the comparatively low temperature at which cotton burns, and where there is no flame, kerosene does not ignite, and that’s the explanation. After the fire is extinguished the bands arp removed from the bale and the burned portions of the cotton stripped off. It is said that the use of kerosene has practically no deterimental effect on .thecotton, and after it has been spread out and aired for a few days all odor of the oil disappears.—Scientific American.

Honduras last year exported products valued at $3,421,331.

Our Schooling Inexpensive. Twenty-two million persons were enrolled in educational institutions in the United States last year. And they required 700,000 teachers, of whom 566,000 were in public schools, to guide them in the paths of learning.

About $34 apiece was what it cost to give them a year of schooling. Compared with some of our other expenses as a nation public schools seem to be a decidedly inexpensive hobby. They cost less than onehalf of the nation’s expenditure for alcoholic liquors, and the expense is $300,000,000 less than that of running the federal government. Even for admission to the “movies” we spend a third of what the schools require.

Measured in terms of products of the soil, the United States spent a little more for education than the value of its wfheat crop and less than half the value of the annual harvest of |porn. What the ultimate value of the educational harvest will be is another question.—New York Independent.

Tangible Evidence.

‘‘That man cuts a big figure in the railroad world.” “He’ll leave footprints on the sands of time, eh?” “Well, he’ll leave some tracks.”— Kansas City Journal.

A wealthy young Englishman, before going to the front, insured his life for $1,000,000, the risk being split among several offices. The first premium was $50,000.

Indiana Centennial News.

Centennial organization has been started in nearly sixty counties of Indiana in which chairmen have been secured. Together these chairmen compose the grand committee. They are representative citizens of the state —busy men, already doing things worth while. In the list there are fourteen school men, including county and city superintendents, and others; iten attorneys, two judges, five men in general business, five bankers, eight editors, a civil engineer, a manufacturer, a physician, librarian, author, postal clerk, and two or three farmers.

The Grand Centennial Committee so far boasts two women, who promise to be about the liviest wires of the ninety-two. They are Mrs. R. F. Dooley, Rockville, Chairman of Parke county, and Miss Genevieve Williams of-Huntingburg, Chairman of Dubois. Both already have plans well outlined for next year's celebration in their counties.

Bar Harbor, Maine, is fearfully and wonderfully protected. In Spanish war times its residents protested against the danger and the humorous war depqflment sent them four antiquated muzzle-loading cannon, relics of the civil war. The muchrelieved summer folks took the cannon to their hearts with all sincerity, however, and posted them as ex cellent points of vantage w*here they may still be seen and smiled at.

There is a speed limit of twentyfive miles an hour for motor cars at the front in France.

To Drivers and Owners of Automobiles. If you want to comply with the state laws and city ordinance it will be necessary to observe the following admonitions, any one of which, if violated, subject you to arrest and prosecution in the Automobile court: Do not drive faster than the law allows. Do not permit your exhaust to smoke. Do not keep your muffler open at any time or place. po not drive on the wrong side of the street. PLEASE DO: Always drive on the right side of the street. Pass all vehicles on the left. Observe the traffic laws strictly. Report to the mayor all Speeders. Procure and study the city ordinances and the laws of the state pertaining to vehicles. Tay special attention to the laws pertaining to speeding. Respectfully submitted, - 4 . - ' ' Mayor. CHARLES G. SPITLER, The bark of the black mangrove, a tree which grows abundantly in the Bahamas, has been found to yield an excellant tanning extract. Don’t suffer longer with RHEUMATISM No matter how chronic or how helpless you think your case may be, you can get quick and permanent relief by taking nature’s remedy, "SEVEN BARKS.” Get at the root of the disease, and drive the uric acid and all other poisons out of your system for good. "SEVEN BARKS” has been doing this successfully for the past •it yeara ‘ >r * ce 5° cents per bottle at all druggists or from the proprietor, LYMAN BROWN, 68 Murray SL, New York, N. Y.