Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

POSSUM RUN. Orpha and Myrtle Parker spent Sunday with Nile Britt. Mrs. T. J. Parker visited Mrs. Frank Antrim Tuesday. Mrs. G. H. Comer spent Saturday with Mrs. William Pollock. Everett Parker is helping Horace Daniels build a crib this week. 'Orpha and Myrtle , Parker called on Essie Comer Saturday afternoon. Essie Comer took dinner with Orpha and Myrtle Parker Saturday. Charley Britt, who fell from a barn about a week ago, is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Cavinder spent Saturday night and Sunday with ft’m. Openchain and family. Mrs. Frank Antrim and daughter spent Monday night with Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker left Thursday to spend a few weeks in Boone county with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hinkle ana F. E. Marion and wife spent Sunday with Clarence Hurley and family. Several from this vicinity attended the Rebekah and Odd Fellows’ meeting at Rensselaer last Friday. All enjoyed a fine time. LEE The young people had choir practice at C. A. Lefler's Wednesday. Roy Stiers has moved his family to the property he bought of T. R. Clark.

T. R. Clark has shipped his household goods ;o their home at Kankakee, HL Estel Osborne and family of north of Rensselaer, spent last Sunday at John Osborne's.

Archie Brown and wife have moved in the house on the Trout ranch, just south of town.

Ward Lewis and lady friend of Remington, were here visiting his cousin, Miss Dollie Jacks, over Sunday. . - I ■

George Holeman and wife of Monticello, were here Sunday at Asa Holeman’s to meet their aunt, Mrs. Cook, of Warsaw.

Roy Heltzel and family went in their auto last Friday to near Indianapolis to visit relatives, returning Sunday.

There was an auto load of people from Kankakee, 111., who canie Saturday evening to visit their relatives, S. W. Noland and family, over Sua-> day. . /•. ’ . ; ' '/■

Hubert Maxwell is batching in the Mrs. Ola Randall house, across from the church. Too bad, when there are so many young ladies that are splendid cooks.

There were three carloads of crushed stone shipped from Monon Tuesday and the men donated the work and hauled it on the road running past the church. MILROY. Sam Griffiths spent Sunoay in Monon. Mr. Leatherman, the Rawleigh agent, was here this week. Don’t forget the box social at Queen City school tonight. Mrs. Wm. Fisher called on Mrs. George Foulks Tuesday afternoon. John Mitchell's took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell. Charles Beaver and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. True Culp. * Mrs. Elsie Clark and Mrs. Lud Clark did shopping in Rensselaer Wednesday, ' A sister of John Mitchell, who resides in Indianapolis, is visiting with himself and family the first of the week. Mrs. George Scripter and . daughter, Goldie, spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Perfect Spencer, and family.

The ‘-Blues” gave the “Reds” an oyster supper at Wm. Fisher's Saturday evening. About 85 partook of oysters, pickles, celery and ham and egg sandwiches. All report a fine time.

Mrs. Charles Beaver was called to Lacross last week to attend the fun eral of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Benson. The little one being a twin. The other child, a girl, is doing well. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and Orabelle Swartz took Sunday dinner with Wm. Fisher’s. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Spencer and Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell of Wolcott, and Mrs. Bassett and friend of Goodland, also visited them in the afternoon. EGYPT. Mort Ritchey has purchased a new Klondike buggy. Miss Anna Reed of Urbana, Ind., is visiting relatives here. Dan Blake is doing some painting at the home of Charles Kessinger. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Brown of Kniman, spent Sunday with their son, Ira Brown, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cox returned to their home at Medaryville Thursday after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Julius Huff. IFour of the Jordan township teachers. Misses Ada .Huff, Minnie Kessinger, Zona Dillon and Mr. Paul Hyman, attended the Teachers’ Association at Indianapolis Thursday, I Friday and Saturday. Henry and Lewie Toben entertained the James Sunshine class at their home Saturday night. The guests were masked, and some very clever costumes were in evidence. Hallowe’en games were played and everyone had a splendid time.

INDIANA BREVITIES

Auburn.—A deer with a broken neck vgas found in the bottom of John Oster’s gravel pit, near here. It fell ten yards in the dark. It had been hunted all day by 200 farmers, but escaped

Jasonville.—Ten saloons which prospered in this city since 1912 will suspend operations within ninety days, as a result of Tuesday’s local option election. The drys carried every ward, their total majority being 125. Evansville. —John Zeuschel, a brewery employee, forty years old, was found dead in his cell at police headquarters. He had hanged himself by tying his belt around water pipes less than three feet above the floor, knotting it around his neck and slowly strangling himself. Franklin. —C. W. Lynch, local restaurant owner, who disappeared mysteriously after starting on a trip to Indianapolis to buy provisions, has returned here, saying he was in a.Cincinnati hospital receiving treatment for burns on his hands. He did not explain why he went so far from home for treatment. Laporte.—Kendallville will decide the fate of its seven saloons on a local option election on Monday, November 29. The date was fixed by the Noble county commissioners, in response to petitions signed by 437 persons. Kendallville is the only town between Elkhart and Toledo having saloons. Frankfort.—Game Wardens C. W. Moll and J. B. Williams of Lafayette stalked about Clinton county and, as a result, two men paid fines for hunting without licenses. George Rodgers was arrested near Mulberry. Although he had bagged no game, he paid a fine and costs aggregating $15.50. Cass Downard of this city was arrested for trapping without a license and paid $14.50. Sullivan. Mrs. Samantha Belle Bennett, who was sentenced last week to the Indiana Womans prison for two to twenty-one years for killing her former husband, Charles E. Bennett, filed a petition in the Sulli van circuit court, substituting a plea of not guilty for the plea of guilty on which she was sentenced. The action followed a visit of some of Mrs Bennett’s relatives. The woman has been In jail since the shooting Huntington.—Discoveries that clover seed had been stolen from the Gezleichter & Silvers elevator and that clover seed was in the bottom of Charles Waterman's automobile, which was “borrowed" by unidentified persons, lead the police to believe that thieves are stealing machines to transport seed to a “fence.” The car of Rev.- Elmer Ward Cole was the object of thieves, but the minister frightened them away. Gary.—John Kirk, fifty-seven years old, president of the board of education here, died at his home here. He was superintendent of the Gary and South Chicago division of the plgin, Joliet and Eastern railway and directed the transportation in connection with the building of Gary and the steel mills here. The Kirk railroad yards were named In his honor. He formerly was a railroad ofiicial at Joliet, 111. A widow and three children survive.

Anderson.—Carl Wipp, thirty-six, general storekeper for the Union Traction company, fell dead at his homQ-here while he was lighting the gas in a stove. He had been suffering frojn excessive blood pressure, and had just returned from Indianapolis,where he consulted a specialist. Before coming to Anderson he was auditor for the Honey Bee Traction line. His widow is the daughter of former Chief of Police Benbow of Muncie.

Michigan City.—Rev. L. 6. Kiplinger, a chaplain of the state prison, placed bis resignation in the hands of the board of trustees. He will leave the latter part of the week for Mansfield, 0., where he becomes pastor of the First Congregational church. Mr. Kiplinger has served as prison chaplain ten years. He formerly was pastor of the Congregational church here. For two years Mr. Kiplinger has been lecturing at the Redpath chatauquas.

Richmond.—The Alary T. R. Foulke prize for the most meritorious painting by an Indiana artist shown at this year’s exhibit of the Richmond Art association was awarded to Wayman Adams of Indianapolis. The award was on two portraits. Clifton Wheeler of Indianapolis received first honorable mention and Martinus Anderson of Indianapolis second honorable mention. The Richmond prize for the best work of a Richmond artist was awarded to George Herbert Baker. J. E. Bundy and Mrs. Maude Eggemyer received honorable mention

Huntington—Samuel E. Cook, judge of the Huntington circuit court, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for congress from the Eleventh district. George W. Rauch of Marion, whp is serving his fourth term in congress, is expected to ask a renomination and I Cook’s announcement is taken as anI other indication of the Democratic split in the district originating in Huntington county. Cook and Charles A. Edwards, a brother-lh-lawyof Rauch and a member of the Democratic public service commission, are leaders of opposing forces in the party.

UNCLE SAM’S INCOME

Increases By Large Amount in .a Numlier of Branches. Washington, Nov. 4.—Ordinary receipts of the federal government increased about $11,000,000 during October, compared with that month last year, their total being $55,343,113. Customs receipts about $1,000,000; but the big increase was in ordinary internal revenue receipts, which totaled $33,818,637, an increase of about $9,800,000. The excess of ordinary disbursements over receipts for the month was about $2,977,000, compared with an excess of $17,583,08 7 in October, 1914.

FEARED “ROUGHS” AT FOWLER.

Two Corn Hunkers Bought “Knucks” and Were Fined. Indianapolis, Nov. 3.—When John Cona, age 45, of Osgood, Ind., and Harrison Reynolds, age 23, of Butlerville, Ind., stopped over in Indianapolis Monday night on .their way to Fowler, Ind., they decided to buy a pair of “knucks” to take with them to Fowler, as they had heard there were a lot of rough men there, according to their testimony in city court, yesterday afternoon, when they faced charges of carrying concealed weapons and drunkenness. They said they were going to Fowler to husk corn, as they had heard there was a good crop there. Reynolds said he got "knucks” for protection because the boys in his home town used to carry them. Each of the men was fined SSO and costs.

LARGE FEES IN WILL CASE.

Plaintiffs in Caldwell Case, Dissatisfied, May Again Take Up Fight. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 3.—The celebrated Caldwell will case, involving an estate of $1,500, which was recently compromised, probably will be reopened. A few days ago in the Benton county court the plaintiffs, who were stfing to set aside the Will, accepted a compromise in the form of $250,000, which was to be paid to them in installments. Dissension has arisen among the plaintiffs and there is .talk of making a move to set aside this judgment.

The court today awarded large fees to a number of the attorneys in the case. J. D. Chancellor, of Fowler, who affected the compromise, received a fee of $15,000. Kumbler & Gaylord, of this city, re ceived $20,000 in payment for services to the plaintiffs. Stuart, Hammond & Stuart received $34,500 for services to the estate, and Frazer & Isham, of Fowler, received $23,100 for their services.

Automobile Bandits Open Five Safes At Brookston.

Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 4,—Two safes were blown and three others -were robbed early this morning at Brookston, north of here on the Monon railroad. The two yeggmen came into town in an automobile and escaped without danger. The places visited were: Bell & House elevator, safe opened and money drawer “jimmied,” $41.15 taken; 11. E. McCulley, safe blown, nothing stolen; B. Thompson & Co., drug store, safe opened and money drawer “jimmied” without reward, $5 taken from cash register; Breckenridge & Son, hardware store, safe opened and ransacked, $-2 taken from register. The two safes which were blown were wrecked. Residents of the town heard the muffled explosions, but paid little heed to them.

World’s Harvest Calendar.

Somewhere every month in the year harvesters are clicking. The world's schedule for cutting grain is as follows: , January—New Zealand, Argentenia. February—East India, Upper Egypt. March—Egypt, Chile. April-—Asia Minor and Mexico. May—Asia, China, Japan, Texas. June—Turkey, Spain, Southern United States. Ju ly—United States, Austria, Southern Russia, England, Germany, Switzerland. August—Canada, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Poland. September—Scotland, Sweden, Siberia, Norway. October—-Northern Russia, Siberia. November—(South Africa, Peru. December—Uruguay, Australia. Then it all starts oyer again, beginning with New Zealand and Argentina. The United States exports harvesting machinery to all the countries named and also many others.—Farm and Fireside.

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Glories of Autumn In Brown County.

Poets sing of the spring time, when the grass is green, the leaves are young, and the flowers are in bloom; but the painter and the real lover of nature rave when the beauties of autumn are on display. True, there is an ever-recurring mysticism in the rebirth of vegetation; but it is ever the same. Sunshine, warmth and showers clothe the* earth with green when the winter vanishes. In the autumn, however, there are changes so marked mat no two years are ever alike. One year the scarlet of the sassafras leaf may be less defined, the brown of the beech paler, the creeper not so red, the elm not such a greenish yellow, the maple less brilliant, and the oak less ruddy. Another year the leaves of the trees and vines may be flam ing or a deeper yellow, and yet another year the leaves may be shriveled in a night, while they ' are still green, by a killing frost, and fall to the ground with the next day's wind

and sunshine, with no opportunity to show what they can do in gorgeous coloring.

When the black frost does not kill suddenly, and autumn lingers, as has been the case this year, the leaves assume a wide variety of coloring, from pale green to almpst black, and they remain on the trees longer. This season the leaves were more plentiful because there was.an abundance of moisture and less scorching heat than in many other seasons. When the weather is extremely hot and there is little rain, the leaves shrivel and frequently drop before autumn begins. Rain tends to make vegetation more rank —of quicker and stronger growth. The stems of leaves are stronger in wet seasons, and therefore they cling to the branches with greater tenacity, as may be seen in a walk through the woods or a ride along a forest. In a very dry season the trees are often bare by the middle of Oatober; but this year, at the end of the month, half the leaves in some unexposqd woods were still clinging to the branches. It is in the early fall of a dry year, however, that nature shows her greatest coloring powers—produces the most glaring reds and yellows. This year, the autumn of a wet year, though the colors were not brilliant, they were more varied, with more shades of green shown,

than in the last decade. Take the road through Millersville and then along the banks of Fall creek—what a riot of colors! The peted in brown, and stidll there in pale greens, dark greens, light yellows and browns, not brilliant, but so marked in contrasts that the nature lover lingered to admire. And so it. was on the return drive along the banks of White river in Hamilton county. But it was on an auto trip through the corners of Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks and Marion counties that the glories of autumn were seen at their best. Last Saturday was a wonder day for a party of city-tired workers. As had been done before, the main highways were shunned as much as possible, and the auto sped most of the time over byways where the trees were thickest. Woods and roadsides were carfeted in brown, and still there were enough leaves on the trees to decorate the landscape. Every byway was a surprise. Up hill and down hill, on each side of the road-

way, were acres of forest trees sandwished between fields' of corn in shocks, brown stubble, newly plowed ground, or fields of recently sprouted wheat, which, in the distance, seemed a? if they were carpets oi green velvet. So lost was the party in admiration of the scene that when the forager picked Ben Davis apples, thinking they were winesaps or Jonathans, he was not scolded, except for the waste of. time; and even ’when after leaving Mooresville, a tangle of byways running in all directions put the party in a quandary, just before nightfall, as to which was the right way honie, there was not a murmur—the scenery was still to be admired. Danville, in ithe distance, showed that therel was life somewhere, even if most of the country homes’ displayed no light. And what this party saw was seen by hundreds of others. Just think of 600 auto parties i n the hills and valleys of Brown county in one day! —lndianapolis News.

Oporto, Portugal, now has 200, 000 inhabitants. Modern submarines usually carry six or eight torpedoes. - of disabled Canadians vary from $75 to $265 a year. A British private can get as much as $325 a year pension for his wounds, according to their nature.

WAJLT MASON

The Poet Philosopher When the flags have ceased to flutter over ambush, siege and rout, then perhaps the kings will mutter, ‘What was all this scrap about? We have torn our lands asunder, ithas been a dandy war, but the time has come to wonder what in blitzen was it for? Now that for a little season we have ceased our gory fun, we’ll have time to fina a reason for the butchering we’ve done.” They'll have time, the kings and princes, to ransack each royal mind, but a reason that convinces will be mighty~ hard to find. For a while they will endeavor, each to vindicate his crown, but the true excuse will never from a throne be handed down. If an honest, candid kinglet told the truth, he would declare, ‘‘Bj* my halidom and cinglet, we were loaded up for bear; at each other we’d been yapping, springing warlike threat and cufve, and we had to do some scrapping, just to show we had the nerve. We were wild and we were woolly, on each shoulder was a chip, and we had to act the bully, or we feared we'd lose our grip.” Still the reeking cannon thunder, and there is no sign of peace, and the Sickened nations wonder what’s become of the police. A cargo of salmon recently shipped out of Vancouver consisted of 5,000,000 cans valued at $500,000 wholesale. Laid end (o end, the cans would reach a distance of 452 miles. The famous old city of La Pas, Bolivia, in a valley more than 12,000 feet above the sea, is the highest capital in the world, overtopping Lhassa, the far-famed capital of Tibet, Asia-, by several hundred feet.

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