Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Page 4
SANTA tugs' PARTY WILL BE AT BURCHARD’S New 5 and 10c Store next Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. Has a Big Surprise in Store For the Boys and Girls of Rensselaer and Vicinity. He Invites All Children to His Party ■ ■ • i
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You are invited to come to a iianta Claus party at my store on next Saturday afternoon, Dec. 11, at 1 to 2 p. m. Old Santa Claus will be here at that time and he wants all the boys and girls to come to see him. ;< : ’ We are going to have a nice surprise for you. Santa Claus and his assistants will serve you something good to eat and will tell you all about a special letter writing contest in which the boys will have a chance to get an engine and the girls a big kitchen cabinet.
The Ningpo end of the Chinese railway, which is to connect that port with Hangchow and Shanghai, was formally opened at the end of 1 h 12. The lines have only been laid -as yet, however, to a distance of twenty or thirty li (about ten or fifteen miles.) **************»*+*> | M. V. BROWN | | Building Contractor | 7 Have just returned to Mens- 2 4 selaer to live. Am oi*eu for % 4 building contracts of any kind ? J or size, or work by the day. % 2 Fine interior linis' stairways J 4 and hard-wood floors i.y spec- 5 2 ’hlty. 2 4 MY MOTTO: 1 Try To Please J 5 -PHONE No. 415. 2 Ill! t-(l. [ 4 Auto Repairs and Parts * 4 of All Kinds. % Defiance Tires AY,. 5 4 Oils and Gasoline 4 Experie ced Mechanics insur--4 ing prompt services with < satisfaction. U 4 Garage just east of Republican Office ! I | PHONE 78 \\ 4 Mark Schroer, Hugh Kirk, Sam Carroll
RADIATORS REPAIRED Frozen auto radiators repaired and put in good condition at the Rensselaer Garage. Extra Ford radiators on hand to replace radiat ors while being repaired. RENSSELAER GARA6E
This engine is one of the most interesting things you ever saw in your life. It will be in operation at the party. The kitchen cabinet will be on display also. Wie will tell you all about it when you get here and we know you will be glad you came. In addition to all this you certainly will be interested to look around over our big Christmas stock and see the thousand and one things that we have purchased to make our young friends happy at Christmas time. We will be expecting you and will be disappointed if you can't come.
STRAW HAT WEAVING.
liow the SjtU.j to SIOO Panamas Are . Made in Colombia. Toquilla straw, from which Panama hats are made, is obtained from five or six species of palm. The most important of these is known as Carludoviea pallida, and grows in the warm, moist regions of the Pacific coast in Colombia and Ecuador, and also in the forests of Peru, along the headwaters of the Amazon. This palm attains a height of six to ten feet. The leaves are fan-shaped. Toquilla straw is exported to the United States and other countries, where the hats are made by machinery. It has been suggested to the Colombian government that the exportation of iraca and toquilla seeds should be prohibited in order to prevent other countries from cultivating those plants, It is also urged that it would be wise to levy a heavy export duty on the exports of toquilla straw and to enter into an agreement to that effect with Ecuador and Peru. ; ; ' . _ ■ -■ : . Panama hats are made in Colombia in the following manner: When the palm is about five feet high the most tender leaves are cut and the veins taken out, submerged in boiling water several times, and placed in the sun to dry and whiten. Further to whiten the straw lime juice is added to the boiling water. Then the straw is moistened to make it flexible and split with the finger nail into strips of the required width. A bunch of the straw is tied in the middle and placed in the center of a wooden mold. The fibers are placed in equidistant pairs, and weaving is begun in the upper part of the cup and continues in circular form until the liat is finished. The beauty and durability of the hat depend largely upon the degree of exactness with which the fibers are interwoven. Once completed, the hat is washed in clean, cold water, a coat of gum is applied, and the hat is finally polished with dry sulphur* / To weave a fine hat requires three to six months, with four to five hours’ work daily. Two inferior hats of ordinary straw can be woven in one day. First quality bats of toquilla are sold in foreign retail markets at prices varying from $25 to SIOO each. The declared exports of Panama hats from Cartagena to the United States have been steadily increasing. In 1914 the exports were valued at $263,274.—T0r0nt0 Mail.
Stetson and Kingsbury hats are appreciated very much by the man or boy .for Xmas gifts. At Duvall’s Quality Shop.—-C. EATtL DUVALL..
To Check Panama Slides.
The writer has had over two years’ experience in the engineering department of the canal zone, and has given considerable thought and study to the subject. The heavy rains of the canal zone are responsible for the slides, and if a large proportion of the water is properly drained off, these slides will have to slow up so that the dredging going on below will be able to take care of the channel, and thus do away with the constant obstruction to the passage of vessels. It is probably true that in years to come the elopes will take a natural grade, but the question is: “How many years?’’ The writer is of the opinion that it will be at least twenty or thirty years before such a result is obtained if the theory of the general is followed, and that shipping will be delayed each year for about four ,months during the period of the greatest rains, which is from August to December. The remedy that is suggested is the trench and gravel method. It has been carried on so successfully in the west and other places, that the writer does not hesitate to guarantee its success on the Panama canal if properly executed. The only question now is the obtaining of grave, and broken stone in sufficient quantities at a reasonable cost, and going to the expense of purchasing proper equipment, which was in operation on the canal at one time, hut has been removed before it should have been. Steam shovels and trenching machinery, rock crushers and other valuable equipment have been sold and removed, and before such a scheme can be placed in operation, must be purchased again. There is where the mistake has been made, in assuming that these things would 'not be needed further. . How much will it cost to delay these slides So that the fleet of dredges will be able to keep the prism open? Maybe not more than $1,000,000, possibly $2,000,000 or more. But what is that compared to the loss In delay to shipping for the next decade, and why is such a small amount (small when compared to the total cost of the canal) to be begrudged when its great benefit will be many times greater, not to mention the advantage of a clear and certain passageway in case of war? If such a scheme is to be carried ■out, preparations should be started at once to get the necessary equipment on the ground so that when the dry season commences in January, everything will be in readiness to begin operations on a large scale. The first four months of the year being dry months, practically no rain will delay such operations during that period. Dredging will have to he carried on in the prism below these slides for many years to come, no ma ter what remedy is applied, and the writer suggests the above as a remedy to the great delays in shipping through the canal.—Walter S, Wheeler in New York Times.
Centennial News Notes.
Wayne county has outlined a plans for county and township celebrations for next year, by which the several townships are to contribute each a unit, or single act play, the collective units to be fitly co-ordi-nated in the county pageant.
One of the best organization meetings yet reported was that of Montgomery county at Crawfordsville. Nearly one hundred people from over the county were in attendance and manifested great enthusiasm. .Montgomery is planning a grand pageant as the central feature of its Centennial celebration.
On Friday, Feb. 4, Centennial celebration exercises * will be held in every school district in Harrison county. It is the plan of County School Superintendent A. O. DeWeese that on this date the patrons will bring dinner with the children, all spending the day together in the celebration of Indiana’s one hundredth birthday. Mr. De Weese offers his teachers suggestipns for a suitable program for the day. Hats off to County Supt. De Weese. May his tribe increase in Indiana.
The Union county centennial committee is holding regular weekly meetings in planning for a grand centennial celebration. This is approaching the matter in the right spirit. No worthy observance can be gotten up on a few weeks’ notice.
The Terre Haute city park board has secured the planting in various parks of hyacinth, crocus, tulips and other bulbs in designs symbolical of the centennial anniversary. These plants will begin to blossom early in the spring and the planting in this manner is part of the general scope of celebration, says the Terre Haute Star, as planned by the centennial committee.
YOUNG FOLKS’ CORNER
Twenty Guesses. A good game is that called “twenty guesses.” Any number of players can participate. It can be played anywhere. One of the players Is chosen for leader. She goes several yards away while the others take the name of some visible object. Then they call the leader back. She goes to No. 1 and asks: “Is it in the animal kingdom?” oi whatever kingdom she chooses to say. Supposing the object to be a wooden door. No. 1 says, “No.” The leader then goes to No, 2 and asks: “Is it in the mineral kingdom?” No. 2 answers, “No.” The leader then knows it is in the vegetable kingdom. She has eighteen more guesses to guess the object. She can ask any question at all, but the players can only answer yes or no and cannot answer out of their turn. If the rules are broken the leader changes places with the one who broke them. When the leader says, “It is a wooden door/’ the player whose turn it was now becomes the leader, and so on.
Joining the Odd Fellows.
Joining the Odd Fellows is a very amusing game. First all the girls go In one room and all the boys in another. One boy is chosen as the master of ceremony and goes in the room with the girls. One boy is called from the boys’ room and blindfolded. He is asked, “Do you want to join the Odd Fellows?” lie is supposed to say “Yes.” Then he is asked, “Do you want one, two or three degrees?” and he answers according to what he wants. The next question is, “Which girl do you want to give you the degrees?” He then gives the name of the girl he wishes to initiate him. The girl approaches, and the master of ceremony kisses the boy according to the number of degrees he has taken. Then another boy is called in, and the same thing is done. Each boy sees how he is fooled. As the other boy comes in the first boy stays in the girls’ room, and so on until all the boys are in the girls' room, and only the last boy does not know lie has been fooled.
Song of the Katydid.
Katydids belong to the grasshoppef family, and sometimes they have been known to make faint noises in. the daytime, but they are never so loud as those made at night. The queer call Which sounds so very much like the words “Katv did” is made by rubbing the overlapping] wing covers against each other.- This noise has been made with the wings of a dead katydid. A katydid's eggs are flattened, oval and slate colored and are placed in a double overlapping row on twigs and leaves. One katydid will lay as many as 150 eggs in a season. Katydid eggs hatcli out the following spring. In the southern states there are two generations each year. In the northern states there is a single brood.
All Around Story Game.
The all around story game is very entertaining and productive of general merriment if conducted at all cleverly by the players. One person in the room begins to relate a story and, after telling enough to interest his hearers and arouse their curiosity, suddenly breaking off, throws a knotted handkerchief at some other member of the party, calling upon him to continue the narrative. This is kept up as long as possible, the more absurd and improbable the plot of the story the better. If any one fails to respond upon receiving the handkerchief he or she must pay a forfeit.
A Swimming Pool For Scouts.
The city council of Conway, Ark., recently presented the boy scouts with a lot on which to build a swimming pool. The city agreed to furnish the water and lights free, changing the water every day and heating it in the winter, if the scouts would build the pool. The scouts accepted the offer of the city council and raised SSOO. The pool is now’ in use, and the scout's are making plans for a clubhouse, which they expect will become the social and recreation center of the town.
The Night Express.
A royal game is the night express, When the work of the day is done; When the lamps drive out the loneliness And the grate fire glows in its deep recess, And the winter night creeps on. "Now come!” I say to my four-year-old, “The hour for the game is here; You be the fireman, big and bold, And I’ll be the engineer." A train of chairs in a faultless row, With one high chair at the head. "Now, all aboard! Time’s up, you know. Tlng-a-ling! Toot! Toot!” and away we go. While the furnace fire is fed. "Steam up! Speed on! For the night Is cold, And the track ahead is clear.” A thrilling ride for the fireman bold And a joy to the engineer. Through farm and forest we thunder on, And our light shines far ahead. But—“ Look! Oh, deary, the bridge is gone! A wreck there’ll be in the ghostly dawn And a train in the river’s bed!” He drops the tools that he sought to hold, And his eyes grow wide with fear; One and he’s safe, Is the firemarf bold, < In the arms of the engineer. - It s many a year since the night express Went thundering down to the bay, And a bearded man in ,a soldier’s dress Is he who sprang to my quick caress When the bridge was washed away. Yet I dream, as the winter nights grow cold, Of the nights of an elder year, ■ „ When my four-year-old was the fireman bold And I was the engineer. —Youth’s Companion.
fIoMMY Ideas There’s Plenty of Christmas at Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store ; The Early Shopper Has a Big Advantage. Why not have something laid aside this week? Can you beat the assortment of items listed below? We are sure entitled to a look. VICTROLAS on hand now at sls, $25, S4O, SSO, $75 and SIOO. 500 CHOICE RECORDS for Victrolas—come in and bear them. KODAKS on hand at $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, SB, $lO, sls and S2O. KODAK ALBUMS from 10c to $1.50. SHUMATE RAZORS on hand at $2, $2.25, $2.50, $3, and $3.75. A gold handled one makes a dandy present for a man. We also have the Gem Safety for $1; Gillettes at $5. FOUNTAIN PENS at sl, $1.50, $2 and up to $6. IMPORTED WORK BASKETS at $7. PENNANTS at 25c 50c, 75c andsl. PILLOW TOPS for Rensselaer and St. Joseph’s. 100 BOYS’ BOOKS at 25c each. MARGARET HILL McCARTER’S new book “The Corner Stone,” at 50c, a dandy gift book. Absolutely and postively the largest display of white ivory sets and individual pieces of white ivory ever displayed in this section. Ladies’ party cases and manicure sets in leather cases. Gents’ seal and pikskin hill books at the right price. Cigars in 10’s, I2’s and 25’s, real Christmas packages. Tinker Toys for 50c. Meecanna sets from 50c up. Just what every boy wants. Cards, booklets, seals, holly boxes and paper in endless variety. Now don’t pass us up, but come in right away and give us a look over. WATCH OUR\^A/INDOWS FENDIG’S REXALL DRUG STORE.
CpssifteaAd ~ [Under this head notices -will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should he sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-flv« 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 for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—My residence property on Franklin street, can give possession Nov. 20, 115.—C. W. EGER. For Sale—No. 14 Ida Monitor round stove, burns either hard or soft coal, all fn good shape, will be sold very .cheap.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—lß head of hogs, 16 shotes weighing- about 125, and 2 brood sows with 18 young pigs.— MARION COOPER, y 2 mile west of Virgie. ' d-9 For Sale—An armload of clean old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office. .Just the thing for putting under carpets, on pantry shelves, etc. -ts For Sale —Oak lumber, bridge plank, slabs and topwood. 6 miles southwest of Rensselaer. —ARTHUR POWELL, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 29-M, Mt, Ayr exchange. d-17 For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired; 4 miles west of Rensselaer, on county farm road.—A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; Vance Collins, Rensselaer phone 935-D, or see John Zellers, sawyer. 1 For Sale—About 15 large cockerels, Buff Orpingtons, all large boned and above standard' weight; will improve the! marketable and winter-egg-laying qualities of any farm flock. Utility birds only at $1,50 each until Dec. 20th —R. L. BUDD, R-R-2, Fair Oaks, Ind. d-12 For Sale—A good, well located cement tile factory, located in splendid field in Jasper county. Building and machinery all practically new. Would take part trade. Reason for selling, ana not able physically to run the business. For further information address “J.” Care The Democrat. For Sale—-100 good quality business size white envelopes with your return card printed In the upper left-hand corner, for only 50c, cash with order; 250 for $1; 600 for $1.50; 1,000 for $2.50. Mailed postpaid to any address In the United States for the above prices. Samples ihailed free on request.—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. FPr Sale—A choice lot of pure bred Hampshire boars, sired by State Fair winners. My herd is chol- *“**“''• **v use of the simultan-
eous method. Pedigrees furnished with each hog.—JOHN R. LEWIS & SON, Rensselaer, Ind., R. D. 1, or phone 912-J. 1 WANTED Wanted—Second-hand cook stove, must be cheap.-—Enquire Democrat office. Wanted—Man with rig to canvass for the best silos made. Good commission. Address—S. C. GERTIN, sales manager, Monticello, Ind. d-14 Wanted—Responsible men to sell Watkins Products in nearby counties. An opportunity to get into a profitable business of your own without investing one dollar in the goods you sell. Must be able to furnish team or auto and give personal bond with two responsible sureties—V. M. PEER or ANDREW SIPKEMA, Fair Oaks, Ind. j 2 MISCELLANEOUS Estray Taken Up— A two-year-old heifer at ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE ■ Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidich brand, also caii bon papers of the same make, a sale at The Democrat office. FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 6 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. r Farm Loans—i 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 on farm property In any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l can now furnish 5 per cent money on good farm loans, and with the least possible delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I flnl thnl wlthout Delay * nil lllr W,thout Commission I UUI IllU [Without Charges for H* Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON . Are You Going to Entertain? If so, don’t wear yourself out writing the invitations, but call at The Democrat office and let us furnish and print the invitations and envelopes—handsome linen finish ones—for almost as little as you could buy the blank cards and envdopes elsewhere.