Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — Page 2

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1 JASPER ICOUNTY DBM G. M. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephone* Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March •3, 1879, Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. ADVERTISING RATES a y 12%c Inch Display, special position,. .. 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion,.. 5o Readers, per line add. insertions.. 3c Ads-—One cent per word each Insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless- advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks —Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisement accepted for' first page. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23. 1916

STATE CONVENTION CALL.

Tc the Democrats of Indiana-, and Ail Those Who Desire to Cooperate With Them. By virtue of the Primary Election ; Law enacted by the Sixty-ninth Gen-i oral Assembly :of the State of In- i diana and approved by the Governor : March 8, 1915 (Acts 1915, page: 359, Chapter 105}, ami in pursu-i ance of the "Rules for' the Govern-: ment and Regulation of the Demo-1 cratic Party in Indiana.-' adopted, by the Democratic State Committee ; of Indiana on July 22, 1915, the' Democratic Party of the -State: of. ip-1 diana, and all who desire to COr! operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tom- i linson Hall, in the City of Indian-1 apolis, Indiana, on Wednesday, April 1 26, 1 916, for the purpose or adopt-j ing a platform, selecting: Presidential Electors, Contingent Electors, j .-. Delegates, and Alternate- Delegates to the Democratic National Conven-J tion, and of nominating candidates for United States Senator and Governor, if no nomination is made at the Primary Election to be held on March .7, 1916, and for nominating the following state officers, to-wit: Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Reporter Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. ■Chief Bureau of Statistics. One Judge of the Supreme Court for Second District. One Judge of the Supreme Court for Third District. One Judge of the Appellate Court for the First District. The Convention will be composed of 1,363 delegates, apportioned among the several counties of the state; from this, the Tenth District, are as follows: Benton ..................7 Jasper ’ 6 Lake . . . r ... .25 Newton . 5 Porter ..... v ..... 7 Tippecanoe . ....21 Warren .. 4 White , 10 The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congres icnal Districts, will meet Tuesday, A. >ril 25 “16, at seven o’clock p. m., at the following places: First District—State House, Room 83, second floor. Second District—State House, Room 11, first floor. Third District—State House, Room 12, first floor. Fourth District—State House, Room 4J, first floor.

Fifth District—State House, Room 91, third floor. Sixth District—State House, Room 55, second floor. Seventh District—Court House, Criminal Court room. Eighth District—-State House, Room 15, first floor. Ninth District—State House, Room 50, second floor. Tenth District—State House, Room 120. third floor. Eleventh District—State House, Room 27, first floor. Twelfth - District——State House, Room 99, third floor. Thirteenth District—State House, Room 112, third floor. At each of such meetings the fol lowing officers and members ; of committees will be selected, viz: One member of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. One member of the Committee on Credentials. One member of the Committe e on Resolutions. : One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. One Presidential Elector and one Contingent Elector. Two delegates to the National Convention. Two alternate delegates to the National Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet at Room 371, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Credentials will meet in Room 372, Deri son Hotel,; immediately after the adjournment of District meetings.' The Committee on.—Resolutions will meet i n Room of Ordinary. Denison Hotel, imtijediateiy after adjournment of District. meetings. The Convention will me.on April .?(>;, 191 C., at 9 o’clock a. m . at Tomli f. stiff- Hall, to receive report? of the' committees, for the adoption of a platform, the selection of delegates-at-large and large . to the National Convention, the selection of Presidential Electors and Contingent Electors, and the nomination of candidates. Witney- my hand and seal this 11th day of January, 1916. D BERNARD KORBLY, ■ Chairman. Attest: ; A. C. SALLEE, Secretary.

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Feb. 12. - It was a severe jolt that Attorney General Stotsenburg gave the Republican candidates for governor and senator when he told them they must report all the money spent by them and in their interest in the primaries. Even ii they report only those expenses which ate so conspicuous on the surface that they can not be denied or concealed, it will be all the argument the voters will need to keep any of the spenders from being elected to office. Watson, New, Goodrich and McCray, each spending no less than SIOO,OOO to get the nomination to an SB,OOO office; and all of them combined spending no less than $500,000 has caused the people to wonder what men hope to get. out of an office that is rot included in the salary. o—o0 —o The industrial board of Indiana reports that during the month of January compensation was paid by the employers of the state amounting to $25,663.53. Of this amount $10,0274.98 was paid on 532 cases which ’Were closed within the month, and $15,388.55 was on cases which are still drawing compensation. Accidents reported during January

numbered 2,600. Twenty-three accidents were fatal. No disability was reported in 1,356 of the accidents and 1,182 cases showed disability of less than two weeks and called for no compensation. 122 cases reported disability for more than 14 days. Two thousand, three hundred and ninety-two cases have been settled since the compensation law became effective, last September. Only 101 of these actions have represented contested cases, 2,290 of the cases having been settled automatically under the provisions of the compensation act. Of the 101 contested cases, 13 were finally settled by agreement; 47 were settled with findings for the plaintiffs; 15 were settled with finding! for the defendants ; 11 were dismissed and 14 are awaiting hearing.

. At the close of January employers were paying $5,493.30 a week in 741 pending cases, or a weekly average of $7.41 a case. Twentyfive per cent of the injured employes in these pending cases were receiving $5.50 a week, which represents the minimum compensation under the law; 16 per cent were receiving $5.78 a week, representing 55 per cent of their average weekly salary: 20 per cent were receiving from $6 to $7; 12 per cent from $7 to $8; 11 per cent from $8 to $9; 7 per cent from $9 to $10; 6 per cent more than $lO, and 3 per cent $13.20. The commission approved agreements for compensation in January in six fatal cases. The defendents in these cases receive from the employers compensation in the following amounts: Two receive $5.50 a Week for 300 weeks; one, $6.64 for 300 weeks; one, $8.54 for 300 weeks; one, $9.90 for 300 weeks: one, $10.90 for 300 weeks.

SEATTLE “WET” LEADER NOW LIKES PROHITION

< liangtHi" Mind After City J" “Dry” Six Weeks —Help" Morals and Business. Kansas City, Feb. 21. —The world i." watching Seattle to see how prohibition works out iii a large city, Seattle is the largest city that has ever had prohibition. It aud the whole state of Washington became “dry” January 1 of this year. The strongest single force that worked against prohibition in the state of Washington was the Times, the leading newspaper of Seattle. In its campaign against the passage of tlie prohibitory law it used all the familiar old arguments such as 'Prohibition doesn't prohibit,” that it would force down rents, that so much property used for saloons all a: once made empty and nonproductive in one day would have a bad economic effect, and so on. The editor of the Seattle Times, .Major B. Blethen, the man who made the fight against prohibition, was in Kansas City and was asked how prohibition was working .and it all Ills prophecies had come true. He said: “XTy paper* fought it? hardest hgainst prohibition. We fought it on economic grounds alone. We believed that in a great seaport city with <i population of upward of miit prohibition would be destructive; it would bring on economic disaster. We believed that under our system of licensing saloons we had the liquor traffic about as veil cot trollpd as it could be. and we wanted to let it alone, and so we A tight as hard as we could fight. But, in spite of all we could do against it, prohibition carried and it went into effect in Washington, January 1. We have had six weeks of it now.” ..■

"And how has it w ofked but?" "We already know that it is a great benefit, morally and from an economic standpoint. Its moral benefit has been tremendous, Seattle had 260 saloons, and we had an average of 2,600 arrests a month for criffies and misdemeanors growing out of liquor drinking. i n January we had only 400 arrests and sixty of those were made January 1, and were the results of hangovers from the old year. That in itself is enough to convince any man with a conscience that prohibition is necessary. There can be no true economy in anything that’ is immoral. . "And on top of that great moral result, we have these economic facts: In the first three weeks of January the savings deposits in the banks of Seattle increased 15 per cent. There was not a grocery store in Seattle that did not show an increase of business in January greater than ever known in any month before in all the history of the city, except in holiday times. In all the large grocery stores the increase was immense. In addition to this, every dry goods store in Seattle except one, and that one I have no figures from, had a wonderful increase in business. Each store reported the largest business ever done in one month, except in holiday time. “I wished to know in what class

of goods the sales increased so .greatly, and so I sent to all the groeery and dry goods stores to find that out. And to me it is a pitiful thing, and it makes me sorry that we did not have prohibition long ago—that the increase in sales in all the dry goods stores was in wearing apparel of women and children, and in the grocery stores the in- ■ crease was made up chiefly of fruits and fancy groceries. This proves that it is the women and children , who suffer most from the liquor bus- , iness, and it is the women and children who benefit greatest from pro,hi bition. Money that went formerly over the bar for whisky is now being spent for clothing for the women and children, and in better food for the household. “It is just like this: When you close the saloons the money that formerly was spent there remains in the family of the wage earner, and his wife and children buy shoes and clothing and better food with It. Yes, sir, we have found in Seattle is better to buy shoes than booze. The families of wage earners in Seattle are going to have more food and clothes and everything else than they had before.” “And is the prohibition law enforced?’’ ' ‘ Absolutely. Prohibition does prohibit.” \ “And how about the empty saloons and the landlords who own them?” “Maiftr of them have already been made over and are occupied by other businesses. I will venture the prophecy that in one year from today you won’t be able to find a place in Seattle where there was a saloon. They will all be occupied by other businesses. And prohibition has not lowered rents. I know of one big dry goods store that hag already had its rent raised since prohibition went into effect. “Oregon also went ’dry' Januarj’ 1 California is the only 'wet’ state left on the Pacific coast, and it will go ‘dry’ January 1, 1918. And those three states will remain ‘dry’ to the end of time. None of them would ever have saloons again. Those who' were honestly opposed, as I wag, to prohibition in Washington and Oregon. have been converted to it, as I have been, by the actual evidence that prohibition is a fine thing from a business standpoint. No city and no community, too. can afford to have saloons. They are too expensive, morally and economically. In a very few years there will not be a licensed saloon in the whole nation, and that will be a fine thing.” '

The Weapons of Caesar.

Ff one of Caesar's legionaries who | fell in the “pacification" of Gaul could be waked from his long sleep and placed in the trenches, he would find one or two familiar things, even if he failed to recognize the landscape. The appalling racket, the bursting shells, the spectacle of men struck down by invisible agencies of death-—these would be new and awesome. But the helmet would Lb ye a rather familiar feeling on his brows, and if he took part in a charge he would show himself a most efficient man With the “trench knife," Por this new weapon is just the old Roman broadsword revived and brought dowij to date. The blade is a bit shorter than that to which the legionary was accustomed—ls inches i instead of 18. But the point and I edge are keen, the steel is good, the hilt is plain, and the injunction to : ‘thust at the face" is as sound as I ever. With this accustomed weapon i in his grip and a cloak over his left I arm in lieu of shield, Cains of the j Tenth Legion would he a nasty war- | rior to meet on the chalk knolls of I Champagne. —Chicago Journal.

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EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 5 Per Cent. Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA GEORGE A. WILLIAMS LAWYER Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and farm loans. Office over First National Bank. RENSSELAER, INDIANA DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours’. 10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 5 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—- - SA. M. to 2P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s drug stroe. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B.”’ RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice In all Courts Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16 RENSSELAER, INDIANA

F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER. INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES " Chiropractor Graduate Palmer School of Chiropractic, Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, lowa. Tuesdays and Fridays at Remington, Ind. Forsythe Bldg. Phono 576 Rensselaer, Ind. H. L. BROWN DENTIST’ Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA J. W. HORTON „ DENTIST Office opposite, court house square. RENSSELAER. INDIANA

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CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RV RENSSELAER TIME TARTJg In Effect April 10, 1915. NORTHBOUND N°-36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:41a.m. No- 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. to Chicago 7:30 a.m. S®’!! J,’l dl^ nap J to ChiCMo 10:36 a.m. N°. 38 Cincinnati to Chicago 2:51 p.m. Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 aan. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 pan. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indlanap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:30 p.m.

I OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk. Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal. Vern Robinson Civil EngineerW. F. Osborn* Fire Chief.......J. J. Montgomery I Fire Warden.... .J. J. Montgomery 1 > Councilmen 1> Ist Ward.... Ray Wood 1> 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King 11 At Large.. Rex Warner, F. Kresler p JUDICIAL h Circuit Judge.. Charles W. Hanley ’ I Prosecuting Attorney. .Reuben Hess ’ I Terms of Court—Second Monday I in February, April, September . I and November. Four week j> ~ terms. '[ COUNTY OFFICERS d Clerk Judson H. Perkins Sheriff.... b. D. McColly 1> Auditor...J. p. Hammond Treasurer a. A. Fell Ip Recorder George Scott Ip Surveyor........M. B. Price P Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson p County Assessor... .G. L. Thornton p Health OfficerF. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District.....H. W. Marble p 2nd District..D. S. Makeever Ip 3rd District..... Charles Welch ; J Commissioners’ Court meets th* First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter..... Carpenter James Stevens.Gillam Warren E Poole.. .Hanging Grov* John K01h0ff............., .Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, JrMarion George Foujks....Milroy John Ru5h..........Newt0n George Hammerton ..Union Joseph Salrin.. Walker Albert S. Keene..Wheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice ad-dress—-Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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