Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1916 — Page 2

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THE.. JASPER ICOBNTT DMI G. M. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice ar Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 1 18<9. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages.

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THE GLORY OF THE STATES. Indiana.

By George Ade.

What is a .Hoosier? Also, why? A Hoosier is the happy average. Happy, because he lives in Indiana. One state in the Union does not borrow its atmosphere: from the neighbors. Indiana has a savor not to be detected in Ohio. It is decidedly un-Michigan-like. Although it tinges off toward Illinois on the west and Kentucky on the south, the cotjimunity is neither nebulous nor indefinite. It has a soul. It is individual. Indiana is not Oiit-West or way Down-East or Up-North or south in. Dixie. It is the nucleus, and ever ho much of a nucleus. B true that west of the Platte riven SBftiana is supposed to be under lift wither and blight of Eastern decay. Conversely, as one Leaves Columbus, Ohio, and moves toward the region of perpetual sea-food, he encounters people to whom Terre Haute and ( ripple Creek are synonymous. The Hoosier refuses to be class!* tied by those who lack information. He knows that his state is an oasis, surrounded by sections. Our people are clotted around the exact center of population. Boston is not the hub. It is a repaired section of the pneumatic rim. When a state is one hundred years old (Indiana is just that) it escapes the personal recollections of the pioneer, and is still so young that newspapers do not burn incense before the grandchildren of eminent grandparents. We have grown some ivy, l»ut we have not yet taken on moss. Indiana has made history, but it figures that the present and the future are more worthy of attention than a dim and receding past. Indiana has cemeteries and family troos, but does not subsist on them. If the Hoosier is proud of his state, ft is because the state has lived down and fought down certain misconceptions. Even in Cambridge Massachusetts,, the fact that Indiana produces more gray matter ’than

hoop-poles is slowly beginning to percolate. > For a long time the Hoosier was on the defensive. Now he is on a pedestal. Forty or fifty years ago the native son who went traveling owned up to an indefinite residence somewhere between Chicago and Louisville. Today th® Hoosier abroad claims Indiana fervently, hoping to be mistaken for an author. The Indiana man respects his state because it has grown to importance and wealth without acquiring a double chin or wearing a wrist watch. The sniffy millionaire and the aloof patrician do not cause any trembles in the state of Indiana. Even our larger cities have no thoroughfares shaded by tire gloomy strongholds of caste. Some of the more enterprising comrades are unduly prosperous, but they continue to reside in homes.

The state Is short oil slums and aristocratic reservations. In other words, we are still building according to specifications. The number of liveried servants residing within the boundaries is incredibly small and does not. include one person born on the banks of the Wabash.

We have a full quota of smart alecks, but > not one serf. Because Indiana is not overbalanced by city population and is not cowed by arrogant, wealth and has a lingering regard for the cadences of the spellbinder, an old-fashioned admiration for the dignified professions, and a local pride in all styles of literary output, the Hoosier has achieved his peculiar distinction as a mixed type—a puzzling- combination of shy provincial, unfettered Democrat and Fourth of July orator. He is a student by choice, a poet, by sneaking inclination, and a storyteller by reason of his nativity. Indiana has been helped to state consciousness because a great man has arisen to reveal the Hoosiers to themselves. The quintessence of all that is admirable in the make-up of tlie native is exemplified in James Whitcomb Riley. No wonder he is belov-ed. Why shouldn't we be proud of our own kin? *

The state is full of undiscovered Rileys, inglorious but not necessarily mute. Your passer-by looks out of the car window and sees the Hoosier on the depot platform, necktieless and slightly bunched at the knees. According to all the late cabaret standards, the Hoosier is a simpleton, the, same as you observe in the moving pictures. Alight from the train and get close to our brother before you turn in your verdict. Forget that he shaves his neck and remember that many a ■ true heart beats under galluseb. Pick otit a low, roomy box on the sunny side of the general store and listen with open mind, while he discourses on the crops, and bass fishng, and preparedness for war, and General Lew Wallace, and Christian 'cience, and the inwardness of the ’are-up between Wilson and Bryan, i nd how to find a-bee-tree. Do you ■ant a line on Tom Taggart or Booth Tarkington or John Kern or

Uncle Charley Fairbanks? He will give you the most Inside information and garnish it with anecdotes. The Hoosier may wear the wrong kind of hat, but he is alert on men and affairs and living doctrines. For fifty years the state has been a crucible of politics. It was a buffer between crowding factions all during the Civil war. Just as the Hoosier emerges from the cradle he is handed a set of convictions and learns that he must defend them, verbally and otherwise. So he goes into training. He may turn out to be a congressman or a contributor to the magazines, but even if he escapes notoriety he will always be a belligerent, with a slant toward the intellectual. What happened away back yonder to make Indiana different? Listen! There were two migrations early in the nineteenth century. From the seaboard there was a movement to the west. From the Carolinas and the mountain regions there was a drift northward across the Ohio river. Indiana was settled by pioneers who had the enterprise to seek new fields and the gumption to unpack and settle down when they found themselves in the promised land. Indiana is a composite of steel mills and country clubs, factories and colleges, promoters and professors, stock breeders and Chautauqua attractions, corn fields and campuses. It grows all the crops and propaganda known to the temperate zone. If a high wall could be erected to inclose Indiana, the state would continue to operate in all departments, but the outsiders would have to scale the wall in order to get their dialect poetry. ■ Here’s to Indiana, a state as yet unspoiled! Here’s to the Hoosier home folks, a good deal more sophisticated than they let on to be!— American Magazine for March,

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CONGRESSMAN JOHN A. M. AOAIR * ' / ■, r / ’ gl I ■lk ‘ Mr ft I \ \ : : :: z . v. : • \ , ~s, ' \ »/ -f''J /| b - a.-' 1 <aß mMMI CANDIDATE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR ■| GOVERNOR OF INDIANA " 1 •" Reasons Why He Should Be Nominated attye Primary. March? HE has given up a seat in Congress in order that he might make the race for Governor; and this was done at the request of several thousand Democrats scattered all over Indiana. He had a part in all the constructive legislation of the Wilson administration upon which the campaign will be based, and fe well qualified to present it to the people with telling effect. As a_,gafiipaigner he has but few, if any, equals both upon the speaker’s stand and in mingling with the people! The fadt that he has been elected to Congress in a strong Republican district, by majorities running from .4,000 to 10,000 is conclusive evidence of his standing at home, his clean moral character, his splendid ability and his fitness for the position he seeks. He has the indorsement of both organized and-unorganized labor; is loved by all the old soldiers of the state; is exceptionally strong with the farmers on acount of legislation he helped pass in their behalf; the business men of Indiana are for him because they know he is safe, sensible and conservative, If elected he w v ill give the people an economical administration of the affairs of state, enforcing the laws to the letter and reducing taxes to the lowest limit. As a vote getter he has no equal. He is the one man who can lead the party to victory in 1916. Nominate Adair and victory is assured. i iwx. u „ —Advertisement

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Fighting a La Bowie.

One of the developments of the trench warfare in northern France has been the employment of dirks as weapons for offensive use at close quarters. In narrow traverses and parallels, where there is not room to swing a bayonet-tipped rifle, the tactics of our own Colonel Bowie have been found well adapted to the needs of the moment. There was at first much objection to tie idea among British soldiers, who did not regard it as a “sporting” proposition and stigmatized it as “assassination.” But this first feeling has since been overcome. The problem confronted by the French and British military authorities now is the procurement of an adequate supply of knives and dirks. Most of those on the market have proved too flimsy for the vicious usage demanded in trench fighting. It would j seem as if the hunting knife, widely i known in tbis country, would amply fill the requirements of the case, i For a time the Fench tried a knife : devised for a thrusting blow, held , by a loop handle that passed around I the knuckles; but a few experiments developed that a cutting edge and

some length of blade was necessary as well as a sharp point. The dirks so far used seem to be from six inches to a foot in length. The idea is traceable to the Ghurkas of the Indian Army Corps, whose kukris were employed with savage effect in the few chances the Indians had at the close order fighting they prefer. It is suggested that the dirks should be kept in leather sheaths slung under the soldier’s armpits.—Army and Navy 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—--5 A. M. to 2 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 x 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. Phone 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 RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect April 10, 1915. NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:41a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. N«, 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. Jndianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Cincinnati to Chicago 2:51 p.m. No. Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND' No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:30 p.m.

j; OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS ;! Mayor ..Charles G. Spitler I . Clerk .Charles Morlan 1 ■ I I Treasurer........ Charles M. Sands b Attorney ...Moses Leopold b b Mar5ha1.............Vern Robinson J) ' ) Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne ! > i « Fire Chief..."....J. J. Montgomery b ■ ’ Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery < I ; [ Councilmen j I I Ist Ward Ray Wood ’ 2nd Ward............ Frank Tobias b 3rd Ward Frank King j J At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley l> Prosecuting Attorney. .Reuben Hess b Terms of Court —Second Monday 1; in February, April, September b and November. Four week J f ! > terms. ’) COUNTY OFFICERS h Clerk.... Judson H. Perkins b 5heriff...............8. D. McColly J J » Audit0r............ J. p. Hammond b b Trea5urer................A. A. Fell ’ I * Rec0rder............ . .George Scott b 5urvey0r..............M. B. Price 1 ■ b Coroner .....Dr. C. E. Johnson b b County Assessor.... G.L. Thornton l> b Health Officer. .. ..F. H. Hemphill b jj COMMISSIONERS b Ist District.. ...H. W. Marble b b 2nd District........D. S. Makeever b . f 3rd Di5trict.......... Charles Welch J f > f Commissioners’ Court meets the ; > b First Monday of each month. !> 1; COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION b b Trustees Township if b Grant Davisson Barkley b b Burdett Porter ......Carpenter b ’I James Stevens Gillam b b Warren E Poole.. .Hanging Grove y b John Kolhoff Jordan b R. E. Davis.... Kankakee <> b Clifford Fairchild Keener if b Harvey Wood, Jr Marion b b George Foulks Milroy b John Ru5h......... Newton b b George Hammerton Union b b Joseph Salrin Walker b b Albert S. Keene... Wheatfield Ji b E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Ji b Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, b J I 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 address—Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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