Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — Page 3

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LEE. I S. M. Jacks is attending court at yonticello this week as one of the jurymen. Miss Cora Noland visited over -Sunday with Carl Westphal and family near Reynolds. Frank Eldridge is laying the foundation for his new house and commencing the frame work. Mrs. Frank Fisher of Wheatfield wag here during the past week visiting her parents, Leroy Noland and wife. m The farmers are having a layoff from their farm work for a few days on account of the fields being too wet to work. Mrs. Gilmore, !ffrs. Sarah Jordan, Mrs. Mary Holeman and Mrs. Della Gulp papered a room for Mrs. Elmer Gilmore Thursday. There are 170 goats on the farm just south of town where Mr. McGowen lives. * They have just been shipped in to clear off a patch of brush.

Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children. For feverishness, bad stomach, disorders, move and regulate the bowels and are a pleasant remedy for worms. Used by mothers for 28 years. They never fail. At all druggists, 25c. Sample free. ’'Address, Mother Gray Co., Leßoy, Is. Y.—Advt. j-1

RIVERSIDE. Griff Marsie departed for Seattle, Wash., Monday. . Corn in these parts is about all planted at this writing. Waine Brown informs us he has purchased a motorcycle. William Muffley was installed as chief cook of the clearing gang for the big dredge this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Mutchler and family and Jinks called on Mr. and Mrs. Bert Vandercar Thursday evening. Earl Pierce of Kouts was buying hogs and cattle through here last week. William Mutchler sold him gf>me cattle. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shook and family of St. John were among the auto tourist sight-seers of the big dredge Sunday. Dredge Foreman Stroud, who was injured in an auto accident near Kouts recently, is getting along nicely considering the Seriousness of his condition.

Cut This Out- —It is Worth Money. DON’T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c to Foley & Co., Chicago, 111., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for bronchial coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold everywhere. —Advt. Subscribe for The Democrat.

THE UNIVERSAL CAR The low first cost of a Ford car is not to be confused with low value. The best manufacturing methods, combined with the highest grade of materials and the services of specialist workmen produce a better car at a lower price. Ford cars are built to serve and satisfy under all conditions. Touring Car $440; Runabout $390; Coupelet $390; Town Car $640; Sedan $740. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. On sale at Rensselaer by W. I. Hoover.

ROSKLAWX. I. N. Best was a Lowell visitor Monday. , Wm. Overmayer was a Hammond visitor Monday, C. T. Otis came dow r n Wednesday looking after business on the ranch. E. T. Boyle and family entertained T. B. Cunningham and wife Sunday. Hersliell Harris and wife of Morocco were business visitors here Monday. Miss Trump and Mrs. Humphreys of Fair Oaks £pent Sunday with the Hixon family here. Miss Ethel Studer visited with Mary Jane Phillips from Sunday until Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lida Conger has moved to Shelby, taking rooms in George W. Dickey’s new residence. Miss May Miller of Gary spent Sunday with C. W. Smith and family on the Wentworth farm. Rev. Coleman preached two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening to good-sized audiences. Bruce White of Rensselaer was erecting wind mills on the Lawler ranch here Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev. Coleman and the Mulder family took dinner and spent the afternoon at th© home of Henry Christensen Sunday. The! cold, wet weather has retarded the planting of corn in this vicinity, only a few who have high sand land have planted as yet. Young Jake Walstra, who was operated on for appendicitis in a Chicago hospital a tew days ago, returned home Wednesday evening, accompanied by his brother Lewis.

Keep Tour skin Clear and Healthy There is only one way to have a clear, healthy complexion and that is to keep the bowels active and regular. Dr. King’s New Life Pills will make your complexion healthy and clear, move the bowels gently, stimulate the liver, cleanse the system and purify the blood, A splendid spring medicine. 25c at your druggist.—Advt.

FAIR OAKS. Health is generally pretty good in these parts. Willard Rice and wife left here Saturday for North Dakota to stay indefinitely. ike Eight was in Indianapolis a few days the latter part of last w r eek on business. The surveyors were out Wednesday and measured up the ditch which F. R. Erwin is digging. Mrs. S. B. Thornton went to Rensselaer Monday to take care of Philander Benjamin, who is quite ill. Mrs. C. A. Gundy and son Charles, who had been down to Rensselaer for some time, came home the first of the week. Dr. Loy of Rensselaer was called Wednesday to Can Manderville’s, who has been suffering with tonsolitis and rheumatism. We noticed that the rye fields are heading out, but it is very short, most of it about a foot high, so the crop will be very short. Enos Moffitt w r ent Monday to help move a dry land dredge from Parr over six miles east, where they will begin cleaning out the Jungles ditch. Joe Kosta, who lives south of here,

delivered a nice buncb of fat porkers to this station for Mr. Tolen, who shipped a carload to Indianapolis Tuesday. The sewer thai drains the low grounds of Fair Oakg became stopped up 30 the water which fell during the heavy rains could not get aw r ay. Several men began Monday to take up and clean it out where it was gorged. Tom Mallatt was pver from Virgie Tuesday and will probably accept a proposition from Mrs. Will Warne on the blacksmith property of $350, which is generally thought was certainly a booming price. It is said if the deal goes through they will tear the building down and build a barn out of it and turn the lots into a truck patch. * vv'e were visited with tw r o or three days and nights of heavy rains, accompanied with considerable electricity and some wind. The fields are soaked and covered in some places with water, and will be some time before farmers will be able to get into the fields. » It filled the dredge • 0.-h so full T. R. Erwin had to stop work a few days.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Towns That Tried New Fads Go ■J Rack to Old Forms. Denver has gone back to thd old mayor-and-council form of government after experimenting with the commission form for tw r o years. Two women holding the office of mayor in their home towns have resigned. Several towns'' and cities that abandoned ward elections have adopted the old system again. Such experiments do little harm even if they fail. This lesson that they teach i 9 that the public usually gets the kind of government that it deserves in this free country. If the voters lose interest in the elections and do not watch their elected officials closely the machine politicians do the work for w'hat there is in it. As long as this indifference prevails one form of municipal government is as good or as bad as another. The commission form of government works well when the voters elect able and upright commissioners; but, when they do not, control in the hands of a few' is more dangerous than when a larger number have something to say about the expenditure of money. New r York is the best governed large city in the country because the newspapers keep alive the interest of the voters. Conditions are not perfect here, but most of the faultfinding is exaggerated. Those at the head of affairs are doing their best and no serious scandals have been unebvered for many years. The city government is handicapped by interference from Albany, and cannot control expenditures because its hands are tied by state laws, but New York is morally the cleanest of the great cities of the. world and is improving all the‘time. Its shabby looking streets are due to the vast amount of subway construction and other permanent improvements, from which no immediate relief is in sight. New York's experiments in changing its form of government have worked fairly well and would he still more successful if the state legislature would give it what its people desire. Persons and newspapers in smaller municipalities have been holding New York City up as a horrible example for many years, but the little political rings that control local politics are much more powerful and dangerou's in these smaller places than they have been in New York for more than 40 years. When its people or any section of them think anything is wrong they make themselves heard. They are learning to fight their own battles, as the Staten Islanders are doing in theif fight against the garbage plant. The public is always better served when it watches its servants closely an<J lets them know' it. Denver is changing its form of government again because its citizens sat back and let the commissioners do what tlreyi pleased without saying a word at the right time.—New York Commercial.

Setting Himself Right.

I wish to say to the people of Parsons that the report of the arrest of myself and two others for gambling, as given out by the authorities, wherein it is stated that I was fined $25 and costs in police court, is misleading, for the reason that it makes it appear that I was engaged in a big poker game, when the facts are that I was not. It was only a pehny-~ante game, and I have not paid the $25 fine and costs, but must make payments every two weeks until the $25 is Paid or go to Jail. I was born in 1862= and any one who says that I have engaged in a real poker game since I was 50 years of age is a liar, and I’ll back up the statement, officers included. This was simply a penny-ante game. WILLIAM HASSINGER.—Parsons (Kansas) Sun.

Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot-Ease, tl*e antiseptic powder, to bo shaken into the shoes and used in the foot-bath for hot, tired, swollen, aching, tender feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Sold everywhere, 25c. Ask for ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. Don’t accept any substitute.—Advt. j-l

KILLED BL ELECTRIC SHOCK

Fred Mohr. Manager of Light Plant at Fowler. Entangled in Wires. Fowler, lnd„ May Psi Fred Mohr, local manager of the Interstate Pub-' lie Service company’g electric light plant here,as killed by electricity late yesterday when directing reparir work one mile east of Fowler. The company has a private telephone line connecting the various offices in this part of the state, and the storm of Sunday had put the line out of commission. Mr. Mohr took hold of the telephone wire, which is attached to the same poles that carry high tension electric wires supplying nearby [owns with electric current from the Fowler plant Owing to the close proximity of the wires, the telephone wire carries a certain amount of current, but not enough usually to do any damage. However, the extreme dampness formed an induction f rom the high .tension wires, carrying J3,M"O volts, and was sufficient to daze Mohr when he tolk hold. Howard Simons, a workman, pulled Mohr away front the wire, and when he let go of him Mohr was so numbed that he staggered back and again was entangled in the wires on the ground. Before he could be rescued again he was dead. Simons, who als.o was shocked, was revived by physicians and will recover.

WAR CURTAILS NEWSPAPERS

Dailies in Smaller Cities Forced to Susjtend for Shortage of PaPer. Chicago. May 17.—That the war in Europe materially may increase the price of newspapers, magazines and periodicals, was the belief expressed here at a meeting of the executive committee of the International Daily Press association. The meeting was called to devise ways and means of meeting the shortage in paper stock and a resolution was adopted urging the strictest economy in the use of paper. It was said that in two cities of 40,000 population, and in smaller cities, several daily newspapers had not been issued because of the shortage. It was reported that many newspapers were on the verge of shutting down completely, or issuing smaller editions.

Has a Good Reputation. The original and genuine honey and tar syrup is Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound and because this has given such universal satisfaction and cured so many cases of coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough there are imitations and substitutes offered to the public. Insist upon Foley’s. Sold everywhere.—Advt. AX INDIANA DAILY FOR $1.50 If Subscribed For in Connection With The Democrat, Both for $3.00. The Democrat has just completed clubbing arrangements with the Indiana Daily Times of Indianapolis whereby it is enabled to offer to rural route subscribers The Democrat and the Times, both a full year for only $3.00. This is the greatest daily paper offer you ever had, and if you want a good daily paper at a bargain price, now is your opportunity to secure it by sub scribing for The Democrat—or renewing, as the case may be —-and paying $3.00 for the two papers a full year. This offer may be withdrawn at any time, so send in your subscriptions at once. ts The Worst extravangance is waste of time; but it is not extravagance TO READ THIS Al> I have three makes of buggies for sale that can not be topped by any firm in four states—Binkley, Page Bros, and Studebaker. All are guarantee jobs. Just received the Binkley car, call and inspect same. All l three styles have been sold off ’my floors for years. All these baggies are up-to-date in style and quality and the prices are right, too. No advance at my shop nor loss of quality. On Front Street, Rensselaer, Ind. Yours respectfully, CHAS. A. ROBERTS.

Protect Your Buildings From Lightning By having them properly rodded. Sixteen years experience in the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I rodded. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and see me or phone 135 or 568.—F. A. BICXNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts Banckok Straw Hats, $5. Light as a feather, nobby styles, wear guaranteed, at Hamili’s. • RENSSELAER FARMERS’ • • GRAIN COMPANY • • See the committee having • • charge of soliciting the sale of * • stock in the Rensselaer Farm- • • era’ Grain company and sub- • • scribe for a few shares before all • • are taken, and receive better • • prices for your grain.—Advt. •

The Planter Without An Equal Light draft. Easiest on man or team. Plants on a nearer uni- — form depth than any planter made. ‘‘Ask your neighbor." Warner Bros.

BIG COW SALE ( 15 to 18 Head Choice Jerseys and Holsteins. Desiring to keep only my pedigreed stock, I am selling 6 head of tine Holsteins—splendid dual purpose cows and heifers. Fresh Jerseys, dandy young heifers, mostly 2 and 3 years old and bred to my ay registered Jersey bull. All cows guaranteed to be well mannered and broken and exactly as represented at ring side. Sale will be held Saturday, May 27, 1 o’Clock I*. M., At Hemphill hitch barn in Rensselaer. Purchasers who may so desire, can leave stock and I will care for same till they find time to call for 'it. All representations guaranteed. Terms other than cash will be announced at ring side. RUSSELL VANIIOOK, Rensselaer, Tnd. Col. Phillips, Auctioneer; C. G. Spitler, Clerk.-

“ROUGH ON RATS” ends HATS, MICE, bugs. .Die outdoors. Unbearable exterminator. Used world over, by D. S. government too. Economy size 25c or 15c. Drug and country stores. Refuse substitutes. Free comic picture R. —E. S. Wells, Jersey City, N. J. j-17 NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Uy* •liana, will, on Tuesday. June 6. 1916. receive sealed proposals for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meat for the use of County Poor Asylum. All bids to be on hie by 2 o’clock'of said date and to be accompanied by affidavit as required by law. The boiird reserves the right to reject anv and all bids. f{v order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOS KPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor. —— ! NOTICE OF SALE OF SECOND-HAND BRIDGE MATERIAL AND GRADER. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday. June 1916, the Commissioners of Jasper County will sell at public out cry In the Comfnissoners - court' room in the court house, Kensselaer, Indiana, at 10 O'clock -a. m.,‘ -the following second-hand bridge material and grader: Old bridge which lavs west of Fountain park (Carpenter township). Old Hooycr slough bridge (Marlon township, over Howe ditch); One-half arch at H. F. King’s fdrm (Newton township). Also one Austin road grader in HensM*laer. Indiana. By order of the Board <»f Commissioners of Jasoer Countv.- Indiana. JOSEPH I*. HAMMOND, Auditor. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. 2904. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 5. 1916. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of steel ■ bridge in Wheatfleld Township over the Hobbs dredge ditch on The highway east and west section thirtyone, township thirty-two north, range si* west'. • Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor's office, ail bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING NO. 2905. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 6, 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of stael bridge in Wheatfleld township over the Hobbs dredge ditch on the highway north and south section thirtyone. township thirty-two north, range six west. Said bridge to be built according t<y plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office, all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock Of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. • The board reserves the light to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, InJOSEPH P. HAMMOND, „ \ Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF LETTING OF BRIDGE REPAIR, No. 2906. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday. June 6. 1916. the’ Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of bridge repair in Wheatfleld township on bridge over Hobbs ditch. 2 concrete headers for 6-inch culvert on the

east and west highway between sections eighteen and nineteen, township thirtytwo north, range six west. Said bridge to be built according to platis and specifications on file in the auditor’s office, nlf bids to be on file by 2 o'clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. 2890. Notice Is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 6. 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of steel bridge in Union township on the north and south highway over the Dexter ditch between sections ten and eleven, township thirty north, range seven west. Said bridge to lie built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor's office, all bids to bo on file by 2 o'clock of said date and to be accompanied by bo'nd and affidavit according to law. , . The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Countv, Indiana/ JOSEPH I* HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana, NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. 2898. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 6, 1916, the' Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge In Kankakee township over the Powers ditch on new highway east and west between sections sixteen and twenty-one, township thirtytwo north, range live west, one-fourth mile south and one-half mile west of Dunn’s station. Jasper County. Indiana. Said bridge to bf built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor's office, till bids to be on tile by 2 o’clock of said date arid to be aecompaoiiil by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. 2900. Notice is hereby “given that on Tuesday; June 6. 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed prouosifts for the construction of a steel bridge in Kankakee township. New bt’dge over Bass ditch on the highway east and west between sections thirteen and twenty-four, township thir-ty-two north. range five west. Said bridge to tie built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor's office, all bids to be on file by 2 o'clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and uJjHaylf according to law. * The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Bv order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Countv. Indiana. JOSEPH I* HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. £9Ol. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday. June 6. 19!6, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive scaled proposals for the construction of steel bridge In Whentfleld township for new bridge oyer Hobbs ditch. Laternul No. 2 on the east and west highway. Located west of stone at Kersey in section thirty, township thirty-two north range six west. So id bridge to tie built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office, all bids to be on file by 2 o'clock of said dale and to be accompanied by bond and affidavlt to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Bv order of the Board of Uommlssloners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. Indiana.

NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING No. 2902. Notice. is hereby given that on Tuesday. June 6. 1916. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the) construction of steel bridge in Wheaffleid township for new bridge over Hobbs ditch on the east and west highway. Just west of Kersey in section thirty, township thirtytwo north, range six west. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office, all bids to be on file bv 2 o'clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to iaw. The board reserve* the right to reject any and all bids. Bv order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING NO. 2903. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday. June 6. 1916. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of__steei bridge in Wheatfleld township for new bridge over Hobbs ditch on the north and south road just south of .Kersey in section thirty, township thirtytwo fiorth., range six west, Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office, all bids to be on file by 2 o'clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject* '■ any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.