Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — Page 3

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POSSUM HOLLOW. Mrs. Chester Robey and children spent Tuesday with Mrs. S. L. Johnson. Charley Johnson called on Hugh Wagner and Charley Eldridge Saturday evening. Charley, Johnny and Archie Johnson spent Sunday with Charley and Ida Eldridge. Mrs. S. L. Johnson and two sons spent Friday evening with Mrs. Chester Robey and children. Charley and Ethel Stinson called on Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and family Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and family and Frank Phillips and Mary Scott attended the cattle sale at Kentland last Wednesday a week. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Robey and Frank Phillips and Miss Mary Scott spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker and family of near Gifford.

Avoid Spring Colds. Sudden changes, high winds, shifting seasons cause colds and grippe, and these spring colds are annoying and dangerous and are likely to turn into a chronic summer cough. In such cases take a treatment of Dr. King’s New Discovery, a pleasant laxative tar syrup. It soothes the cough, checks the cold and helps break up an attack of grippe. Its already prepared, no mixing or fussing. Just ask your druggist for a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery. Tested and tried for over 40 years. —Advt.

MILROY. Mrs. Fisher was a Wolcott visitor Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks were in Monon Tuesday. Charles Wood spent Saturday night in Remington. Charles Beaver was in McCoysburg Saturday evening. Mrs. W. B. Fisher called on Mrs. Darrow Monday afternoon. John Mitchell made a business trip to Remington Tuesday.' Miss Anna Caster is visiting home friends this week and last. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie were in Rensselaer Monday. Bert Warren came and preached Sunday morning and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle spent Monday evening with Earl Foulks and family. Martha Clark visited Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. Frank May, and family. Some from here attended the funeral of Wesley Noland at Lee Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clell Clerk and family were in this vicinity Sunday afternoon. Thomas McAlear's and Mr. and

Bulletin No. 1 A Mistake in the Policy of the Bethlehem Steel Company To the People: The Senate of the United States has passed a bill to spend $11,000,000 of the People’s money to build a government armor plant. The measure is now before the House of Represeptatives. It is said that manufacturers of armor have “gouged” the country in the past, and that a government plant is necessary to secure armor more cheaply. V ♦ The mistake of the Bethlehem Steel Company has been that it has kept quiet. We have allowed irresponsible assertions to be made for so long without denial that many neonla now believe them to be proven facts. ' We shall make the mistake of silence no longer. Henceforth we shall pursue a policy of publicity. Misinformation will not be permitted to go uncorrected. « It is and has been the policy of our Company to [deal with the American Government fairly and squarely. We shall henceforth place the details of our relations with the Government before the American People. The United States has for twenty years obtained the highest grade of armor and has paid a lower price for it than has any other great naval power. Figures officially compiled for the Senate Committee on Naval Affaire from the Naval Year Book show that under conditions prevailing juat before the European war, the chief naval powers of the world were neyine theae pricea for armor: England, $503 per bon; France, $460; Germany, $490; Japan, $490; UNITED STATES, $425. . . * ■' ’ . * • ' A government plant cannot make armor any cheaper than we can do it; and— We are prepared to manufacture armor at any price which the Government itself shall name as fair. THAT BEING SO, SHOULD $11,000,000 OF^THE PEOPLE’S MONEY BE WASTED TO BUILD A GOVERNMENT PLANT? ■ CHAS. M. SCHWAB, Chairman .LI 1 O- 1 mugene g. grace. Preaident Bethlehem bteel Company

Mrs. Frank May autoed to Lafayette Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foulks took dinner Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks. • Mrs. W. B Fisher’s two neices of Lapel, Ind., visited the Fisher family last week. The little son of J. R. Clark, who has been seriously ill with leakage of the heart, is better. Mrs. Mabel Harwell and little son visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clark and family Tuesday. Iris Williams of Monon visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks, returning to her home Monday. Robert Keve, who has been visiting relatives at his home in Piqua, Ohio, came to Frank May's again to spend the summer. All who are interested in having a children’s day program are requested to meet Saturday evening at the church to help arrange same. George Caster was called to Sheldon, 111., Monday to attend the funeral of his aged mother, who died Saturday evening at Steger, 111., at the home of her son, Perry Caster.

Cut This Out—lt is Worth Money. DON’T MISS THIS. Cut oiit 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.

FAIR OAKS The sick of our town are somewhat improved at this writing. We have had several nice days and planting corn is moving right along. William Blair and Jake Byler are putting a new roof on the Cuttingham house nowadays. Mike Shein and wife of Monon came up Saturday and visited the latter’s parents over Sunday. After about a week's lay-off on account of high water, Erwin’s dredge resumed operation Monday. Dr. Loy was called Sunday morning to see Mrs. A. M. Bringle, who was quite ill from a very severe cold. Tuesday was the first real warm day we have had this spring and vegetation i? making very rapid growth. Charles Manderville was at home over Sunday from Kentland to see his mother and Can. He returned Tuesday. Jake Spitzer and wife went up near Hammond about a week ago to work, he as chauffeur and she as housekeeper. Mrs. Cal Borroughs was out in the country at her sister's, Mrs. Crawford, a couple of days this week helping clean house. A. M. Bringle received word from his sister, Mrs. F. L. Yeoman, at Hanna that she was taken to Lake Side hospital. Chicago, Wednesday for an operation. It is reported that Uncle Dave Winslow is going to get himself a

housekeeper, while he is improving in health he feels he needs someone to keep him company and. do his housework. Aunt Hannah Culp and Grandma Noland received the sad news Wednesday- of the death of Uncle Wesley Noland hear Lee. They went W ednesday evening to be there to attend the funeral. Clarence Goff, who i- batching on Walter McConnell's farm east of town, has 1,500 little chicks and several hundred eggs setting. He has three incubators besides a lot of hens. Some poultry farm, eh?

Keep Your Skin Clear and Healthy There is only one way to have a clear, heal:: y 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. The wbrst 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 three styles have been sold off my floors for years. All these buggies, 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. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. For feverishness, bad stomach, teething 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, N. Y. —Advt. j-1 REAL ESTATE TRANSFES. Ida Townsley Fisher et al to Martin Cain, Feb. 3, pt out lot 7, pt n % nw, 30-27-6, Carpenter, SI,OOO. Ida Townsley Fisher, guardian of Jeanette Fisher, to Martin Cain, Feb. 29, und % pt n % nw, 30-27-6, Carpenter. $325. George F Meyers et ux to Percy L Coon et ux, Oct. 19, 1915, he se, 1-31-7, 4-J acres, Keener, $1,500. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes and used in the foot-bath for hot, tired, swollen, aching, tepder 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-1 It is said that a humming bird when stripped of its feathers is little larger than a bumble bee. 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.

• RENSSELAER FARMERS’ • • GRAIN COMPANY’ • • See the committee having • • charge cf soliciting the sale of • • stock in the Rensselaer Farm- • • ers’ Grain company and sub- • • scribe for a few shares before all • • are taken, and receive better • • prices for your grain.—Advt. •

WILL INDIANA USE FEDERAL AID?

Indiana Delegation at Capital Urges Hoosiers to change Road System—s2,lo9,ooo Available. (By M. E. Noblet, Secretary Hoosier State Automobile Association.) .Washington, D. C., May 22.—The delegates of the Hoosier State Automobile association who were in attendance at the annual corivention of the American Automobile aswciation found Indiana is very much behind the times. While jndiana is considering the question of whether or hot she wants federal aid, federal aid practically has become.:! ..ssiired fact, the Bankhead bill having passed in the senate and the Shackleford bill haying been accepted by (he house. Now the two measures are in the hand-- oi the con both branches of congress, with indications of a Certain agreement. The Bankhead bill provides for s7s,Wt'.mb) to be distributed during the next five years among the states on a basis of area, population and rural delivery ami star routes. Indiana would receive $2,109,000, but in order to accept this money she niust first create a state highway department. While Indiana is considering the question of creating a roads department the 4 3 other states in the Union having departments are preparing now for federal co-operation. Judging from the results obtained in other states, Indiana’s greatest disadvantage and economic loss is the plan whereby the townships are the units in building roads and the country is the unit of maintenance. Our cost of materials, construction and maintenance is not handled in such a manner that one county can benefit from the work of the other counties. Even if the accounts were kept in such manner, there is no head or state department to gather this information, assimilate and disseminate it.

Furthermore, everybody knows that road officials are selected according to politics and not engineering and road building ability, and after the county supervisor or county commissioners are elected, their assistants are named according to politics and family connections rather than according to efficiency or workmanship. ' Y So bad is our lack of system and so influential are our politicians and certain other forces that in Howard county, during the month of April, national government engineers were forced to leave the county, for the simple reason that local officials would not co-operate with them. The complete story of this incident is enough to make any taxpayer's blood boil, when he considers that the government men came to Howard county at the signed request of the county commissioners and the county supervisor. W. H. Arnett, secretary of the Howard County Motor club and secretary of the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce, made a trip to Washington, D. C., to interview the United States office of public roads and rural engineering, for the purpose of securing these government engineers. It would appear from this procedure that some of the local Indiana road officials and others who are financially interested in the present program of road building and bridge construction do not care to have national government experts correct the faults in our system which, have been pointed out from time to time. The Hoosier State Automobile association, with its 45 affiliated clubs and rapidly developing organizations, is tremendously interested in seeing that the truth of these matters is presented to the people of the commonwealth, for sdrely iUcan only be a matter of education to give Indiana at the next legislature a state department of roads, which means that our main artery roads at least would be placed under state control, as is being done in state after state. A competent state engineer, selected by a non-political commission, will give cohesiveness in Indiana and bring about an economical uniformity which is the urgent need of the moment to obtain real results.

While here in Washington, calling on our senators and representatives, the officials of the U. S. office of public roads and rural engineering, and the officers of the American Automobile association, we can see our faults more clearly than before we came, and this article is being sent out from the national capital in the hope that it will be read by thousands of our fellow taxpayers, and cause them to make a renewed effort to take Indiana from the five backward states which have yet to get at the roads problem from an established fundamental.

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PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION

Victor Murdock Will ( all Conventionto Order at Noon. Chicago, May 25. —-Oscar K. Davis, secretary of the Progressive party’s national committee, has completed the details of the order of proceedings of the Progressive national convention, which will open at the Auditorium June 7. The program announced is as follows: _ Wednesday, June 7.——Convention called to order at 1 2 o'clock, noon, by Vi ctor Mu rd ock, chai rma n of the Progressive national committee. Prayer by Bishop William F. McDowell of Chicago. Reading of the official call for the Progressive national con vention. Election of temporary officers of the convention. Introduction of the temporary chairman. Address by the temporary chairman. Selection of committee on permanent organization, rules and order of \ business, credentials, resolutions and miscellaneous business. Thursday, June X.— -Convention called to order at I I a. in. Prayer by the Rev. John Timothy Stone of Chicago. Report of the committee on cre-d-ntials. Report of the committee on permanent organization. Address by permanent chairman, Report of the committee on rules and order of business. Selection of Progressive national committee. . Friday, June 9.—Convention called .to order at 1 la. rn. Prayer by Rabbi Joseph Stolz of < hicago. Report of the committee on resolutions. Presentation of the names of candidates for President. Saturday, June 10.—-Convention called to order at 10 a. m. Prayer by the Rev. Thomas V. Shanan of Chicago. Presentation of the names of candidates for Vice-President. Appointment of committees to notify the nominees. Final adjournment. George A. McKinlock was (dected treasurer of the local committee on arrangements for the convention. Clean,, stylish, honest made shoes and slippers in all leathers and lasts. Buy a .pair at our store and you will save money. Special care taken in fitting children's shoes at ROWLES & PARKER’S.

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Why Suffer So.

Why suffer from a had back, from sharp, shooting twinges, headaches, dizziness and distressing urinary ills? Rensselaer people recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. Could you ask for stronger proof of merit? Mrs. J. J. Norgor, Mtheson Ave., Rensselaer, says: "We have used Doan’s Kidney Pills in tho family for a long time and they have kept us i n good health. I used to suffer -considerably from frequent attacks of kidney disorder. My back vvas stiff arid lame and ached so steadily that it tired me out. When 1 tried to wash, the leaning over caused almost unbearable sharp twinges in my back. Doan's Kidney Pills have always driven away these symptoms and have kept me. well and strong.’' Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidjiey Pills—-the same that Mrs. Norgcfr had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

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