Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — Page 4

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War Aewj An Italian shell has blown up the largest munition depot at Roverto and the town is now in flames, according to a news dispatch to Paris from Home. Several heavy guns were destroyed by the explosion. On the Artois front the British have made fresh attacks in the sector of Givenchy, but they were repulsed, the German war office announced at Berlin. Heavy losses were suffered by the Englisl| troops, it was stated. The entente allies have occupied the railroad station at Florina, south of Monastic, according to a Saloniki dispatch to Paris. The Germans have bombarded the village of Potheles, south of Doiran. The Germans have reoccupied Fort Douaumont, while the French hold the Immediate approach to that position. This announcement is made in the official communication issued by the French war office at Paris. This success of the Germans followed capture by the Teutonic troops of the village of Cumieres, east of Dead Man hill.

• • * Spurred on by their success in taking the larger portion of Fort Douaumont from the Germans, the French are continuing their terrific drive in an effort to dislodge the enemy from the small angle still retained, the ■war office announced at Paris. Berlin denies the Germans have been forced back. » ♦ * Along the Isonzo front the Italians have made prisoners of Bulgarians, showing that Bulgars have joined the Austrians in their present offensive, says a dispatch from Rome. • * * The house of commons at London passed the $1,500,000,900 credit asked by Premier Asquith for war purposes The credit voted ..by the commons brings the total since the war began up to $11,900,000,000. . ♦ ♦ ♦ The Italians have been driven from their entire position on Lavarone plateau; the Austrian war office announcement says: it is stated that the Italian defeat is steadily becoming more serious. The number of Italians taken prisoner has been increased to 23,883. * ♦ ♦ French infantry stormed and captured German positions in Fort Douaumont after a powerful artillery preparation, the Paris official report says. The Ger mans still hold the northern part of the fort, but a number of prisoners were captured by the French. German positions on the entire front were captured.

Several lines of British positions on ! a front of about - one and one-third i miles have been captured by the Ger- J mans southwest of Giveuchy-En-Ge-1 belle; it was officially announced at Berlin. German troops also stormed French positions on the eastern spurs of Hill 304, on the Verdun front. A thousand French soldiers were captured. * * * George Boillot, French automobile racer arid aeronaut, has been killed in a tight with live German aeroplanes. He succeeded in bringing down one of trip German machines before a bullet pierced his heart. Russian troops have joined the British at Mesopotamia and an allied drive on Bagdad is now believed to be imminent, The Russians, after a wild and adventurous ride from Persia, joined the columns of Gen. Sir G. Gorrhighe, which is fighting its way up the Tigris toward Kut, says dispatches to London. • • • Domestic Testimony of Dr. Albertus Adair Moore, the physician who attended John E. Peck, millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids, in his last illness, for whose murder Mr. Peck’s son-in-law, Dr. Arthur Waite, was placed on trial at New York, indicated that Doctor Waite feared some time before his arrest that he might be accused of causing the death of his fa-ther-in-law. * • * Raymond Robins of Chicago was selected as temporary chairman of the national convention of the Progressive party at Chicago at a meeting at New York of the executive committee of the Progressive national committee. • • • The American steamer Ventura, from San Francisco, reported on arriving at Sydney, N. S. W., that it had picked up while at sea wireless messages from the station at Tuckerton, N. J., when 9,000 miles from the American plant. * • » Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married at Elliott City, - Md., to Virgil James Montani, son of the late Brig. Gen. Joseph -Montani of the royal Italian army. Mr. Montani is better known as Jack .Clifford, his professional name for many years.

The president and Mrs. Wilson attended the wedding at New York of Miss Alice Gertrudq Gordon and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, past assistant surgeon U. S. N., the White House physician. 5 ; • • • Almost without a dissenting vote the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ went on record as favoring woman suffrage. ♦ » * The Supreme court at Washington annulled as unconstitutional the Wisconsin statute making it the duty of state officials to revoke the license to do business in the state of any foreign corporation which shall remove into any federal court any action against it by any citizen of the state upon any claim or cause of action arising within the state. »• * . The Michigan statute imposing a high license tax upon public employment agencies and forcing them to give bond to the state and submit to strict regulations by the state commissioner of labor was held constitutional by the Supreme court at Washington. The court upheld the conviction of Leroy Brazee of Detroit, Mich., for violation of the act. » » » Mexican Revolt General Funston electrified the military camp at Fort Sam Houston with orders to proceed to the border as quickly as possible. ♦ « A note from the de facto government of Mexico to the government of the United States, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico, was dispatched to Washington. The note states the Mexican people do not want war with the United States, but they are ready for war rather than to have their national honor and sovereignty trampled on. * ♦ ♦ Reports to both the state and war departments at Washington further indicated plans of the Carranza government to prosecute pursuit of Chihuahua outlaw bands vigorously while the American forces remain comparatively quiescent. Obregon has ordered 30,000 troops to engage in the bandit hunt. * * * The flying columns of the Eighth and Fourteenth cavalry, detailed by Maj. Gen: Frederick Funston to give chase to the bandit raiders of Glen Springs and Boquillas, have returned to American soil near Boquillas. * * * Two troops of the Fourteenth cay airy are making a forced march southward from a point 40 miles below the river to Cerro Blanco to re-enforce Major Langhorne’s 90 troopers, who were reported at Marathon. Tex., beleaguered by several hundred Yaqui Indians. - Foreign John Mac Neill, president of the Sinn Fein volunteers and professor of law in the National university, was found .guilty of complicity in the Irish uprising by a court-martial at Dublin He will be sentenced later in the week. Miss Stiliemann, an American instructor at Roberts college, who had been imprisoned at Warnemunde for carrying a secret code, has been released and is departing for America, Ambassador Gerard stated at Berlin.

* ♦ ♦ The Exchange Telegraph company at Londeifl sajs'ft learns from diplomatic circles that Ppince von Buelow, former German chanceTfqr, is proceeding to Washington, charged by Emperor William with a special mission. » * * Spencer Churchill declared in the house of commons at London that the allies now have 200,000 officers with a similar number of servants and 60,000 grooms. He said that officers’ servants and grooms should be abolished. J ♦ * ♦ If ashmgton Senator Hitchcock’s resolution looking toward the relief of starving Po land was recommended to the senate at Washington for passage by the foreign relations committee. The resolution requests the president to furnish the senate with data regarding the the British obstruction to the proposed relief in order that congress may act. * ♦ ♦ The army reorganization plan developed in conference between the senate arid house at Washington and providing for a larger standing army for thde country, together with increased and enlarged defenses, was approved by the house by a vote of 349 to 25. The bill provides a standing army of about 218,000 men. The bill is now ready for the president’s signature. ♦ • ♦ By a vote of 60 to 37 the house at Washington, in the committee of the whole, adopted an amendment to grant suffrage to the women of Porto Rico. It was proposed by Republican Leader Mann. » •< • • The naval appropriation bill, the biggest national defense measure—was reported to the house at Washington from the naval affairs committee. It carried a total of $241,449,151.99, about $90,000,000 more than last year’s bill. ♦ * ♦ The senate judiciary committee at Washington, after weeks of consideration, by a vote of ten to eight,, decided to make a favorable report to the senate on the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to be an associate justice of the Supreme court.

HOOSIER NOTES

Happenings Over Indiana That Are of General Interest.

The factory of the Crothersville canning company was destroyed by fire. At least four or five big sporting events will be staged at Warsaw this season. .. Fort Wayne now has a population of 88,000, says Township Assessor E. W. Miller. The Indiana Piano Merchants’ Association held its sixth annual convention in Indianapolis. Figures issued by the assessor show that Gary’s assessed valuation this year is $27,734,470. The last of the $124,000 bonded debt on the Hartford City courthouse was paid by Auditor McGeath. Major Taylor, of Petersburg, a brother of former Representative A. H. Taylor, is dead of appoplexy. Mrs. Edward Lower, wife of a former civil engineer, has been elected truant officer for Wabash county. Twenty-nine indictments were returned in a report by the Marion county grand jury to the criminal court. Max R. Hyman of Indianapolis has just issued a condensed history of Indiana, entitled “Under Three Flags.” Miss Irene Wells, age nineteen, and Garland Eaton, both of Terre Haute, were drowned in the Eel river, near Jasonville. Ice cream factory at Columbus was damaged by fire, and water thrown by the fire department destroyed 5,000 ice cream cones. Overcome by grief at the grave of J. M. Kingery during the funeral service at Marion, Orville Griffith collapsed and almost fell into the grave. The fourteenth annual convention of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, formerly a high school organization, will be held at Lafayette June 21-23. The Board of managers of the Indiana Grain Dealers’ association have fixed June 20 and 21 as the time for the association’s midsummer meeting at Indianapolis. James D. Fort, 101, is dead at his home in Jonesboro. Fort’s father lived to be 101) and a brother is said to have died at 108. Fort is survived by 148 descendants. The Delaware county commissioners granted Honor licenses to thirty of the seventy-three applicants, and legal bars opened in Muncie for the first time in two years. : . < The supreme and appellate courts convened at Indianapolis for the May term,: and handed down eleven opinions, five being from the Supreme and six from the appellate court. By a vote of three to two the Terre Haute board of education has decided to require teachers to take advantage of the teachers’ pension regulations before they will be employed.' Noblesville was chosen for the 1917 meeting place of the Ninth District medical association at the annual meeting at Crawfordsville, which was attended by about 100 physicians. John Platz, 89, South Bend pioneer, is dead. He was the city’s first truant officer and was formerly city commissioner. As a contractor and builder he contributed largely toward the material advancement of the city. Richard M. Freeman, 74 years old, is dead at his home in Bicknell. He was born in England and was a civil war veteran. He was a coal operator and was known as the father of the coal industry of southern Indiana. A dam built by George Tucker on his farm three miles west of Petersburg was dynamited by unknown persons. The dam was built for the purpose of holding back the government ditch which runs across the farm.

The members of the grand lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana, held their ninety-first annual meeting in Indianapolis at the Masonic temple with about 600 members of the order from all parts of the state in attendance. At a meeting at North Vernon of 100 real estate agents of the Fourth congressional district the Southern Indiana Real Estate Dealers’ Association was organized with E. E. Olcott of North Vernon, president, and Archie B. Gross of Columbus, secretary-treasurer. Information comes to the alumni of Moores Hill college from the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in session at Saratoga, that Rev. U. G. Leazenby, superintendent of the Crawfordsville district, has reconsidered his recent decision and decided to accept the presidency of Moores Hill college. Upward of 1,000 delegates are expected for the biennial prohibition state Convention, tp convene at Indianapolis June 6 for a two days’ session in Tomlinson hall. F. W. Lough, as temporary chairman, will deliver the keynote address. The new miners’ agreement for the two years ending March 31, 1918, is in effect following the formal sighing of the scale, to which both miners and operators had agreed. The new scale calls for payment on the mine run basis, for which the miners have been fighting for several years.

There are 13,084 horses in Randolph county worth $1,209,107, and 1,176 automobiles worth $375,709, according to the county assessor. Captain James S. Williams, age 84, a veteran soldier and stone operator, and head of a prominent family, is dead at his home in Stinesville. The board of county commissioners has selected Frank E. Morris, of Salem, as auditor of Washington county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ira L. Rutherford. The Indiana Academy of Science, with a state membership of 500, will hold its annual spring outing at Valparaiso June 1, 2 and 3, as guests of Valparaiso university. ; Word has been received at Brazil that Theodore W. Englehart, a druggist, has "been recommended by Congressman Ralph W. Moss for appointment as postmaster at Brazil, to succeed Edward Schuetz, who died recently, Tamms, 111., was chosen for next year’s convention at the closing meeting of the sixty-third annual session of the Indiana-Illinois Classis of the Reformed church of the United States, which concluded its three days’ work at Gary. , • • Five Hundred school children will participate in the folk dances and singing which will form part of the May festival of music to be given by public school pupils in the high auditorium at Muncie Friday evening. Members of a committee distributed sunflower seeds to every farmer living along the Dixie highway in Wabash county, with instructions on planting and caring for the flowers. The route will be marked in this manner along its entire length. The thirty-seventh annual commencement of the Danville high school was held in the chapel of the Central Normal college. The girls all appeared in dresses they had made Tor themselves in the domestic science department, at a cost of $1.75 each. The corner stone of the new SIO,OOO Masonic temple at Terre Haute will be laid next Thursday. Hary B. Tuthill, of Laporte, will preside. The principal address on that occasion will be made by Charles P. Benedict, of Indianapolis, present grand master. Alfred W. North, proprietor of a bakery at Terre Haute, and Miss Ethel Collinson, of London, England, were married at the parsonage of the First Methodist church by the Rev. I. B, Harper. They were sweethearts in England. North came to Terre Haute two years ago. Miss Collinson was accompanied by her sister, who acted as bridesmaid. • At a caged meeting of the New Albany Presbytery the Rev. F. W. Thompson and Walter B. Creed, of New Albany; Frank R. Alles, of Bedford; J. E. Graham, of Seymour, and E. J. Colgate, of Madison, were elected trustees. The Rev. James L. Lindsay, of Vevay, and the Rev. Ralph Carson, of Elizabeth, young ministers, were examined, passed and ordered ordained. Fifty men are at work laying concrete footings between Capitol avenue and Meridian street, south of the Union station, Indianapolis, for the elevated track concourse. The entire protect will cost $4,000,000 and the program for this year will cost sl,500,000. Five tracks at the station will be elevated within the next month. The Illinois street tunnel will be elosed'in six weeks. Carl Prell, of South Bend, won first place in the boys’ division of the northern Indiana high school oratorical contest held at South Bend in connection with the annual track and field meet, speaking on “The March of the Flag.” Ralph Thorson, of Hammond, was second, speaking on “Peace With Honor.” In the girls’ contest, Helen Bonduranh, of Plymouth, took first place with her delivery of “The Lost Word.” Ruth Rockwell, of Gary, was second, choosing for her subject “The Music Master.” Gold medals were awarded to the winners of the first places and silver medals to the winners of the second places. Ten northern Indiana high schools, Crown Point, Goshen, Hammond, Plymouth, Mishawaka, South Bend, Elkhart, Michigan City, Gary and Laporte, were represented. Eighteen speakers competed. A. A. Spears, of Brazil, was nominated for the office of grand master of the I. O. O. F. of Indiana at the Grand Lodge meeting at Indianapolis. Other nominations made were: Deputy grand master, W. E. Deuprece, Franklin; grand warden, L. W. Durbin, of Indianapolis, William Ehrhardt of Greensburg, W. W. Swank of Wingate, H. A. Winterrowd of Indianapolis and H. E. Jones of East Chicago; grand secretary, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, W. A. Morris, Frankfort; representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Jesse Macbeth, Fort Wayne (two years), and J. T. Arbuckle, Rushville (one year); grand trustee, Benjamin Franklin, Indianapolis. The election for these offices will be held-at the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in November. Tribute was paid to W. H. Leedy, grand secretary, for his long and faithful service in the lodge. Judge Frank Ellis, of the Delaware circuit court, broke all speed records in disposing of ‘divorce cases, in less than one hour issuing three divorces and completing the hearing of a fourth case. A full-length portrait of Booth Tarkington has just been completed and is now on exhibit at an Indianapolis art store. This portrait in every way, in its easy., natural position, the subject gloved and with a walking stick and overcoat as if about to take the air, is thoroughly Tarkingtonian.

COUNTY IS MADE RICH BY PRODUCTS OF THE COW

Misfortunes of Early Settlers in Wisconsin Lead to Dairying and Wealth. Monroe, Wis., May 25.—A wheat market that made it unprofitabe for the early settlers to haul their grain by team to the Milwaukee market, followed by a plague of chinch bugs, has made Green county, Wisconsin, the richest county in the United States, according o population. The total wealth of the county, according to ihe latest tax figures and the statements of condition by the banks, is $58,219,962.78, or a per capita of $2,425.83. Practically every dollar of this wealth has cbme from the cow’and the dairying industry. I It was in the latter part of August, 1845, tfiat a little band of bwiss emigrants, after many months of travel, six weeks on a" sailing boat crossing the Atlantic, weary weeks in traveling overland and by water from Baltimore, Md., knowing only that somewhere in the interior of the country three men who had been sent ahead, like the -pies into the promised land, had found a section which compared in natural advantages and appearances with the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. In remembrance of the section from which they had come they called the place New Glarus. It was too late when they reach ed their new home to plant crops for that season. In fact, they had scarcely time to do more than erect a couple of community houses, in which the colonists * lived the first winter, amidst great hardships. But for the fact that additional money was sent them from Switzerland it is probable they would have been compelled to abandon their colony. Unacquainted with farming methods in the new world, and too poor to buy farming machinery, the colonists tilled what land they could by nand, following as closely as they could the efforts of their American neighbors. After, several years of this condition there came to the colonists what seemed to be their greatest misfortune, but which ifi reality has proved a blessing in disguise, not only to the colonists, but to Green county and the entire state of Wisconsin as well. - During the year in question there was a drop in the price of wheat. The nearest market was Milwaukee, more than 100 miles away. With the price ranging about 15 cents a bushel, it would not pay the cost of hauling the product to market by team. Then came a plague of chinch bugs.

Nearly disheartened and at their wits’ end were the colonists when they heard that a drover from the east had brought into a neighboring section a number of cows for sale. Several head were purchased at §l2 each, some of the members of the colony pointing out that, having been used ,to dairying in their native land they would be more successful in their new location if they would turn their attention to this industry. Within a. short time a cow was purchased for each family, and from this small beginning has sprung the dairying industry of Green county, which has produced a totaj wealth of $58,219,962.78, according to bank reports and tax figures. At the present time there are 38,992 cows in the county, the product of which is keeping 153 cheese factories, three creameries and three condenseries in' operation. Last year there was produced’ 195,685,452 pounds of milk, which was utilized in the maufacture of 6,188,821 pounds of Swiss cheese, 3,041,465 pounds of limburger. 1,586.747 pounds of brick cheese and 511,959 pounds of American cheese in addition to 417,456 pounds of butter. Added to this there was manufactured on the farms 414,400 pqunds of cheese. The total value of the manufactured product for the year was $3,785,064.81. The latest national and state bank reports, made during March, the sea son when the farmers are changing property most rapidly, there was lying in the banks of Green county §7,961,793.79. The tax figures give the value of the real estate in the county at §42,474,873 and the personal property is placed at $7?773,296, a total of $50,248,169. Adding to this the bank deposits, the county has a total of $58,219,962.78, practically every cent of which has come from the introduction of cattle among the Swiss colonists in New Glarus township, and from which Wisconsin has grown"to be the leading dairying state in the union.

Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the circuit court of Jasper County, state of Indiana, executrix of tire estate of Andrew Hall, late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JOSEPHINE HALL, May 12, idlG. Executrix.

(fesifiecOl [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the flrat insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cants, 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 charged tor forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Good four-year-old cow, giving good flow of milk.—E. S. RHOADS, Rensselaer, Ind. ts For Sale—2o bushels late seed potatoes, at $1 per bushel.—JOHN DALE. Phone 952-1. m-25 For Sale—Two good Jersey cows, - and 5 years old, recently’ fresh.— M. NESSIUS, phdne 160-Green. m-25 For Sale—Buick motor truck, Hi tons capacity, just overhauled Address C. F. SPAIN. Phone No. 548. m-28 For Sale—Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,000; §4OO down;take live stock.—G. F. MEYERS. ts lor Sale—Some good onion seed for sale.—D. L. HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-H, Mt. Ayr exchange. m-30 For Sale —Bargain in second hand R. C. H. New tires all around, spare tire on rim. Just ovehauled. In A-l condition.—RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale—Red Cross windmills. I also do well drilling, having two machines in operation, an 4 can do prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418 j-12 For Sale —As I am going to move to Chicago I offer my 8-room, modern house built less than two years ago, all conveniences, lights, water, bath room, hot air heat; lot 50x125. Terms reasonable.—MlKE KUBOSKI, Rensselaer, Ind. j-13 For Sale—To settle an estate I will sell a 100-acre farm in Newton tp., close to school and elevator, good location, 80 acres in cultivation, 20 acres pasture. Fair improvements.—W. B. YEOMAN, Surrey, Ind. ~ i j-2 For Sale—The building and ground on which the Methodist Protestant church is located in Rensselaer on corner of Clark and Van Rensselaer streets. Want to reserve seats, selling only building and ground. For particulars call on or phone JOHN BILL, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 949-C. ts For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west ®f Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Alt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer,. ts

WANTED \\ anted—Have buyers for farms in Marion, Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. See us.—GEO. F. MEYERS, ts Wanted—Salesman to sell oils, greases and paints in this territory. Salary or side line. Party with automobile preferred; extra allowance for machine. SIOO.OO per month to the right' party.—BALSO OIL COMPANY, 238 Erie St., Toledo, Ohio. j 4 MISCELLANEOUS Pasture—Have 40 acres of good bluegrass pasture, want horses or cattle for season; pasture 3 miles east of Fair Oaks.—F. F. LAKfN, Fair Oaks, Ind. ts Found—Picked up on the street May 23, an auto tow rope or cow rope. Owner can have same by calling at THE DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this notice. Storage Room— For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year.—THE , DEMOCRAT. FINANCIAL Money to Loan— s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts 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 5 per cent. Can loan as high as»so per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay In getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property In any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. I flnt fhn) WlthoutDelay ’ ill I 1111 Wlthout Commission I UUI lllV k Without Charges tor n Making or Recording Instruments. W. R. PARKINSON 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 s*6B.—F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ' ts / ''ldeal Account Files, $1.50 each.—. The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.