Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — Page 2

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THE JOT COUNTY DEMOCMT 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 postoffiee at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. * Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. ADVERTISING RATES display .. . .12%c Inch Display, special position. . . .1 5c Inch Headers, per line first insertion.. 5c I Readers, per line add. insertions.. 3c i \\ ant Ads—One cent per word each insertion- minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser hasopen account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 5Qc. Cash with order. All acounts 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, MAY 31, 1916

PROGRESS

(By Walt Ma on) When I was young I had to go and till the cornfield with a hoe. Ah, it was weary work, indeed; I paralyzed the noxious weed, and scraped the dirt around tie corn, and yearned to hear the dinner horn. I'd toil all day to beat he band, till blisters came on hoof and hand, and then the husbandman would say, as he dug up my meagre pay, "Was that the best that you could do? You must have loafed, tiie whole day through!" And now I see the farmers ride on cultivators tall and wide, that hill the corn and slay the weeds, as they are drawn by prancing steeds. A hundred freckled lads with hoes might work all day along the rows, and not achieve as much, I ween, as would one green and red machine. The farmers of these modern days know naught of old time toilsome ways; they do their labors sitting down, and ride in choo-choo cars to town; they find the boodle growing rank, and have to stack it in the bank.

Saliva and Emotions.

The influence of fear upon the flow of saliva has long been known. The dry mouth of the nervous person called upon to speak in public is an example. In India the effect of fear in stopping the flow of saliva was at one time used in finding the guilty person when several were suspected of committing a crime. All who were suspected had to chew the consecrated rice, and after a given time spit it out upon a leaf of sacred fig tree. It any one put forth the rice in a dry state, that was taken as proof that fear of being discovered had stopped his saliva from flowing. He was regarded asguilty of the crime.—Youth’s Companion.

CENTENNIAL NEWS LETTER

Issued for the Week Beginning May 29 by the Indiana Historical Commission. Indiana centennial observance is now in full swing all over the state. Schools and township celebrations have been held throughout winter and spring and now the county centennial celebration- are well under Way. Huntin-rton, Vanderburgh. Monroe, Knox and Madison counties have headed the procession in t hese and have set a good centennial pace. Below are listed those celebrations which take place within the first half of June. At Brookville, .June 1-4, J. C. Shirk, County chairman.—Thursday will be home coming day, with reinions add speeches by former residents. An impres-ive eageant in twelve episodes will on Friday depict the county’s interesting history. On Saturday, an historical and industrial parade will be made and in the afternoon Governor Samuel M. Ralston •'ill deliver an address. Dr. J. P. D. John will address a union centennial service on Sunday. Music will be furnished by the Franklin county i boras and by Weber's band of Cincinnati;

At Spencer lark, Logansport. .Tune A. H. Douglass, County chairman. —ln the forenoon an impressive and dramatic representation of the development of Indiana from the time of wilderness solitude to the {•resent, will be given in pageant form. In he afternoon a big field day meet will be participated in by the schools.

At Corydon. .lune 2-3, Thomas .1. Wilson, County chairman:— A pageant under the direction of State Pageant Master. W. C. Langdon, to be given on both days will effectively protray the beginnings of Indiana statehood. Addresses will be delivered by Governor Ralston. Father • avanaugh, Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks. Congressman Moores. Russell B. Harrison and Frank C. Daily. The 1 F. orchestra and Purdue band will furnish music, w hile folk dances and drills will be given by Evansville, New Albany, Jeffersonville school children. It is expected that "Indiana," the new moving picture presentation of the state, will be publicly presented for the first time. At Ft. Wayne, June 6-9, Edward Miller. County chairman.—The dominant feature will be the pageant to be given in Reservoir park for which the most elaborate preparations are being made. Forty thousand people are expected to see "The Great Gateway, of the West.” During the week an industrial fair will be held.

At Muncie, June 6, Fred F McLellan, County chairman.—A processional pageant is being arranged which will be given in connection with the Muncie industrial exposition, June 5-10. The history of the state and county will be represented by periods and careful and thorough preparations are being made to make the representations accurate and realistic.

John H. Forkner, County chairman.—The regular county observance in which the various towns participated was held at Pendleton and Anderson last week. On June 9, the silver anniversary of its found-

ing as a municipality, Elwood will hold a centennial celebration of its own. At Crawfordsville,June 11-15, L. N. Hines, County chairman.—On Sunday a union centennial service will be held, addressed by Rev. M. C. Pearson, secretary of the Indianapolis Federation of churches. A great historical and industrial parade comes Monday, together with a Band concert tournament in which old melodies will be played by the bands of Montgomery county; On Tuesday and Wednesday, the county pageant will be presented under the leadership of Professor D. I). Haines. Montgomery is one of the banner centennial counties in the state and its celebration will be in keeping with the excellent w-ork that it has already accomplished. Earlham College.—On June 13 of its commencement week, the college community, under the leadership of the seniors, presents a pageant, “In Quest of Freedom", which will portray Quaker settlement and activities in Indiana, along with the founding arid history of Earlham. At Liberty, June 15, S. W. Creed, County, chairman,—Appropriate centennial exercises will be held in which the home coming idea will be prominent. An heirloom and relic exhibit will be held in the coliseum. Though a small county Union has a steady arid consistent interest in a proper observance of. the centennial. Owensville is the centennial standard bearer of Gibson county and is energetically; and patriotically preparing for a celebration to be held June 7 and 8. A pageant is being written , by home talent covering state and local history and will be produced by home people. A museum of pioneer relics will be an interesting feature. Much will be made of a reunion of former citizens, especially of those who at one time attended school in the community.

Working for a Living.

A well-to-do farmer, in the coin king section of Indiana, tells a story about his efforts to keep a farm hit nd that he needed very badly. In spite of all his persuasive powers, the. man could not be induced to stay, after he had taken the notion to go back to his home in the hill country. Finally, in a fit of impatience, the farmer said: “I’d just like to know what is the matter'H it?, alp you fellows, any way. Your father came up here,and worked il years, then he took the money he had saved, bought a farm among the bills and settled down for life. Your unde came up and worked five years, took his money and went back. Two o: yo.ir neighbors did the same tLiner, ami how you’re going to follow in their footsteps. Why do you ■ fellows all go to the hills?" The fellow answered, without a moment’s hestitation: “Because you all work too hard for a livin’ up J here." The man who tells this story thinks that the joke is on the other fellow, but is it? After all, I think that the man. from the hills was right, only he used the term “livin’ ” in the same sense that the well-to-do man uses it, which was a mistake, because he knew better. This man with the big farm puts up a terrible howl about the cost of living, but is

it simply a living he is working for? iVith a lot of us, this is not the case. Our grandparents lived, and lived well, rearing record-breaking families. Our parents lived well, and found time besides to reach helping. sympathetic hands to suffering or lonely ones in their neighborhood. Then, why is it that we, the descendants of happy, contented people, must work all day, some of us not excepting the day that our people observed as a day of rest, and some of us even working far into the night —is it for a living? What does our hard-earned money go for? Of course, the grocer and the butcher must be paid, and paid a pretty stiff price, for the things w’e eat, but do we .have to have lettuce and strawberries in January, and veal cutlets the year*around? The clothier, the dry goods man, and the milliner must be paid, to keep us looking like other folks. Like other folks! Ah! there's the rub. It isn’t enough that we have clean, comfortable clothing, clothing built to last, as our forebears had. We must keep up with the ever-shifting styles. It isn’t enough that we have a roof over two rooms to call home—we •must have houses like other folks have. When we get the shell of the house, it must have a furnace, a bath, electric lights, gas range, telephone, hot and cold water installed, before we can think of living in it. It must be furnished throughout with mbdern (or what is still costlier, antique) furniture. There must be good rugs, draperies, pictures, linen, china, silver, cut glass, etc. We couldn’t begin to enumerate all the things it takes to make a house complete. We must pay the price for all these things, and then pay the upkeep. And speaking of upkeep, reminds me that if we are like

other folks we must build a garage and buy either a touring car or a runabout —or both. we must belong to clubs— all sorts of clubs, and we must attend lectures and concerts and plays and grand opera, or other folks will think we are lacking in culture and refinement. Now, tell me, honestly, what ia it we are working for—a living? You needn’t try making the excuse that we can’t go back and live as our ancestors lived. We could if we wanted to, for there are places left where people do live that way even now. We can decide for ourselves how we are to live. The wisest teacher who ever walked the earth, in speaking ■- a man’s life, said that it did nor consist in the abundance of the tilings he possessed. There are many—God pity them!—who do have to work hard to keep any kind of roof over their head- or to ouy i :.cir bread-7-with only an occasional treat of butter with which to spread it. They have the right to say that they are working hard for a living. But, if all our hurry and scramble and fight is merely to: pay for luxuries, to amass a fortune, or to kee up with the procession, stop howling about the cost of the things you would not be willing to give up, and find out what Tiving really means.— Indianapolis News.

The Indiana Democratic Club

Invites all Indiana Democrats to join them on their special trains via Pennsylvania lines to the Democratic national convention, leaving IndianMs at 10:30 o’clock a. m., Tuesday, June 13, to renominate Wilson and Marshall. The round trip railroad fare, including Pullman fare one way, will be sll.lO. Write now lor train reservation to John E. Spiegel, secretary, care Indiana Demo cratic club, Indianapolis. Tickets good returning until June 25. These trains will be made up of the most modern Pullman electric lighted equipment in operation, including beautiful observation cars and diners. Will also be personally conducted by a representative of the Pennsylvania lines. The Indianapolis Military band of 36 pieces will accompany the party and furnish special music enroute, and will remain with the club throughout the entire’convention at St, Louis. Indiana Democratic headquarters at. St, Louis will be at the newly built, fireproof American hotel, at 7th and Market streets. Rates, $2.50 per person per day. Every room has a bath. Write for rooms now to . John E. Spiegel, secretary, care Indiana Democratic club, Indianapolis. The officers of the Indiana DemoI cratic club will secure tickets of admittance to the convention hall in St, Louis of all Democrats going on I these trains, At all times parades will be headed by the Indianapolis Military band, with other special features, starting from Indiana Democratic club at 10 o'clock a. m.. June 13. Special uniforms and badges may be secured from the committee. For any further information needed write to John E. Spiegel, secretary, care Indiana Democratic club, Indianapolis, or see any of the members of the committees.

News Bulletin.

Larger postal savings deposits will now be accepted at the postoffice. This is made possible by an important amendment to the postal savings act just approved by President Wilson. A postal savings depositor may now have an account amounting to SI,OOO upon which interest will be paid. Formerly SSOO was the maximum amount he could have to his credit. This enlargement of postal savings facilities will be very gratifying to thousands of depositors who have already reached the old SSOO limit and are anxious to entrust more of their savings to Uncle Sam. Another feature of the amendment that will avoid further embarrassment to the public and to postal officials is the doing away with the limit on the amount that could be accepted a depositor monthly. Under the old law onlj- SIOO could be deposited in a calendar month. The amendment abolishes this restriction. While the postal savings system has already proved a signal success as is shown by the fact that more than half-a-million depositors have over $80,000,000 standing to their credit, still it has fallen short of meeting the full public because of the which have now been eliminated. Postmaster General Burleson and Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery have been tireless in their efforts to secure a modification of the limitations and the new liberalizing legislation is partcularly gratifying to them.

The M orld Outlook tells a story of a young Burmese nurse, who charted her dying patient’s condition in the following manner: “10 a. m., the sink; 11, patient flitting; 12, patient slot.”

Make' Farm Home Attractive. In the design and construction cf the farm house the question of utility alone should not be the determining factor. The first thought should be the making of a home. The amount of money to be invested in the building of the home should not be determined by its relation ia size to the balance of the plant, ncr by the amount that is necessary merely to provide a shelter, but the amount to be invested should be that which the owner may reasonably afford without financially crippling himself *too severely. The average city dweller in buying a house for a home does not proceed solely on the basis of what he can expect to se cure in case it is ever desirable to place the house on the market. He is not likely to consider the purchase of a home as a financial investment but as a social one, which will enable him to secure for his family the comforts and conveniences that he could not secure in a rented house, and to have for his family a genuine home, a genuine home life. If he is able when the time arrives to dispose of his property to financial advantage, well and good; if not, he considers, and properly so, that he has made a good investment from the social side. There is no panacea that will cure the yearning for city life evidenced by the country boys and girls of today, but there are certain condit ions, which, if established, will add matenallj' to the attractiveness cf life in the country, and should therefore prevent them from flocking to the cities merely to avoid life on the farm. It is not to be expected that every person reared cn a farm will desire to follow farming as a life work, nor is it necessarily desirable that they should do so. Many of the boys will feel a calling to one or another of the professions, and it is probable that if allowed o follow their bent they will be far more successful and contented than if overpersuaded to stay -with the farm. The problem is not to force the boy or girl to remain on the farm, but to assist them in every way in making an intelligent choice. Their choice can not possibly be intelligent unless they are familiar with farm life under its best conditions.- —E. B. McCORMICK, Ofliee of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. Yearbook, 1915,

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Notice of the Filing and Docketing of Ditch Petition. In the Commissioners’ Court to July Term, 191 G. PETITION OF WILLIAM FOLGER ET AL, FOR A PUBLIC DRAIN. To Greenberry B. Lewis, Arthur R. Kresler, Minnie Grace Kresler. Joseph Wesley Price, Harvey Pierson. James Shaeffer, Pearl Baker, Myrtle Baker, Nora Kimberlin, Willard C. Baker, Carrie Baker, guardian of Vera Baker and Mildred Baker: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 29th day of May A. D., 1916, William Folger and others filed in the office of the county auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, their petition in duplicate and a bonds for costs, which said petition asks for the construction of a tile ditch for the purpose of draining the lands of the petitioners and lands which are shown by the transfer books in the auditor's office of Jasper count, Indiana, to belong to you and which lands likely to be affected by said proposed improvement are described in said petition. The ditch prayed for in said petition is described and routed follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point sixty-two (62) rods south and thirty-two (32) feet west of the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-four (34), township thirty (30) north of range six (6) west, in said Jasper county, Indiana, and running from thence in a general north and northeasterly direction to a point forty-five (45) rods north and two hundred fifty (250) feet east of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35), township thirty (30) north, range six (6) west, in said county and state, where it will have a good and sufficient outlet in the main line of the Mary M. Potts ditch; established as cause number 4593 in the commissioners’ court of Jasper county. Indiana, said ditch ’to be constructed of fourteen and twelve inch tile.

You and each of you are further notified that the petitioners haye endorsed on their petition as the day for the docketing thereof the 3d day of July, A. D., 1916. WILLIAM FOLGER. Et AL, m-31-j-7 Petitioners. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the circuit cqurt of Jasper County, state of Indiana, executrix of the estate of Andrew Hall,' late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JOSEPHINE HALL, May 12, 1916. Executrix.

[Under tins bead notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion. l-£-cent-per-word for each addinonai insertion. To save book-keeping case. should .be sent with: notice. No notice aeeept-s-i for less than twenty-fivs cents, but Xiort notices coming within the above rSSw’wiix be published two' or more times—as tie case may be —for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.Jj FOR SALE For Sale—A fine Durham bull 214, years o?'.—ST. JOS EPH’S COLLEGE For Sale— Hood fcur-year-old cow, giving good flow of milk. —E. S. RHOADS. Rensselaer, Ind. ts For .Sale——Sweet ■ potato plants, L'5 C per 1- HARSHBERGER & •HIPP, Parr. Ind. j-10 For sale-—Two good Jersey cows, 1 and 5 years old, recently fresh.— M. NESSIFS, phone 160-Green. m-25 lor **ale—Buick motor truck, ions capacity, just overhauled Address C. F. SPAIN. Phone No. 548. lor Sale-—fcix-room housg, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,006; S4OO down,-take live stock.—G. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale— Some good onion seed for sale —D. L. HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-H, Mt. Ayr exchange. • m _3o 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— Good improved 148a ere farm lying just north of Three-I railroad at Kersey. Price $15,660 cash Call on or address PETER McDANIELS, Rensselaer. Ind. j-30 For Sale—Red Cross windmills. I also do well drilling, having two machines in operation, an* can do prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418 j-12 For Sale— As I am going to move tb 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. KI, ttfenfselaer, Ind. j-13 For Sale—To settle an estate I will sell a 1 •-’••-acre farm in Newton tp., close, to school and elevator, good location, acres in cultivation, 20 acres pasture. Fair improvements.—W. B. YEOMAN, Surrey. Ind. 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. —___ZL' ■' : 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 S7-G. Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts

WANTED \\ anted—Have buyers for farms in Manon. Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. See us.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts Wanted—Salesman to sell oils, greases and paints in thia 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 eattle for season: pasture 3 miles east of Fair Oaks.—F. F. LAKIN, 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. L 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 50 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 310,000.—E. P. HONAN. I fl nt Ihnl Without Delay - nil Illi Commission UUI HI v Without Charges for II IUEV Makln K or Recording M Illi I Instruments. 111 Jill I W. H. PARKINSON Yes, The Democrat’s offer of a year s subscription to both The Democrat and Orange Judd Farmer (weekly) for $1.65 still holds good; either new subscriptions or renewals. The Democrat, Orange Judd Farmer and Woman’s World, (the latter monthly), only $1.75.